The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, November 22, 1906, Image 3
A BLACK HAND
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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
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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
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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.