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KW Mysterious Escape of) Safe Crackers From Greenville Jail Itmious COUPLE R'luedito Have Hipnotized fail Keepers and a Special d Sot to Watch Over Them either of Them Knew of the pe Till Next Morning. ' Qvllle, April 4.?CK^oer alias "Tennessee Dutch,"Vind harton, alias "Chicagr Arlotorious "yeggs," who were in the Greeuville County month to awult trial at the ^^ pning term of the United States fl^H^urt, made their escape last night. yeggmen had been arrested in H^Vinuingham. Ala., by Inspector Gregcharged with the robbery of postofllce at Pelzer. Both have ^^^ftcords of crime, and "Dutcfc" has ^^Hperatcd abroad. Barton rfwmtly FtMeral I B at Atlanta. They were confined In the rear the jail in an especially strong five by six feet. A guard has on watch night and day since a ^^HTtho floor of the cell through the ^JHsolid rock floor two feet thick. Ti e indication that sistancej was rendered from outside, as drill (holes wero found underneath the shin floor. The instrument used was an improvised gimlet, made from a wire H umbrelh. handle. It is thought that the sou id was deadened by wet hlanUnK tutor foi.inl I *? ? """ t?u~ .vvy iMVV/k LUUIllt I XI LUC CCH. 1 lie yeggs dug their way under the jail cellar, then went through the jail and passed the guard.' The guard declared that he did not sleep and that he did not see the men. The city is much excited over the escape, and Sheriff Poole Is at work on the matter. Inspector Gregory u'as arrived tn the city and has taken up the search. There is, however, little hope of capturing the men. The yeggmen drew a picture of Gregory on the wall, with dates of capture and escape, and an inscription, "goodbye, Gregory." Moore Is a Hungarian Jew, a naLf e. He has had a Hmarkable career of crime. BarKn is an American, and his right ^s been cut off at the elbow, yeggmen had been confined one onth, and had employed counsel R fight the case against thorn. The local jail has a floor of solid rock two feet thick. The space blown out by the yeggmen was one foot wide and two long. No one heard the explosion and Jail Keeper Phillips and Guard C. E. Carter did not know of the escape until breakfast was carried to the prisoners. The men were to have stood trial on April 20. * CHARGED WITH MURDER. Man and Woman Said to Have Killed !a Little Gfrl. Greenville, April 2.?A warrant was sworn out today for Mrs. Palmer Corn and Tom Childs, charging them with the murder of Bonnie Louise Corn, the 2-year-old daughter of the former. The warrant was sworn out by Palmer Corn, husbfcind -of the woman. Corn alleges that his wife deserted him and is living I^ith Childs and that ^Childs had Ujeen heard to say that he inten<^?^ to tFJTSy >?rUh the child. The man leges that the little girl can not e located and that rhe is dead. (Corn lives in North Carolina now and his wife and child are in the upper section of this country. * m wunnn luntiiKii. Masked Bandit Goes Through Conch on Burlington Road. ^B Fairfield, Neb., March 29.?A ^B. . rain robber with a rtBlantstopped a local passengeW train the Burlington last night near ^^Bcre, boarded the train and forced c conductor to carry a sack through ^Hc passenger coach and collect $200 11 watches from the passengers, women and two men. He pock^Beted the booty, dropped off the rear end of the train and escaped. Shoots Himself. I B APril 2.?Walter ^^^^Hshorn, a s/Ixteen-yeor-old boy, himself dead on the roof of his in Brooklyn last night. His huddled near a chimney, was by his father. The boy left ^^^^^Lxplanatory note ann^H^brcnts a loss to know^^^^^rkilled DESTROYED BY FIRE LARGE ARK A SWEPT CLEAN BY WIND-FAN N K1) FLAMES. Property Valued at Two Million Dollars and Several 1 jives Lost in Big Blaze at Fort Worth, Texas. Fort Worth, Texas, April 4.?To a I party of small boys and a carelessly thrown cigarette la generally credited the fire of yesterday, which destroyed property in South Fort Worth valued at two millions of dollars, caused the death of ono person, J. J. Newton, a bank emnlovee. tho Rprir?iu injury of six others, rendered 3 00 j families homeless and will cause the temporary idleness of several hundred workingmen employed in the) manufacturing plants and business houses burned. j All of today and tonight the burn> ed district is under the guard of State troops to prevent looting, and, although worn out by their continuous labor, the entire fire fighting force of the city is still engaged in extinguishing, finally, the burning embers, which, with the wind still high, spasmodically spring Jnto a blaze. This morning a mass meeting of citizens was held and relief committees named. However, because the fact that the burned residence district was populated largely by those in comfortable circumstances, the monetary relief needed will be small. The fire started at May and Tucker streets. Driven by a gale blowing from the Southwest, the flames quickly spread to adjoining buildings. After eating their way through the residence district, after reducing to ashes 300 pretentious dwellings, throe church buildings, the Hrnmlwnv ? ? ? ...... i ut in lilll J1IHI ItiiptlSt I Churches, and the Swedish Chapel and Walker Sanitarium, the (lames spreading to the south, attacked the manufacturing plant of the Sawyer Electric Company. The building was quickly destroyed and live large warehouses and several smaller business houses suffered a like fate. The yard of the Texas and Pacific Railroad were next in the pathI way of the fire. The round house, repair shops, coal chutes and sevI eral hundred box cars were destroyed land twenty locomotives were reduced I to twisted masses of steel and iron. To the east, the stone and steel I depot building proved a barrier to I an encroachment toward the wholeI salo district and, although, several I times, (lying sparks would ignite a I roof or flooring in this section, as quickly would one of a hastily formI ed band of volunteer firemen be on I hand to check it in its incipieney. Thus, after burning for four hours, the fire was finally brought under control. The burned area is approximately a mile and a half in length, and a half mile wide. A careful estimate places the aggregate of the loss I about two million dollars. * THE END OF TARIFFS. British Officer Sees the Day When Custom Houses Will Co. Washington, April 5.?Aerial navigation has reached such a state of perfection that MaJ. F. B. BadenPowell, an officer in the British army, declared recently that a few years more and the custom house will be a thing of the past. He declares that soon the wealthy people of the world will own their flying machines and that while it may never become practicable to carry coal, lumber, grain and the like in airships, still it will be possible to carry parcels of 100 pounds or so, including such articles as wines, spirits, tea, coffee, cocoa, sugar, tobacco, dried and canned fruits, Jam, marmalade, condensed milk, chloroform, collodion, ether, blacking, playing cards and other small dutiable articles. Airships could be employed continually going to and fro over frontiers. Guards would be almost useless, even if they were posted at every few hundred yards,, which in itseir would be an impracticable proposition in Eurpoe or America. Altogether it would seem impossible to enforce any law as to machines being compelled to descend at a frontier,' and this according to the writer implies that customs in the main will have to be abolished. Tariff he considers, will have to be framed with duo regard to imports like wheat and lumber, which are not likely at first to be affected by aerial transport, and a tax on such commodities would seem to be the solution to the difficulty of being unable to continue the duties on lighter articles. SCRIBE DIED FOR LOVE Four Suicides Grow Out of One Forbidden Match THE GIRL LEADS OFF Her Fiunco Followed Suit, and Another Brother, a Secret Admirer of the Girl, Was the Third, an Old Friend the I^ast cYictim in the Tragedy. St. Louis, April 5.?A chain of suicides has strangely arisen from the love match of John Nichols and Miss Bervl Stnmora ? *" - ? - V/ L UCUlUllf ill. There have been four self-indicted deaths since March 3 and the superstitious people of the village which is just across the Mississippi river from St. Louis, are predicting an epidemic of self-murder. This Strang array of deaths are as follows : Miss Beryl Somers, dance of John Nichols, and beloved in secret by Kobort Nichols, his brother, committed suicide at Benton, 111., on the afternoon of March 3. John Nichols, in a frenzy of despair, killed himself in sight of the Somers home, two days later. Robert Nichols, who has nourished his passion in secret lest a revelation might disturb the happiness of the brother and sweetheart, killed himself at his mother's home in Madison, 111., March 1 I. p I) ' ' * * " v>. iv. ouiiiii, a mend of the brothers ami the girl thoy had loved, the first to 1 ut a supporting arm under the h< ad of Robert Nichols, when he fell dying, ended his own life hy drinking carbolic acid 24 hours later. I It was last summer when Robert, I making a visit to each of his brothers, gnally reached the country home of his brother, John, near Denton. The brother introduced him to Miss Sinners, the daughter of a neighbor, and Robert was greatly impresed | with her. Rut it was not until he J had fallen violently in love with the girl that he discovered her betrothal to his older brother. Loyal to John, he resigned her at once and returned home to his parents. Several weeks ago, just as John and Miss Nichols had perfected arrangements for their wedding, an obstacle in the form of parental objection appeared. The girl's father forbade the wedding and ordered her to break the engagement. He would assign no other reason than he considered her too young to marry. One evening, after a stolen interview with her lover, the girl went to her room in a very dejected mood. She wrote Nichols a tender note, then shot and killed herself with her father's revolver. Two days later friends of John Nichols found a bottle of carbolic acid in his room. They hid the poison and kept him under surveillance. Rut the next afternoon Nichols went to a little grove, where he had often met Miss Somers during their coursthlp, and killed himself with a shot from a revolver. In his pocket was found a note to VWc ?* - w * ? ??> Miuiuci, ivuutji't, uc mrid 1 son. After he had read the note the younger brotlvr grew despondent. He bought a bottle of carbolic acid, and with it went into a room at his home where some guests of the family were sitting. He drank the acid, threw the bottle down and ran out into the street. At the gate he almost ran over C. Ft. Smith. Smith, a man about 50 years old, had been Itobert's confidant and had sympathized with him in his trouble from boyhood. The old man caught the boy as he fell to the street. He followed him into a physician's office and watched him breathe his last. Smith was foreman of a large manufacturing plant, and had never known a day's sickness. But the next morning he said he was ill and would not go to the mills. He walked about his home in an abstracted manner. About noon he went to the home of a neighbor and ! asked for a drink of water. When J the water was brought him he | poured the contents of a three-ounce bottle of carbolic acid into it and drank the mixture. Just 24 hours to the minute after the death of Robert Nichols, Smith died. * Sully's New Scheme. Atlanta, Ga., March 31.?Daniel J. Sully, once known as the "Cotton King," Is in Atlanta, beginning a tour of the South, which he says is for the purpose of perfecting plans which contemplate a conservative revolutionizing of the manor in which cotton is handled and marketed. <0W TO PAYNE TARIFF BILL MEAN'S II 1C? II EH ritlCES FOll MANV ARTICLES USED By llio Poor aiul Lower Prices on Many Articles Used by the Rich. Washington, April 5.?The rates provided for In the Payne bill, as It stands, average 1.56 per cent higher than the Dingley rates. When the maximum and minimum arrangement begins operation, according to Minority Loader Champ Clark, they will average 21,56 higher than Dingley bil lschedules. In repeated instance the Paynej Dill openly discriminates against ar- : i ijuruciiiiiriy stocKtngs, gloves,! hats, and woolens), of the class purchased by women and children of little means in favor of the more expensive articles used by the rich, i An illustration is found in the duI tics imposed upon hosiery and knit cotton goods. Women's and children's hose, of the grade valued at $.1 per dozen, which is very cheap, I are increased in the bill, from 80 I per cent to 90 per cent. The expensive grades of hosiery are left ' as in the Dingley bill, at G5 per cent. Women's and children's gloves show the same largo advances in taxation up on the cheaper grades. The Increase in duty upon the cheap- i est grade is from 53 per cent to 135 ! per cent which means that the poor will have to pay 75 per cent more on every dollar's worth of gloves purchased. The increase in taxation upon the costly gloves, or the kind as purchased by the wealthy, is from j 4 3 to GO per cent, which means that I the rich will havo to pay but 4 7 | cents more on every dollar's worth of 1 gloves purchased. Contrast the figures?75 per cent advance on the gloves of the poor who are least j able to stand It, and 4 7 per cent on ! the gloves of the rich, to whom increased living expenses have little Interest. In the matter of hats, the duty ! upon those which are valued at , $280 per dozen?the cheap hat of \ the working girl and the women of ! limited means?is placed at 7 6 per cent. Hats valued at $25 per dozen are made datable at 4 8 per cent. The cheaper grades of blankets? . the kind used by the poor?are dutiable at 105 per cent, which means that on every dollar's worth of blankets shipped in at a tax of $1.05 is added for the consumer to pay. Or, another way of looking at it is that the Payne bill will force the poor to pay $205 for every $1 worth of blankets used. The duty on the expensive grades of blankets is fixed at 6 8 per cent. Fancy cotton goods used by the poorer classes are dutiable at 50 per cent. Plain cotton goods and all woolens of the lower grades show an average above 5 0 per cent. Tea is more costly. The maximum and minimum plan will moan a duty on coffee estimated from 7-8 to 4 cents a pound. There Is to he no reduction in the price of sugar, oil, nor in any of the other articles which enter so largely into the daily living expenses of the wage earners of the United States. * I.EPHOSY OK K.MS FOUND. The Kcsiilt May Ilo a Successful War oil the Malady. Washington, April 5.?Dr. Moses Clegg, bacteriologist of the Bureau j /?* i * * ?i- 1 wi oticuw, <il malum, nas succeeded in cultivating a leprous bacillus, lie has made five separate cultures with germs from living lepers anl the bodies of victims of the disease. He has been equally successful in his culture of amoebic dysentery and finds a relation tietween the two diseases. The Bureau of Science has prepared a leprosy vaccine and proposes to carry forward a series of experiments for the purpose of establishing a specific treatment for leprosy. Dr. Clegg is the son of a prominent Arkansas physiciau. * levell wants statistics. . Commissioner Watson Asked for Figures on Fertilizers. Columbia, April 2.?Commisioner Watson this afternoon received the following telegram: "I am investigating the duty on potash salts. Send me immediately the number of tons of fertilizers used in the State and the percentage of such as will be effected by the duty and the cost to the farmers of the State if possible. Give me the same figures for the entire South. I will advise you later as to the delegation of the farmers coming here. Letter follows. (Signed) | "A. F. LEVER." THE n s' KILLED BY TRAIN KILLKI) AT HATKSHL'ltG IN MVS. THlllOUS WAY. A Popular Traveling Man?Native of Seneca and Son-in-Iaiw of Capt. Edmund Bacon of Columbia. Columbia, April 4.?Much sorrow was caused in this city yesterday by the announcement that Mr. J. W. Livingston had been killed at Batesburg by being run over by a train. Mr. Livingston is a cousin of Mr. J. P. Livingston of the Atlantic Coast Line and son-in-law of Capt. Edmunds Bacon. Having been a traveling man for several years, ho has friends in all parts of the State. The deceased was a son of tlie lato J. W. Livingston of Seneca. Mrs. John C. Carey, formerly of Lockhart but now of Greenville, Is a sister, and Messrs. \V. lv. Livingston of Seneca and J. F. Livingston of Cordele, Ga., are brothers. The inquest was held at Batesburg last night. A number of friends and relatives from (Jolumbla left here in nutomoblles to attend the inquest. The following special from I Batesburg was received last night: "J. W. Livingston, of Columbia, was killed one-half mile south of Batesburg this morning by Southern Railway train No. 8, which was coming into Batesburg on time and was in full view of the passengers waiting at the depot when the accident occurred. "Mr. Livingston was unconscious and made no statement before death about one hour later, lie was brought into town and Dr. \V. I*. Timinerman was called, but could not revive the injured man. Train was in charge of Conductor James Weaver and Engine r Alexander. "\'(t solution li l>"?" 0"? 1 vvl,.v.x/.i Iiuo u*-t3U I nil 11(1. Engineer Alexander stated that Mr. Livingston was walking in the track, meeting the train. The signals were made, but instead of getting off til? track the deceased stopped and just before the engine struck him turned around as if to meet the shock. His legs and one arm were broken and probably internal injuries were sustained. "The deceased once lived at Seneca, but lately, is is understood ,he has been living in Columbia. He conies of a well known family, and his wife, who was a Columbia lady, is connected with a prominent family. The local authorities have the matter in charge, and everything possible is being done to clear up the mystery?which probably will never be done. An inquest will be held this evening as soon as the coroner can arrive? to take chargo of the remains. "The deceased is a stranger in this section, having never been seen here before today." MADK BIG HAUL. Large Quantity of Whiskey Seized in I g x. ? irnuin* Chief State Constable J. F. Bateman and his constables made a big haul of contraband liquor of Charleston yesterday at the establishment of B. P. O'Neill, on upper King street, captured 565 half-pints and 23 quarts of whiskey and 3 16 bottles of a Kentucky brewery export beer . The constables captured tho previous night 15 gallons of gin and 4 8 half-pints of whiskey from the establishment of George Barrincau, on Line street. These seizures are among the largest which have been made in some time, and they show that tho dispensary constables are still after the contraband stuff and are vying with the police squad in the raids upon the many blind tigevs about the city. The constables have their eyes on some other places, and tho stock of contraband liquors at the county dispensary on East Bay will be Increased by tho raids which are in prospect. TRAIN KILLS FLEEING SLAYER. Negro Who Kille<l Another Meets Quick and Tragic Death. > Augusta, Oa., lApril 4.>?Duqing last night, Will Frederick, colored, cut Frank Dougherty, colored, killing him. At daybreak, Frederick, I trying to make his escape, was struck ; by a railroad train and killed. The I body was brought back to tho city J and the coroner held an Inquest over the bodies practically at tho samo ! time. Witnesses to the cutting unquestionably put tho stabbing crime on Frederick. A year ago Doughetry ' cut Frederick severely, and the SatJ urday night stabbing was Frederick's I revenge for tho 1908 assault upon j him. ORRY Hi THE STATE WINS Federal Supreme Court Sustains Dispensary Commission RECEIVERS REMOVED Claims Hold Up Will Now Ho Paid Off?Tln*so Amount to Iletweea Three iind Four Hundred ThoushiuI Dollars?TI?o Decision Save? (lie State Thousands of Dollar?. Washington, April 5.?The supreme court today decided the dispensary case in favor of the State. The federal receivers appointed by fudge rrltcliurd are removed and the State dispensary commission is restored to control of tin* funds of the dis|M'nsary. The decision read by >lr. Justice White, reasons that claims against the commission are claims against the State, which can not he prosecuted under the constitution. I In tliis respect tin* decision of tlie circuit court of appeals at Itlchmond, denying l)r. \V. .1. .Murray's petition for the dispensary coiuuiission, is rcversed. A minor ap[H>al of the case of tho commission vs. Wilson Distilling company is reversed. The reversal of the main case includes costs. INK A MO ASYLUM BUKN.S. Siv Hundred Lives Imperilled at Woodward, Oklahoma. Woodward, Okla., April 4.?Six hundred insane persons were In danger of death today when flames, starting from a prairie Are, destroyed several buildings of the State Asylum at Fort Supply. The Are broke out In the laundry building shortly after the Inmates had returned to their quartets from tho noon meal. Thdfl[^Mum Are department was ordoroc?^\ and every | effort was made to con .al from the patients tho fact that the building was burning. A woin^ii, seeing the lire, however, excitedly gave tho alarm. Attendants then rushed among their changes and narrowly averted a panic. The fire spread from the laundry to the pharmacy supply building and threatened the asylum Itself. The inmates yielded to tho entreaties of the attendants and kept good order when the danger was tho greatest. Ily hard work, the Aromen saved the various ward buildings. Theie * / , a .... 1 ~? c I iff- ... .? ??o iiu iunn ui Mil?. "1110 StaOIeS, laundry, pharmacy and employees qaurters were destroyed. The loss is $75,000. TAX ON ALL DEADLY WEAPONS. Measure Is Introduced l>y Oon|?n'ssman from Mississippi. WashliiKton, April 2,?Hereafter, if the bill recently introduced by Representative Sisson, of Mississippi, becomes a law, all deadly weapons manufactured and sold or stored in any warehouse or factory in the United States "by whatever name such deadly weapons may be called," win imve ii iax or imposed on them. Violations of the provisions of this act are made punishable by a fine not exceeding $2,000, or imprisonment for not more than two years or both. HGIt COOKING And .Made the l4indla<ly His Wife on Short Notice. Atlanta, April 5.?Joshua B. Crawford, 85 years old, one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta, who three weeks ago married Mrs. Bolle Salvage, of St. Augustine, a widow of about 3 5, died this week. Several months ago Mr. Crawford was in St A ll L'llMt 1 nr? nrifl alnn riml nl Oa ? v.n v.?v. .?v u w/|; |/vjv* au uia boarding house run by Mrs. Salvage. Mrs. Salvage was an excellent cook, and while Mr. Crawford became an admirer of all the dishes she prepared, he fell in love with her biscuits, proposed and was accepted. * December and May. Columbia, April 1.?Mrs. Sarah Montamat, a widow 64 years old, gave up a pension of $15 a month as housekeeper today to be married to Turner Acton, 19 years old, who worked at the same house with ^ her. iuuT