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i SHOOTING WAS AN ACCIDENT. An Account of the Wounding of Joe Padgett. Atlanta, Sept. 13.?As a result of a playful prank of a friend with a pistol which he thought empty, Joe O. Padgett, ticket seller for the Haags dog and pony show, lies at the Grady hospital with a dangerous wound through his right lung. The accident occurred in a Pullman sleeper on a side track at Elberton, Ga., yesterday morning about 8 o'clock, the show having an engagement at that town. The pistol was picked up from a bunk in the car by Frank McGuire, the general manager of the show, and playfully pointing ix at Padgett, pulled the trigger. To the utmost horror of McGuire, there was an explosion and Padgett fell back unconscious. Drs. Johnson and Thompson, of Elberton, were called in and the bullet was located -? ? _ 1? r? /5 Iao or in tee uauti, tue w<_?u.uu ^auiug < straight through the right lung. The i two physicians, wishing to have the best of facilities for treating Padgett, brought him on a Seaboard passenger train to Atlanta, arriving here at 4 o'clock. The ambulance met Padgett at the depot and, with the assistance of several local physicians, a second operation was performed at the hospital. While the wound is not immediately of a mortal nature, con- [ siderable doubt is felt as to the out-1 come. Padgett is a native of Bam- 1 berg, S. C., and has been with the j show for three years. M |i KILLED OX RAILROAD TRACK. Negro Woman Slain by Train or Assassin Near Branchville. ( Branchville, Sept. 17.?Another | negro was killed on the right of way " of the Southern Railway company , last night. This time it was a wo- c man. The body of this woman was ? lying on the track of the Southern : Railway company and as train No. 14, which is the regular passenger train that runs between Charleston ( and Columbia, was making the trip ^ to Charleston. As it was nearing an , aDanaonea siauon caneu qo, wmtu ^ Is a few miles Below Branchwille in Orangeburg county, the body of a negro woman by the name of Pa- s tlence Bannister was seen on the track a short distance ahead of the engine, ; " but the train was so close to the body 1 of the woman when she was seen that i it was impossible for the engineer i to stop the train without endangering t the lives of the many people that i were on his train at the time. The a train was running at a high rate of c speed and when the body of the wo- I man was hit by the train she was t knocked some distance off the track C to one side. It is not known wheth- C ?r the train killed the woman or t whether she was murdered and put f on the track to cover up the crime 1 but a very singular incident in the case is the fact that there is a hole through her head that is at least two inches big. This hole went through , the head from ear to ear and it does c not seem that the train could have g knocked a hole through the head of ? this nature. The arms of the wo- j. man were broken and one of them looked as if the train had passed over it. There are no bruises on the wo- g man below the waist. The woman c was about 60 years old and was respected by all who knew her. She s had just married a few weeks ago to g a man that is not known very well in c that community. It is reported that ^ her husband is from Columbia. This g new husband of hers did not show g any signs of worry when he was in- g formed that his wife was lying dead t by the side of the railroad track near v his house and this fact caused a great v many of the people to believe that t there had been foul play in the killing. Capt. Barney Fair, who was in 0 charge of the train, left his flagman c to guard the body until a message -j could be sent to the coroner. When ^ Magistrate Dukes was informed of 0 ^ tho trnp-pflv hp at orirp had a mm- _ ner's jury summoned and started to - view the body. It being on the railroad right-of-way and the railway company not being satisfied as to whether the woman was killed by t their train or by the hand of an as- c sassin the company very readily i: agreed to take the magistrate, acting s as coroner, with his jury and deputy t and a physician to hold the post- 9 mortem examination to the scene of u the killing. This was done. After c the jury viewed the dead body the 1' court then continued the hearing un- t: til Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, at s which time testimony will be taken c and a rigid examination had. It is certain that if the facts show that e the woman was not killed by the rail- a way company some arrests will be a made. The old woman had been to e town yesterday to do some shopping ^ and near by her side last night lay c some of the merchandise that she had E bought. s t Kentucky's Biggest Corn Field. t The biggest corn field in the State v of Kentucky is outlined in gigantic a horseshoe sweep of the Ohio river t from Henderson round past Evans- v ville to Green river. It is the big- I; gesi ior 11 is corn continuously xur six thousand or seven thousand acres t unbroken by fences unrelieved by t any other crop?no hay no tobaccco, c oats or wheat?just corn, corn, corn and then more corn. It is estimated that over 300,000 bushels of corn will be raised in this monster tract this year, and this is in spite of the fact that the farmers 1 were scared out of a year's growth by the high water and for a time were ^ not quite sure whether the high wa- ^ ter would let them raise any corn. c Hand Crushed in Pulley. s Lamar, Sept. 18.?Mr. Clarence [ Lee, a prominent planter and mer- j chant of the Lydia section, had his right hand terribly crushed by a belt pulley at his gin yesterday. He was attended by Drs. Wallace and Pitts and was rushed to the McLeod in- ? firmary at Florence in an automobile. Almost every bone in the hand was broken or crushed and a bolt had penetrated the palm. Dr. McLeod thinks he can save Mr. Lee's hand, although it is in a terrible codition. BLEW OPEN SAFE IN STORE. Yeggmen Get Over $1,000 on Outskirts of Macon. Macon, Ga., Sept. 18.?Yeggmen at 3:30 o'clock this morning blew open a safe in the store of F. W. Smith, within a stone's throw of the city limits, and secured approximately $700 in cash, a pistol, two diamonds valued at $300, a number of notes and mortgages and other valuable documents. Entrance to the store was gained with blacksmith tools and nitroglycerine was used on the safe. A colored resident near the store heard the explosion but thought it was mules kicking in a stable nearby. A sheriff's posse was formed after daylight and a determined search in-1 stituted but no trace of the robbers j has been found. ' Magistrate Removed. Magistrate J. E. Davis, of Clearwater, in Aiken county, has been suspended by Gcv. Ansel on the charge or misconduct in omce ana neglect of duty. The governor has had the case under consideration for some time and suspended the magistrate only after he had heard all sides to the case. It is charged that Davis, after a case had been settled without trial, collected $4.90 for the costs and that he made no record of this amount. Davis in his return to Gov. Ansel stated that he had overlooked the matter of recording the amount received as it had escaped his memory in making up his report. Special Term to Try Xight Riders. Union City, Tenn., Sept 15.?By special agreement of Attorney General D. J. Caldwell and counsel representing the 100 men under indict- . nent in this county, charged with light riding, the cases will be tried it a special term of court which will convene on the second Monday in November. The agreement, entered nto late to-day, permits as many )f the men now held in jail as are ible to make bond in the sum of $25,)00 each. They include the eight vhose death sentences for the aleged murder of Capt. Quentin Raniin were recently reversed by the lupreme court iouthern Railway Double Tracking. The Southern Railway Company las resumed work on the improvenent of its main line from Washngton to Atlanta. The entire distance )etween these two cities will eventlally be doubled tracked. Last week t surveying sorps and a large force >f laborers were put to work making >reparatory arrangements for double racking from Glass to Salisbury, N. J. The contractors are Lane Bros. & " r? nf T .vtipVi hnrf Vn ft is sniH bat the Southern will in the near uture expend many millions of dolars in betterments. Young Man Killed by Train. Spartanburg, Sept. 18.?Glover ^.cton, 19 years old, employee at the Ipartan mills, was struck by passenger train No. 3S on the Southern ailwav near the Green street crossng this afternoon at 5 o'clock and nstantly killed. His skull was xushed, his neck broken, his left ,rm broken and the wall of his left hest crushed trough. C It seems that the young man was tanding on the track of the passen;er train watching a freight goii^ >outh. He did not notice the pasP ?? nger coming until it was too late to s-* ;et aut of the way. He made one h tep to get off the track when he was c truck. He had been standing on t he passenger track for half a min- t: Lte or less when he was hit. There rere several eye-witnesses to the ragedy. a The inquest was held tonight at 8 a 'clock by Magistrate Wetmore, Cor- t Tiimnr Kcvirxr ill of Vtic Vi Amo ^ ' ?JL V 1 X U1 uti utilife ill U C> UiO UVUiV. "he testimony went to show that the tl leceased was a sober and industri- c us young man. He' was from New- i< iort, Tenn. w m ^ Girl Withdraws Charges. ji Rome, Ga., Sept. 18.?Declaring s< hat she was driven by the lash of * onscience to tell the truth after havng perjured herself on the witness tl tand, where her testimony secured J1 he conviction of Jack Worthington, . , Bartow county farmer, to 20 years ^ n the penitentiary on the charge of " riminal assault, Rosa Elrod, the al- u eged victim, to-day made a sensa ional affidavit in which she says her ^ tory of the assault was a pure fabri- " ation. The girl, accompanied by her fath- 11 r, appeared to-day before a notary y< nd the attorneys for Worthington . nd denied her whole story. She ad- J5 Qitted having illicit relations with a' Vorthington but said they were by p' onsent and that he was engaged to p arry her. Her father, J. S. Elrod, F wore she made the same confession o him. " Both father and daughter declared 11 hat the girl's testimony at the trial . ras caused by threats of death to the ? ;irl, made by enemies of Worthing- Pc on who had discovered his relations V: nth the Elrod girl and wanted him ynched or jailed. ? Worthington's attorneys will use ? he affidavits in a motion for a nev rial now pending in the appellate ourt. Fined for Enticing Labor. Chester, Sept. 15.?Forrest Griffin, $ l big burly negro, was arrested here h donday afternoon and fined $35 in ,b he mayor's court yesterday morning ri in the charge of enticing labor. Grif- a in seems to be a labor agent for the 1. C. & O. railway, as he carried a r lumber of passes from that system >n his person and had engaged pas- " age for the hands that he had hired ^ or Spartanburg, where the C. C. & ). is now mobolizing large forces of aborers. The Dispensary Commission. * Columbia, Sept. 18.?The dispen- o ;ary commission held an executive s; session yesterday, all the members s Deing present but Mr. Bryce, who is ;aid not to have been invited. Chair- I nan Murray declined to make public s mything of the proceedings. He h >ays Mr. Bryce could not be present, o i i j^ili il; ili ili ili Hi ili if? ili iliilii | ^ You can have the us ;? you how simple it ii jt? If you decide to buy I & & Cable Building, SEIZE ANOTHER BIG STILL. officers Capture Large "Tussac" Plant in Edisto River Swamp. Aiken, Sept. 15.?Another of the big stills" of the South Edisto river vamp is in the Aiken jail yard, havlg been brought here last night by ifficers Samuels, Cato and Holley. he still was a large one, the capacir being about 120 gallons of mash." Mr. Samuels received information few days ago that Kinney Monday, white man, was in the business, he information was based, it is said, n Monday carrying molasses from 10 winrfsnr ritmot. Subseouently onstables Samuels, Cato and Holley eft yesterday, armed with search arrants, for Monday's house, which 'as searched. Nothing but empty lgs and bottles were found. A jarch of the premises not revealing ny whiskey, it was continued into le adjacent swamp. A path from ae house was followed into the vamp, and a short distance from the ouse the still was found, still steamlg after a big "stilling bee" had iken place. The big basin and the orm was loaded on the buggy, hile six fermenters and a "fleeck" :and were demolished. It is said lat this still is one of the most faious of the Edisto swamp, having, is alleged, been in operation for 20 ears. The distilled goods could not be >cated, but all appurtenances were estroyed. This still was found at a oint that has not been raided withyear, 16 miles from Aiken, near ine Log bridge. Monday raised quite a fuss about le officers searching his house, but lade no resistance. This is the eighth still that has een captured within a year's time y the Aiken county officers. Aiken i to be congratulated upon having le diligent dispensary officers that tie has, as they are a terror to the lind tiger element, and by their ood works the violations of the law re kept within a small sphere. S20.000 Verdict. Union, Sept. 15.?A verdict for 20,000 was given to Jack Holcomb i a $60,000 damage suit which he rought here against the Southern ailway. Holcomb was a fireman on freight which ran from Charlotte d Columbia an while making this un several months ago he was badr injured. One of his most serious ijuries was a compound fracture of be left leg. Student's Skull Broken. Toledo, O., Sept. IS.?Harry Kirk, freshman in the Coshocton high chool is near death with a fracture f the skull, sustained in an effort to ave his hair from being clipped by ophomore hazers. In running away from the hazers Cirk fell into an open cellarway, triking the basement floor on his ead. Surgeons have removed part f his skull. -- - r ff ^ ^^^c+fciyo if ?r se of a music room and any ni 3 to operate one of these inst] ', drop us a postal and one of ( EVERYTHING Kl T TT WATT AT U . v . vr Many Reasons Why Ton Should Carry a Bank Account It teaches economy. It helps your credit. It stimulates your courage. It guards you against extravagance. It gives you confidence in your judgment. It furnishes the best receipt for the money you pay out. It creates business habits that will increase your savings. It protects your funds from loss by robbery. 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