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\ TROUBLE NEAR ELLOREE. A Desperate Negro Shoots Fire Poo* 1 pie Before He Is Stopped. Ellorek, Sept. 25?Special: We are accustomid to reading In the papers of , atrocious crimes committed In different sections of the country, but last { night this section of ()rangeburg Coun- ' ty was the scene of the most horrible i outbursts of orlme ever committed , here. All the parties are negroes, John Bauldrlck, a most desperate character, 1 thought it was butchering time, and 1 went out last night about seven o'clock and before he was stopped, shot and wounded no less than fivo persons, three women and two children. He went first to Julia Palmer's house, on Mrs. Flattie Balrs place, and began cursing in a loud tone of voice. She became frightened and tuonf Ka? TT ? J ?11 nvuviuiu uci 11UU9C. lie Luuuweu Wllifl his gun, and as she tried to Jump out of the window he fired, hitting In the shoulder blade, almost severing It from her body, and shattering the arm of her little child, who was clinging around Its mother's neck. They are both wounded seriously, perhaps fatally 1 Bauldrlck then went to Prince Moore'shou."c, about a ha'f mile away from where he shot the Palmer wo man and her child. Here he shot Anna Robinson and one of Moore's boys, who was looking out the window. Ho 1 hit the woman In the arm and tho boy In the head. The woman was seriously hurt and the boy slightly. Next ; the desperado went to the h use of Ed. Feldcr, who lives on J. E. Hun- ! gerplller's place. Finding Felder's \ wife on the plezza and she remon ! strated with him for cursing. Ho 1m ! AAiv uiT'U iillU tt 1CW HflQli striking her in the back She was not 1 seriously hurt. Not yet satisfied with his bloody work, be went to the house of Mose J Adams, and here he met his match. He asked to see Adams' wife. Adams, , not knowing what had Just happened, ' invited him in, but he declined to go In. Bauldrick then said that if Adam's wife would not come out to see him he would go in. He burst through the door with his gun, and as he entered Adams grabbed the gun, and reached back, got his axe and struck Bauldrlck with it. Then Adams got his razor out of his pocket and cut Bauldriok's throat on both sides, but neither wound reached the jugular vein. The fuss created by the scuffle between Adams and liauldrick and the accidental discharge of the gun, caused some men to gather, who caught Baldrick and tied him. lie was in bad shape by this time, having Honn i * - * J ?1 - ? ' w?uu auuu in luu HtitU WUCD 11 'HVing Prince Moore's house. The men who had him took liauldrick to his mother's house, where he was kept until Monday morning, when he was taken to the guard house at EUoree. He was then brought to Orangeburg and lodged In jail.?Times and Democrat. The Truth liurtH. The BurliDgton News says the editor of an Indiana paper became tired of being called a liar so he announced that he would tell the truth in the future. The first issue thereafter contained the following: "John Bonin, the laziest merchant in town, made a trip to Bellville Tuesday." "JohnCoyle, our groceryman, Is do Jng a poor business. Ilia store is dirty, dusty and noxiously odoriferous. How can he expect to do much?" "Rev. Styx preached last Saturday night on charity.' The sermon was punk." "Daye Sonkey died at his home in this place. The doctor gave it out as heart failure. The fact is, he was drunk, and whiskey is what killed him." "Married.?Miss Sylvia Rhodes and James Ccnhan, last Saturday evening at the Baptist parsonage. The bride is a very ordinary town girl who does't know any more than a jack-rabbit about cooking, and never helped her mother three days in her life She is not a beauty by any means, and has a gait like a fat duck. The groom is well known as an up-to date loafer, lie's been living off the old folks all his life aud don't amount to shucks. They will have a hard life. The paper had no sooner reached the public than a committee was sent to him bearing a petition asking him to continue in the good old way, and stated that they believed him to be a truthful and he nest man. Alimony for Huwbaiid. For the first time on record in Ohio a husband who said ho was abused obtained an alimony judgement at Cincinnati Friday. Judge Smith, sitting In common pleas court, ordered Mrs Anna P. Newton to pay her husband, Robert A. Newton, whom she sued for divorce last July, $1,000 and $10 a week as long as he lives, or until such a time as he shall marry again. The judge did not indicate that be believed if Newton married again his second wife would support him, but as much was presumed from bis decision In the ease. Newton Is well known. In his counter suit he alleged that his wife ill treated him, and asked that she be ordered to pay alimony. Mrs. New to{i is wealthy. Killed Himself. At Philadelphia William n. KilPatrick, the Philadelphia agent of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance company, of Milwaukee, was found dead Tuesday morning In the bathnx m of his apartments with a bullet wound in bis head. He bad shot himself sometime during the night. Mr Kllpatriok had been in ill health for some time, and that is supposed to have been the cause of his suicide. mm t - - " i- - RURAL MAIL DELIVERY. Womlorful Growth ol the System lu a Few Years. Some figures recently given oub as bo the cost of rural mall delivery bring >ut In striking fashion the growth of this important branoh of our postal service. "The net loss of the system up to June 30 of this year is estimated at nine millions of dollars," says one exchange. "This seems rather a high price to pay, but the Congressmen from the rural districts can be depended upon to fight any proposition to discontinue free delivery." And well may "the Congressmen from the rural districts" tight any proposition to discontinue the service. It is the greatest boon our farmers have ever had from the National Government?and the rural half of our population certainly deserves seme consideration. Hut it is not real ly in the Interest of farmers alone. By the promotion of Intelligence and ijulcker communication between all sections, every class of people is benefited. We have no doubt in the world but that the real prestige and power of America is far more strengthened and better safeguarded by the $9,000,000 spent for rural mail delivery than it would be by twicj that sum spent for battleships and fortifications. The Interests of the eutiro country demand the extension of the rural mall service, and it should be extended, Bven if it does involve the painful and unusual proposition that the farmer himself Is to get back some of the heavy tariff and revenue taxes he is oalled upon to pay. To the. above, from the Progressive Farmer and Cotton Plant, we say most heartily amen. It would be better for the country and the whole world if some of the millions now spent on the navy and array was spent on building up good roads and reclaiming the waste lands. Every dollar spent on the rural mail delivery is money well invested. Instead of curtailing the system it should he ex tended until every farm in the United States is reached. Reduce the ex penses of the army and navv, but let the rural mail delivery alone. Itroko Up 11 iu Funeral. At Patterson, N. J., all arrangements had been made for the funeral of Frank Hennessey, a son of Mrs. Mary Lyons, of 08 Marshall street, this city. Insurance papers had been signed, mourners had gathered, and everything was in readiness for the rites, when Hennessey turned up, accompanied by his two brothers, thoroughly alive. He pleaded ignor ance of a telegram which his motbei had received from Saratoga last Weduesday and which read: "Your son Frank has died here Wednesday. Send for the body." lie said he did not know who sent the telegram. On receipt of the telegram the two brothers of the supposed dead man went to Saratoga to get the body. They found Hennessey sitting on the veianda of a hotel, lie had been there since the racing season. Undertaker Nichols had been engaged to reoeive the body at the railroad station and the house was in mourning. When the youny man appeared in the ilesh the trappings of woe were removed and the relatives aud friends united in eelobra ting his return. l>*r? an Presented. A special from Darlington to the State says: The Darlington grand jurj made the following presentment: "We, the grand jury, present Peg ram Dargan for abiding and abetting Hob ert Keith Dargan in taking his own life, by procuring and giving to his brother, Robert Keith Dargan, car colic acid and other drugs, with whlcb 1m took his life on tho 11th day ol July, 1905, in Darlington, S. (J. We otTer as witnesses, J. N. Cianton, G, 11. Edwards, J. 8. Floyd and J. K. Doyle." It. K. Dargan was president fit f Ho T Ar\/vv-> *- / 1^4 1 ui uiio ALiuo(/cuuiruu UUbUUU 1) 1 VJUITipany, and of the Darlington Trust Co., Institutions which have recently failed. Dargan committed suicide in July by taking poison. A Hik butt. At Chicago suit was begun In the superior court last week for $250 00) damages against the Curtis Publ nIng company, publishers of the La i les Home Journal, Samuel M. Ilat man of Columbus, Ohio, Proprleowr o the Peruna Medicine company, is th plaintiff in the suit. In the Au-us. issue of The Journal, the declaration says that an advertisement of the Peruna company contained a tettimonlal from Congressman Ceo. H. Vtyhlte of North Carolina. In the neit issue of the magazine, the duolaration alleges that the testimonial ..,n? ~-I - ? ? J L-4 -141. 14 waa lopiiui/CU, UUU W1 Lll It WUS U Signed denial from Congressman White that he had given the testimonial to the medicine company. This denial Ilartman alleges, was secured through a misunderstanding, as Congressman White, it is said in the declaration, signed the original testimonial. Enrti 11 ih Own litfH. At New York, William R. Travers, millionaire man of leisure, son of the celebrated wit and Wall street operator, William R. Travers, committed suicide Friday by shooting himself through the head in his apartments in Madison avenue. The suicide is inexplicable, Mr. Travers being in the prime of life, in fair health and the possessor of a large fortune. Mr. Travers married Miss Lily Harriman, a sister of Mrs. W. K. Vanderbil, Jr. The oouple separated three years ago, Mrs. Travers going to Paris to live. # * SPECIALISM IN LAW. The Solicitor and the nnrrtster la Our l.eunl I'rartico, In this country nearly every student admitted to the bar Is under the luiprcsslou that there Is In him the more than possibility of a great trial lawyer. Having read accounts of brilliant cross examinations and successful addresses to juries, he has in mind tl^t he Is entirely competent at the outset to try the most complicated and difficult cause. Unfortunately as to many who are not qualitlcd for that work it is only after very man^years and after considerable experience at the expense of litigants and the public. If at all, that they ascertain that they have not the peculiar aptitude necessary to the successful trial lawyer. In the meantime not only have clients suffered, but the business of the courts has^keen retarded to a very serious exteiiT by the lack of adaptability on the part of the practitioner as well as by lack of experience, since It Is Impossible that every man admitted to the bar shall have the opportunity to try a sufficient number of causes t>> give him the degree of experience requisite In order to obtain the beat results. Sooner or later In tho interest of the ! clients and to save the time and patience of the courts there must he In this country a natural division between the labor of the solicitor and the duty of the barrister, not artificial or conventional, hut one which shall grow up from the nature of the case, by which certain men who are best quailfled for the trial of causes will carry on that work to ch.> practical exclusion of those without special adaptability for that elnss of business. In this, us in every oilier direction, the specialist must find his pla< e. Green Hag. MALIBRAN WAS A TEASE. Tito Clrent I'rlma Doniirt Wan full of MlNchlt'f KiiU Cniiriuo. No prima donna was ever more de- , llghtfully capricious, more full of mischief, than the famous Mine. Mallhran. At the rehearsals of "Komco and Juliet" sho could never mako up her mind where she was to "die" at night. , It was important for itoineo to know, but ti 11 ho could get was "not sure," "don't know," "can't tell," or "It will bo Just as It happens, uccordlng to my , humor; sometimes in one place, some- ( times In another." On one occasion she chose to "die" closo to the foot- ( lights, her companion, of course, beinsr compelled to "die" besldo her, and thus, when the curtain fell, u couple of , footmen had to carry the pair off, one at a time, to the Intense amusement of l the audience. , ) John Teinpleton, the flno old Scottish , tenor, wan prohahly never so miser- ; able as when ho was cast to sing with Malibran. Very often sho was dls. pleased with his performance, and ono evening sho whispered to him, "You are not acting properly; make love to > I me better," to which, so It Is said, Templeton Innocently replied, "Don't you know I am a married man?" Evidently tho lady did not think tliero , was anything serious In the circumstance, for not long afterward, when , In "Somnambuln" sho was on her | knees to Templeton as Elvlno, sho succeeded In making tho tenor scream , 1 with suppressed laughter when ho should have been singing by tickling ' him vigorously under the nrrns. Glaus Window*. * Glass windows are known to have existed at Pompeii as early as A. D. 79. In the third century the windows of royal houses throughout Europo ' , were glazed. Windows of colored gluss ; r were placed In many French and ltal- I inn churches In G74, and the uso of i 1 ' glass becnine general in private houses ] i during (he twelfth century. Tho panes, however, were only three or four inches square, and tho material was so inferior that, while a room was lighted, it was often a matter of some dllllculty to discern objects on tho outside through the glass. For a long time windows in 1 England were a subject of taxutlon. > Diirnn and Fume, It is amusing to learn that Burns ! ' when Just emerging from obscurity 1 Jocularly anticipated that his birthday would come to bo noted among other ' remarkable events. In a letter to his ; early patron, Gavin Hamilton, in 1780 he says, "For my own affairs I am In a fair way of becoming as eminent as 1 Thomas a Kcmpls or John Bunyan, ' and you may henceforth expect to seo 1 my birthday inscribed among tho wonderful events in the Poor Robin and Aberdeen Almanacks along with tho { Black Monday and the battle of Bothwell Bridge." i _____________ ^ The Ileal Iiino, ] Btern Parent Well, young man, I j know nothing against you, but I'm not , very well acquainted with you. Reforo ] you marry my daughter I'd like toliavo , noniethlng In the naturo of references or? Rultor? I can glvo references ( from throe clergymen, sir. Parent^- 1 That's all very well, but can you give i references from many bankers? ? Clovoland leader. To the Point. ] Dr. Gruff?Your husband* madam, needs rest. "I know that, doctor { but ho won't listen to ine." Dr. Gruff?If you would make It unnecessary for him to listen to you, < i madam, I think that will be rest enough.?St. Louis Republic. Almost Human. Lady?Can that parrot talk? Denier ?Talk? Why, say, lady, you'd t'lnk he waz brought up In a box at do opery^Puck. The saying that beauty Is but skin deep la a skin deep sayings?Herbert fipencer. THE LASTING BRICKS. Onoo Made, The?e Calcea of linked Clay Are Good For All Time. From the time the clay Is dug out of Its bed until It finds Its permanent place In some building's walls as a brick It la bundled not loss thuu a hundred times and by more than a score of different Individuals. Take into aeoount the persons and processes directly and Indirectly Interested In brlckmnklnK. masonry building and inhabiting such buildings, and the human mind is batiled by llgures reaching Into the trillions-and a trillion is written 1,000,000,000,0001 Once made, a brick Is practically Indestructible. Nearly every brick that has ever been made by man from the beginning of time Is still In existence on this earth. The men who made and laid them nnd who directed these operations have long since been gathered Into dust. Some of them have doubtless contributed in their bodies to the making of more bricks. But the steadfast and enduring square of baked clay persists and will until the heavens and earth are shriveled like a scroll. X'pon inscriptions In bricks our earliest knowledge of human history depends. Kings whose glory lias passed so utterly that all but their names have perished still owe the perpetuation of these names to a mark In the perdurable brick.?Chicago Journal. THE ALLIGATOR'S JAWS. They Will Open If Yon StlcU Yonr Fluffom In 111m ICycw. "If ever you have the luck to he caught by an alligator put a finger In each eye," says an old Australian hunter. "That will have the effect of making him open his Jaws, and then you can make the most of your opportunity. There are several known Instances of the escape of natives by that means Alligators prefer their food high, so the chances are If you are caught you will he deposited on the bottom somewhere. I heard of one native escaping even then. When crossing the rivers the natives carry stout sticks, so If encountered by an alligator they can ward him off by shoving a stick down his throat. "That alligators have enormous strength I have evidence besides my own experience. At Port Essington a buffalo was drinking In n stream when an alligator nailed It by the head and drowned It. Soon afterward a horse was caught while drinking at the same spot. It dragged the alligator about forty yards before the brute lot go. Mr. Robinson anchored the body of a horse a little distance out from a r'liff rloRP tn Ilia r>n mr* In + 1.^ lind his chance and shot u fifteen foot allicutor." ARTIFICIAL FLIES. The Peculiar DunIiicnm of the Farmer Who ItatMCM Tlieui. "I raise flies on my fnrin?artificial llies," he said, smiling. "I am, In fact, an artificial fly farmer. "That confuses you, doesn't It? Yet It Is simple enough. I raise birds that give those little delicate bright feathers that compose fishermen's flies. That is all. "The finest birds I raise aro golden pheasants. You have seen salmon flies? You know their beautiful toppings? Well, those toppings can only Ih> got from the golden pheasant's crest. "At a certain time of the year I gather my golden pheasants around me. I take one between my knees. I , pluck out his crest. IIow mad ho | gets! 1 wrap the crest In silver paper. , And so I go on till every bird has been plucked. Do you know what I got for these crests? I get $2.50 apiece for tliem. "I rniso mynnlis, finches, mallards, Jnys and green parrots. I supply ten ; fly makers with all the feathers they can use."?Philadelphia Bulletin. "Why Touoti-iiic-not. The columbine, geranium and larkamir wn UilnL f*^ * k -? JJ.... ,, V ilium ut i UClHUISf niry Fire all named after birds?the dove, the crane and the lark. The meaning j :>f geranium is "crane's bill," and If i pou notice the seed pods of u geranium pou an* 111 see that they do look like tho long bill of a crane. The touch-me-uot pfots its name from a peculiarity of the seed pod, too, but not a peculiarity of < appearance. It is the pod you must 1 not touch, for If you do It will burst, ' and out will fly the seeds.?St. Nlch- > alas. I A Blood Suckintr Enrthirorm, < South Africa la the home of a species ; 3f earthworm, a creature closely re- < lated to our common angloNVorm, who l Is not only- a giant among the denizens ; :>f the soil, but which Is reputed to 1 tiave a tasto for human blood. Thero I are two species of this uncanny Avig- 1 gler one of a dark red color and the i Dther almost black. They are larger ] than one's finger and from threo to 1 rour inches in length. < A nolil Girl, ITer Mother?If you marry him you need never expect me to come to see pou. Daughter?Will you put that Into writing? 1 "What forr 'T want to give It to Fred at a wed ling present." 1 " i Forco of Klablt. ( "A thousand stars are looking down ( on you this night!" said the poetical , young man to the girl. And she unconsciously put. her hands . np to arrange the position of her hat. 1 If we did not tako great pains find | were not at great oxpoose to corrupt ( our naturb, our nature would never , corrupt us.?Claremjon. ( A YEAR OF BIO CROPS. Lot Ua Be Tfianklul to God for ilia Bounty. But not only Is Hits a season when tbe heart Is made glad by the beautiful in Nature, but again too, we share the Joy of the Psalmist as he looked out on some September scene in old Palestine centurieB and centuries ago: "The pastures are clothed with Mocks, and the valleys are covered with cjrn. Thou crownest the year with thy goodness, aud thy paths drop fatness." For Indeed this is a year of plenty. All the great staple crops have yielded b( unteously, except cotton?and the pi ice for that is tco good for there to be much disc intent as to the shortage. Our American corn crop this year, It is said, will be 2.717,000,000 bushels. The wheat crop i? estimated at 704,000,000 bushels; oats 930,000.000 bushels; rye 30,000,000 bushels; potat< es 283 000,000 bushels; barley 135,000,000 bushels. "Of these crops," says the Charlotte Chronicle, In commenting on the estimates, "It is said that it is the largest production of corn ever known." And It continues: "The highest previous corn yield was 2,523,000,000 bushels. Only in 1901, when it was 748,000,000 bushels, did the wheat crop go above the 1905 yield. Oits never beat this year's figures except in 1902, when the output was 988,000,000 bushels. In 1901 and 1902 rye went a little above the year's level. In 1904 barley beat the 1905 output oy aoout 4,000,000 bushtl*. Potatoes have several times scored higher totals than they did this year, but averages of the cereal crops for 1905 are much above that of an pievlous year. And while cotton may be short, the pr!c:s the farmers get will average as good as that of the previous year. Taking all things Into consideration, it is reasonable to say that the present year Is a year of plenty, and let It go at that." fought * Cur. John E. Ryan, of Chicago, a Paciiic express messenger on passenger train No. 13, and Edward Greene, also of Chicago, a former express messenger, fought with pistols in Ryan's car Thursday. Both were seriously wounded and may die. Conllicting stories are told by the combatants, Greene says that he got on the ex pre S3 car, intending to go to Pitts tield, to visit relatives, lie was an old friend to Ryan, Greene claims, permitted hira to ride. Greene says he assisted Ryan with the express matter aud that they began drinking. Jokes led to a quarrel and Greene says he and Ryan drew pistols at the same time. Ryau's story is that he did not see Greene in the car until the train reached Ceiro Gordo. Believing that Greene jumped in for tue purpose of robbery, Ryan tired at him. According to Ryan the" cliuchrd and both of tbem with revolvers drawn, rolled about on the car tloor. Finally separating each sought shelter In the car and waited for the other to exptsi himself. Juntas the train was near Decatur, Ryan says, he and Greene tired and both went down, but were ! on their feet in a short time and the duel continued uutll the train reached 1 the outskirts of Decatur, III., when Greene opened a door and jumped from the car. Greene was unable to run and was found an hour later by the 1 police. < A Georgia Murder. j Mr. David II. Murray, a well known , citizen of Waro county, Ga , was as- ] sassinated about 7 o'clock Wednesday evening at his home at Millwood, In j this county. Murray was shot In the ( back of the head with a double bar , relied shotgun which nearly tore the ' head from the body. The assassin ( tired at Murray while he was seated ( at his table eatirg supper, through a j hole in the door, and m ule his escape. ( Murray was about 38 years old and ( leaves a wife and one child. Ho was ^ under bond In connection with the , murder of a young man named Horace Roberts, in this c .unty, some two , years ago. A true hill was found against Murray charging him with t an accessory to the murder of young ( Roberts. Blown to Pieces. At Cincinnati, Ohio, William Hell, , \ guard at city workhouse, was b'o vn , to pieces by the explosion of a box of , iynamite, which he tried to open with , \ hatchet. Hell was in charge of a .rang of prisoners In the stone quarry. , When dynamite for blasting was re , quired Bell took a hatchet and struck , i blow with it before the prisoners . :ould warn him. When picked up the man's eyes were blown out, his left fcrm was blown off and the left side of his face was torn away Flesh wa hanging from the limbs < f a tree under j which he had been sittlr g. Still the unfortunate man was alive. A hurry run of the patrol wagon failed to ge? him to the city hospital before doath same. i Died iMaying Card*. "I've won the game, boys," said Robert Milllous, an old railroad man, Tuesday night to three friends with , whom he was playing pinochle at Bridgeport, Oonn. He had just melded rour aces, when he fell on the table, uttered a moan, threw back his head 1 and died. The game had been close, and Miliums* score stood 960, needing only 40 points to win. When he ( played the four aces the excitement of . winning the contest proved too much for his heart. It Is a strange fact that he had often playfully remarked that he would like to die in just this 1 manner, for he was an Inverate plno- t chle player. He was playing cards In 1 the back room of an undertaking 1 Establishment when he died. i THIRTEEN TB ^^DIK8 \ Occurs In OnA^<i(lian? Family in Few Years* The death of Samuel Horn, who was accidentally killed last week while hauling logs near Rochester, Fulton county, Indiana* is the thirteenth tragic death in one family. Four members were murdered, three committed suicide; three died in insane | asylums and three died by accident. I This series of tragedies, which has occurred within the memorj* of many persons who have lived near the family, has awakomd a feeling that a strange fatality attcuds in some way to the place and the house is now unoccupied because of the fear that it inspires. The first of the family were Abraham Cripe and his wife, industrious people, and grandparents of Samuel Horn, who has just met death. Mrs. Cripe became discontented and wished to return to Germany. After repeated refusals by her husband she became deranged, set fire to the barn and died in the building. Two weeks after Mrs. Gripe's death Mr. Cripe's sister fell dead while raking leaves in the yard. In an investigation that followed it was shown that Mrs. Gripe the day before her suicide, had struck her sister-in-law on the head with a whetstone, and it was from this blow that she died. In a few months Lucan Gripe showed signs of insanity, and soon afterward was found dead in the woods, where he had been struck by a falling limb. Elias Cripe, a brother of Lucan upon receiving a large araouut of money for his part of the estate, was found murdered in his barn nno mnm. ing. The Identity of bis assailant was not discovered. Within two years George Crlpo was killed by a tree falling on him, and soon afterward Jay and Clark, sons of of Ellas, were taken to an insane asylum, where both diedr in a short time. The series of tragedies culminated in December last in a triple murder and suioide. Wilson Burns, who had married a daughter of Abraham Cripe killed his wife with a shotgun and then murdered Joseph Cripe and Margaret Branham, an aunt, lie then turned the gun on himself and killed himself. Samuel Horn was the last of the family, save two. ltovoltiriK OruclticH A dispatch from Puis says the report of the late Count de Brazza upon his investigation of charge* against otllclals of the French Congo, is said by the Matin to contain grave charges against the governor, Emlle Centil. The cruelties alleged against him are hanging up women by their feet till they died and ordering negroes clubecl to death. It Is stated that he is responsible for the sac till ce of an enormous number of natives. Count de Brazzt was ordered last February by the French government to proceed to the Congo district and investigate charges of irregularities and brutality against the officials. lie performed his mission, but arrived at Dakar:. Senegamdla, September 13, in a critical condition of health, and died September 15, thus ending a glorious and useful series of African explorations. ( 'iRlit With UurKl*rH. In an attempt to capture two burglars on Hartford bridge in Hartford, Conn., early Friday morning, Policeman Hayes was shot through the breast and band and Officer Cowley was grazed by a bullet. Tne burglars bad dynamited a safe in the store of Howe & Son, Glastonbury, eight milea from llartsord. The noise* of the explosion awakened person^, who saw (he burglars drive away in a wagon. Toe Hartford police were notitied by [.elephone, and Hayes and Cowley were ietailed at the bridi/p. to ?nnraiionH ? - -x- ..rr.vuuuu jhe burglars. When the latter and police met, the burglars abandoned ihe wagou and ran away. The police (ave cnase and a running fight remlted in a dozen shots being tired, rho burglars escaped through the .voods. A posse is hunting them. The deserted wagon contained a full let of burglars' tools and a quantity pf dynamite. Why Japan Mailo i'eacn. A dispatch from Toklo says .lotwlthitandlng the silence of the government [/Lie real fact is disclosed thlit Japan made peace at Portsmouth"in fear of * financial breakdown. The war proved more costly than had been calculated and tbe rice and cereal crops seemed doomed to failure. Six months more of war would have meant very hard times. Found Deaul. The dead body of Mrs. Nellie West Long was found Thursday in a room at the Burlington Hotel in St. Louis Sue tiad committed ruiclde with morphine. "Bert"' Grimm, her fiancee, who was with her, is under arrest charged with having entered into a suicide compact with the woman, falling to keep his agreement. UT4II Il-.-i- t* .? ... * uau if. * /, Go". Heyward will push the lnvestigat as to the lynching of the negro j Jlonea Path, and every effort will ijw made to have the guilty parties held acoountablo. Strange to say, there were several members of the m mob that were recognized by men on the coroner's jury, yet a verdict was rendered that the negro come to his ncatfc by "parties unknown to the fc'oand A negress, Bach&el Burkett, was tound dead near ber home at Johnston. Coroner's Inquest rendered a verdict that death resulted from a ||v' broken neok, caused by unknown persons. 'a