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ag VOL' XLIII. 'NO' 8(36. . NEWBERRY. S.'0. TUTS$DAY. OOrOBER 16. 19043. TIEWE,1OY FORGOT ORDER; THREE DEAD .Engine and Freight Train Crash Neas Winnaboio-Three Men Killed and Three Othere Injured in . Wreck on the Oouthern. Columbia, October 14.-A fa8 freight and a light engine on the Southerri came together near Wini boro this morning in a head-or collision. The operator forgot to de liver an order and three men are dead Another will die The dead are: D. M. Dixon, white, conductor, ot engine. James T. McPherson, Jr., white fireman on light engine. Henry Pile, engineer on light en ginq. The injured are: James G. Price, white, engineer ot freight. Charles D. Wbir, white, brakemai on freight. Forgot Imoprtant Order. Thvough freight No. 74, nortl bound, carrying a load of lumber am other goods, left Columbia on timi this morning at 2.10 o'clock. Order were given by the dispatcher her showing that extra engine No 1,620 south bound ,had the right of way o: the track to Winnsboro. The ordei was never delivered to the crew o: the freight train. The operator a the Blanding street station of thi Southern gave the conductor and en gineer of the freight two other order and obtained their signatures, but he for some reason, failed to transmi this one. His iame is Bolick, and lie a young man just in his twenties. Two miles north of Winnsboro, a the sixty-nine mile post, on what i known as McMaster's curve, thi freight and the light engine came to gether at 5.07 o'clock. The extrA engine had the right'of way to Winnis boro according to the orders, unde whiih the engine was running an also according to the orders which th freight crew should have had. The fireman of the freight, Henr, Gates, saw the engine coming dowl on the train and had barely time t tell Engineer Price, who got to th gangway in his effort to jump an< was caught there, while Gates wa terribly crushed. Crushed Without Warning. The crew of the light eneine ma: never have known that the freigh was not on the sidetrack at Winns boro. No one of them seems to hav made an attempt to jump and al three of them were killed. The news was transmitted to th division officers here very quickl3 but the wreeking train was out oi the Augusta branch, putting freigh cars on thu sick, and it was almos noon before n ' i be sent to th scene of tHip 'wreck. I was founi that nine cars were smashed, the on gines'badly injured, but not rendere< worthless, and 200 feet of track wver torn up. The Dead and the Injured. Dr. F. D. Kendall, the division sur coon of the Southern, went to th senze on the first ',4i, and assist anece was given als~o b)y the Winne boro physicians. The bodies of En gineer Pile and Fireman McPherso: were brought heo this narnoot while that of Conductor Dixon was A taken in charge by his relatives -at Winnsboro. Engineer Price was Wi brought here for treatment, andl*As Firem n Gates was brought to Tay lor Lane Hospital. CoAductor Dixon ikas 30 years of age and hiis home was in Winnsboru. Fireman McPherson was the son of an,engineer on this division. He swas cot 30 years old. Pile is from West Vir- nil ginia, near. Anderson, and has rela- Cal tives in East R'adford, Virginia. He SP( was married, livipg near the corner ly of Blanding and Barnwell streets, Co- lea a lumbia. PIS Engineer James G. Price, 32 years wa o13, i married and lives on Pickens an street. Both his shoulders are dislo- no0 ,eafed and his back sprained. He has ab4 wounds on the head and leg also. He peo is suffering considerably to-night, but cU, I is not dangerously hurt. ma Not fatally hurt: Brakeman Char- pio les D. Wier, 24 years old, lives in ci Columbia. His left leg is sprained and boo bruised by his jump from the train. yol i Henry Gates, the negro fireman, Wo I who it is thought, will die,. also live' pr< s in- Columbia. He is internally injur- ter t ed and his left foot is cut off. He Is yo, s 35 years old. His left leg has been im , amputated and his condition to-night di r is critical. wh e The inquest, if any, will be held In t Fairfield County and nothing has t been learned here by the authorities C11 e in regard to any legal action to place ha the responsibility for the death of ao a the three men. The "light engine," as it is called, Tf t was being brought from Charlotte toSa 4 Columbia for use in the yards here sa as a shifting engine. The men who w Ju t ict their death in so horrible a man i ner were sent up to Charlotte yester- a i day evening to bring the engine down. fol - Oi account of the wreck passenger b i trains No. 3, leaving here at 6.10 A - M., and No. 33, due at 1.55 A. M., r were detoured by Spartanburg. I Passengers on No. 27, south-bound, 3 and No. 28, north-bound, were trans ferred at the wreck. No. 34, the fast u i Irain leaving here at 7.05 this even- U I inlo, went throuzh on time and there P ) I will be no further delay in traffic. 3 Operator Does not Admit Blame. e I The young operator, H. E. Bolick, A. 4 on whom the officials of the road say an the responsibility for the collision rests is originally from Fairfield and a has been with the Columbia division of the Southern for four years, dur- s0l in- whieh timehe has made a good na record and was thoroughly trusted. "I I He does not admit that he was to tl blame and is still in the employ of th the Southern, pending a more com. er 1 plete investigation. J. H. cO The comedy is said to be far su perior to "The Runaways" and the fe a music which is entirely new and up- of to-date, bright' and catchy,- while new do _ dances, new lighting and scenic ef- an feets and costumes from special oriz- Cl e inal designs, make gorgeous stage pie.-s tures. , . . x --- fo .Arthur Dunn, the clever little comn- Qi e edian whio was last seen in "The Run aways'' with great success will.ap- fr'< pear at the Opera House on Thur.' 1in -(day, October 18, in his new musical Ma ai comedy, "The Little Joker" by Her- an Ibert Hall Winslow. Fi K' ha - be vI in SI zu T la: ,in * isa Ithi thi Iin I) A NEWBElRY BOY ix CHINA. rites of His Tribvels-A Tramp nong the Mongols-ohe-Foo, or the City of the Carnotion Peking Mountain-The Philipines. :ts name is derived from a flesh ored Lhill that stands some twelve es east of the city. The Mongols I it Wulanhata. Cho Foo, from the etacular point of view, is distinct disappointing. It is indeed the at interesting of all the central ces of business outside the great 11. In the city itself there are shops I stores and shops and practically ;hing else. One blessed - thing, >ut it for the foreigner is that the >ple do not bother you with their iosity and inquisitiveness. You ,y )vak shout the town at your asure and neither a man nor a Id will follow you around. Every ly seems too busy to worry about .i and consequently you do not rry about them. Only when you )duce your tripod camera and at apt to set it up in the streets will .i get a few curious sightseers turn. up from you know not where and appearing you know not whithei en you have finished. Here as well as all of northern ina ,the trade is entirely in the ads of the Chinese. Not a Mon 's house of business is there Long all the multitudes of shops. e reason for this is thb incapability the Mongol race. I found it the ne in Manchuria, which place 1 s lucky enough to visit early in ly. While there, we visited Dalney, very pretty seaport, but has not recovered from the great battle ight there between the Japanese ttle ships and Russian land batter From Dalney our party* went rail to Port Arthur, a distance of rty-four miles. The scenery was nd, but Port Arthur is a mass of us. I took a stroll up 2.3 Meter 11, but could not.find as much as a ,ce of gun stock or a bullet. The kce has been plundered I guess by ry European who visits Port thur for curios. In both Dalney d Port Arthur 1. found the Mongo. n used more like a pack horse thai nan. Now returning to China. She has. me good features, but not of the tives. They are the most dishonest all people, I think, but they have Air stock, nice horses and cows and y are well taken care of in north A China. The principal crops are rn, rice sugar cane - and millet. tve fine pasture lands. The men a great fishermen, and the women the work. One of the delightful itures of CheFoo is the multitude beautitul birds that hang at the orc. of" the stores in the sunlight d whistle the livelong day. The inese haven't much love for Uncle m's folks, anywvhere betweeus the oosong river and Peking, so we r'eigners have to be on our ps and I arrived in China June 24, '06, >m Japan. I spent about six wveeks Japan-that is, the southern part. ide a trip) through the Inland Seau d made short stops along the coast. rat in Yakahqma, a large and very ~h city. From there we wvent to >be and on to Nagasaki. Well, she s, without any exceptions, the most autiful harbor in the world. In my ole trip through the West Indes, which I touched Porto Rico, Haiti, n Domingo, Trinidad and Vene ela in sumnier, 1905, and my trip t spring from New York to India, which our ship made stops as fol vs: Five days in Gibraltar, Spain; 1days In Tangiers, Morocco; eight ys in Algiers, east Africa; two eka in Villefranche, France, I never w as beautiful a harbor. While are I went to Nice and Monte Carlo. 'om there to Genoa, Italy, fron, are to Naples and wvas several weeks that port. Naples is a very .0old t beautiful city and is only a few nnte's ride from -Mt. Vesuvlin, 'ih was very active at tinges while were there and at night was grand. ter Naples, our next stop was at rena in Greece, a very mean little rbor and a worse city, but a very od naemr~w ==up iImal wh6 runs between the seaport and ancien Athens. I spent one day and nigh in Athens and visited several of th Did temples, which are all in ruin now, but we could not learn a grea deal about them as it was very har to get an 'English speaking guid Erom Greece. We went to Beyru' Syria, a few days there and then t Alexandria, Egypt, a very large an modern city. Alexandria and Poi Said, the only two seaports of mentio in Egypt, are controlled by England Her growth is remarkable, and she i rowing stronger every year especia ly in the far east. After leaving A exandria, we had a lovely two day run to Port Said, which is situated a the mouth of the Suez Canal and lie some very nice buildings indeed, an is one of the lagest coaling stations i the world, but Oh, my, how hot w were there in March and the hen was dreadful. After leaving Poi Said we passed through the Sue Canal, which took us two days. TL Canal leaOs into the Red Sea. Thei we also found it very hot, but tl scenery along the shore was lovel; but the trip was long and tiresom We were sixteen days making tb trip from Port Said, Egypt, I Colombo City. Ceylon. Ceylon is a beautiful island an1 one of the greatest tea growing place in either India or China. We lay i anchor in the harbor at Colombo st days. There again John Bull is bos He has a standing army in India < several thousand. I went ashore or day while there and went out to s< the greatest tea farm in the world.I is owned by Sir Thomas Lipton, ti Great English sailor. As to the farr it was everything that one could e: pect. Everything was in tiptop ordc and the country in general was lov4 ly. The cocoanut and pineapple gro in, abundance. The natives are vei civil and seem to get along very we under English rule, and to go amoi them one can soon see that they at far superior to our little brow brothers of the Philippine Islands. We had fine weather from Colomi to Singapore, where we stopped f< two days for coal. Our navigator wr very uneasy, as April is a very dai -erous month to cross the India ocean, but we had fine sailin throughout the trip and arrived die time at,Cavite navy, P. I. Cavi is just across the bay from the cil 4f Manila. We were there only tv weeks, when orders came for us procced to China via Japanese por as I have mentioned already. I not like the Philippine Islands. The are no place for a white man. If Unc Sam wottld 1only jsend All sf )th worthless blacks that are infesti our towns and ruining our country, this savage Island and let them sett and cultivate it, for the native ma will never do it. They don't kne anything but eat wild fruit, drir swamp water andL go wild, and it wi take one thousand years to whip the into submision when they have eve~ ad(vantage over our t roups. WVell, of all these places, I haven seen anything to equal sunny Japa the land of milk and honey. Well, ot thing more I wish to say, the servai has just come up to our room at said the Inn keeper will not accee any pay for the night's stop, so you are ever in Shanghai, bd6 su you put up at the KCung G4uentio hlotel. Shanghai is a lovely city at very modern. With my b)est wijshes to the dei old town and success to you, Sincerely, Maxey R. Day, U. S. Army, Shanghia, China. The Chester dispensaries show ntet gain of 40 per~ cent over Septer her~ last year. Frost seems to have been very gei eral all over the state and the enti: cotton belt.' Parents locked the door and wei to p)ick cotton and three negr.o cli dretn were burned to death near 1Fo Mill, the first accident of this kir so far reported this season. .~ T. Jones, the Edgefield exte minator, who killed two members < I le Preasley family, fro which crn lhe has spent twenty years in the pet ltentiaqe ask. for. a ado t THRIVING TOWN OF WHITMIR3 t e On Historic Ground-Mr. Willia a Coleman Enterprising and Pro t gressive-rine Mill-New County Boat. 0 Mr. Editor: For several years tI D question of a new county has bee I spoken of, making the town of Whi t mire the county seat. I think tl time is now ripe to agitate the pract cability of forming a new county con s posed of portions of Newberry, Lau ens and Union counties. Whitmire is situated on the S. A. I Railroad in the northeast corner ( t Newberry county in the forks < e Duncan's creek and Enoree rive Near the historic spot where Gone al Greene rested his army during ti e Revolutionary war on his retreat froi t Ninety Six. General Greene beir very desirous to send a message I a General Sumter down on the Watere e one hundred miles away, and the so e0 vice being surrounded with so mar e difficulties and dangers to encounte no one had offered to undertake ti - perilous trip. Miss Emily Geiger, tl e daughter of John Geiger, who liv( 0 near by, hearing of the desire of Ge1 eral Greene , offered her service d which were accepted. History tells I s how she made the perilous trip, at t in about two weeks returned to hI x home near where the town of Whi s. mire is now located. f Newberry, Laurens and Unit e counties all corner on the Enor e river within one mile of the town, t beingt eighteen miles to either one e the three county seats. Whitmire in No. 4 Township, w!ich I belie, stands second in the amount of tax Ie property, No. 1 heiii. first. 'Mr. William Coleman, a young I W who was born and raised jlust aero Y the Enoree river in Union count c1 came to Whitmire in her critical pc i ind and erected a magnificent eotti 'e inill, capitalized at $500,000.00, sa 11 to be one of the best built mills the state. Gullies have been filled I o and hills dug down, and lands th >r sold for $8.00 and $10.00 per acre fi L or six years ago are now selling f - $200.00 and $500.00 per acre. T Mr. Coleman is the finanei g baekbone of Whitlmire, being t n president, of the Glenn-Lowry Man ,e factiring Company, which is comnp< y ed of ita large cotton mill, ginliery, 1 1o tional bank and a large merein o store. Whatever Mr. Coleman u ts dertakes lie (oes it well, lie neitl lo spares time or money in making I y improvements durable, (onlvenI le and beautiful. He has erected e large bank building, which is ne IR completion, and when completed, w ,o be an ornament to any town or ei le in the state. Mr. Coleman is not n cheap man at anything lie undertak< w He wants a good article and lie Lk willing to pay for it. 11 There ar*e ofthir enterprising m mn at Whtitmire, who are doing much 'y nild up the town. Mr. Whiite Fa: who is now a resident of WVhitmii 't has recently come into possession ,'i large estate. We are iniformed th~ ie lhe amnd his fat her willI give their i ni 'neial aid as well as good citizensh a to the 1up-building oif Whitmire al a comimity. The town of Whitml it is now a net work of telephone, tel re grahp~ and electric wires. The tos n is lighted with Ii(lectricityv amnd b dI terlephone connlc(t ionl embihraces the S. i- We can congratulate ourselves th t he delegation from Newberry conn to the next House of RIepresentativ nre men of high character, intel genee and ability, who will use the talents andl trusts for the good of entire people looking to, the pr.ospe it y, adva ncemnent and up-building the entire state. We are taking the temperature lie p)owers that be and w~hien the r< is I"called at the State H-ouse in 19t we trust that a delegation from Whl itmlire county will answer, ''Here I John WV. Scott. d There is no joke so flat as tile o r- you were going 1o spring on a mi >f who got busy and sprung it 911 you. ie A girl must either marry an ordi L- ary ,man or else remain a spinater I th rnzam Qf AhmsIzgMa,a I4. . JUDGE W. 0. BENET MARRIED. n The Event Occurred Some Weeks Ago in Oconee County. A special from Columbia last night says: e Hon. W. C. Benet, formerly one of the circuit judges of this state, and well known throughout South Caro. ke Iina, and Mrs. Mary Lee Bitting ot i Virginia, were married in Oconee county, this state, on September 12, the Rev. David Ramey officiating, This announcement will come in the nature of a surprise to the friends of Judge Benet the fact of the mar riage not having been made publie until today. The ceremony took place at a little hamlet in the mountains portion of Oconee county, Judge M Ienet and Mrs. Bitting having been ig quietly married by the pastor of one of the local churches. . Judge Benet is not a native of South Carolina, but he has lived here for mnuny years and for a long time has occupied a prominent place in < lie life of the state. lie was born le in Scotland and was educatcd in that -d country. Upon his graduation from the University of Edinburg he came to America in 1868, for the purpose of seeing the country. le has resid a ed here ever since, with the exception of one winter, which he spent inl Scot lan. At first he was engaged in teaching at Cokesbury, Abbeville cointy, and at Greenville. Afterwards he studied law and established for it himself a high reputation throughout it the state. In 1888 lie was elected to the house of representatives and he sn(1eeeded 'Judge 121ar as Judge of the vFirst cirllit. le retired from the a- beiech five vealrs awo an11d has since been enigged inl tli praictice of lils professionl in (olumnbia, s Mrs. Belnet' 'lilidel namnie was Y' Fortd, and she was originally from Virginia. She lived for sonic time in Kentucky, and Mr. Bitting, her for 1 ler husband, was an eminent lawer of Seattle, Washington. Since lia ile ath ten years ago she has been liv at in Virginian Reduced Rates - via Charleston & Western Carolina Ry. To Augusta, fla.. Account lGeorgia Carolina-Fair, October 29-Novenber :1, 1906. Rround trip rate, inchding 1 e a dimissililn to Fair. ('rouids, one " fin st elass tare plus 75 vents. Tickets on saile Oeoher 27 ((o Noveiber 2, I inclhsive, with finnil retturn liint No el vember 5, 1906, I i 'sTo Au-nsta, (ia., Account. Home. Coming Week, October 29-Noveiber 2, 1906. Round trip rate, one first class fare phis 25 cents. Tickets on sale October 27-28-29. with final re ty turn limit November 15, 190. n To Charles(on, S. C., Account Gala -. Wek, November 5-10, 1906. Roun( 8 trip rate, one first. class fare plus 2. eents. Tickets on sale November + 0en to 9 inclusive, with finmal retuirn liitiit to Nove'ntme 12, 19*06. it. To JacksonvillIe, F"la., A ccount Car' n~iival, November 5-10, 1906. Rlound ot t rip rate, onie first (class Care plus1 25 ait ('eIls. Tic'kets on sale November n- 5-7-9, withI final ret urn limit Novemn iP ber 11, 1906. re Arthur Dunn. e- Tlhte wvell-known conmdian, Atrthur vnm Dunn, will appear' at the Opera htouse er~ oni Thrdy 18th, in a newv and en U. t irely original muisical comiedy, by Herbert IIall Winislow, entitled ''The at Little Joket'.'' Mr. D)unn, who is ty' without a piet' as a fir'st class en e.. teirtainer', will, in ''T'Ihe iAttle ,Joker'' li- have at gr'eater' opp)ortuniity for' thme ir display of his many talents t hanl ever lie before and1( it is safe to assert that itn r- his conlmig apearan(e lie will be of seeni at his biest. TPhe suippoi'tinig company iiI be 'omposed( oif well of knowvn ai'tisIs, wh'lo have been espeei i ally engaged fot' their adaptability 6, to poi'tray the partits foi' which they t- have been assigned. Ther'e wvill be a rtn numnber of catchy, tuneful sotngs r'end et'ed by the entire comipaniy, and, withI t his fact in view, thle mianage.. men'it has seenr'ed a company whlo are nvocally of the highest oi'det'. The Andei'son County fair has n.. eeased after a ver'y successful season, or Many of the races were pronounced