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\ MANY LIVES LOST In a Most Destructive Hotel Fire at Fort Wayne, Ind. r NUMBER OF MISSING. The Rurning of the Krister Renders Accurate Estimate of Futilities 1 ni|iossil>l(*?The Fire Was uiscovered at Half-Fust Three O'clock , V Sunday Morning in the Flevator Shaft. At least II! persons lost their lives ii\ a tire which destroyed the New Avellne hotel at Fort Wayne, Ind., early Sunday morning. The entire | interior of the building is a smouldering heap of ruins and how many dead are concealed by the debris can only be conjectured. The hotel register was consumed bv the lire and there is no accurate means of determining who is missing. Charred wood, bricks and twisted girders are piled up between the walls to the second story. Piece by piece this must be removed before the roll of the dead can be completed. Some of the bodies taken out are mangled and charred beyond recognition. The lire was discovered at 3:30 Sunday morning in the elevator shaft by Night Clerk Kalph Piplins. lie rushed to the upper floors, alarming the guests until the flatties, which had spread with great rapidity, drove them back. His efforts, howeve*, saved many lives. The hotel was erected half a century ago and the wood work was dry as tinder. Within a few minutes front the tXne the fire was discovered the whole interior was a mass of (lames and the only avenue of escape was by tbo windows. The fire department resetted many of the guests by means of ladders, but some, frenzied by the rush of names, leaped iroiu wmmnvs m street. H. S. Johnson, of Puna, 111., jumped from the llfth story. Ills body struck a balcony and bounded far into the street, lie died a short time later. As the Humes increased men and women were seen in the windows of V their rooms imploring help. Some t did not wait for the assistance of the firemen and leaped to the street. Those who left their rooms before the flames cut off their retreat were able to make their way to the tire escape and were saved. That there are several bodies In the ruins is the belief of PI re Chief llilbrecht, and Chief of Police Anckenbruck places his estimate of dead yet in the ruins as high as 20. The Now Avolino Hotel was a six story building of brick. It stood in the business centre of the city. The hotel and its furnishings were valued at j $80,000. . * TILLMAN TO KEITRN IIOMK. The Senator Left the Sanitarium on Last Saturday. Senator Tillman's condition is so much improved that ho lias returned to his home at Trenton, lie will continue to rest, remaining quietly at home until about June 1. when he expects to sail for Europe. This will be good news to the many friends of the Senator, who hope that he will soon be entWely recovered so as he will be able ?to return to his dutlse in the Senate, where he is so much missed. * Til Lie 10 SATES IlLOWN. Safe Robbers Made a Good Haul at llartwell, Gu. Safe robbers visited Hartwell. (hi., about one o'clock Thursday morning The postoillce was opened and robbed of $50 in money and about $1,000 in stamps. None of the mails were were molested. The safe was blown open with nitroglycerine. The Southern express office was also visited and the safes blown.' fhe express money or ders were tosstd about the place. It is believed about $200 was secured t here. * SNOW ANI> SfiKRT Fell in Several of the Northern States on I*ast Thursday. V Following snow during the morning hours, Pittsburg, Pa., and vicinity was visited by a thunder storm, which caused much damage. Two North Side houses were struck by lightning and set on fire. Much apprehension if felt as to the effect of the snow or fruit trees. The snowfall in the su burhan districts was particularly heavy, spbw also fell at Erie, Pa. Jonesville and Cleveland, Ohio. * SLBSCi I I TRAPPED BY FLAMES. I'llIF. C'At'SKS THK LOSS OK SIX LIYLS. Many People Itcsouoil l?y I lie Firemen and INilleo?Origin of Fire Very I Veu liar. An early Sunday morning fire in a four-story brick tenement at No. 17 Humboldt stret, a thickly populated section of Brooklyn, caused the death of six persons and the serious injury of four others. 10very member of the family, consisting of a mother and four children, are among the dead. There were many thrilling escapes by police and firemen and it was due to their brave work that the death list was not larger. A half dozen or more persons who were trapped in the upper stories were saved by jumping into life nets. The financial list caused by the fire is estimated at $10,000. The fire started in th cellar of the building when t ho* people comprising (lie eight families living in the house were asleep. It had gained much headway before it was discoveued and three policemen repeatedly risked their lives in dragging people from within reach of the flames. When the tiremen came the lire had spread through the entire rear of the house where the lire escapes were, and the terror-stricken inmates of the upper floors had? been driven to the front rooms where they were hanging from windows shrieking for help. Ladders and life lines were quickly brought into use and most of the imperiled persons were thus rescued. The Abrams family lived on the third floor. for some reason, the flames swept through their apartment so that the only way of escape was by jumping from the windows Charles Abrams and his sister Anna did (his, but both struck an iron raliing and were dead when picked up. Mrs. Abrams and her other children, Sadie, and Carrie, were burned to death, clasped in each other's arms. * H.WGMD AT DARLINGTON. Cuddy Graham Pays ITiiulty for Kilting Cm-man .Moody. (Jaddy Graham, colored, was hanged at Darlington Friday for the murder of Furtuau Moody ou the night of Nov. IS, 1 907. The hanging took place at. noon and there were few persons present. Among those who witnessed the hanging were the father, brother and uncle of the murdered man. .lust before the drop fell Graham made a statement, admitting that he was guilty of, stealing and tying. Do said that he hated to bo hanged fot murder, but that he was prepared fyr the inevitable. On the night of Nov. IS, 1907, Furman Moody, who had been employed as manager on Mr. Williamson's plantation, went hunting. While i... .. II,>in ,.u tin, nl'ifn I Jcl MSI I 1 H 1<l V.UI II ll\ l\l WII t lit/ Jf.ttt lie hoard what he thought, was some one breaking corn. lie hailed and was answered, "I am Isaiah Hosliov, don't shoot. I surrender." Immediately he was fired upon, the wounds causing his death some days afterwards in Charleston, whither he had been carried in order to get medical attention at the hospital. Isaiah Unstick was afterwards arrested and so was daddy Graham who was put in jail to answer to th charge of having killed Moody. H was found tlisit Unstick was not it any way implicated; his name wai given Moody by daddy in order t( deceive him as to who was in tin field, daddy had tried to cover It it tracks in every way hut was caught and tit the trial the testimony of i woman who had gone with him it the wagon to steal the corn eorrobo rated other testimony and (iaddv wai convicted and sentenced to he hangei on Friday, May 1, 1908. " 1 HOLD TliIIOVIOS. hound and (htggcd Messenger am Looted the Safe. "After a desperate battle with tw< robbers, the messenge" iir charge o the express car of the New York?St Louis express of the Pennsylvani; road, was bound and gagged, tosse< into a corner, and left there, whit the intruders looted the safe in th car of four bags of currency and goli and then signalled the engineer t. stop. When the train slowed dowi the men jumped off the car and ei caped. ; In trying to ascertain the cause o the signal to stop, the train Orel i found the car door open and the met i senger inside. According to the met ; senger's story, he was busily engap i ed as the train left the union statio i at Pittsburg, Pa., at 10:15 p. tt Without warning he was attackc( r and at Carnegie, eight miles froi , Pittsburg, the stop signal was give * and the men got away. tIBE NO FAVOR BRYAN. Congressmen in Doubtful States Declare That He Would ENTHUSE THE PEOPLE .\ml roll More Votes Than Any Othei 1 Candidate the Democrats Could Nominate.?They Say All States Should Send Instructed Delegates for llryan to the Democratic Convention at Denver. "We want you to tell the Democrats of South Carolina that, with one exception, there is not a Democratic. congressman, who represents a doubtful district west of the Alle| ghany mountains who does not feel I that the defeat of Hryan at the Denver convention would imperil Democratic success in his district. We want the aid of the South to preserve our political lives, and we do not want the Democrats to wait till the Denver convention but to express themselves now in no uncertain terms I>y instructing their delegates t'oi Bryan. "If Bryan is t.ie nominee, then we will certainly return (o congress and other doubtful districts in our States now represented by Republicans will send Democrats. If Bryan is defeated for the nomination, many of us will as certainly be defeated. We keep in close touch with the sentiment in our districts, as we have to. and tits is our deliberate judgment. Ths is what Judge 1). W. Shackleford. a congressman from Missouri, said to Mr. Zack McGhee, the Washington correspondent of The State one day last week, to which there was hearty and unanimous agreement at an informal conference Mr. MeCJhee held with Democratic congressmen from the Middle West tSates at Congress hall. There were presml. be sides Judge Shack leford, Messrs. Hamilton of Iowa. Murphy of Wscon sin. Russell of Missouri, Adair of Indiana, Ashbrook of Ohio, and Kimball of Kentucky. Mr. McGhee had talked in the afternoon also with Messrs. Denvr of Ohio, and Dixon and Ranch of Indiana. They are all of one. acccrd and without reserve in declaring that the defeat of Bryan at Denver, if anything should bring about such an unexpected possibilit y, would mean disaster to Democratic hopes not only for the presidential and e ngressional 'tickets but for all local tickets. And they each assure him that this is tin view entertained by all the Memorialic congressmen in the States of the Middle West. Willi t no single exrep lion of Mr. Hntmnond of Minnesota, who thinks that Johnson would he stronger in Minnesota than Bryan. "If Bryan is nominated," sai l one. "then 1 export to run and get elected, hut if any movement host lie to Mr. Bryan names another man, then I know that there is not a por-silde chance for me, because Democrats will knife the whole ticket. If any other man should be nominated, even thongh not hostile to Bryan, the Pern? crats would not come to the polls for it is impossible to get up any en1 thusiasin except for Bryan." I "There are live counties in my die: triet," said Mr. Ashbbrook of Ohio. "Two of these are Republican, two . are doubtful, though now Democratic > and one is safely Democratic. With I Bryan heading the ticket, I can easily > carry the two doubtful districts and * will got a plurality of 2,00b, 'tut if > Bryan is not named at Denver 1 fear 1 lite consequences, though even hen f * think 1 could get a plurality of someL tiling like 1.000 " i Mr Denve" of Ohio ts the first * Democrat who has ever represented - his district in Congress. He has been * tin* county chairman'of the Demot cratic party in his county and h< ' knows the sentiment among the people throughout Ohio. IBs district i now normally Republican by nearly 5^000. lie says with Bryan as the j nominee there is an excellent chance of carrying Ohio for the Democratic party.. Mr. Hamilton is the only Democrat > finm tfiwii "With Brvan as the Deni * w... ? ocratic nominee," he said, "and with Taft the Republican nominee foi I president, Allison again nominated ' for the senate, I believe there is ni L' excellent chance of carrying Iowa e This would not be the case with anj ' other man in place of Bryan. In tin 0 northern part of Iowa, next to Minnc II sota, there is a Jittle sentiment foi Johnson, but the overwhelming sent! nipnt amone Iowa Democrats is be f ond all possible doubt for Bryan, am v he is a great favorite with Kepuhli 5" cans." Only two other men nientlone* ?" Johnson. One of these was Mr. Mm n phy of Wisconsin. "We know John son up in Wisconsin," said he, "am the people do not take to him a n all. They want Bryan. I hones'l 11 believe that Bryan could carry Wis * consin aganst Taft. Mr. Murphy' W TO LOST WITH SHIP An Awful Accident Befalls ' Cruiser of Japanese Navy. FEARFUL EXPLOSION Dnunvd n the Stock Magazine While ,j the Veasel l4?y at Anchor at Ma- 1 s kang. Almost the Kiitiro Crew of l] t Young Officers is Relieved to llave r Cone Down With Their Ship. s A dspntch from Tokio, Japan, says I the training cruiser Matsushima was ' sunk off the Pescadores Islands Thursday morning by the explosion j of a projectile. The cruisers Itsukhhna and Unshi- , date rescued 3 0 of the crew. It is believed that over 300 officers c and men. includng the captain of the Matsushima are lost. The cruiser Matsushima has a (lis- . placement of l.L'77 tons, being about { the size and carrying practically the same arnnment as the United States , ciuiser Olympia. it carried one 13- j inch and 1 1 four-nch guns. li was one of liie older slips of the . Japanese navy, liaving been built in j 18110 at a cost of $1,000,000. The total crew numbered 3o0 olli- , tors and men. Admiral Mnspiamtsu, commander J Oi the training Htiuadron reports ilwit the explosion occurred in the stock magazine of the cruiser at 4: OS o'clerk Thursday morning while the vessel was anchored at Makang 'The cruiser immedalely sank until only the hrdge was visible. Kfforts at rescue by boats from the cruisers llashidate and the Itsukhinui continued until 0 a. ni., and I It men were saved, and at that time the ad- j mill's report, the cadets saved numbered f>S out cf the completemeni of 300. 'The sons of Itnron Chinda, viceminister of the foreign ollice, and of I'rince Ogtna, Held marshal, ate among the cadets who it is feared, are lost; also Captains Maine, Yosliinoro and Ysishiro. The cause of the (explosion is unknown. | An additional report from Admiral 1 commander of the squadron, gives t lie list of dead as 1."?!); Ml having been rescued by the crews of other cruisers. All others except four went down* with t lie ship. Captains Maine, Vpshimora and Yashiro are among the drowned. The cruiser was coming to anchor at 4:lh a. in., when, with out warning there was a terrillc explosion and the cruiser foundered almost immediately. It is supposed the explosion occurred in magazine No. 2. Will Not Shut Down. I he cotton nulls in (ire.enville, An dcrson nnd I'ickens were not represented tit the meeting hold in Spartanburg on Saturday when it was intimated that most of the mills in the Piedmont had agreed to suspend operation on July I. As a matter of fact the mills in (Jreenville do not intend to suspend at any time. district is largely Republican, but party lines are being broken up. The people want reform and they will vote lor the man who they think will give it to them, the three favorites being Roosevelt, LaFollette and Bryan." All the Indiana Democrats refer to the three districts in their State now represented by Republicans who hold their seats by small majorities. These are Ullhams, with a majority of a 50 over his Democratic opponent, with 1,4!M) votes for the Prohibition and Socialist candidates; Chancy, wth 15 10 majority over tin* Democrat, end I,<>20 votes for the Prohibition and Socialist candidates, and the lat<? air. Rrick, who had a majority of 207 over the Democrat and 2,100 for other candidates These districts, they all declare, will he safely in the ' Democratic column if Rryan is nominated, and as surely Republican if he ! is not. Messrs Shackleford and Russel dis! cussed the situation in Missouri, and they say that if Rryan is nominated ' Missouri will not only come hack Into the Democratic column so far as the 1 presidential electors are concerned, but that 15 of the 16 congressmen will be Democrats. There are now 1 12 Democrats and four Republicans ' from Missouri. Congressman Ralney of Illinois says, "I can not speak from personal knowledge as to any other State, but I do know Illinois," he said. "We have a good chance of carrying Illinois if Rryan is the nom" inee. With any one else nominated there is absolutely no chance. With Rryan at the head of the ticket, wo can elect I 0 Democratic congressmen. 1 I think we could elect nine without him. We now have five." Mr. Itainev himself carried his dstriet hv 1 about 5,000 plurality, so that Bryan's 1 defeat would not seriously effect him. y Ho declares that it would have a " vital effect upon the Democracy of 8 the State, which is all for Bryan. THE WEIRD THINGS JtF TOM) AltOl'T TUH l>OI\(iS OF SOMK FANATIC'S. Wo Followcis of "Fnkiiowti Tongue" Will ll(< Arraigned on ('liiH'gfl of Miliary in Pike County, (in. There liavo boon sonic sensational evelopnients in Pike County, On., reently with reference to a religious ect which has been operating for the >ast several years through that seeion, Vega, In Plko county being the entral points of operations. A lot of heso people have been acting so trangely that they have been soverey criticised, and in fact, in a untitle r of instances their conduct has icon such, it is claimed that it has lecoine objectionable to the coininuut.v. Last summer they ran a camp neeting at Vega, wliich t?ee?nie so noorius that people from the entire unrounding country flocked there to vitness the performances. The leaders claimed to have received miracuous power, and to have a special ! .a ??w. ? i iiiwi i limn iu?- ii 11 iv i u > v\ 11 lungiie, which consisted of such an alleged jabbering as was probably never beore witnessed, unitelliglldo to ordllary begins Init clearly understood as hoy claimed by all the followers of he new religion. Some times various individuals would go off into a tranes like state, n which condition they would remain for hours and days, and at. times weeks. Some times some of them would tramp the fields and woods, diouting and moaning, until the neighborhood would become alarmed iiicl the women and children much frightened, in the meantime representatives of the new sect were travding the country, begging funds with which to establish an orphans' homo it. Vega and a large framed building had been erected, where several chil Iron had been collected. This condition continued until the I'ike County grand jury met two weeks ago. when certain citizens of llie county went before the body and nsked relief at its hands. It seems I hat the grand jury, in its efforts to aid the people of that section, returned two hills against two victims if tlte new religious order and the investigations of I lie alleged home resulted in two children from the home appearing before the b?dv in /mixtion and from there sent ??> their former home in Columbus, tin. Tin* citizens of Vega then took a hand and after public meetings no>itied Manager Stafford that he was nut a proper person to he in charge of the place and that a proper man would have to he put in charge or the place closed. All children there were immediately sent, to their former homes and it is probable that the orphanage is out 01 business. interesting developnitnls have been going 011, howovo/, in iho ranks of the holiness followers. When the sheriff of (lie county went to arrest the young man and young woman, charged with vagrancy, a wonderful state of affairs was discussed. from the information obtained these two people went into a trance at the camp meeting last summer, in which they lingered many days. They then went to the home of the young man's father where they have since been, actually refusing to do a single thing, not even bathing or changing wearing apparel. The food on which they have subsisted hud to be carried to their rooms and fed to them. The> are sights to look upon. Strange as it may seem, the fat hot of this young man is a resneetubit citizen and the faiinly esteemed it the community and they stoutly main tain that there is nothing the mattei with the young man and the youuj woman except that they "had the power of the lloly Ghost." In tin discharge cf his duty the sheriff car tied the two to Zebulon and placet them in jail. The friends of the fam tly tit once made bond for their re lease, but when the sheriff opened tin doors and told them to walk out the* declined, saying that the "Lord hat put them in jail and when lie order od thorn out they would ouey." . FAMOUS OUTLAW CAUGHT. .John Harper Surrounded by a Larg< Posho and Captured. A special from Copper Hill, Tenu states that a posse of Tennessee ant Georgia citizens and United States of fleers have captured in the moun tsiin? of Fannin fiountv. Tennosser the notorious outlaw. John Harpei Harper murdered Allison Englari near Blue Ridge over a year ag? He was arrested and incarceratd i jail In Atlanta February I, 190? pending his appeal to the suprem court for the murder of Sheriff Kelt of Murray county, Georgia in Jul: 11)07. Howards amounting to neai ly $900 dollars were out for his ai rest which was accomplished by mai ing him believe that the house 1 ' which he was concealed was bein burned down. HORRY II $ THEY WERE HUNG Toland Brothers Pay Death Penalty for Awful Crime. AN ORDERLY CROWD Of About Four Hundred Witnessed the Execution in tlie Lexington .lull Yurd?I loth Were Hanged l>'rout the Same Scaffold.?They llekt Firmly to Their Former Story of the Murder. At Lexington on Friday Ned and (track Toland paid the penalty of death for the murder of Mrs. Paul Klllsor on February 2G. They died at a few luinuieH past twelve o'clock, both being hanged front the same gallows. "I am ready to die and tell everybody to moot mo in hoaven," wore tho parting words of each. To t ho last thoy hold to tholr fornior story of tho crltno as thoy told it on tho witness stand at Lexington on March I'J. Tho nog rocs mot death with scarcely a tremor. Tho eyes of (track, tho younger of tho boys, displayed a slight moistnoss. The cunning, Instinctively criminal Nod shod not a tear and ho mot death with apparently as little concern as if it wore tho most commonplace thing. The boys stood erect while tho black caps were being adjusted and very calmly hold their heads in position for the sheriff to arrange the ropes about their necks. Ignorant, depraved, they died without possibly a true realization of tho horrible and atrocious crime which they had commtted. The hundreds who witnessed the execution from housetops, trees, fences, etc., firmly believed that justice was being meted out to them, hut not one would have deigned deny them Hie privilege of feeling that "all Is right with God The trap was sprung tit. 'i.Fiu a. in., and in 1 1 minutes Nod was pronounced dead and in two militates more the last lilt of life left the body of Itraek. They died from strangulation. As the bodies dropped they swung around for a fe wseconds and then all was still. It was thought that Brack was killed Instantly, his body hanging perfectly motionless, with not ;i twicti of tho liands or foot. Nod's foot and hands drew up and ruluxod ropoatediy and ito diod with ti struggle. Cu?l six minutos had elapsed wJion Brack sliowed signs of life and then his lingers began to twitch and once or twico itls foot drew up before his body again became motionless. Dr. 10. I*. Derrick, country physician, Dr. .f. 1'. Drafts of lbirre, Dr. L. It. 101 her id ge of Leesvillo a n <! Dr. It. 10. Mothias of Irmo, constantly examined the bodies at at 12.o?; Ned was pronounced dead. At 12.08 Brack was pronounced dead. They were allowed to remain suspended in tin; air until 12.20, when both bodies were cut down and placed in cheap pine collins furnished by the county. No one claimed the bodies and at t ' o'clock Sheriff Corley turned them 1 over to Mr. It. D. Clark, coroner, and > Mr. Gee II. Koon, county supervisor, 1 and they were taken to the poiters* ' held and hurled without ceremony. * dbowncd nr,Bsi;br Because She Thought She Had Killed i ller Child. Crazed by the thought that alio I might have accidentally killed her ^ son by a mistaken dose of medicine ten mouths ago, Mrs. It. L. Poole . jumped in tho lOtowah river and drowned herself Thursday. Site lived in Rome, Ca. On Wednesday she was tried for lunacy and found guilty. , Sim resisted going to jail and was \ committed to the care of her busKott/i /I it t*i o <r t /I o 1/ \A7 It i I o hoc h no. MIIIM U U I 1 II h HIV VUIJ . U IIIIV IIVJI II UO" ? band was not looking she slipped away, went to the river and jumped in. It was found that she had tied her own arms before jumping into the river to prevent any efforts being '* made unconsciously. AS IF BY MAGIC. [1 Biiiul and Deaf Man Has Ills Hearing and Sight Hestored. b At. Chicago a supposed deaf and * blind mandicant, who had heen ard rested was fined $3 0 and costs by > Judge Wells. As if by magic tho t"? man's hearing and eyesight were restored and ho took $80 from one of o his pockets and counted out the ah mount of the fine. He was then ib searched by the police and a bank r- book showing a deposit of $t,4f>2 was f- found. "You won't need these cards v i wnicn ten 01 your iosi nearing ana n I poor eyslght slnoo both have been >S I restored," the court remarked, and "ItUo pasteboard was destroyed. IERALD.