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-X VOL. II. NO. 28. CAMDEN. S. C? THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1905. S1.60 Per Year LUKE HAMMOND, THE MISER. By Prof? Win. Hairy Anthor oftb* of Litkoft," Wfr, OoVFTtafct lWk kr Borax Boxxxm'a Son. right* mntmA) CHAPTER XIV. Continued. He extended bis hand as If to touch her wrist. She raised It quickly ?with an expression of disgust, and a knife gleamed in her sleeve. Hammond started back. He glanced toward the dishes on the little tabl^ and saw that Kate bad secreted ths knife brought for use. "I ordered you, old fool." said h? to Fan. "not to bring knives to ths ] prisoners! I said carve the meat be fore you take It to them. And now ?he lifts a knife." "I forgot?my head Is all a-pleees," ?aid Fan, shaking her head sadly. "I mm of no use to anybody any more? frou see I can't think of anything but " "Silencer* roared Luke, stamping bis heavy heel fiercely. Old Fan drew herself closer together, and closed moutb and eyes In a spasm of fear. Fear of the thing in the well fear of the man that put It there. "Miss Elgin." said he. "you have not tasted food. Why?" "The wretch that dares to Imprison me would not hesitate to poison me," said Kate. "You have secreted a knife. I see It in your sleeve," said Hammond. ??Why Is that?" ' "To defend myself." "Defend yourself! You dread vio lence?" "Everything dreadful and barbarous from you," replied Kate. "You ore still untamed, Miss Elgin. You will eat ere long. I have known starving men eat rank poison, rather than endure the pangs of hunger. But do not fear poison from me. Your life Is as valuable to me as my own. Youi heart is strong, your will that of a heroine. I might torture you If 1 ?wished. What hinders me? But td bend such natures as yours we musf assail the soul. There Is one thought that sustains your courage. You thinlj James Greene will seek for you.** "I know he will," cried Kate, proud* ly. as she thought of him she loved. "Catharine Elgin," said Hammond, taking a seat near her, "I am goin^ to knock away one of the props of you# courage." "Strike them nil to the earth," said Kate, "and yet one will remain that Luke Hammond and all his assistant demons cannot strike down?the God of heaven." "The days of miracles have fled for ever," said Hammond, coldly. "I feai mortal foes alone. I am here to tell you that .Tames Greene has been here tonight." "Yes," sulci Kntc, "he caiue, you lied to lilin, and he was deceived. But be will come again and again. You can not deceive hi in forever." "He shall be deceived no more," said Hammond, gravely. "Fan!" The old creature looked up. "It would do you good to tell what you saw to Homebody who did not, wouldn't It. Fan?" asked Hammond. "You told me if I told, you would kill me," said Fan. "But I would rather tell it thau handle a piece of new-coined gold. Ah! It lies so heavy right here?on my heart?so heavy and tiot?hot as my Irons get when I leave them in the tire?heavy and hot?cold as Ice, too?It's dreadful! dreadful!" Fan shivered, aud drew herself close again. "You may tell it to Miss Elgin. But ?peak no names." "Names!" said Fan. "Names are dangerous things. I know a name I've kept safe?safe as miser's gold these thirty years." Sho forgot she hod uttered it td Kate Elgin the night before. Hammond and Nancy Ilarker ex? changed n startlod glance as Fan said "thirty years," and poor Kate, expect' I Ing a tale of horror, scarcely dared td breathe. i "What Is that name, Fan? I will give you n dollar for every letter In It," said Nancy. "Not a cent?not a cent!" exclaimed Luke. And then to Nancy: "Silence] Dhl I not say the thing should remain unsearclied? Better ignorance than agony?to her, to us?perhaps. Comet Fan, tell Miss Elgin what you saw." But the mind of the old woman was dwelling upon Nancy's offer. *'A dollar for every letter of that name!" she said drearily. "A dollar! A diamond for every letter of that name woulid not tempt me to speak It *Twas a good name once?written In diamonds, It wasn't any brighter to me, nor among men, than In plain, honest Ink, Mrs. Ilarker. A dozen dollars and a dozen diamonds a dozen {times ovet could not buy my tongue to speak It, and know I said It." ' M "A dozen," thought Nancy, count ing in her mind, and shunning tho flsree glance of Luke. "Sho dwells on }tho number without knowing It. Thero were twelve letters In my father's Same. I must not think of it. I shall Iscovcr something dreadful." "Oome, Fan," said Hammond, "eas*? your mind, and tell Miss Elgin what; you saw." % "Ar'n't you afraid to hats U toldj X<uke Hammond?" said Fan, rolllni her bloodshot ejes fearfully. "I command you to tell her." "I will," said Fan. "It will do mi good." "No names. Fan." "Oh, no?names are dangerous, 01 sacred things," replied Fan. "I win tell you, young lady. An old and wicked woman?not so old by a thou | sand years as she was wicked. Miss-1 I led a young and handsome man?1 wonder If he ever robbed his pari I ents " "Go on! and no wonder about It!" thundered Hammond, while Nancj grew pale and dlzsy. "Yes," said Fan, "the old and wicket) woman led the young and handsome man Into an old store-room?dark, chll (y place?my flesh creeps to think of It And the old woman knew there was s man, a desperate man, watching he! to shoot her If she paused. Then th< old womsn left him In the store-room' ?left the young man?left him stand ing on a trap-door, right over a deep dark pit. Augh! so deep and dark." She shuddered, and Kate Elgin's fact grew terrible In Its ghastly attention Kate's eyes were fixed upon Fan's livid face, but her body was slowly lean lug more and more towards Hammond, who expected to see her swoon and fall every Instant. Fan continued: "The old woman left the young man there and fled. Suddenly It grew a* light as day, and looking back, the old womsn saw the desperate man she knew had followed In the dark. He bad a pistol In one hand, a rope In the other. He said something?the old woman did not know?she was all fear ?he pulled the rope, the trap-door fell, the youug man vanished?he Is In the j well now!" "His name?bis name!" gasped Kate, her eyes wide open, her lips all white. "Was James Greene!" said Ham mond, opening his arms to receive her If she should swoon. Like a tigress from her lsir, like an arrow from a bow-string, Kate Elgin darted in between Hammond's arms, and shrieking: "Die, assassin! die, Satan! if death is In you!" and plunged the secreted knife twice into bis breast with all her strength. Hammond staggered back, clear to then wall, and his own dagger was in his hand in an instant. Kate Elgin glanced at the knife in her hand. The miserable blade, a mere table-knife, blunt and weak, was bent aa If of lead, and save Hammond's sudden fright and surprise, he was un hurt. "O, Heaven!" groaned Kate, dashing the useless, faithless knife away, "does thy justice, thy mercy sleep! Oh, James! James, my lover, my darling! James! dead! murdered!" She clasped her hands in agony, and fell lifeless Into Nancy Harker's arms. "Place her on the bed," said Luke. "She has fainted?nothing more. Fan, there's a gold dollar for your story. You told It well. Nancy, when she ?hall have recovered, use your influence to bend her to my will. We have no time to lose. My purpose accom plished, we will fly to South America. This news of James Greene will weak en her greatly. She would not have believed It true If I had told It; but as old Fan related It, Kate Elgin can not doubt. If you want anything, let Fan get it. I am going to the crimson chamber." He departed, exulting in his villainy, and old Fan muttered, as she secured the coin he had tossed: "A brave man! A dreadful man! My son must have grown up just like him! Luke Hammond and Naney llarker! Two gay imps?gay imps? j they ought to be brother and sister, i yes, and begun by robbing their par- j cuts. But I feel better?better now i after that easing of my mind." j Unfortunate Kate recovered soon, and found some sad relief In a tor rent of tears, a tempest of sobs, a whirlwind of woe. And then, weeping, she fell asleep, with Nancy Harker glaring hat* and trjumph by the bedside. Old Fan, not wanted there, crept away to hido her "yellow birdie," and silence reigned In the white and gold chamber at midnight. CHAPTER XV. JAMF.S GRKF-NK DROINS TO WORK. Leaving Hammond on his way to the Jcrlmson chamber, let us look after tho welfare of James Greene, whom wo )eft bruised, stunned, but not dead, hanging by his clothing to a broken Iron rod ten feet belo^ the brink of the well beneath the old store-room. When James Greene recovered hie consciousness, be opened his eyes to find himself In total darkness, and breathing an atmosphore that almost luifTocated him. Feeling too weak at flrst to move a muscle, he waited to reflcct upon his dreadful situation be fore attempting to stir. From his posture he knew he was luspended by his clothing; but how, or where he was, be had no conception. Grow ln< stronger and stronger. uA feeling the blood gat be ring la bis neck and bead, until tbe pain was terrible, j be ventured to stretch forth bis hands. His left found nothing, bnt bis right touched cold snd slimy atone. Sweep* ing bla hand as far.around sa possible, be suddenly paused, snd said: ? "Heavens! *1 am In a well! I feel the curving of the atones. I must hare fallen here when the trap was aprung bj Hammond." Reaching up with Immense difficulty, for be hung face downward, he at laat sucecded in grasping the Iron bar above. "I have lodged In falling," said he. "My head la bruised and bleeding. It must have struck the edge of the floor aa it fell. But for the strength of Hammond'a overcoat, I were now dead. I must get out" ( He heard a great noise above him, as he swung himself up, so aa to sup port bla body by swinging upright, with the Iron bar under bla right arm. "Hammond la not aatlsfied," aald he. "He comes to make aure of bla mur der." And though brave and noble aa man could be, Jamea Greene felt an Icy borror gripping at bla heart. "He la nailing faat tbe trap!" he said. "I am to be entombed alive In thla horrible grave." 'Twaa not Luke, but old Fan nailing and aecurlng the trapdoor. Tbe nolae at length ceaaed, and James Greene thought: "By tbs sound I judge thst I sm not many feet below the trap-door. There muat be some amall interval between tbe door and the edge of the walL The area of the door, as well aa I can remember It when It fell, muat be at last four feet square." He swung bla feet out boldly, and be touched tbe other aide of the welL "Good." aald he, quick and true In measuring. "The well Is less than five feet In diameter. The trap-door must have swung downward to its full length?say four feet at least. There fore there must be a space of four feet at lea8t between the level of the floor and tbe mouth of the well, for otherwise the door would have atruck the combing of the well, and so shot me aside; whereas, from the sound I have juat heard, the door la right over my head. Aa near as I can judge from that hammering, I am only ten or twelve feet from tbe level of the trap. Take the swing of the door from that, and I am six or eight feet only from the edge of the well! I must try to stand up!" This cost him much time and labor, for the well wall was slimy and smooth. At length he found an iron bar, or spike, a few Inches long, stick ing out of tbe stones immediately at his left. This was once a part of tbs Huuie bar he was swinging on. James Greene we know was a car penter, and as a general rule carpen ters can climb like cats. Give a spry carpenter three strong nails and a ham mer, und be can go anywhere. Greene was bold and active, and In spite of his slippery footing he final ly stood erect, but with one foot on tbe first bar that had saved him, atod the other on the last found iron fragment, lie was clear six feet in stature; but as be now stood, his feet wide apart, and bracing bis body with his outstretched bands against tbe wall line, a line drawn from his toe to the level of bis head would not have measured four feet. "I must try to stand on one foot," id 1(1 ho, "If but for a seeond." At an imminent rink of falling to the bottom of tbo well?and of its depth he Imd no idea?he arose on one foot, nnd at the same time threw his arm | upward to its full length. To his great joy the tlrst joints of iiis lingers clung to the brink of tho well. "Will It bear my weight?" waR his next thought. "1 have hold enough to lift me until my left hand ean take a (lrmer grasp. But the stone seems crumbling, or 'tis mortar under my linger tips." j lie paused awhile in great doubt; tho peril was terrific. If the stone should crumble his fall would be certain. Something splashed In the slimy ooze far below him. He listened. Another splash, and a squeak. "Hats!" said he. "They have dis covered my presence, and will doubt less attack me. I must trust In God and act." And commending his soul to his Cre ator, lie swung his body out from th? well and threw up his left arm. The stone did not crumble; It was firm In Its place. Drawing himself up as high as his breast, then throwing up his knee and gaining additional brace, he was soon seated upon the brink of the horrible grave from which ha had escnped. "Thank Heaven," lie murmured, itf he took breath after his labor. "So , far I am safe." Feeling about, he found a large stone lying loose. This he dashed In the well, and the splash of Its fall routed the squadron of ferocious rats begin ning to movo upward for assault. "And now to explore; for my work Is but begun," said he, groping about with extreme caution. After about ten minutes spent In this manner, he paused and reflected "I am In a square prison?fifteen feet from wall to wall. Tho well Is In th? centre, and the floor of tho trap about flvo feet from the ground. 1 am here, walled up as It were. Ah, Katy, If yo^ knew your love's situation, how yom dear heart would bleed! To what bor. rors are you exposed In the power ol that outrageous villain, Luko Ham monds" To bo continued. ? It's better to be a Ilvo man In tt de*< town, than a dead man In a live towft ?New York New* ^ ~ E. P. HOWELL DEAD Popilarud Usefil Georgian Passes From Labor to Keward 4 LEADER OF S9UTBEIN PROGRESS One of the Meek Potent Factors in TJp-Bnildinf Georgia and Its Pres ent Capital After the Civil War Dies of Carbuncle Complicated With Diabetes at the Age of 66?Confed erate Soldier, Lawyer, Publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, Director in Every New Railroad Built Into the City, Fosterer of Expositions, and Recently Mayor of Atlanta. Atlanta. Ga., Special.?Capt. Evan P. Howell, long prominently Identiflfled with Southern journalism, died at noon Sunday, after an lllnesa of three weeks, I brought In by a carbuncle complicat ed with diabetes. Captain Powell was born December 10, 1839 in, Milton county, Ga. He was a gallant Confederate soldier, entering the service as a member of the Flrftt Georgia. Regiment, later commanding Howell's Battery of Artillery dnring practically the whole of the war. After the surrender he settled in At lanta. taking up the practice of the law. He was one of the most potent factors in rebuilding this city and in the development of the State from the devastation of the war. As a young lawyer he served as -Solit itor General during the stormy days of the recon struction period. when to his services was largely due to sup pression of the lawlessness then so rife. In 1876 he bought the Atlanta Constitution with Henry W. , Grady and William A. Hemphill. He retained control of this newspaper un til 1897, when he retired, and since then i has not been in active business. Captain Howell has been prominently identified with the Democratic party ever since the war, naving been del- ) egate-at-large from this State to sev eral of the national convention and a prominent figure in each. He served as member of both branches of the State Legislature some years ago. but held no other political office save that of mayor of Atlanta, for which he was nominated during his absence from the community. His term of service to this office ended last year. He has been prominently identified with every movement for the develop ment'of this city.and section, notably with the firat Cotton* Exposition in 1882, which opened the eyes of the country to the South's industrial pro gress and with all the later exposi tions. He has been a director in every new railroad built into Atlanta since the war. He was a member of the commission which built Geogia's new capitol and which performed the feat of completing its works within the orig inal appropriation and turning back into the Treasury a surplus. Captain Howell was tendered a place In the diplomatic service by President Cleve land, but declined it. He served by appointment of President McKinley upon the commission to investigate the conduct of the war with Spam. His wife, who was Miss Julia Erwin. and seven children survive him, among them Et'ltor Clark Howell. Run Down After Shooting Six. Little Rock. Ark, Special.?A special to The Gazette, from Lewlsvllle, Ark., says: After killing two persons, seriously and probably fatally shooting two others, one a woman, and less seriously shooting two more, Ike Kinney, a des perate negro, was killed In a river bot tom at Doelln, six miles south of I^ew isvllle, at noon Friday, after a hot fight with a posse of citizens that had sur rounded him. Ills bloody record for 24 hours is: August 2 (morning), killed a negro at Stamps; August 2 (after noon), killed E. R. Ferguson, claim agent of the Louisiana & Arkansas Railroad, a member of a posse, three miles from Stamps; August 3 (3 a. m.) seriously shot Mrs. Stewart, of Greens burg, Texas, and her husband; August ?. (noon); shot Alvln Harham through the neck, and shot a finger off one of C. F. Nash's hand*. Telegraphers * Strike St. Paul, Minn., Special.?At tho end of the fourth day of the telegraphers* strike on the Great Northern and the Northern paciflflc Railroads, officers of both railroads declare that the rtrlko is ail but a closed Incident, and that more than 80 per cent, of the stations on tho Northern Pacific and 70 per cent, on the Great Northern are now sup plied with agents. Officers of the Te legraphers' Union assert that the strike has not fairly begun. Electrocuted in Chester. Chester, 8. C., Special.?Jno. M. Weir, a flremhn on tho ISouthern Railway, was Instantly killed by an electrical current received from a wire rope, used for lowering and rais ing tho arc light, attached to a post at. tho corncr of Valley and Gadsden streets, Saturday night about 9:00 o'clock. Weir and a number of friends had been discussing the death of Rradshaw In Charlotte, and ho wont out to tho post and had a simi lar experience. The accident occur red shortly after a big rain and tho post was highly charged with elec tricity. Weir wan about 21 years of ago and was unmarried. No Trains in or Out of Shreveport. Shreveport, I*a.. Special.?Shreveport Is effectually bottled up. Word was received at tho local offices of tho Vlcksburg. Shreveport & Pacific. Hall road, tho only road remaining open, that tho two remaining trains on that lino had been cancelled from tonight. This loaves this city without eit?hr passenger or freight communication with tho outside world. No mall Is being received and none ?ent out. DISCUSSES DISPENSARY AT LENGTH Tillman Hade Vo Direct Charges Against the Administration But Puts the Responsibility on Investi gating Committee. Edgefield, Special.?Senator Tillman spoke here Saturday to a large crowd, discussing the question of dispensary or Prohibition for more than two hours. Tho length of the speech pre cludes our giving it in full, but the leading points are covered in the fol lowing report: TILLMAN'S SPEECH. Mr. Chairman. Ladles and Fellow Citizens: It is six years since 1 have had the pleasure of addressing a pub lic meeting in this my home county. On that occasion the Issue was the same one which we have today. The people have passed on this ques tion five or six times and settled it by overwhelming majorities. That year the aggregate vote for the two candi dates who were running as dispensary candidates was 28.000 more than the prohibition candidate got, but there are some people in South Carolina who have never been willing to submit to the rule of the majority. They think they know more, that they are better than the masses of the people, that they have the right to dictate to them what they shall do. So here we have again this same old bone of contention brought forward for politicians tu gnaw on. "THE PRICE OF SILENCE." I am here today to discuss this ques tion. Some have said it was Improper and out of place for a United States senator to meddle with local affairs. These men have felt aggrieved because I will not consent to shut my mouth, and close my eyeB to the condition In which I am as much interested as you are, and they havo demanded of me the price of silence. I ain't built that way. Thank God I ain't built that way. (Laughter and applause.) When 1 get to cowardly to stand up in your midst or anywhere else and speak the truth as I see It and understand it then 1 will have become -too cowardly and worthless to represent you any where. I know I shall make enemies. I know many of my best friends are to day lined up in antagonism to the liquor system which I devised. Be cause they have changed am I to sur render my conviction? I again say I ain't built that way. The office of Uni ted States senator Is a high and noble one, but the office is not worth tho price which some men demand of me. Therefore I am here in asnwer to your invitation to teil you what I think, not to dictate? I know you aro not built that way. you do your own thinking, and not as I eay. What is tho Issue? How shall we sell liquor or whether we shall sell It at all? That is the whole proposition stated in a brief sentence. There are three systems that have obtained in the State, not in the State as a whole, but in parts of the State: one is the license system, the ohl bar room system, the second is the dis pensary system under which we are now working, and the third is prohi oitlon. The ingenuity of man never devised any more than those three systems for the liquor control. Which one of those is the best? You have hoard eloquent and strong arguments, facts and figures as they were pre sentel in favor of prohibition. I confess to you a3 between prohi bition and the barrooms, saloons or tioniFts. ? But will prohibition prohibit? tionists. Hut will prohibition prohibt? I say no. These other genotlemen say yes. loot's give the facts. Here Senator Tillman gave statis tics from Maine and Kansas to show that more spirits are sold and drunk and more arrests are made for drunk enness In prohibition territory than In South Carolina, In proportion to prohibition.. My objection to prohibition is. wo are not yet angois, more the pity; I do not see any wings sprouting on any body's shoulders; we aro sinful .iu man beings, made by God Almighty in His wisdom with shortcomings and the weakness of man; we have our appetites, and it is in the nature of the beast to gratify that, appetite for stimulants, nnd if he cannot get It lawfully he Is going to get it some ? 'her way. There has always l*;on and always will be a demand for liquor as ft beverage, simply because man likos the tasto and Its effect, not be as a beverage, simply be cause man like tho taste and its effect, not because he needs It as a medicine, but simply for his stomach's sake as Paul said to Timothy, and somebody will always be ready to supply It for tho money. That being the case, 1 have tried to deal with this question as a true man and from a common-sense standpoint, to treat men as I find them and not as I would have them to be, but to try ai. teach them to minimize and re duce the evil of whiskey drinking. I have not Indulged In liquor myself, but I have seen It, some of my family have suffered from a, I have seen Its misery, the misery it causes; I have seen too much not to know that If wo could destroy the formula of alcohol either from fermentation or anything else It would Injure tho medical pro fession In their business, dcprlvo men of their valuable stimulants In certain diseases, but tho sum of human misery would l>e reduced. But the best thing In my Judgment as a practical man is to treat men as they are and try to teach them to restrain their appetites as far as practical and minimize the evil of liquor drinking, you havo heard ft good deal about blood money. Sometimes 1 go awfully sick In the Senate wh^n I hear a fellow get up and twaddle about what he knows I nothing of; when 1 hear preachers talking about the drinking of whiskey being blood money, 1 look back to I the history of the world, I find that no I man, no preacher, priest or states ! man ever dreamed of attempting to j prohibit the use of liquor until about 75 or 100 years ago. have not under took until the last 80 years to say that man should not drink or that it was a sin. 1 do not heBitate to say I can find in the Bible a dozen or two dozen texts recognizing the use of liquor to where you can find one which discourages it or denounces it. Where does the sin come in.' i'he s.n does not rest upon the Bible authority, it rests upon the preacher's authority, and 1 object to any preach er changing the Scripture to suit his fanaticism and to make me swallow his religion. (Laughter and cheers.) You cannot show me in the Scriptures except in one or two isolated cases where the use of wine is denounced as a sin, and I can show you a dozen passages where it is spoken of other wise. When a man talks to me about blood money I put him down as au abominable ass. I do not intend any thing personal. I cannot see any pos sible excuse for any one to make such charge. Some say you are going to vote the abominable dispensary out and sub stitute blessed prohibition. I don't care if you do, and sometimes I rather wish you would so you can get a dose of the physic for twelve months. Now. we come to high license; this combination which we are facing to day. the high liccnsc people, the pro hibition people and the blind tigers, the same we have been fighting since 1893. These people who are advocat ing high license. The State, of Colum bia. the News and Courier and some other papers, and some of our fellow citizens, they are not tn favor of pro hibition; they tell you so; they say. let's kill the dispensary, then you will have prohibition, and then what?high license. The preachers are going one road, the prohibitionists are going an other rt>ad and the blind tigers are traveling a third road; they are all alert to kill the dispensary, and when they kill it and it is gone, poor thing; then what? There will bo a fight among the people to say whether it shall be high license or prohibition, and what will the dispensaryltes do then? If we are so far and few be tween that there will be no hope of restoring the dispensary, I am going to line up with my friend Talbert and shout for prohibition. I will never consent l>y my vote and influence to aid in the re-establlshment of saloons in any# county in South Carolina. Here' followed a little spat between Mr. Talbert and the Senator, which, however, was soon quieted, and Till man continued. The substance of his closing remarks was for a thorough purging of the dispensary system and tor giving it another fair trial. Ttain Kills Three. Huntington. W. Va.. Special.?The Guyandotte Valley passenger train Fri day had an unlucky run from I^ogan, killing throe men and injuring anoth er. Frank Adams was struck and killed by the train shortly after it le?* Ixjgnn. Adams' rompanlon was sexi or.tdy injured. John Ashen, an old man, was killed as the train reached Ilar 1-cursvMle. He stood on the track In front of the train, thinking It ran on 'MM th'r track. While the locomotive was to the round house in Hun ?'tv.'tMj. (Jcorse Zirkle was struck and '..ilKd. Poisoned Herself and Son. Baltimore. Special.?Mrs. Annie Whiteford is (load and her 5-year-old son is in a hospital suffering from the efforts of cyanide of potassum, taken l?y the mother with suicidal intent and by hor Riving to the child with the expectation of ending his fife also. A sister of the suicide was attracted by thr> screaming of the suffering Infant and found him writhing in agony across the body of bis mother, who lived only a short time after being found. Mrs. Whiteford. who Iris been separat ed from her husband for several years, waa a sufleror from melancholia. May Appeal to Congress. Oyster Bay, Special.? Attorney Gen eral Moody left after a days visit at Sag more Hill. The conference between the Attorney General and tho President ?was mainly devoted to the recent scan dals in the agricultural department. When Moody reaeheed the depot, ho talked interestingly upon the subject of tho laws limitations and said tho remedy must come from Congress. It is quite probable that the President will make a strong plea in his next message for tho much needed legisla tion. Rapidly Enforcod. Norfolk, Va.. Special.?The quaran tine against ail vessels from Southern ports Is being rigidly enforced by the Federal and State authorities at tho Virginia Capes and in Hampton Hoads. Kvery vessel entering the capes is held for a thorough examination by tho United States Marino Hospital authori ties. The British steamship Othello, from Mobile, to Bordeaux and Havre, and the French steamer Longway, from Port Tampa, were held up. but later passed and came in for bunker coal. Detective Fatally Shot. Somervllle, Mass., Special.?George L. Frazer, a private detecelve, was shot and almost instantly killed while trying to gain entrance to tho house of Jo seph Evans, In Moore street: Evans Is under arrest, charged with the shoot ing. According to the information ob tained by tho local police, Frazer and two other detectives accompanied A. J. Barber, of Woonsocket, R. I., to Ev an's homo In search of Barber's wife who, It was said, was Evan's house keeper. Evans objected, and it Is al leged that Evans drew his revolver and shot Frazor. .HAVE BWEN WORSE DEFEAT8. "Rojest vensky needn't feel fo bad," remarked the citizen who Is al ways sorry for tho misfortunes of others. "Why not?" "Well, Togo lost a small torpedo boat. Dowey didn't even do that.'' PROGRESS OF FEVER Government Takes Over the Fight oa Yellow Jack 4J NEW CASES IN A SINGLE DAY Still Refusing to Admit the Situation Beyond Control and Avowing the Hope That Federal. Management Will Revive Outside Confidence and Provide Invaluable Facilities For a New Campaign, State and City Raise a Macedonian Cry. Now Orleans, Special.?Fever re? port to t> p. m., Sunday: New Cases. 28. Total cases to date, 533. Deaths, Sunday. 8. Total deaths to date, 105. New sub-foci. 2. Total sub-foci to date, W. The fever report is a great Improve ment. over those during the middle ot the week. and the fact that there is only 2 new sub-foci, one up-town an* one down-town, is a source of special encouragement. An effort Is being made to dotermino the numbefr of cases under treatment, and allowing ten days, which is a liberal estimate, for a pntient to either recover or die. It is; figured that there are now 233 eases under treatment. The city has contributed $250,000 to assist the government In handling the disease. The decision to ask the Federal gov ernment to take control was reached at a meeting of city and Stato officials and others, held late Friday at th? cotton exchange. DOUBLE MOTIVE FOR AC't.OIS. It was the consensus of the meeting that government control would restore confidence throughout the other States in the South, and the belief was expressed that Surgeon General Wy man would bo able to send a force of physicians to New Orleans thoroughly equipped for the handling of the yel low fever situation because of their experience and unquestionable facil ities to enforce a scientific campaign against the fever. When local health officers first took charge of the situation it was hope<l that the fever could be stamped out within a reasonable time, but the in fection has spread, and so frightened have the people become in the South over the increase in the number of cases that l\ew Orleans is threatened with a serious paralysis of trade by reason of radical quarantines. A telegram signed by the mayor and others present, was addressed to Gov ernor Hlanchard, telling him of the ac tion taken. Baron Rosen Introduced. New York, Special.?Acting for the President , Third Assist ant Secretary of State Pierce communnicated to Haron Itosen,. the Russian amhnssa <lor, and Mr. Takahira, the Japanese minister, the official program for the formal presentation to the President of the Russian and Japanese plenipo tentiaries to the Washington confer ence. This program has for weeks been a subject of much study on the part of the President and Mr. Pierce. Many of the details regarding the journey to Oyster Ray and thence to Ports mouth already have been published. Desirous of being strictly neutral in all the arrangements for the presenta tion. it was decided at the outset l>y the Washington government that the President would recognize no prece dence based on success in the present war. Recall ho Haron Komura was pre sented nt Sagamore Hill almost a week before Mr. Wltte arrived in this country, it was decided that for this reason Haron Komura must take prece dence over Mr. Wltte. This, however, will be recognized only in the half hour's difference in the time of the presentation of the two missions. Tidewater Wins. Norfolk. Va.. Special.?Tho Tide water allway has won out. before tho State corporation in the great, tight that the Norfolk & Western Railway was making against Its petition for grade crossings In Norfolk county. The Norfolk & Western sought to compel the Tidewater to erect via ducts over its tracks at. two points on the approach to Norfolk, and tho Tidewater sought grade crossings over the Norfolk & Western, which the com mission lins Just allowed. Tho Nor folk & Western has the right, to appeal to the Supremo Court of the State. Not Yet Locatcd. Paterson. N. J.. Special.?Despite tho efforts of his former friends and busi ness assocelates, the whereabouts of the missing mayor, William II. Rel ohcr, of this city, have not been discov ered. Friday an Investigation was be gun to discover what disposition had been made of the estate of James P. Stewart, late Congressman. of which Mayor Delcher was solo executor. It was valued at $10,000. Business Mar a Suicido. Columbus, (?a.. Special.?Rlanchard F. Mrdeeheat. president and manager of the Columbus Paper Company and a member of a prominent Columbus fam ily. committed suicide Friday morning by shooting himself through the tem ple with a revolver. He was at homo nlone when the f:ital shot was 11 rod. Ilis wife and three chlhhen survive him. No cause ha* been assigned tor hia rash act.