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1%, , Miss Sophronia Jennie Moddle
*<udied hygienic twaddle,
*lill she got it in her noddle
T^at she couldn't live on food?
And she used to sit and ponder
On the happy Over-Yonder
Where the hosts angelic wander,
And on such things she would brood.
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Nothing not by art digested
Misj Sophronia molested,
And she got herself infested
With the eereclitis fad.
Till the little w.t created
In her skull evaporated.
And her common sense was slated
To go slumping to the bad.
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And it is no use pret
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Is a triumph, for it
Miss Sophronia Jenn
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N the summer of 1867,"
said Kelly, the post trader,
. O T O "I started out to take a
7( consignment of goods to
ItQJC the Black Hills country,
where most of the blanket
Indians were supposed to be gathered.
- "I set out about the middle of August
with a string of packhorses and
' two men?Bat Lamoure, my driver,
and Little Chief, to act as guide and
interpreter to the Cheyeunes and Gros
Ventres. I could then speak Sioux
very well, but Little Chief could talk
in seven wholly different Indian
tongues; without him such an expedition
could hardly have been under|
taken.
"We jogged across to the Little Missouri,
and followed that stream nearly
to its head without meeting Indians.
Then we crossed over to the Belle
Fourche, and followed that past the
pine hills. There were no buffaloes except
stragglers, stray bunches of old
bulls that had been left behind in the
inarch of south-going herds.
"When we had reached a creek called
Medicine Dance. Little Chief an
Inounced that the Ogallalas and their
allies had all gone south after the buffalo.
He said the Ogallalas, or a good
part of them, had wintered on this
creek the year before, and had raised
a crop of vegetables at their village
i : during the summer. They had gone,
and if they had intended to return
would not have mo red their village and
taken all their horses out of the coun
U try*
"It was too late in the season to turn
north to the Blackfoot country, so
there was nothing we could do hut
graze our stock and hunt and rest for a
time.
"Then one morning a party of Indians
appeared. There were fifteen or
twenty of them, a wild lot of fellow*
mounted on swift horses, who circled
about our camp, riding like the wind, 1
and then shook their blankets at us
in token that they wanted to talk.
; "Little Chief made signs to them to
" come on, and they approached cautiously.
They proved to be mountain
Crows?and half of them had never
seen a white man before.
"They had nothing to trade. Tbeywere
all armed with bows and arrows,
and the only sign of civilized life in
their outfittings was a few old woolen
blankets.
"My interpreter was acquainted with
the river Crows of the Yellowstone,
and after their curiosity was a little
I * satisfied, he talked with these fellows
in their tongue. He could get but
little out of them, but they promised
to return to their buffalo camp and
bring in some peltries in a day or two.
"When we had seen the last of them,
I was quite ready to pack up and pull
out for the Missouri, for I knew that
our visitors belonged to the wildest
tribe then in all the Northwest, and
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most expert and inveterate thieves in
existence.
"However, when I proposed that we
get out of the country, Little Chief
counseled delay. He said that we
might be sure these wild Crows were
watching us keenly, and that if we
should display any signs of fear or
uneasiness they would the sooner attack
us. So I listened to his Indian
wisdom, whether for the best or not
I've never been able to guess.
"For two or three days we kept an
eye out for the Crows and closely
herded our stock at night. Then, seeing
no further sign of our visitors, we
concluded that they had returned to
their villages, which must have been
two or three hundred miles distant.
"We had packed all our wares and
new skins," with the intention to pull
out at sunrise in the morning. Just
before daybreak the Crows came. Bat
?r*n n ^ m V\ a it ! ! ? Vt a
vtiia suypuaru IU uc ui?;ui-ucr uiii?, uui
he was probably asleep 011 the prairie
when the drums and jells sounded.
"The rascals slipped up on us quietly,
having shod their ponies with buffalo
moccasins, fur side out. and they were
right on top of us when they drummed
us out of blankets. We jumped to our
feet and worked our Spencer repeaters
with all possible speed, while a yelling
mob rode over and round us.
"Owing to the darkness, we came off j
without a scratch; but when the stain- j
pedo had rolled out of harm's way we i
stood there, three men on foot, with a j
jtock of trader's goods ou hand, fire;
MARTYR.
Site ate hay and wheat and barley,
She chewed soap-nuts small and gnarly,
With a steak she ne'er would parley,
Nor with solid stuff like that;
Rut she stuck with grim persistence
To her predigest existence,
And she fought with firm resistance
All temptation to get fat.
So in course of time she grew to
Be a part of what she's c-hew toReady
Oats she ate at 2.02
And Aseptic bran at 4:
At just 5 she'd eat her dinner
Of Dust-Corn (that was a winner!).
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She asepticized the more!
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ELLES CALKINS I
hundred miles from the Missouri. And
worse still, when daylight came, we
found ourselves surrounded by a war
party of thirty-five or forty Crows.
"The rascals were lined up on the
prairie on two sides, and when we
stood up on the creek bank, they yelled
all manner of threats at us. There was
no doubt of their intentions. They were
after our goods and guns, and incidentally
our scalps. I had brought
four Spencer rifles for myself and men,
and the Crows were armed only with
bows and arrows and a few old muzzle-loading
guns.
"We held a little council of war, and
finally decided to make some bull-boats
for our goods and take up our marcn
as quickly as possible down the creek.
There had been rains on the mountains,
and there was water enough in
the Medicine Dance to float the widebottomed
skin tubs of the Sioux.
"While I watched the Crows Little
Chief and Bat fell to work cutting willows
and making frames for the boats.
As they had some half-tanned bull
pelts and plenty of thongs, there was
no difficulty in building the craft. In
an hour they had their first bull-boat
loaded.
"By mid-afternoon we had our supplies
afloat?five boats lightly loaded
and tied together. Then we took up
our march, Bat cordelling the boats, .
and Little Chief and I walking on
either bank of the creek. There was
but little timber along this streamonly
patches of willows. There was no
covert that we couldn't have driven the
Crows out of in a few minutes, so we ,
did not fear an ambush. ,
"We believed that, at least until help
came, they would attack us only under j
cover of night, and so we pushed
ahead as fast as Bat could pull the 3
boats. WThen beaver dams lay across
the channel, either Little Chief or my
self would help lift the tubs over. Our
progress was diseouragingly slow. The ,
Crows followed us leisurely, quite like
an escort of cavalry.
"At night we camped where the
banks of the creek were bare of vegetation,
but offered pits where we could <
command the level flats on both sides. 1
"A little after midnight we were attacked.
The Crows came with a rush,
and for a moment I thought wo were !
done for; but our sharp fire and good J
cover discouraged them, and they clat- ;
tered away. Our shots knocked over
two ponies, but if any of their men 1
were hit at this time they succeeded in
concealing the fact.
"In the morning we took up our :
march again, with the Crows following
like two flocks of buzzards.
"Toward noojj they rode on ahead,
and about three-fourths of them dismounted
and took possession of the ;
creek channel. But we had plenty of
ammunition, and we bombarded every
turn of the banks and every bit of willow
or timber cover, and so drove
them out. We wounded one Indian in
hia ficht.
"That night the Crows camped as near
to ns as they dared, and danced and
pounded their tom-toms all night. They
hoped to keep us awake and wear us
out, I suppose. But we took turns on
guard,, and slept just the same.
"The next day we had two sharp
skirmishes in the creek chancel, and
in the last we disabled three Crows.
This fight would bare encouraged us
greatly, but immediately afterward the
hostiles sent a runner to the west.
"Bat and the interpreter now thought
that our only chance of escape was
to crawl away from our camp in the
nie-ht each man for himself, anchfihd'
hill cover.
"I knew my helpers counseled wisely,
but I hung out for another day or two
of bull-boating, and they agreed to stay
with me. I think Little Chief was <
persuaded by the prospect of knocking
over more Crows with his rifle, which
I now gave him as a present. He was
a keen fighter and a brave man.
"That afternoon our progress was
very slow and cautious, for timber
had thickened along the stream, and
we had to feel our way through the
groves, promptly shooting at every
flutter of a leaf that could excite suspicion.
"Toward night we passed an abandoned
village site, where wild pumpkins
were growing. Some were ripe
and of great size, and Bat put two
or three of them into his bull-boat, to
make a change from our meat diet. ,
"That night we camped within a
shelter of natural rifle-pits, made by a
short curve ?ust below z short curve
of the creek just below a grove of
young ash. We kept close to this timber,
so that we could take to it quickly
if attacked by the Crows, and a deep,
dry ditch protected our position perfectly
from a horseback rush out of
the woods.
"We hac. one of the pumpkins for
supper, and while Bat was cutting it
up an idea came into my head. When
we had finished the meal it was dark,
and I asked Little Chief to find the
Crow camp for me.
"While be was gone I made a Jackft'-lnnlnun
s\f tlio cUolT nf th(? hifflTPSt
V '1U1JIU1U VI luv ouwi. V*. ??v ^.oa
pumpkin. Then I shaved the end of
a dry ash pole to a broom bead, and
filled the splints with elk tallow melted
by a fire brand. I put the smooth end
of my pole through the top of my
Jack-o'lantern and through a hole in
the bottom till I could fasten it with
the shavings torch inside. I then tied
a crosspiece to represent outspread
arms, and was ready for my trial.
"Bat watched my v^ork curiously,
and though I said nothing, he understood
my purpose.
" 'Huh,' he said, finally, "me, I have
seen one those?not lak these onejust
one leetle head. I think these
weel scare those wil' Ingin some eef
you geet close 'nough.'
"When Little Chief came in he said
the Crow camp was about a gunshot
above the grove, and that there were
two scouts on horseback on the prairie
below us, and how many more on the
watch he could not say. When I
showed him my Jack-o'-lantern, he
lanfepd nt it. lonsr and earnestly, evi
deutly regarding it as a fetish of some
kind. 'Huh!' he said. 'My brother has
made a medicine!'
"I then told him and Bat to stay by
the goods at all hazards, took my gun,
the Jack-o'-lantern and two blankets,
and lert them. I went directly to the
mouth of the dry ditch. This was
fifteen or twenty fee^ deep and ran into
the creek parallel with a curve or loop
on which the Crows were camped.
"I felt my way cautiously up this until
I could actually hear the Crows
talking at their camp, and also the
sound of ponies grazing close at hand.
So far I had found my path clear. It
was neck or nothing with me now.
"I hung two blankets on the arms,
and lighted the torch of my pumpkinhead.
Grasping the pole so as to draw
the blankets about my face, yet leaving
the eyes uncovered, I scrambled
up a steep bank of the ditch. Before
my feet touched the level I heard
picketed ponies running the length of
their ropes and snorting with fright.
Some of them pulled their pins and
scampered off, and then yells from the
Indians' camp and a wild rout of confusion
followed.
"With my grinning fire-face turned
upon them, with flame and smoke for
a scalp-lock, I bore down on the camp,
walking steadily, as if intending to eat
up everything in the way.
"The Crows' camp was cleared almost
as quickly as if a cyclone had
passed over it. In every direction 1
saw the Indians run for their horses.
and when they got to them tney simpiy
took themselves out of that country as
[f a cavalry troop were after them.
"The next morning we picked up
nine ponies which they had left behind
Six of these were our own, and so we
had no trouble in getting back to the
Missouri with our freight."?Youth's
Companion.
Picking Cotton.
Heaping the wheat a handful at a
time would be on a par with the present
method of gathering our immense
cotton crops.
Did the reader ever think what it
means to pick out one of our ten miflion
bale crops of cotton? Did you ever
stop to think That at least fifteen billion
pounds of raw cotton must be picked
from the bolls by hand? That is an
almost incalculable amount, yet that is
what the crop means, and what the
manual labor is that gets it out a lock
at a time. The limits of our cotton
crop are to a great extent fixed by the
ability to get it out and ready for
the market?not only to get it ready
in time, but to get as much of it out
as possible during good weather before
the cold and wet of winter injure the
staple and interfere with the work of
picking it out.
But we are persuaded that a successful
machine would not prove an unmixed
blessing for this section or for
the farmers generally.?Montgomery
(Ala.) Advertiser.
British Officers Studying; Japanese,
A small, industrious body of British
officers are at Tokio, engaged in the
"study of the Japanese language." Arrangements
for their despatch and reception
had been concluded before the
hrAl-o rmt- flhvirmalir Trltli .Tnnnn
for our ally, it was necessary that the
British officers should be cognizant of
her language, since at rapy time, they
might be called upon to serve side by
side with their new allies in the field.
They are now taking* advantage of
their presence to watch and to gather
ideas from the Japanese arrangements
for mobilization and transport of
troops. The officers will remain two
years.?London Daily Mail.
The Cry ef the Clergy.
The service held at St. Paul's Cathedral
in connection with the Queen Victoria
Clergy Fund drew attention to
the conditions under which thousands
of clergymen do their work. Within
the last ten years over 100 clergymen
of the Church of England have been
admitted to the workhouses and pamper
lunatic asylums In England n:iu
Wales, More than half of the vicars
and rectors arc living 01^ Incomes not
one of which exceeds ?3 10s. a week,
and 1341 of them would glndly exchange
their revenues for a weekly ?2.
?London Paper.
I SOUTH CAROLINA \
^ STATE NEWS ITEMS. j
Comptroller to Blacklist Them.
A Columbia dispatch says: There
has been so many complaints recently
to the comptroller general about
wild cat insurance companies that he
will shortly issue a black list containing
the names of the companies who
have not paid their license of $100
for the year. Should an adjuster for
an unlicensed concern come into the
state he is liable to arrest.
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A Trolley Line to Atlanta.
Great interest is being taken in the
proposed electric railway from South
Carolina to Atlanta, Ga. A number
of business men of Hoschton, Ga.,
have advertised in the county newspapers
for a charter.
Those who are applying for a charter
are: John R. Hosch, W. P. De
La Perriere, R. A. Hosch, J. E. Hill,
H. J. Sell, G. Braselton and L. F.
Sill.
The charter for the road will call
for a road* to pass through or near
Stone Mountain, Logansville, Hoschton,
Jefferson, Commerce and Carnesville,
all Georgia towns,
The citizens in and near Hoschton
met Monday, April 18th, in the interest
of the railway.
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Naval Hospital for Charleston.
It is announced at the navy department
at Washington that it is the
present intention of the Surgeon General
Rixey to provide a large hospital
for the naval station at Charleston,
there being no modern hospital of the
service south of Norfolk.
Sinreeon General Rixev. who has
just returned from his visit of inspection
at Port Royal, has made some
important recommendations in regard
to the establishment at the place of
an outdoor hospital for the treatment
of tuberculosis patients of the service.
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Crum's Name Up Again.
A Washington special s?.ys: The
nomination of W. D. Crum to be
collector of customs at Charleston, S.
C., was called up in executive session
of the Senate by Senator Gallinger.
Senator Tillman, who opposed the
confirmation, explained that he was
not well enough to make a speech,
and the nomination went over out of
courtesy to him. Senator Tillman expects
soon to return to . his home in
South Carolina and possibly may not
be able to attend congress again before
adjournment.
In that event the nomination probably
will fail of confirmation and the
president will make another recess appointment
to hold overcuntil the next
session.
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Collector for Georgetown.
President Roosevelt has sent to the
senate the nomination of Collector of
Customs Isaiah J. McCottrie, of the
district of Georgetown, S. C.
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Sergeant Reynolds Killed.
Relatives of Sergeant Ernest Reynolds,
who live at Bennettsville, have
just receied a cablegram stating that
he was killed in battle near Manila,
a fe wdays ago. He was torlT to pieces
by a cannon ball and died instantly.
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Big Shortage at Dispensary.
The dispenser at Prosperity, A. L.
Beenbaujjh, had been reported shu
Beenbaugh, has been reported short
something over $1,000.
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Relieving the Taxpayers.
A Columbia news item states that
the county auditor is now busy giving
tho tavnavers in the lower Dart of the
county who suffered from the destructive
floods and hail storms last June,
release on the taxes to which each is
liable.
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Improvement Company Chartered.
The secretary of state has issued
a charter to the Aiken Improvement
Comoany. with a capital stock of $250,
000. The business of the company is
the development of real estate by in
vestment and handling bonds and securities.
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Woman Commits Suicide.
Mrs. Lizzie Goodson, formerly of
North Carolina, but who has been living
in Pickens county for the past two
years, committed suicide a few days
ago by hanging herself
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Sunday School Workers to Meet.
The official program of the cession
of the twenty-seventy annual
state Sunday school convention which
meets in Columbia May 2-4, has been
issued bv Dr. W. E. Pelham, of
Newberry, chairman of the executive
committee.
In the list of speakers are many of
much prominence in Sunday school
work, not only in this state, but I
throughout the south. The convention
is looked forward to with much in'
lerest.
Great Show Given by Negroes. '
Whether any of the negroes in Co- j'
lumbia ever heard of the "Passion j.
Play" of Oberammergau is a question ! ]
but they certainly atempted something
along similar lines at their Easter
celebration, says a corespondent of
The Atlanta Constitution.
The specially dramatic feature was
five women at the sepulchre, dressed |
in mourning robes, wearing crowns,
stuck full of tiny candles. These circulated
about the tomb of Jesus, a
L-.ack box. asking in thrilling tones: ^
"Where have they laid Him?"
Then a great angel came forth?all '
in white. (This was a colored man <
wearing a gown with sleevs that lifted
nn hv raisina the arms, caused
him to look as if he had wings). He ,
said to the women:
"He is not here! He is risen!"
Then the women marched up and '
down the aisles intoning the words, 1
"Christ is risen; Christ is risen indeed!"
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They had a star in the east and the j
Magi, and many incidents of the life 1
of Christ illustrated jn songs and
speeches, and a mighty wave of excitement
was engendered by the vivid
realism.
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Judge Simonton Very III.
United States Circuit Judge Chas.
H. Simonton is precariously ill, and it
is feared that he will not survive many
days. He is under treatment in Philadelphia,
and latest reports say that
there is slight hope for him.
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Machinist Meets Death.
The new span of steel bridge being
built over Seneca river, twelve
miles from Anderson, collapsed
few days ago. Daniel Allen, a machenist
from Rome, Ga., was killed.
Clifton Brogden, another machenist,
and a negro were painfully injured.
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Dragged to His Death.
News has been received of the accidental
death of Nathan Oxner, a
citizen of Saluda county. Oxner was
driving a two-horse team, the wagon
being loaded with shingles. In
some way the horses became frightened,
the wagon was overturned and
Mr. Oxner was dragged along the ,
ground until he was kiled.
CONGRESSMEN INNQCENT. '
Investigation Committee Makes its Re- i
port: to the House.
A* Washington special says: The re- 1
port of the special committee of the
house appointed to investigate the re- 1
port from the postoffice department <
prined under the caption "Charges Con.
cerning Members of Congress," was <
made to the house Monday by Chair- i
man McCall. The gist of the report is 11
contained in the following paragraph: i
"After a careful consideration of ail
cases specified in the report numbered
1395 (the report of the postoffice com- ;(
mittee on charges), in so far as they ; '
relate to the present memNbers of the , ^
nouse 01 representatives uu cumium?
assumed to be the limit of their juris
dieion, they have.unanimously reached : '<
the conclusion that nothing has ap- j 1
peared in connection with the charges j
that would justify the finding that any [ (
member of the house of represents- j (
tives has profited financially in the i
slightest degree, or that any member i
was guilty of improper conduct in con-! <
nection therewith, or that any member j (
has done in connection with any of , ^
said cases anything that did not ap- j
pear to be within the line of his official'
duty, according to long established cus- j .
torn."
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GAMMONS MAKES CONFESSION. j _
Tells of Killing Farmer Kimsey and f
His Daughter, Fannie. I *
A dispatch from Jackson, Miss., j
says: Ed Gammons, the young white <
man who killed Lake Kimsey, of Wa- r
ter Valley, and his. daughter, Fannie,
has made a confession in regard to ^
I the killing of Mr. Kimsey. 1
I In his confession be, for the firfet j
i time, tells of the killing of the girl, I
j with whom ho was in love,
j He says that when he went to the c
j house after killing her father in the
I field, he told the girl about it, and they t
at first planned to run away, and get j t
married, but he says the girl suddenly | s
changed her mind, and asked him to ;
kill her, which he says he refused ! fi
to do at first. Then she tried to snatch < c
the pistol from his hand, whereupon
he told her to step off a few paces and
turn her back, which she did, anta , c
then he shot her. . a
First Minister from Paraguay. r
Don Cecilo Baez, envoy extraordina j
ry and mniister plenipotentiary to j c
the United Staes from Paraguay, was I a
received by President Roosevelt at j ^
the white house Saturday, Secretary t
of State Hay presenting the. new minister.
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JAP OFFICERS CAPTURED.
Were Preparing to Blow Up Railroad ' '
Bridge When Surprised.
An Associated Press dispatch says:
Two officers of the Japanese general
staff have arrived at Harbin, under i
strict escort, having been arrested by
the railroad guard eighteen miles from
the city. They were dressed as Thib- C.
etan Lamas.
In attempting to escape they for- 1
sook their tents, in which were found
sixty pounds of high explosives, a *
fuse, a string of keys to unscrew rail- ?
road nuts, etc. They evidently in- t
tended to blow up the bridge over the
Nonni river, near Fullardi. c
The prisoners displayed great cool- }
ness, confesing that it was their inten- ; 3
tion to destroy the railroad. d
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Brief Summary of Most
Important Events
of Each "Day.
?Brooks county, Ga., will send sample
of fine syrup to St. Louis fair.
?Eight hundred and eighty-four new
school houses have been built in North
Carolina in two years.
?Quiet is restored in Pensacola following
the shooting among soldiers
and policemen.
?Cold rains have protected the fruit
crop, according to reports from various
sections.
will V> r\ am a O TV.
x awc niii uc au cuui t cv/ puv up
propriation bills to the forefront during
the present week in the senate.
The sundry civil bill will be taken up
first. When it is disposed of the pension
appropriation bill will be pressed.
?Statehood and ship subsidy will
be the features of the house proceedings
this week, with confernce reports
and minor bills to fill the gaps.
?In a letter to Chairman Gillett, of
the house committee on civil service
former Commissioner Foulke denies
charges that Rosevelt' has
made more exceptions than other presidents.
?At Indianapolis Sunday morning
fire in St. Vincent hosiptal caused a
panic in which one woman was killed
and several persons injured.
?Emperor William is credited with
having indicated that he was ready to
met President Loubet, should the occasion
arise before the end of the
Mediterranean cruise.
?Admiral Togo reports that the
Russian battle ship Petropavlovsk was
destroyed and the Pobieda crippled by
mines laid by the Japanese. The Japanese
cleverly decoyed the Russian
ships over the mines.
?An iron-clad train is being pre- ,
pared to take the czar to the front if
he decides to asume command in the
Far East.
? - * ' A 1* J T^.IAIM a
?Attorneys ior Aiireu uamcio, a
North Carolina negro accused of killing
a white man, apply to United
States supreme court for new trial on
ground that jury was white.
?Ed. Gammons, who slew his sweet- heart
and her father in Mississippi,
tells details of killing the griL
?Can grand juries act in absence of . ;
the judge? is the problem in Richmond
lounty, Ga. ;
?Georgia T. P. A.'s adjourned ajter
successful gathering at Augusta.
?Battleship Texas now holds
world's record for rapid and accurate <
gunnery.
?The Massachusetts republican
convention Friday turned down the
Canadian reciprocity plan offered by
Eugene N. Foss, who was himself defeated
as delegate at large to Chicago.
?Three men were killed by a mniway
train of fifteen coal cars on the
Erie near Rock Junction, Pa., Friday.
Captain David Wheeler, U. S. A.,
lied in Mindanao, Philippines, Frilay,
as the result of a stab received *
while scouting along. Moro works.
?Richard H. Edmonds, editor of The
Manufacturers' Record, gives an inter- *
jsting interview on the cotton situa;ion
in the south.
?The case of the state of Georgia
,rs. the Ducktown ihines was .withIrawn
from the United States supreme
:uun ai wasumgion jyionaay.
?Postmaster . Blodgett has made
ecommendations iii the Atlanta post , '*
)ffice that will be of great benefit to
he entire county.
?The first session of the juvenile
iourt under the new probation ordi- ?
lance was held in Atlanta Monday. ?A.
B. Baxter Company does not
hink full amount tax is due in Coumbus,
Ga.
?Houston county, Georgia, will
igain WTestle with the dispensary
juestion.
?The Leather Manufacturers' Naional
bank and the Mechanics' Naional
bank, of New York, have con- *
iolidated.
Mississippi will ask for a marine
urgeon to be stationed at cue of the .
oast cit.es. ,
?In the house Monday the demorats
made a sharp move, by offering
imendments to that part of the gene
al deficiency appropriation measure *
iroviding'for service pensions. Point
if crder was made by republicans that
mendments violated existing law. The ^
lemocra:s replied that the house had
he same rights as the president.
?Senator Nelson, of Minnesota, durng
Jrbate, surprised his brother senitors
by using the word "damn."
?New York democrats, in state conention
at Albany, instructed delegates
o vote for Judge Alton Brooks Par:er
for president.
?Mississippi democrats favor Par
;er, but will not instruct delegates. .
?Man and wife found dead in each
ithcr's arms in lodging house at Oglen,
Utah. It is thought that woman
>oisoned husband and then herself. %
?Major Hugh Dennis, who defended
ifnutnr Rnrton. is dead at St. Louis
lis demise being brought about by
irooding over outcome of trial.
?The hweariug on the demurrer proeedings
instituted by Sully, in New %
fork, which was to have been held
ifcnday, was postponed unitl Thurs
lay.