Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MADE LARGE HAUL ? RICH PEOPLED SWINDLED OUT OF MANY MILLIONS THEY WERE EASY MARKS ? >A Hook Syndicate Said to V Have Scooped Many lUch I'eople dnt of Five Million Dollars of Kmmj Money in a Very Queer Hook Deal. The secret method of the syndicate 01" alleged book swindlers, twelve of whom have been indicted by the federal grand jury, were disclosed Friday in New York. Tlie story reads more like fiction than the real, bard truth. According to the evidence unearthed by government agents, the book sharps used not only persuasion but the threat of blackmail to tieece their victims. Women aro said to have been employed to involve book purchasers in scandal, so that when a dupe found his "rare" volumes of little value, and demanded his money hack, ho was told the scandal would in. made tiublic unless lie kept quiet. One prominent banker, it was said, killed himself when ho found that both his money and his reputation were gone. The name of this man, although at present withheld by the postal authorities, is likely to he revealed later at the trial of the alleged swindlers. .lames .J. Farmer, reputed head of tie* hand of alleged swindlers, and whose indictment leads that of his eleven associate-hook dealers, surrendered himself before Commissioner Shield. Already under $;>,500, Farmer was requested to furnish an additional honk of $1,000. Oeorge M. Fisher, said to be a canvasser for Farmer, among the most exclusive New York society circles, also appeared and was released on $5,000 hail. William Cooper, another canvasser. gave $2,500 bail, in Boston, Norman Nathan, another member of the band, was reported to have been a Treated. j nree oi j? armors asste-mics ?imu arrested and released on ball Tuesday. The remaining five members of the syndicate, it is reported, will either surrender or be pluced under arrest. Uocause many of .the victims have refused to corne forward and make known their losses, the profits of the 1'nriuer syndicate may even exceed ihe $5,000,000, which was at iirst believed to have been their harvest. In the case of the banker who killed himself, for example, the full extent ,t>f his loss i3 not known. Seizure of the papers of the Anglo-American Authors' association, and the Kellar, Farmer company, which occupy joint offices at No. 2 25 Fifth avenue, and are said to bo dominated by .Farmer, produced a mass of correspondence which reveal a multitude of schemes to sell books at from ten to fifteen times their value. The commonest method was to represent to a prospective purchaser that an American millionaire traveling % abroad was willipg to buy a certain collection at a tremendous figure if the collection could only be gathered together. If, therefore, a certain Hum was advanced to secure an option on the collection, the books would be resold immediately at a handsome profit. A Mr. Livingston of Saratoga, is *aid to have lost $153,000 on a resale scheme of this sort. The deal was said to have been handled by Samuol Warfield, who had been convicted of defrauding the wife of Jas. W. Patten the cotton plunger but who was out pending appeal. Livingston finally balked when he was asked, in addition to 111s $ii>3,uuu, to buy $40,000 of the notes of another customer. When called to New York last week to testify before the grand jury, Mr. Livingston's health appeared to be so shattered by his experience that he was excused. Evidence was also <|)talned that a Mrs. Stackpole of St. Mary's Pa., paid , $14,000 to Glen Farmer, one of the ^ twelve indicted, to secure a collection to bo resold to a Boston millionaire traveling in Europe. After she threatened to sue unless she saw the 1 millionaire, Farmer came to her on crutches, and said he had been In an automobile wreck, In which the millionaire was killed. One woman of eighty years, who | i9 connected with a large charitable institution, was swindlod out of $1 HO,000, and is so near death as the result of her misfortune, that her name is withheld. According to fed- \ ernl agents the book sharpers got every cent she had. She began buying ( in 1906, one of her tlrst purchases ' being twenty-two volumes of Hoose- 1 volt's work, at $1,000 a volume. The ' books were placed in storage and ( when tho millionaire didn't buy them, ( as promised, they were removed to 1 Farmer's ofllcus. 1 At present, she does not possess 1 even a book to show where her $130,- \ 000 has gone* The Roosevelt edi- : tinns, which seem to have been included in nearly all the collections of Farmer's syndicate, were said to have 1 been bought originally from soino ( jeputable dealer and then rebound in ! n v ii rl r\n a iwtvara itrifi frrtn < tunlnnn a I 1 VIAUI IV\IO vw ? U* O (IIIll I I V/U CIC)^ IV/W, A Mrs. Lnidlaw is said to have lost $.10,000. To save her from the publicity of a law suit, her sons, who are 1 wealthy Wall street brokora, are said 1 to have stood for tho loss. A banker ^ who signed up for $200,000 of books ? is said to have made such a show of f light that the book dealers agreed to * hold him for only $40,000, and therewith confiscated all his books. * Remittance* should he made pay- i able to The Times and I>emocrat, < Orangeburg, S. Om by registered let- 1 ter, check or money order. I I MURDER AND ASSAULT MOD CHASti hHllUIKi WHO TKII23 TO SAVK 1TKXD. Who Shot a Farmer's Wife and Assaulted His Daughter in Their (Jcorjfitt Home. A dispatch from Cordele, Ga., says the daughter of a well-known farmer near Rhine, Dodgo county, was criminally assaulted by a negro early Friday afternoon. The negro made hiB escape after the crime but was captured. The sheriff of Dodgo county is speeding in a big touring car down into""Southeast^Georgla Friday~nlght. with negro, Chesley Williams.' and hot in pursuit are several more cars filled with armed men, beut on lynching the fiend, who shot the wife of a well-known planter of Dodge county, and criminally assaulted her 18-yearold daughter. All day citizens' posses have been scouring the countrysido for the negro, whom both the mother and girl described as thoir assailant, in an effort to lynch him. Friday night, sometimo after dark the sheriff found him in an outhouse not far from the scene of the outrage .' iid immediately, with a posse of live deputies, left for parts unknown. On the presumption that he was v MM?;..* nr Kninn other noint on tho Sou thorn railroad, several cars a half hour afterwards left in pursuit. The crime was committed a few miles out of Rhine, some thirty miles from Macon. Friday afternoon, while the mother and daughter wore alone in the house, which is isolated, the negro, had been a farm hand on the place, entered the house. He was ordered out, but refused to go. lie shot and seriously wounded the mother and then assaulted her 18-year-old daughter. .Shortly after, the outrage the men o! tiie house returned and the women told their story. Since that time posses from all over the countryside have been searching for the negro. Negroes Friday night tolu the sheriff where Williams was, and he found him in an outhouse hiding. It is understood that before the flight by the sheriff and his prisoner started, the negro, Williams, confessed. Fiend Was Lynched. Chesley Williams was dragged from the vaults of the clerk's office at McRae at 2 o'clock Sunday mornday morning by an angry mob and riddled with bullets. Sheriff Wilcox, of Telfar county, attempted to evade the mob with his prisoner by hiding the negro in the vault of the clerk's office In the Court House at McRae, but his efforts were unsuccessful. The lynching was quiet and the town is now perfectly orderly. Neither of the victims are dead, but one is not expected to live. * ROIKIiKKY |JV THE WHOLKKADK. Thousands of Dollars Worth of Slol?>n <*oods Discovered. The arrest on Friday at Chicago of four men alleged to be members ot a gang of robbers, resulted in the discovery, in a barn, of loot consisting of automobiles, motorcycles, bales of cloth, leather and general merchandise, said to have been stolen in systematic raids on freight cars. The men in custody are I)r. Edward 11. Stalhutte, alias ' Doc" Paully, alias Bismarck Stalhutte; l)r. Nicholas H. Kern, Joseph Todd and Hernis Doughty. What is believed to be it complete list of the goods stolen was found by a police matron In the stocking of a woman arrested with the men. It is alleged that automobiles stolen by the gang were traced to a farmer at Thnwville, III., who disposed of cars shipped to him. Detectives have already recovered $10,000 worth of stolen property, following revelations by Todd, who led them to a warehouse, whore great quantities of goods were stored preparatory to being put up at auction. Todd's statements lead the police to believe canes divide and that one part of the gang does the stealing, while the other disposes of the property, and that one man directed operations. * i ? ? ? ItKSWKI) TIIRKK PRISONEKK. Deputy Slier itY Induces Mob to Give Ir|) Three Men. A portion of the mob which hangF>d threo negroes near Dossier City, La., Thursday night, secured throe ather negroes and were hurrying them to the scene of the lynching, with the intention of inflicting similar punishment, when they were overtaken by Deputy Sheriff Hrumlow, )f Dossier City and induced to reease their prisoners. Heard, Jimnerson and Durke, the three lynched Thursday night, beat a jail attenlant into insensibility several months igo and escaped from tho Dossier Parish prison. The trio rescued by Hrumlow are said to have kept the IIDH In lii/Hiwr fi r\ /I n {/Inrl ilmm o o o AX'S* k II sisxikiip-t (IIIU II l\l II I V' I II l\' V O" jape. They were captured hi Mossier Z^ity by the mob. * Fanner Kills 111a Noighlior. At Dallas, Oa., Early Ellison, a 'armor, was shot and killed by bis leighbor, Luke Jarmon, Tuosday, vhon the two met on the public road, farmon, it is said, ehnrgod that Billion, who is a married man, had paid mproper attentions to his daughter. ? ? . Died of His Injuries. Aboil Granger, who was injured In t cave-in near Greenville several lays ago on the Intorurban, died Friday as a result of his injuries, de was 19 years old, I STUDENT A SUICIDE ; ? ? YOUNG NAN DISSAPEARS FROM FURNAN CAMPUS SICK AND DISPONDENT ( Fearing That Mr. W. D. Watson FVom Horry County Has Taken IIh? Life, Friends Scour Country About Greenville Hoping to Solve Mystery of Student Disappearance. A dispatch from Greenville to The News and Courier says W. I). Watson, a Furman University student, and of a prominent Horry county family, is strangely missing from the college campus, and it is feared that he has met death at his own hand. His disappearance was discovered early Friday morning, when his room mate awoke and round him gone. His collar and tie and watch were in the room, and a bottle of laudanum, which he was known to have had in his possession, could not be found among his effects. Several searching parties were the surrounding country throughout the day and night for a possible trace of the missing student, but up until midnight Friday night he had not been found nor the slightest clue as to his movements after leaving his room uncovered. It is believed that he is a victim of some form of melancholia, as he appeared greatly depressed of late and had been under the care of a physician. The young man registers from Nixonville, which is about eighteen miles from Conway. As nearly as can bo ascertained, Watson left his room in the Judson college about G o'clock Friday morning. His room-mate was asleep at the time he left the room, but awaked soon after and upon not llnding the young man, reported the matter to other students in the dormitory. A.I iriuiiutliralinn rt > V ;i ] <?f I tll?> t'fuU that Watson had loft without his collar and tie and watch. It waa also noticed that a bottle of laudanum, which the young man was known to have had in his possession for some time and which he is thought to have used externally, was missing from the room. Several searching partiee were soon organized, and throughout the day as careful examination of the various buildings on the campus, a deep ravine behind the dormitory building and various nooks down on the river's edge was made. Finding no traces of the young man in these places, the parties branched out and scoured the surrounding country. Information was had that some one answering the description of Watson was seen to pass near the homo of Mr. H. H. Tindal, on Crescent avenue, a mile from the University, about 7:30 o'clock Friday morning. The parties made a thorough search of the country in that section, and far down the Augusta road. No trace of the young man has been found. Mr. W. i). Watson, who was til years of ago, came to Furman university about October 1. He stated that he was a graduate of the Citadel, finishing there ten years ago. From the time he graduated up until the time ho came to Furman he taught school at various places in Horry county. The young man stated that he desired to enter the fitting school and go all the way through college, as he had found himself so deficient in some branches he washed to ' bogin all over again." Sinco he had graduated at the Cit- , adol, Watson was matriculated in the , university department. He took up his studies at onco, having somo of his classes in the Fitting school do- | partment and some in the university. ( He progr?*ssed in his studies and seemed to bo getting along in a satis- y factory manner. . About ten days ago Watson became ill and was confined to his room until about Thursday. Ho mado frequent visits to a physician and seem- ; ed to bo suffering from some nervous trouble. He asked that the physician request the authorities to excuse him from his studies until he was better. This was done. When seen 011 the campus Thursday by ono of (ho fittin/; school professors, ho seemed to be In a very despondent mood. Ills companions state that he. acted somewhat quoerly of late, seemed to be in a very downcast mood and worried about something, and sometimes talked queerly, though no ono suspected that he was in any way mentally deranged. Watson was not a man of bad habits. On the contrary, ho led an exemplary life. It in understood ho was considering entering tho ministry. * "Nobody did this but me," scrawled upon the back of an envelope tound in the inside coat pocket of tu2 Le.lv of W. D. Watson, whose corpswas discovered about 9 o'clock Saturday morning in a patch of woods, two miles from Greenville, following his mysterious disappearance from his room in ono of the Fsrman university dormitories Friday morning, tolls the tragic story of a student whose mental poiso was toppled over t from brooding over what ho had con- 1 ! ceivod to be a rebellion against the \ voice or God calling him to the mm- i Ifltry In earlier life. In a fit of do- c spondency Mr. Watson had wandered l off to the spot, where ho had often i studied Greek with a classmate, and < drank a deadly potion. f Following a search lasting through Friday and the greater part of Friday night, one of the university students came upon the prostrate form , of the young man in a patch of woods T on the Augusta road. The alarm was x sent In to tho university and immedi- f ately the college bell was set tolling. y carrying the sad Intelligence to y searching parties throughout the sur- j rounding country that tho body of j the missing man had been found. t \ SMALL BANK FAILS riAI> f X) IJ iKCTI ON S GIVEN AS CAUSE OF TROUBLE. . Tl?o Depletion of Itk Funds Forces the People's Honk at Leesville to Suspend. A special dispatch to The News and Courier says the People's Banx of Leesvilie, in Lexington county, has voluntarily closed its doors, the suspension having been Inaugurated on Wednesday last, when the funds or the bank ran so low that the cashier found it impossible to continue the business of the institution. Dr. E. J. Ktheridge, president of the bank, has been absent from Leeaville for a week and all efforts to locate his whereabouts by his family and close personal frlonds have proven futile. When last heard from, it is stated, ho was in Orangeburg, from which place he talked to friends in Leesville over the long distance telephone. From the best information obtainable, it seems that the bank has been practically defunct for a year and that its condition was known to the State authorities. It is also stated on reliable information that the State bank examiner has not made an examination of the bank since last Februa ry. The failure of the People's Hank is due, it is said, to bad collections, which* means that the bank has probably taken a lot of worthless securities. The bank only has about 000 in deposits, according to the books of the institution, and it is probablo that the depositors will be paid dollar for dollar, although since the closing of the bank has become known there has been much uneasiness among those who placed their savings in the bank's keeping. It is stated that Dr. Ethoridge, the president, is indebted to the bank personally to the amount of about $20,000, and that his outside indebtedness will reach up into the thousands. It is understood that since the condition of the; People's Hank has been known the National Hank, of l.eesville, has used every effort to stay the suspension of its neighbor institution, with the hope that arrangements might bo perfected whereby the People's Bank might be liquidated, but the efforts were unsuccessful. The total liabilities of the suspended institution is said to be about $50,000. The directors of the bank are: Dr. E. J. Etheridge, Dr. P. B. Etheridge, \V. Aug Shealy, I. P. Able, .Tacob Austin, Carwilo Shealy. A. 1,. Eargle and J. P. Copoland. I)r. E. .T. Etheridge is president and W. Aug Shealy is cashier. * ? SENATOR TIIXMAiV ARRIVES. Was in If is Office at Washington Ready for Work. The Washington correspondent of I lie News and Courier says Senator and 'Mrs. Tillman have arrived in Washington and the Senator was in his olllee at the Capitol most of the clay getting things in shape to begin another session's^work. Ho appeared to be in excellent spirits and looked decidedly better physically, having gained ten or fifteen pounds since he toft there for South Carolina last summer. The Senator refused to say anything positive as to what his choice would be among the big committees of the Senate to which his seniority entitles him, declaring that ho would consider the matter further before making up his mind. In view of his improved health, however, It is believed that he will eventually pick the chairmanship of the appropriations committee, which is generally regarded as the most important of them all. The chairmanship was held l).y the late Senator Allison, of Iowa, for years wnen ms uoaiLn ana capacity for work wore by no moans equal to the South Carolinian's. * WILL CONSULT ALL LNADKRS. Presirient-Klevt's Policy Regarding His Cabinet. President-elect Wilson has determined not to take the advice of one man only but of the loaders of the Democratic, party generally on the question of formation of his Cabinet ind in the selection of men to fill im? ;>orlant. ofllcial positions. His invitation to William J. Hryan to meet iim in conference, at Princeton, it is thought, is only the forerunner of numerous invitations to other party loaders to meet him In u series of consultations In reference to his logelative program and appointments to nfflce. The leaders of the party cat no of great service to the Presidentelect, and that Is why he seeks their id vice. * ? ?, ? Wilson Invites Hryan. Wood row Wilson has written a let or from Bermuda to William J. iryan, inviting him to a conference ifter 'Mr. Wilson's return from Bermuda. The President-elect wishes to consult with Mr. Bryan as one of the enderfl of the Democratic party, but ie will take council with a number other Democratic lenders also regarding his future program. * Enters Store and Kills Wife. At New Britain, Conn., Louis Raxm Thursday walked into a confecionory store where his young wife vas employed as a clerk, asked for i drink of soda and without warning I rod at her twice with a revolver, tilling her instantly. After the shootng Saxon folded his arms and calmy awaited arrest. Jealousy Is said o have boen the cause, HORRIBLE MURDERS A SLAYER OF SMALL BOYS MAKE! A CONFESSION BEADY TO PAY PENALTY -? lr Signed Statement Buffalo Prison cr, Caught by Means of Postal C'artis Written by lliui to Police, lleveals Career of Crime Extending Over Period of Twenty Years. The accidental killing of a man in Lowell, Mass., twenty years ago wafi given Friday night at Buffalo, N. Y., by John Frank Hickey, in a signed confession, as the starting point of a career of debauchery and crime, during which ho murdered several boys and assaulted many others. Hickey's victims, according to his confession, were Ed Moroy, of Lowell, Mass., poisoned with laudanum over twenty years ago; Michael Kruck, 12 years old, a New York newsboy, strangled in Central l'nrk in 1902, and Joseph Josephs, the seven-year-old son of George Josephs, a merchant, of Lackawanna, killed In a similar manner October 12, 1911. Hickey's fondness for writing postal cards to tin? police proved his undoing. "The details of Hickey's last two crimes are too revolting to make public," said District Attorney Dudley. "Hickey apparently is a man with a dual personality. He is intelligent. He is now overcome with remorse and says again and again that he can't comprehend what possessed him to commit the crimes. He asserts that ho became a maniac only when tilled with whiskey." Hickey's full confession came after a series of admissions made to District Attorney Dudley and Police Oil..,,., I n,,bt. TITO.,,,,, t linf v^ltiui vi nnv/n, im liiiv n(i?i iiiuiu, iu<\i ?" gaii Wednesday wlien the two officials left New York for Buffalo with their prisoner. Friday Mickey agreed to sign a confession and was taken to the district attorney's oiilco through the tunnel connecting the county jail and the City Hall, used for tho first time since Czolgosz was taken thro' it after being sentenced to death for the assassination of President McKinley. There ho again went over tho details of his crimes. In addition to tho murders Mickey confessed to many assaults and attempted assaults on small boys. Me insisted that all his crimes were committed while he was intoxicated. Whenever he became drunk, he said, I there came over him an insatiable desire to kill small boys. Mis victims were tortured before being killed. After signing his confession Hick* I ey said he was glad his life of crime ! was at an end. "I have made my peace with God," he said. "I am ready to pay the penalty for my crimes demanded by m an." The killing of Morey, in Lowell, according to Mickey's confession, was accidental. Me was then a clerk in a drug store and Morey frequently begged him for whiskey. To get rid of the man 0110 day, Mickey said, ho put laudanum in the whiskey, intending to make him sick, but Morey, weakened by dissipation, died. This crime preying on his mind for years, he said, ultimately drove him to drink. District Attorney Dudley said Mickey's confession came from his lips without much persuasion. Police Chief Regan received a letter from Henry Kruck, of New York, who says he is the father of the ruurderod Kruck boy, begging permission to see Hickoy. "I am not happy since the child was lost," the letter reads. "No matter where I go or what I do, my child Is always in my mind. Maybe justice will cool me up, when the murderer is dead." In reply Kruck was told he might see the prisoner provided he submitted to a search at police headquarters before going to the jail. * MAY HAVE TAKEN HIS JJFH. j l-Vars That Prominent Charleston M an Has Killed Himself, At Charleston Joseph M. Thomas, until recently member of the well known jewelry firm of Stephen Thomas Pro., is missing, and there are fears that he committed suicide by drowning. His hat and overcoat were found by the police Saturday f\ f I #> m ?-? / \ <\ ?% i-\ ? . # V% a D /> A 4 nit \ v >"v ii 1 / i t a i< < 1 (iii tu UUUH \Jii im? natici > uuuiryaiu. It Is Hai<l that ho left a noto which may contain some information on the subject, but thin can not be vorified Mr. Thomas left his residence at 11 o'clock Saturday morning and has not since returned. If he drowned himself at noon, the chances are that his body went out with the ebb tide. No cause but temporary aborrat'.o 1 can 1)0 assigned for tho act. * Mother ami Son Hound. At Rochester, N. Y., seven men entered the homo of Mrs. Jacob Fish shortly after midnight Thursday night, bound and gagged Mrs. Fish and her 18-year-old son, cut the telephono wiros and ransacked the house. They escaped after stealing two horses and carriages from the barn. Mrs. Fish is a sister of State Senator Thomas H. Wilson. <5irls Tunneled from Jail. Annlo Morris and Bessio Williams, two Texas girls not 2 0 years old, charged with highway robbery, tunneled their way from the county jail at Fort Worth and escaped. Tho prisoners dug through awall, two feet thick, making a hole two feet in diameter. Tho drop to tho ground was 1t> feet aud thoy used a ropo of blankets. ? # ' BIGAMY AND BANK THEFT P * . MAX ABBK8TKD AT WKST POINT, J OA., ADMITS BOTH. Second Wlfo Paints When Informed ^ of Her Husband's Confession to the Officers. At West Point, Ga., H. W. Parley, former cashier of tho Dank of Commerce, Winnebago, Minn., in a signI ed confession Saturday night, admitted a shortage in his accounts of $17,000, told of his flight from the ' Minnesota city, where he left a wife and three children, and of his marriago, in Georgia, to Miss Florence Bauer, a Cleveland, Ohio, actress. ; Parker made his confession before a notary public and Mayor John T. Johnson, of West Point, at whose instigation the banker was arrested while living there under the name of Charles A. Long. The prisoner expressed regret for his action and signified his willingness to return to Minnesota to face the charges against him. In the signed confession the banker states that as cashier of tho Bank of Commerce he practically had control of tho institution. By signing notes for friends and making loans which were not collected ho states a shortage in his account of about $15,000 was brought about. Tho prison ? i iiumiin iuuv;caiiug nun ?iiui uifit" uy altering the bank's boons. On April 1G last, according to the confession, bank examiners called at the Winnebago institution unexpectedly. Realizing that they would discover the shortage, Parker departed hastily, taking with him $2,000 in cash from the bank. When the second wife was informed of Parker's confession she fainted. Sunday she announced that who would not accompany him to Winnebago. Saturday she declared that she would return to the Minnesota city, but now has decided to return to her home in Cleveland. Parker attempted to commit suicide in the local jail Saturday night. The prisoner swallowed twenty-five grains of medical tablets, secured by bim as a headache remedy. Ho finally was revived by physicians. * \K<iRO*8 HOI)Y FOUND. ?? Seems to Have lteen Killed and Then Put in the Kiver. A dispatch from Lexington says further investigation of the hold-up and robbery of P. II. Elllsor, of Newberry county, on last Friday evening, while he was returning homo from Prosperity, and tlio subsequent battle which followed at Peak, Lexington county, between* a posse of whites and two negroes, resulting in two white men being injured by pistol bullets from the weapons of the negroes, and the killing of one negro, Richard Speaks, by those who were ; ? .v?. .1 ^ ^ .1 ? iii ?i ??? A. in |mii nuu umt iuu uuuiuu'u snouiiiiA? of another, reveal tho fact that the missing negro was lynched and his body was thrown into the Broad river, just below tho trestle at Peak This lR said, on reliable authority, to be tlio opinion of the ofllcers who have been on the search for tho missing negro. It is stated, in fact, that when tho officers arrived at tho scene after the occurrence on Friday night or early Saturday morning, they were informed by several persons that it would bo useless to make an effort to find tho other negro. To satisfy themselves, however, tho officers did mnko a close search and did track tho negro to a point near the river; but could not find any further clues. * EXTENT OF DAMAGE UNKNOWN. * Impossible to Fix Typhoou Casualties in the PhJUipioos. Owing to tho prostration of the telegraph wires no definite estimate is yet possible of tho number of fatalities or of the property losses caused by the typhoon which crossed the islands of Samar, Ley to and North Pansy Thursday. Such information as has been received indicates that 260 persons were killed in Samar and l?eyte and 50 in the other territory traversed by the storm. Despite tho enormous damage in Tacloban, capital of Leyto, tho fatalities there wore less than a dozen. Tho government is forwarding relief supplies to tho stricken district. No word has been received from Mlndanaco except a wireless dispatch from the transport Warron which Cx f% J / ! t bn ot Ar?>? *? no uiMinunll*? - * nuM4 i in- oivi in r? <?o tin icuaii)' OW>tTO,T Knds Lifo in Hotel. At Chicago, J. Edwin McAllister, 4 3 years old, of Atlanta, Ga., believed to have boon despondent over financial difficulties and the Reparation from hio wife and children, wrote two notos, one in Mie form of a prayer, and then ended his lifo by inhaling gas in his room Monday a week .ago at a South Side hotol. * ? ? l,ove Powders I "ail Girl. Love powdera and other magical charms cost Mary Jarrin, of New York city, over $500, virtually all her Havings as a servant, before she realized they were powerless to win* hack a swain who had deserted her. The love potions were prepared by Jane Grindlo, a fortune teller, who is under arrest charged with grand larceny. h ?? ? Oa?'A? fl?. ?v?i uixvtr."', Proaming fTiat therft was a f?<*e in her apartments, Mrs. Ida Radt, wlfo of a Slew York banker, walked to a window of her room in an uptown hotel and plunged down a skylight, seven stories below.. Sho wa9 seriously if not fatally hurt. She explained her droam when picked up, then lapsed Into unconsciousness.