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KOL XLII.r. o EWEIY.S .UDA.DCEBR4.10.TWIOE A WEEK, $1.50 A YEAR THawS OP PROSPERITY. M Small F -Thanksgiving Services -The is Will Make the City Be tiful-Personal. Prosperit y, \,Dcc. 3.-The Sorosis has joined hanK with the trustees of the graded selioo and will assist ii beautifying and ' -irking the school1 grounds. This is a- audable undertak ing and we are glad to know that the work is going on nicely. Prof. Counts and his faculty are working like Tro jans to get the grounds fixed up. Friday was observed as Arbor day, when much of this work was done. Thursday was the same as Sunday in town. The services in Grace church were not as well attended as the orphan services should have been. An amount was raised for the Orphan Home at Salem, Va. Miss Emma Belle, after a pleasant visit to her sister, Mrs. L S. Caldwell, has returned to hler home. Mrs. L. M. Counts is visiting rela tives in Saluda comity. Miss Lucy Wlheeler speit Tlanks giving it home. . Mr. F. Ir. Selumpert. assistant posthmasteri here for ithe past year or more, has resigIed and --onle to the Bathi Co(ton Mills as bookkeeper. E. W. LUther, Esq.. of Columbia, spent tle carly part of the week with his parents. Mrs. Warren and MAliss Julia War ren, of Columbia, have been on a visit. to Mrs. F. E. Schumpert. Miss Lucy Fellers is spending somt time with relatives in Greenwood. Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Wheeler, of Co lumbia, spent last Sunday with Mr. % and Mrs. J. S. Wheeler. Miss Marie Bobb, of Ninety Six, spent Thanksgiving with the home folks. Miss Lula Moseley is visitiiir in Clinton. Miss Lena Lester is visiting in Due West. Your humble seribe lied himself away on Wednesday night, to the Dnleh Fork. wliere puddiTg, satusage, hackbonle anid spareri;bs are ever it evidenee itn tle witer and stel a itme as tie ''Boss'' had. The timk ie had was oIe you read about. The madam stopuwd wN.ithI relatives in Trmo. Site could not face tie DIt(ah in tlie remoter pairs on the banks of lthe Saluda. and the old mnaln joilt'rney ed three miles into ithe jungles and braved tigers, hears. leopards and j',all sieh varmints'' to reach his (le stination, and snelh a feast, of good things that greeted its whln tie hell rung for ditnnter was amazing. Dr. and Mrs. Shuler certainly know how to make one enjoy hiimself in their hospitable home. The (lay was all too short and as we bade the Dr. goodhy at tite station our thoughts would recur to the good things we were leaving behind. ''But twas ever thus'' and hern we ar again in the same old1 place trying to get iup soe notes for the Herald and News. If all the readers of the H-erald and News enjoyed the day as much as your corrsponent id, heycertainly had The William Lester Chapter of the 1). . C. in their meeting on Wednes day elected Miss LlatI Moseley presi dlent, Mtrs. Gleo. Y. Hunter, v'ice presi dent, Miss Mat'y Lee Barre, record ing" seecret ary, Miss .Tessie Moseley, cor'resp)ondintg. secriet ary, Miss Elite Hawvkins, t reasutrer. Mt's. Hunteor wvas elected delegate to the convention of the Ui. D). C's. to be hlcd in Green ville on Wednesday, December 5th. Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Gibson visited -Mi'. Ia. E. Schitmpor't last week. Prof and Mr's, Derrick, of Newvbe' ry college, spent Thuanksgiving with Prof. D)errick 's sister, Mrs. D. M.! Bodenbaiugh. Mt's. L. C. Merchant and childretn spent Thanksgiving with lher parents I in Newberry. 1 The fire fiend seemis to be on the I rapage in our section. On Friday night, Mr. ,J. W. C. Long lost his cot ton house and barn with contentb. The loss was about $400.00. In the cotton h'ouse wore thtree or more ba'les of cotton, cott'on seed, corn, fodder and grain. The cause of, the fire Is unknown and all indications point to incendiary origin. ,1 On Sunday night an out house onaa0 MR. SPENCER AND THE SOUTH. He Labored Faithfully to Build Up the Waste Places and to Make the People Prosperous. Washington, November 30.-Presi dent Samuel Spencer iv'as the personal friend of.nearly every Southern man of prominence in Washington, and his tragic death has brought genuine sorrow to the entire Southern colony here. For more than ten years )ast no single man has been so closely identi fied with the interests of the entire South as was Mr. Spencer. The great railroad system, of which he was the head, brought him into intimate re lations with nearly every community in all the vast region south of the Ohio and Potomae and between the Mississippi and the Atlantic. The needs and aspirations of this section were known to him as to no other man, and no other single man lias done as much as he for [lhe material advancement of the South. Mr. Spencer was gu1i(led ill his rail way management by the great princ ple exiessed by him inl his recent spevell at Montgomery, Ala., his last pulie utterance, where he said: ''The intlerests of the railroad and of its pt1o01ns are identical. One cannot pr.sper withlout. the other. The rail road imtst do justice to the people. The people should do justice to the railroad. Their cordial co-operation in the great. field of human industry is essential to the public welfare.' Thiis cordial co-operation between the people and the railroad it was his constant effort to bring about all along the line of the Southern Rail way system, and wlhether there was a Southern industry struggling for ex istence or wherever a man or a grou) of mien saw an opportunity to estab lish a new industry, Mr. Spencer and the Southern Railway stood ready to assist !,v all the means in their power. It was the pmrsuance of this policy that enlabled Mr. spencer in his an nual report each year to announce a long" list of new industries that had been establislied along tlie lines of he Sout bern. It was the ambition of Mr. Spen. eer's life to be tile leader in the de velopment of tlie SouthI tlrou(h tlhe Nmean1s of a great railway system and lie amialamation of the weak and (isjoilnted roads that now compose ile Soulthierni into one system under his m 1anagemenit gave him his 0))01 uinitv. What lie had accomplished before his dentlh is known to all men old enouigh to compare present system witi conditions that existed before he beenme the head of the. Southern. Restricted by the limitations on the inainial resources of the Southern, ani often confronted by almost in, iperable obstacles, Mr. Spencer had Reeonplislied much before his death, but lie has left much to be done by his successor for the completion of his plans and for giving the South a railway syst.ern second to nione in thie United States and capable of ren lering the most effeient service to the people of the South. Born in Georgia and a Confederate Vetor'an, Mr. Spencer always had a varmn place in his heart for the people f his section, and especially for the non who had worn the gray. All over lie SouthI are Con federate Veterans,, vhio will reenall the kind and thought uil symipathyv of thieir' former~ conm ade-in-armis to wh'omn many of them, vhlen stranded among st rangers, have )Ceen indebChted for t ransportation to heir homes. W. S. L. Prof. Counts farm near Prosperity vas burned with contents. Loss about 4300. There were three bales of cot ;on, fifteen or twenty bushels of ears, fodder, corn, etc Thme fire was vidently of incendiary origin as the 1ouse is nearly a quarter of a mile ~rom any dwelling. A man was seen loafing around that ricinity Sunday afternoon and in all >robablity lie had quarters here for he night and in smoking, set it on. ire.0 Our~ town is nearly -deserted today as maAy of our people are interested n sales at the conrt house. EVENTFUL CAREER OF ENGINEER KINNEY Man Whose Engine Dashed Into Ca of President Spencer Has Had Many Escapes. A pisturesque figure in the South ern railway wreck near Lawyers, Va ()1n Tlianksgiving (lay, in which Pres] dent Spenecer and several others los their lives, was Engineer W. A. Kin ney of Spencer, N. C. Mr. Kinne; has beenl in a. great many wreeks il his long service with tihe conipan3 some of them head-end and rear-en< collisions, but fortunately lie has a] ways escaped serious injury. Mr. Kinney was pulling No. 31 whieh ran into the rear of No. 33, t whilh was attached Mr. Spencer private Car. Mr. Kinney comes fron.a family o engineers. His father, an engineei was in a terrible collision at Iarri burg, N. C., just north of Ch.irlott about 15 years ago, Ini wlirlh abol 20 people lost their lives. lis 1w brolhers, (Ceorge and Clarlie, hot died at tlie tIirlWe. Charles Kinne being" killed in a collision banlot tihrC years ago at almost the identical spx which was the scene of Thursday wreek. W. A. Kinney is a man 0 dist inguished appearance, even in Ii overalls, a handsome man with dar hair and musl ache. His run is froi Spencer, N. C., to Monroe, Va., an lie is well known as a brave, faithfu and efficient man. Closed Monday. The Bee Hive will be closed nex Monday to arrange stock for the bi sale wihich starts on Tuesday, Decen ber 11. Russian Sayings. le who fears a sparrow Will neve sow millet. An untried friend is like an in cracked nut. Wliei you (lie even your tomib shal be comfortable. ThIe aIbsentillinded man looks fo tile hIor'se he rides on. Better to beg tmian steal, but bette to work tha be . A miotlier's love will draw up frot tile deplis of the sea. When i tlie ass bears too i-lit load lie Wiants to lie down. le wiho is on horseback no longc knows his own fatlher. Man carries his superiority insid( animals tlie's outside. The nobleian is always in tle righ When the peasant. sues. If the thunder is not loud the peA sant forgets to cross himself. One whip is enough for a goo horse, for a bad one not a thousand. Milwaukee Sentinel. To Our Subscribers. ' Lives of poor1 men oft remind ui Honest toil stands little chance The mor'e we work we have behind'u Biggeir patches on our pants1; On our pants, on1ce new and gloss Now the stripes oif di fferent hmu All because our pat rons lingeir And (ion 't..pay' us what is (due. Then let us all be upt and dloing, Send ini youri mite, however' small; Or' when the winds of winter sink' uis We shall have no0 pants at all.'' Up-to-Date Marriage Ceremony. Wilt thou take her for they pard, For betteir or for worse ? To have, to hold, to fondly guard, Till hauled off in a hearse? Wilt thou let, her have her way, Consult her nmany wvishies, Niake.the fire every day, And help her wash tIhe dishes? Wilt thou comfort and support, HeIr father and her mother, Aunt Jemimahi and Uncle John, Three sisters and a brother? And his face grew pale and blank It was too late to jilt; As through the chapel floor he sank~ He said "I wilt,"-and ho wited MATTOAX LOCATEJD. p Willing to Give Hiniself Up-Denies r Responsibility of Wreck-Asserts That He Can Prove He Was Not at Fault. T - Lyneliburg, Va., Dec. 1.-Telegraph operator, (1. 1). Mattoax, who was in R - charge of tihe block telegraph oflice at r Rangoon on the Southern railway, - and who is elarged by olIleials of the y railway with being respoisible for I the fI'ightl l aceidelt has li i been locat , ed at his boarding house within a mile A of the angoon olliee, where lie de -lares he has been since the ivccident, excepting for a short time. S Today L. D. Mattoax, a brother ot I? the operator, who is a traveling sales- 01 i man with a local house, seeing re- v, ports that the Southern detectives w had been scouring the country for o his brother, as contai.ned in state- w ments given olit bI fie company, went tI to Campbell couiIty to interview the o brother.. To-nighIt hte reIturn Ied to L Lynebbirg and -ave out the following t 1 h statenieil :N ly Iitlhel was on (hty at lan1- A C Nomi qm die ni-dht (,'fite 2Sthi. Al1e ol call prove Iht Ie did not --o I() sleepl and that le did not leave tIe oflie. two miites. \'hen tiaiii No. 33 als proachied he let it in) ti block be- it k tween l 611:'Ximi1 and Law * vers. Ile let it into fthle IlovIck 1111der inlstruI-ctiois and he can prove by witnesses that lie fried three time! to get (lie operator at Lawyers in order to notify him of p) the approach of No. 33. He could not,j e however, get a response from the Lawyers operator. He has a card to IP t show that lie got the block for No. 37. h The (lay operator can prove that he found hin on duty when lie reported ai at 7 o'clock to relieve him. le did is 1kot run away after the accident. le tI toes not feel lie is to blame in this n matter and lie has made no effort to r avoid arrest.'' Mattoax declared that his bruother left his boardilg house only once il since the wvreek, Ilenl lie went out for I a drive. He was practically prostrat- 1-1 ed by (lie wreck and was So dem-essed N Illat his friends thIIought a div wohlid do Iim good. Hie retirned to tie C boarding hlnse after this drkive Ind ICu 1has., beel tihere s,inlev. 1le did n ot Iilw that any ofielrs ItIf te law 1ad heenl b) 1,11 11rhig fo im. Today hei wa i-- 1) formed that smne of the dletetives of' thle Baldwini aenCyV were lookin for 1 his brother and he went to IiWm lonIf police Ieadqnariers. wler lie fut(Iind that no rieciest ha llelen made for- ithe arrest of his brohder. The local oficials f the SouithenS were also notified wlere the operator eoi ld ie found and tilat lie had never S, been a mile Ifrom tie telegap'h141 of'- I)! - riep. Ile is ready to give chi mselfI' up at any tiivme. REPUBLICANS WILL CONTEST. , in Vote Cast in Certain Districts to be e Taken Before Congressional Committee. ,. yu It is understood from let ters ie.. , ceived by thle St ate board of canvas-- 'r sers that there will lie a 'ont est in r several (of t he conigressionlal districts. ,h Te letteris state (hatI fo rma Ilirot est p will be made1( aga inst thle announnee- j r mint s thIiat thle D emnocratie ciongress- m, meni ar ie elecled. The voie s as pubi lished ai few' daysV agou in Th'li SI ate. al showe~vd 1 hia t heire weriC onily shim l?-is pub11 l ia viot es east ini thle f'irst, scondi, t f outh i and seven thI di sticmts aganinst Cl 10,068 cast by thle I)emnocrats ini the s samie districts. None of thle congress- he men elected have any fears as to the M decision of thle commiiit.te onCi 'onitests l ini thle nat ionmal honse. C ongr'essmn h Lega re was oppose5(d by A r'dani Prio- in leaui and T. L. Gr'ant; Congressman (Ie P'etterson wvas opposed b)y Isaac My- thm er's; Congressman .Johinston was Opm- wil poseCd by D)avid Gist. and WV. T. Cobb; and Congressman Leveir was oppoised by Dantzler. r re Hot Supper. . th The Ladies .Aid society, assisted b)y se: (lhe Ready Workar's and Sunbeam so, eo cietics, of the First Biaptist chiurc'h bo will have a hot supper on (lie 7th of ti D)ecember in the vacant store-roorni en under the Frederick hotel. They will be also Bell fancy articles of every de-? Beription at that time. ' ea RES. SAMUEL SPENCER KILLED IN WREC] FIREE GUESTS AND THREE EN PLOYES ALSO PERISHED. ear End Collision Between Passei ger Trains Near Lynchburg, Ya His Body Was Burned B1 - yond Recognition, as Was Also Another Unidentified Man. Lynchburg, Va., Nov. 29.-Samu pelcer, president of the Southei nilway company, and recognized [ ie of the foremost men in the di lopment of the Southern State as killed this morning at 6.1 'elock in a rear-end collision i hielh two fast southbound passeng< ains were involved, ten miles sol Lynehburg 1nd a mile north < awyers d('dpot. In tle same wret Iree of his guests were killed. O1 r. Sen's private secretary, Merrill of New York eity, ni le of lie three porters survived tl cident. The Dead. Presidei 8amun1el Spencer. Wasi Clas. 1). Fislier ot taltimore, NI I'Iilip Schulier of New York cit: Franik T. Medwood (if Hiallimore. I). W. Davis of Alexandria, VN ivate dispatcher to Presidenlt Spel r. William Pollard, colored, porter i resident Spencer's car, who died i )spital here. An unknown person, whose leq I(1 limbs are burned off short, wli believed to be the third porter c ie private car, who is missing. 11 ime cannot be learned. The Injured. Lueretia Aien, colored, Danvill a., leg broken and aipliutaled belo e knwee: left 0rm 1hIdly broken. Willis J. Winston, 233 East 01 undred and Twenty-seventh stree ew York eit v. leg badi'ly broken. .1. W. Shiaw, o-re41, Spener, 'A . 1I'ireil, badlYcl irshed and hot .t.s broken. anarhuulThi nas cIlored. ("reen 1r1. N. C ., hIU hrokl ;i(I badl -nised~ up. P'. E. Vanis, colored, Wayn'Iesbor<i a., 6:ilyv broken up and bruised. (Corn u I.on cIlored, Shelby, N. c It II legs brokenl. S:am1 Cox. colored. porler oI Ill -ivatIe (Ir, of 611 First street. S. W 1ashli I n lon, 1). C., le bro keni. - - uettl, address tnkn%own, hli 1preIII oIgaIizer of, the l leptasopl ek badly\ wrenched. Soln eo.i colored, Clarlotte. badlv bruised leg. E. A. 1lerrill, New York eitY, pr te secretarY to P)residenlf Spence 'ad and arms badly burned, will r( 'ver. Mr. Spencer's dlestiniat ion wn riendship, N. C., where lie was gt g on a hunting trip, withI Messri 'Ihnyle r, Fisher. Redwooid and1( Mei ll, as his guests. Asleep When Crash Came. P residenlt . Spece1(r and hiis ent ir rty o i(ccupied the~ rena ea('ir on ,thI rwardl train and as far as know: re sleeping whent c oll'0 i sioin h aj ned and thle probabili tics ar1e t ha I of' them'n e'xcept in D' ispntehler 1Dav~ were killed inistanatlyv. 1I is eer in thlit IifCe was extinct before thl >en cer 's body wvas burn red al mos yond( recognuit ion, as was thait o r. F'ishecr. The body of' Mr. Schinuy -was I aken from under thle t raii fore it was burned vecry mnch, hav e been singed only sl ighitly. P resi nt Spencer's ear' was attached t< a rear of' the Jacksonville train uili wvas standing still when struck4 President Spencer' was lying di atly under thme big locomotive of th< ir train. So gra wvetachst2?6aSI lir train. So great wvas the force o: a impact the forward train wa it at least 150 feet ahead, the Io mot ive goinig over and upon1 Ih dy '-f Mr. Spencer. Until arte I diebris burned itself out and th ~ie cooled ofn the bodies could no removed1. r'ho impact drove the combinatiou e forward anmd the express ar l1f ed up together with its truck and crushed the car 40 feet, leaving the remainder of the care strewn with tois of ba-ggag and colored passen getrs who were pushed back, as the ex press clr, 'rusled the combination car liek rats. Many Narrow Escapes. k- The combination ear did not leave the track and in clearing the track the express car was hauled to a siding a mile distant on top and in the debris of the combination car. How the colored passengers in this compart meInt, which is known as the Jim Crow part of the train, escaped, none 31 of them being killed, is beyond ex n1 planation. is The wreck occurred on the crest of 3- a steep grade, when the Atlanta train s, could not have been running more 0 than 30 miles an hour, if as fast. Had n1 it been a mile or two further south, r the number of dead might have been I frightful,-as the train was about two f hours behind its schedule, ia condition k inl the grade there thalt would have y ientit a speed of more than 60 miles . an-hou'. d It was reported at first. that En e gineer Kimey of Speniver, N. C., who Was in elargIe of the engine on the Atlanta t rain. was killed, hut this I- proves to be inlvor-rect. KinIINe, suf I'ered only a I'ew sli-Ihrises \nd 1. ents, which were dresed aid lie (id . not ,-o to a hospital. Mr. H. B. Spencer at Scene. Mr. 11. 1. Spencer, the sixth vice 1- president of t.he Southern railway, was a passenger on the northbound n train from tho South, which reached n the scene of the wreck a few minutes after it occurred. He spent several d hours there until the charred remains o of his father were taken from under n the locomotive and then he caine to is this city with the remains of his fiather aid ihose of his party. h'lle coach ceitaining the corpses e, was sidet rarced inl the yard above w Ie city. Caskets were procutred for them. These were Ilaeed in the pri te vale cari of 1 Presideiti Steveits of the , Ciesapeake and Ohio railway, who was paissing i l-onl..gl tie city with his fanilyh, tihl ear having been tenl h dered I I 1bis Is(e by Presidenit %tev en.. This ear anld the oine eointainling the remaiiis of Ihe killed were at. y aehed 1 a late traii going nolth and Ie reilailns weie transferrel to the a, skets while Ilie 1 rain was il Iran-. ., l Jm 1(1d1hn 1). 1141rsely, division (1ol0IIS4 for the (-timp.any lire, and As e sistait ("elneral Sn perinet eleit1' ". H1. ,,.Couiman of Dhoville were inl (large of the rnirmilis, Ir 1. 11. I. Speinier v hIavinig prelleded this rainl (iln a spe v, eial Imadt up her' in order to lie in Washlingctfn no the arrival of the jAt the ciIy hosita oniiiiglit. all of ithe itjiired colored prsons are re r, ported to lie doii. iicely. All are -. pe(1ed to reeove'. , Couttty Coriioner .J. WV. 1)nvis, at1 thte s' req tiest of thle Sont hern (iias, wenit - this iafternoon i to t he scente of thte 3. wrec'k for thle purpose (if holding an .inqpuest, bnt he found thle hod ies had been remove'd biefore his arrival, lie ret urnted to hiis home iin the suburbs, e a nd to nigh t. could not say whtat steps e will be taken timorrow. n Thlie .Ja ck sonvilIce expr)ess had thte right tof way in t he loc tk andl t he en t. gi ne Ieft thle t rain anid proceeded two - ileIs, one oIf whjieh was beyond Law - vets befr Vii heI t einginieeri not iced lie awas wit hoil h.Iis t rain. It may be that t. whten lie patssed Lawyers that the op . crot or I hoer gave iangOon a clear C block, withloutl nioticiing whet her or - not Ithe*rear' ('nd mar kers wvere to lie i seen befoire lie did so. - Operator at Fault. ~ i In lie.absence of atn omelial state-. 3 ment,' excepting that the operator at ilHangoon wias at fault, that statement 'is beinig aOccepted here. Tt is possible - that a railway investigat ion may de 3 v'elop t alt t. 1)e Ranigooni opierator Jet t the Atlanta train into thte block on I an order' fronm Lawyers that the block was clear., thle operator ther'e think ' ing the trainmless engine cleared the a block, and the rear train had passed r Hanigoon before it could bte stopped 3 when the mistake was discovered. Should thte investigation show that the Lawyers operator gave a clear 1 track after the engine passed his pta.. - tion without noting the rear end