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ESTABLISHED IN 18 FIRE ON TRAIN. ? ?? t STRIKING MINERS KILL THREE AND WOUND ELEVEN. Attack Made in a Cut, the Assailants Shooting from Behind Rocks Dato Special of Non-Union Miners. Thrree men were instantly killed i and eleven injured, two of whom will probably die, when striking miners fired into a passenger tram on the Birmingham Mineral Railroad at Blocton Ala., Sunday morning about 2o'clock. The dead: Conductor Joe T. Collins. O. Z. Dent, Deputy sheriff. i Willard Howell, non-union miner. The train was a special, bearing non-union men to the Blocton mines under guard of soldiers and deputies On the outskirts of the town the en gineer suddenly saw a log across the track and at once a fusilade was fired into the train. The engineer did not stop, but let the cow catcher dirow the log from the track and put on full speed. The place where the attack was made was in a cut. the ground being on the level with the lower part of the windows. The assailants behind the rocks above poured down a murderous fire directly into the win dows and at. the engineer. Practical ly every window in the train was broken, and shots struck all parts of the engine and cab. 7/.e train proceeded to Blocton and the dead and inj urea were re turned^ to Birmingham. Dogs were hurried to the scene and took trails through the woods directly to the union quarters. Eight negroes were arrested and other arrests are ex pected. Governor Comtr held a hurried conference with Lieut. Col. Hubbard commanding the militia, and an other company was hurried to Bloc ton. All is repotred quiet there. The trouble has caused widespread indignation and a general demand is being made that more streuous action be taken looking to the pre servation of order. \Governor Comer has not made a statement on the situation. While no disurbances have been reported in the district other than he Blocton affair, the situation is regarded as the most grave since the inauguration of the strike over a month ago. TUNNEL COLLAPSED. Two Men KRled and One Fatally In jured. A dispatch from New York, says two men were crushed to death and a third so frightfully injured that he begged his rescuers to shoot him, in the collapse of a tunnel being built in the main V building of the St. John's orphan home, at St. Marks and Albaay avenues Thursday. The dead are: William McLaughlin. / , Thomas Roche. William Finlayson, the third man, was dying when he was finally taken from the huge pile of debris. The men were workmen employed Jn the tunnel construction. They -Were working together whe nthe walls collapsed and they were buried. An alarm of fire was sent in and police and firemen began the work or rescue. Two bodies were quickly taken out and the upper part of Fin layson's body was uncovered. With the lower part of his body crushed Finlayson moaned in terri ! ble agony. "For God's sake shoot me and put me out of this agony," he cried to the men. Ambulances were called from St. John's and St. Mary s hospitals. Fin layson as soon as he was gotten out, was hurried to the hospital. ? TOO MUCH HARD CIDER. White Man Kills Two Negroes Near Lynchburg. Near Concord, 10 miles east of Lynchburg, Va., Monday night Jack Lee, white, shot and instantly killed Severely Cardwell, colored, and mor tally wounded his brother Samuel, who died Tuesday morning. The men, whites and blacks, were drink ing hard cider and had a drunken misunderstanding. Lee was arrest ed. FKtfDlSTS IN BIG FIGHT. Two Htm And a Woman Killed in Kentucky. The bloodiest feudist battle in years took place at Layman, Horlin county, Ky., late Thursday afternoon Three persons were killed, one be ing a woman, and one woman wat wounded. The trouble dates back for generations between, Blantons and Taylors. The immediate cause of the shooting was a dispute over a school election. ? Arrested in New York A dispatch from New York says a young man, who says he is John E. Messervy, 19 years old, of Charles ton, S. C, and who declares his fath er is of sufficient importance in that vicinity to issue railway passes, is being detained by the police theTe on the charge of not paying a hotel bill. Before Messervy gels out of bis scrape he may also have to face ?a indictment for -ftfrsety. A S Saljey .Tr 16 TTJ State Huuee ..... 69. WILL GRATIFY AMBITION. Edison To Give H?nself a Roving Commission Into Science. Thomas A. Edison has begun to gratify an ambition he has cherish ed many years, and the laboratory at Llewellyn, N. T. will see*- com paratively little of him henceforth. Mr. Edison's ambition has been te give himself a roving commission into pure science cad to steer clear jof commercialism. He does not f want to increase his fortune. He has got $35,000,000, which he .thinks is more than enough. All his life he has been turning out money making inventions. He will devote his remaining years to investigate anything that strikes his fancy with out regard to its financial produc tiveness. It is learned that the man who has achieved so many marvels in electricity has a greajter love for chemistry than electricity. Chemis try was the first science to captivae his wonderful intellect but he' has j never had a chance to dig as deep into its mysteries as he wanted to. j Now he proposes to give himself the chance. Moreover he is going to take life more easily. He has promised his family and his friends to give up slaving night and day, Sundays and holidays in his labortory. Not only that but he is going to take jaunts about and see something of the rest of the world. He has bought himself a place in Florida where he will spend a couple of months in the late win ter and early spring next year. Toward the end of this month he is going with his wife on a month's trip to the Pacific coast. He will stay more than a month if the fancy strikes him. Monday, instead of be ing in his laboratory, he was fun making with some friends down on Long Island where he went on Fri day to spend three day^. TWO KILLED BY LIGHTNING. Electric Bolt Plays Strange Pranks in New Jersey Home. Two persons were killed and two others severely injured by lightning during a severe electricn! storm that swept over Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey Friday, .causing much havoc. , Robert Heimbach, a farmer, was struck and instantly killed, neat the fields, and Walter Cattell, aged Lewisburg, Pa., while working in the f.lds; and' Waltt-r Oatteli. agad 17 years, was struck and killed, near Glassboro, N. J. His sister, Mabel, and Rebecca Turner, were also struck and severe ly injured, the latter being in a serious condition. Cattell, his sis ter and Miss Turner were seated un der a shed watching the lightning, when a bolt hit the peak of the shed, where they wree siting. The lightning broke the legs off the chairs and rendered the trio un conscious. The charge passed down Cattell's back and he was dead when picked up. The shoes were ripped from the feet, of his sister, but she recovered consciosuness af ter a short time; and is seriously ill from the shock. One corner of the Cattell home was torn out of the building by the ligntiiing. Buildings of all sort were struck in various sections and destroyed, and many districts suffered from flooding. Philadelphia, tn connection with the storm, was pelted by one of the most severe f alls of hail tha: has occurred in a number of years. * FOLLOWS BRYAN'S ACTION. Taft Makes a Speech to a Phonograph ,/to Have it Reproduced. The use of a phonogarph by Candi date Taft as a means for dissemina tion of his speeches, as reported in the dispatches from Hot Springs, Va.. excited the liveliest interest of W. J. Bryan, so much as that he gave out the following statement in re gard to it. "The republican papers have been making /un of me for using the phonograph as a means of reaching the public, but since the republican candidate has followed my example I presume that the criticism will cease and that this will now be re graded as a dignified method of dis ! cussing public questions. "It looks as if the democrats were j going to have a hard time this year protecting their patents from in fringement. The republicans seems to be bent upon imitating not only our platform, but our campaign me thods. There is, however, some ad vantage in the fact that we are set ting the pattern this year." A SEVERE STORM. Lightning Strikes Residences, Cfinr ches and Stuns Several People. At Spaftanburg, lightning struck four residences, two churches and stunned several people during a se vere electrical storm Wednesday afternoon. Three of the residences that were struck were badly damag ed and one was set on fire. Silver Hill Methodist church was struck in three places, and the tower demolish ed. A small colored church on Charles street was set on fire by a olt of lightning^ and the fire depart,* ment had to he called out to extln guteS the fiames. 8 REPORT OF CROP CONDITION. Bureau of Statistics of Agricultural Department Issue Bulletin. The crop reporting board of the bureau of statistics of the depart ment of agriculture in a bulletin is sued Friday shows that the cordition of corn on August 1 was 82.5 per [cent, of a normal, as compared with 82.8 last month, 82.8 on Aug. 1, 1907, and S3.1, the 10-year average Ion August 1. The condition in the Southern States was: 1908. 10-years. I Texas.78 78 I Georgia.89 86 Kentucky.83 85 Tennessee.85 84 Alabama.87 84 [North Carolina. . . .91 87 Arkansas. 79 83 Mississippi.86 SO South Atlantic .. ..89 86.4 Preliminary _ returns indicate a yield -of- winter wheat of about bushels per pcre, or a total of 425, 940,000 bushels, which comparer with 14.6 bushels and .409.442,000 bushels, respectively, the final esti mates of last year's crop. The aver age quality of the crop is 90.l against 90.5 last year. Average condtion of spring wheat [on August 1 was 80.7 pe rcent. o normal as compared with 80.40 ?? month ago, 79.4 on August 1, 1907, 86/9 on August 1, 1906, and 82:7, the 10-year average on August 1. The condition of the oat crop on (Aug. 1. was 76.7 per cent, of normal as compared with 85.7 last month. T5.6 on August 1, 1907, 82.7 on Aug. 1, 1906. The proportion of the oats crop ol last year in the hands of farmers oi August 1 is estimated at 5.0 per cent [equivalent to 38,000,000 bushels, at (compared with 7.1 per cent, and 68, 000,000 bushels, respectively, the [corresponding figures of a year ago. The condition of rye of August 1, lor at the time of harvesting, was 88.3 per cent, of a normal. The average condition of tobaccc [on Aug. 1 was 85.S. a scorn pared with 82.3, the 10-year average. The condition of flax on August 1 was 86.1. . ? WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC CASES. [Constitutionality of Federal Law In volved in Appeal. J The constitutionality of the federal law prohibiting the importation of women from foreign countries for immoral purposes is involved in the cases of Alphonse and Eva Dufour, which were docketed last week, in the supreme court of the United States. Six indicments were returned against "each of them in the United States circuit sitting in Chicago on the charge c violating the importa tion law. and Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis refused to release them on writs of habeas corpus. They then appealed to the supreme court. The maximum punishment is five years' imprisonment and a fine of $5,000 in each count. *\ BARBER STABS WIFE. Narrowly Escapes Being Lynched by Angry Mob. At Burlington, N. J., angered and jealous because his wife wished to go for a walk, Adam Popiel, a bar ber, Thursday night stabbed the wo man and in turn was almost lynched by an angry mob. Suicde at Savannah. Capt. D. G. Purse, prominent citi [zen, noted developer industrial writ ;er and promoter, and having con nections in New York, Pittsburg and lother centres-, committed suicide at [Savannah Thursday by snooting. No > for H&& deed. ? R?, S. C. TUESDAY, A?( JE TINWARE MARKET IS DULl DEMOCRATS REGISTER. An Urgent Appeal From State Chair man Wilie Jones. Gen. Wilie Jones, Democraitc State Chairman, Wednesday issued -the following address: To the Democratic Voters of South I Carolina: j Fellow Democrats: In view of the great indifference which seems to ex ist among the Democrats of this 'state as to registring under the new ' law requiring all voters to register tills year, I feel it to be my duty as your chairman to address you in this public manner, and urge ,you to go to your county seats at once and i-e g'.ster. There Is no doubt about the fact that the negroes are registering in great numbers in some counties and if the Democrats do not register they cannot vote in the general elec tion in November next, and some of oV.r congressmen may ho dofcated. The electoral ticket of this state may also be endangered by the failure of the Democrats to register. The time expiresSeptember 1st, 1908, and after that it will be impossible to be registered. We have heard of late various threats that our representa tion in congress would he reduced by a Republican congress on aceounl electoral ticket and also for our con election. All indications now are that, the next house of representa tives will be very close, and the past history of the Republican party prov es that that party will stop at noth ing to count in a working majority. Now, fellow Democrats, do not al low this serious charge to be made against you, but go immediately and register, and be prepared to roll I up a big majority for the Democratic electoral ticket and als ofor our con gressional nominees. The Democra tic county chairman throughout the state are urged to earnestly request the Democrats in their respective counties to attend to this important matter at once and to use their best efforts to get them out immediately, as the time expires for registration September 1, 190S. Very respectfully. Wilie Jones, Chairman. * ESCAPED FROM DOCTORS. Thinking He is An Angel. Man Re moves His Clothing. A dispatch from Philadelphia, says on Saturday a man attired in a suit, of summer underclothing jumped on a passenger street car, rode half a block and then ran into the crowded square at Twenty-sev enth and Jefferson streets, where he took off the little clothing he had been wearing. Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, Mrs. Maggie Cummings and Mrs. Clara Mann, who were passing through the square, were pounced upon by the mna, who threw his arms around them, declaring he was an angel. It was learned by the policeman who took him in charge that he was I Condon Vondron, 30 years old, who had escaped from his home while delirious from fever. COAV WRECKS A TRAIN. Four Persons Killed in Accident on Texas Trami Ron?. Four persons were killed and four others were injured, two probably fatally, when an engine on the tram road of the Livingston Lumber Com pany struck a cow and plunged into! a deep ravine, near Livingston,; Texas Friday. The dead: Watson Scott, en gineer; Fayette Rogers, fireman; Finis Peebles, Henry Young, color ed. Brad Hickman and a young man ? named CraTk, are perhaps fatally injured, while the negroes are less 'seriously injured. *'\ jV?ST IL? l?08. ?De Mar in Philadelphia Record. CHARGED WITH MURDER. True Bill Found Against Man For Cnne Committed Years Ago. Quite a sensation has been sprung in Saluda county by the solicitors handing out an indictment charging Pope B. Havird, white with murder and the grand jury's returning a true bill. Some 10 years ago a negro nam ed Tom Scurry, living with Harvird, very suddenly and mysteriously dis appeared and he has never been seen or heard of since. Recently a rumor gained currency that Havird split Scurry's head open with an axe while they were spliting rails and covered the body with brush an dlogs and burned it. This rumor coming to the ears of Splcitor Timmerman, he made an investigation, with the re sult that he was satisfied there was enough in the report to justify him in handing out an Indictment for murder and the grand jury evident ly thinks there is enough testimony to warrant a trial of the case. A bench warrant has been issued for Havird and he is expected to be apprehended at once. It seems that several now claim to liave known of HavIrcTs killing the negro at the time it was done, but they have kept it a secret lal these years until recently, when there was a falling oil among them and Havird and the parties who say they have known of the murder all the time began to whisper it first to one and then to another until the report gained general circulation. The reason theyassign forHavird's killing the negro is that Hrviad's barn was burned and he charged Scurry with firing it. Havird is the young white man who was shot a few years ago by John Yarbrough in such a manner that one of his arms had to be amputat ed. BURNED TO DEATH. Steamer Destroyed and Eight Loose Their Lives. A dispatch from St. Paul, Minn, says a special to the Poincer Press from Winnipeg, Man., says the steamer Premier, Captain Stevens, was burned to the water's edge at Warren's Landing, the northern end of Lake Winnipeg, on Thursday morning. Six passengers and two of the crew lost their lives. Piers and building in the vicinity were also destroyed. The fire started in the engine room of the hold during the night and spread with frightful rapidity, those who lost their lives either smothering or burning to death in their berths. About 20 were sleeping on board when the fire broke out, on account of the lack of accommodations at the trading post. When the cry of fire was raised, those who esacped did so in scanty attire, by jumping overboard. They either swam ashore, or were taken out by boats.* HEADQUARTERS AT CHICAGO. Chairman Mack to Open There. Finance Committee. The Democratic national head quarters opened for the season at the Auditorium Annex Wednesday, Chairman Mack, of the national com mittee, accompanied by Roger C. Sullivan, ofi Illinois, have arrived in Chicago. Chairman Mack is expected to an nounce the membership of the finan ce committee and various sub-com [mittees not yet appointed. New Cotton Sold at Clio. Th first bale of new crop cotton was sold at Clio last Wednesday evening by Jeff D. Edens to the Starnberger Company. The hale weighed 644, graded strict middling and- brought I? 3-8 cents: This cot ton was pfcarted- about March 4. ? ISIAS) CAPTAIN A SUICIDE. Schooner Reaches Savannah With Tale of Tragedy. With the steward in charge and the crew of four men aboard the Schooner Frank A. Williams was towed into Savannah Wednesday bringing the story of the suicide at sea, and in a raging storm, of the vessel'? mad captain, A. M. Guthrie. The steward, Louis Inphen, told the story. He said that Capt. Guthrie was on the deck when the schooner was off Cape Lookout. He saw the captain walk calmly to the rail, stand" on it and dive overboard. Though efforts at rescue seemed foolish the steward threw a rope, clenched his fists and held his head j The man in the water saw it, but under water in an effort to drown himself. The rope was thrown to him twice, but he refused it, and a big wave soon swopt mm from sight. The story Is unusual and adds another to the long list of tragedies off Cape Lookout. "He was insane," declared the steward. His eyes told it. We all knew it, and we persuaded him to give me charge of the vessel. We did not want to sail seas unknown to us in the care of a' crazy man. I saw he was crazy as we left New York, but we came on and he seemed to goxall wrong when the storm got so bad off Lookout light ship. "We could not s(op the captain when he suddenly deciued to leave the ship. We were helpless without, him, as none of us knew the waters we were in." The steamer City of Augusta, from Boston for Savannah, found the schooner off the light ship and tow led her to Savannah. The crew of the schooner watched the rescue of the crew of the schooner Schull, which was abandoned off Cape Look out. * BALDWIN MAKES ?SCENT. His Dirigible Balloon Goes Five Miles, Making Complete Circle. "We sighted the enemy." These words were shouted by Capt. Bald win at FortjMyer Friday, says a dis patch from Washington, as he pilot ed his balloon to the ground aftei making a successful flight of nearlj five miles in an effort to demonstrate the usefulness of an air ship in wai time. Rising from the ground like a monster bird of the air, slowly bu'. buoyantly, at 6.21 o clock Frida, evening, the aerial s^ip, built the United States army, was headed'intt the westerly wind by Capt Baldwin. A complete circle was described, the balloon rising gradually to a heigh of 200 feet. Again pointing to the west, and attaining at estimated speed of twelve miles an hour, the ship voyaged in a direct line foi nearly two miles. The trip was made with the wind, which was blowing at the rate of 7 miles an hour. The throttle was thrown open a little wider by Mr. Curtiss, who again operated the en gine, and the ship flew along at a speed of eighteen or twenty miles an hour. When the dirigible passed over the starting point it was about five hun dred feet in the air. Bringing his ship against the wind, Capt. Bald win made a landing much the same as pilots of- water craft bring theii vessels to the side of a dock. * SHOOTING ON STREET CAR Negro Passenger Refuses to Pay Fare and Row nesults. At Pensacola, Fla. Wednesday one man fatally wounded and another painfully injured, is the result of a fight between negroes and street railway employees on a Bay Shore car. Wm. Johnson, colored, was shot in the mouth and abdomen, while Chief Inspector McCIung, of the street railway, suffered a painful wound in the hand. The negroes htid had a picnic at Palmetto Beach, which lasted far into the night. A special car, with half a dozen trailers were bringing them back when one negro refused to pay his fare. A general fight followed between the eight or ten conductors and some of the negroes. TICKET TAKER ARRESTED. Southern Employee in Trouble for Drawing '^'stol on Passenger At Spartanburg, W. R. Lucas, ticket taker on Southern Trrain, was arrested Friday-night when the train pulled into the station on the charge of drawing a pistol ?on one of the passengers. On the train from Greenville Friday afternoon about two Hundred base ball fans were aboard returning to Spartan 'burg from the ball garde in Green \ le. Trouble arose about fares and a difficulty was narrowly averted. Lucas drew his pistol and when the train pulled into the station he was arrested by the police. ? Rolls Down Embankment. The work train on a narrow gauge road running to the Rorer Iron Mines, two miles from Roanoke, Va., Friday left the rails and rolled down a high embankment on the mountain side. A number of men riding on the train were caught un der the engine and cars. Three were willed and. several more seriously ?Injured. t The dead:, James Tyree, Jains Wertav Jobia tfro#n. * ?1.50 PER ANNUM. CAI'S BITE FATAL. LADY WHO WAS BITTEN MONTH i AGO DIED IN AGONY. Hydrophobia Developed- and Wojnun Passed Away in Convulsions Haunted by Terrifying Vision. Haunted during her late hours by a terrifying vision of .the white cat that had attacked her a month, before her death and iuoculated her with the germs of hydrophobia, Mrs. Jane Trumbull, wife of a profession al golf player, died Friday at her home in Baldwin, L. I., after, in her final lu'cid moments, settling her business with a deliberation and courage equal almost to that.dis played by the late William H. Marsh, of Brooklyn, who died of rabies after twenty-four hours "before the end. The composure of Mrs. Trumbull in the face of the horror of her startling vision of the cat and the convulsions which grew more fre quent and violent, as the final stages of the disease develop- d, was the more remarkable as opiates were not as in the case of Mr. Marsh, admin istered in sufficient quantities appre ciably to ease her agony. The horror of the sifuaton was increased, to her huBband and friends, j by uer repeated supplica tions to them to kill her. Strangely enough for several hours before her death she was conscious and calm. She directed the disposal of her ef fects and then kissed her husband farewell during these lucid inte^r veals. Mrs. Trumbull about amonth ago, while alone and fondling a cat, which she had owned for years, was attack ed by it. The animal leaped at her throat, missing it, and for a part ol a second clung to the woman with its teeth buried in her nose. When Mrs. Trumbull had torn the animal away from her it raced through the cottage, slavering and snarling. The woman drove the animal out doors finally and whn her husband ?returned that evening told him what had happened. He assumed at once that the cat was mad, but did not tell Mrs. Trumbull, for fear of alarming her. Mr. Trumbull ran across the'cat several days later and killed it. No symptoms of danger from the cat's bite developed until two weeks ago, when Mrs. Trumbull was stricken with nervous prostra tion. Just at dawn on Sunday last Mrs. Trumbull, who had been sleep ing only fitfully, aroused her house hoid with a' scream. She oecanje hysterical and gradually grew worse.* ELOPES WITH HEIRESS. Chaffcur And Heiress Elope in BorJ ? rowed Auto. A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa., says Daniel Slattery, a young chauf feur of the East End district, who has been motoring for many rich families, on Monday eloped with Miss Madeline Zeigler, only daughter of Mrs. Margaret Zeigler, one of the rich East End society women, for whom Slattery had often driven an automobile. Slattery and Miss Madeline went in a hurry on finding that Mrs. Zeigler had employed detectives to look up his record. Mrs.. Zeigler had two warrants issued for the chauffeur's arrest on cuarges which she asserts were trumped up, and when he met Miss Madeline in the at.lernoon, he told her of his troubles and suggested that they go immer diately. He pushed Miss Zeigler into the first automobile he saw standing in the street and fled to West ?rginia, where they were married. They returned the next day. Eddie Ball, the bicycle rider, whose machine it was they had bro rowed" in the meantime, had a war rant issued, not knowing it was Slattery, who is his friend. On learning that it was an elopment of his friend, Ball had the warrant can celled. * ENTIRE FAMILY KILLED. North Carolina Farmer, His Wife and Son, Slain by Lightning. A special to the Charlotte Obser ver from Sparta, Alleghany County, brings news of the death of an en tire family at Edmonds, ten miles across the mountains from Sparta, on Friday by lightning. Frank Mur phy, a farmer, and his wife and young son were in the field stacking rye when the. storm came up. The trio rah for shelter, but were strick en down before they reached the house and presumably instantly kill ed. The bodies were found later by neighbors. * MAN STABS HIS WIFE. Woman's Injuries Considered Serious Husband in Jail. Tom VIck, a mill operative, is in the county jail at Greenville charged with stabbing his wife at their cot tage in the suburbs of that pli^ Friday afternoon. The wot on'.i injuries are said to be seriocv. ttB pecialiy the wound In her side. Vick a]so plunged the plade in his wife's throat, the wound being about an* liica; deep. ThV affray seethe to bans ?bfttf-fb** outcome df tf fimTly ttw. *