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* \ , 4-' \ ? , .1 \V VOL XVII. A GANG OF CROOKS. -v A Den of Vice Invaded by the Officers f of the Law AND SAFE BLOWERS ARRESTED. They Have linen Making CdIiiiiiMh Tlieir llentl(|tiarters lor Months, Kohhotl Ail Over the Hi :i Ie. Charles Howard. Kdward Dugan, Thomas Nolan and William McKinley arc the names of four men under arrest in Columbia on the charge of robbing postotllres and banks and in a number of towns in South Carolina. Their arrests and the raids of the otlleers in search of evidence against them caused quite a sensation Tuesday, the tilth instant. The State says the district of vice was thrown into turmoil by the repeated visitations from the officers and the denizens were in dread j>f further arrests. Over a score of persons were held at one time or another in t he effort to get information and the otllcers seem to have seemed evidence sufficient to justify them in bringing the ease to trial. The following particulars of the arrests we take Iroin The State. Some time ago the chief of police was given the information that there was a gang of safe-blowers putting up in Coium bill. They attracted attention to themselves by their lavish expenditure of money, their liberal treatment of their friends in plaees where drinks could be secured, and by making presents to women. Chief Daly and tiiecity detectives begun to watch the movements of these people and sent for Messrs. (Jrogory and Pulsifer, tlie United States secret service i agents who are located in South Carolina. The olllccrs were waiting for an op- , portunity to strike when chance placed the men in the hands of the police. Sunday night, the 4th instant, a pistol was tired by some one in or at a house on Uates street. Olllcer MeQuattcrs arrested Kdward Dugan on t lie charges of carrying a concealed weapon and of discharging tirearms ! on the street. The following morning in the recorder's court Dugan was fined $40 on the lirst named charge, lie paid this amount promptly and 1 put. up another $40 for his appearance at the recorder's court on the charge 1 of discharging tirearms. Monday afternoon, the f>Lh instant, Charles Howard, one of the witnesses in the latter case, went to talk with the 1 chief in regard to the case and Capt. Daly thought it time to make a move in the more important case as How- i sird and Dugan were both being shad- : owed. Accordingly when these two < appeared hi the recorder's court Tues7 day morning, the Oth instant, they were detained. Olllccrs Strickland, < Marsh, Thackham and Dowic were < sent to get the other men under sus- i plcion. Strickland and Marsh arrested < Thomas Nolan in a house on Hates I I street kept by ;i negress. William ; McKinley was found at Grant's res- ; tan rant by Thackham and Dowio. i Tlie otllcers tlien began a searching i examination of these men. Itaid after l raid was made in the tenderloin (lis- i trict and while no actual arrests were made there were a score of denizens and frequenters of questionable places i detained as witnesses. The oillcers kept their own counsel and would give i # out no information, but the news got ; abroad that there was a wholesale ar- ; rest of safe-blowers under the charge ! of disorderly conduct. ; HOWARD, ALIAS IIKAKNK. Howard appears to be the leader of tlie gang. His "road" name is 1 "Dutchy." He had very swell apart- 1 merits in a locality of questionable nature on Gates street, between Gervais and Lady. When his apartments were searched the chief, the city de- 1 teetives and the secret service men 1 found receipts for furniture and furnishings which had cost Howard hundreds of dollars. There was also a new dress suit case and a new valise, both ' of line quality. The oillcers also found a number of suits of clothes and other articles of apparel some rough and evidently used "on the road," others for use in tlie city, When Howard was brought, suddenly into Chief Daly's office where he faced Inspectors Gregory pnd Irving the crook showed that he recognized tlie latter who were witnesses against Howard (or Ilearne as he was then known) for blowing open a safe at Harnwell, \V. Va. In March, 1,809, Howard was sentenced to spend three years at Moundsvillc, W. Va. When Howard's person was searched tlie jxtliee found $300 sewed in Hie seat of his underclothing. Km I. AM TIIIT t lt'lMkT j " The next most important in the party arrested seems to bo Thomas ' Nolan. The police apparently have some Information as to his past hut they will divulge nothing, except in regard to Howard. When lie was arrested* In the house kept by Carrie Maker, Nolan had nearly $400 on his person. hen the oftleers searched the room i w*ch lie had occupied they found the equipment necessary for the work of safe blowing. The heavy tools are picked up In the towns in which the work is to he done,hut there are other tools which unmistakably are marks of the profession,and Nolan had these in ids room wrapped in a bundle. There was a Hash light, such as is used by crooks, and two electric batteries for the light. There was also a pocket compass, a mileage hook of the Southern Hallway Compahy with Thomas Nolan's name written there^ Ur -A J Eife * . ! vWSw* *** PlrtW'i.t,- "i on, a Colt's revolver and a large number of cartridges and a pocket map of the State of Georgia. Howard and Nolan were the onlv ones who had any money. None of the men have any work in Columbia, Nolan and l>ugan claiming to he gamblers and Howard, the man with luxurious apartments, claimed to be working in Grant's restaurant. McKinley also gambled. Each of the men lias a "road'' name known to members of the profession over country. Howard is known as Dutchy and Dugan as Starr, but the oilieers have not yet located Nolan and McKinley. FO K M At, L Y AUK KST HI). These four men were detained on specious charges until Wednesday, | when they were formally arrested on warrants issued by Hon. Hubert hide, of (>rangeburg, I'nited States commissioner, who bad gone to Columbia during the day. The warrants charge generally that these men have been guilty of safe-blowing and robberies of postolllces in South Carolina during the months of November and December. The following arc the towns in which they are alleged to have operated: Cameron and Kowesville, in Orangeburg County: Knorec in Spartanburg County; Hatesburg in Lexington County; llartsvillc, Darlington County; Montmorenci, Aiken County, and Kenno, Laurens County. The "swag" in these robberies aggregates over $20,00t). There have been quite a number of other robberies in the State, but these have not as yet been charged against Howard and his gang. There are also large rewards which will be given to the proper oillcers in case these parties are convicted. The prisoners were arraigned before Mr. Lide Wednesday afternoon and were locked tip in the county jail as they could not raise the amount of hail, *20.000 for each man. The preliminary examination, to he held at a date not yet fixed, will he conducted before Mr. .lames Yerner, who was just recently appointed I hilled States Commissioner. The ollieers will not give any of the evidence which points to these men as the ones guilty of the crimes enumerated, but they evidently have enough upon which to operaate. The developing of the evidence will tie the work of the secret service men. Before their formal arrest each of the suspected crooks was asked many searching questions. The otUcers say that these men have the hearing or professionals and their own statements shows that they have I icon in Columbia some time. They denied being connected with any of the numerous robberies in the State and say that, they have not been outside of Columbia except to Lhe carnival in Charleston. They likewise denied having liver traveled in neighboring States. These men, or some of them, have led a fast life here. They have squandered thousands of dollars. Nolan is said to have lost $l,.">00at cards in i one night. Since their several arrests persons in town who were thrown ; with them have been telling marvelous yarns of the extravagance of some af these worthies, how they would LI)row out a greenback in payment of drinks and thou refuse the change, how tliey spent their money on men ?nd women whom they fancied. Such lets as these would tend to show that those men, if guilty of the charges preferred, have been living in Columbia for months and had become venturesome in their fancied security. The government men who have been working on the case are very complimentary in their references to Chief Daly and the way in which lie engineered t lie case. Ollieers Strickland ind Thaokham, the city's detectives, ure also receiving due credit for their services in spotting and shadowing Lhe alleged crooks. No bank or postolliec in South Carolina lias been secure in late months, and if these are the guilty parties who have committed so many depredations, then the State is well rid of them and the ollieers are indeed to be praised. The recent robberies were not confined to the baking of money. The crooks know how to use "stickers" as tliey denominate postage stamps. There Is a "fence" or confederate of supposed respectability in some large city who jells the stolen stamps to wholesale houses, etc. A IMibllc Apology. A special to The State from Columbia says Postmaster Richardson's public dedaimcr of responsibility or endorsement, of attacks on Senator Tillman that have appeared in his paper will probably avail to induce the senator to withdraw his opposition to Richardson's confirmation as postmaster of Greenville.Senator Tillman has maintained that "private apologies for public Slanders will not sutllce." The scnatorsald he would "consider." the withdrawal of Ids opposition to the postmaster's confirmation when the latter disavowed through the editorial columns of the paper of which he is business manager, responsibility of the attacks on the senator's character. |j<> the Rich Iudiaii. It appears from census statistics that regrets for the passing of the Indians of tlie United States are vain and useless: that, as a matter of fact, there is more Indian blood In the United States today than ever before. Secretary Hitchcock's recent report shows that there are now in the country 200,000 persons of Indian blood a larger number than when the Pilgrim fathers landed in Massachusetts. And the Indians arc living better now than ever before in their history. Under their various treaties with the government, they have become the richest race of people, taking as a whole, in the world. CONWAY, S. WILL FIGHT CHUM. Senator Tillman Will Do All He Can to Defeat His CONFIRMATION AS POSTMASTER or ('liurleNtmi lly i In* United Statca Senate llecaiiHO the People of tlie State Want Him To. The Washington correspondent of The State says "bitterness has been aroused in Charleston against the president, for his action in appointing a negro, l>r. Crmn, to he collector of that port. The Charleston hoard of trade has passed resolutions calling upon both .Senators Tillman and McLaurln to t Crum's contirmation to the last ditch In the senate and to use every elTort to secure the nomination of a white man to the collectorship. Senator McLaurin lias not yet returned from his Christmas holidays so that it Is not known whether lie will respond to t tie cry of the Charleston people and oppose the policy of t lie administration. Senator Tillman, as was announced in The State, will enter a protest against the appointment of Crum and will avail himself of the opportunity to say a few things about the policy of the 1 loose volt admimst ration in shoving otf negrootllcials upon the people of the south. The senator does not anticipate that he will he successful in his light against Crum unless proof is furnished him that the negro is utiqualilicd for the otlicc on other grounds save that of color, for while the latter ground Is all sutllcient to convince the senator it will lie use less to nope lor consideration in Mmsenate on that score alone. Whether the Charleston people can bring proof that Crum was a disloyal Republican at the Minneapolis convention is not certain. These charges were presented to the president last fall hut in refutation Crum secured testimonial from prominent Republicans to the cITeet that he had entered the convention a Harrison man and had remained true to hiseandidate. It was charged that Crum went to the convention pledged to Rlainc and was induced to transfer his support to Harrison in return for the Charleston post.mastership. This ollice was tendered him, but the* nomination being held up in the senate his name was withdrawn. President Roosevelt, it is said, would not have objected to being furnished with some such excuse to turn down Crum. lie has asked the question as to what obligations this administration was under to the Charleston negro, but after his personal letter to Mayor Smyth, in which he lectured the Charleston aristocracy on their attitude toward the blacks, it was obviously impossible for him to refuse the otllcc to the negro doctor, merely because he was a negro. It is through no love for the president nor because of any desire u> aid him in any way that Senator Tillman intends to protest against Crum's ap i'v>111i.ii u. i^vu in ii, niLTi'iy in response to the cry of the Charleston board of trade that he will institute this light. Indeed friends of the senator were wondering whether he would overlook the fact that Charleston had endorsed the insult President Koosevelt offered him last February in withdrawing Ids invitation to the Prince Henry dinner. It was just after this incident, for which the president has been rather severely criticised by some of his awn party, that Charleston received Mr. Iioosevclt with open arms. It is known that Senator Tillman has not forgotten these thing nor has he forgotten the cordiality with which the Melanin n idea was received In the "City by the Sea," at the time when it was thought the junior senator stood in witli the administration sufficiently to secure a generous appropriation for the exposition. "I have been lighting niggers and carpetbaggers all my life remarked the senator Wednesday, "and 1 should not tie true to my traditions, my party or my State if 1 let up anywhere along the line In this tight. Hut 1 want it understood that I am opposing the appointment of this negro to t he collectorship of the port of Charleston, because I represent the people of South Carolina, and the people from the mountain to the seaboard are, 1 believe, opposed to domination by the negro." So far as Charleston itself is concerned, it must be admitted that she is not receiving as much sympathy as might have been expected from members of the South Carolina delegation, in having a negro hurled directly at her door. This is due to the strange change of front last spring with reference to the nomination of Mr. Harris as postmaster. When the name of Harris was first sent in. protests came from Charleston that I'rcsidoilt. liiiriaovfll harl ann/?lnl/.fl .1 petbagger" to the most lucrative postothee in the State. Investigation, it was claimed, would show that Mr. Harris was not a bona tide citizen of the State; that he was in the employ of the pension oHIce; that he was receiving the customary allowance for employes away from home; that he had formerly been in New York but did not receive this per diem expense appropriation, that State being conIsdercd his home. So much was the president impressed by the assertions that he withdrew tho nomination from the senate and the tight which Senator Tillman had instituted was for the time without a target. Suddenly Charleston sentiment appears to have undergone a change. Petl OVt'tl ; C., THURSDAY, .JA tions Hooded the capital from prominent citizens of Charleston reciting the praises of Mr. Harris declaring him to he the most acceptable man for the ollieo, and urging Senator Tillman to withdraw his opposition because of Mr. Harris' acceptability the Charlestionians asked that his nomination he confirmed regardless of the principle involed. Mr. Harris is still awaiting conllrmatlon by the senate. Senator Tillman has not withdrawn his opposition and there is some question whether he intends to. It is the eonduct of Charleston in the Harris case which has robbed them of the sympathy they would have otherwise received from the delegation in their triiL'iinl > OU.,1 i..r> 'IM.? k I piviivui; iinuvi'ivii. i IIU I'UIIIU l|<l?>| been suggested IT they are willing to ! swallow a carpetbagger as postmaxt er 1 t he appointment of an alleged respect- i able negro as collector should not prove such an indigestible morsel. NEGROES IN OFFICE. Some SeoHlhle Kcinai ks on (lie Sul>- < Joel by a Northern Paper. i It Is an error for the United States government or any of Its departments says the Philadelphia Lodger, to im- , pose upon a community a local olllclal who is personally olTensivc or distaste* j fill to that community. There is no j theory, no abstract Ideal, Involved in i this. The postmaster of a town Is ; simply a person designated to trans* i a<-t certain business for the Inhabi- i t aids and he must he a person accept- ; able to them. Their right to boserv- ; ed agreeably is far superior to any In- j dividual's right, to hold a public otllce. | The appointments of negroes to of- J lice in the Southern States have vervjly generally been based upon an invejjfTL sion of this rule upon the ncirrtFs I < right to hold olbcc, rather than upon the community's right to lie fitly served. It is not pretended Unit, in the average Southern town the negroes form the most intelligent and trust worthy port ion of t lie populat ion, from whom the I'lilted States government can best select Its representatives. In many towns, 110 doubt, they are more numerous than the whites; but the chief otllcials of the place are rightly expected to oo somewhat above the general average, nearer to the higher plane of intelligent citlzcn\\iip. The selection of negroes for office, therefore, is plainly iniluencod l>y political considerations, In preference to considerations of elllcient service or of the comfort and satisfaction of the community. Tills is both a theoretical and a practical error. No man possesses any personal right to hold an oHice simply by reason of his color. If he is not acceptable to the people he is expected to serve, the government is not called upon to impose Idui upon them because lie is a negro, any more than it would he hecause lie had red hair. It may he said that the people have no more right to object to him on one account than on the ot her. While this may he true, t he fact remains that they ( do object. On various grounds not necessary to discuss here most Southern communities object txi negroes in otlice, while they have had no occasion to consider objections based on other physical distinctions. It mav lie an unreasonable prejudice, hut it exists, and it is not peculiar to the South. The correction of social prejudices, reasonable or unreasonable, Is not a function of the United States government. Its function is to have the public business transacted in a manner to give the greatest possible i U'.i t iufnrd t/\ f imii.navyuiuil ia/ tim, fkujui; v/uih fl immi. fj A DEVIL SHIFTS QUARTERS. t A Man Who Poisoned Two I<h<1h for ]i C Ten Dollars Manned. K V Paul Woodward, a human in form |, hut a devil in spirit, was handed at d Camden, N. J., on last Wednesday, u The drop fell at 10.05 and Woodward 1 was prontinccd dead ten minutes t later. Woodward was apparently the 1 most unconcerned person in the party t at the hanging and showed remark- d able nerve. Paul Woodward's crime s was the murder on Oct. 1, last, of John Collin, aged 11 years and Price i Jennings, aged is years. The hoys ? disappeared from their homes on Oct. * 1, and their bodies were found in the 1 woods near Haddon Heights, six miles I from Camden, N. J., on Oct. 4. Wood- ' ! ward had been seen in company with I the lads on t he day of their disappear- i ancc and was arrested. An analysis < of the boys' stomachs showed that ' they had died from arsenical poison- I ing. The police olllcials learned that < Woodward had bought arsenic a few < days prior to the lw>ys' disappearance i and upon being Indicted by the grand i iurv was later nlae.ed on trial and eon- < vie ted of murder in the first decree. Counsel for the prosecution claimed that Woodward had poisoned the hoys for the pan pose of rohl?ery. When they left home the hoys had $10 In their possession, hut when the bodies were found t he pockets of the clothing did not contain a penny. IIA<1 Nino Wives. Kugene Skyles, an alleged bigamist, now in jail at Port Gibson, Miss., was a minister of the Christian Church, but is said to have no fewer than eight deserted wives in various parts of the country. Ills latest matrimonial venture, and the one that resulted In his downfall, was his marriage to Miss Whetstono, (laughter of a prominent planter of Mississippi. He eloped with the girl to Texas, and while he was gone a deserted wife proved the truth of her assertions to the girl's family. s i Huv O PS < ?; HIGH GRADE t i. M;he VV. C. Macn CHARLESTO Ih q SllCl'C.SSOl' lie Wilcox & Oil sn\ slo pij,heap Materials Used nt. M< tin th! No lo^ us lea i?f K^Vould call your special attention t wa *81R RAND manipulated CJU k^l M ^ ction for da years, a nil ha f-c p!!,)N and CORN FERTILIZERS i t?y ^ssCCO FERTILIZERS are second Lin in merchants supplying.ivfty,r|;ra,k,llu 1,1 w,is waired against mis, i bo j lipiinis known as ''the P Catchers Corps" being organized the purpose, under the direction Ff t lie chief health Inspector. Armed with rat traps and rat ham; the corps livldcd into squads of two were distributed throughout the various sanlLarv districts of Manila, each sipia I jelng in command of a chief who he;amc responsible for the placing of traps and banc and the collection of material. In addition a per capita fee of 6 cents, Mexican, was paid for 'very rat sent to tin; government aboratory by persons not in the rcellar rat catchers corps. As a result of this warfare 60,000 ruts were caught illve and several hundred thousand jy poison. Uules and regulat ions were drawn ip for the governing of the rat catchers and Infract ion of them was 'ollowed by dishonorable dismissal 'roni the corps. lOacli member of die corps was required to wear a irescribed uniform consisting of i blouse, trousers and cap of iniform material selected b? lie commissioner of public health and , brass shield ovoc liis left breAst bearng the insignia of the corps and the inmher of the wearer. This uniform iad to tie worn whenever the catchers re re on duty, though they were permitted to appear hi civilians clothing it other times. Members of the corps were required o report dally at 10 a. 111. to the office ?f the chief sanitary inspector of each listriet for the purpose of receiving nstructions and submitting reports. Sach squad was provided with two galvanized Iron buckets with covers. >110 for carrying the disinfection solu,lon and the other for receiving the lead rats. One hundred rat bane tins md receptacles for carrying the same iompletcd the kit of each squad. The at hano used was prepared fresh ivery day at the municipal laboratory, vhlthcr the dead rodents were returnid for examination and cremation. The catchers went on duty at 8 p. n. every evening and came off at 6.30 i. m., covered the entire city districting rat banc. Beginning not later ban 6.30 the next morning this hano vas remover! hv I he mnrnlnir rnll?>f n making their rounds the corps col ected all the dead rats on the premlss visited, disinfecting them In the olutlon furnished, after which they rerc tagged and turned over to the aboratory for final disposition, in llstributlng the rat banc which was f course deadly poison to the mem crs of the corps were charged to warn lie inmates of the various houses visted of the danger Involved, advising hem to keep domestic, pets and eh 11Iren closely guarded during the precrlbcd hours for baiting rats. Of the 60,000 rats sent to the labo atory, 40,666 were examined microcropically for haellli and of these inly 242 were Infested with plague. Ln February of last year the nuinjer of traps set aggregated 6f?,170. In addition to baiting rats n traps with bacon, fish, cheese, neat scraps or * boiled rice, the jorps caught a great number by band, rite rat catchers would run their arms nto the holes, rat runs and sewers and jatch the rodents after they had been irlvcn out from under shacks that -vere removed. Several of the eatellers vere severely bitten by the more vlgirous rodents, thoin/h none of the in juries resulted futility. A third rncthkI employed was by means of nets placed over holes and sewers Into vhlch the rats had Ireen driven hy hot -vjiter carlrollc solution of the fumes of lulphur. Amoii|{ the poisons used with ruccesswcre prepared rat cheese; ratDane; a mixture of ground glass, flour x>rn meal, sirup, with 1 per cent, of Jtrychninc; ground rusty bacon or txriled rice with 00 percent, of arsonlous itcid; and equal parts of Hour and plaster of p;t>ts with a dish of water jn the side. because of the character of the Ma til In buildings and their crowded con litlon, the rodents were afforded ever> opportunity to flourish. All rats senl to the municipal lalroratory were microscopically examined and as each rodent was tagged It was possible t< trace back the Infected ones to th< house where they were caught. A1 audi houses were treated as If the : jp* ' m n.l l> # HE i ~ I by at.es had t>een infected with the me. Since the plague appeared in i i ft I in. eases have occurred <?r rats ln^ led with the disease have been Kht in .'>00 houses and the owners ach of these were required by the rd of health to remodel the strueVs, cleanse them and put them in ' oroutfhly sanitary condition. As suit, of this ordinance over 000 lies were remodeled and cleaned, (repairscosting the owners in some ' ,0 anees from 1300 to 5,000. The :ue, however, ra^ed ehlelly anions Chinese and lower classes dwellin lower Moors and ntpa houses. wore subjected to immunl/a JUw i,y means of the Shiga tintdseptlc 3lne, thousands of doses of which o distrihnted l?y the board of 1th, t lie vaccination being perform- i by native physicians under the action of a radical inspector. I SHORT DAYS AND NIGHTS. 'ii tli<> Sun KInch him! SelN tu Homo I'oIiiIm of Sweden. o the ' Prison, of Spartanburg, who Is live of Sweden and spent many AND i of his life In that far northern try. In conversation with a reived .r ,,f t.l 10 Spartanburg Journal something of the peculiar mctcon,u 1 (leal conditions that prevail there to n<lea8()n of the northerly latitude of 'den. We think now t hat our days .lie short, but an Inhabitant of Sweden would tind the days as t hey are now with us so long that he would probably get sleepy before dark. Mr. Tailson says that In midwinter in the part of Sweden where he lived the sun does not rise until Ih.'lo and It sets at 2:20. ? Tills gives only live hours of sunlight and IP of very black darkness except when the moon Is shining. A little further north from his home the sun rises oven later and further still It does not during the winter at all. | Iti spite of all tills Mr. Carlson says the people observe about the same j hours with their work as we do here. Of course, farm and outdoor work cannot ho carried on without light, but during the cold season farm work Is necessarily suspended anyhow. In I factories, however artificial light is used,and work goes right ahead. The i people there eat four meals a day. A > light breakfast is taken on rising, > which is before day, another meal I abom, lo o'clock, dinner alxmt three o'clock, which Is after dark and supper along toward bedtime. Id summer these conditions are just reversed, t he sun rising ahout 2:20 a. m. and sottl ng about 0:20 p. 111. jjfIving about five hours with tlie sun below the horizon, bub even during tlds time there is twilight enough to see how to read. The change in lite lentil of the days comes on very rapidly and even in so short a t ime as that between Dec. 21 and Jan. 1 the difference is (jullo perceptible. ( 'atai Hotel I'Mre. At Chicago on Wednesday four persons lost their lives and as many persons were Injured at the Hotel Horninerset, a live story brick structure on Wabash avenue and Twelfth street, early Wednesday. Three of the victims are Mrs. Perry, aged 25 years, and her two daughters, ? and 0 years old respectively. The fourth victim, Mrs. Ethel Saunders, of Indiana, Jumped from a window of a room on the same lloor to the street and died on her way to the hospital. The loss is nominal. A Close Call. At Hartford, Conn., twelve men, while coasting on a large sled, collided with an engine at the foot of the hill. Ily great good fortune, the sled, instead of i/oini/ between the. wheels of the engine, Htruck one of tlio driving wheels. One man was thrown against the wheels and bounded hack badly bruised. Four others were thrown Into a pile so close to the i track that the engine brushed them. The others clung to the sled, the remnants of which were dragged twenty feet bv the engine. Married a Convict. A courtship began in the State prison at Trenton, N. .1., had its culmination in the marriage of Charles Miller, recently paroled, to Miss l.ou. ike Hill, a few days ago. Miller was given a sentence of ten years for breaking into a postolllce. While working in the clothing shop he coni cclved the idea of a blind lockstitch sewing machine that would enable one man to do the work of a hundred. It proved successful and he Is in a fair way to become rich. His bride's home Is Just outside of the prison walls. (Something to Note. A quite notable utterance Is quoted from l'rof. W. H. Council, of Normal, Ala. "Although," he says, "I came up from the other side of the Hood, and drank the dregs of the cup of slavery, still I honor the gray-haired 1 veteran of the Most cause,' and 1 feel ! that when they pass away and when their old slaves have passed away, in 1 a measure the power of the balance . wheel of Southern society will be " Vorthern nT<>li?t nmiu nUaon , copy. lie Fooled Them. I Joseph Klrspach was taken into a Philadelphia hospital recently suffering from wliat was supposed to l>c a bullet wound in the right temple, lie had placed a revolver to his head and tired. Mr. Klrspach was seemingly \? unconscious, but after the surgeons had washed the blood from his face i they found no injury save some powj der burns and abrasions of the skin. I It was then discovered that the cartl ridge used by Klrspach was a blank i one. j s . NO. 25. A FATAL WRECK. ~ A Train Telescoped on the Main Street of an Ohio Town. FOUR PERSONS WERE KILLED I'Vw MlmitCH LiUcr n Flypr Danli^i hy Wreck on Other Truck. ScutlerliiK t I?t? ItelirlH unit W?>11 ii?t I n if I .ii A dispatch from Ada, Ohio, says four men (load and fourteen or more other persons injured, one fatally, Is the, result of a collision tictween two trains on the Pennsylvania system on the main street of that e,lty at ft o'clock Thursday evening. Tho dead: Joseph Stein, Port Wayne. Me Pool, Fort Wayne. Alonzo II ad ley, Van Wort, < >. Injured: W. A. Freeze, Chicago. J.J. Casey, Canton, O. Mr. and Mrs. Purzelman and little daughter of Van Wort. Peter Tracey, conductor of train No. ;ir?. Curtis McKlroy, Ada. Andrew Prunnon, Fort Wayne, Ind. M. (ilese, Ottawa. Walter Klinger Ada. W. D. I Hack burn, iiaggage master of No. ar>. (iuy Kingsbury, editor of the Dunkirk Standard. Itcnjamln Zooke, Port Wayne. T.J. Ibirdette, Dayton. The accident was one of the worst that ever occurred on tills division of tho Pennsylvania system and was highly sensational in all Its details, occurring as it did on the main street of the tov/ii at a time when the thorough Hire was rritwiiiMi will) people. Traill No. westbound for Fort Wayne, had started out of the station, tint at t he Main street crossing was compelled to stop on account <?f some accident to the airbrakes. A tireman was sent back to notify No. 10, a freight going in llic same direction which was several minutes late. Owing to the snow storm the engineer of No. 10 was unable to seo the stgur j^'ft^tlme to slacken his speed. Hiscii* / cached into the rear of No. 3f>. No. Misted of t wo coaches, the rear one hieing a comhlnation baggage and passenger car with another passenger car in front. Moth wore telescoped and scarcely a passenger escaped Injury of some sort. The engineer and llrcmau of No. 10 were also slightly hurt, but not enough to prevent them from rendering immediate assistance to t hose who were in grcaterJdlstreSB. The scene about the wreck was frightful. Many people were congregated about the spot at the time and the street was well tilled with wayfarers on their way home from work. The crash was heard all over the city and almost the entire population was soon on hand to render what assistance lliey could in caring for the wounded and dead, who were at once carried to the freight houso and station and laid on improvised cots. The engine of No. 1U was almost demolished, l?ut tlie cars Ixdiind It were not damaged in the least and none of the passengers were bruised. The wreck ago \vah strewn all over the tracks and In a few minutes the Chicago and New York limited, castbound, dashed through on the oilier track at 60 miles an hour, hurling the accumulated debris In all directions, but not pausing In its Might until through town. Thon the train was stopped and backed to the scene of the accident to get orders. No damage was done to the engine of the flyer, but it was learned that a pieco of wreckage flew Into tiie call as the train dashed past and painfully bruised the engineer. lie was, however, able to continue ids run and left in a few minutes witii Ills train. Foft?t on Homfl Flesh. Six hundred people sat down Thursday night to the most remarkable banquet that ever iias been given in lierllu, Germany. The dishes consisted entirely of horse meat ahd were served in various forms. The society for the prevention of cruelty to anl mills issued the invitations to tho dinner, which was given (or the purpose of demonstrating the nourishing and palatable <|iialitles of liorse meat, thereby causing Increased consumption of the meat and a ready market for old horses. This would prevent the owners from working tho poor animals to death, jis well fed specimen* would bring good prices. The bill of fare consisted of horse, soup, pickled horse tongue, fillet of horse and roast horse. All of the dishes were nicely prepared and were greatly relished. The presiding oftlcers of the society, Privy Councillor von Seofeld, said 30,000 horses had been eaten In Iter1 in last year and that he hoped for a lame Increase in the future Man* prominent members of tlic relchstag and of the city council were present at the banquet. (?<>ltig To l.iboria. In the steer ago of the White Star line steamer Teutonic, wliich sailed Wednesday from New York for Liverpool, were .'Hi colored men, 12 women and 10 children who are going to Liberia U? settle. They came from Irwin county, Georgia. One of the men said: We are just poor farmers, business was not very good with us so we got together, sold out our farms and are going out to Liberia to begin life again." The party havo about i|2,000.