The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 15, 1903, Image 1
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VOL XVII.
A GANG OF CROOKS.
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A Den of Vice Invaded by the Officers
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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^
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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
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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
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Ten Dollars Manned. K
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.