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'many burned Tlw Numbs/of Casualties in the Forest Fires May . NEVER BE KNOWN . Tie, Fire* Are Still Burning and a reat Many KVopto Have Been Boned Out and Are Now Camping in Open Fields or Hnddlcd Together la Buildings. Dispatches from Alpena, Mich., indicate that the number of doaths in the foroet fires of Presque Isle mid Alpena counties will exceed 50, and may run well up towards 100. la the Ticlnlty of Metz, Bolton and Po*>?m, the fires have burned out sufficiently to leave several hundred women and children camping with comparative safety in the open fields. News has reached Alpena of the death of an old couple named Pa< fcinski, who were burned to death In their home near Posey. Their chart-j d bodies were found in the ruins of their hmisA Tti_n tmillv tmrnrwi - - m * ) of rd unknown umn was found on the railroad track between Posen and Met*. | It is now estimated that twentvi hree people lost their lives in the fostruetlon of the ill fated Metz re I lief train Thursday evening. It is doubtful, however, if the names of eight of tho victims will ever bo knoAvn. Camped in the open fields or huddled together in tho few buildings, and shacks left in the little communities which hnve been swept by the Mres are hundreds of men. women and children, who are In abject need of the absolute necessities of life. Tint one fresh report of loss of life came into Alpena today. Henry Hines, his wife and two children are said to have been cremated on their farm near Cathro. Between Metz and Rogers City seven more bodies have been found, making a total of 2 0 lives that are known to have been lost in Presquo Tsle and Alpoa counties since Thursday night. MiTiK dealer ia detected. Typhoid in Family of Farmer Who Huppliea Him. t A Chicago dispatch says after dis UIWIO lllllll IlllJ i:UVt!H til typhoid fever nmong customers of Ernest Pilcher, a West Pullman milk dealer, officials of the department oT health have ordered him to discontinue the sale of milk immediately and started proceedings to have his license revoked. A police guard was requisitioned by Dr. Gottfried Koehler, chief food inspector, to sse that the order, which will affect about 300 customers, is enforced nnd that the dealer does not send out any wagons. Health department inspectors found typhoid in the family of one of the farmers from whom Pichler obtains his supply of milk. According to Dr. Koehler, Pichler knew of these facts as long ago as Monday. but continued to dltrlbuto milk until the Inspectors stopped him. * KILLED BY FALL. "Berkeley County Citizen Fatally Injured at a Baptizing. A dispatch from Monck's Corner, to The News and Courier says "Mr. George Mlms, a well known mechanic, met with an Occident which resulted in his death a few hours 'later. Ho was at a baptizing at Canal Bridge and had climbed up a tree to get berries for the children when a !lmb broke and he fell a distance of 30 feet. Dr. W. K. Flshhnrn was hastily summoned, who used nil medical skill to revive him, but without avail. His death Is ver3' much regretted." 81X WERK KILLED. lacking Itynamlto Cup Resulted la Dstaster to Many. Near Fort Collins, Colo., six peruana were Instantly killed and twentyone others Injured by an explosion ? " ? ? * ~ n? V. InarlnoMn T lm 4. OF OynM.IllH.tJ III mu iuhivn>Mv> ....... w stone Quarry. The dead Include two Japanese and four Mexicans. Five charges of dynamite had been placed, hut only four of them exploded as arranged. While an attempt was being made to pick the cap from the unexploded charge It wer^ofT. Orangeburg Oomew Second. According to The State Orangeburg contributes the second largest amount to the National Democrat tc Campaign fund of any county in the State. Richland comes first and Orangeburg second, t SUB! I TRIES TO DODGE IIKAR8T REACHED BY BREAKING DOWN DOOR. , if Sheriff Starts to Break in Door of Toilet Room When Ho Comet* Out and Surrender*. After a dramatic scene on a Union Pacific train at Omaha, Neb., Thursday night in which the door of his stateroom woa burst open by a deputy sheriff, William Randolph Hearst, millionaire editor, was served with papers notifying him that suit fc1600,000 has been brought against him for slander and libel by Governor Charles N. Haskell, of Oklahoma, In the Douglas county, Nebraska, district court. The suit was filed with the dl*trlct court last night, aftor which the papers were immediately withdrawn. The train did not arrive until 11:25. A deputy sheriff was on hand with orders to serve the summons on Hearst. A knock o 1 the door of Hearst's state-room elicited the information from the editor's wife that he was not in the | room, but had gone to tho station to send a telegram. Tho deputy sheriff demanded admittance In the name of the law, saying, If not admitted, he would break down the door. There ensued a dramatic scene. Mrs. Hearst on the Inside screamed o uit she was alone and would admit no man, and the deputy proceeded to carry out his threat; using his shoulder as a battering ram. he crashed through tho door and was mot by Mrs. Hearst, partially disrobed, apparently on tho verge of hysteria. Nothing daunted, although Mrs. Hearst rushed screaming through the door out in the aisle, Deputy Sheriff Stewart started to kick in the door of the toilet room adjoining the state-room. Then Hearst emerged and accepted the papers. To a reporter Hearst said that the summons wns unexpected, and he had not the olast suspicion that anything of the kind was to occur In Omaha. "Why did yon refuse admittance to the officers?" was asked. "Because myself and wife were retiring for thfe night," explained Hearst. "I have no objection to being served with thoso papers here in Omaha or anywhere else." A PKKDICrriON VKRIFIKD About a Trust tJoblod flo?p Factory in Nebraska. In a speech nt Nebraska City Mr. Hryan compared his meeting there this year with his meeting there in 1900, and left with the chair man of the committee $5 to be presented to the campaign fund of the Republican committee if they would consent to carry the samo banners in their parade that they carried at that time. At that time ho predicted that the starch trust, which was being prosecuted under the State statue would he likely to close the factory at that place, and it was intimated that physical violance would he done him if ho spoke in that city. "I told them then that 1 would denounce the trust even in the shadow of the Htarch factory," he said. "Where are the Republicans who mockingly wrote to me after tho election and declared that the shadow of the starch factory extended across the State? Howfar does tho shadow reach now? Tho factory is closed down; the machinory has been removed and the building is in tho hands of a wrecking crew." AAUT1IKU NKW IWNTI I*ro|M>Hod Out of Portions of Aiken *nd Lnxingtoa. A dispatch from Columbia to The Nows and Courier says the promotor of the project to form from portions of Alkon and Lexington counties a new county, to be known a* "Summerland," have seized upon the failure of tho Edlsto new count) proposition as an ausplciouB occasion for the renewal of effort In bohalf of their own scheme. It li claimed that the necessary territory with the required population and area, can be found in the old coua ties, and that there should by al moans be a county seat on the rail road between Columbia and Augu.v (a. Leesvlllo and Batesburg are th< two wings that would soon gathei around the Court House, making ar Inland city with modern equipments.* i Killed fry a Trolley. The Charleston Post says vrhlb attempting to cross In front of t navy yard car this morning In th< Meeting street road, opposite Ken nerty's farm, J. Williams, colored a farm laborer, was struck down am i his body nearly severed In two plec.?i I almost before Motorman Fred Mosle: realized wh?* had happenod. 1 SCRIBE I A GRAVE CHARGE The President Accused of Using en Offfice to Buy LABOR LEADER KEEFE Whose Change to Taft From Hrynn Accounted for by the Democratic I*rcKH Agent, who Hays Keefe wan l*romi?ed Immigration Comnils* (doner's Office to I>e?ert (k?iu|x?rM. The National Democratic Committee, through Johu G. Gordon, asslstant and acting chief of the press bureau at headquarters in New York, made public the following statement Tuesday night. "It was stated at the National i Democratic Committee headquarters Tuesday night that President Roosevelt by promise of ofllee hnH succeeded In having one of tho big men of the American Federation of Labor desert President Gompers in his advocacy of the election of Mr. Dryaa for the Presidency. "Tho labor leader In question L Daniel J. Keefe. of Detroit. nrouifi??n? 'of (he International Association of Longshoremen, and one of the vlc.?presidents of the Federation of Laj bor. "The Democratic committee alleges that Keefo and the President were closeted for several hours in Washington on Saturday, October 3. and the offer of being named commisloner general of immigration, made vacant by the deatn of Commissioner Sargent, was made In consideration of Keefe'a repudiating Mr. Oompers and the exocutivo council of the Federation. "Keefo, on Saturday last. Issued n statement In which ho said: 'Am going to vote for Wm .H. Taft. "It is pointed out that on September 2 8 last, the executive council of the American Federation of Labor issued a circular calling on all organizations of labor to work for the defeat of Mr. Tuft and Republican Congressmen seeking re-election an-1 Mr. Keefe authorized his signature to be attached to it. "The scource of tho Democratic committee's information was not divulged, but the information was of fered that If Mr. Keefe or President Roosevelt deny the charges, another big lat>or leader, now in New York, will come forward with facts to prove that the offer was made, and that Mr. Keefe accepted it and has comro nnoo/1 i/v n b /\ ?" 4 " r I mvuvvu iw iimau guuu illM Ul the deal." TUItNTCl> GRAVK8 IK)\VN. Hearst's C>an(]i<]?t? Tried t<? Speak Amid Cheers for Bryan. In Baltimore wide publicity having been given the announcement that Wm, R. HearBt and John Templn Graves would address a meeting of the Independence party, the Princes Theatre was packed tonight. A telegram was read from Mr. Hearst expressing his regrets. It was learned later that the announcement that he would speak was made by mistake. Mr. Graves In his speech credited Mr. Ilearst with having Injected Intu this campaign all the Interest It possessed, and then severely criticised both the Democratic and Republican parties. He flayed Wm. J. Bryan, 1 the mention of whose name, however, was heartily cheered. The speaker attacked the Democratic vice presidential nominee, declaring Mr. Kern to be the paid represents tlve of a railroad corporation con, victed of criminality. A man in the gallery was ejected for repeatedly shouting "Are you not in tha pay of Wm. Randolph Hearst?" 1 The ejection of the questioner was followed by a call for cheers for Brvf?n whlrh worn clvnn In unrh a manner that Mr. Graven threatened ' to appeal to the pollco to secure him ) a hearing * r HANK OI/ISKS. ! r Cashier Kills Himself With a Gar 1 in Ills llnni. 1 A Rpeclal from Bradford Ark. - says Following the closing of the - Bradford State Bank and Issuanc* ) of a warrant yeBterdny for the arrest r of the cashier, II. Drennan, who wai i alleged to ' o short In his acc.ounti to the extent of $10,000. Drennan'1 dead body was found In the barn at his home today. The shotgur r. with which the man evidently endet i his life was found nearby. 1 3 ltryan Negro Club. , At Springfield, Ohio, Thursda; 1 night a Bryan Club, six hundre< P strtinf wnn nri'nnhoH Kv fSo novr /1 voters, led by colored soldiers win ''formerly served nt Brownsville. row to JURORS GAMBLED ON TIIK I JFK OF A MAN TI1KY TH1KD. Verdict Hot Aside KWauw Two Jurors ltcoorted to (>aro? of Cftanco )u Order to Arrive mt m Conclusion. A dispatch from Aiken to The News and Courior says William Knox, tho couvictod murder of Pickens Penu, was given a new trial b> Judge Wilson, who heard the argumeats for a uew trial on the ground of irregularity in the Jury room. Knox was convicted or murder last week in the Criminal Court, but he was not sentenced at that time in order that his counsel might be heard in a motion for a new trial. Last Saturday tho defendant waa called up to bo sentenced, but the sol!citv>r asked for a postponement until yesterday. The arguments were begun lato yesterday afternoon and ended thla morning by the Judge setting aside tho verdict. The ground for the new trial is most unusual. Affidavits were produced by Knox's counsel. Messrs. Henderson and Davis, Hunter and Gyles, from four of tho jurors who sat on tho case. These affidavits were tn effect that ton of the jurymen stood for murder, without recommendation, and that two stood for murder with recommendation to the mercy of the Court, thus reducing the sentence to life Imprisonment. They could not arrive at a conclusion by reasoning the matter and resorted to tho uncertain game of chance. It was proposed that two slips of paper, one marked "murder." which was to stand for no roc 1 * ? - * * iMiM-iniui inn, nun vn? otnor 10 i>o marked "mercy," to Indicate a recominondatlon for mercy, were to be placed in a hat and drawn for. This whh agreed to and the Blips were placed In the hat. It wbo agreed by the two that if the 'murder" Blip wa? drawn they would give in to the ten, and If the "mercy" Blip wrh drawn the verdict Hhoul 1 bo guilty with a recommendation to mercy. Fate was against Knox in the Jury room and when the draw wuh made the "murder" slip was drawn out. and the verdict was accordingly signed and rendered to the Court. Tho defendant's counsel contend ed that this was gambling the life of tho defendant away, nnd could not lmvo been their honest convictions, and wns contrary to the law, nnd asked that tho verdict be set aside. * THK FIOIIT WON. Chairman Mack Confident of Hweoping Democratic Victory. Chairman Mack, before leaving Chicago for tho Kast Friday said: "When I came West some two weeks ago I realized that the tide had turned toward Democracy and every indication pointed to victory for the Democracy in November. The Kit nation la far better now than then and I return East confident in the election of Mr. Hryan. I have not received one discouraging report Mr. 1 try an will not only receive the majority of the electoral vote, bur one of the greatest popular votes evi r given a candidate. "The fight is won, tint we must keep everlastingly at It for the ro1 malning two weeka of the campaign. It Is too early to give out figures, and 1 will not attempt to do so, but I will say now that New York, Ohio and ' Indiana are Democratic this yea' and my prediction does not take Into ^ consideration a number of other I States that will swing from the Re' nublicnn to the Democratic column two weeks from Tuesday." NEOHOEH LYNCH NKCRO ' Fop Stealing a Hale of Cotton From > a Ola. L A dispatch from Hornando. Miss., reports the lyneing near that place i last night of W. J. Jackson, a negro, by members of his own race. Jackson. It is stated, was discovered while attempting to remove a bale of cotton. the property of another negro. ( from a gin Tuesday night. He escaped, but was captured later yesterday, nnd while being taken to Jail was secured and hanged by u mo>i | composed of negroes. ( MURDKIlRll HANGBD. 5 I lode to the Oallows on His Own A New Coffin. ' At FayetteTilie, ua., on t mi mi ay 1 Jim Dennett, a negro, woh hapgej ' for the murder of D. McEachern, r white man, last September. Dennett wns carried to the gallows on the v collln In which he was to bo burled I The negro also shot down Seaborr d Adams, another white man, wh: r? attempted to disarm him after he bai killed McEachern. ' THE 1 FELL IN THE SEA i Another American Air Ship Meets with Disaster] HAD EXCITING TIME The 1'aMNangorH, Suddenly Finding Themwelvew (>?er Itoep Water, 1K>? 1 Life Pmwnrers, Descend to Water ? and are Finally Rescued by Mfo ( Kaveiw. < A dispatch from Merlin, Germany, t HayH the Hecond of the three Amorl- I can hallooiiH that started In the race ( for the international trophy on Hun- f day from Schniargendorf has met I disaster in the North soa. The f "Saint IxiuiB," manned hy N. II. Ar- f nold, of North Aduitis, Mass., aitd 11 Hurry J. Hewitt, was carried over- 1 land to treacheroua air currents an 1 ( later in the haze the aeronauts loat " their boaringH until suddenly they ? saw the guard lights or an unknown f coast. '1 This meant that they must doseem! or risk the danger of being ' driven far out of the track of ves- ' sels. They chose the former course ' Jlltd for nil >?.?.? -?" - - ..wii u II>\V WIT',} IHIIItTtMl ' by the waves, olinost giving up in ^ despair. 1 Kvontuully they were rescued by a f life boat, and the 11 rut intimation that 1 an accident had occurred to the * "Saint Louis" whh conveyed la a wire leas message from Arnold Haying: ' "Lost everything in the North Sea 11 last night." ( Following so cloHely on the draniatic experience of A. Holland For- ( ben and AuguRtufl Post, the navlga- ' tors of the "Conqueror," which burst 1 at an altitude of four thousand feot soon after the start of the race, troth N men having a thrilling escape rot* death, the disaster to fhe "Saint ( Louis" was the subject of ?xcitod interest in Herlin throughout the day and (wiling. The ptets cot.mimical with ' Mr. Arnold at Wilhelmshttveu, to which place he had been transported by one of the torpedo boats, which were sent out to render assistance to any of the balloonists who might drift out over the water. , Mr. Arnold told a graphic story of the mishap. He said: "All day Monduy with the exception of the eat Ij r.fternoo*i we were unable to see the earth awl we lowered the balloon repeatedl to coin- t Munlcute with poo* e 10 aaccr tain our whereabouts. Apparently we could not make them understand, but i ft Ik probab'e was du'i to our \ poor German. Finally we decided ( to risk proee ;dln,r, still having twen- , ty sacks of ballasT. j 'Moving in a north wen: ji ly dlroc- i 'iOi .1 .vening a passed a c'.y, ( the lights of which were visihl a five ; miles to the west and wo learned later that it was Rremerhaven. Soon afterwards we noticed light houses and buoys, which convinced us that we were moving about big water, but we had no idea where we woro. "In order to avoid drifting out of the line of ship trafllco we concluded to go down to the water but beefor doing so we put on life preservers. This was a perolious task, lor it was dark and there was great danger of being swamped in the basket. "After pitching about in the wain. nU.w.nl n., V - 1 -I-.I vui iwi iiiiuuni. ?ii iiuui iiuu up till hopes of rescue, Hewitt, who had climbed into the rising, discovered a flash light and soon afterward was a life l>oat approaching us. The boat, however, could noi reach us, as we wero being dragged through $ie waves at tho rate of about fifteen or twenty miles an hour. The boatman shouted to ua to Jump overboard, which we did. "I tried to suve the St. Ix>uls Club's ballon by ripping it up, but the rope was Jerked out of my hands. About ten minutes later I was picked p by the boat, which in the mean time had saved my companion. Hewitt. We were landed here, too tired to proceed to Berlin, whither we will go. , Two of the competitors in the en| durance raoes have not been reported, and it is hoped that these , escaped tho changeable lower currents which affected the other competitors and succeeded at higher altitudes in reaching Russia. A report received here from Wag> erloog Island, In the North Sea, says that a balloon passed over there, but that there was no further tidings of , it. The flotilla of torpedo boat do1 stroyers is searching tho North Bea. i 1 where a thick fog prevails. LI il Caused IIIn Death. J. R. Judd, said to bo a woalthy Npw Yorker, died at Richmond, Va., > Friday of poisoning na a result of 1 drinking a beverage containing acetn* nllid. *1 I0RRY m CAPERS WRITES. TO SOUTH CAROLINA COMMIftNIONKRH OK KLRCTTION. Insinuates That Repabliaui Votes Cant In Thin State Are Not Covnted bjr the Manager*. John O. Capera, the member of the Republican national committee tor 3outh Carolina, has seat the following lottcr to tho commissioners of >lectlon for the State: Washington, D. C., Oct. 14, 1H8. JonimlHstoner of Bloctloa of floath .iaroHnu.?11 y Dear Sir: Rxeept In >no or two of the lower counties in ho State there are no accredited Re~ Hiblican nominees for office In South Carolina to rilHturb your local afnirs in the State. While in the sanction of commissioners of election or South Carolina the Republican* ihvo had no voice or choice. I hops ind believe that in a spirit of falriohb you will alio* those who whiU o vote a national Republican ticket in opportunity under your direction is commissioner to east their voten or Mr. Taft and have them counts 1. I'll at Ih all the Republican* ask. Conditions which have promoted liany of our citizens to resort to not hods unnece8Hiiry to review no onger exist, and at this time u purely inlional proposition is involved. It vould sooiii, therefore, that a spirit >f absolute fairness and justice ihould prevail, and I have confidence hat you will see to It thut we are jiven a aqua re deal. I value ns highly as you do the radittons and history of my State iinl my people, and there are hunlreds of men In South Carolina who 'eel as I do and yet who can we no larthly form of disloyalty in contrihitlng through their ballot to a per>etuatlon of the financial and Indunrlal prosperity of the whole country, vhich seems permanent only when a lopublican president and u Ropubli:an Congress are in power. Tho Panama Canal, certain tenure of protection, the great need ?f Improving our river in the South, dead to us to get for South Carolina iomo national standing and enjoy he resulting national influence and issistunce for tho development of our float resources. Hespectfully. JOHN O. CAPERS, Member Republican National Committee for South Carolina. CAN THIS UK THUE? V Farmer Arn^tcd for Assaulting a l>efortn<Hl Idiot. A disnatch from Pninmiiio ?. tv. V. ? ./11* n# I and Courier says the Governor's ofllco hue so far received no notification of the arrest made Thursday fit Sumter of J. Z. Wooten, a Sumter County white farmer, on a warrant charging him with criminally ashjiu11iitk hlK deformed anil Idiot 14yoar-old step-daughter, Zora Moseley, whom Wooten had on exhibition here last Fair week. According to the Sumter Item of Thursday, the arrest was made on the arrival of the Orangeburg train to Sumter, the girl's uncle, M. D. Moseley, going to Wooten's home and Inducing him to come to Sumter with the girl and its mother. Moseley, according to the Sumter paper, got the warrant from a magistrate In New Hrookland, Loxlngton county, and It was based on information furnished by Wooten's wife, tho mother of the child. Wooten was placed In the Sumter Jail to awa't the oflleers of I,exlngton. Whether he has been carried to Lexington is not known here. The Fair week crowds did not patronise the exhibition here, the result being that some sympathetic chorus girls found the mother and child In a destitute condition and exponed in a tent, and took them to a hotel and fed them. # KIIXKD AT (1KRENVIL1JS. Kn^liNhman With (^riirAl Oonipau) l>ea?l?Motornmii Armti^L The killing at Greenville of Fred kuble. an attache of the Johnny JonoR Carnival Company, at midnight Thurwday at the carnival grounds, by a man believed to be Jesae Harrltton, a street car motorman, hat created conwidernble excitement hero. Kubio wa? an FnirilRhman. and the carnival management ha? placed the case In the hands of the British amhaBHador at Washington. Harrison Is in Jail, charged with the crime. It appers that there was nothing between the men that led to the killing. Where Is Harry I/ar<!iier? If anvono knows of the wheroa bouts of Harry Lardner, he would be doing a favor to R. D. Lardner. a sailor on H. M. torpedo boat No. 9, Chatham, England, by writing ililm of his half-brother's location. ;RALD