Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1T Idi 1S30A ..DO TH, GBEAT LIBBBTY, INPIBB O?B SOULS AND MAKTSOUB L1YKS IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY OB OtJE DJSATnS CHjOBIOTJi IN THY OAUSK." VO L. XXXII 9 BENNETTSVILLE, S. C., FHII)A"YJ? APRIL 12, 1907. NO. 1 KUIN MRU Ut AI H. A Destructivo Tornado Sweeps Three States. SCORES ARE KILLED. And Many Buildings Art? Destroyed . in (lie Path of tho Hurricane. Tho City of Alexandria Had n Fearful Experience. Several Other (Mtlos And Towns Weir Wrecked l>y tin Awful Storm. A most destructive tornado visit ed portions of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama on Friday, leaving ruin and death in its path. It swept over three hundred miles across portions of tho above named States. Parts of four towns were devastated with damage exceeding $fi 00,000. The wind damaged property, crops and telegraph wires throughout its course At least. -10 are known to have been killed and live times that number hutt. Ahe tornado oegan at Alexandria, Lia., soon after one o'clock Friday morning, killing four persons, prob ably fatally Injuring three and ser iously injuring thirteen others. Soon nf ter daylight it neared the Missis sippi River, killing Ave persons at Jackson, La., while at Bauyou Sara, La., at least half dozen others wore reported killed. There was one fa tal Injury at Jackson. The tornado next appeared at Car son, Miss, where the great property damage was done, and disappeared about noon near Selma, Ala., whom the inhabitants saw whirling clouds rise Into the air as they crossed tho river. A negro was reported killed near Selma. lt is not known now how many people were killed, and will not he known until reports from tho county districts are all in. Alexandria, a town of about io.ooo inhabitants, had a fearful experience. When the tornado struck the electric lights went, out, the cracking of fall ing buildings could bo heard above the noise of the wind, sud vivid light hing dashes showed such sights as an empty Iron Mountain passenger train rolling over and over. A heavy hail storm itdded to the general discom fiture. The main portion of Alexandria es caped the worst of the tornado, which cut n,]>nth through the northern por tion of the town, a residence quar ter. About a score of homes were demolished, fifty were damaged, and all together about a hundred build ings wero wrodked, including several busiuosa houses. A freak of the wind drove a small soot ion of a house into an empty passengor coach, wedging these two bodies almost Inextricably together, in tho woods about th town the tor nado cut down trees for about nine miles. Several houses were blown down at Pineville arid injuries wore reported. Tho hail did much dam age to crops. At Jackson, La., the Insano asylum was wrecked, with a loss about. $200, 000. In addition to three fe male Inmates many others were Injured. Two negroes were killed on a nearby plantation, while reports from the surrounding country Indicate that there was probably more loss of life. At Bayou Sara several passengers on the steamer Betsy Ann had a re markable escape. The Betsy Ann was severely wreckod. While break ing timb?is from tho steamer and from the shore Hew through the air the crew got all tho passengers safe ly ashore. At Carson, Miss., the Mlssissipi Central Depot was blown down, also a church, a school house, two busi ness buildings ?ind several cabins; from Carson the storm crossed the State line into Alabama, where it be gan to lose nint h of its power. Devastation in Alabama. Specials from various parts of Ala bama toll of death and devastation from tlu> cyclone which swept over the southern anti eastern portions ol the State Friday. At Bradloyton, the homo of Hugh Farrier, a prominent planter, was blown down, Instantly killing Mr. j Farrier and his six-yea r-ohl son anti fatally injuring Mrs. Farrier. The storm toro up (he tracks of the Atlantic Coast Lino from IV! res to Patsburg, a aislante of several miles. Probably loss of life is reported from North Perico, where Oil the plantai ion ol' .1. C. Moore, a banker of Marion, a row of ll o USCH was blown down. During a Storm Friday afternoon lighting Struck tllC jail at Selma, knocked down pari <>f the wall ol' the prison and terrifying the prisoners. MANY Ll VHS Lt 1ST And Thousands Made Homeless !>,< a Destructive I'.urtlujuakc. A severe earlht|Uake accompanied by loss Of life has occurred at Sitlis, Turkish Armon?a, appears lo bo con firmed, hut the number of deaths ls unknown. According lo advices re ceived In New York from W. W. l'est treasurer of the American mission al Constantinople, the Americans 1111(1 their peole in the missions at Hillls have been rendered homeless, tho snow in tho vicinity hoing 2fi foot (loop. Assistance was urgently re quested. MAHKIFD BLIND (illlL. ^ That ls What an Hx-th.v. ol' Itliodo Island Did. I3x-(iOVOrilor L. F. C. (?arvin, re former and woman suffragists, was very quietly married last week to his blind finance, Miss Sarah IO. Tom Itnson, o. the Baptist Church parson age in tho vintage of Lonsdale, lt. i. His Unce daughters ami the bride's two sisters were present. There were no bridesmaid, matron of honor, nor groomsman. The laid" filed her marriage Intentions last wook, bul friends of the couple did not kllOW the ceremony would lie performed so soon. \> it newsed hy Mail) . Three thousand persons witnessed (he hanging of FollX Powell at Vic toria, Texas, on Tuesday. Ile was hanged for I ho murder of Mrs. A. .1. Conditf and lier foui' children in Sep tember 11)05. UUttK DOINGS. The Peculiar Capers of Glassware in a Darlington House. The Neighborhood Is Mystcifled Over Tho Unexplained Antics of Various Articles of Furnitur?'. * Very mysterious things aro hap pening at a farm house in tho Coun ty of Darlington If tho story publish ed bolow, which ls taken form the Darlington Press is true. Tho Press says: "W. J. Odom, who lives in the Early's Crossroad section, claims that at the residence of his son, Wil lie Odom, a curious freak occurred from 8 to 1 o'clock Monday night, and from 9 o'clock Tuesday morning. "Looking glasses, water buckets, fruit jars, etc., danced and pranced about in a manner as if possessed with life. A water blicket half ll Hod with water jumped from its shell in tue room and omptod its contents. "lt was picked Up and replaced, when it jumped again. A bottle of White pine cough syrup leaped from the table a distance of ten or twelve feet and struck the chimney and broke; glass ware, fruit jars and bottles and demijohns cut peculiar antics, foll about in profusion and wore broken; one empty jar fell to pieces without moving from Its place. "The people In the house carried the bottles, one containing turpen tine, out of doors, and those vials re turned mysteriously to tho room and foll upon tho door. A mirrow about eighteen luchos long, sitting on tho table, hounded from tho table about eleven feet to tho middle of the Moor and was smashed to smithereens. Mr. Odom is dum founded over the phe nomena. "A number of the peo plo in the neighborhood col I oct od and are all mystorflod. The whole community became Interested and some thirty five or forty pooplo gathered at the house. Mr. Odom ls reliable and is not superstitious. Ile called at the Prosy office yesterday. J. M. (?ray of this city, was at the placo Tuesday evening and witnessed the broken pieces of glass, otc." lu a foot note tho Editor of the Press says we give tho above as told us by Mr. Odom, who seeks an ex planation as well as advice as to what should bo done. If this mys terious thing happer, d some place wo would attribute it to an over dose of boo/e, but as Darlington is a dry county, there must bo some other cause for t hemysterious phe nomena. HYPNOTIC HEFOHMING N_ Proposes to Make Over Wrecked I/tvos of (Uris. The use of Hypnotism to reform incorrigible girls ls the latest venture of Dr. John 1). Quackonbos, the fam ous mental export, of Now York. A rich New York woman, whose name has boen kept secret, has provided money to help the doctor along in his experiments ?Jit half n do/en girl in - matt's of the New Jersey Home for Girls, .at Trenton. The girls upon whom the physi cian is to practice his method (d' heal ing ?ind making over immoral young lives are all about IT or IS years ol' age. Those unfortunate girls, it is found, Pearly al) have some one great fault, Which ruins their lives and it is the idea of Dr. Quackonbos to ob literate this fault hy using hypnotic suggestion and pulling a now ami better Idea in its place. The girls must undergo regular treatments. They are pul io sleep and when they awake (be (dd idea bas gone and the new idea is in its place. Dr. Quackonbos supplies au object in life for the one he takes away. Ono >;irl awoke with the idea of being a waitress, another wished io become a dressmaker, and two had a longing for music. The treatments must be repeated, the doctor says, until the new idea is (Irmly rooted in tho mind and the will becomes strong eilOUgh to hold it there. A MONSTER KAT. Weighs Most Three Hundred Pounds And Has Huge Lip. The newest specimen at tin- bronx park "zoo," New Vork, isa capyharn. Imagine a rat weighing 280 pounds, witli a huge head, an Upper lip a foot long, and one has an idea of the beast. Ile is the largest of the re .eui tribe and has harsh, coarse hair more like bristle;, than fur. The hair ls mixed black and yellow and ol' dingy appearance. In his na tive haunts the capyhara has a bilge, fat stomach, which almost drags on .ie ground. He is a water-loylng an hnal and cali dive and stay under foi Ight to ICU minutes al a time. Tlio jaguar of South America prey: I poll tbe capyhara and the I lld lil ll: ni him for lils Mesh, which, win-.', .molted, is said to be as delicious a: , Watkin s bland Kentucky bain, ai hough il lue; a certain musky flavor. The capyhara make;; ll sound, If alarmed, somewhat between a dog's bark and a pig's grunt. Ile was once called tin- hydrochooehoesus, or wa ler hog. and lives on a vegetable diet. TWENTY MEN III'KN 101). The Flames Spread Papally in a Hotel Building. Twent y men were burned lo deal h and twenty others seriously hurl in fl Uro which destroyed the Italian Hotel in tlie Potrero district ol' San Francisco on Thursday. The injured were (d' Hie laboring class and were asleep in their rooms when I he Uro started. before I hov COUld be aroused the llames had spread through the building. The stairs fell and the Inmates were buried in the ruins, twenty ho ing taken out. Tile Oi ..er t won ty of the injured the fl remen rescued, All il ls believed, are taken from the de bris. Tbe injured were rushed to the hospital where several died while j await lng I real nient. i -- Seul Illili a Komb. Ai Schenectady, N. v., Daniel Mil ler was fatally Injured by an Infer nat machino sent iiim by express Fri day Ilight. John Hallinan is under arrest, believed to be tao author of the crime, the allogod motive hoing 'disappointed love for a girl Miller i was to marry. Hallinan's con vers, i tiori strongly indicates lie is insane. i AWFUL CRIME. Negro Murdered and His Body Hidden in a Swamp. BY "INDIAN DOCTOR. Who, WU h Ills Wife, Is Badly Want ed by tho Barnwell County, Whore tho Brutal Murder Took Pince, 'rite Murdered Man was a Peace able, Industrious Negro and Was Weil Thought Of. A most awful and brutal murder came to light over in Barnwell Coun ty on last Thursday. On Wednes nay, Feb. 2 7, a man giving his name as Dr, .Teems and claiming to ho an Indian "doctor." was in Allendale, accompanied by a negro woman. Ho claimed that tho woman was his wife After making some Inquiries about (lie town tho couple called nt tho house of a negro named Stoke? and hired him to take them across tho country in his wagon to Barnwell. Aller some explanations and upon the urgent appeal of the "doctor" and his "wife," Stokes agreed to take thom and started out for tho county seat. Stokes failed to return homo on tho afternoon of the day ho left with tho strangers. Nor the next day did he show up. and his folks became uneasy about him. Tho third day came, and not having been seen or hoard from his family organized a search I fig party and started out to ward llarnwoll to gather some infor mal ion from people along tho road, Tlioy wen? told by varie s parties on the road thal a wagon with the three occupants ns described waa'scon to miss along tho Bnrnwell-Allondalo road on Wednesday, Keb. 2 7 They found no difficulty in tracing i ho wagon tb a point within about llire?> miles of Harnwell. They were told by some parties that the wagon turned off at tills place and was driv en in the direction of a swamp. Later it was seen to come back with only two of tli?? occupants, the man de scribed ?is the Indian doctor and the negro woman. The negro Stokes was missing. Search was made for the body of tho Allendale negro, ll being then be lieved that lie had been murdered ?ind his body secreted, but no trace of him was found. Negroes and whites looked for a week after Im was missed, some ex pecting possibly to Hud him alive, wliile others have searched for his body. Days went by without their searches resulting in anything. Thursday the attention of some parlies Wit" attracted to a largo num ber of buzzards hovering over Hie swamp, near whore Stokes was seen last, some distance from Hie road. Investigation resulted in finding a badly decomposed body, afterwards Identified as Stokes liv means of his coal and shoes. The buzzards had eaten almost all the flesh off tho bom's. The body was face down when found and there were eviden ces which showed that it liad been grngged some distance, from a point near tho road. The theory is thal Stokes was mur dered either in the wagon or on the road side and his body dragged into th? swamp by tho heeds. What the motive was is not known, unless it was robbery. The mule and buggy is all thal tho negro Stokes had. ll is certain that "Doctor" .looms and his negro wife never went to Harnwell. bul they were seen to turn toward Williston. The next day, Thursday. Fob. 28, (hey were in WIl liston and tried to trade off the mule and wagon. ll IK claimed that the negro woman with tho alleged Indian told several that her home was in Sumter. Stokes was a farmer. Ile was about 22 years of age, and was a quiet, bard working, honest negro and was liked In lils comm unity. Ev ery effort was made to apprehend the . Doctor" and his colored spouse and police officers and sheriffs are urgen tly requested to keep a shari) look out for thom. CANT HITIT I S. I'he South's Crops Put Her On Easy Street. The ltiritiiiigham News says Hie cori! cr?|i bf the Southern Stales for I BOG was worth $600,000,000. The value of the cotton crop of the So ll th in) Stales for the same year was .hont $700,0,00,000. Add to these he value ol' the wheat, oats, tobacco nd fruit crops, the value of live dock and poultry, and tho value of tu) list rial products In Hie South, and he h;l al will make lt easily under ?oed w hy ibis vast fertile and pro ud ive region cares not n rap about lie turmoil among the stock jobbers md gamblers and got-rlch-qulcH dls vytches ol' frenzied finance in Wall st reid. DUI DI : AN IK J BOOM PEBISH. Newly Wedded Couple Burn to Death In a Hotel. Dr. ?md Mr?. Lloyd Hare were >MII ned to death when (he Uiver View Hotel at Sutton, \V. Va., waa destroy ed by lire on Tuesday, causing a monetary loss of $ I 8,000. Dr. and Mrs. (?are were married Wednesday in Motindavillo, W. Va., and were en route to the home of (he groom's mother. Mis. Mary (?are, where a wedding supper awaited their coining Mrs. Hare was MI ?a IO ll zn both Win grove of MOundavlllo. Dr. Hare was . rears old and bad Just finished his medical education. li AIM Hf,ADHD AT (Ht BCD. That ls The Way a (?loenville Preacher Wants lt. At the first Baptist church of Oreenvlllo on Sunday, Rev. Dr. 'A. T. Cod.V announced ?is an especial re quest thal beginning with next Sun day night's service, ladles would boro lifter leave their hals at homo. This only applies to night services. The mat ter bas caused a good deal of dis cussion, but it ls believed the request will bo generally compiled willi. STARVE WITH MONEY Died For Want of Food and Had Plenty Maintained to tho End Illa Inability To Buy Food, but the Surgeons Found Money. Saying he was too poor to buy food and with $197 In bills sewed to the lining of iii? coal .md vest, Thus. Harry, of Jersey City died In tho city hospital there of Btnrvattlon. Harry was seventy-six years old, and livod for many years at 120 Erle street, In what is known as the Horse shoe section, his neighbors took an Intense Interest in him, so that when ho was not seen about yesterday the police was not Hied. His apartment was broken Into and Harry was found lying in lied In a semi-conscious condition. He was sent to tho hospital, and, after food had been given to him, he regained consciousness and told of his lack of tho wherewithal to buy the necessi ties of lifo. He also told the police that he had n brother named .lohn J. Harry, who lived In Bowdoln street, Huston. He said his brother was a millionaire, and if communicated with would surely send enough money to buy food for himself. (Thomas.) Harry was tenderly nursed by the doctors, and for a time it was hoped to save his life, hut age and a consti tution sorely racked by past self-de nials, refused to respond to tho treat ment of science. It was then that the doctors, in an endeavor to ascertain the correct ness of Harry's story about his bro thor in Boston, searched lils clothing for some letters or papers., There was a peculiar stiffness nhout the coat and vest. It felt ns if lt was lined with paper, and the pa per had a rustle to it. It was paper. Indeed, for when the doctors un stitched the lining they found paper money of every d?nomination, from $1 to $20 bills Some of these bills wore worn and very dirty, and looked as though they1 may have been in this pince of con cealment for many years. All were sewed with a long stich of black thread. There were places that indi cated that a bill had been turned out and another bill sewed in its place. DON'T WANT HIM. Draftsmen in Treasury Department Object to Cotorod Associate, ^ Wilson W. Cooke, colored, of Or-, nngeburg, has created moro or less a sensation In Washington, ami has be come an i:\eie in the Treasury De partment of Hie Government. Cooke was nut., recently Instructor of man ual training in the State colored col lege at Orangeburg. Ho ls well edi.; cated and especially well posted in architecture. He Is said to have grad uated in a Boston technical shool. Tue ellice of the supervising arch itect of Hie Treasury has been very short of draftsmen to work upon the plans for the many new buildings authorized by Congress a year ago. lt is usually the custom ol' the super vising architect to employ draftsmen tenip.iriai ilv without asking-the civil service com mission for a list from which to make appointments. A month or so ago the supply of trained men became so scarce that a caU upon (he eligible list of Hie com mission was necessary. 'I bis list re vealed as is customary three names, 'l'it?re was nothing to indicate the color ol' tiny of the candidates ?ind Cooke wiis chosen from the list. The minute he entered tile Office the white clerks wore dumfounded. ne was ?i negro and would,have to work alongside of about one hundred while draftsmen already employed. There was trouble al once. The white draftsmen got their hoads together timi talked li over. Ono man, a Vir ginian handed in Iiis rcglgnation without delny. The others Immediately drew up n petition to Secretary Cortelyou ask lng that the negro be changed to some other place or dismissed from service. Mr. Cortelyou ls a very dip lomatic man as well as a good polltl lion. Ho didn't do a Hiing to the pe tition but stick it in a pigeon bolo and say nothing about it. He didn't oven send word hack (o (he white clerks (hal it had been received. He didn't want lo be accused of making further (rouble for the ad ministration on (lie negro issue and so he did something thal is not pos itive. Tho clerks are still agitating bul (hey don't know what to (lt). TWO or three Others have handed in their resignations and (juit Hie sorvic< rather than work alongside of Cooke, against whom there is not liing ex cept his color. All the snubs Huit cnn be directed against him have no effect on Cooke. He holds lo Hie job, does Ills work correctly and will probably romain where he is unless he falls down in his work and gives tho head of his office an opportunity lo recommend lils dismissal. VOI S., lilith A I1KKOINI0. Saves .Many Hives in a Hotel Fire in Boston, Mttss. Klovon-yenr-old Louise Plypton proved herself a heroine in ii recent hotel lire In l.oston. Maas. She wa: in the hotel when she saw smoke lilling the colliders on the fifth Moor Slit- lim from door lo door giving tin alarm on inn! Iloor anti then went to the Iloor above anil was engaged in doing Hie same thing when she was IM? iconic >si!li smoko.I*Ironu .i . ed lo ber assistance and rescued her before she became InsOSlhlO. The lire had been caused by (he explosion of gasoline and might have resulted ill serious conseil Hences had it not beeil foi tho efforts ol' the boorie Kiri. 'I brough lier warning .>..;.?,uno worth of jewelry was saved from one of (he rooms. l in- Burned a Year. A lire that hits been burning since Hie San francisco earl ht|nake Inst April was discovered (be other day by workmen who were digging about the ruins ol' a dry goods store. They were astonished when Ihev nicked up some bricks to lind them red hot. Tho bricks were removed anti a cloud ol' dense SlUOKO issued foi l li, ,'iccoin pntllod by ii blaze. Tilt! lire had been burning nearly a year wit hool being discovered. Jealous Lover's Awful Crime. Made Jealous by seeing his sweet heart with another man at Holtland, Ore., Roscoe .lames killed Crace N. Disney and himself. ON TEDDY Harrimaji Says He Asked Him To Save the Republcans. And Tl?it Ho liaised Money to Pre vent Now York Prom Going Dom ocrntjoin 1004. A sensation wno creatoil in New York Tuesday by tho publication of a lotteift written In December, 1905, and nd|r08sed to Mr. Sidney Wobstor of Now; York and signed "E. H. Har rlman." Sidney Wol)stor is a lawyer and a writor-0n political subjects. His wife is a sinter of Stuyvostant Fish, who lost tho presidency of tho Illinois Contrat railroad a few months ago aftor ..antagonizing Mr. Darriman. Following is a portion of tho lettor referring to his relations with pres ident Roosevelt in tho campaign of 1 904: "As to my political instincts to which you refer in your lotter of Dec. I am (mite sure I hnve none and mir being mudo at all prominent in tho'ftiolltlcnl situation ls entirely duo to- President Hoosovelt and be cahso fit my taking an active part In the campaign during tho autumn of 1904,Vat hiB request, and his taking advart$ngo of conditions then created to further his own Interests. If lt has been a predicated plot It could not htp/o been better started or car ried out. "About a week before the olection lu th6 autumn of 1904, when lt look ed certain that the State ttckot would go Democratic and was doubtful as to Itoosovelt himself, ho (the president) sont mo a request to go to Washing ton to confer upon the political con dition in Now York State. I com plied'fond ho told me ho understood tho campaign could not bo successful ly carried on without sufficient moll oy, ai'd asked if I would help thom in raising tho necessary fund?, as the national committee, tinder control of Ohali Vian Cortelyou, had utterly fail ed of obtaining them, and there was R largo'amount duo from them to tho Now York State committee. "I oxplainod to him that I under stood tho difficulty hero was mainly caused by tho up-State leaders being unw"' j to support Dopew for re election ns United States Senator, that if ho (Depew) could bo taken care of in some other way I thought mutters, could bo adjusted und the [lifteront contending elements In the party brought Into alliance again. Wo talked over what could ho done for Dopew and. finally ho agreed, If found nocessary, he would appoint lilm ns ambassador to Paris. . W ith full belief that he, the pres ident would keep this agreement 1 came back to 'New York, sent for rretuurer Hllss, who told me that I was their last hope, and that they lind exhausted every other resource. th proseAc? I called up an inti mate friend of Senator Depew, told him 'that it was necessary in order to carry Now York State that $200,000 should be raised at once and If he would help I would subscribe $50, 1)00. After a few words over the tel ephone the gentleman Bald he would let mo know, which he did probably In three or" four hours, with the re sult that tho whole amount, includ ing my subscription, had been raised "Tho checks were given to Treas urer Hllss, who took them to Chair man Cortelyou. If there was any Milong them of life Insurance com panies or any other Uko organiza tions, of course, Cortelyou must have informed tho president. 1 do not know who the subscribers wore other than the friend of Depew, who was an Individual. This amount enabled tho New York State committee to continue its work, with the result that at least 50,000 votes were turn ed in the city of Now York alono, making a difference of 100,ooo votes in the genera) result. "There are between 2,200 and 2, i'.oo districts in Greater Now York ?ind in a campaign such as that tho expenditure of say, $50 In each dis trict for campaign purposes not In cluding tho watchers oil election day, would tako more than $100,000. "Some time in December, 1904, on my way from Virginia to New York I clopped and had a short talk with tho president. He then told me that he did not think lt nocessary to ap point Depew ns ambassador to Paris, as agreed on, in fact favored him for the senate. I had not expected that he was the ono (sic) as to what would he necessary, but he arrogated that to himself, and I. of course, could say nothing further. After that. I used what llifluonco I could to have Dopew returned to tho senate, as I considered there had boen an im plied obligation which should bo liv ed up to. "Tnls is the way I was brought to tho surface In tho political matters as I had never before taken any active part, and had only done what I could as a private citizen might, so you see 1 was brought forward by Roose velt In an attempt to help him, at his request, the same as I was in the in surance matter hy Hyde and Ryan by their request for my Iud p. "Yours sincerely. (Signed) "F.. II. Harrlman." H10GAN HIGHT. "bet Us Pray" Says Man Just Ho fore Marriage. Just as Justice Steide started to Join Robert G. Jackson, the "ten dollar-a-wook bachelor," and Mrs. Hollo Williams in wedlock at St. bonis, lats week Jackson halted him "Lot US pray," he said. Then ho dropped on his knees and fervidly .. ..i,,,,. ,... ?lip hloss llChUiifiin m im M ... ...... .. . . . i.- . -. lugs of happiness and a numerous progency. In this pious wish tho bride-to-be heartily Joined. Some weeks ugo Jackson asked a Judge if a man should get married on a salarv of $10 a week. Tho Jus tice replied In the alllrmative, pub lished Jackson's letter, and the lab orer received marriage proposals from Olghteon women, including the bride._ SHOT WIFE AND HA HF. - ?And Then Blew Ont Ills Own De? melded Drain. The details of a shocking tragedy which occurred nt Flint Hill, Uap pahannock county, Va., Saturday week reached Windiest ctr on Thurs day. Henry Foster, a young farmer, wliilo out walking with his wit'o and two-months-old baby, suddenly drew his revolver and shot and almost in stantly killed both of them. Foster men blew ont his own brains. No reason ls known for tho deed. Commits [Suicide Because of the Death of ??His Neice. A LITTLE BABY GIRL Was Short In His Accounts Several Hundred Dollars, Dut lils Employ ees uro Certain That That Hud Nothing to Do Witt? Uta Killing Himself, ns Ho Could Have Re placed Ii. A night of grief ami despondency In Oakland cemetary at tho gruyo of his little niece, the penciling of a note at daybreak saying that he was short $G00 In his accounts und two hours afterwards a pistol shot-these were the final incidents In tho trng edy of Hoheit S. Stewart, who com muted suicido nour 193 dimer street Atlanta, Co., on Wednesday morning 1 of last week. Tao Journal says Stowart was \ bookkeeper for tho Harper-Weathers 1 and Call leo tt Mulo company, where for tho past six yeaiB he has been ono of tho most highly valued and trusted men in tho office. Shortly , after two O'clock Tuesday afternoon ? he left his desk, ostensibly for home. | ne lived with his parents in West \ End, near Cordon and Cascade ave nue. When night came Stewart had , not returned. No alarm was felt, | however, until about 7 o'clock his mother telephoned tho ofllce and said , that ho had not been seen at the house since breakfast. Apprehon- j sion was Increased from the fact that - ho was known to be In ill health. A ? search was begun for him. On going to the safe to put up the ? books for the night, W. C. Harper, ( head of tho Harpor-Weathers & Cal llcott company, found a due bill that Stewart had left and which stated | that he was Indebted to the firm for ? something like $i?ou. The next seen , of the bookkeeper was on Moore i st recd at seven o'clock Wednesday , morning. A friend spoke to him and | tried to persuade um) to go home. , "No," he answered, as if in a | dream, "fin going back to the cern- ( (dary, i've spent tho night there by . Leonora's grave." Then ho dlssapoared. In a deserted outhouse nour 193 . Oilmer Btreet a pistol report rang | out about 8:30 o'clock. A negro washerwoman, frightened by tho noise ran over to tho shanty. She found Kohnrt Stewart stretched ] on his face and bleeding from a ids- , toi wound through his heart. Ills hat had fallen behind him and nearby ! lay a half-smoked elgar, still burn- '. ing, that he had laid aside to fire the ? shot. In tim dead man's vest pocket was found a note, penciled In a firm, bus iness hand on three seperote scraps of paper, one a part of a National bank check and the other two sheets from a scratch pad. In tills last mes sage?, ho intimated that he had lost $1,000 of the company's money last Christmas at a place ho does not name, and that he was crazed with grief for tho loss of his sister's lit- . tie child, Leonora Seddon, who died last Thursday. Ho vaguely hints of a disappointed love, declared that he (. was weary of living and- ended With saying: "Love God. Ho is good, and you . will know lt some day, some lime." . Prom this letter il also appears thal Stewart had gone to Oakland ' cemetary Tuesday night intending to kill himself hy the child's grave. He j writes: "I went to the little darling's 1 grave to die, but was prevented from doing so. My last request ls that you lay me by tko little darling." That S ewart's self-inflicted death was tho outcome of grief for this baby as wcdl as despondency over lils shortage In accounts many incidents Of the past few days go to indicate. With lils aged parents. Mr. and Mrs. 1 W . F. Stewart, he has lived far out from the city on Cascade avenue, In : tho most thinly settled neighborhood ' of West Rad. In the family were also Iiis sisters, Mrs. Helena Adams, Mrs. 10. Z. Stowarl and Mrs. Karly Sodden, lt was little Leonora Sod den, tho 20-months-old daughter of tile later who died last Thursday, from her hirth Stewart had an af fection for Hie child that was almost miraculous. All of his hours from work be spent in playing with her and slie returned his- love as If he had been lier father. Last Thursday Hie baby died and was buried in Oak land cometary two days later. Prom then until Tuesday Mr. Stewart's beal Hi. which for a year had been HI. more and more rapidly (iee lined. In speaking of tho suicide. W. C. Harper, of tho Harpor-Weathors & Calllcotl Co., said: "I am sure that tho shortage In Mr. Stewart's accounts is due to no criminal nient on his part. His ex penses were heavy, though he was unmarried, and no doubt in time ho would have made- good every cent of lils Indebtnebnoss. Prohaps wo shall find on examining tho books thai tho deficit ls not so great as he ? bongin it was. During tho six yours he had been with its, his work has been of thc- higtlCRl character, and we re garded him very highly, as we still j do. SIOltVIOD HIM HIGHT. A Masher Pined Porty Dollars for Annoying Ladies, The Stale says one of the most out ol' Hm ordinary eases that has como up before tho court In a good long while was that of a White man who gave Ills name as W. H. Hisliop, and ls a stranger In Columbia. Monday Bishop got about half drunk and began "making eyes" at young ladles on the Streets. Police; man ford soon gol on lo his game and In wad liing him n while noticed that tho chap was following two la dles, who, filially hoing worried and frightened by tho persistent atten tions Of bishop, ran to avoid H lui - Tho man was locked and Thursday dbl not deny the charge against him. Ile said ho was drunk and If ho was discourteous to anyone he knew nothing or it. His line was $10. Ho paid np find left. Thorn Paused Death. Pricked by a roso thorn four weeks ago, Miss Anna Free, aged 23 years, of Stamford, Conn., died of blood poisoning, tho other day. SHOULD BE STOPPED The Letter Chain Exposed hythe] National Government. Which Is Doing All It Cnn to Put n Stop to tho Nuisance but It's a Hurd Job. For some weeks people In this sec tion have been receiving chain let ters from friends in other sections with tho request that they wrlto nine, ono each day, similar to tho ono re ceived. Some people did as request ed and othors did not. It has como to light, that tho scheme was a stu pendous fraud, and Bishop Lawrence whoso attention Was called to tho matter, denlod that ho had evor dic tated such a document. Tho scheme has grown to such enormous propor tions throughout tho country until tho postal authorities wero obliged to take a hand in tho matter. Tho lot ter ls as follows: "Dear Friend and Christian: Below ls a prayer chain just as it was sent to mo, so I send lt out to others, for I do not want it broken in my hands. Cod bless you and others to keep it going: " 'O, Lord Jesus, we implore theo, D Eternal God, to have mercy on all mankind; keep us from all sin, and take us to live with thee eternally. Amen. "Thlsprayer was dictated by Bish op Lawrence. He commands lt. to be written and sent to nine other lier ions. He who will not do lt will bo afflicted by some misfortuneand poi - sons who pay no attention to it will aieet with a terrible accident He who will write this prayer for nine tlays and send It to nine othors, com mencing the day you receive this, (only one each day), will after nine lays experience some great Joy. At Jerusalem at the feast, it was said ho who would write this prayer would he delivered from every cal amity. Please d not let this drop in your hands. I have written this just is I received lt. Now, please send It 10 others. Sincerely, "CHRISTIAN" Through fear of hoing overtaken by some dire calamity, ns predicted lu the letter, the recipients have In variably set. down and compiled with the Instructions to write each day Tor nine days. It was not. supersti tion that promoted them-of course not, but the men and women receiv ing the prayer have believed that they would feel more comfortable after complying with the obligation JO solemnly Imposed and the neglect if which was severely penalized. As i consequence, millions of prayers dave boen written and sent through die mails In tho form of letters on mst al cards. To show the extent to which chain otters might expand if tho chain vas unbroken for even tho tenth lower, lt may he stated that, tho tot 11 number of letters would reach/ 1,fi00.000,000, as may be seen from he following table: 1. 9 2. 81 3. 729 .1.I. f>,5 61 6 . 59,049 cf>. 531.4 11 7. 4,782,969 S. 354,1 20,489 10.3,187,932,450 Total. 3,585,93 2,4 50 Tho united Stales postal authorl ios have taken hold of the matter md they are trying to empress the ?raze. In speaking of the abovo let er an official of the postal depart neut sahl: "Tin1 Bishop Lawrence referred to n the letter Indignantly denies that lie ever commanded or authorized my one to UKO his name in such ? ?Vii(.tor. He thinks the originator li ?Uber a practical joker or some re igloos enthusiast, possibly possess lng more piety than common sense.! The bishop proves that tho orlgi nntor of the 'chain" was not a good Christian or he cou' ? not have Incor porated the falsehood In his original letter, .sei ting forth the supposed con nect lon. The more prayer letters, the moro Imprecations from postal clerks and carriers. The thing deems to have taken a periiaclous hold upon the ?juporstlclous in widely seperated communities, and their name ls lo gion. Tholnnocont cause of the trou ble has sought to stem the tide and entirely disclaims responsibility for the scheme which has loaded the mails with these prayer letters. The ministers have denounced the fake and urged their congregation to burn tho missies and pay no attention to tho threats they contain, but still the lottors multiply and are seriously overloading the mails. It seems that nothing hut common sense will serve to break up the chain. COST TOO MUCH. Alf Expensive Way to Get Hid of Hats. In a largo warehouse in Liver pool a hoy named Edward Scott was employed to run errands. There were many rats about tho place and ho was told that If ho could catch one and singe Its tall all the others would loavo, A trap was sei and a rat was caught, hut while singeing its tall ac cording to directions the lighted pall or blew Into a pile of straw and start ed a cortflagatlon that burned four big buildings and Inflicted a loss of half a million dollars. SPS WIFE A WONDER. Site Remembered Hie Wad of Money Hidden in The Stove. Almost (.00 good to he true was the good fortune of Silas II. Rayburn, of Rising Sun. Ia., who recently sold a lot of cattle for several thousand dollars. Rayburn has always been suspicious of hanks and hankers and would have none of them. So he put his money 111 an old stove used hy his wife on wash days. The other day his wife wont to bulbi a fire in tho stove hut she first removed the money. Oilers Prize for Births. Eager to soe the population of Mc Pherson county, Neb., Increased, Tilomas Roseman, a retired batchelor cattleman, has offered' $50 To every baby horn In the county and $100 to every connie who get married. Won ttl Ly nell Fuedlst. Adam Kelty ls being Sought hy a posse, bent on lynching, near Celeste, Texas, where ho shot and killed Os ? car Drown, the 15-year-old son of a neighbor, with whom he was at war over a boundary line. WIVES GALORE. A Man Arrested in Philadelphia Said to Have One HUNDRED AND FIFTY. Alleged Daughter Is Accused of Run? niii tv Mai i 'inion lol Bureau for His Benefit, Disguised to Pienso All. Philadelphia Detective Says Ho Has Found Biggest Bigamy Swin dle in History. After tho arrest in Philadelphia on Thursday of Jamos Marshall, a pic turesque looking Westerner, and Miss Teonle Marshall, or Miss Edith Boss, his alloged daughter, tho first on a charge of dosertlon and the se cond on a charge of "falso pretence," tho pollco of that city unfolded what thoy claim ls the boldest and most m?ltiplo conspiracy of bigamy and robbery in history. Edward Bryant, of tho Bryant De tective agency, which uncovered the "Mrs. Edith Boss Bureau," asserts that Marshall has at least ono hun dred and li fly wives, and probably twice that many. Ho claims to havo ovidonco that lu ono month the man married as many as six women. The plan according to tho polico, was for Miss Marshall to Introduce Marshall to tho dupes as a rich and gentle suitor. Ho would appear in a variety of disguises. Tho marriage would be quickly offectod. Marshall would got all the valuables ho could from the luido and would dosort her. His wives, it is said, aro scattered across the continent. The proceedings were brought by Mrs. Marjorie Frlel, of No. 1525 Summer street, who applied at thd Boss bureau for a husband and got Marshall. She had saved some mon ey from her wages and Marshall tried to get lt. Then he deserted her. In the kitchen of tim house occu pied by Marshall was found a lot of charred paper, indicating that alot of letters and stationary had boen destroyed. Upstairs, in tho sleeping room in tho second floor, wcro found about .1,000 letters from women all over the country lu answor to adver tisements inserted In various papers by the "Mrs. Edith Boss Society" the name of the matrimonial bureau op erated by the Marshalls. There were also found many bot les of hair dye. of all shades, tending to bear out the detectives assertion that Marshall "mado up" to repre sent different types, to pienso tho varying tastes of tho "socloty's" fea male clients. A bottle of laudanum was another lind. All the ar ticlos wore kopt hy tho detectives. At the hearing Friday Marshall who Is GI years old, wore a towering and ilaring sombrero. Tho postal au thorities aro Interested in the case, as it. Is charged that Marshall used the United States mails in his scheme to lure women into his clutchos. Pos tal inspector Frank O'Brien Is inves tigating the case on behalf of the Federal authorities. 1 lot h prisoners wero held in $1,000 hall, ?he police say tho woman is not Marshall's daughter. GREAT HIDDEN WEALTH. Money and Valuables That Huvo Been IiO.st at Sea. The computed value af hidden treasure in tho world runs away up into hundreds of millions of dollars. In the bottom of a lake in Columbia there is gold and silver jewels val ued at $500,0 00,000. On Cocos is land there is burled pirates' loot val ued at several hundred millions of dollars. Fifteen million in Spanish gold ro llones n tlie Armada galleon wnJlch was sunk to prevent capturo in Tom- . bormory gay, 01? the Island of Mull. Spanish vessels, sunk in Vigo bay, hold $1 40,0011,000 in gold, silver and precious stones. Hurled in the Black river mountain in Mauritius ls pr ivate wealth valued at $150,000,000. A ship wrecked off tho coast of St. John's Cape Colony, is bulging with $5,000,000 is specie. A British war vessel wth $30,OOO,000 in gold and valuables wen! down before the-Rus sian gunfire at Sebastopol, and it is still down with all Its wealth. Jewels and gold worth $5,000.000 are hidden on the Meditorrean island of Alboran. A bushranger who rob bed hundreds of Australian gold dig gers, and who was killed In ono of his raids, has the wealth hidden somo where between Melbourne and Balla rat. Stores of gold ls believed to bo concealed in certain oases in tho Bib ina desert. Thirty million dellars' worth of the buried treasure of Hie Incas ls still buried in Holivia. and tho untold wealth which the Homans cast into tho Tiber many cen turlee ago, has HOV or been recovered. Norman tow els, the crown of King Alfred, and tho ancient English rogilla are burled in the Wash. INDIAN SWINDLER. Made Ten Ears From the Skin of a Wolfe. It took an ingenious Indian to dupe tho Treasury department of Clark county, Wis., and swindle lt out of a cool $100 with an euso that would have put even Cassie Onad* wick in the shade. The Indian re ceived the $100 for live pairs of wolves' ears, for which a bounty is paid. After ho had gone tho dork examined the ears moro clonoly and lound thal ?hey were mado of paste board covered willi pieces of wolf skin cut. in tho shupo of ears. The indian was arrested. FATAL FIRE, A Mother and Five Children Burn ed to Death. At Bassine, N J., on Wodnosday of inst week a mother and flvo of her children wero burned to (loath in n tenement fire. Tho chlldron rangod in ago from seven months to sovon years. Many women and child rou wore taken down ladders by tho Aromen, but the members of tho Satupo fam ily, which occuplod rooms on tho 3rd Iloor are supposod lo have boon suf focated hy smoko boforo they could oscapo from Uiolr rooms.