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SHOT THEM BOTH I Young Indian Kills Englishman and Persian. , ASSASIN CAPTURED ! /in .h-ikmik" hro*i?{; lor Iidiun Students drought to a Sudden Termination by a Terrible Tragedy, Which Seems to Have I teen IVej meditated. A dispatch from London says a startling double assassination of a ^ political character occurred late : Thursday night towards the conclusion of a public gathering at the Imperial Institute. An Indian student, whose name is not known, shot and killed IJeut. Col. Sir Win. Hutt Curtton Wyllie and Dr. Calas Lalcaca, of Shanghai. Wylie, who had held important Indian apiKiintmonts, tell dead on the npot. Dr. Lalcaca showed signs, of life after he fell and was hurried ! to St. George's hospital but on arrival there it was found that he was dead. Those near the assas.-ln seized and held hiui until the arrival of the , police. He had two revolvers, a dagger and a knife. All were new, i and it is believed the crime was firemeditated. The gathering at the Imperial In- ; stitute, a building devoted to Indian and other colonial functions, was an *'at home" to Indian students. D. 1 W. Tborbnrn. one of th?> initials, thiu graphically doacrtbes the scene attending the murder: "It was near 11 o'clock, and the muninal program was just concluding when 1 buw a middle aged Kng- j lish gentleman conversing with a young Indian student dressed in a dark jacket and wearing a pale blue t urban. "Suddenly the native drew a re- | volvor and fired tour shots with the greatest rapidity full at the head of] the Englishman. The shots were j firod with the muzzle of the weapon close to the victim's face. "Then came another shot as the f Englishman fell and a sixth which ] struck an elderly Indian gentleman standing a few yards off and who j tell, shot In the side. 4 "I rushed at the assassin, and i others sprang forward at the same time. We peizod him but he strug- i gled, and wresting one hand free, ' placed the revolver to his forehead and pulled the trigger.* It clicked harmlessly, as he had tired all of : his shots. "We shouted for doctors and the | police. Meantime there was a terrible scene and a commotion and the j IUIUIUK UtJUl?* v^l'iu 1111 *4 1 J 3 IJUMHI I- CI . prevent the people Iron; looking on ""j the fearful sight. "A doctor in the hall finally camo forward and knelt at the side of the ' Kngllshman After an examination he .said 'nothing can he done for him.' "At this moment some one exclaimed in a horror-stricken voice 'why it is Curzon Wyilie,' then a j stately woman in evening dress came J upstairs front the cloak room to (lis- I cover what had happened. Looking ! at the, recumbent figure and not im- j mediately recognizing it. she said: " 'Poor fellow.' She then knelt j down and as she looked closely at / the disfigured face a look of horror leaped into her eyes and she ev claimed: "'It is my husband; why wasn't I with him?' "it was i,aay vvynie wno naa leu her husband only a few minutes be- { fore. "Other doctors came Out they could find no wound on Lalcaca's body until the clothing was removed, when a tiny stream of blood from the side revealed the position of the j injury. Screens were placed around ( the victims and the awe-stricken people quickly left the hall." The victims were placed in ambtt- ! i lances and removed to a hospital. , Detectives searched the assassin. The attack on Sir William ? oc- I curred on a wide square landing lead- ; ] ing to the staircase. Sir William and j Lady Wyilie were just preparing to depart when the former was ap- ! proachcd by the Indian student. On?* ' bullet shattered the face Just below i' the left eye. Dr. Laleaca was a Parsee, and from present evidence it would seem that he was shot accidentally. The as- j ( sassin, who is also a Parsee, is about twenty-five years of age. He was | ' cool and self-possessed after his ar- j ' rest. He has maintained an obstl- | : nate silence. The identification of i tho. man so far has boon impossible, J 1 as a groat number of visiting cards M bearing different names were found j , on him. He will be arraigned in 1 a police court. It Is reported that he : i A had in his possession written docu- j1 N ments setting forth reasons and jus; tifw.at.ion for the etime. I Lieut. Col. Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllie was born In 184$, being the youngest son of the late Gen. Sir William Wyiiio, G. C. 11. He j was political aide de camp to the Secretary of State for India sinco 1901. In 1890 he entered the Indian staff corps and served in L SPIRIT GUIDES MAN I'.EMARKAI1LK STOKY OF GOLD SMITH WHO TI KNS PALNTKIL Wklow Shows Sketches That Lead to iBYestigntlon?Psychical ltrseuith Expects Toll of Results. The strange story of the spirit of a dead artist taking possession of the mind of a living man and impelling him to carry on the artist's unfinished work is related by Prof. James H. Hyslop, secretary of the American Society lor Psychical Research, of New York, who in connection witli Prof. Isaac 1\. Funk, recently came to the conclusion that the spirit of man lives after his body is dead. Robert Swain Clifford, the artist, died in 1 900 at his summer home near New Itodford, Mass. Frederick I,. Thompson, a goldsmith, had met Mr. Clifford only twice and knew him hut slightly. Thompson had never indicated any ability as an artist until six months after the death ot Clifford, when he did not I even know that Mr. Gifford had died. He was suddenly seized with an impulse to paint a picture, and going to work on it, Tie was surprised at his ability. While he was palotlag the voice of Mr. Gifford seemed to tell him to continue his work he had start ed. Mr. Thompson continued painting pictures, always possessed by the spirit of Mr. Gifford, and found a ready market for them. Many purchasers commented on their similarity to Mr. Gifford's paintings. Fearing that his mind was giving away in 1907, Mr. Thompson called on Prof. Hyslop. Hy arrangement he made several sketches for pictures sit the instance of what he considered to be Gifford's spirit. Prof. Hyslop looked those up in a safe and then Thompson went to New Bedford and called on Gifford's widow, where he had never been and whom he had never met. One of the first things Mrs. Gifford showed him was a sketch which Mr. Gifford had made a short time before his death and which had been locked up and seen by no one until a few days ago, when Thompson called. The sketch was exactly similar in every detail to one of the sketches Thompson had left with Prof. Hyslop. This fact and other equaly surprising features in the case prompt , Prof. Hyslop to even a stronger belief thai the spirit lives after death and that the artist Gifford's spirit is in communication with this world through the medium of the gold smith Thompson. ' CHIXKHK DKI.IVKKKIt. Out law Is Milking Much Trotibh1 For the Ki'Pnoh. French colonial authorities in tip- , per Tonquin. China, a<e having no end of trouble in their efforts to , check the onslaughts of He Tham, a notorious outlaw, and his followers From private advices the government is informed that for humanitarian and political reasons the officials are , unable to adopt the necessary sharp ?ind ruthless measures which the forays against villages favoring French rule seem to demand. I>e Tham's fanatical followers have now spread the report that he is the divinely appointed deliverer of the Chinese from the French. His men , are armed with rifles while the natives detVnd themselves only with sharpened sticks. Chinese who are favorable to the French, when caught by the outlaws, are carried to the forest, tied to trees and there left to die, after their tongues have been mut iiated. He Tham appears to be guarded by a special providence. He has never been captured, although at times he ' could touch the French soldiers as ( th?-V nnsed his hiftlnir i>!:ic<? tin r.n<. f occasion they pressed so close that ' the intrepid outlaw killed his wife and child to make certain his escape. Frequently he has sent inom- ' hers of his band to parley for sur- c render while he and the rest have ' wormed their way out of a ti^ht ' place to their stronghold In the hills. f I SPKCIAL TK11M OHDKItVlI). \ r<> Try Negro Arcuwd of Attempting Assault. t The State says Gov. Ansel has t ordered a special term of court for i July L'7 to try John Jenkins, the no- y t?ro accused of attempting criminal 1 c assault in Georgetown county and now in the penitentiray for safe keep- ^ Ing. It will probably be necessary to appoint a special judge and the governor has written the chief juf- . tice asking for a recommendation for appointment. This will be announced later. The present law means that conviction of attempted assault carries with it the death penalty un? ? less there is a recommendation to i mercy. i Heluehistan during the Afghan war In 1879-80, and accompanied Gen. ( Sir Robert Phayro's force to the re- , lief of Candahar, for which service he was decorated. CAUGHT AT LAST CONFKSSKS TO TIIK Ml'HDKH OF KNGINFKK HOLT. Negro Arreted is Ohio Says He Did tile Killing Because H? Wbh l*nt OIT the Train. Because he was put off u Seaboard Air Line train 011 which he was stealing a ride, Solomon Shopnrd, a negro, according to his own confession made at Durhatj, N. C., Monday, shot and killed Kngineer llolt. i no crime was committed lust Docomber, but tho negro was arrested only a. few days ago in Columbus, Ohio, whore his connection with the case was first learned through his protestations of innocence of it. The police had taken him in custody on another charge. In his confession Shepard said he j was returning to Durham from 10 fland, 19 miles away, after a visit to his sweetheart, when the killing occurred. He said he remained In Durham until six weeks ago. Shepard spent a whole day reading his Hilda recently and "getting religion," and when Dr. N. M. Johnson entered the jail to minister to ti r>n iv |M i>*Mirr ill* ?;U1HM1 111111 lO IIIO door of his cell and laid bare tlio facts in the mysterious murder. Shepnrd says that in the night of tho tragedy he was kicked off a train by a hraketnan and was in search of the brakeman to kill him when he found him, with several other men, on the cab talking with Kngineor Holt. Crawling nearer the engine he raised his gun and IIred, the shot striking the engineer. He then walked up the track, and seeing a light in the Oreenberg house, fired at it ".just to scare somebody." It was this latter incident that had much to do with the arrest of Reuben liar bee, who had had trouble with the flreeutiergs and who Is now in Jail charged with the murder of Holt. Shepard says that he was in Durham at the time of liar bee's arrest and remained until about six weeks ago. He denies that he had a white accomplice in his crime. On the strength of the negroe's confession llarbeo's attorneys have asked for their client's release. TO FLY ACROSS CHAXNKL. Three Aviators at Calais to Make Aerial Voyage to Dover. Herbert l.:ith:im Ceimi t ._i ? > bert and Henri Karman are on the coast, n? ar Calais, awaiting favorable weather conditions to attempt an aeroplane flight across the Knglish Channel for a prize of $.">,000 offered by a London paper. French torpedo boats are being held in readiness to guide the aviators in their flight and rescue them in case of need. Count de Lambert will make use of a Wright aeroplane. Mr. Karman will use a new machine like the one with which he made his celebrated ttight from Chalons to Kheims, except that he has introduced an arrangement by which the alighting wheels give way and allow skids to bear the shock of the impart. Latham will use his monoplace, with which lor recently has made a number of successful flights. He purposes starting from the top of a cliff, near Calais, and heading straight for the Admiralty pier at 'f'ho /I I c t ?? 1\ l?t.% ? e fin. . . I IM V? I v?l IM ? , 41 ?""> I JM- \ i W W flies. is 21.7:1 mill's. KOI'GIIT AIMX'T A WOMAN. Who Gets Killed in the Itow Iletween tin* Two Men. J. \V. Mayes, 21 locomotive engineer, and Robert Culbertson, both >f Norton, Va., fought a duel in the streets of Middle'sboro late Tuesday light. Anna Hayes, over whose af"ections the men were jealous, wjis ;hot twice during the light and is lying. Mayes was shot twice and jinnot live. Culbertson escaped with 1 serious wound in the arm. Mayes, nortally wounded, tied after the ihooting, and when the police and a >osse overtook him, is said to h;ive it tempted suicide by jabbing his hroat with a pocket knife. Meets Horrible Heath. At Greensboro, X. C., Hryan Henon, a 13-year-old boy, met a hor"ible death a few afternoons ago vhile attending a lawn party at the Walker Avenue Christian church, le and two or three playmates dlmbed a tree in which there were dectrieo light wires and his hand and <nee came in contact with the wires, musing instant death. He fell out the tree, but life was extinct bepore he struck the ground. Three Fatally Injured. An eight-year-old newsboy, an >loven-yoar-old otllce boy and a forly-eight-year-old cripled man, were probably all fatally injured a few nights ago by being run down by automobiles at Pitsburg, Pa. Only in one instance that of the newsboy, did the driver of the machine stop to find out how badly his victim had been hurt. DUTY ON TEA It Would Produce Great Revenue and Give Very LITTLE PROTLCTION Senator Tillman S[m?Uo in Favor of Putting on a Duty of Ton Fonts For Found, \\ tiioli Ho Had Hoon Assurotl by Importors \\'oiild \ot liaise the l*taie<% of 'IVa. Senator Tillman made a speech ii tho United States Senate on Monday in favor of a duty of ten tents per pound on tea. Senatoi Aldtich said ho had no objection to a revenue duty on tea, to which Senator Till man replied. "1 a in making my pro | tection argument to >(>u Republicans. 1 have already shown to my Democratic colleagues that no man who wants to vote for a revenue duty can fall to vote for this, for it will bring $9,000,000 of revenue and about $1,200 of protection." He argued that from both standpoints a duty ought to be placed on tea. After the senator had liven speak Ing for about 20 minutes, Senator Clapp, and after a little Senatoi Aldrioh, came up and whispered something into his ear. Soon afterwants Senator Tillman announced that it was so hot thut n?? i.i V 111 v'WUIW I I ? ? I speak further, but would ask that some dnta ho had bo inserted in Tho Record, so that senators could see it tomorrow. Tho vots 011 it was. therefore, postponed till tomorrow and it is thought by many that tho whispering and tho snddon closing of tho speech moans that A Id rich and tho others aro going to grant tho dnty on ton, in some amount, or anothor. Senator Tillman said after adjonrnmont that Mr Aldrich had not given tiny such assurance but that ho was certain tho Republicans wore in a qunndry and if tho Democrats stuck to him tho duty would bo put on. Seven Republican senators interrupted Senator Tillman and showed a sympathy for the contention. Senator Heyburn of Idaho said that for several years his family had used no other tea than South Carolina tea. lie practically announced that ho was in favor of the duty and would vote for It. Senator William Alden Smith of Michigan said he was not sure that there oilght not to be a duty on tea. Senator Smith of Michigan, however, suggested that Souih Carolina ought to pav a bounty to tea growers. To this Senator Tillman suggested, "I do not think the people of South Carolina would be willing to tax the growers of cotton, coin and other products in order to help grow something else." He declared that he IK it. itct(i uftM'u assured ny the importers I that there would be no incr<>suse at i all In the price of tea to tin* consumor. Being asked how much land there was in the South suitable for t?*a growing, he said he believed that tea could bo grown all tin* way from North Carolina to Texas. When the 1 question of labor came up he pleaded for the Southern negro as .against the | ,1 aps and Chinese. "It is just a quos| tion of giving the people an opportunity and a little help so they can start even with the Asiatics," he said. The send tor hart sonic t? r? on his desk, nnd ho promised to give Senator Aldrioh, whom, ho said, for all practicable purposes was the senate, some South Carolina ice tea tomorrow which "will cool his in'ards and make him grant, this little help to the tea growers." Senator Tillman was interrupted by the Rhode Island senator, who suggested that there were some things that ceased to be jokes, "lie is the senate of the United States and he knows it," replied Mr. Tillman. Mr. Aldrich made no further reply. Senator Smith of Michigan said he had been greatly surprised to lind that South Carolina is raising 15 times more tea than did the island of Ceylon In 1875. This discovery had, he said, caused him to be very friendly toward any suggestion looking to the protection of that Industry. Hy a vote of 55 to 1S the Senate Tuesday refused to place a duty of ten cents a pound on tea in support or t ne amendment offered to the tariff bill i)y Senator Tillman. FATA liLV S<\\ IJ>F.I>. Little Child Met Accidental Death in Itolton. A dispatch from nolton says a little boy about three years old, son of Mr. <1. M. Stewart, was so badly scalded by falling in a pot of boiling water Saturday about 1 I o'clock that he died from the effects of the scald about 7 o'clock that evening. .VIr. Stewart lives in the mill village. The family was making preparations to visit some of their relatives at Iva and had taken a pot of boiling water off the stove when the lit Ho hoy I accidentally fell into it. which re| suited in his death as stated above. EQUANIMITY JARRED KXPKKSSM.W ( Al KKS OIIVWIAN TO 1IAVK HILAI\ STOll.M. Former I loom MiiU' of Alleged Sl.?t>cr of F.lsie Sljff I (Vufronlcd h \ \Y i t IIIVSH, A dispatch from New York says t he coin placeney of ('hung S11? oik* I t he room mate of Leon long, who is ( wanted for t tie murder of Klsic SSLgel, on Juno wont all to pieces \N (Incs| day afternoon, when Arthur Logan, an cxpro.-sinaii, walked into the cell j " here Cluing Sin is held as more than la material witne.-s, and brusquely shouted "11 ullo." Logan is the man \v ho carried the I trunk containing the body of the i ;girl down-stairs from Loon's loom ton the day of the murder. He had I told the police that Chung Sin is one of the men he saw on the top lloor of the house. Chung Sin, on the contrary, has sworn hy all Ins ancestors that he never saw tie trunk packed or moved. "Van are the man," Logan saul in Chung Sin's presence, "who told no to take tlie trunk down-Mails care fully. There was another slim r I low with you in the room the same that came over to the olhce half an hour before to give me the oider to call 11?r tli trunk." "All inistak?\" protested Chung Sin, "lit'vci' see \ou lit inr? Th?* Chinaman s voice iniiko, and lu? shook as in tear as Logan was led out, still positive in his id? ntiti ca t ion. Chung whs not Kept waiting long bot'oro he had anotlnt \ i^xt<>r this time Martin Luria, tho chauficur, who drove a Chinaman and a trunk from tho Harlem laundr\ to a chop suoy restaurant in Newark on the morning of June 10. The police had a theory that Chung Sin might have been the fare and not Leon Ling. Hut Luria could not Identify Chung Sin, and still believe* that it was Leon he had in his taxicab. A letter from Chung Sin, written since his arrest, to the Society of the Four Brothers, was intercepted ami translated to the district attorney's office. It protests that the murder was done by one man, and that, therefore, only the murderer should be held; denounces the authorities and implores aid ot all members in freeing him. The police believe more and more that little reliance can be placed in any of the various rewards and offers of eo-opeiatlon promised by the clans of Chinatown, and accord ingly Hist ricf Attoreny Jerome wrote J John laliiii-otf Uiii'.lii"' ..... vi ii' i i |n wii-n; ui til Orient ial Iuiikuukc ?m<) literature in tin* t hi versify of tho Pacific at Kan .lose, Cal., requestiiiK ion co-operalion in tin- cast' .an a trust worthy interpreter. A NOVIOl, nXPKUIMK.NT I Makes a I'l'mdn'i* Chief of I'olirej For One Night. ] Mason City, Iowa, is to be policed for out* night by the pastor of the I Methodist church, Dr. Will W. Carl- i ton. For this ono night ho will bo I I tho chief. The forco will obey bis instructions to the letter. Mayor Klrschmtui has promised that ho would prosocu'e all cno'H brouglit before him by t..< pr? .uh< r- | policeman. j When Mayor Kl'vohmnr* wa e!"."i. ed to the position, he, It is said, j tendered the position of chief of police to in*. Carlton. I)r. Carlton refused. .Many p? rsons are not now ideascd with tile general tone of the city at night time, so the preacher was asked to see what lie could unearth. There will be no public, announcement made of the night when the minister is to poliee t lie city. Ill IU*I. \It KILLS rOMCKMAN Caught in \ct of I'oreing l-Cntiance to Stole Shots H\cbanged. At Cliicago r'oMeiniiMi Minry Sehnadle was killed Thursday l?y a burglar he was attempting to ?rrest. The imrglar, who is thought to be a negro, was forcing an entrance to a store at Wabash avenue and Thirty-fourths street when surprised by tlie policeman. In an exchange of shots the policeman was wounded, dying a few minutes later. His assailant is also thought to be wounded. lU'vrn^s Husband's l>euth. In revenge for the alleged murclor of her husband years ago, Mrs. Lout so Lahartift Monday In Now York fired four bullets Into Domlro Versagia at Spring and Sullivan streets. Versagia's wounds are probably fatal. Mrs. Labartia was arrested. Sudden Heath, Aiken vias again startled and surprised Tuesday morning by the sudden death of Mrs. Julia B. Kennedy, who dropped dead while combing her hair before a looking glass at her resldonco there. This is the third sudden death of prominent women in Aiken in a few weeks. SLAYLR FOUND I Corpse of Chinaman Fouid in I Hudson River. I LEON LING'S BODY I ,\l' lieiiufi ('<?tn|)lrt?? Itli'ni ilii ati<?n H \\ .is 11?>- Tliiirs<la> '? I s.i 11?-111 Pruliirrs th*i Ihid) IW*a 9 I 11 Mai k< <1 lt? st'tiililuiiv <- to (ik miaa* i i 1?t_T t i 11 > .\ u \ ork Thursday says, although complete itlt'iitiliration v ,e impossible, 'here* appeared to !> a strong prohahility that the lx><l\ of a Chinaman * hich was found do,.imp in 'he II tdsou ill iii tin upper part ut t !i? city, was that of la on Linp, or William i L. I on. tlie mo tail-1 -r of Kan Slice I. The malt h hoiKht, weight am. I Kiitrtal appi-aiattre tallies with that |H of Leon Linp, hut as the body was node. ?>\eepi for a silk undershirt, H and had heen in the water for aiore H than a Week, a. thorough cxamina- H tion will he necessary. Coroner \fH I'onald who was the first, to inspoi t H the hnily, believes that it is Leon's H a S i'o :i i. i i?' I" ' ' ! ' -* "t rni' ll, 1)111 until luiitsiiriii.rrits and faeiul char- I aot? rustics urn oarofnljy gone ovor tin' id? i: f i fi< a (ion will remain In ? doubt. b Ii it is L?miii f]?#? rausf of his death b will in- another mystery, although b one theory, that < t" suicide, would B appear reasonable. b In salient features tho body bore b ;i marked resemblance to Leon Ling. b Tbo tooth wer?? good, as wore Loon's; b the In-iglit about fiv * foot, four ineb- .b os, which was Loon's height, ami tho b weight. Ilia pounds, which was about fl Loon's. T h a no appeared to l>e b about fwonty-llve or thirty yearn. b Loon's ago was given out hv tb* b police as thirty. An autopsy will bo b performed. Tho coroner's jury was b unabl?< to arrive at a conclusion a** b to how tho Chinaman mot. his death. b Larly Thursday morning Ung Yow. b an ineonspieuous, hard working Phi noso laundryman of the Last Side. I was found by his neighliors strung I between two wash tubs with his h?ad I beneath tho water of one ami his I foot in the other. There were bloody I flngor marks on his nook, bloody I footprints on the floor and a knot- I ted cord about tho man's iwck. In I Mm on ii drawer the police found one cent. I All attempts to connect the murder I of Lug You with the murder of Kisie I h'igol by Leon Ling have failed. I Investigation soon showed 'hat I t'ng Yow was beaten over the head I iwifh flat irons, probably by more | than oil" man, ami then tlnug In the i m ha. Ilf ; r ci ha hi y died hy dropping v h ile unconscious. , - m wmrrKo to and rrto. 'A ?????? i Two \ir Navigators llu\r Thrilling Time I(l,0<I0 I'oiM Cp. Th?ir balloon, "tin- Melba," whippod helpless to and t'ro by a sixf.vniih' gale in a d<nis?> cloud, ton thousand t? ?'f above tlw curt h, John B?jrry and .M. A Kcimann Wednesday clung to the li;ok"t and finally descended safi-ly at Kock Hill, t? n mil* s from St hoiiiK, ttla'ticc they ascended. On ascending they worn carried swiftly to an altitude of ten thousand feet into a thundercloud, where [ the bag was dashed about. At times [the balloon lay on a level with the ba.-ket as the wicker was pitched high up by the careening gns bag. The balloonists pulled the emergency valve, and although the hag almost collapsed, the balloon was held up by the gale. Suddenly the wind ceased, and the half emptied inwlopo shot, downward, then formed a parachute and let the men to earth safely except that Heimann sprained an ankle, MISTAKEN KOIt III KhbAlt. Hxciteitienf in Itnom Wlvre Men 0 Wrestles With Dog. The New York police are seeking the owner of a huge black dog In the hope that the animal may be restrained from repeating an annoying performance. Israel Moskowitz arid his wife were asleep In their Brook- n lyn home before daylight when a y strange dog leaped through the win- I dow and bounded upon the bed. Mrs. 1 Moekowitz screamed that thoro were burglars and her husband grappled with the intruder and was wrestling him about the room when the police arrived. The dog escaped. Well IMiwod. 1 Bacon That oftico seeking frUnd of yours has landed a job at last. * Egbert?Good! What has he j landed? I fe'? keeper at the pesthouse. Well, he's the right man in the right place. He's the greatest pest 1 ever knew -Yonkers Statesman. After a woman has bnried her third husband you ctan't tell her much about men. 1 K i