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V } Absolute Baking Row W improves tho i .^awpi.my 2MtlSttfUs BBSm BOYS ROB BANK They Secure Eight Hundred Dollars After Shooting the Cashier. ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE J Older ltobber Bhoote Himself in Head WhLlo Hcing Pursued?Is Only Seventeen Years Old?Young<>p lUtv ivi Tint. iiml l.ivrk at Jacksonville, Florida. At Eudora, Kan., Karl Bullock, a boy bandit of Laurence, Kansas, acoompanled by Wm. McKay, 15 years old, of Jacksonville, Fla., Friday in an attempt to repeat his exploit of a month ago, robbed tho Eudora State Bank of $800, after shooting Fred Starr, a banker, and later probably mortally wounded himself, when closely pressed by armed citizens. In his first hold-up of tho Eudora State Bank, Bullock, who Is 17 years * old, shot and instantly killed a policeman. Officers had about decided that Bullock had left tho State with the loot of the previous hold-up. He and McKay entered tho bank about ^losing time. Fred Star, cashier of the Kaw Valley State Bank, of Eudora, who was in the State Bank, with his day's clearings, stood by as the outlaws hold up the State Bank's cashier, Henry Wilson. Although Starr offered no resistance to the hold-up, * Bullock shot him through the jaw. Snatching more than $800 Bullock ^ and McKay fled. Each youth had two revolvers. Wilson spread tho alarm and citizens armed with shotguns, ritles and revolvers pursued tho bandits across tho field. In attempting to swim tho Kaw River tho boys lost ground, and a few minutes later the pursuers were at their heels. McKay surrendered, but Bullock wrenching the revolver from his faltering partner's hands, aped on Into the woods. John Miller, a farmer, who knew nothing about the pursuit, stepped -v into Bullock's path and the boy, thinking him a pursuer, tired several Bhot.8 that barely missed) Miller. Seeing that the youth was ready to shoot at any one, the pursuers tired a score of shots at Bullock, who returned the tire. Thus the chase continual for some time, none of the shots exchanged between the citizens and their quarry taking effect. Tho robber gradually losing ground, he stopped and 1 shouted: i * "I have only one bullet left, but 1 I'll beat you yet." Then ho fired ( his remaining bullet through his own ' hoad. [ Thinking Bullock dead, most of 1 the pursuers turned their attention ' to McKay, with tho intention of I lynching him, some announced. j * Ofiloers, however, hurried McKay ? to the Lawrence jail in an automo- 1 bile. 1 Aftor Bullock held up the State f Bank of Eudora, on October 11, 1 he murdered Policeman William t I Pringle, who attempted to arrest the J * bandit in his home in Lawrence. It was while In charge of Deputy Sheriff Woods, of Lawrence, who had c arrested the boy on a charge of rob- a bing a second-hand store, that Bui- r lock drew two revolvers and forced j Woods and Cashier Wilson into tho a State Bank vault. Then he snatch-, ed $1,000, fled and was lost track of. j According to McKay, Bullock was . living at a fashionable hotel In Jack- t sonvllle undor tho name of "J. A. f Donaldson." Ho had money on deposit in the Florida National Hank t SUBSI f f IKING VWDER Mji ; lolutely Pure under that name, McKay Haid. ji McKay, u tall, slender and appar- t ently weak youth was led into the c crime by Mullock's lurid description of the thrilling life of a desperado, i "Bullock, whom I knew as Donald- i son, fell In with me in Jacksonville, a and entertained me royally," said n McKay. "One day Bullock told me he want- s ed me to go to Kansas City wiMi him, t as he knew whore there was r IP- j tie bank near there with onlv one j man in it that we could roo without any trouble. v "We left Jacksonville Sunday and t arrived at Donate, Kan., two miles r from Eudora Thursday. Then he j gave me some ammunition and two \ revolvers, and told ino we would t rob the bank Friday. r "1 was supposed to guard the door 1 ,ind see that nobody entered. He a robbed the bank and shot the man ( Starr.) Then told me to follow t him." ii C s TUBERCULOSIS EXHIBIT. n , 1 Now Coin# on in Charleston Should 8 bo S<fu by All. t r We take pleasure in announcing h that the American Tuberculosis Kx- s hi bit opened in Charleston on Thurs- n day to continue through the 23rd. j This exhibition is purely educa- (j tional and is free from commercial v. or promotion features. There is no charge for admission. The purpose is to awaken people to the wide- a spread prevalence of tuberculosis or r consumption, to point out the means fqr its prevention and cure, and at c the same time to suggest practicable tl methods for all who will join in ? the campaign against needless dis- tl ease and premature death. r There is nothing dangerous or disagreeable about the exhibition. r' There are no specimens of disease c or parts of the human body. In H eminently attractive fashion the ex- ti hibition will point out fundamental facts whicth should bo known by S( every person. o During the continuance of the d exhibition there will bo illustrated c talks, with a series of platform con- h forences, and a program of special addresses twice daily. Special days b will be announced for the colored a people. 1 al t t g t( SHOOTS HIMSDLr. 11 tl ? [( Mr. Leo linst, Near Holly Hill, ,, Takes His Own Life. 1 v Mr. hoe Hast, a substantial farm2r, living near Holly Hill, committed suicide Tuesday afternoon by j ihootiug himself through the head with a shotgun. No reason to.* the Ql leed has been learned, except that fj le had just returned from Charleson, where It is said lie was to have >een married. Ho returned without lis bride, and possibly this disaplolntment caused him to kill himself. Ie was a widower, about 40 years of ige, and leaves six small children, .j lis mother, who lived with him, eft him in his room apparently islecp a few minutes before hearing t he noise of the gun. On entering he room, she found him dead on the loor with the gun by his side. at Mr. "Soakurn" says "no section lu >f the country has experienced such 111 i growth as will be developed in the a leh South within the next few years sh f its strength is pushed forward ind allowed to follow the rules of pi lound business judgment." Sound ni >uhiii?hh judgment, according to Mr. th 'Soakum" would ho for tho South flf o join hands with the Republican >arty and help it hold up the people ie ;o as he and his friends could con- si inue to rob them. ca BRIBE Nl MINERS JERISH ur Hundred of Them Killed by an Explosion in a Coal Mine THE ENTRANCE CLOSED Workmen Trapped in a (Jom (littked Shaft?Only Twelve IkxlitN Taken Out of tho lVptlis?Five of the Men Mot Heroic Deaths Trying to Save Others. A dispatch from Cherry, 111., says tine officials or the St. Paul Coal lompany mine, where an explosion centred a few days ago, say that. 00 men are dead in the mine, 'welve bodies have been taken out. lix of these were men employed in the futile effort to save the imprisond workers. Mine Superintendent James Steele leclared five hours after the exilosion that it was almost impossible hat any of the miners still imprisoned could escape death. The mine had a day shift of 484 nen. Of these f>0 left the mine at loon. Twenty-five or more escaped fter the tire broke out The others ire believed to be dead. The entrance to the mine has been ealed up in tho hope of choking he flames. The building above the >it entrance was blown up to peril it this. The tire causing tho explosion vhicli may prove one of tho greatest Pfl l?i? 1 n t >w-k ** W ??o\. yj i llllllf IIUI " ors had an origin almost trival. A >ile of hay allowed to smoulder too ong finally Ignited the limbers of ho mine and before the workers ealUed their danger the mine was 11 led with smoke, gases and Haines ml all exit was Impossible. Heroism such as is rarely exhibited was shown by oflieials of the nine and residents of the town ot iherry. Those men, who wore outide the mine when the lire originated, contributed five to the list of '1 known dead. Alexander Nerberg, a pit man, Jive bis life unhesitatingly in a fuile effort to save those of his comades, who risked their lives with iru. Standing at the bottom of the haft ho carriod the bodies of four ion into the cage, the on;y way of scape. As the last was carried in e fell across the bodies. lie was end, as were all his companions, hen the cage was lifted to the top. Those who had gone in to the pit rith him were John Huudy, the line superintendent, John Flood, nd Isaac Lewis, a merchant of Chery, and John Fermento. Dr. W. Howe, a physician of the ity. who had sought to go with tiem, was thrust out by Dundy, who xclaimed, "They will need you at lie top if we get any one out. No isking your life down here.' The physician vainly sought, to esuficitate the men when they were arried to him a few minutes later, le said they hud died of suffoca ion. At tho entrance Of the shaft a ?ene was enacted such fts is neon nly at a disaster of this kind. Ilun- j reds of screaming women, weeping hildren and frantic but helpless : ion crowded al>out the scene. A few survivors were surrounded y groups of the women ana the nswers of these men to the loudly liriekod inquiries only added to the rror of the women. Almost to a urn the survivorts declared that iere was no hope for those still i the mine. Almost 200 of the men nprisoned, they declared, were In ie third vein, the only entrance to hich was from the second vein, early r?oo feet from the main shaft f the pit. That those of the men who were jle had retreated to the furthermost ids of the veins was the statement ' the Illinois 011 tho surface. There ley might huddle together, breathig what little oxygen remained in ie sealed and burning mine and living that the rescuers might reach 1 em before it was exhausted. The ost hopeful doubt that more than few score will he found alive when nit aid comes. The only men to escape were those *ar the main shaft when the fire iirtod. They declared that a caress miner had thrown a torch on bundle of hay used to feed the ules stationed in the mine. No tentlon was given the smouldering ly for a few minutes. Then two iners threw the burning mass 011 cart and started toward the main in ft about 1T?0 feet away. Before it wan reached a small exosion occurred and in a few nioentri the entrance to the vein from ,e shaft was tilled with smoke and irnes. Those nearest to the cages hurd to them and were hoisted to the irface. After about four trips tho iges ceased moving and no more )W TO MAIL STEAMER SINKS AN OCEAN I.IN lilt CUTS STKAMKH LA SKVNK IN HALF. And Ono lIuiHlrt'd Persona Mwt Death by Drowning or Wore Katen by Huge Sharks. The mail steamer La Seyne, of ^ the Messageries Maritlines Service, running between Java and Singapore, and on her way to Singapore, was in collision early Sunday morning with the ytearner Onda, of the Brltish-lndia Hue, and sank within two minutes. Seven Kuropenn passengers, including Baron and Baroness Beniczskv, the captain of La Seyne, Ave lOuronean ofllei?r>? nml tilirhtl( ? - * ? ? 'M'" J 'S'H others, comprising native passengers and members of the crew, were dro wned. The rescue of sixty-one persons, practically from the jaws of shoals of sharks, formed a thrilling incident of the wreck. The accident occurred about 4 o'clock in the morning in a thick haze. The vessels were steaming at good speed, and the Seyne was cut almost in half. The majority of those on hoard were caught in their berths and carried down with the vessel. The force of the collision brought the Onda to almost a dead stop, and her engines were at once slowed and boats lowered. The rescue work proved thrilling, for not only were the rescuing parties impeded by the dark, but shoals of sharks were already attitrkjng t hoso clinging to pieces of wreckage in the water. Sixty-one persons from the ill fated steamer were finally dragged Into the boats and carried by the Onda to Singapore. Many of them had been bitten by sharks, and several are severely injured. * TOOK HIS OWN LIFW. \V. .1. A rant, of Columbia, Commit t?'<! Suicide Friday. 1 With his uniform of the Confcd- i crate army by his bedside, and a re- n quest that he be buried in his bo- I loved gray, W. J. Araut, well known '] in this State, says The State, was t found dead in Columbia Friday morning. An empty bottle that had \ contained laudanum accounted for t the manner of his death. The news 1 of the suicide came as a surprise I generally, although Mr. Arant was s known to have suffored much with 1 despondency, dating from tl.o time r his wife died, about a year ago, in Charleston. f Only a short while ago Mr. Araut t was heard to say that he could never } recover from his great lobs and I would rather bo dead than alivo, but not even his most intim-uc friend? thought of suicide In conneetic/o with their friend. Requests found! 1 by the bed, to notify F. II. Arant, a son residing in Camden, and II. B. Bulger and C. F. Hebrich of Char- I leston, were complied with and F. H. Arant arrived Friday morning. * Hanged i<it Murder. At Conwav on Friday MelvlP Watson was legally hanged, paying lii*' penalty for the murder of John Watson, a white man. at Green Sea on a June II. The trap was sprung at 12:27 and in 12 minutes lie was pro- " nounced dead by Dr. F. Norton. Seven minutes afterwards the body 1 was cut down and prepared for burial. 11 miners came from the shaft, j After waiting a few minutes at ^ tiie head of the shaft liiimtv w into the cage, calling Nerborg and f< two miners. The later two were afraid, and from the group of resi- 0 dents gathered near the entrance a volunteers came, eager to assist. Flood, Lewis, Fermento and a miner named Hubinski entered the cage a and descended. The next trip of * i ti?e cage, operated from below, carried up the bodies of six miners. Then a few minutes elapsed which, (>1 seemed an hour to those waiting at f)i the top. Then the cage again as- ' cendod, this tiino bearing the unconscions bodies of three of the res- ^ euing party. Again it was lowered n< and the bodies of the last three of u the six, including Nerborg, were c' brought up. City Attorney Hallorick, of Spring Valley, who was at tlie scene, expressed the belief that not one of w the miners would be taken out alive. w He is familiar with the construction H of the St. Paul mine and believes e( that the tire caused the death of all tiie men before the opening had been scaled. About the little town of Cherry rr mo wildest scenes of its history fol- cc lowed. Stores and residences were tl vacated and almost every person of ti the population of 5,000 gathered Ie about the mine. From all directions! U teams and pedestrains hurried into ! w the city from districts which had | 0 been notiiled by the telephone. * i if THE HI AMOUNT STOLEN :rom th? Government by the Sugar Trust is Thirty Millions WHOLESALE SWINDLING )f the t'nited States Treasury Has IUh'u Goiuu on for Twenty Years? (Histom CMHcetn Were Corrupted? The OtlU-ials I'ndcrwolKhod Importation.*?-Kept Thnn in Jobs. A dispatch from Now York says lew facts brought to light Thursday llsclose that the American Sugar teftning Company, bettor known as he sugar trust, has stolen the enornoua sum of $110,000,000 from the Jnited States treasury within the >ast twenty years through undervelghlng of Importations and under >ayment of custom duties. As a reuilt more federal indictments have >een drawn up. These facts reveal the trusts wholewile corruption of custom otllcials md its covert bribery of politicians o accomplish its ends. The custom >fflcials underwelghed the importaions and the politicians kept them n their Jot>H. It appears that the tr\?st has been dealing from live to ten per cent >f the duties on every cargo of sugar jrought into the United States for he past twenty years. The present prosecution of the itigar trust, it is said, is taking cogllzanco of these facts. The methods revealed have given the United States authorities cause for consir;rable thought and much planning, t appeared as it claims would lie nade against the tobacco trust and he Arbuckle Sugar and coffee con orn for repayment of heretofore Indorpaid duties. T !l 4? ft I ? ?* - J 1 1 1 ' ^ ??\ mwu^uuv/ii iii1uuo iii(ii t 111. obaceo trust has boon Importing the product in bales .listed as llllors, vhlch pays a certain duty, when the Kilos contained wrapped tobacco, rhe latter should pay a considerable lighor duty. The government authorities have? lndcr investigation the sugar Iniporatlons of the Arbucklc Brothers. It ? claimed that there is a discrepancy >etwcfon the original invoices of the ugar and the weighers returns. It s this on which the claim for repayment of back dues will be made. In the recent developments of the ight on the trust, the corporation his been forced to give up more than >2,000,000. The exact showing is: <"ines for rebating, which at the time imposed were four times as large as any precedent 108,000 "ufiishment for cheating tho government with false scales 18 5,000 lack duties paid when tho trust was convicted of defrauding tho government with fradulent scales 2,000,000 Total .i"?i j' ?... $2,308,000 ht'ury 1j. StlmsOtf, deputy U. S. ttofrjey general, who was formery U. H. district attorney is Thursay preparing (u push the criminal rosecutions in the siiftar cases, hcvng connected, it was dac'Ltfcd, a igh othcial in the American ilefintig Company with tho import-scale# rands. For nearly a year Mr. Stimson has oen finishing the work he began rhen U. B. district attorney. His :irnif>r ? ? ?- um-?- " '** _ . ...x. . w nil rt?(l J. U6I11en and Felix Frankfurter and two ther attorneys, Franklin 11. Mills ad Delancy K. Jay, have assisted ini. For a week Mr. Stlmson has been linost constantly before the F. S. rand Jury while it was in session. few days ago the government's and was decided on at a eonfernce hold In New York and partiei'ited in by Mr. Stlmson. Attorney eneral Wlckorsham, Secretary of le Treasury MaeVeagh, Collector of io Port Leob, II. S. District Attor[;y Wise and I). Wickham Smith, special prosecutor in the ilg and iee.se cases. Special Treasury Agent Richard arr, with a corps of assistants, has sen put In charge of the sugar eighlng, and ho has collaborated 1th Mr. Stlmson. It was said that weral confessions had been obtaln1. 'Hunker's Singular H<'<|uest. rno will of Walton Townsend, a tired Imker of flan Francisco, >ntalns this request: "I direct lat iny remains be cremated in 10 Fresh Pond crematory on Long iland and ask that my ashes be fed > the flowers." Mr. Townsend's 111 divides his estate of about $250.00 between two grandsons, living 1 New York. I IRRY HI I SHOULD BE THRASHED \ SKVKN WOMKN CLAIMS THAT TICKKT FOOLKI) Til KM. ? r Five of Them Say Ho Married Tlwm and Koblxd Them of Viu rious Amounts. A pathetic tale coin or from Cleveland, Ohio, which reveals how mean some men can bo and how easily women can be fooled by them. Here Ir the tale: The evidence of five wlvee and two fiances wuk produced by government officers a few days ago In the trial of Lucian Pickett on trial iu the t'nited States court thero on the specific charge of procuring under false pretenses $1,000 from Miss Allio (I'reasley, a crippled woman from Sprlngdale. One after another the women took the witness stand and told, in tears, how Pickett had promised to marry them, how they had given hiiu considerate sunus of money, and how finally, he had gone away, usually after, sometimes before tho wedding. Miss Addie Leonard, a Chicago school teacher, said she hnd given Pickett $7f>0 on his promise to marry her. The marriage did not take place, but postollico inspectors produced evidence to show that Pickett had already been married four times. Miss Allle Greeley, nearly helpless from a spinal ufllLdlon, testified that Pickett was the oul> man who had ever wooed her and that she gave him $ 1,000 to establish him in business. A marriage license was issued but the wedding did not take place. Other women who testified were Mrs. George Pickett, of Cena, Pa.; Mrs. Kllen S. Pickett, of Albany, N. Y; Mrs. Lulu Kmrlch Pickett Robinson, of New York, who lias procured a divorce from the man, and Mrs. Alma Miller, of Macon, Ills. Pickett says he served a term in .loliet penitentiary for bicamv. _ V T1IKKK KILLED IN FIUE. Seventeen Others Injured in Rtaze in Polish IxxlKinK House. Three unidentified men, nil foreigners, are deftd; lUo others are jMyiously injured and twelve men and women are Buffering from bruisoh and shocks, the reBult of an early morning lire in a Polish lodging house on the river front in Pittaburg. When the fire broke out. about thirty persons were asleep iu the building. Firemen aroused the occupants of the place and curried tho women and children to safety. The bodloa of the unidentified foreigners, known to be street laborers, were not discovered until late In the afternoon, when persons clearing' away the lire dobrls found their charred bones under a stairway. The damage to the lodging houso is In excess of $10,000. On account of the mysterious origin of the blaze, the police are conducting a r*!?1'1 Investigation^ Stole Two Million. II !o reported from Cincinnati that Mb shortage n'l Ihf? (ihauc^l departHksnt of the Hig Four railroad, developed through tho alleged defalcation of Charles L. Warriner, deposed treasurer, may reach two million dollars. Warriner has astounded his superiors with the details or fiow ho spent the money. Ho says that he has not one dollar left. Sold Spoiled Fish. City neaiin umcer E. I. Iteardon, ^ e ci * ? iti nuiiiitT, iias complained to Statu Health Officer Williams, of a custom some of the Charleston fish dealers have been practicing as noticed by consignees of Sumter of mixing spoiled fish with good. The rascal that does such a thing should bo severely punished. Night Watchman Murdered. Night Watchman Durham at the Virginia Carolina Chemical Company works at Americas, (la., was brutally murdered by unknown persons a few days ago. Ho was brained by a club axe and his pockets rifled of eight dollars. The body was found in the office of the factory. Seven Victims Hoovered. Seven victims have been recovered and It is believed the list of dead will reach twelve, as the result of a fire in the Auchincloss shaft of , K ,..<7 unnw<iri), biicKftwanna & Wefttorn Coal Company, at Natlcocke, Pa. An explosion of gas set flro to tho timbers of the mine. Broke Man's Neck. A man whoso Identity tho police have been unable to establish, waa killed in a peculiar manner when ho attempted to avoid a Brooklyn trolj ley car. Dashing for the curb ho ran his head Into tho halter of a ' horse which was tied to a post. :RALD