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WORK OF FIEND. Two Youhg Ladies Attacked Near Their Home byji BRLVTJS OF A MGRO. A P I ^ They Were Gathering WildjFlowers When Attached by the Brute, Who Knock* ? ed Out One' Eye and Broke the Arm of One of the Ladles. The Atlanta Journal Bays: Miss Ethel Lawrence, sister of W. 0. Lawranoe, is believed to be dying, and Miss Mabel Lawranoe, her niece, is prostrated as a result of a singularly brutal and atrocious attempt at orlmlnal assault made upon the two young women by a negro near the Lawrence home on Johnson's road, a mile fivim the end of the Highland avenue oar line, early Monday morn* ing. inol sausnea witn rracturing ner i skull, gouging out one of her eyes and breaking hor arm, the negro at tempted to strangle her with a ro e, and would have done so had not the niece interferred and given the alarm. The negro 1 ed, and Miss Ethel Lawrencs *w put In an automobile and hurried to the city. Her niece escap ed with bruises on the head, arms and back, which the negro administered with a stlok with which he beat both women. At tho Wesley Memorial hospital where Miss Ethel Lawrence was taken, i'w was laid Monday afternoon that her condition was critical, and that she would lose one of her eyes as a result of the attack of the negro. It was arided that there was some hope of the young woman's recovery, although the outcome was doubwfu). The Lawrences are among the most influential peop?e of this neighbor hood. Mr. Lawrence is manager cf the Weatvlew Fioral company. Ills sibter, who is now believed to be Hotnir ?;Rv rtn n vtftlt. hnrA from T.nri. don, Esgiard. Sue 1h 27 years old, and her niece, the daughter of Mr. Lawrence, in 14 yeare old. The Lawrences lives In a pretty home one mile beyond the end of the Copenhill trolley line. The neighborhood is tb.nly settled, and across the road from the b? use is a narrow but dense strip of wa>ds, well titled with the seoulslon it fliers for the crime attempted there Monday morning. It was into these woods that Miss Ethel Lawrence, fond of the country after living in the city, and unac quainted with the danger which menaces southern women in lonely 'jjburuan locahttes, weno with her niece about 9 30 o'clock Monday morning. The girls prooeeded along a brook, and picked feint from she l?anks Doing so, they were confronted unexpectedly by a tall, slender an 1 very black negio. Apparently he had walked ont from concealment in ?>he bushes The girls drew back in fright. They stood near tne remuaat of some old breastworks. "Gjme here, little girl," the negro said, addressing the niece. The girl, now frightened in earnest, turned to run to her aunt. The negro followed her. With a stick he carried, he gave her a stinging blow across the back. Ha struck her again across the arms and upon the head, and she fell, cry ing: "Oh, 1 am dead 1 1 am dead 1" Tills was & ruse tb'divert the atten tlou of the negro, and he, abandoning bis punishmeDt nf the prostrate girl devoted himself to the aunt, who had run to the protection of her niece. The brutality of bis attack upon her scarcely seems creditable. He struck her with the stick and with his bony lists. He fraotured her skull, almost gouged out one of her eyes, broke her nose at the base and broke her right arm. Not satisfied with this, the negro brought out a rope, &ud slipped it around the girl's neck. By this time, however, the niece had come to her aunt's assistance. There then ensued a struggle that will be remembered by tne younger Tiri, and by the aunt, If she survives, ks long as they live. Ttiey kicked and struck the negro with all their delicate, strength, trying to keep him from choking Miss Lawrcnoe with the rope. Tne younger ^Irl, seeming that their comblm d strength would be &h nothing against the negro's, broke aw&y fr >m tne struggle, ?nd ran toward har homo, seeking to give the alarm au.l bring help. She ran at the top of tier speed to the house of 0. W. Hunter, proprietor of the Rock Spring dairy, and gave the alarm. Mr. Hunter ran buck to the woods with the girl. Tne negro, however, had seen Miss Maoei run towards the house. He had abandoned his attack on Miss Lawrence and lied. The condition of Miss Lar wrenoe was pitiable. Hunter and his companion lifted her gently and bore her to her house. An amoulanoe was summoned from the undertaking establishment of liarolay ^ Hhootlnit Horape. ?A'dispa*.c 1 from Spartanburg sayi Henry Seay and C larlte Revar, broth erg-in law, became involved in a diffl oulbv about sund >wa Thursday neai Arkwright nill and tne former shot the later. Tae ball entered Rtvar'i 3c Brandon. The news meantime had been 'phoned to town, and sn automobile, dr.'vwi by E. P. Stelnbauer and William Humphries of the Atlanta Au tomoblle company, appeared on the scene about the same time as the ambulanoe. Because the machine oould be driven at greater speed than the ambulance, and as It was feared that Miss Lawrenoe would die. she was placed on a stretcher and this was laid across the seats of the motor oar. Mr. Lawrence boarded the auto with the two drivers, h ldlng his umbrella above the strlokeo girl, and they drove to town. Miss Mabel Lawrence, exhausted by her terrific struggle, ard hysterloal, was taken to the Lawrenoe home and Dr. M. L. Fisher, who had bandaged the wounds of Miss Lawrenoe, attended to hers also. She reported later as being out of danger. The news spread with amazing quickness. Not only was the neighborhood qulokly informed of the attack, but all the oountry around. By the time the county and olty polloe with the sheriff's deputies had arrlv ed, fifty men were armed and eager for the searoh. This band of determined men was augmented by arrivals from the olty, from Decatur and all the surrounding territory, who had dropped business in the hope that the perpetrator of this orime should not escape. Bloodhounds had been secured from Qnnnvirtfr nrlftnt uuyvilUIK/UUDUII XUIU 1/UIM1UOUU O oamp. They were led to the breastworks, aud Immediately took the trail. They leaped over the breastworks and took a northerly dlreotion. The negro was oaught and Is now in jail at Atlanta. lie will be tried and puished. NEW COTTON PICK ICE. That Is Doing Good Work Out in the West. The Augusta Chronicle says Mr. Elbert W. Cramer, of E.k City, Oklahoma, was in the city for a short time Thursday and was drawn into a conversation by several local planters rs garding the scarcity of negro laborers and the unwillingness of the average negro to work six days out of seven at this time of the year. Mr. Cramer tells and interesting story of a new invention of a friend of his In the west which has already been successfully tried and which bids fair to revolutionize the work of cotton picking. It is a machine to pick cotton says Mr. Cramer. The principle of the machine is chat of the ?&cum or the pneumatio tube. Tae cotton bolls are sucked through the tube and loaded directly into a wagon. The tube that receives the cotton reminds one of a kangaroo. The tube Is a piece of large-sized hose made of a tine grade of rubber ooverfd with wire netting. There is a n zzle is 1 ned with a series of fins or liugera. The operator holds the ncz z e within a few Inches of the cotton oolls. Suction causes the bool to be drawn into the nozzle, where the fins catch and hold lo for the fraction of a second and till the cotton is gently pulled a v. ay from the boll. The maohine is desigued to be aster ed to a platform on the rear end of a wagon. The machine rests on an iron stand four feet high. It cooslst8 0fa tpeclally made vacuum ran. it can be operated by a small gasoline motor ^r by hand-power, one man turnidg It crank and another directing the nczzle. A number of successful tests have oeen made with the machine, Five tores of coUon were picked near Eik Oity, this year by one of the machines la competition with fifteen negroes picking by hand. The maohine picked five acres a*, a cost cf 03 oents ar acre against 91 68 an acre for hand picking. Another Fiend. A negro in BlufTton committed s criminal assault on a colored woman, the wife of Isaao Garyey, & respectable negro, on Saturday night. H* fled and was caught Tuesday in th< neighborhood of Foot Point. He w&j given a preliminary hearing before i magistrate Wednesday and was bounc over to the circuit court. A con stable put him In a buggy hand-cuffc)C ?nd started for Buckingham ferry there to take the steamer for Beau fort. When about sevao miles out oi Bluff ton, the prisoner leaped out oi the buggy and over a barb wire fence The constable tired four times bui missed. A posse is new hunting him The negro beat and severely injurec his viotlm. Commit Suicide. Two aged women of Brooklyn end ed their lives Thursday night?one bi hanging, the other by gas. Mrs Catnerine Iloer. seventy-five, of No 325 Stagg street, wan found bangtni from a trausom in her room. She ha< hten 111 for several weeks and ha< been closely watohed until Thursda; night. Mrs. Emily Eisner, sixty six of No. 845 IIanoock street, grieving the police say, over qaarrels betweei her two sons, had often threatens suicide. The young men quarrelle< again Thursday and the mother wen to the bathroom, closed the window and door, turned on the gas, and then wrapping herself in a blanket, la, i down in the tub. She was found ther dead. stomach and the wound is consider* i serious. Seay surredded and is no In the county jail. Seay Is a men ber of the fire department and Is wc > known here. It is said family diff 5 inoew provoked the trouble betwec j them. 9 THEY SHOT HIM. Negro Boy Who Entered a Residence at Badham TAKEN 4.NI) LYNCHED. Was Taken from Jail Soon Aftei Belnj Arrested by the Sheriff, and Shot to Pieces After Identification By a Littte Girl of the House He Entered. About twelve o'clock Thursday at the town of Badham, which is about two miles weat of St. Georges, Mr. S. L. Connor, who is the manager of Doroheater Lumber company's stores, was notified by a negro who came Into the store that he had seen a negro run away from the residence of Mr. Connor, whloh is about 150 yards from the main store of the Dorchester Lumber company. The view from the store to the house is obstructed to to a considerable extent by a large field of sugar cane, whloh is growing between tbom. The negro upon running away from the residence of Mr. Connor was seen by the negro who in | formed Mr. Connor, dodging into the sugar cane endeavoring to oonce&l himself. Mr. Connor, knowing that there was no one at the house at the time rxoApt his 11-year old daughter, went towards the house and went through the sugar cane Held, and came upon the negro hiding among the sugar cane, getting within three feet of the uegro txifore the negro saw him. He laid hands upon the negro, but the clothes of the negro were rotten and his hold was broken and the negro Immediately offered to give battle to Mr. Connor. Whereupon Mr. Connor struck the negro on the head with his ti?t, breaking several bones in his hand without visibly wounding the negro. When Mr. Connor hit him, the negro rolled about in the sugar oane and ran out of the Held into the adjoining woods ana was soon lost signt of. Mr. Connor was severely wohnded In his hand. Men in the vicinity where this affair happened Immediately formed a ?>osse who went In search of the negro. They also telephoned to St. Georges and & town posse left on horseback for the soene of the trouble. After scouring the country In the vicinity of Badham for about two hours, they located the negro, whose name was Willie Spain, and brought him through the town of Badham on tc St. Georges under Roiara The ne gro was delivered Into the custody of Sheriff Llmehouse, who placed him in r jail. The prisoner had not been In jail more than 30 minutes when, without warning a lever car on the Southern railway, which runs within 150 feet of the county jail, was stopped, and a crowd of determined men went into the j ill and took the prlsonc out, placed him upon the haud car and aped away. It Is not known how many persons were present when the pris oner was rescued from the sheriff or , whether any of them or not participated In the lynohlng. The negro did not protest his innocence, but admitted that he had gone to the residence of Mr. Connor and J intended to enter the house, but was , frightened away by the sore&ms of , Mr. Connor's little daughter, who t saw him approaching through the I window, and by a buggy passing along road, whloh is quite near the residence. Tne admission upon the part of tne prisoner evidently satisfied those who bad him in custody that he was the guilty part, but out of abundunoe of 1, oautlon he was taken by the parties > who had secured him from the sheriff i baok to the house and he was posli tlvely identified by the little girl. L After this nothing was known of ) the affair until a volley of perhaps 500 shots rang out just west of the town I of Badham, anu when the sheriff arrived upon the scene the lynouing \ party had all departed, and there re I malned nothing to tell the tale but r the lifeless body of Willie Spain, hanging on a limb of a small oak tree, [ shot beyond recognition In the faoo. _ Were it not for the hair upon his j scalp and tattered clothes upon hlu form, it would take somewhat olose investigation to satisfy one's self that a human being had there died. Immediately upon losing his prisony er at the hands of the determined crowd, Sheriff L'.mehonse called up Governor Heyward over the long dis \ tance telephone and told him of the 3 occurrence and the governor instruct\ ed tne sheriff to do all In his power tc y prevent the lynohing, but evidently at that time the lynching party tiac parformed Its work. Sheriff Lime a house pressed in a few deputies and -j went in pursuit of the lynohing party j only to Had the body of Spain and tin t parties who killed him not to bt v found. i, This negro Spain was a stranger ir y this locality, and had worked for th< e Dorohester Lumber company, at Bad ham, a short while at Intervals. Ill d Loafer* Put to Flight. w The Augusta Chronicle says tt jj | crusade agalast loafers, loiterers an r. "easemen" oontluues successful, an m the polloe are slowly but surely wee< that objaotionable class out of tt claimed that ha came from North Carolina. Ha was about 21 years of ago, and was said to be a sullen, worthless negro. What the purpose ot the negro was In his endeavor to enter the residence of Mr. Connor can be imagined without slating it In full In this report, for he was loafing around the w?n of Bad ham anc evidently knew that thore was no one at Mr. Connor's house except his little daughter. The mother of the little girl and the other children of the family are spending a while at Hendersonvllle, N. C. Gov. Heyward, Immediately upon reoelpt of Information that trouble was expeoted, wired Solicitor Hlldebrand at Orangeburg; "Sheriff Llmehouse of Dorohester county has informed me, from Summerville, by 'phone, that about 15 men took a prisoner from him about an hour ago and oarrled him off. 1 have Instructed the sheriff to swear in deputies, follow and reoapture the prisoner. 1 would request that you go to the soene as soon as possible and take all steps in your power to uphold the law.*' Solloltor HUdebrand missed the afternoon train by Just a few minutes and went to Summervllle Thursday night. Gov. Heyward Instructed Sheriff Llmehouse to suspend the Inquest until the arrival of the solicitor. The coroner was not!tied by wire to the same effect. In the last talk over the 'phone with Sheriff Llmehouse, Gov. Ileyward received the Information that the names of some of the lynchers sre known to the sheriff. Why Go To College. Why chop all day with a dull ax? Take an hour off and grind your ax. You will accomplish more by nightfall. Why work all your life with an untrained mind? Why not bake time to educate, discipline, and train yourself for the work before you? The college trains for leadership. What is your purpose? To be a thirdrate or second rate man or woman in your life work? Why not be llrst rate? Llxsent statistics show that the oollege graduate, in the work of life, lias by two hundred times the advantage over the person whose eduoation stops with the common sohool, while the oollege graduate has a tenfold bet ter chance of eminent success than the high school graduate of the same profession or business. Agotl Couple Parts, Mrs. Elizabeth L. Bryan, aged seventy who was to have married Daniel DeB Keim, aged seventy-tive, at Asbury Park, N. J., Thursday, will remain a widow awhile longer because of the intended bride groom's backdown when the appointed time for the ceremony arrived. Mr. Kelm's refusal to marry the widow was due to the fact that while at luncheon with his intended bride he Is said to have discovered that she had surreptitiously dosed his glass of milk with wine. Keim wrote a ourt note saying the marriage must be called off. lie would not knowingly touch wine and under no circumstances could he bring himself to risk being tempted again, for he feared if he did his old longing for drink would return to him. Prohibitionist Fight, At the oampaign meeting at Greenville on Tuesday, angered at some re mark made by Mr. Joel E Brunson, candidate for Governor, Mr. A. C. lnnno grhn la mnntnn fnr tho mmmm v \/uva n in/ tu i uiiiuu^ ivi vug oweLuai offloe, left the speaker's stand and walking up to his opponent and brother prohibitionist, deliberately slapped Mr. B/unson's face. Mr. Brunson has but one hand and before he could gather himself together in self-defence, half adc/.in men stepped In and Mr. J on os was arrested by two policemen, and burred oil the stand. La ter he furnished nominal bond and was released. B >th Jones and Bruuson are avowed prohibitionists anc the little difference can't be laid tc the dispensary, as th<> tight took place i In a so called prohibition county. Who Hays It D.m't i'ay ? W. FI. Mobr, a prosperous resident > of Long Island (Jity, says aNiw Yorl , dispatch, hung a valuable rug ous 01 his window to air a few days ago, anc somebody stole It. Mohr put an ad vertlsement in the looal papsrs that the thief was known and he woulc save much trouble by returning th( rug. When Mohr opened his dooi the morning after the advertisement appeared to take In the milk and th< i moiniug paper he found two larg? bundles awaiting him. One contain | ed his own rug and the other contain 't ed another rug. "Yes, it pays to ad vertlse,'' said Mohr. Yet, scmo o our merchants ol&im tha.. advertising does not pay. They ought to oon , suit Mr. Mohr. H.Jill J it litu; loliuM. 1 A dispatch from St. Louis, M). says Hazsl Jiokson, eigatcen vean ' old, and Mamie Cross, nineteen, an both ill at the Jackson home as thi 1 result of having been attacked by i ' dczsn men in a desolate place li 1 Broadway, south of the city limits Trie girls were bound, gagged an i carried forcibly into a grove. Nin i men have bean arrested In ooonectloi with tho case, and warrants ohartflni i assault were Issued Wednesday a^aina 5 six of them. Miss Cross, still pal - and haggard from recent llluest a told the story of the attack. community, or at least reduotng 1 te presence to a minimum Thursd; 4 two Carolina hoboes sheok toe dust their native state into the Savaum a . river and alighthd on Georgia so i-! They had not been here long enoui ie | to ask for a drink when Otli;or J oh TO KILL BABIES. The Torch Applied to Little Carriages by Insane or REVENGEFUL ENEMY. Left in Dark Hallways Parents, in Two Cases, Had Luckily Changed Plans, and Removed the Infants or They Would Have Been Burned. The most oruel attempt at revenge or the strangest manifestation of In* sanity probably aver dealt with by the New York Polioe 1 Apartment was brought to public notice Wednesday night, when It was learned that twice in four days efforts have bean made to burn Infants In their carriages at Nos. 530 and 540 West One Hundred and Twenty fiffell street, the block known as "Baby Carriage Row," where, every day. two hundred and tifty helpless Infants are aeen. Because of the work of the manlao, child hater or vengeful orimlnal?whatever he 1h ?polloemen were stationed all Tuosday night on the blook, and now mothers will not let their smaller children out of their sight. In No. 540 West One Hundred and Twenty-tlf111 street there are forty families. Thirty-two babies unable to walk are in the structure. It wa* there the second attempt at murder, brutal as any oonoolvable was made late on Monday night. The lives of the thirty-two little ones were endangered. Mr. and Mrs. James CL^er, who live in the building, had been spending a vacation In Massachusetts. They returned Monday night. Tnelr six-month-old baby Myrtes was wheeled through the hallway, after the family had been cheerily greeted by the little army of neighbors and children who always throng the crowded street. The Carters Intended to return to the street after they had changed their olothes. Mrs. Carter pushed the carriage into a nook where the hall light would not shine in the child's eyes. Then she ohanged her mind about leaving the infant there aud took hor upstairs. The Carters live three illghts up. The wife said she would wash baby and then place her in the carriage again. Carter changed his olothes, and just as he opened the door to go downstairs, he smelled smoke. The odor was wafted through the corridors. and Carter, without malrlncr mt disturbance to cause panic, quickly traced it. lie found the carriage, In which a fewminutea before his only ohlld had been, blazing In the nook under the stairway. The man, horror-stricken at the thougnt of what would happened had not his wife changed her mind about leaving Myrtes in the hallway, yelled. Neighbors weno to his aid, but before the 11 tmes oould be extinguished the vehicle was a charred mass. 1 No ordinary tire, caused by spontaneous combustion or a lighted matoh, oould have so qulokly communicated Itself to every part of the j carriage. It was obvious that tho vehicle was ignited at half a dozw , points. In live minutes the news had been flung from one end of the row to the | other, and mothers immediately displayed mothers' agitation. Many , scurried to their roomB, others deter mined that not for a minute of the ' day would they lose sight of theli ' cherubs. Investigation by the police showed that even the woodwork in the hallt, way niche had been scorched badly . It had not had time to ignite, how f ever. Detective were hurried to the I scene and several were placed upoc . the case because of what had occurred . on Saturday night at No. 536. There I a similar dastardly attempt to incln } erate a baby had been made, r As in the case of the Garters, the I Incendiary did not make make sure > that his prey was where he believec ? it. A Mrs. Parker had left a babj . "arriago under the hall stairs, as Mrs . Garter had, and -he, too, took the . precaution 01 carrying ner onna t< f her apartments. It was ouly a few , mtnu&es after the Infant bad beer . olaced in its erlb tbat smoke trepan t( tiller through the halls and tenant! traced the sutfjcating odor to the car riage, which was ablazj. At thai , time It was not thought anyone hac r intentionally tried to destroy thi * carriage and its supposed occupant 3 But when Monday night's occurrenci i was related none doubted that thi m two tires were started by the sami i. hand, and with the same intent. i The pollc-) believe that ttie lncen e diary is a maniac, whose insanit; n takes this frightful form. They di if nr\t. hno/outir (muni >.h? r.hr^iru t.'iu f* "V") UV '* M- ?V? VMV/Vi/ V 1M t the burnings may have beeu du e to a thirst for revouge, bui what th i, connections between tho Carters an Parkers is, so far as enemies are col ts son nabbed them. They will be trli ay on Friday. The vegetable gard< of is beckoning. Negroes and loafors ah all racssaie beglnniug to learn th il they must work If they waot to at <h around Augusta. If they perslster n- ly refuse it Is "23" or theohaingar oerned, o to not be conjectured. Detectives Gilbert and Boxigh Wednesday night paid a visit to every apartment In the buildings where the two tires have ocourred In a search for olews; but found nothing that would warrant making an arrest. They did, however, arrive at a certain theory and promised that an arrest mignt be expeoted soon. It was stated that a tenant with* out children In the building In whloh the Carters lived had frequently complained of the little ones and bad re* oently been asked by the agents to remove from the promises. "I cannot believe any one tried to murder my baby," said Mrs. Carter Wednesday night. "I think It was all a mlstako. I have heard there has been enmity between two families living In this building. In one of the families there Is a small b&by. Oh, how glad I am I took little Myrtes from the oarrtage when 1 came up stairs. Hid she been sleeping In the carriage she would oertalnly have been killed. "The police have been here. They are puzz'ed over the aff ilr and are In vestlgatlng through the entire block. The burning of the carriage list Saturday, when we were miles away, of course adds mystery to the affair." WANTS A LYNCHING. Atlanta Now* OtT\>rn One Thousand Dollarti lor One. The Atlanta Evening News, whloh Is owned by Col. J.N. English, Jr., who Is Gov. Terrell's chief of staff, Friday afternoon editorially commends the South Carolina mob for lynching the negro Hob Davis In the presence of Governor Heyward, and offers $1,000 reward for similar treatment of a negro committing an assault upon a white woman In Atlanta. Tne News says: "Hurrah for South Carolina. Throe cheers and a 'tiger' for the brave men of that State. They have vindicated the honor of at least one community in Carolina, even in the presence of the governor of the State. They have done their duty, and done It well. A black brute, whom the State exeoutivo appropriately called a devil aud a tiend of hell, who perpetrated the most lnf&m >us crime abuvo a burning hell?that of assaulting a defenseless white girl?went to his fate and doom at the hands of a public court of patriots, and today South Carolina stands at the forefront of Southern patriotism. Tomorrow Georgia may claim the honor. Those Carolina men upheld the honor and tradition of their great State." The News then offers a thousand dollars for a lynching In Atlanta for a similar crime, and says: "Four white women have recently been outraged In Atlanta bv negroes, *uu uul iwo 01 uie assailants were caught. Two cut of the four blaok devils e oaped, and are still at large, roaming wherever they will, to attaok and outrage other white women whom they may tlnd In their path. Shall th ise brutes In human form be allowed to devour the white womanhood of this neighborhood? There should bo a placard posted on almost overy tree post and corner of this country in large, black letters, putting th#:*e imps of hell tire on notice that an awful doom awaits them if they p t their lingers on the white skin of any decent woman In this country," Htruck 1 >v IjiKlunliiK. Lightning struck and kllleJ a horse on the farm of Alonza E. Brown a few miles from this city on last Thursday afternoon. The horse was hitched to a wagon and was standing near a fodder pile when the stroke came. Brown 1 and his little four year old son, who bad just gotten out of the wagon were badly shocked and knocked senseless, where they laid for sometime before ; regaining consciousness. When they oame to themselves they found the horse dead and the wagon badly shat1 tered by the stroke. Brown is badly burned about the left side from his ' mouth down to the knees. Brown ' and his little boy had a marvelous es' cape from death, and he says he 1 thanks God fervently for preservieg 1 his life and that of his little son. 5 Wage* of Sin. Jeremiah Thomas, sixty years old, i a well-known whiskey agent of Wash} ington, K. J., and who was until rel cently proprietor of the only hotel la f Oiford Furnace, committed suicide . uy sendlug a bullet into his head lo 3 the barn connected with Councilman > Walter D Giillck's lumber yards. i Wnila conducting the Oiford Hotel a 1 year ago Too mis eloped with K la, ) the wife of Elish Teeter, a farmer. * They were gone several months, and upon returning to this neighborhood b Teeter sued Tnomas for damages and 1 also began proc?fdlnir for a dlvoroe. 1 Tried to Kill All. 9 In a tit of Insanity, Emll Homer, a 9 mechanlo of Hatavla, Illinois, mura dared his hrnt,h?r-ln lair Prnrtiik Franz30. by outting his throat with a - razor, slashed Mrs. Burner so severely y that she will die, then cut his throat o and died within a few moments. The t tragedy was unacted at the berner e home, Homer had been ill for three e | weeks, and at times delirious, but no d symptoms of violent insanity had been i- previously notlcsd. sd Tiik United States District Attor^ ney has taden steos to prosecute th * xt two bucket shops which aided an I ay abetted Paying Teller Chisolm to emit bt/zle ilr>0,000 from the First Naiuuitf al Hank of Blrminham, Ala.