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| available they could not have beer
used on account of the danger to
spectators.
Women seized their children and
dragged them from the path of the
maddened tiger and hundreds of lit.
tie children chung to the skirts Of
their terrified mothers and scrambled
to get away.
Markell headed for the main en-
trance, forty feet away. In his rush
he struck several people with his
shoulders, knocking them down.
Mrs. S. E. Rozell, of Twin Falls,
and her little daughter Ruth could
not escape the tigers rush, and were
borne to the ground. The tiger held
Mrs. Rozell with his paws while his
fangs sank into the neck Of the child.
j.. w. Bell, a Twin Falls blacksmith,
was standing beside Mrs. Rozell when
she was attacked. His wife and chill.
dren, too, were with him and at the
mercy of the beast.
Thrusting his family aside Bell
drew a revolver and opened fire on
the tiger at a distance Of three feet.
When the first bullet struck Markell
behind the shoulders he WINGED and
opened his jaws, growing ~viciously
and flashing his tail against the wall
Of spectators. The second bullet
caused him to release Mrs. Rozell and
her daughter from the grasp Of his
paws, and the third to put him on the
run.
Bell followed, firing three more
bullets into the fleeing tiger, as it
ran outside the tent. Markell was
sorely hit, but he managed to crawl
some distance before he collapsed,
Recovering his strength for an in.
slant the tiger turned and started
back toward the stampeding specta-
tors. Bell was waiting for the at
tack with his revolver reloaded, but
the big beast had enough, rolled over,
snarling and biting at his wounds,
and expired in a few moments. -
Meanwhile the news that the tiger
had escaped had spread, and specta-
tors continued to fee from the tents.
Many of them fell or were knocked
down in the confusion, but none sus-
tanned serious injuries.
Mrs. Rozell and her daughter were
Idk6u W IuS OllCC VI q l)uy SlSloh,
where everything possible was done
for the child. 1t was found that the
teeth of the tiger had frightfully lac
Grated the neck and breast of the lit
tie one, and much blood was lost be-
fore the wounds could be closed. The
little girl died, and Mrs. Rozell was
removed to her home.
Markell was reputed to be one OF
the largest and best proportioned tig-
ers on exhibition, and was the pride
of the manager. He had shown no
previous signs of i'll temper, and the
management of the circus was aston
ished at his behavior. Many persons
thought that the door of the tigers
Gag might have been more secure.
The keepers were helpless on account
of the confusion, and had it not been
for Bells presence of mind and
prompt action in rlsking an encoun-
ter with the angry tiger lives
might have been sacrificed.
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MK|NLEYS WIDOW DEAD
Assassinated Presidents Wife
Passed Away at Canton, Ohio.
She Was an Invalid For Many Years
Her Health Shattered After
Death of Two Daughters.

Canton, Ohio.-Mrs. Ida Mel o.
ley, widow of President William Nc
Kinley, died at the famous Mckinley
cottage here. The transition from
life to death was 90 peaceful and
gradual that it was with difficulty
that the physicians and attendants
noted when dissolution came. Mrs.
Mckinley did not know Of the efforts
made for days to prolong her life.
Mrs. McKinley's last words before
she became unconscious showed that
death would not be unwelcome. An
attendant said:
Mrs. Mckinley would say: Why
should I linger Please God, If it is
Thy will, why defer it?' She would
also say: He is gone, and life is dark
to me now Other kindred express
sions would fall from her lips"
Mrs. McKinley's life of almost sixty
years had been made familiar to the
Nation by the fact that more than
half of it was a period Of invalidism.
Through all that, however, she
showed a firm and u~nwarering belief
in the career of her husband, and by
her cheerful words, in spite Of per-
sonal Affections, encouraged him in
his darkest hours. She believed his
star of destiny never would set until
he had become President, and for
more than a quarter century she
cherished that belief until her hope
vas realized.
Ida Saxton Mckinley was born in
Canton June g., 1S47. James A. Sax
ton, her father, was an intellectual
and progressive business mar and
banker, his wife a woman Of extraor-
binary culture and refinement. Ida
Saxton was reared in a home of COM
fort and ease. After attending Can
ton school she was a pupil in a pri-
vate school at Delhi, N. Y. She next
went to a Cleveland academy, and
finished her education In Brook Hill
Seminary, Media, Pa, where she stu
died for three wears.
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THEODORE TILTON DEAD.
A Voluntary Exile in Paris After the
Beecher.Tilton Scandal.

Paris, France. - Theodore Tilton
had been unconscious for hours be-
fore he passed away.
Theodore Tilton exiled himself
from America in 1888, following the
Beecher-T ilton scandal.
MI. Tilton was born in New York
in October, 1885. His education was
obtained chiefly at the Free Academy,
now known as the College of the City
of New York, from which he was
graduated in 1856.
About the time that Mr.. Tilton be-
came superintendent of the Sunday.
school Mr.. Beecher received into the
church Elizabeth NJ. Richards. Mr..
Tilton married her in 1855, the Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher officiating at the
wedding. 4
Mr.. Beecher and MI. Tilton became
friends almost from the day that Til
ton Joined Plymouth Church. It is
said that Tilton first attracted the no.
tice Of Beecher by the stenographic
reports he made of his sermons. The
friendship between the two men be-
came more intimate, however, after
Tilton became connected with the In
! dependent, OF which Beecher vas the
editor. When Beecher retired as edi-
tor Tilton succeeded him in that posi-
ton.
Through all this period the Beech
er and Tilton families were on visit
ing terms. Mr.. Beecher was a fire.
quent caller at the Tilton home, which
was at liza Livingston street, Brook
Ign. He and Mrs. Tilton were openly
very friendly. There was no gossip
about them until about three years
before the suit.
In August, 1874, Tilton sued
Beecher for 800, 900 damages, charg-
ing the alienation of Mrs. Tilton's af-
fections. The trial lasted 112 days.
1t resulted in a disagreement of the
inrY &
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GIRL VICTIM OF
TIGER IS DEAD
Panic in Tents When Enraged
Animal Charged on Crowd
and Attacked Ponies.

Twin Falls, Idaho.-Four-year-old
Ruth Rozell, who vas attacked by a
Royal Bengal tiger which escaped
from its cage at the performance of
the Sells-Floto circus here, has died
from her injuries. Mrs. Rozell, the
mother of the child, who vas knocked
down and badly shaken by the tiger,
is overcome with grief and the shock
of her experience. Thus far nc GRIM
inal action has been brought against
the circus management, and, while
the panic following the breaking Of
the animal from it's cage and the en-
suing tragedy are the sole topic of
conversation, there has been nc dem
onstration made against the circus
by citizens because of the unfortunate
occurrence.
The tiger charged into the crowd,
killing the little girl and a Shetland
pony. and mauled several other spec
tators and ponies before it was shot
and killed by a man in the audience.
For a few moments there was a panic
in the menagerie and women screamed
and tainted. The elephants tusged
at their chains and trumpeted wildly,
and there was great commotion until
the tiger rolled over dead in front OF
the main entrance.
Hundreds were in the menagerie
tent at the afternoon performance
when the time came for feeding the
animals. Markell, the tiger, and his
mate, Agnes, had been restless for
some time. At the sight Of the meat
Markell beat furiously with his paws
on the door of the cage. The door
gave way, and the tiger sprang from
his cage to the neck of a Shetland
pony fifteen feet away.
The tigers keeper seized a bar n
struck the animal between h eyes.
Markell released his grip on the pony's
neck and leaped upon the back of an
other pony. Again the keeper felled
him with the iron, and he relinquished
his hold of the second pony only to
seize a third. Another stiff blow from
the iron drove the, tiger from his
prey and he leaped into the crowd. .
The tent was we'll filled, and the
people fed in every direction, most
Of them crowding out under the can
vas. One woman scrambled to the
top of an animal cage and refused to
come down until long after the tiger
was killed.
Shrill cries from the Enlightened ele-
plants aroused the keepers to furth-
er activity. The guns kept by the
keepers for emergencies were seven
ty-fye feet away, and had they been
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Mrs. Lenora Bodenhamer, r. F. D. 1
Box 90, Kernersville, N. c., writes:
II suffered with stomach trouble and
Indigestion for some time, and nothing.
that I ate agreed with ne. was very
nervous and experienced q continual
feeling of uneGsiness and fear. / took
medicine from the doctor, but it did me na'
good.
''"I found in one of your Peruna books
a description of my symptoms. then
wrote to DR.. Hartman for advice. he
said / had catarrh of the stomach. l took
Peruna and Manalin and followed his d.
r~ections and can now say that l feel as
we'll as I ever did.
II hope that all who are afflicted with
the same symptoms will take Peruna, as it
has certainly cured me.v
The above is only one of hundreds who
have written similar letters to DE-. Hart
man. Just one such case as this entities
Peruna to the candid consideration OF.
every one similarly afflicted. If this be
true of the testimony Of one person what;
ought to be the testimony Of hundredsS,
YES thousands, of honest, sincere peopiet
We have in our files a great many other
testimonials.
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BIG LOTTERY SURRENDERS
TO THE GOVERNMENT
To Escape Jail Officers Agree TO
Pay 100000 in Fines.
WEALTHY MEN PLEAD GUILTY
Federal Authorities Accept the Plea
Gambling Game Of Millions to
Be Ended Without Trial or I'm
prisonment.

Gambling Game Of Millions to
Be Ended Without Trial or I'm
priSonment.
Wilmington, Del.-The sudden
dismissal of the Federal Grand Jury,
assembled especially to probe into the
affairs of the Honduras National Lot
terry Company, and the notice to hun
dreds of witnesses, under subpoena,
that their attendance will not be re-
quired, corroborates the news from
New Orleans that the gigantic gam
bling enterprise has surrendered.
Among those who have been &C
cused of having an interest in the
Honduras Lottery are Alfred Hennen
Morris, David Hennen Morris, of New
York; Oscar Hanger, Of Hoboken,
and Frank T. Howard, Of New Or
leans, receiver of the New Orleans
water works.
The principals in the game will
plead guilty and will pay a fine ag-
gregating about 100000, which will
be the penalty in lieu of imprison-
ment.
Scores of prominent men in Louis
lana will contribute to this fund
rather than go to Jail, and the United
States Government has elected to
accept these pleas of guilty, appar-
emily, rather than go to trial and
bring the big men in the game into
the limelight.
The surrender of the lottery men
is complete and unconditional. The
statement is made on trustworthy
authority that absolute assurance has
been given to the authorities at
Washington that the lottery has been
abandoned and it's property sold or
destroyed, and that there will be no
resumption of the sale of tickets in
any part Of the United States at any
future time.
The company has not been in
active operation since January. Tick
the February drawings, but they were
all recalled early in that month, and
the agents were informed that they
would never be issued again. The
company is said to have offered its
fine building in Puerto Cortez, Hon
duras, where the drawings were held,
at public auction. having closed down
and dismantled it. .
1t is also said that all the property
that the Honduras Lottery people
own in this country is being sold, to-
gether with all their machinery,
equipment of every kind, and in fact
everything in connection with the
enterprise.
District Attorney Nields also said:
@The Government is proceeding as
rapidly as possible to destroy the
Honduran National Lottery Company,
to punish its officers and agents and
to confscate and destroy all it's prop
erty."
John NJ. Rogers, whose large print.
ing plant at Sixth and Orange streets.
in this city, was raided a year ago.
but who was never brought to trial
on that specific charge of printing
lottery tickets, is one of the most
prominent men of Wilmington. He
is public spirited, and, being wealthy,
has given freely to numerous philan-
thropic movements.
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FIGHT MAY SEND BEEF UP.
Packers and Commission Men Wran.
gle Over Inspection Losses.

gle Over Inspection Losses.
Chicago.-The fight over the ques-
ton whether the packers or the COM
mission firms shall bear the expense
Of cattle condemned by the Govern
ment's post-mortem examiners threat
n to send the price of beef sky high.
Unless the Beef Trust recedes from
its determination to delay payment
on cattle until after that examination
has been made by the Government in
spectors there seems to be no doubt
that the commission firms, backed by
the cattlemen, will hold out for a
long time and cause a~scarcity Of beef.
The packers informed the commits
sion firms that they would not bear
the expense of condemned Cow
stuff" and that they would not settle
for cattle until after the inspection.
The commission men in turn have
sent thousands Of letters and tele-
grams to their customers directing
them not to ship any cattle to the big
markets controlled by the trust until
the fight is settled. Those letters, it
is expected, will cut down the supply
Of beef tremendously.
The commission men say the pack
ers are trying to enforce the rule
with regard to tcow stuff" with the
aim of extending it to sheep and hogs.
Cow stuff" is a minor item in pack
ing house business, and for that rea-
son, the commission men say, it has
been selected as the basis for the first
fight. Less than two per cent. of this
class Of purchases is condemned as
unfit by the inspectors.
The loss on it alone would not
mean much to the commission men
and the producers, but if the packers
were allowed to make this rule in re-
gard to cattle, they will extend it to
other forms of live stock, the COM
mission men say. The result would
be that it would drive the commission
men out of business and make cattle
raising extremely Improbable. The
commission men have sent an appeal
to the Secretary of Agriculture.
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GIRL ALONE ALL
NIGHT IN JUNGLE
Daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. G. j. Bell
Loses Way in Indian Wilderness.

Daughter of MI. and Mrs. Z. y. Bel
Loses Way in Indian Wilderness.
Washington, D. C. - Miss Helen
Bell, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas.
]. Bell, has just returned from an
eventful winter in India, the most
thrilling episode of which was a night
alone in the jungle.
Miss Bell left here early in the
winter to spend several months in In
dia with English friends, Mr.. aud
Mrs. Arthur F. Hopkins. Part of the
time Mr.. and Mrs. Hopkins and their
party, including Miss Bell, were camp
ing near Hyderabad and hunting big
game.
The men of the party started out
on a. hunt n morning, and toward
night Miss Bell rode out from camp
to meet them. She missed the trail
after a few miles and soon found her
self getting further into the heart OF
the Jungle and unable to get her bear
ings. Darkness came on, and with 1t
a heavy. rain.
Alone with only her horse and a
few dogs, Miss Bell faced a night IN
that lonely wilderness known Tor It's
venomous snakes. The night
on and no help came, and, unable to
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-07-17
ROOSEVELT TALKS FOR
THE AMERICAN BOYS
Tells Archie's S%chooImates to Be
Brave, Strong, Gentle and Kind.
LEARN TO HOLD THEIR OWN
The Bully the Meanest Boy in tho
World, Declares the President
Defines Desirable Citizens-Hit
the Line Hard.

Washington, D. G.. - President
Roosevelt delivered an address at the
annual presentation exercises of the
Friends Select School in this city,
where Archie Roosevelt is a student.
His subject was 1.-THE American Boy"
The President said: .
II want to see the boy enjoy him.
self. The boy at play sometimes ex-
hibits these qualities which determine
the kind Of man he will make. If he
dislikes his work, if he shirks his stu
dies, he will develop into a great fail
ure in everything else. If he hasn't
character to study, he won't have
character to play. Play hard when
you play, and work hard when you
work. Right here there is as great a
younger ones.
II want to see the boy work hard,
but at the same time I want to see
him remember the other side of life.
I want to see you brave and strong,
and I want to e you gentle and
kind. These are the qualities that
make up the good citizen. I want to
see you so conduct yourselves that
among your fathers and mothers
there will be a feeling Of regret, and
not relief when you are away from
home" a
The element of courage in the
young boy, as essential and impera-
tive along with any other trait, was
the basis for some references by the
President.
when you are out among your
playmates," he said, don't be afraid
of the little boy who happens to be
rude to you. The boy who is too nice
to hold his own is not the boy who
will grow I'd be the best citizen. When
you boys grow to manhood I want to
see you put the wrongdoer out of the
way, and to make the man who does
wrong feel that you are his superior
both in strength and character. If
you can't hold your own you will be a
curse in any environment and remain
the dread of those around you.
"The bully, the boy who would
maltreat a weaker boy or an animal,
is one Of the meanest boys in the
world. I want to see you protecting
those who are weak against those
who would Cypress the weak. It's a
boy who becomes a citizen that will
be strong enough to abhor and de-
spise the betrayal Of a trust and
strong enough to stand for the right.
Hardness of heart and softness Of
head" was the term applied by the
President to many parents whose
boys we're utter failures, and who
lacked the fundamental principles for
good citizenship. He declared that
the mother who permitted her boy to
have his own way without restrain,
and whose selfish wishes were always
granted without a single curb, would
see that boy develop into an undesir-
able citizen and a selfish and brutal
husband or father"
Nov, I have finished, and just a
closing word to you, boys" said the
President. II am going to give you
some of the rules Of which I Am fond
and which are as applicable in life as
on the football field: Don't finch,
don't foul and hit the line hard"
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From Woman's View Point.

AS Mrs. Hetty Green grows older
she dresses better and with more
care.
Mrs. Gertrude Atherton was at last
accounts hard at work, at Munich, on
a new novel. Her publishers state
that she finds the atmosphere of
Europe more %congenial for her work
than that of America"
Barbara Krupp, second daughter
of the late Herr Krupp, was married
At the Villa Hugel, near Essen, Ger
many, to Baron Tilo Won Wilmowski.
The couple will live at Bonn, where
the Baron Is a Government Official
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The Field of Labor.

A strike of 800 machinists "a de-
clared in Lowell.
The Farmers Union has estab-
lished an organization in Kansas.
The Commercial Photographers
Union of America decided to strike
unless certain grievances are rene
died by the Western Union Company.
According to the opinion of prom
inent labor leaders, the most salts
factory employment of convict labor
would be on the building Of public
highways and the reclamation of
State lands
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AMERICA FOR DISARMAMENT.
England Ready to Leave to United
States Proposal Of Question.

Rome, Italy.-According to the
latest reports regarding the negotia-
tions on the subject of the PROPOSE
ton to discuss the question of the
limitation of ornaments at the COM
ing peace conference at The Hague,
Great Britain is ready to withdraw
from presenting her proposition if the
United States decides to bring up the
question, in which case Great Britain
would support the American PROPOSE
ton.
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Late News Paragraphs.

Records for snowfall in April were
broken.
Paris is face to face with a snail
famine.
SPANS royal babe was named AL
fonso Pho Cristino Eduardo.
The death record of plague in In
dia for six weeks is 451,S92.
The United States Patent Office is
months behind in its work.
Ballooning as a recreation fol
women finds much favor in France.
Secretary Root, speaking at Yale,
defended the raising Of campaign
funds.
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BECKER ADMITS HE SLEW GIRL.
Confesses That He Struck Her With a
Stone in the Dandclion Field.

Flushing, l.. Henry Becker, the
~wild-eyed youth held in the county
Jail at Long Island City, confessed
that he is the one who murdered
pretty Amelia Charlotte Staffeldt in a
field at Elmhurst.
The confession was made to detect
ives while Becker was being taken in
a carriage to the home of Mrs. Car
men Simonson, in which yard he
washed his hands shortly after the
murder.
Becker was taken to Mrs. Simon
sons home so that she could identify
him as the youth on whose hands she
saw blood stains. In his confession
Becker described in detail how he
first struck the child with a stone,
and then, with the knife she had
used in digging dandelions, stabbed
her in the neck.
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FURNITURE TRUST FINED.
Judge Thinks Men Would Prefer to
Work For S1.5O a Day.

Chicago.-Judge Lands fined F.
A. Holbrook, the American Seating
Company, and the A: H. Andrews
Company $4,000 each, and nine other
furniture companies amounts rang
ing from $500 to $4,000, for violation
Of the antitrust laws in forming a
conspiracy in restraint of trade. The
defendants pleaded guilty.
Judge Lands delivered a scathing
denunciation of the methods adopted
by the church and school furniture
trust, declaring that the punishment
fixed by law is inadequate to fit the
crime.
when I reflect upon the methods
~resorted to-" said Judge Lands, 81
wonder why men engage in such bust
less to get money. Almost any man.
1 should think, would prefer to work
in a ditch at $3.50 a day. That Is
unquestionably a more dignihed
method"
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CONNECTICUT CALLS FOR HE'LL
Farmers Willing to Pay $50, Will
Board, For Spring Planting.

Pomfret, Conn.-Farm help is 50
scarce throughout the agricultural
sections of Connecticut that farmers
are uniting to pay the expense Of adj
vertising for and bringing to some
central point men and women from
the seaports where immigrants are
obtainable.
Members of the Grange have re.
ported that an active agent could
send from New York and Boston any
number of able-bodied Swedish and
Polish immigrants, who, having
landed, are in search Of work, and
would prefer farm work to city en-
ployment. The wages offered to
farm hands has never been higher,
the prevailing figures being $50 a
month, with room and board, and yet
not enough help has been obtained to
do the spring planting.
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With the Workers.

Eighteen hundred longsnoremen
struck at Montreal.
Coopers in the Toronto (Canada)
breweries propose to ask for a mini
mum wage of SIS a week.
Boston (Mass.) Newsboys' Union
wishes more space on Boston common
allotted for playground purposes.
An increase of ten per cent. has
been granted the Grand Trunk road
masters, foremen and section men.
At Boston (Mass.) a district coun-
Gil Of city employees unions has been
permanently formed for. mutual effort
and protection.