The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, June 12, 1907, Image 1

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VOL. XXI, MANNING, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1907. NO. 7. SHOT FIRST. Two Would be Assassins Killed and Wounded by Their INTENDED VICTIM. Tgbnan Barnes and Joe Barnes, Two Colored Farm Hands and Brothers, Tried to Assassinate Mr. Morgan. Near Augusta, Ga., But le Sur prised Them, Killing One and Bad ly Wounding the Othe-. At an early hour Sunday morning week ago, says the Augusta Herald, two negro brothers, Joe and Tillman Barnes, went to the door of Mr. R. J. Morgan, in this county, and called' him out with the intention of mur dering him. Mr. Morgan. with sus pleions aroused. went out his back door and came around the side of the house. Tillman was standing on the ground with a revolver in his hand, while Joe. was on the porch with an open knife. Mr. Morgan ordered the former to drop his weapon, and in answer the negro levelled it to shoot. Mr. Morgan's pistol spoke barely In time, and Tillman Barnes dropped with a bullet through the heart. Joe rushed from t'a porch with open knife and was met by a bullet which penetrated his right-lung. He is-at the Lamar Hospital in a dying condi tion. Mr. Morgan's residence is on the Dean Bridge road, six miles from Augusta. Coroner Ramsey held an inquest at the scene of the shooting, and the jury brought in a verdict of justificable homicide. The trouble began several days ago when Mr. Morgan's house was bur glarized. He had strong reasons to suspect the negroes of the crime, and after an investigation reported the matter to the city and county police and orders were given for the arrest of the suspects. The negroes knew of this action, and it is believed it con stituted their motive for the attempt ed murder. Saturday night Mr. Morgan was kept away from home until a very late hour by the sickness of a near relative. It was just as he had reach ed home; sometime after one o'clock. and was preparing to enter by the back door, according to his usual custom, that he heard a knock at the front door. He responded by asking who was there. Joe Barnes answered that t was he and that he wanted to have a talk with Mr. Morgan. and asked him to come to the door. With suspicions thoroughly aroused Mr. Morgan procured a pistol and quietly stole through the back door, and ap- c proached the negroes from the cor- t ner of the house. Keeping well in the shadow he saw Tillman Barnes standing on the ground near the porch with a arawn revolver. The other brother was on the porch at the : door with a kme drawn and ready to cut Mr. Morgan to pieces the mo ment he opened the door. .Wishing still to give the men a chance for their lives, Mr. Morgan called out, "Barnes, isn't that a pistol in your hand? ~Drop it!" "Yes, By G--d, It is," answered the black, and levelled the weapon. It was his last word on earth. He dropped with a jagged hole drilled through his murderous heart. With a yell Joe Barnes was upon the white man with his gleaming knife, but he was arrested midway in his course by another shot which will probably send him to meet his broth - er in Hades.I The verdict of the coroner's jury was a full and complete exoneration of Mr. Morgan. He is well-known in Augusta and throughout ,Rich mond county, and is a brother-in-law of Patrolman George Wolfe. COTTON CONDITION. Government Report Indicates Poor State for Growing Crop. According to the government re port issued last week, the average condition of the growing cotton crop on May 25 was 70.5 per cent as com pared with 84.6 in 1906. and 77.2 in 1905, and the ten-year average of 83.6. The report shows that the acreage on May 25 was 32.060.000 as com pared with 32.049.000 last year at the same date. .his is an increase of 11,000 acres for the current sea son. Acreage and condtion by States. according to the report, were as fol Condi Acreage. tion. Virginia. .. .. .. ...37.000 8') North Carolina . .1.437.000 S0 Sout~h Carolina. . .463..000 77 Georgia.. .. -... 4.823.000 7 4 Florida.. .. .....279.000 80 Alabama... -.....3.509.000 65 Mississippi.. .. ... 5.252000 65 Louisiana. .. --....1.707.000 64~ Texas...---. .. .9.439000 7 0 Arkansas. .......-- 01.000 65 Tenessee......7- -.-00--6. Missouri..-.-.-.-.-.-.74,000 60 Oklahoma ...-.-.-.-1.32.008 Indian Territory .. 942,000 78 WIFE HEL.PED) THE~ BURGLAR. Held Husband, Thinking He Only Had a Nghtmare. Because he was subject tO night mares. David Ordway. of Lakewood, Ohio. Wednesday. lost jewelry valued at. 500. He was awakened by a burglar in his room, and. hoping to frighten the burglar yelled at h o of~his voice. Then he tried to get u~ and chase the midnight invader, but just as he was making a flying lear out of bed, his wife, aroused by hex husband's cries, seized hm.shue "Burglars. Burglar5! . . te Ordway while trying to utrse held from his wife's grasp. Btse e on with a deathlike firmness and urg d him to lie down and go to sleep She thought he had a nightmare an~ feared he would injure himselI rmitted to pursue a phantom rob r. The couple had a lively tussle Ordway finally tore away, only. find the burglar had made his es apTwo diamond rings and a dia on stud were missing fror2 thel: bedrom dresser. THE REASON WHY Work Has Been Stopped on the Electric Railway. South Carolina Public Service Cor poration Meets with Opposition in Some Towns. A dispatch from Spartanburg re cently stated that the engineeringi corps of the South Carolina Public Service Corporation, which has head quarters in Charleston, had discon tinued all field work. The surveying corps has been at work for some seven months and extensive surveys hai-e been made. It was said in the dispatch that the cause of calling in the engineers from the field was tardiness shown by some cities through which it was proposed that the road passes in 4 granting franchises. The News and Courier says: Mr. C. R. Van Etten, general manager, when asked about the discontinuance of work In Spar tanburg gave out the following state ment: *A number of towns have already granted franchises that are fair and equitable to all parties, but there are several towns where franchises are being held up that may necessitate a change in route. In some cases the limitations and restrictions are such as would make the investment of capital a matter of questionable pru- f dence. "Some of the conditions imposed are typical of the position that has been taken by the city of Chicago. t he street railway situation at that point is eloquent of its results. "The city of New Yorkk has re ently been unable to find any one willing to undertake the building nd operation of further subway rail- q oads under similar limitations and d estrictions. "If these conditions retard invest ent in centres of dence population 8 und heavy traffic they will be found s rohibitive in smaller communities, nd we are therefore obliged to await s ection in. the cities concerned before P urther plans can be definitely deter- I nined." t A letter has been issue" by the 8 3outh Carolina Public Service- Cor- a oration to the commitees co-operat- 0 g with the corporation in a number T )f towns and cities in the state, an iouncing the discontinuance of the leld work until satisfactory ' hses have been grated. The letter ' .s signed by the vice president and a eneral manager of the corporation, 1 nd the following is a copy: c 'I have received the following in- t ftructions from the executive com- t ittee of our board of directors: I "'On account of opposition that ias developed in certain municipali- 0 les to granting franchises that will 0 ermit the corporation to construct f ts railroad and transact its business S n reasonable terms you will discon- s: inue active work in the field until o ,uch time as the lines being surveyed t] ire practicable of construction.' p "As matters now stand several hanges may become necessary. It F s manifestly unfair, both to the cor- o oration and. the property owners n 'ith whom rights of way are being s iegotiated, to establish a line that 'a ;ubsequently might be abandoned for o vant of franchise In adjacent towns. r< a the mutual interests of all cone- i ~erned I would, therefore. respect- pi imy ask that the committee in any e .own where the franchises are being c aithheld use their good -offices to- t< 'ards an early solution of this diffi- b ~ulty." r The News and Courier says "the ~onstruction of the electric lines i :hrough the state, which have been J ~roposed by the South Carolina Pub- i c Corporation, would mean a great t, leal for the development of the state I nd it Is earnestly hoped that mat-t :ers may be so arranged that the pre-a liminary work can be pushed for ward until completed."t That is very true, and as soon ast the work of construction: is corn menced the Public Service Corpora on will find no trouble of getting the right of way and other privilegest desired. The people are afraid that it is only a promoting scheme, andr they are slow to give such a conccernc anything. But if the public is con inced that the company mean busi- c ness there will be no trouble. PUTS BULLET IN HEART. A Re~jected Suitor Xills Himself at Girl's Door. Frank Kefauver. aged 23. a school teacher, son of Lewis F. Kefauver, a prominent and well-to-do retired farmer living on the eastern surburbs f Middletownl. Md., went to the home of Martin Cobblentz, a farmer, iving nearby, about one o'clock Wed nesday night, and shot himself dead on the porch. George Kefauver. another young an of Middletown. was in the par lor with Miss Lizzie Coblentz at the time. and both being startled by pistol shot opened the door to imves tigate. and were horrified to tint the body of Kefauver on the porch with abullet wound in the heart. Young Kefauver was a suitor of \Miss ClCentz. hut her parents object ed to hi., visits, and Mr. Coblentz had written him a letter to that ef fect last week. The young man brooded over the affair. He was pop ular among the young people. FOUR AT A BIRTH. o Race Suicide In This Indiana Family. Mrs. Frank Croxton. aged 43 years and the wife of a section foreman on Traction line, living near Roanoke, Tad., gave birth to four children Thursday night. There were three girls and a boy. The combined weight of the four was eleven and one-half pounds. Two of the chil dren have since died. KILLED IN A RUNAWAY. .James Lee, Colored, Lost His Life at Timmonsville. In attempting to stop a runaway mule attached to a wagon. James Lee colored, was run over and killed in Timmonlsville, Florence county on Monday of last week. Found Dead. J. M. Mosely, a railroad man was f ound on Sunday in a vacant lot in .Brmingham, Ala., witht his bead !..ushe and his pockets sified. WANT A ROW. The Japs Are Mad and May De mand an Apology FROM THIS COUNTRY. Waeshiugtou Officials Are Surprised At the Attitude of the Japs, and Can Figure Out No Act That Is Likely To Have Re-opened a Dis pute That Has Been Considered As Closed. A dispatch from Tokio. Japan. says i deputation from the progressive arty in Japan personally urged For- i ign Minister Hayashi to take action :o prevent a reoccurrence of anti apanese outbreaks in San Francisco E nd explain the government's appar- r nt inaction in the recent outbreak. e The oppositnon Japanese news apers prominently quote Count c )kuma as urging the concentration t f Japanese national efforts toward I: he settlement of what is known as he San Francisco question: that Ja- f an should demand a public apology f 'rom the mayor of San Francisco, o nd also that the Japanese should re :eive treatment similar to that given o Anglo-Saxons in the United States. It is said by the Japanese, who C eem determined to pick a row with a he United States. that herein lies the ole hope of definitely settling the p uestion. Otherwise, if necessary, n emonstrative measures will be tak n which it will be impossible to re- c :ard as precipitate in the circum- I, tances. Seven Japanese university profes- il ors, famous for agitation in molding r ublic opinion before the war with a tussia and during the period when L he peace negotiations were in pro,- tl ress, are again bestiring themselves, p Ithough, this time, in the direction A f a generally more stalwart foreign 'olicy, including Japan's dealings c ith Korea and China. c It is said that the opposition, by sl 2eans of public meetings and other- 14 ;ise soon will begin a campaign gainst the Caionji ministry on the tl asis that is is showing itself too d nciliatory, and too much disposed ti > make concessions in the matter of tl he persecution of Japanese in San* s 'rancisco. si Leading Japanese persons in and p ut of politics seem to have a feeling a f apprehension regarding Japan's is iture relations with the United tates. The action of the progres ives is believed to indicate a desire f certain elements in Japan to make te issue with the United States rominent. Japanese belligerency over the rancisco affair caused sr-prise in ficial Washington, chiefly because n o incident of recent date could be z tispected of having served to re-open c 'hat was generally considered a bit J ancient history. General Kuroki's a scent tour through the country, with t< s attendant felicitations and ex- p' ressions of good will, had strength- ft ned the friendly feeling of Amern- fi ns toward their Oriental neighbors ii > such an extent that the reports of tl elated indignation in Japan came as e ather a severe shock. 0 As it stands, the state department on record as having informed the s< apanese government of all the facts 11 had been able to secure, all tending J > show that that last trouble in San 'rancisco was merely an incident to tl e great railroad strike, with its I *ccompanyinlg riots. el In the case of the school question, e state department did point out he limitation imposed upon the fed ral government by the constitution d its dealing with individual states iut it had reason to suppose, from he reception according its notes and Tokio, that the Japanese govern ent fully understood the situation if the federal government here and 'as satisfied with the arrangement if the school question obtained by ie president and Secretary Root by he exercise of almost extra-official nluence upon the legal authorities f San Francisco. Hence, the officials here can only ~onjecture that there has not been a 'mblication in Japan of all the official ~orrespondence, which. it is believed. "ould favorably affect public opinion moward the United States. The attacks upon Japanese restr.u rants and bath-houses in San Fran isco are still under investigation by 'he State authorities _of .Call ornia, and when that inquiry is con luded doubtless the Japanese gov 'nment will he informed of the re ;ult. aud. if necessary, a proper ex ression of regret will be made. G1IVEN' FULL LTMIT, Tude' Dantzler' Locks Fiend Up for Thirty Year's. The Columbia State says John Richardson was convicted on the charge of assault with mitent to rav ish. The prosecuting witnesses were Misses Lula and Leila Norton. When the jury returned verdiCt of gilty Judge Dantzler inquired what Richardson had to say why sentence of the court should not be passed. The negro started to make some statement reflecting upon the char acter. when Judge Dantzler' promptly reuked the defendant and gave him the limit of the law-30 years. Richardson worked at the house of the father of these young .women and slept on the place. One night he placed a ladder beside the house and was discovered trying to enter the room. He is a negro of brutish ap 1earace and the sentence which he received gave entire satisfaction to ll who witnessed the proceedings. LEAPS TO HIS DEATH. A )Man Commits Suicide by Jumping~ From A Steamer. As the ferry boat Duval was mak n a landing at Jacksonville at 8 'clock the other night, a Mr. Fagan leaped into the rived and was drown d. He threw his coat from his shoulders, took his hat from his said: "Good-bye, I am gone." leaping into the river before he could be caught. FOREIGN PEDDLERS. Compete Unfairly With Merchants Who Pay Heavy License. They Do No Good to the City or the County, as They Pay No License, Rent or Taxes. The Columbia Record says its at ention has been called to a band of >eddlers who make Columbia head luarters and who sell their wares in his and nearby communities. The ecord is itformed that many of hese venders pay no licenses. This is a matter that is deserving )f attention. These peddlers with acks. on their shoulders call at prac ically every house in the county in he course of a few months, and they ake in thousands of dollars in the un of a year. While they do not sell much to any ne buyer, they sell a great deal in he aggregate, and much of the mon y which they pick up should go to aerchants who are regularly engag d in trade. Now; here's the point. These ped 'lers are entering Into the limited opetition with the merchants of his city and county and taking bus aess from them without paying a ent of licenses. Such goods as they sell, they buy rom distant markets, much of it rom Europe they do not pay rent, r license, or taxes and the money hey take in goes out of circulation, >r it is known that the greater por [on of it is sent out of this country. Such people are parasites on the >mmunity and should not be toler ted. They enter into competition rith merchants who are required to ay as they go and from no view oint is their presence in the com unity desirable. Doubtless when the situation has en called to their attention, the ity and county authorities will look ito the matter. The officers should be directed- I they have not been so directed al- I mady-to stop every peddler they see ad demand exhibition of a license. i acking a proper license certerficate i e peddler should be arrested and I unished as the law and facts might i arrant. I There are too many traders of this i ass in Richland. If they would irry on their business here, they tould be made to pay for the privi- t dge. These peddlers seem to stroll over e State. and something should be >ne about it. They frequently visit I ii ssection, and many of the goods t tey sell are of the sorriest kind. >me of them sell goods on the in allment plan, charging exorbitant rices for what they sell. Let them I [one and buy from home merchants, our advce to our readers. BOARD O EQUALIZATION. 'ill Hold Its First Meeting in Col unibia on June 12. t Governor Ansel has called for a Leeting of the state board of equali ition, to be held in the offices of the 1 mptroller general, on the 12th of une, Wednesday at which time the ~sessments of the cotton mills, c'>t n seed oil mills, fertilizer mills and ower companies producing power )r rent or hire will be revised and ,ed. 'The board consists of one Lemer from each county, usually ie chairman of the county board of ualization or some other member Ithe county board. The state board of railroad asses rs, which is a sperate body, meets 1the comptroller general's affice on une 19th. The board of equalization consists is year of the following, the ap ointments having only recently been1 >mpleted: Abbeville, J. E. Lomax. Aiken, J. C. Humby. Anderson, George M. Green. Bamberg. S. C. Guess. Barnwell, R. R. Johnstone. Beaufort, J. Berry. Berkeley. J. St.C. White. Charleston, P. H. Gardner. Cherokee, J. N. Lipscomb. Chester. E. H. Hardin. Chesterfield. J. C. Blackwell. Clarendon, A. J. Richburg. Colleton, J. T. Garris. Darlington, E. N. Cannon. Dorchester. C. M. Garvin. Edgeield, Rt. A. Cothran. Fairfield, Thomas M. Taylor. Florence. Chas. A. Smith. Georgetown, J. H. Reed. Greenville. R. MI. Cleveland. Greenwood. J. WV. Aiken. Hampton. C. J. Gray. horry, Jenkins K. Smith. Kershaw, Sam R. Adams. Lancaster. Wade C. Thompson. Laurens, Rt. P. Adair. Lee. J. J. Shaw. Lexington. N. B. Wannamaker. Marion. L. B. Gogers. Marlboro, Jn~o. N. Drake.. Newberry, R. T. C. Hunter. Oconee. A. Zimmerman. Orangeburg. Rt. M. Claffy. Pickens. W. T. O'dell. Richland. J. H. Bollin. Saluda, W. E. Bodie. Spartanbug, WV. WV. Muirsh. Sumter. H. J. McCrackin.. Union, Rt. C. Hill. Wiliamsurg, WV. R. Frank. York. J. F. Ashe. A QUEER CHARGE. A. Man Accused of Making His Sister Swallow Needles. Forcing his sister to swallow need les is the queer charge brought against a man living at Tassin, in the department of the Rhone, France. The sister who is twenty-two years old declares that he made her swal low needles which he stuck in pears and oranges, because he wanted to get rid of her in order to add her share of the fortune to his own. When she was taken to the hospi tal. not fewer than '72 needles were extracted from the girls body, and more were taken from her after ward. Although she has suffered fearful agony, her life is not in dan PLEADED GUILTY jd Made To Pay a Heavy Fine for Gambling. In Mobile. Ala.. 32 defendants pleaded guilty on Tuesday of con spiring to aid the Honduras Lottter company and were fined $150,000; the defendants promising to destroy all the paraphernalia of the lottery company in their possession. MANY HURT In a Rail Railroad Accident on the So uthern Road The Wreck Said to Be Caused By Spreading Rails Whch Threw the Train Off. Going at a speed of 20 and 30 miles an hour, Southern passenger train No. 2, leaving Nashville at 10:30 A. M.. plunged off a fifteen foot embankment at Black Branch, near Lebanon, Tenn., thirty-three miles east of Nashvillle, shortly after 11 o'clock Thursday morning, injur ing some 57 persons out of a total of 60 on board. Among the most seriously injured are: Mrs. J. T. - Jennings, Lebanon. Tenn., both armns broken, skull frac tured and cut above both eyes. may recover. 'Mrs. Sarah Lawrence, Nashville. seriously cut above the face and head fractured skull, dangerous. A. R. Hart, Johnson City, Tenn., ide and head bruised and cut. William Jamison, Auburn, Ky., in ternally injured. J. F. Beaty, Nashville, severe cuts )n head, arm badly bruised. J. W. Dodd. Nashville, scalp wound Mrs. R. P. Maddox, Nashville, roken hip, serious. Joseph Jones. Monetery. Tenn., In ernal injuries. Miss Patsy Russell, Difficult, Tenn., njured in back, serious. Many others were more or less eriously injured. Two passenger coaches, the mail md baggage cars left the track. One report says the wreck was aused by spreading rails, and anoth r that the front trucks of the en ine jumped the track, and threw the aggage coach and two passenger oaches off. The first intimation the passengers ad'was a bumping, jolting sensation, tnd the next instant two coaches shot rom the rails and turned over on heir sides down the embankment. Immediately on the report of the vreck being received at Lebanon, a -elief train was dispatched from that own to the scene, all the physicians n Lebanon, and a number of citizens ,oing to render such assistance as vas possible. The train made a quick run to the cene and the work of relief and at ending to the needs of the wounded vas conmenced, every assistance >ossible Deing rendered. The wounded, who live in Nash ille, were placed upon the regular rain for that -city. As soon as the news of the wreck vas received in Nashville, the South rn olffcials rushed a relief train to 3ack Branch. When the relief train arrived at :20 o'clock every ambulance in the ity stood in waiting to receive the ictims and rush them to hospitals or prompt medical attention. Conductor F. A. Dean of Harriman, enn., who was in charge of the rain, although severely cut and >ruised about the head and face, and >n both hands and on the right fore rm, stuck to his post and came back o Nashville with the train. He did ot seem to know just what had aused the accident. JUDGE BOSSIER KILLED. rominent Citizen of New Orleans Fell From Train. Judge J. S. Bossier of New Orleans net death Thursday night about 8 ~'clock by falling from a Southern assenger train about two miles outh of Easley. He was apparently assing from one coach to another md fell from a platform, falling a istance of 60 feet down an embank nent. He was a veteran of the Civil war md had been in attendance at the ichmond reunion, from which he as returning. He is said to have ~arred a robe which was worn by efferson Davis to the reunion and sold it for the owner for a handsome >rice. Examination by physicians showed hat his neck was dislocated In the al. otherwise he received few bruls as. He was a recent candidate for leutenant goternor of Louisiana. His family live in New Orleans. His body was embalmed and sent home. FATAL ACCIDENT. ive Die in Explosion of Carload of Powder. Five persons are dead as the re sult of an explosion of a carload of giant gunpowder on the Chicago. Indiana and Southern railroad at Boise, Idaho, Friday afternoon. A car, loaded with matches, caught afire, and a crowd gathered. It is supposed that the burning matches set off the powder in the adjoining car. The explosion was felt for 20 miles. and many windows were brok THICK AS HOPS. Army Worms Block Traffie on the Railroads in Arkansas. Army worms are so numerous be tween Camp Belleview and Nemons. Ark., that traffic on the St. Louis, Kanneth and Southeastern railrad has been interrupted. When the car wheels mash them, the track is put in a worse condition than if it had been thoroughly soaped. PYTHIAN EDITORS NAMED. Members of the Journal's Publication Board Chosen. Grand Chancelor Mendel L. Smith Thursday announced the board to publish the proposed Pythian journ al, provided for by the Grand Lodge last week, at Anderson. The board consists of Elbert H. Aull, of Ne berry, chairman; Past Grand Chan cellors D. C. Hleyward, of Columbia, and M. Rutlege Rivers, of Charles ton: 3. Thos. Arnold. of Grenville. and 3. E. Williams, of Columbia. GETS FAT JOB. John G. Capers Given a Little More Pop. President Roosevelt has appointed Jno. G. Capers. late district attorney of South Carolina, to be commission er of internal revenue until Decem ber 1st, when Pearl Wright of New Orleans will take charge. Capers is now practicing law in Washington. BOMB HIDDEN in the Wall of Justice's Office il New York. BLACK HAND 'DID IT. Dynamite and Giant Powder Arrang ed to Explode by the Telephone Fuse Connection.-Judge Kennel, the Intended Victim, Has Bitterly Fought The Murderous Organiza tion, and They Wanted Revenge. Through the timely discovery of a bomb hidden in his office, Police Jus tice Joseph Kennel of Weehawken, New York, propably saved the lives of himself and family. Between the wall and a chest of drawers in the office was found a bomb containing sufficient 4ynamite and giant gun powder to have wrecked the whole house and blown the occupants to atoms. The office of the Justice is on the Hackensack Plank Road, near the West Shore station at New Durham. It is a room in the two-story frame building he uses as his residence. In addition to the Justice, who is sixty years old, his wife and three children and his mothe-in-law there are three boarders in the house. The office is a semi-public place to which outsiders have access. About 5 o'clock in the evening the Justice noticed what he thought was a string sticking out from the space between the wall and the chest of drawers. He pulled it anu found it was at tached to a fuse. Running his hand back he drew forth a box, five by 'our Inches. The tute led into it. He )pened it and found it to contain lynamite powder and caps. The Justice carried the Infernal machine around to the police station. rhere It was examined by Chief Jas. N>oland and Captain Leonard Marki. ro make sure of the character of the nixture, the police took a pinch of it >utside and laid it on a stone. A ,iece of the fuse wzs used. A bright lame flashed the instant the spark 'eached the stone. There was according to the poilce, mnough explosive in the bomb to have cilled the whole family and demol shed the house. After this, the po ice looked around for a means by which the bomb could have been ex )loded, and believea they found it n its location. The machine was so )laced that it was only a few inches rom the telephone on the wall, and irectly beneath it. They believe the nen who placed it there planned to onnect it with the telephone in some nanner so that whoever rang the phone after the connection was nade would have been blown up. There was dust on the bomb. and :he opinion is that is was placed here at least two days ago. Justice Kennel in the past has been rery severe on members of the Black iand brought before him. He has ield them all for the higuer courts nd many threats have been made tgainst him just as they were against sustice Cortese, of Patterson, who was blown up in his office. Several times he has been warned y his friends that he would be a fictim, and it is said at the time of :he Patterson tragedy that the police were quietly warned that Justice Kennel might be next. Nothing came f uae warning, but while the police were on the alert, and the friends of he Justice, while not permitting him to know it. never allowed him to be a~lone when "Biack Hand" eases were being investigated. Some of the men the justice has ield for the higher courts have re :eived sentences, and it is thought in some circles that their friends plann ed to kill Kennel. The failure of the llot to work is ascribed to the men having been frightened away before they had the opportunity to make the necessary fuse connections with the 'phone. Three months ago four men found with dynamite in their possession were sent to prison for three months by the justice. They were suspected of being members of a gang of thieves that was dynamiting rail road cars when unable to pick the locks. The sentences of this quartette ex pired a couple of days ago. They have been released from prison, and in this the police and the justice see a coincidence that may prove to be a clue. Justice Kennel, who is an old sol dier, says he does not mind being blown up, but he does not care to have his family killed. QUAKE KILLS MANY. Many Houses Destroyed and the Peo ple Left Starving. The steamer Shawmut has brought news of disastrous loss of life follow ing 'an earthquake at Hsing-Kiang, China. A telegram received from Peking by the Nishi Shinmbun at Tokio short ly before the Shawmiut sailed, report ed that 4,000 persons were crushed to death, a vast number of houses de stroyed and many persons left starv mug. The Empress Dowager telegraphed urgent instructions to local governors to take measures to relieve the dis tress. FOOLED THE DOCTORS. Man Lived Forty Years After Physi. cians Gave Him Up. Forty years after two physicians had given him up as a hopeless vic tim of tuberculosis and said his deatha was a matter of only a few hours Dr. Marvin Chapin. of Chicago, died Sun Sonatrhe was pronounced be yond human aid forty years ago h went to the oil fields and roughed it It is said Dr. Unapin cured himsel: by swallowing crude oil. Dr. Chapit came to Chcago In 1887 and taught i Presbyterian Sunday School Class fo: twenty years. FATAL FIRE. Three Persons Burned to Death am Four Missing. Three lives lost, four persons misi lng and many thousand's of dollari loss in a fire at Newark's Turnverel hall Thursday. The dead are th jitorn with his wife and child. WITHOUT A SUMMER. Snow and Ice Prevailed in June. July and August Of the Year Eighteen Hundred and Sixteen Throughout The North and East. The year 1816 was known through out the United States and Europe as the coldest ever experienced by any person then living. There are per sons in Northern New York, who have been in the habit of keeping diaries for years, and it is from the pages of an old diary begun in 1810 and kept up unbroken until 1840 that the following information re garding this year without a summer has been taken: January was so mild that most persons allowed their fires to go out and did not burn wood except for cooking . There were a few cold days, but they were very few. Most of the time the aIr was warm and springlike. February was not cold. Some days were colder than any in January, but the weather was about the same. March, from the 1st, was inclined to be windy. It came in like a small lion and went out like a very Innocent sheep. April came in warm, but as the daysgrewlonger,the air became cold er, and by the first of May there was a temperature like that of winter, with plenty of snow and ice. In May the young buds were frozen dead, ice formed half an inch thick on ponds and rivers, corn was killed, and the cornfields were planted again and again, until it became too late to raise a crop. By the last of May in this climate the trees are usually In leaf and birds and flowers are plenti ful. When the last of May arrived in 1816, everything had b'een killed by the cold. June was the coldest month of roses ever experienced in this lati tude. Frost and ice were as common as buttercups usually are. Almost every green thing was killed; all fruit was destroyed. Snow fell ten inches deep in Vermont. There was a 7-inch fall in the interior of New York State, and the same in Massa chusettes. There was a seven-inch fall in the interior of New York State and the same in Uassachusetts. There were only a few moderately warm days. Everybody looked, long ed, and waited for warm weather, but warm weather did not come. It was also dry; very little rain fell. All summer long the wind blew steadily from the north in blasts, laden with snow and ice. Mothers knit socks of double thickness for their children, and made thick mit tens. Planting and shivering were done together, and the farmers who worked out their taxes on the coun try roads wore overcoats and mit tens. On June 17 there was a heavy fall of snow. A Vermont farmer sent a flock of sheep to pasture on June 16. The morning of thel7 th dawned with the thermometer below the freezing point. About 9 o'clock in the morn ing the owner of the sheep started to look for his flock. Before leaving home he turned to his wife and said jokingly: "Better start the neighbors soon; it's the middle of June and I may et lost in the snow." An hour after he had left home a errible snowstorm came up. The now fell thick and -fast -and, as here was so much wind, the fleecy asses piled in great drifts along the windward side of the fences and out uildings. Night came and the far er had not been heard of. His wife became frightened and alarmed the neighborhood. All the eighbors joined the searching party. n the third day they found him. He was lying in a hollow on the side hill with both feet frozen; he was half overed with snow, but alive. Most of the sheep were lost. A farmer near Tewksbury, Vt., owned a large field of corn. Hie built fires. Nearly every night he and his men took turns in keeping up the fire and watching that the corn did not freeze. The farmer was rewarded for his tireless labors by having the only crop of corn in the region. July came in with ice and snow. On the 4th of July Ice as thick as window glass formed throughout New Eng'and, New York and in some parts of the State of Pennsylvania. Indian corn, which in some parts of the East had struggled througL May and June. gave up, froze and died. To the surprise of everybody, Au gust proved the worst month of all. Almost every green thing in this country and Europe was olasted with frost. Snow fell at Barnet, thirty miles from London. on August .. Newspapers received from England stated that 1816 would be remember ed by the existing generation as the year in whch there was no summer. Very little corn ripened in New En gland. There was great privation, and thousands of persons would have perished in this country had it not been for the abundance of fish and wild game.-Danbury, Conn., News. TURIKEY ON THE TRACK. Engine's Headlight Blinded a Big Gobler One Night. The Columbia Record says the other night Engineer J. A. Ashley, of this city, while his train was thun dering over the Seaboard Air Line tracks on its way from Savannah north, saw between the rails as he was traversing Black Swamp a big wild turkey gobbler. As the big locomotive was almos. upon him, the gobbler attempted to escape, but flew straight into the headlight, the -impact throwing him upon the pilot, where he caught and held fast. Mr. Ashley stopped his train and walked out on the running board to the pilot. The bird was found to weigh twenty-three pounds. and proved delicious, when prepared in huntsman's style. HEAVY WOMAN. She Weighed Five Hundred and Elev en Pounds Net. At Louisville, Ky., Martha John son. whose weight is 511 pounds, diedl early Wednesday of heart fail ure. She was 62 years old and be lieved to be the largest person in Kentu-CY. The undertaker who was called said that fluid suffcient to Iembalm six ordinary persons was necessary In preparing the womana -body for burial. - The casket is six feet long. thre4 1feet wide and 21 inches deep. Twelv4 t'out negroes have been selected a1 pal11harers. NO THIRD TERM, Bryan Says Roosevelt Will Not Be Candidate Again for EQUAL RIGHTS TO ALL. If His Reforms Are of a Substantial Character There Ought to Be Some Other Republican Sufficiently Iden tified With Them to Represent Them as Candidate," Says Bryan of Roosevelt. Win. Jennings Bryan during the course of an interview at Baltimore, Wednesday with a representitive of the News in reply to a question as to what is the most important princi pal to be applied at this time, said: "The Jeffersonian maxim--equal rights to all, and special privileges to none-embodies the government principle whose application is most needed.. The abuses of which the people complain arise from the vio lation of this principle. "Both Jefferson and Jackson pointed out the evils of favoritism and privilege and those evils are especially noticeble at this time when great corporations have secur ed such an influence in nolitics. "Favoritism in government oper ates always in the interest- of the few and against the masses. The people as a whole can obtain no spe cial favors from the government. If the people tried to vote themsel ves subsidies they would have to pay the increased-taxes and thus take the money out of one pocket and put it into the other pocket. This would not only cost them as much as was collected but-they would have to pay the expenses of collection and distribution. "The remedy lies in withdrawal of the priviledges in so far as the evil rests upon privilege and a re straint on corporations insofar as the corporations have overstepped the law." Referring to his attitude relative to the licensing of so-called trusts, Mr. Bryan said: 'It has been criticised by some who spend more time objecting to remedies than they do proposing remedies, but the license system which I advocate was indorsed in the Kansas City platform seven ears ago. "We have a few Democrats whose sympathies are-with the trusts, and some Democrats arealways alarmed when a remedy is proposed. If the remedy is proposed by a state such Democrats are afraid that it in terferes with the federal govern rnent, and if it is proposed by the federal government they are afraid t interferes with the state. "The people will not take their emocracy from the employes of the trusts who earn their salaries by horoforming the public, while the pockets of the people are being pick d." THE THIRD TERM. Relative to a third term for any ocupant of the presidential offiee, ~r. Bryan said: "When in congress I endeavored to secure an amendment to the con stitution making the president ineli gible for a second term, and in both of my campaigns I announced that if elected I would not be a candi date for a second term. I would hardly look favorably: therefore, upon a third term. "I assume that the president will adhere to the opinion which he has xpressed on the subject and will not be a candidate again. It would be a reflection upon the success of his administration, if, coming in by an enormous majority, he had so re duced the popularity of his party as to make it impossible for any other Republican to be elected. "If his reforms are of a substan tial character there ought to be some other Republican sufficiently identified with them to represent them as a candidate. It would be strange if the president was strong enough to violate the anti-third term precedent set by Washington, Jef ferson, Madison, Monroe and Jack son, and yet was not able to develop a worthy Republican successor." KILLED AT A CROSSING. Engineer Bowen and Machinist Har rison Victims of Crash. A dispatch from Savannah, Ga , to the Augusta Chronicle says Engineer Daniel Bowen and Machinist William T. Harrison met their death at 3 o'clock Wednesday morning in a wreck at the crossing of the Central of Georgia and the Charleston and Savannah railroad. The light engine Bowen was driv ing crashed into another of which H. 1. Allen was engineer. Allen was slightly bruised about the _face, his escape being regarded as miraculous. Harrison crawled from beneath the wrckage, terribly injured. As he lay on the track he begged piteously that he be killed to relieve his terri ble agony. He welcomed death when it came. CALLED ON -ROOSEVELT. Some Confederate Veterans Go to See the President. A number of Confederate veterans who attended the reunion at Rich mond last week, were in Washingtonl sightseeing,p everal parties called at the Whit-e asaeand were intro duced to the president, former Sena tor Jones heading a party from Ar kansas, and Representative Kennedy of Ohio, one from Georgetownl, Ky. The latter were Gen. Morgan's men five of whom were offcers. They had a laattalk with the president an oldanhim if he were again in need of rough rider they were ready for service. The prsoient told this visitors several goo streaedt their came away highlypesdwt hi a1.