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The Marlbor ??IX) TH, GBEAT LIBB?TT, ITSPIBf OUB lO&Li AW? S?AJfE CUB LIVES I? THY P06^JQ??ION HAPPT OB O?B DEATHS GLOBIOU? XV THY OA?MJ. ? YOUfcSXl. BENNETTSV?IXE, S. C., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 16, 1906. NO. HEARST LOSES * - But Balance of Democratic State Ticket ts Elected. FRAUD IS CHARGED By the Democrats, As the Returns Were Held Back in the Republican Strongholds In the County Districts Poi Some Pur pose Or Oilier. A dispatoh from New York under date of November 6 savs awordlner to Incomplete roturns from ail over thc State received up to 10 30 o'olcok to night, Charles E. Hughes, tho Ropub lioan candidate, has beeu eleotcd gov ernor of the State over William Hau dolph Hearst tho nominee of tho Dom ooratlo party and tho Independence league, by approximately a plurality Of 40,000. Two years ago Gov. Hig gins was elected on tue Republican tlokot by 80,600. There was Homo doubt expresrod to night at to tho fate of the Democratic and Independence league tickets out side of Mr. Hearst, sovtral of the New York newspapers whioh have been supporting Mr. Hughes, deo ar lng that there was a oh ano;.? that tho subordinate unicorn of tho Democratic and Independence league combination had been oleotod. The latest ligures seem to indicate that Mr Hoghes' plurality above the Bronx will exceed 116.000. To offset this Mr. Hearst's plurality in Great er New York will probably be frc m "76,000 to 80.000. In Brooklyn, where Sonator Patric* H. McGanen made a bitter fight against Hearst, the latter carried tho borough by a small plurality, probably, 4,000. At one time it seemed that Hughes had been Buocasbful in Brooklyn, but the late returns were ail Bt ron gi y lu favor of the Di mocratic oandidate, Mr. Hearst bas been given a major tty of nearly 70,000 In Manhattan and the Bronx. Q leeue county, whioh in dudes Loon Island C ty, has ?one for Hear3t by irom 0,000 to 8,roo and Riohmond (Staten Island) lias also given tho Dcmcoratio candidato a plurality. ALL OKI'S IN BUT UK A HST. With tho eulcial vote of but throe counties missing Thursday night, Lewis Stny vouant Chanlor apparently is oleotod lieutenant governor of tho Democratic-Independence leaitue tiok et by a plurality approximating i,? 700 votes over M. Linn Bruco, Re publican. To arrive at these figureb Bruce's probable pluralities in tho .??Ujfttii?s o' Essex, Oo*?*rio and Niagara aro bast d on tuc voto for tho Republican gubernatioual candidate. Fulton county is also missing ex cepting a statement of Bruoa's plural ity over Ohanler. Whilo Blight ohanges may bo mude in tho returns from several counties, it la not be lieved they will materially reduce Chanter's lead, but ou the contrary may lnorease it It appears that all the other candidate on the Democratic Siato ticket are eleoted by small pluralities. THINKS llKAKST WILL WIN. Chairman Conners of tho Demo oratio State committee Thursday issued a oall for a meeting of the full committoo to bo belo Friday The object of the meeting ls to Ce? vise plana "to safeguard tho interests of tho Democratic State ticket " "I decided early today to cad the Democratic State oemmltte together to proteot tho intercala of the State ticket," said Cnairman Conners. "From telegrams 1 havo received lt ir plain that the Rt publican mau" ino ib resorting to its old thievish knavery in order to beat our ticket. There is absolutely no doubt that tho tioket ls eleoted with tho exception of Mr. Hearst. There is also absolutely no doubt that the returns are hoing held back. There ls no doubt that Bruco is run ning behind Hughes up tho State 1 firmly bellevo that BU flu olen t lode pendenoe league vote:? have tot been counted in many counties to otcr.ase greatly tho pluralities of Hughes and possibly elect Mr. Hearst. "Wo are going to get an honest count of the vt to and we arc not only going to protect tho men making the canvaBnejft Tuesday, but wo aro go lng to get right to work now on thc matter." Illcw Out tho Oas At Pensacola, Fla., a man part?an. Identified a? W. E. Roger, of Luoa dale, MIKS., ls (load and ids wife ls in a dying condition aa the result of us phyxlation. The coupe occupied * roc m a Wright street boarding bouse. Failing to appear the door of the room was forced open and the man found dead. The ?oman ls still unconscious Letters in deceased's pecktts appxa to ideneifi him, There were abo fun: d upon his perron two rf vol v rs, a dirk and brans knuckles and 8;j60 sowed In the lining of his clothes. Hilled n Fiend, A mob of seyeral hundred white cit'ms from the oort horn put of 1*? Madison County, Fla, wont to Mad leon, tho county seat, Friday night, and after disarming tito Jiiler, scour od a negro prisoner charged with as sault on Mba Or?mbUng, a young white woman, near Ii >nson. Tin orowd took tho negro a snort dtstatot from Jail, whore bhoy hanged him to a tree and riddled lils body with bul lets. Tho negro bad been identifie? and confessed bia otime Explosion Ot' I'owdor. A powder magazine ownod by tht B. I. Dupont Company and situater at Tlnloy park, ab ut thirty miie from Chicago, exploded Thursday with such forco that wir.low panci wore broken in thc homo of the Mid lothian Club, turco miles distant. Ont man employed to watch the magn/lm waa killed, but no other lives wen lost. Tho oause of tho explosion ls not known. .*t GOT HOMESICK. FIFTY 1 MM Ki lt A NT.) HM KUH 10 TO WOUK AND Claim That Things Were Winvcpvo 8ontod to them Before they Came Over. Claiming that the oondltions horo wero not as had been ropresentod to them by immigration agents in their European homo, fifty of the immi grants who came ovor on tho Witto kind and wore sent to Darlington Monday mi ming lef i thoro Thursday afternoon for Columbia. TheBe im migrants were sent to Darlington at thortqueBt of Mr. O. O. Twitty, gen oral manager of tho Darlington Manu facturing company and president of tho Hartsvlllo cotton milln, to work in the cotton mills. After reaching Darlington they deolared that thoy had been told they would get $1.50 a day, house ront and board freo, and would be allowed to oultivate free of rent for live yearn a small tract of land, tho land to bcoomo their's if they remained for that length of time When tboy found that theso oondl tions did not prevail iii tho milis her they did not oaro to Btay. Mr. Twit ty tried in e er y way to induoc them to remain, but his efforts were un availing. They would not spend the night in tho houses provided tor them nor would they go to rcBturant. and boarding houses, at ?vbich Mr. Twitty offered to defray thoir ex penses until they could bo seut ols . whero, or until they cared to go;o work. They aald that thoy would aooept no favors, and spent tho night in thc waiting room of tho Atlantic Coast Line passenger station. Mayor McCullough, Mr. Henry Henning and other cltizena opene. negotiations with them, cffjrlng them all Boris of lnduoonoonts to get them to do work other than In the cotton mill, bub all propositions were rejected. Hoaring that Rome of their follow immigrants wero In Columbia, they lef o the station about 1 o'olook io walk to that olty, but Mayor Mc Cullough hoad thom off and promised to give them transportation on the train. TJIS offer waa accepted md they lift for Columbia on the G 29 train. They aro very homcslok, anc: ?.?colare thoy aro going back to their old homes, but it is hoped that they will become satisfied and oontcntcd in Columbia, or wherevor they may locate. As to thc immigrants, being brought to this country through false repre t.entatlons, Col. Watson absolutely repudiates any suoh suggestion, Col. Watson says that not only was he very oareful himself not to paint au> false piolines; not only was all litera bure used by tho department censor vatlve.and truthful\aoj^ojply?weKO ali che agents employed, by tho" depart trent lnstruoted to toll prospective immigrants tho exaot truth, but hr himself were about among ?he lrarxd grants before thc WittoUnd sailed from Bremen and satisfied himself that thoy were acquainted with just what they might ex pe cl upon rcaohlng this ocuntry. Tho Immigrants who went tc Dir ilngton aro Austrians. C d. Watsou think that tho wbolo trouble is that they got up to Darlington, were out off from anybody they knew and got frightened and very homesick. He cxpeots to take the matier up and to quickly smooth their troubles for tuero, providing thom with homet .md work whlcu they will fiud to thoir notion. MMiiAA AND EUACKRRB. Applied by Women to n Neighbor iv oman They Ltdn't Iilko. Four married wemen of the village of East Handy, four miles from Frank Un, Pa., on Tuesday treated a neigh bur to a coat of stove polish, molasteB and feather*. Tho were arrested, pleadod guilty and paid tines of $10 oaoh. The four women are rcspooted mom hers of tho community. Thoy ar?; Mrs. Yerda Lowry, Mrs. Bertha Br ink man, Mrs. Neille Glaze and Mrs. Hilda Pherson Their victim was Mn. Hattie Low ry, a sister In-law of Mrs. Verda Low ry, their husbands being brothers. The four women called at the homo of Mrs Lowry and to d her thoy in tended to humiliate her before the lout unity. Two of tiio women selz d her whilo tho other two daubed t? ove palish on her fane. Then mo tastes was poured over hor head and feathers were applied. Thus adorned, tho woman was marched from her homo to a railroad camp, where 200 men aro employed. There was a BuspenBlon of work until the self-appointed vlgl!anoo commit tee took thoir victim to tho outskirts of tho town, where they tied her to ? ;rre and loft her. A man carno along ?alf an hour later and released the captive. Mri Lowry oamo to Franklin and hi d warrants issued for tho women .Sheriff McElhlney went to E.iRt Sandy and arrested all but Mrs. Pherson, who wau not at home. When tho threo were arraigned be foro Alderman Henderson they plead ed guilty. Mrs. Glaze said they had no regrets 'or what thoy had dono. Sho said the tn m vu'? aotions wero Intolerable. Mts. Lowry, tim vlotlm, said thor? was no Justification for such treat, mont and that sho will centime U live at- Mast ?andy. DviiMinito Explosion, At Pittsburg, Thursday ono mai WHS killed, two fitally Injured an( ? dxtoen others seriously hurt in a dy I samite explosion shortly after nool , Thursday. The men aro all forolgn , ?rs. They wore seated about a Hr , eating lunoh whon a doz m atioks o . lynamltc, plaocd near tho Uro t ) thaw, exploded Ono man was blow; , ' o p cees, another lost a lng and th j 05'&i of a third were blown out. Tw j wero so badly injured that they wi Old. THEY MUST CO Negro Soldiers Dismissed in Dis grace from thc Army BY THE PRESIDENT, And thc White Officers Are to be Court martial ,-d. Fort?n First Time in Hindu y of Anny Mas Such an Order Been Issued* Unprecedented in fc':e history of tho army of tbo United States, is the action of the president, just announo ed, in dismissing in disgrace from tho army an entire battalion of oolored troops because of their failuro to dis oloso the identity of some of their nuiutrr who had beon guilty of violenco end murder. As an evidence, however, of his intention to be fair to tho colored i.rcmi, tho prcBldont has accompanied this aotlon by an order which amcunt to tho court martial of a white army rinser of high grade who was oharged with having casi ?iura upon the olored troops. The etciy of both aotlons 1H told in tho following ( molal corres pondence ma !e pubMo by tho military secretary: PKKSIDHNT'S OKDKU. "Tho rep-rt of an luv sth?ation made by Brigadier Gaueral E. A. GaUln^ton, iuspxto" gonevel of thc am.y reoulva to the rioio-js diutur b.^noe that (occurred ab Browngvile, Texas, on tl ie night of August 13, 1906, aud that resulted In the death of one and the wounding of another citizen of that olty, has b3en con sldortd aud aoted upon by tho prcsi dont. Following aro hi? Instructions with regard to tho matter: "Tho W.dto Homo, Washington, Nov. 5.-The Seoretary of War: I have read through G^ieml Garllng um's report, riatei October 22 1, sub mitted to me by you. I dlreot that the recommendations of General Car lington be ooroplliid with and that at tho came time tho concluding por tion of his report be published with our sanction as giving tho reasons for tho action. "Theodore Roosevelt." OKNEHAL DARLINGTON'S KEPOItT. "Following 1? the co'Oludlug por tion of General Girllngtou's report, whioh embodies tho reo mimendations ohat, by dlreotir.a of tbs president, will bo oarrled into effect immediate ly by the war department: "I recommend that, orders bo iseued Hoon t.3'~?rrtoMf..?.i>i-. .l-.'fiobr.rttlns:. without honor, over y mau' in u?m panles B, O and D of tho Twenty Hf th infantry, serving at Fort Brown, Texas, on tho night of August 13. 1900, and forever debarring them fiona re-onllstirg lu the army or navy of tho United States as well as from employment in any ol vii cupidity un der thc government. In making this rtoommsndatlon, 1 recognize tho faot that a number of men who have uo direot knowledge as to th? ldontity of the men of the Twonty-llfth Infantry who aouially tired the shots on thc night of the 13 .h of August 1000, will inoure thin excrome penalty. KKFUSKD TO TBLL, "it has bien eutabds?icd by a care ful Investigation beyond reasoatiblo doubt that the ilrlng into the houpcs of tho o'.t'zjns of Brownsville while tho Inhabitants thereof were pursu ing their peaceful vocations or sleep ing, and by which one olt'zDu was ?Hied and tho chief of police so seri ously wounded that he lost aa arm, ,/as dono by enlisted mon of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, belonging to a battalion stationed at F rfc Brown. After due opportunity and nobloe, the enlisted ffi&n of the Twenty-Hf th Infantry have failed to tell all that lt is reasonable to behove they know concerning tho shooting. If they had done tst ; If thoy had been willing lo relato an the chou nstanoos-In Htanoes preliminary to tho trouble it ls extremely probe.blo that a c u: sutlloloutly detl.dto to lead to results would luve been dl:.do*od. Thoy ap roar to stand toget) er in a determina tion to resist tbs dotcotion of the guilty; therefore, obey should stand together when the pon^lty falla. A .ore ful lesson should bo glveu to tho army at large, and enpeclally to tho non-commlitHloncd otnoers, that tholr ?iuty doe? not ocaso upon the drill ground, wlfch the oalllug of thc com piny mils, mu klug chook inspections and other duty of formal obaruotei; but that tholr responsibilities of otllce accompany them everywhere and at all time.-; that it ls their duty to be come thoroughly acquainted with the Individual members of their respect ive units to know their ohar?oterlst c.-; to bo aldo at all times to gaugr theil teinpsr, in order todlsoover the beginning of discontent or of muti nous Intentions, aud to anticipate any organized aot of disorder; that thoy munt notify their ? fillers at once of any such oom it-loot ; moreover, tho people of thc Un'.ted States, wherever they llvo, muit feel assured that thc men wea: log the uniform of the army aro their probooi.or.-i, and not midnight as?m;iHius or riot' us disturbers of thc p:aoa of tho community in which they may be Btatloned, OUT OUT T1IK NICO KOKS Os Oitobor r>, loco, a squadron of tho Ninth oav?lry, an organization of colored troops, reported at Fort Sheridan, near Ohlcigo, III., undOJ ordors from tho war doparbmonl ".fslgnlng thom to duty thoro. Soor after this asslgnmmt there ap;oaret in the public press the following ao oount of a ststomont alleged to havi boon made With rogart! to tho matte by Colonel William L. Pltohor Twenty-seventh Infantry: " 'Tho negro troopi would neve havo been quartered at Fort Shorldai without a protest if I was to reniai] in command hore,' said Colonel Pltoti er. 'I never liked thom and tho fai I the* away front me thoy ar? kapi th > better lt pleases me. For tho life of me I cannot see why the United States should try to make cold lorn out of them. Certainly tluiro are enough fine white young men in this big country to make soldiers of without recruiting from suoh a source. ' I'KKSIDflNT B00KE8 COLONIAL, Washington, Nov. 0.-"This 'alleg ed statement by Col. Fltohor having been brought to the attention of the president, the folliwlng oommunioa tlon with regard to lt was sent to the war department by Seoretary Loob: "The president dlreots that an im mediate report bo oallod for from Col. Pitohov to know whother or not ho IR oorreotly quoted in tho enoloHod olip ping; aud If be lo oorrectly quoted tho president dlroots tbat proceedings he takeu agalost him for such punish mont as can bo Intlloted. Tho presi dent thinks that suoh conduct is but littlo better than that of tho effond lng negro troops themselves. "Very Truly Yours, "Wm. Loeb, Jr., "Secretary to the President." SHOOTING AT HEATH SPRINES. Dr. Mol)o\v Shot ?nil ?nelly Wound ed by Mr. nridfrtti. A speolal to the Nows and Courier from Heath Springs says J. A. Bridges :diot Dr, E S. McDow, of Lauoaster, at 12 o'clock on tho street thoro Thursday. Throo shots wero ilrod, taking effeotin both arms and in the loft leg. No words passed bobweon them before tho shooting. Dr. McDjw started toa buggy to go out in country when Bridges open?d Uro. Tho ilrst two shots blt Dr. M> Dow In one of his arms and in his left leg. McD >w turned and ran towatds Duncan So Hammond Oom pany's store, and as he reached Mu front door Bridges reloaded his gun and shot him in tho arm. It McDow had not turned tho load would have hit him in tho abdomen. lb all took plao? so quiokly that no ono was ab!e to acslst the wounded mau. Dr. Moore, who dressed the wounds, has not Bald anything concerning them, but tho general opinion is that D/. MoDow will live. Bridges was walking down the street when MoDow started towards him from tho upposlto side and hs, lt is said, thoughht that McDow wan go lng to shoot so he opened Aro. After he had had sit?t one time McDow .mid up one arm as though to ward ir a blow and Bridges shot ag i in. McDow then fell and some of tho by stander tried to keep Bridges from shooting again, but he, it ls allege* pushed them aside and reloaded. MoDo?^ cried for thom to keep him from being shot again, but thoy seemed helpless. It is said that MoDow had a pistol in his pocket and so thone who were near Bridges were afraid to go up to him, aa they thought McDow would shoot also. ou?-'w'?B scattered all to picots, 's . will be amputated and probably th other also. He was o&rrled on th: 8 P. M. train to tho Rjck Hill Hos pital. His wifo carno frem Laucas ter imjQodiatoly af tor tho "hooting occurred. The shooting ls said to have grown out if a longstanding feud between thom. io ultim; m Georgia, Job Hicks, a negro, waa lynche' Taursday night ab Salt City for the murder of John Akrldge. Hicks waa arrested Wednesday ab Vienna, whence he was brought to Moultrie hy Sheriff Forr' und, of Doulv Count , nd Dr. W. W. Stevens, of Salo City. The negro was hold temporarily In a very stable, whence ho was spirited away by Sheriff Forehand and Dr. Steveus whon nows oame that a mob v/as gathering, f ney started for Sale City with the negro, but Information oamo from that plaoo that a mob was gai.htrlog there to intercept them. Efforts to lind thc party and apprise t.'iem of this faot failed. Tho Moul trie Eitles, ooinmiuded by Capt? Adams, left at once for Sale City and C-pt. Adams telephoned that the military arrived too lato, for upon the arrival of thu negro and his guards Hloks had boon placed In tim city guurd hoiiho. Tho guaid house was stormed by a mob willoh took the prlsonor out aud lynohed him. Saturday night week nick:-, killed Mr. Akridgo. A toward of $400 for his arrest had been eft .ired. Thursday near Pdiham Blrvs's wife and another negro wore shot to death hy perdona unknown. Eight Wit o Durjc'or, An unknown nogro attempted to burglarize the resldcnoo of W. H. Bridger., a farmer living in tho upper part of Greenville county Thursday and v/as ?hot and slightly wounded by tho farmers 14 year old KUI. There was no ono at home at tho timo but tho small bov. Tao negro was In the act c' rill lug tho con fen s of a drawer when discovered. Wita a great deal of pluck tho boy abtue tod tjhe negro llrst with a knife, but being held off by tho negro, who slashed at him with a razor, young Bridges secured a gun and put tho burglar to ll.ght, wounding him with small ?hot. The negro has not been captured. Killed in Hod, Dlstrlot Judge Stanley We'.ah was assfiBslnatod Wednesday night in hi? bcd at Rio Grande City, Texis, whore ho was holding court. Thera la no clue to tho assassin. There has been great excitement rtoftiitly over tho election and lt ls presumed tho assassination grew out of this In somo wav. [ Dootor lt tl Inti by Ooi>Kre8?in?n, 1 H. L. Favrob, who Wednesday was oleoted to Congresi on the Demoarath & ticket, Wednesday night shot anf 1 killed Dr H. H. Aldrioh ab Bator 1 RDugo. Tho shooting followed an ar " gumont over tho campaign whlol * Favrob had won. IMonty ?old. The production of gold in tho minc r of South Afrloa for tho month of J um ii S'OOWB the largest produot ever record n od. In tho ilrat six months of tb i* ourrent year tho produoblon w*s near 1> i6,000,000 greater than in the coi ei responding time????? y???. J ?%BE IN WILD TERROR. Panto bausod by Incondlnry Mrcsln Now York Gity. At Jtfew York one woman ls dead, a mac & In a hospital st ff .?ring from sevoref burns, two thousand persons Hid from their homos In paolo, and chouBahds more passed a sleepless night jp a result of a series of ln oencM^y fires In the two blroks bound.id by Sixtieth and Sixty-Hr-.t strootaand ?olumbus and Weat End ayentte early Friday. Hour os of per sons whose lives were endangered by the conjugation woro re&oued by tire men. 1.? Ul tin)J o were five Ores, every one ofithem incendiary between mid nighVaud 3 o'olook this morning. The rapidly iuooeeding fires, the crowds of evicted tenants and terrifying ru mors' spread through the neighbor hood, ?jwlth tho oo ?tant appearance and ^appearance of fire onglnes, and the big r quads of police raised the poopl<y throughout tho vioinWy to high pitch of excitement which did not h ;.'!!> until daylight brought a mea&pre of assurance, that tho in oendlarlsra was Btopped for awhile. The oxoitemout spread ovon to Broadway and in tho Marie Antlonette Ausojila, Bullo Claire, H .io pire and othor big hotel?, In tho neighbor mud of Llnalon Square, the guests wor^jiroujed bv the commotion in the St. Pa,ul hotel, and the HoW Hu Ison, bobli olose to tho fires. All the? guost> werojaroused and fow slept any moro. AV the houses where tho fires oo owned were li it houses, three of them coouplcd by whites and two by no j roc:.'., moot, of tho tenants wero lt bcd when the tires broke out, and es capea to th* streets In the scanties of clothing. Frank Morris, of Boston, a vaudeville performer, was arrested OL suspicion cf setting tho flreB. The P3I10? allege that in eaoh of the lim no tenants reported that when tho) Hid from their appartments, Morris waa the fl -st person they met. When Morris, whoso home is In Boston, was arraigned in the police court, Fire Marshal Priai oxproBsed the opinion that he was mentally ir responsible and askod thc. magistrrto to commit the boy to Bellovuo hospi tal for Ava days for examination. Too magistrate refused, and held Mot.Hs in ?2 OOO bail for a further oxamlnatlon on Sunday._ i DERAIL MdlL CAR, ? ir;, limul ol During Kobbnra Uno Bombit In Poland. vt At R?gow, Russian Poland, tnt Corroies havo thus Tar been unsuc cessful in their pursuit of the r?volu Monist train robbera numbering a hun dr? veil armed men who at 9 o'olook Fri' waight surrounded their station tbr. i three bombs at the mall oar of a ir il train while engine i were being otu- >;cd, derailed the oar, robbed it. with *<"?n nf raonov nol^,','.*' to amount co ?650.000. The station mas ber declares the rev olutionist hid In neighboring forests and wero excellently disolpllnod, their o, Emander giving orders through bugle' signals. Wnen the robbery was OJtnpletcd the revolutionises trans portibd their booty to two wagons aud uiarohed off in military order, sluglm Socialistic songB. When tho train stopped the men armed with liflia sprain/ upon all sides quickly executing orders conveyed by bugle, Gendarms i.v,<n lng In front of loo Biatlon were shot au 1 killed and the r?voluMoultts pUocd sentinels at ill tao approaches and cit tho to'c graph wlros. Wnilo?ouie of them o .??(? powered the trainmen ofm-rs attaoked che escort of tho mall car. Of tho three bombs throwi two ex ploded wit h terri flo foro J, blow ng Un O?WB Into matohwood, killing tl VJ sol dlcrs and mortally wounding elevi-L othors. Tho revolutionists then ran stroked the mall oar, transferred bant notes, gold aud silver to their own b:vtfB and unfolding a red ll.tg forme(' up in military order, mucucd out ol tho station and entered tho wagem willoh wero In waiting In tho foresi aud dro?o efl. A detaol.-niant of Cos sacks sont for is now in pursuit. DR. MATTHE WU bUl'JIDES. Oonvlotod of Poisoning Hts Wile Shoots Himself, In a cheap lodging house on sst Baltimoro street, Baltimore, at some time during the 24 hours paoo?odlug 2 o'olock on Monday afternoon, Dr. J, Bax tor M-'.tthow.i of G;omsb>r>, N. 0., blew out his brains with a sho from from a 32 -calibre revolver. Dr. MitthcwB wan oonv.'otrd Miro'1 0, 1900 at Greonsboro, N. O , of tho poisoning of his wife Deo 1 1905 Ho hal hoon ont i f custody un \ , b .11 pending the deolalsu Of hi : ap poal for a now trial, willoh wai de nied him, and relatives a id bunds men have been searching for him for sume v/eoks that ho might bo taken before tho oourt to be rosentouced. in tho absenoo of any dtflulte rea son for his tt\klng his lifo lt ls supposed tn at he did no rather than servo th? sontenco, suld to bo 20 years in the penitentiary, to he imposed upon him. At tho l;dglng house whoro he ended his Ufo ho gavo the name of iii J. Graham. I in mod I atol y aftor his conviction, whioh was of murder |n tho seoond degree, Dr. Matthews bcoamu a pa tient at Mount I Lipo lt itrea,b, ne ai this city, aud was there undor treat ment for tho morphine and liquor h%blti for somo mont hs, Anally being discharged as cured. I?W(I?.) UOAttlM Jllk'V. At Doth?n, Ala., when tho trial ol Wea. Orookctt, a white man, charged with tho murder of Lum Henderson, a negro, ended Friday. Judge Hcnrj Poaroo, in dismissing the Jury, deoHr ed that it bad acquitted Orookctt bo carno ho was a whito man and har klliod a negro. In oonoludlng Judg< Pearce sa'd: "If the dead man har neon a wbito citizen it would nothayi taken you two hours to have returnoc a ve;rdlot of guilty, and I don't sci how any merni er of the Juryoan g< from this Oourt nouse and faoc hi follow oili/.tns in the street." Thinks Result of Election Shows That Democracy is GROWING STRONGER. Says That McCarren, McCIallan, Jereme and Croker all Contributed to De feat of I lcm hf, Whose Heroic Struggle Brought Victory to Rest of Ticket. Commenting on tho results of Tuet?* day's election William J. Bryan Thursday night issued a statement, in part ss follows: "Tho elcotlon of 1006 Indicates a trend lu favor of tho Domooratlo party. It proves that tho Domoora tlo party ls growing stronger as Re publican polloioi are dovoloped. In Now York the party has won a signal v'otory in spite of the tremondous ffortB put forth in behalf of the Ad ministration. Tho Republicans had all tho money they wantod. They had tiro support of all the great cor porations and at tho olese they had whatever tnfluonoo the Administra tion could lend. The fact that the Demccrat8 elected evory State officer excepting the G >vernor shows that In '.ho Enplro Hiato tho Republican party han been repudiated. The defoat of Mr, Hearst, the Dsmocratio and Indepeudenoo League candidate for Governor, while a groat iisappolntment to Iiis friends and to boo party, is explained by facts whloh rob Mr. Hughe's victory of both glory ind political significance. Mr. Mo Jarren, whom Mr. Hearst denounced is a boss, throw, his influy?os to flu^hea and out down Mc. Hearst's /otes In Brooklyn. M J.y or NoOlel an, the legality of whoBO eleotlon Mr. Hearst had denlod, used his influence for Mr. II uglies and out do wn the Hearse vole in N"w York. Mr. I cromo, tho prosecution attorney of Now York, who had also boon attack id by Mr. Hearst, supported the Rv iiublioan ticket and nts Influence was reit in Greater New York. Mr. Jroker, during tho last days of the lampaign mado an attaok upon Mr. Hearst which doubtless weakenod he Ddmooratlo candidate among the Tammany Hes. Mr. Murphy, the ?ead of Tammany, while supporting ?ho ticket, could not put much en nuslasm into tho campaign owing to jhe personal controverses which he tad with Mr. Hearst. It is ovldent, therefore, that Mr. Hughes owes bb, victory nob to ll publio.iu votes, but bO Domooratlo yoto.8 brought to him ?y-fchiv.yorv mmjtijlfim we aud the ftjpuoiidan i?a'?ers Bavo bft?n oe?; auunolng for years. 1 'President Roosevelt cannot Und v?ry much cau^e for rcj doing in tho Now Yoik returns. To have his own Stato go Damoorttio cannot be gratifying to bim and to fl ad that his personal attack upon Mr. Hearst had nttlo li il jenoo on the result, oom pared with tho InA'.ucDOe exerted by McCano i, Murphy and Croker, will not gladden lila Thanksgiving Day. The President's paramal attack on Mr. Il art was in bal taste, co say ino 1 aut. j "Mr. Hearst is, of course, disap pointed, and yet when all the faotB vre known ho ht's much to coogratu l xto himself upon. Ho made a tre mendous light agrdnat great odds, md while ho himself failed of election ila horoio struggle brought vlotory to <he rest of ibo ticket. Ills personal .nomies have contributed to hl>? de feat, but tho triumph of IIIB ideas ?till leaves ulm iu a position to con duue the light for too protection of tho public vgainst tho encroach ments ot predatory wealth. "If tho trend toward Domooraoy oontlnu. s t.a ationg for tho next two yeara as it bad neon for the last two years, Now York oan bs couuted among tho Domooratlo States in 1908, and Mr. Hearst ia in a position to oo valiant wo.k lu scouring a national triumph for progressive, Dcmooratlo ideas. "Tho Republ?oxns have had an ef fective campaign cry in 'standing by the President.' Wnile tho record it lowed that tb*> Democrats in the Senate and House stood by the Prest dent batter than the Republicans, the admirer.i of t io President vbry natur ally gave weight to hi? appeal for a Rmubltoan Congress, aUhough In oia^lug thc apprial the President pul a personal vio.ory acive tho reforms whloh ne bas been advocating. Two years from now that appeal will bo cl no avail, for the President will not be in ( dl:e uftsr Mwreh 4, 1008. Even If ho wore a candidate-whlOQ no friend of his can axsumo after biB repeated leoUratloUB-he would bavo to con front tho thud term issuo, and who would Bt-.y that that issue alono would nut lose the Pr?sident enough vote* to mako his raoe hopelesb?" WOMIAII Pound Muddrod. Mrs, Ernest (llbton was found mur lercd in her coal shed In Lindale, Ga. Wednesday afternoon. Her hus ban/ and Miss Matilda Browor, employee by tho 0 lisons as a nurse girl ant housekteper, are auspcotod of tin crime aud are bold in custody, pond lng tho result of the coroner's InvoBtl watton. Mrs. Gibson returned homi io her baby ab noon and Miss Browe reported Unding her body an hou lator. Mis. Hayes, a neighbor, toh the coronor that sho saw Gibson rui ' from the coal fibed and throw away i I o'ub a few minutes before Miss Browo reported Unding tho t ody. The oor ditton of tho body lndloates that th . woman had been beaten to death wit . a dub Gibson lg known to have bee I very attentive to MIBB Brewer. Now >< uni Hr lok. 5 A superior fuel brlok of equal par! 1 of peat and coal has been envolved i B a Bremm brickyard. Tho mixturo r o suited from many experiments, ac ? after failure to not Ihe peftt to u tor paving brloks" Kt!PT HIS CASH. GAVE IT TO INTENDED TO ?ET A DIVOHCh), An Aged Van Who Wanted k'ome One to Love, bat Found it Fxpenilve. Hiram P. Holmes, o? Weal Hurley, Ulster County, New York, begun an notion In the Supreme Oourt against Cornelius Du Mond, a politic!au, to recover $500 willoh, be says, he paid Mrs. Slater upon condition that oho get a divoroo and marry him. He al logos conspiracy and false pretences. Holmes ts sixty-seven years old and a widower. While In search of a house keopor a year ago, he says, ha was urged to see Mrs. Slater, who, he was told, was unmarried and whose real name was Graole Ellsworth. He says lt was proposed that it Mrs. Suitor would marry and care foi; him he should leave her $1,000 at his death. Ho acoeptcd. Then he reooived a letter from Gra cie saying that she was married. She wanted $500 to get a divorce Holmes says ho paid the money to Du Mond, who passed lt on to Mrs. Slater. La' ter, he says, the woman deolared she would bring no divorce aotlon, never intended to bring it and that she and her husband had the money where he could never And it. . Mrs. Slater says sho is proteoted by oho following agreement, whloh Hol mes entered into: "This agreement, enterod into this 2ad day of January, 1900, between H. P. Holmes and Graoio Ellsworth Sia ter: 1 do hereby make her a present of (500, willoh is to be ber own, to spend or do with as Bho may see flt, she promising to booome my house? keeper and companion. I also agree to furnish her with money for ni o', clothes and other necessary expenses, and, providing we are both satisfied, I promise to givo her $500 moro, and if she remains with rte throughout nfc I promise ber niter my death all that I own. In oase of any dissatis faction, thou I demand this agree ment and nothing more, she to keep tho $500, but make no further do manda." She went to work for Holmes on January 14, and within five minutes, dio says, discovered that the aged man possessed more than a platonic ft1 ot um fo.-h H. Bu. sha admits sh* j igreel to marry h'.m, provided she ob c ained a divorce. She still ls willing i bo oarry out her oontraot, she deolar es. jj Previous to the agreement there was muoh correspondence. Holman's tlrst letter to Graole was addressed tb 'Kind Lady.?? "I am all alone," he|( wrote, "and i am tired of doing my 11 own cooking. I am a good and kind man, no bad habits, living a Christian life. I will further Bay that it you wish to make a ohange and be trus and faithful to me, I will make ovor to you over $1,000 in oash after I get prised." But she oontlnucd. "It would seem awful nioe to have a nloe cosy 11 borne of your own sod some one to love you. As for cooking or baking you oan ask my Missu3. Sbe tells me I am Al, and I think myself I am vory good at it." Mrs. Slater oan neither read nor write, and tho lottor was written by Du Mond at her dictation. Holmes got down to businops In his uext letter, whloh ls addressed to "My Dear Lady Friend," and continues: 'You Bay before you will oonsent to come I must promise to give over to you $500. When I told you what yon will get whon I got through with it, I certainly oannot draw out my money to give to any ino to spend before "uy eyes. It is my honest dollars that have saved. You say your age iu| twenty-nine. You wanted to know my ago. I am twenty two year** older (In his oomplaint ho swais to being slxty-soven years old.) My age does not burt me. I foel Just as good as if I was twenty years. Why, dear la ty, I am very tender over a wife; do anything to please her. The one 1 lost almost killed mo, and if I oan aooompllsh getting anoth er one, why I would almost think you were an angel of heavon oome unto me." MyBtoriouB Killing. What led to tho shooting and kill lng of Dr. H. H. Aldrlob at Baton RDUgo, La., Wednesday night by hlB life long frlond and aasoohate, Judge George K Favrot, ls still unknown. Dr. Aldrloh's friends offer no oxpla nation for his death, and Judge Fav rot, af ter spending the night In jail, said nothing to supplement his expla nation that ho had "suf?olont cause. " It is reported that Dr. Aldrich had ;oon warned that Judge ITavrot would shoot him on sight. Judge Favrot is ono of tho leading figures among Louisiana's domooratio oongression al nominees and was on Tuesday eleoted by a majority demonstrating unusual popularity. Both men were married and woro leaders in tho soolal and professional lifo of Baton Rouge. Unroll by Mad Htoor. Trapped In a pen and battling for his lifo with a maddened long-born Colorado steor, Moyer Mintz, a oattle driver, employed by the United Dress J nd Beef Company, at the abater at ) Forty-fourth street and First avonue, ] was gored many times before he was rescued, and he is in a oritioal oondl tlon in Flower Hospital. Mint'/., win ls fifty three yeais of age, lives with his family at No. 868 First avonue. Tho High-Divo Curo. \\ In Kovero, Minn., they take drunk ards and give them what is locally oallod tho "high dive ours"' by duok lng thom in a tank of wator situated In a convenient looatlon in town. A oouplo of dips is all that has been re [J I quired in any oaao yet, and t e chron ic offender Walnut Grove .ho wat lmmessod one ovoning has novel shown up in Revere since. Battle With Ilwbborn. Marshal Glover and Doputy Sherll lt Lake ware killed on Friday li a Ugh e with two mea who had rohbed tw id stores in Klnnewiok, Me. One ot tb se robbers v-as also killed and tho otu* WM oaptured. FOUL PLAY. "vident in the Mysterious Death Of a Preacher Who DIKD IN THE WOODS Near Craig's Crossing Just Off Angosta, Qa. Family Refuses to Accept Body of Rev, A. B. Rojaba After lt Had Been Identified by Porty* one People. The Augusta Herald says the mys tory surrounding the death of Rev. A. E. Rojahn ls being cleared, and it de veloped Thursday that there ls an ag ly shadow In the baok ground that will probably never take a definite form. It was noticed, as the supposed tramp, who died in the woods noar Graig's Grossing, on the Sunday after noon of Ootober 28, lay at undertak ing establishment of Mr. R. E. Elliott, that there was an ugly bruise upon his nose, and that two of his front teeth were out. At tho time, the marks being upon the body of a supposed insignificant tramp, no suspicions wera aroused. However a chain of evidence develop ed since to the etteot f iat tho man had been severely beaten, and the mystery of his being in the woods has been solved. Were it not for an unusual happen ing, the death of Rsv. A. E. Rojahn. sn apostollo minister, would have boen forever an unsolved problem to the general puhllo, and most especially to his fleck at Langley, who waited in vain for bis coming. After being identified by forty-one members of the apostollo faith, who 33nduoted the funeral service at the undertaking establishment last Sun lay afternoon, tho body was sent to Dallaston, Fa , all expenses necessary laving been telegraphed by a brother if tho dead preacher. Recently Mr. R. .J E.llott was mystified by the re elpt of the following telegram from )?llaston, Pa.: "This ls not the body of A. E. Ro ihn, advise disposition. Produoobody ii return money. (Signed ) "FRANK ROJAHN." Kw, J. H. Benson, o? Laugiey, S. 3 , was in the ol ty Thursday moro ng and stated that ho was unable to explain the strange olroumstanoes. Forty people have identified him," leolared Mr. Benson. "He was a close rlond of mine, and I can produce nany people who saw the body and ?ho knew it to ba Riv A. E Boj ihn, ^'^JBAUlAj^wp, PA. I have tatters in *SFWFK?KJ?.. .?*mhim, and -T. - JO?XM: Fvrltten him numbers ot times at Dal astown, many of the letters being forwarded to him at other places." Mr. Banoon took from his pocket bbe key to tho mystery surrounding b\io death of the humble minister, who distributed his money among the poor ind never took up a collection. A por tion of the letter ls as follows: "My bead feels a little sore today, but I am glad that I oau say that I was kuooked down for tho truth and for Jesus' sake. I told the man when he bit me the first lick baok of the head that I was willing to die for Je sus. A negro tried to take him away." The letter was written from R ?ok ingham, N. G., and bore tho date of September 28, one month from the time ho was found dead in the woods Mr. Benson ls sure that the severe boating camed insanity, and that the man wandered in the woods until he died. The letter further stated that be was knooked down because ho. de clarad that swearing was of the dev'!. Mr. Benson stated that the unfor tunate minister assisted him In a re vival at Langley last April, and made hosts of friends, so many that he was Invited to return. He was probable on his way, when he beoamo involved in tho dlftloulty. A pathotlo olroumstanoe Inoldont to tho doath occurred when he was dying in tho lonely wood, some kindhearted person thinking him a tramp offered Ulm a cup of coff je, for whioh he off ered lu payment his last nickel. 1 lt ls not known why his family re fused his body._ ? Ginner? Report. The amount of tho cotton orop of 1000 ginned up to November 1, ac cording to a bulletin issued Thursday by the census bureau, was 6.805,507 bales, o'mn ting round bales as half hales against 0,457,595 last year. Tao number of aotlve ginneries ls given as 27,481 against 27,802 last year. The amount ot cotton bales ginned follows: Alabama 682,810, Arkansas 304 423, Florida 34,681, Georgia 1,001,124, Indian Territory leo 675, Kentucky 671. Louislanua 438 800, Mississippi 582,430, Missouri 13 879, North Carolina 311,616, Ok lahoma 110.243, South Carolina, 660, 508, Tennessee 94.283, Texas 3,6ii5, 678, Virginia 6 421. GnarUIna A^ntnat Trouble The war department has ordered a battalion of tue Twenty-sixth In fantry, white, at San Antonio to pro* oeedto Fort Rono to re placo the three companies of the Twenty-filfth color ed regiment, who were mixed up In the Brownsville, Texas, trouble rind *bo have been ordered dismissed from the army. This aotlon ls taken as a precautionary measure, although 00 serious trouble is teared, when the president order ot dismissal 1* carried out. It ls deemed best to be on tho safe side. j am? Ono, r Tho largest marine gasolene engine In tho wor'd ls about to bo shipped from Baltimore to Russia, It la of 1,600 horse powor, and ls ono ot four ? ordered by the ca w's government at t a cost of $100,000 from White & Mid o dleton to go into Lake submarine e torpedo boats. Toe firm ls expaqtiug 1 er ment.