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PUBLISHED THREE THE STATE DRY Or Practically So, As Only Six Counties Are Wet. TUESDAY'S ELECTION Left Only Alken, Beaufort, Charles ton, Florence, Georgetown and Bichland Counties In the Wet Column?All the Other Thirty Six Counties Are in Dry Column. Further returns received from the dispensary elections held In the vari ous counties Tuesday have removed all doubt as to the result and show that fifteen of the counties went "dry" and six "wet." The balance in Florence, Georgetown and Beau fort was- cast for the dispensaries, and in Kershaw for prohibition, so that the line-up is as follows: For Dispensary?Aiken, Beaufort, Charleston, Florence, Georgetown and Richland. For Prohibition?Abbeville, Bam berg, Barnwell. Berkeley, Calhoun, Colleton, Dorchester, Fairfield, Hampton, Kershaw, Lee, Lexington, Orangeburg, Sumter and Williams burg. In a few of the counties the re turns are not complete, but those yet to be received will not affect the general result in any county. Georgetown went wet by a major ity of only 89 votes, Florence by 41, and Calhoun went dry by only 14 votes. The only serious talk of a contest that hao been reported is in Richland, where the Prohibition ists are not satisfied with the result. As a result of the elections Tues day thirty-six counties in South Car olina will be dry within a few weeks, and In the six above mentioned the dispensary system will be re-estab lished as soon as the necesary for malities can be complied with. MISS KIRK WINS CASE. Board of Health Can't Keep Her In Pest House. The famous Kirk, leprosy case from Aiken was decided in the su preme court Thursday in favor "of. Miss Kirk. The majority'opinion is by Justice Woods, Justice Hydrick rendering a dissenting opinion against Miss Kirk. The decision means that the Aiken board of health can not, as it tried to do, confine Miss Kirk to the coun ty pesthouse. The circuit courts's action in the case is affirmed. It came before the circuit court by in junction from the action of the board of health, to confine Miss Kirk in the pesthouse. Owing to the peculiar nature of the case, and to the fact that Miss Kirk, a missionary, who had con tracted the disease in Brazil, was not only a woman of refinement and education, but aged, blind and help less, the case has attracted much at tention throughout this and other States, and the decision is of interest particularly to local boards of health. It is decided that the action of a board of health may be reviewed by the court, although action for dam ages will not lie against the mem bers of the board for wrong deten-: tion or isolation, unless this is done in bad faith. KILLED FOR HER MONEY. Body of a Georgia Lady Found With Skull Crushed. News has just reached Broxton, Ga., of the murder of Miss Mattie Graham, which occurred some, time during Thursday night near her home, two miles north of Hokesboro, in Coffee county. The woman was dragged to a branch half a mile from her house, where evidences of a des perate struggle ensued. The body was beaten and the skull crushed. The object of the murder was evi dently robbery as rhe was a rich, woman. An autopsy, however, may j reveal evidence of a more serious j crime. She was prominent and high ly connected. Miss Graham was one of two maid en sisters who occupied their home alone. The other sister was away from home at the time of the mur der and there is no clue to the per petuators of the deed. Sheriff Dave Ricketson was at once notified and, in company with the coroner, went to the scene of the crime. Dies Horrible Death. News reached Mobile Thursday of the horrible death of J. W. Harrill. of the Lowery Lumber Company, one mile east of Ellisville, Miss., Wed nesday morning. The logging train on which Harrill was riding went into a burning trestle, the engine falling through. Harrill being scald ed and burned to death. Engineer Robert Strickland was severely burn ed in trying to rescue Harrill. Murder and Suicide. William Graulich, of Lansing, Mich., shot and killed his wife Mon day night. Immediately after the shooting Graulich swallowed a qua* tity of carbolic acid, dyin-r soon af terward. Both were 19 years of age- - v..- ?-v*!m Mi TIMES A WEEK. YOUNG MEN FIGHT AND ONE IS SHOT AND KILLED BY THE OTHER. , The Slayer Claims Self-Defense but Others Say That He Stood Behing ' a Tree and Shot. N. H. Hamlet, a young man, an operative in the Langley mill, was placed in the Aiken jail Wednesday morning. Hamley shot and instantly killed John Rhoden, another young man, with whose brother Hamlet had a disturbance Tuesday night. The sh'ootinjg occurred about 6 o'clock Wednesday morning in the public park at Langley. Hamlet was immeditaly taken in charge and car iried to Aiken. Deputy BuSbee met Mr. John Clockley, in whose charge Hamlet was, at Graniteville, en route to Aiken. John James and' Oscar Hhod^n, three brothers, moved to Langley some years ago and kept batchelors' quarters there. They are well known young man. having splendid reputations for qniet and peaceful ness. Mr. Hamlet says that he regrets very much that he committed the homicide, but said that he was com pelled to do so in slef-defense. He said that Wednesday morning as he was going to the mill to work, he forgot his keys and started back to get them. In the park he en countered John Rhoden and a dif ficulty took place then in regard to the disturbance the previous night between himself and James Rhoden, brother of the deceased. He main tains that he did not shoot until after Rhoden fired twice at him with a revolver. He then shot, he says, in self-defense. He said he had nev er had any disturbance with Rhoden previous to this. Several parties from Langley were seen and interviewed and the gener al version of the killing appears to be about as follows: Tuesday night James Rhoden and Hamlet had a disturbance at the "merry-go-round" ? at Langley. The cause of this disturbance is not known, but is said to ha.e been be cause Hamlet walked between Rhod en and a young lady whom he was escorting. The brother is said to have prevented the two men from fighting. Wednesday morning, it is generally^ rumored, Hamlet walked out in the park and getting behind a tree, waited for Rhoden to pass going to work in the mill. When the latter passed,, he stepped, so the story goes, from behind his place of hiding and fired once, Rhoden falling almost instantly, but, it is said, firing once as he was falling, or had fallen to the ground, this shot going stray.- ! The deceased was an excellent young man. He was prominent in the fraternal world, 'belonging to several ordere, including Royal Arch Masonry, so it is said, having oniy recently taken his degree in the Aiken lodge. The affair is deep ly regretted. ARKANSAS RIVER OVERFLOWS. Railroads Washed Away and People Are Homeless. Trains blocked in lonely mountain passes, tracks washed away and in some instances pitched into canyons hundreds of feet deek; families driven from their homes to shelter in higher places; these were some of the scenes revealed at daybreak Thursday morning along the over flowed Arkansas river, says a dis patch from Denver Col. Alarmed at another cloudburst at Four Mile creek near Canyon City Thursday night, score of residents in the lower section of Pueblo and oth er points passed the night in remov ing their household effects to safety. The famous Royal Gorge with walls a thousand feet, high, has been washed by the torrent for almost 48 hours and the railroad tracts have been destroyed. Trains on the Colorado Midland, Denver and Rio Grande and other railroads, most of them carrying Eastern tourists, have been detoured over long routes, and it is said that the detouring of trains of trains will be necessary for four or five days. FOUND CHECK IN RUBBISH. It Was for One Thousand Dollars, in a Letter. At Chicago postoffice inspectors Thursday discovered a letter contain ing a check for $1,000 payable to the Mary Thompson hospital in a pile of rubbish beneath the flooring of Station U., a depot sub-station of the postoflice. With this letter were a number of others, each con taining smaller checks. The discov ery of the missing mail followed the arrest of one of the employes at the sub-station. The postoffice authori ties declare that many letters have been rifled by the prisoner and that those found by him to contain checks and no money were not for warded to the owners, but were bid den. Born With Wings. A woman of Roanoke, Va., gave birth, this week, to a child with feathered wings istead of arms. The baby, it is said, makes a noise like a chicken. OBANGEBUB?, 8. TALKS HARD SENSE SENATOR TILLMAN SHOWS UP TAFT'S DESIGN ON US. I Says He is Trying to Debauch the People of the South With Fair Promises and Offices. Senator Tillman spoke to nearly ! three thousand people at Fountain j Inn, Greenville county, on last I Thursday. His audience was com posed largely of farmers, and gave the Senator close attention and fre quent applause. He seems to be in fine health and spoke with his old time eloquence and power. He cap tured the crowd, as he usually does, with his hard sense and out-spoken utterances. The Senator discussed compulsory education and other live topic, or, as he put it after arriving at Green ville, "took a kind of general sub ject," and said just what he felt like saying. Among other things Senator Till man expressed his opinion on the re sult of the recent dispensary elec tion throughout the State and said that he was glad to see that the State was going "dry" and hoped that the remaining counties which now are wet would soon vote out tae dispensary. The State and News and Courier had educated the people of the State to such a height, he said, that they are now ready to vote the dispensary out in nearly all the counties. "Let all drink water out of the same gourd," said Senator Tillman "or whiskey out of the same bot tle," and he added, laughingly, "It doesn't matter which." In speaking of the relations of President Taft with Southern peo ple, Senator Tillman said that Pres ident Taft was trying to debauch the people of the South with fair prom ises and offices. He read over to the gathering the Republican par ty's platform or planks of it, and said that Taft's purpose was to se duce enough white men in the South to organize a respectable Republi can party, bringing the negroes in as a balance of power. Missouri and Kentucky were al ready in the doubtful column and West Virginia was gone. All that was necessary to monopolize the ne gro in South Carolina was to have enough white men bought off and to register the negroes that are capable of being registered. "There fore," Senator Tillman said, "any thing along the line of Increasing the number of negroes who can read and write and who tcould, ithere fore, be eligible to register was the height of folly in his judgment." If the white children could be sent to school by a compulsory law without the colored children going also, Tillman said, he would favor such an enactment, but the 15th amendment expressly prohibits any citizen on account of race, color, etc. The negroes would benefit by the compulsory law and the white man would have to pay the taxes for the negro's education. Senator Tillman arrived in Green ville i nthe afternoon and went im mediately to the house of his niece, Mrs. Rasor, on Buncombe street, where he spent the night. He left early the following morning for Richland, in the neighborhood of Seneca, where he attended a big bas ket picnic and made an address to the gathering there. WEST POINTERS FIRED. President Orders Dismissal of Sev eral for Hazing. By direction of President Taft, seven cadets were dismissed from the United States military academy for being involved in the hazing of Rolando Sutton. Cadet Sutton was a brother of James N. Sutton, Jr., of the naval academy, whose death was investigated at Annapolis recent ly. The cadets ordered dismissed are: John H. Booker, Jr., of West Point, Georgia, first class; Richard W. Hocker, of Kansas City, Mo., third class; Earle W. Dunmore, of Utica, N. Y., third class; Chauncey C. Devore, of Wheeling, W. Va., third class; Gordon Lefebvre. of Richmond, third class; Albert E. Crane, of Dawarden, Iowa, third class, and Jacob S. Fortner, of Do than, Ala., third class. Heat Kills Weevils. Reports from many sections of Texsas indicate that the extreme heat of the past few days had not injured cotton in the southern portion of the state, but has practically ex terminated the boll weevil so that the late crop will be improved rather than injured. Heat lias caused the weevil to fall off on the ground by thousands. Gave l"p Fortune to Marry. In order to marry William T. Foley, 21 years old. of Evansville, Ind.. Mrs. Louise V. Reitz. aged 41 years, widow of John A. Reitz, of Mt. Carmel, 111., abandoned a life interest in an estate valued at more than $200.000. Mrs. Reitz has a son and three daughters older than her husband. 1 . . C., SATURDAY. AUGrTJ! TRAGGIC AFFAIR Young Woman Shaots a Young Man Who She Says HAD RUSHED HER LIFE The Shooting Took Place in the Agent's Office of the Central of Georgia Railroad in Augusta, Go., Where the Young Man Was Em ployed. D. Richard Watson, caBhier in the agent's office of the Central of Geor gia railroad, at Augusta, Ga.-, was shot and dangerously wounded at 11:30 o'clock Wednesday by Miss Elvira Todd, a young woman twenty one years of age, for whom Watson is said to have formerly had an at tachment. Watson was removed to the City Hospital, suffering from a wound, in the left chest just below 'the collar bone^ a flesh wound in the throat and a broken leg be tween the hip and the knee, all of the wounds being inflicted with a 32-calibre revolver. In describing the tragic, affair the Augusta Chronicle says tragic and thrilling as the scene enacted at the office of the agent of the Cen tral railroad at the corner of Wash ington and Calhoun streets, when a tall, dark-haired and youthful look ing woman, dressed In deep black, entered the plaice hurriedly. She had a handbag suspended from her waist while in her right b?.nd was an umbrella. As she reached the landing of the steps she threw down her umbrella without closing it and entered the ball. Watson worked in the first office to the right of the door and calmly, yet wtih woude -ful swiftness which took all of the oc cupants completely by surprise, thy woman swept Into the room. Wat son was standing behind a raillug and was waiting on a customer and his face was ^towards the door that Miss Todd entered. The first shot went wild and like wise did the next two. L. W. Har groves and H. M. Cohen, who were in the office with Watson, ran out through a small gate while Watson tried to hide behind the door of an Iron safe in the office. Seeing the gate thrown open, the frenzied wo man took advantage of her chance to get on the inside and she rushed in. W'hile Watson was lying be hind the iron safe door the woman ?tood above him and fired three shots, all of which took effect. She tried to shoot again, but was pre vented by Detective Hall, who hear ing the shooting and was close by ran to the place. As Miss Todd stepped upon the ground, after be ing arrested by the detective, she is quoted as saying, "I did my duty, I am glad I have done it and I woud do it all over again if necessary." Detective Hall says that the wo man had been around the Central Railroad office for several days and that two days ago she stayed near the place from 5 o'clock In the af ternoon until 8:30 at night. Hall says that on this occasion Watson knew she was trying to see him and he jumped out of a window and ran home. Detective Hall says also that Tuesday she was at the office and when Watson jumped out of a window, trying to elurje her she gave chase but was unable to catch him. On auother occasion, accord ing to the detectve, Miss Todd called Watson to the window of his office and brandishing a long knife de clared that she intended to have him marry her and cursed him. Hall says that the woman told him Wat son had been faithless, after ruining her life and that after repeated promises had refused to marry her. Miss Todd claims to have met Watson seven years ago at an en tertainment. She claims also that at the time she formed an attach ment for him which has continued ever since; that she was assured by Watson time and time again that he loved her and would marry her when his finanola'l circumstances would permit of it; that he had ruin ed her character and continued for years to protest his devotion, yet he would never consent to marry her. and vbtn finally he is ??nid to hwt-. informed her that he lid not care to go with her longer, she was a crazed woman and shot him. From his cot in the City Hospital Wat so-i s:U.ted most emphaticpll" that he did not ruin Miss Todd and that he hoped the public would withhold opinion until he was completely re covered when he would make a statement for himself. Five May Be Lost. The barge Shawmont with a crew of five bound from Philadelphia for Portsmouth, N. H., broke away from a tug off Shinnecock, L. I., Tuesday morning, and it is feared that she went to the bottom with all hands. Five other barges broke away and floated helplessly for ten hours be fore they were picked up. Fatal Feud Fight. Addie Chapman and John Luttrell are dead and John Chumley and wife, the son-in-law and daughter of Luttrell, are seriously wounded as the result of a feud fight in Casey county, Ky. ST 21, 1909. PROGRAM ARRANGED FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT 01 PRESIDENT TAFT When He Visits Columbia in Novem ber Next?We Will be Given a Royal Welcome. The program ior tue enfertain ment of President Taft on the occa sion of his visit to Columbia in Nov ember was outlined Thursday at a conference held in the governor's office, at which were present Gov ernor Ansel, Mayor Reamer, Messrs. Wm. E. Gonzales and Jas. A. Hoyt, of the Chamber of Commerce exe cutive committee, and Secretary Moorman of that organization. The program as outlined is as fol lows: Arrive Union station, from Au gusta, Monday, November 8th, 10:50 a. m. Breakfast at the governor's man sion, 11 o'clock. Public address, from the portico of the State capitol, noon. General reception in the State library, at the conclusion of the ad dress. Luncheon at the Colonia hotel, 2:30 p. m. From the Colonia hotel the presi dent's party will go direct to the union station, where the train for Wilmington, leaving at 5:05 p. m., will be taken. Mayor Reamer received a tele gram from Private Secretary Car penter, at Beverly, Mass., stating that the date of the president's visit would not be changed and that he would come here from Augusta the morning of the 8th. Secretary Car penter requested that the program for his stay in Columbia be submit ted at once by telegraph and after the conference in the office of the governor Mayor Reamer sent the following message: "Mr. F. W. Carpenter, Private Sec retary, Beverly, Mass. "Replying to your telegram 18th, program arranged today for enter tainment President Taft in Columbia on Monday, November 8th as fol lows.: "Arrive 10:30 a. m., union sta tion. "Breakfast Governor's Mansion, 11 o'clock. "Public address portico State cap itol, noon. "General reception at conclusion of address in State library, Capitol building. "Luncheon 2:30 p. m., Colonia hotel. "Go from Colonia hotel direct to union station. "Leave for Wilmington 5:05, union station. "Please notify If this is accept able. "W. S. REAMER, Mayor." The details of the entertainment will be worked out later, and a num ber of committees will be appoint ed to take charge of the arrange ments. These committee will have the active cooperation of Governor Ansel, who is personally acquainted with President Taft, and of Mayor Reamer. DOING A GOOD WORK. The State Lul>oratory Popular With the Doctors. The Columbia Record says num bers of physicians from all parts of the State are beginning to take ad vantage of the recently-opened state bacteriological laboratory. Dr. F. A. Coward, the physician in charge, is kept busy making examinations. Two hundred and fifty specimens of sputum, blood and fetal matter have been examined since the first of July. Two suspected cases of rabies are now undergoing treatment, and two patients have been but recently dismissed. Six animals have been examined for rabies. On some days Dr. Coward makes as many as 16 bacteriological examinations, which is a hard day's work for one man. The latest addition to the labora tory apparatus is a cool biological incubator, which lowers the temper ature to 20 degrees Centrigrade. It is used in making gelatine cultures of germs.. Gelatine makes a splendid culture medium for germs, but, on account of the fact that it melts at a low temperature, It must be kept very cold. The germs thrive as well at a low temperature as they do at a higher. The cold makes no differ ence to them. Seized With Cramps. A dispatch from Gadsden, Ala., says while hurrying home to join his bride of a few weeks. Sam Wood, a prominent young man of that county, was drowned a few days ago. ' Wood in his haste undertook to swim the Coosa river and was seized with cramps. The bodv has not been re I covered. Sues for Large Sum. Prosecuting Attorney Jeffrey of the Third judicial circuit Thursday fieled . m< r 1" Jack.*<vi county cir cuit at Newport, Ark., against 65 in surance companies doing business in Arkansas, asking penalties amount ' ing to $05,000,000 for alleged viola Ition of the Arkansas anti-trust laws. TW MUST huS^SS STATE HEALTH DEPARTMENT SAYS IT IS VERY BAD. The Young People of Iowa Don't Take Kindly to the CVufMide Made Against Kissing. Iowa, the greatest agricultural State in the Middle West, has de cided on a new venture, and will now raise a crop of unkissed girls. It is not a freak determination, or a desire of the State to get its name in the papers, it is simply a part of its crusade against the great white plague. Someone bamboozled the State legislators into believeing that whenever two pairs of lips met about 14,000,000 germs held high j-inks, and they promptly passed a law cre ating the office of "State Government Lecturer on Health," and then decid ed to pay A'retar Edward Kepford $1,500 a year if he would carry it around with him. The neighbors all said that Mr. Kepford was a nice fellow, but that he did have some funny notions about kissing. He not only had them but he has succeeded in foisting them off upon the rest of the people in the State, for the "State Govern ment Lecturer on Health" in his war upon the great white plague in his State is laying great stress on his anti-kissing campaign. But this isn't the worst of it. Prof. K^pford's crusade aganst os culation is growing. Of course it is not exceeding any speed limits among the young people, but it is with the babies and in the younger grades of the public schools that it is being Waged fiercest. Mothers and fathers have pledged themselves to bring up their children unkissed. Schoolteachers have sworn that the dangers of osculation shall be as carefully presented to the pupils as the daily portions of geography or arithmetic. Of course it is a little early to tell wbat the children them selves will do about it when they reach the age where the kissing bug gets in its greatest lick, but they ought to be pretty well trained by that time. Two thousand schoolteachers have pledged Mr. Kepford their earnest support in stamping out the kissing habit. They never had it, and don't see why any one else should evince a willingness to acquire it. Kep ford has had thousands of little signs, bearing the words, "Don't kiss me," and he's getting rid of a number of them among the parents of very young children. Crusader Kepford started out to fight the great white plague, but the object of his quest seems to have been diverted to a systematic fight on kissing. His critics do not con tend that he is off the track, but they do as>k the true meaning of his effort to have a number of local philanthropists offer a prize of $100 to each unkissed girl of 15, with an added prize of $25 annually for every year she goes unkissed until mar ried. As yet the philanthropists have not materialized, but Crusader Kepford has hopes. Men, philan thropists and otherwise, are study ing this particular phase of the great crusade. SLAPPED HER FACE. Because He Said She Sent Him Un seenly Post Cards. As an exceuse for slapping his wife's face, William Schenck, of Cincinnati, O.. said that he was the victim of "postal card mania," and that his wife had sent the cards to him. Judge Hoffman, of the Police court, dismissed the case and told the wife not to send her husband any more postal cards. The husband pre sented several cards to the court. On one was written, "All in, down and out;" another showed a hand some young woman, with outstretch ed arms, and underneath the pic ture, was printed the words, "I don't care if he never comes back." Another had written on it?, "Come in; the water is fine." A SLICK (HOOK. Worked a Slick Game on a Private Detective. Thomas D. Stewart, the head of a private detective agency in Pitts burg, has reported to the Chicago po lice that he was rohbed of $."?00 in money and jewelry while stopping at a downtown hotel in the lake city. He went to Chicago in company with a man who had offered to lead him to the man who. he said, was responsible for the dynamiting of the Pennsylvania railroad I ridge near Pittshurg several months ago and for whom there is a reward of $5.000 offered. The detective and his guide slept in the same room at the hotel, and when the former! woke up one morning he found his companion and all 9(is valuables I gone. Plague of Mosqirit4?es. Great herds of cattle are standing in the Gulf of Mexico and starving to death owing to a pest of mosqui toes that has struck Texas. Out door work aiong the coast has been suspended and railroad passengers must cover their faces if they wish to travel in comfort. 0 rO CENTS PER COPY WILD AUTO RACE Frenzied Carnival of Speed Cost Two Llvss. STORY OF THE DRIVE ..(Mr Driven by William A. Bour que Crashed into a Fence, Killing the Driver and tlie Mechanican, Harry ? Molcolmb?Cause of the Ajrtfdent Mertely Conjecture. Two lives- were lost and two speed records were broken on Thursday at Indianapolis, Ind., in races by automobiles during the inauguration of the motor speedway in that city. William A. Bourque, driver of the Knox car in the 200 mile race, and Harry Holcolmb, his mechanican, were killed in the frenzied carni val of speed. Barney Oldfield, driving a high powered Benz, covered a mile in 43 1-10, breaking DePalma's mark of 51, and Louis Chevrolet, in a Eaick, negotiated ten miles in the 'marvel ous- time of 8:.")6 4-10, cutting Old field's time of 9.12. Both of these arc now American track marks. Robert Burman, in a Buick car, won the 200 mile race, the feature of the day, and the contest which cost Rourque and Holcolmb their lives. The winner's time was 4.38.57-10.?slow, because of the many accidents that mared the race. The death of the two men caused the American Automobile Associa tion to Issue an ultimatum to the owners of the big track that certain changes must be made, or the sanc tion for the races will be withdrawn. The Association demanded that the track, be freed from its many dang erous ruts, which are claimed to be unavoidable in a new track, and that every Inch of it be thoroughly oiled and tarred. Thursday only a short portion- in front of the grand stand was oiled and the dust on the other parts is blamed for the collapse of two driv ers In the long race?Louis Chev rolet and, Fred Ellis?who were blinded by the dense white dust that covered ,the major portion of the track. The Knox car, driven by Bourque, was in second place, with Burman in his Buick, leading. It has cov ered nearly 150 miles when the crash, came. Coming down the home stretch, the car suddenly swerved1 and tore into the fence at the left of the track, turning completely over and pinning its two occupants be neath it. Both men were alive when tak en from under the illfated machine, but Bourque died in the ambulance on the way to the Emergency Hos pital. Holcolmb lived a few min utes longer. According to the story told by Private Frank Brandoer, Company H, 2nd regiment, Indiana National Guard, who was nearest the scene of the accident and had a narrow es cape from injury, something caused both men to suddenly turn and look , around. As they did so the steer ing wheel slipped from Bourque's hands and he threw his arms help lessly in the air. Then came the crash. One of the rear wheels was foun . a few hundred feet fro mthe scene of the accident, and this has let to the advancement of the theory that tb le nuts on t had not been prop erly ijghtened when (the machine had taken on a new tire shortly be fore. The men probably felt that wheels slipping off, and after they looked behind dhey realized their helplessness to prevent an accident. Bourque was 26 years old and Hol colmb 22. Both were unmarried. Albert Denison, the racing partner of Bourque, collapsed after the ac cident and the services of physicians were required. The sight of the two men lying dead was too much, for the friends of both. Louis Chevrolet, the French driver of the Buick, was led itno the hos pital almost blinded with the tar and dust from the track shortly after the two men had died. The French man, who led during the early part of the race, was forced to give up. As the result of the two deaths, the Knox Company has withdrawn all Its entries for the next two days and it Is said it will probably never again enter its cars in a race. Dead Body Found. Will Long and Will Gilrenth. two mountaineers, were palled at Green ville on Thursday night on a serious charge of seriously injuring a white man by the name of Marvin Rey nolds, whose dead body was found mutilated by the side of a railroad track in the vicinity of Tyron, N. C, but on the South Carolina side of the border. Young Hero Drowns. Claude Goddard, aged seventeen, and his brother. Matt, aged fifteen, were drowned in the Tennessee riv er, near Dayton. Tenn.. Monday morning. The older boy ventured beyond his depth, and the younger lost his life in a heroic effort to save his brother. They sank clasped in each others arms. The bodies were recovered.