The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, August 28, 1909, Image 1

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| AS6ftlJejJr 10 an-08 State House published thkee CROWDS ATTEND Reunion of Survivors of Red Shirt Wearers in the Fifteen Thousand Visitors at Ander son Wednesday to Witness and Participate In the First State Re union of Men Who Led Democ racy to Victory in '76. A special dispatch to" The News and Courier says fifteen thousand' men, women and children caiiia to to Anderson today, some to take part in^ and the others to witness the great Red Shirt parade, and to hear the-, orators of the day. The line of march was formed shortly after 9 o'clock Wednesday morning, and at 11 o'clock the parade moved under Commander J. C. Stribling, pass ing in review; and witnessed by thousands on the street, sidewalks, in the windows, balconies, etc. Hour 'thousand men and ladies wearing red shirts, some mounted and the others on foot, formed the parade, which'was more than a mile long. After the review the line marched to Buena Vista Park, weher, under the large and shady trees, ex-Governor John C. Sheppard, of Edgefield, and Senator Tillman spoke to -five thousand persons. Col. R. W. Simpson presided over the meet ing. Governor Sheppard was the first speaker, and his remarks were en tirely of matters pertaining to the Rejd Shirt men. He recited personal experiences during the campaign of 1876, and mos/t interestingly1, told; of' the'deeds of the brave men who wore the\ shirts of red. He recited their history and explained'to the'young fofks in the audience^ why the Red Shirts organized and -told what they adj?mpJished. Kjis .'remarks, last ing; nearly two'hours, were brimful of interesting facts of the campaign made necessary to take the rule of the State from the negroes and car pet-baggers. .. Senator Tillman was the next and last speaker. B-ej .opened by hurling compliments at the newspapers and ridiculed their editorials about his leaving Washington during the tariff session and going out West to make"' addresses. He sarcastically raked thef-newspapers over the ^ country? ab?ut their 'barking at my heels'just because I have _ma.de arrangements to leave my lecturing: tour to come to South Carolina to make five or six; speeches." Ke declared that President Taft Is "the tool of. a great political'nia-t chine," and that the president appointment of census enumerators; in*the^SeuthT is but''a furtner?i&e!of1 his*, efforts to break the "Solid South." He said the ^machine" Is preventing' MK TaftXfram carrying ou?nis intentions as expressed in his Atlanta speech. Senator TlllnSan1 wjihied the people of the State against compulsory education; skying* that It would prepare' thV negroes' for' the ballot and might in time" re sult In their controlling Sections in South Carolina. He told how he blocked the Sen ate in the Crura matter and'said* that nothing plea:.ed him" better than getting money from the PepfrbHctrns for making two-hour' lectures, In wh^ch he would tell them' they " were fools and idiots. He slapped The News and Courier and_tho S?o,te. He said that Deacon HeflSpb"]!! was ad vocating the organization'of-a* com mercial party, which Ib n'ot?jng-BhQ>'t of'^Republican. He 'theh~'spoS;e:'.if:' the^ days of *76. His speech \n full on,this subject is printed*efeeWh&e? Read it. 5 Senator Tillman was gfceir^^ovaS tioix when Introduced, and through out'his speech there was consider able appaluse.- The audience" was ] with hhrf from start to finish"/and1 every- utterWce,x especially ' when sarcasm*was0used 'or when an' attack^ was made, brought forth5 yells" upon" yells. He spoke for nearly two! hours. ! When Senator Tillman concluded-) a picnic dinner was served in the1 grove to the Immense crowd.. The day passed off' pleasantly-.' ' Good weather prevailed and1 fe*"* arrests resulted. There were no apprecia- j ble delays in carrying out the pro-I gram of events and' the first* Red Shirt Reunion has gone into 'history I as a grand success. Fatal Explosion. George W. Drinkwater, of Jersey, City, second engineer, was instantly killed and three other men were fatally injured Wednesday by the explosion of a feed pipe on the tug boat Bee, in the East river. Peter Barlin and John Jacobs, firemen, and Albert Cardell, the cook, were scald ed by escaping steam and were un conscious when dragged from the engine room by the crew. Fatal Explosion at Bevard: A chemical fire engine; at Brevard, thirty miles from Asheville, N. C. exploded Wednesday, killing J. P. Aiken, a negr'?;'' and injuring' four firemen, Including Fire Chief J. A. Galloway, J. W. Chapman, president of/the Electric Light Com'panyT of: Vrevard, and C. B. Wilson. J TIMES A WEEK. THE DRASTIC LAW TO HAVE LIQUOR 19 ALSO INHIB ITED BY ITS TERMS, In Non-dispensary Counties the Pos session of Intoxicants in Any Quantity Said to be Unlawful. May a man (or woman) living in a South Carolina county which is without dispensaries have in posses sion a gallon, pint, or.gill of whis key or other intoxicants without vio lating the provisions of the criminal code and subjecting himself (or her self) to a fine and imprisonment or boiQ?the penalty for a second of ?fense being 'imprisonment without alternative? jj The State says good lawyers and perhaps judges are answering the question "no," but it is only during the last few days that the people seem to be awakening to this dras tic construction of the law. There are those who hold, that the Lexing ton or Sumter or Bamberg lady who has "in possession" a quart of cook ing, sherry is no less amenable to prosecution and punishment than is a "blind tiger." In other words, the former dis pensary acts were aimed at the man ufacture and sale of intoxicants and not at having them in possession. The act passed at the last session of the general assembly and approv ed March 2, 1909, after declaring alcoholic liquors "which if drunk to excess will produce intoxication" to be ''against the morals, good health and safety of the State" proceeds to say "That it shall be unlawful for any persons, firm, corporation of as sociation within this State to manu facture, sell, barter, exchange, re ceive, give away to induce trade, de liver, store, keep in possession in this State, furnish at public places or otherwise dispose of any malt, vi nous, fermented, brewed or other liquors and beverages, or any com pound or mixture thereof which con tains' alcohol and is used aa a bev erage, and which if drunk to excess will produce intoxication, except as hereinafter provided." In the act it does not appear to be thereinafter "provided" that any person may "keep in possession in this State" one drop of any alcoholic liquor of a ailure to "make druifc come" when mu?!<ed to exces*. ex cept in counties having dispensaries. The penalty for violation of the act contained in section 11 and de claring violation a misdemeanor is a fine of from $100 to $500 or im prisonment at hard labor of from three to 12 months and for any sec ond or subsequent offense, upon con viction, imprisonment of from one to five years at hard labor without any alternative fine. ! .At a picnic in" Zarline in Anders .son county a few days ago Messrs. J. It Blakei of Greenwood and Leg islator" josh' Ashley among others were speakers. j The ,story^ g?fs that Mr.' Aehley ^spokel with his accustomed fiery elo quence and pith for .prohibition, and Blake later/ uttered sentiments somewhat to the contrary. Mr. Blake ?then'read froaTthe act already quot ed, Mr. Ashley, in his gentle way, ?questioned the accuracy of the in hibitions as contained in the print Tend by Mr. BTa'ke. . "Do you''keep in possession within .this State' any intoxicating liquors?" ? inquired Mr. Black of the Honea Path delegation. . The Honea Path delegation, it is said/ admitted that the jug might not be_wholly dry, whereupon Mr.' Black read" again the stern, inexor able"'"condemn the law. n Whether'or not the Law and Or der League'In' the" dry counties will: see'to'it'that all the kitchen closets enalf be seatcned by constables for cooking sherry and brandied peaches remains to be'seen?or it may be ithat -astute lawyers will prove that to "keep in possession' any intoxi-' eating-liquors , "within this State" is not -the'law'as it is written. 1 Had" they'"tor keep in' possession" provision-of the act been discussed "before' the elections, how would' it have affected the voting? Was the law understood by the voters? Was it understood-that to give away or "to receive" a toddy in a dry county would be a misdemeanor? SMASHES' ALL RECORDS. Paulhan Files Further and Longer 1 Than Wright, Another sensational exploit was added to the marvels of aviation week' at RhemlB Wednesday when Paulhan, the plucky French aviator, broke the world's record in a won derful flight of two hours, fifty-three minues and twenty-four seconds. During twenty minues of the time Paulhan had a heavy rain and wind storm to contend against. The pervious official record for time in the air was made by Wilbur Wright at Le Mans, December 31, two hours, twenty minues, twenty three and one-fifth seconds. Paulban's new record for distance was about 134 kilometres, or eighty three miles. He made thirteen cir cuits of the course . As he was com ing down the home" stretch for the last time the dirigible, Col. Renard, appeared to the westward, ploughing it's way' majestically through the smoke of the city of Rhemis. OBAJTGBBTJKG. S. DUTY WELL DONE Senator Tillman to the Red Shirt Survivors. STORMY TIMES Recalled as the Stirring Days of Redemption Are Passed in Re view?What the Older People Did to Redeem South Carolina in the Hampton Campaign. Several thousand people heard and frequently heartily cheered Senator Tillman in his address at Anderson on Wednesday before the convention of the survivors of what is known as the Red Shirt organization, which supported Gen. Hampton in the dangerous undertaking of redeeming the State of South Carolina from Re publican rule and Reconstruction in 1876. Senator Tillman was particu larly interesting /in his .remarks touching that memorable period in the State's history, and what he had to say was listened to with the clos est attention. He appeared to carry vivid pictures in his mind of that time, when he was young and im pressionable. What he had to say is also of interest from the view point of his own political history and personal character. He spoke for the most part in the high pitched voice so characteristic of him when speaking on a topic near to his feel ings. He said: There has been more or less dis cussion in the papers of the State recently about the origin of the red shirts as the Democratic uniform in 1876. I shall leave it to others to sift the evidence and determine if it can be done, just where the credit lies. I want to tell what I know1 about the bloody shirt" and Its ef-> fectlve use in that memorable cris is. In my story of the Hamburg, riot I have mentioned the drumhead court martial which condemned and executed prisoners after the fighting or firing had ceased. The last man'selected to be shot wa9 a notorious thief by the name of Pomp Curry whom I had known from boyhood. He had furnished the names of all whom he recognized to District Attorney Stone and this evidence caused warrants to be is sued against practically all the mem bers of the Sweetwater Sabre club and a few others who were not mem bers. We were charged with murder and conspiracy to murder, and the sheriff of Alken county was ordered to make the arrests. Like a wise and prudent man he did not attempt to execute the warrants, but com^ munlcated with Col. Butler, our cap tain," and1 by common1 understanding all of the" men' thus charged' assem bled at Lower Cherokee pond, a place near Col. Butler's home, and, started for Alken. The procession was led by the sheriff in a buggy, followed by the so-called prisoners, armed to the teeth, and accompanied by bag gage wagons with supplies-for hors es and men, cooks and a full camp ing outfit except tents. Rev. Wil liam Shaw who owned a plantation" two miles west of Aiken, the dwel ling ho^se on which was occupied, had. kindly offered It for our use. We reached this place some'time be fore sundown, took up 'our quarters for the night. Court was 'to con vene two days later and we' we're thus early on the ground in order to give the lawyers who had our case in hand opportunity to draw' up the papers and prepare for obtain ing bail if we were to be allowed to return home. Gen. Butler, who was under indictment, Hon. George' W.' Croft, Hon. D. S. Henderson of the A'ikeh"D?r'and'1 Ma*j. WilrianV'Tf Gray' were acting as our attorneys. Among those whose interest had induced them to accompany us was my trot her, Hon. George D. Till man, who hid been nominated as a candidate in our congressional dis trict. He had been In correspon dence with Gen.-, afterwards>Senato'r J. Z. George, of Mississippi, the man whose constructive statesmanship in' devising means to safe-guard South ern civilization by the elimination of the negro vote will cause his name to shine for all time as a great con stitutional lawyer and benefactor1 of the South. It was under him that Mississippi (led oft .in /disfranchis ing the nogro and practically every Southern State has followed suit. Mississippi had thrown off the car pet-bag yoke two years before that and Gen. George advised my- brother to have the South Carolinians im press the negroes both as to our strength and the purpose of the whites by using a spectacular uni form and urged the parade of long processions of armed white men through the country. The Hamburg riot had caused such a furore throughout the North and the Republican press of that section was waving the bloody shirt with such frantic energy that Mr. 'Ttillman ^suggested ,'to Col. Butler that we, though then assembled as prisoners, should wave the bloody shirt in reality as a token of defiance. The idea was seized upon by all of us and Luther Ransom and myself were' appointed' a committee to visit Aiken, confer with the Democratic authorities,'' and see if we could in-, 'j duce them to' help us in securing shirts to be donned as uniforms. C. SATURDAY. ACGtlS TRAGIC DEATH OF A SOUTH' CAROLINIAN IN PAN AMA ON WEDNESDAY. Deceased Was a Native of Winns bor.-> But His Mother and Sisters Live in Columbia. As told in the press dispatches Thursday, Mr. William M. Chandler of South 'qarolina, editor of 'the Panama Press, met with a tragic death- in Panama Wednesday. He was killed by Gen. H. 0. Jeffries, who' figured prominently in the j Panama revolution. The dispatches say that he was killed on account of a publication which is alleged to have reflected upon a sister-in-law of Jeffries. He was knocked down and stunned by the use of the butt of a revolver, and was then kicked violently. In speaking of the tragedy The State says Mr. Chandler's mother lives in Columbia, and that his body will be carried there for interment. The following ftbouft the frnatter from the State will be read with interest: The deceased i3 a native of Winns boro, where his father was employ Jed in a hank and later moved to Augusta, Ga. His mother, Mrs. M. E. Chandler, was a Miss Boatwright of this city, and is now a resident of Shandon with her daughter, Mrs. C. P. Davis and Mrs. Walker. Mr. Davis is connected with The Evening Record. Prof. J. Fleming Brown and Mrs. P. J. Boyd of Spartanburg, uncle and aunt of the deceased, arrived in Columbia last night, and his father, D. E. Chandler of Jacksonville. Fla., and Mrs. F. B. Fleming of Augusta, Ga., are expected today. The body will'probably be brought to Columbia, arriving here.in about eight days. Mr. Chandler -went to the Philippines in 1898 as an enlist ed man and' after serving', in the army several years engaged in bus iness there and is said to have been unusually successful. In April, 1907, vhe came to Columbia on a visit and later went to Panama, where he purchased the plant of the paper of which he was editor when killed. He was but 30 years old. Cob George W. Croft, then county chirman, entered into the scheme with great zeal, and gave us an or der for the necessary yellow home spun. Having obtained this, Ran som who knew nearly all of the ladies of Aiken, accompanied me In my buggy and we distributed the bolts of cloth among the ladies, with the request that they make us forty hom?epun (shirts just as soon . as possible. As I remember, the cloth was distributed one afternoon and the next morning we drove into town from our camp and gathered up the garments, obtaining a good supply of turpentine oil and Venetian red at the same time. I had telegraphed to a friend in Augusta, Tom Henry, ?to send me without fail two negro paper masks or doughfaces and a kinky chignon. I had ordered a carpenter to make a large flag staff j,in the shape of a cross" and I got' one of the ladies to make an enor mous shirt bigger than Goliath: of Gath would have worn. This shirt was turned into a flag with the arms outstretched over the cross pieces. The' negro faces were takced to the top' back to back so as to make a gEjinnong biegro jhdad from either side and the chignon was nailed on top of these. Satan'e appeal to the fallen ang els: "Awake, arise or be forever fal len," had been emblazened in large black letters on one side and my " brother Vuggestetf'' the'^tto 'for the other side: "None but the guilty need fear." The Bhirt was' made bloody with the marks of bullet wounds in red. and when the' work' ot' making the unique banner was completed, Ran som and others making suggestions, it was surely a most ghostly object. The yellow' homespun' shirts ' had been put on and every wearer stain ed his shirt with' artificial" blood ac cording to his own "fancy. Some used poke-berries to' make the color more fiery than the Venetian red and turpentine, and vary the' tine. Everything, in readiness" about 4 o'clock the day before court was to convene the Hamburg rioters to the number of forty, uniformed as no men have ever been before' or since, rode into the town of Aiken in col umn of two's. The flag, which was in Itself not very heavy, required a very strong and muscular man to' handle it when wa tegan to gallop, and Mllledge Horn was selected as flag-bearer. He was six feet high, weighed over 200 pounds' and "was correspondingly muscular and had lost five brothers in the Confederate army, a sure guarantee of his cour age and daring. As soon as we reached Aiken we rode quietly by every house where I the ladies had been at work on our I shirts so as to let them see us. Then stringing out in column of file, mak | ing a line nearly a quarter of a mile long, the order was given to gallop, I and for half an hour at break-neck !speed we paraded through every street. It being dry we soon kicked up a great cuold of dust while all the men in the town, as well as the women and children, lined the spaces in front of their, houses and' waved (Continued on page" ?.) Of All tha Railways That Is Within Her Borders. THEIR ASSESSMENT The Compilation of Railroad Values in South Carolina Shows That the Aggregate of All Such Property is Nearly Forty-two Million Dollars, Being an Increase. The compilation of railroad assess ments for the present year made re cently by the State board of rail road assessors, shows that the aggre gate railroad property in South Caro lina is $41,952,520, as compared with $42,S82,332 for the year 1908, an increase in valuation of $70,188. The report just compiled shows the following facts as to the railroads of this State: Total value $41,952,520; total val ue of tracks $40,630,838; miles of track 3,200,811; value of depots. $582,044; value of wood and water stations $108,912; machine shops $30,200; value of stationery engines, $900; value of tools and machinery $62,169; value of buildings $262, 101; value of lots $150.530; value of lands $124,826. Total value all items, save trackage, $1,321,682. Southern Railway. The Southern Railway is assessed at $19,821,956, divided among the following roads: Atlantic aud Charlotte . $ 4,037,173 Ashevilie and Spartan bdrg. 444!625 Blue Ridge .. ........ 238.997 Carolina and CUm'ber land. 91,960 Carolina Midland .. ,. 1,945,064 Carolina Midland (Selv ern) . . ..... ... . .. 17.150 Charlotte, C?lunibia'and Augusta .. .. .... 1,089,819 Charlotte, Columbia and . . Augusta .. ....... 1,889,819 Columbia'and' Greenville 2,079,130 Columbia and Greenville (Abbeville). 70,539 Lockhart .. .. .... .. 30,275 Sievern and Knoxville.. 32,072 South Carolina and Geor gia .. .. ....._ 4,658,155 South Carolina and Geor gia . 895,818 South Carolina and Geor gia. ... 393,030 Spartanburg, Union and Columbia. 979,119 Siiinter and Wateree .. 122,945 Total Southern .. ..$19,821,956 The Atlantic Coast Line. The Atlantic Cjoast Line is as sessed $15,739,170 as follows: Ashley River Comp?ny. $ 78,871 Central. 524,958 Charleston and Savannah 1,947,865 Sea'Island.. ......... 48,553 Charleston ahd'Savannah (spur) .. .... .... 8,125 Charleston and Western . Carolina. 910,055 Charleston and Western Carolina. 1,594,925 Cheraw and Darlington. 449,357 Gibpon'. 470,844 Salisbury. 71,963 Florence . 645,056 Latta. 162\673 Green Pond and Watter boro. 159,774 HaTt&ville. 4 4,786 Manchester and Augusta 1,618,902 Darlington branch .. .. 366,592 Lucknow branch. 64,922 Pregnall branch. 33 4,514 Northeastern. 3,051,791 Pacific. 140,370 Walterboro'and Western' 91,614 Wilmington and'- Augusta 2,382,212 Wilmin'gtbn'andr Augusta 315V607 Con way" branch ..... 2t)5:,p48 M: and''Augusta. 49,793 Total, A. C. L..$15,738,170 Seaboard Air Line. The Seaboard assessments were as follows: Chesterfield and Kerfihaw.$ 663,13 2 Florence, Central and Pe ninsular . 1,230,254 Georgia-Carolina. 1.862,545 Palmetto. 13 9,269 Southbound extension .. 453,S14 Catawba Valley. 54,125 Total Seaboard.$4,403,139 Independent Lines. The Independent lines assessments are as follows: AIcolu.$ 46,350 Augu6ta and Aiken .. .. 127,658 Bennettsville and Aiken. . 58.250 Rfanchville and Bowman 13,360 Carolina & Northwestern 194,925 Charlotte, Monroe and Co lumbia . 36,950 Charleston Terminal Com pany . G?.Gf.O Chesterfield & Lancaster. 54,850 Chesterfield & Lancaster. 36,000 Columbia, Newberry and Laurens. 468,000 Central Railway of S. C.. 8,800 Carolina and Western .. . 12,000 Coriway Coast and Wes tern . 46,090 Due West Railway Co... 4,500 Georgetown and Western. 202,150 Glenn Springs Railway Co 15,075 Greenville Traction Co... 66,968 Hampton and Rranchville 29,200 Lancaster and Chester .. 103,200 Marvin and Southern'Ry 6,125 N. "and* Sr Carolina"_ 200,970 PATHETIC INCIDENT A LITTLE GRASb COVERED GRAVE IN A CEMETERY. Reveals One of Those Mysterious Life Tragedies That We Read of in the Novels. Away off in a neglected lot in the Fort Mill cemetery is a little grave, barely three feet in length. The lot and gave are overgrown with grass and weeds and neither bears evi dence of having received kindly at tention for years. Indeed, t is prob able that of the many who have vis-, ited the cemetery in. recent years ndt more than a score have seen the little grave. At its head is a small, wooden slab, now all bnt rotted away, the only token of a child that' same into the wrold many years ago to brighten and bless for a brief season the home of its parents. Then the little one, stricken with a malignant fever and unable to withstand the emaciating ravages of the disease, passed out into the great /beyond, leaving behind a sorrow stricken home. Shortly after the death of the child the parents, com parative strangers moved away, and not until a few days ago had anything been heard of them im this community; so far as the peo ple here knew they had gone the way of the child. Few remembered that the family ever lived here and they were as seldom thought of as th child's grave was seen. But the grave was not forgotten?by one. It is the last resting place of a child whose memory is loved as devotedly by its father.as it was on that far' day, 20-odd years ago, when the lit tle one was taken. < Late one afternoon some weeks ago I was standing in the shade of a tree on the lawn in front of' the'; Presbyterian church, watching a1 number of little" boys playing ball.'1' My attentlon'was'diverted'from'their1 play by the approach of a" buggy, whose occupant drove up to with'ih'', a few feet of where I was "standing and hitched the horse. The 'man's face did not seem to. be that of a stranger?I thought I had seen him' before?and as is the custom Of South Carolinians, I said goo'd-e've ning. The man returned the'civility and presently we were in" conver sation, I doing most of the talk ing at first, for it was'evident the' man was none too glad again to meet with one he had known here' nuny years before. This discovery was enough to arouse my c?riosi ty and to impel me to continue1 the conversation. After we had talked for a few minutes the man, noticing that' f" had observed a small bunch of flow ers which he carried, appar?en?y front a sudden impulse began to tell me of his life since he resided here and of the purpose which, brought him back?not, however, before el preBsing the hope that I would not mention his name to any one in con nection with his visit. , "Perhaps you will recall,", said he,' "that I, with, my wife and childj teBided in Fort Mill some, years ago. "After the death here of our child, my wife and I decided to make our home in another section of the coun try. Less than a year had passed after we left here when I went hofn'e' one night to find that my wife was missing. Of course I was terribly distressed over hre disappearance and at once began a search for her which has not ended to.-this day, but my efforts have gone for naught, for I have not been able to find the least trace of her. "Why she leftt I have . never known., We had had no differences to which I could attribute her Teas-, son for going away. The mystery which surrounded her disappearance, together with the irreparable loss we had so recently sustained in the. death ol our only child, all but. over came me. I determined to Jeave the town in which we were living at once and have since been as. 'a rudderless ship on a shoreless sea,' never stay ing in one place longer than a fe*r months. No one could know' the sorrow her disappearance' has caus ed me. Now I am old and almost worn out, but I have come back to this place once more to visit the grave of my child. Through all the years that have passed since my home was broken up I have'had ray face and heart turned ' full to' the imperial glory of the Master's throne and some day I shall'find that for which I have so long looked in 'vain on this earth." W.' R. B. Pirada Railroad Company 24,000 Pickens. 5.00J Raleigh and Charleston . 14,070 Salem Railroad Company 43,864 Union and Glenn Springs 8,400 Union Station Company. 60,000 Ware Shoals. 5,000 Total.$1.989.255 The aggregates are as- follows: Southern.$19,821,956 Atlantic Coast Line . . . 15.738.170 Seaboard. 4.403,13 9 Other lines. 1,989,255 Grand total.$41,952,520 In 1908 the report of the. Comp troller General shows that the'Southr ern's assessment was ,$19,820,815; Coast Line,' $15,751,938; TSeabQard, $4/403,189; other'liries, $i,'94<j;64?. L.r'M/G. O CENtS PER COPY SHOT HIM DEAD A Family Row Causes Kilting at Johnson, S. C. ? PnYSICl?tfSL?Ifl Dr. Titwell Killed by His Brother in-Law, Mr. May?Mrs. Titwell Had Left Her Home and Gone to May's Home, Where She was Fol lowed by Her Husband. Dr. Charles Titwell was shot and ? fatally wounded by his brother-in law, Mr. Yaocey M. May, at Jobrh stdn Thursday morning about '9/ o'clook. The weapon used was a' shotgun. Dr. Titwell received two wounds, one a little to the left of the backbone on the left side, and the other in the shoulder. He lived about thirty minutes after he was shot, and it is said that he mad? an ante-mortem statement to Dr. B". L. A^en, but what it was has not been disclosed. From the testimony taken at the inquest it appears that the deceased and his wife had had some trouble Wednesday, during which he chas tised her. It was alleged that she left and went to the home of her brother-in-law, and that her hus band went there and endeavored 'to get her to return home, which she refused to do. It is stated that during h's stay Mr, May and the doctor got in to' an ' altercation, during which time Mrs.' Titwell left and went to a neigh^ bor's house. The deceased tBen'' came back into the street, and'w?s going in pursuit of his wife, when"iv Mr. May appeared on the scene with a..shotgun, the contents''of which^h*e emptied int? the body of Dr. Tit well." The shooting occurred some dis tance from'the house'of Mr. May^ andas yet fit"is'notrkh?^n' what 'the" deceased was doing, at the time he received his mortal wounds. ', Titwell is from' NeWerry county; and' has only lived In' Johnston n ?hbrt while.' May is one" of John ston's best' citizens,'and'clarms ;t?at ithe ki'ilirg' was entirely justifiabfe. and unavoidable. Mr. May has'sur rendered to the sheriff, and wiil'ap^ ply for : bail at once before Judge. Oevore here. I , Titwell's' remains were sent tpjjfV-? home in' Newblrryf. The said affair - 5s deeply deplored by all. ' SdME??brs BLtJNDER/ Came' Near Causing Tragedy at Elks' Institution. ' At Albany, Ga., during'an -Initia tion in the' Elks* Lodge"Wednesday night, Cleve Cox, a' prominent? yb'ting"* Elk, who was helping; cbh'd?c't-il?r initiation, was 1 shot? through ' th&' fleshy part of the "leg with^a'^-ca^ bre ball/ frottf a' cartridge that' waes 'thought" to'be* blanhv The"floor of'the'lbdge room ' shows'^ the1 mark's of several ballets''"'ffrjep during the initiation. An 'investi gation after - the "accident" revealed^ the'fact' that "in so'me 'un'accbuntahVe manner' some"cartridges of tn'e'kfn<T used In" shooting'''galleries had'1 ofi-' come mixed 'with 'the blank cartridg es 'used in' initiations. , . Three doctors were hurrid'eiy'siim-. mo'nerf -to' the':lodge robm's to attejdd' the' injury to MrJ Cox.' Thejsh?oti^gA gallery cartridges res^onsibje| for tbej. accident "looked so*" much litte' hYans:' cartridges thaTthe', dWerpnce\.could scarcely1- be dlstrtguif-je^L' T^e'"ac^i cldenf c'au6ed"much. excitem ent'in the 'lodge room1 and" pint an end to1 the' initiation exercises.' TR?MP WAS KILLED. Young Lad Slays Man Whom' tie Found 'in Hie Kitchen. At Bever Dam, near Ashevillej Nf. C, an unknown 'tramp' was shot 'and' f i Jioi ' * f ?' "lit? killed"by P.en Morris, aged' 17, late Wednesday afternoon. All the mem bers of the Morris family were awi?'y from home except young Ben, and when-he returned to the house, af ter a temporary absence; he found the tramp' in the kitchen. The 'in truder warned him to ke"ep 'out; and' threw diehe?, through the 'window,' and then, held the door against "him. Young Morris went' around to\tae front door and seizing' a snotguh, went to look for the tramp. The trarapmet him 'flourishing ? "razor, young Morris says, arid grappled' with him. After s'cufflliiig a while' Morris; managed to break away far enough to fire the gun. The charge hit the intruder in the face, and ne died almost immediately. Convicts Escape. At the State farm at GoOdJand, Va., Wednesday, Guard A. H. Pamp lin was attacker by Patrick Hyatt and Charles Goode, while convicts, who took his gun away.from him^nd made their escape, taking with tbetO ' the two bloodhounds to prevent 1h? prision authorities from- using the animals on their, trail. ? Tbe'conviei? experienced. little difficulty in Over* , powering the guard. No trace ~hm?' been found of the fleeing convicts.