The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, November 21, 1906, Image 1

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voirU. xxi. MANNING.S. C..,WEDNESDAY9.NOVEMBER A BLACK HAND Killed at Rendezvous by An In tended Victim'of a VERY BOLD ROBBERY. Handed Over Only Twenty-Eight Dollars Instead of Five Hundred and then Shoots the Would-Be Robber, Who Dies Later at His Home. There are many queerthings hap pening in New York every week, and the following from The American tells of one of these strange happenings in that great city. In the centre of the throng that al ways swirls in the daytime around Mott and Grand streets, New York, Munziato Legato, identified later by Governor Acritelli as a member of the "Black Hand," was shot to death Wednesday by Enrico Revone, of No. c 127 Hester street, apparently in self defense. In the. Mulberry Street Station, favone, who had surrendered to Pat rolman Wilson after the latter had threatened to kill him if he didn't stop running, said quietly: "I am glad I killed him. He tried t to make me pay $500 to his society, the 'Mano Nero,'-what you call the Black Hanc-and he tried to make me take a woman who is on Ellis Is land as my wife." From the garbled Eglish the man used, the -olice believe Lagato was engaged in an attempt to have Pa vone aid him in work similar to that of the East Side cadet -.- The sympa thy of the police Is wich the prisoner, who Is looked up in HeaCquarters awaiting the result of the Coroner's investigation. Favone has a wife in Italy. He has slaved to save enough money to bring her ~to New York and establish a home. Wnen he had collected the nee - essary amount, he was so joyful he an nounced that he was about to send a money order to his native ccuntry. He says Legato heard the proudly made boast and demanded $500 from him. L.gato is alleged to have said that If the money were not paid his life would be the forfeit. An addi tional proviso was made, the prisoner swears by which he was to claim as his wife a beautiful young woman de tained at Ellis Island. Pavone said nothing, but he bought I a revolver the day before Wednesday and loaded it. "When I had the guv," he said, "I knew I could take care of myself, and that the law would protect me after I had protected myself." The two men met at Mott and Grand streets Wednesday. Legatio had named the rendezvous. Pavone, will ing to comipromibe, handed over $28. - Legato demanded the rest of the mon ey. PAvone said he hadn't it. The prisoner swears that Legatio then made a quick movement for his1 back pocketi, where the police later found a loaded revolver. Butt Pavone jerked his gun from his coat pocket, filied Legato full of boles and fled. Patrolman Wilson pursued him, shouting: "Stop, or I'll blow ycur head cff?" Pavone would not sop, but a pede strain tripped him, and Wilson jump ed on the fugitive. Turning on his back, Pavone said quietly: "Don't shoot. Here's my gu' Wllson took the.weapon, and, fol lowed by a crowd of perhaps two thousand, took his man to the station house. Pavone was cool-cool as ice. He said: "Sergeant, If I didn't shoot first I would have been a dead man. I am Swilling to tell the truth and expose the dirty work of this gang." Coroner Acritelli and Detective Ser geant Petrosini are reported to con sider the shooting as an affi that may lead to the rounding up of a blackmailng organization on the East Side. ____ Scled to Death. Six men were killed and five were seriously Injured last week when a boiler In the power house of the Lake Shore Railroad, in Collingwooa, a su burb of Clevelr.nd, Onio, blew up, Th's men were close to the boiler working on the~foundsuton for a dy namo. They were all in the mouth of a subway facing the end of -the boiler that blow out, anid the six men were scalded to death by the steam. Engineers at the power house say the explosion was due to the forma tion of a "mud ring" In the filTering apparatus which clarifies the~ water before it passes into the boiler. The shock or bhe explosion cre&med much excitemient. Sd'ver Goes Up. Bar silver has reached a price so high that the director of the mint deems It inadvisable for the govern ment to make any more purchass at present. For several weeks the gov ernment has been buying silver for coinage, and the prices have been in variably high. The purchases last week were at as high a figure as 71.79 per fine ounce, but the lowest bid re ceIved Wednesday was 72 cents. Director R .berts thereupon rt jeted the bids, and announced that no mre purchases wculd be made until such time as the price of b~r silver declines toward the normal Re Fought Rard. At MIledgevllle, Ga., on Friday. SMimis Dsvereux, a negro, fought the sheriff and his deputy who entered his en to escort him to to the scaf fold. After a hard fight the negro was overcome and was later hanged. Previously he had tried unsuccessfully to kill haiseif with a broken glass _bottle. Devereux was convicted of killng another negro in a card game. An applicaulon for conmutation of sentence was let used by the com-mis Blon Thursday. W~ThK I3GUN WORK B.AU. ON THE NEIW ELECTRIC RAIL. WAY TSAT WILL Connect Charleston, Orangeburg, Co. lumbia and Augusta. Some facts About the Interprise. If the purpose of the South Caro lina Public Service corporation a new ly organ'z 3d ecncern with a capital of ten million dollars, are carried out, this state will witness a transporta tion development within the next ten years that will silence the now con stant cry of delayed passenger trains and delayed freights and revolution!ze the business of the state. This will be the first strictly electric railway development in the South. It is not to be a trolley system, but a trolley Less electric system with a high rate f speed and a heavy freight carrying xpacity. Mr. Van Etten, oneof the promot Drs of the scheme, who it at Orange. :urg now with a number of his asso isates arranging matters for the es ablishae.t of an important terminus ere says "nat the general plan for ivelopment in this state had been inally d-termined upon and that the ystem would be built as rapidly as I. ould be laid out and the tracks laid. He expezted to have the system in peration throughout the state within wo years, starting from Charleston. "Columbia is to be the home of the eneral offices of the company," he aid in answer to questions, "and we 6re to radiate from there to Charlotte Ld the Piedmont. We will first go. hrt ugh Columbia and branch out just )eyond there for Charlotte with one ine and Spartanburg with the other, aking In Greenville in the loop back 0, Columbia or down to Augusta. The bject is to get an outlet to the sea or all that rich Fisdmont country. o1minng up from Charleston we will ranch at O.angeburg, one line goia o Augusta and the other going to )olumbia." Answering other questions, the pro oter said that It could not be said nst yet what exact routes any of the nes %ould take. "That matter de ;ends cn the grades largely," he said. 'We are after a high speed and want o avoid grades of more than one per ;ent. We will first pick out the most aportant town we want to make be een the several junctional points I mave juit mentioned to you and make hem, getting to the principal mill owns and other important Interme ate centers the best way we can, onsidering the grades." "And how are the cities and towns ou touch expected to 'come across?' low much purchasing of bonds will hey be expected to do?" "The com any has plenty of capital," was the eply. "We won't ask the cities and owns for anything but franchises to nter them, and all we want of the in ervenirg territory is rights of way." Tae Columbia REcord says Mr. Ar emus E. Legare, of that city has Igned a two year contract with the mpany to do engineering work, and e begais operations this week with a rce of assistants between Columbia ,nd Charleston. From what has beeD irinted so far about the new project any people have acqu!red the idea .at the the only object the company tas i~s to construct a lIne between Or ngeburg and Charleston. The new mpany mean business, and we be Ieve that within the next two years rangeburg will be connected with ~harleston, Columbia and Augusta with a first class electric railway. GfING FORST~ANDARD OIL. 'he Governmant Startzs Suit to Break Up Monopoly. Attorney General Moody Thursday, cting through the resident -UJ Ated tates district attorney, instituted roeeding against the Standard O.. Jompany of Noew Jersey under the herman anti-trust act, by filing in Ihe Uaited States district court at t. L~uls a petition in equity against It and its seventy constituent corpo atons and partnerships and seven in lividual defendants, asking that the ombnatlin be declared unlawful, td in futnre enjoined from entering Into any contract or c'.mbination in restraint of trade. This ,suit was instituted in the eame of the United States by direc ion of the Attorney General, against John D- Rockefeller, William Ezcke feller, Henry H. Rogers, Henry M Flagler, John D. Archbold, Oliver H. Payne, Chiarles M. Pzatt, and seventy ne corporations and partnerships, arging themn with having violated sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman anti trust act. The government asks for an in junction against these defendants which, if granted, will result in the dissoltion of the alleged combination It Is alleged in the petition z1hat John D). Rckefeller and his associ a~tes, the other individual defendants, formed a conspiracy to monopolize the commercs in petroleum and its products at a very early date--about the year 1870-and that the soms In dividuals have controlled the combi nation- during all these years, in all its forms. and now control It. It was therefore deemed wise to state in the peton the complete history and growth of this conspiracy. Negro Bank Closed. The Workingmen's Savings and Loan company, a negro bank ID Greenville was c'osed last week by State B,.nk Examiner Holleman. The beoks of the bank are in a very bad condition and is probable that there will have to be a complete reor ganization before the institution can resume operations. It is not thought that there has been anything criminal In connetion with the bank it being merely mismanaged. The bank has mnde several bad investments and has been running at a loss for some time. The bank since Its institution has paid a dividend of 10 per cent annualy and It is thought that this was paid out of the capital instead of eh earnings. SHOT TO DEATR . A MARLBORO BOOZE SELLER KILLED ABOUT GIN. The Quarrel Arose About the Pay ment of a Bill for Strong Drink Dry Counties have a hard time managing their blind tigers. In Marl baro County Jule Combs, proprietor of one of the notorious line bars, was shot and killed In his bar room Sun day night week ago. Comb's clerk and two other witness es say that Ebbic Qu,.ok, Carey Quick, Louder Q ;Iek and Love Knight went to the bar together Sunday night and were drinking. Combs told Knight that he owed him for a half-pint of gin. Knight said he did not. Combs then struck him in the face, and the witnessas ran out. After they got out they heard pistol shots inside. It is not known which of the four men in side fired the fatal shot. The bar room is only a few feet from the line, on the North Carolina side, Combs was taken to his hems, on the South Carolina side, and died there two or three hours later. Coroner Mc Call and Sberuff Green went up and held the irquest Tuesday. There is some question as to whetb er the trial should be held in North Carolina or in this State, but it is the general opinion that it should be in the county in which the crime was committed. For generations there has been a string of bar rooms extending along the State line, from the northeast cor oner of the State, westward across the barren sand hills, for three or four miles. For several years E A. Lack ey kept the most pretentious of these bars, and also operated a distillery on the line. Wnen the Watts law was pass3ed in North Carolina Lickey bandoned his plant on the line and moved to Hamlet. From there he was driven, a year later, by the pro hibition law for Richmond Ca;nty. &1l of the other line bar keepers also 1osed up and left except two-Will (Inn and Jul- Combs. They contin ed to sell liquor on the line between two prohibition counties. As the State line through that bar ren country was nou marked, it was lifficulty to prove In which State the bars were located. This was the main reason why the two States through their Lsgislatures provided for a joint urvey to establish ared permanently mark the line between Marlboro and B1chmond counties. This survey was :ade last fall, and all of the bar rooms were found to be in South Carolina, Lilthough it was previously believed that they were in North Carolina. Will Ginn pretended to abandon his liquor shop, although he threatened to move it across the line or to have the Courts annul the survey. South arolina cmnstables made several ef orts to capture his liquor, bat they found it stored in his barn, which was in North Carolina. Jule Combs immediately built a new bar room, on the North Carolina side and continued his business there in open violation of the law. It was in this new building that he was kill d by one of his custom..rs Sunday night. Several years zgo, on Christmas Day, Combs shot and killed a man bj the .name of Q.:ck, In his old bar room, a few yar.s from where he lost ts own life. HBe claimed accident or self -defence, anid was acquitted at Bockingham. The death of Combs probably ends he career of the open bars which have aourshed on the State line for a con bury. Dest-loctive 5'iood. A flood of 300 square miles in N~orthwestern Washington is theresult af heavy rain and melting snow which for forty-eight hours have rushed from the Northwest to spread over the low lands. Severai persons are reported drowned and the monetary oss is already many thousands of dol [ors. Seattle and scores of towns have been for the 17.t thirty-six hours cut (f' from cutside communication. Bidges have been swept away, rail road traoc washed out and telephone and telegraph wires torn down. As far as can ba learned half a dozen lives have bes lost. E :ery railroad in the Northwest is tied up and' though a few trains are being run, no attempt is being made at a sched ule. Tracks were washed away in many places on the different roads but it is hoped to have the damage repalfed in a few days. Farmer Killed. Mr. D. B. Padgett, a prosperous tenant farmer, living alone about two miles from Brunson, was called to his door about 8 o'clock Thursday night and shot to death. The killing was discovered early Fnday morning by a near neighbor. The whole load from a shotgun was fired Into the head of the murdered man. The object of the killing was evidently robbery, as Padgete was known to have several hundred dollars in cash. The cloth ing worn by the dead man showed that they had been searched by bloody hands and the money taken. The neighborhood is aroused and dilligent search Is being made for the assassin. Mr. Padgett was a Confederate vet eran and served in Virginia in Hamp ton's cavalry. ______ Killed by Exposion. Dont fcol with railroad torpedoes should you happen to find one any time unexploded by the track. A dispatch from Ginesville, Fia., says the young daughter of Martin Smith, a prominent farmer, was instantly killed by the explesion of a railroad torpedo, which she was trying to break open with a hammer. She had picked up the torpedo by the railway track, where it had fallen. Givena Divorce. At Paris, France, the Counte s de Castellane was Wednesday granted an absolute divorce from her husband Count Boni, and the conrt gave her the custody of their two children. While the Countess will have charge of her scns the decree of the conrt forbids her taking them out of France without the court's permis~ ion. KILLS FIVE MEN And Is Hunted Down and Shot Like a Beast. MET DESERVED FATE. lie Had Killed Two Policemen and Three Innocent Negroes on the Streets of Asheville, N. C., and is Run Down and Riddled With Bullets. Fighting bravely in defense of their captain, Patrolmen Charles Black stock and William Bailey, two of the most effi~lent members of the Ashe ville, N. C., police force,2were shot to death on South Main street at 11.30 o'clock, on Tuesday night of last week by a negro, who said his name was Will Harris, of Charlotte, a desperado for whom a large reward has been offered for some time. Prior to the death of the two cificers, a negro restaurant keeper named Ben Allison fell dead at the hands of Harris, who, handling a Savage rifis, killed him without provocation. An other negro named Tom Neil, was mortally wounded, he, too, being shot before the officers took a hand in the melee. Harris started out on his death dealing tour from a negro house on I Valley street. He fired into two E houses as he made his way to South : Main street, one of the principal c streets of the city. As he reached Eihgle street he fired at and killed Allison. Oa South Main street the desperado encountered Tom Nill and c fired point blank at him. He then c shot and instantly killed an old negro j that happened to be in his way. 1 The noise of the shooting caused : Police Captain Page and Officers i Bailey and Blackstock to start from police headquarters on the run, blow ing their whistles as they went. Bailey took his stand at the head of i South Main street and the court c house square, leaving his captain and r Blackstock to go on ahead. Captain g Page met the negro In the center of < Main street, the former receiving a a bullet In the arm from the negro's < :ifle. The wounded captain called upon 1 Blackstock to fire, but before the e fiar could do so, he fell dead with a e bullet in the chest. Harris then tarted on a run for the square, j where Patrolman Bailey was waiting I for him. Bailey fired twfce, but miss- v ed his man, the negro, turning his C rfle on the officer, sent a bullet crash- t Lag through the latter's brain. The .fficer lived but a few minutes after he fell. The negro then ran down South Mlain street toward Biltmore, and ade his escape. The greatest ex itement followed the killing of the two innocent negroes and the cffioers. A general fire alarm was turned in y the chief of police, Bernard, for he purpose of calling out the militia ompanies, and several posses qu'ckly formed to take up the pursuit of the urderer. The store of the Ashe-1 ille Hardware company was broken Ito by police offloerc, and the posses were armed with winchester rifles an-i shotguns. Blood hounds were put on the trail f the outlaw and they at last ran h1m down and held him at Bay some istance from the scene of his mur ers after following him a day and1 ight. At seven o'clock 'Thursday morning a report reached Asheville hat the blood hounds had followed he desperado to Baena Vista some en miles away. Three posses of fficers and citizens immediately set out for Buena Vista, and there it was learned that the negro desperado had been seen leaving a barn just before daybreak. It was stated that the fugitive had taken the high road for Arden, three miles further on. The trail of the desperado had been lost by the dogs about this time ow lg to interference with some hogs, but those who were hunting Harris knew he was near by. So acting under the advic? of Er-Chief of Police Jordan, the posse was divided up into teQ ads, each one taking se prate routes toward Arden. All the posses cams together at Fiether's and there Ex Ohief of Police Jordan decided that the best course to pur sue was to again divide the fifty or more men into squads. T wo of these scoured Blake's woods, one deployed to the left, while another was left guarding the road in front of Con nigham's store. Dr. L. P. Russell, N. B. Baldwin and Harry Roberts caught first sight o the negro in Blake's woods, and the signal agreed upon, "two shots in rapid succession," warned the search ers that the quarry had been run to earth. Agan'the rifles rang out and the fleeing form of a negro who car ried a rifl.a emerged from the Blake property and ran across the high road to a field skirting the Weatifidt pro perty, 02 the porch of a private house ad. joining the Cunningham store stood T. H. Caine, editor of the Ashevlile Citizen, who was one of the squad which was ,left at Flecher's to guard the road. As the negro reached the open field adjoining the house on a dead run Cain opened fire with . n38 calibre revolver, but none of his showu took effect, for the fugitive never slackened his pace, but made for the woods and was seemingly swallowed up. Dan the road at a 2.40 gaht came Ex-Culef Jordan, 0. H. Wells, D:. Russell, H. Ii. Roberts and N. P. Baldwin, shouting to other members of the posses to make for the woods where the negro had taken refuge. The posses quickly closed in, took the road turning to the right from Fletcher's and a fusillade of shots froms the woods ten minutes later told Lhe Inhabitants of the surrounding coun ry tbat justice had been done, and that the cold-blooded murderer of two white policemen and three inno cent negroes had been avenged. At about 2.30 the posse arrived in Asheville with the body of the dead man, which was taken at once to the undertaking rooms. Like wild-fire spread the news of the man's death and in less than half an hour Soith Main street was blocked with a crowd ing, shoutiug mass of men and wo men, to see the man who in less than twenty minutes had taken the lives of five men, three of his own race. For some time it was feared that the mob would take the body of the negro from the officers and follow out Its threat cf burning it. But the sheriff and his men guarded the doorway of the undertaking establishment with loaded rifles and the crowd later dis persed. BR!AN AND HEARST. Odell Says They Wouldbe Hard to Beat in 1908. B. B. 031e1 of Newburg, former governor and ex-chairman of the New York state republican commit bee, said that the management of the republican state campaign was the 'most asinine" that h ever knew. The whole state ticket, he said, might la3t as well have been elected. As Ihe result stands, It looks like a de mocratlo victory, and leaves the re pablican party in bad shape with a istional campaign coming on. The %epublicans, he declared, made no :ampaign at all, but put It all on Mr. Eughes' shoulders. Continuing Mr. )dell said: "The people of this atate have al. ways resented the interference of a president of the United States in ibeir local elections. They have done io since the days of DeWitt Clinton. [ think that the interference of Presi. lent Roosevelt did more harm than rCod." "I realize now," said Mr. 01e11, 'that, I made a mistake when I ac ,3pted the chairmanship of the state iammittee while I was governor. The eople resent offlwial and outside in .erference in their local political lfairs. That is why rsay that the nterference of Preside t Roosevelt a the last campaign did more harm ban good. "I do not wish to appear in the ,ale of general critics of the conduct ,f the campaign, but, so far as I can nake out, there was no real cam ml gn. Nj use was made of the re ord of the republican party. It was 11 a cae of personalities between the andidates for governor. We should lave siood for many of the things ht Mr. Harst advocated, like the Ight-hour law, the three platoon yatem for the police and firemen." Mr. Odell said that Mr. Hearst was ,reatly strengthened as a political ictor by his campaign, and that vhile he might noz be elected presi tent, he was now a man to be reckon d with in the iuture. He said that combination of Bryan and Hearst Yould be hard for the republicans to Mat. A F'ataI Hug. After a day spent in investigating he death of Thomas Dougherty, of )unmere, Pa., who as killed by be ag pierced by a long needle; the lo al police dEcided to withdraw the .arrant that had been issued for the irest of Katie Burke, the girl who was suspected of having caused Daug )uogherty's death Miss Burke says a he had been mending her brother's lioVes with a long needle, and that n going down town in the evening he stuck it in the bosom of her dress. )ougherty, who had been her sweet eart, hailed her and asked her to atke a walk with him. He attemp ed to embrace her, and the point of he needle that was in her dres% aught in his vest while the blunt nd rested against her corset. In the .mbrace the needle was forced into is body, through the fifth rib and ato the cavity between the pericar lium and the heart. Hemorrhage esulted that caused the death. They Must be Closed. A dispatch from Topeka, Kansas, ays owing to the great danger to >oth human and animal life caused >y the abandoned shaf s in the Kan ia and Missouri zinc fields steps will iamediately be taken to have them l]osed up. In some parts of this State heare are areas of acres in extent where the shafts are not more than ,wenty feet apart, and, owing to the way they are covered with grass, weeds and shrubs are extremely dan ~erous to life. As the laws of the State eemand it public sentiment wL nmpel the om31~als to order the own 2ers of the property to close up the ;uafts. It is generallly believed in this State that horses and cattle adver lised as stolen ha.ve bcen lost in the ilaaf Is and the opinion Is also preya .ent that a very large number of per ionswho have been de. c::bedi fro-n time aims as "milssing" met their deaths .a Chem, as the two Stats are honey lombed with them in several places. Gr-aft Scandals. It now appears that many sums of noney large and small, that were sent from different States to San F'rancisco for the relief of sufferers from the calamity never reached the relief committee. Some of these amounts, which aggreated large sums were mailed to the care of Mayor Behaminz. F. J. Heney, DetEctive William Burns and about 105 govern ment agents have been making an in vestiga:lon. President Roosevelt Is the moving spirit behind the inquiry, sand he declares that no man guilty of diverting the relief funds shall escape justice. The cases come within jrisdiction of the Federal authorities ccause of the interstate character of the postal service which it is alleged, was critoinally tampered with. It is said that in the aggregate the steal Ings will amount of 81;03,000, Will Honor Lee. The University of South Carolina will observe in fitting manner the cen t~enary of R abert E Lee. Major Yo.ung of Charleston, one of the few surviving members of General Lee's SAD STORY OF A YOUNG MAN AT SALISBURY. N. 0. Who stole Fifteen Thousand Dollars From the Express Comp. any and left. The Columbia Becord says Super intendent 0. X. Sadler, of the South ern Express company, has been in Salisbury f'r several days, investiga ting the disappearance of W. S. Gray, the young night clerk at Salisbury, who absconded Sunday night with all his collection from the afternoon and night trains, aggregating a total which the company has not yet been able to estimate exactly, but which it is feared will run upwards of $15,000. Gray Is well known In Columbia, es pecially among the expressmen and le railroad circles. He is only about sev enteen, but has been in the employ of the Southern Express conpany for several years. How much confidence his superiors had In him is shown by the fact that he was entirely in charge of the money shipments at night, and these ran into fabulous sums now and then, at a junctional point on a main trunk line, such as Salisbury. Many of the parcels of money are in locked and sealed pouches and the clerk can only guess al their value, but often he is perfectly aware of the fact that marrency, jewels or securities -f enor mous worth are in his keeping. Gray has the appearance of a man bwenty-one years old, and Is about Eve and a half feet In height, with Ught hair and eyes and bad complex [on. Four of his front teeth are out. He writes with his left hand in a very peculiar way. When last saen by com pany officials he was wearing a dark mit of clothes and a gray sweater with i black slouch hat. He took with him, Ln addition to the missing $15,000 or :nore in cash, a Harrington & - Rich rdson revolver and a small diamond pin. He is a native of Greensboro, here he has prominent relatives, and as looked upon by the company as a promising and strictly r.liable young man. Gray absconded Sunday night, after neeting No. 35, his last train, and he money in his possession was miss d shortly afterward, but until Wed zesday afternoon the c M ais!s kept the natter quiet, pushing an investips Jon and trying to get acme clue as to iray's whereabouts. Gray was bond d with a surety.company, but it is ot known whether the amount is uffoient to cover his shortage. He rave receipts for all packages entrust d to him, and It is only in having all ihe messengers who passed through alisbury Sunday night report their eceipts and from these tracing the ackages to the sending offices that he exact amount of the young clerk's lefalcation can be ascertained. Half Sdczn Important main line trains, I ll of which carry heavy express ship nents, passsd Salisbury during Sunday ight, and Gray mad, exchanges with al of them, probably getting money onsignments from most of them. One )olumbia express messenger handled mder similar circumstances on a re ent night's work currency, green-1 ~aoks and seourities which he knew1 ~mounted to approximately $1,200, J00. SPRAX KINDLY.i se Carerni What You Say to An About You. Never speak words that are calcu ated to unnecessarily wound the feel ugs of any one. If you have an ene ny, do not say harsh or nkind words a him. Itwill only make him agreat ~r enemy. Life is not long'and his nmity cannot last long, and that probably that next time you see him ie will be cold In death. Then you will wish you had not said hard things o him. Don't speak unkindly to your riend for fear you make an enemy out f him. You need all the friendships rou can mike In this world.] If you have a mother, never say an mnknd or slight word to her but re :nember that for you she has toiled md labored and suffered; her constant bhoughts have been employed for you; er most earnest prayers have been of ered for you; her love for you will ast though all the world may be lgainsb you. If you have children, speak not unkindly to them. You can win and keep their love better by kindness than by harsh wolds. If you have a wife that you love, say not one cutting or unkind word to her Say noi a word that would have tue least tendency to wound her feelings, cause a pang of sorrow or one moment of sad reflection, for If you do, you my drive away the confidenca she has In you and cause her wounds that time can never heal. We should be cautious In what we say to those whom we love and whom heaven has given us to be our own. Not even jsstingly should we say that which will make the slightest wounds, for sometimes even words, jestingly or carelessly spcken leave a sting that lat forever. Travel Through Air Santo-Dumont, since the successful light of his aeroplane, "The Bird of Prey," predicts the early approach of the day when all mankind will be navigating the air and when flying machines will be more common than rutomobiles. Indeed he thinks, that he flying machine will eventually be ome the "poor man's automobile." It will be safer, faster and cheaper. He said that next year.- people will be able to go to the seashore on their aeroplanes. It will becsome the fad and commencement of an industry. Family Tragedy. Milton Pitts, a prosperous farmer nix milesefrom Griffi, Ga., shot and killed his brother, Charles, 61 years old. The elder brother, Ben, then turned his weapon upon himself, sending a bullet through his heart. Jealousy causod the double tragedy. Mrs. Milton Pitts having been observ ed speaking to Charles after her hus band had warned her not to do so. Negro Hanged. Charles E. Grant, a negro, who murdered a negro woman Darmed Eva Barnes was hanged at Washington, Dn 0. on Friay. B\D WRECK.. ONE MAN KILLED AND ANOIBER FATALLY INJURED. Collision Between a Work Train and a Freight Attended With Fatal Besults. One man was killed, another fatalb injured, several others severely hurt in a collision Friday morning between a work train and a freight sever miles from Colunmbia on the roa between Columbia and Charlotte. . T. G. Lloyd flagman, on the work train, was killed. M. W. Kelsey, white, flagman on the work train, was fatally Injured, but was brought to Columbia alive. -. A. Triplett, conducter, bruised and shaken up. G. W. Parish, engineer, slightly hurt. W. F. Snipes, engineer, seriously imjured. Ernest Clayborn, fireman, lightly Injured. . M. T. Crouch, fireman, silghtly hurt. All of these live in Columbia, ex cept -HKlsey, whose home is In Chester. All are white. Crouch had only recently gone to work on the railroad, having served an enlistment of four years in the navy. He is a cousin of Senator elect B. W. Crouch, of Saluda. The work train was extra No. 476 working with limits between Colum . bia and Blithewood, a distance of 19 miles. The work train had orders to orotect against No. 828, extra freight, northbound. It is siated by the railroad officials that these orders were disregarded and that the work train was on the main track when it ihould have been on the side track, and as usual tne crew of the train mfered for the oversight Extra freight, No. 828, north. bound, ran into the work train at B.05 o'clock. The crew of the freight rain saw the work train in time to imp and none of them was hurt. The freight was In charge of Conduc or E. S. Motto and E-gineer George W. Parish. Capt. Mott's home is at to. 2,303 Park street, Columbia. @ngineer Parish lives at No. 1,910 Blanding street Columbia. The work train was in charge of Jonductor J. A. Triplett and En rneer W. F. Snipes. Conductor I'riplett's home Is at No. 1,917 Tay or strcet. The collision occurred at the 99 mile post, seven miles north of Co umbia. The engine of No. 478 was iadly damaged, and the caboose also k car of merchandise and seed wt. ;orn up, but the rest of the train wa. iot seriously injured. Passenger train No. 30, due tr eave there at 6 10, was runoli g t% ours and 20 minutes late and r; c d the saene of the colilon soona .ei t occurred. The p;Rsergers fron .o. 27, due here ao 10 a. m., were ransferred to N;) 20 a.-a No. 30 came )ack to this city, being sent to Char otte by way of Spsrtarburg. Neither ,o. 30 or extra freight No. 828 had ny orders in regard to the work train, as it was the duty of the work ~rain to keep out of the way of the 'reight and passenger trains. The crew of the freight train saved ~herselves by jumping, as they saw ~he work train 100 yards off and the argineer put on the breaks in time. [t would seem that the men on the work train did not know anything at til about the approach of the freight. is they were all hurt more or less serously. Southern's surgeon, Dr. F. D. Kan Sall wont at one the scene with i, wrecking train, and Dr. Ken Sall came back to the c i ty with the Injured. Capt. Williams remaned at the scene all day super Ltending the work of clearing the rack. Burned to Death. Near Cold Water, Mich., Mrs. Jharles Mowry, aged 21 years. and ber three children, aged six, three, mnd baby six months, were burned to :leath early Wednesday In their home >n the farm at Batavia station. harles Mowry, the husband and rather rcse early and built fires in the house. He then went to the barn to do chores and while there dis covered that his house was afire. He rushed back, but the flames had made much headway that he could not en tar the house and his calls through the windows to his family brought no re sponse. It is thought that the moth er and three children suffocated to death while asleeap. Bowdy College Men. At Fayettevill, Ark., Henry Rough, a policeman, was shot and seriously wounded during a riot with students of the Un~iversity of Kansas. 'Three hundred college boys were parading the streets; and giving their college yells, bocause of an atheletio victory over a rival. When the officer asked them to becoms less riotous ,they de fied him and he arrested one of them. The students then surrounded the offlera and in the melee which rol lowed he was shot In the back. Bough promply released the boy under ar rest and fired several shots at the flee ing crowd, but none took efkot. Should Be Hang. Silas Conaway, a miner, of Finsh ig, Ohio, shot and instantly killed Marcus Pivoritti, an Italian store keeper with whom he <y arreled Sun day-night. Following the murder Conaway mad~e his escape and a posse, formed by Sheriff' Amrine, is now In pursuit. Th1?e murder has caused much exciterrent among the foreign population of Flushing. In 1884 he shot and badly wcuaded Masrshal Jos. McConnaugbly of Bridgeport, Ohio, and served twelve years for the crime In the Ohio penitentiary. Kinled by Auto, By the overturning of an automo blie, caused by the breakiog of the steering gear, near Five-mile Creek. near Birmiugha~m, Ala., Friday af ter noon, "Jack" Martin, a prominent at torney of that city was instantly kill ed, and David 3. Fox, a well known business man, was Eerk usly injured. Martin came to Birmingham fifteen, yea ao frem Cta.kvllreo Tann,_ FRAUD ORDER Issued Against the Western -at rimonial Agency Which Did a T19RIVINWkBUINIES In Trying to Get flusbands and Wives for Womeb and Meu Who Would Employ Them From Time to Tim?. Barred From the Malls. Zack McGhee, the splended Wash ington correspondent of The State, says a rather novel fraud order Just issued by the postcffce department is against no less a benefiqent public in situation thax a matrimonial agency, an institution not much known In our part of the opuntry. As a rule in the South people of marriageable proilv ties have a better way of meeting each other. It is only when they send afar off for a mate that they patronize some of the Northern matrimonial agencies. But in some of these Northern towns, where matrimony Is more of a tusiness than a pleasure, the matri monial agencies sometimes do almost is big a business as the divorce courts. O.ie Adolph ,T. Miller of Detroit, mich., has beei conducting one of these agencies, and with apparent success, but at last he has run a muck of the postal laws of the United States, and they are about to put him out of business. Some 6f the papers nnounced something tbout It Wed nesday, but the quite interesting facts, which this correspondent has obtain Ed at the deparuent, were not given. The "Home Circle" Is the name of t bis great institution for the dispen sation of marital bliss, and the price for enlistment is for men $5, for ladies (there are no womer) 84. The -little ralminary fee was to furnish Infor mation to the men about the ladles and to the ladles abcut the mn, a to contrive after some manner ap proved in s:ciety to Introduce the one t: the other. So far, good. There is so fraud in this. But the manager of. 'the Home Circle" began, It is alleg ed, to misrepresent the ladies, assign ing to them traits of character which .sey had not, cr wbich their acqnain .arces knew not of. Tnis, of cours, as b ghy reriebersile, and Uncle iam in e:vened so fsr as the use of he mals by the business Is cnerned. t're must be a EQuard, deal, he says. 0 -e of the advertisements In a NaN.bington (State) paper read: "W6 seek husbands for maiden lady n Washington; age 24; worth $3 500 as1; bachelor, girl, age 23; worth 112,000. Write us." Now these bb raluahe maidens, one worth -83.500 tnd the other $12,000, and suspicion -. nasturally aroused. An Investiga ion showed that this manager of the Rome Circle really knew no such naidens, at least none who had en rusted their future happiness to him. One of his ietters to a prospect eads: "We have a member living not so far from you who would like tocorres pod with a view to marriage. The ady mentioned above Is 25 years of ige, has dark hair and dark eyes; :eight, 5, 5; weIgh; 120; she wishes to :orrespond with a view to marriage. "If you become a member, we will !o our best to give you satisfaction. We have reliable members in all parts f the United States, and can give you a list and stilt almost any descrip ions that you may wish. "Our interest in you does not cease when you begobne a member. We are mote Interested then than ever before. When you are a member we strive to marry you speedily." To this letter were apnended a few "Eemarks," reading, "Wa consider this a brilliant chance; she has money, ls handsome, and a lady in every sense f the word." The costoffice inspector reported that this enterprising maager was misrepresenting some of these ladles he had on his list. He said the names, given-with so much accuracy of cetail, etc., were fictitious. The manger, he believes, knowing that there were much ladles in the world somewhere corresponding to the above descrip tion--and wanting to get marrned, too~ -why he j Lst undertook to advertise them. And somehow he seemed to have done a good business, so that he must have had some Inside knowledge of human nature. Nlaturally a mat rimonial agency, as a fortuns teller, must have. Paosto Kui J~ing? The police of Rome, Italy, have been Informed that severaP people who are in the habit of renting win dows along the route usually taken by royal processions, have been approach ed by mysterious persons who wish to rent not only windows, t entire rooms for the day when the King of Greece arrives at Rome. The police neleive this tO be an evidence -of an anarchist plot. Shooting Scrape. During a qaarrel at Sayres Mine a few miles from Birminham, Ala., Sundaf siternoon Doc Man an.i Oscar Lnn, two white men, engaged in a shooting affray In whtich both received mortal Injaries. Sam Stevens, a ne gro,who was standing near, reeved Injuries from which he will die. Brigands Aive. Raports are being received at Athens, Greece, constantly concern lng the activity of brigands In the Slnka. It~I is red that a num ber of mer, wm~-n ..cti children have been mis c ued at Ko;siuco and Eam ehi, and that a bard killed fifteen Greeks mn the neihborhood of Nqiacus ta and carried thker mutilated bodies into that town. Dice From Wounds. Dr. B S. M3Dow. who was shot by his brother-in-law, J. A. Bridges, on the street of Heath Springs, died of his wounds Bridges has surrendered.