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Some Scathing Comments in the Recent Elections. ANENT C?KTLEYOU. Tho New York Pres? Contrants His Treatment by President Rossevelt With the Defeat of Congress man Babcock bv the Peo ple of His District. It ought not, says the New York Press, to bo necessary to URO a steam drill to drive Into the hoads of Re publ'ORus the lesson taught by tho defeat of Representative Baboook in Wisconsin. The Press thoro goes on to say: In a district which ls normally Re publican by several thousands of votes, and willoh gives a handsome plurality to the victorious, Republi can oandldate for Govornor Babcock has been beaten for ro election. And this despite the fact that he was chairman of the Congress campaign committee, a powerful membor of thc system in the House, and could com mand resources not available to t ho ordinary Congress candidato. B&boook was beaton beoause bo W&H in partnership with tho lifo insurauoo grafters. He took ?2,600 from ?the despollers of the widows' and orphans' v fund and spent lt to maintain that part of the Congress machine over which he was in comroand lu 1004. The faot was widely published in the Armstrong oommitteo testimony. It ?vas familiar to tho voters in Bab cock's district, and it overshadowed questions of tariff and trusts and tho like. Nothing counted much In tho campaign but tho inoident of Baboook taking (2,600 from McOurdy to finance the political maohinoof which he was tho engineer. Tho voters of the 3d Wisoousin district decided that a man who would tafeo money which he knew he had no right to take was not fit to look after thoir interests or those of tho country, and they havo returned Baboook to private lifo. Now, does not tho fate of Repre sentatlvo Baboook suggest largor possibilities of danger to National Republicanism? Consider the oase of Cortelyou. It is like Baboook'n only worse. All the yellow dog funds contri buted large suma to Cortelyou, and he fattened the funds of tho National Republioan committee with them. Babcock took cents where Cortelyou took dollars. But tho aotions of the two men wero identical in that each aooepted moneys willoh did not bo long to tho gi vers, lu that each know the contributions did not bolong to those who made thom, in that each oonoealed the gifts as carefully as tho evldenoo of anv felony, and in that both Cortelyou and Baboook spent the money in the further de bauchery of Amerioan politics. The similarity in tho offences bf tho chairman of the National Rcpub Hean committee and the chairman of tho Republican Congress campaign committee stops thoro. It ls when we oome to tho treatment of tho two men that the big difference occurs. Representativo Baboook, not being a member of tho Cabinet, but being in oharge of tho Congress oampalgn oommitteo, and not daring to faoo a canvass of tho country in behalf of a Republioan House with tho $2,500 steal staring the voters in the faoo, be ia retired from tho chairmanship. Then when ho goes baok to bia dis trict for a "vindication" tho hobnails of public opinion are applied vigor ously where they will do the most good. No vory high standard of morals 1B required ordinarily for membership in the House, as 1B prov ed by tho faot that Baboook oould go there after ho had been oaught stuffing tho malls with franked postal matter during railroad weighing time, and as demonstrated by tho presenoo in Congres? for a long time of some men who belonged in Jail anl have since either boon started in that direotion or are already in prison. But tho 3d Wisoousin district drew the lino at being rr presen ted by a . man who helped MoCurdy to skin the policy-holders of tho Mutual. How Cortelyou was treated for do ling on a larger soalo what Baboook did was advertised to tho oountry, and particularly to tho State of Now York, a few days before tho balloting, whioh eleoted to tho Governorship the man moBt instrumental in ex posing the partnership of Cortelyou and Baboook with tho dispensers of Yellow Dog funds. For his share In the dirty business Babcock la wip ed off tho map of the system at Washington. For hit? part in tho plunder Cortelyou is not retired from h ta position as Postmaster Goneral, but is raised of all things to tho ohair of Alexander Hamil con. Tho man who would spend in a oladestlno man ner trust funds belonging to mom bers of ono political party to promote tho fortunes ot another political party ls not punlBhod but rowarded. And to aggravate tho outrage tho rowan' to him for his failure to observo com mon honesty in tho handling of other people's money is his promotion to the post whero bo lu In oharge of tho funds of tho whole nation 1 Suoh ia the difforenoo botwoen the treatment of Babcock by tho votora ot nia homo district and tho treat ment of Cortolyou by President Roosevelt, although tho offonoo com? mitteod by the two mon di Hared only in degree, and to that oxtent the wrong done by tho Cabinet oilleor is greater than the blooding of tho Re presentativo. The Amerioan people havo longed lookod upon thc " vindication" of Paul Morton from tho self-confessed oharge of oriralnal rebating as tho topmost point of absurdity reaohod in American administrative Govern ment. This height of folly is scaled by the promotion of Secretary Cona) you to tho Treasury, and tho fact is all tho more emphasized bv tho beat ing the voters have given to Cortol you's confederate in the 3d Wisconsin district. fc'Atftl Fight. At Grand Rapids. Mioh., Mike Word, the pugilist, of Sarina, ontar io, died Friday morning at 0 46 o'olook as tbo result of a knockout in a fight Thursday night with Harry Lewis, of Philadelphia, Ward died of oerbral hommorrbago, aocording to tho physicians who attondod him. Harry Lewis, Referee Byan, of Detroit, and Frank O'Brien, Lewis' trainer were placed undor arrest. j ?IND8 A PEARL. While ISMlng HAW Oysters In * New York Oslo. At New York William H Bloom, manager of the Ohio Brass company's works In Mansfield, Ohio, struck a I mine of pearls In an oyster in the Oafe Savarin Thursday. Mr. Bloom ls slaying In th? Hotel Breslin. Thursday he went down town and dropped into the Savarin for a bite to eat. Mr Bloom thought he would like some raw oysters. So the man oponed him half a dozen. With four of theBe oysters this story has nothing to do, The fifth oystor was the one that oonoealod seven beautiful pearls valued at ?500. If he swallowed them whole, Mr. Bloom would have returned to his nappy Ohio home ignorant forever, perhaps, of how much he was worth himselfj inside. But in Mansiiold they ohow their oysters. As Mr. Bloom blt into tho fifth cy fi tor he felt something round betweon his teeth. Thoy have fallen to properly mani? cure those oystero" he said, and ejao ted the gritty otjeot from his mouth. It was a luscious pearl. lu quiok auoocssion ho produoed six more pearl?. "I presume that when you serve oysters on the half sholl all that COCUOB in the shell belongs to the gucBt?" in quired Mr. Bloom, of Walter Qustav. Gustav admlttod that such was the tulo. "W'.'ll, you should havo some re ward," said Mr. Bloom as he pickod up ono of tho pearls. ''I shall leavo you the remaining oyster." And ho wrapped up all tho pearls and told Gustav to thank Mr. Savar in for bim on account of Mr. Savarin's kindness and gonorosity and went away. BROODING OV.RR L03S. A liKtly AS tn mp nui tu Kill Horsnll With TolBori. In a fib of despondency Mrs. Joo Steine, wife of tho heaviest loser in the recent lire at Warrenton, Ga., made a desperate attempt to commit auioldo Thursday a* noon In Augusta by drinking poison. She had boon visiting friends in that olty hoping to ovoroome tho strain whloh has resulted from tho great loss by tho Uro of \&st week. Tho Steine store and building suf forod a loss of twenty thousand dol lars by Uro and there was only nlv thousand dollars insuranou, which it seems was not muoh moro than enough to pay outstanding obliga tions. Mrs. Steine was stoppln? at ?14 Broad street and some one happened to observe hor as ?he took tho deadly doon of poison and promptly summon ed City Physiolan McLaws, who suo oeeded In pumping up most of tho poison and Hiving counteracting dos es, willoh put Mrs. Stelno out of dau ger aftor the employment of sbrlngont means. In a statement to the physiolan and others present she said she wish to die as the work of a lifetime had been destroyed in a fow short mo ments by tho flames and she did not feel able to benin anew tho struggle. She Is roported at; resting vory well now and out of all danger from hor desperate action. s The family ls well known through ' out that section of thc state and num erous friends havo expresned their sympathy ovor the loss of their prop erty. Tired of Lil ft). Mr, William B. (Ligen, bookkeeper In thc Charlotte branoh t lil JO of the Phillp Carey Manufacturing Co. com mitted suicide hero early Thur?day night by asphyxiation. Tho act was a most deliberate one. After writing a dc zm or moro notes to his father, wife, several relatives and friends, ho drew the shades In tho chloe, made a pallet on tho door wtiha pillow of ex oelslor, out tho gas tube leading to the small heater and tied the freo end to his neok. Aftor turning on tho gas ho throw a felt blankot over hi? hoad and was dead In a very short time. Ho loaves a wife and two ohlldron. Profound molauoholla, brought about thy poor, eyesight, ls said to ha YO been thc oau&e of thc rash deed. In a note to his hrothor, Mr. B, P. TlnKBley lie said: "I am afraid of myself. Sometimes I have been tempted to take all the folks with mo, hut havo resisted tho feeling, I do cot think I can do BO any lot ger." A Wino Woman. Thore ls a WIBO woman in Pough keepsie, N. Y. She is Mrs. James Crawford, who for years has support ed hor husband, who drank up all tho money ho could gob while she did Sev an washings a weok. Llttlo by little me kept putting av/ay savings from her meagre earnings until sho had il00. Sho caused her husband to be mm moneo bofore .lustlue Carpenter and offered him the ?100 If he would liga an agreement to leave the village ?ind no vor como near her again. Craw Tord signed tho paper and took the money. Kilt omi to Dnutll, At Aiken on Thursday aftornoon little Byan, tho 1 -year-old son of Mr. A. J. Halght, wan so sevoroly humed that death resulted Friday morning it 5 o'olock. The child's clothes bo lame lgnltod and bofore it was res sued it was burned fatally. Tho body was oarrled to Blackville for inter ment. Mr. and Mrs. Halghb have iho sincerest sympathy of all in their lad bereavement. l'liftht Men Hurled. A dlspatoh from Douglass. Arizona, lays that eight mon woro buried tin ier tons of rook by the promaturo ex iloslon of giant powder at a limo marry near thore. ICmployes from he smelters have boon sont bo dig hem out. Put I tient to Flight. While E. it. Goodahall and others vere attempting to kill a bull at Un on the Infuriated animal turnsd on hem and put thom to Hight, during willoh Goodshall foll and the bull at ackod him, Inti toting sovoral painful rounds. SKCHIUTAUV Wilsen has agreed to it tho packers lanai their steamed ec f as "roast beef." He oalls ita 'oonoosslon to tho paokors." Tho auporlxed beef packers aro sadly in iced of some concession. NOTING that Mr. Howard Gould In ngry because ho has a Chinese broth* r-in law, the Houston Post sagoly Dsorvos that he ought to bo thank il lb Isn't Harry Lehr. Thom's muino optimism for you. am -j. m SOME NEW BULENOS WHAT ttURAfj OARRlMlRt? MU?T AND MUHT NOT DO. A Post?nico Of?loial Gives Out a State ment as to Their Duties, Head lt. "Kew that the /ural free delivery lystem has been EO extended in thu country-In faot lt will bo but a short ti no when the merry rural free do 1 vory carrier will be trotting ovor t ie snows and loy peaks of Alaska the department is In constant receipt of letters to what rural carriers may oarry on their routes besidesthemBelves and their mall," ea'd a poatoiiioo de partment otlloial recently. "In biro Jirst placo, they oant oarry ?ny liquid that stimulates either on the Inside or outsldo of their persohs; intoxication means Instant dismissal, and they are dismissod whon they are deteoted drinking even off their routes IN ur are tnty pormlttocl to oarry spirituous liquors for the ac comodation of tboir patrons; personal friendship doesn't go with tho depart ment In these oases, and no exceptlone are oaado with the rule. "Bural oarriors must oarry the aaall and nothing else, oven though business houses sook oftlmes to make errand boys of them. Carriers must not either in peron or through othors, directly or indirectly, solicit money, gifts or presents, nor issue for profit souvenolrs or postal handbooks, nor 00 operate with or assist the pub ishcrs of tho same to seouro tho patronage of the public Thoy are also barred from compiling or assisting In tue cum pt ling of dlrco oorlea for public uso. Business firms 1 with largo mall lists havo caused us a groat deal of trouble In attempt ing to engage tho oairlors as tboir agents, so wo have striotly prohlbltod thom from furnishing tho names and addresses of patrons on tboir routeR for pay or ?fevor to auy business establishment, or to any Individual oxoopt to tho department olllclals who are entitled to thom uudor the regulations. Tho department has rood ved let tors from patrons complaining bocauso tho oaarlors roiuued to oarry their milk cans. This is funny, but lt is true, and lt shows what some people in tho country think tho rurel deliv ery sorvloo was established for. Car riers aro not permlttod to oarry pas sengers, nor to permit ahy person other than authorized postal ctllolals, to rldo with them or to have access to tho mails. They must not engage in any business during tboir prescribed hours of Borvloo or to conduct any business af tor hours which utters tem tatlon to Bollelt patrourgo on their routes, or whioh by reason of their positions in tho government service gives them special advantages over competitors. We rigidly bar them from aoting as book canvassers, insurauoe solicitors sewing maobino agents or aoting as agent of any kind or occupation. Wc allow carriers to oarry merchandise for hire upon the request of patrons residing npon their respective routes whenever it will not Intfere with the proper discharge of their official dut ies under suoh regulations tho de partment may prescribo. Country storekeepers try to uso tho carriers vehicles as delivery wagons, but tho government 1B not in that sort of busiuess. We allow the oarriors to receive no compensation from tho sel ler of tho merchandise and where thc morohandlso 1B oarriod on the request of the patrous for hire for the carrying, oarrying mu.,., bo paid by tho patrons. "We get thousands of letters from ll over tho country just on this one point -what oarrlers mxy oarry on their routes. If the rural delivery patrons would only remember ttiat tho govcrmout is not in the express business, they would save tbcmselvo?, tho carriers and the department a great deal of trouble." DANTZLEi. WILL CONTEST Bo AB HO mut Mooror Cnn Oct v. Little Htako. The commissioners of eleotlon for Orangeburg County mot on Tuesday and organlzjd themselves into boards of oanvassora for the purpose of can vassing and tabulating tho vote poll od at the gcnoral cloctlon on the Otb Instant. The two boards of this coun ty are composed as follows: Federal-J. A. Hurry, chairman; J. 0. Redmond, J . B. Stroman; scorotary, M. L\ Inablnet State-John S. Bowman, Jr., Chair man; I). H. Kerry and Thos. J. Hart, iecretary, S. J. Holliday. There wero fewer votes polled In Drangeburg County this year than two yoars ago. Governor Ansel only rocclved 1,888 vot s, and the balance >f tho tlokots in the State and county boxes roodved about the same. For Congress, Mr. A. Frank Lover recolved 1,079 votes In tho county, while tho negro, Alex. 1). Dantzler, inly roooived 83, It 1? presumed that Dantz'or In tends going before Congrosn with mother contest. Jacob Moorer, a ooh )fed lawyor of this place, who has baan inducting those biennial contests rerotofore, appeared baforo tho board )f Federal canvassers and served the 'chowing notion upon them: itatoof South Carolina, Seventh Con gressional DlBtrlot. To tho board or oounty canvassers br tho county of O/augeburg. Please take notion that tho undersigned, A. ). Dantzler, Republican candidato for -, seat in tho (loth Congress from the 'tb CrngroKSlonal district of South karolina, protests against the count ng, canvassing, tabulating and re aming of any and all votes oast at ho election held November (i, 1900, or A, F. Lover, Democratic candi lato for a seat In tho (?Otb Congreso rom tho Seventh Congressal district f South Carolina, upon the following rounds: First, that the laws under which tho l c! lon waa hold, November 0, 1000, rolo violation of tho 14th and 16th mendments of thc Federal C rust!Lu lon and should be doolared void and f none otfcot: Second, that tho mansgors of olec lon wero partial and unlawfully per mitted a. certain class of citizens nomi as Confederate soldiers, to voto dthout thc qualifications required of tlror citizens, to tiro great injury and rojudice of tho Republican cand? ate. A. 1). DANTZi.rcii, Protestant. J Aeon MOORICK, Attorney for Protestant. Tho failure of two Savings Banks In /ashlngton In ono woek, ?hows rat Republican prosperity is not uni* ?real. OX EL KILLED HBRBJBLF. Did NotJ'Vaut tu ?Jo to behool WM tho Guano, At (Jon co rd, Ga., rather than go to sohool against) her wishes, Miss Mary St ind ford, pretty and vivacious, sent a bullet crashing through her head Tuesday morning of last week at 0 o'olook at her home in Concord, Qa., dying instantly. The young girl left home for sohool under protest; dedaring she did not want to study. Instead of going to the school hou o, however, she re traced her stops into the house, secur ed her father's pistol and hurried un observed to the barn, whore she de liberately placed the weapon against her ear and pulled the trigger. A negro heard the mulled report of the weapon, but thought nothing of the matter until two hours later when the body was found by the girls father. Miss Stanford was noted for her boauty and from earliest childhood he i been admired by all ber friends and companions, Bv nature she WAS ot the happiest disposition and until her reoent Ul health was the lo ?der in the in tho younger social ol clo of whioh sho was the charming center. She was tho daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Stanford, one of tbe most prominent families in the town. Her fatbor is a large land owner and lives on the rent from his several plantations. Henry Stanford of At lanta is a brothor of the young girl, ne has beon wired of the tragedy. A BIRD TRAGEDY. Tho PASsongor Flgoon, Onoo Bo Plon tlful. Now Kxtii?ot, Tho greatest of all tragodloa in the feathorod kingdom was tne sudden extinction, the magical disappearance, of tho once counties} hosts of passen gor pigeons. The question as to what bcoame of them and why they went has beoomo ono of the most puz/.llng problems of ornithology. Those old enough to romombor these beautiful hirds have uever ceased to regret their unaccountable extermination. Ono day as numerous as the sandi; of the seashore and Hying in myriads that darkened the sky for hours at a timo, next day they have disappeared as oomplotely as if never in existence so completely that a large reward cflor cd for a pair still remains unolaimed. A oelebratod American ornithologist estimated that a Hook he saw early in the last century numbored largely over tv:o thousand two hundred and thirty millions, and they would consumo sev enteen million four hundred and twen ty-four thousand bushels of mast every dayl These aro tremendous UR urea but many of our older rt.1 Jors, r mem herlng Hocks seen in their boyhood, will readily believe them to be true. As late as the sixties lt was no un common thing to see in Kentucky, In diana and Michigan, Hooks that dark ened the sky In every direotlon as far as tho eye could roaoh and they would be passing for hours at a time. It) has been over thirty-three years since any considerable number of these birds wore seen south of. thc great lakes though an extensivo nest ing was reported from tho rogin of Petoskev aa late as 1881. T gh hundreds of men were engaged .. tot ting thom and oaptured fully 10,, io, OOO, lt was estimated that not ono bird in a thousand was taken. An eye witness declares that this nesting hov ered an aroa twenty-eight miles long and fully four miles wide while ewy treo of any size oyor this extend vc spaoe had moro or leos neats and many were full of them. This, however, seems to have been thc last of the passenger pigeon lu numbers. Soon thereafter lie disap peared as suddenly as the Virginia sora after a frost as oomplotoly as tho great auk of tho southern scaB. What beoamo of thom still remains and doubtless always will remain one of tho unsolved mysteries of science, lt was at first thought that they at tempted to cross tho ocean, but un equal to tho long Hight foll and were swallowed by the waves. A moro prob able oonoluslon is that In the destruc tion of the forests, whioh deprived thom of their natural food, aided by tho relentless persecution of main lu ovory looality, wo may lind tho real explanation of this delorable tragedy In tho kingdom of the birds. Bomb in Ut. I'etors, At Rome, Italy on last Sunday morning a bomb was exploded in St. Peters, whioh ls the largest ohnroh building in tho world. Tho edllice was crowded and an indescribable soono of confusion followed. There were no fatalities. As soon as the ?ohoes of tho tremendous roar had leased, a canon sought hy reassuring rVordB, to quiet tho people, but in train. They lied in all directions and i number of we men fainted Women md children soreamed and mon trlod .0 protect their families in the crush. The ohnroh is BO large, however, that hero was ample room for tho orowd io scatter and no ono was Injured. So trace of the perpetrator of tho Iced has been found. Nt) Ch ?KO Wanton A dispatch from Richmond, Va., ays by resolution the V.rglula Hap l?t Oouvtntiou Wednesday broko off til relations with the Amerlcr.ii So ilety and refused to uso their publi ions. The trouble grew out) of ulntlng by the house of bibles for Asiatics, In whioh the Crook word 'baptiso" was translated "dipped." L'ho Amorioan SoMoty oontend their ransalation is oorroot and ref usad to h**nge it In Baptist bibles. OutlawH Killed. A punitivo expedition, whioh has icon oporatlng in Kroutzberg district tusfla, for the last week, has killed inety peasants belonging to tho re\ - lutlonary organization, tormed For st llangors, who lovled tributo on ho surrounding country. I'uKsiDicNT Roosevelt should call he attention of tho First Assistant 'ostmaster-General to the Ropubiloan ampalgn book In whioh it is dnolared hat the cont of living has not ln rensed perooptibly. That hardly ag rees with tho ollloial request for in rcased pay for postal clerks duo to lie inoreaso in the oost of living, 'hoso who aro paying high trust rices oan hardly have much faith in ;opublloan statements whioh nave vldontly boon manufactured to do jive thom. Tn H bedeviled poltoy holders of the lifo Insuranoo companies are now olng bled to eleot their c .vu offloers nd only two yoars a?o thoy were be lg bled to eleot Roosevolt. Their it oould be no worse if they were aderal officials. FORTY-SIX DIE From a Railroad Collision Which | Caused a Wreck, WEEK FOREIGNERS. Tho Wreckage Took Pire and All of the Dead Except Two Are Burned Be yond Recognition. Blunder of the Employes of the Road. More than one-half the passengers j on an immigrant train on tho Balti more and Ohio road were killed orl injured lu a collision Tuesday' between the passenger train and a freight near Woodville, Ind. One hundred and slxlv-llvo passen gers were on tho train. Of these 47 wero either killed outright or were burned to death in a lire that broke out In tiic wreckage Immediately af ter the collision, rho names of all of tire dead will probably never be known, as 45 of tbc bodies were con sumed in thc Hames or were so badly burned that identification will be out of the question. Thirty-eight people were injured and several will die. Eigty others escaped unhurt but lost all their baggage and clothing, The disaster was caused by a blund er of some employe of the railroad company, but just where the blame lies has uot as yet been determined. The passenger train, which was load ed with Russian Jews, Servian and Roles, all of the recent arrivals in this j country, and hound for Chicago or points in the Northwest, was the second section of a through train from Baltimore. The engineer of tho freight train, No. noon instructions received at McCool, Ind., waited at1 a siding at Babcock, Ind , to allow the Immigrant train to pass. One report is that the engineer of the freight train had not heen In formed that the passenger train was running in two sections; thc other is that the first section of the passenger tram carried no lighis or signals ot' any kind indicating that a second sec tion was close behind. As soon as thc lirst section of the immigrant train had passed the switch at Babcock, the freight train started eastward.A I'ght snow was falling, which increased thc darkness of the early morning and as the freight was rounding a sharp curve just west of Woodville, the second section of the i m migrant train caine into sight a short distance away, tearing toward Chicago at thc rate of 40 miles an hour. The two trains came together with unslakcning speed and in l he crash six passenger coaches and several freight cars were knocked into kindling wood and together with tin; locomotives went rolling down the 10-foot embankment. I'M rc broke out almost immediately in the wreckage, and although a num ber of the injured were saved by thc desperate efforts of the train crew and surviving passengers, the greater part ol' those wno were pinned down under the debris was burned to death. The Hames spread through the wreckage so rapidly that it was im possible to save a number of people who were only slightly hurt, but were held fast by timbers that weighted them down. These were burned In plain sight of the throng that stood around the scene of thc disaster, ut terly unable to lend asissstance in any way. The tire continued until all of t he shattered oars wore eut hely con sumed and of thc 47 people whose death followed the collision 45 were burned to ashes. Thc crash of thc collision was sol great- that a number of farmers and other residents of Hie nolgborhood came hastening to the scene, hut they could do nothing except lend assis tance to the injured who had already been taken from the wreck. All of the six cars of the Immigrant train were knocked Into kindling wood, as were three freight cars. belief trains were sent at once from South Chicago and from Valparaiso, Ind., with every aval labe physiesan, and every possible aid was given to the injured. U({ly Murder llecord? "During thc last live years 45.000 poruons were murdered in tho United States. More persons were murder ed last year than died of typhoid fov or. Thia awful total has been due bo the way tho law was admin larered, and the lav/ Itself ls bad and in oe ut. It ia burdened with restrictions und technicalities, and In almost every onso ??ho orlmlnal has nine chances of r-soaping to ono of being found guilty." So deolarod Judge Marcus Kavanagh in au ad Iress before tho alumnae of St. Igan irantius C,)lloge gatliured at a banquet it the Great Northern Hotol at Chi sago, no spoke on " IOaforecmcnt of ?he Law in tho barwo Cities," and rigorously assailed tho operation of jourts under tho jury svutem. That) :ho United States ls tba mo3t criminal jountry in tho world, the jury tho nont loose and antiquated, and the aw tho mest open to attack aro imong tho asaortlooH made by Judge Cavanagh. Another i>. r i n. Mr. Harold iOorest Holley, of Aiken Jouuty, a student of the. South Caro ina University In Columbia, died mnday morning of typhoid fev I'his is tho aoooud death at the Uni versity in the last two weeks from lyphold fever. Mr. Bulley was a night and promising young man. Ile vas tho son of Mr. B. IT. Holley, of Wkon, and was regarded au a lino tudent and manly young follow. L'hore havo been no new oases in ,wc)vo day? now, and tho medical luthorltles give assurances that langer is over. Tho us?) of woll vator for a few days, during a break n the regular olty supply, ls regarded a bin?, ORUHO of the Oases Of typhoid, ["ho Columbia correspondent of Tho ?.lews and Courier says as tho well vater ls no tonger used and there lave been no new oases in a fortnight, ho fear of further trouble ls regard id as over. Tho authorities havo tho test of tralood nurses and physicians Heading tho young mon who are lok all aro now about well. Itrutnlly Murdered. At Wilmington, W.O., Bottlo John on, ? negro woman about 25 years of go, was brutally murdered Saturday lght by Frank James, a looting's jubb ?arolina negro of bad police record aturday the womau was assaulted by ames and early Saturday night as he was returning home from a mag itrato's odlco, where abo had sworn ut a warrant against the man, he gain attacked her. With a razor he ut her throat and savagoly gashed er body. Death resulted in a few mo lents from hemorrhage. James ls ab trgo. Tho fiend when oaught should BOES? H O? DB AT FL I Hobbor? asx? ? .mona of * Saloon HATO Bloody Fiant. Al San Franoisoo two men ?re dead, two others dying and others seriously Injured as a result of a pis tol duel Thursday night in an at tempted hold-up of a saloon by two masked robbers. Shortly before midnight two men with handkerchiefs over their faoo and revolver in their hands enterod the saloon of John O'Connell at Sixth and Brannan streets. All the inmates oomplled with tie order to hold up their hands given by the masked mon oxoept George O' Connell, a retired and pensioned po ! Hoe officer, who drew a revolvor. and oommenoed shooting at a robber near the Sixth Street entrance. The robbers began tiring at the policeman, and patrons of the saloon at almost tho samo moment. When the smoke of battle oloared away, four men were lying on the iloor of tho saloon, three of them dying and a f JU rth seriously lu j.ired. O'Gunuoll has two buiiota. In inn ohest, Steven Lynoh was twine shot in the abdomen, Louis Dalatour had his Jaw torn away by a bullet and Michael Kennedy was shot In the ear. Oue of tho robbers, Frank Burke, an ox-'con Y lot- was found doad outside, with his mask still on. O'Oonnell died soon after being takon to thc hospital, whore lt ls said, that Lynch and Delatour, both laborers, eau not recover. -. ?NOTHRR OUTRAGE IM ATLANTA Negro Boar, Ronnel ?nd Criminally Assanltod.Wlilto Liad y. Some of tho negroes of Atlanta must bo determined to pull off anoth er riot. One of tho most dastardly assaults evor perpetrated was that oommltted Micro on Tuesday of last week by Joo Qlenn, a negro 30 years old, when ho onterod tho home of Mrs. J. N Camp, on Oasoado avonue, about 0.30 o'clock that morning, chok ed Mrs. Camp into unconoiousness, tied a leather strap around her throat and assaulted her. Leaving his vic tim in an unoonsoious state ho plund ered the house untll.she;bad partly re vived, when he roturncd and attacked her again. He remained unconcerned ly aboub> the house until ?hq had re if iii. od nor power to soream and run i rom the house, whereupon the then unknown assailant made his escapo. Mrs. Camp was found by two men who wore passing shortly after 10 o'olook that morning, bound to a treo aud terribly bruised and Injured as a result of tho negro's orlminal attack. She was taken into the house in a dangerous oondiliou, and there is some question as to her recovery. Mrs. Camp is about 35 yoars old and has several ohildren. Tho Camp homo stands about a quarter of a mile away from tho nearest neighbor, and she was praotloally unprotected, The county polioe and tho marshal of Oakland Olty wore notified of tho orime and at once instituted a soaroh. Late Thursday afternoon ?a negro answering tbe[]general|dc6orlptlon was traced ta Oasoado Spring, and when captured, was found to {more closely answer the description. When he was takon into the presence of his victim Glenn was at onoo positively identified. Tho officials anticipated trouble and made a rush for the oounty Jill, whioh they succeeded in reaching Bftfoly before lt was known that Glenn had been cither oapturod or identified. The negro is now safe behind the bars, and thore has been no unusual oommotlon about tho olty either dur ing the day or night on aooount of tho orime. Profit Not Cost. Mr. Sterrett. Tate, replying to a quotation from tho New York Herald to tho effoot that as cotton can bc growu at live oent per pound, it is unreasonable for the produoor to ox peot moro than ton cents for it. Mr. Tato successfully ridloulcs the prop esition that ootton oan be grown at live cents a pound and shows that ton oents is too low for the produoor to make tho reasonable margin of pro fit to whioh ho is entitled. It is a very simple matter ror a i nowspaper a thousand miles away from tho Holds to tell tho cotton pro duoor what it costs por pound to raise ootton, but when roducod to its last aualysls advice from the neighbor hood of Wall street is of no more valuo to tue average cotton farmer than would be tho opinion of the averago ootton produoor to a Now York speoulator who might bo seek ing evidence as to the latest move ments of the Parlslon bourse. Lfory item entering into the pro duotion of cotton lias vastly lnoreased during tho past few years. It costs more to buy land, fertilizers, stock, utensils, to pay for labor and to moet tho expenses of living than over be fore. Tho oost on tori ng Into tho pro motion of a bale of ootfcou today is almost doublo the oost c f tho making jf a bale ten yoara ago. While lt is brue that ton oonts will perhaps moot totual oxponBOs and glvo the produoor ind his family a living, lt is nu , just 'or tho world to expect tho oouton ?rower to be Batlstlod wibli only ao jual living expensoti. Tho cotton grower ls Just as much mtltlod to a reasonable return on his iff ort, ids energy, his time and his uvostment as tho Wall street broker s entitled to his profit. What would Wall stroot think if tho cotton pro luoer should toko the position that ts brokers and business mon should u> entitled to no moro than aotual lvlng oxponson oub of their business -and yot that ls the position assum id towards the cottou growers by a treat many people tho world over. What Wall strcot doesn't know about ibo oost of making ootton would HU i groat many books. In tho meantlmo Tho constitution kgftln urges tho cotton producers of be south to lot Wall street alono, ,nd to make its arrangements Inde londont of advice r60olvod from that lircotion. The secretary of the dlsslssippi divinion of tho Southern Cotton Assoolation was right when io warned the produc?is of tho south .gainst the bear movement emanat es from Wall street, and lt ls n Moo ?hie that lt comoB this yoar . om omo of those who only a waar ttgo Tere ooddllng tho farmers of Mic outh with tho vlow, evidently, of vorking into their confidence to bag iig game this year. Notwithstand ng this ootton has gone abovo olov n oents, and every pound now on tho narket ts worth that muoh at loast, nd if marketed slowly will bring lt. TUM endorsement of Senator Bailoy iv a largo majority of the Democratic itato Committee of Texas indicates hat his implacable enemies are mnT loisy than numerous. ii STOBM SWEEPS O VI?; It NO UT IJ IO UN MIS8IHBUT1 AND W KMX IO UN TKNNK88HH On Last Saturday Night Leavirg Death and Destruction in Itt Wake. Telegraphic and telophonlo commu nications received Sunday night from points In Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee for a dlstauoo of sever? 1 milos, report that territory to haye suffered Saturday night an cl early Sundav from ona of the most destruo blve rain and wind storms experienced in years. Only meagre details are as yet ob talnable, but five lives are known to have hoon lost ana great damago done to property and orops. Railroad traillo ls completely demoralized by numer ous washouts, and many trains have neoest a rlly been annulled. From oho reports so far reoolved tbe great dam age ooourred in the central and Delta regions of Mississippi. At Winona, Miss., tho Oatholio, Christian and negro Methodist ohuroh es and tho Henty brick yard wore de molished, and numerous buildings un roofed aud badly damaged. Among the largeut buildings damaged at this paoe are the post?nico, Opera Il<.u;o the oil mill, the o empress, waro house of the Jaokson Mercantile Company and tho residence of E. J. Dunkstnn. Besides these, about twenty-flvo smaller buildings were almost oom plotely destroyed. Of those buildings not totally do atroyed, tho oompross was probably tho most badly damaged. The roof of this building was torn c ff by tho wind, which at times reaohed almost tornado-like velocity, falling on the home of E. J. Dunksbon, 250 yards away. Tho wind storm was preocdod and followed by heavy rains, causing serious washouts along the route of tho Illinois Contrat Railroad, and badly damaging orops. At Mathison, Miss., serious damago is reported to have oocured and a woman killed by a falling building. At Tehula; a falling tree striking a small framo building, caused lt to bo setatlre a woman and obild were burn ed to death. At Wonconnah Crook a rail road trestle fell under the weight of a switch ongine plunging into the swoll en stream carrying with it Euginoer C. V. Peterson and Fireman A. lt. Rltohlo, who were drowned. Wost Point, Columbus aud Mahon, Miss., aro reported to have suffered serious damage, but as tiloso pol?n J are completely cut off from communi cation lt is Impossible at this timo to ascertain tho extont. Wolf River, a small stroam In the violnity of Roany Mo, Tenn., 1B out of its banks, tho water flooding the sur rounding torrltory for many miles. The entlro town of Rossville is inun dated, tbe water in the publio square reaohlng a depth of four feet and groat damago has boon done to proper ty at this plaoe and eastward. A railroad employee reports the people in a state of panio, the flood hoing the worst in the town's histor v. Quantities ot loose cotton ha? boen washed away, as well as many small buildings and livestock drowned. For a distance of eight miles, between that plaoo and Moscow, Tenu, tho water ls from one to six feet deep on the tracks of the .Southern Railway. Flotare Poet Gards. Notwithstanding the fact of the enormous popularity of the ploturo post-card a reoent order of the Post Oilloe department ls likely to make these little mail souvenirs oven more sought after than ever. This order will make lawful a post-card upon which chere is a spaoc upon the ad dress aldo for written messages. This will ouablo the Bonder to keep tho ploturo unmarred and yet wrlto a message upon the loft hand sido of the oard, tho whole of which side has been in the past reserved for the ad dress only. This agreement was reaohed at the session of the univor lal postal oongresa during the past iummer. This style of post-oard has boon in use for some time in foreign souubrles. The admission of it to A '-nortean malls promises to lnoroaso r,ne number now handled by several millions. A poouliar feature of tho post-card ls, that although lt is sent for ono cont, their use has inoroased jhe revonucs of the department. Moist By Ula Own JPot?rd. Ono of two burglars who attempted bo break open a sato in the cniae of a large manufacturer at Borin, Ger, has mot with a singular death. Ho and his accomplice, finding their tools ?ot sharp enough or tempered enough, iotormlncd to burst opon tho safe with some explosive. They stuffed thu look full with tho explosive, pre sumably gunpowder, and attaching m ignited fuse, waited for the roault. As the fuse burned slowly one of the 'Obbers approaohod the safe to bas jen matters. At that momont tho (uupowdor oxplodod, and tho door of ibo safe tlow open, smashing in the ikull of the burglar, His accomplice sscapod, and as tho explosion made lardly any noiso nothing was known A tho altair till noxt morning. Ani/.oNA which is entiroly under ho c mtrol of tho Federal authorities oports a lumber trust plundering 1er peoplo. Yea, if we fly to the tttermosb parts of thc earth the rusts, under this Republican policy >f tariff fostering, pursue us and oven inder the protootlon of the federal miela1? appoluood by PresldentlRooPO rolt, tho poople lind no rest (ron; trust exactions. i'lHIX'JMM. I' LUJiiill-l'.Jf!fB We Have to )no 25 h?r?? power Talbott, second han y hoon ovorhaulod. This Engine is i \ groat bargain for anyono who is in th Wo are headquarters for anything in >rompt attention will bo given to all inc saro. Write us when you aro in tho m o get pourrioea boforo plaoing your oi <!?fumhl? Snnotv 8?.. .>?.???????????????????????? Chronic Disca Successful!; If Buffering from Nor ?ona Kxhnuatto Vrtrloooole, Strlottu Liver, Stomach, Ho Disorder?, Kidnay c to women, et?., call 90 yonra' Exporten^ Kopulation firmly ? our booka "Brain an ?nd "Moa'a Dlaaaaa ndvlaori. Many OA?61 lOxOort opinion of y blank. Addreaa DI Inman Building, AU L HWT?H i mm?, I. a titditUkrtmoQt.ii H?d.t*H hgil)M.li?foi,ltfi*V. Mi?.tathtj. h. lUwUr JttUIM. fe, hui of lalla, ?ta. WA vu ou- roms ov - >---- . HoOoaafttloii In ltol?n or tnvWl????nrj?a ?i PittHbutK, I'm. With detectives from atlea of nelghborlm? states who are there in the hope of. fiudlng on oks of national r. putatlon, there has been no apparent oessation in crimes that have stirred Pittsburg within the past two weeks. During Wednesday and early Thurs* day morning scores of people were ar rested on tho streets as suspeoted characters. Shortly aftor midnight Thursday a negro who entered the home of David Boney, Parryville Ave. Allegheny, was heard in the lower portion of the house by a maid, who immediately notified Mr. Ronoy. Mr. Itv, ney fired several shots but the negro caoaped. Roney's homo ls located to a row ot ton house "nine of whloh have boen robbed during the past two evenings. Dispatches to the Associated Press Thursday night from neighboring towns says the reign of lawlessness has never before been equalled in these suburbs. At South Sharon, Mercer ?Jouncy, the polloe found John Mo Donald lying in an alloy, almost dead from exposure and fraotured skull. At Washington, .Pa., bloodhounds have started on the trail of robbers who assaulted Mrs. Cole, wife of the tax o^lleotor of Green County, whose con dition ls precarious. At Beaver Falls, Pa., a thief enter en the home of Mrs. Mary MoMUler and falling to fiud money ohooked her nearly to.death. The woman finally hroko away from hor assailant and grasping an iron poker struck him several times over the hoad. Three white men were arrested Thursday night at Somerset, Pa., charged with stealing 9250 and several hundred dol lars worth of government stamps from the wife of a government revenue col lector while she waa riding on a street oar in Greensburg, Pa., Thursday. At New Brighton two mou were held-up and assaulted Thursday night by highway men. Both mon were sorlously injured. A genoral manhunt is In progress at McKessporc, Pa., sev eral miles from here, lu an endeavor to capture James Taylor, who murder ed Isaao Carter Monday evening. At Swlssvillo, a suburb, extra polloe were added to the force Thursday night at a spcoial mooting of the connell. WK agree with the Macon Tele-, graph that the trouble In tho SouAfef-* ern Cotton association is tb.^'samo that has beset every aesooiation orga nized by Beuthorn farmers. The offl oors could not restrain their ambition to branohout, Tine Sugar Trust very naturally demurs to being indicted for receiv ing rebates from the railroads: but too evldenoo shows the managers are guilty, but under tho extraordinary antics of the administration the trusts will be fined and the real law breakers go freo. W11 JON Undo Joe Cannon began to dsestatistios in his speeches he borrow* sd trouble that will stick to him, for ila 'flgors' provo just opposite to what cie Intended. The people are too wide iwake to be fooled any m )ro by these Republican statesmon sloshing around u a sea of statistlos they don't under hand. TUM Atlanta Georgian printed a jompllmentary reference to Senator rill man and waked up the Ch?.vicnto?. Post and Columbia State, and aooord ug to thc Spartanburg Journal these )orformed thc oame old stunts they lave boen doing for 16 years only ?rovieg that a prophet is not without lonor except in his own country. TIIK Spartanburg Journal says; 'The one-sided polit'Oal conditions in louth Carolina form ono of our great st drawbacks. Tnls state and the thor Southern states need a strong alnority party." The Journal's views ould soon be rea'lzed if the registra lon laws aro made moro liberal, but io fall to see the benafit to be derlv d. SKNATOII Knox, who by the asBls auoo of the Pennsylvania Railroad nd the geuolous help of the Standard Ml Trusts represents the corporations n the United States Senate, has teen nulled into consultation at the Vbito House to know just what ought o be done by the numerous "and cat attorneys In tho country, to pre ?aro the case against the Standard Ml Trust with unusual care." It night be suggested that most any tonest oom ll aid lawyer oould get ohn D. Rockefeller in stripes, if the federal judge and jury oan bo relied pon, but it would seem to a laymen hat it would be advisable to keep inox out of tho oase. fcK AAA BANK OEPOSIt P3?UU\S repaid, ?oiesTil?? ^ * BOO PRBB COURSBf BSHBMSHttSfltt B o*rd st Cort. Writ a Qbk* lOaaiA^UBAMABUSINCMOOUMLlMl^to iln Organ hat will last a life time ls what you rant. Our Organs bavo a pure tone nd lovely oases. Wo can supply on with ah Organ thai will plcaso lu very particular for only $05 and $70, ellvorcd. 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