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VICTIM IN TRUNK Turns Out to Be an Agent of the Turkish Sulton. THE SLAIN PRIEST Was Known to Be a Politician and Bitter Dislike of llim Was Openly K.\pressed by Ore''1 7 and Others. He Crossed Amer.v In Society in America Which Seeks to Fret? Armenia From Turk's Control. Dillig-ent effort on the part of a score of detectives from headquarters did not prake much headway in the solution of the problem of how i the body of the Greek priest, Father Casper Haran, or Vatiarian, as the police records have it, came to be found doubled up in a trunk in a vacant room at 333 West Thirty-seven th street, New York, Sunday May 26. Two men, and possibly four, whom the police believe to be implicated in the murder have not yet been found. The developments have brought forth two facts tvhich may uncover the motive of the murder and clear away to some extent the doubt concerning how and when the priest met his death. Most important of these discoveries is the fact that Father Casper was a politician as well as a cleric, and that he had close alliance with one of the American secret revolutionary societies in this city. It was learned that very recently there had been a split in the ranks of the revolutionary workers of the local Armenian colony, and that much bad blood had been engendered between the two factions. REVOLUTIONARY ORDER. Vahram Sopossion, an Armenian, who has a restaurant at 137 East Twenty-sixth street, and a number of Armenian^ gathered there explained to a reporter just what relation the affairs of the Honchekis or Henchagain society may be found to bear with the murder of Father Casper when the hidden facts in the case are brought to light. Throughout all Europe and in America wherever there is a sufficiently large colony of loyal Armenians branches of the Honchekis have been established. The order is purely a revolutionary one, and the avowed object is to free Armenia and neighboring Christian countries from the rule of the Turks. The New York branch of the society had been established some time ago, said the Armenian restaurant keeper, and had worked many years in harmony until two months ago. Serpossian said that as a member of the new branch of the society he could not enter into details of the split, but feeling was high and there was still bitter recrimination and accusation of unfaithful passing between the two branches of the revolutionary order. SPIES HAVE BEEN SLAIN. In Europe and in a few instances in this country spies have been discovered in the ranks of the Armen ian society whose duty it has been to nip incipient revolutions in Armenia by passing up to the Turkish authorities at home information of the Honchekis campaigns. "There have been spies in our own number," and Terpossian. "The accusation of spy has been made members of our society." "Was the priest a spy?" "If he was a spy he died like others have died before him who have been s es," was the answer the Armen' made. Thofrestaurant keeper and his companions were asked if Father Casper had been a member of the Honchekis. They said that he had, but they would not specify which branch of the recently divided society he belonged to. BITTER TOWARD PRIEST. "Father Casper had a bad reputation," continned the speaker for the group. "He was known to be miserly and to prefer to beg his bread and bed than work for it. We have always known him as a man who loitered around and did as little as possible for a living. He had the reputation of being no good." The second fact brought out in the investigations which forced the detectives to revise their theories of the time and place where Father Caspar was murdered is that he was snori alive at. 12 o'clock noon on Wpd nesday and in the restaurant of the man Serpossian, who is strong in his condemnation of the dead priest's character. According to this man's story, the priest came to his place of business alone and carrying with him the black hand bag which he always took with him on his wandering through the city. When he left the restaurant about noon he said he was going uptown to meet some friends. Up to the present the detectives een able to trace Father Caspar's movements after he was seen by Mrs. Scherer, the German woman who rented a room to the two Armenians who disappeared on Wednesday evening. MYSTERY BECOMES DEEPER. Mrs. Scherer say the priest in the company of the two at 8 o'clock in GROWS WITH TIME. Some Interesting Data About the Older of Masonry, 1h Hah Kxpaiulcd Until It Is Now Found in Every Civilized Country of the World. Some few weeks ago there was a great gathering of masons in Atlanta to lay the corner stone of a grand temple in that city. The Atlanta Journal says this great gathering of Masons directs special attention to the oldest and most noble fraternal organization in the world, which now numbers its membership by the million in all the civilized countries of the world. The Journal goes on to say: Secret societies, having the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man as their basic principles, have arisen from time to time, have lived their life and followed one another into the shadows of the past. The oldest of those that still survive are but as creatures of yesterday compared with the brotherhood of Free and Accepted Masons. It is a guild which can afford to look down with indulgent patronage on all the other guilds and crafts, howeuer ancient may be their charters. The origin of Masonry is lost in the remotest period of the past. Tradition has ascribed it to the building of Solomon's temple, and it is alleged to have had a leading part in the construction of the pyramids. That there is more than a mere basis of truth for the former claim is practically undenied, though it is not denied that the order has been materially modified since that era of remote antiquity. As soon as mankind evolved from his nomadic habits of life and began to erect fixed bodies, the mason, as an artisan, began to come into reel uest. He was necessarily a man of skill and combined something of the architect with his craftsmanship. As the Christian civilization spread over the earth, particularly in Europe and in England, magnificent cathedrals arose as the expression of the pious devotion of the people. An adequate idea of their size and magnificence may be easily gathered from such of them as still remain, and one may readily understand that in the building of them men of the highest skill were required. Some of the oriental forms and ceremonies which had been their birth in the days of Solomon, undoubtedly came down through the ages, but it was at the period when artisans of every craft were organizing their respective guilds that active masonry acquired its regular organization in something like the form in which we find it today. But there were necessary conditions which differentiated the masons from all other crafts. The weavers, the drapers, the goldsmiths could each attach themselves to a given locality like London. They had their guildhalls where they met and intermingled and it was an easy matter for them to know and remember each other. Not so with the masons. From the very nature of their service they were called upon to travel from one city to another, to build a cathedral at York or an abbey at Kilwinning. Signs and pass words were devised that the liveried members of the craft might make themselves known to one another and claim hospitality from their fellow-craftsmen as they the morning, in the hallway of the Scherer flat, on the third floor of the tenement at 333 West Thirty-seventh street. The German woman told the detectives she was sure that she saw Sarkis, one of her lodgers, and a strange man coming upstairs, to the flat with a heavy trunk in the afternoon of the same day. The detectives seem to accept as positive the assumption that the priest's body was in the trunk that Mrs. Scherer saw being carried upstairs. Now that it has been developed that the priest was seen alive at 12 o'clock at 137 East Twenty-sixth street, the puzzle of how and where Father Caspar's murders did him to death is deepened. Within three hours, at most, after Serpossian, the restaurant keeper, saw the prest, his body was coiled up in a trunk at a place fully three miles away. An examination of the records in the Adams Express office shows that the trunk weighed 145 pounds, just heavy enough, the detectives say, to indicate that it contained the body of a medium-sized person. The weight they declare, is far above the average of that of the contents that could e placed into a trunk by anomadic Armenian. REPORT OF INHERITANCE. It is assorted that Father Caspar Vartianan had recently inherited a snug fortune from a brother, who I died in Chicago, and that he also posi sessed a jewel of great value in the form of a crescent or a cross, which had been handed down generation to generation of priests. Those workj ing on the case who subscribed to the robbery theory, believe these reported possessions furnish the motive for the crime, The criminal examination of the organs of the dead priest is progressing, and until the result of this is known, the police will not say positively whether Father Vartianan was killed by drugs before he was placed in the trunk. WOl'LI) KILL ROOSEVELT. Rumored That lirother of McKinlry Assassiu Was in Canton. Despite a rumor of doubtful orgin that Michael Czolgoscz, a brother of the assasin of President McKinley, would be in Canton. Ohio, Wednesday. the funeral of Mrs. McKinley and the contingent visiting of President Roosevelt passed off without incident of sinister note. Taking precautions against the one chance in a thousand that the rumor of Czolgoscz's presence was true, the local police, assisted by secret service men from Washington and Cleveland, exercised the most alert vigilance during the president's stay in the city. No trace whatever was found of Czolgoscz nor any anarchist, although three strangers to the city wore held in the jail during the president's stay. There was nothing against them, however, and they were released. That the police were taking no chances was evident by the precautions taken at the McKinley home. All friends and relatives of the Mckinley family had to go to their carriages through the front door. Crowds had gathered in front of ' the place, including a number of men i with cameras, who wished to catch snap shots of the president. The original plan had been changed, however, and while the crowd watted on north Market street the presidential party was led out. of the side door to carriages waiting on Louis street. The trip to the cemetary was made quietly and without incident and tf> minuted ahead of the appointed time the president reached his car. A large crowd gathered for a speech, but the president merely lifted his hat and wished them "good luck." DON'T EAT (JVATL. Pathologist Says They Contain Deadly Disease Bacilli. That hacilli of the most dangerous variety lurk in the organs of the quail has been announced by Dr. (loo. Byron Morse, of the division of pathology, Bureau of Animal Industry, sit Washington. A morsel of the flesh of si bird infected with the disease, called epizootic, will kill the strongest man. No antidote has been found and until more is learned of the malady, it is considered dangerous to eat quail. Experiments with guinea pigs and mice fed on the infected birds invariably caused death. It is ssiid that it is difficult to tell when a bird is in footed, for the flesh looks natural and healthy. The disease is said to he similar to that which breaks out among grouse in England. traveled. It was perhaps from this circumstance that the arcana of Masonry was first devised. These were perfected and elaborated by Elias Ashmole and his literary associates in the early part of the seventeenth century, and from that time may be dated the masonry of today. Charles II and William III were masons, and the visible connection with operative masonry was kept up by the selection of Sir Christopher Wren, architect of St. Paul's cathedral as grand master. While it is not necessary to go in detail, it may be said incidentally that the lodges of Scotland trace their origin to foreign masons who came to North Britian in 1150 to build Kilwinning Abbey, while the English Iddges go still further back and assign their origin to the assemblage of masons held by St. Alban York in 926. Such differences as existed were arranged in 1812, and the fraternity has since been managed by the United Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of England. A century before that time, however, when the cathedral of St. Paul's was finished, the way was opened for others than operative masons and builders to become members of the organization, and that practice has grown and expanded until the present day, when it is in a benevolent band of brothers, without regard to craftsmanship, who "meet upon the level and part upon the square." It has not escaped the fate of oth Li^ : i.: A .-1 * _ o. a'A __ ci nouie insuiuuons. oupersuuon and ignorance have attributed to it designs and purposes for which there was no foundations. It has been accused of entertaining sinister projects against religion and government, and has been assailed with fiery zeal in many countries and at various periods of history. The oath of secrecy stirred the suspicion and resentment of the uninitiated and factionalism has waged fierce war around it. But as it has lived through so many ages, unimpaired, so it will no doubt continue to exist, to paraphrase Macaulay, "until some traveller from New Zealand shall take his stand upon a broken arch of Lon, don bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." The alleged "exposures" by Morgan, his alleged capture and death, together with the anti-Masonic party in America constitute one of the most thrilling chapters in the life of the republic but these agitations only served to confirm the order in its growth and prosperity until we find it today, as we saw it represented last week, composed of men high in the councils of state, distinguished in their private life and ornaments to society in general. It has expanded until it is represented in every civilized country of the world, with a membership of millions. The widow and the fatherless are their especial charge; visibly or in imagination the eye of God looks down upon them in all their walks of life, and their ministrations make the world brighter and better. V*T ' ~r BRYAN WILL WIN. Champ Clark Says the Commoner is Going to be Noniinntcd for the Presidency audi] That Ho is (ioing to Ho Klertotl Ity a I'nitod Democracy. A dispatch from Savannah to tho 1 Augusta Chronicle says that Champ Clark, member of Congress from Mis- i souri, can soo nothing hut Bryan on the Democratic horizon. He also he- ? Moves tho Bryan sun is rising, not setting. He does'nt take much stork . in the "favorite son" idea, lie thinks Bryan is going to be nominated for ( president and that he is going to be elected try a united Democracy. , Mr. Clark believes the Republicans are hoplessly divided. He thinks . there is going to lie much of a row in (?. O. 1'. circles before their candt- ( date for president is named and he would not he surprised to see Roose- , velt run again if Taft is turned down : in Ohio. Mr. Clark said: "I don't think the j time has arrived when a Southern man can be nominated, because the plain Democrats are for William .1.1 Bryan. For years I have advocated ' j the nomination of a Southern man. 1 may not have been the pioneer in , that, matter,* scores of men in the * South who would make tiptop presidents, but it seems to me from reading and from conversing with the people of eight or ten states in which I have lectured since congress adjourned, that the runic and lilo are for Brya i, and that he can havn the nomination if be wants it. "As to platform declarations they | 1 , ., i 111,,./,,, rr l. 1 1 " 4 ' miviniu tiiv/l I Y U^IIIUIM ill Hi <111(1 only Democratic. New fads in the platform are more likely to weaken ; than to strenghten us. The surest I way to win is to nominate candidates who are not only Democrats from ; skin to core, hut whose opinions are 1 known to place thein upon a platform I thoroughly democratic in every plank i We do not propose to buy any more i presidential pigs in pokes." 1 rout nfgkofs dkownkp. i Team ami Fourteen Occupants ( <> In i to Swollen Stream. I Four negroes, Mamie Robinson, Geneva Sellers, ICssie Montgomery and a baby of William Strobles, were drowned near Moores, Spartanlnirg 1 county, Saturday afternoon when a span of tlie* bridge over the Tyger river gave away with a mule team and wagon occupied by I I negroes, j who were following the remains of a | colored friend to a neighboring come- ( tary for burial. i The wagon containing (lie corpse "| of Mose Lanford, colored, had just crossed the bridge en route to the j graveyard some distance beyond. The j corpse was followed by a double mule ^ team. . Fourteen colored people were in the wagon and just as the team reached the middle span of tne bridge the span gave way and the mules and . its occupants were thrown into the * stream, about 1 f> feet below. The * river was much swollen by the heavy } rains of Friday and Saturday morn- t ing and the wagon floated down t stream. One mule was drowned, the . other being rescued some distance j down the stream. j Standing Together. It is very hard to get the farmers ( to stand together, but we are glad ( to know that some of them have made up their minds to put an end to ' this and have gone to work intelli- ! gently to protect their interests. There are two great organizations of ! farmers in the country, both based upon a determination to give to the man who takes life's necessities from the soil a fair return for his work. Hitherto the farmer alone has had | nothing whatever to say about the J price to be paid for what he actually produced. ! Some man in Liverpool, some mill owner in the North, might settle tne price that the Southern cotton grow- : er must take per bale of cotton. Some other man, thousands of miles away, could settle the price that the Western farmer should have for his 1 grain. The farmer alone had nothing to say about it. The railroads decided what they should charge him. rr**11L'fo /v? L/%1 1* ? 'V a i unui UCtlUCU WII kllUil UALUl IIDI1H. ( Tariff builders decided what tax the farmer's wife and daughter should , pay on their dresses. But the farmer ' was forbidden to have any say in fixing the price of his goods. j This is to end, and we congratulate the country on it. The farmers of the j country are the backbone of the . country. They develop the nation's t real wealth, which is the wealth of ' the soil. They are entitled to a full share of that wealth and of the na- , tional prosperitv. By combination, by insisting on fair prices for their cotton, their wheat and their other crops. And by refusing to sell the non-perishable products except for a fair price, they have already added tens of millions to the annual return from the farms. They will add tens and hundreds of millions more annually as their unions increase in power. 1 The isolated human being, whether he be farmer or mechanic, is at | the mercy of every form of greed . and cunning. The farmer has too | long plowed, harrowed, sown, reap-'5 ed, sweated and fretted to build '> up bank accounts for others, and pay 1 interest on mortgages. We are glad ! that he has decided, Hy Union, to 1 I keep for himself and his family, < j which means for the people of Amer-, I ica that to which they are entitled. What are our farmers doing to help along this grand work? Every man | should do his duty by helping along I the good work. j KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. The (iianil l/odgr Mad a Pleasant Meeting "t Anderson. The twenty-first annuui convention of the Grand Lodge. Knights of Pythias, was held in Anderson last week. The meeting: was one of the largest ever held in this State. Much business of importance to Pythianism In South Carolina has been disposed :>f, possibly the most important thing being the decision to establish a monthly Pythian Journal. The following otllcers were elected for the ensuing year: Mendel L. Smith, of Camden, Stand chancelor. 1,. S. Mattison, of Columbia, vice ;rnnd chancellor. Prof. A. (i. Retnbert, of Wofford 'ollege, Spartanburg, grand prelate. Dr. J. 11. Thornwell, of Fort Mill, ;rand keeper of records and seal. Wilson Ct. Harvey, of Charleston, grand master of exchequer. J. L. Reeves, of Hranchville, grand niter guard. The representatives to the sutremo lodge, which meets In Uoston n IStOS, are (Jen. M. L. Ronhatn of \nderson. Col. II. A. Morgan of Jreenville and Col. I'M mil lid Hacon >f Columbia. 'Memorials were adopted on Knights \. 0. Mustard of Charleston, J. M. Knight of Sumter and James Thayer >f Charleston, who died the past, fear. TIIIO ACT OK \ DKMON. \ged Woman lllimled ller Son-inl.aw With Acid and l.ye. imm <i |>|mi i *'im i v no rouson ni ;111. Mrs. M.irgairet Dorriss, aged T."?, of Chicago, hlndcd her son-in-law, It. F. Wilson. l?y throwing csirholir arid tnd a niixt uro of ehloride of linn? into his face. Mo staggered in to a police station tnd when officers wont immediately to apprehend tho woman sito was found doad in a cornor of hoc room in a flat. Nor death s a mystery. She is thought to have died of tho passion which inspired Iter diholical act or Iso committed sttieido of remorse. I lor daughter, Mrs. Wlson. said her not Iter must have hocn insane. She mid there httd heen no hard findings n tho family. Wilson's sight has toon destroyed forever. urii/TY or ML rwo Men Convicted of .Murdering Another Man. At Buchanan, (la., after dellheratng all nig??L tho jury in the case of ten Adams, white and Millard Lee, '.olored, charged with the murder of teese Jones, a white man, February I 1 hist, returned 21 verdict of guilty, md recommended life imprisonment or both men. The evidence against hn ilnfott/luttiu U'au onl 1 ml 1/ / !? / 11 ni ?.V> "UU 1,1 V""? itantial. Motions for a new trial vere made for bom prisoners. ( ambling at llall (James. Chief among the "knockers" of a baseball team are a few tin-horn tports who have lost about $2 on a fame. This sort of a calamity is so icute to this class of individuals that hey at once get out their hammers ind begin to pound. The loss of $2 s in their eyes decidedly the worst feature of a game dropped by the lome team. In other words, their interest is promoted by a very low orier of selfishness. We agree with the Spartanburg Journal that those guilty of this would do well to quit gambling on baseball games. Baseball is not a gambling sport anyhow, and only in the small cities and towns is any betting done on it. In the big leagues baseball is as clean of gambling as tennis or golf, and it should be so here. It would help the attendance at the games. There is a state law, besides a city ordinance, against betting and anybody who indulges in it on the ball field is committing a crime. Let the sheriff or his deputy or the police give attention to the open proposals u> net and me open declarations of having bet that can be heard on the stands and make cases against a few of the sports whose grief is so poignant when they lose a couple of dollars. A little vigilance will rid the ball field of any open betting and most of the cheap skate gamblers will not bet at all unless they can do it with a flourish and a show. We are satisfied that very little betting is done here, but even that little should be stopped by the authorities and the base ball management. It will tend to popularize the game and gain the support of many who do not believe n betting. Raseball is intended for wholesome unusement and recreation, not for gambling. If you want to gamble, ,hrow heads and tails and keep quiet ibout it. If you have anv money fou think you can afford to ?se, go )ay your debts before i -King it. \nyway, keep your disgusting mix..c :,i 1 - . l ,m *; wi. swruiu urccii a l cneap nOlO iety out of the clean ?port that is >rovided for ti c people of Oran^ejurg by the l>a-e ball association. A subscriber once received a dun .hrou?rh the postoffice, and it made lim mad. He went to see the editor ibout it, and the editor showed him a tew duns of his own?one for paper, one for tppe, one for fuel and several others. "Now," said the editor, "I didn't set mad when these came because I knew that all 1 had to do was to ask several reliable gentlemen like you to come and help me out, and then 1 could settle all of them." When the subscriber saw how it was he relented, paid up and renewed for another year. I f... > ,? 41 *yv THE UNSEEN WORLD. Remarkable Utterances of Paulist Father. i Says ScIcium' lias I'l-uvcd tlio Exist* i-ikt" of Spirits.?Tin1} should Wo l.i<( A lone. George M. Searie, rector of the Paulist Fathers' Catholic church New York, caused a sensation by his sermon last Sunday morning in which he declared his belief in spiritism. Thursday he consented to elaborate his views, as follows: "What I wished my audience to understand is, in the first place, that, though there will, of course, l>e found here and there in spit itistic seances some attempts at fraud or trickery, particularly where there is money to be made by it, phenomena often occur in them which cannot be accounted for in this way. "These have been carefully examined by scientific men, and those who have done so agree that those 1 <inomena indicate forces entirelx beyond our normal powers and i s practically certain that these for.?s Are directed by intelligence which are not of this world. The only ouestion is, what are these intelligences? "They pretend to be deceased human souls, and support their pretensions by what are called "proofs of ident it v ' Thnf i ??->???%?? . ?. Ifitv an tin J rvm/VY IlKillJT even Us in the earthly life of those whom they represent which could not naturally be known to the medium or others who had not been acquainted with them personally. But they fail in other points which ought to be as well known, if they really were what they pretend. "Furthermore, they fail to agree in (heir description of their present (state, in their teachings about Clod, I about Christ, and religious matters generally. Truth should agree with itself; falsehood, whether coming from ignorance or malice, will disagree. It, therefore, appears that these intelligences are not what they claim to be; and it seems more probable that they are deceitful than that they are ignorant. "Besides, their control of a medium, when habitual, has been known to culminate in what is called diabolic possession; and in no case does it seem to have had a good moral ef feet. "Also, the spirits communicating seem to have a dread of spirits and of the rites of the Catholic church. I know specially of one case in which a priest, going incognito to a seance for investigation, was requested by them not use holy water. "On account of all these reasons, as well as of the distinct prohibition in Scripture (Deut. xviii: *2) of such performances, which are by no means merely modern, the church is absolutely opposed to them, and considers them as extremely dangerous to our salvation." Or. Searle is a man of high scientific attainments, and his name is associated with astronomical research and discovery among savants all over the world He was formerly a Congregational minister in Boston and has oeen connected with Harvard observatory and with the observatory at Georgetown college. He asserts positively that spirits can be communicated with through mediums, and believes that these spirits are evil ones?fallen angels?who have never inhabited a human body. Dr. Searle said that in his sermon that only ignorant persons now deny the existence of spirits and the possibility of human communication with them. He is a member of the Society for Physical Research and a friend of Father Paupert, who showed the "spirit pictures" in his lecture before the Catholic club last week. "The overwhelming probability," said the preacher, "is that the spirits communicatio.i are either devils or lost human souls subject to devils in hell. These devils are not confined in their operation to a local hell. Such ma.y hi* UK- case anor general judgment, but not now. Warning his hearers against experimenting in this field. Dr. Searle said in his sermon that endeavor to ascertain the truth about the departed by means of seances is not only a waste of time, but extremely dangerous. It is prohibited by Divine command, he said. 1'KISOX LIFE IS HELL. Aged Offender Sentenced for Third Time for Forgery. Sentenced to the penitentiary for the third time for forgery, E. H. Havens, aged GO years, told the court at Cleveland, O., that prison life was hell, and that there is no ehanee for mail ? urn um:t' ii?* 11 i? S DOC'll Oe.'lllHi prison pars. Havenfc Is well educated, and his first offence was forging the name of a friend In the hope of making good in a business venture. Judge Kennedy gave him but one year. Small men with small purposes do not help to make a town lively and progressive, The man who never contributes to public enterprises or voluntarily assists in supporting any of the public enterprises is not worth coaxing to remain in a town, and should he decided to move out it is always a matter of congratulations. It's units and not mere ciphere that counts for something. "Be u unit."