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DRIVEN TO SUICIDE ASKED HER EMPLOYER IF SUICIDES WENT TO HEAVEN , LEFT ONE LITTLE SON Preappointed in tli? Man 8I10 Mar rled, a Young Broken-Hearted Woman Took Poison in a Boda Water Parlor and Jtied Before a Doctor I leached Her. Joking of death as she planned her own, Mrs. Nona Wynne, twentythree-yoar-old wife of Ernest L. Wynee, a painter of 110 Walton St.. Atlanta, Ga., sought advice from her oniployer as to the best way of committing suicide. Her husband determined her identity Thursday immediately ufter ho had read how she drank poison and died Wednesday night in a soda water parlor, while a dosen pleasure seekers sipped their cooling drinks at the tables surrounding the one whoro the tragedy Wim VllUUlUU, Disappointment in hor married Mfo is tho sole explanation of her act. Hor husband, a painter and paperhanger, protests that there was no trouble between thorn. "If she had any troubles, they were of her own," was his laconic answer when asked for explanation of her deed. Her entire action, though, previous to tho tragedy indicated that trouble had weighed heavily on hor mind and that tho decision to commit suicide was not the result of sudden impulse, but had been reached after careful, almost uncanny consideration. Sho left a note, appealing to the husband for forgiveness. She left a request to tho future care of hor baby boy. Tho exact spot in the cemetery where sho wished her re 1 mains to rest was Indicated. .Prayers for her soul were pleaded for. She ' i'lad considered her hereafter as a remit of her act. She had chosen pol5011 as her method after othqrs had >een considered. Her married life had not been one >f ease and pleasure. Fivo years ah^ it Pell City, Ala., where she was ion. and reared, she was united to A'ynno. A boy, James T. Wynne, ' vas born. Despite the mother's reponsibllitlos, iMrs. Wynne went to york to aid in the support of herself ,r<l her baby. She was employed as a clerk In the el ail grocery establishment of S. C. Iluss, 133 Marietta Street. Iler ours wero long. StIH she was re- i arded as a cheerful, willing worker nd" was popular with her associates i tho storo and Its patrons. It was to tho proprietor of the 1 toro that she first gave intimation ' lut she intended to end her lifo, but , ) cheerily wore the questions In retronco to suicide asked him that hfc 1 ad no thought that his questioner cutally intended to profit by his ad- ; Thero was no apparent chango in : io girl's good humor in tho storo. ho waited on her customers blithely id laughed and joked with her co- j orkers. It was during an afternoon 1 ill that she broached tho subject of llcido to her employer. "What do you think would become ' a girl who committed sulcido?" io asked. Thero was a smile on her is as she spoke. Her eyes twinkled io seemed unusually merry. "I hardly think she-d go to Ileavi," Mr. Glass replied. The answer , d not affect her demeanor. "Well, if a girl did, wnat would*be o best way?" she next asked. J ainly the clerk was jesting, tho eraoyor reasoned as ho returned her ' "Why I think I'd rido out to l^ake^^ lood and Jump in," ho said. "Oh, that wouldn't do," she ban^^ Ired back. "Somebody might pull out, and you would havo bad all v9^^H>ur trouble for nothing." The conversation drifted to other /^ 'bjects. ^MlLater.in the afternoon Mrs. Wynne f^H^ed vo bo excused from duty in '^Hp sioro for a brief time. It was ^HSn that she purchased the poison. bought twenty-five cents worth ^ strychnine in a drug store, telling jirescriptionist that she wished to ' it in killing rats. '^Hkho then returned to the store and ^HLimod her work. IPater she wrote , .^ htter and showed the envelope to Glass. "I'm not going to show what's in it," she said, and still laughed. The grocer thinks this tho suicide noto. letter was also written to a H.ol friend in New Hampshire. She told a teacher of tho kindergar^^ nttended by her son that her on^B.married life had boen a disap^fcment. <jJ^Baving tho store at 7 o'clock, she '^^H;d her husband and with him IPink Cherry market. She in unusually high spirits. At ket they separated, he going id sl^o back to the city. 0 sho spent the remaining dwoen then and the time she 3en for her tragic deed is not 3 0 o'clock she entered Cone's e, 58 Whitehall street. Thore 1 water parlor in connection, ono of the tables hore she . number of others were seatenjoying cold drinks during Bering evening. as well dressed and her enas noticed by all the other s. She ordered a drink, j this, sho went to a tolo)oth, where she spent some writing. When she oraergper wa? grasped in her hnnd. is suffering from emotion it displayed on her face, mmoned a waiter and asked SB of water. It was brought one saw her take the poison handbag, nor did they see > it In the water. Sh,e drank HELD UP THE COURT TOOK BOY CONVICTED OP MURDEK AND LYNCHED HIM. The Unmasked Mob Penned the Deputy in the Court ltoom and Went Away With Negro. Holding up the court officials In the courthouse at Columbus, Ga., at pis" * " - - ? - ~ A. tols' points, a moo 01 uuu Ul 1U1 IJ | men, In open broad daylight, Tuesday afternoon about fivo o'clock, took T. Z. Cotton, alias T. C. McElhenny, a sixteen-year-old nogru, on trial, and lynched him just beyond the city limits. The negro had been convicted of killing young Codron Land, a whito boy, near town two months ago. Land was found In a field, his face riddled with bird shot. It was reported that he had trouble with the negro and the latter was arrested. At the trial Tuesday the negro was spoedily convicted of "unlawful manslaughter". Judge Gilbert sentenced him to three yearB In the penitentiary. Tlio spectators made no show of their dissatisfaction with the verdict, and as soon as court adjourned many of the court officials left. When deputies startod away with their prisoner, they woro surrounded and disarm ed. They were held in mo courihouse while members of tho mob, all unmasked, took tho negro out to a street car. Reaching the negro quarter, tho passengers were ordered off tho car, which was taken about 0116 hundred yards farther. Then tho negro was taken off tho car and his body riddled with bullets. Tho mob was dissatisfied with tho verdict. Those composing it thought that tho negro ought to have been hung for his crime, which was a brutal one. The matter will bo investigated, but it is doubtful if anything is done, as the lynchers have tho indorsement and sympathy of many of tho people. HOW ONE VOTE WAS TURNED. Story of a RIea.se Veto With a Wide Application. A story is being told in Columbia and also throughout tho Piedmont section where the big cotton mills are located, of a doctor who called to see the child of a mill operative that was sick. Tho doctor said to tho father that his child must have some antitoxin, and tho father replied that ho wasn't able to buy any. Then the doctor told him to go over to tho store and get some, which was provided by tho State. This was (lono and then tho doctor told tho man that Governor Please had vetoed tho ippropriatlon of $4,000 which was intended to buy anti-toxin for poor people's children, as it is costly, and of how tho Legislature passod it over the veto. It is said that when tho man learned this ho promptly announced that ho would bo a Jonos man, and Is said to bo now actively it work In behalf of the Judge. This illustration is given * to show that Tones enthusiasm is striking tho mill |)ooplo and many of them will line up !or Judge Jones on election day. CANDIDATES GET PRESENTS. ? Gov. Please tho Most Favored by Friends. Governor TTleaso lias been tho recipient of many handsome gifts during the past few weeks of tho campaign and ho has already been made the owner of quite a handsome stock of silver. These silver laving cups, a gold headed walking cane, a gold leaded umbrella, a watch, banglo and chain and flowers and watermelons galoro ho hjaB been presented by friends during tho past three weeks of campaigning, and each of tho silver and gold gifts has been presented by some admiring friend, appropriate words marking the presentation. While tho friends of Judge Jones and John T. Duncan have not been so extreme in their exp^ssions for lovo for their favorite candidate, Judge Jones has been presented with scores of handsome floral creations, - ?-i i? ^ nlnnAo lilo f l'Win rl u 111(1 111 OUlili; | / I UVyUD I11Q I I IV11WW tho stago with enormous bouquets and wreaths of flowers. ? ? ? MEET AFTER THIRTY YEARS. Sisters Although On Same Block Didn't See Each Other. After having lived at New Orleans for seventeen years, tho last year within a block of each other, (Mrs. Adelo Columbus Aniau and Mrs. Marie Columbus Algero, sisters, met Thursday for the first time in 80 yoars. They were separated when children in Havanna and had remained in ignorance of tho whereabouts A " - i. u - tn n nil n n aa n** Aotlnc* Or eucil Uliiur UIIUI a tuau^u invcviut) at a factory, where they had sought employment, one because she was a widow with a family to support, the other because her husband was out of employment. A similarity in appearance attracted each to the other and questions disclosed their identity ? ? South to See Warships. Secretary 'Meyer announced Tuesday that some time this fall or winter he would show the Southern people the magnificent Atlantic fleet at as many as the principal harbors of the South Atlantic and gulf coasts as tho dreadnoughts can enter or even approach within reasonable distance, ning from New York to Chicago. it immediately. ttefore tho last drops had been swallowed she fell forward. Help hurried to her. but she was beyond human aid. ! A FIENDISH ATTACK HORRIBLE DEATH OF CHINESE GENERAL SHANG CHEN WU. % - Friends Fear for the Safety of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, Who Has Started to Go to PokJn. The execution of Chang Chen Wu by the Chinese Government oilicials compared by the Pekin correspondent for the "Daily Telegram to ilanoleans shooting of D'Enghien at Vincennes in 1804, and what followed it. It is the turning point, the writer assorts, in the life of the Chinese Republic. The correspondent con tinues: "President Yuan Shi Kal, alarmed at the outcry, is publishing Vice President Li Yuen Hung's telegrams in order to fasten the blame on that official and fearing assassination, surrounds himself with troops. According to the Chinese newspapers the execution was carried out in a fendish manner. The banner man, Gen Yuan Chi Kuei, who was entrusted with the execution actually dined with his victim in a European hotel and toasted him repeat- j edly. When the dinner was over ho folowed his victim in another carriage to his lodging. On alighting from the vehicle Gen. Yuan Chi Kuel blew a whistle as a signal, whereupon a forest of sabres and bayonets sprung up like magic about Shang Chen Wu, who was seized and bound, flung into a mule cart and carried to the military court. No evidence was given at the trial and the accused oflicer was condemned to immediate execution. The first voliey nst killing the prisoner repeated volleys were fired until the general's body was completely disemblowedel. it being necessary to dress the corpse, a message was sent to tho victim's wife for more clothes as her husband "felt cold in the night air". Dr. Sun Yat Sen, former Provisional President of China, disregarding the warning of friends, who fear for hi3 safety since the execution of several Hankow generals, left Shanghai for Peking. Gen. Huang Sing, who commanded the southern republican army in the revolution, which overthrew tho Imperial Government and was to have accompanied Dr. Sun, has abandoned the journey. The southern generals recently put to death were members of Dr. Sun Yat Sen's party, tho Tung Men Ilui, and were seized at the capital by direction of President Yuan Shi Kai. They were charged with being implicated in an alleged conspiracy against tho Pekin Government. Two of the oflicers wore tried by a drumhead Court-martial at tho capital and shot. The othors were returned to Hankow and there executed. DESTRUCTIVE EARTHQUAKE. Three Thousand Dead at the Sea of Marmora. An appalling story of suffering and damage caused by tho recent earthquake about the Sea of Marmora was told Saturday by members of tho relief expedition. Second Secretary of tho United States embassy Tarler and four doctors estimate the number killed in tne various iowus and villages at three thousand, while the total Injured is about six thousand. The odor arising from corpse burled among the ruins prevented many villages from being approached. Earthquakes continue daily at many places along the coast. Six were felt Friday. ? CHARLESTON KILLS RATS. ? . ... Sixteen Hundred Rodents Slain in City's Campaign. Tho records of the Charleston health department show that since the rat killing campaign was instituted several weeks ago, about 1,600 rats and mico have been killed as far as the official reports show and the campaign is still on. Tho number is large, but not as large as tho health authorities would desire and had reason to expect. Still there have been doubtless many rats and mice killed which were never recited and the campaign has not been without some advantage and benefit to Charleston. PATAL SHOOTING AFFRAY. Man and Woman Engage in Battle to the Death. Thomas Guffey, president of a miner's union at Colpville, Illinois, and hie sister-in-law, Mrs. Anna Floher, shot each other to death at that placo Wednesday night when tho latter attempted to save tho life of Mrs. Guffey, who had been attacked by her husband. Guffey's wife lef him a month ago and ho called at his mother-inlaw's homo to see her. He told her he had como to kill the entire family and fired at her. Tho bullet went' wild and Mrs. Floher opened fire on him from a window. Several shots) wero exchanged between tho two, Guffey receiving six bullets. Mrs. Floer was shot through tho heart. ? Over one Hundred Perish. A tremendous hurricano that swept tho Spanish coast has caused heavy i"- ? Iaoo Prtiirtonn lilt? 11I1U piUJJfl IJ iKjaa. ^ vu. ?w.. Hilboa fishing boats capsized during the worst storm and at least 11D sailors perished. All coast towns suffred from the gale. Lightning Kills Cat. Lightning playod a novel prank in the home of Michael Pulas in Parsons, Pa., when it danced about ten persons in a room, killed a cat and then flashed from the room. Even I the paper was burned from the walls. HELPING THE FARMER ? AN ADDRKHS ON OOTTON AND COTTON MARKETING. A Rill to Regulate tlio Ginning, Ruling, Inspecting, Warehousing and Marketing Farm Product. Tho following address will bo of iuterest to all and It snould bo read by all classes of our people. Tbe adoption of some such measures as here proposed means the saving of millions of dollars to tho farmers of tho Stato and less trouble in hand - - it A. I , 1 ins: tho prouucis oi mo iaim, At the annual meeting of the State Union, held In Columbia on the 23 and 2 4 of July, the undersigned were instructed to issue an address to tho people on cotton marketing and to draft a bill for introduction at the next session of general Assembly, which will be in conformitywith the recent decision of tho Supreme Court on tho Stato Wharehouse Act. We herby submit a measure embracing not only a State owned and operated wharehouse system, but also intended to standardize cotton grades and baling, so that the stamp of South Carolina will be accepted the vorld over at its face value as a guarantee of merit. It is recognized as a vital business principle today, that consolidation, not competition, is tho foundation of wealth, because it reduces tho cost of production, and makes for efficiency and economy in placing commodities on the market. Fellow farmers, it is only in our business where tho oldtimo brutal | law of "the survival of the fittest" remains of force. wo aiono are competitors, 0110 with the other, in the markets of the world. With the sovereign of power of tne State governments behind them, let the cotton planters, with due regard to the laws of supply and demand, market their cotton only when demand ensures a clear profit, taking care of the surplus as do the producers of iron, necessities of life. The marketing of cotton is of world wide import, because since the adoption of the gold standard cotton has become the very cornerstone of inter- 1 national finance. It is through cotton that the United States controls the balance of tko world's trade, and the South having a natural monopoly in its production, has it in her power through wisely directed effort, to largely dominate the finances of the United States instead of occupying the subservient position she does today. Political ecnomists are agreed that advance or decline automatically as tho measure of value increases or decreases. If tho quantltive money theory then bo correct it means that if the supply of gold increases in proportion to the increase in business transactions, that prices hold steady and prosperity reigns: per supply, and an increosing volumo of business, prices decline and hard times comes. The Proposed Bill. Applying these basic principles to cotton, what do wo find? 1. Cotton is an export crop, the surplus sold abroad fixing tho price op that which enters into domestic consumption. 2. This being true, tho price of cotton is fixed not in relation to the supply of gold in tho United States, but in tho cotton manufacturing cen ters abroad. There is no other *reat world crop bearing just the relations to the financial system that cotton does, wheat, grain, wool and meat are world-wide products, a failure in one region is compensated by over-production in another. World-wide consumption and restricted area of production is what makes cotton "King". After the panic of 1893 and the settlement of the free silver question, the great financiers in New York were quick to take advantage of the monopoly in cotton production to turn exports into imports, thereby "restoring confidence" and prosperity. New York steadily each fall drained Europe of her gold reserves by demanding pay for cation in gold. Watch the imports during September, October, and November. It is these which within sixteen years have transferred tlio center of the financial world from the banks of the Hague to the banks of the Hudson and made Morgan, not Rothschild, its king. Each year the foreign balance of trade is just about equal to the 1.. - ?C?/mi not ton VillUt? Ul VDUll lllt'i II V.V/HUH uv/i vi abroad. Has the* time come when Southern genius and Southern statesmanship is equal to the task offerer! us of God? Can wo turn to our own advantage an opportunity greater than any people have had since Canaan was offered a freo gift to tho children of Israel? At present we "make brick without straw" and the hand of tho "task i master" is Heavy. Our crop Is produced and the expenses are paid, not in money, but credit paper, whose redemption in gold is unheard of; at least 90 per cent, of all tho business transaction connected with making the crop is by cheek, draft or "promise to pay". When it comes time to market tho crop abroad where the prico is fixed, payment is demanded in gold, and the actual shipment of the metal itself begins. This gold does not enter into circulation, but Is locked in the vaults of New York to maintain a commercial supremacy in which tlio South is not permitted to share. Wo have a vision of the time in the near futuro when, through this system, Southern ports will become the cotton distributing points of the world, and Southern banks, tho channel through which shall tlow this steady stream of gold, which fructiflos tho eommorco of the nation. At present wo permit racn year tho purchasing power of our customers abroad to bo dopleted for an advantage to New York which is & positive injury to us, because of the mamoSSgtSSSStt^^B steady fall In cotton prices resulting. A mere statement of the proposition reveals the economic blunder which holds the South in bondage. It Is as unjust to European spinners as It Is cruel to Southern planters. It is generous only to the gamblers who exploit both spinner and producer. The remedy we propose Is to bring the producer and the spinner together through a system of government warehouses, which will, as sure as fate, bocomo the basis of a foreign and domestic system of banking, which will reduce Interest rates and relegate money to its only legitimate function?a medium of exchange. The recent decision of the Supreme Court is of far-reacliing effect, greater, perhaps, than any or us now realize, for it gives a broad interpretation of the powers of the Stato in protecting her citizens from combinations which would confiscate property by destroying the profits arising therefrom. The South Carolina decision marks a new era and will bo the authority most quoted in the social and industrial questions now pressing for solution. The objections to the bill were on technical questions, and the broad door to the polico powers of the State was opened wide by the court. It would bo historically fit, should the trust question threatening the security of the nation bo settled by South Carolina loading the way back to "State's Rights" and the reserve powers of the people vested in their State Legislatures. Xo better illustration of the of-1 f.intivotioss of the scheme which we propose could be found than in the crop just marketed. In October, under the impact, of a crop estimated at 14 1-2 million bales, cotton declined to eight cents. This summer when tho crop is known to bo not much under 17 million ales, cotton has been selling at interior towns around thirteen cents, a difference of about $25.00 per bale.) Twenty-five dollars a bale on 800,-j 000 bales so sacrificed last year would amount to twenty million dollars. We call your attention to the undeniable fact that this enormous los has fallen directly upon the planters. The banker, merchant and fertilizer factory have been paid in full or are getting interest on balances carried over. Tho railroad received exactly the same freight per bale on carrying the largest crop ever produced. Wo further call your attention to another fact in connection with this loss: Among the planters it has fallen most heavily on thr smaller ones, those least able to stand it, because the planter with money or established credit was able to warehouse his cotton and realize from 3 1c. to 13c. for it. Wo debated for some times in our minds the feature of a direct appropriation from the State and finally " " ? ~ 1 .. .1 ^ ,1 X V* n L I 4 hrvnf 4 /\ 1 A 4 4 h A CUI1CI uut'll llii.lL it jv tio ucai iw iui i.iif cotton crop take care of itself in the manner suggested in the bill. Heretofore, under our methods of marketing in competition with each other, all charges, including transportation, have been borne by the producer. Under scheme proposed, the expense of marketing will bo in the nature of a tax on consumption, shared hy the consumers of cotton the world over, and every economy which can be introduced will enure to the benefit of both producer and consumer. We desire to call the special attention of the bankers to the report of the banking committee of the State Union, and we earnestly request the assistance of our banns, and suggest that they arrange now to secure sufficient funds or get assurances of extension which will avert the disasters of last fall. Your profits, gentlemen, depend very largely upon the surplus which farmers are ablo to deposit with you after settlement of the expenses of the crop; therefore, we confidently expect your co-operation. To the manufacturer: We say that this bill does not seek to deprive you of just profits. Wo recognize the fact that our product is without value until your spindles change it to cloth. It is to you wo look for that extension of trade and a development of new markets which creates an ever-widening demand for American cotton. The inspection, grading and lessening of marketing cost, enables us to give you cheaper raw material and thereby increase your profits as well as ours. To the laboring man: We say, the more money our cotton brings in from abroad the greater the demand f U /% li I (rlinv utncrft i or yvui mi/ui, auu ui^iivi ?>.hu you can command, whether in the factory, workshop or the farm. Tho tendency is toward congestion in the city, which means competition between laborers. Help us increase the profits on the farm to a point where labor from the country will not seek tho town to compoto with you and and make still higher the cost of living. In conclusion, fellow citizens, as wo revere tho past and hope for tho future, wo say that the time has come in South Carolina for an uplift political, social and industrial. E. W. Dabbs, Pres. Jno. Jj. iMcLaurin, Committee State Farmers' Union. Pictures Kill Man. While witnessing a moving picture presentation of tho battle of Gettysburg Saturday night, Harvey Geiger, a Civil War veteran, dropped dead of heart failure at Milton, Pa. The film showed the part Geiger's regiment took in tho battle, and the old man who was woundod in this engagement becamo so ovorcomo with this emotion tnat ho could not withstand the shock. ? ? ? Family I>io by Poison. That tho entire family of tho Rev. Custnv Latzk?\ pastor of the German Lutheran church, at Rocky Ford, Col., was delil>oratoly poisoned is tho belief of the coroner, wno is Investigating the smldon death of Mr. and Mrs. Latzko and their two children, a daughter nine years old, and a son of twolvo. A baby is tho solo survivor GRAFTERS TRAPPED BURNS TELLS HOW THE DETROIT GANG WAS CAUGHT USED THE DICTAGRAPH The Police Court Examination of One of the Hoodie Aldermen Airings' Out the Testimony of the Man liehind the Snare That Landed Etgh *M?n f.'iaftlnir Aldermen. A dispatch from Detroit, 'Mich., says testimony of W. J. Brennan, a detective, was tho feature of the police court examination of "Honest Tom" Gllnnan, tho first of the eighteen aldermen recently arrested oil bribery charges to be tried. It was Brennan'8 evidence that resulted in tho arrests of the aldermen and Council Clerk Edward Schreiter. Brennan went Into details of tho trapping of tho aldermen up to the time he alleges that he, representing hiinsolf to bo an official of the Wabash railroad, paid Glinnan $1,000 for his influence in granting the railroad's request for tho use of a city street for building purposes. Alderman Thiessen's case came up yesterday. Disposition was reserved in the cases against Aldermen Bro/.e, Roenthal, Lynch, O'Brien and Ivoenig and tho examinations of Alderman Deimel, Mason, Ostrowski, Tossy, and Walsh will follow that of Alderman Glinnan. Clerk Schreiter also was remanded for a week. Brennan explained that he is i% member of the staff of W. J. Burn?/ and that his home is in Boston. Ho toid of coming to the city in Apr/1 and of takng offices as a representative cf the real estate department of the Wabash railroad. lie also eni ? nfilon nn<1 had gagCll till uujwiimjf, "New England Historical Society," printed upon its doors. The detective then told of getting acquainted with aldermen, of impressing upon them the urgent dosire of tho railroad for the improvements of tlie street and of the opposition to tho proposal that was expressed by several councilmen. Finally, lie testified, Gllnnan came to his office and arrangements were made for closing tho street. "Glinnan told me at that time ho wanted to use me as a pipe line to St.. Louis," said tho detective. "lie had wanted for years to get. on the Wabash railroad, he said, and thought he could serve the company by locking after its taxes and other matters in tho city hall. lie said ho would want about $100 a month for his services. "I interrupted fco say: 'Alderman, this street closing case has been referred back to the committee and I guess there is some difficulty, is not there?" " 'Rut, I guess we can adjust it/ ho replied." "lie then gave me a list of aldermen and said he. would see them and pay them. I already had arranged to give him some money for the passage of the resolution closing the street. The amount that we decided upon at the time was between $1,700' and $2,000." The witness then went into details of further talks with Glinnan. At last he said all arrangements were complete for the payment of the bribe mone>. According to the testimony Glinnan appeared on July 2 0 for the. money. "I took out a rool of bills," saicf the witness, "and counted them. I said: 'Glinnan, hero is the $1,000 that I promised you for voting for the Wabash closing.' lie thanked me and put the money in his pocket. As ho was about to leave I took him Into the next room. Mr. Burns was there. "I said, 'Mr. Glinnan, allow me to present William J. Burns,' and Gllrtrnan said, 'Pleased to meet you.' " The witness then testified that Glinnan, when he realized his situation, handed back the money and; made a complete confession. AUTO HANMT IN ATLANTA. +. . But Police Department Has an Auto In Which to Chase llim. The auto bandit has made his appearance in Atlanta. The new typo of criminal, produced first in Paris and then in New York, will have to be figured with henceforth by the Atlanta police, for a mysterious stranger, in a high power touring car recently smashed open a drug store, robbed the till and escaped at break: neck speed with the bicycle cops on his heels. It is an interesting coincidence that the auto bandit has made his appearance at a time when the police department for the first time in its history will bo able to meet him on. his own ground. The police department has a touring car too, and It la believed it may prove of unexpected iiso in case tlio auto bandit appears again. ? Yeggmon Cause Fire. Police investigation found that yoggmeu had blown tbo safe ef tho Kirkland Distributing Co., whoso "building was burned late Friday night at Columbia. It is supposed that tho building was fired after blowing the safe. The loss amounts to several thousands dollars. ? Will Have New Job. Th > defeat of Capt. John Lamb for the ro-noruinatlon by former Governor Montagu? in the third Virginia district moans that Representative A. F. Lever, of South Carolina, will bo cluiirmau of the House commit toe on agriculture in thonaxj^^|M^MM