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VOL. XXI __ ai CO. 52 MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1907 N.5 GIVES HIS VIEWS Senator Tillman Talks on Ques tions of the Day. TOURED MANY STATES Says Plutocrat Press Has Misled Peo pie Regarding Real Issues-Thinks That American People Will Never Be "Bamboozled" by Corporation Interests-Says Centralization Will be Vital Issue in Coining Camp-gn Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, af ter visiting thirty states since the adjournment of congress, and meet ing thousands of people, gives the Hearst New Service at San Francisco his observations on the vital ques tions of the hour and issues that will predominate in the coming presden tial campaign. He does not discuss candidates or politicians, because he says he does not know anything about what they are doing in the way of political combinations and tickets. The one significant transaction or fact that has come to the front since the adjournment of congress last March is the apparent clash, or threatened clash, between state and national authority, in the effort to control corporations and railroads. Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Nebraska. New York, Pennsylvania, North Car olina and Alabama have passed two cent fare bills and taken other prom inent action in the direction of regu lating charges for freight and pas senger transportation. Governor Hughes vetoed the New York bill. The Pennsylvania railroad, which owns the State, set about annulling the two-cent fare bill. People of oth er States felt grateful except in North Carolina and Alabama. Unit ed States Circuit Judge Jones issued sweeping injunctions restraining the state officials from enforcing the laws The constitutionality of the law was not attacked. It could not be at tacked, except upon the plea of con fiscation. While the matter was in the pu lie mind, the plutocratic press teemed with editorials and cartoons, all im tended to direct the attention of the people to the ghost of stt' rnts. which we were told was shot to deatn' in '61 and '65. The country was led to suppose that North Carolina and Governor Glenn were attempting a re vival of the old ante-bellum doctrine. In truth, these organs of Morgan. Harriman, Rockefeller, et al., have at tempted to mislead the people and bolster up the Root idea of national authority upon absolutely false gronnds. When Judge Prichard and Jones stand up and proclaim in thundering tones "We are the nation; we have the power and authority to proter-t vested interests and the state shall not destroy the property of the rai roads," they wave their arms franti cally and the ghost of Calhoun is con jured from under the bed. The bid it be gone. People who have eyes and who examined this affair closely. saw, looking over the judges shoul ders, the grinning faces of the rail road magnates--and the judges are mere mannikins, obeying the orders of their former employers. The American people will never be bamboozled and driven by fake ap peals to the national spirit, mnvoke~ o protect the Harriman, Morgan Rockefeller gang in their efforts t compel producers of the country tc pay tribute to them and dividends 01 watered stock. The ursurpations of power by th federal judicary and the absolu~t sovereignty by many federal judge in the interests of the trusts and th/ necessity for congressional action i clearly defining and laying down th jurisdiction and power of federe courts, will attract more attentio than the great question of regulatin rusts themselves. Judical usurpation and trust abtu es and co-relative questions-the tw are interlocked and one hinges on th other, as President Rooaeveld recen lv recognized when he made the 1~ sue in 1904 and 1905, that the r-ai road rate fixed by the commuissic should go into effect 1mmediately -an stick there till reversed by the court Of course, we all know he surrende ed on this im'portant point and th Aldrich came off victor. This bit legislatives history turns the Ight the striking fact that in North Ca olina the attempt was made to ust what the president declar4 all railroads ought to be compel' to do. But the federal court butt in and said they could not do it. b thheiRoot idea of centralizati 1il be the vital isstie in the n~ resdetial campaign. The -Root i ill be pre-med by the Repuhe d Roosevelt; the p'es.ocrat w naturaly and inevitably, take othis sination inst speak tlt'ob ~~ge5ad define the powers federal courtsthtaecuh tates and everything else by Theatl and proper method goerent ncftrol nd regulatiM govrstsnsttheother important ri tio wt ich must be determtinled in next campaiCgnhepol Whenegver te t we shall lose substance of -i et n nwhinga the shadow wleft.i interfer are hampered re hrsedrl nefC when the PColIe ar -ions ed olundered by corporatS we fro look ahead and steer asai fol as do not thinkl there is an li hood of war with Japa~ rupc too busy heading of bnrIltcn think about fighting tn.-esc .e difficut if we wer erc Japa like Russia did. when Ja eapanational pride would immedia lut thema to fight if the:: vWer RESISTED ARREST. Man and Wcman Wounded by Constable Near Parler. The Trouble Over the Contract Labor Law-The Officer Shot to Save His Own Life. A shooting affray occurred near Parler on Wednesday. As a result of the shooting, Charles Watson, color ed, is painfully but not seriously wounded, and his wife who was also wounded may die. They did not only resist arrest. but attempted to cut and shot the constable who went to arrest them. It appears that Watson was under contract with Mrs. M. L. Felder of b Parler. but learning of the recent c decision on the labor contract law, 0 moved away leaving a debt behind. Mrs. Felder sent her son to see Wat sosn, who refused to pay the account. r and in the meantime returned to Mrs. Felder's place and gathered the extra crop upon which Mrs. Felder had claims. Mr. D. P. Dantzler. a son-in-law of Mrs. Felder, was sent by her to b collect the account, but Watson re fused to pay it in insulting terms. A warrant was issued before Magistrate c T. M. Felder for Watson's arrest, and also a search warrant for the cotton. Constable W. C. Griffith and Mr. D. P. Dantzler were sent to a'Irest Watson and take charge of the cut ton.F The latter proved to -be in hiding in a woods near his house. These gentlemen acting under the search warrant proceeded to seize the cotton when Watson came up. Constable Griffith attempted to arrest Watson' who with opened knife advanced upon the officer. Mr. Griffith fired to scare the ne gro, who made a dash for Mr. Gri ffith, but the next shot the officer s aim was more steady and the negro was shot in the thigh. While this was happening Watson's wife was standing in the door. and her shoi gun was leveled on Mr. Dantzler, but before the weapon was discharged, Mr. Dantzler fired at the woman, the ball taking effect in her side and .n t ranging downward. Her wound is regarded as serious. No further resistance was offered and the wounded negroes were attended by Dr. P. L. Felder. Watson was taken in charge by Constable Gri ffith and Mr. Dantzler and was lodg ed in jail at Orangeburg. Watson and his wife moved to Parler from Wedgefield early in January. Judge Brawley's decision still gives trouble. It has caused the death of several persons. The negroes seem to have gotten it in their heads I that they have a right to shoot down constables who attempt to arrest them. but when one or two of them get their necks cracked for murder ing constables they will realize their mistake. If the woman dies she has nobody to blame but herself and hus band as the both resisted arrest of a legally constituted posse and at tempted to murder the people com posing it. POSED AS MERMIAID). I n a Lily Pond and Photographed by Photographer. The fashionable North Riverside Park district of Wichita, Kansas was thrown into a turmoil when the res idents saw a young woman scantily clad, posed in a lily pond. while a man with a large camera made sever al exposures. Twenty-five calls were received at police headquarters and the people rushed out of their houses* to the spot. The girl. Miss Mona Payton, nineteen years old, was sent home. and the photographer. J. J Todd was arrested. Todd said that he wanted a picture to enter in a photographic contest. He said he wanted to take the pic 1 ure of the girl's head and shouiiders and convert it ipto a picture of a mermaid basking in a pond of lilies. Women who discovered the photog apher at work declare the-y found er clothing on a park bench. The ' olice have taken charge of Todd's -camera, and the plates he made. DEAl) FISH FOR M1lLES. trewnl Along Yucatan Coast--NO Re port of Seismnic Shock. ~'A dispatch from Progresso. Mexico. says: The entire Yucatan coast foi a en miles seawvard is strewn'f with r lead fish. presuimai ly from a sub e'rran eruption. <1 No report of an earthqluakke a'nY "' where has lately been sent out fro 0 Washington. but it is recalled tha L1 e severe earthquiake which affecte' all the Mexican borders of the Gui 3 of Mexico on April in last was ac X conpnid by a tidal wave and th a kklling of great quantities of fish. .THREE GIRLS DROW~NED). - nter Gulch for Safety but Watel of Quickly Fill. .wAt Durango, Cal.. three your heaughters of Samuel Cook e o drowned by a cloudburst whihfil o a gulch in which they had taken re es uge Friday. The girls entered a ca the for shelter and the gulch became 11 eed with water, which rushed inot cal care. The water caiased the roof the the cave to fail and bury the ch Ld- h teir i.1'~ n \Vsi(en th' scraj' 1i-:an. mltlOcrrceCs in B;ritit Cc''um inut(and the Dominion of Canada and t di .;|denud'~ frr ex:lusion 'sll bMIp c 'l n settling the gluec ion. .Japn :eli|not going to r'ear up and tear arou 1 iswith her ally. Engand. -.'Id wh tot he gets through pleading with Er iihh'land they wo'ft try to bluff C tig ncle Sam. The .T apanese diplom: Nat' are acute and alive men. and. teel course, they are not going to be d MADE A HAUL holesale Arrests of the Alleg ed Grafters in Pennslyvania. ROBBED THE STATE. ome High Officiais Charged With Crime-Alleged in the Indictments That Five Millions of the Total Was Purely Graft-The Names of Those That Are Under Arrest for the Steal. The long expected arrest of those eld to be responsible for the frauds mmitted in the furnishing and dee rating of Pennsylvania's $13,000. .00 capitol were made Wednesday, he attorney general causing war ants to be issued for 14 of the 18 ersons and firms named by the cap Lol investigating commission as be ag involved in the scandal. Those >r whom warrants were issued are: Joseph M. Hudson, architect, and is active assistant, Sanford B. Lew , both of Philadelphia. John H. Sanderson, Philadelphia, hief contractor for furnishings. Congressman H. Burd Cassell, reasurer and executive officer of the ennsylvania Construction company, ontractors for steel filing cases. James H. Shumaker, Johnstown, 'a., former superintendant of public rounds and buildings, who receipt d for the furnishings. George F. Payne and his partner, harles G. Wetter, both of Philadel hia. builders of the capitol and con ractors for the $303,000 attic. William P. Snyder, Spring City, 'a., former auditor general who ap roved the warrants of the contrac >rs. William L. Mattheus, Media, Pa.. >rmer State treasurer, who paid the ills of the contractors. Charles F. Kinsman, Willis Boi >au, John G. Neider and Geo. K. torm, all of Philadelphia, stock Llders in the Pennsylvania Bronze ompany, organized by Sanderson for he manufacture of the $2,000,000 ighting fixture. Frank Irvine, auditor in the aud tor generals's office, who audited the ounts of the contractorz. Nearly all the defendants appeared turing the day, waived a hearing and ntered bai for their appearance in he Dauphin county court. The rincipal defendants were held in 60,000 bail, which was furnished in very instance by surety companies. All the defendants are charged cith conspiracy to cheat and defraud he State by making false invoices, vhich were approved by Huston and "humaker. Charges of obtaining noney by false pretense were also mtered against Sanderson, Congress nan Cassel, Payne and Wetter, it being alleged they furnished ficti ious bills for a greater amount than Lhey were entitled to receive under their contracts. The action was the outcome of an allegation made by State Treasurer William H. Berry during the cam paign of 1905. He startled the State by charging that, according to the State treasury bcoks, the building tnd furnishings of the State capitol had cost $13,000.000 a-id not $5,000, 000, as had been generally believed, and that $9,000,0". went to furnish the building. He charged that $5,000,000 of the $9,000,000 was ir '-e 'graft." Gov. Pennypat : - '-.her State officialb and contri.aors denied the charges but the agitation for an investigatiol which immediately began continuec until the legislature appoirted a comn mission to investigate the whol4 NURSE, WIFE AND WtDOW. The Unusual Experience of a Youni New York Woman. To have been nurse and bride ani widow all within a few hours is th uunsual experience of Mrs. Alfrea Adler of New York. Mr. Adler wa a wealthy Broadway glove manufa< He was taken with typhoid feve on the way back from a trip to Ye lowstone Park with his fiancee, wb as Miss Joanna Hartung of Ne York and a party of friends. On being taken to the hospita Miss Hartung, to whom he had beE engaged eight years. became h nurse. He succumbed to the diseas ut before his death he and Mi Hartung were married. The wedding took place at 6: and he died at 10 o'clock. F three nights previous to his dea Miss Hartung did not leave his be A FATAL JVMW ecame Panic Strickenl and Plung From Stone Bargec. Six Italian laborers employed the new government dam in the lgheny river at Aspinwali. Pa.. l' tteir lives Thursday evening wi they became panic stricken and he; cl d from a fiat boat on which tl w -I ere taking some stone from a de e The men jumped from one end l- he oat into 12 feet of water mnst ofofstepping fi'rm the other end t' s snd bar. GEORGLAN LOST IN EURCOP No Trac of Har'old W'. Telfordi, t a eWent Into the Alps. UttNeither the police nor the Am~ i can consulates of Switzerlandl 1 ob tained any trace of Harold WV. en frd. of Gainesville. Ga.. who nglegon August 30 on a m ld ai clibin expedition. ts Tetheory that he was the vi of o an Alpine accident has been a is- doed -as no unidentified body CLOSE CALL. A Tiger in the Bedroom When Nurse Took in Baby. Grandson of a Georgia Legislator Conies Near Being Eaten by the Beast. A special to the Atlanta Journal from Columbus, Ga., says the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Slade came within an ace of being placed in the mouth of a ferocious Mexican tiger by its nurse a few nights ago, according to a letter that has been received in this city from Mrs. Slade who was Miss Thurza Kirven. daugh ter of R. M. Kirven of Columbus. The little one who so narrowly es caped death is a grandson of Hon. James J. Slade, one of Muscogee county's representatives in the Geor gia legislature. The story is a most thrilling one. Mr. and Mrs. Slade are in Mexico, where Mr. Slade is engaged in civil engineering work. It was in the eve ning; the twilight had gathered and the shades of night had gathered. The nurse of the little one had per formed her duty by her' charge, by singing and rocking it to sleep; then she gathered him in her arms to carry him to his little bed. As she went into the darkened room and started to lay the little fellow to rest for the night, she was arrested by a deep growl. The frigh tened nurse hurriedly gathered the boy in her arms again and rushed to the front porch, which she had but recently quitted, where Mr. and Mrs., Slade were sitting and in a voice that gave every evidence of fright, she told Mr. Slade that there was a dog on the bed. Mr. Slade hurriedly grabbed a spade with which he had but shortly before been doing some work in the yard and went into the room. As he did so he noticed two glaring balls of fire on the bed in his room. He had no weapon other than the spade, his pistol being in a room adjoining the one in which the ferocious beast had taken refuge. He seized the im plement which he held with a firmer grasp, and boldly went into the room, but strange to say the beast did not attack him. He slipped into the room where his pistol lay and seized it. hurrying back to where the I east was, and firiag at it. The shot did not strike a vital spot, aid the b-ast was in a frenzy. It began to tear around the room in a terribly fero cious attitude and Mr. Slade quickly emptied the contents of his weapon into its body, killing it. Later it was ascertained that some soldiers in a garrison which had been located near where Mr. Slade resided had had a tiger, which had escaped from them. It it believed that the tiger that was slain by -Mr. Slade was the escaped pet. But this fact did not rob his ex perience of any of the excitement at tendant upon it, for he did not know at the time that it was such, and it is possible that if the nurse had not snatched the infant from the bed as hurriedly as she did, the anmnal would have done it gr at injury. Mr. Slade has had the animal skinned and will preserve the skin as a trophy for his NARROW ESCAPE. A York County Man Had a Close Call With Train. A dispatch from Rock Hill to The State says Mr. W. Edwin Walker of the Neely's Creek section is suffer ing from a bad leg sprain which he received in an accident which nar rowly missed being a fatal one for him. He was driving to Leslie Sta tin with a pair of horses attached to his wagon and the early morning passenger train having just passe the crossing not more than the fourth o f a mile distant he had no idea that another train was near. He proceed ed on his way and when almost up on the crossing, he saw approachingl and engine and cab. He was upor the rails and so he whipped up: ir ~ he effort to clear the track befort the engine passed. Just before the cowcatcher strucl rhe rear of the wagon Mr. Walkel umped and was not struck by th rain: but the wagon was thrown up on him,, injuring him severely. Th train was a special one, otherwis , he injured man would have beel m ore upon the alert. is MARTYR TO SCIENCE. M ajor Carroll Succumbs to Third Ii Soculation from Mosquito. hh Major James Carroll, surgeoJ d- nited States Army, who was a men er of the commission sent to Cui: to study yellow fever just after ti lose of the Spanish war, died at h home in Washington, a martyr d science. It was his commission th fixed definitely on the mosquto as tl medium of transmissonl in yellow fe 1- Dr. Carroll allowed himself to stt bitten by a mosquito that hao. he en infected from three distinct yelic p-- fever cases. He developed the d Ley ease four days after being bitten. I in. last illness was the direct result of his work in the study of tropical d a LOCKED HER UP. Mrs. Carrie Nation Gets Stiff S hotence in Washingtoni. In the Washington Police Co T hursday Mrs. Carrie Nation refu ri- to promise not to talk to crowds vee the street in the future, and was s I'el- to the work housse for seventy left days in default of the payment c un- fine of $25. She was arrested disorderly conduct. She was addr' timii i;a crowd in front of the postol an- department. on the evil effects has cigarette smoaking, and when she use to stop was arrested. FATAL SNAKE BITE Railroad Section Hand Killed by a Huge Rattler. The Unfortunate Man Died a Few Hours After He Was Bitten by the Snake. A letter from Florence to The News and Courier says one day last week Section Master Matthews, of the Mount Holly section, on the Northeastern Railroad, had his gang f hands at worit cutting down bushes on the right of way near a swamp three miles south of Straw berry. One of the hands. John Jenkins, a egro, was cutting some small sweet gum bushes near the stump of an >ld tree. All of a sudden he felt something strike him on the leg, and as he looked he saw the head of a monster rattler lying about three feet from him. Knowing that he had been bitten. e rushed from the bushes and hal lowed "snake." The other negroes rushed from the bushes and to Jen kins' assistance. It was soon found that Jenkins had been bitten on the leg and he was placed on a hand car and hurried to Mount Holly. Some whiskey was procured and poured down the negro, who in that time, just seven minutes, was begin ning to suffer agonies from the pois om. A physician was sent for from Rummerville, but it was some time lefore he could reach the sick man, and the result was that he died sev eral hours afterward. . Mr. Matthews, the section master, as soon as he reached Mount Holly, and after baring the negro's leg, measured the place where the snake had stuck his fangs in the leg, just below the knee, and by actual meas urement it showed that the two fangs in the upper jaw measured two in ches apart and the distance between the upper and lower jaw, where the fangs entered, was just 4 1-4 inches, showing that it must have been a monstrous snake indeed to.have such a very large mouth. In the exxcitement wt negro was bitten no one had :sence of mind, or took the time t, kill the snake, and when the party returned the snake had moved away and could not be found. ~Where it lay in its bed and where the negro stood were justs two and one-half feet apart, showing that the reptile was of unusual length, or it would have been impossible to have struck his object so far away. Where the reptile had lain in the bushes he had made a bed some five feet in diameter. An effort is to be made to capture this monster reptilc by a party of snake hunters and it secured he will be placed on exhibi tation. DEATH OF A LARGE VOMAN. She Weighed Seven Hundred and Twenty-Five Poundis. So large that her casket could not 3e taken in a hearse, but har to be removed to a cemetary on a truck, Mrs. Walter Short, aged 38 years, who weighed 725 pounds, was buried at Smyrna, Delaware. Fourteen pall bearers were necessary. Over 1,000 persons witnessed the interment, the corpse being the largest ever buried in Delaware. Mrs. Short, who lived on a farm near Smyrna, was the largest woman in this part of the country. She was afflicted with tumors, which grew to gigantic proportions. This did not cause her death, however, she havmng dropped dead last Friday'from heart disease. The woman was short of stature, but her arms were forty-six inches in circumference. The casket was but four feet six inches in length but was three feet five inches in width. The combined weight of the corpse and casket was 925 pounds Mrs. Short was able to move abou freely until the day of her death. Thi casket was one of the largest eve~ made in this country. VICTIM OF JEALOLi. An Ex-AUStrian Army Officer Shoot Young Lady. Screaming "Julius, you won't kil me, will you?" Miss Draga Seigel, pretty 2 0-year-old girl, was shc down early Wednesday by Juhi Hoffman, a former lieutenant in th Austrian army, in a furnished rool -at No. 215 West Thirty-sevent street. Ths girl is dying in Bellevue ho -, pital from three bullet wounds an . Hoffman is locked up in the Thirt; a fifth street police station. JealouW ee led to the tragedy. is The victim is the daughter of o colonel in the Austrian army wI tt died recently, leaving her $100.00 ee which she was to receive on h - wenty--first birthday. $60,000,000 A YEAR. w That Vast Sum the Average Profits iS tandard Oil in New .Jersey. is-It developed in the Standard( s comanys hearing in New York 1 fore Frank B. Kellogg, the govei ment's special p)rob~er, that in et years. from 1899 to 1906, prol aggregating $490.31.9%34 were rt n ed up by the Standard Oil Compr of New Jersey, and $30S .339.40.> dividends was paid. This was brous ar ot oin the hearing of the Fede edd suit against the company. onnI1I also developed that the Sta nt I and Oil Company of New Jersey o~ le 9.990 shares of the stock of faStandard Oil Comp~any of India for which company recently was sent ssced to pay a fine of $2 9.240.000. icee In the eight years referred to of gross assets of the corporation re-increased from $200,791,623 371664,531. WILD FANATICS. Woman Tertued to Death to Dis pel Evil Spirits SUFFERED AGONIES Before She Was Released by Death. Son, Daughter and Three- Others Gave Her Violent Treatment in Accordance With Their Religious Belief-Son Says Mother's Con sent Was Secured. A report from Chicago says five people, members of the sect of Par hamites, are under arrest at Zion City, accused of torturing to death rs. Letitia Greenlaugh, 64 years >ld, a cripple for twenty years with rheumatism, to show their belief in the relgion they profess. The people under arest are: Wal ter and Jennie Greenlaugh, son and daughter of the woman; Harold Tiit chell, Mrs. Harold Mitchell, and a Mrs. Smith. The sect of Parhamites was found ed about a year ago, by Charles Par ham, and numbers about. 200. The members originally belonged to Dow ie's church. Their theory of sickness is evidence of the possession of the body by evil spirits. The condition of Mrs. Greenlaugh convinced her son and daughter and the others arrested that she possess ed the evil spirit. They knelt by her bedside and after praying commenced work. The arms of Mrs. GreenlAugh. stiffened by rheumatism were twisted about in order that the dev.? might be driven out. The cries of the aged woman were considered those of the evil spirit, and were greeted with tri umphant shouts. After a course of ths violent treat ment Mrs. Greenlaugh not only be eame so weak she could not use her limbs, but became incaable of making any motions. Then her neck was twisted for some time. At the coroner's inquest youne Greelaugh testified that his mother's consent was obtained before the treatment was commenced. GIRL CREMATED. Spurned Italian Lover Takes Terrible Rcvenge. The most dibolical of all love ven dettas is reported from Fondi, in the province of Caserta. Italy. Beside it the har)arie excesses of the dark ages appear mild. The victim was Driade Dancona, considered the pret tiest of maidens of Fondi. Her spurn ed lover was Vincenzo de Silvestro, a shepherd youth. For more than two years the girl had been tormented by the attentions of the shepherd. Her family told the girl that he was a lad of bad repute and warned her not to have anything to do with him. One day he met her in the fields and tried to induce her to run away with him. For his offense he was sentenced to ten months in prison. A few weeks ago he was released and took up his suit, but was spurned again. Then he took hard revenge. Going to the thatched house where the girl was spending the night, he barricad ed every possible avenue of escape, and set fire to the hut. The girl was burned to death as was also an aged aunt and two cousins5. Vincenzo was assisted in his crime by another youth, but both have managed to escape the police. LEAPS TO HER DEATH. Mother Prevented Asphyxiation, SC Daughter Goes Out Window. At New York Friday surprise7 b: her mother in a effort to commit sui cide b~y inhaling illuminating ga through a rubber, Theresa Canning, young telephone operator, threw her self out of an open window nea: which she was standing and fell fou stories to her death. When picked up on the pavemen Sbelow nearly every bone in he bod: was brokn. Miss Canning was drawing into he lungs the fumes from a gas jet in he abed room when the elder woman or Sened the door. At the sight of he Smother. the girl dropped the tub~ eand leaped out of the window. A quarrel with her sweetheart hsaid to have been the cause of tb suicide. -WAS HS OWN CHILD. *. .The Sad Experience of a Massachi setts Surgeon. L At Springfield. Mass., Pauline I 0. Reardon, six and one-half years o1 rr the daughter of Dr. Thomas C. Rea don was struck and fatally injur in front of her home Wednesday an automobile owned by Dr. Charl T. Hooker and driven by ErnE of Southard. Dr. Hooker. without knowing w the girl was carried her into I ilReardon's house. The latter's fil knowledge of the accident was t n- sight of his child lying on his 09p1 ltting table. The girl died soon aft its ward. Southard was arrested on Il chage cf manslaug~hter. ny WORKiMEN ARRESTED. -al Rusin Troops and Police of a Si d- den Descend Upon a Mill. -ns News from Lodz, Russia says tri'O hee and police made a sudden desc na Thursday upon a large cottou 1 en- owned by Marius Silherstein. was murdered by emploYeeg onl the tember 13 because he refused to1 aad them for the time they' were out to strike. Eight hundred of the we men ere taken into custody. TRAIN RUN DOWN And Many Passengers Are Ki~ed and Wounded. FAULT OF OPERATOR. & Aeavily Loaded Excursion Train on the Boston and Maine Railroad Returning From the Canadian Provinces Almost Telescoped by a Long and Heavily Loaded Freight Train. A fearful head-on collission be tween the southbound Quebec and a northbound freight train on the Con cord division of the Boston & Maine railroad occurred four miles north of Canan Station, Vt., early Sunday, due to a mistake in train dispatcher's orders and from a demolished'pas senger coach there were taken 24 dead and dying and twenty-seven other passengers, most of them ser fously wounded. Nearly all those who were in the death car were re turning from a fair at Sherbrock, Quebec, 160 miles north. The conductor of the freight train was given to understand that he had plenty of time to reach a siding bY the night operator at Canaan Sta tion, receiving, according to the sup erintendent of the division, a copy o1 the telegraph order from the train dispatcher at Concord which- confus ad the train Nos. 30 and 34. The wreck occurred just .after the ex press had rounded into i straight stretch of track but, owing to the - early morning mist, neither enginerr saw the other's headlight until it was too late. According to W. R. Ray, Jr., di vision superintendent; J. R. Crow ley, the night train dispatcher at Concord, sent a dispatch to John: Greely, the night operator at Canaan, that. No. 34 was one hour and 10 minutes late. The order which. Con ductor Lawrence of the freight train showed after the accident distinctl states that No. 30, instead of No. 34, was an hour and ten minutes late Conductor Lawrence believing that he- had sufficient time in the hoar. and ten minutes to reach the side track at West Canaan, four miles eyond, before No. 30 reached it, ordered. his train ahead. The super intendent declared that the accident was due to the mistake in placing a cipher after the three in the number of the. train instead of a four. The Dead and Injured. Those identified up to 6 o'clock Sunday night were as follows: Timothy Shaughnessey, Castle Bar. Quebec. Mrs. Shaughnessey. Miss Annie St. Pierre, Isle Verte, Que. Fred M. Phelps, Ochiltree, Texas. Mrs. A. E. Warren. Haverhill, Mrs. F. C. Blake, South Corinth. Mrs. Margaret Largy, Manchester, Miss Barrett, Manchester. Mrs. Philip Gagnon, Sherbook. - Miss Alvina Giron, Nashua. Mrs. Webster, a dressmaker living in Massachusetts. J. L. Coneron, Somerville, Ma'*, Infant child of Irving Gifford, Con ord, N. H. Mrs. E. L. Briggs, West Canaan. John G. Duncan, Bethel, Vt. The unidentified include a boy (our years old, a man 40 years old, Ia woman of 30 years, a man of 55, a man 35, and four others. Twenty-two of the bodies were re moved to Concord during the day. The most seriously injured who were taken to the Margaret Hitch .cock hospital, at Hanover, N. H., In clude an unknown boy with both legs broken and arm torn out and head injured, dying. Mrs. S. Saunders, Nashua, head and back injured. Mrs. C. N. Saunders, Nashua. wounds on head. Mrs. C. Saunders, Nashua, contus -ions on face. Miss D. Saunders, Nashua, internal injuries. Fred Saunders, Nashua, shoulder e rs. Hester Saunders, Brocktonl, e .Mass., head and back injured. Charles St. Pierre, Isle Verte, s Que., internal injuries. -Arthur Jacques, Millbury, internal .ABatchleder, Somerville, an Philip Gnagmnon, Sherbrooke, inter nal injuries.H n John Barrett, Manchester, N. H., head and breast injured.a roe Miss Abby Jansen, Nasuboe r- iontal bone Terribe Peed of Madman at King's ie Mountainl, Kentucky. it four o'clock Thursday morning Hs arvi Watts. a lumber man iepre enting a Tennessee firm, walked i: d o the passenger depot at King's M ountain. Ky., and placing his grn!' u pon the floor, called Agent W. 13 c- andiver and asked him to op a- en it. andiver' complied with the equest and Watts took a pistol from the grip, remarking "now yo~u )ave pene the grip; I will open you."H ired and the ball penetrated Vanidi hee ver's head, killing him instantly. IWatts fled to the Knobs, north o King's Mountain. Vandiverad be ic- native of Har.rodsburg aKy. Anb an lrg to a pronet amiding An officer later foun Wattsredin noe at a hottow stumfP. qesoneed aoute to-itane de btated that he never histh seedeVandiv'er before and was Ltiili1nadbse o account for his action. ataat Wtswas taken to the Standford jai for safekeeping TERRIBLE DISASTER OH Board of a Large Japanese Battleip. Party of the ' :icers and Enlisted Men Killed aj.d Wounded by the Accident. A -dispatch from Tokio tells of a terrible disaster on a Japanese war ship. The dispatch says forty of the crew including nine officers, were killed and injured on board the Jap anese battleship Kashima by the ex plosion of a 12-inch shell within the shield after target practice near Kure at 4 p. m., on Septemebr 9. The Kashima, under command of Capt. Koizumi, reached Kure at 6 p. m., where the wounded were plac ed in the hospital. The fatalities in cluded a lieutenant, two cadets and one staff officer, the rank and name of whom is not given. The exact detail regarding the ef fects of the explosion are lacking but it was terrific and the ship ise badly damaged. A majority of the bystanders were fearfully mutilated. The cause of the explosion is under. investigation. It occurred inside of the shield of the starboard after~10-inch gun. It was not the shell which exploded but powder which evidently caught fire from the gas emitted from the breech when opened for the purpose of reloading the gun. The hull of .he Kashima is not damaged. SPENCE COTTON. donsul Griffiths Tells of An East In dian Cotton Tree. In its daily consular and trade re port of Wednesday the department of commerce and labor at Washfng ton says: "Consul John L. Griffiths writes that prominene has been given in the Liverpool newspapers .to an an nouncement of the sale on that mar ket of a sample of five bales of In dian 'Spence cotton' at 15 cents per pound. The consul sends the follow ing on this subject, concerning which considerable has been printed from consuls in India: "'The sample of cotton referred to is the result of three years' exper ments with an indigenous Indian cotton by J. R. Spence, formerly a member of the Liverpool Cotton as sociation. The product is stated to be strong and wiry, with a staple of 1 to 1 1-4 inches in length. It is .-uggested that the sale of the sample of '-Spence cotton" at the price nained indicates important possibilities in the vast cultivable area of India. A local paper says: " ' "There are now considerably over 20,000 trees on Mr. Spence's plantation at Deesa, Bon'bay presi dency, in a most flouristing condi tion, growing to a height of from 6 to 7 feet, full of buds and boils and bearing cotton daily. The yield of the first year has proved to be 2 1-.. ounces per tree, and as there are over 5,000 trees to the acre, this gives the first year's yield 80 0 pounds per acre. The second year's crop has proved double that of the first, and it increases every year." " 'This cotton it is claimed. is able to withstand long periods of drought, and has so far escaped the ravages o the troublesome boll worm. The In dian cotton tree does not appear to require inuch attention efter b:i been once planted, and it grows to height of six or seven feet. It. greatest production is in its thir' .rear. An effort is now being made in England to organlze a comrpany fot t'production and exploitation o1 this cotton.' IN PURSEIT OF CRACESMEN Alabama Posie Likely to Have Figh With the Fugitives. A special from Sulligent, Ala., say that cracksmlen mede a raid on Ver nor, the county seat of Lamar coun ty. Wednesday night, blew open th safe in Tom Guyton's store and se cured more than a thousand dollar The also cracked the safe of .J. A~ Cobb, another merchant, secure ffty dollars in cash and $6,000 wort oofpapers.., rThen they stole the sheriff's hors and escaped. The sheriff and a poss r got near enough the robbers to c.g e tre the stolen horse. The posse stll in pursuit and a battle is expec ed . A telegram has been sent t Birmingham for llood hounds. LARGEST ON RECORD Many PeoPle Killed and Wounded.i Climbing the Alps. A dispatch from Berne, Switze land says the toll of Summer victin of ofAlpine accidents is the heavie d ever recorded. Eighty persons we v kklled and twenty two injured in ni ss ety accidents this year, as againstt st previous record. seventy, six -fat ties in 1906 in seventy one acciden to Thirty-eight of the eighty perso r.. klled were guides. thirtyo-- we a 'st spending vacations in tie Alow' .e te remainder were naoftie fatw a- g gathers. Three-quarte1S ovter pre r-- iies were caused b.yer fall o av aa iiies. The othersswr ade igtning. andnlihtsng d-- Te Nebaskin Will Address t Macon Negro Fair. William Jennings Bryan has ce tepd an invitation to deliver ilil Iaadress at the negro state fair ho'hao cn, Ga.. in October. The inv1 8 tion to visit Macon was extended ayy Mr. Bryan some months ago, but onn acceptance wais not receqived ut k-k-rrecntly. It is not yet certain w at e ewill be there.