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TALE OFHORROR Told About Conditions in the Atlanta Stockade. TREATED LIKE BEASTS ItarhaiinuH CondHUins and RnpvrlnUiidcnt Vliiing la Thor ? -? ? 11 ?..?li.<l.>nu OtlgfMJ lllt4>lll|M-l<-iii M-Triwt>v?^ <irew Out of tin Indictment of Two <Mllcorn for floating N'ogro. "No words cnu express our sur prise, mortification and disgust at the unspeakable conditions which exist at the city stockade." Such Is the opening sentence, says the Atlanta Journal of the report made Friday to Judge Ellis, of the uperior court by tho November grand Jury, which sent a committee out to tho city chain gang 'lhursday afternoon to Investigate charg ea which grew out of the alleged unmerciful beating of negroes by convict guards. The committee reports that 100 negro men were found cooped up in a small poorly ventilated eating rooir., which had a dirt floor, and which was absolutely offensive from filth, expectoration and the odor of unclean human bodies. The room where tho white men ate, it Is stated, wan little better, except that the floor was of concrete. The sleeping apartments, it is charged, are still more horrible, where masses of human beings were compelled to lie down on mattresses which were as ill thy as tilth could make them. The mattresses were never cleaned, the blankets were never washed, and one white convict declared, it is stated, that he was compelled to go for 4 4 days without onco taking off or changing his clothing. The pants couldn't have boen taken off, on account of the shackles. This man stated that at the end of that time he was full of vermin. None of the clothes worn by the [ white or black convicts looked as if they had ever been washed. Thero wero no bathing facilities, no ventilation, no prison discipline, oo prison rules, declared the grand I? jury. j The same conditions existed in the kitchen where the cooks were unclean women prisoners. The regular rations consisted of a piece of com bread, a piece of fat bacon and a bucket of molasses in which the prisoners were free to dip the bread. The amount was sufficient, but the food Itself was such that the grand jury did not see how human beings could oat it. There was no adequate hospital i services. One man was found lying on a filthy mattress like the rest, T Buffering from fover, _ presumably v i J lypiuiu. Another who had a gunshot wound in the breast was wearing such a vilely dirty shirt over the wound that infection seemed certain. The same was true of a man with ores on his legs. The modes of punishment, declared the grand jury, Beenied barbarioni. The whipping chair was described at length?a wooden affair In which the victim la fastened immovable and then beaten with heavy straps. One of the strups had met el rivets near its end, said the report. Clubs and billies were found with which it is alleged the prisoners had been struck. Two rings were found fastened in the walls, about six feet high, and five or six feet apart; to these the superintendent declared he some times handcuffed prisoners with their arms outstretched and their faces toward the wall. The superintendent stated to the grand Jury that h? never continued this punishment for more than 30 or 40 miuutes, but the grand jury had reason to believe that it had been inflicted in certain eases for the best part of a whole afternoon. Bad as these conditions were, the grand Jury believed some kind of attempt had been made to Improve conditions in honor of their vis't New whitewash had been used, and they had been informed that the chains had been taken off certain women prisoners only the day before. * The grand Jury declared that the xtlin>.ltlr,a In nVtararjk nf lh<> ml r\ ci UVBUI IVIliO IU VMl?? ?V v? v??v w t? xt v ?naming Superintendent I). M. VinIng specifically?were "entierly inefficient and thoroughly incompetent," and declared that many of th<j guards were not only incompetent, but addicted to drink, an in the caac of Officer Cornett, indicted the daj before for unmercifully heating n negro, who had been canned to resign from the police force way back f In 1906, because of "drunkennesf SUBSC * WRECKS GALORE ltAlLKOAI) ACCIDENTS HKDOKTKl> KHOM AliL ABOUT. Svvvntl IVi-mius A iv Killul ami Mauy Ait* Injured n! Diffcivut IMttcon by Tlioui. In a collision between a I*ako Shore passenger train and a switch engine at Euat 26th street at Cleveland, Ohio, early Suturduy morning, three persona wero killed, two probably fatally hurt and ten others were i I .1 (JI U lHe'J. The wrecked train won No. 7. westbound from New York and cou neeted at Cleveland with the Big Pour for St. Louis. The killed and those fatally injured were members of the train crew. The dead: 11. L. Alums. Collinwood, engineer of the puBsenger train. Frank S. Wales, fireman of switch engine. John Frank, switchman. Unknown man. W. J. Burns, engineer of switch engine. Fatally injured: Jacob Can ier, fireman on the passenger train; scalded. Two Fatally Injured. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Orlentlal Limited, from Portland. Oregon, en route to Chicago, ran Into a broken rail at Western springs, 111.. zz nines wohi oi t;nicugo, early Saturday. All of the train passed bufelly over except the three rear Pull man sleepers. They were overturned and ditched. The sleep era were filled with passengers. Two women were perhaps fatally injured A score or more were hurt by Hying glass. The train was live hours late and was endeavoring to make up time. ' One Dead, Two Dying. One Is dead and two are believed to be dying as the result of nu ac cident at a crossing of the Pennsylvania railroad at Ilurford street, Canton, Ohio. William Haas, H9, drayman, was killed. Hoss Hurian, with her sknll fractured, may die; Laura Mohr, aged IK, has concusiou of the brain and may die. Catherine Vail, aged 21, was bruised and cut, but will recover. Haas was driving a moving van and as ho passed the Canton Stamping Company's plant, the girls, who were employed there, climbed into the wagon to ride to the ear line. A westbound passenger train crashed Into tlie van at a crossing. Several Killed. Fast bound Santa Fo passenger train? No. 8, the Overland limited, was wrecked at Fulton, f>5 miles e^ist of I>as Vegas, ?^rly Saturday by a broken rail. Several nna sengers tiro roported killed and many injured. The train wont over a steep embankment. KlIiliKI) HY KXPIjOHIOX. S|MU*k In Ponder K<?u Caused Wn<ch of Mine Tenantenl. Four persons wore killed, 60 made destitute and one was probably fatally injured, as the result of an explosion and lire which destroyed house No. G at the Frost bur* mine of the Rochester Pittsburg Coal and Iron Company near 1'uiikHiitawney, Pa. A few seconds after the explosion of a keg of powder, Into which a spark had accidentally dropped, a greater quantity of powder exploded and the two-story building, 7f> feet long, was torn to pieces. Six families lived In the building, each with several children and four or llv* boarders. * while on duty." It was d?*dured that some of the guards were possibly honest and Intellgent, hut that they were powerlees to do any good because they lacked proper direction. The grand Jury was disinclined to adopt tin Idea that lack of money was really responsible for the conditions, hecause it found conditions In the stn hies Infinitely cleAner and more de cent than in the places where t.hr human beings were kept "like i beasts." , It was recommended that the of flcial force be reorganized, that a sel of m laon rule* Go ?hoi aaii It at Ion be Improved, that hos pital facilities bo installed, tha< facilities bo efltabllshod for bathing and that compulsory bathing be In aiiKurat(*d; that the convlcta be pro vlded with clean clothes, and tha the clothes be washed at proper In tervuls, and that they be given bet j ter food. ' RIBE NO FOUND DEAD Hat Pin in One, While Other Hangs From Clothes Line. TWO AGED SISTERS | "Fruncw Hung *t 2.1-2 Nut. Me Two,*' In MeHuugo Written on Ilox Cover?Hut l*in Wounds | Found on l?otli Iloillett?Women MikI Livwl Aloni' Fifteen Yours. Two ugod spinster stater, Frances and Isabel Ritchie, were found dead Sunday In their home In Newark, N. J. The sisters had lived quietly and alone for the puat twenty years in the same house. Their source of Income was as mysterious as their secluded life, but they kept their house in order and paid their bills regularly. The older woman, Frances, was f?C? years old; the stater, a few years her junior. Frances was found dead lying on the floor, while the body of the other sister dangled from a piece ol clothes line made fast abo\e the door leading from the dining room to the kitchen. The lirst indications were that Francos had died from natural causes and that Isable had hanged herself in a paroxism of grief. This theory was dispel!)! d when a small liox was found in the dining room, on tho cover of which hud been written these words: Fran cos hung herself at 2.1-1! Bat. Me, too." This load to the belief that the two old women had curried out a suicide puet. Frances hanging herself first, and the body being cut down by the sister. Hut further investigation brought, to light more gruesome details. Underneath her clothing and sticking in the breast of Fiances was a hut pin, buried in the flesh up to its black head. The pin hud been driven close to the heart to a depth of about four Inches. Similar wounds, but not of such a serious nature were found on the other body, which leads to the belief that the sisters may have quarreled and fought. Whether Frances deliberately hanged her sister, then killed herself with tho hat pin, or whether the sister found hanging stabled the other und then ended her life, will perhaps never be known. The hands of the body on the floor were carefully crossed and the head rested on a sofa cushion. There Is a possibility that both were murdered, but the house shows no trace of huvlnc " ** ' 1 -- ...0 ii nin'l l"U It) Htru ngers. The woniftn had lived alone since the death of their mother more than fifteen years aso, with a large dog as their sole companion. Recently the dog died, and since thut time the women hud been despondent. The owner of the house which they occupied, having been unable to gain admittance since Tuesday last, notified policemen who forced entrance. The women wero last seen alive on Saturday. * CKNKFS TKSTS TOO HAItl). Only Fifty-four From South Carolina Fussed. Director Durand, of the census bureau, Friday Informed Representative Patterson that only F>4 of th 2 applicants in South Carolina who recently stood examination for clerkship In the census bureau had been successful. This covers the entire State. Mr. Durdan seemed to think that this Inability to pass the examination successfully was no 1 reflection on those who attempted ' them, but was more to be accounted for by mason of the fact that the questions asked were largely those dealing with manufacturing and ' kindred matters, about which mau> persons have little knowledge. It Is not yet shown whether another* ' opportunity will be given South Cn * ' oIIiiIhuh to try for these places. 1 CONVKHTB FNDKHbO ORDKAL. Shiver for Thirty Minute* on Wharf After llapilsm in Frigid Wntm. A dispatch from Poughkeepsie, N. V., says Charles Walker, of King-i t ton, Jamaica, has established a new ? religion sect among the colored peo pie there and Sunday afternoon he t baptized two converts In the Icy wai tore of the Hudson. Two converts - were attired In loose robes and stood - on the wharf ahlverlng fo" h.'.lf an t hour after the baptism. A ??nort - time ago "Klder" Walker baptized In the Hudson Mis. Pleasant Greene, * who became violently Insane. W TO THE CENSUS REPORT APPL1CANT8 FOR TUKSK PLACKS MC8T RK KNIH>KSKL What Im to 1W> Required of the Kntiinerntont for ttu) Work That Will Itogla In the Hpiiug. United States CenwuH Director Durand u few days ugo Issued a stauvinont from WaaliiuKton defining the qualifications, duties and compensation of census enumorutora. lie t H (i nn? of ?>? ? .1 ? ? ? ?? v vy 1H7 V* a I 1117 \l U I I*TJJ I LU ed upon tho supervisors by the census net Is the designation of suitable persons to be employed, with the consent of the director of the census, uu enumerators within their rt?spectlve districts. It is further provided that such persons shall be selected solely with a view to fitness and without reference to their political party atllliatlons. "Tho census act provides that the enumeration of population and agriculture shall begin on April 15, 19 10. and that each enumerator shall complete the work required in his dls trlct within thirty days in the case of rural districts and small towns, and within two weeks in the case of any incorporated city, town, village or borough which had 8,000 inhabitants or more under the census of 1 000. "It is desirable where possible that the enumerator ahull ltv?? t?? t h?? district he Is to canvass. He should he familiar with its territory and lite general character of its people. "The census requires as enumerators active, energetic persons of good address. Yhey must he tlior oughly trustworthy, honest and of good habits. They must have at least ordinary education and bo able to write plainly and with reasonable rapidity, in general, preference will be given to former enumerators if they ure at present physically able to peform the duties of the position. "Each person socking appointment as census enumerator must make a written application to the supervisor for the district of which a resident, and said application must ho made throughout in tho handwriting of the applicant, and must he endorsed by tv>o representative business men of the community in which the applicant resides. "All applicants for appointment as enumerators will bo requlroil to take I an examination, to bo proscribed by i ho Director of the Census, to doterrnlne th<>ir tltness for the work. This examination will be of a practical character, consisting chiefly or wholly of the filling out of a sample schedule of population from data furnished, and, In the case of enumerators whoso work will be In rural districts, the tilling out of a sample schedule of agriculture. "Bach applicant Is furnished with an Illustrative example of the manner of tilling the imputation schedule and, In country districts, with a copy of the agricultural schedule to which, In the main, the work of the census enumerators Is confined. These forms of schedules are (urn lsned Tor tho Information of th*' applicant and should be studied and preserved for use In connection with the examination referred to lu the preceding paragraph. "It will he necessary for each enumerator, beforo entering upon, his duties, to receive a commission under the hand of the supervisor of the district to which he belongs, and to make and subscribe an oath or affirmation that he will faithfully discharge all the duties required of him under the law. "The census act also provides that an enumerator, after accepting an appointment and qualifying for the work, CAn not, 'without Justifiable cause,' refuse or neglect to perform the duties of the position; und ho will further he required to devote his entire working tlrne to the census work during the period of the enumeration. "The compensation to he paid to j enumerators Is fixed by the census [ act, and an allowance of not less than two nor more than four cents for each inhabitant; not less than twenty nor more than thirty cents for each farm reported, and ten cents for each barn and Inclosure containing live stock not on farms, lb provided for all subdivisions where the Director of the Census j shall deem such remuneration sufI flclont. In other sub-dlvislon the j director may fix a mixed rate of I not less than one nor more than J t vo dollars per day, and In addlJ tlon, an allowance of not less than j oi.e nor more than three cents for i each Inhabitant enumerated, and not ( le^s than tlftoen nor more than twcnj ty rent a for each farm reported, while ,ln vu^-divisions where per diem rates are necessary, because of ' the difficulty of the enumeration, the j enumerators may be allowed, in the discretion of the director, a comJ pensatlon of not less than three nor THE HOI WHO IS SHE? . Norfolk Authorities Unable to Discover the Identity of STRANGE YOUNG LADY Who Attempt**! to < oniinlt Nuleldo ut h Hotel ut Vtixinla lleaeh on ljist WtHluofttUy, anil Who Kefuit* on to lli'venl ller Xumo or l'luee of ltesiileuee. Having thaw far Hucconsfully reHisted every effort to nHcertaln her ideutly the st lunge young woman who at Virginia Beach laat week signed herself " It nth Morton. Chicago," prior to attempting suicide, both by laudanum and shooting, still lies conscious at St. Vincent's hospital at Norfolk, Va., with the mystery surrounding her case as deep as ever. Though with three 22-callbre pistol wounds in her head the girl begun to improve and Sunday night it was said that her attending physicians now believe her recovery to be quite likely. For the first time since she was secretly brought to the hospital Inst Thursday the girl Sun day agreed to take food. For the tlrsf time she manifested interest in her probublo recovery. She had repeatedly declared she wanted to die and have buried with her a ninn'.i handkerchief and a hunch of withered violets, which she brought with her to Virginia Beach. One of the strangest features of the case is that the police department. after all the publicity given, litis not received a single inquiry from the outside world concerning the girl. In tin effort to obtain some clue to her identity a woman wtuSunday sent to her bedside to ques lion her. The girl was firm and the women left without the desired Informal ion. Apparently the only possible clue to her identity is the lau l.iuwm phial found with the girl marked "Willow Drug Company, Somervllle, Mass." She had destroyed everything by which she might be identified, even having cut from her hat the name of the place where it was bought. "1 came to Virginia Beach to u'o because of the remoteness 01 the place," wrote the girl in the note she had le.rt, which also told of $25 she had with her to be used 'n h'jr burial. FORT LAWN FIRM FA1L8. IHmj* ill ( Vlit/m I W Ia* - ? ... BFIIV^ V? I'MHTI Al Co. to the Wnll. Papers have been sent to tha United States Court at Charleston asking that Mr, J. H. Daniel, of Fort Dawn, trailing as J. B. Daniel & Co., be adjudged a banrupt. The hearing haa been fixed for next Monday, and the big atore ut Kort Lawn will l>e cloned at that time. The proceedings are not in voluntary form, but will not be contested by Mr. Daniel. Mr. Daniel's failure la due to his selling 1,000 bales of cotton at 10 eents, or figures about like that, thinking when the staple rose to be able to get enough off his owu farm and buy the remainder to complete his contract, but the continued rlt-e in the price and the utmost entire failure of his own crop put him something like $17,000 to $20,000 to the bad, and he was unable to meet his obligations. cigar Ignites Hath llolav Thomas Valentine Cooper, formerly collector of the port of Philadelphia, was burned to death at his home in Media, Pa., Sunday. While smoking a cigar in the sitting room of his home, he either fell aaleop or suffered a paralytic stroke. Mis hath robe became ignited and be was dead Is-fore the flames were discovered by members of his family. * more than pix dollars per day of eight hours actual field work each. Except In extreme cases, no claim for mileage or traveling expenses will he allowed to any enumerator, arid then only when authority has been previously granted by the Director of the Census." Attention Is also called to the letter of the President, add i eased to ?,? ~? / ' - - I me >jvvivi?i; wi *^uiuui?rr,e and i.a' bor, a ropy of which 1h appended to the siateinent, <*uieernlng the matter of political activity on the part of census supervisors and enumerators. In accordance with this letter any enumerator must sever his connection with any political committee of which ho may he a member, before entering on his duties, and must refrain from political activity ' during his term of employment. RRY HEI PRIZE WINNERS SCHOOLS THAT HAVE MADK <?KKATH8T IMI'ltOVKMKNTS. The of the Thirty-I)T? Lucky School* That Itorctved llit Award*. Tbo executive committee of the School Improvement Association of 0 South Carolina met a few day* ayo >n.l ....... -.O.-l - -I ?- " ' ...... i.nuiuvii |u i6im u) ,\o Hcnooin or the State allowing lho greatest lmprovomont during the pa?t yoar. The prizea given amounted to $2,000. being ftvo of $100 and ?>0 of $50 The meeting wan hold in the office of State Superintendent of hldura tion Swearlngen. The llr.st prizea of $100 each went to the following hcIiJooIh: Little Mountain. Newberry county; Kaatover, Richland county; Willlngton. Alibevllle county; Lamar, Darlington county, and Went Union In Oconee county. The second prizea of $.r?0 each were awarded to the following count lea: Clyde, Darlington county; hiehopH Hranch, Anderaon county; Oreeleyvllle, WilliatuHburg county; Johnaon, (ieorgetown county: Don bio Springs, dreenvlllo county; Hickory drove, Aiken county; lleed*. dreenvtllo county; Fairview, l>exlnKton county; Hilda, Rarnwell oounty. Rough Ilranch, Williamsburg county; Horry Lot School. FdgeHeld. Hickory Hill, Orangeburg; Lanes (Iradcd School, Williamsburg; Ridge Springs, Newberry; Cameron, Calhoun; Locuat High School, dreen vlllo; Karle, Williamsburg; Quarry, dreenwood ; Friendship, Laurune; Cedar Swamp. WilliatuHhurg; Poplar. Orangeburg; Shady drove, Falrlleld; Union, Laneaatcr; Temperance Oak drove, Harnwell; dolden Spring, Cherokee, and Hetheden, Newberry Ill ltlKI) A L1VK. Authorities I/ooking Into Mauser nf Muii'n l>eath. A special from Antley, Mexico, saya: In the l>elief that the mas wan buried alive, and that hlH death wa? due partly to rough treatment and asphyxiation, authorities are Investigating the burial of Salvador TIJorina. The man wont to a hotel at a late hour ut night, become violently ill and whh believed to have died. His burial followed, It la said, at the dirtction of the hotel proprietor, hIx Mexicans who had been drinking. Interring tin* body. That | ho waa not dead when removed from the hotel Ih the belief of the authorities * "OORPHK" HAT UP. lint I>ater KrUpwil and the i Proceeded. At Terre Haute, In<l., as ai qb I dertaker started to prepare the body I of Edward Murphy for burial, the supiHwed dead man arose la bed I and yawned. "1 feel letter after that loaf sleep," he said. Murphy hud been in a state of oomu for ten hours. He had been an inval)<Hl for a long time. Hut I the undertaker soon was recalled. 1 for Murphy really died later, after joking about his "first death" to the frightened embalmer. Zeluya ('able* Taft. President Zelaya Friday night cabled a conciliatory messuge to President Taft, saying that he had shown his good faith by resigning in order that Nicaragua might resume friendly relations with the I'nlted States, He added that he proposed to leave tue country hut stood ready to aeI count for his acts as president. * Itock Island Train Wrxkrd. Engineer Tom Walker and Fireman P. W. Bauer, both of Tucaon, Ariz., were killed ten persons, mostly trainmen, seriously Injured, and thirteen others were cut and bruised Sunday when an Fast bound j Itock Island train, operated over the Southern Pacific tracks, wus wrecked west of Benson, Aria. Froze Steamer's Whistle. News comes from New York that the weather is so cold up there that It froze up the whistle of the | Italian liner Cltta del Messina, ae cording to the report of her cap tain. Mem born of the crew, he said, spent several hours thawing out the : whittle hy burning oil soaked waste i under it, before the skip could make its way up the harl>or at New York. Postoflire Kobbed. \ The postofflc? at Short Creek, Ala . was entered by dynamiters early one niorniug recently, the safe bloww open and several hundred dollars tw money taken. llloodhounds were scut to the Hoene IfiLD