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ESTABLISHED UST If ALMOST A FIGHT. Mr. Lyon Says Major Black Threatened To Kill Him. M4J BLACK'S SIDE. fle Sat 8 Lyon Is Mad Because He Is Not Allowed to Ran tbe Dispensary and Is Trying to Dam His Private Character By Unfair Means and Methods, There was quite a sensation in Co lumbia on Friday morning when It became known that Mr. Lyon, a mem bar of the legislative dispensary in vestigating committee, bad stated to the full committee that Msj >r Biack, a member of the State Board cl Con trol, had that morning used very violent language towards him, and then rcmding off things by telling him that be "had a notion then aud there to shoot" him and "blow him up'1 on tbe spot. We pnolisn what Mr. Lyon says below. i We also give Maj ir Black's version, who makes some damaging statements about Mr. Lyon's nosing about and prying into private matters in his ef forts to damage his (Black*/) private xsbaraotur because he would not al low Lyon and Christensen to run the dispensary to suit themselves. MB. LYON'8 STATEMENT. "Mr. Chairman, there has a matter ?come up Friday morning that 1 deem It my duty, though unpleaszno, to ?call to the attention of this commit tee. 1 also will state that tbe part of it that affects me personally I do not consider, but that part of it that effects tbe welfare of our committee I do consider, and I deem it impor taot to the final particular determina tion of our investigation that it be brought forward to the attention of thtB committee. "This morning in coming from my room, which is above tbe hotel, over the store of Giradeau & Marshall, I was Btopped by Mr. Solomon, who is tbe agent of the Big Creek Distilling Company, of Sarannah, Ga. He was Talking to me about some accounts which the committee has held up. These are accounts due by the dis pensary. We have had some conver sation about this matter before and he renewed the conversatioa euere and wished me to give him some de finite information about when we could reach it. "As I was standing there talking to him, Mr. Black, of the dispensary board of directors, appeared bef-ire me. I really could not state from what direction be came. I could no;, say whether from the front or rear. I was intent with my conversation with Mr. Solomon. Mr. Black's face show ed decided angar and he used sone very Insulting language towards me. He said that be understood that I bad been spying out on him?on his private life?and things of that kind, and that it was his purpose to kill me on the spot. "I do not care to use any of tbe par ticular language he used on that occa sion, but he said that he had a notion then and there to shoot me and blow me up on the spot?to use his expres sion. There was in his company a per son that I do not know to have seen before. My recollection is that there was a person in bis company with a blue suit of clothes, red mustache and straw hat. While he was making his threats against me and daring me to investigate his at *ire he also used very violent language against Senator Christensen, whloh I suppose was in the nature of a rebuae to me for at tending such a person about the streets. "I remarked that there were three of them there' that I did not care to discuss the matter with them; tbat I was investigating tbe dispensary and expected to continue to do so. He was so impetuous, though, that I scarcely had aii opportunity of putting in a word, and believing that he intended to make an attack on me and in put ting bis bands about his person that be intended to do violence, I turned and walked back to my room, and he used some very unpleasant epithets to wards me and told me that I might go and arm myself. "I returned to my roim and short ly afterwards returned to Wright's Hotel. As I passed the Columbia Hotel I did not see Mr. Black or the gentleman with bim. I presume, Mr. Chairman, that Mr. Black exhibited, or attempted to exhibit, a letter from Manning, which 1 understand was from Mr. Black's foimor home?Wal terboro it was. I found it necessary to go to Walterboro a few days since for the rea>on tnat I had heurd?*nd I can recagniza the difficulties that it Is likely to place us in? I heard that Mr. Black and Mr. H. H Evans had been parties to bribing a memoer of the General Assembly who lives in the town of Wa'terboro. I do not know the facts in that case. I bad some Information along tbat line and I went there to get Borne additional information in regard to the matter. That was the object of my visit to Walterboro, and I presume tbat Mr. Black h&s been informed by those of whom I inquired there of the purpose Of my visit. I wish to say this: That I did go to Walterboro for the purpose of in vestigating Mr. Black and Mr. H. H. Evans and this member of the Gener al Assembly, whoee name 1 do not care to mention, as I do not think it is proper, as he Is not a party to this transaction. I want to say this, that I do not know bow the commit K9. ^ tee feels about a thing ol tola sore, but so far as I am Individually eon rerned I shall continue to investigate Mr. Black and Mr. Evans, and anv else wbo 1b on there and if it is nac cessary to be blown np in this matter Mr. Black or somebody will have it to do." ' WHAT MAJOE BLACK SATS After learning waat Mr. L7on stated to the board, which is printed above, Major Black said that he bad never beard anything about the alle gation that he said Evans bad at tempted to bribe a representative from Colletoo. He said he was incensed at Mr. Lyon because it appeared to him j Mr. Lvon was attempting to hound h mdown and blacken his personal character, because be had refused to allow M*. Lyon to run the State dis pensary to suit himself. When he went to the dispensary he found the institution a half-million dollars ic debt for whiskey for which It bad no use. He had wiped out a large amount of this debt by forcing a num ber of houses to take back tinier un salable whiskey and had dme teile? against the prolest of Lyon and Chris tecucn, whioh they telegraphed from tbe West. Tbey wanted the whiskey kept to suit thier cocvBcience. Tney al so h&d been unable to force him to buy at a toss to the State, from firms the> favored He tad blocked their little game to force the board to ouy from i their henchmen and let them usurp' tbo powers the Legislature had given to the State heard. When they found it impossible to get anythirg against h;s official rec ord, to gratify their spice, they en deavored to blacken his personal char acter. He bad a copy of the cakiag of testimony in Cincinnati., in which this attempt was made and in which they attempted to blacken Supreme Court Jiatloes and Circuit Judge* of this Stare by asking it they had r-_-ceiv6d presents of whiskey or other things from a house he had once rep resented In ad .-rical way. Maj r Black said he had always tried to live a c.ean hfe and his cffloial record as sheriff, mayor and in other capacities would show he had never done any thing dishonest hi his life. His char acter was his proudest possession and the best thing he could hand down to als children was a clean name. He bad no Intention of permitting anybody to blaoken it to gratify their personal spite. Major Black said the letter referred to was from his brother, H. W. Black Jr., of Walterboro, in which he said: "I am told Friday morning that Lyon, of tbe investigating committee, was here Saturday last. From what I can learu he is trying to find out some thing about a conversation Walker had with his wife over the long dis tance 'phone the night of your elec tion." That conversation was a per feotly private conversation between a man and his wife, in which the for mer said he was glad that Black was elected, as he was his friend and bad helped him and would helo him with his peisonahtiQ uenoe Incase he ran for solicitor. Major Black said this was a purely personal and private conversa tion, in which he had no part and when he heard that Lyon was in quiring into, such matters it confirm ed his belief that Lyon was. willing to go any length to try and'find some mud to put on bis personal character Major Black says he was perfectly willing for fullest investigation of his record as a public servant/but would never submit to an attempt to besmirch his private character. As a member of the State board he had not cried to pleass Lyon, but to do what was right, and Chairman Hay and Governor Heyward could both testify that he had consulted them and was earnest ia his endeavor to know and do the right thing. Mr. Mobley, tee clerk, had been sent to see Chairman Bay about some of the problems of the State board, and his advlpe bad been taken. Major Black said tbe board was willing to do anything for tbe lnvesr igatlng committee as a whole, but tbey were elected to run the State dispensary and were not going to turn over the running of the Institution :o either the whole investigating com mittee or a part of it. FlnaBy, Major Black said: ''When my personal character is assailed I am willing to die by lc. I would rather go home to my family dead than go homo alive, out robbed of my character." Fat?! iroiiej Collision. One man was killed and nearly seventy old soldiers were injured, bu. none fatally, In a collision on tue Layfayette, Ind., battle ground elec tric road Friday. Both cars were crowded with veterans attending tbe annual encampment of the G. A. B. Toe collision icsurred at a switoh One car was coming south to the clr.y frpm the battle ground, filled with veterans, and the other was outward bound, carrying old soldiers to the battlefield. Charles Boudebush, mo torman of the south hound car, wa* killed. M. O. Farmer, the conduc tor, was slightly hurt. Both cars were demolished. Twelve doctors were summoned and tue Injured were Drought to the city in special cars and taken to St. Elizabeth's Hospital Chineoe Dene. An underground Cainese colony, similar to that which existed in San Francisco, has been discovered at Seattle by tbe city offioials. By bur rowing under buildings, sidewalks, and alleys, the Chinese have excavated passageways to rooms in whion gam bling and opium smoking is carried on. Many of the rooms are lighted by eleotricity. Some of the passageways extend for half a block or more, and are many feet below subcellars and and sidewalks._ Body Found. The body of a negro, Willie Jami son, was found on tbe tracks of the Atlantic Coast Line in the suburbs of Charleston Thursday morning. There is a suspicion of foui play. Tbe man is thought to have been killed by some negro and the body laid on the tracks. ?>&?..N<*Hiit-.* GAME TOO LATE. After Being Caught In His Ras cality Thackston BECOMES PENITENT And Corses Oat tbe Dispensary Law, Charging it With Making Him a Grafter. Dispenser Allsbrook Has His Letters Read to Tbe Public. Tbe Legislative Dispensary Investi gating Committee resumed its sit tings in Columbia last week. Among the witnesses examined was T. F. Thackston of Spartanburg, who neems to have b?ea a star witness. He is reported to have said after the com mittee had examined him and made him confess that he was guilty of sev eral rascalities: 'T know I wisa I had never seen a dispensary, because it Is the greatest curse we havs ever aad on tbe State. I am sorry 1 ever trot my bands stained with it. Well I have never known a man that had anything to do with it that the peo ple did not think less of him." Thackston is not the first man that has become penitent after being caught up with. His deliverance on the dispensary is simply a new version uf tbe old saw, tnat no rogue ever felt the baiter draw with a good opinion of law. As long as he was not detect ed in his sharp practices he said noth ing, but just as soon as he is caught up with ne blam?s the law for making hi xi a grafter. The truth of tbe mat ter is Thackston was a grafcer before he baoame a dispenser. All he-want ad was an opportunity to put bis grafting talent to use and it came when he was made a beer dispenser. He would have done the same thing in a bank or any other place of trust. A dishonest man Is a dishonest man. Mr. J. D. Alsbrnck, the dispenser at Manning, was also put through a course of investigation, but he seem ed to have had a bad memory as he c: uld not remember mauy thing con nected with bis office It was pitiable to see this man dodging and insisting tbat he could not remember; that be could cot deny nor could be affirm that be had asked for pap because he was a dispenser. To tbe very last he onuld not recollect and then finally Mr. Lyon pulled on blm three letters; which were read as follows: the alsbbook letters. > Manning, S. C . November 13, 1905. Duffy's Milt Whiskey Company, Rochester, N. Y.?Dear Sire: Ycur letter of November 6 is to band, and in reply will say the advertisements are pasted, as you indicate in your let ter, at six different places, all of which, I think, are very good, but this will acsompUsh nothing unless you can get the county dispensers to handle the g"ods. I am dispenser here, and have been handling Duffy's Malt Wulskey ever sines I have been dispenser, but it is ham to get it at times?and besides, if you want the goods sold, communi cat i with the oountv dispenser of e&ch oounty and let blm know what he may expect, If anything, for special cour ses.es. It is an old proverb, as true as Holy writ: "Whose bread Ieat, whose song I Bing." Toe county dispensers order what they want, and seil what they get. A hin1) to the wise is sufficient ? and this Is given oonfldentlUly. I have sold during the past twelve months about 8C cases Duff/'s Malt, out have not bad any shipped me since last August. Since recdvlng your letter of Satur day, 11th instant, I ordered several cases, but do not kn.w If the goods will be shipped me or not. I shall ex pect to bear from y >u again in tue next f ;w days, and expect to contlnu? to sell some of your gocds. Yours very truly, J. D. Aisbrook, D'soomar. Manning, S. 0., November 28, 1905 Duffy's Malt Wniskey Compaoy, Rochester, N. Y.?D.ar Sir: Sine -rit.ng to you ou tbe 13 jh Instant 1 have secured a few cases of your whis key and bavi sent In an order for mere, which I hope will be su'pped t> me, but wcu d Tka to near fr ica you at. once bef >re plac'rg mv order for the Christmas holidavs. Yours very truly, J D. Aisbrook, Dlsoenssr. Manning, S. C, December 12, 19J5. DufTy Malt Wohkey Company, Rocneste-, N. Y.?Daar Sirs. Oa No vember 10, we ssug yuu statement, .iiowlng (35 cases your goods s;>ld. 0 i November 15 we received 15 cas.s, and on the 29th 20 cases more, whicti ituck Is neing rapidly sold We can handle trie goods airight tf the propci quid pro quo Is forthcoming. The c*so of goods was received to day In good order, and we desire to ?xprrss to you many tuanks for thu* remembering us during tne Christmas olldays. With best wishes for you aad yours, and with greetings for the season, we are, youis truly, J. D. Aisbrook. Dispenser. thackston's change of heakt. When the committee was in Spar enburg several m in ens ago t ey worked Thackston for ali tney could and he swore that never a cent did he give any cne for his job, never a cent did he get, and butter oould melt in is mouth, but he now tells a differ ens story because be knew the men oahind the werk had the documents on him. He 'fessed up to getting $550 fron the Augusta Brewery with which to buy his job from the Spartanburg County Board and then tuat he kept the money be gor. to buy his job on this. The sub-ccmmittee had doubts, but the check and letter were conclu sive that be got 9550 from the Brew* ery, on the representation that be needed the money to buy bis position and the bra-very folks knew the tricks. Tnev expected to pay 8300 hence this lettpr: "Yours of the 26th inat,, received and regret to see this squeezing game going on. We thought three plunks would cover the bill, one each, how ever when you told me It would take five. i was ready to swallow the pill. Now if you are able to sell as manv as 12 oars of beet the first year, and we get your trade the second year If re-elected, we will be satisfied to the one half pulk. We are ready to put up when you are ready." Thackston utterly denied this sev eral months ago and now Solloitor S^ase will handle his ca?e He takes > h? position that the 8550 was sent M'.fcBecKer and by Mr. Beoker given r ioojand that was his' jurisdiction for siting he got no money. He insists tmt heiused the fund himself, but added that he at-ked the brewery to he^p him with ash in his second elec tee i. It is said that Allsbrook will be prosecuted too bv the Stafcn. fjsll ii?i oa?. Hon. J- E. Tindal ia Fatally Burt in Columbia, Hon. J. E. Tin dal, secretary of state when Tillman was governor from 1800 to 1894, died in the Colum nie hospital at 4 o'clock Thursday morn<ng from injuries he received at midnight by falling from the run ning board of a crowded street car on Main street Columbia. The Record says one seems to know just how the acjident oceurred. Mr. Tindal was on bis way from Clemson college, where he has been a trustee for many years, to visit his daughter Mrs. Dr. E. G Quattlebaum, living on Bland lng street. He fell from the car as it was moving rapidly between two streets a few blocks beyond his desti nation. The cmduutor says he had signaled to get off and that the gong had sounded for a stop at the next orosslng when Mr. Tindal either jump ? ? C cr fell off with his grip in his hana. Passengers standing near him were not able to figure out bow the accident occurred, so sudden and un expected was lt. H3 fell -vltb the back of bis head striking the maca dam and died without regain!jg con sciousness. Mr. Tindal was a c vutious man, and those who know him do not think he either steeped off the car with the wronk foot or attempted to jump from it He was carried to a fruit Ptand nearby, and from there his son-in law accompanied him to the hospital. Mr. Tindal was staunch Baptist and a power for good in his commun ity. He was a flue, soldier, serving through the entlfe-tjiuil war. Mr. Tindal was a loving and lovable man Id all circumstances, and much of his life was spent in the interest of his neighbors and friends, He was earaly eighty years of age. j . terrible tragedy. Lightning Kills Five Spectators at Sunday Base Ball Game. A dispatch from Mobile,. Ala., says about three miles from that city Sun day afternoon curing the progress of a base ball game in an opju deli, a thunoer storm came up, accompanied by vivid lightning, which struck in the midst of the crowd of spectators, In stantly killing five and injuring some twenty-five more or less seriously. The dead are: Donald Tonart; aged 21; Stephen Touart, aged 19; sons of S epben J. Touart; Arthur Moody, aged 19; two negroes, John Green and Cnarles Thomas. Seriously icjured: Jphn Yockers and Fred Johnson. Among the painfully injured were: Fred Buroh, Joe Dolbear and George Cleveland. At least fifteen or twenty others were shocked and knocked down by Che stroke, who auickly recovered and were able to leave the field. The field was strewn with bits of shoes and clothing from those who were killed or seriously injured and the bodies of she rlead presented a terrible specta cle, being burned in numerous places. A silver dollar taken from the pocket of one of the victims was melted on both sides. Negro Woman Shot. Friday ulght a colored woman was shot by an unknown person at) Mar lon, S. C. at her home which she uwl tn a negro quarter in the eastern sub urbs of the town She was standing by the window ironing, and was shot with a shotgun loade-l with shall shot CDe load taking effect in her left arm and side. The wounds are not con sidered fatal. At the tima of the shooting she was alone in the bouse her married daughter wl o 11 ve3 with n<;r having gone to a neighbor's. Her son ln-law, Frank Scruggs, who has not been living very pcaceaMy with the family lately, was acoused by his wife of the shooting, and was arrested and placed In jail. Fr.ileu io Work. A car on the electric line between Woite Stone hotel and the station became unmanageable Friday after noon and made a wild run down an Incline half a mile long, and orushing Into a bottling houss resulted in ln j iring six men. two of them seriously. Foreman of Plant Donald was most seriously icjured and may die. A ne gro, Lie Robinson, also sustained in juries that may result fatally. Others whose names cannot be learned were bruised. The men were on a car en route to tbelr homes when the brakes failed to work, the car running back ward down grade with terrific force and crashed into the structure which is Bituated at the foot of the grade, and end of the track. Y 'SI. lHO?. WHO SHOT HER? A Lady Assassinated While Asleep in Her Bed BY UNKNOWN FIENDS Circumstantial Evidence Against a Ne uro Under Arrest and Confined in Jail for Safe Keeping. Tbe Woman's Hnsband Also Under Suspicion. The Augusta Chronicle says Mrs. Eb S. Wilson of Beech Island was shot at 2 o'clock Thursday morning and so fatally wounded that she died some hours afterward. Bill Luna ford, colored, lies in the Richmond county jail, with circumstantial evidence pointing to him as the murderer. Tom Williams, another negro, is looked up under suspicion, as an ac complice in the crime. The case was worked up by Deteotive Howard of the Augusta city police. At tbe time of the tragedy Mrs. Wilson was sleeping in her bed, alone, In one of tbe rooms of the house. Her husband, Mr. Wilson, was in another apartment. At about 2 o'clock tbe night winds carried far and wide the echo of a pistol shot. Mrs. Wilson lay on her bed in a pool of blood, mortally wounded. Early in tbe night Mr. Wilson had seen a strange negro loitering around his premises. Having asked the man his business and received no satisfac tory answer, he drove him off the place. It is believed that thia negro w is Bill Lumford, and that he re turned. ? Etcltement and indigna tion ran rife on Beech Island. As soon as tbe sad story was heard from Mr. Wilson's lips every effjrt was made by friends and neighbors to ac complish the capture of the guilty party. The trail was warm, and it led, ap parently, to Bill Lumford. The tracks of a man who wore rubber heeled shoes were followed without a break from the Wilson place to tbe Carolina side of the Hamburg bridge. Deteotlve Howard, following other oiues, had arrested Lumford. The prisoner's shoes were taken from him, and Detective Howard personally went acro.-s the river to see whether or not they fit the tracks. So far as .could be ascertained in the road, they did. The imprint of the rubber heels was damaging circumstantial evi dence. To make assurance doubly sure, tbe shoes were given to Mr. P. B. Page, a friend of Mr. Wilson's, who first brougnt tbe news of tbe tragedy to Augusta, and Mr, Page will fit them to the still clearer im pressions made in tbe loose ground on tbe Wilson place. Up 10 a late hour Mr. Page had not reported the result of this experiment. Other minor but important points converse to the same center. Bill Lumford and lorn Williams are Spar tan burg county negroes. After the arrest it was stated that they had spent the night in Augusta at the house of a negro woman named Meta. Meta herself declared that they had slept at her house from tne middle of tbe night until morning. Investiga tion developed that Meta herself, ac companied by her husband, had been all night across the river at some negro family gathering or wake. Her story was oisoredlted. Furthermore, responsible parties are reported to have seen t?o negroes whose description corresponds to that of the prisoners, crossing the Ham burg bridge In the gray dawn of tbe morning, their clothing covered with dust. It is said that Mr. Wilson would be able to identify the negro whom he ordered off his place. Up to a late hour Thursday night Mr. Wilson had not come to the city, nor couid it be ascertained at what tlm? he would arrive. The members of the family gave the following account of tne tragedy: When the snot was tired, Mra. Wil son jumped from her bed and scream ed ' 1 have been snot. Somebody has killed me," and ran into her hus band's room, where she fell. She afterward became conscious, and stat ed that she had no idea who snot her; that she was asleep at the time. L.^ter she lapsed Into secnl-consclous uebti and lingered until Thursday night, when she died. Tne fatal snot was tired at so close a range that the flesh showed tbe powder marus. The bullet entered under the rignt shoulder, and ranged down tu the left side, penetrating the dlaparagm. Io had evidently De?n tired through the orlface caused by a oroken pane of glass. A board plac ed against tne hole on tue outside had been removed by the assassin. SENSATION FOLLOWS SENSATION. A diapalcii from Augusta to The State says t-ensatlon followed upon sensation Thursday night and this f^emoon In the Wilson murder trag edy. Shoes worn by tbe negro Lum r...rd were taken to the scene of the crime during the forenoon and found to fit exactly tbe tracks around the house and through the ditch near the house. Lumford is still being held Id jail there, but Mr. Wilson has not been to the city to Identify bim as the man seen late In the afternoon before tbe murder. J. L. Brown, a brother-in-law of Wilson's was arrested in Augusta Thursday evening under the influence of liquor and bold in jail for a time to prevent personal injury. The man daolared he was on his way to Bseob Island for the purpose of killing Wil son, whom he declared had killed Mrs. Wilson, saying he intended after dis posing of Wilson to kill himself. After making this statement, and saying to snow that he was in earnest, he drew a pocket knife and slashed his own throat, inflictirg a shallow flesh wound. NEWS FBOM AIKEN. A dispatch from Alken bo The State says it is said there that relatives of Mrs. Wilson have demanded the arrest of Mr. Wilson himself, whom they allege killed his wife It is further said that these relatives charge Wil son with gross cruelty to his wife. They say that Wilson is a hard drink er and that several times while under the influence of drink he has beaten her unmercifully. A short time ago her brothers retaliated upon him by administering a sound thrashing. That the Wilsons were not a peaceful family seems to have been known by the neighbors generally. It cannot be learned here yet whether Mr. Wll ?in has been arrested or net. Mrs. Ed Wilson was a niece of ex-Clerk of Court John N. Hankinson, who now resides at White pond. Soe was an estimable lady and highly regarded In her community. BROKE UP MEETING. Two Georgia Farmers Shoot Each Other to Death. A special message to the Augusta Chronicle says resulting from bad blood, which has existed for some I time, Joe Hasty, a farmer, who liv [ ed about two miles from Ohlpley, Ga., was shot to death in a pistol duel at j that place Wednesday at a political meeting, and Sam Irving, who shot Hasty, was killed a few minutes after ward, bv a crowd who gave chase as he ran from the scene. The first shooting occurred on the outer edge of a grove where an audi ence was listening to a speech being made by Hon. Hoke Smith, candi date for governor. The crowd im mediately left the grove and Mr. Smith was compelled to discontinue his speech, being unable later to re sume. It is stated that the bad blood which existed between Hasty and lrvln was due to an alleged debt of fifteen cents. The two men met at the political gathering and renewed the quarrel, when there was an ex change of heated words. The town marshal interfered and smoothed the difference over for a time, but shortly j Hasty and Irvin came together again ] land began to shoot. Almost with the first shot fired Hasty fell to the ground mortally wounded, and died in a few minutes. No sooner had Hasty fallen than Irvin ran and was pursued by a num ber of people from the audience. Im mediately there was a fusillade of bullets, and before Irvin had gone three blocks he fell dead from bullets fired by'some one in the party of pur [ suers, who is not known. There were about 65 shots fired during the excitement. Two specta tors, standing to one Bide of the I audience, were hit by stray bullets [ and slightly wounded. Died or Rabbles. A special to The Augusta Chronicle says, Bernard ?be four-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. W. Bnxton,. of Glrard, Ga , died at the Pastuer In stitute In Atlanta about 4 o'clock Thursday mornlug. He was carried tuere for treatment for a mad-dog bite that occurred about a month ago. At the time the little feilow was bit ten, no one thought the dog mad and little attention was paid to the wound. Wednesday the dog showed signs of the rabbles and his father carried him to Atlanta for treatment. His death was a sad shook to his parents who have tne sympathy of all in their be reavement. Uotque Sentenee. Probably the most unique sentence ever Imposed by a couro of law in Kansas, says TheKuuas City Star, was ordered in the case of Joe Tran sier, who was oefore Police Judge Herr on the charge of being orunk Transler is an old offender, and when he was brought into court Judge Herr fiaod him 82 and ordered that be be ".fined to his bed for a week. Mar sna^^rath took Transier home and put him to bed and the culprit's fam ily was instructed to notify the court if Traoslei showed a disposition to leave the bed before the week was out. Killed a Horned Hnako. Riv. W. C. Boyd, pastor of the As sccute Reformed Presbyterian church brought to Tue Daily Mall office what muat have been a genuine horned suake. He killed the serpent in Sil ver Brook cemetery. The snake had almost as many colors as the rainbow, and at the end of Its tail was a horn like arrangement. There was a cun trivmce in the end of a horn resemo ling a bee's sting. Some old people woo saw the snake told Mr. Boyd that it was poisonous, butTne Daily Mill's snake editor frankly admitted that he had never seen a serpent like it.? Anderson Mail. Jumpea Too boon. To avoid a wreck which did not oc cur, Scott Glilespie, of Somerset, Ky., a locomotive engineer, jumped from his locomotive at New River bridge, one of the highest in the world, ana was killed. John Colyar, the fireman, also ieaped In the river, and is not ex pected to live. The men beoame alarmed when one of the trucks of the locmotlve left the rails, believing it would fall from the structure, but it was stopped on the bridge by a seo ond locomotive. Killed by Ball, At Houston, Texas, while taking part in an amateur game of baseball Sunkay Stach Wlsnoskl, aged 20, was struck by a thrown ball and after re covering the ball and throwing to a base tell dead. TOLD TO MUROER fierXruel Uncle in a Dream Says Woman C ON WITNESS STAND. She Said That She Was Subject to Hal laciaation, a Voice Commanding Her to "Kill Him" Dreamed She was In the Presence of God. In Naw York last week Josephine Terranova took the witness stand in her own behalf at her trial on the charge of having murdered her aunt. The defendant said that she carae to this country when eight years old, going to live with her unce and aunt the Bsgglous. She is an Italian girl who t )b one of the most awful tales of depravity and toe part of her un do and aunt, whom she 'finally killed for the great wrong they had djne her. *T didn't go to churoh'or to school, she said, "for seven years after I came to America. M/ aunt and un cle would not let me. I wanted to go. I did everything, washing, scrub bing, everything and somHirnes there were ten, eleven, sixteen boarders in tke house." ''Do you remember .ono winter morning when you wera about eleven and a half years old?'' she was asked. The girl replied that she did; that her aunt bad taken her to the uncle's room that day. "That is what I am on trial here about," she added. As the girl told of her uncle's treat ment a woman spectator fainted. The girl hesitated In giving her testimony saying that she was ashamed to apeak it. Sie said that her aunt had forced her to obey hit nnole and had beat her, breaking a stick during one of the whippings, and making the wit ness so sick that she went to bed. The girl said she was never permitted to play with other children: and was ? forbidden to talk English or associate with the boarders in the house. She said she wanted to go to her mother but was not permitted to. The witness said that her husband was led to suspect what her relations with her uncle had been, because of a remark which the latter made. She declared that her uncle's mistreat ment covered a" period oi about six ? years and that it continued up to and including the night after her civil marriage to Terranova. She told of the circumstances wolch led her to kll the uncle, Gaetano, and her aunt, Goncetta. Sue said that her husband after listening to her confession told her that she was no longer his wife and thereupon left her. She remain ed alone during the following teu days, subj ot, she said to the Influence of halluciuations in which her uncle appealed. Wheneve* be appeared a voice said "kill him." Etch night, the witness continued, she would dream or Imagine that she was in the presence of God and there again she would bear the words "kill your un cle. " At the end of ten days, the girl s?:u she went to her mother's house and was turned awav. Then the mys terious voices bcoamo more insistent and their directions more pointed, telling her to buy a knife and a revol ver and kill. When armed on ber way to their house for this purpose, she eald she bad crossed .herself three times and prayed to know whether she was doing right She confronted her uncle, calling him "traitor," and he replied: "Yotore an outcast." "Sue remembered little of her at tack, but asserted that she began to stab when her aunt came between her a.nd Gaetano. Sced d not remem ber which one struck first. Under oross examination the witness said she had been unable to run away from her uncle's oreasment, aa she desired to. Her aunt, she said, had told her that there was no harm in ber rela tions with her uncle. Justloa Scott, who is bearing the eise, questioned the girl ab ut the voioes she claim ed to have heard, and she told hin that they .came like a ringing in the ears. A B*d Start. At Atlanta, says a dispatch to Tae Augusta Chronicle,'a bride and groru of one day, Mr. ani Mm. W. B. Brooks while returning from a plda> ure trip to the Sjldiers hjmj Taara day afternoju and snduigiug In char acteristic billing and co jlng and Kiss ing, were arrested and Oirriai to taa polled station wuere the charge ot "drunk and disorderly" was docketed against their names. They will oj tried before Judgi: Broyl^s. a.narch!ut F.nled. Facts were made known Thursday of the attempt which was male Sat urday last, during the oeremonles of the opening of the Simpion tunnel, at Domodossola. Italy, to assasnaace King Victor Emmanuel. An aairon ist, known to be dangerous, made cue attempt and was only frustrated through the watchfulness of tae de tectives watching Victor. Toe anar ohlst was arrested and a long siillatw was found in his sleeve. Fatal KaaawAy. At Gadsden, Ala , Rev. J. R Trot ter, a prominent minister and a form er Confederate soldier was killed Saturday afternoon In a runaway. Hb horse became unmanageable and Mr. Trotter wai thrown out of the vehi?ie, breaking his neck. He was 70 years