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VOLUME XIII., No. 198.
DREW MURDER IS
MII DEEP
MYSTERY
Defectives Baffled in Their En
deavor To Secure Incrim
inating Evidence
TROY, N. Y. —Disheartened and
desperate over the absolute loss of
tangible evidence which would war
rant an arrest, District Attorney
O’Brien and his staff will at once call
every [erson whose name has been
mentioned in the Teal Pond mystery
before Coroner Strobe, who will like
ly begin the inquest into Hazel Drew’s
d'Hth on Saturday. Efforts to estab
lish guilt at a coroner's hearing are
rarely successful, but it is the only
n sort left to the Rensselaer county
officials.
Every bit of plausible evidence
has been woven about Taylor, the
girl's uncle. The developments 'of
the last few hours place him peril
ously close 1° the county jail, ac
cording to O’Brien's detectives.
Where Hazel Drew spent Monday
afternoon and night, where her favor
ite Russia leather bag is, the identi
ty of the girl’s admirers here, and
In New York and Boston, if such
there are, remain mysteries which
have not been fathomed.
Dr. H. O. Fairweather's autopsy
findings clearly establish the girl’s
death as a murder.
Persistent ’’sweating" of Smith and
Cunderman has failed to disturb their
statements and, after an active search
tor persofls who the girl might have
visited in Albany on Monday night,
the detectives are forced to admit
they know not where to turn. Every
clew has been exhausted, every per
son who knew the girl interviewed,
and after the closest scrutiny of her
life the authorities don’t hesitate to
declare Hazel Drew was above re
proach.
PCIAL FIGURES
FOR THE TOTiIL
APPROPRIATIONS
WASHINGTON. Official figures
have been prepared by the chief
clerks of the committees on appro
priations of the senate and house,
showing that the total appropriations
made at the last session of congress
were $1,008,397,543.56. Of this amount,
$95,382,247 was appropriated for the
army. $122,663,885 for the navy, $163,.
Oau.OOO for pensions, $222,970,892 for
the postoffice and $111,958,088 fpr
sundry civil expenses.
The appropriations for public
buildings throughout the United
States aggregated $20,789,750. The
new offices specifically authorized are
1u,824, at an annual compensation of
$14,764,677. Those offices abolished
number 6,142, at a compensation of
$4,G78,389. The Increase Includes
6,000 seamen, 809 marines and 3,368
postal employes. ,
A comparison of the total appro
priations for the last session of the
59th congress with those of the first
session of the 60th shows an increase
of $87,599,399 for the latter.
NINE ARE KILLED
UK TERRIBLE
EXPLOSION
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CLEELUM, Wash. —Nine persons
were killed and many others terribly
Injured by the explosion of a powder
magazine owned by the Northwestern
Improvement company, half a mile
from this town. The dead.
George Mead, manager of the com
pany store.
Gilbert McDonald a clerk. ,
Andy Grill, clerk.
Mrs. Peter Moffatt and Infant child.
Joseph Rossi, a miner.
Joe PogiajTpi, a miner.
Two other miners, unidentified.
The origin of the accident, is un
known. Mead and the clerks went
from the store to the powder house to
help unload a carload of explosive.
Mrs. Moffatt, with her husband and
two children, were living near the
powder house In a tent. The tent was
Gil.own away and Mrs. Moffatt's bobdj
has not yet been found.
Cries were beard from the debris
shortly after the accident, but they
r eased before the relief workers could
>d«ar away the twisted timbers and
Iran.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
HAZEL DREW , FOUND DEAD IN TEAL POND
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Upper cut shows Miss Hazel Drew, the victim of
the Teal Fond tragedy. She is nineteen years old
and was murdered on a d ark and lonely road within
a short distance of Teal’s Pond, fourteen miles from
Troy, N. Y. Lower cut shows a view of Teal Pond,
where the body of the Drew girl was thrown.
CALLED FROM
BUGGY, SHOT IS
SIGHT OF WOMEN
YOUNGSiON, Ohio.—Frank Ward,
aged 37, an ex-convict, shot and in
stantly killed Walter Henry, aged 28,
at 11 o’clock last night, near Calvary
cemetery. Ward was out riding with
Sadie Allen.
Henry, who was manager of tne
Duquesne hotel, was driving with
three young ladles in a surrey. Ward
passed the ~enry party near the cem
etery where Henry had stopped to
light a cigar. Ward swore at Hen
ry and called him vile names. Fur
ther on, Ward stopped his rig to let
Henry pass and he again called him
vile names. Henry got out of his
rig and walking to the buggy of
Ward asked him what he meant.
Ward, without any warning, fired.
The bullet, went wild and Henry grab
bed Ward's arm; asked again what
he meant, saying: "Don’t do that,
Frank."
Ward jerked his arm away and
fired again, the bullet striking Hen
ry in the right breast. He fell be
tween the wheels of the buggy, dead.
Ward turned and fled, but was later
arrested.
HEARST LEAGUE GETS
BUSY
State Ticket For In
dependent Party Named
in Vermont. Party Will
Attempt To Put Man in
Congress.
RbTLAND, Vt.—The Hearst Inde
pendence League took its first active
steps In Vermont here last night at
a state convention. John D. Spell
man, of Rutland, member of the par
ty's national committee, was chairman
The following state ticket, was nom
inated:
For Governor, Quentin S. Backus
of Brandon; lieutenant governor
Peter Richie, of Burlington; state
treasurer, H. D. Daniels, of St. Johns
bury; secretary. L. A. Austin, of Rut
land, auditor, Thomas P. Bragg, of
Rutland.
The party Is arranging for district
conventions to nomlna'o (s -dldates
for congress.
WEATHER FORECAST—Fair tonight; Satnrday sh owers,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 17, 1908.
FOR HEALTH’S SAKE
WOMAN FASTS FOR
FIFTY-SIX DAYS
WINTER, Wis.—Mrs. John F.
Dietz, wife of the “outlaw of Camer
on Dam," has just finished a fast of
56 days. Not only does she show no
ill effects of this worlds record-break
ing effort, but she probably owes her
life to it. She, underwent the ordeal
to cure appendicitis, and, aeordlng
to her husband, she succeeded.
Mrs. Dietz is rid of all pain,” de
clared Dietz. "She lost 50 or 60
pounds in weight, but she will soon
regain that.”
Mrs. Dietz was unable to get a doc
tor because of the war the state has
been waging against Dietz for five
years. Dietz has not been arrested
during al! thnt time, although the
court machinery of the Btate was in
voked.
WIFE OF SFAIABD
DIF OFFICIAL
KILLS SEIF
PASADENA, Cal.- Mrs. Edith M.
Teagle, wife of Walter C. Toagie, of
Cleveland, Ohio, an official of the
Standard Lu company, is dying in
the Pasadena hospital from a bullet
wound inflicted by herself last night
Mrs, Teagle, who- Is about 30 years
old, has resided here two years. While
her nurse was In Los Angeles mak
Ing arrangements for a trip to Clove
land, Mrs. Teagle shot herself through
I the bead at her home and was found
several hours afterward by the nurse
when she returned.
Mrs. Teagle s action Is attributed tn
melancholia resulting from continued
111 health. Her husband, who has
been In Europe, was expected to ar
rive In New York today.
Mrs. Teagle Is the daughter of W
T. Murray, of Cleveland, head of »
steel eerperatlon, and prominent In
financial circles.
JOHN TEMPLE OHS II CANDIDATE
FOR PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION OF
HEAHST’S INDEPENDENCE PAOTT
CHICAGO—The campaign for the IndepeiHence party nomination
for the presidency was opened today when Thomas L. Hisgen, of Mas
sachusetts, reserved by telegraph quarters in ilie Palmer House. H«
procured a parlor suite adjoining the quarters of the Massachusetts
delegation.
Charles F. S. Neal, of Indiana a rival candidate, will open quarters
in the Windsor-Clifton Hotel, directly across the street and will bring
with him the largest delegation of all the states to fight for ills can
didacy.
The Indinnlans, following tho basic idea of the "boss-loss party,”
to place the power In the hands of ns many as possible instead of cen
tering the rule in the hands of the few, selected sixty delegates to
cast Us thirty votes, each delegate having one half vote. While this
will give Neal no greater voting strength in his own state delegation,
it will afford him twice the ordinary number of active campaigners.
Former Congressman W. W. Howard, of Alabama, wilt make his
own campaign from headquarters in the Morrison. While he is tho
choice of his native state, Alabama, from which lie was elected to the
national congress, he has been pledged a strong following from other
southern states, where he is popular, especially Georgia and Virginia.
Georgia has no native son, though one of its best, known men is a
candidate. John Temple Graves, who made a national reputation while
a resident of Atlanta, ns a political reformer, lecturer and economist,
now appears in the ranks of the parly as a New Yorker.
The program of the convention has been drafted. It contemplates
but a two day’s session which will make a brovity record for national
conventions. While it lasts the convention will bo one unbroken hum
of business. The program will be:
duly 27—State caucuses, calling of convention, announcement of
committees, Installation of temporary officers, meeting of committees,
installation of permanent officers, reports of committees.
July 28—Adoption of platform, nominating and seconding speeches
for presidency; balloting, nomination and seconding speeches for vico
presidency; balloting, call for meeting of national committee; conclu
sion of convention.
The platform will not be constructed according to any pre-arrang
ed plan. Many of the states have yet planks that they will seek to
have drafted into the document.
A HANDLE 10 A NEGRO'S NAME COSTS
FIVE DOLLARS IN COGRRAIE’S COURT
WILMINGTON, Del —The queerest
ruling ever handed down in a Dela
ware tribunal has been made by
Judge Cochrane, in tho Wilmington
municipal court. He directed that
witnesses should not refer to negroes
as ’’Mr’’ “Mrs ” or "Miss" In order
to enforce bis decision, he fined Chris
topher Brooks, a negro. $5. and costs
for contempt of court because he for
got himself after being warned and
again palled Burah Archer, a negress
"Mrs. Archer,"
Brooks was charged with breach of
the peace and "Mrs. Archer” was
the prosecuting witness.
Subsequently another negro, Isaac
J. Henry, was the prosecuting wit
ness against two white men, Wittier
Coyle and William Welden. Henry’s
mind was hazy regarding the decis-
Millionaire's Blushing Bride Appears In a
Sheath Gown To the Joy of Atlantic City
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—Mrs Jas.
P. Munyon, the tluee months bride of
the millionaire patent medicine man,
appeared on the boardwalk in a
sheath gown Fast, night and cruated a
sensation. Before she had been on
the walk five minutes the promen
aders clustered so thickly about her
that the walk was blocked.
Prof. Munyon, who was with his
bride, urged her to wilk faster, in the
hope of out-distancing the curious
throng. The crowd followed, contin
ually increasing. The young woman
was very much embarrassed and
MELVIN SHEPPARD
IS AN INVALID
So the Police Surgeons of
New York Claimed When
the Great Half Milor
Wanted to Join the Force
NEW YORK.—Melvin M, Sheppard,
the greatest half-mile runner In all
the world, was rejected by the sur
geons of the police c« nirtment when
he made application to wear the blue.
The news became known 24 hours
after Sheppard had run all eom|>ctl
tors off their feet In the 1,500 meter
race in the Olympic games In Eng
land
Sheppard, broad of chest, with a
frame like the cornerstone of s hank,
with muscles that act as his mind
dictates, went before the civil service
, commission last month and assert to
be examined physically and mentally
so that ho might Join tno "finest "
The commission's surgeons pounded
! the big chest and listened to the
I heart., and passed him with a big "O.
j K,” Sheppard went to see the police
department surgeons After they had
hanged and hammered away at hltn
they looked very grave yes, indeed,
very grave. Sheppard I hour lit, he
must have only about, eighteen min
utes to live. The grave surgeons
said It was too bad, but the poor boy
was suffering from "chronic endocar
ditis and arteriosclerosis," and, real
j ly, he could noi be a policeman.
I Sheppard strolled forth much de-
ion of Judge Cochrane, he supposing
th t . ban against prellres referred to
all humanity, without regard to coloi.
color.
While giving his testimony ho call
ed one of the defendants “Mister.”
Then, Correcting himself, under fear
of being fined for contempt, ho bowed
to the court and said; “Excuse me
sah,” The crowded court room broke
out in a loud laugh, the Judge and the
court attaches being conipellel to rap
for order.
Thereafter the negro prosecutor re
ferred to the accused as “Coyle" and
"Walden.”
As Judge Cochrane did not cite any
precedent, t.h e only apparent reason
for ills ruling was that ho disliked
hearing negroes called “Mister, and
Mistress” in court.
blushed deply at the comments of the
closest on lookers.
After walking several blocks with
the throng following, Prof. Munyon
led his bride into a confectionary
store, which was Immediately he
selged. The Munyons waited patient
ly for the crowd to disperse, and tho
crowd waited Just as patiently out
side for Mrs. Mnn.von to appear. Fin
ally tho pair slipped out a aide door
to a carriage that had been called,
and were driven back to the hotel,
where Mrs. Munyon changed her
gown for one more old fashioned.
BIDDLE SAVES MEN
FROM DROWNING
Millionaire Amateur
Prizefighter and Banker
Saved Lives of Two Men
At Atlantic Beach.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.- Anthopy J.
urexel Biddle, the banker, aportsmar
and amateur prize tighter, gave an
exhibition oi his prowess as a swim
mer yesterday afternoon, when Jie
Haved two men from drowning. Mr
Biddle was In bathing, when he oh
served two young men in a serious
plight. ID Htruck out for them and
scon was aiding them lo keep afloat.
One seized Mr. Biddle in a grip
which the rescuer could not break,
and he was obliged to shout for the
life guards. There was a quick re
sponsc and the exhausted trio were
soon landed on the beach.
Jectcd and then went abroad and
made the whole world fall behind him
in a test of endurance. But, mean
while, he of the Iron muscles and big
chest had made a quiet appeal and
the commission again lackled him
The surgeons, after a physical third
degree, wald he surely had some lit
tie thing the matter, htlt the doctors
guessed he might he able to arrest
a man afflicted with locomotar ataxia
or paralysis.
Bo now he Is on the waiting list,
and pretty soon he may he corralling
burglars and stopping speeding auto
lets in this city.
DAILY AND SUN DAY, $6.00 PER YEAR.
PROHIBITIONISTS
DRAFT THEIR
PLATFORM
Name Eugene Chafin and Aaron
Watkins As Presidential Can
didates ot the Party
COLUMBUS, Ohio. —The following
are tho nominees of the prohibition
party for national officers;
President -Eugene Chafin, of Chica
go.
Vice President- Aaron S. Watkins,
of Ada, Ohio.
The platform lias been broadened
from the original draft to Include
these planks:
“The submission by congress to
the several states of an amendment
to Hit* federal constitution prohibit
ing the manufacture, sale,' impor’a
tlon, exportation or transportation of
alcoholic liquors for boverage purpns
<s, the repeal of the internal reve
nue tax on aicohollc liquors and the
prohibition of the interstate traffic
therein.”
Other recommendations are in the
election of United States senators in
heritance taxes, postal savings bank-,
guaranty of deposits In bupkH. regu
lation of corporations, creation of a
permanent tariff commission, "strict
enforcement of law instead of the
offictnl tolerance and practical IVense
of tho social evil which prevails in
many of our cities, with its unspeak
able traffic in girls," uniform mar
riage and divorce laws, employer*
liability act, court reviow of postof
lice department deoielong, prohibition
of child labor in mines, workshops
and factories, suffrage only upon In
telllganco and ability to read and
write the English language, preserva
tion of natural resources.
MAN IS MURDERED
IN A CRICACO
THEATRE
CHICAGO.—ActuaI murder was
committed last night in the Alham
bra theatre, the scene of hundreds ot
thrilling melodramas John Fitch wae
stubbed to death, and his wife, Mary,
was wounded by John Henry Long
and his brother Oscar.
Fitch and his wife had occupied
seats near where the Long brothers
were sitting In tho balcony Oscar
Long began to talk with his brother
while the second act of the "Moon
shiner’s Daughter" was in progress.
Mrs. Fitch turned to the brothers and
asked them to desist from talking,
i hey refused, and Fitch stal led from,
his scat, to ask Policeman Woodson
to quiet them. The Long brothers fol
lowed him into the corridor. Mrs.
Fitch also followed. As they passed
through the swinging doors one of
the Long brothers stabbed Fitch and
the other attacked Mrs. Fitch who
tried to defend her husband.
ZEPPELIN IS NOT
DISCOURAGED
Accident To His Airship is
Trivial. Will Try Again
in a Few Weeks.
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN- Count Znp
pelln Is not In the least discourag'd
over the mishaps to his new airship
which recently ocurred. His chief
assistant, says the count had Implicit
confidence In his system, and that, the
addents were entirely unconnected
with the construction of his balloon.
They wer n mere occurrences inciden
tal to the tests that were being made.
The damage to the balloon, he fur
ther said, would be repaired In about
ten days, but no nseent would bo
made before three weeks at least, as
the envelope would have to he com
pletely deflated and fresh gas must
be brought in eyllnders to Friedrich
shafen before tho balloon could make
another voyage.
For Sale And Exchange Ads.
That spirit of half restlessness which urges people to "do things"
Is responsible, in part, for the inclination to barter, to "swap," to
trade, to exchange what liub been shorn of Its usefulness to me for somsf
thing that has been shorn of usefulness to you—to our great mutual
profit.
The same active thrift-principle Induces one man to offer for sale
some used article or thing perhaps because he can "une" the mqney
It would bring to hatter advantage thuu the thing Itself. And, In turn,
another man buys the article because he NEEDS It- and It Is a bargain.
Practically every man or woman can And some personal use for a
"For sale or Exchange" advertisement. And the number of them who
are learning lo WATCH AND ANSWER this class of adß. Is CON
STANTLY INCREASING. That Is, at. any rate, true of the people who
read The Herald and, with your ad. In the next Ibijbp, you will Uara
really "taken It to market."
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TODAY’S RESULTS.
LONDON. —100 meter back stroke
swim, semi-finals; First heat won by
Blerberstein of Germany. Time
1.26 3-5.
Second heat, won by Heresmape
ivugland. Time 1.26 1-5.
BAD HEALTH; SUICIDE.
PITTSBURG, Pa.—While prepara
tions were being made early today
for his removal to a hospital because
of ill health, Charles W. Hamilton,
an assistant district attorney of Alle
gheny county seized a revolver and
shot himself in the head. He died
several hours later.
WANTS BANK CONDITIONS.
WASHINGTON—Tho comptroller
of the currency today issued a call on
the national banks throughout the
country for a report of their condi
tion, on July 15.
INSURGENTS FLEEING.
TUGUCIGALPA, Honduras.—Hon
duran insurgents last night captured
the town of Porvenir, on the north
coast, and today they attacked Celba,
another Atlantic port, 60 miles to the
weßtwurd of Trujillo. At. Celba they
were repulsed. They also have been
beaten In the south and are fleeing
back to Salvador.
SUFFERING CAUSED SUICIDE.
NEW ORLEANS, La.—lntense suf.
ferlng from malady with which aha
was afflicted last night at 9 o’clock
Is said to have caused Miss Cecilia
Louque, aged 27. charming daughter
of State Senator Louque, to swal
law a portion of tho contents of a bot
tie of carbolic acid at her father’s
residence 2124 St. Phillips Btreet,
from the effects of which she died au
hour later at the charity hospital.
Y. M. C. A. RACE.
BATAVIA, N. Y. The relays of tho
2,000 Y. M. C. A, boys, who are carry
ing a message from Now York to
Mayor Busse of Chicago, are speed
ing hero from Rochester, whloh they
reached at 7.25 o'clock today, eight
hours and fifteen minutes ahead of
time. The boys have done better
than was exported, except last mid
night, when two boys lost 22 minutes
In a mile swim across Cayuga lake.
OLLIE JAMES AT LINCOLN.
LINCOLN. Neb. —Ollie James of
Kentucky came from Denver today at
the request of Mr. Bryan and went
immediately from the station to the
Bryan home. Mr. James came here in
response to a telegram from Qs*yan,
offering him the chairmanship of the
national committee.
NEGRO~* SUSPECTED.
MAYDEL, Md.—Caleb Watson, a
negro farm hand, wus locked up to
day in connection with the death of
aged William Williams, who was
found hanging to the limb of a tree
near Barclay, not far from his farm,
in I his township, last Tuesday with u
license to marry 13-year-old Elizabeth
Walls in his pocket.
VENDETTA ENDS.
NEW YORK.—Tim culmination of a
vendetta alleged by the police to have
started years ago in Southern Italy
occurred today, when John Soelema,
a wealthy saloon keener and restau
rant. proprietor of No. 458 Smith
street, Brooklyn, shot and Instantly
killed Pusqunlo Dufre, 37 years old.
In a pistol ffuel at the corner of For
ty-third street and Second avenue,
Brooklyn.
INCENDIARY FIRE.
EVERETT, Pa.--Fire, believed to
be of Incendiary origin, early today
destroyed the plant of tho Elk R’an
nlng • company here. Damage esti
mated at $30,000.
RELENTLESS WAR ON
MEXICAN REBELS
Secret Service Men Com
pletely Annihiliate Ban
dits in State of Durando.
MEXICO CITY. —Another band of
brigands have Just, been wiped out in
tip* state of Durango, acordlng to ad
vices received here. Secret service
men encountered Jorobado and his
bandits near McLlnlllos, a ranch
about 60 miles southwest of Duran
go, In the battle Xenobio Rodrigues
Jorobado, his brother, and a younger
brother of Jullian llayes, were killed
The bandits made a bold stand and
died fighting. ,