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jMf Baku lbs The Only Baking made from Royal Grape Crearr ?Made from Gr A Guarantee of Healthful, Delicio IMMMaHMMMMHaBMIMMMMMMMlUMiy TAKES HER LIFE Wife of a Millionaire Kills Herself with Gas s ilST TIRED OF LIFE Slit' Attended Fashionable Dinner Wednesday Night?la'ft a Note for Husband, but Members of ller Family Claim That Her Death was Due to Heart Disease. Washington, March 25.?Weary of the gay whirl of society and face to face, as she believed, with years of physical suffering, Mrs. Pierre Lorillard, Jr., aged 411, wife of the tobacco magnate, committed suicide by asphyxiatinon at her home, near tlvo fashionable Dupont Circle, in this city, today. Her tragic death has shocked the first social circle of the Capital as has nothing else in years. In spite of the coroner's certificate of death by suicide, members of the family declared that Mrs. Lorillard died of heart failure. The death was made more dramatic by the fact of its occurrence only a few hours after "IV I (i > M i?o T nnl 1 1 o lirwl h/.nn t 1 \ i \ 1*1 1 . (I 1114 1*1 1 r>. 1 JKI 1 1 I 1 (1 1 vt IKIU UUU1I 1 ll\J guests of Mrs. Richard Townseiul at a dinner given in honor of Lady Paget. In fact, it is believed that as soon as Mrs. Lorillard arrived at her home, shortly after midnight this morning, she began to prepare for her death. About 8:30 o'clock this morning the butler in the Lorillard residence detected an odor of gas. The origin of the fumes was traced to Mrs. Lorillard's apartments. Opening the door to the bath room, just off her suite, the butler was horrified to behold the body of the mistress of the house stretched lifeless. Her face was turned to the mat on the floor. The alarm brought Mr. Lorillard from his apartments across the hall. He and the bntler carried the body to Mrs. Lorillard's room. Mr. Lorillard attempted to revive his wife by means of artificial respiration. The two doctors summoned resorted to every scientific method to restore life, but after an hour's efforts gave up in despair. Shortly afterward Dr. J. Ramsey Nevitt, the coronrer, visted the Lorillmvl home and ordered Denutv Cor oner Glazebrook to perform an autopsy, upon the completion of which Dr. Nevitt issued a certificate of death by ^ttide by gas poisoning. He said la^^that gas was escaping from oPna1 more jets in the bath room when the body was discovered, and that the condition of the lungs indicated death by gas poisoning. Extreme reticence is being maintained by the Lorillard family and ah others who possess information concerning the sudden death. Only a few of the most intimate friends have been admitted to the home since the news was spread of Mrs. Lorillard's death. Inquiry at the residence mot with the declaration that Mrs. Lorillard had not committed suicide. "She died D^^Kirt failure," retorted the eervaruT^ Mrs. Lorillard left a note, which the coroner's jury has seen, but which Mr. Lorillard has declined to have made public. Mrs. Lorillard was subject to frequent attacks of despondency, it is said. The last person to see Mrs. Lorillard alive was Mr. Lorillard. He bade her good-night as they separated to go to their apartments, after returning home about midnight from tho Townsend residence. Mrs. Lorillard was seemingly in the best of spirits. She had joined freely in the social festivities of the evening at the Townsend home, where had gathered the Brazilian ambassador and Mme. ^febuco; the Danish minister and Countess Moltke; the Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Meyer; Senator and Mrs. Lodge; Senator and Mrs. Aldrlch; Senator Root, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bacon, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Endlcott, of Boston; Lady Clifford, of England; Col. and Mrs. Colin Campbell, Col. and Mrs. McCawley, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Moore, the Hon. Maude Pauncefote, Commodore r' ^ H^T"y O^UL n6 Powder oltxtely Vxire y Powder a of Tartar l| : Pure- ' |Sm I us Food 11 K^fTT'ra,'iWW*inw'T^^fciaajhJ MAD DOG BSTES WILL H?: THKATKI) IN COLl'MBIA HKHKAPTKlt. A Pasteur Institute to be lCstnhlisheil There for the Treatment of Hydrophobia. Columbia, March 24.?Columbia is to have free Pasteur treatment for those suffering from rallies or threatened with an attack of this I frightful disease. So with the approach of the good old summer time cease to worry about getting "mad" ; dog bites. The free treatment is ' Ko wl * ~ * * A- - nwi. iw uc WIIIIIICII m 11 il 11 (.* 11 LS OI I I) IS State. It will 1 >o provided for by the State board of health at its meeting here next month. The board is to equip a laboratory, one of the linest in the country, not only for the free treatment of rabies, but it will also be used to combat other infections and contagious diseases. This State, as is the case with practically every other Southern State, annually sends scores of such | cases to Baltimore, Atlanta and other ! points for treatment, and the expense is very heavy. The State board's idea is not only to stop this | drain, but methodically to combat | the spread of the disease. It haT* j become a frequent occurrence for some section of the State to report I a regular epidemic of rabies. Only recently a portion of York county reported such an epidemic. In this connection' the attention of a member of the State hoard was j directed to the curious outcome of ja recent local case, where practically J all the members of a large family | were bitten by a dog supposed to be suffering from rabies. The head of the dog was sent on to Baltimore ' and the head of the family went ! there for Pasteur treatment. Immediately the hospital reported that j analysis of the dog's head showed j a most virulent type of rabies, and { the family's head was put through ja thorough scientific treatment and after recovery his bill, amounting to several hundred dollars was cheerj fully and grateful 1 paid. Meanj time the other members of the family, who "took" a home, "unscientific" treatment, were also miracu1 lously saved from the disease. I "That is easily explained," said tlie doctor, solemnly declining to join the smile that went around at the ' expense of the profession. "The general lay mind," he went on impressively, "has an altogether erroneous idea on the subject. As a matter of fact not more than a third of people or animals bitten even at points where the circulation is most active, as in the face or on the hands, ever contract the disease, and contraction of the disease where the bite is through some portion of the clothing is much rpore rare, for the reason that the saliva carrying the disease germs does not get into the blood. All of which accounts for the marvelous cures effected by madstnnps nml ntlior iinsninntiflc trout ment." Rodgers, Roar Admiral Cowles and Capt. Archibald Butt, military aide of the President. Mrs. Lorillard had disrobed, after arriving home, and when found Ivor body was clothed in a dressing gown. The dog collar of diamonds she wore at the dinner had boon removed bofore she went to the bath room, but the costly circle of diamonds that adorned her hair had not been displaced. Invitations were out for a luncheon today at the Lorillard home, but were recalled immediately. Dr. M. F. Cuthbert, the family physician, when seen tonight, held aloof from any discussion that might shed light upon the tragic affair. "T had not been called to ?ee Mrs. Lorlllard witliin the last two months, and I was startled when the message came to my office this morning," he said, "T do know that Mrs, Lorlllard was much alarmed over the condition of her heart. She had suffered considerably. When she visited Paris last summer, she sought an eminent specialist, whom she consulted as to her condition, but when she returned to America, she had been 111 fre quently. 1 must decline to discuss any other phase of the case." t CRUEL CRIMES I Against American Parents During The Last Kaif Centuary MOST FAMOUS CASES Of the Kidnapping of Children l>nriliLT tile I'asl I'ill v Venrs llernllei!. ! Short Sketches of lOacli That Will lie llcad With Interest by the (jienerai Header. "Kidnapping is the most nefarious, most fiendish, most diabolical crime in the calendar." So Judge Gregory, of Albany, characterized it when he was sentencing j three men to 15 years each in the I penitentiary for the kidnapping of little Johnny Conway in 1897. Certainly in the abject paralyzing fear it strikes in the heart of I the parents, there is no crime more I terribe. The sickening suspense and | the hopes rising only to fall again. I make it the more agonizing Only one kidnapper ever aroused any public admiration, and then only after lie had given up his victim, i This was Pat Crow, who for pluck, tt rmerity and cool-headed picturesque deviltry, stands at the head of the "profession" in Amtrica. lie thought, like Robin Hood, that it ) j was till right to prey on the rich. After kidnapping the son of Cudaj hay, in 1900, the millionaire beef I operator, getting $25,000 ransom and ! making a elean get away to South Africa. Crow returned voluntnrilv j to stand trial in Omaha, and was acquitted amid the cheers of the court | I room. Crow loft notes on the Cudahay lawn, giving directions ahotit leaving the $25,000 in a certain lonely tdaco in Omaha. The father followed instructions and got his hoy hack in the morning. The missing Charley Ross is the 1 most famous of all kidnapped hoys. He was playing with his brother in front of their house in Ooriuunton. Pa., in 1 874, when a boy four and a half, when two men in a huggy offered him a ride. Charley never came hack from that ride. Christian K. Ross, the hoy's father, spout all his fortune, and never gave up the hope entirely until he died, a broken and penniless old man in 1 SOT. The kidnappers were killed while burglarizing a house in New York, and the secret of the hoy's whereabouts died with them. A number of cases of kidnapping by Indians were reported in colonial history, hut the first big kidnapping in times comparatively recent was that of 4-VPnr.nlft Mnrv Onffnciir I Now York, in 180 4. Mary's father was a union soldier and the little girl was her mother's groat comfort. One day she wandered out on the street with her little pink sun bonnet and gingham dress ?and never came back. The case aroused the sympathy of the nation, hut the child was never heard of again. The father died in battle, leaving her $10,000, which is still held in trust, for her. In the half century of kidnappings since then is a trail of broken hearts, j Insanity and bitter desolation. Porj haps one of the most, strange was that of 5-year-old Rosie Adams, of Chicago, who was carried away by gypsies. The parents turned all their bej longings into money and started on j a hunt that carried them as far as i Himfrnrv mwl Pi'vut Muni'unihftfn the Kirl hart boon pout on to another tribe and they lost, the trail. Finally in Massachusetts the couple found their daughter in the j camp of Chief John Stanley. Here | came the strangest part of the storv. The parents were penniless* and broken in spirit. The gypsy who had taken their daughter offered to take th"n into the tribe. And the parents ae copied the offer. Daring in its successful rescue attempt was the story of Johnny Conway, of Albany, in 1897. A ransom of $.1,000 was demanded. Instead the father, P. F. Conway, a train dispatcher, collected a posse and went to a place in the woods where he thought the kidnapping party was in hiding. His surmise was right, and a revolver battle was fought between the two parties. The boy was rescued, unhurt, and three of the kidnapeprs arrested. One, A. S. Warner, was an Albany lawyer. Each was sentenced to 15 years in the penitentiary. There is a ghastly touch in the abduction in 1 898 of Oerlad Lapimer, a two-year-old New York baby, who ' was heir to $200,000. Ttrihv flnrnM clmnlu rllcnnnonflnl ' There was no demand for ransom, no word from the kidnappers. Police and detectives were unable to gain any clew. Tt was a nine-days' sensation, this disappearance of the baby heir. It was several months before the mystery was solved, and then by chance. , Gerald was discovered living on a farm near Painesville, O., with an old couple of imbeciles named John Collins and Anna Tngersnll. Tho baby was returned to his relatives, the couple sent to an asylum. 1 They seemed to have no motive V for stealing the baby except that they wanted it. The kidnapping of 1001 of Freddy Mnth, eight-year-old son of a Philadelphia Jeweler, furnished an example of swift legal vengeance almost without parallel. Freddy was stolen on June 12. 1001, by John J. Kean, who started to run away with him, then changed ; his mind and decided to bury the boy alive. All evening the two wandered about the city, going to theatres. In the morning Kean made tie child dig its own grave. While the boy was still toiling police burst in and took Kean to jail, j Arraigned within a week, it took the prosecution only two hours to bring in all the testimony and arguments thi v needed. Five minutes later the jury had called him guilty j and judge had sentenced him to 20 years solitary confinement In the penitentla ry. The "nurse girl cafe" in New j York In ISPO was a tremendous sen- I sation. A nurse maid named Holla Anderson had taken her charge, 1 S- | months-old Marion Clarke, out for a trip through Central park. They did not come back. Instead a note was found pinned on the doorstep the next morning, "if you don't leave the money here, or if you tell the police," it read, "we'll pin the baby's cars bore." Despite t l<o threat, the parents appealed to the police, who found the i baby alive and crowing a few days j later in Summit, N. .1. They arrested the nurse, also Mark Harrows and his wife. ?he nurse, who was only an accomplice, got four years, while Harrows drew 14 and went insane, llis wife got 12 and is still in prison. The most famous black hand case was that of Tony Mannino, of Brooklyn. Just $50,000 was demanded for Tony's release. The parents refused to appeal to the police, and would never tell whether any of the men- i ev was paid over or not, but the ] nany was restored. The note demanding flio ninnoy was unusual. "Wo aro not criminals," It road. "Wo aro nice gent lemon, like you. Only we have not made money like wo expected, so w? take this way of getting money to get back to beautiful Italy." To find little Erica Egbert, who was snatched from her mother's arms on the streets of Chicago, a JlO.fthOmile trip was made. The moth ,?r, who was editor of the Bachelor Books, was shopping at the time, when a man grabbed the baby and disappeared in the crowd. A hue and cry was set up, hut the baby could not he found. Leaving her work, Mrs. Egbert set set out in search of her child, following mysterious clews, until sh 1 finally recovered It at Madras. India. Tn addition to the successful abductions, many other efforts have been made at different times. Many threats were made about O rover Cleveland's family, and the Goulds have kept guards over their children for years. CITIZENS WARNED Against Companies That Do Not Comply With Law. Columbia, March 2 4.?The Record says a number of unauthorized insure ace companies seem to be seeking business in this State. As these companies come under notice of Commissioner McMaster, he reports them to the insurance commissioner of their homo State, and in some cases these commissioners take action to restrain these companies and require them to comply with the laws of South Carolina. In other instances Commissioner McMaster is reporting these concerns to the fraud order department of the postofflce in tin; hope that this department will restrain them from the use of the? mails. It is not meant that in either case these concerns are irresponsible, hut they are not licensed to do business in South Carolina, and policy holders in this State would have no recourse to secure payment of claims. Commissioner McMaster reports that one of the most active unlicensed companies in South Carolina is soliciting business through the mails is the Pennsylvania Life and Accident Association of Philadelphia. lie has reported this association to the insurance department of Pennsylvania, hut the insurance commissioner of that State says that ho has no t .. ?J ~ -1 t ~1 A I jiinmiiici ion ovit sucn organizanons na the Pennsylvania Life and Accident association and therefore he cannot aid Commissioner McMaster in preventing this association from soliciting business in South Carolina. TEMPLARS WRECKED. A Special Traill Ditched on Carolina and Western. Yorkville, March 24.?A special train, consisting of two cars on the Carolina and Northwestern railway, carrying about 3d Knights Templars from Chester to Yorkville, for a banquet was wrecked about three miles south of this place today. The engine and both cars of the train were ditched. Fireman Frank TTadln, of Chester, jumped and was killed. Several of the pasengers were bruised, but none seriously hurt. The cause of the wreck has not been ascertain1 ed. A track is being built aound the wreck and traffic will proceed. I I MANY LIVES LOST j AM) MANY TII(U SAM) DOLLVKS l)\M \(ii: |H)NK By Dostructivt* Storm Tlint Swept Through Nortliwi'slcrn Part of Wiso County, Ttvxus. I Dallas, Texas, March 24. Twelve' known dead, property loss reaching Into the thousands ot' dollars and possibly a score injured are the results of a tornado which swept over the northwestern part of Wis-county late last night. Sov ral small towns were visited by the storm j hut none were entirely destroyed, although each suffered serious damage. 'i lie general course of the tornado! seems to have been from the west j to southwest. Starting at Crafton! in the northeastern part of the county it passed to the north of Decatur,! the county seat, and struck several small settlements of which St. Id II Is the centre. From hero the tornado appears to have turned southeast, continuing its course without doing flirt In r serious damage. The greatest loss of life occurred in the country. The destruction of one farm house alone caused the death of eight persons. This single tragedy of the storm occurrf-d mar St. Idell. The farm house of Ira Rice was crushed in by the furious wind and the family of eight members pinned I en nth the wreckage. The light in the house, at the time of the disaster caused the ruins to become ignited and fanned bv tie strong wind the flames destroyed tinlives of the helpless victims. The towns of Sanger and (Jroenwood were hit and a number of house's were moved from their foundations. The Ctood View school house near Sanger was wrecked. In this vicinity Den Wilson and fllasgow Clark, farmers, and two children of a negro tenant were killed. Mrs. C\ M. IK-ntley is seriously hurt with a broken leg and several negroes are less seriously injured. At Crafton every business house save one was blown down. TinMethodist and Hapti.-t churches were complotely wrecked. Several residences and two churches were blown down at Hrumlow. This town is located near St. Idell, which appears to be the storm centre. Heavy sand storms occurred yesterday at Dublin, Gainesville and other points in that vicinity. Fences, small huiidings and wind mills were raised by the storm in the outlying districts. PKRFKIl DFATII TO AltltKST. Dusiiiess Mhii Kills Himself When Officer Came. Harrisburg, Pa., March 24.?Trapped by the police, F. II. Richardson, of ICImira, N. Y., formerly president of tho Richardson Shoe Company, wanted for embezzlement of 000, shot and hilled himself at the Hotel Lynch today. Mr. Richardson was president ot the Richardson Shoe Company, which in 1!)07, was declared insolvent. At that time it was discovered that besides money in this concern the president lias a credit of $2f?0,000 on false statements in Pennsylvania banks. Right warrants were sworn out for his arrest. Atelephone call from 101 mini this morning warned Chief of Police George that the man was in this city. The chief traced his man to the hotel. Mr. Richardson was in his room at the time the chief went to the room. Tho floor was thrown open at his knock and the man's head appeared for an instant. Then before the chief had a chance to make a move the fugitive observed him, slammed tho door and bolted it. An Instant later the pistol shot rang out. The door was broken open and Richardson was found lying on the floor with his head under the bed. SHORT OF FUNDS. Postmaster at Pee-Deo leaves For Parts Unknown. Marion, March 25.?Mr. C. R. Moore, postmaster at Pee-Doe Junction, this county, waR found short yesterday by a postoffioe inspector, it is alleged, but before the examination of the office was completed he left for parts unknown, telling the inspector that he was going to Florence, about twelve miles away, to secure money to make good the shortage. lie has not yet returned and the inspector found, when the examination was completed, that the shortage amounted to $703.15. It is said that Moore left a note to his wife, which was found after ho had gone, saying that it was said he was short, but that he was not, and told her that If they found his body to give it a decent burial at Centenary, his old home, below this city. Echoes of I/CAp Year. 1 ~ i -? ?? ? hiiiu; uAciHiiu^d airs. i?asn. "Mr. Smith to ninrry Miss Propser?" Why, I never had an idea that he would even propose to her." "Perhaps," murmured Mr?. Plank ! thoughtfully?"perhaps he didn't." THE RIGHT ONES Man and Women Held For Kidnapping Are Identified BY THE STOLEN BOY The Man and Woman A (Tented in Cleveland I'rove Co be the Ones \\ ho Stole the Sharon Lad ami the Ones Who Ueeeived the .Money I roni the Father. Cleveland, Ohio, March 24.? \ i lie Whit la today identified the man and woman held on susph ion l>y tin* , Cleveland ponce as the persona who I kidnapped him from the school at Sharon, I'a., last Thursday and hold him for the $10,not) ransom, which was paid l>y the father, Attorney J. P. Whit la, Monday, Willio said the man who gave the name of J as. II. lioyle was the one who took him from school and carried him through a tortuous route to Cleveland, then to Ashtabula, hack to (his eiiy, and placed him in the house in the east end, where he was held until the money was paid. Willie also declared that the woman was the one who cared for him at the house where ho was detained, and who acted the part of a nurse. Hoylo said the woman is his wife. The police have no other identification of the couple than the names given. So far tis the man is concerned, the police believe the name is correct. Hoyle is said to reside in Sharon, and is a plumber by trade, lie is said to have a widowed mother, four brothers and a sister. The woman, who is accredited with being the wife of Hoyle, declared soon after her arrest that her identification would cause a sensation | in Sharon. When identification was completed, Mr. Whitla would say nothing regarding tin; woman. lie said lie knew Hoylo slightly. Attorney Whitla, accompanied by Mrs. Whitla, son and daughter, Willie anil Saline, a boy school mate of Willie; I Harry Forker, a brother of Mrs. Whitla, Janitor Slows, Chief of Police Crane, Detective Kempler, district Attorney Liningcr, former District Attorney Cochran, and Detective I Ward, all of Sharon, arrived at I 0 clock today to see the prisoners. Mr. Whitla wetjt to the police station, but was not allowinl u> see the prisoners himself, lie was informed by the chief that the only identification he desired was that which only the boy, Willie, could make. The father then agreed to let Willie see the man and woman. Mr. and Mrs. Whitla, their children and Janitor Sloss appeared before the chief of police. The man was the first one taken before them. Hoyle was a little pale and nervous. Chief Kohler asked Willie if he had ever seen the man before. "Sure," said Willie brightly. "Why that Is the man I left Sharon with. He took me to Cleveland, then to Ashtabula, and back to Cleveland." The hoy was asked the same question again to make certain of his memory, and again the lad declared he was positive. 1 "Flo had a mustache when I first saw him at the school house," Willie supplemented, "hut he must have cut it off later. This is the way ho looked when I last saw him in Cleveland." Hoyle smiled sarcastically, hut said not. a wnrrl Thun lha .. ... . ..v .. i,.iw nwiiiail wan brought In. She was defiant and haughty in her demeanor. Blankly sho stared at Whlthi and the other members of the party. Her only relapse from the indignant manner was when she first saw Willie. The woman smiled. Immediately Willie walked up to her and extended his hand and said: "How do you do?" "Hello, Willie," the woman replied, as she placed her hand upon His head and caressed him for an instant. The boy then stepped back to his father and was asked several questions by the chief of police. "Yes, I know her," he said. "Shi. was the nurse who took care of me in Cleveland. She told me I was sick and In a hospital. I saw her a whole lot and she was with me most of the time." Notwithstanding the woman's former assertian that there would be a sensation when she was identified or when Whitla saw her, she and WI.U1n 1 ~ V. -'V -- 1A*_ Trunin luunvu tt I tSitl'll UlllVT Willi? out any outward evidence of recognition. They did not speak with each other. Neither did she speak with any of the other members of the party. Whitla made no comments regarding the woman under suspicion. When leaving Jhe station Mr. Whitla picked Willie up and placed him on his shoulder. The police formed a wedge in front, and with a foot ball rush they hurried out. I As they passed along the corridor j the crowd shouted: "Hollo, Willie." many attempting to touch him and others tried to shake hands.