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' MOTIVE FOUND For the Muidar of Elsie Slgel In New York City. INSANE JEALOUSY On the Part of One Chinaman Ile?auso tlie Oirl Went With Another ('iiiniuiinu is Now Supposed to ilave C-auscd the Terrible Murder of the Girl. A dispatch from Now York says in the love loiters of F > it Sigel 10 two Chinamen is found the motive for the gruesome murder of Gen r' Fraru Sigel's granddaughter. The night the body was discovered wedged into the old trunk in the rooms of Leon Ling, In Eighth avenue, the police found a score of more of letters, which the girl had addressed to him. They were endearing in tone and indicated a friendship more than Plutonic. In searching Chinatown, the detectives raided the private rooms of Chu Gain, owner of the famous I'ort Arthur Chinese restaurant, and there they found about 2 00 letters which had been addressed to him by Elsie Sigel. These letters were even more endearing in tone than those found in Leou Ling's room. In these she addressed hi in as "My own dearest beloved," and "my own dear Chu.," "ever your loving Elsie," she fref quently signed herself. The Chu Cain letters gave the first information us to the motive for the murder. Miss Sigel told Chu Gain, in some of the letters, of her conduct with Leon Ling, told him not to be jealous, and explained her object in maintaining her friendship for Ling. The police will not give out the full contents of these letters. It is now supposed that Leon Ling decided tragically to end the romance of the girl he loved and his rival, iler affection for Chu Gain was known, as Is shown by the letters received by Chu Gfrin, in which he and the girl are threatened with d?>ath unless their relatione ceased. The murder was apparently the exIpectation of that threat, j The Chinatown mission, popularly known as the girls* recreation rooms, was closed a few nights ago for the first time since they were opened eight years ago. No explanation was given for this action, but it is supposed that the murder of Elsie Sigel was responsible. It was in these I rooms that Miss Sigel first undertook missionary work in Chinatown, and it was here that she was brought iu eontaot with many of the readouts of that station. I( The young girl missionaries of Chinatown, liko Klsie Sigel, use these rooms in which to meet the unforftunate women of Chinatown and there talk religion with them. On stated occasions Chinamen were invited to the rooms, and there they met the young girl missionaries. In that manner many Chinamen were induced to attend Christian Sunday schools in different parts of the city and from these first meetings many 1 o man cos have developed, the Chinamen marrying white women. The first of those weddings which occurred eight years ago, created much comment, but recently there have been so many such alliances that little attention Is paid to them. Although the mission in Chinatown where Klsie Sigel formerly taught, has been closed, a meeting of Chinese who have been converted to Christianity was held in a Doyer street mission to discuss plans for raising a fund to be offered as a reward for the capture of Klsie Sigel's slayer. No definite sum was decided upon, but a committee will go through Chinatown soliciting subscriptions. The, Rev. Fung Y. Mow iactoa as cnauiuttu. Theories as to the motive of the murder all coincide on the jealousy of Leon Ling. That he killed thr girl because of her apparent friendship for Chu Gain, who is still detained as a material witness, is tbf predominant belief. hi support of this explanation Mrs. Florence Todd, one of the most prominent women workers in China town, who knew Elsie Sigel and hei mother intimately, said: I "I knew Chu Gain, who is undei arrest, very well. He is one of th? few Chinamen whom I would trus with my life. Mrs. Sigel and Elsi< also knew him for many years. The; were introduced to him through ai uncle of his. "I believe that Elsie was in lov with Chu Gain and would have mar ried him, but that he would not mat ry her." I.^j Here Mrs* Todd went into t.he mo? 4 significant jmrt of her statement that bearing , on Leon Ling. Sh i j said: ' "Within the last year, despite hf lo^e for Chu Gain, Elsie became ai parently infatuated with Leon Lini Rut I know it was only a flirtatloi He, I know, asked her to marry hie but she refused hiin. In fact, si ROBS TAXAS BANK A HOLD RAVDIT HOLDS UP CA.SHIKK WITH PISTOL. Takt's Kight Thousand Dollars in Currency and Th(*n Ccolly Walks Off Wfth It. In true frontier style, a highwayman, described as gentle in appearance, robbed the branch banking house of the Waggoner Hank and Trust Company In the heart of Fort Worth, Texas, of $S,100 in currency and escaped. The robbery was the most daring attempted in Texas in years. Cashier Walter E. King was alone in the bank after closing time, balancing the business of the day, when a man walked in. As the man ap- | proached the window of the cashier's jdesk, King looked into the barrel of a revolver. "Make a move or a noise of any kind and I'll kill you," was the greeting Mr. King received. The cashier obeyed the order. Seizing the roll of bills the man backed out of the door, covering King with the revolver. King ran to a telephone, as he saw the man walking down the street and mitiglingling with the crowds with an air of unconcern. The police reached the scene five njrtnutes later, but the robber had disappeared. At the time of the robbery several hundred persons were near the building and many noted the arrival at the bank and the departure of the man, but his manner was so bland that ho did not arouse suspicion. Several persons declare that he climed into a waiting automobile, after walking several blocks. Hut the police place little credence in this assertion and it is believed he is still in Fort Worth. Searching parties are out in force. An interurban car which left for Dallas was overtaken by officers in an automobile, but this obvious means of escape had not been utilized. The loss to the Waggoner banks Is covered by insurance. The bank, however, offered a reward of $1,000. DKATlfS FHOM IIKAT. Thousands of New Yoiltcr* Sleep on Ikiarhrs, A dispatch from New York says the hot wave which inflicted torture on the Fast Side was blamed for at least twelve deaths and more than a score of prostrations. No relief coming at night, more than 20,000 persons went to bed on the Bandy beach at Coney Island, It being the first occasion this season when residents of the city sought overnight relief at the seashore. The beaches were thrown open to ^ ?\ n K 1 I a n *wl niJiem\wkn uf Vllt" fin uu\> auu J/UIIV^ in* 11 n D vax. tailed to guard the sleepers. Most of those who slept on the sands were women and their children, who lived in the crowded sections of the city. The maximum temperature of ninety-one degrees was reported at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, but the most intense suffering came an hour later, following a hot rain shower, when the wind died out and the air became close and sultry. Street thermometers registered as high as ninety-four and a high temperature was maintained all day and all of Tuesday night. kiiilki) his kinsman. Young Man .Jailed for Slaying His Ilrothordn-Iituv. A special from Martinsville, Va., says: K. M. Keen, a young white man, was lodged in the Henry county jail there, charged with the mur| der of Hruco Davis, a prominent farmer and politician, who lived near stocKTon, in uiai couniy. ua? vis married Keen's sister, and on Sunday Davis had a difficulty with his wife. Keen, in defence of his , sister, it is said, stabbed Davis four . times, from which injuries he died , at once. African Lion (Jets Hunter. Henry C. Williams, a member of the hunting party of T. S. St. Luis and George McMillan, was brought t, to Naivashe, TJritish East Africa, a . few days ago, mortally wounded by r a lion. The encounter with the lion occurred in the Sotik district, near r where the Roosevelt party will hunt j t told me that she refused him. Her a mother knew all about it." y Despite her statement, Mrs. Todc! a said she was not inclined to believ< that Deon committed the murder a and she went on to relate that sh< - had a dream that Elsie Sigel ha< - committed suicide. Chu Gain, sh< said, came to nor on the mornlni it of .Tune 14, five days after the mnr t, dor Is supposed to have been com e mitted. and told her that he, too had had a dream. In this dream ;r Chu Gain, according to Mrs. Todd ;>- had seen the form of the girl, appea K. before him crying, "Chu, save me. a. This seemed to worry the Chinama q, greatly, because Elsie was missing s le the time. SHE KNEW HIM YOUNG IjADY IDENTIFIED F1KXD VKHY KKADILY. The Sight of tho Scouudrel Shocked Her and Asked Her Father to Kill Him. Tho State says: John Jenkins, alias "Slippery Jim," tho negro charged with attempting criminal assault on a young lady in Georgetown county, was identified by the lady. The negro was brought to Co lumbia Saturday night and lodged in the penitentiary for safe keeping. It was decided Sunday to bring the young lady to Columbia and accordingly she came, accompanied by her father, and made oath that Jenkins was the negro who dragged her from the buggy and attempted the crime. She brought with her a written statement which was filed with Mr. A. J. Bethea, private secretary to to Gov. Ansel. The statement carries out practically what has already been given in the newspapers and gives no new facts as to the attempted crime. W hen she was shown Jenkins she begged her father to kill the negro and was absolutely prostrated as a result of the shock. This is the first case of this kind in that section of the country and efforts will be made at once for a speedy trial. Mr. Geo. W. Watts has written Gov. Ansel, who was out of th?* city, requesting a special term of court. There was at no time any danger of violence and the people are con vincod thnt should the low bo allowed to take its course there will be no difficulty at the trial. WIFK OF M1MHTKR SKIPS. Said to Have Disappeared With Another .Man. The congregation ot' Centenary Methodist Kpiscopal church, at Newborn, N. C.. was greatly startled Sunday morning when the pastor, Uev. K. C. Heaman, 1). I)., announced to them that his wife had disappeared and could not he located. Tho pastor's words were pronounced in as tine oratory as has ever been heard in that pulpit and no word of censure or bitter feeling escaped his lips. It was a very pathetic scene. On Saturday, June G, Dr. Heaman 1 went to Durham to attend Trinity College commencement. Three or four days later Mrs. Reama.n left Newborn, it is said, ostensibly fcr Rocky Mount, but nothing has been heard from her since. Notes found in different places indicate that she has left with a man named Grant, who has beeu in town for a fewdays. The matter was known to but very few prior to the Sunday morning services. She was the minister s second wife and was about the age of hLs youngest daughter by his first wife. The second wife was reared at an orphan asylum. The Methodist church is the largest aud most intluential in the city, and one of the largest in the State and Dr. Heaman's charge over it has been marked with a period of prosperity. MXJltO IN LADY'S IUK?I. Tided to Prevent Iter From Calling For Help. Some excitement prevailed at Ridge Springs on last Friday when it was learned that a well known young lady of that place had awakened during the night to tlnd a negro in her room. i no negro pi area nis nana over her month to prevent her crying for help, hut she succeeded in arousing the family, but the negro escaped. It is not known whether or not the brute was attempting to commit an assault or robbery, and perhaps thinking the young lady awake had placed his hand over her mouth to prevent her from calling for help. The negro is described as being a dark, ginger cake boy, about sixteen years of age, weighing about 12r? pounds and was barefooted, carrying a sack containing his shoes, a hat aud cap. The officers are on the look out for him. * Negro in Her Koom. A dispatch from Lancaster to Thf State says about four o'clock Sundaj morning ;> young Iftdy there discov . ered a negro man in her bed room and promptly screamed, causing hin to hastily make his escape. Neigh I bors saw the negro running rapidl.t ) from the building. Tom Murray who lives in the neighborhood, wa 5 arrested. He denies the charge, bu j he answers the description given b; g the young lady. ? Married After Twenty Years. An elopement planned in thei ?. youth, and broken off by the girl' i, parents, separated Alma Lilian Pet I, torson and Horace W. Craue, o r South Bend, Ind., for more than 2 years. This week Crane returne n home from a long voyuge at sea, an it thought that she carrie the snak still free, they were married. % FREE LUMBER Senator Tillman Explains His Lumber Votes DON'T WANT IT TAXED The Senator Say* a Duty 011 I.timber Only II elps the I.umber Trust, \\ liieli lias HonalH I P All the Timber Lands in the State, and * * I I Kobs the Farmers and Others. We present below Senator TillI man's remarks in the United States Senate on last Monday on tin* luni- I ber schedule, in which he explains his position on that question. Therelias been a great deal said about the | Senator voting against tree lumber Head what he says below and >ou ; will see that the Senator lias alwaysl been in favor ot free lumber as we have claimed: Mr. Tillman?Mr. President, before the lumber schedule passes from ; the attention of the Senate, 1 want | to make a brief statement. When it was in the Senate before, two or , three weeks ago, I voted for the ! amendment proposed by the Senator from Alabama (Mr. Johnson) to put lumber and all building materials on the free list. In tile discussion I remarked that 1 was in favor of free lumber. When the Senator from North Dakota (Mr. Mct'umber) offered an amendment, which did not give us free lumber, leaving the duty on whitewood, sycamore and bass ' u inni iiv. .?v > ?nir> .1 unuisitiHi, i You'll against it, because it did not gi\e ns free lumber. The Senate adjourned im mediated v afterwards, giving tue no opportunity to vote for free ! lumber. There lias been no opportunity to vote for free lumber. There has been no amendment proposed for free lumber today. Mr. McCumber The Senator will recall that some time ago I introduced tin amendment for free lumber, and it wns defeated. Mr. Tillman ?I was not present Mr. McCumber Oh, yes; it was argued here for days and then defeated by a very decisive vote. Mr. Tillman ?-If the Senator will look at the Record, he will see that he did not offer any amendment for free lumber, but only one for "sawed lumber not specially provided for," and so forth, leaving In the bill GO cents a thousand on bass wood, sycamore, and so forth. Mr. McCumber?1 did not change that, it is true. Mr. Tillman? 1 voted against the McCumber amendment. It was defeated by a very decisive vote, GG, I think, or something like that, to 30, or around there. 1 still think we ought to have free lumber, and I will give my experience and my reasons for that belief. I know, of course, we can not get it. Twelve years ago, when the Dingley bill was on its passage, 1 voted for a $3 tariff on lumber, and remarked, very much to the disgust of some people and the edification of others, "if there was to be stealing. I want iny share." 1 have found out that I can not get my share; that the conditions of the South are such that the articles and products of the region which are capable of being protected are so few in number that if we were to throw around everything down there a high protective tariff, we would not get anything like a proportionate benefit with the New Kngland and manufacturing States of this Tnion. In regard to this matter of lumber I have watched the result of the duty. Immediately afterwards our timber lands, which had previously been neglected so there were comparatively small lumbering industries down there, began to be in demand. Men from Wisconsin and Michigan and other northern States where lumbering had practically denuded the forests of timber, or were, about to finish them up. came into the State and bought up very large tracts of timber at a very small price. They did this all over the South. Large mills were established and the lumbering industry began to pick up. showing Investment of capital and a large export. At the same time the price began to rise, a little fast A 1 .. it ? L -v I ,1 II I Ml. U er, apparently, iiuiu i nc niuusu j> ? isolf. Now, consider for a momont that ' the people of South Carolina .ire " in about this shape; the State being 1 a triangle, the upper part cutting ??ff 1 like the letter "A" Is largely the " white section of the State. Nearly ; Iwo-t birds of the peple, although it is only one-third of the area, live * there. They are consumers of ! i n1 her and 'hey have no yellow p'.u f or very little. They have been >m . r.rting that lumber 'roni the lowei half of counties next to the sen, and that region is occupied almost whol r ly by the negores; that is, the. ne s groos outnumber the whites in Beau - fort county, for instance, 10 negrooi >f to 1, Colleton 7, Georgetown 7, Wil 0 liamsburg 4. Sumter f>, and so on d In this coast region the lumber in d dustry has taken root and is nov e very extensively carried on. I notice after three or four year PROVED A FAILURE HAD CONDITION OF AFFAIRS IN NORTH CAROLINA. Mr. James M. Allen, Jr., Sajs IVohL tuition lias Worked thv Wrong Way I |> There. The Florence Times says Mr. Jas. M. Alton. Jr., ot (loldshoro, N. was in Flot ence recently to see his | brother from Now York and from th??l army. W hile in Florem Mr. Allen i said that if one wants to know what I prohibition really is. they should visit North Carolina now and see the praetieal workings and the demoralization of labor and business from the blind timers, in spite of the Pinkorton detectives that are employed to run them to earth. Labor is demoralized because all the negroes can make mote money as blind timers than by honest work, and wages are too high even if one can get a man or woman to work. He says that there is more drunkenness on the St reef H now f h:m S. > ever snw in (loldsboro l?< tori', and Ihnt the sa me is true of other towns in tin* State. The jug trains and expr? ss company arc doing a big bus-J iness. Sixty-five gallons of liquor in 0110 day was counted a dull shipment for (loldsboro, and nioie money is going out of the conununity now for li<|iior than over before. Mr. Allen says that he is, and lias always been tin advocate of prohibition, but that he is convinced now that the passage of such a law unsupported by the real sentiments of the people, has worked for corruption and evil, die thinks likely that the State legislature may repeal it next time and give the people local option, as they had before, and under which temperance seemed to be ad va 11 ci n g. of this Introduction of lumber on an extensive scab* that the price went steadily up. up, and it very soon became noised abroad. I do not know 011 what foundation, that these lumber men had formed a combination and they would not sell under each other to the consumers in ?he upper part of the State. Lumber is not a luxury. It is a necessity. It is one of the necessaries of life. When T saw that the farmers, who had to build bouses and fences and barns in the whole tipper country, wore being charged steadily increasing prices for their lumber, I began to change my opinion as to whether I was getting my share of the stealing or not. ft looked like somebody not very far away was getting an unreasonable profit out of our trees, which had cost tbeni a very small sum of money relative- ' ly. So my opinion in regard to the benefits of the tariff in our State changed very radically. 1 believe In the greatest good to the greatest number; and when 1 saw that the people, who use lumber, practically four-fifths of them, were paying an increased price, I decided if I ever got a chance I would take that tariff oft*. That is all there is about it. 1 do not feel that it is mv business horn to protect the inMust ry of lumber which jM-rhaps, involcB the interests of 50.000 good and worthy people, as against the 500,000 equally good and worthy people who have to use iuiubcr, Und we would not he saved from nn exorbitant price, because. I think, these people formed a combination and agreed that they would not undersell each other. The only reason why we were able, or will be able, to get lumber at a reasonable rate was due to tha fact that there were some old field pine second growth left in the upper part of the State and small patched, or small areas two or three hundred acres or 500 acres, all through iu the middle lower region that the lumbermen had not bought or could not buy at the high prices ? I mean the great lumber companies. with their railroads, and at: that sort of thing, running out into the swam.e. The only reason why the upper-country people could g<t lumber at decent prices was because a little one-horse sawmill, costing $1,500 or at most $2,000, would go into these little patches of pine and saw the timber up and furnish the people tli is necessary. as against these great combinations of capital which had absorbed our timber. f have felt that it was my privilege to explain why I am apparently in contradiction with myself, because I voted against the amendment offered by the Senator from North i Dakota (Mr. McCumber). Having stated that I wanted free lumber, i having had no chance to get' free . lumber. I still am against the amendmnnt )>nr>n ilea It HI/1 r/il t(l V ? V, MV. V/l? VI UV a V VI ?U IIVV VUCI I I CI ? lumber. That is all I want to sav. I did not want to appear to he at war witl 1 myself, nor do I say this because o - the hue and cry raised In some quar - tors that I have not stood on thi - Democratic, platform. I am here a s a Democrat. If my Democracy i - not above suspicion I do not wan i. any certificate from any source. v The person who la too heav think regretfully of the light of othe s days. I ! TELLS OF PERIL CLKIM.Y OITOSK <.II(I,S WOKKIN<; CIUNKSK. TIh'T Sav "l*ul>lii-ati<??? v.. < w 9 VI Mivsioiiar?4'N Kimwd by Their !' > pils Would Sluwli Cowidrj." The brutal murder of .Miss Bbje Sigel, a young missionary in New York City among tin Chinese of tb..t eity, by some of the people she was trying to lead to the light of tie gospel, has created a great sensation among all classes of people. The New York World bas interviewed a number of leading New York ministers, including t ho Itcv. I). Asa black hum of the Church of the Strangers. I>r. Slack hum is a former Columbian and brother to tin Itev. Ceo. A. Illack burn, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church of that city. The World says: "Any mission plan that tuvlls for a white giil for every Chinese is at;??cious," said the Itev. I). Asa Li lackburn of the Church of the Strangers. * "I have always been sternly opposed to it. When Dr. Deems was a 11 v this church, in common with many others, undertook work with the Chinese, but in the lb years of my ministry w e have had none of it. .Members of my church who developed interest in that direction have had to offer their services to outside missions. I think that interest haw subsided among my parishioners. "Vet many good people believe ic the sort of mission work of whirl) the tragic episode now in the puhlhs mind is a natural result. It Ir finite useless to argue with snob people that a Chinese is no more entitled to special instruction than is tin Italian or other foreigner who come here ignorant of English. We do not give a girl instructor to every Italian who comes among us. and we ought not to hold out th;it inducement to Chinese. All the same, it. ifi douo and it will be (lone. A way should be found to stop it. "If the World would employ Ca great facilities for gathering new* to obtafiling a list of the mission girls ruined by Chinese whom they were teaching it would perform :? service for which all t.be ohurehen would be supremely grateful. There have been enough cases of that bind to 1111 an entire page in the paper That list would be read everywhere as an awful object lesson In depravity. I believe Its publication would so shock the country to correct the evil at Mhich If. would aim. Nothing short of some such exposure will stop it. The people neod to ho horrified. T shall be in sympathy with any measure, however shocking, to save our young women from a cob~ !? 1 ? i l <l ll <1 II it- Ul UUH llllitlliy, ?*IHI WHO what Peebio force I have 1 win speali for it." rows r\rsF. TRAincnv. Neighboring KarmciN Quarrel (i??> is Killed. James F. Booth, a well bnowtt fanner, living three miles from Stathnm, (la., was fatally wounded Wednesday uioming in a pistol duel with his neighbor, It. A. Boyd. indied from the effects of the wound. Boyd was uninjured. Differences of long standing culminated in a fata) quarrel Wednesday, when Booth remonstrated with Boyd for allowing liis cow to damage his (Booth's) crops. Both men are prominently connected. kir.l.FD BY l,KiHTM\(l. Son of One of the Siamese Twins W;*# the Victim. The Siamese twins are more nnnitp to the younger generation which nov makes up th? major portion of tbe circus Clientele, hut in tho old days thosp nion wore among the wont?or? of tho modern world. Tho youngest ?on of tho twin Chang was killed Friday in North Carolina hy lightning, Flo was thirty-eight, a doaf route, but prosperous and popular. The twins married Virginia women, and their children have remained in the South. All have prospered, hut nearly all of them were horn deaf. RVRAL MAIL t'ARRIKKS Will Hold Convention at Rock llit) (n July. Rock Hill will entertain on July 5 - and 6, the delegates and visitors !<> the annual convention of the Sta?e , Association of Rural Mail Carriers. Congressman Aiken, at the requeft ? of the otllcers of the organization. has seen Fourth Assistant Por1? I master General lv?Oraw and Superx intendent of Rural Delivery Spillf man, and has the promise that one, _ or possibly both, will attend. ?. 9 Young Man Gone Wrong. s Clyde Hal ford, a well-known yoimr t man of Spartanburg, was arrested and locked up on the charge of stealing a watch from a young lady, the y guest of his sister. Halford is still r In jail. The police recovered the watch from a local pawnbroker.