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-v I;:.-.. p^- K Chorleaton, Where the Mob Took the Prieoaeri from the Jail and leached Them In the Preeeace of a large Crowd Incinding Many Women and (Children. An exodua In thtf negro popula tion ol Charleetonu Mleaourl, la re ported to be in progresa, following the double lynching on Monday when Robert Coleman and Sam Plelda were hanged by an Infuriated mdb for the murder of william Fox, a fttsaittippl county farmer. ~ .JSo ahote wore fired pn either aide. Ip the crowd which packed Hie court hquae yard in front of the Jait were tldlin-ttgy, W0V..P0 UCHBWOMT many women and children, and the officers feared on that account to re sort to rfhootlng. On the outskirts of the crowd Were several automo- bilea, their oeenpanta standing on the Mats to bettnr watch the attack on the Jafl* Seemingly the mob waited only for a leader. About A o’clock in fhe afternen a man seemed to take charge and the crowd rushed for ward. 'A concerted rush was made at the- jail and In a moment the front fence of the yard was tram pled down. The aheriff and his men were brushed aside. There was no turn- lag back then, even had the leaders baan so inclined, for the hundreds in the rear were pushing forward shouting for the lives of the ne groes. A railroad tie was shoved forward as a battering ram. The mob ahouted with Increasing rage aa the door went down and the crowd pushed Into the building. Another door was in the way. This was smashed In a second and the erdwd surged upstairs to the second floor where the two negroes were confined. Those In the yard—the women and children—could hear the sounds of k sledge hammer as the lock was knocked off the cell door. In a few moments a shout announced that the lock had been broken. Coleman was dragged forth and lynched In the jail yard, while the crowd cheered. A man climbed up i tmmff pm one end or the rope over a limb. The negro was jerked up and soon swung clear of the erawd. While Coleman dangled, another body of men rushed from the jail, dragging and pnlling the other ne gro, Sam Fields. A rope was plac ed around his neck and the mob. shouting, started west along Court street. The negro said he would show the men where he and Coleman had hidden the revolver they had uaed iu shooting William Fox, whose death ike crowd avenged. The men lu _after s short parley decided to take the negro to And the revol ver, The rope still about bia neck and drawn tightly by hit captors. Fields was thrown into a carriage Followed by the mob on foot, in carriages and antomobiles, the vehl cle containing TTeWa-litP r tc<l to the mile Kalled to Keeend Same One to Freight, Causing the Accident. Interest in Monday’s disastrous wreck of the Big Four’s New York Flyer at Middletown, Ohio, in which more than a score of lives were sac rificed. was transferred to Cincin nati Tuesday. A statement from J. W. Hall, pilot engineer of the Big Four passenger train which crashed Into a freight train of the Cincin nati. Hamilton and Dayton railway, placed blame for the wreck on train dispatcher Smith, of the latter sys tem, at Dayton. In this he was partly confirmed by E. A. Gould, general superintendent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day- ton. Mr^Ooutv was unwilling 1 to go further than to say that, "some such reason was responsible fer the ac cident." but railroad men about the headquarters of the two systems as- cepted the explanation of Wall as contained the gist of the case. ! Wall's statement follows: The engineer of the freight train showed me order No. 60 supposed to have been used after our train (the Big Four limited) left Dayton, and to have been handed to ua at Car lisle between Bayton and Middle- town. This order gave the freight till.j.07 to make the siding at Poast- town,'north of Middletown. r “Smith revoked that order so that it was not delivered to us at Car- lisle, but failed to revoke the same order issued to the freight Our train made up some tftne after leav ing Dayton and this brought us ip the Poasttown siding earlier than 1.07. “We had no warning of anything in the way and supposed we had a clear line.’’ Wall also exhibited four train or ders. net one of which gave any in dication that the flying passenger train was to meet any other train at Poasttown’ or any other siding be tween Dayton and Cincinnati. Theee orders, he said, were all, he had to guide him the day of the wreck. Local officera of the Big Four are not yet willing to account officially for the wreck. "A misunderstand ing of orders" was mentioned bV some, but whose misunderstanding it was. they were not prepared to state. With the definite identification of the four unnamed bodies in Middle- town. all the nineteen unidentified are acsounted for. Two more died Tuesday, one at Dayton and one at Hamilton. These were John Pan- kin. Springfield, Ohio., and Evelyn Lloyd, Round Point. Maine, and their passing made the death list 21. Four others are scarcely expected to sur vive their hurts. PRISON FOR LIFE. Sorted t< ng, half » r?- SM' ■cene of the ahooting south ef town. ^ ffolng part of the wh?- tlTe negro tots thp,captors he "guessed' after all he couhMiot find the pis tol. A stop was then made and Fields was jerked out of the carriage with out any preliminaries, the rope was tossed over the limb of a tree and Fields was strung up. Next morning his body was still swinging. The body of the other ne gro was cut down by several persons who wanted pieces of the rope as souvenirs. - The crime which a mob avenged by lynch law wag committed about ten o'clock Saturday night. The mo- tlvs was robbery. . FLIKH OVER THE OCEAN. Curtiss Takes Flight of Eight Minu tes Above Atlantic. Glenn H. Curtiss made an eight inute fight over the ocean at Atlan ta City, N.J., at 6.36 Tuesday night. The trip included a flight along the entire front of the city about a mile off shore, and l.SOO feet above the ocean. fThe successful flight was secunfi one-attempted, the first fhiiQtf&f til s mhihap that nearly sent Curtiss into the ocean. While he was attempting to make a turn from the beach to go to sea an air current caught the plane and drop- it within ten feet ot breakers. made a quick turn and drove machine;on the beach with such fbree that a 'wood standard along bis ■eat wm snapped. Shot All Dogs in Sight. A. C. Elmore, while celebrating the Fourth of July at Pacolet Mon day, docidod that he had to shoot all the dogs in sight One of the dogs, fleeing from the shots fired at him, ran into an >ld gentleman named Tiffenwer and upset him with the result that his log was broken, fin ished jn jail. Dr. Hyde Sentenced for Swope M ud der Tuesday. Dr. B. C. Hyde, convicted of hav ing poisoned Col. Thomas H. Swope, the millionaire philanthropist, was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor by Judge Ralph Latshaw. In the criminal court at Kansas City Tuesday morning. The doctor and his wife, who had stood by him faithfully, sat side by side and held each other's handle, irfidge Latshaw pronifitly overruled the motion for arrest of judgment and commanded Dr. Hyde to stand up. Before passim* sentence he asked the prisoner if. he had anything to say An appeal to the state supreme court was filed by Hyde’s attorney’s, and until it is taken up by the high er court the prisoner will remain in the county Jail. BRUTAL ASSAULT. Janitor Fired Five Shot* into Body of Patrol Wagon Driver. r Stealthily approaching his victim from the rear, J. B. Allison, aged 46, a former janitor at the city hall, fired five shots in the body of F. M McGhee, driver of the city patro! wagon Tuesday afternoon at Ashe ville, every bullet taking effect. After his victim had fallen, Alli son beat out the former's brains with a 10-pound hammer. Allison sur rendered and is now in Jail. Indig nation runs high abong the citizen ship, and there is some talk of lyn ching. The killing according to the prisoner's statement, is the outcome of an old quarrel concerning a wo man. Twentieth Century Limited Pas senger While Rounding Curve CVashe* Into Freight. Nineteen persona were killed out right probably fatally hurt, and half a dozen were seriously injured In a head on collision between a frieght and praeeenger train on the Cincin- nutl-Hamilton and Dayton railroad at Middleton, Ohio, Monday. Of the killed, eighteen were passengers, the other victims being a member of the passenger train crew. The trains were the Cincinnati section of the Twentieth Century limited on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis railroad, (Big Four) and the second section of a freight train on the Cincinnati, Ham jlton and Dayton railway. The latter was attempting to make a siding to give the passenger train a clear track, when the flyer, trav eling at a rate of fifty miles an hour, flashed around a curve and crashed into it. * A misunderstanding of orders caused the disaster, which was one of the worst that that section of the country had ever experienced. Pilot engineer George Wald had received oredrs to wait at Post Town three miles north of Middleton, and a siding station, according to rail road officials. The freight train was to have passed him there, but was late In pulling out of Middletown. Instead of the seven minutes margis which Wald thought he had to reach Middletown, the time was less than five minutes. The first section of the freight had taken the siding at Middleton and Conductor John Wea ver, In cht^ge of the second section, tried to reach the north end of the same siding. Before his train had cleared the switch points the passenger train rounded a curve screened by the thickly wooded lots on each side of the track. The engine crews had time to jump and all escaped ser ious Injury. The crash when the trains met was terrific, the freight train was made up of gondola coal cars, flat cars and box cars loaded with lum ber. Directly behind the passenger lo comotive and the tender was a com bination baggage and smoking car followed by a day coach and a chair car. All the dead and Injured were in the first two cars, there being six passenger# In the smoker and twen ty-one in the day coach. Every seat in this coach was torn from its fastenings, the roof was thrown to one side and the heavy weight of massive timbers hurled with awful force struck among the men and women in the coach. Even Vefore the crash came rescuers were running to the wreck from the Mid dleton station, some three hundred yards south of the accident. Calls for assistance were sent to Dayton and Hamilton Relief trains were made up at each of these places and the injured were placed upon them and sent to hoapitala in those cities, there being no such institution in Middletown. Frta Ev«ry Sectm Cmm Rrptrts if Races OYER THE PRIZE FIGHT STOPS ON TRACK. CRACKER CAUSES FIRE. Exploded Among Straw in Barn With Serious Result*. A fire which will amount to ap proximately $300,000 destroyed 60 buildings, made 3 0 families home less and wiped out the business and residential section of 1 Benton, Col umbia county, Pa., occurred Monday. An exploding firecracker- thrown in among the straw in the ham of Geo. Crosslay was the cause of the fire. The fire broke out gt about three o’clock In the afternoon and it was not until late that night that after aid had arrived, that the flames were got under control. Automobile Smashed to Pieces but occu|»antM Unhurt. The southbound train. No. 89, says a Latta dispatch, struck an automo bile at Bailey Ford Crossing, about a mile from that place, Tuesday af ternoon. The automobile waa hurled from the track a mass of debris. The comchatcher of the engine was demolished and front trucks thronw from the track. The machine was owned by N. E. Berry of Dillon, who with his family and Mrs. L. A. Man ning, was returning from Marlon The country road at this point cross es the railroad diagonally and being much lower than the road bed, is considered a dangerous point. Mrs. Berry was driving the machine. The motjr stalled as the front wheels reached the middle of the track. They made every effort to remove the machine and sign down the train. Nobody was hurt. The train was de layed about an hour. GOT FOR BOXING.. Jim Jeffries Made $117,000, While Johnson Secured $120,000. Jack Johnson wa* $120,600 richer when Jim Jeffries went down for the last time in Monday's fight. He took 60 per cent of the $101,000 purse which amounted to $60,000, *" bon us of $10,000 and he sold his pic ture interests for $5Q,000. , Jeffries took a fortune out of the defeat at Johnson's hands. He re ceived 40 per cent, of the purse, amounting to $40,000, the bonus of $10,000 and he sold his picture in terests for $66,666, making a total of $117,000. The owners of the picture films are calculating on a million dollar’s profit. Negroes In Many Place* Become In sulting When It Became Known That Johnson Had Knocked Jef fries Out in the Great Fist Fight at Reno, Nev., Monday. There were clashes between whites and blacks in several sections of Philadelphia Monday night follow ing the announcement of Johnson’s Physician Accused of Bifamy. ▲ warrant charging bigamy was ■worn out at noon Tuesday against Dr. J. M. fHgman, a well known Sa vannah physician, at tha Instance of Rebecca Plgg, a trained auras, alleges that haring married her on. Dr. Stgman la guilty _ „ because of his marriage • woman in - ±Jtk 1.. Kills Two Negroes. Two negroes were killed and a third wounded by H. Y. Evans, a white man at Enoka, about 19 miles from Lake Providence, La., Monday. It ia reported that Evans* brother was being beaten by a negro bar tender when Evans opened fire, kill ing the negro. A second negro, who interferred. met a like fate, and a negress waa struck by a stray bul- laU * : ' r- Chalr Caused Death of Negro. ^ ' A sow on July 4th at jColumbia over • broken chair resulted fatally for Austin Townyell, a negro boy, whooo skull was fractured by a blow with • bat la the bands af Alexander Brooka. an ll-yaar-oU-nscro. victory over Jeffries. At Kansas City, Mo., negroes in boasting of fight result, pulled from streets "cars and riots threatened In down town streets were on Monday midnight. Extra police were on -duty to prevent mobbing. One dead and one mortally wound ed is the result of an attempt by four negroes to shoot up Moundo, 111., In honor of Jack Johnson’a vic tory at Reno. - A negro constable was killed when he attempted to arrest them. At Little Rock. Ark., two negroes are reported killed by white men, one by a Rock Island conductor on his way into the city Monday night, and the other by a white man at Second and Scott streets. At Washington several small race riots broke out a^varlous points on Pennsylvania ‘ : a*«nue Monday night following announcement of the Jeffrles-Johnson fight. There were a number of arrests. No one was seriously hurt. Rioting between whites and blacks broke out in seven different points in New York City Monday night follow ing the announcement of the result of the Jeffrles-Johnson fight. One negro was dragged from a street car and badly beaten before rescueij. A gang of white men In the "black and tan belt” set fire late Monday night to a negro tenement on the middle West-Side. The police and fire department were ordered out on the Jump. The race feeling is very bitter against the negroes Seventy negroes, half the number women, were arrested Monday night in the “black belt” of Baltimore for disorderly celebration of Johnson s victory. One negro was badly cut by another and two other negroes were assaulted and severely Injured by whites in arguments over the big fight. Rioting in a negro quarter ^)f St Louis at Market street and Jefferson avenue followed the announcement that Jack Johnson was the victor in the Reno prize fight. The police fin ally clubbed back the negroes, who were blocking trafic and making threats. Minor disturbances between whites and blacks broke out at Fort Worth following the announcement of John- sons victory over Jeffries Monday afternoon. The most serious was an attack by two negresses on a white woman, the latter being seriously hurt by blows on the head with beer bottle's. Six negroes with broken heads, six white men locked »p and one white man. Joe Chockley, wifh a bul let through his skull and probably latally wounded, is the net result of clashes at Roanoke, Va., Monday night following the announcement that Jack Johnson had defeated Jim Jeffries. The trouble started when a negro, who had just Jieard the news from Reno, said: "Now I guess the white folks will let the negroes alone.” A white man replied “no and the two clashed. Police had difficulty landing the negro in jail, being compelled to draw their re volvers. Later a negro shot Chock ley and escaped. In Atlanta trouble between the blacks and whites as an outgrowth of the Jeffries-Johnson fight was narrowly averted Monday night when the police arrested half a dozen whites and one negro. The black yelled "hurrah for Johnson" on a crowded downtown street. He held a knife in his hand and in an in stant several white men had struck him The police used their clubs freely after the whites had chased the negro Into an alley. The streets were thronged with men of both races In a nasty humor, but the po lice were vigilant and say they can prevent trouble. The first disorder arose at the Grand opera house where a mixed audience heard the fight bulletins read. Later some negroes started a parade to celebrate the victory of their fellow black. This the police stopped at once. On the order of the police commission the mounted men, the reserves and the detective force were called out and the downtown streets patroled. At Houston, Texas, disturbances broke out Immediately Monday night on the announcement of the John son victory at Reno. Three negroes were badly hurt by white men in side of an hour after the flash of the result and the police were call ed to quell the zeveral minor dis turbances and to break up fist fights. Charles Williams, a negro, was a lit tle too vociferous in announcing the outcome on a street car and a while man slashed his throat from ear to ear. The negro almost bled to death before he reached the hospital to which be wae hurried. » ♦ ♦ Bine jackets Mix In. Race riots broke out all over Nor folk Monday night and many negroes were injured. The trouble was caused mostly by enlisted men from the various battieehips who attacked negroes wherever they met them. A detatchment of marines from the navy yard are aiding the poDce to well the Met. CLASSIFIED COLUMN Hogs and sheep. Poland China Pigs ONE NEGRO IN EVERY FOUR USES COCAINE. Efforts of Police to Stop the Illegal Sale of the Poison Have Had Ut ile Effect. and Shropshire Sheep. Good In dividuals. T. E. Brown, Mur freesboro, Tenn. Wanted—Boarders. Roqms with fire places; fine springs; one-half mile from depot. Beautiful mountain scenery. Good fare. Mrs. P. 1. Wocidln, Blantyre, N. C. We need immediately about 30*mem end 50 good grade teachers for desirable locations in this nsd other Southern States. Write nt Dlnru. According to physicians In touch with the situation in Charleston, the cocaine habit among the negroes is spreading to an alarming extent. The drug, from all accounts, made its apearance among the denizens of the under world in Charleston about twelve years ago, but at that time was used only by a comp#ritlvely small number acquainted with the peculiar inbuence which the pow der exerts upon the human sys tem. The use of the drug, however, spread rapidly, first among the whites, then in Darktown, until now It is estimated that one negro in every four uses cocaine in one form or another. The police have at various times during the last two years attempted to stamp out the sale of cocaine, but apparently without success. Sev eral persons, charged with selling the drug without a physician's ce* tificate, were convicted in the Police Court and fined heavily for his vio lation of the city ordinance. There, is at present pending in the Char leston Police Court, the case of Chas. Jones, wJiile, alias “VVeatherhorn, ’ charged with selling a box of co caine to a negro woman on Market street. Very often the drug Is used m the shape of a solution of the crys talline form, mixed with other in jurious ingredients and Injected Into the system by means of a hypoder mic syringe. Other habitual users take it in the form of pills. The devotee using the syringe method, in many cases upon examination 's found to have his arms, legs or chest covered with one mass of sores, resulting from the punc tures made by the needle of the syringe. These wounds as a usual thing heal up very quickly, but very often fester and break out, owing to the unsanitary surroundings in which the cocaine fiend lives as a general rule. Cases are known in which cocaine fiends died of lockjaw and other forms of poisoning, as a direct result of festering of the hypo dermic syringe pricks covering the persons of the unfortunate users of the drug. The most "popular” and simple method in vogue of taking the drug into the system is by snuffing it through the nose. The pure co caine flakes are crushed to a powder in a mortar, and retained in this form. A small quantity of the stuff Is shaken on the back of the hand and then inhaled through the nose Another method consists of dlssolv ing a small quantity of cocaine in a teaspoonsful of water, and then heat ing it over a match. The is swal lowed. It has been pretty firmly establish ed that Indulgence in cocaine leads to physical wreckage. The users of the drug claim that a dose g'.NfcS them "courage," ‘TTe’et dreams, and a T exuberance of spirit. liXb 4 - state lasts from two to four hours, as a rule, but after that wears off quickly, leaving the victim with an insatiable craving for more of the deadly drug. Negroes especially are very susceptible to the influence of cocaine and under its sway will commit acts frem which they would shrink under normal conditions. The illegal cocaine trade is car iffed on by three different sets of individuals. First, those who pro cure it from the large drug centers of the country in wholesale quanti ties; those who sell to agents; ana finally the latter themselves who dispose of it to. the friends. The profits of the peddler are known to be considerable. A vial of cocaine which sells at $1. is made up into as many as three dozen boxes, each containing enough of the drug foi two or three small doses. The boxes sell at 25 cents each. Not content with this profit, a majority of the agents adulterate the pure cocaine (lakes with other drugs and various harmless powders. Baroric acid is principally used for this purpose, as it is snow white and therefore In visible unless detected by the eye of an -expert chemist. Very small boxes have recently made their appearance on the mar ket, which are offered for sale at a price of 15 cents. It has leaked out, however, that the fiends refuse to buy them because of the fact that the contents are mostly ingredients other than cocaine, thereby giving the buyer none of that sensation which he craves with might and soul. Wanted—To buy Hides, Wool, Bees wax, Tallow, etc. Write for prices. Crawford A Co., 608-510 Reynoldi Street, Augusta, Ga. Maplehurst, on the Asheville -and Lake Toxaway rallroap. Three hundred feet from station. Mod- era Conveniences. No consump tives taken. A. L. & L. E. Daven port. Horse Shoe, N. C. CHILDREN DROWNED. A Property Damage of Over Fifty Thousand Dollars. A Lexington, Ky., dispatch says three negro children were drowned and damage to the extent of $50,000 or more was done in Winchester and Clark counties by a cloudburst Mon day morning. Residences %nd busi- nesa structures were flooded in Win chester and boats and rafts used to rescue families. In the country several farm houses w»ere washed off their foundations by the sudden rise of the streams. Three negro children were drowned In Poyntertown. a sv- burb Of Winchester. Negro Killed by Train. Ed Rogers, a negro man, about 25 years old, wae found dead Tues day night near the track of the At lantic Coast Line rsilwty near Ban- nettsville. A coroners jury render ed a verdict to the effect that Rogers was killed accidentally by the At lantic Coast Line train and that the railroad company wae klamslssa. For Sale—A few carloads of good, bright Cotton Seed Meal, 25 per cent protein. A trial will convince you that there is no better or Cheaper feed on the market. Also a limited quantity of off-color Fer tilizer Meal very cheap. Excellent top dressing. Write for samples and prices.- Sea Island Cotton Oil Company, Charleston, S. C. ) 'once tor. particulars. Education al Bureau. Rafelgft, N. C. Health without drugs or doctohiTfy- ter 40 years suffering from nutfi-* erous complaints doctored my self. You can find health by same health treatment, . J'ull Instruc tions giver for $1.00. J. H. Dur ham, Oak Park, Illinois. Wanted—Hardwoods, logs and :am ber. We are qash buyers of pop lar, cedar and walnut logs. Alas want poplar, ash, cottonwood, cy press and oak lumber. Inspection — at your point. Easy cutting. Wrlto us. Savannah Valley Lumber Oo., Augusta, Ga. Nineteen Persons Killed. Nineteen persons were killed out right. three probably fatally hurt, and half a dozen were seriously in jured in a headon collision between a freight and passenger train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad at Middletown, O., Monday evening. Of the killed 18 were pas sengers, the other victim being a member of the train crew. Burduco Liver Powder H * ^ The Great Southern Remedy . FOR ALL= UVER TROUBLES Biliousness, Constipation, Dyspepsia, Loss of Appetite, Indigestion, Jaundice, Nervous and Sick Headache, Coated Tongue, Bad Breath, and all Stomach Diseases. Teaches the Liver to Act and Clears the Complexion Sold Everywhere 25 cent# THE BLACKSTON E SCHOOL FOR GIRLS Has since 1894 given “Thorough instruction under positively Christian infhienres at the foweqt possible coat." 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