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> AN EDI10R SHOT BY JAS. TILLMAN Gonzales, Editor of the State, Stricken Down. NO PROVOCATION WAS SHOWN. M . At* th. CtrMt Whpn I l?ut?n?nt Governor Drew Pistol and Shot Him?Probable Cause. Columbia, 8. C.. Special.?N. G. Gonzales, editor, of the State, was sEot and seriously wounded Thursday afternoon. It was just a few moments before 2 o'clock when the cry was passed along the 9treets that "Jim Tillman had shot N. G. Gonzales." It was a shocking and a startling announcement it went like a thrill through all Columbia and there was a rush towards the scene of the tragedy to learn the facts and the condition ol the distinguished editor. The office of The State is on the same block as the scene of the shooting and it took bui a few moments for a great throng to tmornhk fn frnnt of the newsDaDer of face. The excitement and the indignation on the streets was intense. Policeman Boland immediately after the shooting arrested Lieut. Gov. Tillman and took him to police headquarters where he was relhved of two pistols?the one with which he shot Editor Gonzales and a second large revolver of 38 calibre. From the police station ho was taken to the county jail where he is tonight in full protection of th* officers. There was no conflict and the only attributed cause for the shooting by Lieut. Gov. Tillman is that during the recent primary election Editor Gonzales opposed Lieut. Gov. Tillman iu his race for governor and in that editorial opposing Editor Gonzales had ^ hfen severe in his opposition... "Daring the progress of that campaign Editor Gonzales in his flgbt to defeat Mr. Tillman had editorially tailed Mm a debauchee, blackguard, end In tact denounced him as a "criminal candidate'' and a proven "liar.' It was this and other such editorial expressions it is supposed that goaded Mr. Tillman to the desperate deed of today. This was la August last and since the first primary. August 26, 1902. Editor Gonzales has had nothing to say about Mr. Tillman, except " to comment on the result of the primary. Editor Gonzales and Lieut. Gov. Tillman have passed each other" in full view since the opening of the present session of the general assembly on Tner.day but there had been no encounter, no word passed, no nod or recognition of any kind and today it came like a thunderclap out of a peaceful sky when the shot was fired. It was absolutely unexpected and all thought that whatever sorenpss there was as a result of the primary of last August had passed away, but it seems otherwise. As to the shootin? that is a simple story. Lfent. Gov. Tillman met Mr. Gonzales on the street, drew his pistol and fired into him. There was no fuss or feathers but when at close range Mr. Tillman opened fire, wiped his pistol on his coat sleeve, took aim as if to fire a second time changed his mind and let his pistol fall to his side. Lieut. Gov. Tillman was perfectly cool and collected, sober and uncxcited to all appearances. Mr. Gonzales was unarmed. The shock fnani the magazine pistol paralyzed him and as Mr. Gonzales saw the deadly weap m aimed at him. perhaps for a fatal bullet, he cried oat "Shoot again, you coward.** Mr. Gonzales was in nc way armed and had no pistol. If his life ho spared, perhaps that expression which . may bave spared the second bullet was the magic of the occasion. Mr. Gonzales is a man of robust health, strong physique, and active, all -j? which are In his favor. As he fell against the nearby transfer station to steady himself Mr.? James Sims and Mr. Gainewell LaMotte came rushing up and gave Mr. Gonzales snppoit. and helped bim to the business office of the newspaper which Mr. Gonzales had labored so nara anl so faithfully to establish and * make a leading factor in the affairs of his State, There with his head resting on a bundle of newspapers he requested that , his wife he sent for and to stricKen mends, most or whom were in tears, he told the story of the tragedy. Dr. B. \V. Taylor. Dr. F. D. Kendall. Dr. Phllpot and Dr. J. W. Babcock were soon at his side and in a few moments there were half a dozen or more physicians doing all they could to save life It was promptly decided that the only hope was to perform an operation and get the true course of the bullet and try to repair the serious but then unknown damage. The teat message from the Columbia correspondent of the Associated Press ?arly Saturday morning reported Mr. dnr?it<>K ac stilt Hvintr. with little hopes, however, of recovery. The following is appended: Then there is the other figure in the awful tragedy?Lieutenant Governor Jus. H. Tillman. He is taking things quietly and oalmly in the county jafl. During thex day he had visitors and three of his lawyers, Congressman George W. Croft, former Judge O. W. Buchanan, and Mr. Coleman L. Blease, spent most of the day with their client Mr. P. H. Nelson, who is said to He in the ease, was consulted during the day. Lieutenant Governor Tillman is quartered in the corridor rqora on the second floor of the county jail, lie has a room to himself. This afternoon he had new furniture brought to the room and Is comfortably fixed. During. the afternoon two of his counsel brought a copy of a statement which Colonel TiHman had himself written in response to an offer from a New York fe^M^apcr that its columns were op-m to It was also required that ;he be sent to the Associated is as follows: H Hk ycu for your courteous and In view of the that the dispatches sent out from Columbia emanated from the offiee ol The State newspaper, of whieh Mr Gonaales was editor, i aon t aeem u necessary to deny what has been sent from that quarter. When this unfirtur.ate affair is known to my friend* as well as to the people of this country, they will see how thoroughly I wa; justified in acting as I did. "The statements already published in the papers are untrue and at the proper time I will be prepared to show this. Beyond this I do uot care tc make any further statement. (Signed) "JA& H .TILLMAN," The New York papers, with whatever accounts they may have published have not reached here to be read, and the reports published here are based on the available facts and evidence, The understanding Is that Colonel Tillman's line of defense will be that he thought Mr. Gonzales was armed, that be had a weapon In his coat pocket uud that be had his hands In his coat pocket. He is said to contend that he did not know Mr. Gonzales wa* hot armed. Second, that when he aimed his pistol the second time at Mr. Gonzales. he did so expecting Mr. Gonzales to defend himself and that h-1 lowered his weapon because there was no response and not because of anything Mr. Gonzales said. He refutes the reiterated statement of Mr. Gonzales that he said to him with a bullet through him and unarmed, "Shoot again, yon cowara. ' Mr. Tillman will also, it is understood, eoutend that he had not met Mr. Gonzales. This is denied, and it is j said that Mr. Gonzales and Mr. Tilli man were in the Senate chamber and State capitol together. Lieutenant Governor Tillman, however, only makes the statement thai appears over his signature. The whole story has, however, all been given and there is now no need to repeat the details of the awful affair. That Mr. Gonzales sent no message; that ie was quietly on his way to dinner; that hi was alone; that he was unarmed; that he said ucthing to provoke hostilities, all seem admitted, and that Lieutenant Governor Tillman met Gonzales promptly and fired into him is eqaally i true. What there wag in the mind oi j the assailant is another question. : II MIES HA Victim of James I finnan's enmm Succumbs to Assassin's Bullet. N. G. Gonzales. Esq., editor of th< Columbia, S. C.. State, who was shot on Thursday of last week by Lieutenant Governor James Tillman, died Monday afternoon at 1:10. i PROMINENT PEOPLE. The Crown Prince of Germany is a skillful violinist. Colonel Thomas Went worth Higclnson has just celebrated his seventyninth birthday. Joaquin Miller, the "Poet of the Pacific Slope." 1ms. it is said, made a fortune out of Texas real estate. The eminent German playwright. Gerhardt Hauptmann, recently celebrated his fortieth birthday. He was 1 In ITw Liurii at v/Mri^tiiAuiuiiu n? father was a hotclkeeper. President Hartley, of Yale, is the first man in his position to take an active part in college athletics. He recently played in the Yale tennis tournament, easily beating his opponent. Senator Mitchell has presented to the President Major William Haucock Clark, of Portland. Ore., the oldest living descendant of Colonel Clark, of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Commissioner - General Sargcant. of Washington, who was Grand Master of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen for seventeen years, has Ikcu presented by the order with a handsome silver service of 1U1 pieces. Foripor President Steyn has been spending some months at Clarence, on j the Lake of Geneva, where his children ! go to school. When he first went j there he was so worn out that he could i hardly speak, but itis health was soon ! restored. The man who invented the Swedish safety match, Karl Kiesewetter, died a few weeks ago in Ronniania in great poverty. liis invention had bromrht him a fortune which, however, he fast Ihrougli unlucky and risky railway speculation. He was born in 1819. As a sort of reward, after preventing I his relative from becoming a member of a London stock-brokingndrm, King Edward lias allowed Prince l'raneis of Teck ?10,000 a year until the prince can obtain some remunerative position nini-A in v-oe/?iiiL? with his standinc as a j member of the royal family. The Necessity of Courage. When a man 53 depressed he may be sure that the indulgence in physical actions characteristic of depression, such as moping and sighing, will still more increase his depression, while his first attempt at more sensible conduct will piove that tiro deliberate and at first artificial assumption of cheerfulness and activity will, after a while, actually bring about a more cheerful frame of mind. Slow movements, slow speech, physical action of every kind deliberately rendered slow, is an antidote to the irritation of a man harr89t?od and pressed with affairs, which good sense will suggest to him, although he may know jiotning about the psychological theory of attaining a desired condition of mental quiet by, at first, imitating the bodily gestures of a calm mind. On the other hand, the giving way to quick, Irritated bodily movements is sure to cause an accession of irritability.?New iork News. The danger of earfying an argument to its logical conclusion is thus set forth by The Chicago Post: They were at a picnic. "Fingers were made before forks," she laughed as sh? helped herself In democratic fashion. "Yes," he admitted, "and people were mads before clothes." She hastily reached for a fork. . - KILLED OR INJURED. Powder Charge Explodes on Board the Massachusetts. I CAUSED BY PERCUSSION PRIMER. ' Which Was Accidentally Discharged While the Breech on an Eighit-lnch Gun was Open. Washington, Special.?Admiral Hlgginson cabled from Sail Juan, Puerto Rico, that by an explosion of powder in the 8-lnch turret of the battleship Massachusetts, five men were killed and four injured. None were commissioned officers. The text of Admiral Higglnson's dispatch is as follows: "San Juan. P. R.?Secretary of Navy, Washington: Powder change exploded accidentally in 8-inch turret Massachusetts. Cause being investigated by board. Dead. A. Herdrickson, boatswain mate; F. H. Loeeser, 1 apprentice; S. F. Mallnowski, landsmun; K. J. Piatt, ordinary seaman. Robert Rule. ordinary seaman. Injured: W. W. A. Schert, apprentice; A. S. Tacko, coxswain; J. G. Patterson. ordinary seaman; A. N. Dassett, ordinary seaman." The records of the Navy Department show that, of the dead Loesser and | Hendrickson lived in New York, Malin| owski, Chicago; Piatt, in Trey, N. Y.. | and Rule, in Mount Washington. 0. Of ! the wounded Dassett, landsman, en| listed at Durham, N. C., July 20. 1901. j Next of kin Newton Dassett. father, I 1003 Pettigrew street. Durham, N. C. Patterson was from Pittsburg. Tacke i fr#m St. Louis and Schert from Cni! cago. It is realized here that it will be very difficult for the board referred to In Admiral Hlgglnson'e dispatch to ascertain the cause of the explosion, for, from the heavy casualty list, it is surmised that the entire turret crew was either killed or disabled. The 8-inch : guns are next In size btlow the 13 j inch turret guns carried by this battle: ship and just above the rapid Are gun j limit. So their charges were not coni tained in Axed mettalic cases and the powder was put up in canvass bags. r The regulations require that the powder bags referred to should be conveyed from the magazines to the . breech of the gun in can-like metal receptacles to guard against just this kind of an accident. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. I San Juan. P. R., By Cable.?Five | men were killed and four others were wounded, two of them probably fatally, by the explosion of a powder charge of an 8-inch gun on board the United States battleship Massachusetts , last week, while at target practice off Culebra Island. The following is the list of the dead: K. J. Piatt, 369 Eighth street, Troy. N. Y. S. F. Malinowski, 1438 Ontario avenue. Chicago, 111. F. H. Cesser. 313 East 86th street New York. Andrew Hendrickson, Norway. R. R. Rule, Walnut Hill, Cincinnati. The following men were seriously i Injured: A. N. Dosf?tt, Durham, N. C. { J. G. Patterson. 32 Soho street, Pittsi burg. j W. A. Sehrrt, 365 Cleveland avenue, ! Chicago. A. S. Tacke. Miami street. St Louis. A PERCUSSION PRIMER Details of the explosion were obtalnI cd when the Massachusetts arrived ' here. The explosion occurred in the starboard aft the 8-inch turret, shortly j before noon, and was due to the accidental discharge of a percussion primer while the breech of rho gun waa open. The full charge exploded in the turret and killed or injured all the crew of the gun, numbering nine men. Ensign i Ward W. Wort man. who was in cnarge ' of the turret, escaped injury, though he was standing near the scene of the explosion. Magnificent di icdpliue was immediately shown hy {Iv. officers and crew of the battleship. Captain Harry IJ*.e. commanding the marine guard of the vessel, and Ensign Clarence A. Ahele Immediately tlooded the turret with water and Uent. ('has. F. Hughes and Gunner Kuhveln went below to the magazine, picking up powder charges, and prevented further explosions, while Lieut. William C. Cole and Gun Captain Stoneuian entered the turret and withdrew the charge from the other gun. whose breech was open. The survivors of the gun's crew when rescued were burr.ed, mutilated and nearly dead. One man whose clothing was on flro . Ltmnn.l nvprhnfli*rl. j jauii? u ? In less "than .1 minute after the ex! plosion three streams of water were pouring into the turret, preventing the charge in the other 8-ineh gun from exploding. Abram S. Hewitt Read. New York, Special.?Abram S. Hewitt, former mayor of New York and Representative in Congress from 1874 to 18S7, died at t o'clock Sunday morning. He was in his 81st year and had been critically ill for ten days. With him at the moment of his death were bis wife, his three sous and three daughters. Mr. Hewitt, who had been In feeble health for some months, was attacked with obstructive jaundice on January Sth, and from the first It was recognized by his attending physicians that there was practically no hope for the aged patient's recovery. Only his wonderful vitality kept him until this morning. Steamer Goes Ashore. Gibraltar, By Cable.?The Nort'a German Lloyd steamer Lahn, Captain Malchow, from Mediterranean ports for New York, went ashore at 4 o'clock Sunday morning at Tumara, 10 miles east of the Rock of Gilbraltar. There was a heavy fog and rain was falling ' at the time. Aboard the steamer are MO sailors and 200 emigrants. She is in no danger and is waiting for high tide to get off. The Lahn is stem on to the sea. The weather '-f. moderate, but there ;3 a tour? *e>a. A 1 THE WILCOX flllAL / Sister and Cousin of pead Girl Give Their Testimony. Hertford, Specia?-The State is nearly ready to tA in the trnal of James E. Wilcox the murder of Nellie Cropsey. M Miss OUie Cropsey, the pretty sister i of the dead girl, was the first witness to testify Friday. She told a very forceful story. Her testimony was direct ar.d full. In- part she said: "Ella Maude Cropsey was my sister. She was 19 years old and weighed 110 pounds when she disappeared. We lived in Brooklyn, N. Y? before coming to Elizabeth City, where we arrived in April of 1898. I had four sisters, Nellie, Lettie, Lc*la and Mamie. W. H. Cropsey Is my father. We met Jim?Wilcox in June. 1898. He sent Nell his card two weeks from that time and asked her to go driving and she went. From that day on he began to call on her. took her riding and sailing. He called Thursdays and Sundays. He gave her presents of flowers and picture*. He went sailing alone with Nell twice. She was scolded for accompanying him. During the summer before the disap pearance of Nell she and Jim began to quarrel. They had been friendly up to that time. They were at outs in September. Neli attended Stuart's meetings during that month. I sat inside the room one night and heard Neii *ay to Jim: 'Jim, if you are going to act like this, you stay at home.' I knew they were quarreling, and, not cariug to hear it, I left. They had not seen me. Jim went to the Stuart meetings sometimes with Nell and sometimes by himself, but often did not go, except to wait outside for Nell. Nell joined the church on the 13th of October. From some time in September till the 23rd of October Jim and Nell quarreled. At times they did not speak. After i October they were on better terms and spoke regularly. , The Elizabeth City fair was in progress about that time. Jim sent two tickets so that Carrie and Nell could go. He was at work. .Tim, Nell, Carrie and myself all went to the fair one day. Jim and Nell were friendly till November 7th, when they quit speaking to each other. Up to that time they had been going out together but all connections were severed then. He kept on calling at the house. "On the night of November 7th Wilcox spent a few hours at our bctohe. He and Nell were at outs. He left at 9 o'clock. When he took hia hat to so Nell said: 'Pull, Jim, pull,' meaning go, and followed him out to see him off, as was her custom. Nell returned, looked in on us. said good night and retired to her room. Jim came on just the same, but Nell newer spoke to him. One day after the 7th I saw Carrie, Nell and Jim coming up the street, Carrie was next to Jim. I do not know whether Nell and Jim spoke that day or not. "We sat in the dining room. Nell sewed on a jacket that she hoped to wear to New York. Jim and Roy were not on speaking terms. Jim was moody and talked but little.H-e started into space and kept looking at his watch. He appeared to be restless. By 10:45 all except Jim. Roy, Nell and myself had left the room. Jim arose, picked up his hat and said: 'It is 11 o'clock and I must go. My mother docs r.ot allow I me to stay out after 11.' Before this | time Jim had asked for water. I told ! him I would get bini a glass. He said, j 'No,' he might poison it. When he got ; ! up to go we all rose and, while he j rolled a cigarette. Roy caught Nell's I chin in his hands and said: 'Noll, you are looking mighty sweet tonight.' I Jim glanced his eyes at Nell and then at me. He went into the hall and j turning, said: 'Nell. I want to see you in the hall.' She looked at me and fol| lowed him out. 1 never saw her again, j She and Jim had not spoken since Xoj vember 7th. "I closed the door behind them as they went out. Roy and myself stood by the Gre till 11:30, when I told him it was time for him to go. He said: 'You need not get snappy about it. Jiin .m ! nrn in flin hnli vet ' Wi? Went !< - j to the hall, and found the doors on?n. i but .lim and Nell were not in sight. I I remarked that it was strange that Neil ; had gone up and left ine to lock tip. I went to my room and retired. Nell was not there. I dozed off, thinking she and Jim were in the parlor. About 1 o'clock I gave the alarm. We searched everywhere. hut in vain, for Nell. During the evening when the subject of suicide was brought up. Noll said she would not like to drown, for her hair would l;e such, a fright. It would be frizzled up. She thought she might like to freeze. Miss Carrie Cropsey followed Miss i Ollie. She corroborated much of the latter's evidence. Among other things she said: "I asked Jim why he and Nell quarreled. He said: 'She has quit going to the door with roe. I have decided to drop her.' Tuesday night. Jim heard us talking about him. He told me that listeners never heard any good of themselves. Nellie had asked me why I did not call him squatty. I said that I felt like an elephant the nitrVit urn wnnt. tn the skatinz rink. We asked Jim to unbridle our horse on Tuesday. He staid be was tired of being lackey." Messrs. H. T. Qreenleaf, Sr., and H. T. Greenleaf, Jr., civil engineers, were put in the stand to furnish figures of distances. The body of Nellie Cropsey was found in four feet of water at a distance of 300 feet, the exact place being 200 feet to left o' the bouse, 300 feet out. Among those who testified this afternoon were: Leonard Owens, who met Wilcox on his way from the Crops<J home the night the girl disappeared; Mayor Wilson, of Elizabeth City, before whom the defendant had appeared; SherifT Reid, of Pasquotank county, who arrpsted Wilcox, aftpr the dead body was found, and W. H. Cropsey, the father of Nellie. By Mr. Owens' testimony, Wilcox had about 20 minutes to dispose of from the time he left the Cropsey porch till he met him, several hundred feet away. Wilcox seemed to be perfectly natural at the time: Sheriff Reid said that Wilcox was very indifferent but admitted that 1 it was his way. I \ ,Caleb Parker testified. He said that he had passed the Cropsey place soon after 11 o'clock on the night of the 20th of November. He saw a man and ( woman of about equal size moving -? -*-1- - 11- TT~ AlA I.MAtu I aiunt; UlU SllH-wain. lir uiu uui nuun who'they were. Ollie Meades pwore that he slept with Wilcox that night, but never knew r anything from the time he went to sleep till the next morning. He said that Wilcox had on the same pants in . court that he wore then. This fact was contradicted later by Misses Lettie 2nd Ollie Crop3ey. who were put on the. stand for that purpose. Two Killed at a Dance. Cairo, 111., Special.?At a dance at * Morrehouse, Mo., Tuesday night, i James and Dolpheus Hill, of Johnson a county, became drunk and created a ( disturbance, and Marshal Dan Lance and Deputy Marshal John Taylor were J called to restore order. Dolpheus Hill 1 shot and instantly killed Marshal 1 Lance and James Hill fatally cut Tay t lor. The Hill boys started to leave the t house, when Taylor shot and wounded ( one of thera, but they succeeded in making their escape. Searching par- * ties have been organized, but the Hltis c are still at Liberty. I Editor Wounded. Gainesville, Fla., Special.?City Kdi- e tor P. A. Ruhl was cut Sunday morn- I ing by Linotype Operator Sftnls, a gash t 5 inches long and three-fourths of an } inch deep being made In his neck Ruhl - ? -1 a. ? krvmo wHoro Vl#> Hps t was iaKt*n iu ii 10 uuun, ? in a dangerous condition. Details are I unobtainable, because Mr. Ruhl is not i permitted to talk and Sauls has disap- J peared. Mr. Ruhl is city tax assessor I and is prominently connected. I Italy has proposed ta establish the c Marconi system of wireless telegraphy I between Pekin and Taku. ? : SPORTING BREVITIES. I Rochester, N. Y., is to have a three- B quarter-mile speedway. , Roller polo is the leading winter t sport in Massachusetts. Motor bicycle racing has become a o feature on European cycre tracks. a Fair progress is being made in the ? construction of the new cup yacht. 11 Bend Or, the famous race horse and ? Derby winner, has died in England. The Chicago racing season of 1903 q will begin at Lakeside on ApriF 20 next B Cresceus lias trotted the Montgomery ]i (Ala.) track In 2.07, breaking the track e record. a Morris Wood, of- Montclair, N. J., t has won the principal honors in.the. C skating races on Verona Lake, N. J. 8 The New York National League ? Baseball Club will open its prelimin- j" ary season at the Polo Ground on '* April 8L ' r Although It was believed that Jim 0 Murphy, the noted Southern trainer, died poor, It has been found since that * be was worth about *60,000. | The golf club of the Michigan Uni- Q mamUm Sa 4a >4a /llnlro TP/vl^t) _ tcraiij in iu uutc us wnu hum, a- v* ij i ^ acres of ground adjoining Perry Field, i ? at Ann Arbor, are to be purchased. v Henri Fournier, a noted chauffeur, lias arrived in the United States from Europe, and has issued a challenge for an automobile race to Alexander Winton. r Burt Downiifg, a brother of Hardy ^ Downing, and the youngest of the trio a of brothers, is now the amateur cy- a cling king of the Pacific coast, having n been undefeated this season. Young ^ Downing is nineteen, weighs 17'J ^ pounds and stands five feet ten inches. t( There will lie an invasion of Austra- j g Iia next full by a number of the lead- ' r, ing cycle cracks of America, including c Iver I.awson. Floyd McFarland anil e Hardy Downing, sprinters, and several/ ^ pace followers, with modern motors. c Australia is to have several coliseum cycle tracks. , How He Kept Informed on Clocks. & A fad more or less general in the e collecting of old clocks, from the tall C grandfather variety to the curious 1-1 timekeepers of foreign make. The ^ garrets of old farmhouses from Maine ' to the Carolinas have been ransacked ^ for the former, and there is many a a man and woman in New York who n keeps an eye on the pawnshops of the q foreign districts for curious and ancient things from abroad. "It is almost impossible to keep them all running." complained a woman who has two dozen aeod and valuable clocks scattered through her c Madison avenue home. "They seem tt to be in good order and run along for p a while, then all of a sudden they a stop for no reason at all. p "I have found an old German who knows more about the ways of old clocks than any one in the city, i p sent liim my German prize a few ^ weeks ago, and when it did not come o back after the usual period of waiting e I went to his shop. What do you * think I found him reading?" a The friend did not have the slightest p Idea. d "It was a little German volume with. n a title something like this, "Thirteen Hundred Reasons Why a Clock in Perfect Order Won't Run."?NewYork Tribune. j t] Unbreakable Glass. d Louis Kaiiffi'ld, a Havarinn glass- tl worker, nmki-s e*traordinary claims n lor a new kind of glass he has Jnst dis- s, covered. It is a glass of such nature that it will not break, that can be ? moulded into any desired lorm, tha; can h;. hammered without catastrophe p ?in short, a glass that will be as malleable as lead or any other metaL With an ordinary goblet made of this new material you can hammer a nail Into a tough hoard. You can bore a, ti hole in a glass pane and then patch it with another piece o? the same kind c' ot glass. Coffee pots and tea kettles, it is claimed, can be made of the new p f.ubstanoe, and will no more crack, cj even under the most intense heat, thau I ^ would steel.?Tit-Bits. I ? SI^H" Iperators Deny They Derive Benefits From High Price of Coal. CHAIRMAN STOPS PERSONAL TILTS 'hysiclwis Testify That the Work of Anthracite Miners ts Not as Unhealthy as Represented. Philadelphia, Special.?Haying occulted nearly three days in calling wittesses to testify, the Delaware & Hudion Company closed its case before the loal Strike Commission Tuesday afternoon and the commission's attention, hen was called to the conditions Vxistng in and about the collieries operated ly the Erie Company. This corporation nanaged the Hillside Coal and Iron Company and the Pennsylvania Coal Company, and its counsel before the lommlfcslon is Wayne HacVeagh, of 'hlladelphia, and Major Everett Waren, of Scranton. One of the principal witnesses callid before the commission was Thomas i\ Torrey, general coal sales agent of he Delaware & Hudson Company at few York, who teetifidtPthat the'comlany he represents is deriving no beneLt from the present abnormal price rhich the public is paying for its fuel. Lmong other witnesses called by the )elaware ft Hudson Company were two ihysicians who gave testimony tendng to show that the occupation of a nine worker is not so unhealthfjil as ihyslcians for the miners have stated, i real estate agent who testified to the mount of property owned by miners if the company and an employe of the )elaware ft Hudson who made an tneatlgation of wages paid to bltumiious miners which showed their pay ras under that received by the anhracite miners. General Wilson, owing to the lHnees f Judge Gray, again acted as chairnan of the commission and was 'sevraj times called upon to intervene a the personal tilts between opposing ounsel over the admission of certain vidence. Major Everett Warren, for the Erie Company, in his statement, aays the niners have it in their power to earn srge wages, that the demand for an lght hour day is Mmost unreasonable" ad that a 2,24<K pound ton is lmpracicable. Major Warren says the EHe Company has no objection to labor oranlzing but-difd. the local unions .datroy individual effort, curb ambition, estrlct earning capacity, encourage lleness and discontent, breed lack of eepect of authority and destroy disIpllne." Capt W. A. May, of Scranton, the eneral superintendent of the two com- . antes, was the first witness (Or the Irie. Before the strike of 1900 the witess said, the relations between him nd the men were very pleasant indeed, laptaln May was still on the stand . hen adjournment was taken. Hired to Commit Murder. Roanoke, Va., Special.?Details eached here of a tragedy near Bramrell, a little town in the ooal fields of Vest Virginia. Mrs. Maggie Riley is lleged to have promised to pay her^ on Hiram, and Arthur Eller a sum of louey to kill a woman named Mary lark. The men it. In charred went to lie Clark woman's home and shot her 3 death. Eller and young Riley, toether with Riley's mother, were arested and lodged in the county jail harged with murder. The women were nemies and had frequently quarreled, t is alleged that Jealousy was the ause of the killing. Norfolk & Western Appointments. ' Roanoke, Va? Spechtk?The Norfolk : Western Railway officially announ-^ d the following appointments: C. a. ""* hurchill, chief engineer; J. C. Casaell, e^ntly resigned as generally supposd, is made assistant viee president nd general manager; Theodore L?ow, esigned as superintendent of the Nor)lk division, becomes roil estate gent; Jose B. Lacy,, paymaster, is iade assitant treasurer. All with headuarters at Roanoke. Treasurer W. G. IcDowell in future will have his office i Philadelphia. Fighting In Morocco. Madrid, By Cable?Fighting is proeeding between the troops of the Snlin of Morocco and the forces of the retender to the throne, according to dispatch received by the Globe frdm 'ez. The followers of the pretender re said to be overcoming the imerlal troops. The correspondent of 'he Globo adds that the inhabitants f Fez have risen against the Saltan nd that anxiety reigns at Rabat, 'here the Europeans are in fear of n immediate attack. The Sultan's epresentative at Tangier has been or* ered to seize cattle and to dispatch Binforcements to the Sultan. f. Traveling Man Commits So!ddc. Teiarkana, Ark,, Special.?Isaac 'rlseell, a widely-known commercial raveier for Eastern houses, was found ead in his room in a local hotel. U<a tiroat and wrists were cut open. ote from the dead man to the coroner tated that he had killed himself for rivate reasons. The note further said: I traveled on the road 24 years, la very State in the Union, Canada. Ja? an. China ahd South America." Coal Companies Combine. Harrisburg, Pa., Special.?Applicaon was made at the State Departlent for a charter for the Eastern Seurities Company, which, it is said, i to be the vehicle for the ennsolidaon of the anthracite coal interests of ennsylvanla. The application for a tarter is made under a law passed by ie Legislature of 1901. The nominal ipita] of the corporation is (1,000.