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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,
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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?.)
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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.
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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.
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"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*
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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
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"'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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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sen has been too wet for corn on bottom
lauds, and in many cases the
crop is a total loss.
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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
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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.
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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
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| Man, Wife and Children Mur- j
dered as They Slept.
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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
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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 |
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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AT ~BEH EST OF SPIRTT,
Fanatical Mitchell Woman Says She
Slew Brother at Urgent Command
of Ghost of Her Betrayer.
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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.
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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
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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. ?
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Robbers Get in Their Work at Little
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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..
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