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TWENTY KILLED And Thirty Injured Out in Colorado in Feartul RAILWAY SMASH-UP * Wost Hound Fussonncr Train on the Denver and IUo (irande Collides J With an Hast Hound Ftvlght. Victims Includes Many Women and Children. Ulenwood Springs, Colo , Jan. 10. -?Twenty persons wcrw killed and thirty injured, many of thorn seriously, in a head-on collision between west-bound passenger train No. ;> nil (1 nil easi-uuuuu in-i^iu train on the Denver and Rio Grande i railroad, between Dotsero and { Spruce Creek, twenty-two miles from Glenwood Springs, at fii.'iii o'clock last night. Following is a revised list of the dead and descriptions that may assist in the identification of the unknown dead: The identified dead: .7. 1). Million, 1'rine'^n, Ind. A. A. Hamilton, Polo,^11. \V. C. Kettle, Ashton, Neb. Mrs. Mattle Kettle, Asheton, Neb. Mrs. Mat tie Ezell, Willistou, N. D. G. \S'. Oleson, St. Louis. Dr. Arvilla Olseon, either from llildreth, Neb., or Axtell, Neb. The Rev. R. L. M1ley, either* from Brooklyn, N. Y., or Mechanicsburg, Pa. Clal'cnce A. Gooding, Washington. John Williams, Chirks, Net). J. C. Davis, of Davis Brigham Drug Company, Denver. Henry Dunn, St. Louis. Twelve-year-old boy. Eight-year-old girl, wearing plain ring on third finger of left hand. Ten-year-old boy, light hair. Six-year-old girl, light hair anil eyes. Woman, full-faced, brown hair, about thirty years of age, wore blue plaid petticoat and Catholic brooch. Unidentified woman; no inscription; badly mangled. Woman, black hair, dark complex ion, plain gold ring inscribed "Nancy," shoes stamped Selny Shoe Company, Portsmouth, Ohio. Woman, with red sweater, blue and white striped waist, about fortylive years of age, weight about 1 1 0 pounds. * All unidentified are women or J ^ and the bodies are badly mangled. While nothing official has been given out. at to the cause of the wreck, it is stated to have been due to a misunderstanding of orders on the part of the engineer, Clustaf Olson, of the passenger train. Olson, however, claims that he understood his instructions perfectly, but that he misread his watch, thus encroaching on the time of the freight train, which was being drawn by two locomotives, the first of which was in charge of his brother. Sig Olson. When news of tin; catastrophe reached Glenwood Springs every available physician and nurse in the city was pressed into service and a relief train was soon on the scene. The work of rescue was immediately begun. As the bodies were taken from the ruins they were laid side by side on a bier of snow amid the agonizing shrieks of husband, wife and parent as they searched among the dead for [their loved ones, many of whom wore mangled beyond all recognition. A pathetic feature of pie accident was the killing of a. father, leaving two small children, the elder being four years old, the younger two. The elder boy told a nurse at the sanitarium that his father called him Bonnie, and this is all he will say. From a fellow passenger it was learned that the family was en router to Grand Junction to visit relatives. It is supposed that Mr. and Mrs. Kettle, whose names appear among the dead, were the parents of these two little ones, who are badly injured. Another sad case was tire destruction of an entire family with the exception of an infant of three months. This helpless child was taken care of by a family at Shoshone, who inx , )lm en to survivor Of U UMKi i At au\/|/v tuv ?,v, - once happy family. Another heart-breaking scone was enacted in the wreck zone, when kind hands gently lifted a four-yearold gill from the death clasp of her mother's arms. Nearby lay the body of# her father, decapitated, and on every side were lifeless bodies, victims of the disaster. A train load of thirty wounded nnd bleeding men and women arrived in Glenwood Springs at " SUB! TIIOKXTOX MAIN'S ACQl'ITTKH. || llis Brother, Captain tlains, Willi Never Bo Tried. c Flushing, N. V., Jan. 15. ? After reviewing the evidence for 22 hours! and taking 14 ballots before ail were I agreed, the jury in the trial of I Thornton Jenkins Mains this after- ?i noon found the prisoner not guilty | as a principle with his brother Capt. I Peter C. Mains, Jr., in the killing I of William K. Annis. I , For the second time in his life I Thornton Mains has been found not I guilty of the charge of murder, as I he was acquitted of murder in shoot-1 ing a companion named Kdwat d A. I Mannigan in an open boat in llantp-1 ton ltoads 1 7 years ago. * I Rarely in any court of law has i such a demonstration been witness-1 ed as that which occurred when the Is jury made known its verdict. The I f packed court room of spectators rose , as one man and cheered and applaud- I , ed with such mighty vigor that the I gaval falls of Justice Crane on his I 1 desk could not be heard. | ' Otfieials of the district attorney's I otlice in Queens county are quoted f as saying that the verdict in this I J case probably means that Captain 1 ( Mains will never he brought to trial I > and that he will be surrendered into I ' the care of his family or the federal |? government. * I ' TIIDDV HAS BF.FX CAI'dHT. Government Pays for llis Barber and I Wife's Messages. i Washington, Jan. 15.?President Roosevelt's taking Senator Tillman to task for abuse of the franking privilege and tne general row between the president and congress over secret service investigations of congressmen has led to the rather startling revelation that the president's barber is on the rolls cf the i government as an "accountant" in the navy department, and that while i not accounting anything he is getting a salary from the government of $1,G00 a year for shaving the president and occasionally cutting the presidential hair. ( It. has also developed that Mrs. ( Roosevelt's messenger is on the pay rolls of the bureau of printing and engraving, and that he draws now $!)20 a year. The only thing he engraves is an occasional footprint on the sands of time. Both the accountbarber and the engraver-messenger went to Oyster nay last summer with the Roosevelt family. The revelations have caused a considerable stir here today. The members of the house appropriations commmee who replied last weeK to tlie president's charges again.it them express regret that they did not know of the president's misuse of the civil service when they spoke. Zach MeGee. * MOST FATAL 1)1 Sis ASF. Consumption Kills More People in Augusta Than All Others. Augusta, Jan. IS.?The most fatal disease in Augusta in 1008 was consumption, or "tuberculosis," as the board of health authorities term it. Out of every eight and live-tenths deaths during the year, one resulted from the dreaded "White Plague." Records of the department show that the spread of the disease is not being restricted, to any material extent. The ratio of tuberculosis to mortality has, within the past. 2."> years, been only a little greater than it was in 1 908. During the fiscal or board of health year of 1908, 80 1 people died. Of these deaths lot were due to tuberculosis. o'clock this morning. The wounded were taken to the county hospital and to the sanitarium, and when the cots and wards there had been filled, room was made In hotels for the maimed. A woman (Hon irom nor injuries in the relief train, while on her way to CJIenwood Springs. It is expected that at least a dozen others who were brought here will die. Train No. 5 was made up of an engine and tender, a baggage car, a smoking car and a full complement of standard sleepers and a dining car. The locomotives are up on end and joined together as one piece of mechanlcism. Their wheels were rolled down into the Grand River and pieces of machinery are scat* i tered all over the scone of the wreck. The smoking car was only partly derailed, while the chair car im mediately following was comletely ' telescoped by the tourist sleeper. i None of the standard sleepers left the track and no one was killed or injured in these cars, most of the 1 dead and injured being removed from the ruins of the chair car which ' wsa iplit completely In twain. * SCRIBE N BRUTAL MURDER !hoked His Wife to Death While She Slept. rwo MEN ARE IN JAIL kt A ikon Charged With the Awful c Clinic?Verdict of Coroner'# Jury y Itesults in Holding of the Wo- ? 1 mail's Husband as l'riticipal ami S3 Another Man as Accessory. t Aiken, Jan. 17.?Coroner John- 1 >011 returned to Aiken last night i Tom Sleepy Hollow, bringing Sov- ' ?reign Lowe and Loo lloyd, both ' white, who were placed in jail, 1 barged with the murder of itainey * Lowe, wife of Sovereign Lowe, at * Lowe's home in the Sleepy Hollow tection. The arrests were made as , 1 result of an inquest held yesterlay afternoon by Coroner Johnson md a post mortem examination eonincted 1 >y a physician. Mrs. Lowe 1 lied last Sunday night, and was in- 1 lerred on Monday; but at the request Of MrS. Coil!lt? of Ailirnuln mother of Mrs. Lowe, the authorities had the hodv disinterred yesterday and an inquest hold. The evidence at. the inquest showed that on Sunday night Lowe came to his home accompanied by Boyd, both being in a drunken condition. During the night Alfred Glover, a negro residing nearby, heard a woman in Lowe's house and begging for her life. The screams were also heard by other parties. Next morning the woman was found dead. Mrs. Counts came over from Augusta and said that she found bruises on the throat and body of her daughter, and was not satisfied as to her death. After the burial she became so convinced that something was wrong that she came to Aiken and asked for an investigation. Boyd and Lowe both testified to coming to Lowe's house in a drunken condition, and said that they re- 1 tired soon after arriving. During the night, Boyd said, he went to Lowe's bed, called him and! told him to get up, that he had si long way to go to his home and that he must have sin early stsirt. Lowe got up, and when he looked sit the clock he saw that it was II o'clock iiml they went back to bed early Monday morning. Lowe sail! that tin nnllf.a l>l" - . .... v iix x it i iv \i i u iiin wife, who was Bleeping with him, and that she did not answer. He shook iter and found that she was cold. Ho then called Boyd and they found her dead. When testifying, Lowe is said to have almost broken down. The examining physician found bruises on Mrs. Lowe's throat and body, and that there had been suHiclent external violence to have produced death. The verdict of the jury was that the deceased came to her death from choking at the hands of Lowe as principal and Boyd as accessory. The two men staunchly maintained their innocence. Lowe is about 2"? years of age and Boyd some years younger. Boyd is unmarried. The deceased was the mother of four children, the youngest of whom is oniy seven months old. and was herself about 22 years old. The case has created a good deal of interest here, and any further developments will lie closely watched. ? News and Courier. * i*ski> .n <; fok bank. Fanner llad One Thousand Dollars Stored in One. Anderson, Jan. 18.?A rather unique deposit was made at one of the local banks here yesterday just before the clock struck the closing hour. A well-to-do farmer of Broadawav township, who is considered a good business man and a prosper ous one, walked into the bank, and in liis hand hold a little brown jug, stopped up with an ordinary corn cob. The cashier pulled out the corn cob, and protruding out of the neck of the Jug was .a crisp ten dollar bill. The cashier then got busy and with the assistance of all the clerks in the office managed to draw out $1,000 in new bills, resorting to a hat pin to extricate the money. The farmer had decided on this unique way of keeping his money for deposit. * Minister Convicted. Norfolk, Vn., Jan. 10.?Concluding a trial which extended into three days, a Jury in Nansemond circuit court, brought a verdict giving Itev. V , , . _ iM'DCSi i^yons, colored, IS years for the murder of Rev. James L. Smith, also colored. * I OW TO COUNTY SYSTEM HSPKXSAKY PKOYKS A GOOD MOXKY MAKKU. Nio Old State l>ls|H*nsary I laid M??ir Dis|K'ilsnrics but Loss l'rotlts. J Sales by Counties. The following tabulated statement if gross sales and net profits for the 'ears 1903, 1904, 1905 and 1906 ts ;iven by Dispensary Auditor West in lis report, together with a similar itatement of the business done under lie county dispensary system for he years 1907 and 1908 for the pur>ose of comparison. It will be noted, lowevor, that the year 1907 einiraees only about nine months, since he law did not go Into effect until March 1, and many of the dispensaries were not open for business for wo or three months following. The rear 1908 is complete from January 1 to December 31, inclusive. November, 1903?Number of dispensaries, 1 3S ; sales, $2,489,894.79; total net profit, $638,482.35. November, 1904 ? Number of dispensaries, 146; sales, $3,012,402. 59; total not profit, $775,375.95. Novorubor, 1905?Number of disponsaries, 145; sales, $3,132,790.09; total net profit, $870,318.07. November, 1900?Number of dispensaries, 122; sales, $2,585,1 37.10; total not profits, $575,975.9 1. March to December 30, 1907? Number of dispensaries, 100; sales, $2,091,063.43; total net profits, $095,056.0 1. January 1 to December 3 1, 190S ?Number of dispensaries, 92; sales, $3,644,2 1 4.81; total net profits, $ 9 3 4,600.9 0. From this it will be seen that the profits of 92 dispensaries wore much lagrer than the profits of 145 disponaries under the old Slate dispensary system. A large part of this total net profit under the old system really never materialized on account of the method of crediting the school fund as an asset. Sales ami Profits. Auditor West also gives a table showing the sales and profits for the past year by counties. They are as follows: County Sales. Net Profits. Abbeville .$1 53,377.07 $ 58,375.20 Aiken . .. 315,623.31 72.167.46 Bamberg . S2.3S8.26 22.733.7S llarnwell . 175,4 86.58 39,833.17 Beaufort . 1 28,535.31 31,4 63.57 Berkeley . 07,a;>6.79 J 0,654.35 Calhoun .. 1 9,563.06 4,627.37 Charleston 606,1 46.5)5 1 1 8,061.49 Chester ... 83,74 1.06 18,827.71 Chester f'Ul 22,223.85 922.13 Clarendon . 41,698.36 7,467.36 Colleton .. 78,024.53 1 0,146.00 Dorchester 67,884.84 1 4.952 t ' Fairfield .. 70,229.8.") 11,935.05 Florence .. 118.192.20 52,012.07 (Jeorget 'ii . 1 1 0,1 r> 1 .85 3 5,105.82 11 u ill | do ij . 00.1 2 1.0 2 12,501.8 1 Kershaw .. 114.001.22 40,110.2 1 Laurens .. IMS,093.90 29,793.03 Leo 82,011.99 22,2 19.1 4 Lexington . 71.092.u0 1 5,700.2 1 | Orangeb'g . 220,218.05 78,530.22 ] Kiehland .. 5o0.u70.5S 1 31,749.00 I Sumter ... 1 85,505.34 50,929.20 Williamsh'g 87,437.29 22,724.34 Total .$1,044,21 4.2 1 $93 1,000.90 The counties of Chester, Clarendon and Laurens would have shown a greater profit if the gain made from October 1 to the timet they were voted out had been reported. Chesterfield county showed the usual profit iit the time it was closed, hut the stock had to he sold at a considerable discount, which accounts for the very small profit shown above. The largest percentage of profit was 00 per cent in Abbeville county. The percentage in Kiehland was 3 8 per cent. * (adicrul Kutler III. Columbia, Jan. 17.?News was re reived here today of the serious illness of former Senator M. C. Butler at his home in Kdgefleld. The report is that he is suffering with pneumonia. He lias a remarkable constitution, and this, his friends hope, will pull him through this attack. * Kills His I'uele. Vienna, Ga., Jan. 1 7.?P. 0. McDonald, farmer, merchant and general trader, and one of the most widely known men in Dooly county, was shot and instantly killed this evening by \V. Theodore McDonald, his n onflow wtm wnrbr?a f .. ..Vf < VTI I^UVI Itll <11111 lived with him. The shooting occurred in a room in the McDonald home. Mrs. P. G. McDonald, two daughters, and a young son were in the house when the tragedy was enacted. * I THE Hi TAFT'S TAFFY In big Atlanta Banquet He Declares That The SOUTH HAD WON HIM Makes Fair Promises in Itegard to the Character of the Ollicials lie May Appoint in tlie South, ami lie Will Itear Them in .Miml After March. Atlanta, Jan. 1 f?.- President-elect Taft attended a 1 i^ Itaniiu >t in Atlanta Friday night, given in his honc?r. Judge Taft had given care to the preparation of his banquet speech, regarding il as his important utterance of the day, and in its delivery he followed his manuscript ciosety. Mr. Taft said with feeling that ho was proud to havo boon t he first revolution candidate for the Presidency who had carried his canvas south of Mason's and Dixon's line. "In the presence of Democrats ami Republicans here at a non-partisan banquet expressing the welcome m the whole community, it would neither be courteous nor appropriate for me to go into a partisan discussion," Mr. Taft continued. "1 can on'v refer to the fact with gratification and congratulation that today the expression of any political views in the South is possible without, involving social ostricisin or any of the penalties with which it might have been visited in earlier times. Ten years have made a great, difference In the situation which the controlling people of the South occupy towards the North and the government." The President-elect then summarized the causes which had worked and were affecting the change?tl.e Spanish war; the attitude of MeKinley, his lovable character and the principles he stood for in his campaign; the succession of Roosevelt with his Georgia mother; and dually the wonderful business developments of the South. "I am a Republican but. I concede fully the great advantage to the country of having a Democratic pa*ty suflleiently powerful at times to win the Presidential elections and always to put tin1 Republican party, when in control, in fear of a possible or probable defeat. And so r. the South no one can deny the advantage that will arise in local and State governments when there is a substantial and intelligent minority, which mav heroine : Kiweeuai'ni i>? i jority in punishment of the abuser, that are likely to grow out of the long continued and undisputed control of one party. Added to that, the uncertainty which may attend tho result of national elections in a State is certain to- give it additional importance to the councils of the nat ion. "I observe that among some prominent members of congress there is a disposition to charge me with an attempt to win tin* South over te Republicanism and a somewhat eon tempt nous expression of opinion that this is utterly impossible. To tbe.ri 1 would say that I am not hopeful of winning the South over as the/ say, but that the South has s '.c ceeded in winning me. "If my coining lias been partisan no such meeting as this tonight would have been possible, and so I may say of all the receptions am! expressions of good will and welcome that I have received from point to point throughout the Southern country. The verv success of i?>v t.i i the very reason why it gives mo so much satisfaction, is the pronoun-? <! non-partisan character of the we come which litis been so kindly extended to nie. "Now if this indirectly makes, riot for a partisan advantage, but for a continuance of the movement in favor of independence of spcm or.d action and political tolerance its result is one that .all citizens of whatever political party must rejoice to have brought about. "The direct local effect of a n?'ional administration upon the South is chiefly through their functions through the section, and therefore the exnression nf the ,1(1 ruiniu-f Hon toward tho Southern people takes its color in tho character of those officials, and there the administration may he properly lu Id accountable and its poliei *s d dermmed by the qualifications fitness and standing of the men appointed to represent it in the districts and States of the section. I realize, therefore, that expressions oi sympathy with the South and an earnest desire to bring it closer to th 1 central governmout in thought and action and feeling will have comparatively little weight unless this expression is accomplished by such appoint[)RRY HE V DEAD IN BATH ROOM A Gltl.M Tlt.\(iKI)V KXACTKI) AT SKATTLK. A .Man, llis Wife and Their TwentyTwo Years Old Daughter Are Found Dcud. Seattle, Wash., Jan.. 17.?W. L. Seeley, an attorney and former national bank examiner for Illinois, his wife, Mrs. Kate M. Seeley, a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and her daughter, Miss Irene Seeley, a student at tho University of Washington, were found dead in a hath room of tholr homo in the fashionable Capital llill quarter today. The victims had been dead slnco last Thursday. The women, clad In night robes, had apaprontly been murdered with a hammer. There was no mark of violence on Seeley. lit? is believed to have been partly chloroformed and then drowned in the bath tub. That Seeley killed his wife and daughter while insane over worries and then committed suicide is the theory of the police. His night gown, blood stained from tho bodies of the two women, was found beneath a clean pillow in the room occupied by him and his wife. The pillow on which Mrs. Seeley had been sleeping was saturated with blood. Seeley came here less than two years ago from St. Joseph, Mo. He moved there from Ottawa, 1)1. Ho was r?fi years old, his wife about three years his junior, and his daughter 22. The bodies were found i>v nnv vt Smelzer, affianced husband of Miss Seeley, and 10. It. Seibbel, a friend of the family. The family could not be communicated with after 1? o'clock Thursday night, when Smelzer talked over the telephone with Miss Seeley. Although keeping tip the appearance! of prosperity, Seeley had been forced to borrow money for his last month's house rent from \V. W. Wilshire, an attorney, from whom he rented desk room in the New York building. Detectives were unable to find any blood-stained implements in the house, although a hammer was found. No article of jewelry or anything or value was taken. livery window and door was securolv lock 0(1. Itobbed l>y Masked .Men. Kalarnath Kails, Ore., Jan. 10.?The Kalarnath Falls County hank at this place was robbed of $3,000 by two masked men who entered the bank this afternoon with drawn revolvers and compelled the cashier to pay over the counter all money in sight. Several citizens who were inside the bank were held at bay while the robbers escaped. incuts in the South as shall prove this sympathy to he real and ruhstantial. "All I can say with reference to the future policy of the administration in the South on this subject is that I expect to spare no effort to find out the facts in respect to the character of tin? proposed appointees, and so far as in me iies to select men whose character and reputation and standing in the community commend them to their fellow citizens as persons qualified and able to discharge their duties well, and whose presence in important positions will remove, if any such thing exists, the sense of alienism In the government which they represent. "Of course, the immediate great work of the administration must bo tin? revision of the tariff," he said. "In til at work the South is qui to as much interested as the North, and would havo*an honest and genuine revision such as has been promised by the party in power." He gave assurance to the Southern people that "no Interest of the South, whether it share that interest with the North, or whether it lias a peculiar interest of its own, will be neglected in the conduct, of the government in so far as that conduct shall be under the control of its Chief Executive." In concluding, Mr. Taft said: "I beg of those of my hearers who differ with me politically not to suppose that their cordiality and courteous reception are misunderstood by mo. I know that they spring from an earnest and patriotic desire to pay proper respect to the g^eut office to which I have boon elected, and that they grow out of a sincere wish and proper assumption, that having been elected to the Chief Magistracy, I shall become the President, not of a party, but of a whole | united people.'' RALD