Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Marlboro 9 "DO THOU, ?HEAT MHERTY, INSPIHE OUR SOULS ANI> MAKK OUH LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY OH OUR DEATHS GI/ORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." TT/^T1 -w ?, CAROLINA DAY. An Exchange of Greetings With Virginia. A BIG SUCCESS. Exercises Oponed By ('upi. Gonzales Who Introduces Gov. Ansel, Who Presents the Speakers of the Occa sion.-ll. St. George Tucker, Pres ident of Exposition, and Hon. Wal ter Hazard Deliver Addresses. A dispatch from Norfolk, Va., to Tho State says Friday was observed at "South Carolina Day" at the Jam estown Exposition with Gov. Ansel, his staff, the South Carolina Slate commission, tho Second regiment of Infantry, South Carolina National ;> Guard, and several hundred South Carolinians present to participate In tho ovoids on the day's programme. The exercises wore called to order on time hy Capt. Wm. E. Gonzales, chairman of the South Carolina com mission, who, in a very happy man ner, fol Iel ted the South Carolinians upon hoing there at that time among tho hospitable Virginians. He thon presented Gov. Ansel, who. lt was announced, would preside over the exercises. ( G?V. Ansel was given an ovation. Capt. Gonzales' statement that ai the evening reception South Carolina would he "at homo in Virginia's house" was also cheered heartily. Gov. Ansel spoke briefly but feel ingly and in an impromptu manner, which showed his appreciation all tho more. After expressing his thanks for the warm welcome, dov. Ansel said ho brought to everybody in Virginia the greeting of everybody in South Carolina. There ls a warm spot in Ibo heart of every South Car olinian for Virginians because there aro many sad and sacred spots in Virginia dear to South Carolinians. He brought the greetings of thc State of South Carolina to the commission for Its great achievement-a work which had been so highly compli mented on all sides. lie then with pleasure Introduced "the chief magistrate of the greatest State in the Union, except South Car olina, which is her peer, dov. Ciando E. Swanson of Virginia." Qo. Swanson also was given au ovation. Ile is a man of striking presence and of charming personality Ho is a trained speaker, an eloquent mau and a Virginian. Ile first complimented the South Carolina militia, saying that he w?\s proud thai they could yell as lustily as did their fathers on Virginia soil in days gone hy. There have always been close ties and warm and loving friendships between Virginia and South Carolina. In the days of tho organization (d' tho government Vir ginia was large and So\tth Carolina was small. Virginia gave to Soul li Carolina the right to one of her seats in Hie congress, for she knew that Hie place would bo filled with bril llace and patriotism. He elosed with a beautiful tribute to the Ufo of Calhoun, which is worth moro to the State of South Carolina as a heritage than a great fortune. Hov. Ansel after thanking Hov. Swanson for his (donnent references to South Carolina, presented tho pres tdent of the association, lion. St. George Tucker. In a graceful speech of a very few minutes Air. 'fucker (J Ul te made a personal friend of every South Caro linian in the auditorium. Ile com plimented the South Carolina militia upon its fi no appearance and spoke beautifully of Hio.se South Carolin ians Whom ho had Been many years ago, men who had mn do glorious many a stream, many a hill, many a field In old Virginia. He spoke of tho greatest Carolin ian, Wade Hampton. Not so great in intellect as Calhoun, for ne American has lieon so great, bul (lampion .vas greater in all his matchless self con trol.. Ile concluded hy saying that South Carolina outranks ali other Slates because she has preserved to a better degree Ibo ideals of former days with the pluck and progress of today. The military feature of South Car olina day was a great success despite 'Hie weather. When Hie troop? lorin (Ml for the parade there was a heavy shower, but the blue .jackets from Hie war vessels in Hampton Hoads ami the marines marched with a swinging step and look position as if it wen' a pleasure to do honor lo Hie Stale of South Carolina. First came Hie Twenty-third reg hncnt of Infantry, beaded by a sn peril band. This was followed b> three companies of blue jackets al the head of which was a bugle corp and band. Nine companies of ma rinos in the dressy uniforms followed Theil came a squadron of calvary am! u company of artillery, the Inlier ex citing much admiral ion, and dually caine Col. Henry T. Thompson ?nd tho Second South Carolina, headed by Shumacher's band. Tho 11 com panies from South Carolina were sup plontonted by ono from New York, commanded by Capt. .lohn s. Thomp son, brother of Col. Thompson.. When tito parade was over many people crowded around to congratu late Hov. Ansel and the com mission er? not only upon Sont li Carolina's fine exhibit, bul upon Hie Olltire suc cess of "South Carolina day." Following the official ceremonies tho celebration of the day was conti!! ued at the South Carolina exhibit pal ace, whore Hie Palmetto State has an ?dtvexceptionally tine exhibit of its pro duets, occupying almost one entire .side of the palace. South Carolina Tea was served to all callers, being poured by I adios of the official Som li Carolina party and served by Japan oso girls. The day's celebration was brought to a close Willi an official reception by the South Carolina parly in the Virginia Slate building. Hov. Ansel and the South Carolina commission had as their guests Gov. Warfield ol Maryland, Gov. swanson of Virginia and Hon. Crank Oliver, minister of tho interior for tho Dom'uion of (?a? ada. Gypsies Carried 'oilunes. Many thousands of dollars mostly in gold coins, were found in canvas bags in the wagons of a I ribo Of gyp sies arrested on the outskirts of Springfield, III., the other day, for stealing. Olio sack alone contained about $10,000. CANNIBAL KING Columbia Visitor Tells Some Mar velous Tales. Says Ho Has Ik-en a King in Now H? brides islands nnd Is Now a Newspaper Magnate. Col. John P. Hobbs, a native of the Ouch Fork of Lexington county, who has been klug of tho cannibals lu tho New Hebrides Islands, Oceania, part owner of "The New York Nows" and part owner and proprietor 0? the New York Review of Reviews, accor ding to his statements to a Columbia Record maa Thursday morning, is in Columbia, visiting his kinsman, Dr. j. Edwin Uoozer, mic standing street. He hasn't visited his king dom in 12 years, he says, but Is still king, and is thought by his subjects to have ascended into heaven. Ho is at present a resident of Now York. Col. Hobbs talked freely, when lo caled by a Record man at the Hailey Copeland store . With him was his little daughter. He is a man of about fifty, but wore a jaunty rod He and a never-fading smile. 1'ulling himself together within an air of ease, the colonel irroeeeded to tell of his experience!. "In tho ear ly eighties my health began lo leave nie and my physician insisted that I should take a trip abroad and settle in Australia. This I did and I soon gained Mesh and strength and I sought my native land. 1 came back to tills country In 1885 and studied law for two years in Atlanta. My health again failed me and I went back to Australia and from there to the Now Hebrides islands. Tho na tives of that country at once took a liking for mo and made jue their king against my will. They gave nie everything and did everything to make my life a pleasant one. "I left the islands in 1889 and went, to New York, where I was mar ried. With my wife I returned to the islands, and she was made queen, I taught them that it. was wrong to oat their fellow man and soon they learned lt was wrong and developed into great hunters and fishermen and lived on their catches. "Thorr aro over two hundred Is lands in the group and upon each .s hllld a tribe lives and each tribe speaks a different language. I soon learned to speak their tongues and many learned to converse with nie in our language. "Each time Hud I loft the island they firmly believed thal I had gone to heaven, returned to the 'Creal Father' that gave nie to them. The last, time I left"was in 1SS7 and I have not. returned since. My home ls in New York and my business is the same as yours, newspaper busi ness. 1 am interested lu Several pub lications of tho great metropolis and at present I am on the staff of the New York News. Leaving here 1 will go to my native home, up in the Dutch Fork, where I will spend a few days and from there I will go to Atlanta, where I have some property to look after. "From Atlanta I go to Washington where I have an appointment with President Roosevelt on the I Olli of July, and from (hero I go to Now York. Then 1 go to my summer home, al Palonvillo, Catckkill moun tains, New York. My wife and youngest child are there now." The colonel has not been back to his Island since ho left them twelve years ago. The affairs ol' the islands ?ire looked over by two of his chiefs, une a. big giant, seven feet, ten in ches in height and the other a mid get . (Jul. Hobbs says he will never re turn to the islands unless something goes wrong and his services are need ed. Col. Hobbs is related to the Hooz ers, Flea'/ers, llouscnls and other prominent families ol' Columbia and a number throughout Hie State. VVIIJL MEET AT ORANGRt'RG. South Cand?na Piidcrtukcrs Select Next Meeting Place. A special from Columbia says the final sessions ol' the under takers' convention were held on last Wednesday, (he numbers on the pro gram of most inter?s! being a series of demonstrations on three subjects reserved for the purpose by Col. Clarke, ol' Clarke School ol' Embalm ing at Cincinnati!. This expert shows the delegate a a ti ni ber of new wrin kles Huit had net been seen before and his talk was appreciated. Resolutions ol regret were adopt ed on the death of Mr. John C. Ari sOl, of Walhalla. OrangebUl'g was chosen as the next meeting place. New officers were elected as fol lows: President, W. Hamilton Dukes. .1 Orangeburg; firsl vh'o-presidont, I. M. Villi Metre, ol' Columbia; se .ond vice-president, T. J. McCnrthn, Charleston; treasurer. J. I<id. Heid. Hock lilli; secretary, Janies F, Mack ay. Greenville. l?xeculive committee, .!< F- Mack ey, Greenville; W. W. Moore, Ham well ; John D. Wood, Greers. A PTO TURNS TP RT iib). And a Yale Student, Who Wa? Dllv ing, Was Killed. At New Haven, Conn., Thursday, by lin- overturning of an automobile, Daniel Dec Oliver. Ol' Allegheny. Pa., a Junior id the Shoilold Scientific school, of Yale, wa;, instantly killed; ,1 c. Colson, a senior al ShOfilold, was seriously injured; W. Strother Jones, a Shellleid junior, of Redbank, X. y., and C.. Hudson, a guest al tue Yale 'commencement, were slightly '"'Vho car struck au iron post, shot over a i .'. foot embankment, t urning completely over, oliver was driving the car al the linnie ol tho fatal acci dent occurred. Till?: DEADLY N Al H. \.ig Pearl Forrester of Anderson, Dies With Lockjaw. Al Anderson lillie Miss Pearl For rester, the len year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. .1. A. Forrester, of tho Orr Mill village, died Thursday morn lng from lockjaw. She stepped on a nail about len days ago ami several days ago the dreaded disease look hold of her. She suffered terribly and her death was a most horrible ono. Miss Loving Tells the Tale of Her Wrongs. DRUGGED AND RUINED. Miss lOllznbcth, tho Young Daughter of Judge Loving, Goos on tho Stand and Relates tho lion id Treatment She Received nt the Hands of Young listes, Whllo They Were On That Lonely Hide. At Houston, Va., on Wednesday af ternoon, of Inst week, between stif ling solis, with tears streaming from her bright blue oyes and violently struggling to control h?r emotions, Miss JOU/.ubeth Loving, who has oc cupied the centre of the stage In tho trial of her father, .Judge Wm. (J. Loving, Tor the murder of Theodore lOstcs, told on the witness stand tho story of her alleged ruin at the hands of the young man her father shot down. The recital was probably tho most dramatic ever heard in a Vir ginia court of just leo and rivaled, if not surpassed, in point of atrocious ness th?; story told hy lOvelyn Nesbit Thaw of her experience with Stan ford White. It was tho same story she said she told to her father on the day of tho tragedy. At the afternoon session Judge Harksdalo ordered the court room cleated of all persons except thoso directly Interested and tim newspa per correspondents. In a few seconds the crowd had filed their way out. Kvoiybody knew this step was pre liminary lo the placing on the stand of Miss Loving. Miss Loving, weep ing, look thc? arm of Attorney Lee, leading counsel for tho defence, who led her to the stand. Sim wore a black skirt mid waist, black hat and veil of the same color. She lifted her veil and began her 1 Btory. For tho Hist few minutes she \ had to bo allowed to stop at intervals In order to dry the tears which con tinuously ran down her face. During the recital several attorneys for the ' defence and Judge Loving, his young son and Miss Annie Simad, a sister 1 of Mrs. Loving, gave way to tears. ' Miss Loving testified that she was ' 2 0 years of age; that her relation willi her father was always affection- ' ale, that he had "always been a most devoted father." "Holale to the jury in your own , word? ovorything that took place be tween yourself and your father when he culled you into his room." "He told me that Uncle Harry , Snead had told him that Theodore IOstos had brought me home the night before in a drunken and unconscious ' condition, and ho wanted me to ex plain to him what it all meant, I went over and knelt down by father and put my arms around him and he j put his arms around me. and as soon as I could speak I told him that while I was in Lovingston, Theodore IOstos had asked me to go driving with him; that I Hist refused, but thal on Annie Kidd insisting I did go 1 Dually, lint thought we would only go ii little way. I did not put my j hal on; just thought lt. was to be a ? short drive. We llrst drove out. to- : wants Oakridge station, drove about ' half way lo Oakridge station, then 1 turned around and came back ' through Lovingston and slopped at his house. Ho told me he was go- 1 lng in his ho. se a minnie, would I ' wall lhere and hold tho horse until < bo came back. He was in the house 1 live or six minutes. He como back ' and wo drove on down through Lov ingston, through the Oap and down below Mr. Coleman's obi place, and turned around and cann; back to- ] wards Lovingston. Just before we got to the Oap he took out a bottle of whiskey and asked me to take a drink of ii, and I dbl take a swallow of il. 1 told father I thought it i must have berni drugged, because I immediately bogan to get dizzy and couldn't see things. JOverything com menced to dance before me. and I : asked him to take me home at once, ; back t<i Lovingston. When WO got to where one road turns down and one np the mountain, instead of turn ing towards Lovingston, he started up the mountain. 1 asked him to lake mc home nt once, that I was feeling very badly and was sick, so pienso take me. He didn't answer ; ino al all, but drove on as rapidly as he could. So father Hum asked me il ho attempted to assailli nie. I told him thai he had forced himself upon me. I screamed hut I suppose no ono board nie; and thal 1 then lost consciousness and did not re member anything after thal until I was al Mrs. Kidd's house that night. When I told falber thal, ho had gol so while and unnatural looking that it scared nie. I ran out to mother and told her I believed I had killed my falber." At tho conclusion of lier statement Miss Loving regained composure and Hm cross-examination by tho prose cution began. A Map Presented. Attorney Dan'l Hannon presented a map of ?he country over which the buggy ride was taken, and asked thal t lie witness lix the point where IOstos gave her a drink. She could not re member exactly, bul designated the neighborhood. She was then asked where the assailli occurred, lo which she replied thal ll was after she and Kstrs had turned up the mountain road. , , "When did you remember gaining consciousness?" "During the night al. Mrs. Kidd's." "Do you remember telling Mrs. Kidd thal you had taken too large a drink and Unit you dbl thal, once be fore al IVolIovtio?" "No." "Dbl you not gol out of the lingo and walk nil the steps and into the house without assist unce V" "No." "Oil the next morning dbl you see Miss Skeldon, the dressmaker? Did Miss Sheldon come up to lake your measure for a dress?" "Yes." "Did not Mrs. Ksles. mother of Theodore, come to see you on the y after the assault, and give you a cup of c.hocolato?' "Yos." . .. "Did you not take breakfast at the OURS RANKS THIRD The Naval Force of America and Japan Compared. While Japan's Hank Fifth.-A mo ri can Military Officers Speculate on . the Outcome of a Wat When tho president left town last week it was not reasonahlo to ox pect that Washington would bo dull, but tho war scare cunio ulong at an opportune time. Thoro isn't auy doubt that a great deal moro has been made of this little misunder standing willi Japan than the situa tion has really justified; but then Washington is full of eager newspa per correspondents and it is also full of army and navy officers, men whoso hope of early advancement In their profession of arms in conillet with somo other power, lt ls woury bus iness, this sitting down In piping times of peace walting for older Offi cers to die off or be retired. It is a long time between promotions, and the inactivity is killing to men who aro young and ambitious and thirst for martial glory It is no wonder, then, that evory time the United States lias a diplo matic misunderstanding with some other government Washington talks war. If army and navy officers had their way al! our ambassadors ami ministers would lie recalled and diplo macy rel aga ted to tho limbo of for gotten tilings. Thc sword would be tho only arbiter, tho drum would lieut, Hie bugle call, and tho laud be gay with tho panoply of war. But, fortunately for tho country, lt is not tho nation's warriors wlio aro charg ed with responsibility; and the chances that WO shall have to light tho Mikado's yellow men aro remote indeed. But regardless of the Improbabil ity of a rupture between the two na tions, military oilicers are already speculating quietly upon the possi bility of an estrangement; and com parisons are being made of tho re spective strength of the navies of tho two countries. In their minds they have begun to dispose of tho American navy tn places whore the most effective results could bo ob tained. To be sure, oilicers of re sponsibility studiously refrain from discussing a matter of this kind, knowing that lt is tho desire of the Administration not to accentuate an already acute situation. Hut their commendable reserve in this respect, has" not ostooped them, as woll as others, from examining tho naval re cords of the world's powers and as certaining tho light lug strength of the Japanese navy as compared with t>ur own. The following table shows how the two nations stand in naval equip ment: Type of vessels. \. U. S. Japan. Battleships.2 1 ll Armored cruisers .... S 10 Protected cruisers.. ..43 10 Torpedo boats.32 77 Destroyers.1 ti 54 Submarines.S 7 Coast defense.11 ;t The number of vessels to be built tinder existing appropriations by Bach nation is as follows: Type of vessels. li. S. Japan. Battleships.8 3 Armored cruisers .... 4 4 Protected cruisers. . . . .". 1 Destroyers.5 - Submarines.1 > Compared willi other nations of tho world, tho navy of the United -Hates ranks third and Japan's fifth. Most, of the Japanese ships are in tiomo waters, tho same being true of those of the United States. The pick af our navy is now at Hampton (toads, or the vicinity, nineteen of Lhe battleships and armored cruisers being rendezvoused there on account )f tho Jamestown exposition in addi tion to a large torpedo and subma rine llotila. FIMO PLKISIILI). i-'ire Wipes Out Seven Blocks Adjoin ing Exposition (?rounds. Hy Hie explosion of a gasoline dove in tho Derkeley Hotel at Pine Peach adjoining tho Jamestown Im position grounds, Wednesday, SCVOil blocks, comprising sixty-five hotels, saloons, eating houses and freak shows, were burned lo lhe ground, the loss is estimated at $226,000. Five persons a negro boy, three white women and an infant died in tho Hames. Detective Peyton, of thc secret ser vice, department of the Imposition, rescued a woman who was uncon scious in her bed in the Arcade Hotol His motlier and sister were stopping ?it this hotel. Miss Peyton, after es caping from the burning building told her brother she luid Iel) her jewelry in her room. Ile rushed in to the burning, building, bul. by mis take entered tho wrong room, lloro he lound tho woman. home of Mrs. Kidd on (lie following morning " "Yes." The prosecution brough! the state ment from tho witness tba) she liad not mentioned a single word of hoi experience on tho evening prior to people she mel on Hie slime day. Sin bad talked pleasant ly with tllO mot li er of Hie victim on lhe morning of thc tragedy, bul had not mentioned her experience lo her. Tho witness was asked il before she went buggy riding she had liol taken a drink of whiskey .'it Hst es' store, to which she replied "Yes." "Did you drink ill Mst or' store on linster?" Tile defence objected to tho ques tion and tho jury left the court room. Mr. Houldiug, who was conduct ing the cross-examination, said that his motive In asking tho question was to show that Miss Loving was in tho habit of drinking Whlskoy. However, tho prosecution waived tho question without Jugdo Harksdale rendering ?in opinion, bul Intimated that it might be brought Up again ut the proper Hine. Mr. Houldiug stilted that lie ex pCCtod lo show that Theodore pistes was guilty of no impropriety to Miss Loving. The jury was brought back Into liai court room and Hie question ing resumed. Miss Loving, in answer lo ques tions, stated Huit she was an OX port horsewoman and weighed about 140 pounds. This concluded tho cross-examina tion and tho court adjourned for the day. SHOT HUSBAND. He Attempted to Whip Adopted Son When Wife Interferred. Tim Woman Picked Up (jun mid Shot Her Husband, mid Theil Went On With Her Werk. A special* to The Augusta Chronicle says Thursday evening, Filmore Luttum, a prosperous ?.farmer, living five miles east of Salley was shot hy his wife; Mrs. Josephine Lat han, Ho was attended hy Dr. P. A. Phil lips and ik. T. A. Jours of Spring field, who found it necessary I . am putate all of the fingers of hit right hand except the thumb. About fifteen or twenty ishot entered his right side near tho point of the hip, hut the doctors wore unable to ascertain If they penetrated the abdominal cavity or not. Lat han is seriously If not dangerously shot. Filmore Lal han ls said to be a hardworking mun of some means hut ls of a high and passionate nature. lils wife is said to lie of a Uko na ture. Thursday evening Lat han at tempted to whip an adopted hoy when his wife interferred causing a dllllculty between thom In which she struck La than with II slick. Lat ban grabbed up a double-barrelled shot gun and snapped it in (ho breast of his wife, who stepped hack Into tho house and picking up anotner gun shot Lat han as above described. People who knew them blame La tham After shooting Lathan his wife went on with her work as usual. Houmous rsi-; AN AUTO, Vanderbilt Rac? Course Selected for I Opera! ions. Robbers in thc state bf Long; Is land have taken to the use of the automobile, A number of robberies have heirn committed on the course on which the Vanderbilt Cup race was run and in each case the robbers have come to the house and escaped in an automobile. The latest theft was committed near Minneola, L. I. on the derieo turnpike, near Krug's corners, whore the fastest running was done in the famous race last fal. Herman Schwerter, a farm hand in ihc employ of Charles Os wald was attacked and made uncon scious, by tho uso of chloral. Then thc safe in thc house was robbed of ?1,000 and valuable jewelry. The trio of robbers came to the farm in a ed va ung car and then escaped. When Oswald and his wife returned to the farm they found Schwerter gagged and unconscious. It took three hours to revive them. Mr, Oswald saw the robbers while .hey \ 'crehon their way to his hon e [Ie ac ^i s wife were driving along be r They met a car in which .hore re three men. Ali wore japs and were dressed alike. When ichwerter revived he told the story )f the crime, lie. said he was writ ing a letter, when there came a mock at th door. H opened it and vas confronted by three men. all in iitU m ibile caps and dressed alike. The men questioned him until they foi: nd he was alone and then ; wo overpowered him, while the bird rushed in and forced choral in :o his mouth. After seeing the man helpless on the floor the robbers broke the safe ,vith a pickax they had gotten in the jarn, removed $1,001) and fled, lt was an hour before Mr. and Mrs. Oswald returned. They summoned he sheriff, who called out all the deputies in the county. A doctor was summoned to care for Schwer ter. A determined effort is being made to apprehend the criminals, because of the fact that there have icon so many robberies on the island iii which the robbers have escaped in racing: ears. The discription given :>y Mr. Oswald is counted as an im portant clue in the search. TINKI'' AM) INVENTOR. Philadelphia Prisoner a Confirmed Lobber and Mechanical (.emus. Invention and thievery go hand in hand with Joseph l<\ Svatk, confined in the City hall at Philadelphia on charge of robbing a saloon. The man fias a mottled record, and has lived under a variety of assumed names. He has been charged with and con victed of every crime connected with thieving from petty larceny to dar ing burglaries and horse stealing. Police records show that he is one of the most export robbers in thc busi ness and that his inventive genius makes it almost impossible to impris on him, as he jacks all kinds of locks and has never served a full sentence for any charge of which he was con victed and imprisoned. Svatk isamechanical genius. While in prison he has perfected a number of inventions to bo used in tho man ufacture of shoes. Kor one of t hese he received $1,000. P?r another, which he also perfected during a per iod of enforced confinement, and which is for perforating shoe tips, be has been offered ti large sum and big-yearly percentages in royalties. The man could make a living honest - ly, hut he prefers to inlier rather than labor. I IK WAALS TO CO. Asked lo He Hanged in I'lncc of His Hrother. At Montgomery, Ala., Kev. John Mecinan, a I hi pt isl preacher and bro ther of David lineman, colored sen tenced to be hanged on July '?ti for the murder of his vviTo made the 1*0 (|UC8t in the ellice of Sheriff Mclzor Thursday thal he be hanged in the place of h is bl ot bm'. "I am much better prepared lo die than David," said John Heeman. "I believe I would got lo Heaven and David would not. 1 believe il would make a better man ol David and willi lie would mool me in heaven." The negro spoke with earnestness and said he was ready and willing to sufler for Hie sins ol' his brother. Ile is an Intelligent negro and realizes what he ls doing. The negro seemed surprised and hurt when told that the .^ate could not nllow the sacrifico. LOST IN A FOG. (Vir and Mrs. W. Masuad Picked Up Half Unconscious in GASOLINE LAUNCH. They Lost Their Hearings in a Fog and Drifted About For Thirty Hours at Sea.-Tho Supply of das? olino (Javo Out When They Were Far From Shore, and They Hud About Chen Up AH Hope. After giving themselves' up for lost when they found that their tiny gas oline launch had drifted out into tho open ocean in Hie sudden fog that that swept over tho Long Island shore on Sunday evening, William Masuad. manager or Ibo Alhambra Theatre, of Harlem, N. Y., and his wife were picked up late Monday night lu a semi-conscious condition by Hie Canarsio-Uergen Beach ferry boat Helen and Frank MeAvoy. For hours after the gasoline supply of tho tiny Capitela had been ex hausted they were buffeted about bv waves that, threatened to lill her with every sweep. There was not a mor sol of food on tin; little craft, nor any prootection from tho spray and night chill. A single bottle of "water was soon exhausted. When daylight, came and no land was to be seen, tho occupants of the launch practically gave up hope, and gradually sank into a stupor in tho bottom of the launch. Then tho re luming tide caught up tho little craft and slowly swept it back into (lie beaten track. When the launch was sighted by Hie captain of Hie Helen and Frank MeAvoy there was no sign of life on board, and il was not until the latter craft was actually picked up that the presence of the threatrical manager and ids wife was discovered. They were revived to full consciousness with diillculty and cared for hy the crew. Mr. and Mrs. Masuad Started out on au aimless cruise off Hergen Beach Sunday afternoon. They intended to go to Rockaway Beach for dinner, and took no supplies from the beach cottage, which they have rented for the summer. Wnen some distance off shore they carno across Janies McIn tyre, of McIntyre and Heath of "Ham Tree" fame, who had a party of friends in his launch, the Random. McIntyre saw the fog rolling in and advised Masuad, who did not. know the coast, to keep the Capitela close to tho Random. The fog set tled down over the two launches and for a time they Kept together head ing for Rockaway Point. In some manner they became sep arated, After an erntie course Mc Intyre, in tho Random tinnily made shore at 4 o'clock In the morning. About the same Hmo the gasoline on the Capitela gave out and Mastud was forced to let her drift. When daylight came and land was nowhere in sight, he decided that ho had turned around in the fog and steamed out to sea during Hie night. According to the threattcnl man, he and ins wife lost consciousness during the agonizing day, and long before they had,drifted haok In sight of the coast they had given up hope. Tiley did not know that the tide had carried thom back over their eratic course of Sunday night, nor did they think of putting out distress signals. The Helen and Frank took them to Cannrste, where they spent Monday night They were taken to their Hergen Reach cottage Tuesday, and their physician says in a few nays they will bo none the worst for their thirty-hour drifting experience. When Mr. McIntyre discovered that tho Capitela had not reached shore he was much alarmed for their safety, and at Hergen Beach it was feared that they had been run down by a larger craft. Mrs. Masuad is a sister of Percy C. Williams, well known on tho vnudovlllo stage. Tills is one of the near-tragedies of as remarkable fog as ever swept over Coney Island and tho adjoining beaches, lt blew in from tlisea. completely blanketing a brigid sun in less Hmo than il takes to tell it. So thick was the fog that great drops of water fell from tho sky as Hut thicker banks were driven inland. MOST ATROCIOUS CHIME, Wldte Man Assaulted Colored Child and Shot Colored Mau. A dispatch from Aiken says news reached that city last Thursday of an atrocious crime hoing committed near Tonie, on tho edge of Aiken and Orangeburg count ies. Only rumors could bo g?lten, as no olllclal notice has been received by tho authorities. From what could be learned il seems thal tho affair is about as fol lows, or rather this is one side of the story, and the other side cannot lie learned : On Tuesday Have Jeffcoat, a white mnn of questionable repute, wont to the homo of a negro na?1 ed Foglc and while Foglo was aw. working in a Held, assaulted his Hine daugh ter, who is said lo lie about ten years old. Ile then, il is said, went to the Hold where Foglo was at work and lhere shot him willi a gun. inflicting a mortal wound. What occurred be tween the men lhere is not known. As was slated, the affair has not 1)0011 Ofllchllly reported and owing to the distance the report could not bc substantiated. If the above ls Hue. Jeffcoat has gotten himself into ser ious I rouble. ATTEMPTS .MURDEH. Negress Poisons Seven Members of Her Family? On tho charge of poisoning seven mom hors of her family, Cora Set/or, colored, was lodged tn jail al Salis hurg, N. Po to await trial in Hie su perior COIlll. In a hearing before a justice of the peace, the girl pleaded guilty to plac ing Hough on Rats lu the coffoe of her father and motlier. Flyo other members of the family also drank of the coffee and all came near dying. A physician was called and Hie arrest of the girl followed. She gave as a roason for her acts that she wished to see the effect of the poison. This was her third at tempt, lt ls alleged, to end tho lives of her paronts. TOO MUCH FREE LOVE ty* .<-,. Wellesley Afraid Happy Colony Will Corrupt Its Morals. "Tho Home of Spontaneous Lov?" nt Wellesley, Mass., ls About to Ile Ihokon Up. Tho "Homo of Spontaneous Love," nt Wellesley, Masa., la In (humor of a violent ond, with big, burly, Wel lesley polleomon furnishing tho vio lence. Tho nominal reason is that Massachusetts cannot vcrv well piido Itself on Its famous obi niuo laws and at the same time allow this freo love colony to exist. The real reason it that the morals of tho girl'students attending Wellesley college aro in gravo danger, and tho inhabitants of the staid, old New longland town are very much shocked over tho reputa tion which tho place has managed to build up, and have determined lo run tho colony out of town. Over brook, as thc freo love colony run by Frederick Heed, a former Wellesley professor, is known makes no secret of ils Idea of 11 boral morality, and, as the result, of the startling stories of strange doings tn this community, Chief of Pol leo Kingsbury, of Welles ley, has decided upon a lillie investi-' gatton, and ir certain things are true; well, food bye to tho "Home of Spon taneous Love." Heed has run this free love colony for two years, and his wife, who strongly bel ives in his principles, has helped him conduct lt. There has been absolutely no restrictions at Overbrook, Heed maintained that "destiny" controls everything. While the marriage con!rael is not decried, it is not escentlal. The first protest against, the colony caine from Hie faculty of Wellesley college when il was discovered thai a number of tim students, girls, had been visiting the places for some time! AM ol' them were fascinated by the obsoneo of restraint, that is Over brook's main characteristic, and, movoovec, they saw nothing wrong and gre v more attached to the place willi ouch visit. Then the residents of the town of Wellesley began to grow suspicions when they saw painted women with glittering diamonds frequent (he place. Wealthy business men of Mos ton also made numerous trips to the colony with women other than their wives. Strange tales were (edd of the beautiful luke in the center of Reed's domain, where men and women were " wont, to bathe, with or without bath ing suits, mostly the latter, and of J Hie secluded walks which seemed to 1 he always populated. Men and wo men who held a high position in so- ' ciety mingle . freely with the "undo- \ strahle citizens," and, consequently, Wollesloy decided to have the chief ( of police make an Investiga*.ion. The women at Overbrook, that is tho regular female mein hers of t he 1 colony, wear bloomers. Reed declar- ' es this was tho primitive dress of thc 1 Greeks and Turks and that, it is a perfectly logical attire. The men go ( about in overalls and don't pay any particular attention as to how they look. All lead a happy, care-free life At present there ore26 members of tho colony. Twelve of them aro wo men and most, of theso are pretty. At timos, however, the membership runs to 100, and then life ls indeed gay at Overbrook. The work when they please, which is not very often with tho most of them. They spend their Hmo, eating, sleeping, or lounging around the building or grounds. "It is all one glorious family," de clares Heed. "I do not see why any one seriously objects to our colony. When the Wellesley college girls be gan coining hero I welcomed them, thinking that, they had been directed by fate. I could not seo anything wrong in permitting their visits. None of them ever became members of tho colony. Now that thc? presi dent of the college has objected to their visits I am perfectly willing that they remain away." COM.M ITT IO I) SUICIDIO. Hedy Was Hurled Through Car Win dow and Fell III Aisle. While a trolley car was speeding over Brooklyn Bridge Thursday night a man's body shot through the sec ond window from tho rear pf tl"' car and fell In the aisle.. Six passengers in Hie car were badly frightened, and the conductor, ofter a short exami nation, saw that the man was dead. Where the body came from ls a mystery. The motorman ^ays the front of the car did not strike the man. Tho police think tho man at tempted to commit suicide hy throw ing Himself from the promenade above into the roadway in front ol' the car, but misjudged Ibo spcod of the car and landed against Its side, falling through an open window. Tho natue of the dead man is supposed to bo .lohn Nelson. lirSHAM) COMMITTK SUICIDIO His Wife Had Cone to Her Mother's Willi (bc Children. Finding timi his wife with their two children had gone to the home of bis mother-in-law, Maul Woin traub. a salesman, \\r?-yenrs-obl. pf No. 7 2 Gorry street, Williamsburg, N. v., committed suicide early Thurs day morning by inhaling gas in the parlor of his home. He had been 111 as well as ene ol his children. Meiere he killed himself be remov ed tho Hps from three gas burners in tho parlor and plunged Up every hole and crevice in the room. His suicide was discovered by the family ol' Snin uel Lovennan Oil the floor above, who WOrO almost overcome by tho fumes of the oscnplng gas which had pen etrated their rooms through an air shaft. ??_ STRUCK RV LIGHTNING. Four Men Killed By Lightning Dur ing Thunder StOVIU. At Spartanbtirg, S. C., Thursday Joe Gossetl was struck by lightning and Instantly killed while riding to his home near Wainui Grove ahead of an approaching thunder storm, A neighbor, who was riding a mule along with him, was also knocked from his mount, but mny recover A dispatch from Winterville, Ga., says while hoeing tn n Held under a clear skv, Jerrv Carey, an old negro was Btruck bv a bolt of lightning und Instantly killed. He is tho third negro to be killed by lightning in the Cherokee Corner neighborhood dur ing tho last three day a. TERRIBLE CR!??. Burled His Wife's Little Daughter Alive In a Refuse Hole. MYSTERIOUS CASE. Pretty Llttlo Soven Year Old Mary Now?lli Buried Alive ?y Hoi- Stop father, Irwin Lewis, Who Is No*v In Jail.-Lewis Admits Burying . Her But Declares That Ho Thought Her Dead. Duried alive by hor stepfather was tho tragic fato of pretty, llttlo sov en-year-old Mary Nowlin, for whose death irwin Lewis is now lu Jail at Chester, Pa., awaiting tho action of tho grand jury. Lewis, thought admitting that ho buried his llttlo stepdaughter, declares ho did not murder hor, or Know she was living when ho burled her. "I thought her dead when she foll from tho car riage barn," he moaned in his d? rense at tho coroner's investigation. Silt his excuse was so fllmsy.and tile weight or the evidence against liim so great that he was quickly remanded to jail to await tho Janu ary term or court, and it was only tho prompt work or the sheriff and his deputies in getting him quickly out ol the little courthouse at Avondale where the hearing was held, that sav ed the young Pennsylvania farmer I rom death at tho hands of tho mob. " Lewis' partial confession was wrung from him by District Attornoy MacKlreo on the day in which his stepdaughter s tiny body was found by VV. C. Shelley and John O'lirion, deputy sheriff, in a hole that Lewis had declared he dug to bury sonio refuse in. The ono essential feature to estalaisli the murder without a doubt on the young stepfather, the admission that lie killed the child, Mac Fd ree was unable to get. On the contrary, the fanner insisted his stepdaughter's death was due to hor fall from the carriage shod roof, and that ho buried the body after Unding the child dead, giving as his reason that lie wished co spare his wife who is in ?1 deljcate condition, thc shock if her daughter's death. Hut the alert prosecutor wns^prc imred for just such a move cs this, md startled the vast audience at the Inqtiost by producing medical ovi lence to show that tho child died >f strangulation and suffocation, rhere was not a mark nor a bruise >n the body of the child and she had lot boon assaulted, as Intimated. On 1er neck, however, wore the marks if lingers, showing some one had ?lipp?d the child by tho throat, and YO und tightly around the neck there vas alad a piece of string, fixed tight mough lo produce suffocation. This partial confession upon the dopfatlier's part removes all question d' kidnappers being mixed up in the .ase, as was at first thought, and lt. s the opinion of everybody in Chos er county that when the coll doors dosed on Irvin Lewis, the girl's roul nurderer had been Bafoly secured, rho prosecution is said to have two witnesses under cover who will say that Mary ls said to have told thom that some,one in lier own home had tried to kill her twice during tho win ter. The child is said to have divul ged the attempts upon her lifo while telling how much afraid she was of lier "dad," meaning young Howls "I always run and hide when 1 see him coming," the dead child is reported to have said to the two wit nesses before she finally disappeared. That she stood in deadly fear of hor stepfather has been learned from men and women who have worked ?iboiit the Lewis farm or visited it, and who, on several occasions, watch ed meetings between the dead girl ind her accused parent. There aro many who resido In tho vicinity of tho alleged crime Who believe that Lewis is crazy, and that lt will be nec ! ssary lo either take him to an Insano asylum or have a commission Inquire Into his state of mind beforo his trial, still months distant, ls begun. EIGHT KILLED. Dynamite Explosion Tore Workmen Into Fragments. As tho result of a prematuro explo sion of a box or dynamite near Tola, Charlotte county, Va., Thursday af ternoon, eight persons wero killed mit right and six other persons ser iously injured. The two Americans killed wero Edward Clark, of Char lotte county, fireman of a dinkey en gine and Cornelius Sullivan, of Lam oi)i, (ll., foreman of tho McDormott Constructton company of Chicago, which has the contract for tho con struction of a part of tho Tidewater railway. The six others killed aro all Italians, who aro known by numbers rather than names. Tho accident happened In a deep cul where a force of about fifteen men wore on gaged. A box contain ing about fifty pounds exploded and ?ill in tho immediate vicinity wero killed. The victims were blown to atoms, and fragments of tho bodies were scattered In all directions. For some distance around tho scone, heads, arms and legs wero picked up. One Italian was blown so far up Into ?hr embankment that tho body had ld be dug out with picks. A dinkey engine standing in tho sards was blown to pieces. Tho ex plosion was heard for miles around and nearby houses were damaged by tho I erl file shock. Tho cause of tho explosion is unknown an tho victims Were the only persons In the vicinity. Ceorge Mason, an engineer, was fat ally injured. BLOWN TO P1EC?S. Kills himself With Dynamite Bo cause Wife Rebuffed Him. At Mooroo, Mich., after his wife had refused to como hack and live With him because of his drinking habits; Heoige Kummor, a quarry man, walked to the barn at tho rear Of ld? wife's houso, lay down on the lloor and blew himself to pieces with a stick of dynamite. Ho had carried ?he dynamite in his hand from tho quarry, where ho was omployod, and evidently had planned tho suicide if his wife persisted in refusing to live with him. AU that was left of him after tho oxploslon was his logs.