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CAUSES MANY WRECKS
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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
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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.
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‘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—
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ware common.
v "November was cold and bluster-
tfcll so aa to make good >
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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KILLED BY BURHTlNG TIRE.
Flying loner Tube
Man’s Head
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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
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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. !
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down
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