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' ? TELLS OF CRIME Die of the Dynamiters Turns Slates State's Evidence Against Pals ?.? WHOTillN CONFESS ALL H. ??? ^Story of tlie Mowing Up of The Times > ISuiling and the Murder of TwentyOne Men Told by One of the Men Who Planned the Most Terrible Crime. Shortly after one o'clock on the morning of October 1, 1910, the j touilding and plant of the Lob Angeles Times were destroyed by a terrific exjhosion of dynamite which had been placed in the basement. Flames followed the explosion, and before they could be extinguished twenty-one persons had lost their lives. The Times Is owned by (Jen. Harrison Gray Otis, who has fought union laoor bitterly *nd persistently. Detective William J. Burns, head of tho Burns Detective Agency, was . employed immediately to ran down /v tho criminals, and with his employment began one of the most remarkable detective cases known to American criminal history, in which sensation followed sensation, cuiminatring Friday in the confession of the two McNamaras. About the 20th of April last James Barnabas McNamara, the younger oi the two brothers, and Ortie E. McManigal of tho Btiuctural Ironworkers' Union, were arrested as they stepped out of the Oxford Hotel in Detroit. Two days later Detective Burns, "with a force of liis own an.l city detectives, walked into a meeting of the executive board of the Iron Workers' Union in Indianapolis and arrested John Joseph AlcNamara. lie had indictments with him, charging the prisoner with maliciously and willfully placing explosives within the .Llewellyn Iron Works of Los Angeles, and with murder and complicity in the dynamiting of the Times Duilding. They were all taken to Los Angeles, Cal., for trial. After being brought to trial Mo* Manigal turned State's evidence and told all about the awful crime. "The crime of a century" was occupying the attention of nations, but the whole world gasped when it read the confession of Ortie McManigal, which told the gruesome story of bow the lives of 112 men were snuffei out and property worth $3,500,000 was destroyed, and how arch plotters sat in secret conferences ana passeu sentences of death. McManigal told the most amazing story of wholesale crime that a government olllcer has ever listened to in a careless, even nonchalant manner. At times he seemed to be bored by the telling. His confession involved two othors besides himself and McNamara. These are M. A. Schmidt, formerly a prominent member of the Woodworkers' Union of Chicago, and I)ave Kaplan, who was later supposed to have been murdered to keep him from "peaching." lie swore the "gang' had been implicate:! in more than a dozen explosion outrages in the previous year, that they had been well paid for their work, and he was positive that Secrotaiy John J. McNamara was the head and the brains of the conspiracy. He admitted freely that, he and James B. McNamara had "pulled off" the explosions In South Chicago, Milwaukee and Indianapolis. In great 1 detail he gave the carefully laid plans to dynamite tho Times Building, but insisted that James B. McNamara, Schmidt and Palm did the actual work. This confession was supplemented . by another made a few days later In i I.os Angeles. For three hours McManigal told how he and ,T. B. McNa- ] n.ara destroyed or attempted to dc- ; troy sixty-nine structures which j were built or being built by members j | the National Erectors' Association. < John J. McNamara was thf* captain Paymaster, testified the prisoner. Here is an extract from the confes- r ?*on: "-T T TLfn^vJn m r? lntrl *11 flit* nliina Is a lawyer and knows the value , of evidence. Tt was explained to me . by J. .1. and James B. and that the , clock arrr rj'-ement of bombs wan one . that would (fltnbllsh a definite alibi in r a-ice we should be enspect^d For ex- ^ ample, when 1 was nent out here t"> blow up the auxiliary pla~t i 9 t.hr n Times nn?5 later decided to <*. !-ny f the L'ew llyn works 1 used Fttre-rlv serine. T set the explosive vr TSr *'d: ' of the buiTtMU'* at 7 o'clock > evcr.'rr?. 1"\o alarm clock', rr 1 **?>- \ member B, \ *f< for *. j tied!at.ely *ft~r ; b.?. d pirc-ed th4> r ^ 1 took " o'clock train foi .'vr i 1 rancls/ o. TVhcn the s^arrr vvult , went off ?i' touched the eonr. wireii 1 v?,s *?.lee;> and wrV ou my { . xr lo fi-.n Francisco. Tic i plan ;f ssemC'S infpi'jct'F t> we." (_t It wm the dl teovcry of tb >*o clock ?j.ovejii BLA iu ibeiony'ng- to <y McManical and James B?. McNiinarri 01 a blob did more than anything cine ?(perhaps to convince Dct.ect.Ivo Burns :\ that, he had the right men. Mcktani- 1( ral said he usually got $?00 In ad ;j vanco for a "Job" and from $1,00) to $5,000 after he had 'pulled It tl elf." Ills account of how the Tlntos if MtENNC OF BAPIISr STATE CONVENTION AS8IWLE8 AT GREENWOOD. -Iiit cresting Program Prepared for Convention Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of Tfils Week. The State Baptist Convention convenes In Greenwood this morning and continues through Friday morning. Quito a number of ministers and laymen from this section will attend and the convention promises to be of great interest. From the program it will be noticed that special periods are set for the discussion of the two leading educational institutions of the denomination in the State, Furman University and the Greenville Female College. The following is the full program for the convention: Tuesday Evening. 7:30?Convention sermon. Organization. Address of welcome and response. Wednesday Morning. 0:1 r>?Devotional exercises. 9:30?Recognizing visitors and pr stors. Reports from boards as follows: (Ministerial Education. Aged Ministers' Relief. Baptist Mutual Benefit Association. Connie Maxwell Orphanage. Furman Universiay. Greenville Female College. Anderson College. Sunday School Field Secretary. Executive Board. 11:1 5?Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. 12:15?Baptist Young People's Work. 1: 00?Adjourn. TA.. I .. 'ti niiu'Miii.v riVL'iiui^i i7: 3 0?Devotional exercises. 7:45?Sunday School Hoard. 8:15 ? Foreign missions. Thursday Morning. 0:1 5?Devotional exercises. 0:30?Aged Ministers' Relief. 10:00?Stale Missions Evangelism Sunday Schools. 1 1 :4G ? Home Missions. 1:00?Adjourn. Thursday Afternoon. 3:00-?Reading minutes. 3:1 5?Orphanage. ; 3: 45?Furman University. 4:45?Religious literature. Thursday Evening. 7:30?Devotional exercises. 7: 4 5?Educational Commission. 8:15?Anderson College 8:45?Greenville Female College. Friday Morning. 9:15?Devotional exercises. 9:30?S. C. Daptist History. 10:00?Obituaries. Reports and miscellaneous business. Reading min utea. i< mat adjournment. MANY SEE AVIATOR FALL.. American Airman Dies From 200Foot Plunge nt Ponce. Tod Schriver, a well-known American aviator, was killed Saturday evening in a flight which he was making nt Ponce, Porto Rico. Schriver fell from a height of 200 feet into a cane Held and died within half ar. hour, while on the way to a hospital. Thousands of spectators witnessed the accident. Schriver ascended over Ponce in a baldwin aeroplane and wont through a number of evolutions. Apparently he lost control of the ma chine in making a turn. The aeroplane swooped to the earth and landed with a crash, Schrlver being half burled in the wreckage. ?. ?. ? HAVE LITTLE SYMPATHY. Only One Hundred Dollars Contributed to Chinese Ruffce-ore. Only one hundred dollars was received from the entire Country in response, to an American Rod Cros;\ \ppeal Issued a month ago for funds o aid the Chinese famine sufferers nul assist in the establishment of Red Cross societies In China. This imount, too insignificant to forward, s being held with two hundred dolars collected for same purpose las' ummer with the hope that It will ho ubstantlally increased. liiiMing was wrecked follows: "James P?. McNamara entered the , IMmes Ruildlng early in the evening nd placed a Buitcase containing for v sticks of giant, gelatine. This was . >iaced in a blind alloy whore the exloslve force would not ho waslod. l.nvln* "I-. ?. ~ fV / i i ira v ) ii ^ Liluuuwiki^ hit u i vy r\ r ?111 gas Je t, and this accounted for the trong smell of gas which (he em- ? doyens noticed. Then he rushed to Vie station and was on Ms way to r in Pr^nciPco long before the e\1 oslon. J. .T. or7ered me to go au* i Vie a??d 'shoot. the oHioe of the pub- ' ? ?? / n-.' re the confee.?Tf'n rna, crime tor < r?n e bci'g ret forth 1b ietatl. e n- If oner showing little emotion ? r ];.iv";r no sorrow. At the ( ,d rn- e more and more closely ei> c ic:hcri the two brothers the labor )r'^i Willed stronger and stronger > their wnppert. I'bifl one point., however, may be lado for McManignl. He a as ten\ ut, according to his confession, to i rjamlle the auxiliary building of ie Times. Flo found that he could u ot do this without lose of life, and V \rouph some Impulse gave up that >b and voluntarily assigned hlmtelf ;e one of dynamiting the Llewellyn C PLEAD GUILTY James B. McNamara Coiiess<s (o Bliwiog Up tbe Times Buildiig. bolt mm a sky T Eeaonslirdu etaon shrdlu cmfwyp 1-^ I S A I 1 I IK" i'i.\|Hi)MUii lib lius v ui., Which Destroyed The Times lluilding and Killed Twenty-One of the Paper's Employees, is at East Cleared l'[>. James 13. McNamara pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree in Judge Welter 1 tordwell's court at Los Angeles, Cal., Friday. A summary of 'he day's happenings included many sensational incidents. James II. McNamara pleaded guilty to having placed a dynamite bomb under the Los Angeles Times building in Octoter, 1910, and caused the death of 21 persons. John J. McNamara, cecretarytioasurcr of the Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, brother of James B., did not enter pica at this time to the indictment similarly entered against him for The Times explosion, but when he is arranged next Tuesday it is virtually certain proceedings against him for this charge will bo dismissed, as the State admits it has no evidence connecting John J. McNamara directly v, ith this particular disaster. John J., however, pleaded guilty to the charge of having caused the explosion of the Llwellyn Iron Works, in which no fatalities occurred. District Attorney John D. Frederi< ks will recommend life imprisonment for James B., and ten years for John J., hut Judge Walter Bordwell alone can fix tlie sentence. Ortie E. McManigal, who confessed to having actually blown up the Llwellyn Iron works there in December, 1010, at (he direction of John J. McNamara, will be brought to trial, but it is expected the State will recommend a light sentence because he turned State's evidence. The scene in the court room Friday was one of protracted tension. Sensation followed sensation with such rapidity that the gaping crowd hardly realized what happened in those few minutes, of formal procedure. In less than twenty minutes the b*g case was disposed of, but for hours previously there had been a feeling that something startling would develop, and so closely guarded was information that spectators v ere prepared for anything except (he thing presented. It was not thought that after the vigorous battle waged thus far, one side would lay down Its arms so willirgly, so freely and even so happily? J I- - At. 1 J 1 _ J _ V. - _ J lor uoru prisoners smiieu, cnewea gum and appeared as they have on other days, confidently unconcerned. lOven the district attorney was not sure until just before noon that the end was in sight. There were to he developments In the court room, ho tcld his associates, and all brought their wives and fr onds. In the crowd were detectives for both sides, many women, and oven a baby that emitted a whine almost simultaneously with fhe announcement of the pleas of guilty of John McN'amara. A mass of heads leaned forward expectantly as the hour fo rtho reconvening of court approached. Waiting was a squad of newspaper men who had waded to no avail through a maze of possibilities Fri-; day to determine' the reason for the ' sudden halting of the morning's pro-1 roomings. Tnrec little boxes conceal-j inu: telegraphic wires were prepared for the developments, and less than wo seconds after 1he word "guilty*'.! 'eft the mouth of each defendant the', news was being flashed across tlie j1 'and. j Seated with district Attorney Fred- , j "'iflvs was bis entire staff. Facing; !iim was Clarence B. Harrow and ] ' hreo associate counsel for the do- 1' fondants. James R. McNamara at; first took a seat to one side, as usual, vith two deputies, but soon Attorney iF Scott beckoned to him. The twu 5 ueii sat together for a few minutes,; ;nd Scott's arm was about the pris-!r) mer's neck and he counseled cour-' ige for the supreme crisis. It was James F. HcNnmara whu'! miked at entering into an arrange- ^ uent to plead guilty if it might afoot his brother, flo was willing to ipcrlflce himself, but he wanted his mother to g;o free. The attorneys, ^ iowever, conTinccd him that the beter course was for both to pleaJ ;n!1ty and take (heir chanoes on a merciful seateaae. tfrord that John J. UcVtmnri was J1 oming canard the Trst ripple of ex- J: itement. He had not visited the U' ourt room since October 11, whoa !2 he trial wan heernn, and the oaoen of t< he McNaniarar were severed. 1' When he entered it wan f^aerally ceatir.ed that the c&ae had reached o c?1max. o The bailiff rapped loader thaa o? anal when Judge Wordwell mounted o he bench. Instant silence fell. tl The "people versan McNamara," 11 emarhed the conrt, and Attorney La- * lorn to Davis of the defenee raaa. S "In tbfe oaee," he declarea. "after d long consideration, we have concluded to withdraw the plea of not guilty and have the defendant enter a plea of guilty; and the like course we intend to pursue with reference to J. J. tMcNamara, in the case of the people against him, wherein ho is charged with having destroyed the Llewellyn Iron works." Mr. Fredericks-?"Mr. J. B. McNaluara, will you stand up, please?" The defendant arcse. Mr. Fredericks?"Mr. J. B. McNaniara, you have lieietofore been arraigned on this Indictment, number 6.939, and have entered your plea thereto of not guilty. Do you wish to withdraw that plea of not guilty?" The defendant?"Yes. sir." Mr. Fredericks?"The prisoner ants vered yes. < J. B. McNamara, you have heretofore been arraigned on this indictment as stated before and you have withdrawn your plea of not guilty heretofore entered. Do you wish now to plead at this time?" Mr. Davis?"At this time, yes, sir." Mr. Fredericks?"To this indictment, number 6,939, charging you with the crime of murder, do >ou plead guilty or not guilty?" The defendant?"Guilty." Mr. Fredericks?"Guilty, your honor. Do the court and counsel for (he defense wish to take up the other case?" The court?"I will dispose of this matter and the time for sentence. The court appoints the time for pronouncing judgment in this case as 10 o'clock on Tuesday, the 5th day of December, 1911. Mr. Frederick?"J. J. McNamara, \.?'ll vrm wtriTwl lit) nIonQf*?" lie arose. Mr. Fredericks?"J. J. McNamara, you have heretofore been arraigned on indictment number 6,955, in which you are charged with the crime of exploding, or attempting to, dynamite, nitroglycerine, etc., in the buildings, or near the buildings adjacent to the Llewlyn Iron works. Yen have been arraigned on that indictment. and entered your plea of not guilty. Do you now wish to withdraw that plea of not guilty?"' The defendant?"I do." Mr. Frederick?"Do you wish now at this time to plead to the indictment?" The defendant?"I do." Mr. Fredericks?-"J. J. McNamara, you have heretofore been arraigned in indictment number 6,995. This is (he time agreed upon for you to plead to the same. Do you wish to plead guilty or not guilty " The defendant-?"Guilty." Mr. Fredericks?"Guilty, your nonor." The court?"Well, I will appoint the time for pronouncing the judgment in this case as 1 0 o'clock a. m., December 5, 1911, which is next Tuesday." There was a rush for the inclosure where the attorneys sat when around the district attorney to congratulate him upon the way he worked up his case. He smiled in return?not a smile of exultation, but relief. "I don't want a pound of flesh," he explained. "I look at this from two viewpoints. As a lawyer I wanted these men to plead guilty because they Nvere guilty?because the evidence we gathered showed them guilty beyond any doubt. But as a man, I want to say that if 1 can recommend a less severe punishment than death or be merciful any way and at the same time rid union* labor >>f its dosire to use violence to obtain its ends, I want to do that thing. GOVERNMENT IS DEMORALIZED. 4, Thugs Loot Ranks ami Shops ?f Will In Canton, China. News from China says in the towns a71 d settlements along the river the most deplorable outrages are fro- < ryuently occurring. Even in Canton Lhe military regime bas prove! itself wholly insufficient. For several days limed bands oi robbers and hoodlums have gone about Canton, loot- ' ng shops anil bouse?. Friday five rufhians, bristling with > evolvers, walked boldly Into a bank < n a southern suburb and got away 1 vith tT>.C00 In cash. About the same t jmo a hand of seven armed natives c clustered into the open market and \ loidly plundered two prominent > ihops, before the eyes of hundreds of mnic-etrieken on-lookore. j They secured several hundrel dolars in money and then walked off. I "he local polloo, disarmed, watched be spectacle helplessly. Street. flglitng p;oos on continuously in all parf* v. if Canton and those killed or injured ucludod many innocent, bystanders. r ?* ? ? v tw a ma. ?a; n wr\rrTr ? ?? f t ?L JL m M i * * T J /X V ftW# I e ?, *m* Cw ?na h T^vij- PHson Tf.m For f Yh'ytoif: * At Tlfna a, Austria, NJepus, the ialmatlan who Broil four shot* at fcrr Mocb en burner, minister of Jnn Ice, during the soar,ion of the Auntri n roiehcratb ow October K, was aen-nred to 7f> yours* hard labor. The '' ial lasted two dnyn. Njejvu* bad ?>rourel admission to the public gallery !) f the lower house of the rcicbsrath n October 5 during ? debate on the evcrlty of some sentencofi imposed n riot era who had protested against* s< fie hiph ?ofit of food. He fired <!c- n borately at the ministerial bench V here Hcrr If och on burner and Count < tnrgkh were seated but the bullets u id not strike a*y one. b; GIVES THE PLAN 4 The Details of the Olftr of New Yerk Baaktrs to Coiton Farmers. < PLAN TO AID THE SOUTH Ucpresentativo of New York Syndii 1 eato, in Statement. Outlines Terms of Proposition After Conference in Augusta with Commissioner Watson and Farmers' Union Olliciuls. A conference was held here this afternoon l)y President C. S. llarrett, of the National Farmers' Uuion: E. J. Watson, commissioner of agriculture for South Carolina; J. NVhitner Koid, secretary-treasurer of the South Caiolina State Farmers' Union, and Coi. J. G. Anderson, of Hock llill, S. C., and W. II. Stay ton, the financial representative of the syndicate in New York, which has arranged to assist the cotton holding movement in the South by the loan of $50,000,000, secured by the cotton in various warehouses throughout the South. 'idie conference lasted throughout the entire afternoon and resulted in the specific announcement of the plans of the syndicate. Following the conference, Mr. Stay ton Issued a statement, detailing the syndicate's plan, as follows: "1 came here as the representative of the syndicate which recently made propositions to finance a movement to enable the planter to get a fair n fnr I tin poinninftor r> f tliic i/nnr-'o cotton crop. At my request Commissioner E. J. Watson, of South Carolina; Mr. Harrett, president of the National Farmers' Union, ami Mr. Keid, secretary-treasurer of the South Carolina Farmers' Union, met here for a conference, in order that 1 might get information concerning the handling of cotton and other practical points, and in order also that 1 might learn the desires of the planters and the sort of financing proposition that would best suit them. "I am going to tt-ke until Monday to think these matters over and shall in the meantime communicate with my principals and Monday I will be ready to give out a more definite statement. "In a general way, my people are ready to advance $50,000,000 to support a plan, the outlines of which are as follows; " 'No. 1. The cotton owner will deliver his cotton to the usual cot ton buyer in his locality, who will buy tho cotton and take title to it immediately. " 'No. 2. The owner will receive 325 per bale in cash on account and will also receive a negotiable certificate setting forth the interest which the owner has in whatever price may thereafter be received for the cotton. " 'So. 3. The cotton owner may at any timo prior to January 1, 1913, name a date when he wants to finally fix the prico he is to receive, and on that date that he so names settlement will be made on the basis of prevailing quotations for that dabe. " 'No. 4. On this settlement the fanner will be allowed tho price his cotton is worth on the date named and from this sum will be deducto the $25 already advanced to him (no interest will be charged) and also $1, as the cost of grading, storage, Insurance, etc., together with a sum equal to one-quarter of the 1 rise in price, which will ho the syn- , dicate's compensation for lie services.' "In other words, if (lie price does 1 rot go up the syndicate gets nothing except $1 for grading, storing, insurance, etc., and if 'the price is advanced through this movement then bhc syndicate gets one-quarter of the f tdvance and tho cotton owner the jther three-quarter*. "Of course, it is not po^sfblo for | ny principals to deal direct with evjry Individual farmer and it is, thereore, proposed that, in each fitale here shall bo a committee of three >f the Iflftdinir nltlKAM nf lki> ftiata * \ho will act as the trustees for all of * lie farmcm lu their State, and will M co that, t.lio farmers' intercuts arc '' )i otocfcel. "For oiaTrtple, it will be the duty of !l hcee (rustoea to see that the neces- ll ary banking arrangements arc " nude, ro that (he unpaid part of the n lurchaae price io fully soured. At p he preaent. price the farmer wouM ^ occive $25 per bale in cash and there ^ ,i?l he still due him $15 to Thi* fc' oroy must. be deposited in local ? rtnkn, or sotoc .irran/vement* satisactory to the trustees must be made ii each lit ate, to that this 115 or 20 is absolutely /"cured to the lurm- f? r in order that hi* certificate #r ro- M Hpt may hate a real value end be 3' omothisg on which he can borrow h ' aey. ir "P y Monday I will ho r**dy, 1 tw b.reh, to fluent other plane which w ill Vx? btli>"f9a' 1 ocy to us and may hi fi'Wr km it the plavterf;.'* ? ^ m Shipwrecked Seniors Stared. P'a rhipwrecked tailor* of the 9) hoomer Jameo W. Maxwell, Jr., n< ound from Bruaswlek, 8n, to Now n* ork reachod port Friday on the Hot- ai an liner El Rio. They were OlckodjT p ofT Cape Charlee Wedeeodoy after w pending seventeen ho? hi a ?oB tc ASTOUNDED CONFERS president of American federation of ixaror. Sjiys He Has Reen Deceived Bat it Not Apprehensive as to Effect of Development on Labor. "I am astounded, i am astounded. My credulity has been imposed upon. It is a bolt out of a clear sky " The exclamations were those of Samuel Compere, president of the American Federation of Labor, when advised of the pleas of guihy in the MoNamara case. Mr. Gonipers was on his way from Washington when he was awakened at a New Jersey station by an Associated Press reporter. lie went te i,he rear of the car and read carefully the account of the sensational developments of the Los Angeles dynamiting caso. The labor leader was visibly moved as he read how the men in whoa? defense he had 6poken and worked so untiringly had admitted their guilt. Tears came into his eyes and the hand that held the pages shook. He said nothing, however, until he had finished the story and then he broke forth with his exclamations of astonishment and indignation. "if this is all true my credulity haa been imposed upon," he declared. "I as astonished at this news. We have haa the gravest assonances given to us by every one connected with the trial, either directly, or indirectly, that these men were innocent." Asked if he would have anything to say about the prisoners personally, he replied: "No, I shan't add to the misery by condemnation of them." "What effect do you imagine thte will have on labor unions? ' To this inquiry Mr. Gompers uj>helri his fingers and ejaculated: "None!" T? ofoi'r i n P" tn f hn ovnlncinn \Ii? Gompers continued: "\ye have discouraged acts Hkm those. , We have patriotic and peaceloving men, and we have only a wisb to call out the bo6t elements in h*man nature. Those two men must have been crazy. It is an act that X condemn with all the foroo tiiat Is la me." Asked again if he believed that developments would injure the cause of labor, tears came into iMr. Gompers eyes as ho answered: "They are not going to do it any gooa, but I want to repeat that the cause of labor has been imposed upon both by supposed friends and enemies. The men of labor were led to believe that the McNamara boys were innocent and they acted on that belief. I received letters from them myself protesting their Innoceribe, and it was only in September that I visited them in their cells In the Lob Angeles jail when they asked me to deliver a message to the lal>or interests of the country that they wen innocent men. "The cause af labor can not win by such methods as these men pursued. Damage to property and destruction of life we have denounced and donB all in our power to prevent. Sucli methods as these we have got t# stamp out. "This unexpected eelf-convietion iff nothing more or less than a failure of two individuals to live up to the liigb principles of organized labor and cam not reflect just condemnation upom Lhe cause as a whole." Asked what action the Americam Perforation of Labor might take, Mr. Rompers Raid the news was too n* ent for him to make any prediction. "The American Federation of Labonly closed its annual meeti?? rhursday," be added. "As to a po?ilblo special meeting it is too early tn lay." CONDITIONS AKK APPALLING. eople in Ahii\lk' KhhaU Suffer Front ? FWm. A dispatch from St. Petersburg, iussiu, <ui.vs the sufferings cxpeiV need in the famine of 189 1 are b?rig repeated in the province of Oi e?urg and Tural teriitory, AalatXfc tussia, is famine stricken. The 1?abitants of those r> ^ions arc flocks ?g to towns, preparing for death anA egging for the adm u'tdration of th? iet communion. The crops in tho rovince of Orenburg are 815 per cent elow the average, and Bishop T. CL [elyabinek has issued an appeal te government asking aid lor pea?~ Dta. , , . ? i Ruve Located Him at Last. From a description and a phot^? raph, the man who registered at I ha iotel Aator in New York as M auric* tuart an l rhot himself through th* cart on November 6 was unofficially lentihed Monday as Kdward WosbLorelond Harret, who bad said h? Rii tt?0* C\t (!?*> ?'AT*??nvf i* mof I.ohuIor. Took His First Hide. W?'? 43 years old, kits lived wltklm ie mLle of Newberry all lifts life, kaft 9ver ridden en a train before, had &ver set a a skyscraper or slroet car ad bad sever been to Columbia, his Is the case of S. D. Price, who ent to take bis wife to a hosptUft ) have an oporatfwn performed.