The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, July 13, 1911, Image 1
PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY
THp? JRA? lAFT
Basinger Seems to H??e Piayed Slick
Scheme cd lee President.
WILL BE LOOKED INTO
Alleged that Taft on Advice of His
Brother, Ballinger and Ryan Re
? *Lk> Ktkii hie
stored Alaskan Lands to Domain
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So Gnggenhelm Interest Slight
Grab Them.
if* ? ? it
Published charges that the presi
dent had been induced by three per
sons?his brother, the then Secretary
of the Interior Ralllnger and Richard
S. Ryan of New Yotk, a representa
tive of the Guggenheim interests?to
restore to the domain lands sur
rounding Controller'bay, in-southern
Alaska, met with quick action In Con
gress.
The house committee on expendi
tures headed by Representative Gra
ham, of Illinois, immediately sum
moned Commissioner Dennett, of the
general land office, to appear before
the committee to explain what he
knows about the matter, and Repre
sentative Cox, of Indiana, one of the
democratic leaders of the house, in
troduced a resolution calling on Pres
ident Taft for all the information
he can furnish on the subject.
The Cox resolution requests Pres
ident Taft to submit all papers and
information in his posession relating
to bis executive order of July 28,
lfllu, restoring to public domain the
lands surrounding Controller Bay.
It sets forth published charges in
timating that Ryan, through Secre
reary Baliinger and Charles P. Taft,
induced the president of the United
States to sign the order.'
? Tt points out that through this or
der the Guggenheim syndicate
"has now or will get control of Con
troller Bay or harbor," and requests
the president to advise the house
whether Messrs. Ryan and Ballin
ger and C. P. Taft Induced him to
sign the order restoring Controller
?ay land to public domain, which
previously had been set aside as a
national forest reserve whether the
president had information that Ryan
was working in the interest of the
Guggenheim syndicate.
"I am going to push this resolu
tion," said Representative' 'Coxr "If
the rules committee fails to act I
will bring it up on the <fk>or of the
house. . There is something radical
ly wrong about this whole transac
tion. ? Balked by tbe refusal of the
government to allow the Cunning*
ham coal land claims, this gang in
Wall street evidently is determined
to secure control of this coal land.
They filed on the Controller bay land,
the only available harbor through
?which the Alaskan coal can be ship
ped before the government could ev
en have it surveyed after the presi
dent's order withdrawing it <from
the Chugash reserve.
"Failing to secure the land, they
have now gone after the only means
of transporting coal and with a raft
road from the coal lands to Con
troller bay they could absolutely dic
tate to the owners of the coal land."
Representative Graham, chairman of
the interior department, expenditures
committ-.e, also has-been looking in
to the matter. Acording to the be
lief here and in Alaska, - Ryan, in
his efforts to obtain railroad termi
nals at Controller bay, has been
working in the interest of an Eng
lish syndicate.
TWO VERY FOOLISH MEN.
Elew Themselves up by Carelessly
Handling Powder.
In -heir efforts to divide a keg of
powder in a fair and square manner,
Vendring Goolish was blown to at
oms and John Memenich is dying oi'i
terrible burns In a Pittsburg, Pa.,
hospital. The men were friends and
worked together as miners near
Greenburg, Pa.
One day they were dividing a keg
of powder. They knew but. one way
way to make a fair measurement.
Placing the keg on the table the men
stood before it. Goolish took out a
handful and placed it on the table
beside him. Semenich did the same.
This tedious process was continued,
until one handful remained. At a
loss how to divide it, it was finally
decided to set it off. Unthinking
Goolish touched a match to it. There
was a puff and two piles of pow
der also exploded. Goolish was sent
through the roof and was killed.
Semenich was probably fatally burn
ed.
The Earth Trembled.
Two earthquake shocks were felt
early Monday morning in the town
of Keoskemet. Hungary. A panfc
followed, the inhabitants rushing out
into the streets and assembling in the
squares. Hundreds of chimneys were
overturned and the town hall and.
other buildings more or less dam
aged.
Rescured from Tug.
The Marblehead, Ohio, life Sav
saving Station reported to the de
partment service at Washington that
the life saving crew had rescued at
midnight Sunday eight men from the
tug Luther while that vessel was
sinking in Lake Erie near Gull Is
land reef.
WHERE IS THE LETTERS
NO TRACE OP TELL TALE NOTE
CAN BE DISCOVilRED. I
Part of Another Docux.ent Mysteri
ously Disappeared Before President
! *VI 3 *l SM i ? I - v i
Taft Signed It.
The story of a vanishing letter,
both addressed and signed "Dick"
from Richard S. Ryan, of New York
I to Richard A. Ballinger, then sec
retary of the interior, purporting to
show that Charles P. Taft had in
fluenced his brother, President Taft,
j to.forward the alleged attempt of
Guggenheim interests to acquire Con
troller Bay, the only outlet for large
coal fields in Southern Alsaka, fig
ured in a congressional inquiry be
gan Monday. ,
- The testimony before the house
committee on expenditures in the In
terior department and statements
the White House and from Charles
P. Taft's office failed to lift the mys
tery enshrouding the alleged letter.
Fred Dennett, commissioner of the
general land office, testified that he
knew nothing of it and that he would
not .necessarily know of its existence,
and such a'letter "W^s not recalled
in~any other quarter.
The letter was neu to be found in
the files,'though MissM.1 E. Abbott,
a newspaper writer; Tho will testify
later, says she copied such a docu
ment from the ofliciil files. Presi
dent Taft has expressed confidence
that his brother never" communicat
ed/with him on tue subject; either
otefly or in writing. V
ItNwas stated at the White Rouse
that ? careful search of the files in
the executive office failed' to reveal
any record of a letter to the presi
dent from Charles P. Tart concerning
Ryan or'bearing in i;ny way upon the
Controller Bay affair.
The most important development
was the testimony of Commissioner
Dennett that the claimants represent
ed by Richard S. Ryan of New York
said to' represent the Guggenheim
interests, had beneSted by the omis
sion of one provision in the final pa
pers. ' ,
Mr. Dennett said that when the
executive order opening the Control
ler Bay land to entry reached his
office It contained a provision under
which entrymen could not file on the
land for 60 days a ter the order was
issued. In some way or other he
did ot know how, he said, this pro
vlsloh was iost or eliminated before
the final promulgation of the order.
Mr. Dennett said that the first
draft, which, in accordance with the
custom, was prepared at the depart
ment of agriculture, contained the
fiO days provision, but that it was
not in the order as finally isigned
by the president.
"Who struck it out.'" '
"I do not kno*-."
Chairman Graham of the commit
tee asked Mr. Dennett to furnlBh
copies of all telegrams and corres
pondence regarding the Controller
p.ay claims and the report dealing
with the surveys, made there.
? Mr. Fisher, secretary of the Inter
ior department, issued a statement
Monday concerning the Interview at
tributed to Miss Abbott, in which
she referred to a postscript to a let
ter from Mr. Ryn to Secretary Bal
1 Inger.
"No reference whatever," says Mr.
Fisher, "was made in this Interview
to what Miss Abbott very properly
calls the 'amazing postscript,' which
she says she found attached to a
letter to Secretary Ballinger from
Mr. Ryan, nor was this postscript
ever mentioned or referred to in any
other interview which I have ever)
had with Mise Abbott or any one else
prior to its publication in a Phila
delphia newfp?oer.
"I am told ;ipon my return that
the most dilligu-nt search of the rec
ords of this ortice has failed to dis
close any such document and e.ery
one who has searched the record
says most emphatically that he has
never seen th-.s postscript or any
other writing ist this character. This
includes Mr. Brown, who was private
secretary to S?cretary Ballinger."
DIED FAR FROM HOME.
Workman from Germany Accidental
ly Killed at Great Falls.
A special to the Charlotte Obser
ver says Dr. W. W. Feunell, of Rock
Hill, received a telephone message
to come to Gl eat Falls at once, that
a party there was seriously hurt.
He rushed down in an automobile
and found that Lawrance Miller, one
of the Germans that the Southern
Power company has inisfalling its
fertilizer plant at that place, hadj
fallen 45 feet into a tank or vat, and
his skull was crushed and neck bro-j
ken and tha; nothing could be done
for him. Lar.er the unfortunate man
died. His body will be shipped to
his home.
A young German of the party that
is at Great Falls, who could scarcely
speak any English at all, accompa
nied the body to Rock Hill, stated
that Miller was 34 years of age and
had a wife and four children in Ger
many and that he carried $.$,000 in
surance.
Streai:i of Burning Booze.
Recently a large whiskey distillery
was burned at Glasgow, Scotland. A
remarkable spectacle was furnished
by a stream of burning whiskey run
ning from the flames, which consum
ed the budding, into the Cromarty
firth.
ORANGEB
FARMING FIGURES
MITCH INTERESTING DATA COM
PILED BY WATSON.
In the Value of Crops Per Square Mile
South Carolina Ranks Second of
All the States.
Some interesting statistics on the
agricultural situation in South Caro
lina have been prepared by Commis
sioner Watson from the recent feder
al census. As has been announced
this state jumped from 21 to 13 in the
rank of the states in agriculture.
The value of the agricultural prod
ucts of the .state increased by 28.4
per cent, in one year. The value of
the crops in 1910 was $140,000,000
which was an increase over 190'9 of
$31,000,000, and increase over 1906
of $63,288,000 and an Increase of
$88,685,000 over 1900, aH of which
show that the value of the crops has
increased over 100 per cent, during
the past decade.
With reference to the value of the
crops per square mile, South Caroli
na ranked second of all states, with
$4,518. Other states in comparison:
Illinois, $5,122; Georgia, $3,743,
Texas, $1,369.
All other Southern states show the
value of crops per square mile to be
less than $3,000.
The cotton crop of the South, ac
cording to the statistics gleaned ror
1910, went on the market for $963,
180,000. The crop of 1909 was
worth $812,000,000, and for 1908
$681,230,000. It win be iieen that
the cotton crop of 1910 was worth
$151,000,000 more than 1909. There
are In the South 440,000,000 acres of
land available for cotton and only
one out Of 12 acres are planted. Of
?the cotton crop 19 per cent, was con
sumed in the United "States, 49 per
cent, was exported and 35 per cent,
remained in this country up to Feb
ruary, 1911.
Concerning the value per bale of
cotton, the following comparative ta
ble ,1s given:
Value per bale, 1910.$87.15
Value per bale, 1904. 50.37
Value per bale, 1898 .30.22
' it is pointed out that the sum of
$604 was received for twenty bales of
cotton in 1898, while the farmer re
ceived .$1,743 for the same number in
!l910.
! In South Carolina there were in
1910 176,180 farms, or an increase
of 13 per cent, over the preceeding
decade. The value of the lands and
buildings increased ,by 162 per cent.;
implements and machinery, 112 per
cent.;lands, 169: increase in labor
bill, 76 per cent. These statistics
show that there were 20,825 farms
added. There are 64,227 owners, or
?n increase of 4,810, and of these
farms 19,987 are mortgaged. The
tenants number 11,097. The in
crease in the number of tenants dur
ing: the decade was 16,113 and the
same preceeding decade 26,000.
CHILD SLAIN BY WOMAN.
Shot Fired at a Woman Hits and
Kills Little Negro.
A special dispatch to The State
says a horrible and pathetic tragedy
was enacted near Blacksburg Sunday
morning between the hours of 12 and
1 o'clock. The actors live as ten
ants on the farm of Mac Byars, four
miles from Blacksburg, on the old
Rutherford and Chester highway.
Lily Duncan, a mulatto, was on her
way from the home of her step
father, Ras Franklin, to her own
house, near the home of Ira Sar
arms, when she was fired upon by
ratt, with a two-year-old child in her
Francies Sarratt, the wife of Ira Sar
ratt, with a shotgu.
Only one shot struck the mother,
the rest ot the load lodging in the
back of the child's head and causing
its death Monday morning about 10
o'clock. Frances Sarratt disappear
ed and has not been apprehended
yet. Jealousy is supposed to have
been the cause of he act on the part |
of Frances Sarra'1.
HEAVY REWARD OFFERED.
For the Negro Who Killed the Ashe
viUe Policeman.
A dispatch from Ashevi?e, N. C,
says the death of Patrolman McCon
nell, which occurred Friday after
noon, the increase of the reward to
approximately $1,000 and the em
uloyment of expert detectives,, has
given impetus to the search for John
Huff, the negro who shot McConneli,
while the former was under arrest for
stealing oattle. Posses are scouring
the mountains in every direction, fol
lowing up clues, while officers of ad
joining counties are lending every ef
fort in the search which up to lale
Tuesday night had proven of no
avail. Nothing, definite has been
heard of Huff since he was located
and gave officers the slip near Green-,
ville Thursday night o last week.
From Bite of Crab.
Miss Maybelle Scheririshea, age 14,
of New Orleans, may lose her left
arm because of the bite of a crab. She
was "pinched" on the hand by the
crab last week and the wound became
infected. Physicians are making
eeorts to save her arm.
Five Churches Struck.
In two days five churches, three
Protestant and two Catholic, were
I struck by lightning last week during
I different thunder storms.
URG, S. C, THURSDAY, JUL^
GANG RUN DOWN
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! Traffic in White Girls Broken Up By lie
Government Officials.
TALES OF HORROR TOIJ)
Three of the Infamous Gang Have
Been Tried, Convicted and Sent to
a Federal Prison, Whilj Several
More of the Gang are Yet to be
Tried.
The operations of an organized
gang of white slave dealers, compos
ed of men and women, who have car
ried on the traffic all over the North
west, are believed now to have finally
been brokefl up. J. H. Anderson, a
United States marshall of Salt Lake
City, Utah, has taken three members
of the gang as prisoners to the Fed
eral prison at Leavenworth, Kan.
They are May Brow, who must
serve a term of five and one-half
years; Herbert Gould, seven and one
half years, and William Siegel, four
years. They were sentenced by
Judge Page Morris of Duluth,.Minn.,
siting at Salt Lake City. Two more
members of the gang have been con
victed and are awaiting sentence.
One of these, Roscoe Morrison,
took a girl from Salt Lake under
promise of marriage and forced her
into a life of shame at La Grande,
Ore. After two weeks search, in
which the girl was moved from place
to place by her abductors, the federal
officers located her and arrested
Morrison.
All of the girls Morrison has tak
en are young American girls, and for
eleven years according: to his own
admission, he has not done a day's
work, but has lived from the earn
igs of the young women and by gamb
ling. It is said the women have con
tributed as much as $500 a month to
him. His part of the combination
was to go from town to town collect
ing'the money and locating and pro
curing young women.
The officers say he had sixteen girls
located at Los Angeles, San Francis
co, Cal., Portland, Ore., Spokane, Se
attle, and Walla Walla, Wash., Butte,
Mont., Boise and Pocatello, Ind., Re
no and Ely, Nev., and Ogden and Salt
Lake City, Utah.;
The Brown woman was found gurt
ty of Inducing at 7 5-year-old girl to
leave her home in Salt Lake City and
enter into an immoral life. Mrs.
Brown was the tool of Herbert Gould,
who drifted into the West from Ohio
five years ago and since has lived on
an income from the traffic.
During the trip to the prison Mre.
Brown was in great fear of her life,
sayinig-, that Gould had threatened to
kill her because of the nature of her
testimony at their trial.
Siegel deserted his wife and child
ten days old at Denver to go with a
woman to Ogden. There he forced
her to live an immoral life and give
to him her earnings. ,
The federal officers on the Pacific
coast and In the Rocky mountain
States are operating. In a way to
break up the slave traffic in that sec
tion.
SCAMP WAS CAUGHT.
Negro Wrote Obscene Letters to La
dies and is Trapped.
Ned McGehee, a negro, was ar
rested several mJles from Nashville,
Tenn., this week, on the Murfreey
boro turnpike, and is being held be
fore being, turnd over to the Federal
officers on the charge of sending ob
scene matter through the mails.
It is charged that McGehee has re
cently, on several occasions, sent the
most obscene letters imaginable to i
two of the; most prominent ladies liv
ing on the Murfreesboro road. In
these letters the negro is said to
have asked the ladies to meet him at'
a given ph.ee at a set time.
In order to accomplish the arrest
of the man, decoy letters were used
with good results, these being writ
ten by some of the male relatives of
the ladies who had been so grossly
insulted. In those decoy letters an
appointment was made to meet the
negro at the place indicated by him.
The time for the meeting was this
week. The astonishment of the fiend
when he went to fill the appointment!
can be imagined upon coming face
to face with the detectives and a
number of prominent citizens of the
neighborhood.
Oldest Engineer Dead.
Benjamin E. Roboisnn, the oldest;
locomotive engineer on the Southern
Railway, and according to his broth
ers, the oldest in point of service of;
any locomotive engineer in the Unit-J
ed States, died in Charleston after an
illness lasting about two weeks. Atj
the time of his death Robinson was
72 years of age. He entered the em-j
ploy of the old South Carolina Rail-1
road in 1852, and has run on it ev
er since. Mr. Robinson was known toj
many people between Columbia andj
Charleston and Augusta.
Man Seriously Cut.
At Greenville on Monday morning
C. F. McCall, boss spinner at the
Brandon cotton mill, was seriously
cut with a knife by E. F. Pittman.
The trouble took place about 6:30
o'clock when McCall was approached
by Pittman in the spinning room of
the mill in reference to Mrs. Pitt
man's connection with the mill.
{ 13, 1911.
HORRORS OF FAMINE
CHINESE MADE LIKE UNTO RAV
ENOUS BEASTS.
Little Children Are Hold into Slav
ery. Against this Darkness,' there
Stand Out Instances of Rare Love.
The Chinese fami.T? continues un
abated, and the sole hope ^f life for
tens of thousands of people is that
in some unexplained manner tbey
may be able to prolong their lives
until the scanty harvests in the fam
ine stricken districts mature.
? There has been assistance, but it
13 simply a drop in the*' bucket, and
anew tells of the LndihYrence of
mankind to the sufferings of those
who are not of kin, or out of sight.
The Chinese governmeu; has ex
pended three-quarters of -a million
dollars, and the Foreign and Chinese
Relief association a quarler of a
m'lliou.
Hunger and despair have made de
mons of thousands. While In the
larger towns some pretense is made
to decently inter those who die from I
hunger, it the rural districts all de
cency has been oast aside.
The dead are piled high in fields,
and hundreds attempt to appease
their hunger by devouring parts of
the decomposing bodies, in conse
quence, frightful diseases of many
kinds are rampant.
At every approach of a relief train,
either on a railroad or on highway,
is made occasion for a tremendous,
rush, in which many are relentlessly
trampled under foot and crushed to
death.
A horrible indication of the ex
tremity of the people is afforded by
the large number of little boys and
girls who are sold into slavery by
their parents, the price being a few
ounces of bread or a handful of
grains of wheat.
But a better side is not wanting
In the district of Mengehen, where
the famine possibly is at its height,
an appealing story of love in face of
starvation is going the rounds.
An old man, his two sons and their
wives were living together, when the
famine came upon them. As last
their want was such that they scarce
had strength to crawl about. .
As a last expedient the young wife
of one of the sons proposed that she
be sold into slavery. A family coun
sel was called, the aged and half
starved father presiding.
"You must sell me," said the girl
to the old father, head of the house.
But her sister-in-law interfered. "You
have three children," she said, "while
I have none. It is I who will be
the sacdifice. Then when better times
come my husband can get himself
another wife and live happily."
But the old father decided that
neither should be sold, and one by
one the family died.
CROWD MEN ACED FIEND.
Ohio Mob Threaten Negro Who Ts
Saved By the Police.
With cries of "Hang him; lynch
the brute," a mob of several hundred
persons gathered in the northern
part of the city Monday and threat
ened to wreak summary vengeance
upon Havey Mickes, a negro, who is
accused of having attacked a 16-year
old white girl. The negro had been
captured by a posse that chased him
for several miles upon a hand-car.
A crown surrounded the jail and
made a demonstration of violence,
but was quickly repelled by the po
lice and deputies. News of the at
tempted assault, had gained wide cur
rency, and intense excitement pre
vailed as the members of the posse
with their prisoner in custody arriv
ed in the police station.
This county and city authorities,
anticipating an outbreak has ordered
the entire police force to the city
prison and supplementing this force
with a large number of special depu
ties. Later Mickens was spirited to
the county jail at Canton for safe
keeping.
FIVE MEN ARE KILLED.
In Accident That Seriously Hurts a
Man From Helton.
Five men were killed and two ser
iously injured when a travelling
cnane bearing a 1-1-ton girder col
lapsed Monday at a new viaduct be
ing constructed by the Western Mary
land railroad at Salisbury Junction,
Pa. The dead: John Scott, McKees
port, Pa.; Joseph Smith .Grove City, j
Pa.; J. R. White, Richmond, Va.; C. j
H. Kennedy, New River,. Va.; E. L.
Sanders, Dullochville, Ga.
The injured are: A. E. Kluttz, of
Salisbury, X. C, and L. G. Garner j
of Belton, S. C, both of whom mayj
die. The men were all structural |
iron workers and were killed or in
jured in the fail. They were in the
employ of the McClintic-Marshall
Construction Company of Pittsburg, |
Pa. The heavy girder was being con- I
veyed to the west bank of the Cas- j
selman river when the crane toppled
and crashed to the ground.
Death of Rev. Dr. Shuck.
Rev. L. H. Shuck, D. D., pastor of
Cheraw Baptist church, died Sunday
afternoon. Dr. Sliuck was known
throughout the State, he having la
bored in the ministry for f>4 years
in the Carolinas, Kentucky, Missouri
and Virginia. The interment took
place at Barnwell.
WOULD HANG THEM
LYXCRTXG IS AVERTED BY AR
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RIVAL OF OFFICERS.
Xegro Man and His Wife Saved from
Angry Crowd by Intervention of
Cooler Heads.
A special dispatch to The State
from Anderson says the lynching of
a negro man and his wife in the
Neal's creek of Anderson county was
narrowly averted Tuesday by cool
heads and the prompt arrival of offi
cers on the scene, H. P. McDaniels,
a wealthy farmer, reprimanded his
negro tenant, T. C. Williams, for cut
ting down some pine saplings.
The negro resented the reprimand
and made an attack on Mr. McDan
iels, hitting him between the shoul
der blades with a large rock. One
of the shoulder blades was fractured
and his spinal column was injured.
The news of the attack spread rapidly
through the county, and wit.iln fl'l
hour a large throng had gathered^
at the McDaniels home, many coming
from a distance in lutomoblles.
A warrant "gainst the negro,
charging assault and battery wJw.!j lr
tent to kill, was secured from Magis
trate Martin, and Deputy Richard
Smith, arrested the negro, who offer
ed no resistance. Because the ncsro's
wife attempted to help him by bringr
ing out a shotgun, 3he was also ar
rested.
Imediately after the arrests were
effected Deputy Sheriff Van Mar
tin and Constable Tom Davis arriv
ed in an automobile, picked up the
prisoners and rushed them to the
county jail. The mob -had greatly
increased in numbers and violence
to the negroes was expected. Col.
D. A. Geer and others held the crowd
back, and prevailed upon them to
allow the law to take its course.
Mr. McDaniels is a peaceable man
and one of the best citizens in An
derson county. His condition is ser
ious, partial paralysis having set in.
He is about 50 years old, and has
taken an active work in the school
and church in his community. Great
Indignation over the brutal attack
?has been expressed by the people.
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WANTED HIM REMOVED.
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Congregation Prays That, Death Will
Take an Enemy.
We have heard of prayers for all
sorts of things, "out the "sanctified"
negro church at Quitman, Ga., has
a new one on us. The "sanctified"
negro congregation over there is
praying for the. death of Oscar Davis,
and the members announce that he
will die within three months as the
answer to their petitions. Oscar is
to be removed from the earthly
scene of activity because he has been
too active in persecuting the church;
the other day he entered a complaint
to the police that the sanctified ones
were a public nuisance. - *
They have been holding a "pro
tracted meeting" in a negro school
house near Oscar Davis' 'home: for
the past three months, and Oscar
said they cavorted and shouted so
much he could not sleep and was so
unfitted for his duties as driver Of
a delivery wagon. The leaders of the
sect were summoned to appear in
mayor's court, and'when the hour
for the hearing} arrived the court
was packed with ne?roes and there
were several hundred in the street in
front.
A demonstration of "faith" had
been planned and the leaders start
ed a peculiar humming and sway
ing, which was part of the cavorting
Oscar Davis complained of. The po
lice scattered among them and stop
ped the performance. The case v^s
dismissed on the plea that the nui
sance had been abated, and now the
sanctified brethren want Davis
to furnish a funeral for the town and
they are praying to that end.
ATTA Civ YOUNG WOMEN.
One Dragged to Railroad Yard and
Let in Bad Condition.
At Marion, Ohio, as Miss Flora
Spicer, aged 20, and her guest Miss.
Mary Rogers, aged 22, of West Mans- j
field were returning home from'
church at 10 o'clock Sunday night,
they were accosted on the street by
a man who struck both girls over thei
head and, picking up Miss Spicer,
who was unconscious, carried her
away. Miss Rogers quickly summon
ed the help of a number of men, who
searched the railroad yards, a blor.K
distant, where they found Miss Spi
cer, with face bruised and clothing
torn, crawling along the tracks and
unable to speak. Her assailant es
caped. Miss Spicer when she regain
ed her speech said the man threat
ened her with death if she screamed.
She is in a serious condition. The
entire police force is looking for her
assailant.
Fatal Boiler Explosion.
At Sulina, Roumania, as an at
tempt was being made to re-float the
stranded river steamer Queensbor
ough Monday, the boiler exploded,
killing twelve persons and wound
ing tour others.
Crazed from Pellagra.
Crazed by the suffering caused by
pellagra, which wa3 contracted two
years ago, Mrs. J. W. Cate of Nash
ville, Tenn., aged 37, killed herself
by drinking carbolic acid Monday.
TWO CEIjTS PER COPY.
AWFUMflASH
Sfaoy Killed and ffonnded as Fast Traia
PJmiges Over ViadecT.
BAD FIRE BREAKS OUT
The Federal Express Running From
Washington to Boston Over the
New York, New Haven and Hart
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ford Railroad Wrecked at Bridge*
port With Great Loss of Life.
Many lives, probably twenty, were
crushed out in an instant and proba
bly three- times as many persons were
frightfully hurt Tuesday when the
Federal Express running from Wash
ington, D. C. to Boston, over the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad was hurled over a con
viaduct at Bridgeport, Conn., by an
open switch. ? i
Fire broke out in the wreckage
but the Bridgeport fire department
quickly put this out and the men
lent assistance to rescue the Injured.
Ambulances and dottcrs hastily sum
moned did their best to save those
who were under the debris. At 6:30
o'clock the bodies of 15 dead had
been taken from the wreck and lor*
ty other passengers were in* the lo
cal hospitals severely injured.
The more severely'injured1 are:
Unidentified woman,-eye goughed
out, face terribly bruised/ leg frac*
tured. ? ? ?.!'!.??
Michael Fury, conductor of train,
New Rocaelle, N. Y., -fracture d?
skull, internal injuries, Will die.
David Kissner, New York, brake
man, fracture of the left leg, other
injuries, will probably' die."
Mrs. James B. Joyce, of Maury, a
suburb of Washington, fracture of
the left wrist, back injured,1 shock1,
condition serious. ? ? ? ? ?
Sarah Czalobro, 931 South Penn
sylvania street, Philadelphia, head
badly cut, body braised, shock, con*
dition serious/ 1 ' :,v' 1 a
Christie and Antony Czalobro, her
two children, five and eight year**,'
Christie, bruised about head and
'body, internal ' injuries;' Antony,
fractured arm,'scalp wounds,1 inter
nal, may1 die. > j: ; m. in ?<
John F. Von Pfeiffer, McDonald St.
Dead vile, Mass., fracture 'of skull;
condition critical. - ?? -
Frank Von Pfeiffer, cousin of
John, 227 East North street, Phlla
delphiade-lphia, fracture of ribs, dis
location of shoulder; condition seri
ous.
Miss Lucy Note, 222 Washington*
avenue, Washington, internal inju
ries, condition critical.
George Rogers, Washington, D. C.
His young son was killed and an
other son, Frank, badly hurt. "Mrs.
Rogers is thought to be one of the
women who were killed.
Charles Frazier, 'Navatree Green,
Md.
Mrs. Emily Wilson, Philadelphia.
Miss Bertha Monroe," CHftondale,
Mass.
Miss Mary McCann, Philadelphia*
The express left Harleu' River
about an hour late. It was golrug at
high speed when the open switch a
niile and a, half west of Bridgeport
station was struck. >'' 'a
The switch was near the; tower..at
the junction of Falrfield avenue and
State street.* There was one tremen^
dous crash, an instant of Intense'si
lence and then the groans and shrieks
of the wounded. ' '
The wreck was almost complete,
five cars having gone over, only three
cars of the long train being left on
the track.
The engine, twisted into Junk, was
two hundred feet south of Falrfield
avenue. Behind were the mail and
bagzage cars while the Pullmans and
coaches were in a mass at the rear.
The day coach was entirely crush
ed and in it the deaths were many,
five bodies being removed at once.
Three Pullmans were almost com
pletely crumpled up, but appear
ances indicated that the passengers
in a measure were protected by the
strength of the cars.
WL'.h firemen, policemen, and doc
tors working as fast as possible tho
dead and injured were laid out upon
the lawn of a residence in Falrfield
avenue. As fast as the ambulances
came the injured were sent to the
hospitals.
In the wreckage of the engine was
a body thought to be the engineer
who had died at his post. A babe
about a year old was found in one
car. It was alive and had become
separated from its mother, Mrs. W.
V. Cleppane, of Cherry Creek, Md.,
and its aunt, Mrs. Beatrice Cleppane,
both of whom escaped with minor in
juries, chiefly wounds on the head.
In another coach a Mrs. Whaton,
of Philadelphia, was taken out alive
but her child was dead under her.
Mrs. L. W. Page, of 2223 Massachu
setts Avenue, Washington, D. C who
was with her maid and child escaped
with minor hurts.
Auto Turned Turtle.
At Ann'ston, Ala., J. D. Dill, a bak
er, was killed, Mrs. 'Mary Dill, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Dill and Charles
Dill, Jr., probably fatally injured
Monday night, when an automobile
in which they were riding turned
turtle. The accident occurred when
an attempt was made to avoid &
collision with another automobile.