Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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kergnauts Experience a Drop o, Two Thousand feet .AND WITH BUT SLIGHT INJURY Lmerican Balloon Conqucror Bursts at te Height of 4,000 Feet, Precip itatIng the Aeronauts to thp Roof of a House in a Berlin Suburb. Berlin, By Cable.-The internation di balloon race whicli started Sunday 'rom the suburb of Sehmargeiidorf, vas .the occasion of a thrilling acci lent, two American aeronauts liaving I miraculous eseape from death. The Imerican balloon Contiueror, the only Imorican built eraft in the contest. iaving on board A. Holland Forbes .nd Augustus Post, less than two min, ites after the start burst at an alli tide of 4,000 feet. For 2,000 feet it dhot (own like a bullet. and tilen thI, :orn silk bag assumed tIhe shape of a ,arachute, thbus checking tile rapidity >f the descent. ('oming close to the aartl, however. tie basket siashed into the roof of a house, bt tile Iwo menl escaped wit h but sii-lht briuisem The race, in -whiiel t wenty-three balloons participated, represent In, Great Britaint, France, Germany, tle United States, Switzerland, Italy, Wel gium and Spain, started at 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon in the presence of at least 80,000 spectators. The first balloon sent away was tile "A mei ca IT,'' under cmadof Jamles C'. McCoy, who was Miecomupaliel b' Lieutenant vogiminann. Thle baloion was decorated with ile Stars and Stripes and it sailed a.a.y to the southeast at a rapid pace, the ocro nauts waving their hats. Dramatic Occasion. A representative of each of the oth er nations followed tle Anerivan balloon inl successiol i,.t inte- of two minutes. the nationtal hmvln .I the respective colmitlris rmging fo1 orti as the r-opes vere cast loose. The second batehi of eighit balo:s was led by Forbes in ithe Co(nuli-or. ~vhich reached a ighn atittudel int itu n dibly short perrod.. I!.- basket w.'ying vi'~ly. Tuen almost in tautly a cry of horror arose from he crowd who :aw tle silk collapse rd shouted: .Ahe balloon il ripping The tlousa. wio hi d gathrr bre stood fo: a io;nent petrified. -omeW turnewd away f'aiinting, as they iw Ithe balloon falling with light ing rapidhity. At the same time, 'ewers of sand and appu~irtenantlces E Ithe hallon shot downward with .i.al rapidhity and ten d ayhght was eni thtroughl the eitvelope, rzreat rag ud edges of the silk showing on eith side. ''They are killed,'' wvent int a hush 1 whisper through the crowd, bur, tortly the remainder of thle env elope >peared thi take, first. a Itrianiguhl tape and then was tratns formed iinto sort of parachtte at Ithe top of tihe et andI the progress of tee wrecked ialloon was contsidlerably arrested. It ime diown slower and slower, nan hile being swept by thle wind, far to uc southeast, and finally disappeared eom view bethind a block of houses. hle sutspense among the c'rowdis was urrible. Butt a few mintutes later telephone messagc was. received rem Frienenau, which announced tat tile men had latnded .and had not een seriously intjuredl. The other bal ions were sent up, after a brief de ty, withtout furt her accidenft. Terrorizing Negroes. Montgomery, Ala., Special.-A spe al from Tuscaloosa, Ala., says: A egro Baptist church and lodge hal >eated at Spriing Hill,. Ala., were turned Friday night by unknown ersons. A batnd of .horsemen al god to have been organized with the itention of diriving the negroes out !the community, are said to have ut fire to the church and ball. To Increase Bank Bxaminations. Washington, Special.--Comptroller the Currency Murray has decided increase thb numbe~r of -national mnk examinations, in many cases om twice to three or tour'-times a ar. It is not his ##-ps he says, examine all nIatiOual Adatiks four even three tim egr, ut thie w rule ' ti ati A b ""' Attenpq t6 Lynd .4Z anbwgI S. MILITIA PROTECTED PRISONER Infuriated Mill Operatives Make De. termined Effort to Lynch Negro Who Assaults Young Lady--Depu ties and Officers Exghange Shots and Several Are Wounded. Spartanburg, S. C., Special.-In the heart of Spartanburg with its 20,000 population, a mob of infuriated citi zens, at times numbering a thousand or more, fought Saturday and Satur (Tay night with the military and civil authorities for the possession of John Irbv, a negro who is alleged to have attempted to ravish Miss Lillie Demp sey earlier inl the day while the young woman was on her way here from Saxon Mill village, three miles away. Four persons were wounded, one of I hem seriously, and John Sparks, a restaurant keeper, was arrested and held wvithout bail on the charge of shooting Sheirilt Nichols, who was slightly wounded in the exchange of shots between the mob and the au thorifies who were protecting the prisonler. Beginnin abouit noon the crowd, sulleun and bent on vengeance on the n eIro, roalmed about the court -house scuare, approaching at times the very gates of the high wall enelosing the jail. Late at night the situation be cniue aring. The crowd was auignentedI by 500 people from Green ville. There was some shooting in the street and the mob moved into lie public square. The first shot came from a window of the jail and it was followed by others from the same quarter. An answering shot was fired from the crowd. This broke a window in the jail and slightly wou-.ded Sheriff Nichols. Sparks was accused of the shooting and immediately taken into cistody. His attorneys offered $1,000 bail but this was refused. Girl Identifies Negro. Irby's arrest was effected shortly after the commission of his crime and close to the scene of his attack. He was captured'by mill operatives, was taken before the young woman, who immediately identified him, and was then earried into the woods. His captors were about to lynch him when mounted police arrived and wrested him from the crowd, not, however, before the negro had been badly beaten. The negro was taken to the jail and almost immediately the storming of the jail began. Sheriff Nichols swore in a number of deputies andl the militia was ordered out. The mob tried to gain ingress by means of step ladders, but that, too, was in effectual. Sunday and Sunday night passed off quietly with nothing in the way of a disturbance. N. 0. & St. L. Detective Killed. Chattanooga, Tenn., Special:--T. J. McElhaney, special detective for the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway, was shot and killed early Sundav-while on duty in the yards of the ra-ilroad company at Crayens, two miles from the union station. W. S. Smith, who was until recently em ployed as a detective for the road, is in jail charged with the crime. Blood hounds were put on the trail and tracked Smith to his home. The men, it is said, had been on bad terms for some time. McElbaney leaves a wife and seven childrpn 4uiet in thfrWear East. London, By Cable.-Belgrade, the storm center in the present Balkan situation, has Quieted down. After a long secret session, the National As sembly has taken no definite action with regard to' making war upon Auis tria-Hungary. The city itself has quieted down, the people apparently realizing that war would mean the die struction of Servian nationality. Missionary Qonvention Holdw Big Mass Meeting. New Orleans, Special.--At a mass meeting in the Athenaeum Cephas Shelbourue, of Dallas, Ter., preached to a groat audieneoe dttending the 'in ternational missienary conyention of the churches of Christ. Mr. ShNel lourne took .~.his them the f~ct th~ 'an inserIp*e a w 4 o the A Early D,*es i"e is Being Held Wtout Just Cause His WIftAY, STAY WITH HiM Former North. CrIolina Man, in 'Spite of the PNot That the District of Oolumbia gealth Peoplo Are Abso 1n1el.0 .~ ' to. Their Diagno sis, Declat re ,i Not Afflicted With Leprory and Refuses to Al low Injections of Filtrate Into His 'Body. Washington, D. C., Special.-John R. Early, formerly of Lynn, N. C., who has been pronpunced a leper, and on this account has been kept isolated in a tent under the guard of the health authorities of the District of Colum bia, declares that he does not now and never has admitted that lie is afflicted with leprosy. He took a stiff, decided stand against the idea of his having leprosy Friday when the physicians who have charge of his treatment proposed to inject what is known as the Nastin treatment, being a series of injections of a filtrate of leprosy ipto hit body. He said that he did not have leprosy and that the injec tion mi-ht give it to him. Dr. W. C. Fowler, of the District health department, claims, on the' other hand, that he and the other )hysinians who have examined Early are ''absolutely certain" that Early has leprosv. Says he: "If Early is not suffering from lep rosy, no man ever had that disease. There is no dodbt in the world about his having leprosy, and we infer from the fact that he has remained silent throughcut the past month that he is convinced. We, appreciate, as much as Early or any one else, what a se rious thing it would be to isolate a man unless we were absolutely certain he was afflicted with leprosy." Early insists that there is a mis take and expresses a desire and an in tention, if it shall be allowed, of hav ing himself examined by other physi cians. Dr. Fowler says further: "The health office does not deny Early the right to have himself ex amined by any doctor, scientist. pathologist, or medioil man b may see fit to employ. He was pronounced a leper by a doctor who has seen hundred.; of cases. Besides this, lie appearance of lii, face and body, the swellings so characteristic of leprosy, and the way he tells attending doc tors how he feels prove beyond any shadow of a doubt that he is a leper and should be isolated for the com mon good." . Since it has been decided that tha State of North Carolina cannot be required by law to take care of Early, and since he has been granted a pen sion by the Pension Bureau, careful consideration has been given to the question as to what shall be done with him. He is still in his tent over on the banks of the Potomac river, near the smallpox hospital, in what has been term~ed by some an exceed ingly unhealthful locality, though there is another opinion about the healthfulness of the place. His wife has rented a cottage nearby, and she visits him every day, spending several hours talking with him. Guards are stationed there to see that she does not come into personal contact with him, and she is kept under watch, and will be. So long as she does not touch him, the auithorities say there is net the slightest danger of con tagion through her. The health oifleials have a plan for erecting a cottage for Early and his family, maintining a guard at the home day and night. It may even be that Mrs. Early will be permitted to live with her husband in the same room, provided she agrees to isolate herself for the rest of her life. But the details of the plan have not- been complete d yet. The health officials t-ealize the great diffiebity of keeping husband and- wife apart when they are determined upon pniting. It is about as difficult a task as making husband and wife live with each other when they do 'not want to. But they are turning their minds to the solu tion of the problem, however difficult. Early ngean~time continue to read his Bible And to philosophize, as has beerr his wont since his first segretra tion.--Zach -McGee in Charlotte Ob-. server. Fishing Schooner Destroyed by Fire. Pensacola, Fla., Special.-'The fish ing schooner Ida, owned in this cit~y, was destroyed by fire in the Gulf when ,gasoline, which had 'escaped from the tank, ignited, cansing an sex plouion. The vessel was ani auxilia~'y yacht bi large size. The boat was abott twenty lesp at (Sea and the *,rwto~k *1Eboats. They Stinto poi of.-e --T Interstae Comme Couii.wis soO Ready !or K C Case A STRONG ARRAY OF COUN~I On October 22d the - Interstate Com. merce Commission Will Hear the Freight Rate Discrimination Case. Raleigh, N. C., Spen'aL-The Cor. peration Cotandssion .is, informed that October 22d is fixed by' the Interstate Commerce Commission as the date of the hearing of what is known as the fre' ht rate discrimination case in. vol ng the Norfolk & Western, Louis ville & Nashville and the Big Foui Railway. They will be heard before the full commission. The State is not a party to this suit,'which is brought by the Corporation Commission thof the Governor took some action in re gard. to appointment of counsel. The following are the attorneys for the Corporation Commission: Tillett d Guthrie, of Charlotte; Manning & Foushee, of Durham; Justice & Broad hurst, of Greensboro, and Herbert E. Norris, of Raleigh. The attorneys for the railways are: Edward Baxter, for the Louisville & Nashville; J. L. Do ran and L. H. Cooke, for the Norfolk & Western, and R. W. Moore, for all the roads. Besides these Davis & Davis and Douglas, Lecky & Thomp son appear for the Virginia cities ex cept Lynchburg, the latter not having gone -into the fight. The other Vir ginia points are fighting any reduc tion in rate. Hearing Shippers' Appeal. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-An appeal from the decision of Judge Pardee, granting a supersedeas in the case of certain Georgia shippers against the Southern Railway and other lines, al lowing the railroads to put into ef feet increased freight rates was ar gued before the United States Circuit Court here. When the increased rates went into effect the shippers secured an injunction from Judge Speer re straining the roads fiom advancing their rates. The railroads then car ried the matter before Judge Pardee, who granted a supersedeas, setting 2side the injunction granted by Judge Speerl Counsel for the shippers ar gued that when Judge Pardee granted the supersedeas he was out of his jur isdiction, being at the time in Ashe ville, N. C. No decision was render ed. Will Challenge Grand Jury.@ New York, Special.-John F. Mc. Intyre, attorney for Captain Peter C. Hains, Jr., and his brother, T. Jen kins Hnins, the former held for the murder of William E. Annis, and the latter as an accessory to it, has served notice on District Attorney Darrin 01 Queens county that he would chal lenge the array of the grand jiury em paneled to pass ont the cases of hi clients. Killed In Family Quarrel. Philadelphia, Pa., Special-J. Clay ton Erb, captain and regimental quar termaster of the Third Regiment, Na. tional Guar-d, of Pennsylvania, wva shot and killed at his summer hiom< near Village Green, Delaware county Tuesday night. His sister-in-law Mrs. Catherine Beisel, is under ar-resl in the Media jail, char-ged with the murder. The woman admits that sh< did the shooting during a family quar rel. Russian Robers Murder Twelve. Tiraspool, Russia, By Cable.-Rob bers have committed a revolting crimi in the neighboring village of Slobodze They entered the house of a Jewisl family named Cohen and killed twelv< persons in their efforts to get awa, with the small amount of loot. Th4 murderers were arrested. Quarantine Against Havaaa Raised Washington, Special-Recent re ports'- having failed to indica te thi presence of yellow fever in Havana Cuba, the public health and marini hospital service removed the quaran tine which was established agains that city a few weeks ago. The quar antine against the province of San tiago still remains intact. * President Castro Seriously Ill. Willemnstad, By Cable-It is report ed here from Venezuela that Presi dent Castro is seriously ill and tha the government of Venezuela probab ly soon will have to be turned eve to the vice president of that republic The illness of President Castro wa confirnhed later in the day by passen gr from Caracas, who declared himi Ito-be saffering from An aftectlom o the an ~ s by A Grat IE d tflmsportation Scheuise Pfalted JUDGE TAFT SPEAJKS ON PLAN OMceru of the Lakes to the Gulf beep Waterway Association,,Which Met I'n Third Annual Session Wed , nesday ia Chicago, Believe That Some Day There Will Be a Deep Channel From Lake Michigan to. the Gulf of Mexico. Chicago, Special-A picture of days when stately ships shall carry the rich produets of the central States. from the Great ,akes to the Gulf of Mexico through a deep waterway. returning with produets of no less. value, was conjured up before the delegates and visitors to the third annual convention of the Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterway Association by able speakers headed by William H. Taft. The day's utterances were au thoritative.-for they came from Secre.. tary Saunders, of the association;. President Kavanaugh, head of the or ganization; Governor Charles S. Do neen, of illinois, who spoke of the fIrst link of the great waterway, the Chicago drainage canal and William U. Taft, who had the general supervi sion in Washington of the building of the Panama canal until he resigned to become the presidential nominee of the Republican party. The need of such a waterway was insisted upon by every speaker. The que.1ion of transportation, it was de cleared, is pne of the most serious questions with which this country has to deal. Mr. Taft's insistence that the deep waterway and the conserva tion of the national resources were related subjects, which called for immediate action, elicited great ap plause. His statement that the wa terway was not a project, but a pol icy, found a ready response in cheers. of his auditors. "We find,'" said Mr. Taft, "'that during the ten years ending with the internal commerce of our cc, increased 118 per cent, while rr transportation facilities durin same time increased only 20 p( [t has been pointed out that to this deficiency by the constructioi ouf additional railroads and necessary ter minals would require a capital invest ment of $5,500,000,000 and this con ;truetion when completed would make no provision for the further increase of our commerce. The only solution of this problem, the speaker found in. Jeep waterways." The convention opened at 10 o'clock with a prayer by Bishop Samuel Fal lows, of Chicago. William K. Kava naugh, president of the association,. then delivered his annual address and William F. Saunders, secretary, read' his report. CROP CONDITIONS. Iteport of the Agricultural Depart ment Showing the Condition of Crops October 1st. Washington, Special.-The corn arop condition on October 1st was 77.8: per cent, spring wheat quality 88.1 per cent, total production of spring wheat .was indicated as 233,090,000, the yield per acre averagifig 13.2' bushels, combined production spring and wimter wheat indicated as about 059,030,000 bushels of 89.4 per cent. quality and the oat crop quality was 91.3 per cent, thme production being 789,161,000 bushels with yield per acre averaging 24.9 bushels according to the Department of Agriculture crop report issued Wednesday. The corn condition is against a ten year average on October 1st of 79.7. The. average yield of spring wheat is against a six-year average of 85.9. The final estimate of average yield of oats per acre is against a ten-year average of 29.8 and quality 86.1 for ten years. The decline in condition of corn during September was about two per' cent, as compared with an average. decline the past ten years of 1.6 per cent. In Southern corn States the condition on October 1st and ten-year average, respectpively, of corn fol lows: Texas 83 and 73; Georgia 84 and 32; Kentucky 75 and 83; Tennessee. R2 and 80: Alabama 83l and 80; North Carolina 82 and 82; Arkansas 79 and' 77; Mississippi 81 and 76. Fire Destroys the Southern Paciflec Round House. Beaumont, Tex., Special.--Fire late Wednesday destroyed the Southern Pacific round house and master me ohanic's office with a loss to the com pany of about $200,000. Nine engines. .. which were in I. m ('' consumed togeti b G;i~ cars. "Judge'' ,i ix' t * i Sler, was so badl, > il ', " ~f die. Several of "' 'ti*r were bIned in it' in"~'i.ui