The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, January 28, 1910, Image 3
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FOUND GUILTY
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Garlington and Young Are Convicted of
Breach of Trust With
TRAUDULENT INTENT
Out1 Grew Out of the Fanion*
Seminole Securities Company,
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Through Which Many People in
This and Other States Lost a
Great Deal of Hard Cash.
The Columbia State Bays John Y
Garliugton and Jas. Stobo Young
Were Friday night adjudgod guilty
on a charge of breach of trust with
fraudulent lntoutlon.
This was the fourth count of an
Indictment that charged "conspiracy,
breach of trust with fraudulent Intention
of stock, larcony of stock,
breach of trust with fraudulent Intention
of money and larceny of
money."
Tho fourth count on which the
Jury returned a verdict of guilty alleges
broach of trust of money of
the Seminole Securities Company
amounting to $55,590.77.
The jury agreed upon a verdict
about 10 o'clock, after spending
eight hours in th? Jury room. The
judge, court ofllcials and defendants
were summoned and the verdict was
read about 11 o'clock. The two defendants
received th? verdict without
show of Burprleo, and a motion
for a new trial was at onco entered
by counsel for tho defense.
The Judge asked when this motion
could bo argued and attorneys
for the defense said they would like
to confer with tholr senior counsel
before arguing the motion. Judge
Prince then announced that tho motion
would be argued today, and refused
the request of tho defense
that the bond given for the defend
ants' appearance during the trial be
held good ponding sentence, and
the two defondunts wore remanded
to Jail shortly after the verdict was
read.
In the words of the Indictment the
fourth count says:
"That JJohn Y. Garllngton and
Stobo Young, late of the county
and State aforesaid, on the 15th
day of January, In tho year of our
Lord ono thousand nine hundred and
eight, with force and arms at Columbia
court house, in the county
of Richland and In thje State of
South Carolina, |55,596 In money
lawful currency of the United States,
end of denomination and Issue to
the Jurors aforesaid unkonwn of tho
property of Seminolo Securities Company,
a corporation duly incorporated
under the laws of the State of
South Carolina, then and there bo^ng
found feloniously did steal, take
and carry away against the form of
the statute In such cases made and
provided and against the peace and
dignity of the State."
The allegation in the count is that
John Y. Garlington. as president of
the Seminole Securities Company,
used various amounts from the funds
aggregating $55,596.77. The checks
signed for the various sums were
eigned by J. S. Young. When Chas.
H. Hiely, an expert accountant, made
an audtlng of the books of the Seminole
Securities Company ho found
^the various sums charged to Garlington
and called his attention to
It. Oarlingbon then showed him
that ho held 75,000 shares of Seminole
Securities Company stock and
Hiely charged the $50,000 drawn
against this stock, leaving some $24,000,
that the Seminole Company, according
to audit, are still indebted
to Garlington, provided Garlington
really owned the stock.
The members of the jury who rendered
this verdict are: A. C. Kinard,
foreman; Geo. B. Reeves, G. M.
Dlckart, T. E. Shealey, J. S. Bowers,
J. H. Halthcock, E. J. Vincent, H.
E. Bruns, Wade A. DaGrando, Chas.
Grimsley, D. T. Ready, W. I). Jordan.
Some Credulous People.
The Anderson Mail states that Dr.
Stiles says the poor white folk of
the South make a regular practice
of going barefooted, from the young- |
est baby to the oldest grandparent,
and that every other ono of them
1 has tuberculosis. And in some parts
of the country there are people who
believe that Dr. Stiles is tolling the
truth." .
How to Thaw Water Pipe*.
When It Is not Bafe or convenient
to apply heat to frozen pipes to
thpw them, spread a cloth thickly
with unslacked lime, fasten it around
tho frozen pipe and throw water on
it. The heat produced as the lime
s slake is great enough to thaw the
ice.
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Hank Cashier Wanted.
W. P. Wtytaker, cashier of the
Hank at Keneeaw, Ga., Is being
sought as tho result of an alleged
Bhortag<*ln the cashier's accounts of
ten thousand dollars. The discovery
of the shortage followed Whitaker's
recent disappearance.
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THE COST OF LIVING
LOOKS LIKE PROTECTIVE TARIFF
AFTER ALL TO BLAME.
Soiue Figures and Comparisons 1>>
Senator Mown K. Clapp of MiuBMOtS.
A dispatch from Washington says
Senator Mosoe E. Ciapp, of Minnesota,
who Is every day becoming
more bitter in his criticism of the
recent tariff revision, declares that
to ell without forcing that man to
few things has the tendouoy to advance
the cost on evory necessity.
"You will hear It said constantly."
SrtiHitor P.lnnn "with rof
erenee to something oil which tho
prlco hug been advnuced, Oh, thai
Isn't in the tariff at all. That increase
has nothing to do with the
tariff.' But tho fact Is that the
tariff reaches all along tho lino
You can't raise the cost of living
to a man who is producing something
to sell without forcng that man to
raise correspondingly tho price of
what ho haH to sell.
"The new tariff law haH cost, and
is costing the American people millions
on millions of dollars in increased
cost of living. And if tho
Payne-Aldrich bill had boon beaten,
thoso millions would have been saved
to the peoplo. The increase in
import duties did not affect everything,
of course, but when tho prle
es were raised by tho peoplo whose
rates had been Increased, other peoplo
were compelled to raise their
prices In keeping. The thing started
with the tariff increases, and is
increasing the cost of living all along
the line.
"We must have no legislation that
will re-cnforco the combinations.
Tariffs so adjusted as to protect combinations
at. homo against competition
abroad, must be lowered. The
combinations are eliminating competition
just as Sherman and Blaine
twenty years ago saw that they
would. It Is now a problem of how
to save our market from being controlled
by the domestic combination,
just as formerly It was a problem
of how to protect It against control
by the foreign producer.
"A lady In Washington told nu?
of going to a crockery store and
pricing a set of dishes. It was
thirty dollars and the tariff bill
hadn't Iveen reported yet. I^ater,
when it had become generally known
that the revision was being made upward
rather than downward, she
went back and asked about these
same dishes. The price had gone
up to seronty-nlno dollars.
"But," she protested, "it was only
fifty dollars a few weeks ago."
"But tho tariff Is being raised,"
was the response, "and things like
this are going to be higher."
"I looked up that description of
goods. It wasn't Increased in the
tariff measure. But the understanding
was out that the manufacturers
wore increasing prices bocauso of
tho changes in tho duties; everybody
knew that cottons and woolens were
going up on that account, and so
t>o tendency was to push up the
prices on other things. *
TOO MANY WIVKS.
Man
Placed In Jail With Woman He
Itooently Married.
George Moseley, a young white
man, aged 21, and Miss Salllo Shanall,
both recent residents of the
Ninety-Six cotton mill village are In
jail at Greenwood on tho serious
chargo of bigamy. They were m varied
Sunday night in Ninety-Six by
a well-known minister thero and
Monday morning at tho instance of
aovernl piHvmiu in uIIIquo
.? V ..V,
haled before Judge James Rogers
and lxjund over to appear for trial
I at the coming Session's Court. It
Is chargod that Moseley has been
married twice liofore, lK>th wlives
being alive. Ho was first married
to Miss Maggie Gore at the Greenwood
cotton mill village, about five '
years ago. It is said this wife is
living In Newberry. His second marriage,
which he denies, it is alleged
was to a Miss Ora Cobb, of Abbeville,
and the third was as aforesaid
at Ninety-Six. w
"Unloaded" Pistol.
While playing with an automatic
pistol in an effort to get it. to work,
Rex White accidentally kill d his
friend, Archie Holt, Thursday at
Esplnola, Fla. White thought the
cartridges had been removed from
the pistol.
upon how the matter came up and
he would vote then as he saw it
in the light presented to him.
Senator Johnstone of Newberry
stated that he is not bound by the
compromise and said he would like
to hear something more on the prohibition
question before he voted fo??
a Stato-wido bill. Senator Johnstone
said: "I am not so sure as to
whether you would call me a prohibitionist
or not. I am a temperi
anco believer."
I Senator Montgomery, a local op|
tlon man personally, stated that he
did not feel bound by the compromise
and would vote aa he saw the
matter at the time presented.
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DOVE OF PEACE
Hovering Over the Warring Factions c|
Republican Party
TRUCE IS DECLARED
Both Factions la tlkj Republican
Flghl and I'roNidoot Taft Glvo Out
Btateiueuts Showing That War
Will ho Suspended Until AC tor
Investigation Committee Chosen.
The dove of peace succeeded In
got ting reasonably near a perch
Krlday on the field occuplod by the
warring Republican factions of the
house, after that much-sought bird
had been repeatedly frightened away
from the scene by the clamor of the
contending participants. When Representative
llayes, of California, the
mediator for tho insurgents, return
od to the houso after calling ui>on
President Taft tho news circulated
rapidly that a truce had boon arranged
and a more or lean permanent
peace in the Republican ranks
was about to be announced.
This was considered confirmed
when a statement Issued from the
White House and another from Representative
Dwlght, the Republican
whip, announcing the details of the
armlstic. The peace pronuneiamento
proved premature, however, for Representative
Hayes, between numerous
conferences with his associates, announced
that no agreement had been
reached and that the matter would
io over until later.
At this juncture tho insurgents
gathered in tho room of Representative
Hardner, of Massachusetts, issued
another statement, saying that
'an understanding had been readied."
The statement, which was given
out by Representative Mayes,
follows:
Insurgents' Statement.
"It is true that an understanding
has been reached that wo shall attend
tho caucus about bo bo held
for the o.holoo of the Republican
members of the investigating committee.
Tho question of future conferences,
however, is one on which
there has been 110 agreement. In
fact, I had 110 authority from my
associates to enter into that question.
Of course, this agreement, in no
way affects the issue as to the present
system of control of the house
of representatives."
Mr. Hayes was asked if tho word
"wo" used in his statement meant
all tho Insurgents in the house. He
replied that it did, and that all of
the insurgents or?noiirr?/l Ik
? uu ? ? oiaicIII
out.
Tho Democrats of the house announced
that they would hold a caucus
Saturday night to name tho minority
members of the committee
to investigate tho Rallinger-Pinchot
affair. The Democrats insist upon
their right to name the minority
members of tho committee, nnd if the
majority declines to allow it, there
is a prospect of a Democratic-Republican-lnsurgent
alliance upon th(
question. Tho insurgents say thej
are contending merely for a fair committee
and caro not who are it*
members.
President Issues Statement,
The following statement was giver
out by President Taft:
"It has boon agreed between th<
regular Republicans and the so-cal
led Insurgents represented by Mr
Dwlght on tho one hand and Mr
Hayes on the other, after confer
en<ys with the President, that s
caucus should be held to pass upoi
tho question of the committee in tin
interior department investigatioi
with the assurance that the insur
gents, if they came into the can
j cus, would be treated fairly and tha
a committee of acknowledged im
partiality would be appointed. >
further agreement was foreshadow
ed that tlie caucuses should he heh
from time to time, to which all elect
ed as Republicans, should he invit
ed to take up the various measuro
recommended by the administration
as performances on the party pledg
es, the subject of each caucus to b
announced In advance."
The statement of Representativ
Dwight, the Republican whip of th
house, concerning the roported un
derstanding between the regular
and insurgents was as follows:
"Regulars' " Statement.
"The questions of th? past hav
been forgotten. The tariff bill I
no longer a matter for discussior
The speakership fight is ended. Th
question of the rules is not now a
Isbuo. We are confronted with th
problem of redeeming the pledge
of the Republican party to the pec
pie.
"Last Friday there was a vote i
this house which caused a Republ
can division."
Mr. Dwlght hero referred to th
vote on tho Norrls amendment, tal
ing the appointment of tho Ballinj
er-Pinchot investigating committt
from tho hands of Speaker Canno
and placing it with the house ltsel
"That was a matter of no coi
i sequence and a small object in whi<
tho people could have but little i:
> i terest. But It showed a division
I the party. The next day I saw Prei
ONLY THREE SAVED
TWENTY-EIGHT PERSONS WENT
DOWN IN SEA WITH SHIP.
The Southern Pacific HteawahJp
Czarina Wrecked on Her Way to
ban Francisco Wednesday.
Cooe Bay's ahores Thuraday wore
patrolled by searchers for bodloe
from the Soutberu Pacific atearaship
Czarina. Twenty eight Uvea
were lobt when the veesol wae dashed
by a heavy sea onto tho north
aplt of tho Cooo Hay bar Wodneaday.
Only three of the 31 souls
aboard were saved.
The Czarina wan bound for San
Francisco. She left port in th? teeth
of u Kale, but before she had reached
th? open sea, was caught on the
treacherous bar?one of the worst
i on the Pacific coast?and was roll'
lug helpless, broadside to the sea.
The sailors took to th? rigging and
were swept to their death, oue by
one.
The first assistant enginoer, K.
II. Kentzell, was driven ashore when
a mighty wave tore him from th?
rigging. An ho was tossed toward
th? laud, life savers pulled him to
safety. Captain J. Dugan and one
of his men swam ashore.
A long and futile tlgbt was waged
to aid the doomed pasaougers and
crow. The life saving station attempted
again and again to reach
tlie vessel with lines shot from a
gun, but the Czarina was Just beyond
range. So terrlHo wan the H?a
that no small boat oeuld have lived
for a moment, and every Instant the
storm increased.
.Marooned helplossoly on the doomed
vessel, those aboard took to th?
rigging. The decks were tinder water,
only the masts offered refuge.
From shore it was difficult to see
th? specks of humanity clinging to
the ropea. Gradually the number
diminished. When dawn broke
Thursday the vessel was fast breaking
up. Pounding on the bar, aud
constantly buffeted by immense
waves, it was clear that she cou'd
not last long if the weather did not
speedily abate. Her stack had boon
torn away, and tho rigging appeared
to have been wrapped in a snarl,
holding here and there a boom or n
spar.
In the crowd that watched on
i snore wiih u. J. Mills, a prominent.
Southern Pacific official of San Fran cisco.
Ills ifjn, Harold Mills, was
on the ship. The father could do
nothing except watch the vessel disintegrate,
while hope lessened.
The Czarina was 216 feet long, of
7 93 tons, and was built In Sunderland,
England, In 1883. Her hailing
port was San Francisco. She carried
nine officers, twenty-one In the
crew, and a few passengers.
Six Men Killed.
Six are dead and six other workmen
suffering from frightful burns
as a result of an explosion of gas
during the night In the new shaft
of the Nottingham Colliery of the
Lehigh and Wilkeslwirre Coal Company,
at Plymouth, Pa. The men
were engaged In sinking tho shaft.
At a point several hundred feet
below the surface they broke into
a gas feeder and the explosion fol
lowed.
^ Warmed Her Feet All Itight.
Mrs. August Schwartz put a hot
flatrlon In a sleigh to warm her feet
while carrying ffirm products to
market, says a dispatch from Beaver
' Falls, Pa. When a mile from her
' home the flatiron set flro to straw
in the sleigh and she barely had time
1 to unhitch the horses before the
1 flames enveloped the sleigh and its
contents.
Yeggs at Work.
t Five daring yeggmen cracked the
spencer, Miss., postofllce safe Mon^
day morning after overpowering two
policemen. The robbers made the
,j getaway successfully.
An Indiana representative says
s $9,000 for flowers for the White
n House is too much. He fails to realize
that with the present fast pace
e of living flowers are considered a
necessary of life.
e dent Taft and laid the matter bei
fore him.
s "I told the President that the socalled
insurgents were represented as
being the friends and supporters of
e the administration and ready to help
is enact his recommendations into law.
). 1 assured the President that the roge
ular Republicans of the house were
n ready to do likewise. We also were
o prepared to go into caucus upon any
a proposition and abide by the result.
11^-. A. \ 1 * * ' - * *
t- w ere ? ue insurgents ready 10 do tne
same,
n "For the past two (lays confer1
ences have been In progress and
those who differed from us last Fri10
day are now ready to enter the cauc
ens, and abide by the decision reached
there."
?e Mr. Dwight was aked if the torn
surgents had been given any deflnate
f. assurances as to the treatment they
a- would receive in caucus.
;h "No," he replied, "except that thej
n- have been assured of fair treatment
In Th?y will not be discriminated
il- against." '
A STATE SULD
Rhode Island Serves Formal Notice On
Nortk Carolina.
DEMAND BOND PAYMENT
With Complacent Xme One (irc?t
Htat? Domands That Another (jreat
Stale Make Payment on Kcpndlat?h!
Honda of the IlecoiiMtrurtioa
Period Which May bo Fraudulent.
State Troasnror Lacy, of North
Carolina, has received tho formal
demand on tho part of tho State of
Rhodo Inland for North Carolina to
pay $484,090 of North Carolina
State bonds Issued In tho reconntriiCtion
period and later repudiated by
tho State as fraudulent, tho bonds
being a gift to lthodo Inland from
the bond syndicate. Tho demand
came from General Treasurer VV. A.
Hold of Rhode Island, and Is
countersigned by Attorney General
W. II. Greonhough.
The reply sent by Treasurer Lacy
was to the efYoot that he noted Areasurer
Reld's oxpression that "demand
was renewed for payment," hut that
ho (Lacy) had been treasurer for
nine years and this was the tlrst demand
received. As to the bonds he
Bald: "Many of the bonds Issued
during the reconstruction era wero
held fraudulent and Illegal by our
supremo court and were repudiated
by the people, our constitution now
having a clause prohibiting their
payment. In order, therefore, that
I may know whether the bonds you
mention are among those above
referred to It is mieossary that, you
give them the date of their Issue, and
also the act of legislation under
which they were Issued. Ou receipt
of tills Information I shall bo glad
to write you what I understand will
tie done In thin matter."
Tho letter of Rhode Island's Troasuror
demanding payment enumerates
the purposes for which tho bonds
they hold woro Issued an follows:
Fifty bonds for construction of Wllmington
& Rutherfordton Railroad;
thirty bonds for construction of the
Western North Carolina Railway; :
twenty bonds for Atlantic, Tonnes- I
see & Ohio Railroad; tlfty bonds for!
construction of Western North Carolina
Railway; twenty-five bonds for
construction of Wilmington & Tarboro
Railroad.
Treasurer Held states that one,
and In some cases, two coupons have
been paid or clipped from each of
the bonds. Rut It Is said in the
treasury at Raleigh that there has
never been any paymont at all. The
donors of tho bonds are nupposod to
have cut ofT the Ismslng coupon for
some possible legal advantage In
getting up litigation for collection.
Governor Kitchin Friday nigbt
said that the Indebtedness of tho
State was divided Into four classes
in 1 879 and tho bonds accepted by
Rhode Island come under the fourth
class which were repudiated by the
people of North Carolina and a clauso
had been put In the State constitution
forbidding their paymont unless
j ratified by a vote of tho people.
uovernor Kltchin said in part.
"For years the holdors of these
bonds have been hawking thorn about
the oountry trying to give foreign
have cut off the missing coupon for
Great States like New York and
States a cop to sue a sister State.
Michaigan and probably others had
the opportunity of such gifts and
with a high senso of propriety have
declined thorn. I will not criticise
Rhode Island for I believe when full
Information is disclosed it will bo
seen that her people have been duped
as were ours when the fraudulent
bonds were negotiated."
These bonds wore issued by the
carpet-bagger legislature of 1808-69
Former Governor Glenn declared
they were issued by a legislature not
legally organized and constituted;
were a part of a plot and conspiracy
to defraud the State and wher
placed on the market wore sold foi
a more bagatelle. The State, he do
dared, never received any valuo foi
them.
Argued His Own Case,
Tn Columbia T. T. Croiner, ol
Greenwood county, with a Bible ir
his hand, appeared before tho su
preme court and argued his owr
case. He did not use the laws ol
the State hut quoted the Rlble foi
all his points. Ho appeared as hi!
own attorney.
Stockade Hons Convlotod.
At Atlanta, Oa.t D. M. Vinlng, th(
suspected superintendent of tho At
lanta stockade, and Pet Cornet, i
gaurd, wero found guilty a few day
ago on charges of assault and bat
tery, growing out of tho allegod bra
tal beating of a negro convict.
Ten Inches of Know.
Deaths, accidents and suffering 1
r the poorer sections wore roporte
, Monday as the result of & t?n-lPO
I snowfall In the past 72 ours I
j Pittsburg. %
VERY QUEER CASE
TRIED TO KILL SEVERAL PERSONS
TO OET MONEY.
Man Ih Thought to !I?to Administer(Ml
Typhoid (iertiiN and Pol hod to
Hwope Family and Servant*.
A far reaching plot at Kantian City,
Mo, suppowd to have been originated
by one expeotod to becorno nolo beneflciary
of tho Swopo millions, Is declared
to have roaultod In tho d cut he
of Thomas H. Swopo, ou October 3,
and hla nephew, ChrUuian Swope,
in December. Tho charge is made
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auuiuv/? representing tho Swope
*?tato.
The body of Col. Swope was exhumed
Tuesday and taken to Independence.
An autopsy wan held and
the stomach Bent to a torlcologlst
of national reputation in Chicago
to he analyzed in the expectation of
the discovery of poison.
Suspicion of murder was aroused
at tho sudden death of Chrisman
Swope. An autopsy was held, the
stomach was removed, and a thorough
examination made. Tho stomach
is now in Chicago, where it is
being analyzed by a commission of
eminent chemists and toxicologists.
The plot is declared to havo been
planned with deliberation and to
have had for its purpose the extermination
of Swope heirs. Shortly
before Christinas Swopo's death, it
Is charged, a man now under surveillance
visited the ofllce of a bacteriologist
of Kansas City and obtained
typhoid germs, November 19. Ilis
Qrwt visit to the Swope home in Independence
wan on Thanksgiving
Day. lit was only a week after this
Chrlflinan Swope became ill with the
contagion. When It was found that
Chrisman Swope would probably recover
It is believed strychnine was
given to him to make sure of his
dent h.
The death of Chrisman Svrope, following
so close after tho fatal illness
of Col. Hwojhj, immediately
aroused the suspicions of tho family
Mrs. Ix*gan Swopo was taken down
with typhoid fever early In December.
In rapid succession other members
of the family became ill of the
same malady. They follow in chrouological
order:
December 2, Margaret Swopo.
Decemebr 4, Miss Dixon, tho gor
i omens.
A negro servant by tho name of
Copplge.
Mian Compton, tho seamstress,
iiocember r>, Stuart Fleming.
December 9, Sarah Swope, 14
years old.
December 11. Stolla Swopo.
Decembor 2 2, Lucy Lee.
The Investigation which resulted
In those startling disclosures wai
largely at the Instance of tho nurses
employed lri the Swopo homo during
the Illness of Chrlaman Swope.
The man susi>ootO(! Is now under
tho espionage, day and night, of five
private detectives employed by the
S wo pes.
Til HICK lU'KNKP TO DEATH
In Hnilding on Jamestown Expo*
sltion Grounds.
At Norfolk, Va., three persona,
two of them children, were burned
to death In a flio which Wednesday
destroyed several smallor buildings
on tho Jamestown Exposition
grounds. The fire started In th%
Baltimore city building, occupied by
H. T. Halstead, of Baltimore, as a
residence. Tho occupants were
asleep when tho tiro began.
Neva and Walter Halstead were
i suffocated and burned, Leon E.
NUes, pier fireman of tho Virginia
railway, asleep in an nnnor rnnm
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was also suffocated. The bodies of
i the three were almost cremated.
Niles was from Warren, N. C.
1 Mrs. Halstead, the mother of the
two children, jumped from a second
story window, breaking her right an.
kle, and severely injuring her head,
i J. H. Summerill, weighinaster of
the Virginia railway, a boarder in
the building, was injured by jump
tng from an upper window.
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Many Are Hurt.
More deaths have occurred In ac?
^ eidents in coasting and skating in
, Northern New Jersey during the
past month of snowfall than was
j caused In the entire State for twenf
ty years. The list of fatalities on
r the snow and ice, compiled by the
s physical director of the Y. M. C. A.
at Montclair, N. J., numbers fifteen.
Three Men Killed.
5
Three men were killed and a team
a of horses blown to ntoma whnn
c, nttroglycerlno magazine at Drand_
,ons Ferry exploded Wednesday. A.
? house across the Allegheny river
from the magalno was totally wrecked
by the forco of the explosion.
n Ijffroiiy in Mexican City,
d The discovery of three cases of
h leprosy in Puoblo, Mex., has created
it general alarm, as it is found the
| cases were concealed Quits a while*