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"DO THOU, GREAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE ODR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVESIN THY POSSESSION HAPPY OR OUR DEATHS 0 LO RIO US IN THY CAUSE." VOL. XX, BENNETTS VIL LE, S.O., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1905. NO. 4ft GRUEL REVENGE Oi a Mysterious Rival or a Des perate Lunatic, WHO 1? MUKDERIN? The Little Chlldrc it of a Airs. Ptrklns One by One. Only Four Now Sur vive of a Family of Nine. The Murderer JUnknown. to Mrs. l\rklas. In tho stately, atald old o'.ty of Richmond Virginia-laden with his torio memorios-there ia to day acttd a story of seoret murder, of love and jealousy, of plot and counter plot, huoh ah Z la or Gabortau would relish. On tho lips of every mau and wo man in too city to-day rises tho one question-what hidden band poisoned Lue obildron of Mrs. Emma Perkins? And this quostion, agitating tbo pop ulatlon of ibo whole city, remains un answered. One by one live of the niue ohlldrcn of Mrs. Peiklns drooped ano died like Howers stricken by an loy wind. But it ls as to tho deaths cf the last two children-Willie, a two year-eld baby, tho only child of his mother's secci (1 marriage, and Octav ia Blakey, vb-.,, until the afternoon of Tuesday, O icbi r 14, bad bien thc youngest cf Mrs. Perkins's live mi viv lng children by bei erst marriage to William Blakey-IL ?Vt ttie wbole city asks tbe questions WL.e'a has dilY^n ev? ry motlier in Richmond, from tnt woman of society in her mansion tc. the wo xian of thc cottage, into a fren zy o? fear. Fur Wv mon, aa she thinks ot the hapless in neu , s flying lu the acontes of photphorou p ironing, instinctive ly gathers her CLV.OH u around her a? if to pruUofc them ti om the veiled as Bassin whose naud even now may strike at thoir ll ves. From the moment of that Tuesday afternoon, now nearly three week? agore, that Octavia, the pretty, gold en-halied Utile girl win m every one around 1er lerne in Worth S xih street, Richmond, knew and loved, staggered Into the boute to fall into her motin r's arms and die there, has tho. whole d< ttctivc IOJCO of the city ar.d the Mate been concentrated on Um woik ot solving the pioblem ann leaching the author ot a scheme of murder Which in nicety of detail, cold calouiatien of o lances and exactitude of results is worthy of tin; beat effort** pCf tho Boigias. T.ic death or Octavia lt WHS tnat opined the path to discoy ' cry in tho ?aad of her little step bro ther, Willie, two year? old, who on the night cf September ~l had died in correspondu g agonies, and with the samo i Ido na symptoms. And now do ttit i?.. LO . of Mrs Perkins, lu the days wi en she wa? M:s Blakey, recul: the weird ci.o ?un, ta ncr s tu rounding the death of eac.i of three of the elghi children o? her li i sb marriage. In these deatna were prisant the characteristic bmcke from tho mouth, the oder ol garlic, the Itathly fain?n?s!', follower, by cumpiOvO Ov ina, found In the case ol Octavia ai d tho baby, Willie. As though ill hideous gibe at the police, nt the parents, ai ail those who would drag the a sas in to the light, tho ti li hand again strickes the Ter kins hom . And two of the four chil dren h f j to the mother hy t he deht roy er l?o at t-he point of death, for again in the same v,ay, che poison ha3 been piaced in their rod. Y1t ar, the nd of three weeks, with the accusations of the mother on he) 'cath at the 1 (.quest that Mrs. Mamie McDowell, tho pretty, dark-haired, . smilling little woman with a soft voice andhtibdiKd manner, who, under the namo of Mrs. Bryant, lived only a few doors away from the Jerkins home, had brought about tho death of her children and tried to alienate her hus band's alb.etioin, ringing through tho city, tho police and the Coroner alike are brought to tho end of their resour ces in the following facts: l-That both children clearly died of phosphorous poisoning, the stomach of the boy, according io Dr. Taylor, the Coroner, who made the post-mor ti m examination, giving forth In dark ness, a lurid "HittuV tho unmistake able evidence of phosphorus poison ing. 2.-That from tho days of her Hrs! marriage Mrs. Perkins had boen the object or bluer enmity on the part of a woman once her closest friend. .'J-That the symptoms displayed hy three of tho eight children of hor lirsi marriage h.fore their deaths corres pond i! with those shown by the ohlldrcn whose deaths aro now mulei investigation. The earlier deaths wore, however, oillolally stated to be due to natural causes. 4-That In May last Mr. and Mrs. Perkins woio Jointly the recipients i I a series of loiters threating d.ath, two being signed a friend of Mrs. Per kins, wno, howover, has denied all knowledge of these letters and has submitted specimens of her handwrit ing for comparison with the hand wrlitlr.g in the anony mous communb Cations, Mrs. Mitchell has boon iully exonerated. 5 That the poison was administer ed by a woman. (J-that both children had boen nur sod by Mrs Mamie McDowell Imme'J lately before their death. Behind tho curtain that shields the murderess lies the story of a deop, un fathomable v/oll of passion running through thc dull lives of these simple, commonplace country people, whose only hope in this world ls to cari bread, and work uhtil they dlo; a story of ht H ied love lu ned to hale; of wc man transformed to a furry by the lo ri Hf erenco of the man she sought, and striking '.ii the heart of the mother, when sue hated, through her innooont children. ^Woman's worst and coldest crlmos arc con?i?^tt?d for tho rake cf love' those of mefA^or monoy," axya Dona ll roso. And eloquent oiN^ts testimony of the working of a womaWCs heat under the stress of passion ls Wio first of the lino of lett? r.i dropping ono hy one into tho home. Tho il.'st leter boro a bor der of bluok, aud is an: on g thoso nit yet given tub for publication. "The border of black is for my first love," sahl tho wtlter, "You ribbed me of tho n an. I wanted-ho who is now in his grave. And now I am determined to strike at yt u. lt is my purpose Urst to break y .ur heart hy making you childless, and then to free your hus band. That it Is my purposo todo this you may k.iow." Tbe mother MU! ed and put the let ter aside. A week wont by and ibero oirnf* anotl o' letter. "You have taken no heed of my warning," sa'd imo writer. "I tell you I'll striko through those you love most." Ai d with each morning there lay on the breakfast table. In sinister signifi cance, the lotter with the handwrit ing that they knew so well. IKavlor and heavier grew tho hearts Of thc parents with each of those let ters. iiut at last there came a morah g when the familiar step of the postm tn passed by their door. A second and a third morning came and went, with still no letter. And they c. iori fer joy at tho thought that the shadow of death had been lifted from thom. The mere Incident of the houso dog dying in convulsions was not sufficient to attract attention. Never was the thought of the un known avenger loss present to their minds than on that Septem her after noon when the bthy Wii.ie toddled eut to tho doorway and thon a few yards along the road. () ?ly half an hour had pissed whoo there appeared In the doorway a man bearing the motionless ligure of tho child in his arms. Ile had been found lying in th' roadway near his father's cc liage. Nj one at that time took any oar ticuiar notice of the odor of garlic on thc breath of the child. All that the doctors could t,ay was that the symptoms hidieat; d the pres . nee. of some, foreign substance in the body. Within tweho hours the buy was dead. The heart of the mother was full of a foreboding of that which was yet to oom e. With tho coming of Monday morn ing there again lay thc familiar envol ope on the table. "T?tere ls reason in blt Is warning," wrote the sender of the letter. "Thcic .viii be more reason bcfuifi 1 am done with you." And now tho letters came with every vost, slander was now alternated willi commonplace veibiage, and those let tera, really telling little of tho hide U truth, aro the only communtct Mons made publio hy the polios at the ir quest. Tuen once more, cine a cessation of the letterp, and the parents, tremb ling, waltid. All through tho<o weeks had Mrs. Perkins, q dotty watoUlng, bent her <-y(s on too one v.oman who of ali others, by reason of old memories of willoh slie even now will not speak, .die behoved bated lier. "Tin re ls a woman who ls killi::;,; my ohi'drcn and who may take rm husband, as she wo lld havj taken thi other,she said. The world now knows tho story cf the October afternoon on which th? jbild Octavia was to meet her death hy the hand of the prisoner. Sho had riten from her mother's side, and ran lightly to the house of Mrs McDowell, and the next ttiat w.'.s lien of her was when Rho reappeared in the doorway of the Perkins collage, and with a sigh and a moan fainted in her mother's arms. Again was the charaoterlstlo odo of garile; again the shivering oonvuis lona and the sharp gasp* and eries o' agony, ero eight ho ns late t death ro leased the et If r-r Suspicion hid In tho mind of Mrs Per kb.s beor.ni* certainty. ItVom nw moment tho word "murder" took thu plan.; of ali others hi the vocabulary .f the Richmond people. Mrs. Porklne poke at last onrt c ied out for vengan tuco on the woman who, she d ?clares, killed her children, and would hive robbed her of her husband.-Now York American. _ Hoyoroly F'loj'Kori. At Valdosta, Qa , Clyde Jordan and Peter Powell, woll known white mon from near Pelham, were tried be I fore United StatcB Commissioner, Po .veil on a charge of white-capping u witness who was to appear in too led i ral court against distillers In that sec binn. Thc victim was a man namec VV. P. Crosby, who claims that tues* two mon and throe others met lila, on the roadside last Saturday, all o them masked and gave him a ll igginf and told him they would put an eur tri him if h ? d,!d not loave tnocountrj at once. Ila f ays they charged hin with furnishing cvlder.Ci In "ni ?on shine" oves The bonds of Jorda* and Powell were ?x?d at i.ooo each Deputy Unlt'id States Marshal Ood win will try to bring the others to fae the c. urt. itoyolt tn Hr*/.H A Suenes Ayres dispatch says: J revolution has bri.km out In l?'o D Janeiro against nu Brazilian govci ment. Tho entire garrison of th capital has rebelled, and the J quadra in tho harbor has sided with the rove lutlonists and threatens to bomban oho city. Hundreds of persons wer killed In enc n iters hi the street.1 One dlspatoh says that the trouhl began with tho mutiny of the garrho of thc fort ol San ta-Crt;/., due to III treatment of a sergeant hy the elli ic In o anmand. Colonel P dre Ino ws arrested and Ma j ir Pre. m an ensig were killed. Troops were sinb thei to quoll the mut loy._ AlU8( Hi rv?; S nt< noe. A dispatch from Columbia sa s th John Wa'drop, who shot S, D' Maddi In (/loenville county a yoi rugo, as tl lattor was leaving Waldrop's hom wecro they had q larrelle I, mui serve his life term, a rehearing heir refused._^ ?Ulled Looping the Gap. At Columbus, Onlo, on Wvdncsd? Duke Howard was probably fatal Injured wl.i'o "looping tho gap" inf automobile The machine had got safely through Its evolutions, bi hounded up after landing and turne oyer, falling on Howard and broaklr his back. Tile Courts Will Decide Between Hearst and McClellan. JN NEW YORK CITY. McClellan ectcd on thc Pace of thc Return.*, but Hearst Says Ile Was Counted Out and Appeals to thc Counts for n Recount of Votes The election In tho city cf N w on Tuesday of last week was one of tho most exciting ever held In that city. Tho candid iles for mayor wore Gm. B. Mo'Jlellan, Democrat, W. Li lloirst, Mu tloltal OwnershlpO league and W. M. Ivtns, Republican. As counted tho vote stood as follows: McClellan. 228 661 Hearst.226,106 lvlns.(37,049 This gives McClellan 3,486 plural! t,' over ll Hirst and 111 002 over lvlns, bu?? whether McClellan or Hearst will oe oho next mayor of Greater Now Yo:k tho c >urts m ist decidj. Hearst [leela red immediately after the vote was declared that he would take an appeal to thc supreme court, his mau n^ers Uavlnu slated that they had se .ured tvldei ce of Illegal acts against j ,e thousand luspcotors of eleotion, lind that thirty thousand Hearst men who went to inc polls to vote for Hearst had found that their names Had already boen voted. Hearst's proposed aotion met with wann approval In many qutrlors, oven Muong those, whooppv std his election, ?nd ho received many assurances of mpport. District Attorney Jerona% impressed himself In terms of stron,.: ipproval of Hearst's programme and 3eclar< d that ho would immediately institute a searching investigation of the alleged democratic frauds. He ?Iso ordered tho returns from the eighteen tn and sixth districts to ho carefully guarded, lvms, the defeated it p dj hean candidate, assured Hearst of his support In his tight. Oa Wednesday afternoon tho. exe cutive commttte of Tam m on y llallis sued the following statement: ''The execu jive c muleteo of thc democrat ic organizitiou protests against the outrageous published threat of thc de flated candidate of tho Municipal Ownership League to overthrow the will of the people as expressed hy the vote casu on ?lection day and directs its law ommitteo to exeat its best efforts and take su ;h st. ps and lostl tute such prie.olinga as will sifo guard tho eleotion of George 13. Me (J.eltan as mayor of Now York. We a so call on the o >ix missioner ..f pollc;: aiid tho custodian of tho bi lot to preserve the same Intao. from ad in oiference hy any une from any unau ttiorix. d so.irc.:. " t) ? Wednesday Hearst gava out the * li 'Winji statement: "We havo t flection. All Tammany's frauds, ah fam m auy 's cor r u pti on, all Tam ra an y '* intimidation and vioi.iiice, all Tun many's false registration, illegal vot ing and dishonest counting havo not heen aide to oy?ronme a great p ipular rai'jjrlty. Tue recount will bb nv that ?.e have won tho election by mau) MOU and of votes. J snail light till* battle to oho end in beba.f of the pco tile who lia VJ cast their votes for mo *nd who shall n-<t bb disfranchised b> any ll rt of criminal bosse 1, " V 1 l.l.l A.M BANUOLIMI HJ?.VUST." Ali/i bligh McClellan on tue faoe 61 ,!.e complote, returns was elco.od by i plurality of 3,486, thu dam03Mts 1081 heavily. Tho election of William P, J brome, independent, as ch t dc Attorney, is asevere blow to tho T.?in many organ /ilion, whioh exerted ah the fi.rce at its command to dofea him. His victory Js remarkable when ills considered that ho was the cindi date of no party and made his appeal f->r votes solely on his record In < nie ? for the last four y ur years and tnav avery man who voted for him voted a pill ticket. tn his demand for a recount Hearst is supported oy District Attorney WU lam T. Jerome, himself vlotorlous in his singlehanded fight against the ?reat Tammany machine. He says: "1 shall Immediately institute an lu vestlgatlou of tho fraud'? perpetrated oy Tammany at thc polls Wednesday, if Hie fac.s warrant I shall bi gui an immedlato prcsaoutlou ti gainst those guilty of orimo, '1 Blid ii. Uolor, olectcd president of tho borough of Bro ddyn on the Mun icipal Ownership League ticket, also supports Hearst's cintention that lu A/as rightfully eh clod. Color bald: "Mr. Hears* has been elected by lo, ooo v jtos. Helias boon cheated by tho tremendous frauds of Tammany Hall. T loio is no doubt whatovor ot tis diction. 1 shall work night ?nd lay to see that justice ls done.. Tho people of New York havo elected him mayor, and lt has only neon bv tho mo it outrageous, br&zm and rotten fraud that Tammany is trying to keep .hat olllco awiw from him." K'ootlon day came to a el iso with a Iramatlo scone at thc Hoffman bouse, whero Heart gathered his friends and idvisois around him to begin tho pre paration of his legal contest of the re lam?*, which Indicated the snoc.ss of ils demoontio opponent, George B McClellan, As the lato vote came In ihOWhlg McClellan only a few thous ind ahead, and as it was notlci d that I gu res from some of tho east side dis uricls were missing, Mr. Hearst said \e behoved ho was hoing cheated out of a hard fought and honestly won vlciory, and announced his Intention '0 make a contest bi tbs courts. Ho sent out a call at once for the ncmbars of the law committee of the municipal ownership league, and sunn Obey began tO ar riv J) many of thom In ovenlng clothes, they having boon found doola) gatherings of the theaters At tho hotel walihig, for tue lawyers wero Heures of Hearst vote/a With stories of violence and outrageai poll places where they had gone to cast < ho'r ballots. Men., were coming into ho hotol constantly with bruised and bloody faces. O io man had his arm broken ar 1 another's head was cut so badly that Mr. Hearst had him rn1) to bed in the hotel. Peports were bu Uijbt In telling of ono man having his eye uei out and of a Hearst man whose Huger had been ohewed oil in a poll lug place. The board of aldermen, ls lost to Tammauy, they gatling twenty live oumbets against thirty eight roj ub Utan and nine municipal ownership members. Hird S. Color, municipal ownership, and Joseph B. Ormel, re Mihi lem and municipal ownership, reek ote d, resp, odvoly, president of tho Brooklyn and the (? mens boron gbs, have membership on the city's board of estimate and apportionment, which o ?utrols all expenditure of mon ey. This I? of great importance, giving the municipal ownership league a voice-, tn thc city's llnaucial alf.ii rs and also lu the granting of franchiser, which power also is lodged In tho board. In addition to losing the board of alder men, Tamm my lost twelve members Of the stale assembly from Now York aunty, and tho assembly, when lt meets In Albany on January 1, next, will be republican by moro then 3 to l. Tammany claim their candidates for comptroller, president of the board of alderman, president of Manhattan borough, president of Bronx borough, sherill, clerk and rcglstor of Now York county, and all the coroners In Man hattan and tho Bronx. The following supreme court justices were elected in New York county: Henry W. Gilder sleeve, democrat; George L. Ingram, democrat and repub loan, and C ?arlo.> IO. Newbergor, dcm* erat and republi car, In Brooklyn; Joseph A. Burr, re publican and Municipal Ownership L aguo, was oleottd supreme court just loo. In Kings county thc Municipal Ownership Longue eb cbed its candi dates for sheiill, county clerk, regis ?.er ??tid coroner. By fusion, repub'.l cans elected the district attorney of Queens c; unty. Mayor M:C.ellan\> plurality of 3.485 is the smallest by ?vhioh any mayor of New York has ever been elected, Tl o new city government, exclusive of the board of alderman- wlil be con stituted as follows: Major-George B. McClellan, Dem ocrat. Comptroller- Herman A. Mc'/. Democrat. President of the board of alderman -Patrick IT. McGowan, Democrat. B .rough president-Manhattan, John IP. Ahearn, Democrat. Bronx-Louis F. Haffen, Democrat Brooklyn-Bird S. Coler, Munioip al O vnershlp. C? ?eens-Joseph M Burns, Munlcl pal Ownership and Democrat. Richmond-George M. Cromwell, lt .'publican. BIG COTTON FIRS. Hov val Hundred Halon Hut-nod at Ht. Matt li, w-s. A dispatch from St. Matthews to the State says about three o'clock Ph u rad ay m ?ming tho cotton plat f ?rm at the South* rn depot was dis Cevared on lire. Tills platform isa dons one, containing more than 2 OOO square foot, and wascjvered bv Ot (.ii I el mgiOg t.o various cotton bUyori cf St. Matthews. Mr. John D. Antloy, Hie public w I I or, was Keen and ho estimate? boo number of bales on tho platform to have been 650 of which is? were . v I by the heroic efforts of tins .ho reached the Ure Ur.it, leaving a balai co of :i7f) bales, whloh were to ally do Iroyed hy Uro. Thc burne? .clio,, i, fully cov r<d by I natl rat.ce, Thc i pot which ls o un pa ra ti vol) u- ?y, was saved hy the strettons efforts of the ag^ht, Mr. J. ll. Bookham, vho gave i-">0 of ids own money toby* slai ' r.> to work while exp ised to titi fearful heat of tho buming cotton. Young J ck Bookham and Emmett Smoko, assistants to tue acont, stood manfully hy the interest of the rail way e m pany. Co s lieh us among th ? many worked valiantly to have thc depot from rle stiucjlot was old (,Maum" Ann ll .ti ls >n, who called to several of her eel or who stood and on Ind l? reutly to come while s'io led on the and dragged heavy picots of timbar fr< m thc plat form Such acts of heroism should never go unrewarded. Mr. Beckman stated to your correspondent Thurs day morning that tho b sa to tho rall road company was Insignificant. Thia is largely duet* the indefatiga ble efforts of Mr. B. eltham. INonpinu (i*H i;.v|> ?ned Thom A dispatch from Savannah, Gi, lo the Augusta Ohronlole, says Colo nel Cnaa. W. Seals, of Lyons, Qa., and a young woman, afterwards said to bo Miss Daisy Di dy, of tho same place, were found in au unconscious condition from ibo i if'.els of gas In a room In a private bouse here Wednes day morning. The couple came hore i'm [day and thc man in engaging tho rooi j Introduced the young worn an as his wlfo. Heals had boen drink lng when he went to the room Tues i lay night and bi supposed to have turned on the gas through mistake. Tue odor of thc gas In the house led to their being found. Both were taken to the Savannah hospital and are now out of danger. At tue very time they were found, they were sup ucsed to bo husband and wife, but a telegram from Lyons brought the In fi, iin ition that Mrs. Seals was lhere. AHII'I p III A t?o Ifni. Anton Rodi nick of Chicago, while io a somnambulistic State, carly Wed nesday walked out of his house in his ni/ht attire, broke a plato glass win do-/ of an undertaking establishment and entered. He was found scvoral hours later asleep In a coffin, tie w\s promptly taken in charge by tho po I 'fin VAnnal- (Url MutoUloB. A dispatch from Poughkeepsie N. Y., says after a nights search for Miss Bailly i : ?sign, the beautiful student ? .i Vin.,., ,.,,i., i,r> lor Vuifii, .?,oo found carly Wednesday morning In the Lako college grounds. Sho had been suff .. .-i.""i.?un H.,? i.,> ililli iiiin fuomi.i>2'vii<?. **?/A ~Y**fr ls at Youngstown, Ohio. A MAN EATER. t_ A Man's Head and Two Sailors Mats Found in \ BHABK'? STOMACH. How the'Horrible Evidence Shocked th? Crew and Passengers of an Ocean Liner When the Shark that Pollowcd thc Ship Was Captured. Do sharks thirst for human blood aud tims deservo the name of "man eaters." All who know the sea, from books or from oxporlonce, aro famllar with this ludlotmout against tho mest savago and rapacious of tho occau'u creatures-that when be baa oro tasted human ilesh no other food satibiles him, and that bo will follow ship-? day after day, growing loan in the chaso, with his little gray oyes glued on tho moving ligures on their docks. Lately thero has been tho most ghastly demonstration of tho truth of this charge that can bo oouoelved. Tile man eating shark whioh gave thia horrible testimony against him self suffered capital punishment for ?Us crimes, while giving tho crew and passengers of the P. and O. liner ?syria si c i a Bhock that thoy went ab ut pale and trembling for hours afterward. j This man eater had followed the Syria hundred of miles in the Indian Ocean, into thc Rid Sea and to Suez, where ho was recognized as an old . ITe; dor. When a shark is see ? fol lowing a ship tirelessly day after day, obis, as all sailors know, moans that he has acquired a taste for human ll sh, which ls to enslave him throug out the remalndor pf his career-he is a "man eater." All other food palls on his palato. Wolle the ship was anchored at Suez tho man-eater prowled about her constantly, his sharp lin cutting tho'surface of thc harbor and his head lifted now and then for a sight of the prey ho so coveted. Scafarlug men abnut the docks wore ture they recognizer! him as the same shark that had followed mauy another vessel from the Indian Ooean ohrrvigh the Red Saa. 'J1 ney charged ui o him more than one salle r suap r from rudder chains, or, having n overboard, seized bef oro a boat d reach him. .emboss of the crew of the Syria sirred this belief. Tho paiisongors heard the stories and shuddered aa tiley watched the man eater dboliug ..uivrlly about tho ship. Tftey ro membered how ho had not ?t?k Uit? ..nipout of his sight for many days Now* they were eagor for his capture aud just punishment. S i tho officers gave tho orcw per misi?n to bait a hook for the mou sier. They wero not enthusiastic about the ro.ult, for man-eating sharks are nearly always Roomful of other than thc living f.iod they most crave. But tho passengers were eag er for the attempt. .So a group of sailors prepared a strong Hue armed with a hook nearly i foot rc uss from barbed point to shank, baited lt temptingly with a whole leg of fresh pork and heaved the morsel ( ut lu front of tho man caters nos* as ho roso to again inspect tho prey he cove: . d. Po sible the sav gj monster Imag Ined that ono of tho sailors handling the line had fallen overboard and un ado that splash. At any rato he turned In a Hash, showing his yellow white bolly, and witti a snap that could bc heard on dook, c osed his jaws on tho baited hook. With a prompt heave on tho line, uho sailors pulled the sharp point of thc nook through the creature's under jaw-and then rare sport began. Toe surprise' and ai g?red mau eater lash ed himself about frantically, but with a Light of tito line about a stout stanchion hts captors hauled away until thc creature's nose bumped against the shl p's hide and then rals .d its head enough to enable a boat's crew to id ip the noose of a cable over Its head and tighten lt Just back of the front lins. I ly thia moans, while the passcngors crowded up to tho rall, the man-cater with all thc light choked out of him, was raised up lo the lovol of tho main deck In this position ho was photo graphed from thc deck of a neighbor ing ship. At Its greatest girth tho man eater had tho circumference ef a large horse. Its stomach scemod much distended -a Tact that had not been noticed wnlle it swam about tho ship. Toe sailors whispered among them selves, shaking their heads ominously; but the passengers thought of noth ing hut the pleasure of witnessing tho i emu assassin's execution, They did not know of the sailors's suspicions that tim man cater had not gone hun gry during all thc days that ho had been following the Syria, that no food taken merely to stay tho pangs of hunger would havo so distended its Stomach, mu,sailors arc not Squeamish, even when harboring such grewsorne sus picions as these. First they killed the mon it.er hy smashing his skull Then they lowered the carcass to thc I deck, while the passengers huddled back In fright, and oneof them, with a long, sharp kui fe, ripped the whlto bolly open for a distance of six or ?ev en foot. Hardly had tho knife done Its work when ono of tno ship's ( til oars standing near Hung himself In front of the women passengers, who fortunately, were In a group hy them sclvos, and fairly drovo them from the deckinto the cabin. They WO?? not allowed to return to the deck till tho last trace of tho man eator had been romoved. No moro horrlblo sight could have been possible, li'rom out of tho long ;;!t, in the shark's holly at&rod a hum an countenance. To idontify lu thc man-eat', i's stomach a man's head, With tho features still uisceriilble, needed no second glance. Few ol the passengers could bring themselves to take a second glance. Mont of them turned away, to go to their staterooms-anywhere, away from the awful speotticlo out on tho main deok, from whleh the women oould congratulate themselves that they had been barred. The sailors, however, mad J a thorough inspeotion of the dead man eater's stomaoh. Bosldes the man's head they found threo hats, two of which e. old be identified as having been blown from the heads of passen gers on tho Syria; two fouls, with their feathers still intj.c! ; a msss of broken bones and remnants of a sail or's wearing apparel. Ooly a minuto was required lo which to make thia Inventory. None of these growsome relics were remov ed from the maw that bad engulfed thom. Even the sailors who made the capture and administered capita' punlshmont upon the criminal wen so affdotcd by what they saw that, I with a common Impulse, they seized the carcusand heaved lt overboard, weighted with tho ll oko of an old an ohor so that it would speedily sink out of sight. During tho remainder of the voyage thc capture of tho man-eater with tho ovldenoo of his guilt upon him was tho one topic of conversation among the passengers. Upon land lng a monto ago it was the first news they had to rolato; and the photo graphs they brought with them gave ample corroboration of the truth of tho narrativo. KILLED BY BLOW. MLldfehluman lirauoh In Killed In Wicht With Anotlior Midshipman. A dispatch from Annapolis, Md., says midshipman James R. Branch, son of James ll Branoh. of tho Han over bank, of Now York oity and sec retary of tho American Bankers' as sociation, who waa s rlouflly ir j ired in a fist fight with another midship man, died Wednesday. Tue midship man was operated on at tho Johns Hopkins hospital, his skull being open ed and a olot of blood removed, and there was hope of his recovery, but he suddenly grow wo-ce and expired. Midshipman Branch died from in juries no had rec dved In a fight with Midshipman Minor Morriwethor, Jr., of Lafayette, 111. The light took placo by arrangement on Sunday night and was a regular pitched battle with a ring and seconds. It lasted 23 rounds and eudod when Brauoh was knocked down and struck tho right side of bis head against the floor. It was not oousidered that the in juries wero very daugerous, but next morning Branch's condition was suoh that it became necessary to lot his condition become known to the au thorities. Young Brar.c'i wai taken to tho hospital and an operation was determined upon. It was performed by Surgeons Fin jAQy,.pf Baltimore, and K;rr, of Wash Ingtoh^-asslstcd by the academy modi cal staff.>> It was thought to be :>uo cossful hutf'ft, turu for the worso took place and thcVpacient died, not having regained consolbunnoss Both his fach er and mother were with him at his de\th. Meriwether ls also Ju the hospital as a result of the injuries too ree n ved in the light and foi mis reason the au thor!iles have tot put him under ar rest. The question of hil account ability to the civil authorities on fine charge of mauslughter has also been discussed. H .J ls sufi" ring with h| sprained wrist and a bruised face. Branoh was a second dais man anti Meriwether a third, Imo the latter is slightly older, bo'.ng 19 years of age, Usc January while branch was not li) until Ail; n.t. B ?th havd some repu tatton as a'. Motes Branoh ns a wno, 1er and Meriwether ai a f otball pla) er. lt ls utsderstof (I that the Ugh! took place because Br md Ind in his duo of duty reprimanded Meriwether for a broach ol disciplino. Wt.i h ol' mo aioltiBijca. A Boston steamship man was a witness of the incident; says the >?d* York Tribune. A liner was unload mg at ono of the Charlestown docks. A oook helper, a small and very hlaok negro, was leaning over tho rall. A large hogshead of molasses carno orea king up on the end of the ohain and swui.g unsteadily to and fro. Fina lly with a smash, it struck the rall and broke into dits, molasses flying everywhore. Thoro waa a wild cry and from tho wrcokage oamo tho no gro, soakod from head to foot and en tirely unrecognizable. Ho danced madly about and 3hotted like nothing human. A little Irlhman hi overalls regarded tho apparlton for a moment with mouth opon awe and a light breaking on him, ho shoutod:"Molke er tho love or hcavon! Molke I will yez look phat came out of tho barrel ot morlasses!" lt took tho ci mbined eff orts of tho superintendent and his as slstants to convlnco Pat that h b had n't discovered a new stowaway mete. od. Mutiily of Sailors. A dispatch from St. .Petersburg says Intonso excitement prevails ow lng to alarming news from Cronstadt. According to reports a mutiny of sailors occurred during the night and and was followed hy a regular battle with the troops, during whloh ma nhinn guim were used. Workmen sid ed with tho sailors and hundreds wore killed or wounded. Later the torch was used and the town is now in dames, Tho Inhabitants aro it a pan io. BoJits to St. Potorsburg have stopped running and telephone anr> telegraph communications have been severed. A force of uhlan calvary sent to Cronstadt fiom Potorhof li roportod to havo joined tho lnsur gensts. lt ls also reported that the artillerymen of tho fortress have Joined tho Insurgents. Train Wrooknr Hftiitcnocd. Kric \ on-Kutzieban, au alleged Gorman baron, who caused a train wrcok on Kick Island road with a loss of several lives at Homestead, Iowa, last spring, J mb to"see what would happen" wa? sentenced to life Imprisonment. A girl ls nevor sat.sfiod un i ill the right man comes along and bays tue right thing at tho right time. UJittAT UPttfcAVAJLS. The ??Tost Voted Political Revolution in Philadelphia's Fittoiy. Th? Cry of'?Turn,.tho ?tno jin , Om" H.nulted In ? Great Vlotcry Or lion nt Poo|llO. A dispatch from Philadelphia says the political revolution In that cit and State on Tu sday ot last wed *as the greatest that occured in Pennsylvania in nearly a generations l'it?re has be.en previo* s uph< avals out this ls tho first time In years that every (.nico for which there was anv nombi moe of a con'est hal been lois o tho regular republicans It is also the first '.im" 1n a quart er of a century that the regular republl oana haye b2on defeated for the om trol ol the state treasury. Memora bio oontests have been waged agains tho republicans for the chico but, without success. The plurality of William H. Berry, who was nominated by the democrat independent party, Lincoln party and prohibitionists for state treasurer, will be nearly 100,0)0 and may gt above those figures. J. Lee Plum mer, the republican candidate, rae far behind his ticket in nearly every county in the state. The remainder of the republican ticket was elected by the usual republioan pluralities. President Roosevelt's plurality last year was more than a million. Tin vlotory for the city party, the reform organization, over the regular repub lloans In Philadelphia tas complote and beyond tho expectation of the ae reform leaders. Tho oity party'i> plurality la 43,333. Tho reform^wavt carried Berry along with it, by do featirg Plummer in theolty by 30,035 plurality. Tho complote voto for the office? for wh'c i there were contests is as follows: For Sheriff-Wilson H. Browu, oity party, 148 079; Joseph S. Ntff, repub boan. 105,340; G. R. Fisher, socialist, 1,207. Coroner-J. M. R. Joromon, cit} party, 147,084. Thomas Dugau, pres ont coroner, 104,110; Julius Weber socialist, 1,270. County Commissioners-Rudolp Blake; Surg. city party, 108 440: fl A. Anderson, oity party, 148 203; II A. Chaee, republican, 100,156; WU Hams 10 rutilo, republican, 99 621; Al Phons Olbrlght, socialist, 1,297. Chase is elected os the third com missioner, defeating Emslie by 038 votes. The v ito for state treasurer it Philadelphia was as follow*,: W. H. Berry, fusion.134 797 J. L. Plummer, republican . i .97,760 R B. RI ogler, woiallst.1,319 E J. DrugmansocialUv-lub.tr .. .183 Toe proposed 810,000 000 fur the abolishing of the grade cos-dugs was carried by a large majirity. Th?, highest total vote oas. ioe any otu. tras that cost for sher ff. the voto btv lng 255.292. The total vote for president last year was 281,054. The oity party, olaims tuat inas muchas the 51,000 alleged fraudulent names wore stricken fro.n tho votin ? lints slnco the tight against the re public tn organ x&Uou bjgan la-?t May, he vote o*st wis too highest evei polled in t ie city. Tue regulars car ried only fourteen of tho forty-two vat ds for their Icc il t?okut. Plummer, for t-tati sent or, OVrrlod .ilxieen. One of the surprise of the oloctfylpn wa'i tuecos) by the regula rcpubii?aAsS?vf Sor.a or Pen rose's ward. 1. gave a cttypV'rty plurality of 50, but Plummer carried lt by 52 vote * Insurance Commlsslonm Divid M >t tin, atone time toe repubitrYku^laad r of tho city, lost his wa d ?or*""i?t il .st time in thirty years. David H. Laue, tho veteran leade; upon whom much of the work of tin republican campaign fell, ab.o lost hi? ward, the twentieth. BLOODY KSOOxi). Of a I)?0i)orJMlo Who Ooinmlttotl Bul oltlo Whtn Cirnorotl. Milton Franklin Androws and his consort, Hulda Petrio, who has iloo after brutally attacking and robbing at Berkeley, Wm. Ellis, a horsoman, whom thoy had lured from Australia, were found dead Wednesday night in their rooms at James Meaghor's bouse at 748 McAllister street San ligands oo, Col. I Thc police had surrounded the place, Andrews was biddon In a olosot when a policeman, by a subtorfuge, entered tho room. Realizing that their hid ing place was diBoovored, the young woman persuaded tho policeman to leave tho room. Sho lookod tho door, and immediately afterward two shots wore hoard in the apartmonb. Tho po tico broke In tho door and tho bodies ot tho fugitives with buhot holes in I their heads were found. Andrews' pistol was clutched in his right hand. Ile was lying on the ll jor. Tno woman rested on a bed as if in sieop. Androws was charged with tho murdor of Eugono Bosworth at Now Brltaiu, Conn., with the slaying of a woman at Troy, N. Y., and with tho killing of Bessie boughton at Col orado Springs. He returned with Eillh to this country last month, having se lected tho horseman as anotnor vic tim for his remarknhle rA.virri nf orim?. A statoment signed by Audrows was subsequently found in tho stocking ot tho dead woman, In this be says that on November 3rd he c flared to give himself up for trial on the three mur der oharges against him, provided less sorlous oharges against him wert squashed. Andrews then goos a? length into his relations with Bcssh Mouton and asserts that ho was l,00i miles away from tho soono of lier mur dor when she was shit, ne says he was in Denver when Mrs. Bjsworu. was killed in Connecticut. /? M-..I I la..... Tho supremo court of Georgia Wed nesday affirmed the decisions ot tin lower court In tho ouse of tho Raw lings man convicted of tno murder o: oho two Carter children near VaUlo. ta, Ga. J. G. Rawlings, tho father, ana two of his sons, Milton and Jost.e, oust go to tho g.(lows, while anotii er, SOU, I nimaru, uiUJO s rvo a UU (?entono in tho penitentiary. In Russia is Slowly Subsidio* ^ And Quieting Down B SLATED DETAILS Add Horror to the Ute Upheaval, u Which Rvcii the Clergy Participat ed. Six Hundred Meta, Wo men and Children Burned In a Theater. A dispatch from Sb.-. Petersburg, Russia, says the revolutionary wayo continues to subside exoopt in the) ?auoaeu*. Aa dotails of what hap pened throughout European Rossi* during the upheaval arrive th? story grows more revolting. In tho .Baltlo provluoes murder, riot and incendiar? Ism prevail. In Poland even the olergy, Catholic and Protestent, participated in ?ht manifestations In favor of tho autono my of the anolent kingdom. In south western Russia hardly a olty or town esoaped Jewish massacres. . At Tomsk, Siberia, according to the latest reports reoelved here, the whole population of 40,000 and the military .toed by whilo 600 men, women and children were burned In a theatre. The court house at Tomsk and the mayor's residence where the students and revolutionists took refuge fron the mob were burned and those nu? tried to il JO were killed in the streets. In Moscow tho social revolutionists md the black hundred and the Oos lacks and police fought bloody bat tles. The dosoent of the butohersof Mos cow with their knives and axes upon oho students was one of the most hor rible chapters but nut as pitable how ever, as the attack of the black hun dred on a procession of schoolchildren carrying red ll igs. When the children sought to esoapo a ojrdon of polioo barred the way and the youthful martyrs wero beaten into insensibility iud in some oases were actually torn .o picceB. lu the Alexander garden at Moscow Cossacks lay lu ambush in the shrub nary and set upon their vlotlms with * hips. Many wore hasten to death . nd others wero hardly able to orawl way. Tue reporta from the Oaooas U3 show there ls no immediate prc*. peob of suppressing tho presout state anarchy. Battles between Tartars aud Armenians contiuue and the de* il mellon of ibo railroads and lack of roops make it imp jssible for the au thorities to cope with the situation. At Olessa four hundred and twelve Jews who were massacred last week wore burled Wednesday, tho majority it tho shops were our.cd including many of those b.donging to Christians. Tue hornes o? grief vere heartrending aud almost ludcaorlble as the bodies vere plao?d in trsno-ies, eaoh trench containing 70 bodies. Similar tuner ,1s will continua for three days, knout. 240 Dodie* were In s uah oondl i ju ttmti tticy oould uot be reoognla .d. On eavMi grave wreaths were placed beariug_fo& ?S^^riVS/'Mar .yo? to t^rf?ltii, and viotlmj olai*5fc_ At Odessa the IOSJIS by riotlncr and .Wilkes last WOJIC will total many mil dou roubles and at last two hundred ' -.uniles ruined. Some wealthy mer chants are reduced to poverty. The >eWi?pTp..rs are hooding tho governor's .yarning and ap. earod without & word regarding the greatest disaster in their story of Odessa. Tao mobs have com pletely devastated all Jewish houses in the suburb of Dalnlk, many hun dreds of persons aro reported killed and thousands wounded in other neigh noting villages and towns. The details of last week's massacres at Odessa are gradually leaking out and only add to tho horrors. Soldiers slaughtered hun dreds of Jews. In a house 46 railroad men were shot while defending them selves. Many instances of ruthless pillaging were acompanled with hor rible torturo b/ soldiers and rioters. Taloa or Horror. Authenlo accents of anti-Jewish outbreaks in Russia show that at Ktshlncff sevonty Jews were killed and a hundred and twenty were wouudod. Order is now ic? tor od. A mob at Ismail, Bessarabia, burned alive olovon Jews who had hidden in the hayrlok. Toe town of Kalwrasoh in Bessarabia wasjentlroly devastated and burned. Fifty-nine) Jews were killed or perished in the) flames and two hundrod lied to a neighboring vll ago where tho peasants beat a nutn ber of them to death with orudf;?ia md burned three Jows, after drench ing thom with petroleum. Vmtml Fir?. . > At San Franolsco fire broke out in .he Onronlole building last night while orowds were on tho roof watch ing the returns. When the art<in*a ir rived fchoy renou id tho impeviled men aud women on the roof with u ni mil ty A Bear ci of the burned promises revealed tho bodies of thies men names unknown, who wore burn? d bo a orlsp. They wore evidently mp oyes of tho art dopar'umont ot no paper. The building was' ten tories hh;h aud was erooted In l?H&t JOSH maj notexoeed 1760,000. i>. m t> on tho Holl. A passenger train oa the Rome, Watertown and O^denshurg railroad lound for Watertown N. Y. Weane** tay, collided head-on withs looomo* lvo drawing two freight oars, neat liverpool, six milos from here. Four ..ou were killed and one sarlouaiy mri. Milton F. Toms ot Lyndon ville, mall olork ls ono ot ilia men Killed Trio other dead wore mern oors of tue engl no crows. No palten? ?era was hut 0.