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Mrs Bellamy Storer Shows Um Up in a Bad Light by Publishing THE IRELAND LETTERS These Letters, Which are Now Pub lished for the First ^Time, Raises a Direct Question of Veracity Be tween Roosevelt and the Archbi shop and Mr.' and Mrs. Storer. As told in the press dispatches, Mrs; Bellamy Storer, "My Dear Ma . ria," has written a letter to the Springfield Republican from France In which she reviews in detail the famous Cardinal's hat episode, -which made such a stir four or five years ago. The Storers have been friends of the Roosevelts for years. Mr. Stor er, a man of mcdicore abality, was a Congressman when 'Mr. Roosevelt was ' police commissioner of New York, and it now appears from Mrs. Stdrer's account of the matter that it was Mr. Storer who secured for Mr. Roosevelt, at the latter's urgent solicitation, the appointment as as-1 sistant Secretary of the Navy under President McKinley. When Mr. Roosevelt went to Washington as Vice President Mrs. Storer sets forth that he accepted their houce in Washington at half the rental Mr. Olney had paid for it, Mr. Roosevelt explaining "We are so fond of you that we don't mind being under obligations to you." Naturally, therefore, when Mr. Roosevelt succeeded to the Presiden cy the Storers, who were then in Spain, to which country Mr. Storer had been sent as ambassador, felt that their star was In the ascendan cy. Mrs. Storer quotes in full twni letters from Archbishop Ilreland to show the substantial basis upon which their hope rested. Mr. Roose velt, it will be recalled, sneered at the Storers for having aspired to the court of St. James or to Berlin. Here 1b what Archbishop Ireland wrote Mr. Storer two months after Mr. Roosevelt became President: . St Paul, November 3,1901. My^Dear Friend: I have had two most pleasant meetings with the President at the White House. He is decidedly your friend, and resolved to give you the best there is. "Even," said he, "if Berlin comes first, and Bellamy wished it for a little while, pending Choate's retention of London, I would give It to him and change him shortly afterward to London. Let him trust me." With kind regards to Mrs. Storer, I am very sincerely, John Ireland. (Mr. Storer did not get either of the posts he sought. Instead, he was transferred to Vienna. Mrs. Storer alleges that in September, 1903, she and her husband spent a day with Mr. Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, while on a visit to America, and that Mr. Roosevelt at that time re quested Mr. Storer to go to Rome and urge the new Pope to make Archbishop'Ireland a cardinal. Mr. Roosevelt has denied emphatically that he ever did anything of the sort. In the light of his denial the following letter from Archbishop Ireland is of interest: St. Paul, October 23, 1901. My dear Mrs. Storer:? I was in Washington last week and, of course, saw the President, I spoke with him of Paris and re moved from his mind all suspi cion that a Catholic would be there a "persona non grata" as em bassador. He promised me that the next embassador to Paris would be Mr. Storer and further more expressed the belief that General Porter would soon retire. The President also told me that he had commissioned Mr. Storer to speak fo him viva voce at tho Vatican. He seemed rather proud of having done so. Give my love to Bellamy, and believe me, very sincerely, John Ireland. Here is another letter from the Archbishop to Mrs. Storer, written a month later than that just quoted: St. Paul, November 23, 1901. ' My dear Mrs. Storer:? The President said to me: "Mr. Storer has told you what I said to him about you, Archbishop?" "Well," I replied, "I do not re member." "About his going to Rome?" the President then ask ed. I said "No." "Well," he said, "I told him I would not write a letter to the Pope, asking for hon ors for you; but I Baid that he could go to Rome and say?viva voce?to the Pope, how much I wish you to be cardinal, and how grateful I personally would be to him for giving you that "honor." I am most clear in my memory as to every word. I will write about American politics to Bel lamy. With most affectionate re gards to him and to yourself, I am, sincerely, John Ireland. When Mr. Storer went to Rome and the report was cabled to Amer ica that he had visited the Vatican as the representative of the Presi dent, Mr. Roosevelt, according to Mrs. Storer, became alarmed lest he might incur the wrath of the Antl Cathollcs, vehemently denied that he had ever suggested such a mission to Mr. Storer, and later, following the consistory In 1905, flew Into a IES A WEEK. A STRANGE OCCURENCE. Covey of Fat Partridges Caught in Hotel Bedroom. Messrs. Sheffield and Wolf, two well known traveling men from Sav annah, had a lather unusual exper ience in Mr. Wolf's bed room at the Pfeiffer hotel in Sylvania, Ga., Tues day, night, when they flushed up a small drove of partridges in the room, about midnight. The two gentlemen had been sit ting up talking shop, and taking an occasional drink of ice water in Mr. Sheffield's room, until about twelve o'clock, when Mr. Wolf went across the hall to his own room and struck a light. As soon as he did so, he was startled to hear the well known whirr of partridges, as they rose from the floor at hin feet and satlea across the room. Rubbing his eyes to see if he was dreaming of being out In the woods with gun and d< ig, he was fully convinced when anoth er large, plump partridge rose from the floor and, in its flight, struck him on the head. Messrs. Wolf and Sheffield suc ceeded in catching the covey and they-proved to be large, fat ones, nearly grown. It is supposed that they flew in at the open window late the afternoon before, and were roost ing in the room, as they are more plentiful' than chickens in the field and gardens around Sylvania. * LOOTED AND BURNED. Owner of House Was Held While the Burglars Worked. Burglars burned the $50,000 res idence of W. E. Muse, of Hindsdale, 111., early Saturday morning, after stealing thousands of-*pllars worth of silverware, jewelry.-^ugs and tap estry, according to the owner's re port to the police after the fire. The thieves loaded ths plunder into an express wagon, he claims, then set fire to the house and prepared to fire an adjacent barn, but fled without having done so. Muse was alone in the house, the domestics having gone with lMrs. Muse on the summer vaca tion. The attorney claims he was forced to lie in bed by one of the burglar's while others carried out the property. * PECULIAR ACCIDENT. Gun Falls from its Resting ' Place and Kills Child. Eric Boswell, a five-year-old girl, met a tragic death ?t Bonifay, Fla., Wednesday night when a shotgun which her father had placed on some pegs nailed to the wall, fell from Its resting place and was discharged. The entire load of squirrel shot struck the child in the abdomen as she was lying asleep on a couch. The father had been out squirrel hunt ing during the afternoon and oh re turning had failed to take the shells from the gun. Snake in a Jug. After using all the buttermilk Bhe had gotten from a neighbor and pour ed in a jug, Mrs. T. F. Parks, of Bold Spring, Ga., emptied the jug and found a good sized highland moccasin had been having a butter milk bath for several days. * Lightning Kills Four. Lightning killed four persons dur ingn a storm in the vicinity of Eas tonville and Elbert, 22 miles north east of Colorado Springs, Col., Fri day evening. * Kills at Postoffice. At Vernon, Texas., In the midst of a throng waiting for tho Sunday mail at the postoffice Sunday morning, Dr. A. P. Howard, a prominent physician, shot and killed H. A. Burns. The cause is not known. Dr. Howard surrendered. passion when Archbishop Ireland was not honored as he had requested, I wrote Mrs. Storer a most Insulting letter, denouncing her in the public prints and brutally dismissed Mr. Storer from the diplomatic service. The pu'bllc is not especially con cerned about the Storers and their fate, .but Mrs. Storer's revival of this particular incident of the Roosevelt Administration makes interesting reading, in view of the fact that the citation of the Ireland letters makes the Issue of veracity lie not between the Stovers and the Ex-President, but between the Ex-President and the Storers plus Archbishop Ireland. It now appears that either Mr. Roose velt was guilty of bald misrepresen tation or else the Archbishop mis stated the facts. "Hell hath no fury like a wo man scorned," and when that wo man is possessed of the patience which has been exhibited by "My Dear Maria," coupled with the tn stict to know just when and h.->w to give reign to her pent-up wrath, she become a dangerous adversary for even so seasoned a controver sialist as Theodore Roosevelt. Mr. Roosevelt's popularity has oozed from him recently in a canuer and degree which have amazed veteran observers. Thus to be pitted against a leading officer of the Catholic Church will advantage him nothing among the Catholics of America, the more especially in view o" the Vat ican Incident of lact spring. The hero of San Juan Hill Is not the first man of his type to be un done by a woman, as history, sacred and profane, will abundantly testify. ?The News and Courier. ? ORANGES UBG-, FATAL WRECK SIX PERSONS ARE KILLED IN TROLLEY CAR CRASH. Freight Car Passes Stopping Place and Collides With Passenge". Ad l ing to Death List. Disobedience of orders by the crew of a freight car is said to have 'been the cause Saturday of the sec ond nterurban traction wreck in three days in Indiana. Saturday's disaster cost the lives of six persons and the serious injury of six more. The southbound freight car crashed head-on into a northorn passenger car on the Indianapolis & Peru div ision of the Indiana Utah Traction company shortly after noon, two miles north of Tipton, Ind. ?The freight car had been ordered to stop at the first switch north of Ressler's crossing, but tried to make the first switch south. A clump of trees hid the limited and the crew of the freight barely had time to jump. The front end of the limited was shattered and all passengers in the smoking compartment were kill ed. Farmers living in the 'vicinity of Ressler's crossing heard the crash and after telephoning Tipton for physicians went to the aid of the injured. Nearby homes were thrown open and the injured made as com fortable as possible. ' One of the sad features of the wreck is that Dr. W. C. Holshauser, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who, with his brother, Walter, was killed, was on his way to Kokomo, Ind., to be married tonight to MisB Nellie Cox en, daughter of the secretary of the Great Western Pottery company of Kokomo. The brother was to have .been best man at the wedding. Miss Coxen was prostrated when she heard of the death of her fiance. "I guess we over-ran our orders," said Motorman Lacey or the freight car, who, with Conductor Sebree, jumped when he saw the limited bearing down upon them. JuBt three days ago, almost to the hour, occurred the fatal wreck near Kingsland, Ind., on the Bluffton di vision of the Wabash Valley Trac tion company, which caused the death of 41 persons, with three more still in the hospitals of."Fort Wayne, with -barely a chance for recovery. * GOVERNMENT FIGURES. Given Out in Regard to Pellagra and Infantile Paralysis. The mortality report of the cen sus bureau, covering investigations for 1909 takes cognizance on infan tile paralysis and pellagra as diseases to which the flesh Is heir. The re cord shows 569 in the former and 116 in the latter class. The statistics cover only slightly more than half of the population, ex tending only to States or -cities which require the registration of deaths. As comparatively little of the area in which pellagra is most prevalent is included in the <*regis tation section it is suggested that the report on that malady scarcely gives an adequate idea of its real ravages. \ ? Owing to the fact that the deaths of infantile paralysis were widely | distributed the inference is drawn j by the report that the disease exists either in epidemic or endemic form in many parts of the country. * Shoots Little Brother. At Americus, Ga., seven year old Johnnie -Medlin, clim/bed up to the mantel in his father's home Satur day, took his father's pistol which he found there, climbed down and put a bullet through the body of his 22-months-old brother, who was alone with him in the room. The ba'by died almost instantly. The children had been left playing alone for a few minutes. * Daring Robbery. Four masked robbers, all believ ed to be white men, Saturday night entered the home of Stuart Southers, at Wytheville. Va., beat his wife, tied her to a bedpost, stole $700, that was hidden in a mattress and escap ed. Southers was absent from home. He does not believe In banks. * Child Run Down. At Mobile, Ala., Walker L. Bras well, the four-year-old child of Rob ert L. Braswell, was instantly killed In front of the boy's parents' home on Dvphin Way Thursday afternoon by running in front of a street car. The body was badly mangled. ? Many Kept from School. At Washington five thousand chil dren, it is said, are being kept by their parents from school for fear of infantile paralysis. An order has been issued by the health officer barring from school for two weeks children who have been exposed to the disease. ? Gruesome Proposition. Rather gruesome is the proposi tion advanced by Indiana health au thorities to try the effects of tuber culous milk and cow meat upon a life-term convict. The life-termer, It is proposed, shall drink infected milk and eat infected meat, and if he survices, he will get his freedom. ? Si TUESDAY, SEPTE BREAKS RECORD Chavese, Peravian Aviator, Follows Ea gie's Route Across THE SNOW CAPPED ALPS! Passes Safely Over Yawning Gulches and Threatening Peaks of Italy's Natural Portress, Only to Meet With Disaster and Serious Injury Within Fifty Easy Miles of Goal. The great feat of crossing the snow-capped Alpine barrier between Switzerland and Italy In a heavier | than air machine was, accomplished Friday by George Chavese, the young j Peruvian aviator. . The plucky hero, of the exploit, however, lies in a local hospital bad ly injured as the result of an acci dent that occurred just as he had completed the most arduous and nerve-raking portion of a task , he had set out to accomplish?a flight from Brig, Switzerland, across the Alps to Milan in Italy, in all a dis tance of about 75 miles. Both his legs are broken, his left! thigh is fractured and his body is| badly contused; but the physicians in attendance are of the opinion that these hurts will not prove fatal and that unless unlooked for complica tions ensue Chavese will be about in two months. The accident occurred as Chav ese was endeavoring to make a land ing at Pomodossola, Jtaly. The Alps had been crossed successfully and the aviator was descending with the power of his machine cut off. When about thirty feet above the ground a sudden gust of wind seem ed to catch the monoplane, which turned over and fell. When crowds that had been watching the descent ran up -they found Chavese lying j twisted and bleeding 'beneath the twisted wreckage. Fifty miles away lay Milan, the goal for which he was seeking in order to win the prize of $20,000 offered by the Italian Aviation so ciety. Chavese loBt the race. The weather at Brig was clear and bright when Chavese made his start j Leaving the ground*with his motor \ running at full speed he rose in sweeping circles until he had reach ed an altitude sufficient for him to crear the shoulder to the southeast-] ward of Zrig. This obstacle having been over-1 come, the Peruvian aviator headed his monoplane straight for the snow napped crags of the Fletchern. Con-j stantly ascending, Chavese reached the Simplon Kulm, where, at an al titude estimated at 7,200 feet, he turned his machine south over the terrifying Simplon pass with the KaltwasBer glacier at his left and the frozen peak of the Hubschhorn at his | right. After crossing the divide, Chavese turned to the towering white moun-| tain head of ? Monte Leone, which rises to a height of 16,644. feet, and passed down above the Gonde gorge, until he reached the open valley of Vedro, and then descended easily to word Domodossola, which is 889 feet above sea level. It was here that the accident occurred. Some of the spectators of the flight say that Chavese, after cross ing the Simplon pass, followed the short cut route over the Monseera pass, which is 8,000 feet above sea level. If this he so, it is possible1 that the Peruvian beat his own world's record for height of 8,271. The 25 miles between Brig and Domodossola, which it took the ar mies of Napoleon a fortnight to ne gotiate, Chavese accomplished by the route of the eagle in axactly forty minutes. From the high point at Monseera he descended 7,000 feet in 13 min utes, his machine gaining in momen tum as it flew over the jumble of lower peaks, gulches and hills beyoud until the speed was terrific as it ap proached the aerodrome at Dorao dossla. This doubtless caused the acci dent which turned the cheers of ad xii'-ation of the waiting crowd into cries of horror when the machine came hurling to the ground just as it seemed that Chavese was about to alight in safety. After treatment in the hospital Chavese regained consciousness but was unable to explain how the acci dent had occurred. The generally accepted opinion iB that the accident was due to a slight shift in the rud der while the monoplane was beirg sent at a high rate of speed. Although Chavese did not succeed in winning the prize of $20,000, hav ing failed to reach Milan, some of the members of the aviation commit tee are in favor of turning over the prize to him and erecting a monu ment in commemoration of man's first flight across the Alps. Chavese,- although a Peruvian, was born in Paris in 1887. He se cured his license from the Aero club as air pilot in February 19 of this year. Chavese was able to receive visi tors at the hosDital for a few mln Alps." * utes that night. Although week, he was in a most cheerful mood. "I am unable to explain the cause of the fall," said he. "I am delight ed at being the first to cross the MBE? 27, 1910. 1 THEY ARE NO GOOD INSURGENTS HAVE DONE NOTH-I TNG IN CONGRESS. So Says Congressman Rainey, Who Arraigns the Republicans General ly for Plundering the People. Congressman Henry T. Rainey, chairman of the Illinois Democratic State convention, declares that the efforts of the "insurgent" Congress men had been purposeless and fu tile, and predicted general DemocraL-1 ic victories throughout the country) in the coming election. He said in part: "The Democratic party is united today as it has not been for fourteen years and the Re publican party is divided as it has never been in all its history- The Republican party leaders stand today j upon more thoroughly discredited than the leaders of any party have ever' .been during all the decades of our history. "A great leader among the insur gents in the recent disturbance in J the House might have been able to accomplish something for the coun try. During the last session of Con gress insurgent Republican members professed to be against the Payne-' Aldrich bill. They professed to be against the Speaker of the House of Representatives and. they insisted that there were in favor of revising the rules and enlarging the commit tee on rules in order to make the House a deliberative body. "Recently we have given them a| chance to vote to repeal the Payne- j Aldrich bill and every one af them voted for it. The Speaker of the House charged them with being trai tors to their party and insisted that they ought to be hanged, 'not shot; they ought to receive the punishment I usually given to traitors and we then | gave every one of them an opportun ity to depose the Speaker. Almost | without exception they voted for bim, and so the present Speaker of the House of Representatives has the honor of being twice elected Speaker during the life of one Congress, i "When the Democrats succeeded in enlarging the committee on rules the insurgents at once held a caucus and refused to accept positions on that committee, but declared them selves to .be in favor of going Into a Republican caucus' and abiding the result and they did. The effect of this action on their part was almost to completely nullify the fight made by the Democrats at the last session | of Congress for the establishment of a deliberative body. When the speaker continued his denuciation of the insurgent members, t*hey final ly fiercely retaliated by shutting off the gasoline from the automobile purchased for him by the Congress, and this is the only victory that can ?be credited in any way to the in surgent members of Congress up to the present time. "The regular Republicans have failed to accomplish the things the people are demanding. The Insur gents have failed miserably and rhe people are about to give the Demo cratic party a trial. "I do not desire to attack the ad ministration of President Taft, it i3 not necessary to do that. In all our history as a nation no administration has been so thoroughly discredited. He has surrounded himself by an offi cial family who represent and who stand for those criminal trusts against which the people cry out in vain at the present time. He has been subservient to those interests which prey upon the country, and has been controlled by them as no other President has been in all of our history as a nation. He has been moct aptly described as being "a large body surrounded by men who knew what they want.' " Tried to Eat Rooster. At Des Moines, Iowa, a handsome chanticler hat was almost destroyed, and its wearer, Miss Mary Llvingj | ton, severely injured about the face when a bis cat which had been hid I ing in a tree overhead leaped upon her with the evident intention of eating the rooster on the bat. Row Over a Dog. As the result of a quarrel at Per ryville, Ark., over a dog, Dub Th?r- j man, aged 18, died Tuesday night,; and Bob Owen, aged twenty, is charg ed with the killing. Thurman was [ fatally stabbed on Saturday night in a fight which followed Owen throw ing a rock at the former's dog. Hurt in Car Panic. One woman was fatally Injured, and a number of other passengers were more or less seriously hurt as the result of a panic incident to a controller box bursting Into flames on an electric car at Knoxvllle. Tenn., Friday night. ? Serious Mistake. His mistake in picking up a bottle I of carbolic acid instead of his whis key "bottle from which to take his usual morning drink, resulted In the death of Munroe Calhoun, a promi nent farmer living at Mountain Hill, in Harris county, N. C. Saturday. Four Men Drown in Wreck. Four mer: were drowned and two others barely escaped death when the power boat Comfort was disabled and foundered off Plum Island, near Newburyport, Mass., Saturday. PUT IN THE PEN. 'Broker in Hearts" Paying Penalty for Defrauding. Isaac R. Warns, a "broker in hearts," as he termed-himself, -was Friday sentenced by Judge Landis. in Chicago, to serve 14 months in the federal prison at Fort Leuven ?-orrh for using the United States nails to defraud. Warns confessed that he had used :he mail in earring on the business jf his marriage bureau. His circu lars depicting the sadness of lonely )ld age were read .in court. One of als books sent to prospective custo mers was entitled "The Way to Win i Woman's Heart." It contains the tallowing passage: "You do not know what it is to live alone, uncared for; unknown when old age overtakes you. Soli tude fills one with horrible agony. Solitude at home by the fireside at night is so profound, so sad." ? LOW DEATH RATE. For the United States Reported by Census Bulletin. The death rate in the United States in 1909 was fifteen in each one thous and, according to a bulletin issued by the census bureau. ? This is the lowest average ever re ported for this country. The figures cover only the cities and State hav ing laws requiring the registration of deaths. These represent 55.3 per cent of the estimated total popula tion. In addition returns were received from fifty-four cities having local registration laws. The total number of deaths re corded was 732,538, of which 398, 597, or over 54 per cent were of males. The greatest mortality oc curred in March, and the lowest in June. * WANTS HER DIAMONDS BACK. Remarkable Suit Filed Against Co lumbia Lawyer. Seeking to recover a necklace con taining 21 diamonds and a solitaire diamond ring alleged to have been given as a fee in a case which she had instituted against her husband, Mrs. Alice D. Whittle, of Columbia, filed a suit against Frank G. Tomp klns, one of the leading members of the Columbia bar. Perhaps the most remarkable grounds ever given in a civil suit in South Carolina are nam ed in this unique case. Mrs. Whit tle claims that when she gave the two articles worth a small sized for tune to the attorney she wa. not in her right mind. The suit to either recover the diamonds or to be paid the sum of ? 1,000 was filed at the office of the Clerk of court for Rich land county. The attorney repre senting Mrs. Whittle is A. H. Nine stein of Barnwell county. * MEET WATERY DEATH. Four Autoists Drowned by Plunging yi Car into Canal. All four occupants of a large tour ing car, returning from a lake shore resort to New Orleans early Satur day, were drowned when the car, rounded a curve in the West End shell road at a high rate of speed, shot straight ahead and plunged into the New Basin Canal. A laborer on his way to work was the only witness to the accident. He j s^id the car passed him at such a clip that he was unable to note how many persons it contained. It was at first reported that the car had seven occupants when it left West End and, the canal was dragged for several hours after these four bodies had been found. Late Staurday af ternoon it was definitely established that two men and two women were the only person? in the car when it went into the canal. * ? Shoulder Dressed, Not Head. John Young, a negro hod carrier at work on a scyscraper, at Denver, Col., was filling his hod when a fel low workman dropped a brick eleven stories above. The brick hit Young on the head. Looking up to ascer tain the source of his intruption, he saw a second brick speeding toward the same mark as the first and he ducked. The brick hit his shoulder. Then they took Young to the hos pital, where they dressed his shoul der?not his head. * Cholera's Toll. A dispatch from St. Petersburg, Russia, says the figures available at the sanitary bureau show that dur ing the present cholera epidemic there have been 191,076 cases with S8,716 deaths throughout the coun try. In the week ending September 17 there was a total of 4,412 cases and 2,071 deaths. In the last six days there have been 3 01 new cases and 63 deaths in the city. ? Killed Many Cattle. Charhon, which has caused the death of hundreds of cattle in South western Louisiana has been stamped out according to announcement made by the Louisiana Sanitary Live Stock Board. ? Maine's Fatal Waters. Sixty-one persons, all but sev?n of them residents of Maine, lost their lives by drowning in the waters of that State during the summer just closed. ? CENTS PE? COPY ONE NEGRO SHOT As the Result of an Attempted Assanfc od a Married Woman. SEVERAL SHOTS FIRED Small Son of Negro Couple Wound ed During Melee.?Negro. Hi*' Wife and White Man Arrested.? The Fiend Laid in Wait for' the Woman Behind Some Weeks. A row between white men and ne groes in which several shots were fired and a small negro boy wounded resulted frein an attempt by a negro to assault a white married woman, at Lancaster on Saturday night and the subsequent effort to arrest a negrca man suspected of the crime. The suspected negro and his wife gave 'battle and their son. was shot, pre sumably by the mother, though un? intentially. Later the negro, his wife and a young white man were all arrested. The woman in question, whose home is in the suburbs of Lancas ter, was returning irom a visit to a nearby neighbor, when a negro man sprang out from behind some taU ^veeds and seized her. She scream ed with fright and broke loose from his clutches and ran, but -the brute soon overtook her and caught hold' of her again. For the second time' she succeeded in getting away from him and finally reached her home in. safety. Failing in his purpose the' negro quickly disappeared in the darkness. At the ime of the occurence fifie lady's husband was up town, but lire soon returned home and upon being informed by his wife of what had happened started out, accompanied by some three or four friends, in search of the negro fiend, obtained' from his wife a description of her would-be assailant, his dress, etc.,. and the direction in which he disap peared. /> The party went to the house of1 John Mai^ey, a negro tenant on one of Chief Justice Jones' farms east of town, and, pretending to want to>! buy whiBkey, engaged Mackey in? ? conversation, after calling him out-" side the building. While talking to him one oi. the party seized Mackey at the same time remarking, "You. are the nigger we want." Mackry jerked loose an ran back: ? into his house, where, it is said, he - got his pistol and his wife a shot gun. A row was soon in process," a nun/ber of shots being fired, but > no one was hurt except Mackey'S" son, a boy about 10 years old, who* wan shot in the hand, presumably by his mother, as the wound was in flicted by a shotgun, and she is said! to have been the only person present' arroed with such a weapon. Later in the night Policeman Belli and Constable Hunter went out andif arrested Mackey and his wife; also?, a young white man, Bob Hunter, who is said to have been a member of the party that went to Mackey's home- ? The parties arrested are now in jail CHARGED TO OPERATOR. Four Killed and Two Injured in a Freight Collision. ' ' ? Four men were killed and two in-... jured in a head-on collision between- - a Mobile and Ohio and Iron Moun tain freight train, Sunday near Beech Ridge. 111., The dead: Claud Rollins, engineer; ' M. and 0.; A. S. Rossner, fireman, ? M. and O.; W. E. Stevenson, brake man, IM. and 0.,, all of Jackson;,, Tenn.; unidentified negro. '? 'Witnesses testified before the cor- ?'? oner's jury Sunday afternoon that Operator Charles Clark, who was on* ' duty at Beech Ridge, had been drink- ?* ? ing and failed to transmit train or-" ders. Clark was arrested, charged with responsibility for the wreck. Twelve Dich Gun Explode-:. During target practice of the A t lantic fleet of the Virginia capes Fri day one of the big 12-inch 50-tonT guns of the battleship Georgia burst' on the first range shot. The muz zle as far back as the forward end? of the jacket was blown off. The crew miraculously escaped injury. *? Death of an Old Lady. ?Mrs. Fannie Leonard Wight Cleve-'' land, of Marietta, Ga., died at her' home Friday morning, after a short ?' illness. She was ninety-four years old and one of the few surviving ac- ' tual daughters of the American Rev- ?' olutlon. Mrs. Leonard was the? "' mother of Mri. Jno. B. Cleveland of ' Spartanburg. Fatal Family Fued. As a result of a family feud, Isaac Pass shot and killed his brother, Samuel Pass, near Cardiff, Tenn., om ' Saturday afternoon. The slayer fled. Both men were married with families. * Shots from Ambush. Ed Sherrod and J. F. Hewitt were shot to death from ambush, at Cooks Camp, twenty miles north of Hunts ville, Tenn., Sunday. Pending in vestigation, John Bunch and son, Joe Low, Nelson Low, Jack Low ana Jack Bradley are in jail.