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v. . The Germs of By the Editor ot Colli ma.T maintained f I Old ape, the premat j_ Y know, is a patholotfi 9% 1 ly Dr. Elio Metcbnikofl iflfc I studies things throuj |lr jl Each of n* swarms a I up and down our bo J attacking our benefi unwiss life we all ] the malady which kills those men p linked at from Dr. MetchnikofT* sta medical science. How shall we be] stc&l&8t the enemy? One way would hnrger intestine, an organ which ougt oaay. At present this can not be dc method would be to destroy the beast thqr exactly are. Some are a legac remote, who suffered from heritable . perhaps the instruments of a sort of preoodonaty kills all who do not die tte bubonic plague, or croup. Until dfcfc eating little meat or none, and ?ttr milk. By these imperfect me hcndrod years or so. Up to ninety, 1 President of the United 8tates, and rdBeetire as the Prime Minister of 1 a oantury for art, philanthropy, or crc tear,will not tta approach be aa dist diet or. Under present conditions dea . tdkes us early in the day?say before a ftM aaeal, when the day's work is & An Aristocrat The Impossibilil ^ Aristocracy of 1 Bj Anna McClnre She mHIHFLY upon two con tinned possession and unity of aims and ideal w instance, is self-consci A. M nnderstandinr. Thev i of life and manners, tfean laws. Individually, wealthy Ai aetf-assertive, but collectively they a cumulation of wealth implies strug the kind of qualities which make t f Van Dyck'a canvases one great fai One of the greatest perils of the American aristocracy can never be l Without Its strength being officially r aart certain duties and obligations toi rApsgnltlon. For if wealthy American lack also to a greater degree, the sen: true aristocracy. The sense of his p crat, la owing, to be sure, largely to also insures to him that wealth witho perfectly enforced. He is expected t< aid in legislation, to perform certain with kls own material prosperity, i l&eels among the wealthy is their fre rather than to feel is the aim, and The culture which implies courtesy dkls.?is too often lacking. If this anity of social ideals upc does aot now exist, is it likely to b< ita evolution would depend largely \ exercised la the right direction. B possible, the first can never be. Un great fortunes are constantly changi they are squandered by the sons, o throngh mismanagement or speculate endangers ita position by its very st even large fortunes. The law of decn power of whatever nature, operates Class can not be the permanent class. It la the safeguard of the aristocrat .well as material; can never, therefoi and permanency in the wealthy class pAoaJfflrhfn/1 ilratrinf-rAAm Westerner, or a member of tbe fir$1 McCInre'8 Magazine. *: J& > / The Care of C ' By D. T. Marshall, M. - 00rnmrnmmm^ RIGINAL research In a many parents, even of Oful of the eyes of their Either from some c< the presence of squint eyes upon an object, eye, and the poorer ej Tj/7i 7^ mere disuse. It would their children Dy coveri a small card or book, aftmft Ahlnnf o f n r?c\r\rnnlon< UfCVtlUC OVUiy vujtv,i av ^ surprise for one to And that a child children having such eyes are fitted .vision of the poor eye may be made become stronger instead of weaker, .without operation by wearing proper Very often defects in vision in cl fent to school. The teacher notices 1 and so notifies the parents of a del easily observed had they ever give: large influx of Russians, Hungarlai Burope and Syria to this country, a very large increase in the numl trachoma. This is a contagious disease whic Inside of the eyelids of small granule look very much like grains of pear water. In some cases this disease cases there is sooner or later rednei there may be clouding of the cornea treme sensitiveness to light, and in e disease gives rise to no symptoms, Is the inner surfaces of the lids, which on the eyeball, thus giving rise to gr The method of exposing the inn For the lower lid, the most common s the lswer edge of the lid, and pull do look up. To examine the upper li( thumb and forefinger of one hand, i pencil-point or the edge of a card ag Dd, and fold the lid backward, at 1 down. The eyelid* turn back witn a of the lid is not smooth and clear, th for examination. The above methoc 1* called upon' to remove a foreign be and do set Into the eye, and It Is not them out Turn the lid back, and epd of which a bit of cotton has be< offending object If you have no col nd crush It up, thus forming a kind Grains of sand and cinders whi serious, and usnally have to be remi jprieoced oculist.?Woman's Home O m . . Death cr'? Weekly ! that nobody ever dies a natural deatl; ure old age, which is the only kind w cal condition. Such are the opinions o not a fakir, but a serious person, wh rh a microscope at the Pasteur Institut< with tiny beasts of prey, which travt dy. seeking what they may devour. B; cent cells, previously weakened by tb lead, they produce an artificial senility rhom in our ignorance we call very ole indpoint, old age is merely a problem fo Ip our beneficent cells in their struggl 1 be to take every baby and cut out hi it not to have been included in our anal me, as the operation is risky. A secom a of prey. But we do not yet know wha y left by our ancestors, immediate am diseases. Others, more mysterious, ar eaaeuuai uiseu^c, ujl iuui uiu ski* wiuci still earlier of tuberculosis, pneumonia we know more we can only reform ou subsisting chiefly on butter, eheese am ana we may prolong life a little?twi for example, we may be as active as thi thereafter, for a hundred years more, a England. This would still leave us hal KjueL Bnt when death does finally drav istefnl as ever? By no means, says tb th la like an nnnatnral sleep, which ovez dinner. In the future It will come aftei done. , . ?> 3T :y in America? :y of an American health :: :: :: >11 dltlons depends an aristocracy?the con exercise of power, and the consequen Is. The aristocratic hodv in Rnsrland. fo 008; Its members are united by mutua icknowledge certain well-recognired law Tbey depend upon each other to uphol mericana may be both self-conscious ant re antagonistic to one another. The ac gle, and struggle does not bring fortl he gentle and stately men and womei mily. republic, and one reason why a genuini formed is that a strong class has arisei ecognired, aa in the aristocracy of rank ivard society are imposed upou it by tha s lack social unity among themselves, the3 se of social responsibility, that mark of i ublic duties, inborn in an English aristc the law of primogeniture, a law whicl ut which the aristocratic ideal can not b< > take his seat in Parliament, to give hi; public duties which have no connectioi Another bar to unity of social aims ant quent lack of genuine culture. To knov Ideals are not born of knowledge alone and humanity?those aristocratic essen >n which an aristocracy largely depend a evolved out of the present conditions ipon the permanent power of one class ut though the second condition may b der conditions peculiar to American lift ng hands. Accumulated by the fathere r divided among many children, or los in. The aristocracy of wealth constants yle of living, making large demands 01 y; which eventually protects society fron to disperse wealth so that the powerfu can not therefore form an an aristocracy y of rank that its power is mystical a re, wholly perish. Another bar to unit; is the constant inundation of newcomers may stride at any moment a breez: t generation, his riches raw upon him. ? vv">"v Children's Eyes D. . large eye clinic has proved to me tha fair intelligence, are extremely neglect children. mifpnital <1pfppt nf thp innpr pyp or fron and the consequent inability to fix botl the work is thrown upon the bettei e gradually becomes less capable fron be well for parents to test the vision 01 ing first one eye and then the other will aDd asking them to read some sign o ; distance. It is often a matter of grea sees very little with one of his eyes. I with suitable glasses when young, th ' equal to that of the other, and by us Children with squint can often be cure* glasses. lildren are noticed only when they ar that the child cannot see the blackboard !ect, which they themselves might hav* u the matter any attention. Since thi 19 and the inhabitants of Southeaster! there has been, especially in New York tier of cases of granulated eyelids, o h is characterized by the growth on th :s as large as pin-heads, or larger, whicl i sago after they have been soaked ii gives rlBe to no symptoms, but in m?s 53, and sensitiveness to light Later 01 (the tranparent part of the eyeball), ex xtreme cases blindness. Even when thi iter in life it may cause a contraction o causes the eyelashes to turn in and rul eat discomfort and loss of good vision, er surface of the eyelid is ve.y simple eat of trachoma, blmply put the finger 01 iwn, at the same time telling the child t< !, take hold of the eyelashes with tin and with the other band gently press i ainst the fold above the stiff part of thi the same time telling the child to lool snap. It does not hurt. If the insidi e child had better be taken to an ocu'is 1 of turning the lid is useful when on< idy from the eye. Cinders and graiL^ o: always convenient to get a doctor to tak< with a toothpick or hairpin, around thi ?n smoothly wound, gently wipe out thi :ton at hand, wet the end of a toothpici of brush. ich are lodged in the cornea are r.'Ji jved under cocoa ine influence by an ex Hnpanlon. ^ ^ NEWSY CLEANINGS. ? J ; StromboK la in active eruption. American immigration into the Phil* ippinea has greatly fallen off. The Federal Government is to prosecute Texas re.'roads for not using antomatie couplers. f Qorernor Ferguson estimates Okla0 . oma's population at 650,000 and tax able property <400,000,000. 'l J. 8. McCoe, a well-known horse- ( y man, has brought suit against the e North Pacific Coast Railroad Company for an ear lost in a ferryboat collision. L Polls of 100 places of worship on r Manhattan Island by the Church News e Association shows a large percentage s of the population are not churchgoers. > Roy Johnston, a farm hand, of Ogj denskurg, N. Y., has had the sight of t one of his eyee defitr.yed by a potato . playfully thrown by one of his fellow workers. There are ninety-five vacancies in the grade of second lieutenant of the army, of which tifty-flve are in the infantry. twenty-two in tae artillery and eighteen in the cavalry. The Panama Canal treaty will be sent by special messenger to the Isthmus for quick ratification and will be back, it is thought. In time to be laid before tbe Senate December 17. John Alexander Dowie'a creditor! are making things interesting for him in the <-ourts of Lnkc County, Illinois, the seat of Zion City. Within a month nearly a score of suits have been fled. Dr. E. A. Spltska. who made the postmortem examination of the three Van Wormer boys, recently executed in Clinton (N. Y.) Prison, found 1.0 grave defects and nothing abnormal in their | brains. Charles M. Schwab presented to the Very Rev. John Mickey, for twenty years pastor of St. Thomas' Roman Catholic Church, a church built at Eraddock, Pa., by Mr. and Mr#. Schwab at a cost of $135,000. LABOR WORLD. i- - - Marine firemen are verv scarce In r Milwankeo, Wis. ll Union plasterers in Los Angeles, Cal.. l?avc secured an advance in wages of d H 2 day. 1 The organized workers of the Transvaai, South Africa, nrc demanding the j exclusion of the Chinese, l The strikers at Odessa, in Southeast Russia, have resumed work at higher t wages and shorter hours, i, Journeyman masons In France work on an average rf ton hours a day. They t receive about thirteen cents an hour. 7 A national union of cloth spongers a has been formed, which will have Its Headquarters probably in New York i City. The membership of the International Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen 3 has increased 25,000 ill the last two 3 years. * There are more than 800,000 women 7 workers in Germany, and less than 25,000 arc organized. Their wages avei age from $2 to $3 a week. Samuel Gompers, in the face of ops position from the socialistic element, ? was re-elected President of the American Federation of Labor, e The Bricklayers' and Stone Masons' ? International Union will absorb the i rumors', stone cutters' ana atone ^ Masons' International Union. The British Labor Federation, a society of labor men who favor Mr. 1 Chamberlain's fiscal proposals, is 1 about to be formed in England. * Notices were posted in the Iron ' Works cotton mills, Fall River, Mass., s bearing the signature of the owner. M. F I). Borden, announcing a cut down i. of ten per cent. j Pullman porters -will shortly meet In - Chicago, 111., and form a union and affiliate with the A. F. of L. They now average about $40 a month ami propose to demand a fair monthly salary and abolish the tipping system. Seawell Case Affirmed. Washington. Special.?The Senate 1b executive session confirmed the following nominations: Robert A. Oliver, Louisiana, assistant appraiser of merchandise at New Orleans; Clarence P. Herbert, Louisiana, assistant treasurer of the United States at New Orleans; ' William J. Brophy, Louisiana, coiner * of the mint at New Orleans: Albert L. Pierce, Mississippi, collector of cusi toms for the district of Vicksburg. l Postmasters: Mississippi?B. A. Truly, r Fayette. North Carolina?B. T. Person. Wilson- O. IY Holland Oastonia- Rll? f C. Peace, Oxford. i r Conv'ctcd of Planning Wreck. t Staunton, Va., Special.?Mrs. Ellen f Bailey was found guilty of planning e the wreck which occurred on the Nor0 falk & Western Railroad, at Green* ville, last December. The jury fixed her punishment at 10 years in the peniten1 tiary. Her son, James Bailey, and Joe seph Kennedy have been convicted of e wrecking the train. Bailey was conl demned to serve 18 years in the peni:t tentiary, while the jury, in the case j! of Kennedy, brought in a verdict of murder in the first degree. e 1 Bennettsville, S. C., Special.?The , . jury in the Henry Patrick case, foi 1 1 killing his wife, after being out one 1 hour and a half, brought In a verdict < - of guilty, with a recommendation to i e the men^- of the court, which places ( f him in the penitentiary for life. , -? Throughout the trial and reading of t the verdict. Patrick exhibited no signs | of remorse, excitement or nervousness. '* He told his two little children go .a- ] 1 bye in the afternoon, and they wiL? > 5 make their home with their aunt in j s Athens. Ga. There are two other mur- ) i der cases to be tried at this term of ? court ? Weather Vane 100 Years Old. t H. W. Mclntyre of Randolph, Vt, ( ? has a unique relic in the shape of a ( f weather vane that is nearly 100 years i old. This weather vane was put on $ the Orange county grammar *c.hool ' i nearly 100 years ago, when the .-^hnol ( t was dedicated in 1806, and is in gcvl I condition to-day. For sentimental pur- : i poses this same relic is to be placer I . on the new school building at R*n j dolph Center. ( LIKE A DIME NOVEL ' . 1 Many Crimes of Three Desperate Younr Bandits. I O --- I 1 PITCHED BATTLE WITH POLICE. They Were Wanted for Participation la Chicago Murder Cases?Two Arrested. Chicago, Special.?Chained wrist to wrist, their hair matted with blood, their olothing with dust and dirt, two heard less boys, Peter Neidermeler and Harvey Van Dine, aal in the presence of Mayor Harrison and Chief of Police O'Xeil calmly confessing to their share In a three months' career ot crime, which has Included eight murders, the wounding of five other men and a long series of robberies. The two young bandits, neither of whom is over 21 years of age, together with their companion, Emil Roeskie, who is no older, were captured near Liverpool. Ind., after a light in which they battled against policemen, railroad detectives, railroad laborers and farmers. One man was killed, another fatally injured and all three of the young bandits were wounded, but not seriously. The dead man* is T. J. Sovea, brakeman on the Pennsylvania Railroad; wounded. Joseph Jriscoll, detective on Chicago police force, shot through the abdomen, and can live but a short time; Matthew Zimmer, detective on Chicago police force, shot in head and arm. Niedermier was wounded in the hand hlr/1 nhnt- Van Dine was shot I . and slightly injured, and sustained ( In addition a flesh wound in ths left | thigh. Roeskle was shot in th? rignt ; hip. The three men were wanted by ths police for complicity in the mosders at the car barns of the Chicago City Railroad Company on August 20, when two men were killed, a third badly wounded and $2,250 stolen. Gustave Marx, who la-jt Saturday night murdered Officer John Quinn when the policeman endeavored to place him under arrest, confessed after his capture that he, in company with the three men, had committed the crimes at the car barns. The hunt for Van Dine. Niedermier and Roeskie has been hot ever since. Although t^ey knew that the entire police force was looking for them, the three men remained in the city until Wednesday morning. "We were l'tying' for a fellow that was a witness against Marx." said Van Dine. On Wednesday they left Chicago, going to a dugout made near Miller's Station, Ind., where they were surprised by the police. Both parties opened fire and Driscoll fell. Van Dine and Roeakie rushed out, followed a few minutes later hy Niedermier. The latter ran to the tracks o fthe Michigan Central Railroad and, throwing nimseir nat on tne roanoea sieaaiea \ his arm on the rail as he kept up a i rapid Are with three revolvers. Roeskie c ran for the brush, but Van Dine re- t treated slowly, although the air around t him was filled with bullets and the c snow at his feet was kicked up by a them. He is a splendid marksman and, c catching sight of Detective Zimmer, e who was behind a tree, he fired. Zim- f mer went down with a bullet in the t head. As he fell. Van Dine fired again C and the second hullet tore throueh Zimmer's arm. v The detectives fired constantly, but the bandits escaped. After running about a mile across country, they came to the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad. A switch engine with a train of 1 cars wa3 close at hand and, hurrying V up to it. the men ordered Brakeman t 9ovea to uncouple the train from the j, locomotive. He refused and attempted , to take Niedermier's revolver from " him. The later sent a bullet through fc the brakeman's head, killing him in- a stantly. Springing past Sovea's body ^ the bandits mounted the locomotive with revolvers in hand and ordered * the engineer to move out in a hurry, ^ which he did. going in the direction of * Liverpool, Ind.. After two miles had a been covered, the men ordered the engineer to slow down and. leaping to the n ground, disappeared in the woods. Af- r ter the train had carried Van Dine and 8 Neidermeyer away. Detective Sheehan n hurried to the nearest telegraph sta- r tion and wired Chief of Police O'Neill asking that men be sent out with rifles. The message met with a prompt resnonse, and in a short time. Assistant Chief of Police Sehuettler a and 50 office's armed with rifles were v on the way to Miler's by special train, n Capt. R'iees. of the detective service of a the Pennsvlvania Railway, was eiven orders to pet the three men dead or v alive. He and his men were off toward * Liverpool. h When the banditB left the train they ,, were nearly exhautsed and unable to y travel. It was easy to trace them down In the snow and the hunt was speedily ended. The men were seen and the farmers, most of whom were armed with double-barrelled shot-guns, opened fire on them. Neidermier received a 'J rill) charge in the head, and the blood '* streamed down his face and into his U Byes, blinding him so that he could ei hardly see. A shot g-azed Van Dine's nr ij *'/", and bis wounded leg was weak- !? en!:. ? The posse was closing in on all n Bides. There was no escape and it was n evident to both men that the time had F come either to surrender or to fl?ht it to the death. Van Dine said In discussing his surrender: "The jig was uo for us no matter .n how many we killed. I says to Ppte: Well, what do you think?' He nodded ? ii.'a head and dronned his guns and *. that's how they got us." re North Carol'na Won. Richmond, Va., Special.?Virginia's Jaunting orange and blue, fresh from o! :be field of many victories, was trailed ft n the dust Thursday by the hardv w ions of the old North State. At the VI :lose of a snappy game, kicked in r( 'rozea weather, but clear, the score tl ,tood 16 to 0 in favor of North Caroina. It was a surprise to all. and to lone more perhaps than to the vlctori- a, as team itself. it CONGRESSIONAL DOINGS. ( rhe House and Senate Taking Things Deliberately. The House met Friday, and ad- $ iourned until Tuesday. The proceedngs were marked by a debate on the notion to adjourn oyer, during the wurae of which tli*; minority took the Republicans to task for not proceeding H :o the transaction of business, Mr. Williams, of Mississippi, the minority leader, protested against the InaetlTity N jf the House, asking if a majority w were afraid to trust themselves. He laid that, while the Speaker hid not oeen able, as he saw, to name all the -ommitteeg, yet there were matter* which the ways and means committee, nreaay oi-ganieau, couiu tuusiuw, :>ting among other things, the resola- a :ion relative to Canadian reciprocity. m Mr. De Armond, of Missouri, also irltioized the Republican majority's h course, saying it tended to mortify the E President. a Mr. Payne, of New York, upon whose request unanimous consent was given lor debate on the motion to adjourn ^ over, replying to the opposition, took a occasion to say that the Republicans g1 would hardly care to take up the question of tariff revision and disturb conditions on the eve of a presidential P campaign. * He also said the time was not op- ^ fortune to consider reciprocity, with Canada, as desired by the minority ' leaders. D There was a party alignment on the p rote on the motion to adjourn over, the Democrats voting against It. The ^ motlOD prevailed, 81 to 63. dl Mr. Meyer, of Louisiana, called up ti fcis resolution providing for the accenttnce of the invitation to the members tl 3f the House to be present at the Lou- N iaiana purchase celebration, in New 01 Drleans. but objection was made to Its b< :on?ideration. Mr. Bartholdt, of Mis- II touri, made an address on the St. Louis tc exposition. He reviewed what had m been accomplished, and what was be- M Ing provided for the public. el a In the Senate. t< The Senate committee on military iffairs heard James E. Runcie, of Ha- 01 rana, probably the most Important T< !?;tnoca a/111 he offered hv the >l>ponents of General Leonard Wood, ?* n their atempt to prevent his conflrnation to major general. Major Run'ce w vas on the stand several times daring " he day telling the committee of a din- dl yer at Santiago, Cuba, attended by & limself, General Wood and Ray stanlard Baker, a newspaper man. at c< vbich. it is alleged, was planned the nagazine article attacking Major Gen- e( ual Brooke, that has figured conspicu- tt jusly in the Wood case. Major Runice sc vaa stopped more than once during the :ourse of his testimony and told to ;ire nothing but facts of which he bad Bi jersonal knowledge. This did not ex- b lude his story of the dinner incident. $1 vhich resulted In the i/?sue of subpoe- ITi laes for three other witnesses, among 25 vhom is General Brooke. In his testi- sh nony, Major Runice complained that $9 )e had acted as the confidential ad- or dser of General Wood for nearly two an rears and that they lived together at Mi Santiago. It was while they were living W) n Havana that they went to Santiago to n search of a magazine article. A eo oeeting was arranged between the M hree men and a dinner rouowea, ie?- ^ ifled Major Runice, at which was disusred the plan to hare published an rticle which would exploit the sueess of General Wood In dealing with pe .ffairs at Santiago and draw a cominrison with the situation at Havana m( mfavorable to the administration of do Jeneral Brooke. A good deal of sensational testimony a raj brought out. a Murder and Su'cldr Ni Washington, Special.?Robert J. laie, a compositor in the government Tinting office, killed his wife, aifd ... . CC] hen committed suicide at tneir mmie, ^ n this city, at an early hour Thursday. He had been under suspicion of Mi ieing responsible for the condition of ^ i young woman, who it is claimed. 'a<l, lied a few days ago, as the result of ha n operation performed at a sanitari- m< im. near this city. He was not related 1 o the girl, but passed as her cousin th( nd, as such, visited at her rooms. Mi Vhen he read the announcement in the ed norir'ng papers of the arrest of the tel ihysician charged with causing thV ] ;lrls death, he wrote a number of So otes, and. proceeding to his wife's Jet oom, killed her and himself. thi Mi Wounded By Blank Shot Pn ces Danville, Va., Special.?Mabel Paige. pj2 n actress, who is at the Academy, this let /eek, was shot in her arm Friday Ight by a blank load; between the ^ eta. The charge of powder ana tnc ^ rad entered her left arm. and inflicted no painful wound. It was necessary to sta ave the wound dressed before the ^ urtain went up. though the delay was ery short. N ws Notes. j Raleigh, Special.?The Capitol Man gv facturing Company, of Marshal, Mad-cn cornty. was incorporated here ^ ist week with a caDital stock of $300.- 61 DO. beginning with $45,000. It is to Of anufacture cotton, wooi and other tra 'xtile products. The principal incororators are: J. R. Swann. J. I. Redion. F. Sbelton. G. W. Cole and Jesse H< isher, with about 50 others. sec Ir?rsaw. Special.?The 14-year-old -vej in of Mr. James Balderson, residin-' mc ? - ???1_ wi; e3r Fe3thsviiie. was seriouaiy snui ist week by the accidental discharge ne( r a shotgun while he was riding on p. 9ai ad of pine tags. The entire load of 'n lot lodged In the young man's hip. taking an ugly wound. Boy Conv'ctfd. Columbus, Ga., Special.?In the trail * f Burton Nix, aged 16 years, here for te killing last summer of John T. Ed- Tu ards in an oat patch which was an aimed by each, the Jury rendered a wfl Brdict of guilty of murder, with a Rl1 'commendation of merry. Nix shot P?1 te son of Edwards at the time he for Wed the elder man and the rounc er tan died later from the wounds. Nix sui as tried for killing the father, and thx i indictment atands against him for litt illing the son. cot \ _ ^ . . i iffer of a Tribe. eisatioaal Testimony in Famous Stri| Building Scandal OW $5,000,000 STOCK IS DiVIMI ixon 3a yi He Afterward Recommended Sheldon Plaa-Oiber Testimony. Now York. Special.?1Testimony of ;emotional nature was Introduced t the United Stakes Ship-building earing which was resumed Tuesday, luring the course of hie re-direct ax* mination of Lewis Nixon, president [ the Shipbuilding Company, Mr. 'ntermeyer, counsel for the complain* nta, brought out from Nixon the latement that of the $(,000,000 ad- * itloual stoek issued when the cumany was re-organixed to take Beth* ham Company, $1,000,000 want t? iax Pam, Mr. Schwab's counsel, sad 1,000,000 each to Mr. Nixon, Mr. rcssar and the Trust Company of the .epublie, leaving $1,000,000, the dlsosition of which he did not konw. He Xl * * ??- D.l._k .fc. v SI id noi now woeuiv ?r. ouwmm w- ? lined it. It was also brought oat that, Mr t the time tbe Sheldon re-organiw.- V on plan was under oonslderattoa, ^ [r. Schwab offered to purchase $100,)0 bonds, #ith the accompanying onus of 15,000 shares common, spA 5,000 shares preferred stock. Issued ) Mr. Nixon for $90,000, while the tarket Talue was far lees than this, [r. Untermeyer making the direct large that this was in the nature of bribe to induce Mr. Nixon to agree > the Sheldon plan of rebrganization istead of the plan for an assessment ! stock, which he had previously adicated. The offer was shown in two letters ' Mr. Schwab te Jos. - H. Hoadley. ited May 26, 1903, copies of which ere introduced in evidence. Mr. oatHey, it was testified, had conicted the negotiations with Mr. chwab, when Mr. Nixon was es* savoring to persuade Schwab to aerie to tbe assessment plan and had, ter the proposal, urged Nixon to aerie to the Sheldon plan. Nixon said iat at Hoadley's request he had don* i. The iatters are as fellows: "Provided the United State? Shipjlldlng re-organization is perfected I j ,'reby guarantee to take and pay far 00.000 of first mortgage bonds of the sited States Ship-Building Company. ,0000 shares of preferred and 25,000 ares of common stock, for the sum of 0,000, plu8 interest on said bonds, on before December 1, 1903. Said bonds id stocks to be deposited with essrs. Mclntyre & Marshall, 74 Broadly, New York, and to be exchanged r securities of the re-organized mpany, as designated by agreement rued by the re-organisation commite. (Signed) "C. M. SCHWAB." x "Providing the United State# sniplilding Company re-organliation ie rfeeted, I hereby guarantee to pay your order $40,000, amount of paysnt which has been made to the Sheln syndicate on a subscription of 00,000 made by Lewis Nixon. I alsS ree to have said subscription placed my account and guarantee to have complete release issued by said xon, by said Sheldon syndicate. (Signed) "C. M. SCHWAB." "After the date of these letters dill did not Mr. Hoadley get yon to acpt this plan?" asked Mr. Unter;yer. 'Mr. Nixon explained in answer that \ Hoadley advised him to consent to e Sheldon re-organization because \ Schwab had refused to accept the sessment plan and that he (Nixon) d threreupon written a letter recom>nding the Sheldon plan. "As to my deriving any profit from s transaction, that is nonsense." said '. Nixon. "The transaction concernothers and I prefer that they should 1 It." Mr. Nixon testified to writing to Mr. ?? hwab later and obtaining from him a ter confirmatory of the orooosal lx i letter of May 26 to Mr. Hoadley. \ Schwab's letters stated that the aposal was contingent upon the suc3S of the Sheldon re-organization in and Mr. Nixon said that he then the matter drop. Witness said, in reference to the eldon plan, that he felt "greatly lrated" because he thought the presint of the ship yards company had t been consulted, and reiterated his itement at the previous hearing, that i only knowledge of the reorganizan plan had come from conversations th Mr. Pam. Train Wrecker Convicted. Roanoke, Va., Special.?In the Austa county court at Staunton James iley was tried on the charge of murr in connection with the wrecking a Norfolk & Western passenger lin last December, when Engineer gsley Bailey, of Roanoke, was killer). [ was found guilty of murder in the :ond degree and sentenced to IS irs in the penitentiary. Bailey'* ither, Indicted for the same crime, II be tried tomorrow. Joseph Kenfly has already been tried on thk lie eharge and convicted of murder the same degree, but has not yet in sentenced. Die* of Drugs. Danville, Va., Special.?A. W. Grifl, of Winston-Salem, died here esday afternoon, from the effects of overdose of an opiate. The man, o was in the employ of the Dan ?er Power & Manufacturing Comly, had been on a protracted spree some time. It is not known whethor not the opiate was taken with cldal intent It is alleged, however, it the man deserted his wife and ,le children in Winston-Salem before ning here.