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A BLACK HAND __ Killed at Rendezvous by An Intended Victim of a VERY BOLD RUjBERY. Handed Over Only Tweaty-Elfht Dollars Instead of Five Hundred and tbea Shoots the Wonld?Be Robber, Who Dies Later at His Home. There are many queer^thlngs happening in New York every week, and the following from The Amerloan tolls of one of these strange happenings In that great oity; In the oentre of the throng that always swirls In the daytlAfc around Mott and Grand streets, iJP/ York, Munzlato Legato, Identified later by Governor Aorltelll as a member of the "Blaok Hand," was shot to death Wednesday by Knrloo Revone, of No. 127 Hester street, apparently In selfdefense. In the Mulberry Street Station, Pavone, who had surrendered to Patrolman Wllspn after the latter had threatened to kill him If he didn't stop running, said quietly: "lam glad I killed him. He tried to make me pay $500 to his sooiety, the 'Mano Nero,'?what you oall the Black Hand?and he tried to make me take a woman who ison Ellis Island as my wife." From the garbled Eag^j^the man used, the polloe believe Legato was engaged In an attempt to have Pavone aid him In work similar to that of the East Side cadets. The sympa thy of the polloe Is with the prisoner, who is looked up in Headquarters awaiting the result of the Coroner's investigation. Pavono has a wife in Italy, lie has slaved to save enough money to bring her to New York and establish a home. When ho had collected theneo essary amount, bo was so joyful he announoed that he was about to send a money order to his native country. He says Legato heard the proudly- j made boast and demanded $600 from him. Legato Is alleged to have said that if the money were not paid his life would be the forfeit. An additional proviso was made, the prisoner swears by whioh he was to claim as his wife a beautiful young woman detained at Ellis Island. Pavone said nothing, but he bought a revolver tho day before Wednesday and loaded it. "When I had the gun," he said, UI kuow I could take care of myself, and that the law would protect me after I had proteoted myself." The two men mot at Mott and Grand streets Wednesday. Legato had named the rendezvous. Pavone, willing to compromise, handed over $28. Legato demanded the rest of the money. Pavone said he hadn't it. The prisoner swears that Logato then made a quick movement for his back pocket, where the polloo later found a loaded revolver. Put Pi von ft jerked bis gun from his coat pocket, filled Legato full .of holes and tied. Patrolman Wilson pursued him, houting: "Stop, or I'll blow your head cif?" Pavoue would not stop, but a pedefltrain tripped him, and Wilson Jumped on the fugitive. Turning on his back, Pavone said quietly: "Don't shoot. Here's my gun." Vvilson took the weapon, and, followed by a orowd of perhaps two thousand, took his man to the station house. Pavone was oool?oool at ice. He said: "Sergeant, If I didn't shoot first I would have been a dead man. 1 am willing to tell the truth and expose the dirty work of this gang." Coroner AoriteUt and Deteotlve Sergeant Petrosinl are reported to consider the shooting as an affair that may lead to the rounding up of a blackmailing organization on the East Side. Should Be Hants. Silas Cons way, a miner, of Flushing, Ohio, shot and Instantly killed Marcus Plvoritti, an Italian storekeeper with whom he quarreled SunHau.nl./hh KYillnwi rior thfi mnrdftr >'?( "'B"" " ? ?o Oonaway made his escape and u posse, formed by Sheriff Amrlne, Is now In pursuit. The murder has caused much excitement among the foreign population of Flushing. In 1884 he shot and badly wounded Marshal Jos. MoConnaughy of Bridgeport, Ohio, and served twelve^ ,iars for the orlme in the Ohio ptnlta htiary. Rilled by Ex|?i?'on. Don't fool with railroad torpedoes should you happen to find one any time unexploded by the traok. A * dlspatoh from Gainesville, Fla., says ^ the young daughter of Martin Smith, a prominent farmer, was instantly killed by the explosion of a railroad torpedo, which she was trying to break open with a hammer. She had pioked up the torpedo by the railway track, where it had fallen. Wa agree with the Maeon Telegraph that the troub]?jn the Southern Cotton associated is the same that has beset every association organised by southern farmers. The officers oouldnot restrain their ambition to branehout. WOBK BEGUN ON THE NEW ELECTRIC IIA.I1> WAY THAT WILL I Connect Charleston, Orangeburg, Columbia and Augusta. 8ome facts About the Inter prise. If the purpose of the South Carolina Public Servloe corporation a newly organised concern with a capital of ten million dollars, are oarrled out, this state will witness a transports- , tion development within the next ten years that will silenoe the now constant ory of delayed passenger trains and delayed freights and revolutionize the business of the state. This will be the first strlotly electric railway development in the South. It Is not to be a trolley system, but a trolleyless eleotrio system with a high rate of speed and a heayy freight carrying capacity. Mr. Van Etten, one,of the promot- 1 era of the soheme, who Is at Orange i burg now with a number of his asso- elates arranging matters for the es tabllshment of an important terminus here says that the general plan for development In this state had been finally dstermlned upon and that the { system would be built as rapidly as It J v.-. 1-i-a A. -3 4.1 4. 1 I _ * uuuiu u*> miu uub auu bus trwckis iaia. He expected to have the Byatem In operation throughout the state within two years, starting from Charleston. "Columbia is to be the home of the general oftioes of the company," he ( said in answer to questions, "and we are to radiate from there to Charlotte and the Piedmont. We will first go through Columbia aud branch out Just beyond there for Charlotte with one , line and Spartanburg with the other, taking in Greenville In the loop baok to Columbia or down to Augusta. The objsot Is to get an outlet to the sea , for all that rich Piedmont country. Coming up from Charleston we vvlll branch at Orangeburg, one line going ( to Augusta and the other going to Columbia." j Answering other questions, the pro- , motor said that it could not bo said Just yet what exact routes any of the linos would take. "That matter deponds on the grades largely," he said. "We are after a high speed and want ! to avoid grades of more than one per cent. We will first piok out the most important town we want to make bo- J tween the several junctional points I have just mentioned to you and make them, getting to the prlnoipal mill towns and other Important Intermediate centers the best way we can, , considering the grades." "And how are the oltles and towns you touoh expected to 'come acrossV' ( How muoh purchasing of bonds will , \V* a xt KA nv f A VUU/ UU OA|/UUV?U KU uu X HO UUU1" I pany has plenty of capital," was the reply. "We won't ask the olties and towns for anything but franchises to ( enter them, and all we want of the Intervening territory is rights of way." j The Columbia Record says Mr, Ar- ( temus E. Legare, of that city has | signed a two year contract with the company to do engineering work, and he begins operations this week with a force of assistants between Columbia and Charleston. From what has been . printed so far about the new project many people have acquired tfie idea j that the the only object the company has is to construct a line between Orangeburg and Charleston. The new company mean business, and we believe that wlthiu the next two years Orangeburg will be connected with Charleston, Columbia and Augusta with a first class eleotrio railway. Burned to Death. Near Cold Water, Mich., Mrs. Charles Mowry, aged 21 years, and her three children, aged six, three, and baby six months, were burned to death early Wednesday in their home on the farm at Bat&vla station. Charles Mowry, the husband and father rose early and built tires in the house. Ha then wnnfa tn t.h? barn to do chores and while there discovered that his house was atlre. He rushed b&ok, but the flames had made suoh headway that he could not enter thehouBe and his calls through the windows to his family brought no response. It is thought that the mother and three ohlldren suffocated to death while asleeep.' Kewdy College) Men. At Fayettevill, Ark., Henry Bough, a policeman, was shot and seriously wounded during a riot with students of the University of Kansas. Three hundred oollege boys were parading the streets and giving their oollege yells, booauseof an atheletlo victory over a rival. When the officer asked them to become less riotous they defiled him and he arrested one of them. The students then surrounded the officers and In the melee whloh followed he was shot in the baok. Bough promply released the boy under ar rest ana tired several shote at the fleeing orowd, but none took effect. Brigands Aottve. Reports are being received at Athens, Greece, constantly concerning the aotivlty of brigands in the Salonika. It is declared tfiat a number of men, women and children have been masscared at Koisiuooand Rameli, and that a band killed fifteen Greeks m the neighborhood of Niacusta and oarrled their mutilated bodies into that town. Noting that Mr. Howard Gould is angry because he has a Chinese brother-ln law, the Houston Poet sagely observes that he ought to be thankful it Isn't Harry Lehr. There's genuine optimism lor you. KILLS FIVE MEN ; And Is Hunted Down and Shot Like a Beast. MET DESERVED FATE. He Had Killed Two Policemen and Three Innocent Negroes on the Streets of Ashevllle, N. C., and Is Run Down and Riddled With Bullets. Fighting bravely In defense of their oaptain, Patrolmen Charles Blackstock and William Bailey, two of the most efficient members of the Ashe ville, N. C., police force, wore shot to death on South Main street at 11.30 o'olook, on Tuesday night of last week by a negro, who said bis name was Will HajdMs, of Charlotte, a desperado for whom a large reward has been offered for some time. Prior to the death of the two cfficerB, a negro restaurant keeper named Bun Allison fell dead at the hands of Harris, who, handling a Savage rifle, killed him without provooation. Another negro named Tom Nell, was mortally wounded, he, too, being shot before the officers took a hand in the meiee. n.v.in j " xiuiiio sv?l VQU UUll UL1 U1H usain dealing tour from a negro houso on Valley street. He firod Into two houses as ho made his way to South Main street, one of tho principal streets of the city. As he reached Evgle atreot ho tired at aud killed Allison. On South Main street the iesporado encountered Tom Neil and tired point blank at him, Ho then shot and Instantly killed an old negro that happened to be In his way. The noise of the shooting caused Police Captain Page and OiHoers Bailey and Blackstook to start from polioe headquarters on the run, blowing their whistles as they went. Bailey took his stand at the head of South Main street and the court house square, leaving his captain and Blaokatook to go on ahead. Captain Page met the negro in the center of Main street, the former receiving a bullet in the arm from the negro's rifle. The wounded captain called upon Blaokatook to tire, but before the Dflioer could do so, he fell dead with a bullet in the ohest. Harris then itartod on a run for the square, where Patrolman Bailey waa waiting for him. Bailey tired twice, but missed his man, the negro, turning his rifle on the ctlloer, sent a bullet crashing through tho latter'a brain. The II 1 1 4. - * ' * - juiuui uvuu uub a iow minutes #.ner be fell. The negro then ran down South Main street toward Blltmore, and made his escape. The greatest excitement followed the killing of the two Innocent nogroes and the officers. A. general tire alarm was turned in by the chief of police, Bernard, for the purpose of calling out the militia oompanies, and Bcveral posses quickly formed to tako up the pursuit of the murderer. The store of the Ashoville Hardware oompany was broken Into by police officers, and the posses were armed with Winchester rtiles and shotguns. Blood hounds were put on the trail of the outlaw and they at last ran him down and held him at Bay some distance from the scene of his murders after following him a day and night. At sevon o'olook Thursday morning a report roaohed Asheville that the blood hounds bad followed the desporado to Buena Vista someten miles away. Three posses of cffioers and oitlzem immediately set out for Buena Vista, and there it was learned that the negro desperado had been soen leaving a barn Just before daybreak. It was stated that the fugitive had taken the high road for Arden, three miles further on. The trail of the desperado had been lost by the dogs about this time owing to Interference with Borne hogs, but those who wore hunting Harris knew he was near by. So aotlng under the advloe of Ei-Ohlef of Police Jordan, the posse was divided up into squads, each one taking se parate routes toward Arden. All the posses oaine together at Flethor's and there Ex CJhlef of Polloe Jo-'dan decided that the beat oourse to pursue was to again divide the fifty or more men Into squads. Two of these sooured Blake's woods, one deployed to the left, while another was left guarding the road in front of Cunningham's store. Dr. L. P. Russell, N. B. Baldwin and Harry Roberts oaught first sight of the negro in Blake's woods, and the signal agreed upon, "two shots in rapid succession,'' warned the searchers that the quarry had been run to earth. Again the rides rang out and the fleeing form of a negro who carried a rifle emerged from the Blako property and ran across the high road to a field skirting the Westfeldt property, On the poroh of a private house adjoining the Cunningham store stood SncRBTA&Y Wilson has agreed to lit the packers label their steamed b^ef as "roast beef." He oalls it a "concession to the packers." The pauperised beef packers are sadly in need of some ooncewion. J. H. Calne, ad 1 tor of the Ashevllle Citizen, who was one of the squad whloh was left at Flecher's to guard the road. As the negro reached the open field adjoining the house on a dead run Cain opened fire with a 38oallbre revolver, but none of his shots took effeot, for the fugitive never slackened his pace, but made for the woods and was seemingly swallowed up. Down the road at a 2 40 gait oame x-Chief Jordan, O. II. Wells. Dr. Russell, H. M. Roberts and N. P. Baldwin, shouting to other members of the posses to make for the woods where the negro had taken refuge i The posses qulokly closed in, took the road turning to the right from Fletcher's and a fusillade of shots from the woods ten minutes later told the Inhabitants of the surrounding ooun- ' try that Justioo had been done, and that the oold-blooded murderer of two white polloemen and threo lnno- i cent negroes had been avengod At about 2.30 the posso arrived In Asbovllle with tho body of the d?ad man, whloh was taken at once to the i I undertaking rooms Like wild-fire < spread the news of the man's death [ and In less than half an hour South 1 Main street was blooked with a crowd 1 ing, shouting mass of men and wo- i men, to sac tho man who In less than twenty minutes had taken the lives of 1 11 vo men, three of his own race. For some time it was feared that the mob would take tho body of the negro from the oflloers and follow out its threat of burning it. llut the sheriff and his man guarded the doorway of the undertaking establishment with loaded rifles and the crowd later dispersed. BR? AN AND HEARST. ? OdoII Hays Thoy Woul(l[be Hard to , I llCCVt in IUDK, 13. B. OJell of Ncwburg, former governor and ox-ohairmau of the New York state republican commit- | tee, Raid that the management of the republican state campaign wai the "most asinine" that he ever knew, j The whole state ticket, he said, might Just as well have been elcoted. As the result strnds, it looks like a de- , mocratlo victory, and leaves the republican party In. bad shape wltn a national campaign coming on, The republicans, he declared, made no campaign at all, but put It all on Mr. j Hughes' sboulderc. Continuing Mr. Odell said: "The people of this state have always resented the interference of a president of the United States in their loo&l elections. They have done so slnoe the days of DeWitt Clinton. I think that the interference of President RooBQvelt did more harm than good." "I realize now," said Mr. Oiell, "that 1 made a mistake when 1 accepted the chairmanship of the state committee while I was governor. The people resent ctttclal and outside Interference In their local political afTilru. That is why I say that the Interference of Preside t Roosevelt la the last oampaign did more harm than good. "I do not wish to appear In the role of general critics of tho conduct of the campaign, but, so far as I can make out, there was no real campaign. No use was made of the record of the republican party. It was all a oase of personalities between the candldatea for governor. Wo should have stood for many of the .things that Mr. Ilearst advocated, like the eight-hour law, the three platoon system for the polioo and liremen." Mr. Odell sala that Mr. Ilearst was greatly strengthened as a political faotor by his campaign, and that while he might not be elected president, he was now a mau to be reckoned with in the future. He said that a combination of Jdr.van and Hearst would be hard for the republicans to beat. A Pftiftl 11 uk. After a day spent in investigating the death of Thomas Dougherty, of Dunmere, Pa., who was killed by being pierced by a long needle; the lo oil police decided to withdraw the warrant that had been issued for the arrest of Katie Burke, the girl who was suspected of having caused DougDuogherty's death Miss Burke says s she had been mending her brother's clothes with a long needle, and that on going down town in the evening she stuck it in the bosom of her dreso. Dougherty, who had been her sweetheart, hailed her and asked her to take a walk with him. He attempted to embrace her, and the point of the needle that was in her dress caught in his vest while the blunt end rested against her oorset. In the embrace the needle was forced into his body, through the tlfth rib and into the cavity between the pericar dlum and the heart. Hemorrhage resulted that oauscd the death. Killed by Auto, By the overturning of an automobile, caused by the breaking of the steering gear, near Five-mile Creek, near Birmingham, Ala., Friday afternoou, "Jack" Martin, a prominent at* torney of that city was instantly killed, and David J. Fox, a well known business man, was seriously Injured. Martin oame to Birmingham fifteen years ago from ClaJksvllle, Tenn, i Tub endorsement of Senator Bailey b? a large majority of the Demooratlo State Committee of Texas indicates that his implaeable enemies are more noisy than numerous. SHOT TO DEATH A, MARLBORO DOOZK BKLLEIt KILLED ABOUT OIK. The Quarrel Arose About the Payment of a Bill for Strong Prink Dry Oouotles have a hard time managing tholr blln.l tigers. In Marlboro County Jul? Combs, proprietor of one of the notorious line bars, was shot and killed in his bar room Sunday night week ago. Comb's olork and two other witnesses say that Kbble Quick, Carey Qulok, Louder Q'llok and Love Knight went bo the bar together Sunday night and were drinking. Combs told Knight that b? owed him for a half-pint of gin. Knight said he did not. Combs then b ruck him In the faoe, and the witnesses ran out. Aftor they got out they hoard pistol shots Inside. It Is not known which of the four men lndde tired the fatal shot. The bar room Is ouly a few feet from tbe line, on the North Carolina side. Combs was taken to his hi mi, on the South Carolina side, and died there two or three hours later Corouer McCall and Sheriff Green went up aud hold the Inquest Tuesday. There la some question as to whether the trial should be held In North Carolina or in this State, but it Is the general opinion that It should be In the county In whloh the orlma was commit jeri. For generations there has boon a string cf bar rooms extending alontf the State line, from the northeast ooroner of Lha State. WMtwurrl unrniui barren band hills, for three or four miles. For Beveral vcarB B. A. Laokcy kept the most pretentious of these bars, and also operated a distillery on the line. When the .Wattes law was passed In North Carolina Laokey abandoned hts plant on tho line and moved to Hamlet. From there he was driven, x year later, by the prohibition law for Richmond Cdunty. All of the other line bar keepers also closed up and left except two?Will Gdnn and Juls Combs. They continued to sell liquor on the line between two prohibition counties. As the State line through that barren country was, not marked, It was difficulty to prove in which State tho bars were located. This was the main reaaon why the two States through their Legislatures provided for a Joint survey to establish and permanently mark the line between Marlboro and Richmond counties. This survey was made last fall, and all of the bar rooms were found to be In South Carolina, although it was previously believed that they were in North Carolina. Will Qinn pretended to abandon his liquor shop, although he threatened to movo it across the line or to have the Courts annul the survey. South Carolina constables made several efforts to capture his liquor, but they found It stor id in his bam, which was lu North Carolina. Jule Combs immediately built a uew bar room, on the North Carolina side and ooutinued his business there lu open violation of the law. It was In this new building that he was killed by one of his customers Sunday night. Several years ago, on Christmas Day, Combs shot and killed a man by the namo of Quick, In his old bar room, a few yards from where he lost his own life. He claimed accident or self-defence, and was acquitted at Rockingham. The death of Combs probably ends the career of the open bars which have flourished on trio State line for a century. DoHtruotivO' Flood. * A flood of 300 square miles In Northwestern Washington is thoresult of heavy rain and melting snow which for forty-eight hours -have rushed from the Northwest to spread over the low lauds. Several persons are J -Ji a -a - luyumci uruwuoa aua tllO monetary loss is already many thousands of doliors. Seattle and scores of towns have been for the last thirty-six hours out off from outside communication. Bridges have been swept away, railroad traaks washed out and telephone and telegraph wires torn down. As far as can bs learned half a dozen lives have been lost. E/ery railroad in the Northwest 1b tied up and though a few trains are being run, no attempt is being made at a schedule. Tracks were washed away in many places on the different roads but it is hoped to have the damage ropalred In a few days. Farmer Killed. Mr. D. B. Padgett, a prosperous tenant farmer, living alqrie about two miles from Brunson, wus oalled to his door about 8 o'clock Thursday night and shot to death. The killing wis discovered early Fridav momlntr hv a near neighbor. The whole load from & shotgun was fired Into the head of the murdered man. The object of the killing was evidently robbery, as Padgett was known to have several hundred dollars In cash. The clothing worn by the dead man showed that they had been searched by bloody hands and the money taken. The neighborhood is aroused and dllligent search Is being made for the assassin. Mr. Padgett was a Confederate veteran and served in Virginia In Hamp* ton's oavalry. Whbn Unole Joe Cannon began to usestatlstlos In his speeohes he borrowed trouble that will stiok to him, for his 'tigers' prove just opposite to what he Intended. The people are too wldej awake to be fooled any more by these Eepublloan statesmen sloshing around FRAUD ORDER Issued Against the Western Matrimonial Agency Which Did a THKIVINtt'BUSINESS In Trying to Get Husbands and Wires for Women and Mes Who Would Employ Them Prom Time to Time. Barred From the Mails. Ztok McOhoe, the aplended Washington correspondent of The State, says a rather novel fraud order just issued by the postctflce department ia Against oo less a beneficent public insituation than a matrimonial agency, an institution not much known In our part of the country. As a rule In the South people of marriageable proclivtles have, a better way of meeting eaoh other. It is only when they send afar off for a mate that they patronlzs some of the Northern matrimonial agencies. Hut In Homo of these Northern towns, where matrimony is more of a business than k ploaauro, the matrimonial agencies sometimes do almost as big a business as the divorce courts. One Adolph J. Miller of Detroit, Mloh.,thas been conducting one of those agencies, and with apparent sucoess. hut at last ho has ruu a muck of the postal laws of the United Stages, and they a>e about to put him out of business. Some of the papors announced something about it Wednesday, bub the quite interesting facta, whtoh this correspondent has obtained at the department, were not given. ! The "Home Circle" is the name of this great institution for the dispensation of marital bliss, and the price I for enlistment is for mon $5, for ladles (there are no women) Si. The lltt'e preliminary fee was to furnlHh Information bo the men about the ladles, and to the ladles about the men, ana to contrive after some manner approved in sooiety to Introduce the one to the other. So far, good. There Is no fraud In this. But the manager of "the Homo Circle" began, it Is alleged, to misrepresent the ladies, assigning to them traits of oharaoter which they had not, or wliloh their acquaintances knew not of. This, of oourse, was highly reprehensible, and Uncle Sam intervened so far as the use of the malls by the business lsoonoerned. There must be a square deal, he says. Ono of the advertisements la a Washington (State) paper read: "Wo sack husbands for maiden lady in Washington; age 24; worth $3,600 oash; baobelorv girl, 23; worth $12,000. Write us." Now these bo valuable mallens, one worth $3,500 and fcho other $12,000, and susploion was naturally aroused. An Investigation showed that this manager of the Homo Circle really knew no such maidens, at least nono who had entrusted their future happiness to him. Ono of his letters to a prospeot reads: "We have a member living not so far from vou who would like to correspond with a view to marriage. The lady mentioned above Is 26 years of age, has dark hair and dark eyes; height 6, 5; weight 120; she wishes to correspond with a view to marriage. 1 If you beoome a member, we will do our best-to give you satisfaction. we nave reliable members la all parts of the United StatM-, andean give you a list and suit almost any descriptions that you may wish. "Our Interest in you doos not oease when you become a member. We are more Interested then than ever before. When you are a member we strive to marry you speedily." To this letter were appended a few "Remarks," reading, "We consider this a brilliant chance; she has money, Is handsome, and a lady In every sense of the word." i.ue poscottlce Inspector reported .hat this enterprising manager was nlsrepresonfcing some of these ladles ,e had on his list. He Said the names, ven with so much aocuraoy of detail, $tc., were fictitious. The managor, he ellovcs, knowing that there were uch ladles in the world somowhere jorresponding to the above desorlplon?and wanting to get married, too ?why he just undertook to advertise hem. And somehow he seemed to hnvn dnno * n/vvrt VmoUflon ?? * '? - 1? MW > w v*wu\/ of ^ wu I/U o\J VjUill LIU must have had some Inside knowledge of human nature. Naturally a matrimonial agency, as a fortune teller, must have. HiiootliiK Horape, During a quarrel at Sayrns Mine a few miles from Birmlnham, Ala., Sunday afternoon Doo M?n and 0.;car Linn, two white men, engaged in a shooting affray in whloh both received mortal Injuries. Sam Stevens, a negro, who was standltur near, renalvad injuries from whioh he will die. Dies From Wounds. Dr. E 8. MoDow, who waa shot by his brother-in-law, J. A. Bridges, on the street of Heath Springs, died of his wounds. Bridges has surrendered. in a sea of statlstlos they don't under* stand. The failure of two Savings Banks In Washington In one week, shows that Republican prosperity is not unl. versal.