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GYPSIES CROWN XEW KING. K~ Ceremony Takes Place in a Washington Law Office. Washington, July 19.?Emil Mitchell, a stalwart, swarthy nomad of some 50 summers, was to-day crowned "king of the Gypsies" in the United States. The coronation occurred \ in the law office of Britton, Gray & Browne, in this city. The unusual ceremony was witnessed by the chiefs of the five tribes of gypsies in this > country and several members of Mitchell's family. No outsider knows why the gypsies always come to Washington to crown j their new rulers, unless it is that here r they can get more bright-colored ribbon on the official documents than they can anywhere else. "King Emil," who at present hails from the vicinity of New Orleans, was duly elected to succeed Zlatcho Dimito, who recently migrated to Canada and thus gave up his "office." * When the certificate of election had been duly signed by the tribal chiefs, Evans Browne, the attorney who had charge of the negotiations, sent the papers to the department of justice, ^where a big red seal was affixed to show that R. W. Snow, the notary who officiated, was duly qualified to witness the important instrument.? Special dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. Crime Begets Crime. Crime begets crime; of this police records offer ample proof. That crimes run in cycles also is true. When one atrocious murder is committed it is likely to be followed by another, sometimes by many, of much the same characteristics, the line of criminal thought made notorious by the orginal deed being clearly traceable. Take the Charlton case, for example. A youth of twenty-two years, infatuated with a woman greatly his senior, madly jealous of her and much given to qaurreling, killed her with a hammer. He stuffed her body into a trunk and sank it in Lake Como. Then he disappeared.* Natui rally the disappearance caused comment and comment led to the dis* coverv. Charlton did not plan the deed. He killed in a fit of rage and he did what an experienced criminal scarcely would have done?fled to America. He was caught and then he confessed. The Charlton murder was committed a month or more ago. Since then two cases of murder, with an attempt to dispose of the body by jamming it into a trunk, have been brought to light?one in New York and one in Portland, Ore. The more recently reported Crippen murder in London cannot have been a result of the Charlton crime, because it probably was committed previously. But, nevertheless, it helps justify the state- < ment of a veteran police officer in St. Louis, and of other crime experts, that an atrocious crime generally is followed by a number of like character. * What causes this? No definite an^ swer has yet been made, but without doubt it is largely prompted by the ^ spirit of imitation. As good people ?people of high ideals?seek to emulate and imitate noble deeds and heroic examples, so men of base purpose and criminal instincts may be moved to rival the achievements of notorious criminals who are cleverer k than they. After all, it is a question of ideals, hte lesser mind aping the greater, whether it be in lawful pursuits or in committing crime. So we have one explanation, perhaps, of "crime waves." It is a question of * morals and ideals reversed, perverted from their true channel.?Indianapolis News. Woman Seeks Governorship. Concord, N. H., July 15.?Marilla Dinlroi. rinvar- i C nlj* r> T1 in ?? to 1?X. >iviv.nvi | ui jl/vivi) f ??o ? be the next governor of her home ' State. She has filed a formal application with the secretary of State, accompanied by a check for $100, which is necessary to enter her name as a candidate under the new State primary law, to be tried for the first m time this fall. The check was for- ( warded through Mrs. Ricker's local * attorney, and is to be followed at once by a declaration of platform. Mrs. Ricker has just returned from San Jose, Cal., where she spent the v winter and spring. She was the first woman to seek a diplomatic post. She sent her application with strong endorsements to President McKinley for the post of minister to Columbia. She was the first woman lawyer to to be admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia and of New Hampshire, and was associate counsel with the late Col. 'l Ingersoll in the star route trials. Struck a Rich Mine. S. W. Bends, of Coal City, Ala., > says he struck a perfect mine of health in Dr. King's New Life Pills for they cured him of liver and kid\ . nev trouble after 12 years of suffering. They are the best pills on earth t for constipation, malaria, headache, dyspepsia, debility. 25c at Peoples Drug Co., Bamberg, S. C. WOMAN COMMITS SUICIDE. Mrs. Marion B. Jennings Takes Her Life with Pistol. Spartanburg, July 2S.?Mrs. Marion B. Jennings committed suicide this morning by shooting herself in the left temple. The shots, two in number, aroused the family as they were at the breakfast table, and Mr. Jennings rushed into his wife's bedroom and found her already dying, lying in a great pool of blood. For four months Mrs. Jennings had been in ill health and had recently been suffering greatly from malancholia, but it was not feared that she would do herself injury, l'his j morning she sent her youngest daugh- j ter out of her room, saying she desired to be alone to sleep, and the act was evidently then meditated. Within n faiv minnr-s two shots were heard. Mrs. Jennings secured an old pistol that had been left in her bedroom. The pistol was placed against her left temple and the head was practically torn completely away. The family are prostrated with grief. Mrs. Jennings was about a year or more ago married *o Mr. Marion B. Jennings, son f State Treasurer Jennings, Mr. Jennings having formerly lived at Yorkville. where he practiced law for several years after leaving Columbia a few years ago. Mrs. Jennings was also a former Columbian, Miss Emma Hanahan, a sister of Dr. Hanahan, of Columbia. She was first married to Mr. Ernest Beard, of Yorkville. and by that marriage has four daughters, all of whom are at home here except one, whose home is in York vile. About a year ago she was married to Mr. Jennings, and they made their home in Spartanburg, where Mr. Jennings is practicing his profession. Mrs. Jennings was 37 years of age. The body will be taken to-morrow to Yorkville for interment. Will Fight Increase on Rates. Greenville, July 28.?It was learned here to-night through private advices from Atlanta that a committee of prominent cotton manufacturers, representing the Cotton Manufacturers' Association of South Carolina, visited Atlanta yesterday and retained Messrs. Wimbish & Ellis of Atlanta and Washington as leading counsel to represent them in the United States courts and before the inter-state commerce commission to resis the advance in coal rates proposed by the Southern railway and to take effect August 15. The advance in coal rates will apply to South Carolina only and will add to the cost of coal for domestic purposes and for steam coal used for the manufacturing purposes. Other counsel in Atlanta and South Carolina were also retained and the protest against the increased rate, which will affect everybody in upper South Carolina, will be vigorously pushed in both the United States courts and before the inter-state commerce commission. Plenty of Corn in the South. Atlanta, July 26.?Nine cotton growing States are producing more corn than the average Eastern and Western States, according to a report issued here today by Martin V. Calvin, director of the Georgia experiment station. Mr. Calvin's figures give the following production of corn by Southern States in 1909: North Carolina 41,383,000 South Carolina 33,337,000 Georgia 52,598,000 Alabama 37,099,000 Mississippi 33,003,000 Louisiana 35,327,000 Texas 92,910,000 Arkansas 36,2S8,000 Oklahoma 55,632,000 The corn from these States totalled 61,787,000 bushels more than was produced by the following Northern States: Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, and Colorado. Mr. Calvin says he chose these Northern States as a basis of comparison because they "more nearly than any others approached the average yield per acre in the United States." These Northern States, the report says, produced nearly twice as much corn per acre as did the Cotton States; the acre yield in the North averaging 25.5 bushels against 16.4 bushels in the South. "Mark the fact," the report adds: "It locates the weak spot in our armor. It tells us that we need not increase our corn agreage one inch. What we need to do is to increase our average yield per acre." How this increase may be accomDlished is then shown by figures from the Geeorgia experiment station's j work, where an average yield of 40.6 bushels per acre was obtained in 1909. If you want to arouse the petty jealousy and bitter enmity of every little spike-headed, worthless specimen of humanity in your neighborhood, go to work, attend strictly to your business, make money, be prosperous, and rest assured the little things will be yelping at your heels like a fice after a bull. j BAD WRECK <^' COAST LINE. Freight Train Goes into Trestle Xear Eastover. Florence. July 27.?Atlantic Coast Line through freight train, Xo. 221, with Engineer Hammock and Conductor Heinsberger in charge, was badly wrecked at Toms Creek trestle, near Eastover, last night. This train runs from Columbia to Charleston, and left Columbia on time. About 500 feet west of Toms Creek trestle, the flange of one of the coal cars in the train mounted the rail and finally jumped the track, running along on the ties to the trestle and finally landing in the bottom of the trestle as the entire trestle structure was demolished. This tres tie is about 100 feet long. Fourteen * box cars, flat cars and coal cars were I derailed and piled high in the air, a mass of wreckage. In the train there was a carload of machinery, and among it was a stationary boiler smoke stack. A negro tramp, beating his way from Columbia to Sumter, and bound for Mars Bluff, where he was going to work on the double track of the Coast Line, was caught in the wreckage, he having crawled in this stack to hide from the conductor. When the wreck occurred this stack was thrown 50 feet away from the track out into a field, and the "nigger" with it. When he landed and the fl noise was over, the negro crawled out. I He was found bleeding and battered I from head to foot, but able to "sit I up and take nourishment." He was I sent to a hospital in Columbia for "repairs." The negro stated that there was a white tramp aboard the train when it left Columbia, but up to noon today he had not been found. He may be under the wreckage in the trestle. Immediately after the wreck occurred a wrecking train from Florence was dispatched to the scene, with Train Master Hare and others to clear the main line but it was found to be such a bad wreck that the wrecking train from South Rocky Mount was also sent down to assist in the work. These two crews will have the line opened by midnight to-night. None of the crew were injured. One * - * - -< ^ ii- ?j r nn I Hundred ieei ui <iuu uw of track will have to be rebuilt, besides fourteen cars will have to be gotten up before the line will be serviceable. All trains to and from Columbia last night and to-day, were detoured over the Southern Railway via Sumter, Kingville and Columbia. Cholera Kills Many Russians. St. Petersburg, July 2S.?The extent of the ' cholera epidemic is revealed in figures made public to-day B by the government sanitary commis- R siou. The stricken region now in- I eludes forty-two provinces and terri- I tories of European Russia and since X the outbreak of the disease last May I there have been a total of 37,652 H cases, with 16,651 deaths. 9 Recently there has been a start- I ling increased the number of vie- H tims. During the week ending July R 23. no less than 13,374 cases were reported, and of these 5,979 terminated fatally. Some time ago the scourge made its appearance in this city and the past fortnight there has been a daily average of forty cases and twelve deaths in the capital. Yesterday there were fifty-four cases and fourteen deaths reported here. In the local hospitals there are 514 cholera suspects, including thirty-eight children. Serious Fight in Greenville. Greenville, July 27.?Bad feeling of long standing caused a very serious affray here to-day between Arthur Roper and William Trotter, two well-known farmers, about 3 miles from the city, in which Trotter had two ribs broken, nose broken, skull fractured and some other physical injuries of a more or less serious nature. He is in a critical condition and Roper is in jail, bail having been refused him by the magistrate. Details concerning the encounter are contradictory and hard to obtain accurately, but reports say that Roper was in a wagon in the road and was accosted by Trotter, who, it is said, cursed him. In the affray which followed, Roper is said to have used rocks as his weapons. ntVior ronnrtc nrp that. Trntter also had a knife. 9 Both men are well known in this 9 section. 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