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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-03-13
News From Excelsior.

Excelsior, March 12.-Grain In this
section is still growing nicely. .
Some few visitors were out at the
school house Friday afternoon to
hear the pupils speak
We have had good rains and the
weather continues a little cool how,
ever, our farmers have already done
a good deal Of pfowing and fertilizer
hauling.
Little Misses Mary; and Ruby
Wheeler Of Prosperity have been
visiting Misses Alderra and Mamie
Wheeler -
Mrs. H. S. B. Kibler, of Newbery,
has been spending several days with
her mother, who has been confined to.
her room sick.
Mr.. J. |. Sease's little son has been
confined to the house few days with
a painful cut on the foot by handling
an axe.
Mrs. J. J. Singley spent last week
with her mothers family in Newber-
ry.
The farmers association Will meet
in the school house Saturday after
noon at two o'clock.
Mrs. J. D.. Stone and children are
visiting her fathers family near New
berry. =
Sunday was a lovely day for church
going and in the afternoon We drove
down to Bachman Chapel church and
heard good sermon preached by the
pastor Rev. J. C.. Wessinger. This
congregation has made quite an IN:
provement on their church recently
which speaks we'll for pastor and peo-:
pie. Sigma.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-03-13
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION.
Next Convention Of National Educa-
tional Association to Be Held In
San Francisco in July.

al Educational Association, which Will
be held in San Francisco from July
7th, to July 18th, is destined to leave
pleasant recollections with all who
will attend, for the rest Of their ex-
istence. The people Of California and
Of the whole Pacific coast vie with
each other to extend to the visitors
a cordial and generous welcome and
make them wish to come again. San
Francisco has earned the reputation
for lavish hospitality and, with the
aid of leading men and women Of the
coast, will strive to maintain that
reputation with the teachers.
There is perhaps no other city on
the American continent SO we'll adap-
ted for entertaining visitors, for out
door demonstration, for decorating
and illuminating at all seasons of the
year, than is San Francisco. Its eli
mate, even temperature, complete alb
sence of rain during the greater part
Of the year, make it suitable place
for large gatherings. The city has
ample accommodation to comfortably
house all who will come, as has been
demonstrated on several occasions
during the past few years. The rates
for rooms and board are as reasonable
as in any city in the land, and more
reasonable than in most other places;
nor are the rates ever advanced on
anv occasion. Foodstuffs Of all kinds,
and the choicest, grow in California
in such abundance that it can easily
feed ten times it's population, and
fruits and vegetables grow and rlpen
from January 1st to December 3lst.
Nine-tenths of the surplus is export
ed to the East and across the Atlantic
and Pacific.
4 trip to California will be a most
valuable object lesson to the teachers
Of the whole country, and furnish
them enough material to speak about
for wears to come, and Will be an ed
ucation to the rising generation. Cal
ifornia is vast empire in itself with
almost inexhaustible resources. But
for California to tell the tales OF It's
wonders and glories to the people
across the continent, may be taken
with considerable allowance.
Let teachers come to California,
as many as possible, let them see and
behold and return with the knowledge
gathered personally. It is but a few
davs travel and the fare is very low,
the cost Of living most reasonable. In
fact the whole expense will be out
little more than going to some summer
resort or to the seaside nearer their
home, and it will prove valuable e1-
perience and a lesson to those whom
they teach.
The rates Of travel are one fare for
the round trip from all points and the
$500 membership fee added. The
! following are the rates from the pr1n-
cipal points including the $500, with
stop-over privileges and good for re-
turn until September 18th. From Est.
Paul and Minneapolis, s91.s0; Chi
cago, s64.5o; Cairo and Memphis
S61.15; New Orleans and St. LOUIS
$3.50; Houston, s55.15; Omaha,
Council Bluffs, Kansas City and Dal-
las, $500; Denver and cheyenne:
s47.OO: Ell Paso, $4,000: Salt Lake
City. $3.50: Ogden, $4,000.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-03-13

Sometimes a man is unable to make
both ends meet because he keeps them
headed in opposite directions.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-03-13

Now the second attorney IS won
dering if his friend who told the
story was one Of those who ran ous OF
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-05-17
PERNlClOUS NATIVE HABIT
People of Northern India Much
Given to "Earthing' or Clay
Eating.

Efforts are being made to stamp ont
the habit of earthing which is preva.
lent among natives over almost all
India.
In northern India the favorite form
of earth is gray or drab-colored
shale. This is eXcavated mostly at
Meth, in Bilkanir, and is exported to
the Punjaub at the rate of 1000 camel
loads year.
In different districts different yari-
cites of clay are eaten, but if the ma.
tiyes have at one time a taste for a
special kind OF mud, as the habit in.
creases the depraved appetite soon be.
comes satified with bricks and broken
pots. White ant soil with the nests
and ants themselves is a great deli.
cacy,
The reasons given for INDUCING in
the habit are classified under the fol.
lowing heads: First, peculiar fas.
clnating odor and taste in the CLAW ron
dering it delicacy; secondly. an nm.
natural craving due to disease: third.
ly' to satisfy hunger; fourthly. force
or example; filthy, supposed medic.
inal virtues.
A university student confessed to n
friend that the bland, earthly odor was
a great temptation to him and the
thought of it made his mouth water
lie always enjoyed the odor, he said
when April showers fell upon previ,
ously parched earth.
The effects of the habit are disas-
trous' Those women addicted 10 u
very soon complain first of pain and
weakness in the limbs, palpitation and
duhculty in walking q little distance
uphill After some time all the otber
symptoms of anaemia are fully estah
hshed; sallow and pale complexion
tongue and gums bloodless and general
ueDllity' Very often dtopsy super
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-05-17

Turkey, Greece, Italy and the Balkan
| States. Their money. their foreign
coins of gold, several checks and
money orders were all found intact
/ They had not been pursued to be
/ robbed.
! What was it, then?
There had been no drinking bout.
/ Neither wine nor spirits, or empty
| bottles or glasses were found. There
was no love affair. apparently. at the
| bottom of it. The men knew no wo-
men in this country. 1t may have been
the vendetta, who knows? But every
thing to-day points to politics.
| And now comes the story told by the
passports, that seems to point to poit-
cal murder. There were two pass.
ports found among the belongings of
the murdered men. One was issued to
young Demetrl on January %, 1906.
This was a passport from Macedonia.
issued by the Turkish government. 1t
! bore the seal of the sultan. Half of
the document was in French, the other
half in Turkish.
1t described him as smooth.shaven
about 33 yea S of age, medium size. a
native of Macedonia and a subject of
His Imperial Majesty the Sultan. The
other passports were old and indie.
chiperable.
Strengthens Theory of Politics.
And this pointed to the politics of the
case The Macedonian rebellion took
place about two years ago. The police
at once accepted this theory and went
to work on it. But the murderers had
covered their tracks too well.
This much the police believe:
That the victims were leaders of the
rebellion and fed to this country and
that their murderers were agents of
the Turkish government The idea is
that they fled here. well knowing they
would be followed, but hoping to escape
into the far Northwest, where perhaps
they might be safe. They went West
in the guise of railway laborers to es.
cape pursuit.
But those whose appointed task was
to kill were cleverer than they and
were always close behind. Though the
chase led half way around the world
the Turkish agents found their quarry
in an obscure corner of Minneapolis
and then went deliberately about the
job Of killing. They bided their time.
When all six were rounded up together
and asleep, and when all was quiet
and deserted without they stole inside
and upstairs to finish the job for which
they had come so far
The dead men were not caught en-.
tirely by surprise. There are plenty OF
signs that they struggled desperately
against overwhelming odds. All the
furniture was upset showing that
there was a struggle before the men
who had been aroused from their sleep
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-05-17

little roms on the upper floor. They
never drank liquor and were appar-
emily of the most peaceable disposition.
They went out regularly every day
and returned with equal promptitude
in the evening.
Even the people who lived below
heard nothing on the night of the muir
der. 1t was only guessed at because
the men didn't appear on the second
morning after the murder. Some one
notified the landlord and Ire summoned
the police. They broke in.
Peter Stuyanoff knew the dead men.
He was arrested as a suspect at first.
but there was nothing to prove against
him. In fact, he gave the police all the
little they do know. He said the men
never had a quarrel In their lives and
never carried weapons. He said they
were all men who had come over here
to make their fortunes. and had no
thought of anything else but of max.
ing money and Of sending for their
loved ones on the other side of the
world.
Pathetic Sight at Morgue.
1t was pitiful sight at the morgue
when poor Stuyanoff went there to
identify his dead friends. The sight
Of the gaping wounds moved him to
tears. He knelt before each body and
made the sign of the cross as he
breathed a prayer.
Then he arose to his feet and kissed
each dead man on the brow. When he
finally came to the body of his cousin
young Yovke, he was completely over
come. Great tears rolled down his
swarthy cheeks; his big red handker.
chief was soon soaked with them. He
took the head of the murdered boy in
his arms and kissed the still face
again and again. Then he left the
room shaking with grief.
They would not hurt a fly; would
not hurt fly" he moaned over and
over.
Fought Hard for Life.
When the house of slaughter was
searched lamp was found burning in
the rear room upstair light had
been seen there the night before. 1t
looked. however, as if the bodies found
in the cellar had ben dead longer than
the others. This only added to the
mystery
Both bodiesSwere terribly hewed and
hacked. In ALL the six bodies between
them bore more than 100 wounds. al
most any one of them sufficient to kill
any able-bodied man. There were great
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-05-17

Robbery" said the police, as first
guess, but that was knocked in the
head when a money belt was found In
plain sight, containing 1902, besides
many other articles of value.
Finally the knives we're traced by
trade marks upon them. Thomas Will
son. clerk Of the Kelley Hardware
Company, in Duluth, identified them
as having been bought at the store
by a party Of six foreigners a week
before the murder. That these were
the six murderers, one for each of the
intended victims, there can now be no
doubt
Plainly the dead six had been
marked for vengeance,
Their trail has been followed from
far across the seas to the hidden fast
ness Of the far Northwest by men who
evidently had sworn to kill. They had
traced their quarry to Albion, Mimi.
tiny town, and from thence to Du-
luth. When the six came to Mime
apohs they were hunted still.
Had Fled Far to Find Safety.
Aiding to the mystery, the vest
ments of some order, religious or So
cret. were found in the house. What
had these to do with the strange
dearhs? But most remarkable of all
was the plain proof that the six had
fed halfway around the world to es-
cape their mysterious pursuers.
Passports proved this without doubt.
The papers bore the earmarks of
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-05-17

made their preliminary inquiries, the
bodies were buried together. A Mime
apolis medical college attempted to get
them for dissection, by right of law
allowing them the bodies of all paup.
ers without kith or kin, but when the
$500 was shown the college had to give
in.
The police have worked hard, but
nothing turned up. They have been
to Chicago and to Duluth, where there
are other Macedonians. but not single
clew has come to anything.
And now, who killed the six?"
seems to bid fair to go down into his
tory as one of the greatest murder
mysteries of the century.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-05-17
AGENTS OF SULTAN OF TURKEY
BLAMED FOR CRUEL MURDER
Macedonian Refugees in Minneapolis
Slaughtered in Hovel They
Called Home.
ROBBERY CLEARLY NOT MOTIVE FOR CRIME
Fact That Currency and ValuabIes We're
Found with Bodies Proves This-Inter-
national Politics at Bottom. Is Theory
of Police Officials.

Minneapolis.-Aga the old saying
that murder will OUT bids fair to be
disproved.
In the heart of Minneapolis, busy
city of the great Northwest, six APP
parently inoffensive men have been
cruelly put to death, and all the efforts
of men bred to the unraveling OF
CHASTITY mysteries have been unavail.
ing, either to find the murderers or to
discover motive for the crime.
The slayers have disappeared as com.
pletely as If, indeed, they wore the
tabled Invisible cloaks.
Love
Revenge
At the bidding of secret order
Because the Turkish government
wanted them out of the way
These are the various theories
formed by the police. And at theories
they stop.
All that is positively known Is that
six men, marked for murder, lie in
their graves In Minneapolis-all six
killed by orders of some one while
they slept.
Motives Apparently Absent.
Everything SENS to point to poll
ties. 1t was not money. because the
mems money and other valuables were
all found intact. 1t was not revenge,
because they knew no one in Mime
apolis. 1t was not love, because they
had no women, either as wives or
sweethearts, In this country.
There Is but one eXplanation-they
were put out of the way by order of
some high political power on the other
side of the water This is what the
police believe. What we're the intri-
cacies abroad no one dares surmise
And dead men tell no tales
The six were found lying quite dead
In a ramshackle old wooden house, No.
245 South Tenth avenue, Minneapolis.
So little known were they thereabouts
that the police had hard time In find
ing out the names of the six. Finally
1t was found that two were father and
son, Nicolo and Kirle Demetri. and
that the other foud were Kerstan
YovlSe Krivie Metie, Nukola Jaless
and Andri Jaless.
Bodies Not All Together.
The knives, the blood-stained
Ratchet, the splashes of blood every.
where. the disorder, the signs of a
struggle. told the story as plainly as
words could tell it. Four of the bodies
Jay about the front room on the second
door; the other two-those of the De
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-05-17

10 20 to their death had not given IA
without a whimper. Every body bore
wounds enough to kill dozen men,
Imagine 1t. then-the semi'darkness'
lighted dimly by one feeble kerosene
lamp at the window, the silent en-
trance of the murderers into the
gloom; the sudden awakening OF some
one of the doomed when his wound dlu
not kill him at the first blow; his cries
70 the others. their sudden awakening
too. the clash of the steel, the cries OIL
the unarmed victims as they vainly
tried to fight off the the knives, the
graphing, wrestling, biting, scratching
of men fighting weapons with only
their hands; the thrust at head ana
heart; the death rattle of one after
another until there was none left to
die.
Then the dragging of two of the
bodies to the mouth of the black pit
that passed for cellar, the dumping
of them down into the hole, and nm
ally the fight into the murky dark
ness Of the dawn.
Evidences of Conflict.
It was a sight to terrify when the
police broke in The six were stone
dead, but there was plenty of evidence
that every one had fought for his life
till weak from loss of blood in the I'M
equal contest, he had fallen at the feet
of his enemy to receive his coup.
After satisfactory Identification had
been made, and the authorities had
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-05-17

splashes of blood all over the walls
and floors, and it seemed as II the
dead, aroused from their sleep, had
made a desperate fight for life, but in
vain.
Two big bowie knives were found in
the room with the four. Two more lay
in another room. A fifth. in its sheath.
lay in the basement beside the De.
metris Then there was the Ratchet
aud not another clew
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1906-05-17

metris-lay in dirty, muddy base.
ment, where they had been dumped
by tho murderers.
Not thing was found on any of the
men to give absolute proof of their
identities. Even the landlord. H. Mag.
nussoa. didn't know their names. All
he cared about was that the men had
paid four months rent in advance
when they came there a week before.
The men ate. slept and lived in the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-05
UNDER SUSPICION.
Young Han Taken Into Custody by
the Police.

Lionel Stage, alias Conner, alias Arthur
Waterhoase an alleged confidence man
and swindier. was arrested in this city this
afternoon by Detectives Helan and Nc
Nance and locked up. Stagg was here
three years ago, at which time he was ar
rested for having attempted to swindle
Representative Charles n. Fowler. His
arrest at that time followed a report made
by the representative from New Jersey
that the young man had obtained $50 from
him under false pretenses.
Inspector Boardman received records of
the arrest of the young man in New York
and Oregon, respectively, the report from
the latter state being that he served year
in prison there Since he was arrested
here three years ago, the prisoner stated
today, he has been abroad.
The young man with many aliases was
found near Pennsylvania avenue and 14th
street by the detectives. He was surprised
when the detectives arrested him, declar-
ing he had done nothing to warrant such
action. The latter. however. told him they
wanted him out of the way before he had
an opportunity to violate the law. 1t is un-
derstood he is to have a hearing in tAe
Police Court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-05
CONVICTED OF ROBBERY.
Jane Jones and Robert Carter Given
Eight Years in Prison.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special D1Spatch TO Inc Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, December 5.-James
Jones and Robert Carter were convicted of
highway robbery by jury in the circuit
court here today and sentenced by Judge
Henderson to serve term Of five years In
the Northern penitentiary. They were
charged with having held up and robbed
William Coffman near the Cabin John
bridge, the night of August 2, 1905.
The evidence showed that Coffman and a
friend came from Washinton the night of
the robbery, and being under the influence
of liquor lay down to sleep beside the Con-
duit road near the bridge. They were
awakened. it was alleged, by several colored
men. Coffman and his friend ran down the
road, pursued by the men. After running
short distance Coffman, 1t was stated,
jumped a fence near the roadside and at
tempted to hide in thicket He was dis
covered and, it was alleged, was ordered at
the point of a revolver to come to the mid
die Of the road.
Coffman stated in court that while Carter
held the pistol at his head a colored man
named Frey searched his pockets and took
his pocketbook, containing So. Frey some
for his part in the holdup.
When the defense was called both Of the
colored men attempted to prove an alibi,
but failed. The jury retired and the verdict
was later brought in finding them guilty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-05
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

SABLE ISLAND, N. s., December 5-Ths
steamer Celtic, from Liverpool and Queens
town for New York was in communicat ton
by wireless telegraph with the Marconi sta
ton here when 100 miles east OF this point
at $50 m. The Celtic probably will reach
her dock about $50 am. Friday.
ROME, December BIT Is expected that
Cardinal Kopp. bishop of Breslau. who
leaves Rome today for Berlin with a men,
orandum setting forth the Vaticans views
on the Polish question in Germany, will
have preponderant influence in the negotia-
lions between the Vatican and Berlin re-
garding the appointment of successor to
the late Mgr. Stablewski, archbishop Of
Posen.
ROME. December 5.--The recent Illness Of
King Menelik Of Abyssinia, il developed to-
day from further adyices from Adds Abeda
was In the nature of cerebral congestion
Although the danger is now over the king
has not regained his former lucidity, SEEM
ing to be in state of slight torpor.
ROME. December 5.-The Anglo=American
Archaeological Society. having been. Informed
that Andrew Carnegie is disposed to erect a
building for free library here, held q
meeting yesterday to discuss the best means
of approaching Mr., Carnegie In order to In
duce him to carry out his project and to al
low the building to be the headquarters Of
ehC npCiety- - -
BELLEVUE Ontario. December 5.-The
steam barge Hikkox, from Oswego for Belle
vile, Is long overdue and much anxiety 10
felt here for her safety. Tugs will be sent
out from Kingston today to search for her.
PHILADELPHIA, December 5.-Captafn
Larsen OF the steamship Fiorida. WHICH
passed in the Delaware breakwater today
from Sabine Pass Tex, reports that he
abandoned on Monday the barge Providence
which he had I'm tow for ciayuaont. Del.
The captain reports that the crew of the
barge was taken aboard the Florida and
that when abandoned the vessel was in q
sinking condition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-05
RECALLED BY COMMITTEE.
Senate Bill Regarding Right Of Re
view in Criminal Cases.

The bill giving the government the same
right of review in criminal cases that is
allowed by law to the defendant, which
was reported to the Senate last session by
the Senate committee on judiciary, was
ordered recalled today by the committee
It was stated that some members of the
committee were dissatisfied with some of
the provisions, and In order to secure unan-
imous action on the floor II would be nee
essary to give the measure further con-
sideration In committee.
The bill as reported is substitute for
the House measure and was drafted by
Senator Nelson. The urgent demand for
the measure grew out of the trial of the
Chicago packing house cases, In which tie
packers escaped trial through technicalities.
ney General would have been able to Sc
cure review Of the decision.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-05
Search In Progress for Body.

"A telephone message sent by Sergt. Rus
sell Dean Of the harbor police precinct
from Rock Point, Nd, to Lieut.. Sutton is to
the effect that the body of Melvin Cleveland,
the member of the Naval Battalion. N. G..
d. c., who was drowned of Colton's wharf,
has not been recovered.
Sergt. Dean, with Mr.. William Cleveland,
the father Of the boy. proceeded tol Cotton g
last Monday night and is directing the
search for the body.
The opinion at the harbor police station,
where the officers have charge of the work
of recovering bodies from the waters Of the
District, Is that the body will not come up
until the water in the lower river warns
up next spring There is, however, a pos
sibility that those dragging for the body
may be able to locate 1t.