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' THIS IS TOO BAD: H ? +. , ... a Estrada's Envoy Tells What Zelay Is to Do With Uncle Sam. r 9 c HE GIVES HIM NOTICE ') I I , ( runt Zeloya hi to lilow Up tho I'uure- * li na Canal, Put Japan in I'onwm' p t ?k>n of Nicjiraguan Canul lUght* i And Bond Undo Bum Into Wot' I With the Mi kudo. / When tho American Secretary of " State ofllclally kicked out the Zeluyun t envoy from Washington, but permit- J ted him to remain In tho capital ^ <ilty as an "unofficial" moons of communication between the Nlcaraguaa and American governments, he oleo made tt know that ho would J3 receive "unofficial" information from Nicaragua through Dr. Salvador ^ Castrilla, tho representative in Washington of tho Kstrado, or revolutlon^ ory party, in Nicaragua. Just in how far Castrilla has con- c ferred with and poster Mr. Knox c we are not to know, says the Augusta Chonicle. But if Dr. Castrliln talks as volubly and foolishly to the American 8tate Department as * he H does to the American newspapers, he is a pretty "warm numboiV'-afl one of tho Washington newsboys would put it. n In a recent issue of the New York t Herald, Dr. Castrilla attempted to 1 I confirm to tho American public nil T the terrible things which Mr. Knox i hae alleged against Zelayn and a ( ^ great deal more. But, in his zeal t:> i ahow what an awful mun Zelaya is | capable, he shows himself so igno- , rant that if he does not lose his \ "unofficial" head, he certainly ought f to. But road what ho Bays: . * "The plan Is now for Zelaya to1 uoe every meana in hie power to injure Americana," I)r. Castrilln said, "and if he la dofeated ho will leave for Antwerpt, where hlR wife now awalta him. Zelaya has ae-' elared to his confidential advisors hia intention to fight. Hut first he < will mako a determined effort to Interest the Amorlcan Congress against the State Department, and also to seek to enlist the services of Japan against the United Stutea. N "Soaor Corea, formerly Minister of Zelaya to the United States, iH ' hero in Washington now, and I know j J positively that he has in his trunk ( credentials to the Japanese to mako \ an alliance with Japan Emperor.14 Strange as it may seem, Zelaya seems t to think he can, against the United * States. He first conceived the idea J in 1897, and has boon brooding overt the plan for some time. "The details of the Zelayan plan ' show that Zelaya la willing to prom- " tee to Japan a canal in Nicaragua ( and will also pledge himself to do- 8 etrey the Panama Canul If Japan < so desires. Of course, the Idea is 1 ridiculous, but It shows to what > Zelaya and his advisors scheme to ( I * QO, I ? "The confidential agents of Zo- f Vaya are spurring him on to fight, t ^ telling him that the American peo- r pie will admire hla courage and that he will come out well In the end. Flret they have advised him to address the American House of Rep- t resentatlvea. setting forth hla case i and asking that the government stop t proceeding against him." s All this is too bad. Just as we 1 nil MiiioixtliiloMnff rtnroAl vau u WVIV VIBI \A/Mf| I MV? ? vw I ' that the great canal would be open- j < ed on time and complimenting our ; v country that wo were at peace with ( ' all the world, except Zelay, here t SIIBSC t _ ! \ ^?_ .. x\ \xj| wy^'.'i # >hjVI y baking powder ^%JLj nrape Cream of Tartar inest, Purest Food^ ?y?i{ lakuijf a onus along the re-openlng of tho lobBon war and tho destruction of ho great waterway on which w? have een our Uoooovelta and our Taftn nd our Qoothala work ho hard. It n awful to contemplate. There la necessity for American utorferonco in thla Nlcaraguau afair. That ia now appureut. If laotrilla Ih a fair sample of tho p<?o>le they havo down thoro, If he ? the t>o?t of the diploruatH that can ?e gotteu out of tho little repubic, Mr. Knox ini^ht feel Impelled o appoint a guardian for the whole Clcaraguan country, at leant until le cou id send missionaries I here for uch a time uh would he necessary o dram a llttlo sense Into the peo>lo there. Zelaya may be an bud ns Knox mints him. It looka like ho la. tnd, ao bad aa he la. If ho la aa big \ fo<?l aa Caatrllla?If he combines he Zalaya wlekedneea with the Ousrlllo Ignorance?It will take ull the oinod force of the United Btatea to inndlo him. It look* like the whole Caatrllla, ^atrada, Zolnya & Co. bunch should e given a severe spanking and be nit to bed. They certainly appear o be an Ignorant and slrnplo lot. vlth juHt enough meanness In them o re.qulro that they be watched o prevent them from doing harm 0 others and to themsolves. Munhanson waa n child at his art as ompared with Cnstritla. * BOY 8TRANGBKD TO DKATH. Ipartanburg IjmI Accidentally Hangs Himself in Hath Boom. William Pendleton, aged 9 years, 1 son of the Rev. W. H. K. Pendloon, rector of the Church of the Vdvent, was found dead lu the bnth oom at his home a few mornings igo in Bpartnnburg, 8. C. Ho ovilently had boon dead for some time. The boy went Into the bath room to >rush his hair, mounted a chair, vhlch tilted and his shirt wulut cob ar caught on a hook on tho door ind he strangled to death before isslstanoc could reach him. Ho was 'ound by the Japanese servant who found him hanging with his back :o the wall, and his feet about two uvz&ivn ui/v/tu t m; iiuui rnr. )iuu if J rw. Pendleton were In the city at the :lme doing their Christina** shopping and had purchased presents for Lhe lad. Died l'Vom Fall. At Anderson, J. K. Mullinax, who vUh seriously Injured about the head :>y a fall from a scaffold in the card oom of the Helton mills while adlustlng Home gearing, and who was Mirriod to the hospital at Anderson, lied Saturday from his Injuries, dulllnax was 4 8 years old and is survived by his wife and eight cb 11lren. He was a member of the iVoodmen of the World. * Five Skaters Drown. The opening of the skating season claimed Ave victims near Kent. )hlo, on Saturday, nearly obllteritlng a family. The dead are Frank Sormany, 32 years old, farmer; lelen, Flora and Mabel Cormany, 1, 7 and 4 years old, his three laughters; ltussell Cormany, 18 rears old, his brother. The tragedy ecurred at Sperry brook, a trlbuary of the Cuyahoga river, at Monoe Falls. I>og Attacked Man. When Mrs. Kmmn Rohourman r*v urued to her flat in Harlem, N. Y., Junday she found her pet bull errler, Iluster, covered with blood ind crouched whining under a ta>le. Passing to an adjoining room, ihe was horrified to find her brother, 3arl Limperl. a clork, 43 years old, itretched out dead on the floor, the ace horribly mutilated by the dog's oeth. RIDE Nl AWFUL CRIME Negro Slays Two Women and Fatally Wonnds Third. AXE THE WEAPON USED Mrs. KU/a dribble ami Mrs. Carrie Otdander, Who Wan Criminally Assaulted Before Ilriug Killed, and Mrs. Miumie Hunter. of Tcrriblfl TriigtMly in Savannah. Victims of u revolting crime, Mm. Eliza Grlbble, agod 7 0 yearn, und her daughter, Mrs. Carrie Ohlunder, were found dead in their home, No. 401 Perry street, West, In Savannah, Ga., Friday, while a third woman, Mra. Maggie Hunter, aged 312, found Just inside th<? front door of the house, is at tho Havannuh hospital dying. Physicians state that Mrs. Ohlunder was the victim of a criminal as sault Just before she was killed. One hundred and fifty negro men, caught in tho meshes of the police drag net through Yamaeraw, the negro section of tho city, are prisoners in the police station, the theory of the pollco being that a uegro uian, having plunned au assault upon Mrs. Ohlunder, was compelled to commit the other crimes in order to escape. Other arrests will bo made until every negro In tho city who in any way resembles the description of u negro who during three days had been frt^uently about the promises of the house of tho murders is a prisoner. Tho police believe that this negro, using an axe taken from the woodshed In tho rear of tho Grlbble home, beat Mrs. Grlbble to death, struck down Mrs. Hunter und utter assaulting Mrs. Ohlunder in tho wide, long hall way, where tho bodies were found, finished his terrible work by beating in her skull with the weanon Mrs. (Jrlbblo evidently was uttackod from behind, as Bhi? Hat in an easy chair reading. On tho lloor, bo9l(le her body, were found the newspaper she was reading and her spectacles. One, or possibly two, blows were dealt her. Her groy hair, blood matted, shows the Imprint of the blunt axe. Then the murder stealthily approaching aged Mrs. Orlbble, killed her. It la believed that Mrs. Ohlander was attacked as she left her room to enter the hall way, was assaulted and killed. Mrs. Hunter's skull was crushed In and her death is a matter of but a few hours. Tho motley hord of prisoners are quiet and frightened In tho police station and Jail. It Is believed that if tho negro suspecbHt of the crime la caught ho can bo quickly Identified. Hloodhounds have beon ut work in an effort to take the troll from tho woodshed where tho axe wan found by the murderer, but an tho house of mureders U nlmobt within tho heart of tho city and as tho murders were probably conutnlttod several hours beforo the discovery of the bodies, the dogs will be of little use. Mayor Tiedoman, of Savannah, has offered a reward of $1,000 for the capture with evidence to convict of tho slayer of Mrs. Gribblo and Mrs. Ohlunder, and tho assailant of Mrs, Maggie Hunter, who was not identl fled for hours after tho discovery of the murders. It is now almost certainly known that a negro, the negro who was at first Buspootcd is tho guilty man. Persona have been found who state that thin negro was seen entering the Orlbblo house w*ith the fatal axe In hla hand, and was aeon cloning tho shutters to the windowH of the hoiifto, and to leuvo the preiaisoh, all at tho hour when It 1b Imv llovod the inurderB wero committed. This negro'H de?crlptlon hua beoti printed on handbills and Hcnttered broadcaBt over the city and couuty, ,JHth tho reward offored, and all -nearby towns have been notified and are on the lookout. Police officers In automoblloH have covered all the roads for miles surrounding tho city, while posses on foot have scoured the places where automobileH could not go. The house-to-house search of negro homes continues. It seeuio Imrdly possible that the egro can long remain at large. Merchant Hund bagged. At Winston-Haiem, N. C., Frank H. Watlington, a merchant of that city, was sandbagged and robbed hv throe negroes Bunday night. After boating Mr. Wutllngton into unconsciousness, the norgoes dragged him about fifty yards from the street, where they rifled his pockets. About ono hundred dollars In cash and some valuable papers were seen rod by the robbers. )W TO + TEDDY WAS RIGHT NBGltOKS "8IIOT UP" BROWNS-1 VILIifi FROM FORT. Investigation DLsclow^ Hullot llolea Indira tIn# Direction They Were Fired Froin. That mombore of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, colored, who were In the fort, tired upon the town nt the time their companions were racing mrougn ttio streota of the Texas town shooting right and loft, 1h conclusive evldonco said to have beou secured by tho military court of Inquiry Into tho "shootlng-up" of Brownsville, Tex. None of the membors of tho court of inquiry would (Uhcuhh tho mattor, but it 1h estimated that a douuiud for tho abolition of tho regiment of negro troops, which are provided for by law will be made by the Southern delegation In congress. Thua the bitter debate that marked the final days of tho Koosovolt administration threatens to be renewed. The evidence discovered by the officers who compose the court Is wild to be susceptible of complete proof. Certain members, it la reported, made personal examination of buildings across the road from the fort I lu Brownsville and discovered hul- i let holes in the sldeB of three hous-1 es. Continuing their investigations,, they discovered the bullets, which were of the regulation army design. Following back the line of lire as shown by the track of the bullet, the marksmen could have been nowhere else than within the barracks. The congressional defenders of the negro infantrymen maintained that the only tiring In the town was done by men of the Twenty-tlfLh who had broken parole, and that former President Roosevelt, In discharging two phmnA n I nu u'liKon* ?? ? r. "iviiuuv, IIIU1V1UUI1I III IIItary trial, had worked a Bovero luJustice on both the companion ciiui the regiment. It la understood that tho court which huH practically concluded if a oxamluatlon of tho ovldcnco It has scoured will permit wuch discharged mom hers of the regimeut aw care to do so to appear before It and testify. * ( OPFU7K118 OP" NOIITII AM) HOITH Fought Against Their Scctlans In tho hitn War. In a speech at tho New York Southern Society dinner a few nights ago. Secretary of War Dicklusou made this statement: "It !? generally accepted that the Civil War was a contest betwcou 1 people of Northern blood on one Hido nud people of Southern blood Qn the other. This is a great error We are slow to look beyond genera lilies to the essential ti>uth. The 1 Civil War was a war betwivu tho 1 States, but as to the participants It was purely a local question. There 1 were seventeen brigadier generals, four major generals and one llou' tenant general In the Southern army ! who wore born In tho Northern States. Of these, seven were born in * the State of New York. Of the first 1 live, who were full generals of tho Confederate ariny, Cooper, who was the ranking officer, was born In New York, and Albert Sidney Johnston was of a Connecticut father and a MKwacouseuB mother. Ktrby Smith, the lust goneral who surrendered, wuh of Now England parentage. Eighty of the graduates of West Point who entered the Confederate arm woro t>orn in the nor-secodlng : States. "Hut there was reciprocity on our part. Kentucky brought forth the central figure of the epoch, Abraham Lincoln; Virginia gave birth to ' Thomas, the rock of Chicamauga, and Tennessee, produced Parragut, the gr?*atest of the admirals. The commanding oftlcers of 12 of Furragut's 22 ships at the battle of Now Oreaus were l>orn in slave-holding States. Early In the war the commanding oftlcers of the Northern army was a Virginian and the ranking oftlcer of the Southern army was a New Yorker. Southern people when they review this list and see how much they aro Indebted should at least pause heforo making generalizations. We are even under obligations to the North for the corner-stone of the Confederacy, the doctrine of secession." l)^4Mlly Hot Hopper. At 2 o'clock Sunday morning at n hot supper at Goooe Pond, a negro named Ned Ktuard got into an altercation with Sherman Owens, and Hhot him through tho heart, killing him Instantly. Kin&rd claims that the killing whh done in self defense, and came right on to Wllliston and gave himself up, THE HI BOAT IS LOST With a Crew of Thirty-Two Men oo Lake Erie b Storn NINE FROZEN BODIES No Doubt Now Remain* Tlial tho lliu Car Ferry, Which I*eft C'onueuut on Ttntalay With Thirty-two Men on Hoard, Foundwd In tl?o of the Likt*. With her flag at half-mast, the State fisheries boat Commodoro Per- I ry, Capt. Jerry Drlscoll commandingarrived tit Erie, Pa., Hunday with the dead and frozen bodies of nine .of the crew of the Bessemer and Marquette ferry No. 2, which loft Conueaut, Ohio, Tuesday morning, carrying 32 meu and probably foundered in the mlddlo of Luke Erie. For 4 8 hours the Commodore Porry luid been scouring tho wtitors of eastern Lake Erie for tho traces of the car ferry but, until a tiny ten-man yawl was slghtiMl 1 f? miles off Erie at 1 1 o'clock Hunday, had almost given up hope of being ablo ever to toll a portion of tho story of tho fate of tho big car ferry. Ah the Perry came abroad of the drifting half water-logged yawl, tho men gathered at the side of tho tlsh boat saw that they had arrived ui lute. The nine occupants of tho boat, which was marked "Bessemer and Marquette No. 4," were frozen st.lll in death. Taking the yawl In tow the Perry made nil steam for Erie, arriving thorn Into Sunday. All pollen reserves were calb-d out and ambulances lined the wharves. Nowh of the finding of tho boding had reached tho city, and thousands of persons swarmed to tho wharves. Ah Hoon hh tho fish l>oat made afast a force of men with tackle ?ot to work raising the dead bodies to the dock, where wagons were In w tiling. Tho procession passed through the principal streets of the city with hundreds of people following it. At tho coroner's morgue tho following identifications were made: II. Thomas, second cook. Port Stanley; William Kay, J. W. Sonars, waiter; O. K. Smith, steward; F. Stool, fireman; J. Shenk, fireman; .1. Hart, oiler; P. llagen; Charles Allen, all of Conncaut. Tho cook of tho car ferry was tho only mun to wear an overcoat. Tho eight other men wore dressed In overalls and Jumpers, Indicating that departure from the car ferry had been hurried. In the how end }of the boat was found complete clothing for one man and It is tho belief thut the yawl orlglnHlly contained ton men and that one bocoming craz?nl had discarded his clothing and Jumed into tho Joy waters. Albert J. Wolse, of Erie, treasurer of the Keystone Fish company, and tho Pair Htato Iron works, was a passenger on the ill-fated boat. His relatives and friends had not yet given up hoix) until tho boat containing the nine men wsh towed Into tho port. Ah yet hit* body has not bcon found. * SIXTY KIIJJCD ItAHT YKAIt. llAllrotidN Submit Report to I tall' rowl (VmuniNsion. Hixty-eovon people wore killed and 7f>H injured on the railroads of the State during the pant lineal year, according to the annual report of the twenty-live companion received by the railroad commibHion. It l? Bhown In the lurtt annual report of the commlbblon that &7 were killed and 1,08 7 injured. It will l>e seen that the number willtKl on the ralroadb has been increased by ten, while the number of Injured wa? lone by sevoral hundred. The tinea 1 year ended on June 30. The commission is now compiling the Htatlbtical part of its nnuual Tei>ort. I?utch Count (lot to John D. Count P. A. de Vrles woh successful thi? past week in reaching John D. Rockefoller at his home in Forest Hill, near Cleveland, O. The count nought to lntereHt tho financier ?n his schemo to drain the Zydor Zee, Holland, and open it to trucking. Ho had tried frequently to meet John I)., and once was flrod upon when ho polluted too etrongly. Dynamite Expfoded. At Ht. Paul, Minn., on Baturday, one man wiib killed and two othora aro ao badly lnjure<l that thoy will die, aw a romilt of two cara of dynamite exploding at the Minnesota tranafor. The cara are ho completely demollahed It 1b impoeaible to aocortain what road thoy belonged to. DRRY HE ATTACKED BY BURGLAR lu%I>Y BAOIiY HKATKN IN IIMR (X)MMBIA llOMK Ity a N'cfjrt) Who Had HotMcd it For the KunxwA' of KU iUian What Ho Could. The Columbia Kocord tolla of the during ucIh of u negro burglar la j that city one day lout wook. Tho I Kecorcf wiy.H Mru. Alrnu Cum obeli Ayera, living with her mother, the widow of the lute county treasurer, James Campbell, at 100 1 Richland ntyeot, hud a frl-ghtful experience at her homo on Tuesday morning with a negro burglar, who Ih thought to be the original "Barefoot Bill, ' who Iiuh been doing stunts In the city for severul yearn. Mrs. Ayera Btruggled with care courage even after she had been brutally and puinfully beaten by the negro In his efforts to escape. It was 9 o'clock In the morning when 4 she happened to walk Into her room. She did not notice the negro's presence until she happened to glance Into the mirror and saw his reflection. He wud standing by the mantel with his shoes in his hands and on the floor was a lot of clothes which he was about to get away with. Mrs. Campbell turned upon tbo uogro and, screuinlng for help, tried to hold him. Ho struck her thro? ? times on the arm with one of his shoes and then dealt her a stinging blow with the shoo In the breast. This felled her, but she was on her feet In a fraction of a second and us he started down the stairs she again seized him. 9he was dragged all the way down the stairs, clinging to hlin. The negro made off on a bicycle which he had left at the gate. He was Identified by a negro living next door uh "Shug" Ulllou. He is about 17 years old and Is well known la police circles. The police ho far have not been able to find him. I>e toctlvo Fordo bus his shoes, which wore loft at tho Campbell home. Mrs. Ayora' brother, Mr. Normle Campbell, hud left tho house only about 1 r? minutes before the nogro was discovered. Tho negro yoatb working on the plnco, Jim Cunningham, got frightened when ho hoard the noiae of Mrs. Ayera' at niggles with the burglar nnd ran and kid himself in tho kitchen. * HACK TO KUROFM. The Imurt) Christina* ItiMh to th? Old (k>untrieH. A dispatch from St. John, N. B.? says tho existing state of prosperity throughout Canada in reflected la tho unprecedented rush of passengers to Kurpoo to spent the Christmas holidays. Never before have tho steamship bookings been so heavy at this time of the year. Tho Allan liner Victorian, which sailed a few duys ago, carried her fnll oomplemont of passengers, and the name Is true of the C. P. K. steamship Lake Munitoba, which will depart for the other side soon. Tho majority of those going for tho holidays will remain until spring Many of them are persons well to do, who are in tho habit of gotng to Europe every years or so. Countless othors, however, are of the workI n tr olaoM/\? ? ? 1 uuu IIUVO p\U OJT ODOUgbk savings the pant year to enobls them to enjoy a holiday iu the old coontry aud to tnko back substantial pree, enta to tho folks at homo. Under present condltlonH they do not hoeltate to give up their employ moot for three or four mouths, fooling confident that they will have no difficulty in getting work upon their , return in tho spring. Beaten With Rnucks. Officers arc scouring the county in search of Um Baker, who in charged with killing J. B. Todd, a section foreman at Espanola, Pla.. Sunday night. It is said that In a fight following a quarrel Baker literally boat Todd to death with brasn knucks. Baker formerly lived In Baxley. Qa. Die in Lake of Tar. Entrapped In a lake of flowing tar four njou were hold fast at tho McCllntock-Irvine Company's roofing plant in Pittsburg, Pa., Saturday and compelled to watch thn gradually approaching flames. Thren wore burned to death, but the fourth managed to extricate himself and escape the horrible fate of hie companions. Three Men Hoffoeated. | Throe men died of euffcatton, 31 / J othore were overcome and reecnod with difficulty, as the result of a fir* in the Hhooraaker at Johuaon, Fa., J on Saturday morning. RftLD