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PUBLISHED THREE COOK REPLIES. Talks of Peary's Charges and Declares that His Records WILL PROVE fflS CLAIM On Board the Steamer Which is Bringing Him Home the Brooklyn Explorer Talks Freely About Peary's Denial of His Claim and the Looting of His Stores. "Tell the people of America to have the fullest confidence in my conquest of the pole. I have records of observations made by me which will prove my claims. I shall be glad again to set my foot on Amer ican soil." This was the brief wireless mes sage Dr. Frederick A. Cook Friday asked the Associated Press to give ?.to his countrymen as he nears home on the steamer Oscar II, due to ar rive at New York today. Dr. Cook discussed freely with the Associated Press correspondent the Assertions of Commander Peary that he (Cook) had never reached the North Pole. When he departed for the North, Dr. Cook said he left a depot of pro visions at Annatok, north of Etah, in charge of Rudolph Francke and several Eskimos. Francke had in structions to go South aboard a ? whaler and return later. This he did, but missed the returning ves sel, owing to a slight illness. He was then taken aboard Peary's ship, the Roosevelt, and proceeded North. "Commander Peary found my sup ply depot at Annatok," Dr. Cook con tinued, "and the Eskimos in charge told him that I was dead, which they then believed to be true. "Peary placed two men in charge of the depot. Boatswain Murphy and another. Harry Whitney, the New Haven hunter, also remained there. Murphy had orders not to search for me, but was- told he could send Eskimos northward/ in the spring for relief work. "When I returned from the pole unexpectedly Harry Whitney was the first to see me and to tell me what had occurred. Whitney was placed in possesion of the facts concern ing my journey to the pole on the condition that he would not inform Commander Peary or his men of them. At the same time, the Eski mos who had accompanied me north were told to maintain the strictest silence. "When I went into the depot there was a dispute between myself and Murphy, who delivered to me writ ten instructions he had received from Peary, although he could neither read nor write. These instructions show ed that he was making a trading sta? tion of my depot, i'ie contents of which bad been used in trading for furs and skins. "On one occasion Murphy asked t me abruptly, "have you been beyond 87?" But I was determined not to let Peary know of my movements and replied evasively that I had been much farther North. From this statement has been concocted the declaration that I had said I had not reached the pole." Dr. Cook declared that (neither Harry Whitney nor his (Cook's), records are on board the steamer Roosevelt, and that, therefore, Pea ry's information concerning him emanated from Boatswain Murphy, who knew nothing of his movements. Dr. Cook said also that he had made arrangements for two Eskimos, who went with him to the pole, and Knud Rasmussen, whom he met in Greenland, to go to New York and confirm the story of his discovery. Dr. Cook is thoroughly enjoying his rest aboard ship, after the stren uous days at Copenhagen. He spends a long time daily in writing and in conversation with the American pas sengers, who all have been formally presented to him by Benjamin True blood, president of the American Peace Society, of Boston. All the passengers are impressed by the sincerity of Dr. Cook as in dicated by his conversation with them in regard to his discovery of the pole. He said that he is now pre prepared to lay these proofs before a competent body of America. In a lecture in the saloon of the steamer Pr. Cook, with the aid of a map drawn by an engineer, gave an outline of his route to the pole. "The journey was nothing really wonderful." he said. "T used no devices or inventions. I had. how ever, every necessary instrument, but kept these to pure necessities. "The reason for my success is that I returned to the primitive life? in fact became a savage, sacrificed all comforts (to tthe race for tho pole." The long winter night was utilized by Dr. Cook in writing. He used a primitive stone writing desk and lay prone while at work with his manuscript. Meanwhile the Eskimos sewed and sang. The temperature in the snow hut was rarely above the freezing point. Rolar bears abounded, making exits from the hut dangerous. ? TIMES A WBiCJEv. DISPUTE TAKES NEW TURN PEARY'S CABIN BOY MAKES IN TERESTING ADMISSION. Confronted with & Wireless Message Confesses Dr. Cook Told Him Ho Had Reached the Pole. A dispatch from Battle Harbor, Labrador, says one of the men on the steamer Roosevelt at least knew long ago that Dr. Frederick A. Cook had claimed to have reached the pole. He is Wm. Pritchard, cabin boy and "assistant cook on the Roosevelt, who remained at Annatook with Boat swain Murphy to guard the stores. Pritchard had not spoken to anyone on board of Dr, Cook's acnievement, but when confronted a few days ago, just prior to the sailing of the Roose velt from Battle Harbor, with a wireless message from midocean that Dr. Cook said that Pritchard knew the whole story of his dash for the pole, the youth admitted that he had learned from Dr. Cook the details of the final march, and that Dr. Cook had explained to him the route followed. Whether Boatswain Murphy also was Informed of Dr. Cook's success, Pritchard did not know, but unques tionably Harry Whitney, who was at the store house when Dr. Cook returned from his dash with the two Eskimos, is conversant with all the facts. Whitney did not disclose this interesting piece of news to Com mander Peary, and Pritchard kept it from Peary during the entire voy age of the Roosevelt to Battle Har bor. Pritchard said that he was at the house as Annatook with Whitney and Cook, while Murphy was at Etah. He heard Dr. Cook describe to the New Haven sportsman how he went to the pole and remained there two days. He could not remember wheth er Dr. Cook said he remained there April 21 and 22, or whether it was April 22 and 23. Dr. Cook used a map to illustrate the route fol lowed. Asked why he had not repeated this on board the Roosevelt. Pritch ard said that Dr. Cook had told him to say nothing about his having been at the pole until the Roosevelt reach ed civilization. * 29 LIVES LOST AT SEA. Graphic Story of Margie Disaster Reaches Mobile. A graphic story of a marine dis aster, which cost the lives of 29 persons, when the steamer Nicholas Castania, en route from Havana to Cienfuegos, foundered off the coast of the Isle of Pines on the night of August 23, last, reached Mobile a few days ago. Meagre news of the disaster was given by the Associated Press August 31. The crew numbered twenty-seven officers and sailors. Eighteen human bodies have been recovered. The missing eleven are believed to have become the victims of sharks. All the bodies recovered were in a ter rible decomposed state and identifi cation was impossible. A government commission, after examination, .reported that the im mediate cause of the wreck was the simultaneous explosion of "the steam er's battery of boilers, combined with a violent concusion of the steamer on the rocks, whither she had been thrown by the gale and tidal wave. The crew and passenger list of the Nicholas Castania shows no names of women, but among the per sonal effects which showed the wear and tear of use were a number of feminine articles of wearing apparel and children's shoes. * ? Eaten by Wild Animals. William Johns, an American nat uralist, and R. Gentruch, a Swede, are believed to have been attacked and devoured by wild animals in Costa Rica, according to a cable gram just received. Soon after the two men. who were exploring the island disappeared, a search was made for them and the hat and ri fle of one of them was found near newly made tracks of wild ani mals. ? Killed by Carelessness. Berry Williams, the 17-year-old son of Mrs. Mary Williams of Town ville, Anderson county, met a tragi" death Saturda;. when a gun he was placing against a stump was acci dentally discharged. Th" load of shot entered his side and death fol lowed 4 0 minutes later. Williams had been hunting and had stopped to converse with a friend when the accident occurred. Poured Out Liquor. At Birmingham. Ala., the first de struction of liquors under the new Fuller bill was made late Saturday afternoon by the shriff, under or ders of Judge W. E. Fort. A total of 250 quarts of whiskey and eight casks of beer was poured into the sanitary sewer. Comet Was Seen. For the first time in 78 years Halley's comet has been observed with the naked eye. The observa tion was made by Professor S. W. Burnham of Yerkes observatory, at Lake Geneva, Wednesday and Thurs day night. ?, OBA2TGEBUB6. S. HAS NOT PAD) FEE THIRTY CORPORATIONS SAID TO BE DELINQUENT. These Concerns Are Reported as Doe the State Half Million Dol lars Penalty. Comptroller General Jones Friday reported to pay their corporation license tax of h alf a mill on the capital paid in. A special act of the legislature provides a penalty of $500 and $100 a day for each iey of failure. The tax was due the first of April, making the bunch of 30 due the State in penalties half a million dollars in round figures. Of course, says the Columbia Record, there is no likelihood of the State collecting even a small amount of these penalties, for in practically all of the delinquencies the capital paid in is extremely small, and in many cases the companies have long since gone out of business, although the law makes no allow ance for this unless dissolution no tice is served on the secretary of state. Mr. Jones said a few days ago that he would recommend a change ' in the law by the legislature next spring so as to make the penalties reasnoable and provide for their col lection by execution through the sheriffs. Mr. Jones' letter follows: Dear Sir: By virture of an act j "To require the payment of annual license fees in this State and re ports to the comptroller general," I beg to advise you that the follow ing domestic corporations have neith er made their annual Corporation license reports, nor paid the annual license fee, as directed by section II of said act: Bishopville Oil Mill, Bishopville. Artificial Stone and Supply Com pany, North Augusta, S. C. Anderson Stone and Supply Com pany, Anderson. Townville Mercantile Company. Townville. Williamston Grocery Company, Williamston. Hoffman & Walker, Allendale. Bear Furniture Company, Charles ton. . Citizens' Elec' !c Company, Char leston. ? Goldsmith Manufacturing Compa ny, Charleston. Heriot Wall Paper Company, Charleston. Frank M. Petit Amusement Com pany, Charleston. Wallace-Mallony Agricultural Com pany, Charleston. Young Farmers' Union, John's Island. Chester Wholesale Grocery Com pany, Chester. Florence Infirmary, Florence. Loyall, McConnell Company, Georgetown. Parnell's Furniture Company, Georgetown. Greenville Realty and Trust Com pany, Greenville. Greenwood Granite and Construc tion Company, Greenwood. Rivers, Folk & Hughes Company, Brunson. The Cooler Company, Conway. Acme Grocery Company, Bishop ville. Bishopville Coca Cola Bottling Company, Bishopville. Richardson Lumber Company, Seneca. Colored Investment Company Or angeburg. W. P. Dukes &i Son, Rowesville. City Security and Loan Company, Columbia. "The following have made their annual corporation license lleport, but have not paid the annual li cense fee: Sumter Nursery Companv, Sumter, $5. Cross Hill Oil Mill,' Cross Hill, $5.50. C. L. Pace & Bro.. Britton's Neck, $5. "You are therefore requested to institute proceedings to recover such penalty and annual fee or fees as may be recovered by an action in the name of the State. Yours very truly, "A. W. Jones, "Comptroller General." * A Cotton Picking. Woodford. Sept. I'D.?-On Septem-' her 14, Mr. .1. W. Rowell had a cot-1 ton picking contest, in which several! participated. All received 50 cents! per hundred for what cotton they ? I picked and a premium of one dollar for the one picking the most. Pensler Strickland won the race over John Still by only 2 pounds. Three highest pickers were: Pensler! Strickland. 423; John Still, 421; Jim Strickland. 402. Mr. Rowell's little 9-year-old son I by the name of Regan, picked on the 1 same day 202 pounds of cotton, but was not In the race. J. W. R. The Deadly Auto. Harry L. Buckley, a newspaper man of Philadelphia, Pa., who was carrying a message from President Taft to Seattle in a relay automobile race, under the auspices of the Phil adelphia Press, was killed Saturday afternoon when the automobile in which he was speeding was wrecked near Lebanon, Pa. The race has been abandoned. * Cm T?ESDAY. SEPTEM a Binm fight In the Republican Party is Predicted as Result of Speech ON THE TARIFF BY TAFT At Winona, Minn., for the Control of the Congressional Elections Next Year?By Excluding Repub licans Who Oppose Tariff Bill Excommunicated Party in West. An open split in the Republican party and a bitter fight for control at "the congressional elections next November between the progressives and the old line members of the par ty, is the outcome predicted as a result of President Taft's tariff speech at Winona Friday night, says a special dispatch from Minneapolis, Minn., to the Atlanta Jourpal. This is the view taken by the Re publican press of Minneapolis and St. Paul, and politicians generally agree with it. It is a curicus fact that no one seems particularly sur prised over the presidents utteranc es, and it is equally. curious that there is little bitterness or animosi ty displayed toward himm. His reception in the Twin Cities Saturday was by ho means enthusi astic, but that is attributed more to the fact that Governor Johnson lies at the point of death than that the president has adopted a stand on the tariff question that is diamet rically opposed to the views of the majority of the people. Wherever the president went there were crowds, but his welcome was limited to hand clasping and the waving of handkerchiefs and flags, with spasmodic cheers. Practically the only demonstration that was accorded him was at the auditorium in St. Paul, where 3,000 people cheered him for several min utes, but then the president deliv ered an eloquent tribute to the strick en governor. The general opinion with rpgard to the Winona speech is that Mr. Taft went too far. It was expected that he would rally to the assistance of his friend Tawney, who is hard beset by his enemies among the low tariff representatives. That was expected of a stalwart, manly friend, and it was also expect ed that the president, having signed the Payne bill, would not stultify himself by attempting to crawl out of the position in which he had plac ed himself by his own act. But when, by inference, and broad ly at that, the president in his re marks about party solidity, read out of the party, all the Republicans who opposed the bill, the simple truth is that he excommunicated a majority of the Republicans of the middle West. * MAKE LARGE PROFITS. Fire and Life Insurance Did Well in This State. Insurance Commissioner McMaster has just finished his senii-anaual statement of receipts from insur ance companies doing business- in this State. This statement will form part of the annual report to the legislature. The statement shows that the net premium receipts from' the insur ance companies for the six month ending June 30 were $912,429.08; life insurance companies, $1.621, 125.25; miscellaneous companies, $140,652.03. The additional license fees as authorized under the recent act of the legislature show collections as follows: Fire insurance companies, $17,340.04; life, $30,051.94; mis cellaneous. $2,693.52. The first inspection tax collected only the fire insurance companies amounted to $1,833.91. * Need Not Face Vicions Dogs. A Washington dispatch says mail carriers are not required to deliver mail at residences where vicious dogs are permitted to run at large. As a protection to mail carriers the fol lowing regulation has been adopted by the postoffice department: "Car riers arc not required to deliver mail at residences where vicious dogs are permitted to run at large. Persons keeping such dogs must call at the postoffice for their mail.*' This is a sensible ruling, and no one can object to it. Will Write About Keil Shirt?. Senator Tili ma n is working up a pamphlet on the famous "Red Shirts." Senator Tillman was among the leaders of the band of brave Carolinians, who took such an im portant part in reclaiming Carolina from the carpetbaggers and black rule immediately after the war. No doubt the senator will compile an excellent work and some interesting Carolina history will be recorded in his pamphlet. ? Serious Wreck. A serious wreck occurred at 6 o'clock Saturday night on the At lantic Coast Line near Winston. Fla., when passenger train No. 89 from Jacksonville Jumped a frog, turning the engine completely over, injuring five persons. ' [BEB 21, 1909. FIXED THE JURIES SENSATIONAL CHARGES MADE IN A CHICAGO COURT. Great Excitement Caused by Bench Warrants Being Issued for Those Accused of Manipulating Panels. At Chicago bench warrants were issued Saturday by Judge JesBe A. Baldwin of the circuit court for John J. Holland, member and secre tary of the Cook county Jury com mission, Nicholas A. Martin, secre tary of Alderman Kenna of the First ward, and Willis J. Rayburn, a real estate man. The charge against the three is that they conspired to draw names of grand jurors in a manner other than that required by law. Coming in the midst of the trial of Inspector McCann for alleged grafting, the news of the action bas ed on alleged tampering wtih the ju ry lists caused great excitement in legal and political circles. In criminal court circles the ac tion was regarded as the forerunner of a wholesale exposure of alleged conspiracies which may have affected the drawing of other grand and petit juries. Because of the sensational nature of the charges against Inspector Mc Cann, who is accused of accepting "hush money" from disorderly hous es In his district, especial care was exercised, it was believed, in draw ing the grand jury which indicted him and in selecting the members of the petit jury now engaged in de ciding on his guilt of innocence. Commenting on the issuance of the warrants and the cause of the action, State Attorney Wayman said: "We propose to throw the light on the darkest hole in Cook county and clean out the jury commission ers' room, which is rotton." Under the State law the names of prospective grand jurors are se lected at random from a sealed box containing the names of 1,500 citi zens who have been examined for jury service by the jury commission ers and their fitness certified. A similar method is prescribed for petit jury lists. The three accused men are alleg ed to have substltued other names for those drawn in the regular man ner. The defense scored a victory in the McCann trial when the court overruled an attempt by State's At torney Wayman ?to .Introduce evi dence that McCann had spent large sums of money since he became in spector and that he bought a 640 acre farm in Texas last October. McCann's testimony was complet ed Saturday afternoon and court ad journed. > ? I BITTEN BY DEADLY SNAKE. I Prevented Serious Consequences by Sucking Wound. At Anderson Miss Ramelle Nichol son was bitten on the right wrist by what Is supposed to have been a highland moccasin. The snake clung to the wound; seemed to be unable to free itself, and the child was unable to shake it off. Finally she placed her foot on the tail of the reptile and literally tore the fangs from the wound in her arm. A physician was summoned and ar rived within less than half an hour. He prescribed some medicine for the bite and the next day the child went to school as usual, little the worse for her experience. The girl had gone into the garden and was pick ing beans when the snake struck her. As soon as possible she wiped the surface of the wound with her dress, sucked out the poison, and it is very probable that because of this the bite did not prove more serious. * SHARKS AND TURTLES. Passengers on Steamer Had Great Target Practice. A dispatch from New York says there is no controversy between Capt. Tarnow and the passengers of the Atlas Line steamer Siberia over who first saw a number of sleeping turtles and a school of sharks off Capt Hat teras a few days ago. The twenty passengers and the officers saw them at the same instant, according to all reports, and some crack revolver shots tried to do damage to the un exeptced visitors. Although about fifty shots were fired at both turtles ;uid shark, there is no report of any mortality. Some of the passengers are certain that a 15-foot shark that came within fifty feet of the steam er was hit. although he showed no signs of distress and easily got away from the steamer when he gave him self the jingle bell. * Forced Him to Confess. ?A -legro in Statesboro, da., ar rested by a mob, charged wtih an attempted assault upon a voting lady, was saved from lynching by his aged father pressing through th? crowd and forcing the boy to confess, after which the mob melted away and the officers took charge of the boy. * Lost Arm at Cotton Gin. Clarence D. Lee, a leading farmer and merchant at Lydia, Darlington county, lost an arm by getting it into a cotton gin Friday. At last reports Mr. Lee was resting as easy as could be expected. * CHARGED WITH MURDER MYSTERY OP MRS. BJGHAM'S DEATH TO BE CLEARED UP. Prominent Witnesses to Contradict Version of Tragedy Green Out by Her Husband's Companion. Strangely mysterious is the alleg ed accidental killing a few days ago at Murrell's inlet, in Georgetown county, of Mrs. Ruth Crisp Bigham, wife of Dr. G. C. Bignam, of Florence county, by W. B. Avant, near Mr. Avant's home. There is the intens est sort of interest in the case throu out the State, and the trial at George town, both men having been indict ed for murder, promises to develop some highly sensational testimony. Mrs. Bingham was shot and almost instanly killed about dark, near the Avant home. The two men claim that they saw a figure making its way through the dark, and that they followed, and after calling to it without getting an answer, Mr. Avant fired at Dr. Bigham's suggestion. Mrs. Bigham died without regaining consciousness. But three prominent men have been summoned by the State who will contradict this state ment as to che physical facts regard ing the degree of darkness at the time, etc. Florence people visiting Columbia recently say that Dr. Bigham bore a good reputation there, as did his wife, although she was not particu larly well known, having been a resi dent of that section of the State only a short while. She graduated from Chicora College, in Greenville, in 1907, and after teaching a year met and married Dr. Bigham at her old home in Mountville, Laurens county, where Dr. Bigham was practicing at the time. Mrs. Bigham was back at home visiting only a few weeks ago, ac cording to Laurens county people, coming to Columbia this past week. As Miss Crisp, she was very popular, and she comes from one of the best families in that section. She was a daughter of Matthew B. Crisp. Laurens people do not hesitate to say they do not believe the account of the killing given out by Mr. Avant. In the investigation at Mountville and Waterloo, it is understood on good authority, facts were brought to light that will tend to show un happy martial relations. This is bas ed on the fact that Mrs; Bigham, when at her old home some few weeks ago on a visit and receiving letters and telegrams from her hus band to return home at once, ex pressed reluctance at the idea of go ing and even wept when she, pres sed with the letters and telegrams, realized that she must return to her hsuband. Upon investigation this correspon dent finds that Dr. Brigham was not well thought of at Mountville by a great many people. He resided there for a short time while practic ing hie profession. The story o* the killing as related by Bigham and Avant is not generally accepted at Mountville nor Laurens. People who know Mrs. Bigham best declare that she was very timid and espec ially of the dark; that she would not venture out of the house after night fall. No one seems to believe that any act of hers justified the kill ing. * Want Whites to Leave. Placarding the neighborhood with warnings that unless the three white men who last week located in the strictly negro town of Taft, Okla., left town immediately, death would be their punishment, negroes Fri day night dynamited the store of one of the whites. The white mer chants declare that they will remain. Further trouble is expected. ? Fatally Injured. At Toledo, Ohio, Harry Kirk, a freshman in the Coshocton high school if near death with a fracture of the skull, sustained in an effort to save his hair from being clipped by sophomore hazers. In running away from the hazers Kirk fell info an open cellarway, striking the base ment floor on his head. Surgeons have removed part of his skull. * Killed by Pile Driver. The Record says the body of Ben Sims, a Columbia colored man. was brought there late Thursday night from Chapin, a station on the South ern near Columbia, with his skull horribly crushed. Sims was killed by tin- hammer of a pile driver weighing about a ton dropping on his head while he was at work at the base of the machine. ' * Bleu Open Safe. A* Macon, Ca.. yeggnien at 3:30 o'clock Saturday morning blew open a safe in the store of P. W. Smith, within a stone's throw of the city limits, and secured approximately $700 in cash, a pistol, two diamonds valued at $300. a number of notes and mortgages and other valuable documents. * Negro Lyncljed. Two unknown negroes were killed by posses in the man hunt near Sandy Point. Texas, Friday. The ne gro, Steve Haynes, slayer of Armour Munson, is surrounded in the low lands, and capture or death is cer tain. ? 0 0 CENTS PEB COPY A RLTHYPR1S0N Awful Condition m the State Peneientiary at Allegheny, Pa, mmwmmmm/ VERMIN INFESTS CELLS More Than Three Hundred Prisoners Are Suffering From Tuberculosis and More Than Seventy-nine Cells Are Now Occipied by Prisoners Showing Advanced Statges. Conditions at the western peniten tiary of Pennsylvania at Allegheny have been found so distressing and so intolerable as to require the im mediate removal of all Federal pris oners whose transfer is practicable and to demand the most serious con sideration of the proper public authorities. This is disclosed in the report of C. H. McGlasson, of the department of prison and prison ers, to the attorney general. At the direction of the attorney general, Wade Ellis, acting head of .the Department of Justice, made known the result of the investiga tion which Mr. McGlasson conduct ed following the reports published by the newspapers several weeks ago, criticising the condition at the penitentiary. "The population on the 1st of this month was 1,301," says Mr. Ellis in bis statement. "Of this number more than h"1' are at all times idle, and more than half are confined two in a cell. The cells are unusually small and the cots take almost the entire length of each, the room for mov ing about being a' space eight feet long and eighteen inches wide. There are more than three hundred prisoners suffering from tuberculosis, and seventy-nine cells are now oc cupied by those showing advanced stages of this disease. The prison is filled with vermin of all kinds, although the ^officials are making an effort to eradicate them. An un usually large number of the prison ers are of the lowest possible char acter, mentally and morally, and there is but one general mess pro vided for all. Almost universal com plaint is made about the quality of the food served, especially the meats." "The attorney general does not, of course, assume that these unfortu nate conditions are known either to the Governor of Pennsylvania, or to other authorities having immedi ate control of penal institutions in that State," continued Mr. Ellis. There are twenty-one Federal'pris oners confined at the western peni tentiary ?of Pennsylvania. All of 'uese who ean be immediately trans ferred, except those whjose terms will shortly expire, will be removed at once to Atlanta or Leavenwortb. * CAUSED BY DROUGHT. There Are a Large Number of Mad Dodgs in the State. The Columbia Record says the Pasteur treatment for rabies is being administered to eight patients at the State biological laboratory. Dr. F. A. Coward, director, stated that in his opinion the unusually large number of cases or rabies this sum mer had been due to the prolonged drought. Dogs and other animals infected with the germ in the incu bation period were forced to roam around in search of water. This, together with the intense heat, pro duced a high tension of the nervous' system and caused the disease to de velop when it otherwise might have lain dormant. All during the lat ter part of the month of August he averaged one examination a day for rabies, besides examinations of sputum and foetus, diphtheria swabs, etc. ? Killed by Train. At Spartanburg Clever Acton, 19 I years old, employe at the Spartan j mills, was struck by passenger train No. .*{S on the Southern railway near the Green street crossing Saturday afternoon at ." o'clock and instantly killed. His skull was crush d, his neck broken, bis left arm broken and the wall of his left che^ crush ed through. M seems that the yoiing man was standing ou the track of 'the passenger train watching a j freight going south. ' Accidentally Killed Himself. A: Nashville. Tenn., while cleaning a 44-calibre target pistol. Orville 10. Stockell. Jr.. an insurance agent, ac cidentally shot himself through the i hear in the apartments of his par ents. .Mr. and Mrs. Orville K. Stock ei). Sr.. a few days ago. His sister. Mrs. Echaris of Louisville. Ky . who j was standing near him at the time, I had only turned her head to speak to her father when the fatal shot , was fired. Another Terrible Flood. Another terrible flood has visited I the Jamillepec district in the State I of Oaxaca, Mexico. Sugar planta tions and mills have been destroyed, hundreds of head of cattle have heen killed and scores of farm lahorers have lost their lives in the water.