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MURDER OR ACCIDENT. Engineer L. H. Padgett Found De in S. A. L. Yards. Lexington, Jan. 12.?The new S board Air Line yards at Cayce, t county, claimed its first victim ea to-day, when Louis H. Padgett, c of the most popular engineers of i * Seaboard system, lost his life, eitl by falling into a "drop pit" at i new roundhouse, or by being m dered and his body thrown into 1 pit. How he came to his death v probably never be known, as no c saw the fatal accident. Mr. Padgett was to have gone < on his run this morning on passen* train Xo. 59, scheduled to leave < i lumbia for Savannah at about L o'clock, and when he failed to app< for duty a search was made at on Harry Garner, night machinist at 1 Kg* yards, was the first to find the be V and he gave the alarm. A rope v tied around the body and it was r? ed to the top, when it was discovei that Mr. Padgett was dead, a 1c s. gash being on the top of the head a u;~ ? ?i- ~T'Vio hnHv ills iicutv ?> ao uiuutu. a.uv 1/x/v.j still warm. Mr. Garner notified 1 superintendent and Dr. Weston, Columbia, the company's physici; was called. Result of Inquest. At the inquest held this morni by Coroner W. C. Reed, a number witnesses were sworn, but no c could be found who had seen 1 Padgett in the vicinity of the roui house. Mr. Garner stated that had seen the engineer at about o'clock in the morning at the sup intendent's office. This was the h seen of him until his body was fou in the "drop pit" at 6:30, three hoi and a half later. The coroner's jury returned 1 following verdict: "L. H. Padg came to his death by falling intc drop pit, which pit was open and si ated in a roundhouse of the Seabos Company, and which building v without lights." Accident, Say Employees. TV>^ nlnvooc at thp> VArd Stick % X WW V?v " the theory that Mr. Padgett accide: ally fell into the pit while taking walk previous to going out on his r this morning. The roundhouse without lights, the building being i finished. There are ten pits in t building, but only one "drop pi however, this being about ten f< deep. There are those in the vicinity w cling to the idea that the engine was first struck on the head and ] body thrown into the pit to conc< the crime. There is no night watt man at the yards. It could not ascertained to-day where the engine boarded while in Cayce, the genei foreman stating that the men had r been located at the new point lo enough for them to secure permane lodging places. Sheriff Xot Satisfied. * Sheriff Sim J. Miller, who acco panied the coroner, is of the opini that there was undoubtedly foul pi and the Lexington sheriff will r down every clue in an effort to fi * the truth, and it is not unlikely tl the case will be reopened by the c< oner. L. H. Padgett had been in the e ploy of the Seaboard about fifte years, first starting as a fireman. was well liked by all of the employ* and was rapidly going up. Up to week ago he was freight engine and only lgst Sunday was he prom' ed to the fast passenger run betwe Columbia an<5 Savannah, and betwe Savannah and Jacksonville. It v stated to-day that he was one of t most trustee! men in the entire s< vice. Leaves Large Family. He was about 40 years of age a leaves a wife and seven or eight cb dren, all young girls, residing in i vannah. His relatives reside in Ed* field county and his aged mother still living. The post-mortem examination v made by Dr. F. R. Geiger and imn diately afterwards the body was tui ed over to a Columbia undertaker, the request of General Superinter ent Shea, of Portsmouth, the be was prepared for burial and was sh ped on the 5 o'clock train this aft noon to Savannah, where the fune: and interment will take place morrow. Mr. Padgett was a meml of the Brotherhood of Locomoti Engineers, and was also a member other orders, it is said. "Hang Heads in Shame." "We hang our heads in sha whenever asked what South Caroli is doing to prevent tuberculosis. ^ can only answer, 'All that the legis ^ ture of the State will permit us do,' " is a statement in the anni report of the State board of heal which has been prepared and ree for submission to the general sembly. A review of the work of 1 year and the means that have b( used to fight the various diseases contained in the annual report. E phasis is laid on the greater value prolongation of life by the suppr sion of preventable diseases than i cost involved. ENGINEER BLAMED FOR WRECJ ?ad Drinking Night Before Disaster JuJ 4, Says Report. ea- Albany, X. Y., Jan. 10.?The ei his gineer had been drinking the nigl rly before and had slept less than thre me hours; hence the wreck on the Deb the ware, Lackawanna and Western Rai ier road at C- rning, X. Y., last Indepenc the ence Day, in which 40 persons lof ur- their lives and 75 others were injui the ed. The State public service commi: rill sion so declared to-day after a can me fwl investigation. William H. Schroeder. the enginee }Ut thus accused, was indicted for mar rpr slaughter, but never brought to tria 2o- the indictment being dismissed upo 7 motion of the district attorney. 5ar "The primary cause of the wreck, ce. reads the commission's report, "wa the the entire failure of Engineer Schrc )dv eder to observe signals. The trai i*as into which he ran was protected b Lis- a full stop signal 250 feet east of th -ed tear of the train, by a flagman 2,55 >ng feet east and by a caution sign? nd nearly 4,500 feet east. All three si? /as nals were disregarded, the "The investigation developed tha of the engineer had disregarded th an> duty of taking proper rest before a" tempting the important work of rur ning the train. He acknowledge ing drinking during the evening befor 0f the accident. )ne "The action of the engineer shoul dr_ be considered as much an offenc 1(j. against the Brotherhood of Locomc he five Engineers, of which he is a men: 3 ber, as it is against the railway an er_ the public." r\ c%+ XOl nd RACING FOR A WIFE. its Physicial Excellence Counts for Chie Merit Among Tribes. ett ??? Among some of the ruder tribe ' a of men, where physical excellenc tu~ counts for the chief merit, the cuj ird torn of running races for a bride ha 'as always been a favorite one. Among the Huzarehs, a people c Asia, the suitors of a maiden, us-ua' t0 ly nine in number, appear in a fiel a^~ all unarmed but mounted on th ' a best, horses they can procure. Th un bride herself, on a beautiful Turkc IS man horse, surrounded by her rels in~ tives, anxiously surveys the grou 'k? of lovers. ' The girl has the advantage of 2et certain start, which she avails- hei self of to gain a sufficient distanc k? from the crowd to enable her t manage her steed with freedom, s his as to assist in his pursuit the love 301 whom she prefers. Whichever firs succeeds in encircling her waist wit: his arm is entitled to claim her a ier his wife. ral .... .. o -i 1 :a: ? wnen satisnea witn ner pusiuu she turns round to the impatier ng suitors and stretches out her arm t >nt them. Each of the eager lovers dart like the.unhooded hawk in pursui of the fugitive dove. The savanna! m" is generally 12 miles long and thre 011 in width, and as the horsemen spee across the plain the favored love un becomes apparent by the efforts c n(* the maid'en to avoid all others wh iat approach her. On a certain occasion, after tw hours' racing, the number of pui m~ suers was reduced to four, who wer !en all together and gradually gainin FT p on the pursued. With them was th favorite, but his horse suddenly fel 1 a and the girl turned anxiously to pei er' seive with dismay the hapless pos: tion of her lover. en Each of the more fortunate leac en ers, eager with an-ticipated triumpl as bending his head on his horse' mane, shouted at the top of his voic* 2r~ She, making a sudden turn and lash ing her horse almost to a fury, dart ed across the path and made her wa nf* for her lover. The three others ir lil" stantly checked their careers, but i 3a~ their hurry to turn back two of th = ~ horses were dashed furiously agains *s each other, so that both steeds an riders rolled over on the plain. , as The maiden laughed for sh ie" thought she could easily elude th :n" single horseman, and flew to th ^ point where her lover was. But he 1(*~ only pursuer was rarely mounte ,(^ and not so easily shaken off. Mafe 1P" ing a last desperate effort, he dashe er~ alongside the maiden, and, stretch ra* ing out his arm, almost secured th t0~ unwilling prize, but she, bending he )er head to the horse's neck, eluded hi lve grasp and wheeled off again. Er the discomfited horseman coul again approach her lover's arm wa around her waist, and amid th shouts of the spectators they turne me toward the starting point.?N. "Y na Herald. kVe ia_ These Times. to Ex-Gov. Pennypacker, discussin aal the divorce evil in Philadelphia Ill, SiilU, \> ltll a omnt. tdy "In these times one never, as tli as- saying goes, knows where one is a' the An acquaintance of mine extende ien his hand to me at the Historical Sc is ciety the other day and cried: m- " 'Congratulate me! I am the hai of piest man alive!" es- "I looked at him doubtfully., the " 'Engaged, married or divorced! I asked."?N. Y. Tribune. i. W. L. HARRIS IN WASHINGTON. [y Charleston Postmaster Investigating Status of Recommendations. l- Washington, Jan. 10.?Postmaster it W. L. Harris, of Charleston, is here ;e looking into the status of his recomi mendations for appointment of post1 masters in South Carolina. Mr. Har1 ris has been referee of Federal patst ronage for South Carolina, but since r- the decision of the National Republi5 can Convention in favor of seating J. 3- R. Tolbert as national committeeman for the State, Mr. Harris's ad?r vice does not seem to have had much i- weight with the administration. 1, The nomination of J. R. Montgomn ery for postnraster at Marion, Representative Ellerbe's home town, over " Benjamin Miles, who was supported is bv Mr. Ellerbe, was in opposition to j- Mr. Harris's recommendation and n within the past few days the presiy dent has renominated Geo. A. Reed, e a negro, to be postmaster at Beaufort. 0 It is said that this Reed nomination U was made without consulting Postmaster General Hitchcock. Mr. Harris did not endorse Reed, and says it that he has never recommended the e nomination of a negro postmaster t- since he has been referee for South i- Carolina. d National Committeeman Tolbert al e so is in Washington. ^ A Soldier of Napoleon. :e " ' " Dr. W. W. Keen, one of the most distinguished of living surgeons, ^ sometimes tells his friends how he assisted in an operation on a soldier of Napoleon: "Tn 1Sfi2 whilp n fitnripnt nt thp Jefferson Medical college, Prof. S. D. Gross, my "teacher of surgery, took me in his carriage to a house in the northeastern part cf the city to give !S chloroform for him?he always used :e chloroform?for an operation. The ?- patient, a man of seventy and over, s had been wounded just fifty years before, at the battle of Borodino in 1812, at the time of the disastrous retreat from Moscow. The ball had d buried itself in the calf of the leg e and had not emerged. A mere flesh e wound at Borodino was not of much )_ account. There were other fish to L~ fry. After lying there quietly im- 1 P bedded in the tissues for half a century the bullet had at last woiked its a way to the surface, and finally caus*" ed an opening through the skin. One i e day, through this opening, the. old 0 fellow had pried it out with a hair- ? 0 pin; but the wound did not get well. r There was a email but annoying dis;t charge and moderate but continuous k pain. Some hard substance could be , s felt deep in the tissues. "This Professor Gross proposed to i a remove. Accordingly, when he had laid out all his instruments, as was 0 his custom, had whetted his knife on ,s his boot?a fine septic procedure!?|, it but remember it was in 1862, years k before the antiseptic method was dee vised by Lister?he said to the paa tient: ir " 'Now, my good man, lie down on ^ the sofa, and my young friend will 0 give you a little choloroform.' " 'Do you suppose,' replied the pa0 tient as he straigntened himself up with pride, 'that a soldier of the first e Napoleon wishes to take any chloro? form?' Here he stretched his leg out straight and concluded with an ' emphatic: 'Go ahead!' "Professor Gross went ahead and 1 never once did the old soldier wince ^ or budge. The lump was cut out and proved to be a bony mass cup-shaped ' in form, that had been caused by the irritation of the ball during its long sojourn. He made an excellent recovery?in spite, too, of the boot incident. How near to me it brought ^ the great emperor!" Q PASSED AS GIRL 18 YEARS. e l ?t Police Discover Y'oung Fellow's Sed cret and Arrest Him. e Victor, Colo., Jan. 8.?After mase querading as a girl for 18 years the e sex of Irene Moynahan was learned t r yesterday. He was arrested in fta d Junta by the sheriff, who, because oi; his masculine appearance, aeciaea ne d was a boy in girl's clothing. Irene L~ was on his way to visit his father in e Bisbee, Ariz. r Until the holidays Irene had been s a student in the Victor High School and all of his life had passed as a d girl. s Mrs. Moynahan, wnen told that her e son had been arrested and that his ^ sex had been discovered, stated that she had always passed him off as- a girl because of her disappointment in having two sons. Not even her husband was aware of the boy's sex, she s said. This was borne out by the l> discovery of a letter in the boy's effects. The letter was addressed to c hie fnthpr in Bisbee and declared that the mother was "sending a son d to him as a Xewj, Year's gift." * j Robert W. Lawson, who was con) victed in Laurens last week of manslaughter in the killing of his father at Clinton last October, was sen?' tenced to five years in the penitentiary. He will appeal. HE }B MM ^M a M Now is the time to j put in a supply of J Legal Blanks of all I kinds. Let us print i them with your fl name in them and t<m thereby save your- Vlj self a lot of writing. M We have in stock :|| Land Rent liens, Bill of Sales, Note and Mortgages, Chattel Mortgages, Tides, Bonds, and any other -kind of Blank you may want. We also p * VI V* 4* have a swell line or a Marriage Certificates . . v!ii ranging in price a from 10c to 25c. j Write or come to I The Bamberg Herald