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i HEARST LOSES ' " ? . I Bat Balance of Democratic State Ticket is Elected. * > FRAUD IS CHARGED 8j the Democrat!, As the Retains Were Held Back la the Republican Strongholds la the Ceaaty Districts Pot Some Purpose Or Other. A dispatch from New York under date of November says ao cording to \ incomplete returns from all over the State received up to 10 30 o'c^^r tonight, Charles K. Hughes, the ozjpublloan candidate, has been elected governor of the State over William Randolph Hearst the nominee of the Demooratio party and the Independeuoe league, by approximately a plurality Of 40,000 Two yea/s ego Got. Higgins was elcoted ou the Republican ticket by 80,660. There was some doubt expressed tonight at to the fate of the Democratic and Independence league tickets outside of Sir. Hearst, several of the New York newspapers which have been supporting Mr. Hughes, declaring that there was a chance that the subordinate officers of the I ooratie and Independence league oona^nation had been elcoted. Tne latest figures seem to indicate that Mr Hughes' plurality above the Bronx will exceed 116,000. To offset/ this Mr. Hearst's plurality in Great er New York will probably be from *75,000 to 80,000. In Brooklyn, where Son&tor Patrick H. McOarren made a bitter light against Hearst, the latter o&rrled tho borough by a small plurality, probably, 4,000. At one time it seemed that Hughes had been successful In Brooklyn, but the 1 o f.a vatiivnu niAVA ll of vnr\?*l o fe i?a? AOVVJ awwiaiuo nwo fliu oviuuKi/ iu in vui of the Democratic candidate. Mr. Ilaarst ban been given a major ltyof nearly 70,000 In Manhattan and the Bronx. (4 teens county, which In eludes Long island City, has gone for Hearst by from 6,000 to 8,000 and Richmond (Staten Island) has also given the Democratic candidate a plurality. ALL GISTS IN BUT IIKARST. With the official vote of but three oouaties missing Thursday night, Lewis Stuyvesant Ohanler apparently is elected lieutenant governor of the Democratic-Independence league ticket by a plurality approximating 1,700 votes over M. Linn Bruoe, Republican. To arrive at those figures Bruoe's probable pluralities lu the counties of Essex, Ontario and Niagara are based on the vote for the Republican gubernatlonal candidate. Fulton county is also missing excepting a statement of Bruoe's plurality over Ohanler. While slight changes may be made in the returns from several counties, it is not believed they will materially reuuoe \ flhanler'a lead, hut on the contrary < may lnorease it It appears that all the other candidates cn the Democratic State ticket are elected by small pluralities. ' THINKS HKAB8T WILL WIN. Chairman Connors of the Democratic State oommittee Thursday Issued a call for a meeting of the full oommittee to be helo Friday. The object of the meeting is to devise plans "to safeguard the interests of the Democratic State ticket." "I decided early today to call the | Democratic State oommitte together to proteot the interests of the State ticket," said Chairman Oonners. "From telegrams I have received it is plain that the Republican machine is resorting to its olrft iievish knavery }n order to beat oufQubket. There is Absolutely no. doubt that the ticket Is eleoted with the exoeption of Mr. Hoarst. There is also absolutely no doubt that the returns are being held back. There is no doubt that Bruoe is running behind Hughes up the State 1 firmly believe that sufficient Independence league votes have not been oounted in many counties to deorease greatly the pluralities of Hughes and possibly eleot Mr. Hearst. "We are going to get an honest count of the vote and we are not only going to proteot the men making the canvas next Tuescuv, but we are going to get right to -)ork now on the matter." ' Blew Oat the Gm. At Pensaoola, Fla., a man partially Identified as W. E. Roger, of Luoe dale, Miss., li dead and hia wife is In a dying oondition m the result of m phyxiatlon. The oouple oooupied a room a Wright street boarding house. Failing to appear the door of the room was foroed open and the man found dead. The woman is still unconscious. Letters in deceased's pockets appear to ideneif> him. There were also found upon his person two revolvers, a dirk and brass knuckles and $350 sewed in the lining of his "lothes. > ~jf Mrs. LeHa I. Sinolalr, 93 years old, widow of Commander Arthur Sin* olalr of the United States and Confederate navies, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Walter Blaklstone, 1810 North Calvert street, Baltimore., W GOT HOKBSK*. rim iiw?mai?b umi to WOttUD 31aim That This ft Wtrt Misrepresented to them Stfort they Came Orer, Claiming that the conditions here were not at bad been represented to Ihem by Immigration agents in their Suropaan home, fifty of the Immigrants who eame orer on the Witte* clod and were tent to Darlington Honday morning left there Thursday ifternoon for Columbia. These immigrants were tent to Darlington at bht request of Mr. O. 0. Twltty, gen* iral manager of the Darlington Manu'aeturlng company and president of the Hartsville ootton mills, to work Intheootton mills. After reaching Darlington they deolarsd that they tied been told they would get $1.60 a lay, house rent and board free, and would bo allowed to cultivate free of renl for five years a small traot of land, the land to become thelr's If they remained for that length of time. When they found that these conditions did not prevail in the mills here they did not oare to stay. Mr. Twitt?y tried In a try way to induoe them to remain, but his efforts were univalllng. They would not spend the light In the houses provided for ihem nor would thev go to resturants ind boarding houses, at whioh Mr. rwitty offered to defray their expenses until they could be sent elsewhere, or until they cared to go to vork. They said that they would kcoept no favors, and spent the night n the waiting room of the Atlantlo Jo&st Line passenger station. Mayor MoCullough, Mr. Henry 3euulng and other% citizens opened legotiatlons with * them, offering ihom all sorts of inducements to get ihem to do work other than in the lotton mill, but all propositions were ejeoted. Hearing that some of their ellow immigrants were in Columbia, hey left the station about X o'clock o walk to that city, but Mayor Mc-? lulloegh head thorn off and promised o give them transportation on the rain. Tnls offer was accepted and hey left for Columbia on the 6 29 rain. They are very homeslok, an^ leolare they are going back to their ild homes, but it is hoped that they fill become satisfied and oontented n Columbia, or wherever they may ocate. As to the Immigrants, being brought 0 this country through false repreentations. Col. Watson absolutely epudlates any suoh suggestion, Ool. Watson says that not only was he rery careful himself not to paint any also plotures; not only waa all literature used by the department oonser native and truthful; not only were all the agents employed by the depart nent Instructed to tell prospective mmlgrants the exact truth, but he llmaelf were about among the 1mm! grants before the Wltteklnd sailed rom Bremen and satisfied himself ihat they were acquainted with Just vhat they might expect upon reaohlng ihis country. The Immigrants who went to Darington are Austrlans. Col. Watson think that the whole trouble is that they got up to Darlington, were out from anybody they knew and ;ot frightened and very homesick. He sxpeots to take the matter up and to luiokly smooth their troubles for them, providing them with homes ind work which they will find to their notion. dinners ltoport. The amount of the cotton orop of 1906 ginned up to November 1, ao 3v rdlug to a bulletin issued Thursdav by the oensus bureau, was 6 865 697 oales, oountlng round bales as ha<; >ales against 6,457,595 last year T it number of active ginneries Is <iven as 27,481 against 27,802 last ear. The amount of ootton bales tinned follows: Alabama 682,810 trVanaaa VAX 494 TlnrM* 44 ?ui * * -? ?rv? ? AUHUN W, W I Georgia 1,001,124, Indian Territory 190 576, K^ntuoky 671, Loulslanns 438 800, Mississippi 582,430, Missouri 13 879, North Carolina 311,516, Ok thoma 116,243, South Carolina, 660 568, Tennessee 94 283, Texas 3,535, 678, Virginia 5 421. Dynamite Kxplosion. t Pittsburg. Thursday one man was killed, two fatally injured and sixteen othan seriously hurt in a dynamite explosion shortly after noor? Thursday. Ths men are all foreign rs. They wert seated about a fire sating lunoh when a dosen stloks of dynamite, plaoed near the fire to thaw, exploited One man was blown to pieces, another lost a leg and th< ana* A# a a>a?a Klaan f - . J Vif Vi ? ? *' w T ? 'I'l " I JL ' were so badly injured that they will die. ABIjc One. The largest marine gasolene engine In the wor'd Is about to be shipped from Baltimore to Russia. It la of 1,600 horse power, and Is one of four ordered by the cxar's government a 2 a oost of $100,000 from White & Mid die ton to go Into Lake submarine torpedo boats. The firm Is expecting s'mtlar orders from the German gov erment. The home of Bsv. A. R. Ay res, pastor of the Second United Brethren Ohuroh at York, Pa., was entered by burglars and $200 worth of valuablei iwere taken. The houee was ransacked from the garret to the oellar. THEY MOST GO. i Negro Soldiers Dismissed in Disgrace from the Army BY THE PRESIDENT, I And the White Officers Arc ts he Ceart artlaled. For the First Tiae la History ef A nay Has Sach aa Order Beta f Issaed. Unpreoed&htod in the history of the army of the 8totes, la the aotion of the president, 1'?t announoed, In dismissing in dlsgraoe from the army an entire battalion of oC'ored troops because of tholr failure to disclose the identity of some of their number who had been guilty of violence and murder. Ah aa evldenca. however, of his Intention to be fair 1 to the colored troops, the president has aooompanleri this action by an order wbloh amount to the court martial of a white army officer of high grade who was ohargod with having oast ilurs upon the colored troops. The story of both actions is told in the following official correspondence made publio by the military secretary: PRESIDENT'S OHDElt. "The report of au investigation i made by Brigadier General E. A 1 Garlington, inspector general or the 1 army rolative to the riotous disturbance that occurred at Brownsvile. Texas, on the night of August 13, 1006, and that resulted in the death of one aDd the wounding of another oltizen of that city, has been con sldortd and acted upon by tho presi- ' dent. Following are his instructions , with regard to the matter: y "The Wuite House, Washington, < Nov. 5.?The Secretary of War: I \ have road through General Garltngton's report, date! October 221, sub- r mlttod to me by you. I direct that y the recommendations of General Gar- , llngton be complied with and that < at the same time the concluding por- , t-.ls.n n* Kin U- ?l 1 vtuu ui Uio lupuiu UO |JUU1JBUUU Willi ( our sanction as giving the reasons for ( the aotlon. k "Theodore Roosevelt.'' ] OKNEUAL QAKLINGTON'a llKPOltT. * "Following is the oonoludlng portion of General Garlington's report, j which embodies the reojmmendatlonB , that, by direotlon of the president, , will be carried into effect immediate k ly by the war department: "I reoommend that orders be issued , as soon as praotloable, discharging, , without honor, every man in Oom- < panies B, O and D of the Twenty tifth infantry, serving at Fort Brown, j Texas, on the night of August 13 , 1006, and forever debarring them , from re-enlisting in the army or navy , of the United States as well as from employment in any olrll capacity under the government. In making this recommendation, 1 recognize the fact i that a number of men who have no direct knowledge as to the identity of the men of the Twenty-fifth infantry who aotually fired the shots on the night of the 13ih of August 1906, will lnoure this extreme penalty. BEFU8KD TO TKLL. "It has been established by a careful investigation beyond reasonable doubt that the firing into the houses of the oltiz'ms of Brownsville while the inhabitants thereof were pursu log their pcaoeful vocations or sleeping, and by whioh one olt'zsn was allied and the chief of polloe so seriously wounded that he lost an arm, ? * auufl oy eniisiwa men 01 tne Twenty-fifth Infantry, belonging to a battalion stationed at Fort Brown. After due opportunity and notice, <jbe enlisted men of the Twenty-fifth infantry have failed to tell all that it is reasonable to believe they know concerning the shooting. If they nad done so; if they had been willing o relate all the oircuinstances?instances preliminary to the trouble? it is extremely probable that a due sufficiently definite to lead to results would have been disolosed. They appear to stand together in a determination to resist ths detection of the guilty; therefore, they should stand together when the penalty falls. A foroeful lesson should be given to the army at large, and especially to the non-commissioned officers, that their duty does not cease upon the drill ground, with the oalllng of the company rolls, making oheok inspections and other duty of formal character; but that their responsibilities of office accompany them everywhere and at all times; that it is their duty to be oome vnozougniy acquainted wnn me individual members of Ihelr respective units to know their characteristics; to be abie at all times to gauge i their temper, in order to discover the beginning of disoontent or of mutii nous intentions, and to anticipate any organized act of disorder; that they must notify their cffloers at odoc of any such conditions; moreover, the Maryland's contribution through the Bed Cross Society for tho California earthquake vlotlms was larger. i . in proportion to its population, than that of any other state. / pueplu off the Umtted6tm*e?, the? lire, must fool assured that th* m ??irlD| the oBlfortD tf the army are thair protectors and tot midnight < anaasln* or rloe on dMurtoera of the P'Mi of the community In which they mar he t?ntl nrd CVT OUT TBI MBMKOW Oitober 5, 1006, 4 squadron of the Ninth oavalr , orgai ution of colored troop* reported at F >rt S^ertdan near Ohio-go I'l , u deorders from the war departmen' saslgnlog them to dutv there. Soon after this asslgnm* nt there appears io the publio press the following so oount of a statement alleged to hav been made with regard to the matter by Colonel Wl'ltanr I* Pitcher Twenfcv-aereP*h Infantry: 11 'Tbt negro troops would never hare been quartered at Fort Sheridan without a protest if 1 was to remain in com stand here,' said Oolonfl Pitcher. 'I merer liked them and the far ther away f rom me they are kept the better it pleases me F >r the life of m? 1 oannot see why the Uniic* States should try to make soldiers out of them Certainly there are enough flue white young men in this big oouotry to make soldiers of without recruiting from ?uoh a i^u'oa ' ritKBIDKNT 8COKK8 COLONEL. Washington, Nov, tt.?"This alleged stai.emsnt by Col. Pitoher having bean brought to the attention of the president, the folllwiug oommunioa tlou with regard to it was sent to the ' war department by Seoretary Loeb: ( "The president dlrcots that an Immediate report be oalled for from Ool. Pitohor to know whether or not hf \* 1 oorreotly quoted in the enolosed clip ping; sod If he is oorreotly quoted * the president directs that proceedings 1 he taken against him for Buoh punish ment as can be indicted. The presi dent thinks that suoh conduct is but s little better than that of the cffand s Ing negro troops themselves. 1 "Very Truly Yours, * "Wm. Loeb, Jr., c "Secretary to t.'?e P^Bldent." I Ijjohtiiic in UourKls> l Jet Hicks, a negro, was lynohod i rhuraday night at Salt City for the > nurder of John Akridga. Hlcka was arrested Wednesday at Vienna, ? whence be was brought to Moultrie r' 3y Sheriff Forehand, of Dooly County, n nd Dr W. W. Stevens, of SMe City The negro was held temporarily ins fory stable, whence he was spirited * iway by Sheriff Forehand and Dr n Jtevens when uews came that a mob *as gathering. They started for Sale 4 Jity with the negro, but Information ? lamo from that place that & moo was 1 fathering there to intercept them. 6 [fifforts to tind the party and apprise ihem of this foot failed. The Moul- J! trie Rltics, commanded by Capt. Adams, left at onoe for Sale City and Dapl. Adams telephoned that the " military arrived too late, for upon 0 the arrival of the negro and his " guards Illoks had been placed In the )ity guard house. The guard house * was Btormed by a mob whloli took * the prisoner out and lynched blm. Ij Saturday night week IHcks killed Mr i Abridge. A reward of $400 for his irrest had been effyred. Thursday 153 lear Palham Bloke's wife and another J jegro were shot to death by persons iuknown. 11 5 Fight With Burgler. ] An unknown negro attempted to i burglarize the residence of W. H. Bridges, a farmer living in the upper , part of Greenville oounty Thursday, and was shot and slightly wounded t by the farmers 14 year old son. There , was no one at home at the time but . the small bov. The negro was in the ( act of rifling the content of a drawer , when discovered. With a great deal of pluck the boy attacked the neg'b first with a knife, but being held off { by the negro, who slashed at him ( with a razor, young Bridges secured , a gun and put the burglar to flight, wounding him with small shot. The negro has not been captursd. Killed In nod, I District Judge Stanley Welsh was assassinated Wednesday night In his bed at Rio Grande City, Texas, where he was holding oonrt. There Is no clue to the assassin. There has been great excitement recently over the election and it Is presumed the assassination grew out of this in some war. Doctor Killed by Congressman. H. L. Favrot, who Wednesday was eleoted to Congress on the i> mooratlo ticket, Wednesday njght shot and killed Dr H. H. Aldrich at Baton R)uge. The shooting followed en argument over the oampalgn whloh Favrot had won. Plonty CJold. The production of gold in the mines of South Afrloa for the month of J une shows the largest product ever record ed. In the first six months of the current year the production was near 1) 90,000 000 greater then la tne o >r responding time lest year. The High-Dire Care. Id Revere, Minn., they take drunk* ards and give them what la looally called the "high diva cure'" by duck log them Id a tank of water situated Id a convenient looattoo In town. A couple of dips Is all that baa been required In any case yet, and one ohron lo offender Walnut Grove who was loo messed one evening hap never shown up In Revere slnoe. The Reading Iron Company has deelded to raise the wages of It > 3,000 employes. An alleged robber oaught In Frederick, Md , proved a wizard wltb handcuffs, getting out of them easily. k P A C?*H. , U v VIC I r TO I^TENDBD TO UBT A I IVOHOkJ Am Ag 'd * an Vht Wanted Pom* One to 1 ove, bat Found it PxpentiTO. Hiram P II ltn ? < f West nurlei, U ster County. N York, begun at to ">n In the Sopr me Court against Corn 11 u? D i M nd, a polltlolan, o cover $600 which, he says, he p^lc M'h Slat> r upon oondttion tha* tie tec a divorce and marry blm. He al it^re* conspiracy and false preter oet. Holmes ib iity neven years old anr a widower Wnlle In eearoh of a house?eeper a year ago, he Bays, he wa? u-ged to m* M's S)at? r, who, he wan bold, wan mmtrried and whose rea name was Qr%ol* Ellsworth H? sa\> it wag pr p sed that If Mrs. Salter would marry an oate for him hi mouiJ ;mv,) her 000 ** hlB death. He acoepUd . _ Then he ?eoeivod A Uis??r fr()DQ yra 3le saying that she waft inaTrlen. %j .* wanted $600 to go?a divoroe Holm * *ays he p*ld the money to Du Mo*i*V who pas*ed it on to M.S. S.*t?r. La ?er, he Hays, the woman deo'ared hI.b w .uld bring no divoroe aoMou, nevrr Blended to bring it and that ?he an*1 ler hunhand hid the money where h? jould ni'ver find It. Mrs Slater wayH she Is pro'ecte 1 h, .he following agreement, whtoh 11 1 new enter* d into: "This agreement, en^rod In o tv 1i id day or January, 1906, between 11 r. iiuhu' n iiu'i i*raoie Mi iswortn a er: 1 do hereby make tier a prese.. f $600, which Ih to oe her o*n, t ipend or do with as sho may see it, die prom'fllnK to b oo me my h u* temper and o mpnnlon. 1 also >ur lo furnish her with money for i ic ilothes and otter necessary exp ose*, tod, provMlr wo are ho h sutlnlle<. ! promise to ptvo her $500 moro. ati f she remains whh me through* ut ife 1 promise *'cr after my deav.ii a! hat I own. I i o\s? of any dissent aotU-n, then 1 demand this a^r-e nent and nothing more, she to k ? he $500, but make no further d aauds." 8r>e went to work for Holmes o> anuary 14, and within live mlnu he says, discovered that the nan po-8'tsod more than a plat.Ool IT otIon fo' her. But she almlts slu Kreed to marry him, provided she ob alned a divorce. S re still Is willing r\ Att VVU All f V\AW AAnfwa wK bUa /IaaU ? u vauj uuv uci uunviuI bud iicum' S. Previous to the agreement there ras much correspondenoe. nolm^s* rst letter to Grao'e was addressed to 'Kind Ltdy." "I am all aljne," he ^rote, I am tired of doing m wn cooking. I am a good and kln^ au, no bad habits, living a Christian ifc. I will further say that if yoi rish to make a change and be tru ,nd faithful to me, I will make ove0 you over $1 000 in cash after 1 g t hrough with it." Grade replied that she was "but irlsed." But she continued. "It would eem awful nioe to have a nice onst lomo of your own and some one to ove you. As for cooking or bakiny 'ou can ask my Missus. She tell* m . am Al, and I thluk myself I am rery good at it." Mrs. Slater can neither read nnr vrite, and the letter was written b\ Ou M nd at her dictation. Holmes got down to business in Mlext letter, which la addressed to "My Dsar Lidy Friend," and oontinues: 'You say before you will oonsent t> jo me I must promise to give over to vcu $500 When I told you what yon will get when I get through with it, L certainly oannot draw out my money bo give to any one to spend before "ny ayes. It Is my honest dollars that I have saved. You say your age it twenty-nine. You wanted to know my age. I am twenty two years oldsr (In his complaint he swears to being sixty-seven years old.) My age does not hurt me. I feel just as good as ii 1 was twenty years. "Why, dear la y, I am very tender over a wife; do anything to please hor. The one 1 lost almost killed me and If I oon accomplish getting sooth er one, why I would almost think you were an angel of heaven coma untc me." UornU Dy Mad Steor jl mi'jt'i iii m |jcu >uu u?umiu|{ lul bis lifo with a maddened long-bore Colorado steer, Meyer Mintz, a oatt'1 driver, employed by the United Dress cd Beof Company, at the abater a Forty-fourth street and First avenue, was gored many Mime before he wu rescued, and he Is in a orltloal condi tton in Flower Hospital. Mints, wh< is fifty three years of age, lives with his family at No. 808 First avenue. New t uei Mrlok, A superior fuel brlok of equal parti or peat ano ooai nag oeen envoivefl at a Bremen brickyard. The mixture re suited from many experiment*, and after fa'lure to put the peat to Uic for paving brink*. Hauie With Kubbera, Marshal Glover and Deputy Sharif] Lake were kl'lei on Friday li a with two men who had robbed twc stores In Ktnnewiok, Me. One of th( robbers wag also killed and the othei was captured Dynamite was used In an attemp to wreck a coal tipple near Wheeling W. Va., as a result of labor trouble? A Pi'nnslyvanla pair got a mai rtage Uoense In Cumberland, returns to their own state and were mat rled. e '" < FOULPLAV. * Evident in the Mysterious Death Of a Preacher Who 1>IHPIN THIS WOODS Near Crhlg's Crossing Just Off Augusta, Gs. Family R fuses to Accept Body of Rev, A. E. Rojahu After It Had Been Ideatified by Forty* one People, The Augusta Herald says the mystery surround'ng the death of Rev. . K R Jabn Is being oloared, and it de/elop*. d Thursday that there Is an ugr shadow in the back ground that vtll probably never take a definite form. It was noticed, as the supposed irktillh who died in tho woods near Oralg'a Growing, on tho Sunday afteriO )U of Ojf/bar 28 lav at undertakug eetaolihhm^nlof Mr. R E Klllott, hat there was an ugly bruise upon Is nose, and that two of his front eeth were out. At the tlmo, tho marks being upon he body of a supposed Insignificant ramp, no suspicions were arouied. FT jwever a chain of ev.denoe developd since to tue that the man tad been severely beaten, and tho nystery of his being in the woods has o*en Holvad. Were it not for an unusual hsppen'iK, the death of R :v. A. E R J vhn. n ap:8tollc mlniMtor, would have been 'orever an unsolved problem to the general public and most especially to lis 0 etc at Langley, who waited in /a'n for his oomlug. After being ldeutlflsd by f>rty-one n tin hers of the apostollo faith, who o n uoted the funeral service at the un >ort.'klnu establishment last Sunay afternoon, to? body was sent to Dallaston, Pa , all expenses necessary avlng beeu tclegr\p >?d by a brother f ? h t dead pre?on> r R ^cently Mr. R. 10 Elliott was mystified by the reipu of the folio wing telegram from D kllaston, Pa.: 'This is not the body of A. K. RoJ ihn. advise disposition Produoe body or return money. , ( hgnod ) "Frank Uojahn." Rw. J. H Ibiituu, wf Ltugtey, S. U , was in the oity Thursday mornrw and statod that he was unable to nxplatu the strange ciroumstanoos. ' IT >rty people have Identified him," ? olared Mr Bjqbod. "lit was a olose friend of mine, and 1 can produoe many people who saw the body and <*ho knew It to ho R v A E R- Jihn, f Dillastown, Pi. 1 have tetters In my pookot from him, and I have V. 4 ? I W -a TN-* vuvt/vu ijiuj uuujuora ui nmofl Kb uai?biowq, many of tho letters being ' >rwarii*d to him at otUer places." Mr. Hanson took from his pocket t e key to the mystery surrounding t le death of the humble minister, who ilstrlbuted his m ney among the poor *nd never took up a collection. A portion of the letter is as follows: "My bead feels a little sore today, lut I ana glad that I can say that I was kn eked down for the truth and for J. bus' sake. I told the man when ne hit me the iirst lick baok of the head that I was willing to die for Jesus. A negro tried to take htm awAy." Tue letter was written from li ok ngham, N. C , and bire the date of September 28, one mouth from the time he was found dead In the woods Mr. B?ns>n Is sure that the severe seating caused insanity, and that the man wandered In the woods until he died. T< e letter further stated bhat ne was knooked down because he declared that swearing was of the devil, Mr. Benson stated that the unfortunate minister assisted him In a re, vival at Lrngley last Aptfll, and made , hosts of friends, so many that he was . invited to return. He was probablv on his wav, wheu he beoame Involved { in the d ffloulty. A pathetic circumstance lnoldent to the death oc :urred when he was dying In the lonely wood, some klndhoarted . person winning mm a tramp offered aim a oup of ocff .6, for whton be cff' ored la payment his last nlokel. It Is not known why his family refused big b:dy. Wimtn Kouud Mudornd. 1 Mrs, E . nest Gib ion was found murdered In her coal shed In Llndale, Ga., i Wednesday afternoon. Her husband and Miss Matilda Brewer, employed by the Gibsons as a nurse i<lrl and housekeeper, are sugpeotcd of the 1 crime and are held in oustody, pend' log the result of the coroner's Investigation. Mrs. Gibson returned home I to her baby at noon and Miss Brewer > reported finding ber body en hour later. Mrs. Hayes, a neighbor, told the coroner that she saw Gibson run from ihe coil shed and tbrow away a f club a few minutes before Miss Brewer [> reported finding the t ody. The con) dltion of the body indioates that the ; woman had been beaten to death with r a club Gibson is known to have been vory attentive to Miss Brewer. t Sir William Henry Perkin, disco?f, * * , erer of aniline dyes, arrived In Balti more, and will receive the degree of/ J doctor of laws from John Hopkiiy Unlversity? / /1