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'1 % \ \ THE COYOTTE AND THE CARRIONCROW. At the end of the barley-harvest, when the foothill pastures fail. When the streams are stopped at their fountains, and the dry, hot winds prevail. Then the hungry herds of the southlands go up by the mesa trail. To the snow-fed northern pastures the crawling dust-heaps go. ( And the gray coyote scents them far and signals the carrion-crow. Wing up. wing up, O Carrion-crow, And tell me what you see. (He will not venture a needless quest, For a lazy whelp is he.) Oh, bellow and bleat, and pounding feet, ?? 1 ' eonl^c f STIV Ana lieu viiis iicw4*wAnd some they lag at the herd's word, And some are like to die: Oh, long. long. long: is the northland trail. And the pace they keep is siow, And the bupch-grass withers by hill and swale. Ho, ho! said the carrion-crow. There is only his tilting shadow to temper the glare of the sun. Where the hot air whirls in the hills and the little dust devils run. And never a rill of water, and never a sound but one: 'Tis the howl of the gray coyote far back j on th" mesa path. * And the cattle paw in the bitter dust and j bellow their fear and wrath. Wing up. wing up. O carrion-crow, And bring true word to me. (He will not go where the herders spy. For a skulking thief is he.) *Tis shambling feet, and dust they beat, And nostrils wide -and red, And a white-hot wind comes out of the south To drive in the herder's stead. And long. long, long is the mesa trail. And well do the herders know Who goes full-fed when the cattle fail. Ho, ho! said the carrion-crow. Trail up by the wind-scoured gullies, by j the craters scarred and mgn; By the grudging rill of the bitter spring, where the heedless drink and die: By the level and lineless valleys, and the blank, wide wall of the sky; And over the trudging cattle flaps ever the carrion-crow. . And out and aside in the cactus scrub do the slinking, sly feet go. Drop down, drop down, O carrioncrow. Drop down to the feast with me. (If he knows where his wit may save his skin. There are none so bold as h?.) k And it's but to lurk till the yellow murk Is laid in the wind's long wake. And we who have ward of the desert si'"' trails ?->' Of the trail our toll will take. Oh, late, late, late comes the mesa moon, But we sleep full-fed, I trow. And the blue-white dawn comes hot and soon? Ho, ho! said the carrion-crow. ?Youth's Companion. <im i m m 111 m n i n 1111 } t&he I Ji A7Y nonsF t jl v-t v ? I! A QUAINT PLANTATION STORY. f 1 By Grace MacGowan Cooke, 4. in St. Nicholas. I HI 1 III IN I I H I 1 1 H I 1 H I 11 America, the nurse girl at Broadland's plantation, came running one morning to call the three children and tell them that a wild goose had stopped among the fowls in the barnyard. Pate, Patricia and little IsabeK J . pelted away down the slope toward the chicken yard, where Aunt Viney, who always had charge of the fowls, was scattering cane seed. There he stood, slim and dark and differently shaped from the other geese, yet plainly akin to them, and gobbling his share of the breakfast with evident relish. ' "Oh, he's a visitor," cried Patricia, "and they ought to be more polite to him;" for a big speckled rooster had just dashed in ahead of the newcom er and tried to eat up an me sccu In sight. "Never you mind, honey," Aunt Viney reassured the little girl. "Dat wild feller got strong wing; he gwine be de biggest frog in de puddle, long ez he stays hyer." "He gets his strong wings from flying so far," said Pate. "If he was out in the open, fathe? or Cousin Bolivar would shoot him; but he's home tree here." ** "Will he stay always, Aunt. Viney?" asked Isabel. "No'm, Miss Baby; I 'spect he pick up an' go when he gits him a good | bait o' cane seed. Mebbe he'll stay a week?sometimes dese hyer wild fellers does." As they turned back to the house America announced that she knew a tale about a wild goose, and it was straightway demanded; for her attract tion above that of Aunt Jinsev, the head nurse, was that she could tell so many stories about animals. "Hit was like dis," she began. "Dey was once a wild goose dat was lazy. Wild geeses is mostly de uppin'est an' a-doin'est folks what dey is; but disbyer Mr. Goose was ez slow ez molasses at Christmas. When dey got to fly. a long ways, he set on de ground an' say he got de back-ache, an' de legarhe. an' de toe-ache, an', more spe cially an' mostly, de wing-ache. Dishyer Mr. Goose ain't like to hunt for ; the rations." One day he come to a plantation where dey keep tame geeses, same as we-all do. He fly down 'mongst 'em, dest exactly like de wild goose fly down his mornin' an' help hisself to what all de udder fowls had to eat. "'Huh!' he says, well as he could for havin' his mouth full, you * folks lives mighty fat.' i "At dat ol' Mr. Gander he up an' whisper, 'For de gracious sake don't say fat! Hit's de trouble o' our lives lraon frr\mn o-ott-n' fot 'nrviifrVi Hot /I* CVS II Viu t>v mil uuu^u uwv- v*s^ humans will be wantin' to eat us.' "Mr. Wild Goose ain't hearken to dis like he ort. He's a great somebody to brag, like most do-nothin' folks, an' he sot in for to tell dem tame geese o' all de whars he bee*, an' tell all de woman come for to feed de fowls. She let on like she ain't j see Mr. Wild Goose at all, 'case she 1 ain't want to skeer him. When she gone he squar' himself in de middle ?' de pan o' dough, an' eat tell he fffiost choked, an' den he say: i * "'Is dat what you. call a. human? Do she wait 'pon you wid yo' rations every day? Well, I b'lieve I'll stay liyer. I'm plumb wore to feathers an bones travelin' round an' wingin' so far. Of course dis ain't no such place as I'm used to, but I b'lieve I'll stay.' "Hit dest so happen' dat de very next day was goos-pickin' time. You mind how Aunt Viney an' Aunt Clorindv ties up dev heads an' picks off de geeso feathers to stuff yo' pillers an' beds?" The other children remembered it well, but Isable was to see that cere monv for the erst time mis spaiu&. "Well, honey cliillen, de woman come out wid her head tied up, an' drive de geeses into de picking shed. An! huh, law! How dey all holler an' run when dey see what she gwine do! "'What now?' ax Mr. Wild Goose. He gittin' dest a little bit oneasy like over de looks o' things. " 'She gwine pull our feathers out an' tote 'em of?,' old Mr. Gander tell him. "'Is dat so? Mr. Wild Goose ax. 'I don't b'lieve that would agree wid my back-ache, nor yit do any good to my leg-ache; I bound hit gwine be bad for my toe-ache, an' de very thinks of hit gives me de wing-ache.' "Wid dat he flop he wings, he do, an' fly oft' to jine de wild geeses. But mind you, he ain't tell de wild geesa why he come back. He say to dem dat dis-hyer place where he stopped de folks was quality, for true; datdey had a waiter for to serve dey meals, reg'lar; an' dey was so uppish dey change dey fedders every scpring; an' more dan dat, dey had a body-sarvant to take off de old fedders for 'em. "He git de v>*i]d geeses in sich a notion o' de place, dat when dev come a-past hit de next fall dey all light down in de barnyard. Mr. Wild Goose in de middle o' de bunch. "Now de man what live on dat plantation ain't got de same notion dat yo' pa have?he shoot a wild goose wherever he can find hit. He turn loose on dem wild geese wid de gun; but de onliest one he kill was de lazy goose what start de trouble?an' sarve him good an' right!" GETTING HIS PASS'S WORTH. Old Texan Who Ride sEvery Day on a Railroad to Spite the Company. We were travelling through Texas and stepped at a little settlement in the woods. The only passenger that boarded the train at the stopping place was an old man, and when we say .old we mean very old. He seemed a relic of antedeluvian times, as much out of place on a railway as a mastadon would be in a modern menagerie. He did not seem to be travelling for pleasure. The passing landscape had no interest for him. When the conductor came through he seemed inclined to ignore the old man and pass him without collecting the fare. The old man, however, declined to be ignored. From an inside pocket he produced a worn and greasy account book, and from that extracted a pass that was nearly worn to rags. The conductor, with an air of impatience, looked at it carelessly and passed on. ' The old man, apparently satisfied that he had forced the conductor to note the fact that he had a pass, sank back into his senile reverie and rumination. At a station about 30 miles up the road he got off, moving slowly and with difficulty. The possession of a pass by one so little likely to have it excited our curiosity, and we dug the history of it out of one of the brakemen. When the road was building through that country the old man owned a piece of land through which it was desired to obtain a right of way. The old man fought the company vigorously, and refused to give or sell them a right of way through his land, except on condition that he have a pass?not an annual, but a life pasc. The company tried to bluff him, but the old man didn't bluff worth a cent, and when the company started to build across his land the old man came out with the old rifle he had carried at San Jacinto and cheerfully informed the foreman that he would shoot the first man that trespassed on his land. The ofd man was then seventy, and, as his tenure of life promised to be short, the company finally agreed to his terms. The road was completed, and the old man, by virtue of his pass, rode on the first train through, o? \\*r ?-nr +V?/\ v> ixivjul ? u.o, u* l;ic w a.j, iuc iiiou xaii road train he had ever seen. That was 15 years ago, and every day, rain or shine, since then the old man has ridden on that road, sometimes in one direction, sometimes in the other, but never further than would enable him to get home the same day on the next train coming back. His life pass has been worn almost to shreds. Every conductor on the road knows him and would fain dispense with the trouble of taking his number, but the old man is bound that the company shall treat his just as it would any other passenger, and always insists on presenting his pass and having it entered in the conductor's book. The brakeman said that the old man had received from $3 to ?5 worth of transportation every day for 15 years, and, while he looked feeble, he would probably live to get the worth of that pass. The station where he gets on is a flag station, which makes it all the more aggravating, as nine times out of ten he is the only passenger the train has to stop for, and every time a train stops it means a loss of dollars in stopping anrl stsrtirip-?TCittsIpv (Toy 1 \for. cury. In Washington's time there were 21,324 negro slaves in New York State. ; t ^ f*- ^ ^ ^ j|-| !]Palmetto'StateKews; y.4^ v uv ^ v ^ y I# y f <f y H Charleston Orchestra Barred. A New York dispatch says: Acting Mayor McGowan vetoed a resolution passed by the board of aldermen au I thorizing an orchestra of the Orphans' Aid Society of Charleston, S. ., to give concerts in the streets of New York and take., up collections. The acting mayor thinks it would be setting a bad precedent. * * Won't Prosecute Baggage Masters. The Southern railway has decided not to prosecute Baggagemasters Millard, Browning and Peabodv of Charleston, who are charged with having systematically robbed baggage on the cars for a number of years. Much of the booty has been recovered. The reason given by the railroad for not prosecuting the defendants is that in two' recent cases of breach of trust the railroad has been unable to secure convictions at the hands of the Charleston juries. I* * * i " Brained Wife and Children. A news report' from Wialterboro says that J. W. Irnegan, a well-to-do white farmer of Colleton county, killed his wife and four children, braining them with an ax at their home about twenty miles from Walterboro. He then went to a neighbor's house, and told him of his deed. Neighbors brought him to the Walterboro jail. Inegan says he killed his family, but does not know why. He is a native of Sweden. Some years ago he tried to cut his throat and is believed to be j insane. ' J * i # * Veteran Editor Passes Away. I After a short illness which gave no promise of recovery and lasted only a fortnight, Roswell T. Logan, telegraph editor of the News and Courier, died at* his home in that city. He was born in Charleston seventy years ago, and after receiving a good education and being admitted to the bar, took up newspaper work and was connected with the Charleston Mercury just after the war between the - J ^ArtnfliM ho was a Si-cllCtJo. UUIliig, inai^v-uuiuvv uv valiant confederate soldier and served through the entire war. .A brilliant and forceful writer, he contributed largely to the journalism of his time. He leaves a family cf five sons and two daughters. * * * Married Girl Under Legal Age. George Shaver, who married Pearl Mosseler of Asheville, and was afterwards indicted on the charge of abduction, was convicted at Spartanburg of marrying a girl under statutory age. The judge instructed the jury that the charge of abduction could not stand, as Shaver eloped from Asheville, but that as the mar-, riage occurred in Spartanburg the charge could be changed to that, and it was on this that the proceedings i?ovovor wnc nlsn rnnvict wen? UU.&CU. OXICm.1 .. ?? I ed of perjury. The second case grew j out of habeas corpus proceedings inj stituted by the attorneys of John Mosseler, in an effort to find the girl, whom it was alleged Shaver had secreted. He swore that he knew nothing' of her hiding place and when she was found by Deputy Sherilf ! White she stated that her husband took her to the house on Thompson street and was a frequent visitor there. * * * Cotton Crop Unpromising. The cotton crop in South Carolina is in even a worse condition than that of last week. The extremely wet weather of the past week has damaged the crop in every section of the state, only small localities here and there escaping. Reports are general that the crop is in grass and that labor is extremely scarce, that obtainable very unsatisfactory. Exorbitant prices are being paid for labor, with poor prospects of working out the crops after all. Cotton planted in red lands is progressing fairly well, but all cotton on sandy lands is very poor and in many instances grass has taken the fields. In general the corn crop on uplands is good, where properly cultivated, and fertilized. This is also true more ocnoniaiiv r.f thp rpri lands. The sea v*. -^v. ?? sen has been too wet for corn on bottom lauds, and in many cases the crop is a total loss. * * * Shortage Covered Nine Years. The list of losses sustained by the defalcation of Former Treasurer Hughes of the Union 'Building and Loan Association at Spartanburg is now complete, the meeting of the stockholders of series 'Nos. 4 and 5 having been held and the figures of the expert examined. The amount is $GO,OOS.17, which is considerably more than the figures contained in the first reports. The shortage covers a period of nine years, and Hughes was bonded each year for $3,000 until the last twelve months of incumbency. It was thought that he had arranged bond and the fact that he had not was not known until the investigation following the discovery of the shortage. It is now an open question - \ I whether the bonding company is Ka| ble for the amount of the bonds and j what steps will be taken have not | been divulged. If the bonds are liable j the losses may be reduced 40 per cent. ! The stockholders have decided to continue the several series until maturity. # A Strange Story. The report comes from Union that o urhif^ wnmnn nam Art \Tirs T-Tnhiirn. who lived on Linder Carrier's plantation, in the Coleraine section, has probably committed suicide following a terrible beating inflicted on her by a party of men who visited her home a few nights ago. The woman bore a good reputation, so 'far as known, and the reason for the attack is not known. According to the story which has reached Mr. Carrier, who lives in iSpartanburg, a party of 25 persons j went to the woman's home and, call[ ing her to'the door, shot at her. The J bullets missed their mark and imbedj ded themselves in the wood work. The j men then whipped her terribly and i also her youngest boy. After having i been beaten, it.- is said the wcvnan was driven from the house and forced with her children to remain all night in the woods. The- next morning a responsible man | reported he had seen her and the -chil| dren trudging along the road leading | to Tyger river. When questioned rej garding her destination it is said she j replied m such a way as to indicate j that she intended to drown herselt I and children. Mr. Carrier says the woman bore a good reputation and he can account for no reason for the deed. He offers a reward for evidence to convict the men who perpetrated the outrage. NEGROES ARE DEPORTED. Host of Men and Women Arrested in Tenderloin District at Lake Charles, Louisiana. As the result of a remarkable houso cleaning party, at Lake Charles, La., Saturday night, 150 negro men and women were placed on board a passenger train and shipped out of the town. ? They were placed on the same Frain witn me Douy 01 a negro wuu [ last week shot and killed the city marshal of Jennings, La., and who ^subsequently died in jail at Lake Charles, from wounds received while attempting to avoid arrest. Shortly before midnight the negro tenderloin, known as "Hole in the Ws)l," was invaded by several hundred white men, including some members of the state militia, on their way to the annual state encampment. House after house was visited and the inmates not being even given time to dress, were taken out and turned over to a guard. The motley group was marched under guard of pistols to a water tank about a mile from town and a passenger train was stopped and the negroes put aboard and their fares paid as far as the parish line, members of the guard riding that far with them. Some of the negro women were shipped away in their night dresses. Care was taken in the raid, not to deal unfairly with the negroes and, that when no weapon was found on one of them, if he could prove his identity as a resident of Lake Charles, he was not molested. SISTER MURDERS HER BROTHER Avenges Killing of Leader of Fanatical "Holy Rollers" in Seattle. George Mitchell, a youth who recently shot and killed Franz Edmund Creffield, a "Holy Roller Prophet," and was acquitted of the charge of murder on a plea of insanity, was shot and killed Thursday by his sister, Esther, in the Union station, at Seattle, Wtash. Esther Mitchell joined the "Holy Rollers'" sect in Oregon, and was one of the most ardent of Creffield's followers. When her brother pursued the leader of the "Holy Rollers" to Seattle and shot him in the street, he pleaded in justification that Creffield had deluded and wronged his sister. George Mitchell was acquit ted of the charge of murder 011 last Tuesday, and nearly all of the following day he spent in searching for Esther in Seattle lodging houses. He was accompanied on his mission by his two brothers, Perry and Fred. The woman, when found, finally agreed to see her three brothers off to their home in Oi-egon, and went to the station with them. She refused to be comforted after the death of Creffield. Miss Mitchell was arrested shortly after her brother fell dead by her hands. After the shooting, Perry and Fred Mitchell, who were present, were arrested as witnesses. They were found logemer ua u. ueitvu XXX tuv station i. ing on eaoh other's shoulders. THREE THOUSAND HOMELESS. Result of Great Conflagration in Nishi Novgorod, Russia. A fire which broke out at Nishni Novgorod, Russia, raged for six hours before it was checked. When it was finally extinguished 235 houses were destroyed and more than 3,000 families had been rendered homeless. The Joss is placed at $400,000. HEINOUS BUTCHERY I ! | Man, Wife and Children Mur- j dered as They Slept. I I FOUR NEGROES ARRESTED Two 'Daughters Sleeping in Upper Rooms Were Not Molested and | Gave the Alarm.?After Murders House Was Fired. One of the most horrible tragedies ' In the history of Rowan County, N. I I C., occurred near Barbers Junction, | about forty miles from Greensboro j Saturday morning. Between the hours j of 1 and 2 o'clock an unknown per- j son or persons entered the home of j Ike Lyerly, a well known farmer, j while its occupants were asleep, kill- I ing Mr. Lyerly, his wife and two of j the youngest children, and fatally , wounding a third. The parents and three children | were asleep in the front room on j the first floor, there being two older j daughters sleeping upstairs, who were j unmolested and were awakened by the i smoke and flames from below, the j criminal or criminals having set fire j to the house. The two girls descend- i ed the stairs to awaken their father | =n<-> On roanViinfr thpir rmm i ??-. | they beheld their father and mother ' and the three youngest children lying I on the bed, their heads crushed and their faces badly disfigured. Tne two older daughters, Mary and Addie, aged 18 and 16, respective, ly, managed to carry the dead bodies from tho house and extinguished the flames. Then they ran to the nearest neighbor, W. B. Barners, and told the story of the awful tragedy. There being no officers of the law available, R. R. Millikin, train dispatcher on duty at that hour, was notified and promptly wired the news to the sheriff at Salisbury, who started at once to the scene with his bloodhounds and a posse of armed men. .Bloodhounds were also sent from Winston-Salem to assist in the pursuit cf the murderers. Mr. Lyerly was a respected citizen and well-ccnnected, and it is inconceivable that any one should have had anything against him cr his family. Three negro men and a negro woman?George E. Erwin, Jack Dillingham and Mitchell Graham and his wife? were soon arrested and put in jail at Salisbury on suspicion of complicity in the case. Later the prisoners were removed to the Charlotte jail for safe keeping. There was nothing to indicate a * ' ' --- ~ 1 c^v..i?... Kiit tlio cVioriff lyncning m octusuui^, LTUL. U1W uuvi am J thought best to move the prisoners. The coroner's jury Saturday night fastened the crime upon all the pris- j oners. I t THAW FIRES HIS LAWYERS.. Prisoner Would Not Consent to Insanity Plea as Sole Defense. Harry Thaw has dismissed the law j firm of Black, Olcott, Gruber & Bonynge in a fit of anger, and that firm will not defend the young Pittsburger. The dismissal came, it is said, as the culmination of a number of arguments Thaw has had with various members of the law firm over th? question of insanity as a defense. " I am the boss," Thaw is said to have declared. "And I will not stand for the insanity plea," the prisoner added. WORK OF CHINESE PIRATES. i British Steamer Attacked and American Missionary Killed. Advides from Hong Kong state that the British steamer Sainam was attacked by Chinese pirates at a point fifty miles from Wu Chow. Rev. Mr. MacDonald was shot and killed. The captain of the steamer was badly wounded. A Chinese passenger also ? - ' - - - ?ZO* was killed. MacDonaia ana xns wuc are stationed at Wu Chow in the interests of the Wesleyan Missionary Society. POSSES PURSUE M'PHERSON. Young Man Kills Knoxville Citizen and Fatally Wounds Sheriff. John McPherscn, aged 24, is a fugiu^e from justice with two posses pursuing him, charged with the murder of Grant Smith, a former merchant of Knoxville, Tenn., and the fatal wounding of Deputy Sheriff William Walker, who attempted to arrest him. M/cPherson shot and killed Smith in the house of a woman named Nettie Hall, apparently without provo. cation. i DYNAMITE WHELMS THREE. Evidences That Explosion Was Result of Well Laid Plot. Three men were blown to pieces, three others fatally injured and several others fatally injured and several others badly hurt, by a dynamite explosion which early Friday wrecked a shanty in the McLaughlin stone quarries at Beliwood, a short distance northwest of Chicago. There are evidences that the explosion was the result of a plot -^x-wWm AT ~BEH EST OF SPIRTT, Fanatical Mitchell Woman Says She Slew Brother at Urgent Command of Ghost of Her Betrayer. ' A dispatch from Seattle, "WJash., says: Immediately after the arrest of Esther Mitchell the 17-year-old v girl who killed her brother Thursday night, orders were given for the arrest of Mrs. Maud Creffield, the widow of the prophet, whose death at the hands of George Mitchell led To the tragedy. Mrs. Creffiield, however, telephoned the police where she was to be found, and when taken to the station frankly admitted that she had entered into a compact with Esther . V to kill the slayer of her husband. She will be held as an acomplice. Esther Mitchell made the following statement Friday evening: "Mrs. Creffield and I talked over the matter of killing George. The one that had the best chance to do it. Mrs. Creffield bought the gun. We were at the room about 4 o'clock -.jj this afternoon, and I thought I would have a better chance to do it than Mrs. Creffield, as my brother wanted to see me, and believed that he would think nothing about my going to the depot. Then Mrs. Creffield gav# me the gun and I was to do it W# agreed that it must be done as sooa as possible. My brother Fred was up 'i to my room today and said that Per- ... * ry and George were going to Portland this evening. I went to the depot and saw Perry get his ticket At last I saw George and I shook hands with him. He and Perry were walking in front and Fred and I were walking behind. I was walking to the door and George was in front of me. That T V. was the chance I wanted and I shot him." The girl is also reported to have - . said that the spirit of the "Holy '<Ai Roller" had visited her and urged her to kill her brother. Vjj At the recent trial of George ~ Mitchell for killing the "Hloly. Roller" j prophet, it was claimed by the defense that the prophet had seduced |jj not only Esther Mitchell, but her , sister, and that in killing the proph- ' ' + et George Mitchell only did what any T ;-| brother would nave aone unaer sum- '.$&a lar circumstances. This plea was.ef- V: fective in securing the acquittal of Mitchell. , ;:|H No one suspected that Esther '. Mitchell was so infatuated with her . |j betrayer that she would avenge his ^ death by killing her brother. CREDITORS AFTER ALEXANDER. ^ Claims Are Filed by Banks Against .Defaulting Cotton Firm. v ^ The only development at Augusta, ^ Ga., Friday in the disappearance of Thomas W. Alexander and the failure . for something over $145,000 was the ' -'i filing of a petition in bankruptcy in ; . g the federal court by the Georgia BaiU ; :0 road bank, the National of Augusta, 'jgjf and the Southern States Phosphate ::p$ and Fertilizer company against the firm. The schedule shows claims as | ;?j follows: - M Georgia Railroad bank, notes, $120,- . 000; Southern States Phosphate com- :j|i| pany, $11,681; National bank, $7,500. In addition to this total it is esti- :;v| mated that T. W? Alexander's per- v>; sonal liabilities will amount to about $26,000, making a total for the firm . Ji and the individual who was its head, $165,181. 3 Mr. Alexander's whereabouts Is still a mystery. It is believed that there will be no criminal action taken by anv of the creditors. COAL DIGGERS RESUME* Forty Thousand Men in Pennsylvania Return to Labors. ; y; The men In the collieries of the r central Pennsylvania bituminous coal , district, numbering nearly forty thou- . sand, who have been idle since April 1, when the mines closed down because the operators would not restore | the scale of 1903, will resume work on practically the same scale as In . v| 1905. The agreement to do this was made in a conference at Harrisburg, Pa., Friday that was atended by prominent operators. EVANS HEADS THE TICKET. -1 Tennessee Republicans Meet in Nash- C vilie and Name Their Candidates. Henry Clay Evans of Hamilton county, former commissioner of pensions and recently American consul general at London, was nominated for governor by the Tennessee repub lican state convention in :\asuviu? Thursday night. * %|l The nomination of Evans came after a most exciting session and marks the transfer of republican leadership in Tennessee from Congressman :S\ Brownlow to Mr. Evans. Evans. POSTMASTER KNOCKED OUT. ? ' M Robbers Get in Their Work at Little ** 3S Town of Glen Bernie, Md. The postoffice at Glen Bernie, Md.f - " a small railroad station, was robbed * of about $1,000 Sunday night, the robbers knocking senseless the acting postmaster, Adam "WJingert, whom they bound and gagged before making good their escape. There is no clew to the robbers.. jl