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]ftHOT TO DEATH. Young Man Killed by Another at Union Station. HAD BEEN FKIENDS J If If A Seemingly Playful Affair^ Ends in a Tragedy, Both the Men Were From Leesville, and Were Good Friends Before the Fatal Shooting. The Columbia State says James | 'Trotter, a young unmarried farmer of j the L?esvllle section was shot through j the heart at the Union station in that city at 4. 46 o'clock Thursday afteinoon by Wilmer Mitchell, about the same age and also of Leesville, the j two being fast friends. Dr. Smith of Wards, who happened to be present at the time of the tragedy, prououuc ed life extinct in the wounded man in I less than ten minutes, dieath result-1 lng from an internal hemo/n?ge. The weapon used was a 38 calibre; the bullet entering straiglit from the f i?/mt ' IVn f f/vw Imrl Laam dt>i nlrin<. i lULiiii xiv/vuui uau uccii uiiumux, but the arresting otlicers say Mitchell was perfectly sober. He gave as an excuse for the shooting that Trotter continued to slap his face, after lie had several times warned him to quit and after walking away from him Eye witnesses say the two men ap peared to be jesting, Trotter striking at Mitchell in play, as the two were waiting for a train home. A wcinan relative was the iirst to Trotter's side. Mitchell gave himself up promptly to a plain clothes man, and was carried to jail in the hurry up wagon. He appeared to be not the least disconcerted. His family is about the most prominent and iullueutial in Leesville. He is the Bon of Mr. Crowell Mitchell of that place. Trotter was unarmed, Both bear good reputations. The killing occurred in the presence of a large number of people, the station being .crowded inside, on the verandas, in front and under the sheds downstairs. The shot was tired on the veranda overlooking the sheds immediately in front of the oolored waiting room. Perhaps two thousand people were at the station waiting for special or regular trains home. Young Trotter was a cousin of Alderman I). I. Trotter of this city. The inquest will be held at the undertaking establishment of Fuuder burk and Matteson at 10 o'clock this morning. Those who saw ohe shoot Ing and who were summoned as witnesses arc: Dr. W. B. Bates, John MoOuller, It. J. Brown, Willie Ballard George Fann, White Smith, George Etheredge and others may be called upon to testify. Only at Cow. Five trainmen were killed at Seaton 111., when a heavy double header freight train on the Iowa Central Railroad struck a cow, says the Chtcugo Inter Ocean. The lcomotlves and eleven freight cars loaded with grain aud lumber, were piled in a heap beside the track. A cow was lying on the ties betweeu the rails and was hidden from view by other cattle standing about It. As the sound of the whistle of the approaching train the standing cattle scampered away, but the forward looomotive struck the cow lying down. The animal was crusneci under tne wneeis or the pilot truck and rolled along the ties for a hundred /eet. Its blood made the rails slippery and pieces of bone threw the front locomotive from the track. The derailed locomotive rolled down an embankment, drawing the second locomotive into the ditch, where the two machines piled up, crushing the engineers and the firemen. Negro Fatally Hhot. The Columbia Record says Eugene Sim kins, colored, was shot and probably fatally wounded Thursday morning by Dave Elam, also colored. The affair occurred at a house, 1405 Lincoln street, occupied by Dr. Durham, colored, who was not present at the time. The twc negroes are relatives of the doctor, and were on a visit to him. BotDare from Edgefield, having come to the city Tuesday. Exactly what led to the shooting is not clear. The two men were In a room In the house, and were drinking. A white man named Holland, also appears to have been about. The iirst known of the affair was when Simkins was seen to come out of the house, go into an alley running from the street and fall. To those who saw him and went to his aisistauce he said that Elam bad shot him, though he did not think he Intended to. The two were in the room. A pistol was there and Elam either intentionally or foolishly took It up, pointed at his companion saying he was going to shoot. He did and immediately fired. The bullet struck Simkins on the neck and passed through, lodging in the back. Crazy Oftloer. V At Madrid, Spain, a naval officer named'Olmedo who manifested evi^ dences of insanity lately, has been removed to an asylum. Olmedo was attempting to raise a great military force to invade the United States. Olmedo served aboard the cruiser Oquendo lost in the battle of Santllgo and it Is believed bis mind was unbalanced at that time. -1 L AGAIN UNDER FIRE. Charged That Estimate Wat Held Up for Two Hoars. For tho Benefit of New York Specu later*. Director North Ihhu?'? ICmphatlo Denial. The ceusus bureau issued a bulletin Wednesday placing the ootton ginned in the United States up to October 18 at 4 940,728 bales, round bales being counted as half bales. The statement i is based on reports made by the bureau's special agents In the tield. No estimate is made of the total crop for the year, but figures are given out concerning crops of former years. These figures show that up to this date in 1904, the product of the gins had reached a total of 6,417,894 bales, out of a total of 13.69:1,279 bales for the yeir. In 1903, the total production was 10,045,615 hales and the ginning output up to O3tuber 25, 3,706,248; 1902 the total was 10,827,168 and the , output to October 25, was 5,683,006. i Today's report covered 26,37 4 ginneries and the statements upon which it , was prepared were supplied by tele- ] graph by 702 special agents in the field, most of them representing one county each. ' . The fact that the bulletin was not , issued until 2 o'clock, two hours after the usual time, caused some complaint from brokers in different cities, and KOmi* of whin.h rr>nr?Vi?rl t\lm lui. reau before the document was Riven , to the public, were of a sensational character. They are summarized in the following from Secretary Hester, of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange: New Orleans, Oct. 25, 1905. lion. S. N. D. North, Director of the Census. Washington, D. C. Much disappointment and dissatisfaction here at delay in Issuing glnners' report to 2 p. m. Iieache & company, of New York, wire Heyward, Vick A Clark, of New Orleans, as follows: "David Miller has Just made the statement to the elTec-t that the ginners' report has been delayed from 12 o'clock to 2 o'clock, so as to allow more time to certain parties to sell cotton and says he will stand by the above." One rumor here is that the report will show, counting round bales as half bales being, (3,100,000. All kinds of rumors are being spread and parties are selling the market down, under .suspicion of something wrong in your bureau. 1 send this because 1 think it proper you should know it. David Miller, referred to, was the receiver of Sully & Company, and is a prominent member of the New York Cotton Exchange. II G. IIkstku. To this Director North replied: Washington, I). C., Oct. 25. Ilenry G. Hester, Secretary, New Orleans Cotton Exchange, New Or leans, La. Telegram received. Nobody In this olllce knows even approximately at the moment how many bales ginned the report will show. The men engaged in compiling it are locked up and the door guarded on the outside. More than half of the telegraphic reports from country agents were received this morning and their compilation prior to 2 o'clock was a physical impossibility. NORTH This telegram was forwarded before the bulletin was given out and after it was Issued, it was stated that some of the report from some of the agents were not received until 10 minutes befoie 2 o'clock. The ginning product for the present year to date by states is as follows: Alabama, 641,133 bales; Arkansas, 117,511; Florida, 38,007; Georgia, 1,058,167; Indian Territory, 70,222; Kentucky, 177,000; Louisiana, 141,780, Mississippi, 311,472; Missouri, 8,575; North Carolina, 325,208;.Oklahoma, 05,280; South Carolina, 639,974; Tennessee, 62,025; Texas, 1,417,450; Virginia, 4,051. lnH|>ootora Keports. Dispensary inspectors hereafter according to an order issued by Commisloner Tatum a short time ago, must be prepared to swear to the accuracy of their report on each dispensary checked up. This order is tho result of the discovery that many shortages occur by the use of dummies or half empty cases that have been checked by inspectors as full cases. Mr. Tatum said to day that after the shortage in Charleston and a recent one in a town in the upper part of the state he was convinced that the inspection heretofore has ceen to perfunctory. He discovered that cases supposed to be full could contain only one half the number of bottles or be entirely empty. This happened some time ago with a dispenser In Falrtield county. All Inspectors w*re then notified that every box must be Inspected and the Inspector absolutely satisfied that the seals had not been broken. A Dynamite Outrage. A charge of dynamite, exploded in the doorway of the grocery store of Antonio Garbalvo, at 13 Stanton street, on the East Side, New York, early Wednesday morning, wrecked the lower half of the front of the building, shattered windows in the tenements above and threw into a panlo hundreds of tenants in the neighborhood. No one was seriously iDjured. Toe outrage is believed to have been directed agalnsa Garbalvo, who with his two sisters, occupies living rooms at the rear of the store. Garbalvo a week ago received a Black Hand letter demanding 81,000. Eight Drowned. A steam launch containing ten Phlladelphlans collided in the Deleware on Sunday with a barge and was sunk, seven of the party being drowned. TALE OM]jE SEA. Details of Wreck of Schooner Van Name and King. LEFT CHARLESTON On the Third Dav of October and Was Wrecked Two Days Later Off Cape Lookout. Two Sailors, Who Were Saved, Tell a i Horaible Tale. , Clinging to a piece of wreckage with the fast failing strength of their weakened bodies which had known < no nourishment for tive days, their tiiroats alUme with a thirst of tire, their buru'ng eyes blinded by the salt , of the sea, and their minds tortured by the memories of the self destruction of their hunger maddened shipmates, William ThomaH, aged 29, ( and William E. Warner, also 2U, both colored and members of the crew of the three-masted schooner Vanname and King, were picked up otT Cape Lookout, after being tive days adrift on a raft, by the Sbillmau F. Kelly, a schooner which arrived at Huston some days after being wrecked. The Boston Globe Bays such a tale as these men told is unparelleled in Action. "No sturdier craft had cleared the port ' f Charleston that day and no happier crew had set sail with prospects of a brighter voyage than when the Vanname and King, Capt. William A. Maxwell, lumber loaded and bound for New York, hoisted her canvan to the fresh blowing breeze on Tuesday, October 3, and headed oceanward. The schooner was speeding along under full sail when on Taursday morning, Ootober 5, the tlrst signs of an approaching storm were noticed. Next day at daylight it looked pretty black, blacker than a sailor likes to sec it, and there was an uncomforta hie feeling among the oilicers and men which none tried to conceal. "Bring her down to short sail," the captain bellowed, and this was done. A noise like the burstiug of a huge soda tank fell upon their ears with the splash of a tremendous wave. "To the pumps, all hands, and qulokly too!" The voice of the captain was drowned in the tumult of wind a^d water, but each man under stood and jumped to his post. The struggle was unceasing unti the craft was caught in the trough of the sea, aud hove on h'Or beam end^ Toe Hie boats were swept away though they had never been. No word of command was needed for these men for each made for a hold on the "weather side," that part which was out of the water. The grips of the eight pairs of stout hands were nothing in the face of the gale, for the next wave looseaed every man's hold and swept one poor fellow, William ttrizzell, Into the Hood. "Here's my knife," said the cap tain, "-cut yourself a rope from the halliards and make yourself fast to rigging. It was with difficulty that the snlny, bit of steel was handed from man to mau, but no oue faltered and each cut himself a line and lashed himself to the stanch spars. Night came and went, and not a man dared loose his hold. Prayers and curses, grim jokes and tender words of encouragement, but no 01 e stirred. That afternoon when hoi e had vanished from every heart, the> e came another wave bigger and greater than all others, and the scheouer was dashed to pieces. The lumber that had tilled the craft floated, and made support for the men, but only one portion of the deck M.hknilt'. 10 foot'. Uniiu rex tuoo * v *w" o\^u(?i?| noo lonnjr enough for a raft. Oae of the sailors, Alfred Arthur, hose let? had been broken in three places, had thrown himself upon this, and for four hours the others iloundered about in the water until they finally reached his side. Then came the voyage of sickening terror, the maniacal demands for water and food from those whose minds had left them under its terrible strain; the groundless hope* of men who could not believe that their life was to be taken from them. "It was awful, awful" said Warner as he looked across the mess table to Thomas, whose eyes answered with a gleam that was half of sadness and half of well remembered agony. Both these men are the specimens of the best type of the British West Indies colored men. They are natives of Antigua, British West Indies have received a fair education, know how to express themselves clearly and show that when In the full possession of their faculties they are as husky as the huskiest of sailors. "The storm began," Warner continued, "Thursday morning, but it "uiguv miau uuo auuuuuci began to leak so badly that all bands became alarmed. "The captain called the engineer to him about 10 that night, and said, 'You'll have to work the electric pumps,' when the engineer said, 'It's no use cap'n; the engine room Is full of water.' ''At midnight the captain decided to run her fore the sea to ease up the strain. We hadn't taken that oourse long before the schooner was hove on her beam ends. There wasn't anything to do but make for the weather side and we all did. "No sooner had we got there than there on me a wave whtoh washed over board one of the seamen, William Grizzell. Then the oaptaln told us each to take his knife and out a rope and lash ourselves to the rigging. We did and there we hung until the next afternoon, I think we were aff Capo Lookout when first the hurricane struck us and in all were floated 100 miles before they pioked us up. 1'Saturday, and as near as I can figure it It was about 3 30 p. m., the schooner started to break up and turn turtle. We had to get clear and swim for cur lives. "A good deal of the lumber we carried and parts of the deok were floating around. Alfred Arthur had broken one of his legs In three places, but had made out to get onto a good sized piece of the deck. I could see him although the storm hadn't let up a bit since it started. "For four hours we were In the water. all trying to get to Arthur. We did finally pull ourselves onto a raft, you might call It that, only to find poor Arthur dying. "That night as he lay in the lap of Thomas, Arthur breathed his last. He moaned for water until tne end. We kept the body with us for an hour or so, but it made us feel a good deal worse and then we felt that we ought to lower It overboard. We didn't have to, though, for another heavy sea lifted It Into the ocean for us. h a ?. ^ - * j\'j noon ounnay it iiaa calmed. Wo began to feel a little brighter then, for wo conld see Home distance away a four masted sohooner and a steamship going south and a bark going north. " 'llail, for God's sake,' said the captain, and we all did our best. '' 'Tain't no use capn, said I, after I had f houted till 1 could scarcely speak; 'they don't see us.' '' "No, no,' he yelled at me. 'iveep a sharper lookout; they must see us ' 1 took a look at his face. 1 could see in his eyes he was stark mad. "Then the captain said, as he seized me with an awful grip on the arm, 'you must get some water, Warner. 'Aye aye, sir,' says I, but 1 didn't know where it was coming from. "I don't know whether the Lord sent It not, bnt that minute a rain cloud came just over head and a shower descended. I held a sou'wester to catch what water wo could and got enough for everybody to take a big J ?i ? UriLlK. "That Sunday night the sea got high again. The mate, E. A. Cha.se, who hadn't said much all this time, looked at all of us in a queer way, then before we could raise a hand to scop him, he plunged into the water. There was a trail of sharks that I cou'd see all around us, and I knew that poor Chase fell into their j\ws. "We stood looking at the place where Chase went down when the captain turned to me in a strange way and said, 'Warner you've got my whistle.' " 'No, sir,'says I, as respectlfully as 1 could. "Nonsense' says he. T want It. I can see my father. lie's calling me. I must answer him. (.^ulck, give me that whistle.' "Poor men, his mind had left him altogether. "See. Warner,' says he 'there's my father; he wants me, he's holding out his arms for me to come to him. Lick, look.' Then the captain jumped overboard. God help him. "We were all suffering the utmost tortures that Sunday night when the steward, he was a colored man and 1 don't know his name, jumped up and shouted, "There's laud, I can see land.' "Poor fellow, his mind had gone, too. He talked all night aud said we were diiftlng out to sea when we ought to he making land. He said we were crazy and didn't know what we were doing. lie shouted and called all night. When the dawn broke the steward swore again that the land iirQ a nUvciA V\*? noo uiuau ujr, 4 4 4 I'magood swimmer,' said the steward. I'll make it before any of you,' and over he Jumped. That was about 4 o'clock Monday morning, i watched the water and I saw the life preserver the steward had been wearing floating along. 1 was sure then that the sharks had got him. "The engineer?he was a German and I never heard him called by name ?he was delirious and called all the time for food and water. He wanted to lie down, but Thomas and I kept talking to him and saying, 4 Be ol good cheer, somebody will pick us up yet.' "There he lay, his body becoming more rigid every minute. At 11 o'clock, as well as I can figure, he died in my arms. 44At daybreak Tuesday, October 10, it was calm, but there was nothing in sight. Thomas pulled a buckle oil his suspenders and made it into a kind of hook. He iished for a long time and finally caught a couple of tishes, little ones. He ate one and L the other. They tasted pretty good, but that was not rnnr.h nniirlahiman*. "Thomas was beginning to weaken, when I said: 'Let me tell you of a dream I had last night. I dreamed that a lady oame to me on a steamboat and told me that we should both be brought into New York safely. I had not finished when he saw the Stillmau F. Kelly. I waved and waved, and then I broke down and oried when I saw her answering our Blgnal. Poor Thomas was pretty far gone. They had to lift him aboard the schooner." The Van name and King was a three-master, 160.5 feet long, 36.5 feet beam, 16.6 feet depth of hold net tonnage 626 and gross tonnage 735. She was built at Fair Haven, Conn., lu 1866, and owned by Vanname and King, of New Haven, from which port she hailed. She was valued at $18,000. # DAYS OF PIRACY Are Hot Fasted Yet According to Hew York Police. A Binall Sloop Captured Which Made lYuslncBH of Itohhery Along Tho Atlantic ComHt for Years. A dispatch from Newport, R. I., says sensational developments *are likely to follow an expected arrest of I Henry A. Jackson, of Tauton, owner of the sloop Dorado, which was captured in tho bay on Saturday afternoon and found full of loot. She is now called the Pirate sloop and Jackson, the Pirate Skipper. Although search has has been made in several cities in New England for him, no clew has been obtained. It Is thought that when persons be- ] gin to claim articles in the Dorado, ( there will come U> light a startling series of thefts from houses and 1 yachts aloug tho coast from Maryland 1 to Rhode Island. There is, too, a ] suspicion that sumo tiling very like a clew to the shooting of Mrs. Walter C, Morrill. In Greenwich, Conn., will develop. Chloroform, dynamite and 1 nlto-ghcerlneare aboard the Dorado, \ and it has been suggested that the ] sloop may have figured in a bank robbery in Bridgeport, Conn. Sheriff Authony hopes tho owner of silver marked Arbuokle will claim it. and that the n?m?r nf unllrl ulluor hand mirrors marked '',E. H. A." will call for It, and linen marked "Julia M. Wood" aud "Mrs. 11. R. Tool,*' also has been found. The sheriff has learned that the ' owner of theoatboat Jessie, In which , one of Jackson's supposed associates , came to Newport last Saturkay even- , lng, is C. I. Burlingame, of the 10 Igo- 1 Hold Yacht club, of Providence. Anchors, chains, and other trapping were taken from boats of the Edge- ; wood club and charts from Henry T. [ Hammond of that club. Many pawn tickets Indicated that ' the pirates sold cheaply what they took, a great amount of stuff going to ' pawn shops in New York. Rills of ^ wine of all kinds indicated that they lived well. Among papers was found the bill of sale of the Dorado to Jackson, dated December 1(1, 1904, showing the sloop had been sold to him by Frank Ollffe, of St. Helena, Md., for ! $50.00. Another paper was a recommenda- ' tlon of Jackson as a steady, Indus- j trlous and re'lable man written by F. P. Lovering, of No. 60 West 116th street, New York. It was on paper of the New York Telephone company and is dated January 28, 1906. There also are pictures of Thomas Foley, a leader of Tammany Hall. It is apparent that Jackson entertained parties from Coney Island in the summer, it is thought these plotures were stolen then. The Dorado was libelled today by F. A. Conell for damages to his launch, which, It it said, was stolen by Jackson. She is an old fashioned hnnh nhiillt. !trt foof Inn nnrl l?. ?/v/ auv/u iuiiir anu ill ^UUU condition. Hoy UiK?miHt: The youngest bigamist on record readied the Mississippi penitentiary Friday in the person of William Gray. Gray Is only seventeen years of age and has been married more than a year, and leaves two wives and a baby in his home county of Tippah. He will not rejoin them untlll 1V)07 In the same gang was Gus Stack,also of Tippah county, elghtecu years old, sentenced to twelve years In the penitentiary for arson and robbery, and Will Jones, of Marshall county, who although only twenty-one Is serving hlssrond term in the penitentiary, this time for burglary. The three are said to constitute the youngest 1 penlteutiary ga.jg ever known. Mit*s Alioo'H CJItfH. i If the president's daughter desires to keep all the costly presents presentted to her trip abroad she will likely have to have the help of congress. In , no other way will she be able to get , them In duty free, unless she will doI nate them to some national lnstitu, tlon. The law makes no exoeptions In favor of the president or members , of his family; consequently when Miss Roosevelt arrives at San Fran ciscu hog win nave to me custom oftioials the value of ail the articles she brings with her. If they are really worth as much as reported, $400,000, Miss House volt could not afford to pay the duty, whtoh amount to as much ' as her fathers salary for one year. Hanjcliifftn Florida. At Tampa, Fla., Edward Lamb, white, who shot and killed Christopher D. Kennedy, also white, In Manatee county, two years ago, was hanged Friday at the county jail at Hralaentown In the presence of 100 witnesses. Lamb insisted on having his photograph taken before going to the gallows and was perfeotly cool though out. At the foot of the gallows ho affeotionately said good by to his son. sister and brother-in law, kissing each of them and asking them to meet him in heaven. Cruel Holenoe, Now comes Dr. Valentine Malpasse, of Paris, who says It Is dangerous to shake hands on account of microbes. Only the other day another celebrated physician announced that kissing is dangerous for the same reason. If these scientific doctors dont let up tbey will destroy all the pleasure of oourbshlp. Just think of courting a good looking girl with kissing and playing hands eliminated I FIRST VISIT. Of El Hagy Abudullah Aly Sadik I'asha to America. AWED BY NEW YORK. lie Comes to This Country to Pave the Way for Diplomatic Relations Between Abysinia and the United States of America. What Me Thinks of New York. Kl-Hagy-Abdullahi Aly Saditl Pacha, prince of the Mohammedan jhuroh, general of the Abyssinian irmy, minister of commerce and envoy of Fmportr Menelik to President Ltoosevelt, arrived on the C'edrlc at New York recently. lie oomes ostensibly in regard to tho new treaty of commerce between this counry and Abyssinia, but actually to pave the way for permanent diplomatic relations. Eastland, France, Germany and Italy have representatives in Abyssinia, but Menelik has never sent diplomatic agents *o those nations. Sadik Pacha's mission Is to study the posslrtlnuo* ?" * ?1 v,. Uiuou 1 iciaUIUUN Willi WU* rope and America. Ho has come to America after a stay In Berlin, Parts and London. Menellk is especially interested in the United States and has already g I veil a home for a legation at Adls Ababa, the capital, in case country cares to establish one. The Pacha Is a man of striking personality. His color is ebony, but he has cleary chiselled features and tho imall feet and tapering tingercsof tho Arab. He speaks no Europeau languago and travels with an interpreter. Ou the steamer he wore European costume, save for a rod fez, but as soon as ho reached the Hotel Breslln he -binned an Oriental costume of wonderful colorings and wore a turban. After two hours of prayer the Abysdnian envoy went for a drive, then returned to the hotel, where he held an informal reception. lie was met at the steamer by William H. Ellis, C. I) -Bring, Hugh Crelghton and John Madlgan. Among the caller at the hotel were General James S. Clarkson. "If the emperor could only see this through some one's eyes!" exclaimed the Pacha on his return from Central Park. The crowding of women on the street oars and the tall buildings impressed him most. "What do you think of American women?" he was asked. "I did not have time to see them," ha nnou""""'! 1 1 * 1 taw ?..aT.ciuu, a was Dusy counting the stories of the buildings." Some one remarked that there was one building thirty-two stories high. "Take me there," he said. "1 will say my prayers on the roof of that house tomorrow." Sad iff Pacha, who is the head of all the Mouhammodans in Abyssiula, is exceedingly devout and devotes four hours of each day to prayer. He has one wife and two thousand slaves. He is exceedingly sensitive on the subject of his children. When some one asked him how many children he had, he swept out of the room, deeply offended. His interpreter explained that the question was thought to bring bad luck and that he was not sure of the number of his children, but It was in the neighborhood of two hundred. He was brought baok only when American ignorance had been explained to him. One of his tirst Injuries was for J. P. Morgan, and he will pay Wall street a visit. When his interprete mentioned the subject of loans Sadlk shook his head with dignity anP said Abyssinia had no such thing as debt. "How do you like American food?" the visitor was asked. "Give me a chance,' was the interpreted answer. "I have yet tasted I only the cocktail and found him pleas| and, but the rooms that go up (meaning elevators) are too fast for my stomach." Sadlk lost part of his suite in England through the miscarriage of a valise containing his credentials to the president. Two of his men were sent baok to London from Liverpool to get the missing bag and bring it by the next steamer. Sadik's guide in New York is William II. Ellis, who accompanied Frederick Kent Loomls on the voyage in which Loomis mysteriously met his death by drowning while en route to Abyssinia. The envoy has with him some magnificent specimens of ivory and two stuffed tigers, presumably nVAOAnfo *" * * piuK/iitn lur iiim president. When asked if they were for Mr. Roosevelt, Sadik replied diplomatically: "You will learn later." One question that struck terror to the Pasha General who commanded the left wing of the Abyssiulans in their greatest battles was whether he would buy tlrearms In America. "That question," explained the interpreter, "might ooet him bis head on his return." Menelik's envoy told of the great peace that had come to bis country and how a stranger could travel throw the empire unarmed. One of the objects of his visit is to establish direct oommuncation with this country. At present Amerloau cotton goods are sold in Manchester and Freooh Abyssinia before they reach Menelik's frontier.