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YEAR WITHOUT SUMMER •» t -V-W.1 ► •>!>»* BARNWELL. S. C., THURSDAY. JUNE 9,1910. • ■■* astCf CAUSES MANY WRECKS VESSEIaS ixmt and several -'’■afcs; ■ ,i MEN DROWNED. Th© Disaster Was Caused by Heavy Fogs Along the Coast of British America. Are We Going to Have • Repetition of the Year That Had Cold Weath er in Every Month, and Had Big Snow Storms in the Month of Jane. The Augusts Herald says the sea sons so far this year have been most peculiar. After a winter of rather disagreeable wnctner spring appar ently opened up early, and during March and* the first half ~of April the weather was most pleasant, with absence of rain and the usual March winds the distinguishing feature. Then came a return of cold weather. During the latter part of April there was a heavy sndwfall which extended well into Georgia, and frost which reached Into Florida. And since that time the weather has been cool Only a few days ago a heavy snow storm, was reported from the West, and within the past weefc overcoat# were worn on the streets of Augus ta. Surely most remarkable weath er" But It is not without precedent. The year 1816 was a year that must have been similar to the weather as we have had It up to this time. It was referred to for years after wards as "the year without a sum mer,” and so cold was It at times in some sections that almost all crops were a failure, and the year was called by the irreverent" the year of "eighteen hundred and starved to death." A gentleman In Thomasvllle has a copy of an old Virginia paper, pub lished shdrtly after the war, which contains the weather conditions of the year 1818 that was copied fnftn the Boston Globe, and which is of Interest now. This seems to be the account of a party wl\o had personal knowledge of that abnormal sum mer, and who had collected some data in regard to it. He says: "While every one is speaking of the present season as being remark able in Its characteristics, I have gathered for your readers some re liable facta of the year 1816, known as the year without a summer.’ Few persons now living can recollect It. but It was the coldest ever known through Europe and America. The following la a brief abstract of the weather during each month of the year; January was mild, so much so as to render fii^s almost needless in parlors. December previous waa very cold "February was not very cold; with the exception of a few days it was mild, like its predecessor. “March was cold and boisterous during the first part of it; the re mainder was mild. A great freshet on the Ohio and Kentucky rivers caused a great loss of property. “April b-gan warm, but grew cold er as the month advanced, and end ed with snow and Ice and a tempera ture more like winter than Spring. "May was more remarkable for frowns than smiles. Buds and fruits were froxen; ice formed half an inch thick; corn killed, and fields again and again replanted until deemed too late. i "June was the coldest ev»r know in this latitude. Frost, ice sod snow were common. - Almost evejy green thing was killed. Fruit nosrly all destroyed. Snow fell to thg depth of ten inches in Vermont, several in Maine, three in the Interior of New York, and also in Massachusetts Considerable damage was done at Nek[ Orleans in conseqyence of the rapid rise in the river. The su burbs were covered with water, and the rokds were only passable with boats. “July was accompanied by frost . and ice. Op the 5th ice was formed of the thickhess of a common win dow glass througout New EngHn<C New York and\some parts of Penn sylvania. Indian ^orn was nearly all destroyed; some favorably situated fields escaped. T%is was true of some of the hill farms of Massachu setts. \ "August was more .cheerless, if - possible, than the auiamer. months already passed. Ice was formed half an inch thick Indian 001*0 was so frozen tint the greater part of It was cut down and dried for fodder. Almost every green thing was de stroyed, both in this country aitfl in Europe. Papers received from Eog- ^ land atatc ‘that It would be remeip- bered by the present generation that the year 1816 was a year in which \ iG»rtrWaa~ir6 tumm*r. J —Vary little corn ripened In the New England and Middle States. Farmers supplied * thesnselves from corn produced in 1815 for the seed of the spring of 1817. It sold at from $4 to )5 a bushel. "Septemehr furnished about two weeks of the mildest weather of the season. Soon after the middle it became very cold and frosty; lee formed Jt- quarter of an-Inch thick. “O&taber produced more than Its share o’f eold weather; frost and Ice A dispatch from Halifax, N. S., says thick fog and a quickly born southwesterly gale are said to have resulted In the wrecking of. six ves sels and the loss of eight men at various points along the rocky coast of the Atlantic Wednesday night and early Thursday. While most of the crew of 25 were asleep below decks, the French brigantine Mauve, a fishing vessel, piled up In the fog an Point Blanche, at the entrance of St. Pierr harbor, Miquelon, Thursday morning, and six Pen ofi deck were hurled overboard and drowned. The remalndlng 19 made their way to shore in small boat* and rafts. The Mauve is be lieved to be a total loss. The Norwegian bark Borghlld was driven on Castor Ledges, off Port Blckerton, N. S., and at once be gan to g,o to pieces in the heavy sea. The crew of nine men launched their small boats, but all of them were batered to pieces on the rocks and two of the men were either drowned or hurled to death on the ledges. The remaining seven, cling ing to the wreckage of the boats, were rescued by fishermen. 'Half a mile inside of Port Nova, N. S., the British s<eamship Ben Cruachan bound from Baltimore to Chatham, N. B., struck the beach so hard that it is doubtful If she can be saved. Her crew of 2 6 men were rescued. Captain Boswell, it is said, mistook the Loulsbury fog siren for the Scattarie whistle and steered a wrong course, landing in the breakers. Several steamers and tugs have gone to the scene of the wreck. FIRES INTO TRAIN ’‘f SOME VANDAL CAME VERY NEAR KILLING YOUNG LADY. CHURCH GROWTH Larger ia Proportion Thai the Increase in the Popnlatina. •I CAN’T EXPLAIN.’ Holstlaw, Illinois Senator, Talks Of His Conression. *> ‘T’d rather be known as a boodler than a liar,” said Senator Daniel Holstlaw in an interview at his home at Inka, III., Wednesday, speaking of his confession to accepting a bribe of $2,500 as a legislator. "Maybe." he continued, “I took the money because I saw everyone else doing the same thing—I can't explain." "I made the confession because I could not tell a lie." “I don't know—I don't under stand." he said, with a hopeless air answering a question of why he, 1 man owning property worth a quar ter of a million dollars, would ac cept bribe "All 1 waut Is to sink out of slzht I knew the Indictment charging in* with perjury was a bluff, and it did not frighten me. But when they asked me whether I was paid for voting for Senator Lorimer, 1 had to tell the truth." (A daughter of Holstlaw followed he Interviewer out of the house. Breaking down, she exclaimed: "To spend years of toil in build ing a name and then to destroy it at one blow. Oh, how could he do it? My mother is prostrated. We have not said a word to 'father about the rouble, for it would break his heart. He could not have been in his right mind.” Who Was a Passenger on the Train and Near Whom the Ballet Hit Window^ The Augusta Chronicle says Miss Sally Morgan, a resident of Turpin Hill, Augusta, Ga., had a close and narrow escape from Instant death while returning to Augusta Tuesday night as a passenger on the C. & W. C. railroad, when, Just as the train passed the aqueduct near the Sibbley mill, a pistol bullet crashed through the window next to where she was sitting, barely missing her head. The shot came so unexpectedly, the young lady fainted, and it took the kind assistance of the other pas sengers in the coach, with the aid of ice water and handkerchiefs, to revive her. Every attention was shown her, but it was sometime be fore she regained complete conscious ness. At the time the pistol was fired, Miss Morgan was resting her elbow on the window (ill, and she says, owing to the glare of the elctric light she could not tell with any degree of certainty fopm which direc tion the bullet caw?, but thinks it was fired from the canal bank. She says further, in locating the spot, that the shot was fired near where the Clark assassination took place sometime ago. "It scared me to death,” she said at her home, “and it is a wonder that I am not a total nervous wreck. I never was so prostrated in all my life. I am unnerved right now and will never forget tho incident as long as I live. “This is not the first time that I have met with such an occurrence, and the last happened on the same road, too. At that time some one hurled a large stone through The window glass. Just missing me. It seems as if the fates are pursuing me and 1 feel wary cf riding oh the trains In the future.” It Is believed that the bullet was fired at close range, as It cut an even hole through the ,glass, leaving weblike crevices. It is probable that had it been fired from a long distance It would have completely shattered the glass. Even as it * thaqqh. particles of the glass lodged on thwf' trimmings of the young lady's hat. She has bits of it as a 8otiVf*tTf?^BB the narrow and most unfortunate oc currence. INCREASE VERY GREAT MANY WORKMEN KILLED. BONE IN THROAT KILLS. Negro Man at Bateshurg Dies in a Peculiar Manner. At Batesburg Wade Brooks, a ne gro man, who lived on Mr. N. A Bates' place, died Wednesday under •'ecullar circumstances. About ten days a^o Wade was eating a piece of Guinea fowl, and In some way he got a piece of bone crosswise in his throat. There it remained for a day or two, when a doctor was sum moned. The doctor, R is said, took on instrument and pushed the bone own. Instead of relieving the ne gro it made matters worse. The bone wag lodged further down and the man died Wednesday. employe of the Americail Car and Foundry pompany, walked up to his wife and shot her three times and then killed himself. Snow in Pittsburg. At Pittsburg, Pa., snow fell Tues day. The temperature was 29 de grees, the coldest May 31 In the re/ teesl weather bureau— .N ware common. v "November was cold and bluster- tfcll so aa to make good > '■£*■ The above was a brief summary of \he ’cold summer of 181t* as it was sailed, in order to distinguish It from the cold season. The winter was mild. Frost and ice were com mon in ^yery month of the year. Very Utt» vegetation matured 18 the Eastern and Middle Statee si n's rays seemed to be destitute of beat throughout the summer; all nature was clad In a sable hue, and men exhibited no little anxiety con cerning the future of this life. “The average wholesale price of flqnr during that y^sr in the Phil- Fatal Explosion in Utah Cement Works Near Ogden. Twenty-five workmen were killed in an explosion Wednesday in a quar ry of the Union Portland Cement Works at Devil s Slide, Utah, thirty miles east of Ogden. The explosion blew down the tcl- egraidi and telephone poles and com munication with the scene of the accident was limited to a brief mes sage sent out by a courier from Mor gan. Utah, soon after the disaster. tMost of the killed are .Japanese and Greeks, who made up the quarry gang of TO to 100 men. The injured are reported to number nearly a score. The victims were blown to pieces On the hillside overlooking the scene, portions of arms and limbs were picked up. Some of the bodies were Mown a hundred yards. A premature explosion in a tun nel in the hill above the cement plant was the direct cause of the ex plosion below. More than thirty kegs of powder were stored near where the men were working. BURIAL OF JAMES DARWIN. Shot Self and Wife. At Jefferson, Ind., with the w’ords T don't believe you love me any , u . v f mot^/’ William BoatmanTi formeF ?, la he Body of Man Shot in Texas Laid to Rest at Home. The body of James Darwin; who formerly lived at Woodruff, was car- ried there for Interment Tuesday.. Mr. Darwin was shot from ambush several days ago in Texas by a Mex ican. Mr. Dar*|n was the son of Mrs. H. A. Darwib^and is the third child whom she has buried within the last fifteen months. From what can be learned it seems that Dar- his work. He was an oil inspector for a large oil manufacturing com pany In Texas. His mpther *an*d other relatives were present at the burial. He was married last year and his widow came on with the body. Long Ballot. It is said an eight-foot ballot will "be required Tn tKe"STate' election Ur South Dakota next November, ow ing to the large number of measures to be voted on under the Initiative and referendum. Blew Open Safe. The state bank of Unity, Wis., The j , ’ ra, fobbed Tuesday of the safe of the bank being dynamited. The rubbers escaped. The bank was established in 1905 with a capital of 110,000. market of J18 r'Mi? Thirty Suicides In May. With one day to be heard from, a barrel, the ymonth \»f May contributed a hastly record of BO sqkldea In \ There Are Many More Women Than Men Included.—la the larger Cities Catholics 'lore Than IK»u- ble Protestants, but the Latter Is Said to be Greatly Understated. Church growth in the United States has been greater than tho ii - crease in population between the years 1900 and 1906, according to the special census repo’ t on the cen sus «f religious bodies for 1906. In tho principle cities of the country, the growth both in the numbof religious organizations and commun ities was greater in the years men tioned than the increase in popula tion, while in the area outside the principle cities to the rate of in crease in the number of new chur ches established was approximately the same as the rate of population Increase, although in the number of communicants the Increase In the outside area, as in the cities, was in excess of that in population. Out of every 1,000 people in the 160 principle cities of the country— that is, those which had a popula tion of more than 25,000—there were 4 69 church members while for the area outside these cities there were 3 64, and for the entire country there were 391. As compared to 1890 the report shows a gain of ninety communicants in each 1,000 of pop ulation for the principal cities aud a gain of fifty-one outside of them. Female members In 1906 outnum bered the male members by 32 per cent in continental United States, while in the principle cities the ex cess of female members was pro portionately less, being 960,526, or 23.5 per cent. - The aggravate junnher of 32.936,- 445 communicants or members of all religious denomination in continen tal United States was reported. Of this grand total the various Protes tant bodies reported 20,287.743, and the Roman Catholic Church 12,- 679,1 42. For purposes of comparison the census authorities divided the prin cipal cities into four classes, those having In 1900 a population of 300,- 000 -and ov^r, constituting the first class; those of from 100,000 to 300,- 000 forming the second; those of from 50,000 to 10,000 making the third; those of from 25,000 to 50,- 000 forming the fourth class. Of the protestant aggregate there were 1,478,145 or 7.3 per cent, in the first class cities; 4.7 per cent in the second; and 7.4 per cent, in tho third and fourth classes com bined. while 80.6 per cent, were out side the principal cities. Of the Roman Catholic Church's total membership there'was 3,37.'.,- 4 53 or 27.9 per cent in first class cities; 1,361.1 32 or 11.3 per cent in the second class; 1,570,944, or 13 per cent in the third and fourth dnssea combined, with 5,771.613 or 4 8.8 per cent, outside the principal cities. It is seen, therefore, that the num ber of members of the Roman Cath olic Church reported in cities of the first w as considerably more than dou ble the number reported by all the ProUstant bodies, while outside of the principal cities the number re ported by the Catholics was only a little over one third of the number credited to the Protestants. It is pointed out in the report that the strength of the Protestant bodies, as compared with the Roman Catholic Church, is greatly understated. Only two of the Protestant bodies reported a majority of their mem bership in the principal cities, i. e.. the Church of Christ, Scientist, 82.6 per cent., and the Protestant Episco pal Church 51.2 per cent; while of the nr mbershlp of the Jqwlsh con gregations, 88.7 per cent are In the principal cities, and of tho Eastern Orthodox churches 70.7 per cent. Of the total number of communi cants or members reported for the principal cities by all denominations, 6,307,529 or 60 per cent, belonged to' the cities showing the largest pro portions of Protestant communicants « r « Memphis, 84 4 per cent; Toledo, TT per cent; 4tnnaas City, Mo.', 66.2 per cent, and Indianapolis, 62.1 per cent. The cities showing the largest per centages of Roman Catholic com municants are Fall River, 86.5 per cent; San Francisco. 81.1 per cent; New Orleans, 79.7 per cent; New York, 76.9 per cent; Providence, 76.5 per cent; St. Louis, 69 per cent; per ceirtr. and .PMa- delphla. 51.8 per cant In the five loading cities the pro portion of communicants to popu lation wa*: New York. 44.7 per cent; Chicago. 40.7; Philadelphia. 38.8; Boston. 62.6, and 8t. Louis, 4 6.6 per cent. It is stated that. In general, cities which have a rela tively Targe Roman'Catholic popu lation show a hither percentage ef church members than dtles In which thin body has a comparatively small representation. In Fall River 86.5 per cent of the total number of mem bars reported were Roman Cath olics and the church membership rep resented per cent of the pop ulation. while In Memphis, where *4.4 par cent of the communicants ‘‘‘V STRUCK BY CYCLONE HIGH WINDS DO MUCH DAMAGE IN AUGUSTA. GA. Streets Were Blocked With Trees • and Wires and the City Woe in Total Darkness. A dispatch from Augusta says that the entire city has been in darkness since 1(1:13, every street is congest ed with uprooted trees and disabled wires; every telephone Is out and trolleys are disabhed, as a result of a cyclone lasting about eighteen minutes Thursday night. 60 far no fatalities have been re ported, but half a dozen or more res idences have been more or less wrecked, and two or three ware houses blown down. The Casino building, at Lake View. Where a night performance was just cnncmtllTrgr was rmriptutety wrecked; but the audience escaped uninjured. Every night enterprise depending on electric power is tied up, and all business houses and residences us ing current are in darkness. The entire fire alarm system is disabled. The pyclone passed over into South Carolina touching Aiken, Orangeburg and, other places. BEATS THE RECORD. -a. - — Mr* 1 • 1 Englishman Flies Across English Channel and Bock. A Dover, England, dispatch says the Hon. Charlet Stewart Rollj. cap tain in the London section of the army motor reserve, driving a Wright biplane, vindicated Anglo-Saxon aer- onautics by crossing the English channel twice Wednesday evening without alighting. He made the round trip between Dover and Calais in ninety minutes. (While two Frenchmen, Louis Bler- iot and Count de Lesseps, have cross ed the channel in an aeroplane, If remained for an Englishman, in an American machine, to perform the double feat. The distance across be tween the two points nam'-d is 21 miles, so that his over water flight ,o{. 4? rpiles without s stop estab lishes a new record. Capt. Rolls left Dover at b.30 o'clock. The atmospheric conditions were 'xcellent. He lost no time in nianocuvrca. but after describing a circle, headed toward the coast of France, in anticipation of the flight, torpedo boats steamed at full speed across the Straits, but the pace of the aeroplane was swifter. KELLNER ■ ^ ' v " - - ./■. ■ ■ ;■ , ■ FURTHER TRACES OF DSHD OON< 1. FIRM THEORY/ Charred Foot of little Aim Found la Basement of Loaiarfile Church. - SMOKE CREATES i'ANIC. In the Subway Five Hundred Feet Beneath the Street. Five hundred hysterical women, screaming children and panic-strick en men fought their way through a dense smoke In the Mott avenue sub way station in the Bronx, New York city, early Thursday, striving to es cape. Only one elevator was available to take them to the street, which is 65 feet above the subway level at this point, and the crush to reach this exit or the five flights of stairs which led to the surface increased the panic. Fifteen persons were overcome by smoke and two men were Injured ser iously enough to require hospital treatment. Fire in an automatic pumping station caused the smoke. The damage was nominal. AUTO BURST INTO FLAMES. Valuable Car of iancaster Man I>e- stroyed by Fire. At Lancaster the automobile of Mr. C-haa. B. Skipper was practically destroyed by fire Thursday afternoon. Mr. Skipper had Just lighted the pilot light when flames burst from beneath the car. He had presence of mind enough to push the car oiit of his carage, which was very close to his ^ome, and turn a stream of water on the car from the yard hose. Otherwise, it is probable that his home would have been destroy*rt. The car is covered by insurance. This is the second automobile that has been destroyed by fire at Lat- caster in the past six months Tried to Sell Girl. Max Appel, of New York, was ar rested In Baltimore, last week, and committed to await the setion of the Grand jury. He is accused of having trbd to di8|K)8e of Sadie Brooks. 22 and pretty, but speaking little Eng lish, in Manhattan and Brooklyn, and failing, to have taken her to a re sort in Baltimore. The unravelling of tlia knotty skein of evidence confirming only too well the theory that little Alma Kell ner was murdered In St. John's Cath olic Church, Louisville, Ky., whore she went to worship on December 31 last, .proceeded rapidly, but nothing has been heard from the suspected Janitor. The charred right foot of the child was found Wednesday In a pile of ashes near the furnace In the basement of the church and near it were picked out of the refuse two women's handkerchiefs. ■ This makes ft 16TST df Ttvs hanrtltPTrhttrfg Tmrmd In two days, and some of them bore blood stains. - - The quick lime with which the body was covered when found was purchased, It was learned, at a groc ery only a few blocks away. Ac cording to the groceryman the order for the lime was telephoned in from St. John's Church, and the barrel of lime was delivered there soon af ter Christmas and turned ever to a woman. As It waa a cash transac tion, no record was made of it, and it is, therefore, Impossible to give the exact date. v In police court Mrs. Wendllng s attorney asked Judge Boldrick to dis charge her on the ground that she Is being held illegally and In violation of Section 1,129 of the Kentucky statutes, which provides that the charge of accessory after the fact does not exist as to the wife of a principal in crime. The motion will be argued. Mrs. Wendllng, who la confined In the Jail, said that she knew abao- lutely nothing of the murder, and that she had no Idea aa to her hue- band's whereabouts. As an excuse for the disappear ance of her husband Mrs. Wendllng offered this: "He was French—he was gay— a Frenchman will ‘take hit head' unltw* be has work that he likes, and the weather *as ab C«ld tfrjg. winter, and there was so much snow and so many fires to make and the work was so dirty, that. I think, was why he left. He did not like Louis ville and he wanted to be with the French people. I never heard my husband talk about his friends. 1 know he deserted from the French army. Ha told me so Just before we were married. I think we were married about two years ago, on the 18th of December. :X’v- >1 ■ 0« Miff Ob -V- , ** - ■ . With • Hits Ctarbiag art Death • The Two Betdiers Had Had • Dfe. , .-r of t — •• ' —- ...—V ^ The Charleston Evening Pont Private Fry, of Compaay 144, coast artillery, at Fort Moultrie, wag knocked down In a fight with anoth er soldier, eaid to be Private Murray, ■end dltLirat—recoT following the contact of hie head with the curbing In front of the post exellange. Murray tg under ar rest at the Fort and will have to •toad trial for the death of Fry. It appears that the two soldiers were at the post exchange, art got into an altercation over some matter or other, and Fry la reported to have struck Murray with a chair, which brought on a fight and ft was pro- HKIFEK BROUGHT BIO PRICK. Cattle Raising In South Carolina Proves Profitable. South Carolina's place in the cat tle raising Industry is shown In the sale In New York recently at the Cooper's cattle sale of a 14-months' Jteifer for $1.1^0. The heifer was grown near Columbia. "Emlnents Nameless” out of "Golden-ferns Nameless" by Emlnents Goldenmont Lad.” a bul! from Mr. Thomas Tay lor's cattle farm, was the heifer which sold for $325 more than her mother sold for at the same sale. The mother, "(Joldenfems Name less," brought $825, and the 14- months’ heifer brought $1,150. This shows the progress of cattle raising in South Carolina. * While seated on an emt near hi* home at Marcus Hook*, watching his brother-in-law, ( Guyer, pump air Into tho tlruii his automobile, Frank D. aged 46 years, was struck la tha 1 by he Inner tube of the lira, exploded with s loud report. tire cut his face horisontally the bridge of his nose found necessary to tie up his to keep his feature In act. He. Twenty-Nine Men to Die for Their grlthin ten minutes after the , rtent and before he could be tal Crimes in Russia. MURDER BAND SENTENCED. posed to settle tha dilBculty outside, after the manner of the hardy sol- * dlers. This was at abont 1:45 o'clock. Outside the two aohflera squared off, for their fight, and Mar- ray is said to have hit Fry a blow which knocked him down, add aft he fell the soldier’s head came In contact with the curbing, and be loat consciousness, which he did not re gain, death resulting. The death of the soldier catfsod a profound Impression among his mates, who were astounded by tha unexpected outcome of aa ordinary flfttlcuff, such as Is frequently Indulge ed In among tht fighters of the var ious companies. Private Murray was placed under arrest after the fight, and la In a serious predicament. He waa terribly shocked by the result of what at first promised to be only trifling matter. 2-? .... Little or so oflkia) Information of ►'-HP* the affair could be fortejx-ftesae., Moultrie ’I'hnrii^l^ya Tliur-1< ££*hT was current on fiulHvtn^, Fry's death gave rise to genera. , ii. ':>& i£E§§i cueelon of the trouble. i , Murray, the eoMler under ai 1s of the same company as Fry waa. and ia well knowa In where he appeared In the guise clever and aggressive prize meeting Billy Teager In the* ring for three hard battles, the Nonperoll Club. It Is said Murray did 1 At the hospital on the Island It wee thought that strangulation had as much to do with Fry’a death an 'fid the blow on Ala head, for be* - fore ha fell he also received a blew i to the stomach that caused him vomit w w » . , , „■ KILLED BY BURHTlNG TIRE. Flying loner Tube Man’s Head (.1 •, - Aa ■n Penalties of death or life impris onment have been meted out at 8t. Petersburg. Russia, to the youthful band of men and women, who for eighteen months during 1 907-68 committed a series of murders and robberies that terrorized the resi dents of a considerable territory. Twenty-nine men. ag p d from 18 to 25 years, were sentenced to death/, Eight women escaped hanging be cause of tluir sex, but were sentenc ed to imprisonment for life. Live*! Without Work. The only man In Indiana who could li-e without working, Thomas Fields, dled.aL.HarJtfQrd.Cilv,. week, He was a waif in New York and 55 years ago was shipped West. He was honest, sober and lazy and bum med his meals for over half a cen tury. Had a Real Joy Ride. Finding that six tramps had brok en into a beer car near Cheyenne, Wyo., F. WT HunL a Colorado an4~ wnt <**7 msYhft of fhatf Southern conductor, seized the door and sent the car to Cheyenne that the men might be delivered to the sheriff. They faced Jail cheerfully, declaring they had enjoyed the ride and were full of beer. 8ix Fishermen Dead. Six fishermen lost their lives when the brigantine Mauve, of Cancale, France, struck on Point Blanche, while entering St. Pierre In a thick fog early Thurftday. reported belonged to Protestant bodies, the church membership the popula- the only 80 per cent, of >n. Eagles Attack Seoolboy. Homeward bound from school, Ira Cottlngham was attacked by two hun gry eagles near Kansas City, Kan CaloBS'to Hit'grave, though he man aged to beat the birds off with > dub, Could Not Get Work. Albert Betts, aged 67. despondent over not being able to got. employ ment, committed sutdde In Green ville on Tuesday by drinking carbol ic acid. He left * natfe outing bin reason for the act. College CTS Harblnson college, the colored in stitution at Abbe villa w to the hospital. The accident witnessed by he dead man's wit who was standing in the dc of .her home. NEW BA LUNGER ' / Secretary Accused of Illegally Letting Contract. lit days ftesslon of tha Bal- JJngar., Investigation, before the Con gressional committee, at Washing ton, D. C., resulted in S* grievance* being filed agalhaf the Forest 1 and the Interior department, the 36 being against the for of the complaints against the lor department .alleges sa clalon by the Land office ia a home stead claim, while the other that the contract let by Secretary Ballinger for 1 the survey of the Idaho- Montana boundary waa without com petition and therefore Illegal. Requisition Refused. Governor Ansel Tuesday decision on Governor Pat qulaltlon for BUrk. Indicted In for embezzlement, tIon and stating the length. A f*w or Patterson of Twi Governor Ansel's Hebert, wanted for I section with srtavrJs Robbed of lin tor P. ! building was down V . r - * w »y V'V^V ia m r '•' to