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HUNTING LIONS THE W it.?:" > ???? *r. fV Paul J. Rainey's Expedit Dogs Successfully Experiences R ? The latest mails from East Africa, says a London letter, bring the news that the expedition of Paul Rainey of * ixl. Chicago university is meeting wim remarkable success in tracking and harrying lions and other carnivora "with hounds. On his last trip, which was made in the Guaso Nyro country, among other mammalia bagged were 27 lions and lionesses, four cheetahs, one leopard, eight wild dogs and a large number of hyenas and jackals. Mr. Rainey has employed several classes of hounds in his hunting. First come the trackers, who are able to follow up the Scent of a lion even if it is ten hours old. At first some difficulty was experienced because the dogs would run off the p|. wrong scent and several of them were lost in this manner. A little tuition got them in good working order and they were soon taught to stick to a lion's scent. The tracking animals are full bred bear hounds. When these dogs had brought the I *? ?? tVimr Tiror^ 1 ipan/ U?J iv tut? nuu mvj n^iv vw?w. j off and another set of hounds werej sent in to attack the lion. These were halfbred bear hounds, collies, |P Airedales and other breeds of terriers. The plucky little fellows would go for the hind quarters of the lion, and if he turned on them they would let go and others would catch on, thus keeping the lion busy in repelling their attacks. Among the hounds there are several staghounds used for jackals. These staghounds were able to overtake their quarry in a hundred yards and after that it was all up with the jackal. Hyenas and other fleet carnivora were also brought down by the staehounds. I One curious fact is that little or no danjage was done to the attacking dogs by lions; but w^en they went against warthogs the tale was different, and most of the casualties | to the dogs were inflicted by the old f pigs. With Mr. Rainey on this trip, which started on April 10, were Dr. Johnstone, J. C. Hemmet, a photographer; Hunter Black and Messrs. Heller, Outram and Shelley. Leaving Nairobi, the starting point of all expeditions, the party struck out for the Guaso Nyro, thence cutting acoss to the Getman border and coming back again to the Guaso Nyro by way of the Loito plains, and so on into Nairobi, which was reached on I June 9. The greatest day, and one not likely soon to be forgotten by the * party, was while they were in the region of the German border. The party had had fairly good luck in rounding up some eighteen lions by means of the hounds. The chase led in the direction of the camp. Within easy distance of the camp the hunters came upon the lions and started in with their rifles. Eight lions were killed. A lioness managed to escape the harrying dogs and slipped by the camp, where an Askar took a pot shot at her, hitting her in the left groin. The lioness attempted to crawl off with the aid of her fore I legs. Mr. Hemmett thought it would be a good opportunity to get a moving picture of the lioness charging. Approaching to within 50 ykrds of the wounded lioness, who was snarling fiercely and crawling away, Mr. Hemmet, supported on the right by Mr. Rainey, with a 350, and Mr. Black with a double barrelled 470, and Mr. Outram, also with a 350, began to. set up his camera. The lioness showed no signs of charging, so one of the naive boys was told to throw stones at her. A snarl was the only response. The lioness continued to endeavor to crawl off, but fell back, this time facing the camera. Mr. Black shouted "Look out, she means business!" Mr. Hemmet was ready, and thinking she was only e? - colne- to eive a last short attemDt and die, did not feel anxious. The lioness sprang up with a snarling roar and g charged straight for the camera. Mr. Hemmet set the machine going. Mr. Rainey held his fire until the brute was 25 yards from the camera and then fired, but did not stop her. Mr. Hemmet continued turning the handle until the animal got out of focus. At 15 yards Mr. Outram fired, but failed to stop her. Mr. Hemmet endeavored to prepare his tripod to jab her when she sprang, but seemed unable to move. Mr. Black who during the whole process was as cool as a cucumber, held his fire until the animal was 15 feet of Mr. Hemmet; then he let her have one barrel of his 470. His finger was ready on the trigger to give her the other barrel, but he saved his fire when he saw the lioness with one last {?>- v K3r*vr 4. ??$; v.* . IN ILDS OF AFRICA ion, of Chicago, is Using v?Some Exciting Well Told. bound fall three feet from the camera, driving her head into the ground. The film was saved, but Mr. Hemmet would likely have suffered se verely if Mr. Black's last shot had not caught the animal in the brain. By this time Mr. Kainey and his party are well out on another trip in another part of the country. In the Guaso Nyro country a Dutch youth, 21 years of age, single handed killed seven lion^ in ten mininutes, which is a record, even in East Africa. He was in charge of an ox team and at dawn arrived at a little stream known as Deer Dale. He had no sooner let the oxen loose than they were attacked by nine lions. The young man jumped on his wagon for his gun, a 350, and opened fire on the lions, who had already killed one of the oxen. In less than ten minutes he had fired ten shots, with the result that seven lions lay dead in front of him, three lions and four lionesses, the furthest only 15 yards distant. The other two escaped, but both were wounded. JUSTICE S BULLET HITS LADY. Row in Spartanburg Over Drought Effects 'Terminates Seriously. Spartanburg, S. C., Aug. 18.? Thompson & Dillard's store, on Morgan square, one of the largest in the citv. was the scene this afternoon of a fight between Magistrate T. 0. Fowler, of Reidville, and Robert G. Gibbs, a farmer of Switzer, in the course of which, after the men had battered each others' faces with their fists and been separated, Magistrate Fowler drew a revolver and fired four times, missing Gibbs, but wounding Mrs. Jones F. Thompson, a saleslady, and breaking a showcase and a plate glass window. The quarrel started in an argument over the effect of the drought on the crops. Mrs. Thompson had o narrnw ocpuno Tlia fttniftk h^r in the breast, but was deflected from its course by a corset stay and inflicted only a flesh wound. The nervous shock is more serious than the injury. Both men were arrested by the police, but released under bond. Fowler was then rearrested on a warrant sworn out by Gibbs, charge assault and battery with in+ tn till Wo woivtd A nrplimin wv mat AAW ??v.*? w* ?? r. * ? ary investigation and gave bond for trial at the general session of court. Fowler's excuse for the shooting is self-defence. Gibbs admits he drew a knife, but says he did not do so until Fowler produced the revolver. Fowler was appointed magistrate at Reidville by Gov. Blease, contrary to the wishes of the legislative delegation, who recommended Magistrate Harrison for reappointment. GREENVILLE MILLS CURTAIL. ( mimam?mmmmm Several to Close for Short Period, Carrying Out Agreement. , Greenville, Aug. 17.?Beginning Monday, several Greenville cotton ' mills will begin a short term of curtailment, in accordance with an agreement reached by officials of the South Carolina Cotton Manufacturers' Association in annual session at Asheville last June, The yarn mill of the American Spinning Company will close down for several days, during which time the plant will be changed from a steam driven to an electro-driven one. The Woodside Mills will operate only four days each week for the next two or three weeks. The F. W. Poe Manufacturing Company will follow a like schedule. The Brandon Mills will not curtail, nor will the Monaghan Mill. The Greer Manufacturing Company, at Greer, will close for two or three weeks in September. The cloth mill of the American Spinning Company will close for a while about September 1. Changes in machinery will be made in both these plants when the mills are closed down. FRIGHTENED AWAY BY SHOTS. St. George Merchant Finds Strange Man on Premises. Qf n.onrerp Ails' 1 fi.?When W. G. Zeigler, a young merchant of this town, returned to-night from Blackville he discovered an unidentified negro on his home premises. Becoming suspicious, Mr. Zeigler shot five times at the intruder, but each shot evidently went wild, as the negro escaped. A thorough search will be made, however, in an effort to apprehend the darkey. It is not known whether or not the negro committed any offence other than that of trespassing on Mr. Zeigler's property. No member of the family was at home at the time. FIRE AT AMUSEMENT PARK. Men and Women, in Bathing Snits, Flee for Safety. Cincinnati, Aug. 14.?Fire, which is thought to have originated from a pan of grease in the kitchen of the club house at Chester Park, an amusement resort of the city, early this afternoon, destroyed many amusement buildings and spread rapidly to lumber yards adjoining. Three hours after the flames were discovered the loss was estimated at $250, 000, a lack of water pressure making the task of the firemen difficult. Within twenty minutes of its origin the fire had spread from the club house to several flimsy buildings, and finally to a big vaudeville theatre, from which an audience of about one thousand had been dismissed half an hour earlier. The bathing beach lockers were next threatened, and men and women fled from the water, in bathing suits, hastily gathering their clothes from the lockers, and dressed in the streets. One J. C. McDonald, concessionaii e, who tried to save his cash register, was injured. The afternoon crowd had left and the evening visitors had not begun to arrive. Flying sparks from the frame and stucco park buildings set fire to the yards of the Farrin-Kern Lumber Company and the Kern Lumber Company, adjoining the park. Thousands of feet of hard wood lumber were stored there, and the timber was consumed rapidly. The heaviest part of the fire loss was caused there. The fire still is burning, but seems under control. Strange Freak of Lightning. A bolt of lightning cut up all kinds of strange capers at the home of Mr. Wade Drake, four and one-half miles south of this city, during the storm late yesterday afternoon. While the family were seated at cimr?or tahla fhp Hchtnine came into the room through a gauze door, filled the room with itself, kicked over a cupboard filled with crockery, and broke every piece of it, filling the room with dust in addition to the flash, went into an adjoining room, broke every glass out of two windows, tore off a side of the ceiling and weather boarding, punched some holes upward through the tin roof, shattered a corner post of the house, splintered two rafters. One flash went out through the same gauze door, whence it entered, another melted the telephone wire for 300 or 400 feet, not a vestige of wire remaining. On leaving the house the wire was fastened to a tree instead of a pole, and when the lightning got that far, it split again, one holt going up the tree, where it exploded, and for some time balls of fire fell from the tree over the yard. The lightning was accompanied by a terrible roar of thunder. The strangest part of the whole affair is that no one was injured, not even shocked.?Anderson Evening Mail, 17 th. Opponents of Bonds Protest. Sumter, Aug. 16.?The opponents of the $150,000 bond issue in the recent election held in Sumter county in the interest of good roads to-day en gaged ex-Judge R. 6: Purdy, of this city, to take their fight against issuing the bonds before the State board of canvassers. Among those most influential in taking this action is W. B. Boyle, ex-mayor of Sumter. To-morrow Mr. Purdy will turn over papers protesting the election to E. F. Miller, clerk of the commisioners of State election, to be sent to the State board of canvassers at Columbia at the same time as the official papers are sent over. It is not believed here that the protest of the bond issue opponents will avail them anything as they did not enter any protest before the county election commissioners. However, the decision of the State board of canvassers in the case will be awaited with a great deal of interest. ATTACKED RUSSIAN PEDDLER. Negro in Jail in St. Matthews Admits Gnilt. St. Matthews, Aug. 16.?An unknown Russian foot peddler en route to Swansea, was attacked, robbed and beaten near this place several nights ago. The peddler, who speaks only broken English, managed to obtain the consent of a friendly negro to sleep in his piazza. One John Key, another negro, happened to know of the peddler's presence and as soon as he was asleep secured a cudgel and proceeded to lay the unhappy foreigner out. Several heavy blows were inflicted and he was disabled and robbed. His knowledge of English is so limited that the peddler has not been able to make his name known, but by certain signs and sounds, he managed to communicate the intelligence to the sheriff. Key was arrested and has admitted his guilt. Screen wire doors and windows of all sizes and quality at Hunter's hardware store. LOSES LEG THROUGH JOKE. L. E. Duncan Resents Miley Floyd's Attempt at Sport-Making. The following story of a shooting at Greers is taken from the Spartanburg Herald: Making good his threat, L. E. Duncan, a farmer living on the outskirts of Greers shot his neighbor, Miley Floyd, in the ankle, because Floyd sought to shame Duncan by placing in front of the latter's door a dummy woman on whose breast was inscribed with chalk the name of a girl to whom, it is said, Duncan paid attentions which created a scandal. Duncan then sought to aid the wounded man, but Floyd refused help and crawled off to a physician. His leg was amputated yesterday by Drs. James and Holtzclaw. There had been an old grudge between Floyd and Duncan, it is said, and Floyd wanted to make sport of Duncan because of the latter's alleged attentions to the girl in the case. Floyd said he was going to rig up a stuffed figure of the girl and place it in front of Duncan's door. Duncan learned of this and sent word to Floyd that he would shoot him if he did so. Not dismayed by this threat, Floyd took a figure of a man and dressed it in a lady's shirtwaist with big checks on it, and a crocus sack skirt with a big white thread. For ears the effigy had two cobs of corn. Rudely written across the breast with white chalk was the name of the girl. . Uncouth though the figure was, it bore a grotesqui resemblance to the woman whom it was intended to represent, and in the dark at first sight might readily be taken for the ungraceful figure of a human being. On Saturday night Floyd carried the figure to Duncan's near-beer store on the edge of Greers, placed it outside the door, knocked and stepped to one side. Duncan came to the door, inspected the effigy, and then spying the mocking face of Floyd, rushed into the house, procured a gun and fired. Floyd dropped to the ground with a groan. Duncan's rage quickly passed and ho hurried to the prostrate man."Miley, I told you I would shoot you if you did it," he said. "Why J'-' U9 A i?o rnji hiullv hurt.' U1U JUU UV lb. mo JUU . . Shall I get a doctor?" "No," said Floyd, and proceeded to crawl away in the darkness. The bohes in his foot and ankle were so shattered by the shot that it was impossible to save them, and the leg was amputated midway between the ankle and the knee. No arrests have been made. WILEY SPRINGS SENSATION. Makes Serious Accusation Against Three-Secretaries Board* Washington, Aug. 17.?Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry, created a sensation to-day before the house investigating committee, when he charged that three I cabinet officers, sitting as a board of review, had reversed the government's ruling in a corporation case^ after the corporation had offered money to chemists to endorse its food product. The case was that of ! the Corn Products Company, whose right to apply the name of "corn syrup" to glucose the bureau of chemistry and the board of food and j drug inspection had denied. Dr. Wiley testified that when the bureau and the board had agreed, when a I name was applied for, the corpora tion had offered money to chemists to make affidavits that "corn syrup" was a proper description. Shortly afterwards, he declared, the hoard of three cabinet officers, Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou, Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus and Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, set aside the description and approved the contention of the corporation. The Corn Products Company, said Dr.- Wiley, charged that he had been "very busy" in creating sentiment against its products. He acknowledged that he had written to every State chemist whose duty it was to enforce the pure food laws. He said he did not receive one answer favorable to "corn syrup." He will resume the stand to-morrow. STANDS BY COTTON EXCHANGE. New Orleans Clearing House Approves Bills Lading Action. Moxxr Oriojina An?. 17.?The New Orleans bank clearing house to-day gave its unanimous approval of the action of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, which yesterday refused to endorse the proposed scheme of the Liverpool cotton interest to institute a clearing house in New York for the validation of all cotton bills of lading for export cotton. The local clearing house also announced its intention of co-operating with the Exchange in securing as large attendance as possible at the proposed conferenco of Southern interests, to take place in this city about November 20. - ' - ENGINEER KILLED: tN WRECK. Several Injured in Southern Railway Freight Smash. Greenville, Aug. 17.-r-To headquarters of the Charlotte division of the Southern Railway, located at Greenville, was reported <to-day the wrecking of a freight train on the division, four miles south of Lula, Ga., in which the engineer was killed and several members of the crew in jured. me engine ana eignt cars turned turtle, leaving only the caboose and one car of the entire train on the rails. The dead and injured are as follows: C. B. Jones, residence Atlanta, engineer, killed; Drayton M. Coldfelter, residence Atlanta, brakeman, arms scalded and back hurt; R. 0. Breazeale, residence Westminster, S. C., right shoulder and hip bruised; Robert Morgan, residence Atlanta, colored brakeman, left leg bruised and sprained. Four hundred feet of track were completely destroyed and two hundred feet badly torn up. Two wrecking trains, one from Greenville and one from Atlanta, with two hundred workmen, were hurried to the scene. Trains north and south were delayed. It is expected that the track will be cleared some time to-night. The derailment which caused the wreck is yet a mystery. CRUSHED HIS VICTIM'S SKULL. Aiken County Man Also Charged with Firing Three Buildings. Aiken, Aug. 18.?Three buildings are burned to the ground and a negro, Ike Sanders, lies at the point of death, with his skull crushed to a pulp, as the result of a wild outbreak which occurred about 9 o'clock last night on the place of Mr. Morgan Holley, some ten or fifteen miles south of here. Sanders, it seems, had gone to the home of one Lee about dark, and they had been sitting on the steps talking in a friendly manner when Lee went to the wood pile, gathered an armful of lightwood and with an axe entered the house, turned upon the unsuspecting Sanders and struck him three rapid and terrific blows in the back of the head with the axe. Lee's wife screamed and cried for help and her husband attacked her. Dragging her into the yard, he rained blows on her with a lieavy stick and ended by brutally dashing her to the ground, but she arose and fled. Lee then proceeded to fire three houses in rapid succession and made his escape and. has not yet been caught. It seems that Lee is a slow witted fellow, and that some of his neighbors had taken advantage of this fact to improperly invade his home. Sanders, it seems, openly boasting of the fact. The condition of affairs eventually dawned upon Lee, with the result he undertook to revenge himself on the supposed guilty parties. AGED MAN TAKES HIS LIFE. W. Mailer, of Greenville, Fires Bullet Through His Brain. Greenville, Aug. 16.?At 7 o'clock this morning W. Muller, an aged and respected citizen, sat himself down in a .rocking chair in his lonely quarter over a mercantile establishment on Buncombe street and put a hole through and through his head with an old-fashioned revolver. When neighbors reached the scene the old man's lifeless body was reclining in - - " " tne cnair ana tne angers ui uuc uauu tightly drawn about the butt and trigger of the pistol. The act did not create surprise, as the old man had repeatedly stated to others that he intended committing suicide. Muller was a sign painter, and for the past dozen years or more made Greenville his home. He was of a prominent family and years ago conducted a large mercantile establishment in Augusta. He is said to have one sister, a Mrs. Berg, who resides in Columbia. It is thought that the solitary life he led, coupled with declining health, affected his mind and caused him to take his life. At the time he died he was engaged in painting several hundred signs to mark iroads throughout .Greenville county. Killed by Lightning. Anderson, Aug. 15.?Press Moore, an employe of the Orr Cotton mills, ~ ^ ? n.rtminflnt conrpt societv man, 1UU CL piUJUilUVUI. uvvtv. _ was killed by lightning late this evening. Soon after the storm came up Mr. Moore went to his porch and was leaning -against the door when he was struck just behind the left ear by a bolt, killing him instantly, setting fire to his shirt and burning his body horribly. His wife and four children were attracted to the porch by fthe flash and the heavy fall of the body as it struck the fioor. "When they reached his side the body was almost enveloped in flames. The bolt after filling Mr. Moore, passed through - the house, wrecking in its passage a picture and frame in the sitting room. - * ;v.'*>'?i*..." -V' ; a (h*mMrw1*ikW bmriMfUL} il ok VTk SSarfcy bat* Pet ? Oat TOOAT. / jK 'f \ jijw",u" Call and examine our h\? line of the Famous \ttr pJ kuh mm Tools and Cutlery to- ^jcuflfa kSwwj day. They coat no fl < m0Tt *^an *ke ordinary /| n All our claims are ^npjj B^jj backed with a "money ^-*||}T SiiJI refunded if you're not I til satisfied" guarantee. g|| J. A. HUINTER *JH| I wl The Hardware Man SpvMrW kU" R ?^? J. F. Carter B. D. 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