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iWarlboro "DO THOU, OIWAT MUKUTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AN Ii MAKIO OUR LIVESIN THY POSSESSION HAPPY OH OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." VOL. XX. BENNE rTSVILLE, S, C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1905. CRUEL REVENGE Ot* a Mysterious Rival or a Des perate Lunatic, WHO IS MURDERING The Little Clilldrtn of a Mr?. Perkins One by One. Only Four Now Sur vive of a Family of Nine. The Murderers-Unknown, to Airs. I\i Kin". In tho stately, staid old city of Richmond Virginia-laden with his torio memorios-there Is to-day acted a story of seorot murder, of love and jealousy, of plot and" counter plot, such ah Z la or Gaburlau would relish. On tho lips of every mau and wo man in too olty to-day rises tho one ejuestion-what hidden hand poisoned , . tue ohihiren of Mrs. Emma Perkins? And this question, agitating tlio pop ulatlon of tue whole city, remains un answered. One hy one live of tho nine ohlldren of Mrs. Pei kins drooped ano died like lluwerB stricken by an loy wind. But it is as to tho deaths cf tho last two children-Willie, a two year-old baby, the only child of his mother's secci d marriage, and Ootav ia liiakey, vb-.., until the afternoon of Tuesday, O ve bi r 14, had ht en the youngest of Mrs. Perkins's live sui viv lng children by btu urst marriage to William Blakey-IL ai the whole city asks thc questions wi..cb has chiven ev* ry monier in Richmond, from tin woman of society in her mansion te the v ornan of the cottage, iuto a fren zy ot fear. For w. man, a? she thinks ot the hapless In neu i s dying in the agonies of phoyphomu p haming, instinctive ly ^athols her cl?\?a.< n an.une1 her a? if to prottot them fi coi tho veiled as Bassin whose hand avon now may strike at their ll </es. From the moment of that Tuesday afternoon, now nearly three weeks agore, that Octavia, the pretty, gold en- hailed little girl win m every one around 1er lerne in North S xib streut, Richmond, knew and loved, staggered Into the house to fall Into her motin r's arms and die there, has the. whole o- ttctive loice of the city and the Mate be;-n concentrated on tho woik ot solving the ptobiem ano leaching the author of a Boheme of mumer which in nicety of detail, cold calculation of o lances and exactitude of results is worthy of the bast efforts .cf tho Bc-rgias, Tao death or Octavo? lt was tuai opined tho path to diiicoy ' cry in tho case of her little step bro ther, Willie, two years old, who on the nlgnt of September 21 bad died in orr es rond 11 g agonies, and with the same i ldc int symptoms. And now do the i?.. tula t i Mrs. Perkins, in the days wi en she wa? Mts Blakey, recah the weird 01. ou instances iu rounding the death of each of three of tim eight children of her lit sb marriage. In these deatns were prisant the charuoieiistic smoke from the mouth, thc odor ol garlic, the kaihly faintness, followed by compime coma, found in the case ol Ootav ia ii d the baby, Willie. As though ni hideous gibe at thc police, at the paren.s, at ail tho.se who would drag t ho a sas hi to the light, tho fi li Lai d again strlckes the Per kins hom . And LVSO of the four chil dren lt f j tu the mother hy thc destroy er lio ab the point of death, for again in the sauie way, the poison ha3 Leen placed iu their r. od. Yt t ar, ii.o end of three weeks, willi the accusations of the mother on hei 'catii at, the Inquest that Mrs. Mamu McDowell, the pretty, dark-haired, . smilllng little woman with a soft voice and subdued manner, who, under the name of Mrs. bryant, lived only a few dcors away fr.,m the Pjrklns home, baa brcnght about the death of her children and tried to alienate horhus band's affections, ringing through tito olby, tho police and the Coroner alike aro brought to tho end of their resour ces in thc following facts: 1.That both children clearly died of phosphorous poisoning, the stomach of Lucho.), according io Dr. Taylor, the Coroner, who made the post-mor te m examination, giving forth hi dark ness, a lurid "tl uno' -theunmistake able evidence of phosphorus poison ing. 2. --That from tho days of her first marriage Mrs. Perkins had boen the object of hitler enmity on tho part of a woman once her closest friend. .'J-That thc symptoms displayed hy three of tho eight children of her tirst marriage before their deaths corros pontLtl with tlioso shown by th?, ohlldren whoso deaths aro now undoi investigation. The earlier deaths wore, however, oillclally stated to be due to natural causes. 4.-That In May last Mr. and Mrs. Perkins woie jointly the recipients ( I a serle? of letters throating d.ath, two teing signed a friend of Mrs. Per kins, who, however, has denied all knowledge of these letter? and ha? submitted specimens of her handwrlt ting for comparison with the hand wrlttlng in the anony mous commun!? oatiors, Mrs. Mitchell has boon tully exonerated. 6 That the poison was administer ed by a woman. (i that both children had boen nur sod by Mrs Mamie McDowell illumed lately before their death. Behind thc curtain that shlolds tho murderess lies the story of a deep, un fatliomablo well of passion running through the dull lives of these simple, commonplace country people, whose tm ly hope in this world ls to care bread, ami work uh til they dlo; a story of ht. ll'..id lovo tu ned to hate; of wo - man transformed io a furry by the In difference of the man she sought, and striking r,t t he heart of tho mother, when sue hated, through her Innocent children. ^Wom an's worst and ooldosb erl mos ? ar? con?i?dttcd for tho sake of love: those of meTf\f<>r monoy," mys Lom bro80. And eloquent bfNslts testimony of the working of a womt\o*isS heat under the stress of passion is tho Hist of tho Moo of letters dropping ono by ono into tho homo. Tho ll rut leter boro a bor der of bluok, rind ls among tho3o not yet given tut for publication. "The border of ulaok is for my ilrst lovo," said tho writer, "You robb 3d mo of tho n an. I wanted-he who IH now in his grave. And now I am determined to strike at yt li. lt is my purposo lirst to break y .ur heart hy making you childless, and then to freo your hus band. That lt ls my purposo todo this you ?nay kaow." Tho mother tinted and put the let ter aside. A weeli wout by and ibero ovino auotl or lotter. "You hf.vc taken no heed of my warning," sa'd the writer. "I tell you I'll striko through those you low most." Ar d with each morning there lay on the breakfast table. In sinister slgnith canoe, the letter with the handwrit ing that they know so well. IKavlor and heavier grew tho hearts of the parents with each of thoso let ters. but at la:^t there came a morning when the familiar step of the poatm tn passed by their door. A second and a third morning carno and went, with still no letter. And they cried fer Joy at tho thought that tho shadow of death had been lifted from thou. Thc mere incident of tho house dog dying In convulsions was not Bulli ?lent to attract attention. Never was the thought of the un known avenger less present to their minds than ou that September af 1er noon when the btby While toddled cut to tho doorway and thou a few yards along the road. I) dy half an hour had pissed whoo there appeared in the doorway a man bearing the motionless liAure of the child in his anns. He had been found lying in th" roadway near his father's cottage. NJ one at that time took any oar bicular notice of the erb ir of garlic on thc breath o? the child. All that the doctors t.'ould ?;ay was that thc symptoms indloatt d tho pres 'ince, of some, foreign substance iu thr oed y. Within twelve bouts thc boy was dead. The heart of thc moth or was full of a foreboding of that which was yet Lo come. With tho coming of Monday morn ing there again lay the familiar envel ope on the t able. "There ls reason in this warning," wrote the sender ot the letter. "Then .viii be mme reason before 1 am dune with you." And now tholettors came with every vost, slander was now alternated with commonplace veibtage, and those let tera, really telling little of the bide u truth, are the only communie! ?ions made public by thc p-jlicd at the ii quest. Tuen once more c". me a cessation ol the letters, and tho parents, tremb ling, walli d. Ail through these weeks had Mrs. Perkins, q ilotly watohlug, bent lier eyes on tho one worn av, who of al others, hy reason of old memories ol which she even now will not speak die behoved bated her. "There is a woman who ls klllluj my ohlldren and who may lake m\ husband, ns she wo lld have taken lin other,'* she said. The world now knows tho story ti the October afternoon on which th< mild Octavia was to meet her dcatl hy the hand of the prisoner. She had rheo from her mother'! side, and ran lightly to the. house o Mrs McDowell, ai d the next that WM a'en ot her was when she reap pear et in tho doorway of the Perkins cottage and with a sigh and a moan fainted ii her mother's arms. Again was the characteristic odo of garlic; again the shtverl lg oonvuis ions and the sharp gaspi and erl's o agony, ere eight hours later death re leaaod the BI rr r r Suspicion h td in the mind of Mrs Porkies hew m > Certainty. UVom tba1 moment tho word "murder" took nu pl80 of all others lu tho Vi.otbulary .f the Web mond people. Mrs. Pjrklm poke at last and cried out for vengen nico on the woman who, she d ?clares killed her children, and would hive robbed her of her husband. - Now Yorl American._ Bovoro'y PloMKOtl. At Valdosta, Ga , Glyde Jordai and Peter Powell, well known whit mon from near Pelham, were tried be fore United States Oom missioner, Po wi-ll on a charge of white-capping i witness who was to appear in toe tod <ral court against distillers In that see ti-m. Thc victim was a man name' W. P. Crosby, who claims that tues two men and throe others met biri on the roadside last Saturday, all o them masked and gave him a ll ?gghii and told him they would pub an en to him if h . did not (cavo i ne oountr at once, lia says they charged hie with furnishing fvldetca In "nnon shine" casen The bonds of Jorda and Powell were tx sd at $500 ead Deputy Unit id States M trslul God win will try to bring thc others to fae the cai rt._ K'-Volt hi Hi-a/'< A burne's A y rt s dispatch says: , r?volution has br< lc in out In Ko I Janeiro against Un Brazilian gove, ment. The entire garrison of tl capital,han rebelled, and the' quadra in the harbor has sided with tuc revi lutlonists and threatens to bombar oho cioy. Hundreds of persons wei killed in euc miters in tho street One dispatch says that tho troubl began with the mutiny of thc garrlia; of the fort of San ta? Or U2, due te il treatment of a sergeant by tho o iii .< In cjmroand. Colonel P dre Ino w; arrested and Maj ,c Froiro an ensi^ were killed. Troops were sent the. to quoll th.^ mill loy_ MuHt Hervo Soiitenoe. A dispatch fromOolumbia savs th John Wa'drop, whonLot S, L' Maddi In Greenville county n y on r agoj as tl latter was leaving Waldrop'.t hom Wi cro thoy had (j r.trrellcd, mu servo his life torm, a rehearing heh refused. _ Killed Looplnjc tlio <4*|v. At Columbus, Onio, on W-dncsd: Luke Howard was probably fatal Injured wi.Po "looping tho gap" lin automobile. The machine had gol safely through Its evolutions, b bounded up af tor landing and turin oyer, falling on Howard and broakh his back. GRIES FRAUD. Thc Courts Will Decide Between Hearst and McClellan. JN NEW YORK CITY. .McClellan cctcd on thc Pace of the Returns, but Hearst Says He Was Counted Out and Appeals to thc Counts fur u Recount of Votes The election in tho olly cf Nw ou Tuesday ot last week was one o' tho most exciting ever held in that city. Tho candid iles for mayor wore G ^o. Ii. McClellan, Democrat, W. It Honst, Mu dolf al O .vnorshipfllj 'ague and W. M. Ivlns, Republican. As counted tho voto s'.ood as follows: McClellan. 228 (551 Hearst.225,100 ivlns. 137,049 This gi vos McClellan 3,486 plural! ty over II tarsi and 111 002 over Ivlns, but whether McClellan or Hearst will no the next mayor of GToater Now York the c mrts m ist decido. Hearst declared Immediately after the veto was declared that he would take an appeal to the supreme court, his mau agers having stated that they had so ured tvldei ce of Illegal acts against j :t? thousand Inspectors (if olectlon, and that thirty thousand Hearst men who went to Hie polls to volo for Hearst had found that their names natl already boon voted. Hearst's proposed acion met with wann approval In many quarters, even among thoso who opp sid lils election, and he received many assurances of support. District Attorney J ero m expressed himself in terras of strong approval of Hearst's programme and declared that ho would immediately ;ni titulo a searching Investigation of the alleged democratic frauds. He also ordered tho returns from the eighteen th ai;d slxt.i districts to ho carefully guarded, lvms, the defeated it puh hean candidate, assured Hearst of his support in his light. On Wednesday afternoon the exe cutive com mitte of Tainmony Hall is sued the following statement: ''rho ?xv c u jive ot mmltteo nf thc democrat ic organization protests against the outrageous published threat of tho de ft ated candidate of tho Municipal O/vnershlp League to overthrow the will of the popple as expressed by tho veto cast on election day and directs its law ommittce to exeat its best elrot is and take su m st. ps and inst! tule Kuoh prece lings as will safe guard tho election of George B. Mc C oban as mayor of Now York. Wc a so c.ill on th o 1 i missioner of police and tho custodian of tho bi lot to preserve tho same intact from ail in erf8renee by any one from any unau ohoriz d source. " i) i Wednesday Hearst, gavj out the following statement: "Wo havo thh eleotion. All Tammany's frauds, ab faram any's corruption, all Tammany'., intimidation and violuuce, all Tam. nany'a false registration, illegal VOL lng and dishonest counting have UJI been able to ovi retime a great p mular mi'.jjrltv, Tue recount will - h iw that ..o h.ivo won tho election by man) nou and of votes. 1 si.all light tilt oattle tu the end lu behalf ol the poo (jlo who have cast their votes for me and who shall not ho disfranchised by any ll rt of criminal bossei. " Vv 1 Mil AM KAN DDI.I'll IfjCAKST." Although McClellan ?U tue face ot !.e complete, return?? was cleo ted by a plurality of 3,486, tho damoorats lost heavily. The eleotion of VVillln.ni T. J brome, Independent, as oh.t ic attorney, is asevere blow to tho TAI? many organ ./, ition, Which ex rt? d ali the fcroo allis command to dote il him. His victory ls remarkable when I tis considered that ho wau the candi late of no party and made his appeal for votes Solely on bis record tn i liles for the last four y ur years and tnav avery man who voted for Iii m voted a p'it ticket. In lils demand for a rMount Hearst is supported hy District A dorney WU lam T. Jerome, himself viotoru.m In ids singlehanded fight against the ?reat Tammany machine. He says: "1 shall Immediately institute an in vostlgation of thc frauds perpetrated oy Tammany at the polls Wednesday, if thc facts warrant 1 shall bi gui an immediate prcsooution against those guilty of crime." Blid S. Color, olected presiden*, of tim borough of Hro ?klyu on tin; M un ?cipal Ownership Lcaguo ticket, also supports Hearst's contention that h< /vas rightfully elie'.ed. Color baid: "Mr. Bears'" has been elected hy io, ooo v jtos. Hehas been cheated by bile tremendous fraud.; of Tamma (J Hall. Taero is no doubt whatever of ils election. 1 shall work night and lay to see that justice ls doini. The people of Now York havo electe.d him mayor, audit has only boen bv tue moa. outrageous, brtzsn and rotten fraud that Tammany lstryh.g to keep .hat chico away from bim," 10'octlon (iay carno to a cl iso with a iramatlc scone at tho Hoffman house, where Heart gathered his friends and nlvisois around him lo bogln tho pre ?aral lon of his logal contest Of tho re turns, which Indicated tho success of iis democratic opponent, George B McClellan. Aa tho lato vote ci mc In .hotting McClellan only a few thous ind alu ad, and as it was notici d lim.1 ?gures frum some of tho cast side dis uricis wero missing, Mr. Hearst said ie behoved ho was bolrg cheated out of a bard fought and honosi.lv won victory, and announced his Intention ,o make a contost In the courts. Ho sont out a call at ones for the ncmbais of tho law committee of tho municipal ownership league, and soon !;hoy begun ?o air. v i, many of thom In ^vening clothe t, they having bi II M found si.dal gathorlngsof the theat ers. At tho tiotel walihig for the lawyi rfl were scores of Hearst voters with stories of violence and outrageai poll places where they had gone to cant c.he'r ballots. Men^wero coming Into ho hotel constantly with bruised and bloody f Aces. O io man had his arm broken and another's head was out BO badly that Mr. Hoarst had him ru'j to bed In the hotel. Pe ports wero brc u^ht In telling of one man having his eye g< u rei out awl of a Hearst man whose linger had buen chewed oil in a poll lug placo. Tim board of aldermen, is lost to Tammany, they g?tilng twenty-five members against thirty-eight roi-uh Hean and nine, municipal ownership members, Bird S. Coler, municipal ownership, and Joseph B. Ormcl, rc public m and municipal ownership, reelected, respectively, pr?sident of tho Brooklyn and the C? loens boron ghs, have membership ou the city's board of estimate and apportionment, which c mtrols all expenditure of mern ey. This is of great importance, giving t e municipal ownership league a voice-, in thc city's lluaucial affairs and also In thc granting of frauohiher, which power also is lodgid in tho board. In addition to losing tho board of alder men, Tu m m my lost twelve members or thc state assembly from New York cunny, and tho assembly, when lt meets In Albany on .January 1, next, will be republican by more then li to I. Tammany claim their candidates for comptroller, president of the board of alderman, president of Manhattan borough, president of Bronx borough, Sheriff, clerk and rcglstor of Now York county, and all thc coroners In Man hattan and the Bronx. The following supreme court justices were elected In New York county: Henry W. Gilder sleeve, democrat; George L, Ingram, democrat and repub i :an, and C larlo.-. 10. Newberger, denn erat and repuhli oar, in Brooklyn; Joseph A. Burr, re pub.loan and Muuicipal Ownership L ague, was olected supreme court j miloo. In Klrys couutv the Municipal Ownership League el< cted its candi dates for sheiill, county clerk, regis ter ?4id coroner. By fusion, repuhli cans elected the district attorney of Queens county. Mayor McClellan'* plurality of 3,486 1s the smallest by ivhloh any mayor of New York has ever been elected, Tl o new city government, exclusive of thc hoard of alderman- will be con slit u tod as follows: Major-George B. McClellan, Dem ucrat. Comptroller-Herman A. Mc'/. Democrat. President of the board of alderman -Patrick F. McGowan, Democrat. B .trough presldont-Manhattan, John F. Ahearn, Democrat. Bronx-Louis F. Hatton, Democrat Brooklyn-Bird S. Coler, Muniolp al O jyncr&hlp, Q icens-Joseph M Burns, Muniol pal Ownership and Democrat. Richmond-George M. Cromwell, lt publican. BIG COTTON FIRS. S. v ral Hundred BAICH lluritod ?t Ht. Muttli. w i. A dispatch from St. Matthews to thc State says about three o'clock Ph u rad ay m .ming the cotton plat form at the Southern depot was dis covered on lire. T.ils platform isa jpaclous one, containing more than 2 OOO square foo?, and was covered by i:ol on belonging Lo various cotton uyoi o? -iL. Matthews. Mr. John D. Antley, the public w i ;? er, was Keen and he estimates tue number of bales oil the platform to hav . bei n 650 of which 18? were v d by the heroic efforts of thi s ho reached the tire first, leaving 8 balance of 376 bales, willoh were to .ally (1 i Iroyed by lire. The burne? cotton 11 (Oily covi red by insurance. The ru'pot which is comparative!) new, was saved ny the strenons effort fi of the ag nt, Mr. J. H. B ckham, ,vho gave ?.?O of ids own money to by staiid< rs to work while exp ised to thc fearful heat of tho burning cotton. Young .1 ck Bookham and IO m me tl Smoko, assistants to the a?:ent, stood maufuily by the Interest of the rail way C' m pan y. t.'o s doioua among thi many worked valiantly to save the depot from dc imo.lot was old ''Minim" Ann lt'Ii is >n, who called to several of her col or who stood and on Ind IT rently to come while s ie led (tn the and dragged heavy pieces of timber fri m the plat form Such acts of heroism should never go unrewarded. Mr. Beckman stated to your correspondent Thurs day morning that tho li ss to the rail road company was insignificant, This is largely due to the indefatiga ble elf.Tts of Mr. B okhara. lOsonpinu <J*N lO.v potted Thora A dispatch from Savannah, (! v , io the Augusta Chronicle, says Colc nol Cnas. W. Seals, of Lyons, Ga., and a young woman, afterwards said to be Miss Daisy Duffy, of tue same pine?, were found in an unconscious condition from tho i li ids of gas In a ro m in a private house hore VYcdnes <i y morning. The couple came here fm idaj and the man In engaging the room introduced thc young worn an as his wlfo. Seals had been drink lng when he went to tho r<<om Toes day night and ls supposed to have burned on the gas through mistake. Too odor of thc gas in the house led to their being found. Both wer*, taken to tho Savannah hospital and are now out of danger. At the very time they were found, they were sup pc sod to bo husband and wife, but a telegram from Lyons brought the. In formation that Mrs. Seals was thorn. AHUM p lit a ?0(Tin. Anton Rodonlck of Chicago, whl'o in a somnambulistic State, carly Wed nesday walked out of his house In his night attire, broke a plato glass win dow of an undertaking establishment and entered. He was found several hi uro later asleep in a coffin. Ho was promptly taken in charge by the po lico. Vans*!- Girl riuloldoH. A dlspatoh from Poughkeepsie N. Y., says -ifter a nights soarch for Miss i;> liv KnBlgn, the beautiful student ol Vasmar college, her body was found i nrly Wednesday morning In the Lake college grounds. She had been suff ering firm melancholia. Her home ?a at Youngstown, Obley J i A MAN EATER. "M_ \ Man's Head and Two Sailors Mats Found in \ SHAEKVS STOMACH. How the'Horrible Evidence Shocked Hi; Crew and Passengers of an Ocean Litter When thc Shark that Followed thc Ship Was Captured. Do sharks thirst for human blood aud thus deservo the name of "man eaters," All who know the sea, from book i or from oxporlonce, aro famllar with this Indictment against tho most savage and rapacious of tho ocean's creatures-that when bo has 01 co tasted human flesh no other food satlbiies him, and that ho will follow shlp-i day after clay, growing lean in tho cbaso, with his little gray oyes g'ted on the moving iigurcs on their necks. Lately there has been tho most ghastly demonstration of tho truth of j this charge that can be oonoelved. The man eating shark whioh gave this norri ole testimony against him self sutTerod capital punishment for his crimes, while giving tho crow and passengers of the P. and O. liner Syria sic i a shock that they went ab ut pale and trembling for hours afterward. This man eater had followed the Syria hundred of miles in the Indian Ocean, into thc R?d Sea and to Sur/, where he was recognized as an old . Ife; djr. When a shark is soo * fol lowing a ship tirelessly day after day, obis, as all sailors know, means that he has acquired a taste for human ll sh. which i? to enslave him throng out the remainder pf his oareer-bc is a "raauoater." All oUier food palls on his palate. Wolle the ship was anchored at .Su;/, tho maneater prowled about tier constantly, his sharp lin cutting the 'su-face of thc harbor and hts hoad lifted now and then for a sight of the prey ho so eovcted. Seafaring men about the docks ..vero turo they recognized him as the same shark that bad followed many auotber vessel from the Indian Ocean through the Hod Sea. Tney oharged ut o him more than one sall', r snap - i from rudder chains, or, having n overboard, seized bei' ro a boat d reach him. .emb?ss of the crew of the Syria sixtrcQ thia belief. Tho passengers leard tho stories and shuddered a? t'icy watched the man-eater slroling ouutfrlly about the ship. TL'iey ro membered how he bad not W?t ?f?tf . nip out of his sight fjr many days N >w t'. ey wero eager for his capture and just punishment. S i the olllcors gave the orew per mis; ion to halt a nook for the mou sier. They wero n it enthusiastic about the result, for man-eating sharks are noarly always .scornful of other than thc living food they most oraye. But the passengers were cag er for the attempt. So a group of sailors prepared a strong line armed with a hook nearly v foot i'c oss from barbed point to shank, baited lt temptingly with a whole leg of fresh pork and heaved the morse) (ut lu front of the man caterd nos ? as he roso tn ag;ln inspect tho proy he cove! i d. Po sible the sav gj m iv ter Imag hied that ono of tim sailors handling tho line had f ilien overboard and mad-: that splash, At any rate ho turned In a ihish, showing his yellow white belly, and with a snap that could bc heard nu (leek, c osed bis j vws on tho baited hook. With a prompt brave on the line, obo sailors pulled the sharp point of tho honk through the creature's under jaw arid then rare sport began. Toe surprise'1 and ai gored man eater lash ed himself about frantically, but with a bight of the line about a stout stanchion his captors hauled awuy until thc creal uro'? nose bumped \galnst theship'Shldo and then rais ed lti head enough to enable a boat's crew to ?'lip thc noose of a cable over Its head and tighten it Just back of the front tins. By thia meaos, while the passcngors crowded up to tho rall, the man-cater with all the light choked out of him, was raised up to the lovel of tho main deck in this position ho was photo graphod from tho deck of a neighbor ing ship. At its greatest girth the man eater had tho circumference cf a large horse. Its stomach secmod much distended a fact that had not been noticed wnilu it swam about tl o ship. Toe sailors whispered among them selves, Shaking their heads ominously; but tho passengers thought of noth ing but the pleasure of witnessing the i;03an assassin's execution, They did not know of tho sailors's suspicions that the man eater had not gone hun gry during all thc days that ho had been following the Syria, that no food taken meroly to stay tho pangs of hunger would havo so distended its slomaoh. But sailors are not squeamish, even when harboring such grewsome sus picions as th?se. Kirst they killed the mon ter by smashing his skull Then they lowered tho oarenss to the deck, while thc nassengers huddled back In fright, and o.'eof them, with a long, sharp knife, ripped tho whlto belly open for a distance ol sh< or sev en feot. Hardly had tho knife done Its work when one of tno ship's e lli cors standing near Hung himself in front of tho women passengers, who fortunately, were In a group hy them selves, and fairly drovo them from the deck Into tho cabin. They woro m.II WIIUV.?U vu l?/VUiU uv. t/i.u i.i-vsa. bill tho lust truce of tho man cater had been removed. No moro horrlblo sight could havo been possible, ll'rom out of tho long HII. In tho shark's bolly stared a hum an countenance, To idontify In tho man-eater's stomach a man's head, with tho features still discernible, needed no second glanes. Joow o? the passengers oould bring themsolvea to take a second glance. Most of them turned away, to go to their staterooms-anywhere, away from the awful spectacle out on the main deck, from which the women could congrat?late themselves that they had been barred. The sailors, however, mado a thorough inspection of the dead man oater's stomach. Besides the man's head they found throo hats, two of which c old be identified aa hevlng been blown from the heads of passeu gers on tho Syria; two fouls, with their feathers still Intaol ; a msss of broken bones and remnauts of a sail or's wearing apparel. 0;dy a minuto was required In which to make (ibis Inventory. "None of these growsooae relics were remov ed from the maw that had engulfed thom. Even tho sailors who made the capture and administered capita' punishment upon the criminal wer. ! so aifaoted by what they saw that, with a common in.pulse, they seized the carcusand heaved it overboard, weighted with tho llako of an old an chor so that lt would speedily sink out of sight. During the remainder of the voyage thc capture of the man-eator with tho evidence of his guilt upon him waa tho one toplo of conversation among tho passengers. Upon land lng a montn ago lt was the first news they had to relate; and the photo graphs thoy brought with them gave ample corroboration of the truth of tho narrativo. KILLE1) BY BLOW. ftllduhioman Iiranoh ia Killed In Fight With Anothor Midshipman. A dispatch from Annapolis, Md., says midshipman James R. Branoh, son of .Tamos R Branoh. of tho Han over bank, of New York city and sec retary of tho Amorioan Bankers' as sociation, who waa s rlously ir j ired in a lint fight with anothor midship man, died Wednesday. Tao midship man was operated ou at the Johns Hopkins hospital, his skull being open ed and a clot of blcod romoved, and there was hope of his recovery, but he suddenly grow wo-ve and expired. < Midshipman Branch died from in- ? j arion no h?d rec jived In a fight with Midshipman Minor Merewether, Jr., \ of Lafayotto, 111. The fight took plao? , by arrangement on Sunday night and was a regular pitched battle with a i ring and seonds. It lastod 23 rounds | and ended when Branoh was knocked down and struck tho right side of his i head against the door. It was not considered that the in juries were very dangerous, but next j morning Branch's condition was suoh that it beoame necessary to let his , oondition become known to tho au* ! thorities. Young Brai c'i was* takvn to tho hospital and an operation was determined upon. It was performed by Surgeons Fin i noy,^)f Baltimore, and K .rr, of Wash i lngton,^assisted by the academy medl cal stat?.lt was thought to bo i>uc ces8ful but^ turn for thc worse took place and tho'Vpadent died, not having regained oonsolflni inoss Both bia fath er and mother wv re with him at his death. Meriwether ls also in the hospital as a result of the injuries ho reen ved lu tho light and foi this reason tho au thorities have not put hlai nuder ar rest. Tho question of bli account ability to the civil authorities on c i charge of manslughter has also boori i discussed. Ho ls sufi ring with u \ sprained wrist and a bruised face. Branch was a second clais man r.n I M ?rlwether a third, buo the latter is shghtly older, baing 19 yeais of age, lust January whllo Branoh was not 19 until Au, u ,t. B ?th hava some repu tatlon as a. hlctes Branch i.s a vit* a. 1er and Meriwether a-? a f otc&B p\i> er. lt ls understor d that the Ugh! took placo becaus? Br md had In his lino of duly reprimanded Meriwether for a breach of discipline. Work ot Kio iHohiHtjeu, A Boston steamship man was a witness of i the incident; says the. Nsw York Tribune. A liner was unload mg at ono of the Charlestown docks. A oook helper, a small and very blaok negro, was leaning ovor tho rall. A large hogshead of molasses carno crea king up on the end of the chain and swung unsteadily to and fro. Fina lly with a smash, it struck the rall and broke into dits, molasses flying everywhere. There was a wild cry and from tho wrcokage oamo tho no gro, soaked from hoad to foot and en tirely unrecognizable. Ho danced madly about and shotted like nothing human. A little Irlhman in overalls regarded tho apparlton for a moment with mouth opon awo and a light breaking on bira, ho shouted:1 'Molke, cr tho love or beaven I Moikcl will yet look phat oamo out of tho barrel of morlassoa!" lt took tho ci m bined eff orts of tho superintendent and his as 8lstants to convince Pat that he had n't uiscovored a nev/ stowaway moto. od. ninthly of Bailors. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says Intonso excitement prevails ow lng to alarming nowa from Cronstadt. According to reports a mutiny of sailors occurred during the night and and was followed by a regular battle with tho troops, during willoh ma chine guns were used. Workmen sid rd with tho Sailors and hundreds wore klllod or wounded. Later tho torch was used and the town ls now in Hames, Tho inhabitants aro lt a pan lo. Bortts to St. Potorsburg have stopped running and tolephone and ? telegraph communications have been severed. A force of uhlan o&lvary seul to Cronstadt fiom Potorhof fi reportod to havo joined tho insur gensts. lt ls als > reported that the artillerymen of tho fortress have joined tho lnsurgonts. Train "??r?iuk?r M?iitcnoort. Eric VonKutzieban, an alleged Gorman baron, who caused a train wreck on Rick Island road with a loss of several lives at Homestead, Iowa, last spring, j tut to"ace what would happen" wa? sentenced to life imprisonment. A girl is never sat.stlod untill thc right mau comes along and bays thc right thing at the right time The Wost Noted Political Revolution In Philadelphia's History. Tho Cry of ??Turn, tho U?BO?IB ?Out" Il t ultcd In ? (Jiu nt Victory or lion nt People. A dispatch from PhPa^clphia says tho political revolution lo that cit and Stat? on Tuesday of Inst wei 1 was the greatest that occured li? Pennsylvania In nearly a generations t* tero has beeti pre viol s upheavals Out this is tho Hr Rt. time in years that every l illee for whloh tnero was any sembl moo of a con'est bas been lo: n o tho regular republicans It ia also the first 'imo in a quarter jt a oeutury that the regular ropublt oanB baye baon defeated for the on trol or the state troasury. Memora bio contests have been waged against tho republicans for the chico but, without success. The plurality of William H. Berry, who was nominated by tho democrat indepondent party, Lincoln party and prohibitionists for stato troasurer, will be nearly 100,0)0 and may gt above those figures. J. Lee Plum mer, tho republican candidato, rai, far behind his tloket In noarly every oounty In the stato. The remainder of tho republican ticket was elected by tho usual republican pluralities. President Roosevelt's plurality iaat year was more than a million. Tin viotory for the city party, the reform organization, ovor the regu'.ar repub lloaus in Philadelphia -vas complete and beyond the expectation of the ae reform leaders. Tho olty party'? plurality ls 43,333. Tho reform^wavt carried Berry along with lt, by de fe&tirg Plummer lu tho olty by 30,035 plurality, The complete vote for tho offlcoi for wh'c i there were contests ls aa follows: For Sheriff-Winson H. Browu, olty party, 148 070; Joseph S. Nfctf; rnnnh hean, 105,340; G. H.. Fisher, acoiallat, 1,207. Coroner-J. M. R. Jeromon, oltj party, 147,084. Thomas Dugan, pres ant coroner, 104,110; Julius Weber socialist, 1,270. County Commissioners-Rudolp Ulake; Surg. olty party, 108 440: E A. Anderson, olty party, 148 203; II A. Chaae, republican, 100,150; WU Hams Ensile, ropublloan, 99 521; Al phona Olbrlght, socialist, 1,207. Chase ls elected as the third com ntsslonor, defeating Emslie by 038 /otea. The v )to for state treasurer lt Philadelphia was aa follows: W. n. Berry, fusion.134 797 J. h. Plummer, republican ...07.70u li B. Rlngler, iooial?st.1,319 li J. Drugmau '.soclalUr-lib .r . ..183 Tue proposed ?lu,OOO 000 for thc ibol tabing nf the grade oosdi.ga wns '.anded by a largo mp.j irlty. Thc ?ilghest total vote eas < tor any on?, tras that cist for sher ff. the voto be ing 266,202. The total vote for president last year was 281,054. The olty party, claims tuat Inas much as the 51,000 alleged fraudulent names were stricken fro.n the votiu:. ltats since tbe Ught against the re public\n organ sation bogan la-it M?>y, he vote cist wis toe nighest cvei polled in t ?o city. Tue regulara car icd only fourteen or tho forty-two wards for their Ioctl tlok?t. p.ummer, for t-tatj senator, oar ried ?ix.ten. One of tue surprises of ti < aleofrlon w-vi tho.losi by e ic regula r.pub;io?&s??>[ ?Sena or Pen rose's ward 1 gave a city p^rty plurality of 50 but Plum nor oarrred lt h/ 52 vote insurance Commlss!oii0i D .vid M ir . in, atone time toe republican, lead or of tho olty, lost nts wa d formfit: (hst time lu thirty years. David ?, Lane, the veteran l;:ade: upon whom much of the work of tin republican campaign fell, also loathly ward, the twentieth. BLOODY KEOQAD. it, *1 .1 av 13 pt ac UL ii r ttj J( w ol m T Vi Cl fi or A IKupoindo Who Oomiiilttod Sut* o?do wilt H Cornered. Milton Franklin Andrews and his consort, Hulda Petrie, who has fled after brutally attacking and robbing at Berkeley, Wm. E'dia, a horseman, whom they had lurqd from Australia, were found dead Wednesday night In their rooms at James Meagher's house at 748 McAllister street San Francis co, Col. The polloo had surrounded the place, Andrews was hidden In a closet when a polloeman, by a subterfuge, ontorod tho room. Reallzlr g that their hid ing place was discovered, tho young woman persuaded tho pollcoman to loave tho room. Sho locked tho door, and Immediately afterward two shots were hoard In the apartment. Tho po deo broke In the door and tho bodies of tho fugitives with buhot holoa In their heads were found. A nd rows' pistol waa clutched In his right hand. Ile was lying on the Hour. Tuc woman rested on a bed as if in sloop. Andrews was oharged with the murder of Eugouo Bosworth at Now Britain, Conn., with the slaying of a woman at Troy, N. Y., and with tho killing of Bcasio Houghton at Col orado Springs. Ile roturned with Edit? to this country last month, having se looted tho horseman as anotnor vic tim for his remarkable record of orlme A statement Signed, by Andrews wau subsequently found In the stocking oj tho dead woman. In tilla he says that on Novomber 3rd he chored to glvt himself up for trial on the three mur der oharges against him, provided les .serious oharges against him wert squashed. Andrews then goes a< length into bia relations with Bcasb Mouton and asscrtH that ho was 1,00? miles away from tho aoono of hor mur dor when she was shot. He says ht waa in Denver when Mrs. Bjsworti. was killed in (>>n.heot>out. A rt.* tl OAHU. THO supremo court of Georgia Wed nesday affirmed the dcointons of tbt lower oourt In tho caso of the Raw lings naen convicted of trio murder o: oho two Carter children near V?lelo* ta. Ga. J. G. Rawlings, tho faihet, ann two of his sons, M.Ron and Jos:.e, oust go to ono g .Hows, willie a?ioth I er, sou, Loonaru, ?. tito s .rve a Hu Isentenoo in tho penitentiary. WAVE OF REVOL a Russia is Slowly vHibsidin* And Quieting Dowt B^LATKD DETAILS .dd Horror io ibc Late Upheaval, U Which Even the Clergy Participa ed. Six Hundred Mea, Wo men and Children Bumed in a Theater. A dispatch from fib.. Petersburg, tu ?Hi JV, says the revolutionary wave ontinues to subside oxoept In tho lauoafui. Aa details of what nap? ened throughout European Gussi? urlng the upheaval arrive tho story rows moro revolting. In the .Baltlo rovlnoes murder, riot and Incendiar? im prevail. In Poland even the clergy, Oatholio nd Protestant, participated In tho ?anlfeatations in favor of the autora* ?y of the anolent kingdom. In south restorn Russia hardly a olty or town soaped Jewish massaores. At Tomsk, Siberia, according to tho kteat reports received hero, the whola opulatlon of 40,000 and the military toed by whilo 600 men, women and hilaren were burned In a theatre, .he court house at Tomsk and the ?ayor's resldeuoe where the student? nd revolutionists took refuge from, ho mob were burned and those who ried to nae were killed in the streets, n Moscow the social revolutionists icka and police fought bloody bat loa. Tho descent of tho butohorsof Mos JW with their knives and axes upon 10 students was one of the most nor bie 0 hap tors but nut as pl table how /er, as the attack of the black hun? red on a procession of schoolchildren irryiug red il igs. When the children ugtit to escapo a oordon of police irrcd tho way and the youthful arty rs ware boaton into insensibility id lu some cases were actually torn i pieces. lu tho Alexander garden at Moscow )saaoks lay lu ambush in tho shrub* try and sot upon their vlotlms with hips. Many woro beaten to death id others wore hardly able to crawl vay. Tue reports from the Clan oas* i show there la no immediate pros* .ci? of suppressing the present state iMv.by. Batios between Tartars id Armenians continuo and the de* ruction of the railroads an i lack of oops make lt impassible for tho au* loritios to cope with the situation. At O lessa four hundred and twelve !-.vs who were massacred last week ere burled Wednesday, tho majority ! the shops were olor,ed including >any of those bdonging to Christiana, oosoanea of grief vere heartrending id almost iudcsorlble as the bodies '...re piao?d lu trdno ies, each tronoh jnUmlug 70 bodies. Similar tuner* ls wili coutitnuo tor three days. Lbout 240 codie* were in auoh oondi lon U?at they could not bo reocgnls* d. On oaou grave wreaths wera iao.d beariug_t^ it?ssrlvt?tgl? ' Mar yr? tu tas-fiun, aud viotlmi ofattfife^. ?ao7".;i At Odessa the l0S3SS by rioting and jiikei lilt wejk will total many mil* on roubles and ab last two hundred .mihes ruined. Some wealthy mer* e. uits are reduced to poverty. The ewap?p.rsare heeding tue governor's ^arning and ap. eared without a word purding tho greatest disaster in their tory of Odessa. Tae mobs have com* letely devastated all Jewish houses 1 the suburb of lUlnik, many hun* reds of persons are reported killed nd thousands wounded in other neigh* orlng villages and towns. The detalla f last week's massacres at Odessa aro radually leaking out and only add to tie horrors. Soldiers slaughtered hun* reda of Jews. In a house 46 railroad len were shot whilo dofonding them dyes. Many lnstanoes of ruthless illaging were accompanied with hor ible torture nv soldiers and rioters. Tulon of Horror. Authenio accents ot anti-Jewish utbreaks in Russia show that at llshinefT seventy Jews were killed nd a hundred and twenty were mounded. Order ls now restored. A 10b at Ismail, Bessarabia, burned liva oleven Jews who had hidden In be hayrick. Toe town of Kalaraseh 1 Bessarabia wasjentlroly devastated nd burned. Fifty-nines Jews wore Hied or porishod in the' flames and wo hundred tied to a neighboring vii? tgo whore the peasants boat a cum in- of thom to death with orudgels nd burned three Jews, after drench* ig them with petroleum. Fatal Fir?. . > At San Francisco Ure broke out In he Onronlole building last night dille crowds were on tho roof watch ig tho returns. When thc ilrcn.es rrlvcd they rcaouid the Imperiled ion and women on the roof with itlloulty A searoi of the burned remises revealed thc bodies of throe len names unknown, who were burn d to a crisp. They wore evidently mploycs of tho art dopartnaent of 110 paper. Tho building was' tea borles high and was erected in vtiQS: joss may not exceed $750,000. DoAth on tho 11*11. A passenger train ou tho Rome, Villi rio wu and Ogdensbura railroad -umai ior Watertown N. Y. Wednesd ay, collided head-on with a looonao* ive drawing two freight oars, neat Avorpool, six milos from hore. Four oeo were killed and one seriously m rt. Milton IT. '.v\-u/i-, ui Lyndon olio, mall dork is one of Uie mon uiied Tho other dead wcro mem bers of the engine orows. ?o passen? ;cra was huit.