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- DEATHOFMOSES" Who Was at One Time Known As the jobber Governor OF SOUTH CAKOLINA. fie Gained Great Notoriety in Reconstruction Days as a Member of the Thieving Gang Which Plunk dered the State's Finances. Dies of Asphyxiation. Former Governor Franklin J. Moses of South Oarollna was found dead In bed at his lodging house at Wlnbhrop Beaoh, Mass., V^dnesday, death being caused by asphyxiation. When his room was broken into gas was found esoaping from a small stove which was used to heat.the plana, Mr. Moses was 60 years of ago. Ho bad resided in Wlnthrop for several 'years aud occasionally had aoted as moderator at its town meeting. Mr. Moses had a varied career and although onoo was wealthy, it is said that he died in comparative poverty. He was governor of South Carolina in 1872, MOSKS' OFFICIAL L1FK. ' Franklin J. Moses. Jr., was the sen of FraDklin J. Moses, of Sumter, a circuit judge urn > the whito government in 1865, and oiilef juntioe of the supreme court uudor the negro government for eight years. The younger Mosss was in the South Carolina col* lego, from which he was honorably discharged in the junior olaes. lie was on the staff of Gov. F. W. Pickens in 1861, and raised the Confederate bag over Fort Sumtor when it was surrendered to the Confederates on April 12, 1861. Just after the war ^he was a Demottrat and attended one Democratic 3tate convention in Columbia. On thn inaf.itnMnn r?f fbn "D uw iu 'WJVUIIUU \JX vug XDOUVUOU1 UUU1UH measures ho joined the Republican party. lie was a delegate to the constitutional convention in 18(18, and was a member of the legislature In the same year?being elected speaker of the house of representatives. He also held the otllce of adjutant and inspector general, He was elected governor in November, 1872, and held that office for two years. FRAUDS IN OFFICE. As adjutant general and also speaker of the houae of representatives from 1868 to 1872, he defrauded the State out of $70,000 in buying arms for the militia. As speaker he received numerous bribes for offiolally aiding different sohomes by his rulings and oommlttee appointments. He thus received large sums from the Republican Printing oompany and some money also from John J. Patterson, who was United States senator. He Issued fraudulent pay certilloates aggregating over $1,000,000. As governor he rooelved bribes for approving certain acis of the general assembly, which were desired by the oorrupt ring. He was believed to have sold * many pardons and alBO to have received money for attempting to procure decisions of the supreme court, of which his father was chief justice. On the solicitation of one Thos. 0. Andrews, senator fiorn Orangeburg, ho appointed John L. Humbert treasurer of that county. Andrews controlled the treasurer and had the latter to BUppl / Mosen with money to the amount of r.bout $10,000. Hum bert and M aes were indicted on the charge of having ccneptred to defraud the fcltato out of $16,200 of publio funds. numbert was arrested and a warrant of arrest wm served on Moses while governor by the Orangeburg sheriff. He refu> d to be arrested, and oallod out the negro militia in Columbia to guard his residence and the executive cilice. The indiotment was afterwards quashed on the ground that the governor could not bo ludloted but must be impeached. ELECTED CIRCUIT JUDGE. Ho was elected judge of the ciroult court in December. 1875, but the supreme court decided the election void. In 1877 he was indicted for various frauds, as speaker, as adjutant general and as governor, but was never brought to trial?a general amnesty having been granled the several thieves Jndiotod f<y,. their oonduot between 1868 and l'A A Moses was a conie'ssed bankrupt In 1874?bis liabilities being 8225,000 and his assets $67,000. He led a very fast life. The fo\fj iwing sketch of the life of . V Franklin/ > Moses is taken from Mr. * JohnS./ fynolds' book, "Reoonstruotion In y ith Caroline." Moses ado himself notorious, not only In /is State, but in the other States I the Union. The opinions expreaseu of him by the Xiepublioan minority that sought the eleotlon of Tomllnson were more than justified by his Course in the exeoutive office? the white people's, estimate of his oharacter was sho?*n to have been v? 1 The wife of Pink Bates shot and killed Joe Webster in her home in Gaffnev Friday night?all oolored. If a man takes too many eye-openers he 1$ blind to his own interests. more than fair to him. That Mqb-v?, aa a member of the house of representative*, and more aepeoially at speaker of that body, had been frequently bribed, nobody but the blindest partlzans or the aotive participants in his oorrupt transactions ever affected to deny. In the executive oftioe he justified every charge which before his aooesslou had been made against him?this by pursuing a course which from first to last was flagrantly dishonest and which was in other respects a disgrace to him and an outrage upon the wnole people?a course which made him infamous in the eyes of every fair minded man in the country. "Moses entered tbe governor's office without money?all that be had previously gotten having been spent In his fast life some features of whloh were grossly Immoral. LIVKD IN EXPENSIVE STYLE. "He very soon Indicated his determination to live in most expensive style. He bought for 140,000 the residence then known as the Preston mansion?having for a long time been the home of John S. Preston, a wealthy and prominentoltlzsn. This building with its grounds and with others erected on them has in recent years been used as the Presbyterian College for Women. "Moses had this mansion elegantly furnished and the building and grounds he always kept in flrst class condition. Ills style of living was most extravagant- He had a handsomo oarrlago drawn by a pair of beautiful horses?the whole turnout calculated to give the impression that it belonged to som* rich man fond of making adisplay of bis wealth. Away from home?on the frequent trip* which he made to Washington and New York?he spent money even mere lavishly (and more disreputably) than ho did at home. He bad the reputation of spending thirty bo forty thousand dollars on his salary of 83,500. These estimates might have been excessive because mado by people who were unaccustomed to Buoh & rliuixl a r\t thai11 4- I* u it "M .??. ?? a. "W ?. ?? uio|/?*7 wx TTCAIUU AO iiiuoui) ^1* VO bdOlIl. 'Die general opinion was that 1u bis two years In the governor's oftloe be must bave spent not less than $50,000 for bis living expenses. He expended large sums otherwise. In M ay, 1874, it was publicly stated that bis debts amounted to more than $225,000 and bis assets to $07,000. These tlgures wero afterwards verified when he tiled his petition as a voluntary bankrupt* The corrupt means which he employed to get money made him famous as 'the robber governor.' UIS SOUKCK3 OF liKTKNUK. "The frauds by which Moses procured the money that he Bpent chiefly In 'rloutous living' have been stated by himself or by those who joined him In hiB schemes. He received a large share of the money paid by Josephus Woodruff and A. O. Jones to have their printing bills passed. Ifor the approval of one printing appropriation (December 21, 1872,) Moses received ezu.uuu. uor & r.ke service la relation to the act of December 19, 1813, he received 110,500, and on different days in that mouth several sums aggregating about 95,000. Moses him8< If admitted under oath that on a single occasion be had received from Woodruff $15,000, whioh was used to make the first payment in the purchase of the Preston mansion. "It was commonly reported that Moses exacted money of numbers of his appointees among the county officials, and that he sold many pardons for actual money. Certain it is tliao whenever his official station gave him opportunity he used it corruptly in his interest. His conduct became so brazen, his villanioa vrerc so much advertised the dountry over that it was plain to the Republican leaders in South Carolina that unless they should really 'turn over a new leaf1 they must not expect the countenance of the national party or the help of the cation&1 government." Prayer IUIhihI the l)o*<l. At Boston before a class In the fashionable Emanuel church Thursday night, Rev. Elwood Worchestor gave an astonishing account of how by .tvawnw 1 .it.. ... --A-1 11 1 1 ! picDUU AUUU KUKK^BHUIi /iU LltkU revived a Philadelphia woman who to all purposes was dead. Seven doctors had pronounced the woman dead. Her heart had ceased beating and her ox tremitles were cold, yet he revived her so she lived 24 hours aud talked with friends. Three hundred persons in the class accepted the story without question. Barn Burning Hocloty. Three negroes were arrested in Newberry, being suspected of having burned the barn of Press N, Hoozer and one of the number has confessed. Investigation leads to the belief that there is an organization In that county composed of neorroes who nr. dered the work to be done. There was considerable excitement at lirsb bub all Is qulto there no*. Forty Drowned* At St. Petersburg, Russia, forty factory workers were drowned Wednesday morning while crossing the Neva river on the loe on their way to work. The ice oollapsed when one hundred men were in the center of the Btream. Sixty saved themselves, but the others were washed under the Ice. When your neighbor begins to boast of his honesty it's up to you to get busy and put an extra bolt on your back door. Doctors have great apprehensions bout the time their patient*' dlseass reach a ollmas. jQUEER MISTAKE. A Supposed Dead Man Writes to Augusta, Qa., and DENIES BEING DEAD. A Mysterious Case of Mistaken Identity. Forty People Identified a Body Found Near Augusta to Be Rey. A. E. Rcjahn Who Turns Up Alive. A queer case of mistakeu Identity has reoeotly occurred In Augui-fca, Gil., aud the II. raid aays the announcement that Rev. A E. R jthn, the man supposed to lo mouldering In his grave in a far-away Pennsylvania home, is alive and enjoying a normal degree of health will be greeted with surprise akin to a shook; but such is apparently the case and the f&ot will place on reoord one of the most weird, uncanny and mysterious occurrences that ever originated in Augusta, and will furnish abundant literary material for those unusual stories universally aooredited to the vivid imagination and versatile pen of the novelist. There are many cases of mistaken identity on record, but there are few Instances if any, of over forty people identifying a corpse and all being mistaken* The name of the unknown stranger who died so mysteriously and so pa thetically ?ln the woods near Gralc's Crossing on Sunday afternoon, October the 28th, and who ho closely re sombled Kov. A. E. Rojahn, an Apos tolic minister, that he was declared to bo the preacher by over forty people, will probably never be known. Who he was, as to where he oame from, and why he refused to dlsolose his Identity, Is an Impenetrable mys stery that will be discussed until time erases It from the publio mind. Undertaker R. E. Elliott reooived Wednesday the following letter written by & man whose funeral was hold several weeks a^o. kojaiin not dead4 Valdoata, Ga., Dec. 9,^1900. Dear Friend: I.reoelved aJotter from my mother at Dallastown, Pa., that I should pay the $100 you charged her to send a dead man, by name Bruoe W. Bukoy, or some other dead man to Dallas town, Pa., and used my name to got her to send $100. I am only 29 years old and this man was about 50 years old and bad nat ural teeth. 1 have false teeth and can't see how they could s&y It was me. This was a terribio shock to mv brother and ulster. It was a man they did nut know at all. So I was going to come over there myself to Augusta; may be there yet and if you waut to have a home in Heaven, Jesus says Luke 6:31, "As you would that men should do to you do ye also unto them likewise.' Please send me t?he man's address of the house where the man died. 1 would like to have his charts, papers and Bible if he had any. I can't understand that U e man did not tell his name at the houRe where he died, but the good Lord knows all about it. If you send me his papers or the things he left at the house where he died, I may tind out where his relations live and If 1 oan llnd out them it will help us. Yours In Jesus name and for Ills glory, A. K. RoJAHN. P. S.?Brother McGaw, a street preacher, told mo If it was Bruce W. Bukey, his lather lives in Los Ange les, Cal. 8TOKY OK TIIE STKANUKlt. The autumn occurrence that has recently caused such startling developments reads like a genuine romance. The affair at the time it occurred attracted considerable attention. It will be rftmem',ered that on Sunday evening, October the 28th, Coroner Elliott was summoned to the country to investigate a mysterious death. A ragged, unknown and disconsolate tramp died In the woods in the Craig's Grossing vicinity, his deathbed the fallen autumn leaves and the roof above him the foliage on the thousand J a- tv t - - - miicu uroun. ius name ne rcrused to tell and the suggestion of coming to this olty for medloal treatment tilled his eyea with terror. That ho was not professionally a tramp was evidenced by his offering his last nickel In payment for a cup of ooffoe that some kind-hearted woman brought him. Coroner Elliott, who is also at the head of an undertaking establishment, brought the body with Its scoret forever looked In its bosom to his place of business and held It for identification. THK IDENTIFICATION. When the ciroumstances surround* irig the death become known several people oalled by the undertaking establishment and viewed the remains. Several stated that it looked like a street preaoher by the name of Rojabn. Later It was positively identified as Rev. A. K. Rojahn b> Rev. J. Every man on earth works too hard ?from his own viewpoint. Stage oarpenters make more hits than dc the high salaried stars. Grace Glenn, colored, died in Columbia on Saturday, aged 100. H. Benton ot Lingloy, a-id tor?y oth r oltUene of thai p'ace. lu subst-iDfetation of the Identification, Me Hanson brought swverel letters written In red Ink by Mr. Ktjabn. The whereabouts of the tree's family v^jus ascertained through Infoi xafeiou of Mr RoJ*hn and were not tied of the death; 1100 was Immediately sent to defraj zpeuHes of seuclr g the body to Dallastown, Pa. Beforo rending the body to Dallastowu and aftor kocp'ng it one week a funertl service was held ?t the undertaking parlors by Mr. Hanson and attended by 40 p-H. ple Intimately acquainted with Rev. A. K. Rojahn. The casket was open and every person viewed the bcdv, As stated In The Herald some time ago, the family refused to accept the body, but very Utile attention was given the mi iter until the receipt of the letter Wednesday. The letter was written tr> red it't and the handwriting reveals tho fact that It was writton by the same person who wrote tho lettcid tc Mr. Benson. That a mistake hts boen made and an unkuown body shipped to Mr. RoJahu Is certain. Mr. Elliott states that while he Is not legally responsible for the monoy, In consideration of the fact that a mistake was made, ho will refund all but actual expenses. INCREASED COBT OF LIVING. Folt l>y aiomborH .of OongroHH and Ttiey Want a^ltalHO, Tho Washington correspondent of The State says the increased cost of i living and the Increasing cost thereof, are interesting members of congress ' 1a a ctngime way. They would like to make the salary of members a little more tangible also, aud they would, beyond any mauner of doubt, If they . weren't soared. Humor after rumor of propositions to Increase tbo salary of a mombor from $5,000 to $7,500 has been heard and John Wesley Gaines, that monumental pile of brains, has already actually introduced a bill to make it $7,500, though he proposes to do away with the present mileage arrangement, by which members are entitled to draw 20 cents a milo, measuring every mile they travel from their homes, aud substitute that the gov ernment shall pay "actual expenses in addition to tbo $7,000 salary. it is said and now contidently believed tnat the president will send a special message urging an increase of all governmental salaries 20 per cent. Members want to take time by the forelook, or by any other look, and make an increase of their own of 50 per cent. But, as stated above, they are soared. Thoy are, however, moving already to increase the salaries of their olerks from $1,200 to $1,500 a year* As ! many members have a llttlo way of ( doing without a clerk and putting 1 this amount lu their pockets, or part of It?paying now and then a pretty ( stenographer the rest?an inoroaso 1 for the clerk will help out some of the J more thrifty of the nation's solons. Others, though, are slnoerely intor- ' estcd In the matter from an unseltlsh motive. It stands to reason that if a member of congress cannot live on ' $5,000 a year and support his family, 1 or & part of his family, lu Washing- 1 ton for five or six months in the year, it Is not likely that a olerk can live 1 with his family, paying traveling ex- 1 porses, for tlioy have never had any mileage, on $1,200. 1 Child Ilndiy llurnnd. At Columbia the little eleven-yearold da jghter of Fire Chief May was painfully aod very seriously burned early Wednesday morning and har father was also painfully burned. Tho little girl was standing before an open tiro when her clothes caught, the flames quickly spreading over the Inflammable material. Mr. May rushed into tho room, grabbing his daughter In his arms and set to work to extlnguah tho flames. Mr. May was burned while thus occupied. Drowned in a Wanhtub. The llttlo tive-yoar-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Kills, who live 10 miles south of Greenwood, was drown ad Wednesday morning Id a washtub. The little ohlld olimbed up In a wheelbarrow standing by the tub and fell In the tub of water. She wan there 20 mlnutos before being discovered. Dr. Ward the nearest physician was telephoned for, but the little ohlld was dead before he could get there. ISarkocper Hilled. The Italian quarter of New York was shocked Wednesday by tho most revolting murder of years. Salvator* Sterlozza, a saloon keeper, is the vie | Mm. The assassin drew a circle on the glass door of his saloon as a tar get and then called the barkeeper. As Sterlozza's bodv flOvamA thn i-, the assassin lired with & shotgun loaded with slugs, n.'nio balls and shot. The man's ohost and head wore literally blown to pieoes. Ktllort a Homo. One of the state constables shot and killed a horse in Charleston on Tuesday that was drawing a wagon load of contraband liquor. The oonstablo had ordered the driver to stop, and ho refused. The horse belonged to Sottile Brothers, notorious blind tigers. An offlolal of the .Provisional Government of Cuba declared it would be Impossible for the Americans to et away in nine months, Love's young dream is apt to devel p into a matrimonial nightmare. ? 1 A. bl(i PHO.Jl.0i'. """""""~ 1'IiANH OF SOUTH OAKOLINA PUBLIC BKHVIOH OOllUOItATION. Electric Railway to Connect the Coast with Orangeburg and the Piedmont. The Charleston Nows and Courier says after having been qulesoent for several months the Augusta-Charleston Klectrlo mirage has again arlaon, and '.his time lb has somewhat more detiulte outlines than formerly, though, of course, it is not yot possible to say positively whether or not the road will bo built. Judging from the lone of recent utterances In the newspapers trie projeot has by no tnevis been abandoned, and at present the outlook for an electric lino to Augusta from this oily Is bright. It ih not now, nor has it bver been, the intention of the promoters of the enterprise to construct a trolley Hue, but thoy havo all along contended for an oleotrlo lino, and It Is still their In tontion of the parties interested to make the line an electric railway. Mr. Lawrence M. Pinoknoy is ono of the corporators of the South Carolina Publlo Service Corporation. He has been in Now York during the past few days, only returning yester uay, slum round a numbor of lottcrs on his desk relative to the line. Tho Augusta Chronicle, In speaking of the proposed Hue has tho following to say* "In oonnoctlon with the long talkad of oleotrlo lins from Augusta through Columbia to Charleston hacked by Northern capitalists, and for which tho surveys are well under way, Mayor Allen' who roturued from the Rivers and Harbors Congress Sunday, found awaiting 1.1m on his desk a communication from Orange burg, S. 0., staling that the construction company iu charge Is anxious for jtafcistics regarding the growth of Augusta for the past soveral years. "Those were complied by City As lessor John M. Wolgle, showing a re markable increase slnco the census of 1900. Thcso Inquiries are considered <ood ground to belie vo that tho men behind the movement Intend rushing forward from now on with Increased vigor. It Is believed the opening of this route from Augusta t^ the sea will work wonders In in hastening the commercial development of this olty and all sections through whioh the lino passes" This line has been spoken of freluenty before, and will, no doubt, be sostructed, and from the present < treud of things It would seem that lb < will be built shortly. A number cf mrreys hayo been made and the sue* iess of eleotrlo lines In the upper part of the State will no doubt, entourage the promoters to begin workng up tbe plans again. The South Carolina Publio Service Corporation proposes to build an electric railway from Charleston to Jolnmbla and Augusta, via Orange nurg, and to the milling towns north 3f Columbia as far as Charlotte. The August >Aiken line and the Anderson-Bolton line, and numerous sther electric lines in the State, aro In good condition, and popular favor jcenas to rest on electric lines, The South Carolina Public Service Corporation will'bo granted a commission in the near future. At present it is not organized with a president, secretary and oilioers, though it Is a well known concern and Is doing all in Its power to build electric lines through tho State. Charleston is to the terminus of the lines and the sucocss of the Augusta-Charleston project will mean a great deal to thiB city. IYlu<;h Foi-iiliBorH Uho(1. While tho farmers in some sections of the State may have been hard hit bv the autumn storms the figures in the State Treasurer's oillce on the privilege or fertilizer tax Hhow that more fertilizer material was used this year en tho farms than In any other year since the establishment of tho tax. The total received so far Is 101,738.41 against 127,282.78 for the same period last year. Tho tax is 22 ocnts per ton and the entire amount goes to Clemson College. Wouiiilful Man IJIob. Former United States Senator Arthur Brown, of Utah, who was shot in his apartments at the Hotel Raleigh in Washington Saturday afternoon by Mrs. Anna M. Bradley, of Salt Bake City, died at midnight Thursday, at the Emergocfy Hospital. Mrs. Bradley was arraigned In polioo court on the charge of murder. Her attorneys set up the defenso that she was Justified under the 4'unwritten law" In shooting Mr. Brown. Masonic OrphAiiAtto, Tho grand lodge of Masons in ses nU.% I? /It V - -- rtiou tu vjn?rn;Huon neciaea to build a Masonic orphanage. The truitaoB will have this year $10,000 for this purpose. They are J. R. Johnson, Geo. 8. Mower, G. T. Bryan, 0. F. Sawyer and the grand master ex otlloio. Kptrtcmio of Dlphthorta. Owing to an epidemic of dlptheria In several parts of Look Island a very large number of schools have been closed. A Dumber of deaths are reported. The dise. so Is spreading. John D. Rockefeller's lnoome for this year will be $60,000,000 according to the computations of Henry H. Rogers and John D. Archibald, Rockefellers closest friends. This means a dally lnoome of $164,383, or $114 a Minute. I TYPO MISSING Left Note Saying He Intended to Kill Himself. HE MAY TURN UP. > Mis Shirt and Note Book Was Found ooj the Bank of the Canal. He Was Recently Marrried and Was fn Bad Health. The Columbia Record says mucfc concern, Is foil by relatives for the safety of Louis K. Kvans, a printer employed In the job department of th?..Slate Company, who disappeared Thursday morning, leaving a note declaring that by tho time it should be found, he would have ended his life by Jumping from the Cotigarce bridge into the river. 11 is shirt and suspenders and the pad upon wnloh the note had been written were found by a searching party near the oanal, which parallels the river, ?nd from the spot tracks as of a man ruunlng led to the water's edge, with nouo returning. So far no steps have been taken to drag the canal, because of certain Indications that Evans may yet be alive aud woll, but In hiding. Evans Is a young man of twentythree or four, who oamo to Columbia eighteen months or two years ago from Goldsboro, N. 0., and has since been employed continuously by the Stato Company. lie is a mombor In good standing of Columbia looal, No? 34. of thfl Intnrnim ? ? x jr jjuk r?piilci\l Union, and Is rewarded an a good printer. He is not known as a drinking man. About two mouths ago he married Miss A.Burlls Pennington, of 2015 Marlon street, who was for some time a popular member of the Hales force at the department store of tho Jan. L. Tapp Company. Mr. and Mrs. Kyans mado their home at 1417 Taylor street with Mr. Geo. D. Radcllffo, stage manager of tho Columbia theatre. For some time Evans' health has been falling and lately he has become addloted to tho habit of using morphine, which was prescribed for some temporary relief by his physiolan. This morning a small tire, whloh occurred at the residence at about ft o'clock, may have so aggravated Evans' nervous disorders that his mind became temporarily deranged. Mr. Radcllffe is almost positive that Evans was still In the house when he started downtown at about 8 o'clock this morning, but others are of tho opinion that he left the city the night before. Shortly after Mr. Radcllffe left tho house a little white boy, Ben Daniels, delivered to Mrs. Evans a note signed by Evans, declaring his intention of drowning himself in the canal or tho river. Mrs. Evans notitled Mr. RadolltTo and the police and a searohlng party sot out to explore the banks of the river and tho canal. In tho searching party wore Mr. RidolUTo, Coroner Walker, Ofllcer, Starling of the S. P. C. A., Orderly Serjeant catho&rt. Policeman HutnhlnHon and several of Evans' prluter friends. Dividing, the searchers thoroughly examined tho banks of tho canal and tho river. About 15(ft yards below the long trestle by whloh the C., H. aud L. road oronses the canal and th? vlv?r M?wars. Starling aud Radcliifa found hanging upon a bush near the canal Evans' shirt and suspenders and hla pad and pencil, the pad bearing his name. Presumably this was the pad he used In writing the sinister note to Mrs. Evans. From the bush, tracks far apart, as If made by a man running, led down to the edge of the water, which Is here about seven feet deep, but there were no tracks returning. Further investigations are being made this afternoon, it is known that Evans has been broodidg over his physical condition, and that the despondency resulting from this bas been deepened by worry over financial affairs and the ex '* t use of mor? phlne, but Evac ^ ^d the police are not satiau. v?!t i evfc-*dence that he is dean. hoped that his mind merely beoam temporarily deranged and that he will shortly turn up safe and sound. l*OHtuiAHtor Sontoiiood. Judge 3 peer in the United States district court sentenced former I'ostr raas&er Gilbert Meoks, of Nicholas, 0 CTso county. Ga., to one year's imprisonment and to pay a tine of 12,0118 for embezzling that sum from the postotbee funds. The amount was made good by Meeks when the short" age was discovered. Heard Uljclitoeii Miles. Eighteen miles is said to be the longest distance at whtoh a man's voioe has been heard. This occurred in the Grand Cauyon 0/ Colorado, whore one man shouting the name "Bob" at one and was plainly heard at the other end, whloh is ljj miles away. Rilled In Chine, News has been received in Anderson of the murder by Chinese of the ten-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Royal, missionaries in Uhina. Mrs. Royal was before her maxraige a Miss Sullivan, near Falser. JliJl