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m? * LATEST CRIMES Masy of (he Old Reliable Ones Are Row f \ Strictly 0?l of Style;; SOME NEW ONES ON TAP ^ . . Hi^hway^ llohtx'ry, Ilmi^lttry au<J Thu^siii Has Ciiven Way to a - Very liaise Kxtent to the SlJeker tiaiwe o/ IMekpockets, Koi^ei* ami > Confidence Men. " - i a - a* V. It U?. /x f "Ill exaci raiio IO ine amm/ ui the law to diHcover and promptly and eJlieiently punish a certain class of crimen, will the criminals who live by them be compelled to seek other fields of occupation." This is the statement of Judge William N. Genmill, of the Municipal court, of Chicago, m man who has made a study of crime and criminals during the long \J and honorable career he has had on the beuoh in the Illinois metropolis. There Is no other man in Chicago that knows more about the under world and its operations in that city than Judge Geniniill. and lie is recognized as an authority upon matters of this sort. f Criminal statistics prove that the crimes have increased or decreased just in the poportion that the punish men Is therefore have been swift and cetain," continued the judge. "Highway robbery* fur instance, is almost a lost art and one does not hare to seek far for the reason. It the robber escapes death at the hands of the victim he becomes as. ullaw and is hunted like a wild beast. In Chicago arrests for robbery have decreased from 1,200 in 1 906 to 730 in 11109. "Twenty-live years ago the bur-* glar was more feared by the public than any other criminal. Today housebreaking in the night is almost unknown. I have of had a single oa?e of such housebreaking I in the 8,000 criminal cases heard by me during the past three years. I "In Chicago arrests for burglay j have deceased since 1905 from 1,780 to l,3t>3, a decrease of 3 4 per cent, in ilve years. What has brought about the change? It is not that the burglar has become more honest, but it la because he has found the business more dangerous and kt punishment more certain and swift. "Oertai? crimes, however, are on the increase. We have in Chlaago not less than 500 professional pickpockets. If the criminollglsts could eramine their heads they might be taken for bank clerks. They are or the best dressed and beat looking young fellows in the city. They travel in groups of three or four. They hannt the crowds and ply theii calling with a skill scarcely equalled in any other profession. They hire their lawyer by the year aid send *, him a Christmas present at Christ fj mss time. "Their number is constantly increasing. Why? Because they know that they have nine chances out of ten to escape punishment. Seldom do their victims discover the loss of their pocket books before they have | nade good their escape. "Counterfeiting was once the begetting crime of the nations. The hn? hnenmn rare, but in H U <i LU1 a \M U%/. V?M ? _ H1.'' .his place has come the smooth eon^8 fldence tuan. The number of these H , follows iou> Increased ft0 per ( < ;,( in 4?1?i< n five It it, the saf WM ' hr-*"* est criminal .business outside of that ! Ji ?i the pickpocket. ' "The sanio conditions apply to forgc-ry, and ns a consequence the ar?B rests for that crime have increased IB 4G per cent, in the last tire years. IB Tbere have been reformed robbers IB unci burglars, hut so far a.s I know Ub ?ever a reformed forger or confi ' donee man. U "Much that is hopeful has been H accomplished in Chicago during the last few years. Of the 202,924 erimjnal cKseo brought into the courts I #f the county in the last three years to per cent, were tried withia 24 hours from their arrest and 9f> per ^HUr cent. witlUs ten days from the ar If i reai. "While crimes based upc* fraudulent business transactions have increased, all of the more serious crimes have decreased. This does ot include homicide, which ha* remained almost stationary. The number of homicides in a city is no criterion of the crime of a city. They are usually commltteed by mon and womci who had hitherto been ?se' * ful aad law abiding citizens." ? An En/jine Balked. A loaded passerger train on the \ Georgia and Florida railroad spout * * . last aight In the woods, three miles Jf north of Yaldosta, Ga., because the f engine balked. An official in his priV rate car was on the train and kept the passengers supplied with food. I The engine began moving about sunW rise. * llhwos I jftst 80 Years. B If ail men were like Isaiah^Rcr'g, ?r Milton Grove,. Ind., shoe factories would be forced out of business. He ins a pair of "Sunday" shoes he has vorii for SO years and his "every lay" ufcooB have been worn for 26, 'ears. Jr ! MIZZLE THE LCGS ?j DEI'AKTMCNT oi' A.(?lCJCt'ljTl"nK ISSl KH A (JillOl'liAH. Physician* Claim That the Only Way to Prevent Cables Is to Mu/ . jtle the l)og?. The Columbia State says a dozen or more dogs, supposed to have had rallies, have been shot at the request of their o*ae?s within the last ten days in that city. T.hree cowo an i a tail", which showed symptoms of" tne same, have also been killed receu. \ The police department lias kili'-d nose a t malb. The type of the disease which is prevalent among the dogs this sum mer its "dumb" rubies, called "black tongue" by many persn-us. Few if any cases of "violent or "furious ' rabies have been reported. The dog muzzing ordinance which recently went into effect was passed by the city council for the express purpose of exterminating rabies in this city. The ordinance was subjected to severe criticism when it was first passed, but it has met. with very general compliance on the part of the owners of dogs. It is claimed that muzzling is the only way in which rabies, and consequently .hydrophobia, can lie prevented. A circular recently published by the bureau of animal industry jf the United States department of agriculture advocates strongly this measure for the exterminati m of the dread disease. The muzzling of dors was widely enforced in hi u rope a few years ago and as a. result the disease has disappeared from the countries enforcing the law. in regard to the use of the muz zle on dogs and tho consequent decrease in rabies, the circular issued by the bureau of animal industry says: "To prove the practical value of these repressive measures, we have only to observe the results obtained in foreign countries. Prior to 187f> rabies had been prevalent in Berlin for many years. In that year a law was enacted, including tho whole of Prussia, which provided for the killing of all dogs suspected of having rabies, and the muzzling and leading of all dogs when in public places. This led to a complete eradication of the disease, and no case had occurred in Berlin since 1883. "In Holland since 1 875, rabies being quite prevalent., dog muzzling was established. The disease immediately began to disappear, and in 1 879 only three cases were reported, siDce that time the country has been free from the disease, except along the Belgian border. "In Great Britain the value of muzzling, which has been enforced Ui spite of great public opposition, has been ndmirably demonstrated. In 1889 it was first adopted, and the disease had almost disappeared by 1 892, when tho muzzling was stopped on account of the determined opposition. The disease immediately began to increase, and in 1895 muzzling was again enforced. The decrease in rabies was immediate and marked, and since November, 1899, the country has been entirely free from the disease. "In Sweeden the value of muzzling has also been demonstrated. In fact, in all cases whore this measure has been effectually carried out the disease lias been completely controlled. "The disease lias never been known in Australia. This is due to the fact that the infections never gained a foothold in that country, and for a number of years the government has wisely prevented such an unfortunate 'occurrence by laws, w.hicli absolutely exclude the importation of dogs into that country. "In countries where steps have been taken to exterminate rabid does?Holland, Sweden, Hngland, Norway and Germany-?rabies in man has almost disappeared." According to Dr. Henry It. Slack in The Journal-Record of Medicine, hydrophobia is rapidly on the increase in Georgia. The conclusions reached by Dr. Slack ure based on the records of the Georgia Pasteur institute. He writes: "When you consider the fact that for four years (from 1900 to 1901) we only treated 2,'17 patients, and that 4 4 of them came from west of the Mississippi river, 3 2 from Alabama, 24 from South Carolina, 118 (less than half) from Georgia, and that 4 89 were treated in Georgia in 1908 and 486 in 1909, after these other States had established Pasteur laboratories, the increase in rabies is appalling. The average for the first four years of this decade was 5 9.:) while for the last two years it is 4 87.5 or an increase of over 837 per cent in less than ten yoars. This certainly is enough to make us pause and think what we must do to pievent the rapid spread of this most awful of all diseases." As to the preventative mesures to be taken to decrease rallies, Dr. Slack merely says: "Muzzle all dogs and establish a six months' quarantine." This city has already taken steps to muzzle dogs allowed to run at large on the streets and a decrease In the number of cases of **ablee is Expected. HELD UP TRAIN A LOT OF IMMIGRANTS WKIIK liOOTKl) BV THK BANDITS. They Couldn't Speak Knglish, But Ilndfrstoud What Revolvers Meant and Turned Over Cash. Within sight of lights of Manhattan. four men held up a 'coach I load of immigrants Sunday night., | at the point of a pistol, and robbed them of perhaps $5U0 in cash, while] their train was still stnading in the West Shore terminal at YVeeliaw j ken, N. J. A cry of ' police!" from the look-J out gave the gang warning and tliey , were able to mingle with the crowd ' and lose their identity. The look- | out was felled by the ni;ht stick j of a patrolman and is now locked j up. There were perhaps a hundred immigrants in ihe car. The order for "all aboard" had been given and many had their hands outside the windows, waving goodbye to friends when two men jumped on the reai of the last car of the train and two on the front platform. All four whipped out revolvers and shouted "hands up, shell out, Most of the immigrants did not understand the language but tlie revolvers were wholly intelligible The four men walked down the middle aisle ot the car from either end, taking jewelry and cash. They might have got more if a trainman had not stepped to the rear platform and, taking in the situation at a glance, he ran to the sJation yelling to the police. Hut the robbers had been warned by thenlookouts and bolted for the waiting room, wheie a thousand poisons irom me iernes were wailing lor ot.her trains. The lookout, who wns arrested, refuses to give his name or tell anything about himself or the gang of men he was operating with, but he will be made to tell all about himself and them too. TIDE SETS TO SOI TH. Immigrants Are Fast Flocking to I>i\ie I>an<l. The day of immigration into the South has arrived and with it has begun an exodus of Americans who have tried Canada and the Northern States and now have quit that locality for more profitable farming in Dixie land. The tide is carrying with it colonists from Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and the West and Northwest, and the influx is expected to reach its height about next October. A recent report to the laud ana industrial department of the Southern railway shows that since last May about 60,000 acres of land in Southern Alabama had either been purchased or was about to be obtained for Northwestern firms and corporations for locating settlers. Large tracts have also been taken in GeorL'ln nrwl Vnrthfim Plnriflo e,.. a.M x. xv/i v?vi it & iv/t ma 01 ii li; U'.n first of the present year. Another movement is tliat of a colony of Slovaks from Western Pennsylvania to Southern Alabama. In Northeast Georgia there has beerstarted the nucleus of a colony for Canada. Individual farmers from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois are buying improved as well as wild lands in Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Northern Alabama. German ami Memmonite settlers are also traveling to the South lands in goodly nu mbers. KILLED HY TKAIX. Rolled the Gaby Carriage in Front of a Train. Mrs. Peter Montrelle, failing to see the approach of a passenger train, wheeled the baby carriage containing her twin sons, one-\\ ar-old. on the track in front of it Wednesday, was unable to snatch it back, and saw the carriage and her bab'.?s hurled 75 feet in the air. When she reached them, one of the twins. Guido, was playing gleefully In tne sand, but the other, Joseph, was dead. The accident occurred 9 miles east of Hammond, Ind., and fhe train was the Erie Flyer. PI ysicians w.ho attended her after the accident expressed the fear that sh? would not survive the shock. Kills Wife Before Child. In New York in the presence of his five little children, Abraham Roth, a tailor, after quarreling with his wife, Bertha, plunged a bread knife into .her neck then slashed his throat. The woman died soon afterward in agony. ? ? Made Them Quit. A pest of mosquitoes on the doast of the Gulf of Mexico has compelled men in Texas to quit work. Voracious swarms attack men and beasts alike. Thou; i SI 1 fiOA ? WW MY A ft Final distribution of the balance of the estate of William Thaw was fade in the Orphans court In Pittsburg, last week. Harry K. Thaw received $11,890.29 as his share. FOUND DYING ? MISS. .JlTXXIXtiS AT SFARTAN| BUKC COMMITS SUICIDE. Tht* Family While at IJreakfnHt Was Startled liy Pistol Shots.?Found Wife Dying. A special dispatch from Spartanburg to the Columbia Record bhvs | Mrs. Marion H. Jennings committed l suicide Thursday morning by shooti h.g herself in ihe left temple. The shots, two in number, aroused the family as they were at the breakfast table, and Mr. Jennings rushed into his wife's bedroom and found her already dying, lying in a great pool of blood. For four months Mrs. Jennings had been in ill health and had recently been suffering greatly from j melancholia, but it was not feared that she would do herself injury. On Thursday morning she sent her youngest daughter ou,t of her room, saying she desired to be left alone to sleep, and the act was evidently then meditated. Within a few minutes two shots were heard. Mrs. Jennings secured >" #?!/! txiulnl t h ;i >| u U linotl l.'l't ill .ill U III J/IOll/1 \ > (4 V. *4 44 \? >'vvy?? . V> ? the bedroom. T.he pistol was placed against her left temple and the head was practically tern completely off. The family are prostrated with grief. Mrs. Jennings was about a year or more ago married to Mr. Marion 11. Jennings, son of State Treasurer Jennings, Mr. Jennings having formerly lived at Yorkville, where he practiced law for several years after leaving Columbia a few years ago. ' Mrs. Jennings was also a former Columbian, Miss Emma Hanatyan, a sister of Dr. Hanahan of Columbia, She was first married to Mr. Ernest Heard, of Yarkville, and by that marriage has four daughters, all of whom are at home except one, w.hose home is in Yorkville. About a year ago she was married to Mr. Jennings, and they made their home in Spartanburg where Mr. Jennings is practicing his profession. Mrs. Jennings was 8 7 years of age. ? 4* ^ ^ L.KFT A BIG FOKTL'NK. By Stranger to Whom He Had Been Kind When In Need. Shortly before the Klondike gold boom, W. V. Miller, a motorman of Macon, Ga., then living in Atlanta, and known as "Kid" Miller, met J. F. Curley, a broken-down miner stranded and without funds. He took him in, fed him and gave him money lO uiKe mm as iai as uiruiiugunui. That was th? last he ever heard of t?h? bread cast upon the wateis until recently, when he received word that Curley had died in Dawson City and left him a fortune estimated at $500,000. Shortly after Curley's death, Dawson City authorities communicated with Chief of Police Jennings, of Atlanta, asking for news of "Kid" Miller. Jennings traced him to Macon and located him as W. YT. Miller, a married, but childless motorman. The news of Curley's will, leaving his all to the man who helped him when he was down and out quickly followed. Miller so far is somewhat dazed by his good fortune, but is still cheerful. TRIED TO PASS TRAIN. ^ Automobile Is Run into by Train With Fatal Results. W'bilo riipinc wit 11 ;i liouiwl Denver and Rio Grando passenger train in an automobile Tuesday afternoon, Walter Hod-gins, of Grand Junction, Colo., Miss Leona Adams, of San Francisco, and Miss Gladys Carlyle, of Chicago, were instantly killed, C. H. Carman, of Grand Junction and Chauffeur Thomas Itocke, of Denver, were seriously injured. The automobile, passed the train and attempted to pass in front of the locomotive. The locomotive struck the rear of the automobile. The accident occurred a few miles from Grand Junction. Very Sad < tuse. John Wilholt, formerly a student at the University of Georgia, and a son of William F. Wilholt, president of the Cotton Oil company of Atlanta, Ga., pleaded guilty to burglary in the criminal court there Friday. He was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. Explosion in Quarry. r ivt; iiiuii, ?t 11 iureiguors, Known by numbers, were killed in the quarry of the Nazareth, Pa., Portland Cement company by the premature explosion of a charge of dynamite. This is the same quarry in which seven men were killed in a similar manner a few weeks ago. Hidden from Lynchers. Swinton Fermenter, a young farmer, and two other men, named Cumings and Burfleld, are under arrest in Louisville, Mass., charged wit.h the murder of Miss Jennie Sharp, daughter of a planter. The three men were spirited away from the Louisville prison to pvade lynchers. THE CORN CROP lilG INCREASE IX T1IK AKCEAGE IN THE SOUTH. Enormous Sums Which Have Rci-n Going West for Foodstuffs Will be Kept at Home. With 26,277,000 arces corn plant- ; ed this year, being an increse of 1,- j j 535,000 over 1909 and 2,770,000 | I acres over 1908, the farmers of Vir! ginla. North Carolina, South Carolina. Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, | ' Alabama and Mississippi are furnish| iiik very substantial proof of the 'fact that the South is constantly de- J voting more attention to raising its own food supplies. These figures are from the bureau of statistics of t.he United States department of ag- j rieult ure. The acreage in corn for the present year is shown as follows: Virginia 2,1 42,000; North Carolina, 3,-; 072,000; South Carolina, 2,428,000; Georgia, 4,53 2,000; Kentucky, 3,63 9,000, Tennessee, 2,7 18,900; Alabama, 3,524,000; Mississippi, 3,232, 000; Total. 26,277,000. The total >nreage for 1900 was 2 4.7 4 2.000 > in 1908 it was 23,50 1,000. The fir,/ * indicate that each' i State sh' .. an increase over 1008 \ in 100' nd an increase over 1 000! in 191 The condition of this year's i crop / reported by the department j sho" the States of the South lead-' in ,e country. Mississippi being J Ir ? Alabama second and Georgia P .rd. Thjs great increase in the acreage ifevoted to corn is considered one on the most hopeful signs in the South j today. In a letter to the directors | of the Southern Railway company, President Finley called particular attention to these figures and said: "The increase in the acreage of: corn, accompanied, as it is, by a quite general adoption of improved i cultural methods, is one of the meat! encouraging features of Sout.hern agricultural progress. It is one of the results of a general movement throughout the South in the direction of diversified agriculture?a movement which we are endeavoring to encourage and assist as far us we can properly uo so. As the farmers of the South increase their yield of corn, they will save enormous sums which they have been spending in the West for food products and will consequently themselves realize more from cotton and other market crops. Economic authorities agree in declaring the American corn crop the basis of the country's prosperity since in such a large measure the production of other crops as well as the pork supply depends upon it and a greater yield of corn in the South consequently means a greater share of prosperity for this section. FIGHT ON THE IIUIDGE. Officer Kills Mail Who Tried to Throw llim in Klver. Police Officer William Caudle was shot below the heart and John Grubbs, of Barnwell, S. C., said to be of prominent family, was shot through t'ue brain and killed in a struggle on the .bridge near North Augusta Wednesday afternoon. The shooting attracted a 1*? ?? -?crowd and roi a time trounfe was feared, but the arrival of the police platoon brought quiet. Grnbhs, accompanie by a man named Green, both of whom were said to have been drinking, were disorderly on the bridge near the Augusta end. Olticer Cuedie was ordered to get a way and they attempted to throw him over the railing into the river. A light followed in which Grubbs shot twice, t.he second bullet taking effect. Condie then fired and killed l.is man. Green was arrested. Kl 1.1,101) OX TRAMWAY. .Mrs. Thos. Ilowle Victim of Fatal Accident. Mrs. Howie, the wife of Mr. Thomas Howie, w.ho resided in the Greenplain section of Darlington County, was run over ami kiiicu i>y a tram on the Massey Lumber Company tramway road, in that section Tuesday. The particulars of the tragedy have not been learned yet. Mr. Howie was in Darlington Tuesday, having gone there to sell tobacco, and it was while he was there that information concerning the death of his wife was telephoned him from that section. Mrs. Howie was about thirty years old, and was t.ho daughter of Mr. Zaok Hose man, of the Antioeh section. o English Cattle I tarred. Owing to the discovery of foot and mouth diseases among cattle In England, importation of cattle from that country into the United States bas been prohibited until the extent of the disease is determied. She Refused llim. Disappointment in love affairs is assigned as the cause of suicide by shooting of Edgar IT. Shrock, agod 2f>, of Fort Wayen, Ind., In the bead. Shock wae formerly in the navy. ) ' CTRIOUfl MWSOmi FARSL Wo Fi'urw Required?Wheeled Vehl* cle Never I'pon It. Within flight of the town of Ja?per. Mo.. In the Ozarke. a settler bae k farm which probably Is unlike anf other in the world. This farm occupier the table land on the sii mm It of a ridge and la encloned with a fence which no animal ba8 ever broken through. It Joes not .-ire above the surface of the farm. , . hut falls sheer from the edge a distance ot many feet. The man who homesteaded the tableland had a hard climb up the perpendicular cliff to reach tiie comparatively level summit. At one point a l?dge extends out a few Inches and Along the face of the cIlfT at an upward grade. By following this ledge and making use of occasional points of rocks and of shrubs growing In the fissures the discoverer pulled himself to the suuin It and found a surface well covered with soil and a luxuriant vegetation. Gradually he Improved the ledge until tie could carry up tools and seed. By blasting and dr.Ming he cleared a narrow trail up which he wa;? able to take firs: some pigs and then h cow. I^ater od he took up a hoine. And that to-day Is the condition of * u - ?l ^?.~l ?. f o no v a lilt* lu rii'iisiy |ii uirviru ? vehicle ha6 turned n wheel within Its limits of palisades. The live slock has multiplied and consumes the grain raised. Some stones thrown across the trail complete^ fence m the hogs and caitle. When Hie farmer has slock to veil he drives the animals down the private trail and strikes the road to Jasper.? Kansas (dtv Star. 4 Rooks Returned After Years. With the best system and careful watching books go astray, but It Is hard to write them oft as entirely "lost," since they have a way of turning up that is only paralleled by the cat of lyric fame. The other day at the de3k of one ot the oldest city institutions, the Philadelphia library at Locust and Juniper streets there was returned by a fnir borrower, a book that had been cut a little over three years. Fortunately for the borrower, no fines were exacted and after she had gone ine question as to whether ths woman had not established a record, was asked. ,<> "No, Indeed," said the librarian. "We have In the library several volumes that were held ten, fifteen and twenty years, aiul one dook mai whs returned to us after being gone for over a century! It Is one of a valuable set of the classic*, and after succeeding in hiding Itself so long, > finally turned up In Holland, where Its label declared its lawful place of abode and the honest finder lost no time in forwarding It to Philadelphia Yes, we have books out still longer, and 1 hav not tht least doubt that some 04 Ihem will yet find their way back to our shelves." Deepest Rooted of All Hates, The age long hatred of the white race lor the black, yellow and other colored races Is by no means onesided. It is fully mutual. Years ago Livingston observed that "There must be something in the appearance of white men frightfully repulsive to the unsophisticated natives of Africa; for on entering villages previously unvislted by Europeans, if we mot a child coming quietly and unsuspectingly toward 41 A us, me monieui ne r?usfu m? r^c? And saw the men in bags' he would take to his heels in * n agony of terror, such as we might feel if we met a live Egyptian mummy at the door of the British Museum. Alarmed by the child s wild outciies, the mother * rushes out of the hut. hut davts back again at the flr.i glimpse of the fearful apparition. Dogs turn tail and m scour off in dismay, and hens, , ,.i abandoning their chickens, screaming to the t >ps of the houses." The same Is true, though perhaps la . ..... a lesser degree, of the other color- 1(, ed races. ... . M, Where the Tips Go. "Dot I can teil yon something you don t know about the tipping system .. * in the cloakrooms of some of the large cafes,* remarked a midnight ., , diner to his wlfo , it "Why?don't the small boys Just pocket all they ,ret?" inquired she. "Pocket! Their uniforms are ... m t ?? > mad? without a 8^n or a pocaei so that none of the tips can find a lodging there; those boys get nothing but a salary which is paid by a man who has purchased the cloakroom prtvlege for as high as five thousand ft year. The tips are all turned in to him. You can imagine, what the privilege is worth when he can ay down ;hat sum for the rlfjlit." The nominee's Fall* A Carthage minster Joking'y told a friend an iaterv.ew would cost him ten cents. The latter pretended to take the matter seriously and presented him with ten pennies. The minister then arose to protest and. while rising his cbair skidded and he stumb'ed. And now the friend it tellng everyone he meets, how upset the minister was af having to refuse 1 ft contribution.?Kansas City Star. ..,. The man who borrows may not b? able to wear better clothes than the - * man who lends, but he usually does, Just the same, , It takes a good many years oI strenuous experience to enable a man to profit by the knowledge be acquired at oollega. i - -i ? - ""',r -W* *