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LD VOL. xvnl fA. N-,-TNlGS. CWDISA.JL A FATAL COLLISION. Conductors Dreadful Mistake That Cost Many Lives. TWENTY-THREE KILLED. s The 'Man Whose Oversight Caused d t Death and Destruction Insane I'rom MentalAnus. 1 Further Details. ( Twenty-three persons were killed r and nine persons were injured in a S bead-on collision on the Virginia Mid- 1 land division of the Southern railway n at Rocktish. Va., at 12 minutes after 3 o'clock Tuesday afternool. Passen ger train No. 35, leaving Washingti at 11.15 a. m., for Atlanta, Ga., dashed into local freight No. 68, 9 standing on the main line of the road at that point, wrecking both engines ani the baggage and express car of v No. ~... The baggizage car and the v secoid-class passenger coach imrmedi ately foliowing it, telescoped. Toe coach was occupied mostly by colored people. The casualties thus far re ported in detail are as follows: t Killed: r Engineer Davis. Engineer McCormick, who was rid- r ing as a passenger on No. 68. 2 A colored dreman on No. (8. t The freight train was in charge of f Conductor Brubeck and Engineer Hale and at the time of the accident was j on the return run from Lyrichburg to t Charlottesville. Rocktish station is midway hetween li these two points and the track there p is a single one. Engineer had orders to get out of the way of the passenger train but for some reason which has not yet been explained he overstayed his time and had failed to take a sid- - ing so that the passenger train could pass. The trains eame together with a horrible crash and a fearful scene of panic ensued when the occupants of the cars realized what-bad occurred. I Train No. 35 ran into the freight , which left Washington Tuesday morn ing at 11.45 was made up of an ex press car, a baggage car, two day coaches and two Pullman cars. The %m two Pullmans formed an early morn ing New York connection'at Wash ington for Atlanta and the south. The train arrived there at 10.32 a. m.. from Boston also connected with No. 35. No. 3-5 was in charge of Engi neer Davis and Conductor Mays. One of the passenger cars of the train was a second class day coach and the other a vestibule car. Engineer McCormick, who was a passenger on the freigrht train, was going to Charlottesville to take a train south at the time he met his death. The engineer of the freight escaped h without injury. It is estimated here that there were c in all probability 120 passengers on the train, including those from Boston and intermediate stations. It was at first reported that Bag- a gagemaster Payne of train No. 35 had met his death in the wreck. LaterC reports, however. show that this is in-g correct. He was caught under one a of the coaches and was badly stunned,c but later he revived and probably will0 recover. It is now said to be almost V certain that 19 were colored persons. as the second-class coach which wasg telescoped was occupied almost exclu sively by them. -a Later advices from the scene of thee wreck are that the freight train which was on the main track had been therec for six minutes longer than the orders directed when the collision occurred.e LATER ACCOUNT. - c A special from Charlottesville, Va., 1; says: Southern railway~- passenger si train No. 35, southbond, ran into an open switch at Rocktish depot, 20 li =miles south of this city, at 3 o'clock b '.2uesday afternoon, smashing into a a siding. The passenger engine and a express coach telescoped through the b second class passenger car in the rear. o In Lthe tlatte'r was a party if imi- it grants, all of whom were killed or in- ti jured. The dead number 24 and the C injured number 13. Tratlic was sus pended for eight hours.. s The dead, as have been identified. e are: r; iottesvillie. Cha Engineer Charles Davis of Alex- a andria.t Thomas Sheppard of Charlottes- a ville, brakeman on freight train. Charles T. Gay of Charlottesville, P fireman on freight. J. E. Lowe. colored, of Baltimore. Chas. T. Leitch, colored, dining car water. C C. 0. Owen, Philadelphia, boiler in spector.r Adam E. Vicocsavlievich. A ustrian boy. an Gugelmno, Austrian wo man. Two unknown Austrian women.c Unknown mulatto woman. The injured are: En'zineer Hale of Charlottesville. injuries to spine. 11. A. Sharpe of Knoxville. Tenn.. head and legs bruisE:1 and back hurt. Turner A. llenry of isentonville, Va., injuries to legs, head and shoul Walter Jackso'n, colored of Char lottesville, passenger tireman. legs broken. A ustrians, all painfully but not se riously injiured. T. G. Iludlson, colored, Chatta nooga. Tenn., serious wounds on head. T. E. Mercer, colored. Washington, arms and legs cut and probably in jured internally. J. S. Sterett. colored, Pullman por ter. of New York, hands. and facea cut. .1. WV. Payne of Alexandria, i'ong- r garemnaster. internal injuries-.. t The work of rescuing the in lured begr.n immnediatelv. Dr. Win. A. Lambeth of the University of \Virgimia was on the train and at once organiz.ed measures of relief. The trainmen un der the doctor's direction cut ~tjrough the panels of the baggage car nd express car and took out 20 of the ead. Probably a score of injured vere removed. W. A. Ward, the Union News agent f the train, whose home is in Vashington, was in the fatal collision 1u: escaped. The shock of the col i?on threw him through the window, oreaking his left arm. The special rain which went from here to the eene of the wrLeck returned to the city bout S o'clock bringing some of the ead and most of the wounded. Thir en of the injured were taken to the niversity hospital where their r.ounds were dressed. Most of the umigrants were Auctrians and were ound for points as far distant as alifornia. H. A. Sharpe of Knoxville, Tenn., arrowly e.;caped death. lie and Mrs. harpe were returning from their ridal trip, having spent their honey ion in Washington. Mr. Sharpe 'as in the smoker engaged in conver ition with C. 0. Owen when the ollision occurred. Owen was killied astantly, his body falling on Sharpe. W. B. Bruebeck of this city. con uctor of the local freight, is reported n a criticai condition. After wit essing the awful sight he is said to tave become suddenly insane and hen iound was tive miles from the reck. 3IAN AT FAULT NOW INSANE. The tracks are now clear and trains ,re running on schedule time. The ause of the disaster has been official y repo)rted as inattention to orders, he freight conductor, W. B. 1rubeek, eading his ordersto mean that the assenger was one hour and twenty 3inutes late when it should have been 0 minutes. lie allowed the switch o remain open. Brubeck is insane rom mental anguish. About ten small children escaped in iry, who, being foreigners, cannot ll ~ anything about their parents, rho were killed in the wreck. The ttle ones are being care for by the eople of the city. FAVORABLE TO CROP . 'ast Week Best of the Season Thus Far for Growrh. According to the report of Section )irector Bauer, the past week was ery favorable for crop growth and evelopment. There was about the sual amount of sunshine and -the inds were light and generally autherly. The relative humidity veraged above the normal. At the eginning of the week the ground was horoughly soaked by the rains at the lose of the previous week, and there ere light scattering showers (,n the nd, and again on the last day, but he ground was generally dry enough ) permit cultivation after the 1st of uly, with the exception of very low ,ing lands, and where the rains on he 2nd were heaviest. A few locali ies need rain, but generally the soil ; well supplied with moisture. Hail hat damaged tobacco fell in Hurry unty. With the exception of isolate I a'id mited localities where the ground is ill too wet to work, the week was the most favorable of t he season on 11 crops, and afforded opportunity to lean fields of grass and weeds, and ive them much needed cultivation, Ithough complaints of grassy fields antinue to be received from all parts f the State. The warm, humid 'eather, and the moist condition of ae soil were conditions conducive to rowth, and all crops responded, ex pt on ligLt soils that have been tached by the excessive rains of June, nd of crops that have not been prop rny cultivated. The hot weather, >lowing the heavy rainfall, scalded rn and cotton in Hampton county. Ald corn has about laid by, and is ring well. Young corn has a good olor generally. On replanted bottom mds corn is coming up to good :ands. Cotton continues small, and on ght soils is yellow, but generally it as a better color than heretofore, od is growing rapidly. Lice have bout disappeared. Some fields are looming fri ely, in the eastern part f the State but in other parts bloom g is not yet general, and many elds have not put on any squares. lean fields are the exception. Tobacco curing is in progress in all etions. The crops has improved re ently, except where previous heavy tins caused irreparable damage. Rice ;not doing well generally. Peaches nd grapes are rotting extensively, nd the fruit crop is less promising an heretofore. Melons are small nd late. Minor crops, pastures and ardens are excellent. The hay crop romises to be heavy. PeculIiar Accident Sunday afternoon at the home of Ir. V. J. lElder, near Elder, Osonee unty, Ga., Mrs. Butler, who had een visiting there for a few days, iet with a tragic death. Mrs. Butler ad gone out to the well to draw a unket of water, and was in the act of rawing up the bucket when the ac ident occured that caused her death. There were two buckets at the well ud as one came up the other went own. .Just as the buckets were half -ay up the rope broke and Mrs. Butler 'as jerked forward into the well. Her head was jammed into one ofi he buckets as far as her shoulders and er body shot downward through a pace of forty feet to the bottom of he well. The alarm was given and Sa few minutes the body of Mrs But r was drawn up feet foremost. She 'as dead when her body was taken ut. Mrs. Butler's renains were car id to Window, near which place she ved, and were interred. She leaves husband and a baby ten months old. Overcome with grief over th death f her daughter, Mrs. Kate Donnelly, f Jeanette, Pa.. in Sunday's disaster t Oakward, Mrs. MacGarvin, of reensurg, dropped dead Wednesday orning. The remains of her daugh en were brought to Greensburg for nterment and the mother. who was itting by the window, where she ould see the approach of the funeral >reessionl. When it came in sight he fell over dead. The mother and laughter were buried at the .same ANOTHER HOMICIDE. Mr. John Wham Kills Mr. Fate Ramage Near Laurens. BOTH PROMINENT FARMERS. Great Excitement Over the Affair Among the Friends of Both Parties. Wham 1 Still at Large. A special tW the Statc irorm Laurens says: A homicide which has startled Laurens county as no other homicide has done since Joe Crews was killed probably saved from lynching the man who shot the other Thursday. In the yard of the slayer, L. W. Ramage was killed by .John G. Wham. Both men were prominent and for a time most serious trouble was feared, but it is not likely now. The case is a most interesting one and there is the usual woman in it. The scene of the affair is Simpson's Cross Road, six miles from Laurens and three from Clinton, on the Co limbia, Newberry and L-turens rail road. John Wham's home is on the right or the road coming up. Across the road lives Tiomas Simpson, aGCn federate veteran, who has a large fam ilv. It seems that on Tuesday Miss attie Simpson, about 1' years old, received a note purporting tw be from Miss' Coleman, a sister-in-law of Wham, asking Miss Simpson to come over to Wham's .where Miss Coleman was visiting and stating that. ;ll the others had gone away. Mrs. Simpson got hold of the note and her suspicions were aroused. She went with her daughter to Wba'n's house, where Wham was found a.one. Asking the meaning of the note Wham replied that he found it addressed to Miss Simpson after his wife and Miss Coleman had gone to Clinton and had simply sent it over. This did not satisfy the Simpsons and they finally elicited from Wham the information that be had sent the note wiLh im proper purposes in view. Ilowever. he declared this was nothing new and asserted that he had on four occasions within the last year made attempts to have relations with Miss Simpson with her consent. This statement, it is said, was made to Mr. Simpson, the ir s father, when he went to Wham s house to demand satisfaction. Wham, it is said. refused to come out and meet old man Simpson, who de clared that nothing but Wham's blood would satisfy him. VICTIM A PEACEMAKER. News of this reached Clinton Thurs day and there was much indignation there against Wham. Thursday night, it is now reported, a crowd surround ed Wham's house and it was known that some serious results must come.! Either Thursday afternoon or early Friday morning Mrs. Wham got in her buggy and drove to the home of Mr. L. WV. Ramage, several miles from her home. Her object was to get Ramage to act as peacemaker, but she says she did not ask him to come to see Wham. Thursday morning about 8 o'clock Ramage got in his buggy and started forSimpson's cross ing. On the waly he picked up Ried. Blakely, a friend. The two drove on to Wham's house and Wham came out to meet them. There was a shot gun in the buggy and Wham had a pistol in each coat pocket, but Wham and the~ two visitors shook hands in a friendly manner. According to the testimony of Blakely at the inquest, -Ramage open ed the conversation by saying. "John, this is a bad affair you are in." Wham replied, "Yes, and I am willing to make any acknowledgments that are proper." Ramage then suggested that they all go over to Simpson's but Wham said he wanted to wait until his preacher came, that he had sent for him. Wham then started to the house, the other two following. Blakely suggested to Raimage that if Wham got into the house he might get away and they better make him give up his weapons. Ramage called on Wham to stop, but Wham went on in the house and up stairs. From the front window he calledi to Rlakely to 'Get out of my yard," and Blakely got. Ramage ha I gone around the right side of the house and on to the A COLD BLOODED MURDE. Blakely says he stood at the gate and look through the hall which runs nearly through the house and that he could ear Mrs. Wham and Ramage talking, but could not distinguish what they said. .lie saw Wham up stairs pick up something and then saw him come down stairs with a gun in his right hand. .As he left the staircase he passed out of Blakely's sight and the shot was tired almost instantly. Ramage called to Blakely and Blakely :1eard him fall, and says he knew his friend was dead but did not go to him. With the shot gun in his hand he went to the corner or the fence wvhere he could see Ramage lying back of tihe house. sPLENDID ACTING. When Mrs. Wham rail out to the friot piazza screaming Blakely asked if it were safe for him to go to Ram ag's body and she replied it was not safe. Here was enacted as wonderful a bit of acting as ever a woman did on or off the stage. The wife to whom Wham had been untrue, either in in tent or act, for nearly three hours played an artistic role in order to give him time to escape. She knew that ir Wham was taken by the friends of the other woman his life would be the for felt, and so not only to Blakely, but to the dozens of others who gathered there this nervy woman pretended that hler husband was upstairs and that it would mean more bloodshed and instant death to any man or any set of men who might attempt to en-: ter that yard or that house. With prayers and pleadings of this sort she kept the crowd at bay while the dead mat lay right at her back door and her husband was making his way to af. For it must hae been aLs PRESS ASSOCIATION Held Regular Session at White Stone Springs. LARGE NUMBER IN ATTENDANCE President Aull's Annual Address in Which He Pays Tribute to De parted Members---Every body Delighted. Special staft corresp.,ndent of the State, writing from White Stone Springs Says: The 29th annual meet ing of the State Press association was ittended by a large number of the best newspaper workers of the State. The printed minutes of the associa bion's meetings from 1877 to 188& re all the facts that for the first four years of the existence of the associa Lion, 1875 to 1879, Col. Jas. A. Hoyt, hen editor of the Columbia Daiiy Register, was the presiding oflicer. Dol. Iloyt is here today, nearly as vigorous as he was a generation ago. I )n the other hancl there are a number )f very young newspaper men here, ren whos i work gives promise that .ie future of the press of South Car siina wili be as honorable as the past, id Lhat the weekly papers continue > hv! great educating influences. A f:er making his annual address in vhich he pictured 1ie future of the ress in glowing terrgs, Mr. E. 11. Aull of the Newberry News and erald Wednesday made his annual eport. TnIE PRESIDENT'S REPORT. Mr. Aull in his annual report calls ttention to the fact that he was lected at the rApeting In 1894, at which time there were but 12 mem >ers present. At Sumter, the year ollowing, there were 39 present, and he average attendance since that irne has beer, not less than 50. It is ratifying to note the increased and ontinued interest in the annual meet ngs. le trusts that the time will iever come when there will be indif erence on the part of the editors and >ublishors in theseannual gatherings. rhey are helprul and pleasant and nust be benctical. Ile feels that ,hoie editors who have never identi ied themirelvi with the association lo not realize the benelits they would eceive. LOSSP8 BY DEATU. Continuing, Mr. Aull says; "Dur g the past year, or rather since our ast annual meeting, our ranks have een thinned by the death of two edi ors, and one died just at the time of ur last session. I refer to Mr. Thos. Adams, fur many years connected vith the Edgetield Advertiser. Vhether or not he was ever identified vith the association I have been un ble to find from the record, but he vas a veteran journalist and success ul beyond the measure of most of us. n view of his long and faithful ser ice in the profession I feel it would e proper for you to take note of his leath. "Another veteran who has passed way during the past year -one who as eminently successful-was L. M. rist of the Yorkville Enquirer. He as possibly the oldest member of tbe rofession in the State at the time of is death, in point of continuous ser 'ices, as well as in years. So far as I ave been able to ascertain, he was iot at any time a member of this as ociation, but in view of his long and aithful service as editor and publisher f one of the cleanest and best print d country papers in this State, it ould be but proper to talke recogni ion of this service by a suitable ribute. HE LATE ED1TOR OF "THlE sTATE." "We have also lost one of our own nembers, who was an ornament to he profession in this State. A man vho stood at the head of the profes ion, and who loved it for the good he ould do. His sudden taking ott and he manner of it was not only a shock the members of our assodiation and o the profession in this State, but to he whole country, for he had at ained a national reputation. N. G. onzales was for many years an ac ,ive member of this association and ye all remember the interest he took n our annual meetings. Hie was a incere and an honest journalist, one vhose motives were pure and high. e loved his profession and served his tate faithfully as he saw her inter :sts He was a patriot in the high st and truest sense of the word and ould let nothing come between him md the highest and best interests of he commonwealth, as he saw them. e was a partisan. Al-l true patriots re partisans. I believe he was hon st and sincere and regarded the in ~ersts of the State above his own. ~Iany times we dittered and at times have thought him unjust and un air in his criticisms, but I always be ieved him honest from his view point. Lf I should otter a criticism it would >e that he shut hioself up in his sane Dum too closely and did not ningle mough with the people. His death ,as distinct loss of journalism in this state. Ills personality more than nythying else built up a great news aper at the capital of the State. Few nen wrote as vigorous, as clean, as strong and as pure English as he did. hlis ':ditorials were always gems of nglish co~mpositi-on and the tendency Do read them was irresistible. even when one did not agree with him. A s to the manner of his taking ott, it would be improper for me in this con ection to speak. it is eminently proper, however, that we should as an usociation pay proper tribute to the memory of one who adorned the pro fession as he did and who rose by force f his own merit and ability from the ranks of an humble reporter to the ditor of one of the leading dailies in the south and one that was made such by his own personality." Mr. Aull then recites the fact that in accordance with instructions from the association he has gathered from the files of The News and Courier re ports of the meetings from 1S7 to 888, inclusive. Tihese reports have been bound in pamphlet form and contt the onical records of the soon as the shot was fired that John Wham rushed past his victim across the cotton field and into the woods 200 yards in the rear of his house. lie has not since been seen in these parts and at this writing his where abouts are unknown. When it was found that Mrs. Wham had been play ing a part and that he" husband was gone the crowd rade bold to approach the man who had been lying there dead these two hours and more. But this was not until word had been sent to Clinton and Laurens and Sheriff Duckett Lad arrived with a posse. Even then Mrs. Wham begged the sheriff not to turn over her husband to the mob, and acting on her fears the sheriff addiessed the crowd, cau tioned them against violence, and by this time Wham was putting miles between himself and the cold body of Ramage there in the back yard. Whether he went on foot or had a horse is not known, but since he had known for two days that he must get away or suffer it is probable he had prepared means of escape. It is said by conservative men that if Wham had been taken Thursday morning either before or after the shooting lie would have been l:nched. as there were a number of men congregated at the Simpsons with all kinds of guns and feeling was ho- against Wham both on account of the girl and of the eath of Ramage, but the tosiimo:ny at the inquest caused this feelirng mj partially subside. SHOT Is ~wAY TO SAFETY. It is known from .he guarded state ments of Mrs. Whjmn that lRatuage asked Wham to cone out and go to the Simpsons and that Wiiaum re fused, telling Ikonge that he could not protect him Trout that crowd 4ne that it would mean death for him (Wham) to go there. It is supposed Itamage commanded Wham to come out and Wham decided to shoot his way to safety without more delay. His judgment seems to have been good us was his aim, for under 1lamage's body was foundl 4 loated cmith .| i Wesson selfacting revolver while the I wound under the dead man's arm in- I dicts that his lefit arm was raised and t the fingers were twistedl as if in the t act of grasping the $rigget. Wham shot with a Ilemington 32-calibre rim tire target rifle and the ball entered i just above Ramage's left nipple, r passed through the largo irtery above I the heart, penetrated the body, en. I tered the right arm and lodged in the muscle. Death was doubless almost t instantaneous. Rh.mage was leftr t handed and was standing with his f left side ne.xt the house hardly ten feet from the back door from which r Wham shot as he ran down the stairs from the second story. Itamage was a magnificent man physically, six feet high, stout ani handsome. He was a bachelor and a halt brother of Miss Simpson's mother, who was the nephew and beir of the late Capt. .. A. Bell, and was himself a prosperous farmer and dairyman, standing well in the community. Wham moved here several years ago from near the Greenville line where the family of that name is numerous and prominent. He brought the old Simpson homestead, the Simpsons moving into a smaller house across he road. The old place is a typical arolina country bcme with big oaks n the yard and a general appearance f homeliness, a most placid scene for - a man to work the wreck of a wo an's life and to slay her kinsman. Nearer Clinton Wnam had bought ther property and thbere has in process f erection an unusually stylish house lmost completed into which he in ended soon to move. H~e is a prosper ous fellow about 35 years old and has our children. Last year he was a andidate for countty treasurer and as the second highest out of four spirants. His reputation has always been ood. . 1 Miss Mattie Simpson, the woman in the case, is a well developed, good ooking girl of about 16 summers, and'. f any one knew a.ught against her haracter it was not common knowi edge until these sad developments of the last three days. Now as usual, here is all sorts of: gossip. It is re ported to Sheriff Duckett that Wham was seen Thursday going towards the reenville line. The sheriff thinks he 1 will surrender probably to Sheriff Gil~ reath of Greenville or Sheriff Yemnon, f Spartanburg, as Wham's father ives at Woodrutf. There is no need for Wham to run. At the inquest his 1 interests were looked after by Lawyer . C. Featherstone who was summon 3d f rom Laurens. Deputy Sheriif Cathcart came up from Columbia with the bloodhounds. arriving at 1 o'clock at Simpson's :rossing, where the train was stopped directly in front of the honuse. The dogs were at once put on the trail and were worked for several hours, but it was impossible to catch the scent and the attempt was abandoned. No one is after the fugitive now. Another Lynching~. Cato Garrett the negro who stabbed Harry Stout's to death last Sunday: morning, Vicksburk, Miss., was hung by a mob near the scene of his crime this afternoon. Garrett was taken to Natchez. Saturday evening. Sheriff: Brennan fearing an assult on the jaili here. This morning a special grand jury found a true bill against Garrett and SheritT Brennan notitied the Adams country sheriff to bring the negro to the city. Decputy Sheriff Paul, with the negro. tooJk passage on the train due here at 5 o'clock this after noon. At Stout's crossing, a Ilag station six miles south, the train was held up by 5o masked and heavily armdd men who took and hanged Petition R~el'used. The State board of control Wednes day refusea the pctition of Mr. .J. C. Coopeir, a North Carolinian, who wish ed to establish a distillery in Cleve land township in Greenvillc county. Mr. Cooper's petition wvas signed by a large number of the township, but the board refused it because owing to a recent law passed in North Carolina an influx of distillers from that State would probably result. The law in dicated, stipulates that no distillery can be~operated within the boundaries of North Carolina which is not situat ed in an incorpora3ted town. Natur ally many of the distillers would move to South Carolina. The board feared were they to grant one petition all woul ha~e to be grnted. association for the perioa covered. The News and Courier's reports for that time were written by F. W. Dawson, N. G. Gonzales, Jno. A. 1 Moroso, all of whom have laid aside the pen forever, and by J. C. Hemp hill, Jno. L. Weber and other well known writers. The following very important para- v graph is also a part of the report: b "At several annual meetings we have discussed the question of handling foreign advertisements. I desire to call to your attention the advisability 0 of forming a State syndicate for this c< purpose, the plan for which, if you 1 desire, I will more fully outline a part a from my report. I believe it is prac tibable." While there are quite a number of ti members here, the committee on pro- 0( graime reported that there was only one present to whom had been as- n signed the duty of reading a paper. r In consequence the morning session b was passed in a rather infor~oal way. Mr. Aull told of the arrangements for the trip to Denver, and Col. Hoyt - urged the editors to take the trip. He t told of many things to be seen in the n great and somewhat unique State of S Colorado. Quite a number announced that they had decided to go. t Senator D. E. Ilydrick made the ad- a dress of welcome on behalf of Mr. Jas. T. Harris, proprietor of the a springs. MNfr. Ilydrick spoke with pride (if thr: growth of the county, A and declared that Mr. Harris is one of the new citigens who have helped to st make it great. Attention was called to the fact that this cointy was once a ti so poor that it asked the legislature to pay its taxes. Now it is third in wealth. le paid a fine tribute to the b newspaper man, declaring that in his opinion the successful editor is the best informed most widely read man in the world of business, Senator Ragsdale replied very or pleasantly to Mr. Hydrick's remarks te and declared that he, for one, is ready st to come here every year. The assbciation received a letter se from Col. T. Stobo Farrow in which cc e says that he is getting up a history d( f reconstruction from 1868 to 1876 nd he is anXious for the editors of be the State to give him all Information to they can. tb A committee was appointed to con- fo ider the advisability of forming A so master printers' association, which cc will have for its object the perfection tt af a system of making rates on job fo work. The State Press association is not allowed to consider such matters M xeept in a general way. Messrs, su Strickland, Wolfe and Waddell were tppointed. Instance were cited show- tt ing how the prices on job printing are se being cut below living prices. $1 Among the members of the associa- cc Lion here are: Mr. A. J. Clark of the su Lancaster Enterprise, Mr. J. N. pl trickland of the Cheraw Chronicle, ag dr. J.- T. Bigham of the Chester Lan- of ;ern, Hon. Jno. Bell Towill of the. ed l',atesburg Advocate, Hon. J. C. Mace fo f the Marion Star, Senator J. W. tt [lagsdale of the Florence Reform dvocate, Capt. H. H. Watkins of I, hie Honea Path Chronicle, Rev. Wal on 1. Greever, correspondent of The ar outhern Lutheran, Mr. C. W. Birch- tt nore of the Wateree Messenger, Mrs. Cc irginia D. Young, editor and pro- to >rietor of the Fairfax Enterprise; J1. Si . B. Warren, Press and Standard, cc Walterboro; N. Christensen, Jr., tc Beaufort Gazette; Ed HI. DeCamnp, St jalney Ledger; Col. J. A. Hoyt, sa treenville Mountaineer; Rev. and in ors. J. Ferdinand Jacobs, Southern cc resbyterian, Clinton; J. 0. Garling- vi on, Carolina Spartan, Spartanburg; ar . C. Langston, Anderson Intelligen ~er: J1. R. Peden, Carolina Odd Fellow. vi ireenville; A. B3. Cargile, Saluda ti tandard; L. Wigfall Cheatham, Edgefield Chronicle; Rev. A. A. James, ?acolet; Mrs. Chas. H. Henry, Spar anburg Journal; Rev. W. R. Richard- .g on, Southern Christian Advocate; ol, Jno. M. Knight, Sumter Herald;. . W. Wolfe, Kingstree Record; Miss heodosia Jones, Marion Star; E. J. Browne, Manning Farmers; Rev. G. [L Waddell, Spartanburg Herald. ~ Among other visitors to tne meet- s ng of the Press association are: Miss u agsdale of Florence, Mrs. Win. f( oney, Johnston; Mrs. 0. B. Bristow c nd Miss Marie Bristow, Darlington; b isses Mary and Rachel Bigham, r hester; Miss Joyce Clark, Lancaster: If rs. G. E. Moore, Honea Path: Miss ti lara Duckett and Mr. Thomas acobs, Clinton: Mrs. L. B. Gilliam, h rs. L. J. Blake, Mrs. C. H. Henry, L iss Agnes Petty and Miss May Cal- ~ ert, Spartanburg, and Mrs. C. W. s Birchmnore, Camden: Mrs. J. A. Hoyt, s reenville.a M~otner's Dreadful Deed. -u A terrible tragedy occurred Thurs- n ay night in the, village of Leroy, N. d ., when Mrs. William Baxter hanged ir erself and two children, Goodson, h ged 8 years, and Gladys, aged :3. oi When her husband returned to the pl ouse at 6 o'clock he could not get in. o1 Ee waited for some time, then broke n a window and searched the house. bi n an untinished attic oyer the kitch- r< n, reached by a ladder, he saw hang- nr ig, side by side, from the rafters his st wife and two children. From indica- tl ions the woman must have carried p1 the children up the ladder one at a al ime. The room was so low that the hb boys feet nearly touched the floor. ci is Negro Killed on Southern. ii Lee. a negro, was struck by the la.st ' fright No. 7 on the Southern rail.. t road, about three miles this side of t Hopkins, and instantly killed on N,. . I lay morning about 6 o'clock. The !.i quest w as held by Coroner Green with the usual verdict. Curiously enough the man was not struck at all by the engine, but his head was hit by the stps of one of the freight cars. En gineer Chandler, who was driving ther engine, says that he does not remem ber seeing the man at all. Pulled Overb)oard by a Fish. Wednesday night a number of boys k werere gathered on Perido wharf h I Pensacola, Fla., fishing for shark, one i of them, Carl Johnson, tied his line 'I about his waist and threw the hook b in the water. In a few moments a si big fish took the bait and fmnding it-b self caught lunged for the bottom, p dragged the little fellow from the I warf. lie disappeared beneath the t srfac and wa never seen again. e TAKING PROPER ACTION. Wild Cat Insurance Companies to be Prosecuted. Recently it is alleged that several rild cat insurance companies have een operating in South Carolina and !omptroller General Jones has been esieged with letters from persons all ver the State asking about these A 3mpanies and notifying him that iany of them are operating without license. Of course this is directly in viola on of the law and will be treated ac )rdingly. Mr. Jones Thursday morn ig issued a circular letter which he iailed to all persons asking as to the j ght of these companies to carry on usiness without first paying license. The letter reads: " 'Answering your request as to the 0 -- company, I beg to say e iat they are not authorized and have r( D license to do businesss in this Late. If any one is soliciting business for 1en, you can swear out a Nyrrant 'y 4ainst him before a magistrate of 0 11s State, charging him with acting F agent for a foreign insurance com ny without license, under section )7 of the criminalcode, which reads t( follows: - w " 'Section 607. Any person who ti iall transact any business or insur- tl ice in this State for any company of gi ie United States or foreign state not SO corporated by the laws of this State ithout having tirst obtained license ni law required, or after his license tE Ls been withdrawn, or shall in any ED ay violate fhe foreigoing provisions w t relation to license of insurance cc impanies or agents thereof, shall up- p1 I conviction in any court of compe nt jurisdiction, be fined for every ci ich offense not more than $100; pro- hi ded, that nothing contained in this SC ction shall release such company or ti impanies upon any policy issued or 0' ivered by it or them.' d( "Upon your making the affidavit in fore the magistrate, it is his duty tt issue his warrant for the arrest of bE e party and bring him to trial be- tt re him. Each time the person W licits insurance and issues a policy, ct nsititutes a separate violation of W :is law, and they can be prosecuted ef r each seperate violation. be "This is the only law for the punish- at ent of the individual soliciting in- 01 rance. "In addition to this proceeding in at e criminal courts, the company it- w If may be fined a sum not exceeding I 961 ,000 nor less than $500, to be re vered in a civil action by any party dt ing therefor in the court of common eas. This suit is to be brought ainst the company issuing the policy insurance, and the amount recover- G t is to be retained by the partysuing r same. The State gets no part of is penalty. "Section 1793 of the civil code, Vol. code of laws 1903, reads as follows:i T 'Section 1793. Should any insur ice company or association violate ie provisions of this chapter such . mpany shall be fined in a sum not is exceed $1,Q00 and not less than 81 00, to be recovered in any court of nopetEnt jurisdiotion in this State, y be recovered by any citizen of this hi ,ate having a policy of insurance in di id company; provided, that nothing h: this chapter shall release any such ~, mapany, companies or association t1 olating the provisions hereof upon iy policy issued by it or them.' ' ? The inquires have come from Green- 3 lie, Charleston and other cities of oi teState. r HIAS A DYING MANIA. rst Virginia Man Pronounced Dead f( but Still Lives. Clayton Westfall, of Parkersburg, ~ . Va., is a victim of the dying habit. ri e lies, apparently, fools all the per- ~ ns who see him and then fools the ti 2dertaker who calls'to prepare him r burial by waking up from a semi- P mscious state and protesting against t~ ~ing. made to witneess his own fune I from the inside of a coffin. West- C 11 died last week for the seventh me, but revived again in time to pre- n ~nt the funeral, although the grave ' ~d been dug and the cotfin ordered. e is a worker in the oil fields near C Ike's run and according to his own cry has frequent attd6ks of unconi iousness. He had one of his attacks riday, and the family made the usu .tests and he was pronounced' dead.. The grave was prepared and the I adertaker sent for. He arrived at, ight and was- almost frightened to ~ eath when the supposed corpse arose i bed and asked the undertaker what a was going to do. Westfall found it in a short time that it was pro- ' ased to bury him and entered a vigor-n is objection. Wes.tfall say's he has several times ' een in this condition and has nar-c wly escaped being buried alive on 0. tore than one occasion. He has t metimes laid in a trance for two or ree days at a time. During this e eriod he has always the most remark- b ble dreams. Nearly always he dreams s e is in heaven but can give no ac rate description of what the place 1 like. A t other times he dreams he P as gone in the opposite direction, and b hen this happens he is always glad >be awakened, even by the under- t ker. He-is in excellent health, and d is experience never hurts him.. 0 Narrow Escape. h Douglasville Ga., was visited by a g ~vere thunderstorin Tuesday. The nl ghtning struck several places, in c wn and among the number was the s asidence of R. M. Wilson, clerk of the 0 iperior court of that county. Mr. filson and five other members of his unily were in the house when the olt came and thcir escape is very e iiraculous. Mrs. Wilson was in the a itchen washing dishes and a large c ole was torn in the floor within ten ] iches of where she was standing. a he dishes she held in her hand were s roken, but she escaped unhurt. A c an, F. M. Wilson, was lying on a ed upstairs and pieces of plank and 1 lastering were thrown all over him. le was unhurt. Other members of1 he family haid equally as miracuflous 1 AWFUL HEAT. hirty Six Deaths Recorded in New York. IGHTY-THREE PROSTRATIONS. t Storm in the Evening Gave Some Relief to Sweltering Humani ty. A Crazed Negro, Caused by Heat. Thity-six death and 83 prostrations 1 and around New York and Brook rn tell the story of Friday's heat. It as the hottest July 10th in the history the local weather bureau, the high ;t previous record being 91 degrees, corded July 10,- 1880. The early threat of a temperature iat would break all records, however, as not fulfilled. Thursday's record 94 degrees at 4. o'clock, the high eather mark of the year, wasreached riaay at 20 midutes past 1, without gns of relief. But by 2 o'clock the mperature had fallen two degrees, bere it-Temained during the next vo hours. At 8 o'clock Friday night te temperatare had fallen to 83 de -ees, 6 degrees lower than at the me hour Thursday. During the two or three hours about >On, when the heat was the most in use, the wind averaged about nine iles an hour. About 5 o'clock the itchers at the weather bureau dis vered that a thunderstorm. was in -ogress in the southwest. Meanwhile the wind shifted and in eased in velocity to 32 miles an )ur at 6 o'clock. The storm, which arcely touched the city, had given te desired relief. Between 5 and 7 ,lock, the temperature fell several grees. The city had been swelter g so long in the hot wave, bpwever, - at it was hours before the ts gan to reach the tenements. e streets, where the cooling process is more immediate. men, women and ildren crowded in the doorways and Liks- to recover from the wearing ects of the day. As on the night fore many slepton the parkbenches, id, where the police would permit it, the grass. Waniel Lewis, a beat-crazed negro, tacked with a club two girls- -who - Ire carrying a large piece of Ice.. A b quickly gathered and shouted, ynch him." Lewis was rescued by tectives and sent to a hospital. ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION. vcrnor Appoints Commissioners for Exhibit at Worlds fair The State of Wednesday says: be governor yesterday appointed 14 mmissioners who will have in charge e exhibit of South Carol!-- which to be placed at the world's fair in . Louis next year. The ggvernor is very much encour ed wi'th the prospect for tbe ex bit and will use every personal en svor to increase the sum now on md so that a handsome exhibit orthy of the State may be placed at ie exposition. The newly appointed commisioners ill meet here on Thursday evening, 11y 10, at 8 o'clock in the governor's fice, and the entire situation will be veiwed and plans set on foot for' the ising of the desired sum. It is possi e that about $25,000 is needed to ake an expibit such as would best set rth the resources of the State. Gov. Heyward hiniself Is very en msiastic about the plan and is con ent that South Carolina will be rep sented by a most creditable display hen the gates of the great exposi on are opened In 1904. Two commissioners have been ap >inted from every congressional dis ict. They are as follows: First District-B. Goodwin Rhett, barleston: Louis Appelt, Oiarendon. Second District-Miles B. McSwee sy, Hampt;on; Robert Aldrich, Barn Third District-B. T. Jaynes, conee: J. M. Sullivan, Anderson. Fourth District-T. 0. Duncan, nion; T. J. Moore, Sparta'2burg, Fifth District-LeRoy Springs, ancaster: B. A. Love, Chester. Sixth District-Thos. Wilson, Wil a~msburg: B. P. Hamner, Marion. Seventh Districb-Altamont M!oses, amter; E. B. Clark~, Richand. Trusting to the Law. A special to The State from Lan ster says a young negro by the me of Ernest Blakeney was brought> >the jail by a party of gentlement -om the Tabernacle section of that >untg Friday for entering the house a prominent citizen in the night me with intent to commit an out tge on his daughter. The negro had itered the room through a window fore the young lady awoke. She reamed and her brother rushed in 1e room, putting the negro to flight. :e was subsequently found. It was roposed to make short work of him, at the father of the young lady ad ised that he be brought to jail and irned over to the sheriff, which was oen. The negro has confessed that is intentions were to perpetrate an itrage on the young lady, and that e had been put up to it by other ne- ' - roes. The law abiding spirit .thus janifested by the citizens of the >unty is in striking contrast to the pirit of lawlessness which prevails in her portions of the United States. Negro Was Too Bold. A negro named "Deb" Flynn, bruis I and cut from wounds Inflicted by - n excited crowd Friday, _ was spirited ut of Marietta Wis., Saturday. 'lynn was walking with a white girl rd got into a quarrel with some outherners who resented it. A crowd. uickly collected, as a street carnival as being held and clubs, stones and Lammers were used on the negro. He as rescued by a company of militia, hich was attending the carnival in a jody. He was kept In hiding over xia-ht.