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BL fi ML%^' O "DO THOU, GREAT LIUERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVESIN THY ?OBSESSION HAPPY OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." VOL. XXX BENNETTS VILLE, ?S, C., FRIDAY, .DECEMBER 8, 1005. SOIL AND CROP Work of the United Hates Ag ricultural Department. IMPROVING COTT( N Experiments in South Carolina. The Sc* lection of (he Best Seed Improves thc Standard Varieties of Tot ton and.Ohtcr Crops. Tea drown in this State. Tho annual report ( f the seoretary of agriculture for the year 1905 has Just becomo avallablo and contains nuioh interesting Information relative to soil, orops, methods of planting, etc., lu South Carolina. In the breeding and improvements of cotton the Hf st experiments were n?Hde in 189?. At thin time little had been published oo .c.ming cotton breeding. The fr q-iv ney of natural orosslng in the Hold bas been given attention, bo that d I? rent varieties might bo grown without risk of mix lug and deteriorating. Tue correla tion of characters, the law governing the splitting of hybrids, the form of plaut and other Important matters have been carefully studied. The most Importaut problem in Die co ton industry is the securing of varioi ? . a as productive ns ordinary staple bk r's, tut producing hotter and louger lint. Tills c\n be done by two distinctly different methods. The tir.st method is to securo hybrids of the long sta pie, sea island cotton with the stand ard short staples, with a view towards securing new sorts which combine, first, Improved length of sta plo with largo bolls, opening web; H d, sec oud, the productivo charade/ ?. f the plant of the short staple. The de partment secured h) brida, ont ?iass'?r'vwhlch 1? a distinctly upland type and produces large round 5 lock ed bolls, has Que sllkly lint from 112 to 1 5 8 Inches In length and at mooth blaok seed, so that lt may ba easily ginned tn roller gins is desired, tie tiber of this will rival the 13 ?y ntl an and lower grades of sea island. Two other varieties seeu:od by the depart ment are similar, but have lint aver aging only 1 3-8 inches. IA second method of securing 1m \ jroved staple, which has given very striking results, ls ihu straight selec .Mpn of the standard short staple va rhy>iea. io was fbufid by caroful ex amlnation of such v.iriotios as Hui sell and Jones Improved, that there was considerable variation In the length of lint produced by different plants. Caroful fxperlrnents have been made with both those varieties and the average length of lint In the breed ing stock of these two varieties has inoreased from the ordinary 1 to 1 1 8 inches until lt ls now from ll 4 to 1 3-8 lnohes; meanwhllo the plants have maintained their full productiveness and all other good characters, All varieties of cotton have boen found to vary greatly In their produc tlvity in the case of d (Terent Individ uals and d li .rent strains of the same variety, (me strain, Pride of Geor gla, which has for si veral years been selected for Increased yield by a care ful system of pedigree breading, has shown marked Improvement. A con slderable quantity of this sied will be distributed to plant? rs In the spring of l??i), and in 11)07 a still higher grade of select seed of the same va rlety will be available. In the boll weevil infested area there is groat demand for earlier va rietlesof big boll ty pcs. The extensiv? experiments inaugur?t? d In lilt-J in this line have not yet reached a stage where safe conclusions eau be drawn, but preliminary experiments stated the year preceding have given oue very early strain, selected from a na tl ve Texas big boll sort, v. 1th which it has been compared. A limited trial distribution of the seed of this varie ty will be made in the spring of 100(5. Alargo quantity of lO^yptaln c ,tton is imported Into tills country annually and used in the mills, lt la not I m prut able that in sumo sections of the cot ton growing area su i table soils for this could be found. During the last two years thc bu reau of plant Industry hf s had a skill ed corps of men in thc Hold battling against the boll weevil, and wherever trouble along this line has been re ported, experiments have at once been commenced, The most Important vVprk, however, in this count clor, has been the Hel l demonstration wo k whioh lias had for Hs object the bring lng home to tho people practical moth ods of tillage, cultivation and plant lng to enable them to grow cotton de spite the prescr.ee of the weevil. Rice has recolvad special attention during the last six or seven yoars The Japanese, or Kfusbtl variety was brought Into the country and d Issi m inated. Since till s introduction thc develo/mont of the rice Industry in th? South has been phenomenal, Be tween 1800 and 1904 the rice acreage of Louisiana and T. xas Increased from 210,30o acres, yielding 170,019,203 pounds of rough rice, lu 1 ??.?*? to ?lO, 700 acres In 1004, yielding sun 42(1.800 pounds, an- increase of upward of 100 per cent In acreage, but far the great est lncreas3 being In Texas. In 1880 Texas had 178 acre? of rice, lu 1800, 8,711 acres, while In 1004 the acreage had Increased to 37<i,(>JO, or more than forty-three times the area under this orup six years ago. In the drug plant Investigations a Held study of small areas of many kinds of drug producing plant has been made in South Carolina and oth er states, and it has been shown that many of tho most Important kinds will do well where trlod, such as pop py, holladonnaV'x'h'gltalls, wormwood, poppormlnt, eto. Alricrican wornosocd has been grown in Sc ufch Carolina as a hold orop with a prout comparing very favorably with that of cor??lVoot ton and tobacco. ICxperiments havo been made dur ino; tho last year In toa raising, and dmli.g this,time 0,000 pounds of tea Whit were niano at Summerville. 1i muk lng the^e experiments lt has been found that the moat important varie ties of tho toa plant- that from Ceylon except* d m Ute a growth an<\ ?,,jv0 a yb.dd comparing very favorahly with the results produced in their own land. It has also been Bhown that negro otdldren make export to-.; pick ors when properly trained. BRIOrOROOML ROD 15 IN TRTJ?K KUM Short of Cut-h NVIiiloon Wcetorn WoildiiiK Journey, Because heran short of money on his wedding tour and had only cash enough for one ticket, George Frauois sent t is wife tim tub from 1) uiver to Chicago ou a pa sergar train, and hr himself atttmpted to ncako tho trip In a trunk aa h s wife's baggage. He was taken out < f thc tm lk at Omaha N.b., about tbree-qu irtors dead, bu-v tho wife got threug? her journey all right. Tnoy had scoured a lar?e trunk, put tn some provisions and water, i hr..ced lt thoroughly, cut bolos in lt fjr air, and after Francis tock his place the box was securoly locked and strapped. Then it was taken to the depot and checked through to Chi cago. i After beleg Banshee! around, thc . trunk was heaved into a dion Pad- , Ile baggage car and journey began. Just before reaching Omaha, Wed I uesday night, the baggageman heard < a j. roan in. m a pile of baggage. An c invoaigatli.n rct-ulted in his locating ( the source and with a gun in his hauu . tie demauded to know who was inside threatening to tiro through the trunk 1 unless he was answered. i lu muffled tones came thc answer ind the story, with a request that the I irunk be broken opeu and the mun 1 uslde bo llberted. This was done and i fiareis was assisted out. Ills trunk i lad been delayed ono train, and his I vater bottles had been broken soon t ifter thc trunk was fastened. He \ lad been without water for nearly i two dayB. Ile was taken to police < iiead(i mrters and later released. ''Io I was the most nmvkable rldo I over 1 took, aud 1 dont want any more of it laid Francis At (nuked Hy ti.UK>> Python Rudolph Fluegal, au anim il keeper it the Cincinnati Gardens, liad a nar row eacape tills afternoon from heit g crushed to death in the folds of a Hugo python quartered in the snake ' cage. Fluegal had gone xnto the cage ?0 sweep lt out Lu: uogleoted to take . the usual precaution of throwing a blai.ket over the reptile, which is one jf the larger/ tn captivity While he was at work tho immense snake at- ' tacked him frc.m tho rear, sinking its , fangs Into hts back. The ?fegcper's hexvy-ooat proteoted him f ronK* sor * lt iii lacerations, but ho was paulo ?trickon as he felt thc colls of the , long python envelup his body and dowly begin to tighten. Keeper El- * ward Coyne and th iee assistants rush ?.d in to the cage, and while the for mer beat thc reptile over the head to . make it release Its hold ou Fluegal, . the latter exerted their strength to unwrap Its colls from about tho keep irs body They did not succeed un till lt bad been beaton Into insenslbli &y. Fluogal was lu conscious when rescued and lt was an hour before the physicians resme?ated him. Ile ls j prostrated by the ncr vjns sliock diu , iO fright. ' Wholo Family Slain. 1 Near Ind?pendance, Iowa, Mrs. William Mcwilliams and her live chil 1 1 tn, ranging from three to c'g'iteen 1 ^ears In ago, were slain at their farm ?omeand the husband.and father has 1 e. u ci arged with killing tho members ( 5f his family. He declaros himself tc J J* Innocent. Etch port-.on had teen , Killed wtiii a hummer blow on the 1 icad. Mrs. Mcwilliams was atro 1 dowdy beaten, a few knife thin ts had 1 jecn inflicted on the crushed bi dy. In die woman's righi arm lay the cirpse 1 if the three-year-old baby, tts hood, 1 ;oat and mit tens or.o, and a piece of 1 mttered bread In one hand. Thc ' jaby had bien killed by one blow of i hammer on the head, The other children lay about tho house, dressed 1 in working clothes. Fighting m Cu bi?. i Tho Urst shots between tho rural I juards and insurrectionists wero tx- I changed recently near the center of I Havana province. A telegram has < been received from the captain of the rural gu irds saying that his d itach- ! ment discovert d a party of twenty la- i wrreetionl.-tsh cl by Marin i lt bau and Rafael Castillo, who organized thc jrlglnal band from Salud. Thc party, tho telegram says, after an exchange nf shots, lied, some towards thc moun tains and others across the liclds. Nobuly wa8hurt, with thc exception of a seigoant of the guards, who was thrown from his boise, lt ls report od that R ibau is wounded, but this ls not con tinned. Too M?ny Itiillot Holen. Jake Scott, colored shot and mor tally wounded J olin Walls, foreman nf the tunnel gang on thc Southern railway extension work between Jas per, Ind., and French L CK, Wcdnes clay evonlng. A poss*, composed of the workman associated with Walls, pursued Sott and carly Thursday re turned to town with tho (information that tbs b idy of tho negro had been found In tho woods s nd that hi had committed suicide, hitor tho Indy was found at tho place described by tho workman. Tncre wt rc thirty eight bullet holes In thc body. Oontro's tho Tra<lo. Albert K.cdorkul, at one timo a famous operatic baritone, now practi cally cuniro'8 the roast chestnut triido tn Nsw York olty, having In lils era plov an average of 100 attendants on his roasters. Ho lost his volco through brynohlal trouble years ago. Ho bo gan in a Sixths avonuo basomont. Now ho ls a man of substance and every summer yjBh^?j?y._ Cloven MIHHIII<. Tho steamer Ikuta, bound for Llac tung peninsula, collided with ttio steamor Fukara, near Mutsuro, not far from Shlmonosekl Tuesday night. Tho Ikuta, which waa Struck atfciu? gjiips, sank Immediately. Most of thoron board woro saved. Elovcn are mlss?Btf* BADLY SCARED Moving Pictures Shows General Trepoff, The Tyrant, His OWN ASSASSINATION. Thc Ingeniously Cruel Trick bv Which Thc Savage Russian General Was Forced to Cease Butchering Innocent Women and Chil dren and Resigns, A letter frc na St, Petersburg, Rus sia, to the New Y *rk American, says four very unusual moving p'? ureB have just succ ded In wielding a more powerful Influence over Genoral Tre pi IV linn tin mauds of strikers, armed mobs, plotth g aunlhilists, hired ai? lasatns aud ang-y men, women and ml'dren shouting for vengence. The pictures, lt ls said, have cvused the !earlesi Trop ?lt to quit his placo as ilo'.atc r of Russia, c ?lei of pillee and governor-General cf St, Petersburg, They have sucoeded In thoroughly 'tightening Trepell-in roaring him, u ract, almost to oeath. lt is reported that the entire set of novlng picures whioi, it ls declared, \ave cjv?co tins hitherto dauntless nan into abdicating 1 ii nearly bound ?ss powers c mid not be preserved in jaoi for all time, lt is reported that iiiey have been destroyed by some of ?he government's secret pollco, bu mt, However, hefore the pictures had lone the work for wt ich they were ntonded, and to them many attribute lis recent resignation, i TRKl'OKK SEES HIMSELF. The pictures liad just shown Tre poff himself bel?g blown to bits as a punishment for lils repression o? Rus dan rioters. This high elli dal of the Cz ir's em plie was attending a pcrfoi manco in jue of the State tlieatics and wis watching chromatographic views of )f President Loubet's recent visit to i<hc King of Spain. Ho was surround ounded by members of the Emperor's uurt and several titled woroon as well is many of his own stad? olllcars. The ilstlnguished party was gossiping, .vhisperlng and jesting, paying out ?cant, attention to the pictures bhown in the canvas, Suddenly tho Spanish pictures Whistled and a vaulted darkened room itood upon thc white screen. Aroona v table were crowded ab ut a dczen nen in thc act of taking a solemn m th, Their hands were outstreic led md their heads were bent low. L its vere drawn. Two men, selected for ioma mission, qu'okly left thc room. Then it was that Trepoff, who had ip to that time been moro iuteiested n his conversation with the fair Rus lian women, lu.'ned toward the can ?ras for the mysterious change in views ?he pictures on a baud of supposedly Itussian plotters natturally excited lils jurloslty. He was still unmoved, but io was thoroughly Interested. Q lick as liglitnsng the .Minaro in 1 if liovernor General Trepell.s palace n St. Keieisburg, v/im lus own itately mansion prominent in the foreground, replacer! tue don ot tiio jomp'ritors on tue screen. The fruiit loom of the building were suddenly thrown open and at the same m mont i li ie carriage ai d spired he'hes draw og lt drew up In front of too gover- ' mr's rosidt.uce. T ien 'Prep' IV saw, to lils ami./, uncut noving pictures of himself attended iy members of tile staff, wliom lie ils'j reuogniy. id, emerge from toe pal ice. They were aurrovnded by guards 'or tile Russians haye long promiser ,0 kill Trepell tile moment ihoy get ;he slightest opportunity. T/iat they will do so ho well kuo*s. Down t io biood granite steps the party moved, and in the next instant Llie C/.ir's military lieutenant saw himself spilog into his own carriage, followed by a st ff i 111 jer. Then the earriAge drove rapidly away. N v>kl Prospect appear. (I nix .with Its line buildings, broad oarrlago Irlvos and stately towers in the back ground. This was wiiere the Ku sian eavalry, the dreded Cossacks, nomthj mowed djwn by hUudrc-dS the rioters is well ns many innocent people who were merely onljokers. Along tin splendid street dashed a carriage which Trepoff as weil as every othur person In the thoatre recognized In 1 tautly as lils own. A man ran forward toward thc vehicle, raising his right arm, In the hand of which he was (holding some toing which was smoking. Pausing for better aim, he Hung the burning obj jct right under the carriage ann ?ailed back Into thc little crowd which had gather? d. 1 oere was a ll isli upward of blinding iraoko, whleh partially obscured tho carriage, lt soem< d as though the wheels had been blotted out and the vehicle left hanging In mid air. luau Instant tho vapors were dissipated and in the window of the carriage was seen distindly for a moment the fae. uf Trepell' contorted Into a whirlwind nf passion i.<nd pain. His arms were Hang upward and outward as though In tho extremity Of torror and tor turc. Tiie wheels of thc oarrlago were seen Hying through the air and the great carrlago horses wcro seattored In fragments far and near In tho road way. High above tho wreck of the vehlc'.e and flying among tho lecos of tho dismembered horses were arms, legs and bodh s of two men tho oc cupants of the ca??i?g?, Tiepei? au i his staff assistant. ijTrcpoff sank far back In his seat, and before hla attendants could gather around him to shield him from thc staro of fifteen hundrod pairs of eyes he was seen to cover his fi.ee with his hands and collapse. Two of tho women in tho oihoial b~x with Trepoff fainted. Secret service oil! Mais and tho po? lloo imbed toward niio cinematograph Some perKOD had insert* d tho assa^sl nation views among those which had boon pronared for tho night's enter ment. T ie machine was stopped on tbe instaut and tho whole parapher nalia, lt In reported, watt talton. Trepe IT had been trlekec I Ho knew lt In an Instant after lu; had collaps ed, but too lato. Tue nervous sbock had been administered, the olj^ct lesson blasted Lomo with the picture of a bomb. Tho governor emeral was rr.ore carried than ltd from the theatre b x lo his OM r l?ge. Try as his juice did to keep tue t. oat lug LU io gt z t from their master In ). 11 terror and agony, they oould i o'., and the authors of iho plot, to sbo-v TrepdT a moving pic ture of himself hoing assasslnatol, a< they had so of .en threatened him. must have seen that they had been successful. TrepdT has resined, Ho ls an unnerved man t\ r the time at least. He will leave St. Petersburg to as .uno tho o?iioe of O ?vcrror of the Imperial Palace at Poterhof. Tho ellice of Minister of Police for tho em pire ls to be abollsned. Tue Graud Ll ..ko Nicholas will likely bo appoint ed to tho military command of St. Petersburg. In preparing thc assassination soones duplicates wcie made of four of tho pictures in the series. In their ;>earcn for the maehinory and plc ores ihr: govenment i Metals knew nothing of them, for they hid neon inado ann kept by tho Niuillsts who had con creted and exoouted the plot, lt is In this manner that these pictures escaped. lt was duo to tho woidirful cun ning and ?kill of certain students thai? the assassination of Trop. IV was pro ducid in p.clure form before nts eyes. At secret meetings lt was decided that, while Trepell was a reasonable ouKoGor hatred, he was not really so bad and dosi vmg of assassination as had boon the O rand Duke Sergius. He was in nely tue too-willing tool of the autocracy. Ho might be terribly punished an i some good might follow. To make the plotuas ?ef thc as?as sanatlon was tho li st tiling ai d then ' to insort them in thc roll of li ms for thc perform aune at the theatre when Trepell stu,UK! be pre ont was tho other r< q .iioitc. Tao whole mat ter wasluftto a selected band, in one end of a wide room a sceuo paint ed lo rcpresout Trepolf's mansion and the driveway before lt was hung. iNt.vjkl Prospect was represented and hung in the same manner. The carriage containing thc supposed Trepell" was driven before lt, Fig urcs gathered, ono mau rusnod out Holding an empty bomb with burn mg fut>o atta.hcd. Ho threw it. i'nen another scene was reade by ox ploding som3 Hulling powder In lurmk-ss quant ty. Tue next vlow was mane oy suspending the carriage its wheel j being taken elf, In the ah oy means of ropes so painted that tney would not be seen in tho pic ture. Tuc carriage was t J keir to pieces : and tile sections laing in the air be- 1 fore the same baokgroun 1 as though tliov were being oluwn up. Dlsmom bertd sections of dummy horses were scattered around and portions of dum- J my men were hung consplcously in tue foreground. The homo tnrowor ( runs from the n:eue thc moment he hu ris tue tx plosive. He is then shown as being sit/jd andi arrested. In spite of all of tho i ll' irts of the 1 secret service of Russia and of all of [ Hie Cz ir's polico the students who ' devised and exeeutod the ploo to p c- ' ture io Trepi if tue Invetitable late willoh awaited nim if no continued ula oareer, have escipid. JSo arrests 1 have folio wed under uirect caarge of 1 this oilmo for orlme lt is in Russia. ' i n *.o tho plotters must have had ac complices among tho men in e nug of 1 the t late theaiics olncmatogtaph is ' pre bible, but if they any tue Govern aient with its cunning of generations ' and Its grtat secret seivice machinery has for oi co bee o completely h.. Ill id. li iitlng Heady. The .Japanese admiralty lias entered upon an elah rato scheme of naval tx panston wnleh ia expected to be ap proved at the coming session of the diet, according to advice reoelveu frcm Tokio. Ships with heavier ar m-.men 18 and higher steed will be built. ThoJ'jl Shlmpo says that tiie battleships of the future navy of Ja pan will display 22,000 tons armament of fourtoan 1- Inch guns and a speen of twenty knots, wolle tile future crullers will display 16 COU tons and nave a speed of twenty*live knots. An I m.mouse gun factory, with twenty large bulldii gs, ci v ?ring eighty-three acres, lg ben.g established on the Sumida river, near Tokio, by the Japanese military authorities, where ?1,000 mon will be employed making heavy ordnance. Yalu*) of A KIHU. Miss Kia Hamilton thinks the kiss slio alleges Hayden Maiq Us, a a wealthy young rnan, stole from lier ls worth v 10,000. At least that is the amount of damages she demands lu a suit filed lu thc distriot court of Dos Moines, iowa. The suit will como lo trial at tho Jami try term Miuquis ls tho son of it W. Marquis, reputed to bo a mililonare. Deadly football Carl Osborne, agod 18, was Instant ly killed on Sam day at Rockvale, Ind., in a football game between Marthall and H Honore high sounds, and Wm. Moore of Union college dlod In N JW Y ?rk on Saturday nig.it fromhjirhs received in Saturday'? game be tv? eon U don college and the University of N :w York. I'etrliled Turtle, While at work In tho Green Valley mine near .Jason: !!'", indiana, Wi. liam H illston, found a porfoct spec I m on nf A petrified tonio Imbedded In a six foot vein of coal, 10 feet un dor ground. When thc block of coal was broken its Imprint was loft en tire ai.d uninjured. Mur 1er AIM! Hiiloliie. Goaded by jealousy, Stevo Ozlntel killed his wife ai d then hlmsolf at their home In i\ rothy? l'a., a little mining village -Wednesday, HID SLAIN WIFE Whom He Mad Beaten to Death, in a Big Jrunk, \iND THEN RAN: AWAY. Thc Brute of n Husband, Who Took Two Thousstid Dollars of His Vic? tims Money, Tells His Wife's Mother That Plxbt Start ed About Whiskey. Through confession of his own mother, and undo and brother-in-law John Hammond now stands re used of the murder of his wife, whose body was found squeezed Into a trunk In che fireplace of their home on South h\,try street, Albany, N. Y. Tho po lice learned Tuesday t i?ht that II Am mo <3 was in Mcntnal and his arrest ls ira runion t. Al-.'hough Hammond showed extra ordinary foresight In preventing the evidences of his alleged crime from at traoting attention, he could mt, sc aordlim to bi) relatives, bear tho bur den Of his guilt alone. Before going to Montreal on November 14 ho told , his mother and brother-in-law that ho bcd killed bis wife and concealed ( tier body in a trunk. , .1 ufos Manglnl, Hammond's broth- , er in ?a v, was arrested Tuesday In , Oohoos andbrcufhtto Albany. He , told the police that on the night of ? N jvcinber 14 Hammond called on him , aLd induced him to accompany him to i Rouse's Point. On the way there both , mon 'look a number of drinks, and < Ilamtiond iinally told Manglnl that j on Sunday before ho and his wife had ( qu.rrclled. j Acsbrdlng to Mauglni's story, both a Hammond and his wlfo had been a drinking. Ilirara mtl wanted another < drlukfaud his wife would not let him , have it. In a lit of rage ho.picked up j au enipty bottle and lilt her on the head. I Ho lefo her lying on the ll jor * and wjnt Into thc mxt room for more i.'qiori When he came back she was dead. Then hammond, according to M m- ^ ginl's'jtory, roped ber body and put it t in the .trunk, taking pains to stop up e the dJ'tP^nd windows and to sprinkle ? chloih -jmo over the bedy and the ^ vr*tr ' 9 - - . - ? Mai.glni says that on tho train c Hammond showed him a roi i contain v lng $2,000 in h.11s. It was learned j Tuesday that shortly befo.o thc crime j wase >mmltted Hammond Induced his r wlfo to draw large sums from several ^ banks. O i Monday, the day follow- ? lng thc murder, he bought a $200 fur ., overcoat. v Hammond's story of tho crime, as ( told by Manglnl, does not agree with d the conclu nous reached by the phys!- j oians who examined Mrs. Hammond'.-- . Dody and who found unmlstab!e marks . of strangulation and many bruises. a Manglnl left his brother-in-law at j Roused Point, where Hammond te lu lim he was going into Canada. Tue police are searching In Montreal and AIQ v.oinity. The Hammonds aro a Dan? L idian-French family and it is thought i Lhat tho husband of tho murdered 1 woman may bc hiding with one of lii.i a Janadian relatives. Tho C tho s police e late Tu wday night declared that they I lad definite information that Ham c [Mond ls in or near Montreal. i Manglnl sa: s that H tmmond was f Dn tlie verge of nervous co.lapse on 'J tho trip toward Canada. At Rollie's f Point they went together to visit an i uncle of Hammond to wlu m tlie fugi- a oivo a'so coi I jsstd that he nad killed , ills wife. t The autopsy upon the woman's b >dy i has shown that she was strangled w i Ll i t ^roat violence, and that before death , site was brutally beaten or kicked, c Plio strangler gripped her to tlghtlj t that tbo hyolfl bone at tho baso of \ thc tongue was fractured Tue body lias many bruises on the face, ohest and hips. There seems to bo little doubt that 1 the murder was commlMel on the 1 afternoon of Sunday, Nv von ber 12, i for neighbors on that (iay heard tilt 1 plano played as she often pla)ed lt, c for slie was a musician of o msiderablc 1 ability. The nelgiibors say that the 1 playing stopped abruptly, and that ' afcer that no sound was heard fr< m 1 the Hammond apartment, though 1 Hammond himself was soon about the * house later that day. Hammond told a woman living on ' thc llrst ll )or of tlie ht ino, whioh was owned by Mrs. Hammo.id, hat his .vlfc had gone down tlie river to buy a farm, and wou'd bo absent so vera! d lys. it was learned Tursday that on No vember 10 Mrs. Hammond drew up ward o' $o )0 from Hie, nivlngs bani., at first receiving a Now Y oik draft, but next day exchanging lt for casi). Important In tills connection ls the fact oban no Monday, Novomber Ri, a man declared to be Hammond or dered from a leadmg clothing house an expensive fur overcoat. They could not lit him, and asked for a deposit on thc orner. He left what was sup posed to h ; two ten-dollar lillis, but when the derk examined them, after llimmond had gone, ho found the bills '.vere $100 each. At another place the same man bought other I c othlng and left his name and ad dress. When the house was searched Mon day morning a now pocketbook was found bellini tho plano, lt had a small lock, but had boen out to plooes. lt ls bdloved that this contained tho mutiny drawn from Mic bank by Mrs. Hammond. The tiouso where the murder occur red was formerly used as a polloo sta Mon, and at least three suicides and soveial fires aro said to havo ooourred thoro. Tno families now living thore aro respectable foik. A funoral in the upper storv of tho South Ferry street houso Tuesday led ! to tho discovery ot the mordor. ? I largo gathering of peoplo was drawn \ s to tho ,houso to attend tho fuaoral. T<).e doors of the Hammond rooms were found kcked. - The polio were called in and tho body was found. ' Tho autopsy Just performed hy Coroner's Physician Bomry shows that Mrs. Hammond was strangled to death two weeks ago,". Chief of P < lice Hyatt said Tu sday night. "Il may develop later that po son was given her also. Tnis mnst bo deter mined by the polier?. Investigation and tl o chemical analysis. "I hi?ve Obtained a photograph of tho woman's youthful husband and have had copies of his pc.ure sent oioadeast over tho country. He wai last seen on Nov. ll as he went from the apar'monts. Tue autopsy showk that the woman met d atu about tbls tim* II' r JoweJs-and al.e had mauj of them-aro raissirg." Mr.-?. Hammond conducted a mil linery business, by which she manag ed to mateo a smig littlo (ottilie. She was a widow fifty yea;soU when she married Hammond two years ago She was exceidingly j alousot him, and soon began to Oh&rge him willi llirt iug with young gl:ls. He denied it. To keep him from temptation, Mrs. Hammond I ad bim glvo up his em ployment as a oarpenter aod rcmaiu at home. She paid him a stated sum a week fer complying with her wish es. She gradually c it down bis allow ance. H j demanded more, aud quar rels were ot m 7ion with tb( m. Mud.) to IJOHV*'. At Dublin, Ga., H. C. Cristian, a barber, ar d Will B thea, a laborer, were severely whipped Wednesday night by oitizins of DJ/lu and run from the otuuty. The negroes con fessed to being members of a "Black Hat d'1 society which had sent threat ening letters to o'ulof of Police J. L. Jowart. They also confesstd to hav ng sent a vjry insulting and obscmo ettcr to C. W. Williams, a number if tlie legislature, iron Laurens. Puis letter was sent to Atlauta, and vas malled there They implicated i ll Ansley and Cisco Wllsou, two if g-o bar ners. Ansley is in jail tu' Wnson mado his escape. It 1* mn lelleve that there will be any scri ms trouble. Tho barbers hav ?eretofore borne good reputation^ ind there is^reat surprise that tin > hould bo guilty of such con ino. , Jhlc-f nc i ved two of thc letter.-,, out ifter Christian had been whippad. [ n the haters all of the policeman j md Aldeiman N. M. M jure were , threatened. Wood Alcohol J '..( ..i. ' At Belford, V,, Wallace W. (Vlnto, a druggist, Iiis son AI mon and tis daughter liva were arrested, oharg j d with manslaughter in causing one ?catii by poisoning of three persons. ' Vulto and lils sou ate. charged with. ' aiding the death of Mary Logrond ur, of St. Armand, Q lebeo. Auother varraut oliargcs the father, son and ! laughter wloh ciusing the death ot larshall S. Smith, and a th war ' ant alleges manslaughter \ nst . Volte and his ton in causing ieatb of Nelson Boyeson. lt has b^in 1 ,lieget! by tho police that the deaths 1 vere caused by wood alo )hol, which vas solo, lt was charged, by White ,nd his enlldren, w.;o aoted as clerks ( n the pharmacy. Tue alcohol was . lurohascd last week as regular alcohol ,nd Smith aliud B lyeson died Friday, . few hours after driuging tlie liq dds. ' rlr. Legrondour suoeumned Saturday. ( I n cw; ljuok. i Goorgc S tar ford, who had been a 1 lolioeman in Jersey City for the last 1 wo years at a salary of $?>:j Xi a month eft Thursday for L >s Angeles. Cal , ,fter having resigned his position on he police force. O vor nignt, so to say, ie nas bloome a rico mau, and ono ol lie prospective boira to a fortune es Lnatt d at about $60,000,000. Strat rd's uncle, au F ighsuman named L'-iomss Cntchlow, m ide an enormen -. ortuue by Borne Imp irtant invontionh ; u railroad appliances aud, being old ? md a batchelor, made an otiuit to ti nd erne of lils po jr rel itives, to let them ??joy patt of ids v/ialth, for which he iad no use. George Stratford is one if the n-, phews of the Old n an and , ?hen his rich uncle invited bim to lome to him, did not hesitate to pu!, ip stakes lo tho Kist to drop into a ,vell feathered nest. MI xml io 14 anti fc'rjuttl. B v. (1 jorge Ware, rector of th lOpiscopul Churo i of Lead, s. lo , bus jot n ludlotcd by a fed. ral gran , jury, ?barged with complicity In defraud ng the government of 125,000 acre.-? >f land lu li ,oi<er and Thomas coun iles, Nobra ka. Frank Lamber, ind Harry Welch are made joint do endants with Ware. Fach of tin nen are held in 65,000 bo.ni. Cises ire also pendlog against B;v. Wari; 'or alleged Illegal t IT moos. He is one of me wealthiest men in Lead, and ha men general manager of tho I. B. U. li'.neb, whlc i bas severa', thousano lead of cattle on thc ran^e of West :.o Nebr is lc a. MllHl llKIIK* At Val dosa, Ga,, the death sen tence was again Imposed Friday upon I.e. Rawlings, his sons, Milton anti Jessie, and the negro, Alf Moore, ill convicted of the mordor of tho Carter children last lune. The Otn of January, next, was llxod as the d.iy for tue ex?cution of tlie four. L911 Bawllngs, anotbor ion was sentenced to imprisonment for life. Killed n, t mn. Charles F. Doug ?lasi, a farmer, his wife and two ohhdrou were instant ly killetl Thursday night hy an exp?o don of a gas main nianing past their homo, throe miles from Weston, W. Va. T? cir home was wrecked and | later caught fire, almost consuming tho bodies. Tito explosion was feiL for a distance of tlvo milos and caused muoh excitement, it is supposed tho main sprung a leak and tho gas was in some way Ignited. lion? Trip. Fred O tofy, tho. young son of a Chicago tiontlst now practicing In Ma nila, Just started from San Fran cisco on his second trip around tho world. Ho ls still in his carly teens. Ho is not. the ordinary runaway boy stylo, but J ost a keen, wtdo awake Chicago lad, whose father knows he is very well ablo to tako oaroof himself and is letting him have his fill ol travel for a ye ar,or so. STEAMER WRECK KD. Thousands on Shore Look Cn Power lesa to Help Grew. Many Whom Froezo In the Wreck U toro the storm Abat ed ?nd Holp Itcaoh Thom. A dlspatoh from Du'uth says twen ty six men are believed to have frozen to death aboard tho United St ites Steel Corporation's oro steamer Jilt aa fa. which broke in half in tho sight of thousands In the harbor Thursday the ntl i ht of the worst storm that has swept the western end of Like Superior in twenty flvo years. The Mua.fa, wbloh loft her barge behind hill a mlle out of tho harbor attempted IU run the cana) looks. St.o was caught in the waves and da died against tho pier hoads. Io attempting to go about to get baok Into the lake, the great sea lifted her bodily, poised the ship like a toy and then dashed lt with crushing force upon the look of concreto mas unary. Thousands looked on from the dc oks helpless and the men on deok in their 1 distress appealed for aid through megaphones. Their voices were drowned lu the roar of the sea, but although those on shore understood ( they could not help. Not even a tug i could be sent to aid the unfortunate < mon. Tho sMip flually broke In half and j oho. ore was washed out by the angry \ sea. Fv>r hours tho men clung to the ? wreck untlll after dark. Trien all j signs of lift vannin d. lb is believed { all have frozen to death. Too steamer Elwood of the Stool j Corporation lleet, collided with the j North pier and stove a hole below her | waterline. She was towed to shallow ? water where she settled. It is repor- t ted the Sto l Corporation steamer j Mariposa is ashore north of Two Har bors. The steamer E. O. Pope turn- i id back and made the harbor, coming f through the ship oanal under full head ? of steam. c The proteo lon piers at Sn parlor >. were swept away for tho second time t this season. Thc main street of Du i .Utu aro tilled with wrekage of the c itorm. Two S eel Corporation boats t ire wrecked and another is sunk in i?he harbor. Tho steamor R. W. ? l? igland of the England Transporta- H don Company ia ashore on Minnesota j L'oint, r The steamor Crescent City of the ? Steel Corporation went ashore in the t olindlng snow driven by a 65 mlle \ in hour gale. Sho is in *)a3 shape B ind tho sea ls pounding her to V.uoos uti the roc.ci. Tau crow of f jwenty-two men escaped on lifo rafts u n tho leo of the stranded ship. Tuo r JrescentCity Is valued at a quarter of v t, million dollus. r A dispatch from Milwaukee says ? :ho Ot vjrnment llghtbouso at the t md of tho Milwaukee breakwater j, pier was battered by the high seas t iud the assistant light house keeper, r William Foster, was rescued with UtTiculty by tho lite savers. 0 lu all my experience on tho lakes- r ifoeen yoars-1 never saw tho like c U6foro. About 5 o'clock thc sea be t jan breaking over tho house. About r 1:30 I saw a partloular largo wave v coming. Involuntary I grabbed t the stanchion. That aot saved my v life. The wave broke in the entire j liast wall earring away with it all the c windows and dcors. I was carried along, and it was only tho beam 1 t lung to that btayed my progress and thus savid me from being swopt t Away. j Thc b'g steamer Appomattox, coal ( laden which went abh?re several j *eeks 8go, was battered to plcoes. The steamer D. C. Wtiitncp, coal laden, ran ashore during tho gale < ?it Purt Washington The life savers i rescued the crew. ? LAST NEWS. I The steamer Matafa willoh went < ashore at Superior, Wl3., and whose orow was forced to remain on board t went to pkc s Wednesday morning ( and nine ot crew were drowned. K Life saversmado desperate but futllo P efforts to get a Hue, to tho boat Tues i day night, lu the presence of thous- t ands of special rs a line was fired over thc ship from the cannon three times. Once lt *as caught and thos n thc forward end of the boat, whore ? it landed, began to haul in hut the j rocks on the bottom of the canal cut ho rop3 in two. When the storm died cir somewhat this morning thc life saving crew were able to begin t ie 1 work of bringliig tho crew ashore ? In tho forward end of the boat ? ill wore safe hut in tho stern it was ' found that all bad succumbed to . culd and were drowned. Fifteen were rescued. Mysterious Shooting. A dlsdatoh fri m Su oater to Tho otate says S. Yeadon Dolgar, former division chief State constable, and a prominent ci'iz rn, was shot d'wu in the street In front of the court house at 8 15 o'clock tonight by a regro. David Jonklns of Meohanlcsvlllo has beon arrested on suspicion. Ho was oaught picking up tho pistol that the man dropped who d.d tho shooting. Tho man who did tho shooting ran around thc sooth sido cf fro oourt house and disappeared in tho crowd. Mr. De?gar was sent to the Sum ter hospital. Thc ball ponotrated tho right leg somowhero above the knoe Joint. Tho sirgeons have not mado examination at this hour. ?..e of them says that lt may bo very ser ious, owing to the ex trenn heavy weight of Mr. Ddgar. Serious complications may sot in. KlUcit by a Train, Watlo crossing tho tracks of tho Ohcsapeak and Ohio railway at CulJ poper, Y i., Wednesday Pro?, II. S Aiaxatulor, a noted Presbyterian min ister, was struck by a train and In stantly killed. He was a nativo ol Ponnslvanla and a well known educa tur. HI g I*i o. uro. Thomas M Henry, a no tod British marine palntor, has finished a pioture of the naval battle of Copenhagen, April 2 1801, which covers an area ot 1)0 s juaro feet and iiaa ca lt 50 pounds o? paint. Tho industrious urMub wore out 60 brushes on ll. j BATTLE WAGED In the Harbor of Sebastopol Be tween Mutineers and Troops. THE LiTTEK GIVE TJP Several of the Insurgent Ships Were Sunk and the Others Su^cudered to tho ttussian Authorities. (ireat Damage Was Done the .Cliy by Shells. A dlspatoh from St. Pltersbm'g, Russia, Bays Sebastopol was on uesday thc scone of a desperate between tho mutinous ~ troops in the forts ou i the battle the town were bombarded Bruiser Oiohak^ burning v'? tts hull il au nhl MK red ed down. O chakoff were killed or sording to one report the barrad Dho m ii ti m ors was carried by storr ..flor tho mutinous ll jot, whioh is said bc have numbered 10 vessels, had sur rendered and the whole position ls aow In tho bands of tho troops under Dbe command of (Jen. Keplueff. Trie Associated Press, however, is unable co fcu&rantee the correctness of this report. O wing to the interruption of [be telegraph, details of the battle ire dillloult to obtain, but as the As louiated Press ls authoritatively in ormed by tbe naval general staff Phut day night, tho bittlo was begun iv the troops on shore, who opened ire on the Oichakoff, whloh was de? lantly displaying the red flag. The lommauder of the Otobakoff, Lieut, johmldt, Immediately accopted the dialleuge, replying wich both batter ers, ono trained on the town and other m the Fort Alexander batteries on be north shore. Captain 'AXlotti, aide de-oamp to Admiral Wlrenlus, chief of the naval [oneral sta if, informed the Ass. elated 'ress that tbe latest despatches eoelved from Sebastopol showed that he Obchakoff was on fire and badly lddled, with Its rovolutioaary oolors tauted down, but he was unable to ,ive mora d..Unite information. Aecjrdhw-to a more detailed repo?t rom another soureo and purporting to o me from the admiralty, the battle ?egan at 3 o'clock Thurs .lay af trrnoon, vhen Lieut. Schmidt, not reoeivlug a eply to tbe demauds of tho mutineers, pened Ure from a Hoot of 10 ships, o whloh the northern battories at) Tort Alexander, artillery posted on be shore and hevoral vessels which omalned loyal replied. During tho naval .ult lo the sailors n the M u uv. entrenched in tl ie I nu ? aeks defended their posltiou with ma hine guns and rllbs against the at* lacking lufautry. During an engage neut lusting two and a half nours, vltb the Olchakcif riddled and on Ure md the cruiser D.doper and another ressel sunk, Lieut. Soumidt, who baa'* . icen badly wounded, surrendered the mtiro t quadron. Tue mutinous sail irs on ;.. nue surrendered to tue Brest md B:elostok regiments. According to this report the Pan ieleinion, formerly the Knlaz Potem tlu, was Injured bolow tue water lino ind a torpedo boat ls ashore on the reeks. Wo details of tho casualties ur of ??ho damage suffered by tho town are obtainable at this timo by tbe admiralty, but owing to the confined pac- in whicii the action was fought, lt ls improbable that tho town escup id without heavy damage. Tho demands of the mutineers aro laid to have Included, besides the Af een proposals dealing with service conditions, the oonvooatlon of a oon itituent assembly and the complete eallzatiun of the liberties promised by le- imperial manifesto. Huit lKiiiiuu <;ii m .nu. Threo Oconee farmers-two Lowry mothers and a Mr. Hopkins-hava Drought suit against Clemson college for tUmages aggregating 950,000, al eged to have been done to tho plain tiff's farming lands by the dy kc wbioh ?be college authorities ercoted ten years ago for the proteotlon ot tho jollege farms against tho oveilljws of bi io Seneca river. The three suits were Hied in Ojjnoo, and are duo for ulai at the Mardi term of court, though it is not thought they will be reached by that time. In the mean time lt is thought that the matter will bo brought up in some shape be fore tho approaching session of the legislature. Tho malu defense of tho oollego people is that the college pmpyroy being state property the col lege oanuot bo sued wi thout tho state's consent, on the principle that thestato may not be sued by a residont with out its consent. It ia a now point in which the friends of ah other state colleges are equally interested with Clemson. Ki'Olil Harri ?tui?y A djuhle tragedy, In willoh two close frier ds and nolghbora, both of prominent families lost tboir lives ..ccui rod near Killy lilli in Maury o uoty, Tenn. Tho dead mon are Fred lOtrly and Henry Colburn, tao former having Hist murdered his friend and then kllbd himself. Both mon were studying to boootno preaoh ors, and Killy's mind is known to have hoon dethrone j. Ku ly used a shotgun in lils deadly work. Two Many Wlvoii. W. S. Franklin, a prombmnt man, pleaded guilty at lilrmbigham, Ala., on Sat urday tu tho obargo of bigamy, and was given four years In the pen itentiary. He had a wife In New port, Ky., another Toddvllle Ala., ?ud ??CM! just iijurr:'ju a third. Tho king of Spain ls a skillful and fearless rid r, a keon motorist, a deadly shot with either rltla or revol ver, a splendid foncer and an excep tionally olover boxen