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.. -? VOL XVII. A RAG PICKER Inherits Three Hundrod Thousand Dollars from a Cousin. WAS A SHIP WRECKED SAILOR, t Tin* < >I?I Woman I<1 veil i?? il??* x*'i?rsC Slums ot* Cork, li'dii n<l. I Was llowili'oro 1 nl M r Cloot! 1 uck. A dispatch from London says it is doubtful if a fortune ever tumbled into the lap of a person less likeley to use it to advantage than the $300,000 which the United States supreme court recently awarded to Oo-year-old Hannah Callaghan of Cork, as her share in the estate of her cousin, John Sullivan, who died intestate in Seat-! tie, Wash. Wrinkled, hazard, with a narrow, pointed nose, thin lips, a hitter tongue and an aggressive disposition, t he woman who has just inherited $300,000 earned her living until a few days ago as a rag picker. For years she has made her home in a squalid little, room for which she occasionally has been able to pay a shilling a week rent -in an narrow alley, appropriately named "Crone lane," in (kirk's worst slum. She began life as a crochet woman and once earned as much as $5 a week ?then she got to he a scrub woman and made less, and of late years she has collected lsincs and sold fruit, and generally lived from hand to mouth. She has lieen somewhat part ial to gin. When tf>e news reached Hannah Callaghau the other day that, she had | inherited half of .John Sullivan's for-1 tune?Edward Corcoran, a poor I>ublin artisan, got the other half the old woman was so bewildered that she could hardly realize what It meant to her. She heard that her cousin had died intestate, hut had thought so little of her own chances of getting a share of his estate that when the American lawyers came to her several months ago and olTercd to push her claim she made no trouble over signing an agreement that they should take half of any sum they succeeded in getting awarded to her. 'Phis doesn't mean, however, that the old woman was fleeced by her American attorneys. Eor six months thy have worked like beavers to get her inheritance, and the enless trouble they took and the ingenuity they manifested certainly entitle them to a pretty sizable fee, if not as large a one as they have gained. Besides finding in the slums of Irish cities the the two obscure people who are John Sullivan's next of kin, they turned up, after weeks of searching certificates dating back as ^ far as 185J4, and even dug up the coff lins that held the remains of Sullivan's parents, in order to copy the inscriptions on the plates. Meanwhile they deposited to Hannah's credit in a Cork bank $7f)0, allowing her to draw $."> a week thereof?so sure did they feel of success. Since Hannah Callaghan became an heiress a clergyman in her neighbor hood has been looking after her, to see that no one takes advantage of her. The precaution Is necessary, fur the old Irish woman who hasn't yet decided to leave the dirty little room in which she has lived for so long, is being harried by folk who have suddenly discovered themselves to be "relatives" of hers, disinterested souls who would be willing to assist her to invest her money, as well as gallant suitors who love her for heself alone. Edward Corcoran, the Dublin man who gets the other half of John Sullivan's fortune, is a saddler. Like Hannah Callaghan, he was Sullivan's first - cousin. Like her, too, when approached by the American lawyers, he signed over to them a large share of his inheritance in case he got it. No sooner was he in possession of his legacy, however, than Corcoran tried to get his agreement set aside. lie has not succeeded. If anything isneeded to add romance to the story of how these two old people, having led lives of poverty, are suddenly made rich, it can I>e found in the strange career of John Sullivan himself, the builder of the fortune which Corcoran and Hannah Callaghan have inherited. He was born in the same Cork slum in which the old rag and bone picker has lived so long. He became a sailor and finally was shipwrecked on the coast of the State of Washington. Alone of the crew of his ship, he was cast ashore alive. He suffered terribly from cold and lost several toes through frost bite, but manged to keep alive through killing and eating small animals and birds. Then he built himself a cabin and afterward a second one, which he rented to a man who happend along. Finally he had a whole village of shanties, which he owned, but just as It was beginning to bring in a little something in the way of rent, the whole settlement burned down. Sullivan still owned the land, however. and he rebuilt upon it,and eventdually as one of the founders of Seattle grew rich. Marie Carrau, the woman who claimed Sullivan's estate on the ground that the Irishman had made it over to her by means of'a verbal will, came near being left In undisturbed possession of It. The superior court of Washington admitted her claim, but then the American lawyers discovered Sullivan's next of kin. The United States consul at Queenstown held an Inquiry, in which whole loads of evidence were taken, after considerV , - ' " . : ii?vr it the supreme court handed down the verdict raised two people from wretched poverty to wealth. John Sullivan visited Cork last year, singularly enough, to collect a legacy of ahout $1,000, which had been left h in by his sister, hut it is significant thai lie neither visited nor communicated with either of the people who have succeeded to his fortune. STAGE COACH HELD UP \ml (tie I'as.srngeiH Kohhetl in the Ilcai't of New York. A stage coach was held up and the passengers rohbed right in the heart of the State of New York on last Wednesday. The stage coach "Pioneer," which makes daily trips between Warwick and (ioshen, was held up and robbed by three masked horsemen late Wednesday afternoon. The coach was bowling along the road two miles from Florida, and at a lonely spot on t he road Clinton and Horatio S. Wisner, who own the coach and were on it, saw the men on horseback suddenly emerge from the dense woods which line the highway. Clinton was driving. The robbers ordered h i ifi to pull up nis horses. This ho refused to do and the highway men opened lire with revolvers. None of the shots took ell'eot. but the shooting had the cll'cct of compelling the whip to bring his horses to a stop. In the coach were Mrs. J. A. Chamberlin, Mrs. Fred Webster, Mrs. .lames Fuller, Mrs. Mart, Mrs. Fd. Johnson, all of Florida. While two of the highwaymen covered the Wisner brothers with their revolvers, the third, using many threats, compelled the passengers to give up all their money and valuables. After the robberv had been completed the robbers spurred up their horses and escaped. When news of the hold-up became known the whole section of Orange county was lirst astounded and then excited. Posses of armed men were hastily formed and at once started a search for the highwaymen. Clifton W. Wisner is president of the village of Warwick. A Magistrate Indicted. Our readers are more or less familiar with the facts in the case of Magistrate Hoykin of Lamar in Darlington county who it appears performed the marriage ceremony uniting in marriage a white man and a mulatto girl, and also t he details of the defense of his action as he has made it. A few days ago the governor instructed the clerk of court of Darlington county to lay the case before the grand jury of the county and asked the solicitor to see that the fullest investigation was made, pushing the criminal prosecution if deserved. Wednesday the governor .was advised that the magistrate*had been arrested and had waived a preliminary giving bond for his appearance at the court of sessions. This action having been taken the governor acted in accordance with the statute and suspended Magistrate Itoykin until the final action of the court in the matter. Struck l>y l/iglit ning. In Spartanburg one day last week lightning struck a tree in the yard ot Mr. 10. D. Dean. This oak is situated 15 feet from the rear pia/./.a of the dwelling and Annie belle, the little four-year-old daughter of Mr. Dean was on this porch at the time. The lightning bolt extended from the tree to the piazza, striking the little one and rendering her unconscious. She remained in this condition for half an hour, when the physicians who were summoned instantly after the accident resuscitated the child. She is considerably weakened by the shock, but the uooturs tn111k vnar< sue win recover. In the tree which the lightning visited were five sparrows and each was killed. One of the five presented a peculiar sight, all of its feathers being burned off. Many Drowned. The steamer Moanabrings the news of the loss of several Australian vessels during gales in the South seas. The schooner Sybil, of Sydney, a recruiting vessel, left Solomon Islands in April with 110 personson board foi Queensland and was never heard of again. The steamer Quirange, ol Queensland, was lost on the Australian coast with all hands, numbering .'10, never having been heard of aftei leaving Sydney, in inter oceanic trade, was lost off the coast of Santos; fortunately all hands were saved. The schooner Kclipse was lost in the Solomon Islands, and Father Uoulllalc, the French priest, was drowned. lloniKled to Death. Ludwlg Hraun of Richmond Stater Island, N. Y., committed suicide at Orange* Texas, Wednesday, by taking poison. He was walking along the streets and suddenly fell. When assistance reached him lie stated that he had taken poison. Kvery effort to save his life was made, hut without avail. He told the physicians that lit had been in the real estate hualnnea at Richmond, but had left there In an effort to escape prosecution and blackmail on the part of a man whoso name he did not divulge On his Ixxly waf found a large sum of money, valuable jewelry and a pass lxx>k on a bank al Staple ton, N. Y., showing a credit ol $1,000. Scalded to l>eatti. In a wreck on the St. Paul branch of the Frisco system near Fayetteville, Ark., Fireman Abraham waf killed and Kngincr Thomas Kinnej and (Conductor Horace Miller were seriously scalded. The engine left the track while backing. ? pp CONWAY, IS A BETTER OUTLOOK. KHtimatOM ot the Cotton Crop Iluvc llcen Knitted. Wednesday Director Bauer of the South Carolina section of the climate and crop service of the Doited Stales weather bureau issued the following bullet in of the condition of the crops in the State during the past week, this being the last bulletin of the season. The week ending Monday, September 2Hth, was slightly warmer than usual, with a mean temperature of about 7<? degrees, a maximum of degrees at Darlington on the 27th, and a minimum of 50 degrees at Howman and llennettsvilie. Sunshine was slightly deficient, with more cloudiness towards tile close of the week, when showery conditions prevailed. The rainfall was quite general over the State, although below normal, with a number oX localities that had from one to two inches. The rain was needed and trenetitted late cotton, late corn, pens, gardens, cane, truck, and put the soil into excllent condition ( for sowing oats, and, while it intere- : fered with cotton picking, it did not I damage the staple to any material extent. Early and medium corn is being housed, while very late corn is only now ripening. Early cotton is practically open, and picked, except in numerous localities where laborers are scarce. Some fields have been picked out. Late cotton is now opening freely, and is mostly open, except the new fruitage that, in a few localities, is heavy, but will need a full month of favorable weather to reach maturity; in most fields there is no top corn, or else a very small one. Estimates of yields have been raised by some correspondents and lowered by others, and from the average of these estimates it appears that t he yield for the State will probably compare favorably with last year. Sea-island cotton is a better crop than usual, and although it, opened slowly heretofore, is now opening rapidly. The lint of both upland and sea-island cotton is of a high grade, and very little has been weather stained. In general, picking is further advanced than usual at this date, and will pro bably be linished during October. Rice harvest made favorable progress. with May and June plantings ripening and about ready to cut. The rice crop is very satisfactory. Truck crops are doing well. Peas vary greatly in condition, butaverage a fair crop. The same is true of grass for hay. A moderate crop of both pcavine and other hay has been saved in tine condition. Oats sowing made slow progress, but early sown oats are coming up to good stands. Minor crops continue to do well, but need more rain in places. * Woman in a Well. A colored woman had quite a close call in Spartanburg one night last, week. While walking home she fell into an uncovered well, which is situated near a path on property near the Wofford College baseball grounds. The depth of this unused well is nearly JO feet. The woman fell about JO feet, landing on a rock abutment above the ' water. Her outcries brought to her 1 assistance Fred Talley, colored, who ! was passing by. He secured and nall cd together three ladders, went Into i the well and brought the helpless wo> man out. She will recover from her : fall, although she is badly bruised up. Illcw Out Ills llritiiis. Lieut. Commander Win. V. lironaugh of the United States navy, , committed suicide Wednesday on the battleship Kcarsagc at the Hrooklyn navy yard hy blowing out his brains with a revolver. Friends of Commander Hronaugh believe lie was very i much worried over thv, manifold duties of ids position as executive officer which are considered to l>c more arduous than those of any other position f rank in the navy. IIuiitiitK Oohl. Considerable excitement has beojj created in the eastern part of Knox J ville, Tcnn., by parties digging in an , isolated yard for several nights of . late. It is stated that years ago a - man died in the house on this proper> ty, and that before he died lie had , buried in the yard a small fortune in . gold. lie failed to disclose to any one . the identity of the spot where the treasure was located. The recent midnight diggers are reported to l?o . searching for the old man's gold. Engineer Mtoncd. The Pennsylvania coal strike is still on. While Engineer T. Hoffman was on a Lehigh Valley locomotive at Mount Carmel Thursday night he was 1 stoned bv a mob because he was run' ning a car full of supplies into the soldiers' encampment. The cat was al? most, totally wrecked. Hoffman es uuprti iiiiury oy lying uown. nerore ' the mob could jump on the engine a detail of soldiers drove them away. i An OI<l Bridegroom. ' What Is probably the most peculiar " marriage license ever issued by a State otlicial was prepared by the county 1 clerk of Gloucester county, V,a., Sat" I J urday last. The peculiarity in this ! instance lies In the extreme age of the j contracting parties, tin; matjj 'being. 102 years of age and his intended VI fe 80. The newly wedded pair are Solomon Lewis and his wife, both respectable colored people of that county. i * . jc. Another Htriko. ? The coal miners in Alabama have ' struck t>ccause the paymaster of the ! mines will not deduct $1 from the s pay of each miner to help the anthracite miners In Pennsylvania. / V, > N y , ,y. 4 I vrjl 1 ' - ^ ?^ . C., THURSDAY, ( ? THE BOODLERS Of St. Louis Being Brought to Justice in the Courts. THE STORY AS BEING TOLD. One Man Was Offered One Hundred Thousand Dollars to Vote and Work for Certain HIIIh. St. L'in is, Mo., has a most sensational scandal on her hands, and it is now being aired in the courts. 11 seems thai there has I won whole-sale brilwry of her members of city council to vote for certain st reet, car. lighting and other franchises. The trial of Robert M". Snyder, hanker and promo n-1 . ini iiiit* cuargc III nnnci'V II) connection with tin- passage of the Central Traction bill, was commenced on Thursday,'and some sensational tbines have been unearthed. Frederick <i. ITholT, who was a member of the fcity council in April, 1898, was put on the stand by the State. In answer to questions pvt. by Circuit. Attorney Folk, UtholT test!lied that while a member ot the city council in 181)8,when the North and South Traction hills were pending Uohert M. Snyder, called on him at his residence, having been taken there by Louis Dieckmann, by appointment. 11 tliolT continued: "After talking socially alxiut half an hour Snyder spoke of the Central Traction hill I told him 1 did not want to talk atxxit the matter. He said we were both Masons and we could discuss it the same as lodge matters, lie said I ought to favor him witli his lull. "1 told him I had been approached and offered $50,000 for my vote. 'I will get that amount and send it. by Dieckmann,1 said Snyder to ine." Witness said Dicokman brought the package next day. IJthotV said lie next saw Snyder at the Planters' hotel. At this meeting Snyder talked of the Central Traction hill and also of a gas hill. UtholT said Snyder told witneji* Unit if lie would introduce this gas hill as a "rider" to the Central Traction bill, and work for its passage as well as vote for the Central Traction hill, he would give witness $100,000. "lie said he would give me $(50,000 next day." tJtholf explained, $15,000 when the gas hill was introduced and $25,000 when the gas hill was passed. "Then Snyder took up two handfuls of hills," witness stated, "and said I'tholT, here is $25,000. .Dieckmann is on the lioor of the council with $10',000 more. I would have had $00,000 for you, hut Charlie Carroll got $15,000 from me today. "UtholT said he refused to take any of t he money then olTered him by the promoter." Witness next saw Snyder at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, where defendant sain he had $5,000 belong* ing to promoters which he was ready to give IJtholT. lie got $2,500 on that visit and $2,500 more three or four months later. Witness told of Snyder's attempts to get the $50,000 from Meier. Snyder said he would turn it : over to UtholT. Circuit Attorney Folk then proceeded to question the witness as to the opposition to the Central Traction hill which had developed, aivl sprung the moat interesting bit of information which the Snyder trial has yet discloses!, involving the name of \Iohn Scullin,' ex-street 'railroad magnate, and Kdward JUi^ler, a local. millionaire politician, in what the witness characterized as an, attempt to defeat the Central Traction measure 'by the use of a big sum of money distributed in relays of $5,000 each to the certain counollmen every month. "in March, 180K. Mr. Scullin gave me a .bill to introduce called the United Tractjon bill." UtholT stated. "It was designed to head otT the Central rn ,.i i ?: t.'in' 1 I<1<JCI<JI1 Mill. "I met/Mr. Scullen and he paid mc $25,000 to dtish iiis l>i 11 ancfdefeat the otiier one." "'What did you do \vltlx the' money?" "I returned it, to NJr.. Sculler through Kd Hutle/." After some'further testimony in the course of which witness said Snydei had Void him lie paid Councilman Chas. ft. Carroll $1.1,000, Judge I'ricst, ityr thePde(ense t<n>k tlie witness in i hantl and tjegah _tbe. cross Cxaiiji nation. Vtluyf ,tetjU%d under cross examination'tHatf last'webk he and Scullin were before the grand jury togcthei and that he told the grand jury " that Scullin gave -him <$25,000 to vote against the Central Traction hill. Louis Dieckmann, speaker of the house of delegates, while the* Central Traction bill was pending tcstltied that Snyder asked him to assist in getting tiie Central Traction bill passed and Snyder said lie would sec that any promise made 1$ George J. Kobusch (president of the St. Louis Car company) would be kept. George J. Kobusch testified tiiat Snyder had told him he paid 100,000 to UthofT to pa.su the Central Traction bill. i, To Wreck Train. An atUjjftpt to wreck the Coast Xfne/ftfbtiAjPWii$t* have liccn mado iWarNefti^trlf. O. sWuiiday night. A lot of cross ft en waii pi?t on the track just, a few miles' south Of the junction. Train iVo, 32 struck ^hem wlille going at a rapid gait and made kindling wood of the obstruction. The engine was not hurt. The supposition-Is that It was the work of some malicious person In deviltry or .somebody who Is not up In the art of train wrecking? ' < ? 'a. - 7 J. r. >? ;<*. c ? ' :rt jij fmlt JCTOBER 1>, 11M>2. AN OLD WOMAN. lWnn a Sixteen Yenr Old <?lrl Win n Washington Wan hlloolt'd. There recently died in Laurens an old negress by the name of Hannah Mliner, whose claim to longevity Is i)cyond doubt unparalleled in this section. According to her reckoning she was three years old when that immortal paper, the Declaration of Independence, was promulgated, a "gar' of Hi when (lenrge Washington ; ticca me presidsnt, or, in other words, she wits born the last of October, 1773, and therefore had she survived six weeks longer she would have attained the great age of 129. < >f course in the absence of any record there is more or less doubt to her claim, but there Is abundant evidence of her very advandeed age. First of all she was l>orn in Virginia, which accounts for the fact t hat she dist inctly remembered Washington as a general during the Revolutionary war and then as president, incidents which si o related to those around her all through life clear to the end, circumstance which would have occurred considerably iv r a hundred times if she had told itom> one a year. She was probably brought to South Carolina by the Milner fam'ly, as she was tirst known, by the oldest people now living in this section as the property of Thos. Milner, a slave owner who lived near The Knob, tills county, many years ago. "Cranny" Hannah, as she was generally known, was the wife of Henry Milner, a slave, and they had thirteen children. Henry died long before the civil war, an old man. Four of the youngest children survive, a son and three daughters. The youngest of these is a great grand-mother herself, almost an octogenarian. It is said her oldest son died at. the country home a few years ago at the age of S?K. She lived to see four generatioi s j of her own family and to this day they are African blood pure and simple, old j fashioned, polite and hard working. .Martin Rurnsldes, aged ?I0, is one of i the numerous grandchildren who live i in the county, and he is a thrifty and ' respectable negro. "Old" Cranny lie longed to the African McthodLt -church ;i:xl her faith never deserted her. Her health was all that could have hoen expected up to within a week or so before the dissolution. She was hearty, could walk around some and all her faculties mind, voice, hearing and eyesight continued good to the last. Most remarkable indeed, but tills is tiie brief story of Hannah Mliner's long, very long life. limited lor Murder. Theodore Smith and Thomas (}. Falrcloth, the young white men who killed the aged Lewis couple one month ago were successfully executed by Sheriff Sutton Wednesday morning at llronson, Fla. Iioth men had wonderful nerve and ascended the scaffold with steady step. They had their coftins opened and inspected and commented on them. Falrcloth remarked that they were all right, and both men addressed the immense crowd . with clear and unbroken voices. The sons and daughters of Lewis witnessed the execution. The bodies of the hanged men were turned over to relatives for interment. Smith had a young wife and baby, Falrcloth was , engaged to l>e married and Just before the execution expressed a desire to , have the ceremony performed, but the | sherilT would not permit this to lie . done. 1 A lliuik ltohbod. Thfe Fort Mill Savings Hank, of Fort Mill, S. C., was dynamited at an early hour Tuesday morning and it is ! estimated that between six and ten ! thousand dollars were stolen. An cn1 trance was effected through the front 1 door of the bank and the vault and safe doors successfully drilled and dy! nami ted. A clock on the wall of the hanklne room had stonnod :it ' Tuesday morning, evidently Indlcat1 ing the time of the explosion. The bj&nk othdals refuse to make a state1 mcnt as to the extent of their loss. A * large amount of paper money was found torn to shreds by the force of 'the explosion. The robbers are thought to have been professionals. There is 1 no clue to the perpetrators of the deed. ItcHult of Coal Strike. ! In tiiiancial difficulty as a result of the coal strike Henry (J. Schecl, a coal i merchant of New York, tried to kill , himself Wednesday by shooting. The doctors say there is little hope for , him. Mr. Schecl is i"> years old. He i lives with his wife and three children in a handsome residence and generally , has lieen thought to be prosperous. A i relative of Mr. Schecl said he had a large sum of money?about $200,000, , Med up in litigation and that his business was ids source of revenue. The I disturbance in the coal market hud O lilt! hiiclnnae *t. 1 ...>ww/u a uunmtnn m; 1 iV'U.11Jf Uillinil^ him to become despondent. ' Mpltlemfc of WtiichlcM. In commenting on the suicide of Commander Hronaugh, of the United States navy, Captain Harrington of tiie ItriKiklyn navy yard says: There ' is an epidemic of suicides in tile navy as surely as there was ever an epidemic of fever. Such a thing may occur, and cannot be explained. The man ' probably had been thinking of the 1 other suicides which are very sad affairs, and then in an unguarded mo: mfcnt the desiro to try it seized hlpa* V-imd it was all over in a minute." An AnnhnhIii Ijyuchod. * Walter Sullivaft, a young negro, was > lynched Wednesday at Portland, Ashe ly county, Ark. Sullivan was charged ) with shooting 1). .1. Roody, a white man, in the back. I u ???-? ANOTHER NEW YORK MURDER j A VoiitiK <?lrl FoiiiiiI Iat?I In n Tciu'4 IIMMlt lloUNI'. New York has a number of sensational murders on her hands to solve. Last week James II. Craft, a rich j resident of Lou# Island, was murdered iu a most luulal manner in a saloon. All the evidence goes to show. / thatCraft, who had been making the rounds of the tenderloin, incautiously displayed a Iftr^e amount of money in the Umpire and wan killed by one of the waiters known as Thomas Tobin, mi i nt- |'u i |"im- hi nun) r i. i ill" police also say that knock oat-drops were lirst administered and that then lite , vict im was draped into the haseincnt and killed with a cleaver. 1 The body ot Jennie Larson, a young i Danish woman. 20 years old, was s found in the apartment of Louise Appleord, on the third lloor of a tenement in Harlem Wednesday. She N lias I Hie a dead f ir days, according to a t medical expert: the Uidy was mu- <. t dated and much decomiMised and gas tilled tlie room where it was found. Despite the gas and stench which tirst. 1 revealed the tragedy, Appleord, in a da/.cd mental eon<htion, was in the ^ room when it was entered by the po- ' lice. Dr. D movan, who examined * the body, found that the abdomen j had been gashed in several places. He ( said lie believed the woman had been dead live or six days, and it. was his 1 belief that she had been the victim of J a criminal operation Appleord was arrested as a suspiei- j oils person and talon to the station. It' was learned from Ids incoherent j talk that the young woman was his | niece. He had caused her to come from ( Denmark to days ago, ho said, lobe his housekeeper. Appoloord is ft.'l years old and a conductor on a line of horse cars. . ('oroner Scholer's opinion is that the ( girl was strangled to death, lie did not believe a criminal operation had 1 been performed. Appleord, when questioned by the police would say ' little excepl that he had turned on the gas in the room for the purpose of ( committing suicide. The police do dot. accuse Aupleord of murdering tlie young woman but think that lie ^ knows more aliout the ease than lie is willing to tell. Tlie Deadly Current. < Within sight of 11is father and ' 2,(>00 persons, lUchard I looser and I his 0-year-old companion, Freddie I Pcholo, of Woodhavcn. L. 1. Iiave been killed by an electric, current. I'eholo had climbed to the top of the iron pole to recover his hat, which had caught on the wire and was slowly being burned. As lie reached out for tlie cap Ids hand came in contact witli the v/lre. The shock passed through Ids body, killing him instantly, and forming a circuit between the < pole and tlie wire. Young 1 looser, i believing ids comrade only stunned, cliudied up tlie pole to release him and carry him to thft ground. When he reached tlie top he placed Ids arm around tlie body holding last to the pole witli tlie other hand. The current from tlie body passed through him, forming a second circuit witli the pole. The ImkIIcs were badly burned before tlie current could be shut otY. The Jewish New Year. Wednesday afternoon at sundown tlie Jewish people throughout the world heiran the relii/iotis eolehrat ion of the Jewish New Year. This is a feast of marked significance in their religious calendar and is observed by all the congregations throughout tlie world. The year that is ushered in is It is the new year of tile Old Testament, and in the Hebrew tongue is known as Itosh Iloshana. The day is a month latter this year than usual. This is due to the fact that the year 1002 is, according to the Jewish caiandar, a Leap Year. As the .lews use lunar time instead of solar time, like the Christians, they add one month to their year instead of one rlay. This celebration extends over a period of ten days, ending with the feast of Yom Ivlppur, or Day of Atonement, another most solemnly observed holiday. Clioloru KukIiikThe Philippine Islands are l?eing devastated by cholera. 11 is announced that ft, 124 eases of cholera and 2,740 deaths from that disease were reported in the provlnceof Iloilo, Island of l'anay, on Monday. This is the highest record for any district since the outbreak of the disease, and exceeds the total of Manila and many of the provinces since the commencement. Thd people are llceing to the mountains, leaving the dead uriburled and the dying uncared for. The number of viut.ims msikos orrlir??ru sanitary measures impossible. The totals for all the provinces Monday were 5,.'190 cases and 3,091 deaths. Twelve Moron Killed. The war in the Philippine don't seem to l>c over yet. A dispatch from Manila says the column under Capt. I'crshing which went out against the Machin Moros in Mindanao, has attacked the enemy and captured three of their forts. The Moros stood hut a short time against the American artillery tire. Twenty Moros were killed and many were wounded. There were no American casualties. Forty Year's Torture. To lie relieved from a torturing disease after 40 years' torture might well cause the gratitude of anyone. That is what I>eWitt's Witch Hazel Salve did for C. llaney, Geneva, (). He says: "DcWItt's Witch Hazel Salve cured me of piles after I had suffered 40 years." Cures cuts, burns, wounds, skin diseases. Beware of counterfeits. Dr. E. Norton. A I'.li \ \ K MAN All Alone Fights Five Well Armed, Taring ' urglars \ND PUTS THEM TO FLIGHT, * - .< \ I'tri' Iv i 11 i 11 Ono mill Wound* i ii K Two Others, ami is Shot Twlro liy the* Itohlir rs. i A brave man had a desperate li^ht I'hursday nl^ht with tiv? m.iskc I and Irspernto robtiers, who attempted to ol> ilie safe of the Mountcrvlllc Pasen^er Hallway station at Williams)ort, I'a. In a battle with revolvers, vhlch followed the attempt, one of .ho desperadoes was killed and two thers slightly wounded t?y Engineer Mem lUy. who was shot twice by the ob tiers. Shortly before 2 o'clock, while Engineer Alem lily was at work in the lower house of the Montoursville I'asicngcr llailway company, ho was tartled by a terrillc crash, caused by he front door of the huildlmr belnir Mttered in wlt-h a heavy plank. lily usbed to a desk which contained his evolver, and as he turned to face the ntrudcrs he was met with a fusillade >f shots from the revolvers in the lands of live men, who had the lower >art of their faces covered with handkerchiefs. < )ne of the shots struck ily in the hip and another made a lesh wound in the thigh. The rvouiuls did not disable him, however, uid he leveled Ills revolver and lirtd it one of the burglars, who was several *eet in advance of the others. The Millet- pierced the heart of the desperado and he fell dead. The engineer kept tiring at the rest >f the gang, who kept up a continumis tire. Two of them were slightly wounded. After bis revolver had icen emptied Illy retreated through a rear door and ran to a nearby factory md aroused the wastchman who aainded an alarm by blowing the factory whistle. While Illy was absent Lhe robbers dragged the body of their lead companion outside the building, where t hey left It and tied. Hp to a hour Thursday night no trace of them bad been found. A National Concern. The following was made public at the White House Wednesday afternoon: "The following telegrams arc the result, of the conferences between President Hoosevclt and the members of ids cabinet, held Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday: "White House, Washington, Oetober 11. "George P. Itacr, president Heading Hallway System, Philadelphia; W. II. Truessclc, president Delaware, Lackawana and Western Company, New York; 10. It. Thomas, chairman of board of lOrie Hail road Company, New York; Thomas Pow ler, president New York, Ontario and Western Railroad Company, New York: It: M. Oliphant, president Delaware and Hudson, New York; John Markle, New York: "I should greatly like to see you on Friday next, October II, at 11 a. m., in Washington, in regard to the failure of the coal supply, which has become a matter of vital concern to the whole nation. I have sent a similar dispatch to John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workers of A merica. "(Singed) "TllKODOKK 1 toos K V K LT.1' "John Mitchell, President United Mine Workers of America, Wilkesbarre, Pa. "1 should greatly like to see you Friday next, October J, at 11 a. m., in Washington, in regard to the failure of the coal supply, which has become a matter of vital concern to the whole nation, 1 have sent a similar dispatch to the presidents of the anthracite companies. (Signed) TlIKODOIlK 11< H)SKV KLT. Kx-Caov. Chamberlain. Kx-Gov. I>. II. Chamberlain arrived in Columbia last Wednesday. Mr. Chamlterlain was up to a few years ago the receiver of the old South Carolina railroad, now mc Charleston division of the Southern railway, and under his management the road prospered greatly. The State says when seen at his hotel the ex-governor, who now makes his home at West Hrook field, Mass., said that his visit had no sivrniflounce whatever, lie recently lost his last son, who but 17 years of age. Mr. Chamberlain felt the blow keenly, so much so that he became completely broken down from nervousness and though apparently well, his physician advised him to take a long and com pieie rem rrom latior or ull kinds, and said that he needed a change to a milder climate, winter having already l>egun In Massachusetts. Mr. Chamljerlain himself preferred to come to Columbia, and he stated last night he intended to spend the entire winter here. For several years past Mr. Chamberlain has acted with the Democrats in politics. liook out for Dover. Biliousness and liver disorders at this season may Ik; prevented by cleansing the system with l)eWitt's Little Early Risers. These famous little pills do not gripe. They move the bowels gently, but copiously, and by reason of the tonic properties, give tone and strength to the glands. I)r. E. Norton.