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.r GONE WITH TEAM ? Young Man Hirss ITe^m ?nd Buggy arid Loaves < TO PARIS UNKNOWN llo Was a (iucst at tin* St. .John's llou*l ill I'harloston, Wlifi'e Ho Scorns t<? lln\c Ko^'istcrcd I nilor a ii Assumed .Name for Soiir* Ikuson. The News and Courier of Saturday says: Y The police machinery has been set in motion to discover the whereabout*) of "Knnist Hagwood" a young man who was last seen in this city on Wednesday morning, when he drove off with a horse and buggy belonging to Mr. John McAllister, the Mooting street liveryman, "llugwnoii" reirisl?-red at the St. John Hotel on Wednesday, June L'X, us Knuist Hagwood, but it is now statemi Lliul his right name is Hester Reynolds, of Atlanta, (Ja. The police do not know what to make of the disappearance of the young man. They received information Friday morning that a light top buggy and a gray horse, driven by a young man answering the description furnished of Reynolds, had been noticed passing i he Seven-mile last Thursday morning. This is so far the only clue which the police have met with in their hunt for the missing man. Reynolds told the night clerk of the St. John Hotel early Wednesday morning that he had hired a horse and buggy from the McAllister livery stables, and asked that the outfit be called for at S :'.iO a. in. This was douo by the clerk over telephone. Mr. McAllister stating that this procedure was agreeable to him. On laking possession of the horse and buggy Reynolds, or Hagwood, as he waft then known, drove up Meeting streot and stopped at the stables in prder to procure a lap robe, at the name time asking Mr. McAllister regarding the roads on the other side of the New Bridge. lie then told the liveryman that lie intended to take a young lady out I riding, and did not intend to get back to the city until late that evening. After the young man had left t he stables no more was heard of him, and after Manager Fogus and Mr| McAllister had waited till day Thursday it was deckled to put the ease Into the hands of the police ilonsrlrnonf Ftovnnldti left behind him a small trunk, containing some expensive clothes. Through a traveling man, who, on at Thursday morning, inquired alter a gentleman answering Reynold's d<vsoription, Manager Fogua first dlsl covered that Reynolds had registered at the hotel under an assumed name. In describing the young man tho traveling man stated that ho had only three fingers on the rigiit hand. The hotel man had also noli red this, and further inquiries convinced him that "Hagwood" was in reality Lester Reynolds, of Atlanta, <1*. According to tiro traveling man, Reynolds' father committed suicide about six months ago, and the sou had since been subject to fits of melancholia. That the name of the missing man was Reynolds, and not Hagwood, was further substantiated by Mr. Walter (!. Long, a sign painter, of No. 804 King street, who told the police that ho was well acquainted with tho young man, who had come to seo him several times during his stay in the city within the last ten days. Mr. Long was unable to give any Information regarding his friend. Reynolds while in the city stated 1 hat ho was an expert telegrapher and sign painter. He came to tills city on Wednesday morning. June 1 G, from Spartanburg, and immediately registered at the St. John Hotel under the name of lOnnist Hagwood. Several letters written by him are at present in the hands of the police. Last Sunday morning Reynolds paid Manager Fogus a part of his hotel MM, and from general appearances did not seem to be in possession of a large amount of money. The young man is described as being of middle height, light complexV ioned and apparently of about 2 2 vf*rs of age. The value of the horse and buggy with which the young man was last s**>n in this city Is estimated at about $200. Reynolds was well known with several Pullman conductors and other railroad men, all of whom speak highly of tho young man, and are inclined to believe that he has met with some accident or with foul play. Too Ktheral. % "Shall we go to this particular re sort?" "Well, I don't know. The booklet plays up strongly on the sunsets, the rainbows, and tho cloud effects, but contains very few speclficntions as to tho beds, the baths, and the fodder." Rrandon, Canada, will hare a labor temple. I DEATH TO RUSSIANS I SI ICIDF.S AM) KXKCTTIOXS lIKIil1 KIIKI' PKACK. liti.ssian Professor Tells Why I'wiplo Seek Death?Special New spaper l'or the CV.nr. Suicides and executions have rei dneed the population of the KusJ sian empire hy nearly 1,">()() so I'arl this year. Of this number luo than , 3150 luivo bee 11 put to dMalh. Of ficials attribute the absence of disturbance to the increase in tne nuinj her of executions ami suiehp's, ? \ ' editions in that they are a warning to those who would violate the law i i and suicides in that would-bo law | i l)teakers seeing the hopelessnes of ! I their cause end their davs before I they perpetuate anything that might I I,,.,.! I.. irr,...l..r ? - t.l~ 1 .. .i 1 V ikV4 W UVMllMl*. Ill 111V* I month of March 113 persons lost their lives by order of the court. Dr. Dvoretzky, professor in Kieff i university, nas discovered a new name for a disease that, is prevalent in Russia and affects the ten-vear-old i21 the same manner as it affects the (octogenarian. As far as the profesj sor knows the disease is contined to I Kus.-ia and shows itself in a vast i majority of cases in the desire of I the patient to commit suicide. The ! avearge number of those who commit suicide in Russia each year is | 33') a month, more than 4.000 a year. All these, Dr. Rvoret/.ky says, | are sufferers from "despair fever. ; lie declares its victims, both as re- I ) gards their own lot and the fate of I the country in which th-y live. The C/.ar has ordered tne estabI lisliment of a special paper, which shall have a total circulation of one,) j that paper to bo read by the czarj j himself. There are to be 13 number-; I in a year which will contain about j 3i?0 page-.- of about the st/.e and shape ' of the t J fit Story Section. It is to I be in matiuscripl form and will conI tain extracts from the reports of all the police prefects of Rut-Ma, together with such news from abroad as concerns Russia and especially as j concerns the Russian government in i I its struggle with Nihilism and anj archy. As nn example of the kind of of I irunra iui v> 111 i i ma |Ji U1 iVUnnri | lis amenable to punishment, the case j of the editor of the Batoum Novosti is illuminating. In announcing that the governor of Kutals had resigned, the Novosti omitted to givo a list of his titles. For this "crime," | which was pronounced an offense j against authority, the editor was j lined $250 and publication of the j newspaper was suspended for two i weeks. This punishment is the least severe of any to which newspaper editors are subjected in the czar's i jurisdiction. It is considered of little moment to force a newspaper to suspend publication for. Besides other punishments of newspaper odiI tors there were 130 cases in which j fines were levied against the press i for offenses against the government. The total of the fines levied amounted to nearly thirty thousand dol' lnrs. * LOANED TO THE STATE. I cm Ilnttloship South CiU'oliiin. ? Representative Aiken has secured a promise from the navy department I i to loan the figurehead now on tin* j battle ship South Carolina at the i 1 .oague Island navy yard, to the State j of South Carolina for an indefinite number of years. I It has heretofore been customary j for all new ships to have some kind j of figurehead, but recently it was' found that they served no practical, I purpose, and they will not hereafter I j be placed on any new ships. Assistant Secretary Winthrop of | J the navy, has informed Mr. Aiken (that the figurehead on the South Carolina cannot be legally transferred, hut will be loaned to South Carolina to be placed in the State House j I or some other suitable place. I i A betfer place, howerer, would be on East Rattery, at Charleston, where more people would so* It m a day than in a year if placed in the | State House. R???ides, Charleston ' j is soon to ho the permanent home of j j s^me of the higgeat ships In the navy, I | and in the place above all others for the South Carolina's figurehead. Hunts for Devil. Because he was frightened while I running homo late one night, Karl | Rockefeller, a small boy, of Flint Mich., started out the next day with a baseball bat to hunt the "devil." Ho was found by a policeman and : brought home. The "devil," who , had frightened him, was his father, , who had Invented the scheme In the hopo the boy would not go out at night as was his custom. Train Kills Aiitoist. Olenn H. Dobbs, aged 4 6, of Lincoln avenue, Collingswood, N. J., was instantly killed when an automobile, which ho was driving waa struck and demolished by an express train on the West Jersey and Seashore railroad, at Ferry avenue and City line, Camden Wednesday. 1 NEGRO WINS 9 They Win Out In the Georgia Railroad Strike BOARD FINDS RULES That IWat K and \\ Iiito l iivincn Must tlio Saint* I'ay for 111?? Satin* Work ?Ii |lt'uic> tin* St'iiiority of I In* \\ hii?' l-'i i'4'iiM'ii Over I In* Nt'ui'o iMronirn. The boaril of arbitration appointed to -Sett le the t rou bio between the (leorgia Railroad and its white tiretnen, which met in Atlanta, Saturday night decided against the seniority of white tireiueh over negroes. The arbitrators, however, placed a premium on intelligence among tiremen, which, it is believed, will ultimately result in the gradual elimination of all except the most expert negro tiremen. Th<? arbitration hoard was composed of Hilary Herbert ol Alabama, representing the (leorgia railroad; Congressman Thomas Hardwick of (leorgia, representing the firemen, and Chancellor David C. Harrow of the (leorgia university as umpire. Their decision was worded J gradually and did not in any ease ] deal directly wit)i tho race problem. | Their most direct reference to tho senitoriy was in the words: "We find against proposition C. ' j Tli i s proposit hut read: "All tiromen when hired shall he placed in freight yards or host lint; service and senior white dromon shall have preference of pur lies and runs,' The award made tile pay of negro tireinen equal to that of whites. The negroes have receiving front about 1!0 to 5u cents per day less than whites. The award was as follows: (a) Tho Georgia railroad, when using negroes as locomotive firemen on the road or la the yards, or as hostlers, or as hostlers' helpers, shall I pay them the same wages as white men in similar positions. (Concurred In by Messrs. Herbert and Harrow; .Mr. Hard wick dissented.) <h) Firemen in the line of promotion to the position of engineer shall have three years' experience before being promoted to the position of engineer and shall ho promoted in tho order of their seniority; provided they arc able to pass all reasonable requirements and examinations. If they refuse or fail to pass the first examination thoy will ho roduood to freight runs without losing thoir seniority, and tho next senior man in trim will he called on pasfl. Failing on tho second examination the employe will he reduced to the bottom of the extra list or disposed of as tho company desires. Firemen now In tho service who are I physically incapacitated for service j will not he subject to this rule. When firemen are promoted to the position of engineer, they shall he given a certificate of promotion, signed by the engineer. (Concurred [ iu by all three arbitrators.) The decision against proposition C was by Herbert and Harrow, with Ilardwick favoring it. (d) This proposition covered only I in i n/\p I 1 * IIIIUX'I t>vf una in <J IH p IIIO illld was concurred in by nil the arbitrators. (e) In assigning vacancies to firemen seniority alone shall not conI trol. though it may be considered j in connection with the efficiency and with the necessity, where it exist3, of giving experience to candidates .' i' preniotlon to the post ion of engineer." (Concurred in by all arbitrators. ) Mr. Itardwick la a dissenting opinion from proposition A, fixing negroes' wages the same as thoso of whites, said: "In so far as the above finding permits the continued employment of negro firemen, I dissent, because I believe from the evidence that such employment is a menace to the safety of the traveling public. In so far as such finding required that when negroes are so employed, they shall receive wages equal to those paid white men. I concur, believing that such requirement by removing tbo | principal incentive to their emnlnv- 1 ment will result in tho speedy elimination ot' thia cheaper labor and a consequent improvement of the service." The arbitratora reached their decision after about three hours' conference, but it required a long time to draw up the agreement. Arguments in the case were begun Saturday before the arbitration board which is to settlo the strike. II. Ii. Dickson, general counsel for the lirotherhood of Docomotive Firemen and Knginemen, declared that this 1h a white man's country and that the negro is a menace to the safety of the traveling public when put in a cab of a locomotive. "The Georgia railroad wants to hire the negro because it can pay him less, can degrade the white man and keep him down to a lovol of the negro." He dost*! by an appeal to send tho negro back to tho cotton field where he belonged and whero he was need ; CHEATS THE LAW mi i;i>i:ki:k wkitks past ciiaptmh in \\(K)i)ii.i/ntA(;i:i?v. Ilolx'i'i I' 111111 <( ( Mast mail, Alias l?'mmctt ! '. Kulicrts, Commits Kuieltle' When Capture Scums Certain. A (1 i patch front St. Michaels, M?l., says the last tragic chapter in a story j of crime unparalleled in this section of the country was written in the half light of an early summer's dawn Friday, when the man accused of the heartless murder of pretty little May I'dith Thompson Woodlll a spectre-like form llecing In a skiff from a posse of determined, relentless pursuers stood for a moment facing the men who had cornered him > on ino waters of a narrow creek, j then tired <a bullet crashing into his heart and fell a lifeless lump into 11\?> bottom of the boat, which he had hoped would carry him to a ' landing place where tlight might be j possible. Taking his fate into his own hands | and blotting out untold the story of the death of a girl who had moved in i the highest social circles of Haiti ! more, Washington and Los Angeles a beautiful, talented girl, who had been a protege of Lyman J. Gage I and of Former Governor Frank I I'.row 11 of Maryland the man known j hero as Fmmett L. Roberts, but who in reality was Robert Knimott Fast- j man. a failed broker of the Consoli-j dated Stock Kxehatige of New York, j passed beyond the reach of the law j and with his going there vanished , j the hope of clearing up the motives land hallling (lotalis of this strange I t ragedv. A letter found upon Kastman's body, addressed to Miss Vinnie Itradconte. care of Khiw &. Krlanger, ! New York, gave Fast man's ill-sustained excuse for the crime. It was a rambling account of how he had : been out in a launch with a party of men and women, till of whom had been drinking to excess with the exception of himself and Mrs. Woodill, and how one of the women in a tit of jealous frenzy had attacked Mrs. Woodill with a wine bottle and killed her; how the remainder of tho party had taken tligbt, leaving him to dispose of the body and how as a means of escape from all his troubles the writer had decided to end bis life. liAMACt: sriT iiiccimcit I la it road* Responsible for Overworking Mon. Tiic State Supromo Court Friday afllrmml the Circuit Court's decision in the caso of McCrcery vs. tho Southern Railway Company, in which a judgment was rendered for $9,500. This was a very unusual case. The contention of tho plaintiff's attorneys was that L. L. McCroery, who was a flagman on tho Southern, had been over-worked and was killed while asleep on tho track with a flag in his hand. Tho point in: volved was that the man was alleged I to have been on duty over-time, and for this reason the road was responsible for his death. I Tho suit was for $10,000, and $0,000 was secured. This case was a very similar one to tho well-known case of Held vs. Southern, which was ' tried In Dorchester a few years ago. Hen Refuses Hawk Kgg. A hen belonging to Chris Summit, ; of Stinerville, Ind., refused to hatch j out a hawk's egg which had been put j under her. When tho hen found tho i egg in the nest, sho sounded a note of warning to the other fowls and immediately began to pick tho egg to pieces. Summit was out shooting crows on his farm when ho found j the hawk on her nest. IIo shot it and brought the egg home. * Tf cako browns Immodlately upon j being put Into the oven, tho oven : is too hot. It can ho cooled quickly j bv lifting a lid from tho top of tho stove. A ploco of astestos paper on I tho oven shelf will protect the top of the cake from burning. ed. Ho promised no matter what the verdict was that tho flroinon would accept It without appeal. Mai. Cummlngs, general counsel for the Oeorgift railroad, grow very much excited when ho referred to the efforts of the brotherhood national officers to force the discharge of the negro. With a high pitched voice which trembled as ho spoke, he said: "The North camo into the South on a conquest before, to establish negro equality or negro supremacy. And now, theso men from Peoria, Chicago and New Haven, on their second conquest, come down to say that the negro they frood can not even work to make an honest living. They charge that we employ nogroes because they work for loss money than white men. Well, what If we do? Is it a crimo to practice economy on a railroad? The proposition we are asked to accept is inhuman. Wo refused to accept It at the behost , of a mob. We will not accept It unless forced to do so by legislative ! enactment or by an order of this court of arbitration." TAFT'S SCHEME I | To Prevent the Passage of an j Income Tax Now. IQ AM ADTCIll nnnnr ! Vi nil rn\I l UL UOUUC <>n His Part t<> Iv?|? tin* Democrats I rout (letting tin* Cirilit tor I'ut- I tiny; Such a .lust and laiuitnlile Tax (lathering Mi'iismc ou the! Statute Hooks. 1m hi.s letter from Washington to : Tho State Zuch McClee says the cor poration tax, as in the ease of the income tax is now on tie; lullows sea amJ it has its ujks. and its downs. Just now it i^ t.i its ut>s Kollownm the president's message on the subject Senator Aldrich has introduced it and there tire those h" a who actually think it ivS goln^ to pass. Well, there are others, and you may just wall till this session nd ioio-nu n. I you deeiuo lo get ready I pay your corporation tax. It is believed by the as'ute h- re, aiul hoped for by the Democrat io "politicians," tliut it would be a good thing lor the Itemocratit*, parly and, therefore, for the country, as the Democrats reason, if t he Republicans did pass this measure, for it is brim I full of Injustices all up and down j the line. And yet the Democrats are going to vote for it, as it appears at this writing. \\ hen it conies up on the Moor, if ; it gets in ahead of the income tax amendment, then Senator ltuih*y will t offer the income tax as a substitute for it. Then the vote will be made ! direct upon the income tax. It. < n ! the other hand, the income tax comes up lirst, it is believed ihit Aidrich ' will oiler the corporation tax as a \ substitute for the income tax. The Democrats will then vote against substituting the corporation ! tax for the income tax, or in the other case they will vote to substitute the income tax for tho other. It looks now as If there is going to be a vote direct to one form or another upon the income tax. But what? The Denim rats seem now to be determined to vote for the tax oil corporations if they can not get the income tax; and right there is where they are going to fall down, too, if they don't watch out. If they will point out the injustices in it, vote loud, long and united against it on the ground of those in- I justices, then they will make ail issue for the party which will serve them in good stead in the next election. The question is. whether they will have the nerve, and tlio souse, to do this? It will take some nerve, for the reason that corporations are believed to Ivti iiniuinnlui* Innllti.tl... ?" ? ... uurv>|>uiui nini im liviiim, ami IK)l many men in politics arc willing I to bo put into the position of not doing all they can to hit a lick at j these unpopular Institutions, it will ! take sense to see that corporations are not unpopular. The business affairs of the country, large and small, are done through corporations, and nearly every man who wishes to do anything worth while in the commercial world those? days, organizes a I corporation and does his work through corporation. It does not take a millionaire, as some suppose, to he interested in a corporation. The man who lias saved up $50, the country school toacher, the store; clerk, and oven the mill hand, invests [ his litth; savings in a bank, a factory, | a joint stock store;, or some other corporat ion. Now how will this corporation tax affect these? It. will tax thorn 2 per cent on eve;ry dollar of dividends wheh comes to them. The) man whe> has $1.00 worth ejf stork in a sawmill concern which earns as much as i $5,000 and who gests now in dividends 7 per cent, or $7 a year, will b? tax- i eel 14 ce?nts. Ariel Mr. Andrew Car-i iH'gie, whose income fre>m the steel trust is $21,000,000 a year-?he>w I much tax would tie pay? Not e>ne) a/f? f1aptun/in'ti ;r*#?' ?* 1 - *1? ' n i u i,ci rrrf (. 111 IIIU I steel trust is In lK>nd?. Interest on ; bonds is a "fixed charge," and all j "fixed charges" inust bo paid before "net earnings" are reached. And so it is with a large number of other plutocrats, while the small stockholder will havo to pay. The income tax would tax a man according to whut he hns. The corporation tax does not, and there is no Justice in it. A corporation, where there are ft few stockholders, could escape the tax by simply dividing up tho earnings in salari<*?, which aro also hx?hi cnargea." Tho pmall stockholder, in that case, would escape without having to pay the tax on hlu dividends for the very good and oaey reason that he would not got | any divldosde, it all being used up j in salaries. If any is left after the | "salaries" are paid, then the small shareholder would get. his dividends, after tho tax is deducted. Now this is the beautiful little scheme Mr. Taft has devised for tho sole purpose of preventing tho passago of an income tax which ho has been In favor of and which ho fully j realizes is the juster form of taxiug FOOLISH COUPLE \l NT AMI Nl.'I'IINW KLOI'E AND WANT TO MAIIICY. I ho W oman Is Twnnty.two Fours Old ami tin' I toy in (ho (us? is Only I'ourtoeii. Miohaol M u/.zioota. a 14-year-old hoy, and his aunt, Faituin Muzz.ieotn, L'li years old, 1 m?t h of Now York, who eloped, intonding, the xir 1 says, to many, unm arrosted Saturday .;t Philadelphia hy tin; polieo on war . ants issued by their parents. Tho . il l was taken Into custody in a cigar factory, where she was worklag 1 support her intended husband. Michael was arrested in a house while washing dishes. The boy broke into tears when a detective from New York and a special policeman entered the house and placed him under arrest as a runaway. lie said in* wanted to stay with his aunt as she had treated hint so good. From the lad tho police leane d the whereabouts of the aunt, and going to the cigar factory where she was employed, arrested hor. The girl was accused in the warrant ot kidnapping tin* boy, and the detectives were greatly astonished when they brought her before lOdward (iallagher, captain of detectives and she informed them that she :?ml ?. ' ' ' ' I'H'W 11.1(1 CUUIO to 11114 city to bo married. The intended bride said they lived in a house at 2 22t> Fifth avenue. New York, and that they had been sweethearts for many months. They decided to elope three months ago. Stealing from the house at night, hey went to I Mi i 1 adol p h ia, and since their arrival there she has been supporting her nephew. Through letters addressed to a friend the New York poll* p learned of the whereabouts of the couple and sent, the information and warrants to the police of that city. When informed that they would bo sent hack home, the girl said she could not hear to face her parents, as she was disgraced. The detectives took the boy to the house of detention, where he will he held to await the arrival of his parents. When the boy was asked If he was going to marry his aunt ho smiled, lie said that after he had boon going around with her for a long time she had told him that it would be Impossible for her to stay at homo any longer. Ho said ho became frightened and ran away with her. "I've had a good time over sinco," ho concluded. FATAL II FAT WAVK. Many Heat lis an?l Pr*vaiw?Hn??u Cauwd by It. For the last throo days tho weathcr has been intensely hot in this section us well as other sections of tho country. A dispatch from Washington says a warm wave with a wide field, levying a largo toll of prostration, some fatal, stretched over the whole country Saturday. lu Phoenix, Arizona, the temperature climbed to 100 in the weather bureau thermoni| etera. Washington, Baltimore and i Lynchburg, Va., scored the highest honors In this direction In the Bast, with 94, official, each. A dispatch from Now York says fiercer heat than had broiled that island in any June for many a year Saturday paralized every movement I throughout the length and breadth ! of Gotham. While scores of New | Yorkers are being felled by the uiorj ciless beating of tho Hun and the choking grasp of a heavy humidity,, j the whole town is almost on the I verge of panic over thy unseasonable I visitation of midsummer hot way<m. i Appalled by the early start of tho i death-dealing weather in tho teneI mont districts, the health officials and dozens of private philanthropic orpr? n I 70 1 lrv?* ? ?? ?- 1 - 11 ? ? n?...Miuuun iir? uiaing emergency measures to guard tho lives of tho younger and weaker Inmates of tho slums. For the babies particularly every effort la being made to teach and help busy mothers to take precautions against the stifling heat. If early indications count for anything, Now York is promised one of tho hottest summers its perspiring people have ever experienced. * New One Cent Coins. According to an announcement made by a Troasurer Department official tho new one-cent pieces now owing mane at tho Philadelphia mint will be put in circulation probably this week when 150,000 of tho Uttering coins will bo ready. Tho new cents, which wero doelgnod at tho Philadelphia mint, will replace tho familiar American Indian head with tho likeness of Abraham Lincoln. Mayor Hibbard, of Roston, will ask *he Legislature to pass a bill providing for the pensioning of all employes who have worked for tho city twoutyftvo years or moro. wealth. Rut ho must got up something to keep tho Democrats from getting tho credit of tne income tax.