Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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CL, MARCH 10,1010 FIEND LYNCHED “s® RUDe iT homt Kc. v I 1 ■ - Tots lob Harld Rapot hm Court Hone Widow to Doatfc CHARGES COURT HOUSE * —. * ¥ IP- h .1 Im i Fire Thousand Citixeas of Dallas, -* Ii*4 by Aged Negro, Wreak Ven- S „ Jf geance Upon Man Accused of As- a- •* •—•.«„• % ' _ • ' . saulting White Chfld and Stormed *■ 1 * - - Jail Hunting for Murderers. t From the very grasp of the law, ALlea Brooks, an aged negro, charged with/criminally assaulting a two- yoar-Sold white child, was torn by fifteen determined men/bers of an airjry mob "bF'HVe thousand men at L. lias, Texas, Thursday and hanged fc r his crime, • Brooks was seized In the Court room, where he was to receive the h> s justice, tossed through a win- dew to the main body of the mob, v iich waited like a pack of rav enous wolves for their prey, In the street below. His broken body wat ongged through the streets and he w.s hanged to the Elks’ arch high above the heads of the avenging citizens. The mob was lead by an £ld negro. With it all hardly a loud word s spoken, not a shot was fired : above the dull murmurings of the mob could be heard the aged negro's trembling shrieks for mercy. After Brooks was hanged, for nearly three hours Dallas was In the hands oT the mob. The Jail was stormed ant, death threatened to three other ne groes held on murder charges. They had been spirited away, however, anu after scarfing for them in vain th* mob dispersed. The crime for which Brooks pal. the penalty was one of the most bru tal in the history of Dallas County Immediately after his arrest last week the ne&ro was taken out of the city for.safekeeping. He was return ^ ed early Thursday morning and tak en to the Court House at daylight t( await the calling of his case in th< Civil Court. A great crowd had gath erejJ early, and when attorneys foi the defendant, who had beep appoint e4 by the Court, beg^n^guments Ir, behalf of a postpdrwmmt of the trial T,, n the next day. rumors started through the crowd that a change of venue had been granted. This statement caused one of the greatest demonstrations (ever seen in Dallas County, and the Court House was charged by the mob Scores of officers, hastily summoned, were overpowered, the locked doors of the Court room were wrecked and the negro, crouching in a corner was seized by the leaders of th^^pkb _ _ This was In t\e second-tflory of the building. Outside the body of the angry crowd was waiting. A rope waa ready with a hangman's knot tied In it and when it waa announced from the window that the negro had been taken, the rope was thrown Into the room. The noose was placed about the prisoner’s' neck and he was pulled and thrown to the ground, fighting like a tiger for his life. He struck on the pavement on his forehead and. It Is believed, frac tured his skull In the fall of about thirty feet. Instantly dozens of men Jumped on him with' their fee: and his face was kicked Into a pulp and he was bruised all over, probably dying within a few minutes, a score of men selze-d the rope, and at the head of the mob, dragged the negro's t»ouy tw- ive oiocka up mai:i street tr the Elk's arch where It was sus pended to a supporting 'telephom pole. The police cut the body lovn ii about five minutes, it was tnk. n I the City Hall and late - cm* J ove to an undertaker. After the lynching ther° v .«> cil .- to the effect that other negro prie oners In th e county Jail, esotclali two who have murder charges pend ing against them, Burrel Oates an- “Blubber” Robinson, should be hang ed by the r .ob •»lso. A march was made to the com ij jail. The sheriff announce iLnt Hie. men wanted wer« n >t th rre .i< d al lowed committees se’eried jy *n< mob to search the prison. Too ne groes could not oe found, but still they could not be sa r 'i.1e<l. They battered at the jail door with a steel rail until an officer flrei s blank shot into the ground In front of them. A committee announced the negroes were not In the Jail and finally the mob moved away. It developed that deputy sheriffs had taken the negroes out o? the city In automobile^ ihd a repor*’ by wire says they passed through Eorl Worth en route to Weatherford, Tex- as. r, The mob announced plaa*. to board - i^mrttrTntrt ptirzue tile aufamohllw: and. while they were-fit the sta- tloh making such arrangements a report was started that one of the negroes wanted was In the City Hall lock-up. .Thejn the thousands_of men went to thatTplftce, but did riot find the negro. By that time It was late Irf the afternoon and the mob dis persed. A YOUNG WOMAN MURDERED BY A MARRIED MAN. Tragedy Was Enacted Under Bright Arc Light in the ReaMentUl Dis trict of Louisville, Ky. "At Louisville, married man, Wednesday night, shot and Instantly killed Beasie Stiff, aged 24, under a bright arc light In the residence district of that city and then engaged In a duel with two policemen, who had been attracted by the shota, making his escape only to be arrested at the depot as he was about to board a train. Miles’ personal appearance at the depot excited the suspicion of police men. He was Intoxicated and hts clothing was covered with mud. He had a number of cartridges In his hand and a revolver in his pocket when examined, which gave the odor of having been recently discharged. He was taken to the station and held for drunkenness and carrying concealed weapons. ~ -» It was not until the brother of the dead woman told of an affair between his sister and the prisoner that Miles was connected with the shooting. Then, though the fact that the woman had died was withheld from him, he made a confession, saying they had met on the street and quarreled. “She ruined my home,” he said, “and when she wanted my wife to leave town and made ugly remarks about her, I shot her. I don’t know what happened after that.” Miles’ wife. It is said, has been living at Erin, Tenn. He came to '.oulsvflle Tuesday. He had been emjdoyed as a shipping clerk In a factory there. The dead girl stayed at her sister’s home, where she told them she was married.. Miles, It is said, has been posing as her hus band. ML KDKIWR FOUND. Vfiui Who Stayed Wife In New York i , Located in Mobile. Julius Venner, alt&s Alexander Klein, alias Johnson, was positively Identified in Mobile, Ala., as August Peterson, who is alleged to have nurdered his wife, Sophie Peterson, In a tenement house in New York m February 7 last, and concealed the body untjer the .floor of the place. The identification was made by Johuson, a brother of the woman, who arrived at Mobile Thursday morning, accompanied by Police Ser geant John Wagner, of the New York police department. Johnson or Pet erson, as he says Is his right name, *fter identification broke down and -onfessed tolhe crime and expressed i willingness to return to New York vithout requiring requisition papers. of th»t city, hanged April v • TO GlVfi AWAY -MILLIONS. JONES LOSES Ike State Sapreae Ceert Uiauneisly Dales In a New Trial standard Oil King is Seeking Meth ods of ]>is|M)fliiig of His Wealth. A dispatch from Washington says ceps were take Friday to incorporate he Rockefeller Foundation in the nstrict of Columbia. The bill for his purpose was introduced by Sen- itor Gallinger and was referred to he committee on judiciary. The purpose of the foundation Is to pro- • ide for a general organization to <»nduct philanthropic work along ill lines. It is understood that the oumlation will be endowed largely y John D. Rockefeller and that he ikes this means to dispose of a large art of his enormous wealth. The ncon>orators named in the bill are lohn D. Rockefeller, John I). Rocke- vller, Jr., Fred T. Gates, Starr J. lurphy and Charles 0. Heydt. Eaten by Wolves. James Smith, a woodsman, was atou by wolves in the timber lands ear Ally, Mo., after a desperate ha*- e for his life. The wolves Mtack- ’ him w hile he was alone awaitmg he return of a brother. When the ittei returned he found his bro;her’s “'ues in the center of a circi? of five lead wolves. An empty rifl" shewed hat the victim had been o.-erpower- l before he could reloa-1 thj v ta >ou. Woman Is Ktabbed. At .Norfolk, Va., Mrs. E. 8. Stan ield was attacked by a masked man ip her home Wednesdayw-and was leverely stabbel. Shouting, “I told you to keep your mouth shut!” the man plunged a dagger Into her body. The woman had iglven testimony re sulting in the conviction of a bank robber despite the threat that she would be killed. Bet Herself on Fire. , . At. Columbus, Ga., Fannie Gray, bTr-styfftf "trejgrcr wt>uian. becoming suddenly, demented, poured kerosene oil over her clothing and touched a match and jumped In bed with her sister, covered with flames. The wo man was fatally burned. Serious damage lo r tfie property was averted by the prompt arrival of the fire de partment. —— «—'— Ne*ro (s Sentenced. Henry Poe. a negro who was con victed TiWtay at Hot Springs, Ark., of assaulting a 10-year-old white gliT dtt Spartanburg Thursday night at Death of an Old Minister. A. J. Stafford, one.of the oldest ministers In the South Carolina Meth odist confdfeice, died at his home o’clock, after an llinees of MV- HE MURDERED HIS WIFE Rich Farmer and Store Keeper of Union County, Who, After Much Cruelty, Brutally Murdered His Wife, Will Spend the Beet of Bis life In the Penitentiary. W. T. Jones, the rich Union Coun ty farmer and merchant, who is said to be worth $100,000 must spend the remainder of his life In the pen itentiary at hard labor for poisoning his wife, a prominently connected young woman of Union county, the supreme court, in a unanimous opin ion handed down Frldtfy, denying his appeal for a new trial. Jones Is now In the Union Jail, where he has been since the murder two years ago, except for a few days, when he was brought before the su preme court in an appeal on a aide Issue of the case. fThe opinion is written by Judge Dantsler, acting associate justice, in place of Justice Hydrick, who was disqualified by reason of the fact that be denied Jones ball while on circuit. Jones’ plantation and busi ness are In the hands of his sixteen year old son, also the son of the dead woman, who has been a staunch defender of his father in his trial. The murder of Mrs. Jones was one of - the most brutal and revolting crimes in the history of the State, the recommendation to mercy, which saved Jones’ neck and sends him to the penitentiary for life, being due to circumstantial evidence and the difficulty of the jury In arriving at a verdict. The doubt In the mind of the Jury was as to whether Jones forced his wife to take the poison, whether In desperation over his long years of brutal and outrageous treat ment she. was driven to suicide, or whetfier, as the defense claimed, she might have got hold of the poison by some mistake for headache medicine. But the evidence left no. doubt as to the long years of brutal and cruel treatment of Mrs. Jones by her hus band. The evidence reveals that In addition to making her dance in a nude condition before negroes for hts drunken delight, he at another time, or possibly several other times, stuck pins in her body, to hear her cry and moan. It waa also alleged that he tried to Induce her to submit herself to negroes In the hope of cwichlng h“r by suddenly returning to the house so as to provide an excuse for rid ing himself of her by killing her. A white witness testified to the alleged fact that Jones on one occa sion Induced him to stay at the house his absence. That night Mrs. Jones appeared-^tt the vlaitor’a room In her night gown er^tflfc-aaving her husband had forced her to*' The visitor got out as quick as he could, but before he left he heard a man on the roof of the piazza. On the terrible nght of the poison ing Jones was alone with his wife, the son having been sent away. The defense’s version Is that Mrs. Jones was suffering, that Jones had brought some poison home for dogs and that she took it by mistake for headache medicine. One of the exceptions In the ap peal Is based on the criticism made by Jud?e Memmlnger, who heard the case on circuit, of the action of Gov ernor Heyward in pardoning Hoyt Hayes, who was convicted of wife murder In Oconee county in some what similar circumstances. Hayes was pardoned on the opinion of the New York handwriting expert, Car valho, that the suicide note alleged to have been left by Mrs. Hayes was written by her. Part of her head was blown off by a shot gun, when she was aobut to become a mother. Judge Memmln ger said that it was murder, even if the note was written by her and even If she did commit suicide, if she was brought to such a state of mind by the defendant deliberately. He pointed out that if In the Jones case the defendant Induced and drove his wife to suicide, he was as guilty as if he had employed a third per son to commit the crime. Killed by Forty Foot Fall. R. M. Shannon, a lineman In the employ of the Southern Bell Tele phone company at Charlotte, N. C.. fell from the top of a forty-foot pole Wednesday, sustaining injuries from which he died later. No one saw the accident, nor knew of It until he was found on the sidewalk In a pool of blood. - BnleMtea Queer Iteqoest. That be be buried with his head six Inches lower than his feet was the single request left in a note by Richard Boward, prominent among farmers living near Qwensboro, Ky., When he ended his fife with stry chnine Friday. He said he was tired of living.. . iL Fatal Mistake.. Believing that he was drinking pore water in a glass handed to him by a druggist of Wpdley, Oa., T. A. Hall, a prominent and wealthy plant* er, drank carbolic acid and died a few moments laUr on SENATOR B. R. TEL1AN . iS WHAT A NEWSPAPER REPORTER SAYS ABOUT HIM. Says He Has as Deep a Sense of Rifftit as Any Maa SSST Ever Served in the Tire the Richmond NSw say about Senator “It has often been tor Tillman, that words, than any other es baa this to of Sena- more big — __fcan senate. He had a ehOl6#n|Bortmvnt Northern Railway. of stock expressions. Among theee he was fond of declaring that there was a "nigger In the woodpile,” and slmfilar statements. He was also an adept In the handling of the words “tomfoojery, ” '‘‘bamboozled” and "hullabaloo.” — The records of the senate do not show that there waa ever a more rapid speaker that Senator ^illmsn In that body when he was thoroughly aroused. From his seat directly in front of the vice-presidents desk he had the opportunity to see and hear everything that went on. and many times he would rise suddenly from' his seat and before he could be call ed to order sent home a string of caustic remarks before his colleague could draw a breath. He had said what he wanted to nay, rules or no rules, decorum or no decorum, and having said what he wanted to say, sat down. For all of the Impulsiveness that has characterized the actions of the Carolina senator since he came to Washington, It must be said to hts credit that he had as deep a sense of right as any man who ever serv ed In the senate. His actions were often rude, frequently cutting, and sometimes vulgar, but those who know Tillman best give him credit in a high degree for private and offi cial honesty. In Washington there is no sus picion of wrongdoing that will at tach to the name of Senator Tillman when he leaves the senate. He has made mistakes, “plenty of them.” to use his own words, but they have no doubt been mistakes that grew of a conviction that one could never go too far for right. He has had many enemies; has them now and will doubtless continue to have them, should he survive his present Illness, but few can be found willing to op pose the statement that a worthy or meritorius appeal has seldom been unheeded by Senator Tillman- Former political friends secure no more at his hands than the foe who fought him hardest In the days when South Carolina was split from the mountain to seaboard over the In- iqultlous State liquor dispensary. He looked upon his commission in the senate as a commission for all South Carolinians and It is believed that he tried to treat all alike, though many formerly his political opponents, never asked him for assistance. MURDERED IN HIS APARTMENTS Merchant' Is' FoffBff i»ead^»nd Close Friend Held for the Crime. A. G. Abridge, a druggist and hardware merchant, was murdered in his home at Pelham, Ga., some time Friday night. A. P. Spence, a trav eling man and who had long been a close friend of the murdered man, has been arrested for the crime, but he vehemently protests his Innocece. Abridge lived in apartments above his stores. His wife and children had been away for several days on a visit. Spence and Abridge were together until a late hour Thursday night, and sometime near midnight Spence is said to have telephoned a doctor that a man had been badly hurt and needed Immediate atten tion. Flee From Their Homes. A big ice gorge above Tiffin, Ohio, broke and Mechanlcsburg, the fac tory district is inundated and the people are fleeing from their homes. The fire department was called out to assist In the rescue, using boats to get out many families in the flooded district. For miles to the south, farmers are rescuing their stock with boats. Has Killed Four Men. Joseph Stokes, Charles Goldman and David Gortman, farmers, were late Thursday afternoon shot and killed by Lawrence Odom, a cattle man, at the latter’s home, four miles from Cltronette, Ala. This makes four men Odom has killed at Cltron ette, he having eight or ten years ago cut a man’s throat. AWFUL CRASH 1/ Ekfiacs ml Trias Hirtd Fraa Track Iita Caijoi BY AVALANCHE OF SNOW Further Details of toe Awful Dis aster That Overwhelmed Three Locomotives, Two Trains and Four Electric Mototo on the Great , '■•r-rjrPPiH Seven Miners Killed. Twenty-three miners were killed Thursday nfght by an explosion of i powder magazine la the 1,100-foot level of the Mexican mine, one of the group of Treadwell gold properties on Douglas Island. Eeight men were serlOnpIj Injured an^ louc pi these may die. Serve* Fifteen Years. At Lyons, Ga., W- L. Darby waa sentenced to serve fifteen years m the penitentiary after a Jury had re turned a verdict of guilty of Involun tary manslaughter against him. He tolled O. G. Moore In a baRness dis pute itst -yaaL: Beth man ware well- to-d**/ . •r.U' : As Thrther details of the disaster that overwhelmed two Great North ern passenger trains when an aval anche swept the trains and a portion of the own of Wellington, Wash., at the west portal of the Cascade tun nel, down the mountalnslide, are re ceived, the borrow grows. Twenty-three lives are known to have been lost when the matlrof snow, loose stones and uprootod trees hurled the cars containing 7VV sleeping people over the narrow ledge of the high line down to tho bottom of the canyon 20Q feet below. When the last reports were received from the scene of the catastrophe, twenty five more persons were miss ing. Besides these a score are ser iously injured. Complete lists of th injured cannot be obtained until res cuers have dug all the bodies out of the wreckage. The lists available at present contain only the names of trainmen killed and Injured. The two trains that were carried away by the great wave of Ice and snow were the westbound Spokane Limited and the west bound trans continental Fast Mall. The latter carries no passengers. Most of the dead and injured are believed to have been passengers on the Spokane express, forty of whom were on the train at the time of the disaster. Besides these, thirty work men, who had been engaged in the battle against the drifts that had been holding.the two illfated trains Itntprisoned in the mountains since February 24, were sleeping in the day coaches. The avalanche rolled down the mountain at 4.20 a. m. The two trains, three locomotives, four pow erful electric motors, the depot and wafer tank were swept off the ledge and deposited in a twisted mass of wreckage at the foot of the moun tain. The noise from the snow slide, which was a mile long, could be heard throughout the valley, and the superintendent directing the work of the night shift, marshaled his men and hurried to the rescue. Groans and cries for help doming from the Jumbled heap of debris at the bottom, of the canyon Indicated that many persons Imprisoned in the wreckage were still alive and the rescuers worked with a feverish haste to release them. As fast as the injured people were removed they were taken to the hospital at Scenic, three miles away by mountain trail, hut ten when the long winding course of the railroad is followed. A messenger was despatched at ■fc^qnce for help. The first news of the dlsaSYPf brought by John Wen- czell of V, eT>^^ ^L^sUggercd into Sky Homish, 18 miles rr$ll llngton Tuesday and gasped out his story. "All wiped out,” he cried. “Noth ing but smooth snow where the tracks stood and the trains were dumped into the canyon." He was so exhausted from his long fight against the snow that It was several hours before he could give a coherent story. Bit by bit, Wentzell’s disjointed utterances were placed together Into a connected nar rative. The avalanche came without warning. Wentzell, who was at W. R. Ballet’s hotel, ran out to see the billows of snow settling over the tracks where the train had stood. Later Wentzell saw men carrying women and children from the partly burled coaches which had been car ried down the side of the gulch. He thought that eight women and chil dren were carried out while he look ed on. Sonve of them moaned and he knew, therefore, that they were living. Ballet moved his family back into the tunnel for safety. The hotel, the saloon and the store at Wellington were untouched. The little railroad station was swept away by the edge of the avalanche which had grazed the huddled houses and wrecked the trains standing di rectly In Us psfth. Messages telling of the disaster were sent to Everett where relief trains bearing physicians, nurses and workers were Quickly made up. Ow ing to previous slides which have blocked the road and swept away portions of the track, the rescue trains can get no farther than 8cen- Jc. From, there the rescuers have to find a way on foot over the snow. Another train ’bearing wrecking equipment and carrying undertakers and more workers left Everett Late Tuesday night. A third train with workmen and provisions enough, .fp last 500 persons ten days, was sent east Wednesday morning. Commun ication with Scenic is frequently In terrupted by glides and it is difficult to get complete details of the disas ter. '* The names of the passengers who are caught in the avalanche are not known at this time. Men who tired of the delay in the mountain walked oat to Sky womlffa WE . FLOODS OF WATER iMimwi ft WHAT MAY BE HAPPENING CAN ONLY BE GUESSED. .-.ffi ... yjSSi hpimrfas ' Valuable Ferine ta Garden Ooeatry of Ceecede Slope Now Sead-bere and Mach Other Damage Done. - Advloaa from Spokane, Wash., are to the effect that aliriost unprecedent ed flood conditions are reported In the valleys and couUes of the”inland empire,” especially on the eastern slope of the Cascades and from the - eastern tier of Washington counties Into and including Montana. ^ ” Although the situation has Im proved in the Couer. d'Alenes, there Is yet danger of slides, as the weath er Is now balmy and the streams' are unable to carry off the enormous bodies of water caused by the sud den melting of the great quantities of snow. Elberton, in Whitman county, is In danger and the citizens are resort ing to the use of dynainlte. . Along the line of the Washington Central road In Lincoln county the railroad is waghe<d out for mlled and' many bridges are gone. Wenatchee reports great volumes of watv In the streets. What may be happening down the valley from there can only be guessed, communi cation being iat* rupted. Lewiston, Idaho, is out off from rail communication. Dayton, Wash., is also isolated. Lowlands of Tekoa are flooded and houses have been swept away at Waahtuona. The Chehallis river D rising rap idly and a Union Pacific under con struction has been washed out on the Gray’s Harbor branch. Melting snows and warm rains have caused the Cowlitz river to rls to nearly 20 feet above low water. The current Is forming new channels and is car rying ont many bridge booms and much piling. It Is feared that some of the valuable farms on the Cow litz bottoms have been reduced to sandbars. f vp 1 -.' HONEST IN IBS ! ft? f- 4 ' 1Z3L c * * .. •- F. Mgnn —- .., -I shall believe that Dr. r * - explorer, is an honssl there Is definite proof to trsry,” Dr. Maurice F. ter to Denmark, declared ben of the University el ington. Dr. Egan w^s t lean citizen to greet u his arrival at Copenhagen from to* trip in the artic. y The statement foOo*ed the ssple- natlon/py 'MlWafer Egan that the *r: Mi & Danish board which passed on Dr. Cook’s record’s hss simply that the records furnished them by Dr. Cook were not sufficient to en able them to say he had been to the . north pole. He also explained that letters to him recently Indicate that fully half of the people of Denmark still believe that Dr. Cook will prove himself hoeset. - ----— : Minister Egan gave many Inter esting sidelights on Dr. Cook In the course of his address at the univer sity club, based upon the tacfdeeta of the explorer’s reception in the Danish capital. The opinion of Longedale, who acted as Dr. Cook's secretary nntll the explorer disappeared, was one of the interesting features of the $SB SHOT TO DEATH BY POSSE. -r?.- Negro Entered House, Assaulted Wo man and Steals. A dispatch to the Atlanta Journal from Vldalla, Ga., says failing to ob ey the command of a posse to hal‘. Will Williamson, a negro desperado, charged with attacking Mrs. H. C. Mann and seriously stabbing her husband at Cedar Croaalngs Wednes day, waa shot and Instantly killed at Petros, a gfaljon on the Georgia Southern and Florida about five miles from Vldalla. Williamson was discovered In an outhouse at Petros. The posse surrounded the building and the negro attempted to escape by dashing through the lines. Members of the posse called on him to halt, and when he continued his flight, the pursuers fired. Mann was seriously stabbed by ths negro when he entered the home. The negro attacked Mrs. Mann and when her husband came to the re cue Williamson stabbed him with a long bladed knife, fatally wounding him. The house was then robbed by the negro. - ^^Nghmerged Villages. Heavy rain. .rTnelH.. 1 **™ Ohio. From all parts of the come stories of submerged villages, whole counties under water and peo ple being driven from their falling homes. At Elkton Beaver creek has completely flooded the town as there are several feet of water In the main street. Canton is In almost as bad a plight and the majority of the population Is marooned la the upper stories of their houses. lecture; Minister Egan skid he asked Lons dale what. Dr. Cook's mental condi tion was when Lonsdale left him to take the records from New York ta OfpenhegVa. v “He’s half mad.” Lonsdale said, according to Minister. Essn^fHo Is poeaased with the idea thset ke In going to be assassinated.” Dr. Cook's dissppearaacs followed shortly after Lonsdale said he was ta this condttloa. Dr. Egan's talk on Dr. Cook was spontaneous. In tntroductag the speske, Claude N. Bennett, chair man of the entertainment commute#, referred to the many honors whfeh have come to Dr. Egan as n teacher, • writer, a poet, a Christian and s diplomat. -■*— - “He forgot one of ths sttrtbntsn, wMob I think I ought to mention,” remarked Dr. Egan, with a twinkle In his ays. “He ought to have said I was the man who discovered Dr. Cook.” Minister Ifeaa began by announc ing that he bad no ontllned remarka, and naked what the members wished to hear about. “Dr. Cook,” earn# from tho beck of ths room. And Dr, Cook Steams ths subject of the discourse. Dr. Egan prefaced hie account of the reception of Dr. Cook ta Copen hagen by an explanaUon of his own duties in the premises. As the Amer ican minister, he said, he was oblig ed to be hospitable to any Amfgicna citizen, who came to the Danish Itol. To east doubt os the word of sny American citizen would have an-' ■'3 Ian, in Dr. Egan's ter news Cook's re *Xi! Given up for Lost. All hope for the y of the tlx men who started out in an open beat to seek help for the wreck i 1 steam er Karalion, hai be.n abandoned. The boat crew, conaliting of Mato Swanson and five men, three of whom Were passengers on the wrecked steamer, left Iliamna Bay, Alaska, February 7, two days after the wreck of the steamer. No word has bees received from them. Flood In Ohio Valleys. At least two dead, many hundreds homeless, scores of factories prepar ing to close down and property losses reaching into hundreds of thousands of dollars—these are the main re sults of the flood which has devas tated the State of Ohio during the last two days and which has not yet reached Its full volume. Was Jefferson Davis’ (Have. Gordon Davis, a slave to Jefferson Davis' family, died Wednesday at San AntpsKo, Tex., at^Mg age of 70 years. "Obrng the Cl taken, by Union soldiers and made a corporal in the Union arniy. He was afterwards known as “Corporal” Da vis. ’ Seven Persons Injured. “ At Camden, N. J., seven persons were Injured Wednesday, one ser iously, in a collision between two trolley cars. . „ • 1 n he looked up Dr. found that there was nothing him publicly, that he belonged to - several data of good standing and seemed to stand well as an explorer. And no intimation came to him ut the time from any American scient ist that Dr. Cook's integrity should be questioned. Ip “Not that Is would have made any difference In my course, unless the charge was one that carried proof with It.” he comtoontad. Upon hearing that the Crown Prince of Denmark, as president of /Jig the Royal Geographical Society, wan’ to meet the explorer, Minister ffigan decided to go with the pnrty of rep- reeentativea from tho society. “He bad an honeaf face. If it wertHiot clever,” commented Dr. Eg an. describing his first impression of the explorer. “And he wan always very modest.” • pi 'i The popular receptldn given Dr. Cook on the dock was describe! an a great ovation. Children of Dem- murk. Dr. Egan explained, ara told stories of north pole expeditions just the same as American children are taught the story of George Wanking- , ton and/the cherry tree. Sot£ ~ Danes turned ont in hordes to greet the explorer returning from fh* north. “Some one in the crowd of his cuffs,” remarked the “Then pieces of his clothes Ha van hunters, so that his pearaace became almost «ot personal 4 * nwi-nsaC* at Swains boro, Ga. 3 to Augusta had g--' .* 64 passengers remained at Welling ton Monday night. Only forty of there slept on the train, the others ■ at the railroad hotel and} near* cottages. , ^ s&k," whisker as bn door wltbovt Wifoe /at* &