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KING DEAD . Edward, the Serenth, of England, Passes to His Eternal Reward AFTER SHORT ILLNESS Surrounded by Queen Alexandra and V Members of the ltoyal Family His Mujesty Succumbed to Attack ot j Pneumonia Following Bronchitis. Prince of Whales Become King. King Edward VII, who returned to England from a racation 10 days ago in the best of health died at 11:45 Friday night in the presence of his family after an illness of less than a week, which was serious hardly more than three days. The Prince of Whales succeeded to tho crown immediately, according to the laws of the kingdom, without official ceremony. His first official act was to dispatch to the lord mayor the announcement of his father's death, in pursuance of custom. His telegram read: "I am deeply grieved to inform you that my beloved father, the king, passed away peacefully at 11.45 tonight. (Signed) ."George." The physicians soon afterwards issued their official bulletin, which was as follows: ? "May 6, 11.50 p. m. Ills majesty, the king, breathed his last at 11.45 tonight in th^ presence of her majesty, Queen Alexandra, Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess Royal, the Duchess of Fife, Princess Victoria and Princess Louise, the Duchess of Argyll." Pneumonia, following bronchitis Is believed to have been the cause of death, but live doctors thus far have refused to make a statement. Some of the king's friends are convinced that worry over the critical political situation which con fronted him, with sleepless nights, aggravated if it did not cause the fatal Illness. Besides the nearest relatives in England, the Duke of Fife and the Archbishop of Canterbury were in the death cham'ber. The king's brother, the Duke of Connaught, with his family, is at Suez, hastening home from Africa. The king's daughter, Queen Maud of Norway, will start for England at once. The intelligence that the end of King Edward's reign had come was not a surprise at the hist. The i>eople had been exptctlng to hear it at any moment since the evening bulletin was nosted at Buckingham palace and flashed throughout the kingdom. The capital received it "without excitement, hut sadly, for the kind with his own people was unquestionably one of the most popular rulers in tho world. They regarded him as one of the strongest forces making for the stability of the peace of tho empire. The fashionable restaurants were Just emptying and a few groups of 3ate theatre-goers were making their "way homeward through the rain, -while a small crowd still hung about the palace, when the streets were filled suddenly with newsboys shrilly crying: "Death of the King!" The papers were quickly seized and tht peojjQe discussed "the momentous event quietly and soon dispersed. The streets were deserted by one o'clock. i Within a few moments after the death of the king the home oflice telegrajvhed the intelligtnce to the heads of other governments and the diplomats and colonial offices over the world. Almost to the end, the King refused to take to his bed and was sitting up Friday in a large chair, so the palace stories go, corroborating tho description of him as an unruly patient, which Dr. Ott gave at a Vienna reviewer In the evening. ,One of th^e last utterance atrributo the King: "Well, it is all over; hut I think I have done my duty." He seemed then to have reached a full realization that his end was fast approaching. The queen and others of the royal family and four doctors had been constantly in the sick room throughout the day. Several hours before * lL ' 11 - 1. In,<* woo 111 !? nn Til - Ills (16HIII, l II*-? IV I uifj n do 111 ? " atoso condition, but he rallied slightly between 9 and 10 o'clock, and appeared to recognize his family. Then ho lapsed into unconsciousness, which ended in his passing. Attacked by Pirates. Moro pirates attacked a settlement in the Celeebs, and killed a number of traders and natives. The pirates are now surrounded on the Island of iManks. A Dutch cruiser is assisting in the attack upon the pirates. j SUBSCI FOUL DEN OF VICE \ WHERE YOUNG GIliLS WERE ENTICED AND RUINED By a Man Who Claimed to be the Special Representative of God on Earth. Oom, tho Omnipotent, alias Peter Coon, alias Pirre Barnard, high priest of the Tantrik Order of Wor< ship, was hold in $15,000 bond for trial in the Oourt of General Sessions fit Vow Vnrl/ nti oFl o r* or eves of u/iH 11 o_ iic TT 1 VI VU V/Mttl ftVO VI OUUU V/ tion under promise to marry. '"I find that the charge has been fully sustained," said Magistrate Breen Saturday, at the close of the preliminary hearing. "There was not only systematic but scientific seduction. This girl, (Gertrude Leo,) of Seattle, one of the two complainants, has been inveigled into a den of iniquity for the purpose of perpetrating a shameless outrage. She has been murdered, I say, in every respect, save physical murder, and I shall not reduce the ball 1 fixed when I first read the complaint, before the testimony showed the dangerous character of this man and his practices." The testimony of Miss Leo went into details, which made the girl's sister, Mrs. Edward H. Miller, who introduced her to Oom in good' faith, believing that ho could restore her health, weep with rage and shame as she listened, and during crossexamination grow so beside herself that she made a motion to hurl a glass of water at the head of counsel for the defence. Court attendants led .her from the room and she apologized when she re-entered. LVIiss Leo said she met Oom first on mot Oom in Seattle on January on January 21, 19 09, and that he induced her to come East wit.i him by promises to give to her free treatment and a musical education in return for .her services as his stenographer. She understood that she would lire with liis sister, in point of fact, when she came to New York she was quartered in a flat with two women inmates of the Tantrik order, one of whom was known by one of Oom's aliases. Oom took her down to the flattery the first day she arrived and talked, while they looked out over the sea, of the differences between "simulative and real phenomena." The ability to produce deceptive appearances, ho said, was a simulative phenomenon, the power to influence the souls of others was a real phenomenon. Me had both I>owers. "I am not a real man," Gertrude Loo testified Oom told her; "I am a god, hut I .have condescended to put on the habit of a man that I may perform the duties of a yogi, and reveal true religion to the elect of America." '"All priests," Oom continued, "have sacred nautch girls. In my sacred capacity I cannot marry, hut our nauch girls s^eve us as wives. It is the duty of the palest to give her all the world's host goods. She is looked upon as sacred." Gertrudo consented to become a sacred nauch girl, she testified. She jabbed a steel pen into the palm of .her hand and wrote her name in blood on the roster of the order. I l>oth feared and loved him, she swore. He made me believe he could communicate with priests of the Order all over the world, who would sit in council at his command and take away my mind if I did not obey him. I complained but I submitted." The girl described the rites of theOrder, which was based, she said, on sex worship, as they were practiced in the large room, where, 011 the night of the raid, the police found a class of men and women. Further testimony was that the Order of Tantrik worship is widely spread in America, and that the international journal of the Order has several thousand subscril>ors, who pay two dollars each annually. Copies of this magazine were found in the house when it was raided. * GAVE Ul' THE FIGIIT. "When a .Man's Down and Out It's Time to Quit." At Chicago .T. Henry Hall, a carpenter, 53 years old, committed suiHHn in bis room at a lodtrinc house Tuesday by drinking carbolic acid. He left a letter addressed to a follow carpenter, which reads: "When a man is down and out, in a land of plenty, and cannot even get a meal, it is time to quit. I wont last night to the Moody church and after the service I asked one of the ministers for aid. "He opened his pocketbook, as he did his heart, and gave me 2 5 cents. I l)OUght the acid with that 25 cents. If you ever see him thank him for mo. I ought to write to him to thank him, but 1 have not the time." USE NO' FIFTEEN KILLED And Fifty Injured by a Fearful Explosion at Powder Plant GROUND WAS STREWN With Headless, Armless and Legless Ikxlies, Remains of those Watching Fire at Explosive Works Hefore Flames Reached Main Magazine.?Munv Huildimrs Wrecked. An explosion, whicih late Sunday afternoon wrecked the plant of the General Explosives Company of Canada, situated a nrile from Hull, Quebec., and four miles from Ottowa, < killed 15 persons and injured 5 0 others. The force of the explosion was \terif!le. The country for miles around was laid waste and many small dwellings In tlhe city of Hull, on the side nearest the scene, was flattened to tlio grounds. i A baseball game was in progress a short distanco from the powder works, when a fire was seen in one of the small buildings of the powder plant, and the crowd began 'to swarm up the 'hill to get a better view of the blaze. i Warning of the danger came to ! t.ho on-lookers in two minor explo- < si oils, soon after the Are got well J under way. A shower of sparks and ( fragments of the wrecked building fell among the spectators, and there ^ was a scurrying out of what was con- ( sidered the danger zone. 1 Some men in the crowd, aware of * the possibilities of the danger when ^ the main magazine was reached, pleaded with the crowd to go still t farther back and many of them beed- y ed the warning. i The baseball game broke up and r the remainder of the spectators and the players rushed up to join the crowd at the fire. It was then that the magazine exploded. There were ^ two stunning detonations. Everything within a radius of a mile and a half was torn and shattered. Gigantic -trees were snapped off close to the earth; barns and dwelling ' houses were converted into kindling t wood and even in Ottawa, four miles from the scene, hundred of plate j glass windows were broken. a The scene where the crowd from ? the ball field stood resembled a bat- t tlefleld. Headless, armless and leg- \ less bodies were lying about among f scores of unconscious forms. To the j few who retained a flicker of consciousness it appeared as tho more I than a hundred had been killed. 1 The terrific shock brought thous- c ands of terror-stricken people into t the streets of Hull. Some thought it 1 was an earthquake, while others a cried out that Halley's comet had ? struck the earth. i In Ottawa, four miles from the c scene of tihe explosion, the terror-in- 1 spired was scarcely less than at Hull f. T.he earth trembled, buildings shook and hundreds of windows were shat- t rt?*roU Thr> cronf nlnnri of smoke. H which mounted in a column over i Hull, quickly indicated the true j cause of the terrific shock. t Hideau Hall, the official home of i Earl Grey, and the buildings on i Parliament Hill caught the full force of the explosion, being two miles nearer the powder plaait than the main section of the city. Every win- j dow in Rideau Hall was blown out and two great stone chimneys toppled over. The Parliament buildings was also greatly damaged. (Rideau Hall is still occupied by f Earl Grey and his family. The whoie \ vice regal establishment fled panic- ^ stricken to the street. Thov weic I f j soon assured that there was no fur- * ! ther danger. As soon as wart urey j I learned of Che extent of the disaster j he ordered a detatohment of troops sent across the river to help the authorities. The building in which the main explosion ocurred was built of solid stone, Che walls being two feet thick. Fragments of stone weighing up to a half ton shot through the air for a quarter of a mile, shattering frame dwellings of workmen, which run to within an eighth of a mile to the factory. In a home just north of the works two sisters named Carrier, 18 and 19 years old, were killed while sitting at the supper table. John lllanchfleld, was slttLng with his wife in the door of his home, when a frag niont or tock snuirea out nis ure, out | left his wife un'harmed. The head i of a lad named Fableri was out clean J from his l>ody. Louis McCain, a i lal)orer, was crushed by a falling 1 fragment. A little boy and a girl, 1 found dying together, crushed be- 1 yond recognition, have not so far < been identified. i W TO JAP OFFICER A HERO LIEUTENANT TAKES ItLAME FOIl LOSS OF SUIiMAIUXE. His Note Found in the Conning Tower Wion the Vessel Was liaised to the Surface. Death news from the bottom the sea, showing a degree of heroism and self-humiliation seldom encountered even in naval circles, is recountered in connection, with the loss of the Japanese submarine, No. (>, when it foundered while maneuvering in Hiroshima bay, all 011 board being loss. In the message, which was fouud in the conning tower, Lieut. Tsu torn?, sakuma, commanding omocr, explained that .he alone was r^spom iiblo for the disaster to the craft and the death of his fellow officers ai'd men. He tells of the desperate struggle made by the men and then i: jncl u.le"It is with the deepest regret that I write this message to describe the loss of tli's boat, with my fellow officers and men, due to my own fault. I would here especially mention that all steps have been taken to ; a'ne her, comrades aun men working earnertly and calmly "1! the end. I ordered tho ship to (iive with the engine running, but, as 1 found she went down too far, I tried to shut the valves w.hich admit the ?ea water, but unexpectedly the shaln working these valves broke, end I was left helpless, unable to control the boat. "I earnestly beseech His Majesty :o grant me forgiveness and to suelor the families of my comrades and nen w.ho have lost their lives in his perishing boat. This is my only visli?12.30 p. m. "It is with th-o utmost difficulty hat I can breathe, thou&h I am sure ve must have blown out the gasoino entirely from the tanks. I canlot continue any more?12.40 p. m.* CONJURED HY HER ENEMY. fegro Girl Thinks She Was Made to Eat Smoke Dust. (Leila Davis, a colored girl at Durtam, NT. C., has been very ill under ihe belief that she has been conjured by 'her rival. The girl and her >lack beau quarrelled some time ago ind patched up a miserable peace, sot long since the Davis girl l>egan o complain that internally there vore living things that bit .her. She ound out that her rival had conured her. Thereupon she went for Silas Hamilton, and old conjlire-breaker of taleigjh, a negro with forty years' 'xperience. His diagnosis was that he girl had eaten snake dust which ler enemy must have "powdered up und given her in liquid form. Dr. Silas says that snake dust will invarably evolve itself into live reptiles is soon as it finds moisture in the liinuan economy and that unless one ;ets it out quickly, ho must die. (He has cured thousands, and he hinks the Davis girl will recover. The sdiako dust is made by powderng the dried 'hide of the serpent fine. \s a medication it is said to be somehing fierce and the woman who administered it evedently knew what t would do. ? ? A STRANGE ACCIDENT. tlnstcd Stone Falls on House Killing Two People. A 500-pound blast of stone from in overcharge of dynamite used in jlasting at the Evans quarry, (? males rom Murphy, N. C., 011 the L. and sr. road, landed on the roof of Chas. .iithrie's dwelling Saturday about 1 >'clock, crashing through the light oof,' instantly killing Mrs. Guthrie, ind her 8-year-old child. The Guthio home stands near the place of blasting and frequently through the lay large quantities of stone -have alien upon the housetop. Mr. Guthie and wife had just finished dinlor when they entered the bed room, lext door, and sat down for a rest. rhe .heavy mass of granite seemed o have kept compact in the air. t made splinters of the roof. Mr. juthrie and one of the children escaped with their lives alhtougii they vere only a few feet from the vic,ims. * Very Heavy ltain. The heaviest rainfall in years fell n Greenville for the twenty-four lours ending at 8 o'clock 'Sunday iiorning, eight and one-flvalf inches being recorded by the Government weather man. Many bridges have been washed away in Greenville county, and crops are badly damaged. THE HOI MANY ARE DEAD Fifteen Hundred People Were Crashed to Death at Cartago by VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE Citizens Caught by Hundreds and Slain.?Thousands Panic Stricken. Troyo, the Great Costa lliean Poet, Among the Dead.?People Pinned Under Timbers Died Horribly. The terrible earthquake at Cartago, Costa Rico, was more destru- i ptiva t n n of il rot i*rvt\A??tn/l V. o ? vii v v limn c?i ill r*u i 1 it u. 1 iiv list of dead now numbers not less than 1,5 00. The city was destroyed ] by an earthquake which lasted four ] seconds. '< It was a tremendous movement wJhich followed a few minor shocks, during the day. It occurred at seven ] o'clock Wednesday evening. No one < had time to run out of the houses, ; which fell crushing to the streets. Had the great shock come during the sleeping hours hardly any could have escaped. The railroad and telegraph lines were broken and the electric light wires fell, leaving the city in darkness. Thousands ran panic-stricken in all directions, in an effort to save t4iems?lves. Every house was totally destroyed, including four churches and the palace of the American peace court, the gift of Andrew Car- ' negie. 1 Some Americans are reported to have been killed, but identification, even by the records, is at present im- ( possible. The foreign colonies set about at once to organize rescue . movements and worked strenuously 1 to save t.hose who were pinned down i by the wreckage. No medical aid could be obtained * and the survivors suffered greatly " from the lack of food and water. v Many died, suffering terribly. Entiro families have been wiped out. Rafael Angel Troyo, the Costa Rican poet, whoso works are known in I many countries, is among the dead. 5 Tht college of the Sllesian priests | fell wJiile the priests and children j were at prayer. Two priests and toft nh ilrl rnn u'orn I; i 11 Arl iv it v/ii tivi i vu fi vi v * * ? v v* The earthquake, which brought almost total drakness and great clouds of dust from the falling buildings, was followed by a roaring which came apparently from deep down in the eart.h and for six hours the disdurty>ance continued. JNo greater disaster has occurred in the history of Costa Rica and perhaps in all Central America. President Gonzales Viqiez and President-elect Rieharde Jiruinez are personally in charge of the rescue work, but there is little hope that those under the ruins can escape. Some days must elapse before the rea!\ situation can .bo determined. The monetary losses reach into the millions. Help is needed badly and must be prompt, if good is to come of it. Thousands are homeless and without food. Fires that broke out immediately after the destruction of the town added to the horror of the situation and heavy rains that have fallen since have made the conditions almost unbearable oven for those escaping. ' Hundreds of survivors are camped around the ruins of their homes which they refuse to leave. Some reports place the wounded at sev- I eral thousand. Nearly all Costa Rica is afflicted as more or less damage has boon caused by earthquakes at San Jose and other points. f c HAD HOW OX TKAIX. ^ ? s Mob of Four Hundred Negroes Is ' 1 Awed With ( uns. . . ( The Journal says from Line Creek, v Ga., to Atlanta, the crew of Atlanta, c Birmingham and Atlantic train had its hands full in keeping order j, among 400 riotous iregro picnickers ( late (Monday afternoon. ^ During the course of the larger v part of the 45-mile ride the crew, seven men in all, faced the negroes with loaded guns. The train crew on thH> morning train going to the picnic had much trouble with the v same crowd of negroes, but manage i 8 to quiet it before Line Creek was c reached. ^ On the train at the start of the r return trip, several negroes started ^ a crap game, which quickly resulted * in a fiirht. Will Root, a well-known character of Pittsburg, was shot and instantly killed by Will Johnson, alias "The Soldier." During the melee t a negro woman was shot in the lei? r and slightly hurt. Juhnson was cap- ] tured after .he returned to Atlanta. 1 A negro named Burley Is being held 1 as an accomplice. |1 m HER WHERE THE VICTIMS SOLD IX WHITE SLAVE TRAINS ARE PROCURED. New York Trader In the Awful Business Tells of the Inside Workings of tike Hellish Game. Harry Levison, a white man. who Is under arrest in New York for selling young girls into lives o? shame told the district attorney Friday I hat t V* ** ^ I " - ? A A I- ? - -1 '* mnc <mv ni ifasi mree siocxaues' in New York, in each of whic-h f,<m five to ten yo in;; girls ni ? k-pt ready night and day for instant delivery wherever they may he wanted. Little effort, said Levison, is made to recruit wome 1 from the street. The stockades are tllle 1 from the host of young girls vao me t.utiappy at home, or who live narrow lives on their own earnings, and ong for leisure, good clothes, gaiety ind freedom from restraint. Well-dressed women make it a business to frequent cheap restaurants, moving picture theatres, sentimental matinees and the bargain so lintel's to single out such cases, and, lirst winning attention with an invitation to dinner, then describe the ease and pleasures of the altuna tive the? nronosp. The girl delivered to the stockade, it then become the business of the proprietor to place his merchandise. It was in this end of iho traffic, Levison told Uio district attorney, that he was a specialist. 'I he business was to find a house where the girl was wanted. The house paid the stocate-keeper a lump sum and allowed Levison a ten per cent, commission on the girl's earnings. Ho and others like him kept in ouch with the charges, he said, and jften transferred them from house o house. He had little to do with ecruiting. That was almost wholly n the hands of women, who found it easier to got a hearing. Levison and >thers arrested with him for engaging in this heliivsh business, will ? loon be tried and it is hoped ho vill get what he richly deserves, a ong term in prison. WILL SOON HANG. leu Who Committed Murder Near Atlanta Oonfesses. Charles YVTalker, one of the three tegroee arrested in connection with he murder of Motorman S. T. Brown n<l tin* itpan^Piitfi liivr.n Pnn. lucbor W. H. Bryson, made a full onfession to the police on Saturday no ruing. He implicated Jim Black >u(i Bd Weaver as his associates in he crime. All three negroes are now in cusody and it is not unlikely that all hree will be hung 011 the same galows. When bhje confession was nade, Weaver had not yet been arested, but detectives in an autonobile, made a hurried trip to Uie grading camp where the man wa' mvployed and secured him. W; Iker, th 1 "tner negro involve 1 11 the crime, was identified several lays ago by Conductor Bryson as >no of his assailants. Will Johnson, another negro of whom a partial dentitlcation was made by Conducor, has proved an alibi and has been eleased from custody. The police eel assured that they have the guilty mrties. 1 DEATH OF ?. 1). BELLINGER. Vonvinent Columbia Lawyer Passes to the Other Side. The Hon. Or. Duncan Bellinger, ormerly Attorney General of the State, died at 9:30 o'clock Wedneslay night at his .home in Shandon, a iuburb of Columbia. Gen Bellinger lad been sick for some time, hut folowing a trip to Florida, it was bought that his condition was much mproved. However, last Sunday he vas taken suddenly ill and his reovory was despaired of. Showing 1 slight improvement Wednesday, lis condition became grave that afernoon and death came that night, yhronlc dysentery and liver trouble vas the cause of his death. ? ? Abduction Charged. T>. Barra, a telephone lineman, vho bras a wife and children in Virginia, has been jailed in Columbia barged with abducting Miss Ruby rlcGinnis, who has been missing six nonths. SJ10 is a daughter of John dcGinnis, who signed the warrant. Jarra denies his guilt. Meet Horrible Death. Answering to the call of duty, hree of Macon's best firemen met i -horrible death at an early hour Friday morning, being killed outfight, when the tire on the city's new auto engine exploded on th? way to a fire. aEd