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?1VEN ? RO?S?T ? -- Some Scathing Comments in the Recent Elections. ANENT COBTLEYOIL Hie New York Prese Contrasts His Treatment by President Rossevelt With (he Defeat of Congress* man Babcock bv the Peo ple of His District. It ought not, says the Now York Press, to be necessary to use a steam drill to drive Into the hoads of Bo pubPoans the lesson taught by the defeat of Representative Baboook In Wisconsin. Tho Press thore goes on to say: In a district which is normally Re publican by several thousands of votes, and which gives a handsome plurality to the victorious, Republi can oandidate for Govomor Babcock has been beaton for ro election. And this despite the fact that he was Ohairman of the Congress campaign committee, a powerful member of thc system In the House, and could oom mand resources not available to the ordinary Congress oandidate. Baboook was beaten because ho was in partnership with the lifo insurauoo grafters. He took 82,500 from ?the despollera of the widows' and orphans' fund and spent lt to maintain that part of the Congress machine ovor which he was in command in 1004. The faot was widely published lu Mu. Armstrong oommittee testimony. It was 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 lnoidont of Baboook taking 92,500 from McCurdy to finance the political maohlneof which he was tho engineer. Tho voters of the 3d Wisconsin dlstrlot decided that a man who would take money whloh he knew ho had no right to take was not flt to look after their interests or those of tho country, and they have returned Baboook to private life. Now, does not the fate of Reprc sentatlvo Baboook suggest largor possibilities of danger to National Republicanism? Oonsidor the oase of Oortelyou. It is like Baboook's only worse. All tho yellow dog funds contri buted largo sums to Oortelyou, and be fattened the funds of the National Republican committeo with them. Babcock took cents where Oortelyou took dollars. But tho aotions of the two mon wero identical In that each accepted moneys willoh did not be long to tho givers, in that each know the contributions did not bolong to those who made them, in that caoh oonoealed the gifts as carefully as the evldenoo of anv felony, and in that both Cortelyou and Baboook spent tho money in thc further de bauchery of Amerioan politics. The similarity in tho offences of the ohairman of tho National Repub lican committee and the chairman of the Republican Congress campaign oommittee stops thore. It is when we come to tho treatment of tho two mon that the big diff?rence occurs. Bepresentatlvo Baboook, not being a member of the Cabinet, but being in charge of tho Congress oampaign oommittee, and not daring to faoo a canvass of the country in behalf of a Ropublican House with the 82,500 steal staring the voters in tho face, he is retired from tho chairmanship. Then when ho goes baok to his dis trict for a "vindication" thc hobnails of public opinion are applied vigor ously whero they will do the most good. No vory high standard of morals is required ordinarily for membership in the House, as is prov ed by the fact that Baboook could go there after ho had been oaught stuffing the malls with franked postal matter during railroad weighing time, and as demonstrated by tho presenoe in Congress for a long time of some men who belonged in Jail an1 have sinoo either been started in that direotion or are already in prison. But tho 3d Wlsoonsln dlstrlot drew the line at being rr presented by a man who helped McCurdy to skin tho policy-holders of tho Mutual. now Oortelyou was treated for do le g on a larger neale what Babcock did was advertised to the oountry, and particularly to tho Stato of New York, a few days before tho balloting, whloh eleoted to tho Governorship the man most instrumental in ox posing the partnership of Cortelyou and Babcock with tho dispensers of Yellow Dog funds. For his share In the dirty business Babcock is wip ed off tho map of the system at Washington. For his part in tho plunder Oortelyou is not retired from his position as Postmaster General, but ls raisod of all things to thc chair Of Alexander Hamilton. Tho man who would spend in a oladestino man ner trust funds belonging to mom bers of ono political party to promoto tho fortunes of another political party ls not punished but rewarded. And to aggravato tho outrage tho reward to him for his failure to observo com mon honesty in tho handling of other people's money ls his promotion to the post whero ho is in ohargo of tho funds of tho whole nation I Suoh is the difference botwoen tho treatment of Baboock by tho voters of his homo district and tho treat ment of Oortolyou by President Roosevelt, although tho olfonoo com mltteed by the two men differed only in degree, and to that extent tho wrong dono by tho Cabinet officer is greater than the blooding of the Re presentative. The Amerioan people have longed looked upon the "vindication" of Paul Morton from tho solf-oonfessed oharge of orlminal rebathig as tito topmost point of absurdity reaohed in American administrative Govern ment. This height of folly is scaled by tho promotion of Secrotary Oortel you to tho Troauury, and tho fact ls al) the moro emphasized bv tho beat ing the voters havo given to Oortol you's confederate in the 3d Wlsoonsln district. Jb'Atiil Fight. At Grand Rapids. Midi., Mike Word, the pugilist, of Harina, (hitar lo, died Friday morning at 0 45 o'olook as tbe result of a knockout in alight Thursday night with Harry Lewis, of Philadelphia, Ward died of oerbral hommorrhago, aocording to tho physicians who attended him. Hurry Lewis, Roferec Byan, of Detroit, and Frank O'Brien, Lo wis' trainer were placed under arrest. ? FINDS A PEARL. WhllQ Elating lUw Oy s tora In a New York Onie. At New York William H Bloors, manager of the Ohio Brass company's works in Mansfield, Ohio, struok a mine of pearla in an oyster In. the Oaf? Savarin Thursday. Mr. Bloom ia staying in the Hotel Breslln. Thursday he went down town and dropped into the Savarin for a bite to oat. Mr Bloom thought he would like some raw oysters. So tho man opened him half a dozen. With four ot these oysters this story has nothing to do, The fifth oyster was the one that oonoealed seven beautiful pearls valued at 9500. If he swallowed them whole, Mr. Bloom would have returned to his nappy Ohio home ignorant forever, perhaps, of how muoh he was worth him8elfj inside. But in Mansfield they ohow their oysters. As Mr. Bloom hit Into tho fi (th cystor he felt something round between his teeth. They have failed to properly mani? euro those oysters" he said, aud ojco ted the gritty otjaot from his mouth. It was a lusoioua pearl. In quiok succession he produced six more pearls. "I presume that when you serve oysters on the half sholl all that oomeB in the shell belongs to the guest?" in quired Mr. Bloom, of Waiter Gustav. Gustav admitted that suoh was the mle. "Well, you should have some re ward," said Mr. Bloom as he plokod up ono of tho pearls. "I shall leave you the remaining oyster." And ho wrapped up all tho pearls and told Gustav to thank Mr. Savar in for him on aooountof Mr. Savarlu's kindness and gonorosity and went away. BROODING OVER L03S. A Lindy Attempted to Kill Horaolt Willi Foison. In a flt of despondency Mrs. Joo Steine, wifo of tho heaviest loser in the reoont fire at Warrenton, Ga., made a dosperato attempt to oommit Buloido Thursday at uoou in Augu3ta by drinking poison. She had beon visiting frionds in that olty hoping to ovoroome the strain whioh has resulted from tho great loss by the fire of last week. Tho Stoino store and building suf fered a loss of twenty thousand dol lars by fire and there was only ni* thousand dollars insurauoo, which lt. seems was not muoh moro than enough to pay outstanding obliga tions. Mrs. Steine was stopping at 914 Broad street and somo one happened to observe hor as olio took the deadly dose of poison and promptly summon ed City Physician MoLaws, who suo ooeded in pumping up most of tho poison and giving counteracting dos es, whioh put Mrs. Steino uut of dau ger aftor tho employment of stringont means. In a statement to the physician and othoro present sho said she wish to dio as tho work of a lifetime had been destroyed in a few short mo ments by the llames and sho did not feel ablo to begin anew the struggle. She is reported as resting very well now and out of all danger from her desperate aotlon. s The finally is well known through out that section of the state and num erous friends havo expressed their sympathy over the loss of their prop> erty. Tiroil ol 1.1 lo. Mr, William B. O.lgen, bookkeeper in the Charlotte brauoh r ill JO of thc Philip Carey Manufacturing Co. com mitted suicide here early Thursday night by asphyxiation. The act was a most deliberate one. After writing a dc z ?u or moro notes to his father, wlfo, S?veral rolatives and friends, ho drew the shades in the othoo, made a pallet on the floor wtiha pillow of ox oelsior, out the gas tube leading to the small hoator and tied the freo end to his nook. Aftor turning on tho gas ho threw a felt blanket over bia hoad and was dead in a vory short time. Ile leaves a wife and two children. Profound melanoholia, brought about ;by poor. eyesight, 1H said to have been tho oauee of the rash deed. In a noto to his brother, Mr. E. P. Tln?sloy he said: "I am afraid of myself. Sometimes I have been tempted to take all the folks with mo, but have resisted tho feeling, 1 do oot think I can do so any longer." A Wino Woman. There is a wiso 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 got while she did sev en washings a week. Littlo by little she kept putting away savings from hor meagre earnings until sho had $100. Sho caused hor husband to be summoned bofore Justioo Carpenter and offered him tiie $100 if ho would sign an agrecmont to leave the vlllago and never oomo noar her again. Craw ford signed tho paper and took the money. Burnod to Doatli. At Aiken on Thursday afternoon little Ryau, tho -1-year-old son of Mr. A. J. Halglit, was no severely burned that death resulted Friday morning at 5 o'olock. The ohild's clothes ho came iguitod and bofore it was res cued it was burned fatally. Tho body wan oarried to Blackville for Inter ment. Mr. and Mrs. Ifaight haye tho sincerest sympathy of all in tboir sad bereavement. lOlK'it Mon Hm ind. A dlspatoh from Douglass, Arizona, says that eight mon woro burled un der tons of rook by the promature ex plosion of giant powder at a limo quarry near there. Employes from the smolters have boon sont to dig them out. Put I hom to fi'light. While E. R. Ooodshall and others were attempting to kill a bull at Un ion the infuriated animal turnsd on them and put them to dight, during which Ooodshall foll and tho bull at tacked him, indicting soveral painful wounds. SBOKBTAHY Wilson has agreed to lot tho packers label their steamed beef as "roast beef." He calls it a "concession to tho paokors." The pauperized beef packers aro sadly in need of somo concession. NOTING that Mr. Howard Gould is mgry because ho has a Chlneso broth >r-in law, tho Houston Post sagoly ?bsorves that he ought to bo tliank ul lt Isn't Harry Lehr. Thore's [onulno optimism for you. hOMH N1W KULIMS WHAT ilUHAIi OAItUlERHHUBT AND MUHT NOX DO. A Poitoffloe Offloial Gives Cat a Btate ment an to Their Duties, Bead lt. "New that tho rural free delivery jystem has been BO oxtoudod in thu country-in faot it will bo but a abort tl no when the merry rural free do 1 vory carrier will be trotting over t ie snows and icy peaks of Alaska the department ls In constant receipt of letters to what rural oarrlers may carry on their routes besldesthemsolves and their mall," Ba'd a poatofHoe de partment official recently. "lu ino first plaoe, they cant oarry Any liquid that stimulates either on the inside or outside of their persohs; intoxication means instant dismissal, and they are dismissed when they aro deteoted drinking even off their routos JNor are t?ty permlttod to oarry spirituous liquors for the ac comodation of their patrons; personal friendship doesn't go with tho depart ment in these oases, and no exceptions are made with the rule. "Eural carr lora must carry th* mail aud nothing else, even though biuduoss houses seek of times to make errand boys of them. Garrlors must not either lu peron or through othors, directly or indirectly, solicit money, gifts or prosents. nor issue for profit souvonolrs or postal handbooks, nor 00 operate with or assist the pub ishcrs of tho same to secure the patronage of tho publlo. Thoy are also barred from compiling or assisting in mo compiling of direo corles for public uso. Business Urina with largo mall lists have oaused us a groat deal of trouble in attempt ing to engage tho oairlors as tboir agents, so wo have striotly prohibited thom from furnishing tho names and addresses of patrons on their routes for pay or favor to any business establishment, or to any individual exoopt to the department officials who aro entitled to thom uudor the regulations. Tlio department has received let ters from patrons complaining because tho oaariors rofuoed to oarry tboir milk cam. This is funny, bub lt ls true, and lt shows what some people in tho country think tho rural deliv ery sorvioo was established for. Oar rlers are not permlttod to oarry pas sengers, nor to permit ? ny parson other than authorized postal officials, to ride with them or to have acoess to the mails. Thoy must not eugago in any business during tboir prescribed hours of service or to conduct any business aftor hours which offers tera tatton to solicit patrourgo on their routes, or whioh by reason of their positions in the government service ?{Ives them special advantages over 1 competitors. We rigidly bar thora from acting as book canvassers, Insurance solicitors sowing maohino agents or aoting as agent of any kind or occupation. We allow carriers to oarry merchandise for hire upon tho request of patrons residing npon their respective routos whenever it will not intfere with the proper dlsoharge of their official dut ies under suoh regulations thc de partment may preeoribo. Country storekeepers try to uso tho carriers vehicles as dei ivory wagons, but tho government ls not in that sort of business. We allow tho oarrlers to re?oive no compensation from tho sel ler of tho merchandise and where the merchandise is oarrlod on the request of the patrous for hire for the carrying, oarrylug must bo paid by tho patrons. "We got thousands of letters from ll over tho country Just on this ono point -what oarrlers may oarry on their routes. If the rural delivery patrons would only remember that tho govormout ls not in tho express business, thoy would save themselves, tho carriers and the department a great deal of trouble." DANTZLER WILL CONTEST So AB MU ?nd ftloorer Omi dot a lil lt lo M ta ko. Tlie commissioners of elootlon for Orangeburg County mot on Tuesday and organ!/..ul themselves into boards of canvassers for the purpesn of can vassing and tabulating the vote poll ed at tho general election on tho Otb instant. The two boards of this coun ty are composed as follows: Federal-J. A. Berry, chairman; J. C. Redmond, J. B, Stroman; secretary, M. F. lnabinet. State-John S. Bowman, Jr., Chair man; D. B. Berry and Thos. J. Hart, seorobary, S. J. Ilolliday. There wero fewer votes polled in Orangeburg County this year than two years ago. Governor Ansel only recolved 1,888 votes, and the balance of tho tlokets in the State, and county boxes rooolvcd about the same. For Congress, Mr. A. Frank Lover recolved 1,1)79 votes In tho county, willie tho negro, Alex. ?, Dantzler, only received 83. lt is presumed that Dantz'er in tends going before Congross with another contest. Jacob Moorer, a ooh orcd lawyor of this piece, who lias been conducting these biennial contests heretofore, appcercd before tho board of Federal oanvaisors and served the following notloo upon them: State of South Carolina, Seventh Con gressional District. To tho board or county canvassers for tho couuty of Orangeburg. Please take notloo that tho undersigned, A. D. Dantzler, Republican candidato for a seat in thc ot)th Congress from the 7th Congressional district of South Uarolina, protests against the count' lng, canvassing, tubulating and re turning of any and all votes cast at tho election hold November (I, l??O, tor A. F. Lover, Demooratio oandl date for a scat in the (iOth Congress from thu Soveni/n Cong rossal district if South Carolina, upon tho following {rounds! First, that tito laws under whioh the election was hold, November 0, 1000, tre in violation of tho 14th and l?tli imcndments of tho Federal Omstitu don and should be doolarod void and )f nono oifecb; Second, that the managers of clen don wero partial and unlawfully per nll.tcd a certain olass of olUv.ons mown as Confederate soldiers, to vote without tho qualifications required of )thor citizens, to tho great Injury and jrojudioa of tho Republican candi late A. 1). DANTZLHB, Protestant. J Aeon Monition, Attorney for Protestant. Tho failure of two Savings Banks in Washington in ono woek, shows hat Republican prosperity ls not uni' oraal. QXBL KI LLB D HBRBBLF. Did Not I Wftnt KO Uo to Bohool wu the CMUHO, At Concord, Ga., rather than go to Hohool against her wishes, Miss Mary Standford, pretty and vivacious, sent a bullet crashing through her head Tuesday morning of last week at 0 o'clock at her home in Concord, Ga., dying Instantly. The young girl left home for school under protest; declaring she did not want to study. Instead of going to the school hou o, however, she re traced her stop.. Into tho house, scour ed her father's pistol and hurried un observed to the barn, where she de liberately plaoed the weapon against her ear and pulled the trigger. A negro heard tho mulled report of the weapon, but thought nothing of tho matter until two hours later when the body was found by the girls fa thor. Miss Stanford waa noted for her beauty and from earliest ohlldhood he 1 been admired by all her friends and companions, Bv nature she wa? of the happiest disposition and until her recent 111 health was the lender In tho in the youngor sooial ol clo of which she was the charming center. She waa the daughtor of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Stanford, one of the most prominont families in the town. Her father is a large land owner and lives on the rent from his several plantations. Henry Stanford of At lanta ls a broihor of the young girl. He has been wired of the tragedy. A BIRD TRAGEDY. Tho PaasoiiKor Pigeon, Onco So Pion ttl ul, Now Hxttnot, Tho greatest of all tragedies Iv the feathorod kingdom was tne sudden oxtiuotion, the magioal disappearance, of tho onoe countless hosts of passen gor pigeons. Tho question as to what bcoamo of tbem and why tbey went bas becomo ono of the most puzzling problems of ornithology. Those old enough to romombor these beautiful birds have never ceased to regrot their unaccountable extermination. Ono day as uumorous as the sands of 'oho soashoro and flying in myriads that darkened the sky for hours at a thoo, next day they have disappeared as completely as If never in oxistonoo so completely that a large roward ciTor cd for a pair still romains unolaimed. A celebrated Amorloan ornithologist estimated that a Hook he saw early In the last century numbored largely over two 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 are tremendous figures but many of our older rea tors, r mern bering Hocks seen in their boyhood, will readily boliove thom to be true. As late as the sixties it was no' un common thing to dee in Kontuoky, In diana and Michigan, Hooks that'dark ened the sky in every direction aa far as tho eye could roaoh and they would be passing for hours at a time. lb has been over thirty-three years i since any considerable number' of these birds wore soon south of. thc great lakes though an extensive nest ing was reported from tho rogln of Petoskev as late as 1881. T gb hundreds of men were cugagad ?Ot ting thom and captured fully 10,, ut, OOO, it was estimated that not ono bird in a thousand was taken. An eye witness deolarcs that this neBtlug oov erod au aroa twenty-eight miles long and fully four miles wido while e>ery treo of any size oyer this extonjlvo space had more or less noats and many wore full of them. j This, however, seems to have been thc last of the passenger pigeon in numbers. Soon thereafter he disap peared as suddenly as the Virg'nia sora after a frost as oomplotely aa tho great auk of tho southern soas. What became of thom still remains and doubtless always will remain one of tho unsolved mysteries of scionoe. lt was at first thought that they at tempted to cross tho ocean, but un equal to tho long Hight foll and vero swallowed by the waves. Amore prob able conclusion ls that In the destruc tion of the forests, willoh deprived them of their natural food, aided by tho relentless persecution of malu lu every locality, wo may lind the real explanation of this deletable tragedy in tho kingdom of the birds. BoillU in Ht. IV lorn. At Rome, Italy on last Sunday morning a bomb was explodod in St. Peters, wbloh ls tho largest chu roh building in the world. Tho edi (Icc was orowded and an indescribable soeno of confusion followed. There were no fatalities. As soon as the cohoes of tho tremendous roar had oeasod, a canon sought by reassuring words, to quiet tho people, but in vain. They Hod in all directions and a number of wemen fainted. Womon and children aoreamcd and mon tried to protect their families in the crush. Thc ohuroh ls BO large, however, that there was ample room for tho orowd to scatter and no ono was injured. No traoe of the perpetrator of the deed has been found. No Ohftgo Wantod A dispatch from Richmond, Va., says by resolution tho V.rglnia Hap tist Convtntlon Wednesday broko off all relations with tho American So ciety and refused to use their publi cations. The trouble grew out of printing by the house of bibles for Asiatics, in wbloh tho Crook word ''baptlBo" was translated "dipped." Tho Amorloan Society contend their iratisalatlon is correct and refused to chango lt in Haptlst blblos. Out le.WM Ktllod. A punitivo expedition, which bas boon oporatlng in Kroutzberg district Runfla, for tho last week, has killed ninety pousants belonging to tho re* olutlonary organization, tormed Wor nat ItangorB, who levied tributo on tho surrounding country. PitKSimcNT Rooscvolt should call the attontlon of tho First Assistant Postmaster-Goneral to the Ropublican campaign book In which it Is doolared that the oost of living has not In areased porooptlbly. That hardly ag. ,?rccs with the olllolal request for in creased pay for postal olerks duo to tho inoreaao in the oost of living. Phoso who aro paying high trust prices oan hardly bavemuoh faith in ItopubHoan statements which have evidently boon manufactured to de )oi it thom. Tum bedeviled policy holders of the Lifo 1 usu raneo oompanies are now Doing blod to elect their c jrn officers ind only two years ago they were bo ng bled to elect Roosevelt. Their ot could bo no worso li they were federal oftlolals. rUKIY-olA Ult From a Railroad Collision W hich Caused a Wreck, WERE FOREIGNERS. The Wreckage Took Pire and All of the Dead Except Two Arc ?urned Be yond Recognition. Blunder of the Employ?s of the Road. Moro than one-half tho passongors on an Immigrant train on thc Balti more and Ohio road woro killed or Injured in a collision Tuesday botween the passenger train and a freight near Woodville, Ind. One hundred and sixtv-iivo passen gers were on thc train. Of these 47 were olther killed outright or were burned to death in a lire that broke out in thc wreckage immediately af ter tlie collision. Thc names of all of the dead will probably never bc known, as 45 of the bodies were con sumed In thc Hames or were so badly burned that Identification will bo out of the question. Thirty-eight people were injured and several will die. Elgty others escaped unhurt but lost all their baggage and clothing, Thc disaster was caused hy a blund er of some employe of the railroad company, but just where tho blame Iles has uot as yet been determined. The passenger train, which was load ed with Russian .lews, Servian and Toles, all of the recent arrivals in this country, and hound for Chicago or points in thc Northwest, was the second section of a through t rain from Baltimore. The engineer of tho freight train, No. inion instructions received at McCool, Ind., waited at a siding at Babcock, Ind , to allow the immigrant train to pass. One report ls that the engineer of thc freight train had not been In formed that the passenger train was running in two sections; thc other is that the Hist section of the passenger tram carried no lights or signals of any kind Indicating that a secondsec tion was close behind. As soon as the lirst section of tho immigrant train had passed the switch at Babcock, thc freight train started eastward.A l'ght snow was falling, which increased the darkness of the early morning and as the freight was rounding a sharp curve just west of Woodville, the second section of the immigrant train came into sight a short distance away, tearing toward Chicago at the rate of 40 miles an hour. The two trains came together with unslakonlng speed and In Hie crash six passenger coaches and several freight cars were knocked into kindling wood and together with the locomotives went rolling down the 10-foot embank ment. Vir0 broke but almost immediately In the wreckage, and although a num ber of the injured were saved hy the desperate efforts of the train crew and surviving passengers, the greater part of those who 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, hut were held fast by timbers that weighted them down. These were burned In plain sight of the throng that stood around the scene of the disaster, ut terly unable to lend asissstanoe in any way. The lire cont inned until all of the shattered cars were entirely con sumed and of thc 17 people whose death followed the collision 45 were burned to ashes. Thc crash of thc collision was so great that a number of fanners and other lesidonts of the noigborhood came hastening to the scene, but 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. Ivelief trains were sent at once from South Chicago and from Valparaiso, Ind., with every availabe physicsan, and every possible aid was given to the injured. Utfly Muidor ltooord. "During the last live years 45,000 poraons vrcre murdered In tho United States. More persons were murder ed last year than died of typhoid fev er. This ftvfful total has been duo to tlie way tho law was admin iorercd, and the lav/ Itself ls bad and lnoffloent. It is burdened with restrictions and technicalities, and In almost every oaao .??ho criminal lias niuo ohauocs of (.soaping to ono of hoing found guilty." So deolarod Judge Marcus Kavanagh in au ad drona before tho alumnae of St. Igan gantius College gathered at a banquet at the G-rott Northern llotol at Chi cago. Ile spoke on " IOnforeemcut of the Law In the Dargo Cities,'* and vigorously assailed tho oporatlon of courts under tho jury system. That tho United Slatea is the most criminal oountry in tho world, tho jury the mont loose and antiquated, and the lav/ tho mest open to attaok aro among tho asaoYfcions made by Judgo Kavanagh. Another Doath. Mr. Flarold Korest Holley, of Aiken County, a student of the South Caro lina University In Columbia, died Sunday morning of typhoid fev.;r. This ls the second death at the Uni versity In thc last two v*ooks from typhoid fevor. Mr. Holley was a bright and promising young man. He was tho son of Mr. B. F. Holley, of Aiken, and was regarded as a tine student and maxily young follow. There havo beau no nev/ oases In twelve days now, and the medical authorities give assurances that danger is over. Tho use of woll water for a few days, during a break In the regular oity supply, ls regarded an the causo of the oases of typhoid, Tho Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier says a? tho well water ls no longer used and thore have been no new oases In a fortnight, the fear of further trouble ls regard od as over. Tho authorities havo tho boat of trained nurses and physicians attending tho young mon who are sick- all aro now about woll. Itrutftlly Murdered. At Wilmington, N.C., Bottle John son, ? negro woman about 25 yoars of age, was brutally murdered Saturday night by Frank James, a looting's Duth Carolina negro of bad police record. Saturday tho woman was assaulted by James and oarly Saturday night as she was returning homo from a mag istrate's oillco, where sho had sworn out a warrant against the man, he again attaoked her. With a razor he out her throat and savagely gashed her body. Death resultod In a few mo ments from hemorrhage. James ls at large. Tho flond whan oaughfc should be made short work of. i BOBNB Ol' BU AV H. Hobbors ?nd Patron? of a Saloon Have Blondy Fight. Al San Francisco two men ?re dead, two others dying and ot)mrs seriously in Ju rod aa a result of a pis tol duel Thursday night la an at tempted hold?up of a saloon by two masked robbers. Shortly before midnight two men with handkerchiefs over their faoe and revolter in their hands entered tho saloon of John O'Connell at Sixth and Brannan streets. AU the inmates oomplied with the ordor to hold up their hands given by the masked mm except George O' Oonnell, a retired and pensioned po lice officer, who drew a revolver, and oommenoed shooting at a robber near tho Sixth Street entrance. The robbers began dring at the policeman, and patrons of the saloon at almost the Bame moment. When the smoke of battle oloarod away, four men were lying on the floor of the saloon, throe of them dying and a C uirth seriously lujurod. O'Connell has two bullots. in his ohest, Steven Lynoii was twloe shot in the abdomen, Louis Dalatour had his Jaw torn away by a bullet and Michael Kennedy was shot la tho oar. Oae of the robbers, Frank Burke, an ox? convJot- was found dead outside, with his mask still on. O'Oonnell died soon after being taken to tho hospital, whore it ls said, that Lynch and Delatour, both laborers, oan not recover. _ ANOTHER OUTRAGE IK ATLANTA. NoRro Hoar, Hound and Criminally AsBimltod,White lindy. Somo of tho nogroes of Atlanta must be determined to pull off anoth er riot. One of tho most dastardly assaults ever perpetrated was that committed thoro on Tuesday of last week by Joe Glenn, a negro 30 years old, when ho entered tho home of Mrs. J. N Camp, on Oasoado avenue, about 0.30 o'olock that morning, chok ed Mrs. Camp into unconclousness, tied a leather strap around har throat and assaulted her. Leaving his vio tim in an unoonsolous state he plund ered the house unttl^he;iiad partly re vived, when he returned and attacked her again. He remained unconcerned ly abou1-. thehouso until sta had re trait, od nor power to Boream 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, hound to a tree aud terribly bruised and Injured as a result of tho negro's orlminal attaok. She was taken into thc bouse in a dangerous oondilion, and there ls somo question as to her recovery. Mrs. Camp is about 35 years old aud has several ohlldron. Tho Oamp homo stands about a quarter of a milo away from tho nearest noighbor, and she was practically unprotected, The oounty polioo and tho marshal of Oakland City were notified of tho orime and at once instituted a scaroh. Late Thursday afternoon ?a negro answering therLgeneral|dcEoription was traood ta Gaseado Spring, and when captured, was found to {moro olosely answer "the description. When he was taken into tho presence of his victim Glenn was at onoo positively Identified. The officials anticipated trouble and made a rush for the oounty jail, which they succeeded in reaching Bftfoly before it was known that Glenn had boen either oapturod or identified The negro is now safe behind the bars, and there has boon no unusual oommotion about the olty either dur ing the day or night on aooount of the orimo. Prollt Not Gout. Mr. Storrctt. Tate, replying to a quotation from tho Now York Herald LO thc effect that as ootton oan be grown at ilvo cent per pound, lt is unreasonable for the produoer to ex peot moro than ten cents for lt. Mr. Tate successfully ridicules the prop csltion that cotton oan be grown at five cents a pound and shows that ton cents is too low for tho produoor to mako the reasonable margin of pro fit to which he is entitled. It is a very simple matter for a newspaper a thousand miles away from tho fields to tell tho cotton pro duoor what lt costa por pound to raise ootton, but when reduced to ita last analysis advioo from tho neighbor hood of Wall street ls ot no more value to the avorago cotton farmer than would be tho opinion of the average ootton produoor to a Now York speoulat-or who might bo seek ing ovidenco as to the latest movo mont8 of the Parlslon bourse. Every item entering into the pro duction of ootton has vastly lnorcased during tho past few years. It costs moro to buy land, fertilizers, stook, utonsilu, to pay for labor and to meet tho expenses of living than over be fore. Tho oost entering into the pro duotlon of a bale of cotton today ls almost double the cost c f the making of a bale ten yoars ago. While it 1B true that ton ocnts will perhaps moot aotual czponsos and give the produoor and his family a living, lt ts > .o', just for the world to expect tho oouton grower to be satisfied with only ao tual living expensen. Tho cotton grower ls Just as muoh cntitlod to a reasonablo return on his effort, his energy, his time and his investment as tho Wall street broker is ontitled to lils profit. What would Wall stroot think if tho cotton pro duoer should tttko the position that its brokors and business mon should be ontitled to no moro than aotual living oxpenscs out of their boniness -and yet that is tiie position aasum od towards the cotton growers by a great many people tho world over. What Wall street doonn't know about tho cost of making ootton would fill a great many hooks. In the moantlmo Tho constitution again urges the ootton producers Of tho south to let Wall street alono, and to make its arrangements inde pondent of advioo r60olvod from that dlreotion. The secretary of the Mississippi division of tho Southon) Cotton Assoolatlon was right when ho warned the produc?is of the Bouth against the boar movement emanat ing from Wall street, and lt ls notice able that lt comos tills year from some of thoso who only a year ago wore ooddling the farmers of thc south with tho vlow, evidently, of working into their confidence to bag big game this year. Notwithstand ing this ootton has gone abovo olov en cont?, and ovory pound now on the market ls worth that muoh at least, aud if marketed slowly will bring lt. Tine ondoraomeut of Senator Bailey bv a largo majority of the D?mocratie i State Committee of Texas Indicates that his implacable enemies are more I noisy than numerous, -,-,-,-_ OVBK NORTH IS KN MI8BL JUIPA'l On Last Saturday Hight Leavirg Death and Destruction in Ita Wake. Tolegraphlo and t?l?phonie oommu ni oat io ns reoelved Sunday night from points in Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee for a distance, of sever? 1 miles, report that territory to have suffered Saturday night and early Sundav from one of the most doatruc tlvo rain and wind storms experienced in years. Only meagre details are aa yob ob tainable, but five lives are known to have been lost ana great damage done to property and orops. Railroad trafilo ls completely demoralized by mimer ous washouts, and many trains have neoesta'ily been annulled. From tho reports so far received the great dam age occurred in the oentral and Delta regions of Mississippi. At Winona, Miss., the Catholic, Christian and negro Methodist ohuroh 09 and tho Henty brick yard wore de nuoiiBhed, and numerous buildings un roofed aud badly damaged. Among the largeat buildings damaged at this p'aoe are the postoillce, Opera Hon o (ho oil mill, the o empress, ware house of the Jaokson Mercantile Company and the residence of E. J. Dunkston. Besides tbose, about twenty . flvo smallor bondings were almost com pletely destroyed. Of those buildings not totally do stroyed, tbo oompross was probably the most badly damaged. The roof of this building was torn eff by tbo wind, which at times reaohed almost tornado-like velocity, falling on the home of E. J. Dunkston, 250 yards away. The wind storm was preoeded and followed by heavy rains, causing serious washouts along the route of the Illinois Oontral Railroad, and badly damaging orops. At Mathison, Miss., sor loua damago is reported to have ooeured and a woman killed by a falling building. At Tebula; a falling tree striking a small frame building, oaused lt to bo sotaliro a woman and ohlld were burn ed to death. At Nonconnah Creek a rail road trestle fell under the weight of a switch engine plunging Into the swoll en stream carrying with it Engineer ?. V. Peterson and Fireman A. R. Rttohle, who were drowned. Wost Point, Columbus aud Mahon, Miss., are reported to have suffered serious damage, but as theso points aro completely out off from communi cation it is Impossible at this time to ascertain the extont. Wolf River, a small stream in the viol ni ty of Rossville, Tenn., is out of its banks, tho wator Hooding the sur rounding territory for many milos. Thc entire town of Rossville is inun dated, the water in the publlo square reaohlng a depth of four feet and great damago has boen dono to proper ty at this plaoe and eastward. A railroad employee reports the people In a state of panie, tho flood being the worst in tho town's hlstorv. Q iantitio? ot loose ootton has been washed away, as well as many small buildings and Uvestook drowned. For a distance of eight miles, between that plaoe and Moscow, Tenn, the water is from one to six feet deep on the tracks of the Southern Railway. l'ioi uro Post Garda. Notwithstanding the faob of the enormous popularity of tho picture poat-oard a reoent order of the Post ?nico department ls likely to make these little mall souvenirs oven more sought after than ever. This order will make lawful a postoard upon which there is a spaoo upon the ad dress side for written messages. This will onable the sender to keep tho ploturo unmarred and yot wrlto a message upon the left band aide of the oard, tho whole of which aide has been in the past resorved for the ad dress only. This agreement was roached at the session of tho univer sal postal congress during the past summer. This style of post* oard bas been in use for some time In foreign oountrles. Tho admission of lb to American malls promises to lnorease tho number now handled by several millions. A poouliar feature of the post-card ls, that although lt is sent for ono cont, their usc bas inoreascd the revonuos of the department. Holet By Ula Own Potard. One of two burglars who attempted to break open a safe In the o Also of a large manufacturer ab Berln, Cor, has mot with a singular death. Ho and his accomplice, Unding tholr tools not sharp enough or tempered enough, determined to burst opon the safe with some explosive. They etuffed thc look full with tho explosive, pre sumably gunpowder, and attaohlng an ignited fuse, waitod for the result. As the fuse burned slowly one of the robbers approached bhe Bafe bo has ton matters. At that moment tho gunpowdor oxplodod, and tho door of tho safe dow open, smashing in the skull of the burglar, His accomplice escaped, and as tho explosion made hardly any noiso nothing was known of the affair till next morning. ARIZONA whioh la entirely under tho o mtrol of tho Federal authorlbloo reports a lumber trust plundering her pcoplo. Yea, if we fly to the uttermost parts of thc earth tho trusts, under this Republican polioy of tariff fostering, pursue us and oven under the protection cf the fedoral otil?la1? appolnood by PresldentlRoof-e volt, tho people Hud no rest from trust cxaotlons. We Have h Ono 25 horso power Talbott, second lin ly hoon ovorhauled, This Engino is a groat bargain for anyone who is in t We tire headquarters for anything ir prompt attention will be given to ?ll ir caro. Writo us when you aro in the r to get ponrriees before plaoing your ( tiUlnmbla Stinnlv ??.. j. lawton i imw.T, I. a Strutt fat moatlt MaJ.Ccl-j t???ttst. ix,Pm,K. vua. Mri.fetUty. h. Munta tot? Mri. fe., feud st tulls, tU>, Chronic Disc Successful - If Buffering fror Nervous Bxhnaitl Varioooole, ?trlot Liv?r, fltomftoh; 1! Disorders, Kidnuy to women, ?to., ea 20 yo/vra' KxporioL Reputation firmly our books "Brain t and "MOM'S Disaa advised. Many oas lOxOort opinion of blank. Addraas 1 Inman HulUiug, A VJ? *t CltiMbur*, ^ With ?efceotlvos from ol tit?* 0f neighboring stAtoa who ar? there lu Ula hop? or fiudlng orcoks of nation-*! re putation, tum bas been no apparent' oessatlon in crimes that nave stirred Pittsburg within" the past two weeks. During Wednesday and early Thurs day morning Booro? ot people weze ar rested on tho streets as suspected characters. Shortly after midnight Thursday a nogro who intered the home ot David Roney, Parryville Ave. Allegheny, was heard in the lower portion ot tho house by a maid, who Immediately notified Mr. R'.moy. Mr. Roney tired geveral shots but the negro escaped. Ron ey'a home ls located to a row of ton house ..niuo of whioh have been robbed during the past two evenings. DlBpatohes 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, Meroer County, the pol loe found John Mo Donald lying In an alloy, almost dead from exposure and fraoturod skull. At Washington, .Pa., bloodhounds have ! started on tho trail ot robbers whe assaulted Mrs. Cole, wife of the tax o/ilcotor of Oreen County, whose con dition ls preoarlous. At Beaver Falls, Pa., a thief enter en the home of Mrs. Mary MoMlller and falling to Hud money ohooked her nearly to.death. The woman finally broke away from her assailant and grasping an iron poker struck bim several times over the head. Three white men were arrested Thursday night at Somersot, Pa., charged with stealing $250 and soveral hundred dol lars worth of government stamps from the wife of a government revenue col lector while she was riding on a street oar In Grecnsburg, Pa., Thursday. At New Brighton two men were hold-up and assaulted Thursday night by highway men. Both men were seriously injured. A general manhunt is In progress St McKoooporb, Pa., sev eral miles from here, lu an endeavor to oapture James Taylor, who murder ed Isaao Oarter Monday evening. At SwlBsvillo, a suburb, extra police were added to the force Thursday night at a special mooting of the connon. WK agree with the Macon Tele graph that the trouble In the So: I ern Cotton association ls tjtorliame that has beset every aesooi&tlon orga nized by scubhorn farmers. The offi cers could not restrain their ambition co branch out, Ti no Sugar Trust very naturally demurs to being indioted for receiv ing rebates from the railroads: but tno evidence shows the managers are guilty, but under tho extraordinary antics of the anministration the trusts will be fined and the real law breakers go free. WIIKN Unolo Joe Cannon began to jae statistics inhlsspeeohes he borrow ed trouble that will stick to him, for his 'tigers' provo just opposite to what. he Intended. The people are too wide awake to be fooled any ru >ro by these Republican statesmen sloablng around in a sea of statistics they don't under stand . THH Atlanta Georgian printed a! complimentary retorcaos to Senator Tillman and waked up tho Ohcvsicatcw, Post and Columbia State, and aooord lug to the Spartanburg Journal these performed the same old stunts they havo boen doing for 15 years only proviug that a prophet ls not without honor except in his own country. Tino Sparenburg Journal says; "The one-aided poll foal conditions in South Carolina form ono of our great oat drawbacks. Tal? Btate and the ether Southern states need a strong minority party." 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