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CASHIER AXD MONEY MISSING. "Gone to the Tall Timbers," Official's Note Says. Clintwood, Va.. July 7.?Cash to the amount of $15,000 and $7,000 worth of unsigned treasury certificates have disappeared from the vaults of the Citizen' National Bank, of this place, and a reward of $1,000 has been offered by the officers of the institution for the arrest of Walter C. D. Sutherland, cashier, of the bank, who has not been seen here since Saturday night. Sutherland hired a horse Saturday night and told his friends, it is alleged, that he was going to ride to Stratton to spend the Fourth with relatives. When he did not appear at the hank Tuesday morning, inquiry by the officials developed the fact, it is said, that the young man J had not visited Stratton. No trace has yet been found of Sutherland or of the horse he rode. It \yas not until late yesterday that the bank vault, whose time lock had been set for ninety-six hours could be opened. Then the officials discovered the loss. In the vault they found a note saying: "Gone to the tall timbers." The name of the missing cashier, it is said, was signed to it. Sutherland, who is 34 years old, was at one time connected with the army engineer corps in the Phillipine Islands. Negro Lynched in Arkansas. Little Rock July 7.?Sam Powell, a negro charged with robbery and arson, was hanged by a mob at Hutting, Ark., late last night, according to a dispatch received here to-night. Powell, an 18-year-old youth, it was charged, burglarized the resiof a nrominent citizen of Hut ting of $400 and then fired the building. He escaped but was captured several days ago at Rochelle, La. > Since his return to Hutting, it is ^stated, he confessed. The, rather frail prison building, _ ' ' which housed Powell, was broken into without much effort by the mob and the lynching followed. That the negro had been hanged, however, was not generally known until his body was found to-day. : ' Sturkie Will Get His Money. Orangeburg, July 7.?Judge Gage handed down his decision in the mandamus proceedings brought by Dr. L. K. Sturkie to compel Supervisor Felder to sign Dr. Sturkie's claim for township commissioners as attorney. Judge Gage ruled that Dr. Sturkie must itemize his account and that the supervisor must sign the claim. Dr. Sturkie was employed by the township commissioners as attorney for the board, but Supervisor Felder refused to sign Dr.NSturkie's claim tand he could not draw his money. The amount involved is about $400. , Col. Mosby Removed. * Washington, July 8.?Col. John S. Mosby, who distinguished himself in the Confederate cause in the war of secession as a daring guerrilla fighter, and who, in the early part of President Roosevelt's administration, ?? ? n onooiel q f+nrn otr i n ^ Witb (ipyuiuicu CL ojituai avwiuv; tu the department of justice, has lost his government position. The reason has not been made known, but it is understood old age was the chief cause " for the mismissal. Col, Mosby is 73, years old, although his friends say he is still pnergetic and active. He has > made no effort to be restored, although this is deemed probable and that the attorney general may be asked to intervene. The colonel, it fc stated, may now devote his time to a book on the war of secession, in which he took an active and pictur> esque part. Big Fire in Charleston. Charleston, July 8.?Fire which broke out at 6:15 o'clock this after* , noon completely gutted five large wholesale establishments on Meetinc street, threatened the Charleston hotel, just across the street, and caused a loss which is estimated toL night at $250,000. The buildings gutted are the Paul E. Trouche company, the Bailey-Lebby com'pany, T. A. Wilbur & Sons, the Marshall-Wescoat Hardware company and two buildings of the A. R. Thomlinson company. The big new department store of Louis Cohen & Co., was saved only as the result of desperate work on the part of the firemen. The flames for the time threatened ^ to get beyond the control of the firemen and to destroy the entire block, which is one of the most important of ^ the city. The ticket office of the Southern Railway, situated next to the Trouche building, escaped destruction almost by a miracle. Two firemen and one telephone * lineman were overcome by smoke, but recovered consciousness. A heavy rain, which set in about 10:30 o'clock, helped the firemen to get the flames under control. GARMENT WORKERS STRIKE. Fifty Thousand Walk Out in NewYork City. New York, July 7.?Fifty thousand garment and cloak makers, of whom 8,000 are women, walked out this afternoon at the call of the In- < ternational Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, which demands an eight hour day, an increase in wages and a i + V? o * OAnfroof Arc qViqII < gU(Xl<lllluc tuai vuui/iawvic * stand behind substitute contractors : for wage payments. The fight thus far- is purely local, but officers of the Union said to-night that if the employers attempted to j sublet their work in other cities, ; notably Chicago, or Philadelphia and Cleveland, the Union would call a strike there also. The 1,100 factories here employ 100,00 hands, of which half are or- < ganized. The strikers hope to draw : many of the non-union workers out by a sympathetic appeal. LANDS IN BED. Blind Runaway Horse Frightens Occupants into Hysterics. A blind horse, frightened by the explosion of a cannon, at Vincennes, Ind., early Wednesday, ran away, : threw its driver, Wayne Bunting, out of the buggy, fatally injuring him, plunged through a window of the home of Mrs. Anna Drugger and fell on a bed, where Mrs. Drugger and her daughter were seriously bruised and both were shocked into hysteria before the men of the neighborhood attracted by the crash and the screams of the women, i could drag the frantic horse out of the house. Affinities in Law. While the magazine muckrakers are talking about the shortcomings < of our courts in the matter of failing to take judicial cognizance of common sense, and requiring the State to prove that it was a loaded gun and not an empty gun with which the prisoner shot the deceased, and so forth, there Is a case from New York that furnishes a little novelty. A man obtained a verdict for libel because he had been reported as paying attentions to an "affinity." The appellate court reverses the verdict because the word affinity in classic English has no objectionable signification and is not of a libelous nature. The court refuses to take into account , any false meaning that may have at- ' tached to the word through slang or improper usage. Nothing but the dictionary goes in that court. In New York, therefore, we judge it would be safe for the police reporter to promulgate the information that a man had been pinched and moved away in the booby hatch . for 60 days for having swiped a sawbuck from a stranger. If it turned out to be true the gentleman's reputation would not be injured any, for it is no disgrace to swipe or otherwise cleanse or polish a sawbuck or orHnla nf fnrriitnrP What the court would do in a case where the dictionary gives two meanings to the same word it is not easy to guess. Probably issue a subpoena for the publishers of the dictionary and make them qualify as experts and tell which one was the most classic . and perferred meaning. ? Omaha World-Herald. ( PLUCKY ENGLISH DOCTOK. Lowered Over Precipice to Assistance of Wounded Egg Gatherer. i A young Flamborough egg gatherer named Joseph Mapor, while ; working in the cliffs near the North ; Danes Dyke recently met with an accident which may cost him his life. , He and his brother started gathering early in the. morning, and the sec- < ond time Joseph went over a stone apparently became displaced and causing him to fall and cut open his head. When his companions did not receive his signals they became alarmed and one went over to see his ; cause. They found the youth lying on a grassy slope, bleeding badly < from the wound. With the assistance of other egg \ gatherers two men were lowered over j the cliff edge and placed the unfortu- j nate man on a ledge of rock below. The tide was coming in at the time. ; A York visitor, H. Brown, who is j 1 ? ~ Xl staying at jp lamororuugs, iau uu mc $ apartments some four or five miles i away, and then cycled to Bridgington, < another six miles away, to fetch Doc- < tor Wetwan. * i The doctor was lowered over the ] precipice, a distance of about 400 feet, an exploit that is dared by few 1 who are not experts?and ne band- l aged up the young fellow's head. The rocket lifesaving apparatus was < taken out and one of the men, Robert, Barnes, descended and brought ] up Joseph Major in the breeches i buoy. Afterward Doctor Wetman was hauled up, and a cheer was rais- j ed as he reached safety.?Westmin- i ster Gazette, London. ] r MORE LANDS WITHDRAWN. President Taft Continues Policy of Practical Conservation. Beverly, Mass., July 7.?Continuing his policy of practical conservation, 'President Taft late to-night signed orders, withdrawing 35,073. 164 acres of coal lands from the pub-i lie domain in the States of North and South Dakota, Washington, Utah, Colorado and the Territory of Arizona. Of thp total withdrawals. 20.698. 469 acres are new, while 14,374,605 acres are covered in confirmations and ratifications under the new law, approved June 25, of withdrawals made during the past four years by both Presidents Roosevelt and Taft. North and South Dakota are the two States affected by the new withdrawals. From the public domain in North Dakota, the President has withdrawn from settlement 71,828,182 acres of land, believed to contain workable coal. In South Dakota the amount withdrawn is 2,870,287 acres. Previous withdrawals, confirmed by the President to-night,, are divided among the several States as follows: Washington, 2,207,967 acres; Arizona, 161,280 acres; Utah, 5,814,287 acres, and Colorado, 6,191,161 acres. The withdrawal orders, prepared oy me geological survey auu ayproved by the Secretary of the Interior, reached Beverly from Washington late to-night. All of the withdrawals and confirmations were made under the* new law, passed at the last session of congress, which definitely authorizes the President to withdraw various lands from entry, pending their classification and special disposition by congress. The President urged this law as the first step in this plan for practical conservation. BOY ROBBER BADLY INJURED. Eli Runyon May Not Survive Fracture of Vertebrae. Richmond, Va., July 7.?Eli Runyon, the 19-year-old Richmond boy, who has gotten into serious trouble with the police of this city, Savannah and Washington, and who was arrested in the last named city Thursday last, on a charge of housebreaking and turned over to the officials of the Young Republic, on the outskirts of the district, was probably fatally injured on the fourth of July, when in diving from a spring board he struck his head against a submerged rock and fractured one of his spinal vertebrae. He was brought to a Richmond hospital, where he is under treatment, and where it is stated that he will probably not survive more than a week longer. Posse Hunting for Negroes. Bainbridge, Ga., July 7.?Sheriff Emanuel and a posse of deputies are searching for three negroes, who before daybreak this morning threaten ed to burn the home of J. Young, manager of a naval stores company at Faceville this county, and killed him. They surrounded his house, woke him up and cursed him. They fired a number of shots but hurt no one in the house. Earlier in the night i negro, Frank Jenkins, tried to shoot Mr. Young, who was too quick and shot the negro, wounding him. After the attack on Mr. Young's house a posse #of white men gathered and surrounded a house in which three negroes were barricaded. The negroes charged through a rear door and escaped in a fusillade. Then Sheriff Emanuel and his deputies arrived. They made a through search of the negro section but found no trace of the rioters. The search is still going on but everything at Faceville late this afternoon was quiet. A Hard Heart. Judge Ben B. Linlsey, of the famous Denver juvenile court, said in the course of a recent address on charity: ""l OO rnauv ui us ai c iuuiuv.u n/ think that, one misstep made, the boy is gone for good. Too many of us are like the cowboy. "An itinerant preacher preached to i cowboy audience on the 'Prodigal Son.' He described the foolish prodigal's extravagance and dissipation; he described his penury and his husk- j mating with the swine in the sty; he described his return, his father's loving welcome, the rejoicing, and the preparation of the fatted calf. "The preacher in his discourse noticed a cowboy staring at him very hard. He thought he had made a concert and addressing the cowboy personally, he said from the pulpit: " 'My dear friend, what would you have done if you had a prodigal son returning home like that?' " 'Me?' said the cowboy, promptly ar?H florpalv *T'/1 hflVP shnt- thp hov md raised the calf.' "?Detroit Free Press. [ SAMPL BOX] We still have a swell drummers' sample bo we are offering at j less than the regular IIT All 11 We will sell you a i 30c, a 50c box for 1 on. Come and look SAMPLED * We also have a fev 1 .11. 1 /*. I sample tablets left w I offering at half price. 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