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PUBLISHED THREE TO A TRAGIC DEATH Yooflg Williams of Columbia BralaUy Murdered by Negroes on MOVING CIRCUS TRAIN j Boarding Show Train at Columbia, With Intention of Returning From j Augusta on Regular Passenger, Young Railroad Employee Found ?Bead Near Track. Paul'A. Williams, 19 years of age, of the'Southern railway in Columbia, was murdered and robbed about 2.C o'clock Sunday morning while riding with his friend J. C. Weekly, 'al3o of Columbia, on the first section of the train which carried the Hagen beck-Wallace circus to Augusta from Columbia. The body was discovered] lying "beside the track; between Gil *i} bert and Summit, 26 miles from Co lumbia, by Conductor Thrift in charge of Southern freight train No. 176 Sunday morning about 10.30 o'clock: There was, a bullet wound in. the right eye. The pockets of young Williams were found turned wrong side out. In them was .a blood-stained one dollar bill which his murderers fail- \ ed to find. His watch and about $5, which Weekly says Williams had when he left Columbia, were miss ing. One of his shoes had been tak en off. The body of the murdered man was brought to Columbia Sun day night at 7.30 o'clock on Southern train No. 130 from AugUBta. HiSi parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Williams, who formally lived in Columbia, where Mr. Williams had a jewelry store, but moved to Athens, 6a., a, few months ago, are expected to ar rive this morning at 10.30 o'clock. The State says when J. C. Weekly, who is employed by E. A. Beall & Co, of .that city arrived in Colum bia Sun-) day night from Gilbert, where hej was present at the inquest which < was held over the body of his dead friend, he told the story of the mur- j der. "Last Saturday night after the cir cus was over Paul Williams and my self went up to the Blanding street station to watch the .show load," said Weekly. ."While we were up, there,' we jfell in with one of"the clr-1 ens men., a'young bellow with a clean shaven face. He seemed to be a nlce man and-after talking to us a while, invited us to ride over to Augusta! with him on the first section of the) circus train. "Paul said, 'Let's go, just for the fun of the thing.* I told him that it would be a rough trip, but that if he wanted to go, then go we would. | We went up to our room in the Syl van building and put on some old clothes. Paul got a pass to Augusta I and return. I had about $10 and he, bad about "half that amount. "Then we went back to the Bland ing street yard, and got aboard a flat | car, loaded with wagons and thelclr cus tent near the middle of the train. We did not see anything of the young man who invited us to gG rn.j Augusta.! "Everything was quiet on the| train until we got near Lexington. Then we heard shooting and cursing, toward the rear end of the train. "A few minutes after the disturb ance began, e man passed the wagon under which we were siting. He halted and said, "There's the-.? Then he shot once out toward the bushes along the side of the track and went back toward the rear of the train. ""I said Paul, we had better get j out of this. We climbed up overj the side of the wagon under which out of this.' W. eclimbed up over the side of the wagon under yhich we had been sitting and lay down. In a minute or two, I saw the head3 of three men coming over the side of the wagon in which we wers. j I said, 'Run for it, Paul, and made1 a break for the other end of the 'wagon. "As I sprang up, one f the men all of whom I think were white, yell ed, 'now we'll get the-!" and fir- J ed once. I thought Paul was right behind me when I went over the side of the wagon head first. There was a pile of canvis unde* a wayjcn nt the other end of the car. I crswled under it, but held it up wainMng f it Paul. He didn't come. I was a'raid to stir, for a man was sleeping on the pile right above me. "I heard some men, Ciirsini; and shouting, coming toward where I was lying. I let the canvas fASl over me and crawled further under it. The crowd walked right over me. and fell to kicking the man above me. When they had mauled him considerably he seemed to wake up as he started to swear. They told him that thr-y wanted his money. He replied that he did not have any thing except some candy. They then searched him and found that this was true, for one of them said, "Here take your old candy, we don't wan* it." "I am pretty sure that lbs raeu were white. They spoke fairly good English and did not talk like ne groes." "After the firing of the shot as I was getting out of the wagon things got strangely quiet. I heard no more shooting or cursing, but I was still afraid to move for fear that I would waken the man who was sleep IBS A WEEK. ing on the canvas above me. "Finally, when day began to break, I crept out from beneath the canvas and went back to the wagon to look for Paul. I found his watch fob, made of four coins strung together. Also several letters addressed to him, one from his father and one. from a girl friend in Charleston. There was blood everywhere. The sides and bottom of the wagon were smeared with it. I went back three cars and found it splattered all along the can vas. When the train reached Warren ville I got off and wired the chief of police in Augusta and told Special Agent Ehney of the-Southern, who was back in the last car oh the train. "I took Southern passenger train No. 8 .back from Augusta, riding on the step on the lookout for Paul's body, for I felt sure that he had been murdered and his body thrown off the train. I did not look any more after we passed Leesvllle. I thought that the shooting had taken place after we passed there. This accounts for my failure to find the body. "When the train reached Columbia I went up to my room in the Sylvan building-. One of the Southern's men came up after me in a little while. I went back to the Union sta tion with him and took a railroad motor car with T. McGhee Phifer, chief clerk of the Southern, and Roadmaster Faulkes back to Gilbert, where they told me that the body had been found. I testified at the In quest and came back to Columbiv with the body. "Last night was the. most terrible, I have ever spent. It was one long wide-awake nightmare. I would like to make one thing especially plain, Paul and myself started to Augusta simply for the fun of the thing and .because the young, smooth-shaven fellow Invited us to go. We meant to spend the day and come back Sun day, afternoon, as we both had to go to work Monday morning. I had money and Paul had a pass. We were not Deating bur way, but were sim ply out for a lark." MURDERER; ARRESTED. Circus Negro Confesses and Tells All About the Murder. . ? 'A dispatch from Augusta says as a result of employes of the Hagenbeck Wallace circus trying to rob other employes of the company, on the first section of the train coming into Au gusta from Columbia Saturday night, Paul A.-, Williams is known to be vdead, and a ?missing negro is believ ed to be dead, though no trace can be found of 'hJm. fWIlliam Gresham, a negro can-? vasman, employed by the circu?, one of a number of the help arrested on Sunday by the Augusta police, has. made a confession in which he says the report that, the, train was held up is entirely untrue, and that the trouble started and ended on the train while It was in motion. [At the conclusion of the perform ancein Columbia Saturday night, the work force was paid off and the larg er number of the help indulged free iy in liquor. After the train had left Columbia, according to Gres ham's confession, he, John Wilson and Elijah Clark were in the canvas wagon, when two white men and a strange negro joined them. Clark and Wilson were negroes employed by the circus and seem to be intimate friends. Just before the train reach ed Gilbert, 25 miles from Columbia, Gresham declares, Wilson, Clark and the two white men began quarreling. W?lson shot one of the white men and threw his body off the train. Clark, who also had a pistol, forced the unknown negro to get on top of the canvas wagon and jump off while the train was running. Whether he was killed or not Gresham does not know. tAccording to Gresham's statement, Wilson and Clark then decided to go through the train and rob the help, who had been paid off before the train left Columbia, with the inten tion of themselves leaving the train before it entered the city of Augusta. What became of the second white man on the train and who was in the canvas wagon, Gresham does not know. The three negroes, Wlson, Clark and Gresham, have been sent to the Richmond County jail in Augusta. 'Besides these, two white and a ne gro, employes of the circus, are be ing held as witnesses, but their names are not obtainable, the police declining to give out any of the de tails. ?Earlier during Sunday numerous arrests were made on the circus help by the local authorities, and where close questioning developed that there was no possible connection with the crime, the men arrested were re leased. Ten men have been committed to jail for complicity in the murder. The other men arrested have been re released. Men Caught in Belt. At Maxleys, Ga., Vincent Witcher, a well-known young white man, was instantly killed Friday morning by being caught in the lath machinery of his brother's manufacturing plant. While looking over the machinery he ventured too near one of the large belts. * Knew Not Teddy. In the Easton, Pa., naturalization court Thursday, Toriblo Cortazzo of Bushklll Centre, who has been in this country fourteen years, told Judge Scott he had never heard of Theo dore Roosevelt. He knew Taft was president, so he got his papers. * ORANGrEBUKG DEADLY SPORTS Amid the Dead and Dying the Great Racing Auto Cars Tear On. FOUR PERSONS KILLED And Many Wounded in the Vander built Cup Race on Bio on Stained Course?The Accidents Causing the Death of Two of the Vi-tiins Sensational in the Extreme. At Long Island Parkway, N. Y., Saturday four killed and 20 seriously injured, three of them probably fa tally, was the price in human life paid for the sixth running of the Vanderbuilt cup race, won in electri fying fashion by Harry Grant, driv ing a 120 horsepower Alco. Grant, who distinguished himself last year by finishing first in the fifth Vanderbuilt,, won today's event from Joe Dawson, driving a Marmouth, by the narrow margin of 25 seconds. John Aitken, in the National, was only a minute and six seconds behind Dawson. The race was the most hotly con tested of any of the Vanderbuilt cu,*> races, and with the two small car events run as a unit with it, the Wheatley Hill sweepstakes and the Ma&sapequa trophy brought out a record of number of starters. (Tbe time of the three first race cars finishing in the main event sur passed the best time ever made in an American road race. Grant, by covering 278.08 miles of the course in 4 hours, 12 minutes and 58 sec onds, equivalent to an average of 65 1-5 miles and -hour, established a new American record. But as brilliant as was the per formance of the three winners and as thrilling as the race itself, the horror caused by the wholesale maiming and killing which attend ed it cast such a deep shadow over spectators, participants and the man agement that the crowd dispersed under a pall of sorrow. The accidents that caused two of the t^here deaths recorded were sen sational in the extreme. The first occurred when the Columbia car, driven by Harold Stone, suddenly burst a tire at the approach of the .cement bridge crossing the Westbury j road and, becoming unmanageable, plunged over the parapet. The great machine went over twice in midair and landed on its side, crushing out the life of Matthew Bacon, Stone's mechanician, who wa3 caught under it. Stone himself sustained frac tures to both legs and internal in juries, from which, it is doubtful if he will recover. The killing of Louis Chevrolet's mechanician, Charles Miller, came as the climax of a mad attempt of Chev rolet to gain a lead lost through fre quent tire troubles. The daring French driver, who, earlier in the race had reeled of round ?fter round at 73 1-2 miles an hour, hurdled a bad run in the back stretched with full power on,, and, landing on three wheels only, found his> car zlg-zag ging from side to side, unresponsive to its steering gear. As a shriek of horror sounded from the hundred assembled at the spot, the car plung ed into a fence and swept it away like so much paper, then plowed deep into a passenger laden touring car moored on the side of the road. The Impact was terrific and the occupants of the touring car were tossed high in the air. All escaped death, however, but Miller was caught in the wreckage and Instant ly killed. Chevrolet owes his life to the staunchness of his steering wheel, upon which he kept a firm hold to the end. He was pulled out of the debris with nothing more ser ious than a broken arm. The third death of the day did not occur on the course, but in an aecident en route to the race. Fer dinand D'Zubia an automobile man, was the victim. His wife had both legs broken in the smashup. The fourth death was that of Ed ward Lynch, who died at a hospital as a result of injuries received when he was run down after the race. THEY PLAYED DOCTOR. While Their Mother Was Away Tots Took Poison. At Covington, Ky., while playing doctor Friday a son and a daughter of Thomas Cobb swallowed carbolic acid and died soon afterwards. They were aged 5 and 7 years. The chil dren were playing in the kitchen of their home during the absence of their mother. They found a bottle of carbolic acid . "Let's play doc tor,'* one suggested. They obtained two spoons, two glasses and divided the acid into two portions., Which they swallowed. Their screams of agony brought the mother from a neighbor's, but before a physician could reach them both were dead. * Baby Dead, -Mother Dying. Following a night of quarreling with his wife, at their he ne in Oak view, Delaware County, John Green, a carpenter, shot and perhap3 fatally wounded his wife and instantly kill ed their 13-months- infant early Thursday. A 16-year-old daughter narrowly escaped death. Green fled from the house, but was captured.* , 8. C.. TUESDAY, OCT PLACED BOMB BY HOUSE iE ADER OF SOCIETY THROWN IN TO EXCITEMENT. Man Attempts Entrance and Police Believe He Expected to Gain Re ward for "Saving" Household. After placing a bomb beside the residence of Mrs. Potter Palmer at Chicago and cutting his coat int-> threds with a butcher knife piercing his skin, Fred Wahlenmeyer, 26 yea-3 old, attempted Friday night to gain entrance to the mansion, j He was ar rested. Wahlenweyer demanded an audi ence with Prs. Palmer, bpt the watcu man, who was the first person en countered, summoned the police. Wahlenmeyer at first told a story ")f having seen another man placing the bomb on the side of the house and of struggling with him. Later, however, the prisoner confessed to having put the explosive there himself and to having cut his clothes to bear out his narrative. Mrs. Palmer was at home at the time and the whole household was thrown Into excite ment by the proximity of death or injury from the bomb. , Wahlenmeyer was questioned for hours by- the police, .but refused to explain his motive, hiding behind the expression: "Why did !'? do it? Oh, just for instance." / The police are proceeding on the will question Mrs. Palmer in regard to reports that she had received threatening letters, in the effort to discover the man's reason for the act. It is believed that Wahlenmeyer is not insane. The police are proceeding of th theory that he thought to gain a re ward for having "saved" the house and its occupants from "some mys terious bomb-thrower" and that his mutilation of his clothes was to sub stantiate this claim. * HEAVY LOSS BY FIRE. A Rig Lumber Plant at Alcolu Parti ally Destroyed. The big saw mill plant of the D. W. Alderman & Sons Company Ai colu was destroyed by fire Friday morning at about 5 o'clock. It seems that the fire started on the Interior of the building about the second floor and had gained con siderable headway when discovered. The heavy rains Thursday afternoon and night, together with the stillness of the morning, probably saved the destruction of the entire lumber plant. Had the conditions not been so favorable the planing mills, dry kilnB, machine shops, together with several million feet of lumber, would have gone up in flames. It is im possible now to estimate just what the loss will amount to, but it *s supposed that it will be something like $100,000, with some insurance. Several hundred employees have been thrown out of employment. * MIXERS PERISH One Hundred and Fifty of the Men are Entombed. One hundred and fifty miners, pos sibly more, are entombed and be lieved to be dead in mine No. 2, at Paula, Mexico, in the Las Esperan zas mining district, operated by the National Railway lines of Mexico, as a result of two explosions, pesum ably because of an accumulation of gas Saturday . The men entombed are mostly native Japanese miners, although the victims are said to in clude several Americans. At the time of the explosion the entire night shift, estimates the num ber varying from 150 to 300 were all at work. Of these none had reached f the surface. In all proba bility all are dead. The sesond explosion oucurred shortly after a rescue party had de scended. That this was killed is thought certain. ARRESTED WRONG MAN. Case of Mistaken Identity in Charge of Larceny. At Lynchburg. Va., H. H. Layne, who was arrested about a week ago and detained for the Jacksonville Fla. authorities under the name of Guy Walker, on a charge of the theft of $600 at that place, was released when it was shown that his arrest was due to mistaken identity. Layne, whose home is in Fredericksburg, Va., proved he could not have been in Florida at the time of the theft, and he was released, desptte the fact that he tallied perfectly with the description of Ely, the man want ed. ? Tried to Eat Rooster. At Des Moines. Iowa, a handsome chanticler hat was almost destroyed, and its wearer, Miss Mary Livings ton, severely injured about the face when a big cat which had been hid ing in a tree overhead leaped upon her with the evident intention of eating the rooster on the hat. * Two Killed and Three Hurt. At Piqua, Ohio, several persons were killed and three others injur ed when the automobile in which they were riding, was Btruck by a Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad train Friday night. ? - OBER 4\ 1910. IFIRE AND DEATHi Follows Blawiag Up Los Angeles Times Building Saturday THIRTY WERE KILLED Within Few Minutes of the Explosion the Entire Building' Was a Fiery Furnace.?The Managing Editor Says Plant Destroyed by Enemies of Industrial Freedom. The building occupied by The Times Publishing company at Los Angeles, Cal., was destroyed by fire Saturday morning and there v/as a heavy loss of life, estimated aB high as 20. The fire was proceeded by an ex plosinon and immediately the build ing, was enveloped in flames. The explosion occurred . on the second floor of an addition to the old build ing. The old part is' of three floors. Within a few seconds from the time of the explosion the entire building was a fiery furnace. Crowds that gathered say they saw many men fan back from the windows into the flames. Others leaped and were m jured. ? The poperty loss is estimated at $500,000. The editorial rooms were on the third floor, but It is believed the greater part of the men on this floor escaped death. ThomaB P. Smith, an "ad" com positor, working on the second floor when the explosion occurred, gives the following version-: "There were at least 50 men at work on my floor. I believe that half of this number may not have escap ed. I with the others rushed for the street and we then saw the whole building in flams. "The entire building was In ruias at 1.45, and but two walls we*'e standng. "In addition to the complete plant of The Times the building contained the large jobbing and commercial plant of the American Engraving Co." Within a few minutes after the ex plosion the police arrested two men in the Broadway tunnel, two blocks north of the Times' building and they are being held for indentiflca tion. The Times' employs non-union printers and has had more or les3 friction with labor. The police had their fire lines put up around the scene and reserves were soon patroling the district arm ed with riot clubs but the half clad crowd which silently watched tha. flames from behind the fire lines were orderly and not an arrest waa made from amongst'the crowd. The following list of missing fur nished by the Times have not been accounted for: J. C. Golliher, linotype operator, married, five children. W. G. Tunstall, linotype operator, married. John Howard, printer, married, one child. Grant Moore, machinist, marriei, three children. Edward Wasson, printer, married. Elmer Frink, linotype operator, married. Eugene Cares, linotype operator, married, one child. Don E. Johnson, iluotype operator, married. Ernest Jordan, linotype operator, married, one child. ^ Prank Underwood, printer, mar ried, one child. J. Wesley Beaver, stenographer. R. L. Sawyer, telegrapher, mar ried, two children. Harry L. Crane, assistant tele graph editor, married, one child. Chales Gulliver, compositor, mar ried. Carl Salada, linotype operator. Among the injured taken to the receiving hospital were the follow ing: Harvey P. Elder, asc-.tiii-f city edi tor, jumped from third story; right leg broken, internal injuries and se vere burns; will die. Charles E. Lovelace, Coast editor, Jumped from third floor, hip broken, Internally injured and burned S. W. Crablll, foreman composing room, severe bruises. Randolph Rossi, linotype opera to-*, Jumped lrom second ffoor, severely Injured. Many others injured were taken to the other hospitals. The flames followed the explosion so quickly that those In <he o;ihl ing had little chance to escs.pt>. Many leaped from the windows ani were severely injured. The building burned rapidly an l before many of the inmates cojIg reach the street it was a mnsc ot flames The force of the explosion wis concentrated on the mechanical de partment of the paper and most of the dead and injurede were members of these departments. Managng Editor Harry Andrews, at two o'clock Saturday morning, said: "The Times building was destroyed by dynamite this morning by enem ies of industrial freedom. The Times Itself cannot be destroyed. It will soon be re-Issued from its auxilary plant and will fight its battles to the last. "The horror of the loss of life and maiming of men precludes a further Statement at this hour." General Harrison Gray Otis, owner of The Tim ps, will arrive home from Mexico, he stated, Monday morning. ?"Men employed in most-' of the de partments had, I think," said Mr. Andrews, "some chance to get out through the front exits. I do not ?believe there were 100 persons in the building. I was not there. Mr. Von Bier, our city editor, got out, also Mr. Whitnes; our telegraph editor. I feel sure most of our men escaped." Friday night being unusually hea vy at The Times, something over 30 men were at work on the linotypes and about 50 in the "ad" section. ?Because of the fact that so many extra men were at work it will be probably several days .before all are accounted for. The building occupied by The. Times Mirror publishing plant is of ?brick, three stories in height and back of this was a brick annex of two stories and a basement. The editor ial department of The Times was on the third floor of the. main building and the business office on the ground floor. This annex contained the presses, linotypes, big job printing plant and The Times school for train ing lineoptye operators. ? BOMBS UNDER HOMES. Efforts Made to Blow Up Two City I Residences. . For 20 years following a quarrel with the Typographical union and the changing of The Times to a non union paper, Gen. Otis has fought unionism with every resource at his command. He has been seconded In this fight by the Merchants' and Manufacturers ' association, whose secretary was the object of the at tempt at dynamiting. Feeling ran high throughout the city during the day over the Times disaster and was augmented by the discovery that a dynamite bomb had been found un der the residence of Secretary Zee handlelaar. The public reached a state of alarm and consternation as the attempt to blow up Gen. Otis home became known. fThe Otis home, known as "the Bivouac," stands on Whiltshire ave nue in the most fashionable part of the city. After the finding cf the iu fernal machine at the Zeehandelaar residence, Detective Rice was sent to "The 'Bivouac" to search the prem ises. Aided by Charles Focun, the gard ener, he found a suit case hidden in a bunch of vines under a bay win dow on the east side of the house fronting Westlake park. Detective Rice telephoned Chief of police Gal loway, who went immediately to Gen. Otis house. The officers examined the suit case. Chief of Police Gal loway wanted to take it to the police station without opening. 'Rice insisted on opening it there and finally stuck a knife through the side of the case. A buzz of mechan ism was heard inside and smoke j oozed out. [ Convinced that the suit case con tained a bomb, Chief of Police order ed the infernal machine rush ed over to the park where its ex plosion could do little damage. (Rice picked it up and dashed across the street. Putting it down, they sped away, and put about 100 feet between them and the bomb when it went off with a crash' that threw the entire neighborhood into a panic. The explosion tore out a portion of the curbing of the street paralleling the park. Branches of a tree direct ly overhead were torn off together with a portion of the park fence. A plate glass wind shield fronting a porch in the Otis home also was shattered. iRice said the infernal machine weighed about 50 pounds. In the Otis home at the time of the explosion were Mrs. Harry Chan dler, daughter of the general, and a relative, Mrs. Booth, and the latter's two children. Rice hurried .back to the scene im mediately after the explosion to look for any possible clues. He found fragments of the suit cases and shat tered portions of clockwork, which formed the exploding mechanism of the infernal machine. The infernal machine found at Mr. Zeehandelaar's residence was com posed of 15 sticks of giant powder attached to a fuse and set by clock work to explode at 1 o'clock in the morning, the same hour at which the explosion occurred In The Times of fice. The bomb was first discovered at the Zeehandelaar home by a servant, who called an officer. Had not some part of the mechanism failed to work, the house would probably have been demolished and the in mates killed. Assistant General Manager Chand ler of The Times says that an att tempt was made to blow up the Times auxiliary plant at College and San Francisco, a few minutes after the explosion destroyed the main building. |The succession of tragic events and the rumors of other attempted outrages set the populace of Los Angeles in a state of mind border ing a panic. Delayed Vengeanco Charged with the assassination of Nicholas myers, near Ocala, Fla., a week ago C, J. McCraney and Wm. Ayres were arrested on warrants sworn out by a nephew of the dead man. The death of Myers is suppos ed to have been the result of long delayed vengeance for the murder and cremation of I. O. Arms, twelve years ago. ? WO CENTS PEE COPY WA! NOT RUN eaator Tillman Not to Stand for Re Election -?- 1 .. HIS WIFE OBJECTS This Practically Assured, Attention Turns Now to Who Will Be Suc cessor.?Though Not Sick, Bis Physical Condition Will Not Per mit. That B. R. Tillman* -will not seek re-election to the United States sen ate is practically assured. Close friends of the United States senator say that his health will not permit his return to politics. It is also stated that Senator Tillman may nev er again enter the Senate Chamber of the United States, for, it is said ? - on the best kind of authority, that his physical condition would not per mit. ' ; Those who have visited Senator 1 Tillman recently give the opinion ? that he is preparing to spend the rest of his days quietly on his Trenton farm. It is also said that Mrs. Till man, knowing well the physical con dition of Senator Tillman, would not permit.. \ ? There have been many names sug about the retirement of Senator Till man from the senatorship since his illness in Washington last spring. Senator Tillman has given no public utterance as to whether he intends to leave the senate. It can almost be positively stated that he is through with politics in this state. Naturally the question follows: "Who will go to the United Stages Senate to succeed B. R. Tillman?" There have bee many names sug gested for the place, and many changes in South Carolina politics are liable to take place in the space of two years. Among those who have been men tioned as likely to declare themselves for the position are Gov. M. F. An sel, A. F. Lever, congressman from the Seventh district, and Lewis Par ker, of Greenville. Neither of these have ever intimated that they would contest for senatorial honors, yet there are always men talked of for every position in politics, and these are men that have been talked of in South Carolina as likely opponents J for the place of Senator Tillman. <Jov. Ansel has stated that he in tends to go back to Greenville when he leaves the office of governor and resume the practice of law. He was for many years solicitor in the Pied mont and has a broad acquaintance. He was elected to the Governorship of South Carolina. Gov. Ansel is not a man to talk politics and has never intimated that he would follow the game after leaving the office of the chief executive of the State. Yet he is one of those mentioned. ?Lewis W. Parker is the best known and one of the most capable mill officers in the South. He has been a remarkable success in everything that he has undertaken. His name has been mentioned many times for the senatorship. A. F. Lever, congressman from thia district is also mentioned as a pos sible candidate for the position. He has never made a statement. He defeated his opponent for congress recently by a large majority and has made an excellent congressman. There are others who might be mentioned. R. Goodwin Rhett, may or of Charleston, beinp among them. The contest is two years away and ' others may rise up and claim the right for the position. ? * A NEW ELECTRIC LINE. First Spike Driven on New Roid From Atlanta. The firs', spike in the construc tion of the Atlanta and Carolina Electric Railway, to be built from' Atlanta to Augusta, and thence to Columbia, or Charleston, S. C, wa9 driven at Atlanta Friday by Mi83 Evelyn Mason, daughter of Matthew Mason, vice-president and general manager of the line. Work on the roadbed will be rushed and the offi cials predict that the road will bo completed to Augusta within eigh teen months. Capt. James W. Eng lish, a well known Atlanta capatilisl, is president of the new line, and the board of directors includes other men of financial prominence in the State. * KILLED BY A TRAIN. A Young Man Meets With a Most Horrible Heath. Edward Davis, the 18-year-old son of Mr. T Jeff Davis, a prominent farmer living about four miles west of Greenwood, was run over and kill ed early Friday morning at Salak, three miles west of here by a train on the Charleston ai .1 Western Cai* olina Railroad. His body was hor ribly mangled. It is supposed that the train which ran over hom was a freight leaving here about 5 o'clock for Augusta. The young man.who was killed, was at the home of Air. John Davis, at Salak,, at midnight and left presumably for home. Whether he wa3 asleep on the traex or was struck while walking on the track is not known. *>