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Booster Trip Edition. PUBLIS HED TRI-WEEKL^ m. IN JAIL *..-,..?. s - --. * - Ait Aikea Cosaty Tragedy Causes Great Excite ueol Near Scene. HAN BRUTALLY BEATEN Lady Dies Trom Shock Caused by Beating cf Husband and Nephew by Partie s Seeking to Prevent Marriage ot Young Man and the Daughter >r One of the Prisoners. tFIve whit men were lodged In the Alken cou ty jull Friday night, charged wit i implication in a most horrible affc (r Thursday night at Mo netta, in tha: county. The men are: Dock Cockuan, A. L. Holstein, R. H. Holstein Sidney Holstein, and J. C. Holstein all of whom are prom inently com ected. As a resu t of the visit of a party of men to U e home of the Spradleys, near Monet a, Thursday night, Mrs. Nettie Sprai ley lies a corpse in her borne and h a nusband is in a criti ? cal conditioi, with their nephew, Co lumbus Spr; dley, disappeared. His wher abouts are not known. He has not been seen or heard of since the d fficulty Thursday night. Whether he was murdered and now lies hidden n the woods or whether he was fr< Ightened and left the neighborhoo 1 remains only a matter of conjectur >. No eye-wi nesses are known ?o this awful tragei y other than the parties involved, an I the elder Spradley, not having regt ined consciousness, the story haB no: been told and may nev er be unless Columbus Spradley is lo cated alive, as the physicians do not entertain he pes of the elder Sprad ley's recovei y. The stor: as told Is that Colum bus Spradk * was to be married to Julia May I olsteln. The implicated men under : rrest are the father, un cle and com ins of the girl. (More ar rests are ex -.ected to follow the cor oner's inqu sltlcn. It is said that Thursday ni jht a party of white men visited the dome of the Spradley's, the elder Si radley was thrashed into insensibility , sustaining serious in juries, fron which he Is not expect I ed to recov. r. < Mrs Spi idley, who was in the house was : reightened to death. She! fainted and lever regained conscious ness. Col imbhus Spradley, about whom the e itire affair occurred, can not be fou id. His friends believe that he is > ead or seriously wound ed. Mrs. ipradley gave birth to a baby five veeks ago and the baby survives hei. ? The affai - is one of the moBt hor rible the c iunty officials have ever known and particulars are eagerly sought afte', but are hard to get on acount of he distance from Aiken and the remoteness in which the ""tragedy is ; hadowed The coroner's inquest is ikely to veveal a horri ble state of affairs. Roth fan ;iles are fairly well to do and are prominent In the section of the country in which the flogging oc curred. When the parents of the young lady found that they could not break up tie love match, members of the Hoi iteln family went to the Spradley he me Wednesday night and calling Col imbus Spradley from the house took him to a nearby field and Began flog ring him in a merciless manner, te ling him meanwhile that he would h .ve to leave the communi ty. ?Ben Spr idley followed the Hol steins and 2ockrell to the field, and when he aUempted to interfere was treated sin ilarly, being so severely flogged abo it the stomach that he is still in an i nconscious condition and physicians ? xy he has little chance of recovery. Columbus Spradley has not been a en since he was beaten. The affair caused great excitement in the com nunity where it happen ed. Mrs. Spn.dley, formerly Miss Ettie Sawyer of Aiken county, was the mother of a five weeks old baby, and in her wea kened condition, hearing the scream: of the flogged men and probably si eing the flogging going on, succum' ed to nervous fright. She was found lead the following morn ing in the Spradley home. The re-! port that Irs. Spradley had been Toughly ha idled by the mob, is de nied and tl e statement is made that she died o fright after seeing her nephew flo ;ged. Close ii vectigation In Augusta does not t -ing Columbus Spradley, nephew of Mrs. Spradley, to light in that city. Spradley, who is a young man, aboul 2S years old, appears to be very we .1 known throughout that section R. ports received from Mon netta were to the effect that he had left that ccumunity for Augusta, af ter being: f ogged by the mob. Fri day night t ?0 information was to thej effect that i': is not known whether he left foi Augusta or whether he was so seri nisly whipped that he had wandered >ff in the swamps some where, anc is either in a semi-con scious com ition or is dead. * Fa: lily Seems Fated. Third oi a family of children to ?meet a vio ent death. Robert Carter, son of a fa -mer in Valdasto County, Ga, died F*iday as the result tf be ing bitten a big rattlesnake in a corn field. A stort time ago the lad's little sistei was bitten by a cat and quickly die 1, and a few years ago a .brother w?s choked to death while at play. BY A STROKE OF LIGjl *Q jLT OOLUMBLi FRIDA*. J Electric Ball Playr Pranks About Three Houses.?Several Stunned and Burned?All Resting Well. The Columbia State says thirteen persons were stunned on Friday when a bolt of lightning i played pranks about three hquses at "State Park," the site that has been .acquir ed for the new State Hospital for the Insane. Several were knocked down by the force of the bolt. A white man standing in the door et one of the houses was thiown sev en* feet into the yard. Seveial of those stunned d-^cribed the bolt as a shot from a cmnon or a dyna mite bomb. The bolt struck the first house on the corner, knocking off some shin gles. The lightning then leaped to the next house and taking a clothes wire was conveyed to the third house. Silas Lee waa struck and seriously in jured as he walked in the yard. J. W. Bunch, the treasurer of the State Hospital for the Insane, was the first to igive aid to the injured. Dr. J. W. 'Babcock was called and gave all assistance possible. "It seems almost incredible that there should have been no fatalities," said Dr. Babcock in talking of the accident James Hoopnaugh, white, was the .most severely injured, being knocked unconscious Dr. Babcock said Fri day night that Hoopnaugh was rest ing well L. D. IMedlln, a white foreman, was slightly burned. Joe Parer, a negro, eugered a burn on the shoulder, Huber Cannon was severe*y shocked over his body and was unconscious for one hour. Turn er and Emily Bobky were bu)rned. Those injured were employed at "State Park" and had gone to the home when the rain commenced to fall. ? PLEAD HIS OWN CAUSE. ?dleged Safe Robber Tried at Spar tanburg on Friday. William Howard, alias Portland Ned, was tried at Spartanburg Fri day for .breaking Into the Enoree Manufacturing Company's safe on November 12, *i;:02, and, together with partners, taking over $8,000. He plead guilty in Federal Court in Charleston to rob'bing the postoffice which was situated in the same build ing. He was sentenced to serve eight years in the Federal prison, in Atlanta. This was completed on July 4, and he was then brought to trial at Spartanburg. Howard acted ^s his own attDr uey and questioned each of the 22 witnesses with great skill. He was well versed in the law of evidence and raised a number of objections which were sustained 'by Judge Watts. He cross-examined Detective Gregory with great care and his case was conducted wit.i much ability. The defendant 'Chen made a plea in his own behalf before the jury, which was very touching. He reviewed the evidence, pointed" out the weak parts and asked for mercy. In part, he said: "The biggest mistake ?I ever made in my life was the signing of the plea of guilty aefore Judge Braw ley, In the Charleston Court. I re gret that more than anything else, and the poor advice of my attorney is what induced me to do so. "I meet you as man to man and ask that you turn me free. I have served seven years in jail. Give me a chance, men, and for the sake of my God do not send me back to an other living hell like the Atlanta prison." DEVIL IS A JOKER. Preacher Declares Satan Is as Wiley as a Politician. "The devil is a reality He may be a joker but he is no joke. He is as subtle as a. Twentieth century politician and the .biggest liar the ages have produced." This state ment was made by the Rev. C. D. King, pastor of the Norwood Park Methodist Episcopal church, at the closing session of the fifty-second an nual Desplaines campmeeting in Chicago, 111. "Man has not changed in the essentials of his character since the days of Adam and Eve," continued Dr. King. "The bold out lines are the same. Adams program of innocence, =in. guilt, sorrow, straggle and salvation still is our program." ? Charlotte Gets Water. With practically 1.000.000 gallons of water received from the Catawba river at Charlotte and surrounding towns in the past twenty-four hours and lowering clouds, with a pros pect of rain, the v.ater situation there has assumed a decidedly brighter outlook. ? Five Persons Drown. At Crystal Falls, 111., a launch carrying a party of seven berry pick ers capsized near the mouth of the Fence river and Jive of the occupants drowned. John Holmes, owner of the launch, and one woman managed to reach the shore. * Kills Baseball Player. Failure tp dodge an inshoot caused the death of Fred White in Leroy, O., last week. He was struck on the head and died within a few hours. ORANGE? WILL FIGHT IT OUT SIMON FLEES FROM HATI TO ES CAPE HIS ENEMIES. While Two Negro Generals Are Apt to Fight for the Presidency of the Little Republic. A dispatch from Port-au-Pr]ince says Antolne Simon, the fleeing Pres ident of Haiti, sailed Friday night for Kingston, Jamaica, the refugee of Hayti's fallen heroes as the warship "17 Decembre," which took its name from the day he was unanimously elected president of the black repub lic, .boomed a doleful farewell. He follows in the wake of Nord Alexis, whom he overthrew in 1908, and he leaves the capital in the pos session of Cincinnatus LeConte, whom he had driven into exile with his deposed chief, and Antenor Fir min, a rival for the presidency whom he placated by sending as minister to Cuba. Nord Alexis ruled for six years. On December 31, 1908, Simon, then at the height of his popularity, led an overwhelming revolutionary army in to Port-au-Prince and was everywhere proclaimed as a savior of the coun try from tyranny. He appeared to have the country united behind him. Nord Alexis, who had found safety on the French cruiser Duguay Trouin, iater boarded the German steamer Sarnia and proceeded to Kingston, where, embittered against his coun tiymen, he died in the spring of 1910 To the last he refused to ad mit that he could understand the hostility of the people. With Simon disposed of, attention has turned to to his successor, and there Is much uneasiness regarding the future. LaConte and Firmln both are avowed candidates for the presi dency. They-head rival revolution ary armies. Neither leader-has ar rived at the capital, but their follow ers are in posesBion of the city and the feeling between the two parties is far from friendly. The danger now Is that neither negro will be disposed to retire in favor of the other and that the is sue must be l'terally fought out. The diplomatic corps is doing everything possible to avoid a conflict. But as nothing seems to please the negroes of the Haitian Republic better than revolution, It Is doubtful if they suc ceed. Early Thursday evening Simon and a bandf'il of followers with their bag gage were transferred from tbe AMi'jrican schooner Bradford C. French to the Dutch steamer Prinz y'jrderhmt't.r, and an hour later the vessel sailed for Kingston As the vessel passed out of the harbor and Simon had whot may prove his last view of the capital, the three Hay tien warships gave him a parting salute. FLOODS FOLLOW FAMINE. Awful Destruction Reported in the Yangetse Valley. "All Yangste Valley flooded. Aw ful destruction and death. Terri ble famine this autumn." So runs a cablegram from the Rev. Z. Charles Beals, an American missionary sta tioned st Wuhu, Chima, which was received <n New York last week. It seems to mean that the relief which the spring crops were expected to bring to the famine stricken districts of China has bsen d:rsipated by an other inundation in the districts wh-?re Ite famine has raged for the ;>a?t f>*v months If the condition is as serious as the cablegram inti mates the suffering the coming fall and winter must be even greater than the past season. STAND PATTERS ALARMED. Fear Passage of Tariff Bills Over the President's Veto. Adjournment of Congress is con fidently expected about the fifteenth. Chairman Penrose, of the Senate fi nance committee, said Friday that his committee would not wait until the 10th to report the House cotton bill to the Senate, as it could do under the resolution of instruction, but would report it Friday. He and other Senate Republicans are alarm ed at the prospect that the tariff bills may be passed over the President's veto if the session is prolonged, as Republican leaders are showing a strong disposition to slip away from | Washington. Killed by Lightning. Henry B. Langston, a farmer liv ing about four miles from Olanto, I was struck by lightning Thursday ; morning and instantly killed Mr. Langston was going from his house to his barn when tbe storm came up and stepped upder a large oak for! "lie tree, killing bin instantly. He ? is survived by a wife and several . children ? Thrown From Horse. U. D. Benner of Warrenton, Va.J was thrown from his horse in the I high jump event at the Orange Horse I show Thursday, and so badly injur j ed, that he died that night ? He was i socially prominent and well known I in athletics in the University of Vir ginia. Pass it Over Veto. Democratic leaders in the Houso believe they have enough votes to pass the wool tariff revisions overj President Taft's veto, if necessary. I iURG, S. C, TUESDAY, AUGU ROBBED LADIES A Federal Naval Officer Who Objected to Northern Methods of ? ? CONDUCTING WARFARE Received a Most Sarcastic Reply Prom his Superior Officer, Gen. Beast Butler, Who Was One of the Most Brutal and Rascally Officers in the Northern Army. The State says Capt. Perry M. De Leon, who is visiting in this State, was a visitor to Columbia Friday, en route from Sumter to Camden Capt. DeLeon is well posted on the events of the War between the Sections and talks interestingly about them. He told of the experience of a lieu tenant, F. A. Roe, a gallant officer of the United States Navy, who ob jected to robbing women and child ren, with Major General Benj. P Butler, better nown as "The Beast." The following letter from Lieutenent Roe, to Gen Butler moer fully explains the incident: U. S. Gunboat Katahdin. Miss.'ssippi River, Sept. 11, 1862. Sir: I was overhauled yesterday by Lieut. Cammonding Lowrey, of the Scotia, while at Bonnet Carre Point, and directed him to follow on as convoy of three transports of the United States army. Upon arrival at Donaldsville this ,ady the transports landed at the upper part of the town, landed a party of troops and com menced receiving on board sugar and other merchandise. A few hours af ter I received positive information that a company of these troops had entered a large mansion, situated near to the landing of the steamer St. Maurice, ha'd plllaiged it in a brutal manner and carried off wines, liquors, silver plate and clothing be longing to ladies. I am informed that several of the soldiers were in toxicated from the use of wines and liquors thuB appropriated. The house was inhabited in the morn ing. During this time the Katah din was at ancor with her guns train upon shore over St. Maurice for her her protection. I respectfully request instructions if the guns of the Katahdin are to be used for the protection of soldiers upon a marauding expedition and If - I am to use them ta protect, drunken, undisciplined soldidrs in the wanton pillage of a private mansion of wine, plate, silk dreses, chemises and fe male apparel, to say nothing of the confiscation of sugar, which I be lieve to be without proper and law ful reasons therefor. I confess, sir, that I blush to re port that while the troops of the St. Maurice were thus engrged in this unsoldierly and ungallant, not to say disgraceful, operation I opened my fire upon guerillas hovering in the rear, apparently occupied in prevent ing such acts of the United States troops. I feel quite ready to place the Ka tahdin and her guns under the fire of an enemy; I am desirious of en countering enemies, and of injuring them in ever manly manner; but I can not further prostitute the digni ty of my prefession, as I conceive I have done today, without an earnest tand respectful appeal to your au thority. It is disgraceful and humil iating to me to be ordered on guard duty of soldiers employed in the pil lagingof ladies dresses and petticoats and respectful appeal to your au be relieved from such service. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, F. A. Roe, Lieutenent Commanding. Commodore Henry W. Morris, Commanding Naval Forces, New Or leans, La. Commodore IMorris forwarded the protest to Butler, who replied toit with characteristic brutality, ques tioning the truth of Lieutenant Roe's statement and speaking of him in conternptious terms, to his own dis ! grace. Here is what Butler said: "The acts of the troops in pillag ing (if truel are without palliation or excuse. Certainly no -more to be justified than this is improper, bom bastic and ridiculous rhodomontade of a sub-lieutenant of the navy. Benj. F Butler, Major-deneral Commanding. But what could one expect? Roe, a brave sailor, a gentleman of loft ty ideas, and a chivalric foe; Butler a political .general of no military ca pactiy and brutal and vindictive. Time brought its revenge. Roe be came an admiral honored by all men, while Butler became known, after his Petersburg fiasco, thanks to Gen. Grant's report, as the "botile imp," and his name associated with spoons and other spoils. First New Cotton. The first, bale of new rotton grown in Barnwell county and what is prob ably the first in the State, was sold on the Bnrnwell market Friday by R. H. Lutz, who lives throe miles from town. The bale weighed 3 60 pounds The price paid was 15 cents a pound. Youth on Long Walk. Ralph D. Tompkins is walking from New York City to Chicago, 111., on n wager that he cannot make the t-'n prd return ;n four moith?. Hr> uses one good leg and a crutch and :! a a v.iiie reputation as a long dis-j tance walker. I ST 8, 1911. DEATH ON THE RAIL ONE MAN KILLED AND ANOTHER SERIOUSLY HURT. Mrs. Arthur Jeter of Santuc Section Meets Sudden Death With her Chil dren, One of Them an Infant. Friday about two o'clock, Mrs. Ar thur Jeter and two small children were killed about one mile north of Santuc, In Union county, by an en gine on the Southern railway. Mrs. Jeter and her four children had been to Santuc to attend a religious meet ing and all five were in a buggy returning to their home The road approached the railroad at an angle, and when the vehicle reached the track i twas struck by the-engine going in the opposite di rection. It is said that the engineer was endeavoring to reach the siding at Santuc before meeting the "Car olina Special" from Columbia. Mrs. Jeter and two children, one a baby only a few months old, wer? icstantl killed, while the other two children were thrown from the track without any serious injuries Mrs. Jete1' was the wife of Arthur Jeter, a substantial farmer, and citizen of the Santuc section of Union county. Friday afternoon about 5 o'clock, the second fatal railway accident of the day for Union county occurred. The Union and Glenn Springs train, while en route to Buffalo and about a quarter of a mile from the depot, ran over and killed Bud Lipsey, a white man. It is said that Lipsey was rather deaf. It is also understood that he Is a married man about thir ty years of age. H. R Whitman agent for the Sea board and Bennettsville and Cheraw roads at Kollock across the river from Cheraw was injured probably fatally, Thursday night In some un known manner. It is thought that he was struck by a northbound Sea 'board train about midnight. His skull was fractured and thigh brok en and he has bad cuts on his back and ribs. * FREAKS OF LIGHTNING. Bolt Singes Locks Off Twenty Heads in New York House. i Twenty men and women had their hair singed when lightning struck a boarding house in Monticello, N. Y. Not one of the persons in the house, who numbered 60, was injured ser iously by the .bolt and the house was not damaged to any extent. A bolt set off a charge of dyna mite in a mine at Pottsville, Pa., last week, causing the' death of Philip El linger and George Goliestene, ex pert tunnel drivers.. The bolt went underground on a telephone wire. Robert Collins, of Bridgeport, Conn., was hurled from his automobile while driving at the rate of thirty five miles an hour and wasn't even scarred. He landed on his feet. In a recent storm Mrs. Henrietta Williams of Grover, Cal., was struck while eating soup. Her spoon was melted in her hand and the clothing torn from her body, ,but she was not injured. David Emory and Thomas Brown were shocked while working 2,533 feet under ground in the tun nel of the Catskill Aqueduct at Corn wall-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. George F. Fletcher, a farmer liv ing near Taunton, Mass., was struck while embracing his wife and killed. Carrying a baby in her arms and leading a son by his hand, Mrs. Cbas. Steele, of Indianapolis, Ind., was in stantly killed. The children were not Injured. COTTON IN BAD SHAPE. Menaced by Caterpillars and Boll Weevils in Many Places. A dispatch from Gr?.nd Cane, La., says reports of the ravages of the cotton caterpillar in that section con tinue to come in, farmers resorting to the use of Paris green for relief. Planters say that' continued rains are also making the boll weevil worse. iAIso the caterpillar has already made its appearance In the Plancher ville section and fear is entertained for the safety of the crop. Rains and the boll weevil are also tending to shorten the harvest. The cotton caterpillar and the boll weevil are playing havoc with the cotton in the Mansfield section, ac cording to report bn ?ht here by planters. A shortage ?I paris green is causing much uneasiness Admiral Togo Arrives. Admiral Count Toga, sea fighter and ronquerer of the Russian fleet in the Russo-Japanese war, arrived at New York Thursday night from Ens land on the Lusitania and was wel comed down the bay by representa tives of the government at Washing ton and the Japanese government and carried to Washington on the dere lict destroyer Seneca. Predicts Early Frost. The rasping notes of the katydid throughout the middle west is taken to mean an early frost, as those who believe in the insect say frost follows p'x weeks after the appearance of the katydid. Walks Off Boat. Alex Tike, of Uniontown, Ky., woke suddenly while sleeping on a boat near Morganfield and walked off the boat and into the river where he was drowned. FOUND IN AUGUSTA SPRADLBY TELLS THE STORY OP HIS WHIPPING. Did Not Know of His Aunt's Death Until Told.?Wedding Had Been Arranged ?Will Go Back. A special dispatch from Augusta to The State sa*ys Columbus Sprad ley, the younger of the two men out raged by the Holstein crowd in Ward's township, Aiken county, on Thursday night, was located there Saturday aftdrnoon. He freely told the story of the en tire affair, so far as it related to himself, but knew nothing of the attack upon his uncle, Ben Spradley, and did not now until he was in formed of the death of Mrs. Ben Srjradlfey, as all of this occurred after the crowd had left him at the lonely spot on the roadside, from which he made his way to Johnston by walking the 15 miles distance during the night, arriving there in time to catch the Southern railway train to Augusta and reaching that city at 11:15 o'clock. Back of the whole story is a ro mantic love affair .between young Spradley and Miss Gussie Mae Hoi stein, the daughter of Augustus L. Holstein, said to be the leader of the attacking party, and it seems that the Holsteins took this means to intimidate Spradley and break the match by driving him forever out of the community. iBut their efforts will probably fail, as the young man fully expects to return to Monetta and claim the girl to whom he Is engaged soon. The young couple had planned to meet at 9:30 o'clock. A horse and buggy would be waiting and they were to drive to Saluda, where she would sign the certificate and the ceremony would be performed. The girl had concealed her hand baggage in a vacant house, known as the old John Grice house. Ben Spradley and his wife knew nothing of the en gagement and knew nothing of the planned elopement and were inno cent vistims. Young Spradley went to Monetta Thursday prepared to carry out plans for the elopment and marriage at 9:30 o'clock that night. While he was sitting on the front piazza of the house of his undle, Ben Sprad ley, between eight and eight-thirty o'clock, he says, two men appeared at th front gate and halloed. Co lumbus answered them and in reply to their question told them his name. They called him to the gate and as he approached he deelares he recog nized the two as Richard Holstein and Grover Holstein, nephews of his sweetheart's father. Spradley had stepped up to them, he says, when Richard Holstein level d a dou.bP1 barreled shotgun at him and Grover Holstein covered him with a magazine pistol, and both or dered "hands up!" He obeyed this command, and one of the Holsteins searched but finding no pistol or oth er weapons they informed the young man that they wanted him and he was marched down the road to a buggy about 100 yards from the house, into which he was placed and driven some distance, perhaps a quar ter of a mile, to the old .lohn Grice house, whre the other members of the party were awaiting them on the roadside, in the semi-darkness. In this group were six men, of whom Spradley says he recognized Gus Holstein, the father of the Miss Gussie May Holstein; his son, Albert Holstein; Sidney Holstein, another nephew, and Doc Cockrell, who, he says, is not related to the Holsteins. The two other men he could not recognize They were all armed with guns or pistols and were careful that their prisoner should see them. When the buggy had been stopped the men backed off a short distance and held a conference as to what to do with their helpless victim, now that he was at their mercy, but watching him slwply against his es cape . Spradley says he could hear all that was said and it almost made his hair rise on his head when Gus Hol stein insisted that they hang him to a large tree nearby and shoot his brains out, but this was objected to by the others, who said that they did not want to kill him The young man cut their argu ment short by telling' them he would leave the country if that was what they wanted. He says he was pulled from th buggy and dragged to the roadside where every member of the party, displacing their weapons, prodded him with them He declares he was stripped to the skin, thrown fare downward to the ground and held, while .-\. L. Holstein plied his back with a buggy trace until he was all but insensible, and telling him to leave 'he community and nev er return. Spradley was left lying on the ground in an almost nude state, while the mob drove away. He walked from there to Johnston and came to Augusta. He knf-w JKKhing of the flogging of Don Spradley or the death of Mrs. Sprad ley, not having gone back to the house nor having heiard anything from there since he was flogged. Says They're Dying Out. Dr Ernest C. Levy, chief health of ficer of the Richmond health depart ment has come to the conclusion af ter close comparative study of the mortality statistics o fthat and other cities that the American negro is slowly and steadily dying and will be virually extinct in the 21st century. TWO CENTS PER COPY.. HEAT WAVE KILL Over (he Thousand People Fall Viclins to It Over in Germrcy CAUSED BY DRY SPELL Water So Low That Fish Cannot Eie Eaten When Caught?Five Hun dred People Die From Fever as the Results of Gastritis Caused l?y Lock of Water and Ice. ..A sepclal cablegram to the New York World from Berlin, Germany, says over a thousand deaths have re sulted from sunstroke during the ten days of Germany's heat wave, as well as many more from heart failure during bathing, and some 5C0 from gastritis and typhus caused by lack of water. An epidemic has broken out in the Moselle valley, caused, according to medical reports, by decaying fish, which were netted in shoals. Vast quantities have ben 'handed the pub lic authorities for destruction. The fish were suffering from a kind of scrofula owing to the overheated wa ter. In many German cities the water works supply water for a couple of hours daily. The police have had to issue orders that no water from the ordinary city supply pipes be used ex cept for drinking. Even in Berlin the authorities have suspended street watering except dn the main avenues, aa fears are entertained that the sup ply may run short. In the South German states almost all the governments have suspended work in public departments, except for a few hours in the early morning, as sickness resulting from the heat, has decimated the staffs. Schools will not be reopened in the middle of August as usual be cause the doctors declare that only strong children would he able to en dure brain work in the intense heat. Meteorological authorities say the weather must get hotter before the heat wave passes. Americans declare that the heat !b more intense in Berlin than In New Yrok, but not so deadly. Americana who reached Berlin this week almost all left again for the South, as the city is simply a furnace. Ice supplies are running short. Chemists, who are ordinarily bound to supply ice from distilled water, will x?nly sell it now on a doctor's certificate tha-t it is absolutely nec essary. WHITE MAN SHOT BY NEGRO* From Ambush While Riding Along Country Road. The News and Courier says while riding on horseback Friday after noon on the public road near Mc Clellanville, not far from the Awen. daw bridge, where he was superin tending some rof.ds work in his ca pacity as township commissioner, Horace W. Leland, son of A. W Le land, a member of the Satte House of Representatives and a well konwn planter, was shot from ambush and his horse wounded by IsaLh Brown colored. Immediately after the shooting a posse was organized and the negro captured and taken befon Magis trate Beckman, by whom h was dis patched to the Cbarle/.on County Jail. It is said that there was some talk of doing the negro bodily harm and haste was made to get him ,to Charleston. > The only cause which could be as signed for the shooting was that the negro and Mr Leland had been seen in a dispute on tne Fourth of July. Mr. Leland's wounds, which are in his left thigh and wrist, are said to be serious, but the physicians beliervw he will recover. > ASKS PRAYERS FOR RAIN. Head of Fanners' Union Urges that It Be Statewide. E. W Dabbs, president of the South Carolina Farmers' Union, has Issued from Mayesville a call to all minis ters of the gospel of all the churches and devout men and women, in the State requesting that next Sunday be set aside as a day of prayer for rain, as information from many sections of the State tells of prevailing droit:!!.', which in some localities is as bad as the drought of 1881. Those people who have been blessed with rain are asked to join in the prayer and all in thanksgiving for showers wherever they have fallen * i 0 m i AH Records Are Broken. The UTith company of coast artil lery at rO-inch gun practice at San Diego, Cat., Friday, y'lew its target out of the water at 8,500 yards with the fifth-shot and bad to stop. Col. Fred K". Marsh of the department of coast defense expressed belief that all practice records for 10-inch guns at that range had been broken. Train Was Ditched. Five were seriously hurt and 20 received lesser injuries Friday when Train 23, of the Southern Railway, was derailed six miles west of Salis bury, N. C. The engine and all of the coaches left the track and a chair car went down" a twenty-five foot embankment/"'