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VO.XX. M1ANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 196NO4. RiOT AND FIHT. Having Strenuous Times in The County of Cherckee. . RED HOT MEETING The Great Wonder is that Only One Shot Was Fired and that No One Got Seriously Hurt. The Trouble Caused by Blind (Tiger Whiskey. A dispatch from Grf.ney to The News and Courier says the ocunty campaign in Cherokee is .waxing warm. The meeting at Mabry's Will Saturday broke up in riot. It was al most a miracle that several people were not killed. The meeting was called in the morning, and Mr. W. S. Hall, candidate for the Senate, was announced as the first speaker, where as it was scheduled that the candi dates for the Senate should speak next to last. Owing to this agreement Mr. Otts, who is cpposina Mr. Hall, was absent. The meeting went on quiet ly till dinner. A barbecue was served and whiskey is said to have been dis tributed freely by some parties, who, to all appearances, were preparing for a fuss. The first speaker in the afternoon was Mr. O ;ts. When he finishtd one Will Blackwood, a magistrate's con stable, who had, it is claimed, been drinking, asked him a purely personal question, which brought on words. Blackwood then.appied an oath to Mr Otts, and his friends took it up and went between the two. Blackwood's friends rushed up and began to make a- fight. Mr. Otts was the coolest man in the whole crowd and stood his ground well. Tue whiskey that had been dis tributed got in its work, however, and the crowd, or a large party of it, got in a fighting humor. Every man seem ed to want to fight somebody it mat tered not who. Directly things got quieted down somewhat, and Mr. O5ta mounted the wagon and made a statement that he had expected the row; that he expect ed it on Friday, but the crowd got drunk too soon, and began fighting among themselves; that ne had been warned before he left town, and aftes reaching the grounds one of his frien& bock him aside and told him that the crowd that is fightirg him-not Mr. Hall, but his enemies, who are follow ing the campaign to give him trouble -had arranged to raise a row when he got up to speak. He furthermore said that Blackwood was not the real one who was trying to make trouble for him, but that he was the mouth piece for another. Blackwood came up to the wagon and started to get in, when Mr. Ott told him not to get in the wagon. Be ten walked off and was talking from a distance. When Mr. O!sts got out of the wagon there were different groups trying to keep the men of d ff erent factions apart. Sheriff Tnomas 'was on the scene and was doing all he cold to quiet things, when a fight occurred bet ween two men, who be gan knocking each other about. It was at this juncture that one, whose name was said to be James Fowler, said to be from Union, drew his r avolver and started to shoot. Bystanders knocked his hand up and the shot went cif -n the air. The crowd scattered and hid behind trees, wagons and anything that washandy. There were at one time at least a hundred knives opened and ready for use, and the tact that only one shot was fired was remark able. MAYOR FIGHTS 20110EEAN. Aother Lively scrmagein Stren uous Cherokee Connty. Another dispatch to The N~ews and Courier from Gaffnley says the spirit of mars was loose in Cherokee County on Saturday. The county campaign meeting broke up in a riot, and that was thought bad enough, but that waE not all the excitement for in Gaffnrey' Saturday night about ten oclock there was a report of a fight on the streets, and an investigationl showed thal Mayor J. Q. Little and Chief of Po lie Tom Lockhart were fighting. Soon Mr. Worth Little, a brother ci the mayor, and Mr. Deter Little, a son, joined In, as did Omcers Cap De mon and Lloyd Autol.- The fighting was brisk for some minutes. The won der is that~ no shooting irons were nol used. There were several knocket down in the melee, but none was ser ious) turt. Afe every thing had quieted dowr Mayr Little stood in the middle o: Limestone street and made an addres to the bystanders, telling them tha the trcuble was brought on by Chie Lckhart and the other two cffi~er; engaged in the diffi;:Uity neglectini their duty to electioneer for Sheri Thomas for re-electionl, and his hat ing to put another man, J. M. Hamp ton, on the police force to help then do their duty. It might be said here that Mayo Little and Sherf Thomas are not o good terms and two of the alderme are candidates, one for sherff and on or clerk of Court. Mayor Little too caion to make a political addres baing that no . Iizer should hold o: flee too long, and advising the peop to put out every man holding . Moe I the Court House. Before saying the he said that the policieen had r b usiness engaging in politics. The correspo'ndent bays the occu rence of Saturoay and Saturday n!gi ws. the talk of Gaffney on Sun da. - iSne concenlsus of opinionl that ti chief, who Is a nephew of the mayo acted In self-deret ca and In the d harge of his duty as did the oth' policemen who were acting as pea ccers. There Is no town the sizs Gffiney with a more obhginlg set police cficers. lIULPD ALL ROUD A STORY OF ACTUAL EXPERI ENCE SHOWING HOW An Agricultural Iducation Gave Farm Woik New Meaning and New Joy. M. L Sherman, of Ingham County, Michigan, hired a young man who bad graduated from an agricultural college and the results were so won derful and far-reaching that we give place here to Mr. Sherman's story, which will be read with interest by all. We need to be awakened to the value of an agricultural -education, what it will accomphlish for us and our children. Few of us have an ad E quate conception of the possibilities along this line. But listen to Mr. Sherman's story: "For two years I had hired a man who had graduated from our agricultu ral college. Some of my neighbors called me a fool for paying the wages he demanded, but I never made a better investment. His knowledge was my lemon and I equeezed it. I bought some books on farm chemis try, botany, surveying and horticul ture and took practical lessons of my hired help in these studies. "My hired man honored his profes silon. In a few weeks my boy, late ly indiffsrent to farm work, tagged at his heels and begged to help him. My girl trailed after us with her bot any. I stood speechless one day when she told me what Ruskin said about the clouds. Her fingers were in a book that had the hired man's same on the fly- leaf. I looked hrougb it and showed it to my wi?. She said if such culture was agricultural she was glad her daughter was finding it out. "That summer we began war on insect pests by studying entomology. My children went wild with enthusi arm, collecting specimens under the hired man's directions. Because he was watching for a certain moth, Will refused to go with some other boys to the circus, though the year before he came near running away to join a circus company. In his threat to do so he had quoted the frc qient utterance of a neighbor, 'A farmer's life is a dog's life." The life of my educated hired man, by its very contrast with a dog's life had saved my boy. "Before summer was over our cbil dren knew the birds, their ways and haunts, from the bobolink to the owl. B., 0 :tober they had set themselves to protect quails and partridges. Ag ricultural science had taugnt them that most birds are farmers' friends "In the second year of our farm education the children gave breathless descriptions of wild fl ,wers, ferns and lovely dogwood white with blossoms. They were amazed at the beauty of forest tree flowers. Fathe, did you know that the trees in the woods have flwers? Why did you never tells u.? See the lovely red and green satin of the hickory buds, ever so much pret tier than tulips.' "I was ashamed to confess i had never considered the lilies or the trees, how they grow. My girl bad become a lover of trees. She made me promise not to destroy her fairy and, the wood-lot, by felling the ma ples, as I had intended. "The chemistry of foods improved our diet and lessened the work of the kitchen. In connection with some ad vie from the family physician, I sub stituted the glass of milk for the mug of oider. "1 had tried to forecast the weath er by the barometer, but concluded that that instrument was too mercur !al to be reliable. But Mr. Smith eemed to understand its changes suf flciently to keep our bay out of the way of long storms. His observations and mine were another example of the difference between educated and un educated eyes. "No new buildings were put up. but under Mr. Smith's directions I fixed over our barns and sheds until dryness, ventilation and *.convenience for cleaning were as good as in costly structures- O e result of these im provements was that my boy easly3 and willingly did the work about sta bles and poultry yards, which he for merly shirked. In harvest time when work was pushing my wife and daughter took pleasure in d )ing chor es, which had been Impossible under old conditions. "My farm was saved: that was much. My boy was save; that was more. The farm had become more at tractive than the circus or the city, After Mr. Smith went away the boy worked on the farm and with hii book to prepare for a course in the agricultural college, from which he graduated three years later." Does not Mr. Sherman's remarka ble experience suggest the solution o: that vexed problem. How to keep thi boy cn the farm? I think it does Long live the farm college! May it receive the support which its import ance merits. Lanahan Says It's False. In a letter received by Gen. Willi Jones Wednesday William Lanahai & Son empatically deny that there i the slightest foundation for the re port that they paid for the repairs o G m. Jones residence. They deny thi and all other reports about them an the South Carolina liquor situatio1 Fand said that the people of Soutl Carolina seem more than willing I publish adverse reports about then SThe firm says: "Haskell's statemen as published in "Tac State' of Aug '2, about you and your house and om --selves is absolutely false. All othe estatements they have published abou us are likewise false." 0Both Shot. Mrs. H. A. Leaptrot was shot an instantly killed and her husban itprobably fatally wounded Thursda *tnight while sitting on the porch< Stheir residence near Cherry Valle, Ark. The shooting was done 1: i- three mounted men who fired froi te iront gate. The five Woolbrlgl a brothers were arrested on the chari ) of complicity. Two years ago Leap if rot killed a member of the Woolbrigi amily. DIVORCE RCOR & MILLION BROKEN MARRIAGES IN TWENTY YEARS. Census repartment Iiligently Cath ering Statistics Which President Eoosevelt Will Employ. One million divorces, at least, were granted by the courts of this country during the past twenty years. This is an estimate by the census bureau, and it is so startling that it probably will result in further important dis cuasion of the question of enacting a uniform divorce law in the various States. President Roosevelt, who has dis cussed in his messages and other pub lic utterances the general subject of legislation bearing upon marriage and divorce and has expresed himself strongly in favor of a uniform divorce law, directed some time ago that the i census bureau institute an inquiry a into the subject of divorce No in r vestigation into a social or economic question made in many years is re irarded as more important to the peo- L ple of the country personally than o this one, now just fairly begun by I Director North and his corps of assis tants. It is expected by the Presi dent that the statistics gathered by a the census bureau, together with the b legitimate deductions from them, will g demonstrate conclusively the neces sity :"f uniform divorce laws, and he expects to use the figures to bring a absut such a result. M The question has been .considered I by the President with the ablest law- : yers of the Senate and House of Re- a presentatives. They have c"-_oluded d practically that, at present. t;e Con- a gress lacks the constitutional p> ver a to enact a divorce law which wool. t n applicable in the States. The P= g dent hopes, therefore, to create sentiment in favor of uniform legisia Lion on the subject by the Legislatur es of the various States or to obtain 1 from the people, through the Legisla. i tures, approval of a constitutional o amendment confering upon the Con a gress authority to regulate by law the general matter of marriage and ( divorce. The statistics to be c~llected and c compiled by the census bureau will i cover the twenty-year period from c 1887 to 1906, inclusive. A similar ir- 1 vastigation was made in 1886, cover ing a twenty.year period, and the a figures of the two periods are expected to prove valuable for comparison. In the period of twenty fears just pre- c ceding 1886. 484,683 applications for I divorce were made to the courts and r 328,716 of them subst quently were - granted. Figures already in the I bands of Director North, of the can sus bureau, warrant the statement I that, in the past twenty years, the i applications for divorce aggregated I nearly a million and a half while the t divorce actually granted numberEd c more than a million. Of course, t even this alarming total does not in- t ride all cases of the infelicity of mar riage, but only those which reachec 1 the courts in spite of the appreben( sion of the parties of public scaadsi. The inquiry will be conducted along such lines as will make the resultant figures and deductions valuable in the preparation of laws for the regulation af marriage and divorce. An effort< will be made to collect the statistics practically simultaneously, as In the case of the taking of the population of the country. Special agents willc be appointed in all parts of ccuntry to examine the records of the divorce courts. In the United States there1 are nearly,.3,000 counties, all of which i probably have records in their courts .f divcrce applications. All details concerning each case will be collected and tabulated with studious care.1 Particular reference will be made to the nuwmber of children affected by] the divorce cases and how they were 1 afeted, as these facts, it is believed, will be potent in determining the ac tion of the Legislatures in the pass age of laws. When the investigation shall have been concluded and the figures studied carefully with a view to presenting in concrete form the result of the in quiry, the President will transmit the report to the Congress, probably accompanied by a special messag. in that utterance to his views on the sub ject of the action to be taken to correct what is regarded by sociologists as one of the greatest evils of our time. SEVERAL AREESTED For Throwing Railroad1 Syik s at an Excursion Train. The Florence Times says the Au gusta excursion train which passed Orangeburg about two o'clock Tues day morning reached Florence about -five o'clock that morning. The Times says "this excursion was not as bad as some of the past Augusta excursions for fighting and drinking yet there was some mischief done to the train by outside miscreants. " Deective C. E Wheeler and Chief Koopmanl brought two negro youths and one white boy in for throwing spikes at the train. The negroes are BWillie and Luther Anderson who were Sarrested for throwing railroad spikes at tne train at Creston. The white man, Ben Gartman was taken up at Orangeburg for the same mischief. SThese parties will be taken back to Stheir native counties and dealt with Saccording to law. "At Barnwell on the second section ~'of the excursion Flagman MClenaghan 0was found in an ur coniscious conldition 1.with a severe gash over his eye, and i j~was not known bow long he had -been In tbis condition. When the train reached Denmark his wounds rwere dressed by a doctor and a special car was taken by the wounded man until he reached Florence where Doc tor Gregg met the train and went to d1ork on the wounded man. "cCenaghan Is supposed to have dbeen nit by some miscreant throwing 'rooks at the train. The' excursion was very orderly going and coming, very little whiskey was in evidence iyand a good crowd went." ar Shot to Death. eIAt Sheeveport, La., a man was -t.Iiled by his divorced wife who in an 3t insane condition went to his house and demamded her children. INSIDESTORY Fold of the Corey Divorce Case Recently Decided. [TS A VERY SAD ONE. irs. Corey Knew Nothing of Her Hus band's Intentions to Desert Her Until He Told Her at a Dinner to Which He Had In vited Her. There has verhaus never been a life ith greater contrast on two sides d perhaps none more sad in scme aspects, than the lives of William is Corey, president of the United tates Steel Corporation, and his wife, r former wife, which culminated at ,sno, Nevada, on Monday, July 29, rhen Mrs. Corey was granted an bsolute divorce from the millionaire usband, who had tired of her, and iven the custody of her minor son. Mrs. Corey is a woman not only of ttractive appearance, but modest of anner and somewhat magnetic. uring the trial of her case, which as in no wise contested by Corey, ad absolutely devold of any. effort at fense, she was sad. Whin the fact ras announced that she had gained rhat she asked-freedom from the ian who wanted to be free of her he cried. She stated that she had ?en married to Corey, a man then of "r less cf1i ienli than now, in Pitts rg, on December 1, 1883, and they ved happily nearly 20 years. His difference, with accumulation of realth, developed and he finally de erted her. After several weeks of nattention and then desertion, ,orey took her to dinner, as he would Lave taken any other woman ac uaintance and calmly told her she could have to go; that he was tired her and would not live with her nger. He was emphatic; his mind as made up and he was not to be aken. She presents a different icture. After suffaing his inattention and esertion, seeing him the first time or weeks at the dinner table in a estaurant, she begged him to go some with her and "talk it over." cdifferently he raised his hat as he ut her in a cab and, turning, left ter forever. That incident, accord og to Mrs. Corey's testimony, was on lay 5. 1905, and since that time she as never seen him. Corey's manner f disposing of her was discussed with is attorneys, and the statement was wade at the trial that there would be o question of alimony, since that gad been arranged between Mrs. :,rey and his attorney. Perhaps one cf the izost significant atures of the trial, and one which heds thought on what preceded it, s the evidence quoted from Miss Lddie Corey, his sister. Asked by ounsel If she thought her brother a t person to have custody of young allan Corey, she replied: "He is not proper personl for his son to asso late with. His associates and comn ,anons are not fit companions for a oung man of Allan's age. I don'tI hink any New York man of wealth flt to have charge of a boy of his The cool deliberation of William lls Corey In his determination to 1d himself of the ties of matrimony s depicted In the evidence of his ttle sorn, who said in court, referring o a conversation with his father on he subject of the divorce. ''He iaid that my mother was a good wo nan and that my place was at her lde. Be told me I was too young to mnderstand the reasons for the sepa ration." Another feature of the case was the connection of certain photo raphs with Corey's life In New York, ne of which was Miss Gilman, an ac tress, another of Miss Gilman reclin ug on a sofa in her room, showing Corey's lifesiza photograph on an easel nearby. Whatever may have been behind the life cnrtain, or may not have been, deductions are being drawn far and wide, and the case is being point ed to as an Incident of too much money and the desire for gay life and tiring of the ties of home and wife. Corey has never uttered, so far as is known, a single word relative to his wife which could be construed other than an extolling her good points. In a sense, his son's evidence pictures that: "She is a good woman." Since the granting of the divorce the story of how Mrs. Corey firsi found out that she was to be cast ofi has come to light. It was not used In the trial of the case. After some weeks of neglect Corey asked his wife o dine with him at a fashionable restaurant, and she eagerly accepted the invitation. The meal was appar ently enjoyed by both of them, and Mrs. Corey especially seemed buoyant nd bright. The various courses had been served and the dinner all but ended. Over the caps of coffee the two sat chatting when Corey sudden ly leaned across the table, looked his wife Equarely in the face, and said. "T~is Is to be oar last dinner. I amr going to leave you tonight. I amr Wed of you and I want you to get a divorce from me." Mrs. Corey was entirely unprepared fr the information. Though she was startled, she maintained her self control, but the only reply she could or did make, was: "You don't know what you are say. Corey then became hurt. "Yes I do, I have fully made u; my mind, and nothing can cnange it I will not live with you any longej a d 1 want you to get a divorce.. wll give you everything to enabli you to live luxurously-everythinl you need to be comfortable." Mrs. Corey could contain herself na longer, and, showing agitation, said. I We will discuss the matter whe1 we get home, Will. Come." oey had act est ummond ani left the restaurant together. He went to the curbing with her, assist ed her to the cab, but did not get in. He politely lifted his hat, half smil ing, and said: "This is our good-bye. And re member, I will not be responsible for your debts until you are willing to make this separation final by a divorce decree. G od-bye." And, without waiting to hear more from her, he turned and walked away. There is no evidence to that effect, but Mrs. Corey's money supply was out cff and in this way she was practically forced into submission. After she filed suit for divorce her husband paid her bills. HO1L tL B1A 1 MATH. SCALDED IN & KE UTLE OF BOIL ING OHE .ICALS. Caused by the ?arelessness of Turning on Caustic Before the Boy Could Remove. The Augusta Herald says an acci dent so horrible that it beggers all description happened Thursday after noon at 4 30 o'cl ok at the Clearwater Bleachery, in which Jack J. Widener, the 14 year-old son of Mr. W. H. Widener, met a horrible death from scalding. At the bleachery there are a numb3r of large kettles known as kears with a capacity of thousands of yards of cloth. Into these kettles the cloth runs in a methodical manner and goes through a chemical process. by having steam and chemicals turned oc it through iron pipes, at stated in servals. To prevent the cloth frem piling up and filling the kettles before the capacity had been reached, a boy is kept in each kettle to keep the cloth properly wound on a mechanical appa ratus especially prepared for it. When the boy has taxed the capacity of the kettle he comes out and the caustic is turned on. For a long while the little son of Mr. W. H. Widener has filled this position very creditably. Day after day he has taken his place in the various .kettles and worked faithfully at his- work, never dreaming of any danger. Fri day afternoon at 4:30 the boy was in one of the kettles working assiduously, possibly in anticipation of the hour when the whistles of the bleachery would release him from his work. Little did the boy know that as the hands of the clock were moving toward the time when the chemical process should be turned on that be was to be the victim of a horrible ac cident. The kettle next to the one in which JAck Widener was working was iled with cloth, and Jerry Mid dleto , the man whose business -It was to do this work, with the inten tion of turning the hot steam into it, made a mistake and sent the hissing caustic into the kettle where the boy was working. - For four minutes the boy was in the kettle and when William Vernon, an employe, dragged him out of the awful place, observers say that his body from his face down was baked almost to a crisp. Physicians were quickly summoned and everything possible was done for the suffaring boj; his pain was alleviated by the use of anesthetics, but death was In evitable. The child died at 8 o'clock Friday night. jast three hours and a half after the accident. The suffering boy was perfectly conscious up to his death, and stated that while he was in the kettle, he realized that he was dying and that his body would be hor ribly disfigured, but to save his face he buried it in the cloth. The acci dent is one of the first to happen at the bleachery and it Is greatly de plored by the officials of the company. The parents of the deceased boy are highly regarded at Clearwater and they have been the recipients of much sympathy. White Pri.sonere M4ar dered. H. H. Trawick and Sam Chandler, white men, confined in the Angelina county jail, Texas, were found dead in their cabll, Thursday morning, the skulls of both men being crushed, and John Wilson, held on a minor charge and who was confined in the same cell is held charged with having murdered his cell mates. Wnlle denying that he committed the crime Wilson bas made a number of Cct fi eting state ments concerning the tragedy. He declares that at one time during the night he discovered the men fighting and .separated them. An earthern cuspidor found in the cell was, evi dently the weapon used. It is be lieved the men were killed while they slept. _________ In Peril at Niagara. T'he falls of Niagara came near claiming two men, six women and a baby as victims to its floods Wednes day night. The party was out boat ing on the upper river in a launch when the propeller was irnjured by striking a rock. When this occurred the launch drifted swiftly toward the falls. Those aboard the boat threw out an anchor and it caught as they wre passing through the Devil's Half Acre. Then they displayed white gar ments as signals of distress. Other boats put out from shore and rescued them. Fougnt la Georgia Mall. Representative Whitley, of Doug lass county, and Solicitor Hill, of the criminal court of Avon county, fought Wednesday on the floor of the House. They were separated by friends bafore either was seriously hurt. The fight is said to have grown out of remarks made by Whitley in the House Tues day. The lie was passed between the men and blows followed. Churoen Struck. Lightning struck the Walnut Grove Church Sunday and Sunday School was dismissed. Carl Sueton was fatally burned. Earl Emerson's finge: and Earl Byers' toe were burned cff Ruth Diss was burned about the face and head. Half a dc zen others were scorched. Fatal Fignat At Cold Springs, Texas, in an elec tion fight Friday, E. B. Adams, Dem ocratic nominee for tax assessor, wal 'Instantly killed. Sam Adams, his brother, fatally shot in the head, an' I two other men wounded. HE DENIES If. CALDWELL S&YS HASKELL'S STATE KENt IS FALSE. Will Make Cath that He Never Heard of Ianahan Before in His life. Willie Caldwell has been heard from and he absolutely denies having made the statement Col. John C. Haskell of Columbia says he heard him make about his brother-in law, Gm. Wille Jones. The following is a quotation from The R .cord's report of Colonel Haskell's speech at Sligh's, on July 31, 1906: "Haskell assserted that the dispen sary had corrupted and besmirched everybody who had ever been con nected with it; that the members of the boards of control had gone in poor men and come out rich, but that none of them bad come out clean. "Mr. Weston: How about Wille Jones? "Colonel Haskell: I am not call ing names, but his own brother-in law says Lanahan paid for the im provements of his house. Jones is not God Almighty1to regulat t:e af fairs of Richland count-y." Promptly upon the appearance of the above, Gen. Wilte Jones denied that Lanahan had paid for the im provement of his house and asked Col. Haskell to specify which one of his brothers-in law had made the alleged statement. Col. Haskell replied that he bad eard Willie Caldwell in conversation with some young men in front of Riot' drug store in Columbia assert that Lanahan paid for improvements of WilieJones's house. Gen. Jones replied that it was im possible for Caldwell to have made such a statement, as Caldwell had left Columbia two years before his- house was repaired and had never returned to Columbia. Lanahan promptly denied that he had ever paid for any improvements of General Jones's house. Soon as Colonel Haskell's statement was printed, General Jones wrote a statement of the case to Mr. Cald well, who is in California, and also mailed him 3opies of the papers contaioing reports of the Sligh's meeting, asking him to telegraph upon receipt there of. It takes some time for the mail to get from Columbia to. California, but Friday the. following telegram came to Gen. Wilie Jones from Mr. Caldwell, who had just received his letter: Clio, Calif., Aug. 9. 1906 Gen. Wilie Jones: Man making statement about me tells direct falsehood. Will make oath never heard of Lanahan- before. William H. Caldwell. This makes complete the vindica tion of General Jones from a charge that nobody ever believed. MANY LIVBS LOST. Colorado River Leaves Large Area With Devastation. Twenty-fry, persons are known to have been drowned, hunireds were rendered homeless and $500,000 worth of property was drstoryod as the re -sult of a flood In Texas Thursday when the Colorado River was lorced out of Its banks by heavy rains. The death list Ia growing hourly, and it s belkvad the worst disaster since the Galv ston flood has visited Texas. B.lef trains are cut off; telegraph and telephone wires are down, and the fate of the inhabitants of several Isolated tawns is unknown. Reports from the country say loss of life was great. The rush came without warning, and inhabitants at San Angelo and Ballger were forced to flee for a fety in night clothing. An entire family named Cook at Ballinger were drown ed in attempting to leave their home oan improvised raft which struck an obstruction. The Colorado River is from four to six miles wide In places and the tributaries south are out of oanks. Two thousand cattle are kill ed. The Santa Fe track bridges were washed out and traffic Is at i standstill. Persons made homeless sought refuge in churches. Provisions and clothing were rushed to the scene. One man on horseback was lost while trying to warn the inhabitants. A mother and three children at San Angelo perished In sight of a score of men, who were unable to attempt a rescue. The mother was in the up per story of a house in the bottoms. She was calling for help when the flood caused the small house to totter and collapse. T welve Inches of rain fell all over south Texas last nignt, causing ali rivers to overflow their banks. Rilef trains were rushed out, but were un able to reach thdir destination. Rescue parties In boats are'going from house to house taking people from second stories and carrying the dead to morgues. It is estimated that two hundred miles of track was washed out, The death list increases hourly. Telegraph offices are beselged by crowds demanding news from the the flooded districts. He *6esents it. Many a man would be proud to re semble John D) Rockefeller as closely as does Dr. James H. Jackson, of Rockford, Ill., but the Doctor doesn't like to be reminded In this way that ne Isn't a milaonaire. He appeared in police court to-day against Joseph Leonard' Beynold Bean and Lee Br linger, charging that they "humilat ed" him by calling him "John D" on the streets, where everybody could hear. Thb culprits were fined moder ately. __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Aged Couple Suicides. William M. Methnor, aged 63, and wife, aged 53, sought death Wednes day morning by Inhaling gas at their home in New York Neighbors, at tracted by the smell of gas broke down the doors in time to save their lives. lhe couple, who are now under arrest, charged with attempted suicide, ad mitted that they had entered Into a death compact. They said they wanted to die together as fortune had recent y I rowned upon them and they want d ensa the poor house. EY WAK l.NORD THREE THOUSAND TROOP3 RE VIE WE!D BY OUR GOVERNOR. The Demonstration Was Superb and Was All That Any Cne Could lDesire. A dispatch from Chattanooga to The News and Courier says from twenty-five hundred to three thousand troops turned out Friday afternoon to do honor to Governor Heyward, of South Carolina. It was a superb spec tacle, and a gratifying demonstration. uarolina's governor came. to Chicka mauga to extend the hand of cheer and well done to the 2nd- regiment, and the three regiments of Georgia troops, the 1' ;h infantry of regulars, the 12th cavalry and a battery of ar. tillery turned out to do honor to their comrades of the Second and Governor Heyward and his staff. Governor Heyward went to the camp about noon, and was met by Capt. Ferguson, representing Gen. Bubb, in command of the camp. Gov ernor Heyward, Gen. Fish, Gen. Wilie Jones, Col. Henry T. Thompson, Col. Bobt. W. Hunt, Col. August Kohn, ol. Jaynes, Mr. George L. Baker and Wm. D. Melton, went to the head quarters of the 22d regiment in camp carriages and Cols. Watkins. Folk, Moore, Evans, Irby, Bateman, Banks, D. 0. Herbert and Ed Clark mounted the horses kindly supplied through Gen. Bubb. All arrived in camp as they started except Ed Clark, who changed mounts as the seventeen guns were fired in salute of Governor Hey ward's arrival in the camp of the south Carolina troops. "Crack!" "crack I' for seventeen salutes roared he cannon as the G )vernor and his escort drove into camp. At the head of the line was a troop rom the 12 .h cavalry, which acted as special escort. A brief stop was made ,t Col Thompson's headquarters. Governor Heyward, and the mem ers of his staff, were warmly greeted by the Carolina soldiers. In a few mo nents, Gen. Babb and his staff arriv ad and it was not long before they were taken into the Carolina. It had rained all morning and was q'ilte threatening. When Gen. Bubb asked governor Hayward whether to go on with the revie w or not. Gsvernor Heyward suggested that he wished to uit the pleasure of Gan. Bubb and ,he min. The review was held and it was indeed a most thrilling sight to witness one company of soldiers after another march by and then see gallop ing the s'urday men and then tearing along with clatter and fury the grim cannon of the artillerymen. Gen. Babb and Governor Heyward with their staffs first inspected the troops that were lined along the field is far as the vision reached, then they took their places for the beauti ful review. First came the 17th infantry with its fine band, Col. Vanaradale, of this giment, took his place next to Gen. B~bb and Governor Heyward. Then came the three regiments of Georg ians, then the 23id South Ctrolina, then the regular cavalry, and the ar tillery. After the review the cavalry and ar tillery gave a thrilling exhibition o! horsemanship and drillmng. It is such exhibitions as this that make Ameri ans think all the more of-their coun try. The 21 South Carolina, under al. Thompson. made a fine showing. t is a fine regiment. CoL Thompson was accomnpanied by his staff, mount ad, and the battalions were command ed by M:jors Lipscomb, Culler and Yeadon. The c6mnpanies were com manded by Capts. Van Tusoon, Jos. . Allen, Christie Bennet, Lints. David KAhn, Ciaffy, Moseley, Brice, Eps, Bawlins, King, Doar, and Shu After the review Governor Hey ward and his staff visited the 2nd reg iment, and then made a brie! f.lal call on Gen. Babb, who was profusein his cmmendation of Col. Thompson's regiment. -He told Governor Heyward that he thought this had been the best week of military training he had ever seen. The boys of the 2-1 noon returning to camp, promptly began work, getting ready to leave for home. The 2nd leaves here shortly afterjinid night, and Col. W. W. Lewis, of the 1st, will be here to-morrtow ready for work. Governor and his st if eipect to visit Col. Lewis and his regiment Monday, but will do so without th pomp and display of to-day. The Carolina boys take well here. Tey are in fine spirits and health, nd were proud of their Governor and his silk hat to-day Governr Hayward and his party will leave here Monday night at 10 30 'clock for home over the Southern Railway, via Ashville. AUGUST KoHN. Killed by Pulsjones, A dispatch from Manila says first Leut. John F. James and t wo priv ates of the Eighth Infantry, with Contract Surgeon Calvin Sayder and Internal Revenue Collector William F. Williams, we re killed Thursday after noon, in a hand- to-hand fight with a force of Pula janles at Julita, island of Leyte. The detachment, which con sisted of ten men, was greatly out numbered, but made a gallaat fight. The Pulajanes captured three pistol', four KragJorgen3sen rifies and thrce hundred round of ammunition. Who? Newspaper dispatches announce that Secretary of War Taft and Speak er Cannon will go to Maine to take the stump in favor of the re election of Representative Littlefield against whom the American Federation of Labor Is making a vigorous fight. Taft a d Cannon will speak for Little ield on the labor question, but whc will spek for Taft and Cannon? Killed Himself. At Cicago Frank Kowalski, pay'ni teller of the Milwaukee Avenue State bank, of which Paul Stensland was president, shot and killed himself Frl ddy evening at his home, 340 Nortl Carpenter street. No charges hat been brought against him in connel etnn wb the fuilure of the bank. A LOSE A[L. A Girl Preacher Makes Her Es cape from Cannibals. WARSHIP SAVED HER. The Young Missionary:Saw'Eleven Sail ors Killed and Eaten. She; Tells lkr Thrilling Story of Adven ture at an Illinois Camp Meeting. Miss Beulah Logan Tuthill, a pretty woman, thirty years of age, a .Metho dist missionary whose ancestors were missionaries before her, startled the big Methodist camp meeting on the Des Plaines River, near Chicago, Ill., by telling the story of how she saw eleven persons killed and davoured by cannibals. Miss Tuthill is the only woman in the world who has lived to tell such a tale. She was taken to the Caroline Islands when she was six years of age and began her missionary work when she was sevateen. In 1900 her parents left the Carolines and went to Sidney. Australia. Ste remained on the island for several months after ward. Then she took passage on the steamer Aragul for Sidney. A terri fic storm swept the vessel near the Island of New Ireland, two nuadred miles ;northeast of Australia. Miss Tthill was swept overboard. She was an expert swimmer and was pick ed up by some Christian Mslays. They were subsequently shipwrecked on a sandbar on which a schooner was go ing to pieces. This bar was two miles off the cannibal isle. She said: "As the tide began to rise to ree us, the horror began. O2e. of our ookouts gave an exflamation of terror. We looked and there on the shore we saw a horde of savages com ing down the beach-fully 200 of them-in full panoply, armed with shields and spears ana heavy eubs with which they were accustomed to dash out their enemies' brains. "They stole down upon the schoon er and then attacked it with a rush. The sailors mad *no resistance. They ad concealed tnemselves in the hope of escaping, but one by one, men in all, they were found, dragged. out and killed with a blow on tae osck of the head with a great war club. "Tnen they dragged the bodies ashore and prepared for-- the feast. They beat on tomtoms a..d strange drums. Tne victims were laid in a circle on the ground while tae savages brought brushwood and great logs for he fire. "Tnen a strange thing came. They seemed actually to make a sort of re igi:us ceremony out of this horrible affair. They beat their tomtoms and puled their flair and uttered their weired, gutteral cries. "The rest is too horrible, how they cooked their human food, how they danced about their vie uims, how at last that company tore the smoking human flesh to pieces with their nails and teeth In a madi orgy. The Chiet ate first, and after danc ing he allowed his followers to par take. Tnlen, at last, when it seemed to me that 1 surely could stand it no longer, the savages formed in line and started to march away. The tide had fiwed in and we were free. "Frantic to escape, the frightened sailors 'who had rescued me, made aste to Dull away;. Bart now we were seen. The savages broke their fine and rushed to the osen. A score or more of them entered a canoe and pursued us. We had a lead of several undred fathoms, bus their canoe, driven by a score of savage arms, fairly leaped through the water. "They gained on us, fant, faster. I turned sick at heart. I hardly had strength to pray. "Now, this island Is a German possession, though inhabited catefly by cannibals. Three miles away, across the bay, there was a Germaa taton, and for this we heaied. Tney gained on~ us more ani mjre. We could hear their sav.:,ge cries, bun tank Gjd, there was a German gun boat in sight. They saw our predica ment. Glancing toward the warship I saw a little. puff of smoke curl out from its bow and a four-inch shell came ricocheting across the water to ward the canhibal canoe. It missed. Then another came, and this time it hit sqnarely and exploded and dealt death and destruction. I could see the survivors jumping into the water and swimming for the shore. "TGermans1 welcomed us, and I could not thn t su ',Il New and stranae i..iand. Capt. Truebridge, of th2 steamship Northwetern, Wednesday displayed a photograph that he brought .from the North, taken by an cffier of the revenue cntter Parry, of a newly for mer lying fifty ni Iles west of Dutch Harbor, directly between the Bogo slof Islands, commonly kna an as Cas tle and Fire Islands. ~The new island made its first appearence durIng June and is now 900 feet high. The length could not be ascertained as Perry could not get close enougna to make an accurate measurement. Ciouds of steam arIse from its summit and it is surrounded by boilhng water. Negresses as Tigers. In speaking of the acuteness of the servant problem in Greenville the other day, a citizen remarked to a reporter of The Ne vs that many of the negro women were conducting blind tigers, and that they were able ti support entire families on the re. venue derived thererrom and that he blind tiger was in part at least re sponsible for .the reluct ance with which negroes consent to wash and cook snd for the joy withwhich they relinquish auch positicns. It was stat ied that daily many orders were sent out to whiskey h.)uses by negro wo men who conduct blind tigers -an&d that e business was InrasIng