The Times and Democrat from Orangeburg, South Carolina • 1

TWO CENTS PER COPY. ORANGEBURG, S. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1912. PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY FIFTY CHILDREN DEAD FARMER HELD SENATOR RAYNER DEAD TELLS STORY OF WRECK UNBARS THE JOMPSJJJEATII VOONG WOMAN PLUNGES OVER TWO HUNDRED FEET DOZEN MEET DEATH OVER A SCORE OTHERS INJURED IN OPL0SI0N. SITRVIVORS TELL OF THEIR AWFUL EXPERIENCE.

The Steamer South Shore Wrecked In Great Storm on Lake Superior Last Sunday. Survivors who reached Rault Ste Marie, Tuesday, told thrilling stories of their last moments on the steamer South Shore, and of their rescue by life-savers just before the boat plunged to tbe bottom of Lake Superior, near Grand Marais Sunday. 'I have called the lakes for years and have never before encountered such an experience as this," said Arthur King, fireman on the fcteamer. "It was not long after the boat struck the heavy peas that her seams opened and the water poured through them. Two men and their wives were aboard as passengers.

The women were remarkably cool, but they did not know their real danger. We, down below, knew ws were right in the graveyard of the lakes. "The windows were soon smashed and the stern torn away. As the boat began to fill the fires got low. I was standing in water up to my waist and deck hands passed coal.

As Boon as they would get a pile of It together water would wash It away and finally we threw Into the fire boxes, a number of pads of hard coal we were carrying as freight. "All night we tossed around the lake in that condition. Just before neon (Sunday) the life-savers on shore, Rix miles away, saw our white flag and came to the rescue. We all jumped into the life-savers' boat and made for the shore. The wheelsman lashed ber wheel and headed her straight for shore.

She started In as prettily as anything you ever saw end then suddently dropped out of eight." BURNED SELF TO DEATH. Daughter of Former Turkish Sultan Saw Dishonor. According to the story of a war correspondent at Constantinople, Ze- kie, the oldest daughter of Abdul' llamid, the former Turkish sultan, was overcome with despair on account of her country's disasters and uamatically committed suicide in the garden of her magnificent palace at Abusheir. Her husband was Noureddin Pasha, a general of a division of the army and a son of the famous Osman Pasha Ghazi, "the He was fighting under Nazim Pasha, the Turkish minister oi war, who although he declared to the sultan that he would die on the battlefield rather than return in defeat, has been overwhelmed with defeat and is now advising the Turkish ministers to abandon the war. As the news of the successive Turkish defeats came in Princess Ze-kle became morose and refused to converse with her friends.

After the defeat of the Turks at Lule Burgas became known In the Ottoman capital, the princess determined to commit suicide. She built a funeral pyre with her own hands and decorated It with flowers and prioetess tapestries. The servants were very anxious ov er their mistress' behavior, but they did not dare interfere. The princess 6pent a long time in her apartments in silent prayer. Finally she came out, her hair flowing and attired in a long garment, ascended the pyre and then applied fire to it.

She was burn ed to death while the servants stood around lamenting but with characteristic Turkish fatalism did not attempt to prevent the saddened woman from taking her own life. FATAL ALTO HMASH-CP. Three Greenville Meu Badly Injured in Auto Collision. An automobile coliisioa in Green vilie, on Nona Main street, late Tuesday alternooa resulted in serious in juries to Dr. W.

vi. Kuraeu, Frank t'oe, and Frank Loetiei. Thd in jured wtiro taktn to the City Hospital, where it was found lir. Enobel had broken hts left arm aud both Ugs; Dr. Bu'nett'8 shoulder had been dislocated with prooatiy internal injuries while Mr.

Poe was suffering from a broken arm and several painful bruises. Messrs. Poo and Enebel, driving a hlga powered National racer, were speeding down tha North Main hiii, lu a practise spin preparatory to the auto bill climb Friday, when at a point opposite the fciia smbaukmeut overlooking the City Park, the car plunged heallone into tae runabom driven by Dr. Burnett. Both machines were completely wrecked, the runabout being hurled a dtauoe ol forty or mere teet, while the bij racer plunged over an Iron railing down a forty-foot embankment into a ravine.

CONlTiXT BUIiXS. Nubs Save the Lives of Oae Hundred Girl Students. Huddled in their night clothes Into a hrinking, terror-btritkea line, one hundred girls, students at St Joseph's convent, near Washington, were drilled by two courageous! mini to tho siret and natftv. fire completely destroyed tbe convent shortly before dawn Wednesday. The was discovered by one.

of the students. Avened from tlrep by smoke which ElU-d the entire building, she hmrielly alarmed the Inmates going from room tO( loom, unmindful of her own siiety, taring only to rescue her sister students from their impending peril. Among the first awakened were two nuns, who Immediately set about to the task of maintaining order. The hnsdred girls were Quickly drilled Into line, and while fervent prayers were offered the long line of students clad only In their night cloth ss, marched to the street and out of dan- DISTLNGITSHED DEMOCRAT OF MARYLAND PASSES. His Pestta Makes the United States, Senate Very Close as llepublican Succeeds Him." Isldor Rayner, one or the leading Democratic mem Dors of the United, States Senate and a man wnoee name was offered to the Baltimore Convention by William J.

Uryan as suitable candidate for the Presidential nomination, died at Washington early Monday at the end of a long ill ness resulting from continued attacks of neuritis. Senator Rayner had ben in a co-matose state since lost Wednesday a woek with only one or two slight rallies. His severe Illness covered a period of about sis weeks, dating from the et'orts made in the joint political debate with Bourke Cockran at Baltimore, late In September. Physicians compelled him to retiro from the campaign Immediately afler that and be returned to his Washington home, where ho died at 6:20 o'clock Monday morning. His death creates a vacancy in the Senate that probably will be filled by a Republican through appointment by Governor Goldsborough, of Maryland.

While the legislature of that state Is Democratic It does not meetj this winter and the Republican governor's eprointment will hold thro' the opening sessions of the next cou-, gress. Senator Kayner was one et the striking fgures of the Senate. He had been a member of that body for almost eight years and was one of its strongest debaters and a recognized authority on constitutional law. Before he entered the Senate he had attained a national reputation because of his vigorous conduct of the late Admiral Schley's case before the naval court of inquiry that investigated the action of American officers in the battle with Admiral Cer-vera's Spanish fleet. Mr.

Rayner was a native of Baltimore and was 62 years old. He was a member of the Marylsnd legislature when 28 years old and served three terms in the national House of Representatives In the reriod from 18S to 1892. He was elected to the United States Senate In 1904, after having served a four years' term as attorney-general of Maryland. The control of the United States Senate after March 4 may hinge on the death of Senator Rayner. The Republican whom It is expected Governor Goldsborough will appoint in bis place will hold office at least until the Maryland legislature meets In January, 1914.

Senator Rayner'e death removes one of the Democrats on whom the control of Ihe Senate denended in the new Congress. With his vote the Democratic "leaders counted on mustering 49, or one more than a majority of a total membership of 96. In any event, 48 votes, with the vote of the vice-president in case of a tie, was looked upon as sufficient strength to insure control. While tbe Democrats still have an apparent strength of 48, the death of the 'Maryland senator reduces the supposed majority to a point very near the dividing line of party con trol. WHITE SLAVERY CHARGE.

Young CM Trapped bj Head of Musical Company. Disclosures by Miss Genevlve Goodwin, 19 years old. of Cincinnati, of an alleged attempt to use her ab a "white resulted in the arrest at Atlanta Saturday night of Mrs. Emma Pauline Hudson, man ager, and Robert Grier, stage director, of tho Metropolitan Musical Comedy Company, on Federal warrants charging violation of the Mann Act. Mrs.

Hudson and Grier will be ar raigned before United States Com- misioner Fuller next Tuesday. Miss Goodwin's story was related to Federal officials and the chief of the local police department. According to her statement ske was until recently a trained nurre in the City Hospital at Cleveland. Desiring to go on tbe stage, she listed an application with a Cincinnati Employment Agency. LaBt week, through the agency, she was directed to the Metropolitan Company, being organized in that city, with an offer of a position at $10 a week and her transportation.

Upon her arrival she alleges that Mrs. Hudson informed ber that she would have to "pass as the wife'' of one of two "odd" men in the company. The two "odd" men, according to her statement, were to be brought before ber and she was to take her choice. Angered at the alleged command. Miss Goodwin asked for ber return fare to Cincinnati.

She states that this was refused and sbe notified the local police. Bullet-Proof Shied Invented. A light metal shield, claimed to be capable of rendering Infantry practically invunlerable agaipst rifle Is said to have been Invented by a German engineer named Schau-mann. Volleys fired at a distance of 83 yards In an experiment, only slightly dented one of the new plates. Tried to Teke Life.

Despondent bseause of an indictment Bgainst him charging forgery, T. II. of Hopkinsvllle, ar-resd at Pporia, at the rerjnpst of West Virginia authorities Friday, attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat. Physicians say he has a slight chance for recovery. Size of Cottoa Crop.

In its estimate the Memphis Commercial Appeal places the yield of cotton for 1912-13 at bales, exclusive of Ilnters. Reliable reports from all sections of the cotton belt lnd'cafe that picking is further advanced than ever before at this time of tbe season and ginning is equally well la haaa. ON THE PUBLIC ROAD AND BOBBED OF HIS CASH. Returning From Partington, TV here He Sold Load of Cotton, Held Up at Point of Pistols and Robbed. A special to The News and Courier from Florence gays Mr .1 McLen-don, a well known larmer of 1 lcr-ence county, was neld oy thrao negro rulllans at High Hill Crook Saturday afternoon and roo'iyj of Xi'i'J In cold cash.

'Mr. McLendon, who lives on and farms the T. C. Wllloughy lands, miUs south of that city, on the Evergreen road, left his home early in the morning with a wagon load of long staple bale cotton for Darlington. Reaching that place he Bold his cotton and received the money in cash, which he placed in his purse and In the breast pocket of his coat.

Shortly after noon he started for his home through Florence. As he was passing along the road lea.ling to Flo-nce from Darlington, by the Bide of the' Coast Line tracks, a most frequcr.ted thoroueh-fare for" vehicles, he was held up in the High Hill Creek swamp, one mile east cf Palmetto, and robbed "of his money. Mr. McLendon, ns soon as no cculd get hurried to Florence and reported the matter to the sheriff 'a. office and a party was hurriedly made up, with Deputy Sheriff Cain In charge, and rushed to the urene lu an automobile, but was impossible to capture the highwaymen, us they had more tbau two hours' jump on the searchers.

Mr. said tnat Saturday morning hen lie passed along he noticed threo negroes sitting on the high trcftle at that place, each of them having a bicycla. He thought little of it at the time. When he returned in the afternoon and, just as he crossed the first bridge, which i3 the Darlington Coun ty line, he saw three men come out of the ssvamp between the two bridges on the Floroaca County side. They approacned him with drawn revolvers and ordered him to hand over Lis money.

This he refused to do and endeav ored to bluff them oil by threatening to shoot them if they approached further. He had noining to shoot with and soon he saw ne was at the mercy of the highwaymen, and after again being demanded to shuck out bis coin he again refused. By this time one of the meu had jumped into the wagon benind him and quickly slapped Mr. McLendon in the face and placed his hand over his mouth; he ran the other hand Into his pocket and secured the wallet with $129. They then left him, secured their bicycles and made their escape.

After leaving, Mr. McLendon saw them changing coats and hats, but did not know cr recognize any of them. He can do so should be see either oi them again, he says. The party from Florence, after reaching the lonely place where the deed was committeea, followed the trail of the bicycles and men for a considerable distance towards Dar lington, but finally lost it entirely, as ttey would walk awhile and then carry their wheels on their shoulders. It is thought that the negroes, seeing -Mr.

McLendon pass along with the cotton early In, the morning, and knowing be would return that way during the day, followed him to Dar lington and watched him sell the cotton, place the money in his pocket, then jumped on their wheels, return ed to High Hill Creek and awaited his coming, knowing they -could overpower him ana escape without being detected. TRAGEDY LV TIHMOXSY1LLE. C. E. Jones Semis Five Bullets Into K.

F. Williams. A dispatch from Timmonsville to The State says one of the most shocking tragedies ever enacted in Tim-monsviile occurred Saturday afternoon about 2 o'clock, when C. B. Jones, a saw mill man, of Fountain Inn, S.

shot and instantly killed R. F. Williams, of Baldwin, vihohas been there several days representing a laundry machine company. Williams was sitting in his place of business lu the heart of town reading, whtn Jones waiked in and, it is said, without any warning began: Miooting Williams, five shots being fired, all taking effect, one near each nippie und two lu the stomach, the fifth in the neck, ks Williams- fell, Jones walked on the streets and gave himself hp. The dead man baa a wife and three children in Baldwin, to which place his body was shipped Saturday night, the Masons of place assisting in preparing the body for shipment.

Jones was taken to Florence and lodged in jail to await trial. A brother-in-law of Williams stated that the two had had some little trouble, but on last Sunday ad-Justed their differences and shook hands and agreed to let everything be a thing of the past. Bird's Nest Causes Deaths. At Mount Zion, last summer birds' nest caused the death Tuesday of Henry Scott and bis wife. Tho nest blocked a chimney flue and when a gas stove was lighted iu the couple's' bed room the fumes we-e forced back and they were asphyxiated.

Scott was 48 years and his wife sir years his senior. They were married last August. Monument Stolen From Grave. A large and costly monument on the grave of a prominent physician at Millenrweig, Germany, disappeared and was finally discovered on the grave of a young girl, the inscription baring been skilfully cut off. The girl's parents proved that they ha! purckased thn nonumeat as they claimed they had done.

VICTDW OP A TAMO LV A MOVING PICTURE SHOW. Many Little One Were Crowned Death Wbeu the Cry of "Fire" Was Mounded. A terrible panic was caused Sua-day afternoon by the cry of fire at a moving picture show at id 1 boa, Spain. About fifty children and others were killed. Ouly one woi'ian, up to a late hour Sunday night, had been found among the dead.

The number of injured is not as moat vf them were taken home by friends. The Bcene of thn accident is a largo circus, which had been convened into a continuous cinematograph sho.v. As the price of admission was only two cents the building was crowded to its utmost capacity, for the most part women and children. The operator of ths machine lost his nerve when a Aim Ignited and screamed He was able to distinguish the Games himself without difficulty. Almost every one in the building sprang up.

Police and attendants were powerless to control the panic-stricken people and were swept away by the surging mass which sought to fight a way to the exit. Scores were knocKed do-vn and trampled and many were crushed to death in the passages from the galleries and to the streets. The disaster caused frenzied citizens to gather outside the building, and authorities had great in carrying on the work of rescue and extricating the dead and injured from the piles of wrecked seats. The manager and ether employees have been arrested and are held pending an inquiry. clerk of Court.

He was a-rested and brought before clerk of Court May 30, 1912, and sentence then opened,) was paroled during good behavior. Johi Elrod, convicted of obtaining goods by false pretenses at Spartanburg In January, 1912, and sentenced to one year on the public works of Spartanburg County or in the State Penitentiary at hard labor, was paroled during good behavior. Betsy Calhoun, convicted of arson at Abbeville in September, 1910, and sentenced to ten years In the State Penitentiary, was paroled during good behavior. Hamie Fields, convicted at Barnwell In March, 1903, of murder, with recommendation to mercy and sen- fenced to life Imprisonment in the State Penitentiary, was paroled dur ing good behavior. J.

F. Horton, convicted of highway robbery at Spartanburg in Novem ber, 1905. and sentenced to ten years in the State Penitentiary, was paroled during good behavior. Alonzo Camack, convicted of man slaughter at Fairfield In September, 1911, and sentenced to three years' Imprisonment, was paroled during good behavior. Will Dunlap, convicted of murder, with recommendation to mercy, at York in April, 1908, and sentenced to life Imprisonment in the State Peni tentiary, was paroled during good be havior.

Charles Huger, convicted of manslaughter at Dorchester in April, L1910, and sentenced to six years' lm- prisonment, was paroled during good behavior. O. C. Summey, convicted of asult and 'battery with intent to kilt at Greenville in May, 1910, and sentenced to four years' Imprisonment or pay a fine of $800. was paroled dur ing good behavior.

Robert Duncan, convicted of larceny at Creenvlile in J910, and sentenced to seven years' iraarisonment, was paroled during good behavior. S. M. Butt, convicted of manslaughter at Oconee in March, 1910, and sentenced to three years' impris onment, was paroled during good be fcavior. William.

H. Mills, convicted of murder, with recommendation to mercy, at Cherokee in July, 1907 and sentenced to life-, imprisonment in the State Penitentiary, was paroled during good behavior, and upon the further condition that if he de cides to live with the woman about whom this killing seems to have tak en place, that he must do so beyond the borders of the State of South Carolina; for his llvin? with her in this state will be considered a violation of this parole. Robert Daniel, convicted of assault with intent to ravim at Fairfield in February, 1909, and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment In the State Penitentiary, wrs paroled upon the con dition that if he is nereafter convicted of any crimlral offense in the Sessions Courts of this State that he be re-commlttPd to tr State Penitentiary to serve the remainder of this sentence. William Brown, convicted of murder, with recommendation to mercy, at Greenville In March, 1898 and sentenced to life Imprisonment in the State Penitentiary, was paroled during good behavior. STRANGE nil SON TALK.

Jail Officials May Have Hashed the Wrong Negro. Leonard Lewis, sentenced to four years on the Georgia state farm for burglary, may have been hanged at Isouglasviuo by mistake for Leonard Lewis, who wns sentenced to bo ex- ecutrd for murder. If the wrong man wrs hanged, the mistake was clue to the fact that two ttpgro convicts, both named Leonard Lewis and very much alike in personal appearance, were confined In Atlanta fall for safe keepink. One Lewis was from Coweta county and the other from Douglas county. One was taken from Atlanta Jail to Dnuglasville and there banged.

Soon after the elocution rumors became current that the wrong man had suffered death for the crime The prison officials say the right Leonard Lewis was barged but admit tbe difficulty of proving the assertion. CLEMENCY EXTENDED TO THIRTY-TWO PRISONERS. YOUNG GIVEN A PARDON As Thanksgiving Offering, Governor OoJe lu BleH Grants Parole to Twenty-nine Convicts and Full Pardon to TUree, Who Can Ent Thanksgiving Dinner at II.Mue. Governor Buease gave thirty-two people their freedom as a Thanksgiving present and thoy -who are In the lucky number will be liberated In time to eat Thanksgiving dinner at home with thlr relatives and friends. Among the thirty-two to whom clemency were granted seventeen are at present In the Penitentiary, thirteen on chain gangs throughout the Stat and two were out, one on parole and the other was pardoned to' restore citizenship.

The prison doors of those who were recipients of the Governor's clemency for Thanksgiving swung open Wednesday and marches out Into the sunshine and to freedom. Among the number liberated is J. Stobo Young, of Laurens, who was given a full pardon. He was convicted along with John Y. Garitngton of breach of trust In connection with the Seminole Securities Company and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary.

Recently he has been free on a parole and now goes free with a full pardon. Plumer Ashley, who was convicted of manslaughter in 1911 In Abbeville County, was given a parole. He killed a Mr. Stone and the evidence shows that the gun went ot accidentally. Ashley is a nephew of Mr.

W. Ashley, a member of the Legislature from Anderson County. William H. Mills, who was serving a life sentence for killing a Mr. Deal, received a parole during good behavior.

Mills was sent up from Cherokee County or life In 1907. Three of the thirty-two receiving clemency obtained full pardons, white the other twenty-nine were given paroles. A full list of the ones receiving clemency for Thanksgiving follows: J. Stobo Young, convicted of reach of trust at Richland in Jan-nary 1910, and ssntenced to one year's Imprisonment in the State Penitentiary (paroled April 18, 1912, to October 1, 1912, at which time parole extended until November 12, 1912) was pardoned. Bishop Bradley, convicted at Abbeville In March.

1910, of larceny and sentenced to five years In the State Reformatory, was pardoned. J. C. McEHone, convicted of bastardy In Richland In June 1910, and sentenced to pay the defendant the sum of $25 annually until It reached the pge of 12 years, was pardoned. Will Jods, convicted of bigamy at Union, in February 1911, and sentenced to three years' imprisonment and pay a fine of $500, was paroled during good behavior.

Lonnle Hioks, convicted of larceny of a bicycle at York in Jnly 1910, and sentenced to pay a fine of 5 and three years In reformatory for colored boys on State Farm in Lexington County, was paroled during good behavior. Nelson Hampton, convicted with recommendation to mercy at Greenwood In November. 1906, and sentenced to life Imprisonment in the State ppnltentlary was paroled during good behavior. Alexander Brooks, convicted of manslaughter at Richland in September, 1910, and sentenced to five years on.fhe pnblto works, was paroled during good behavior. Knowlton DnvR convicted of man- at Richland in tne s-iHri; 190R and sentenced to five years' Imprisonment, was paroled during good behavior.

Wyla Alford, convicted of larwnv at Florence In the spring of 1911. and sentenced to two years on county works, W88 raroled during good behavior. J. IT. Pope convicted of manslaughter at Hampton, in the fall of 1906, and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, was paroled during good behavior.

Rufus Jones, convicted of murder at Orangeburg in 1901, and sentenced to life imprisonment, was paroled during good benavlor. Jake Thomas, crnvicted of manslaughter at Chester July, 1908, and sentenced to six years' imprisonment, was paroled during good behavior. James Boulware. convicted of manslaughter at Fairfield in Februnry, 1909, and sentenced to ten years' im prisonment, was paroled during good behavior. Travis Bright, convicted of man slaughter at Cherol- in the fall of 1911.

and sentenced to two and one- half years' imprisonment, was paroled during good behavior. Sam Langford, convicted at Lau rens in June, 1912, of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature and carrying concealed weapons and sentenced to twelve months on the chstn gang of the county, was paroled during good behavior. Jim Lewis, convicted of manslaughter at Chester In Ma-e'h. 1011, ind sentenced to two years' Imprisonment, was paroled during good behavior. riucier Asb'ev, convicted of manslaughter Abbeville In the of 1911, and sentenced to soven years' imprisonment, was paroled during good behavior.

Elbert Wallace, convicted of assault with Intent to ravish at Aiken in June, 1907, and sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment In the State Penitentiary, was paroled during good behavior. James M. Center, convicted of assault with intent to kill at Green-villa In January, 1906. and sentenced to one yeir'8 imprisonment or pay fine of 1300, (Center was absent at rial and sealed sentence left with PLANT BADLY WBECKED Flames Follow Explosion, Pre kiting Work of Rescue Estimates of Dead Vary From Three to Twelve Dead Vary From Three to Twelve Report Heard Throughout the Olty Property Damage $100,000. An explosion, which wrecked the dry starch house of the Corn Products Company's plant at Wankegon, 111., Monday afternoon, killed between three and twelve workmen, injured twenty-seven others, several of whom will die, and caused about $100,000 property damage.

Uncertainty as to the number of dead was caused by inability of firemen to search the burning ruins because of continued minor explosions. Edward Conrad, deputy in the Laka County coroner's office, was authority for the statement that twelve men at least had been trapped in the wrecked building. Charles Ebert, superintendent of the Corn Products Company's Wau-kegan plant, said that only three men had been killed and twenty-seven injured by the explosion, Only thirty men had business in the starch house at the time of the explosion," said Mr. Ebert. "We have twenty-eeven of these at vae hospital and three bodies or portions of bodies have been recovered.

That checks the list, and I think this will be found to be absolutely Mr. Ebert admitted it was possible that additional workmen not employed In the starch house might have been caught in the explosion, but said this was improbable. Nearly all of the workmen killed or injured were Polish, Lithuanian or Austrian, and they were on the company's pay roll by numbers and not by names. This further increased the difficulties met by the coroner in his efforts to arrive at a correct death list. The explosion tore the two-story frame top house from the five-etory building and scattered bits of it for fifty yards In all directions.

The body of one man killed was blown across the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad's right-of-way onto the hillside in Oakwood Cemetery. All of the in5ured were coated with starch, which had to be washed off before surfeons could treat their injuries. Private automobiles were pressed into service to Carry the injured to the hospital. Firemen from North Chicagor the National Envelope Company's plant and the American Steel and Wire Company's plant aided the Waukegan department in preventing the spread of the fire to other portions of the big Corn Products plant. Although the fire appeared to be under control, the firemen aaid they expected It would continue to burn the next day, with the possibility that new explosions would start It again.

The damage to the plant amounts to $100,000. The cause of the explosion is unknown. The detonation wa eaM. throughout the city. Officials of the company said they had been unable to arrive at a decision es to the cause of the explosion.

Workmen at the plant thought It was due to overheating of the product In he large starch kilns. An in vestigation was begun. Volunteer nurses aided the regular staff at the hospital, where the Injured were cared for. Among the volunteers were a npmber of young society women of Waukegan. Martin Sinter, of Peoria, assistant superintendent of th3 plant, was among those spriously injured.

Slater was being trained to take care of the Corn Products Company's new plant at Peking, 111. COUNTY SHERIFF KILLED. Farmer, Resisting Arrest, Badly Wounded In tho Battle. W. T.

Harris, sheriff of DeSoto County, was killed and G. W. Treadway, a farmer, probably fatally wounded In a revolver battle Monday at the Treadway home, where the sheriff and a posse had gone to arrest the farmer. Treadway was charged with driving officers from his home at the point of a revolver Saturday. They had called to seize somo cotton to satisfy a judgment.

Members of the posse stated that Treadway Monday Invited Sheriff Harris to enter his home; as Harris reached the doorway he was shot down. An exchange of shots between the posse and Treadway, assisted by his two sons, Earl and Murel, followed. The elder Tread-way's arms and shoulders were riddled with bullets. Earl surrendered, but Murel escaped, the latter is being pursued by posses. Each Looked Like Rabbit.

Frederick C. Sloane and the Rev. J. Willis Miller, both of Butlet. N.

were hunting In the same field recent- neither knowing the other was there. Thoy both siied a rabbit at the same time, both shot and bnrli received a shot in the legs. Hhcy, limped home toetltpr. Kills His Pretty Swectbenrt, At New York, Margaret Sohroeder, am, kuld West 4 5th streot by her sweetheart. Michael Grayson.

21 years, who attempted suicide by firing a bullet Into his head. He was removed to a hospital unconscious. Light of follow Kill. At Tarapa Oulllenno Gonzales, aged 70, died of heirt failure doe to excitement Thursday, wkea he view tbe gallows oa which a aesro erUainal Is CRASHED ON PAVEMENT Wearing Badge, "Death Before Dishonor," With New Testament Suspended from Her Neck and Hold-tng Handbag, Young Woman School Teacher Takes Fatal Leap. Possessed with the idea that she was pursued for dishonorable purposes, MiBS Maud Van Deusen, 35 years old, leaped from the twentieth story of the McCorinick building in Chicago and was crushed to death ou the stone pavement or an alley at the street level.

She jumped from a fire escape, nearly 2'0 feet above the ground. Her body struck another fire escape at the first floor and bounded into the allsyway. Nearly all her bones were broken. 'Miss Van Deusen. according to papers found on ber person, was a school teacher In Humboldt, Nob.

It appears that, she had been seeking a position at Chicago and had been obsessed with the idea that she had been in danger from white slavers. She wrole that she had been driven to appeal for protection from Chief of Police McWeeney to the Federal department of Justice to social settlement workers. She had prepared for her death by pinning across her bosom a strip of white linen, which had been Btained crimson at either end sad on which she printed In large letters "Death before She had tied around her neck a cory of the New Testament, In which sue had marked passages in John. She held her handbag in her hand as she lumped and it was picked up near her bod. In It was another marked Bible and a typewritten statement of several words entitled "Part of My Life's 'I will die clean, I have to kill was written et the head of one of the sheets.

A strip of bacon, a small paper of pepper, an ounce of tea and $3.19 in currency also were found in the handbasj. The police assert that Miss Van Deusen evidently was deranged when she leaped from the building. The landlady from the house In whfch Miss Van Deusen bad been rooming said that the young woman had been without employment for some time. "I am trying to write this without the least emotion," her typewritten statement began, "and, though the following statements seem dramatic, your reason will assure you that they contain only common sense. ''I nave very little money and am not allowed to hold a position.

I will accept no money but that I earn. "If I do not get help it will be a certainty that I cannot escape falling Into the hands of the spiritualist white slave trade and that will force me to self-destruction." The police do not nnderstand what Miss Van Deusen meant by "spiritualist white slave A copy of a letter In her handbag addsessed to Miss Jane Addams, of Hull House, read: "I wonder if this note will ever reach you. Good people nowadays are protected by secretaries so that it is bard to get to them. I shall love you if you are good really, or intenl to be as you A letter apparently written by Miss Addams in reply stated tnat she was too busy to see Miss Van Deusen at that time, but would r.ake a later appointment with her. One passage marked in the Testament referred to was from tho 14th chapter of John.

"Let not your heart be troubled. Ye believe in God. Believe also in Me. In my Father's house are mauy mansions. If it were not so I would havo told you.

I go to prepare a place for you." Oliss Van Deusen. it is said, was the only daughter of Dr. Lydla Van Deusen, Falls City, Neb. She is said to have told friends that she worried a great deal over a Hindu cult. The young woman is said to have been harassed by a hullucination that she was pursued by the representatives of this cult.

Miss Van Deusen came to Chicago from Cincinnati Jun6 26. Whils in the Ohio city she worked as a stenographer and lived at the Young Women's Christian Association Home. Miss Haud Van Deusen was well kr.own in Falls City. where rhe grew up to womnnnood. She taug'it school in Falls City, and in Rlcha'd-boq County districts for a number of years.

Her family was well-to-do. About six years beo Miss Van Den-sen, then 29 years old, suffered mental derangement and became estranged from her family. She lmagiiel they were trying to deprive her cl her property. For a time she is treated in a Lincoln hospital and later she went to Chicago. For the last two years her relatives knew little about her but ftpderstood sn was making her own ay in Chicago as a stenoflrapher.

Love PowK iTaU Girl. Love powders and tfcer magical charms cost Mary Jarrln, of New York city, oTer virttinlly all her savings as a servant, before she realized they were powerless to win back a swain who had deserted her. The love potions were prepared by Jane Grindle, a fortune teller, who is under arrest charged with grand larceny. Wolves in Sheep Clothing. Pickpockets, posing as delegates to tbe North Georgia conference of the Yethodist Episcopal church, South, at Corrolton, have been robbing ministers attending the conference.

Dr. Julius McGath of Oxford, a missionary to the Hebrew, was relieved of a wallet containing $20, and several other thefts tar beea reported.