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O.XIIMANG Sa Mi1N OL. xx11 -MANINING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, -MARCH24199N.1 FATAL CRASH Of a Train Cuts a Railway Sta tiot. in Canada FOUR PEOPLE KILLED Blowing Out of Wash Pipe on Lo comotive, Near Montreal, Forces Engineer and Fireman to Jump, and the Train Dashes Into Station, Tearing it Up. Montreal, March 17.-Four per sons are dead and thirty others were more or less seriously injured as the result of the blowing out of a wash pipe on the locomotive hauling the Boston Express of the Canadian Pacific Railway this morning, three miles out from the city. Scalding steam filled the cab and the engineer and fireman were forced to jump. The train, without a guiding hand at the throttle, dashed into the Windsor street station, through the granite wall into the women's wait Ing room, and then into the rotunda, where the locomotive, after demol ishing one massive granite pillow, was brought to a standstill by anoth er. The four persons killeewd ,?.-? The four persons killed were sit ting in the women's waiting room. They are: Mrs. W. J. Nixon. Montreal. Her 13-year-old son and 8-year old daughter. Elaie Villiers, 12 years old, of Montreal, A score of men were knooked down when the train dashed through the rotunda. An investigation of the cause of the accident by General Manager McNicoli disclosed that the break in the boiler was on the fireman's side. Fireman Craig jumped at once and landed in a snow drift, practi cally uninjured. He ran down the track after the train. Half a mile from where he jumped Craig found the engineer lying unconscious by the rails. His skull had been frac tured. Why, before jumping, the engineer failed to bring his train to a standstill may never be known, for Cunningham has not regained consciousness, and is not expected to live. The train crew had no idea there was anything wrong until the train was nearing the station. Then the conductor, noting the excessive speed at this point applied the air brakes. They were not strong enough to hold the train with the locomotive pulling against them, but they did check the speed somewhat. The husband of Mrs. W. J. Nixon is a train dispatcher of the Canadian Pacific at Medicine- Hat, Alberta. He had secured leave of 'absence to come to Montreal to get'his family, and they were all at the station to greet him after six months' separat ion. Nixon's train arrived a short time after the accident. *The man gled bodies of his wife and children were lying on the platf'orm when he stepped from the train. BRIN~GS DOWN THIEF. Officer Shoots Negro Store Robber Laden With Booty. Chester, March 17.-Ike' Feaster. colored, was shot and perhaps fat ally wounded at 2 o'clock this morn ing by Officer J. G. Howsee, of the city police force. Feaster had brok en into the store of T'. H. Ward, col ored. and was coming out of the rear with his plunder, when Officer Bowsee, who had been attracted by the noise, endeavored to halt him. Feaster refused to stop and the of ficer fred in the darkness, striking him in the head. He was taken to the Magdalene Hospital, where he has remained in critical condition all day. ATTACKS CONSTUBL.RY. Sanuinary Connliet on One of the Philippine Islands. Manilla, March 17.--A belated dis patch from Lake Lakano reports that a band of hostile Mores attacked Lieutenant Furlong's detachment of conastabulary at Bordog, on the 8th of March and, after a sharp fight, eight Moros and two members of the constabulary were left dead on the field, while two soldiers and one civilian were wounded. A company of the 25th infantry and a detach ment of scouts have gone to the aid of Furlong's force. The day after the fight a constabulary soldier de serted after stealing five rifles belong ing to members of the detachment. "SAW AWAY," SAYS WATCHORN. Gives Lion Tamer at Ellis Island " Means of Escape." New York, March 18.--Francis Louis Bessanade. a lion tamer, who esaped from the detention pen at Ellis Island in August, 1907, was arrested recently in San Francisco and returned to the Island, with a prospect of deportation. He told Commissione-r Watchorn that he escaped by cutting the bare of his cage with a saw made o: three butchers' knives. Mr. Watch orn. who suspects collusion by some Ellis Island employe. has given Bois sanade three more kitchen knives with these instructions: "If you can saw your way out I'll do what I can to save you fron deportation." Louis is now raising blisters 02 his hands. HUGE FORGERY PLOT SPOILED BY THE SUSPICIONS OF A LITHOGRAPHER. The Arrest at Milan of Four of the Ringleaders Reveals an Inter national Company. Rome, March 17.--Special dis patches from this city to Columbia Record says startling developments connecting the extensive operations of the international gang of forgers and of checks and banknotes, four ringleaders of which are under ar rest at Milan, continue to come to the surface as a result of the inter national police investigation now in progress. As stated at the time of the arrest a week ago the operations of the gang were confined chiefly to New York and London. The capture of the four leaders was due -to the misgivings of Sigor Polotti, a very skillful lithographer, whom the forars had entrusted with the engraving of an immense number of checks, varying in value from $10 to $200 apiece, which they represent ed were required by the American Express Company for its branch es tablishments in Rome, Genoa and Naples. Signor Polotti confided the affair to the police. who directed him to proceed quietly with the commission, while they prepared a surprise for as many as possible of the gang. which during the past two years has given untold trouble in America, England, France and Belgium. In Italy last December, after a series of frauds at Genoa amounting to $60,000, they presented a letter of credit of the Commercial bank of Milan for $15,000 on a firm of pri vate bankers in New York. The cul prits have again and again exploded the New York bank, and the Milan police are convinced from a mass of documents and stamps now seized at their lodgings that this criminal gang must have had one or more accomplices in the employ of the bank itself. Four members of the gang were caught red-handed. They are all middle-aged, though a considerable part of their career has been spent in the United States and Great Brit ain. They had in their possession nowly-made banknotes and checks of :he total value of over $2,000,000, which they were about to forward o confederates in New York and London for eirculation. . Oreof Origoni, one of the ring leaders under arrest, comes of a well knows Naples family and formerly was an artilley officer in the Italian army. He is a nephew of the fa mous General Matterassi. He has been a consular agent and representa ive of various commercial firms in Japan and North America. The Milan police are elated at the capture, but regret that many mem bers of the gang are still at large. though they have clues which are expected to prove useful to the po ice of New York, London and Paris. ALLOWED TEN THOUSAND. Seaboard Must Pay That Sum to Conductor's Widow. Savannah, Ga., March 17.--The report of Special Master Frank M. Gallaway, appointed by Judge Par dee, of the United States Court, for the cases instituted against the Sea board Air Line, has been filed with the clerk of the court here, a de cision allowing Mrs. Belle Gray $10, 000 for the death of her husband, eing made a part of the record. Conductor W. B. Gray was killed while on a freight train running rom Savannah to Denmark, S. C., on te bridge spanning the Savan nah river, near Garnett, August 2, THEY SHOULD PASS. Two Bills Before Congress to Help Rural Carriers. Washington, March 17.--Rural !ittdr carriers will come in for a lit le extra compensation during the ixty-first Congress if the two bills rcently introduced b~y Representa ives Bates, of Pennsylvania, and lumphreys, of Mississippi. are en ated Into law. The'bill introduced y Representative Bates provides an dditional allowance of $150 per an num for subsistence, and that intro luced by Mr. Humphreys provides that $250 per annum additional be allowed each rural carrier for the purchase and maintenance of neces sary horses, wagons and equipment." TRAIN EILLS AGED NEGRO. Darky, Past Century Mark, Mfeets Death at Newberry. Newberry, March 17.-Ned Kin* ard and old negro, was killed at thE Southern depot herne today. The freight engine was shifting, and Nec had his back to the train and w as or the track. The car struck hin anc passed over his body, cutting off bot! legs. An inquest was held, the ver dct being that the death was ac ciental. Ned was a slave of th4 late Gen. H. H. Kinard, and wat more than a hundred years old. Ha caimed to be over a hundred an< ten years old. Reward Offered. Washington, March 1.--A rewari of $2,000 has been offered by th Italian government for the captur of the slayer of Lieut. Joseph Petrc sio, according to official informatio: tte embassy has communicated t +th+e+ Satedeartment. PAYS FOR CRIME Benjamin Gilbert is Electrocuted at Richmond, Va. KILLED YOUNG LADY Because She Rejected Him as a Lover-The Murder Committed on a Bridge at Norfolk, While the Young Girl was With Friends for a Little Outing. Richmond, March 19.-For killing f his former sweetheart in a moment 1 of jealous rage, Benjamin Gilbert t today was electrocuted in the State penitentiary here, where all crimi nals in this State are now put to death. Because she had spurned him for t the attentions of other young men, Gilbert shot down pretty Amanda B. Morse on Campostella bridgein Nor- f folk on July 23 last. The girl ling- a ered for twenty-four hours, her death t occurring at St. Vincent's hospital Il to which institution she had been n removed immediately followlnt the t, shooting. Hearing that Gilbert had threat- S ened to kill his daughter, T. 0. Morse, f father of the girl, went to look for ti Gilbert, and reason witi him. Go- e ing the wrong way, Morse missed e Gilbert, and twenty ninutes later, a while still In search of the youth, was told that he had shot his daugh- d ter. The father rushed to the scene s and the fact that he could find no h one to furnish him with a pis-tol was b all that prevented a double tragedy. $ On the hot summer night Miss a Morse and several 'young friends went to Compostella bridge for a a breath of air from across the water. 0 They were conversing on the bridge r when young Gilbert approached. a Miss Morse's escort, W. G. Mitchell, b noticed Gilbert acting peculiarly. N Gilbert asked the girl to see him pri- M vately. She replied that if he had B anything to say to her he could t1 say it then and there. Gilbert making no reply, Miss ei Morse turned from him and took the I arm of Mitchell to walk further on a: the bridge. Just as she did so Gil- t1 bert drew his pistol and fired three 01 times at her. Two of the bullets t entered the girl's back. The third b: grazed the coast of Mitchell. T Gilbert would have been mobbed n but for the early arrival of the po lice. He claimed to have been en gaged to the girl and declared that h their wedding was scheduled for an early date when she spurned him. Gilbert's defense was general de- it pravity and mental irresponsibility. - it being sought at his trial to prove hereditary insanity. After the trial eight members of t'he jury petition ed Governor Swanson to commute U Gilbert's death sentence to life Im prisonment in the State penitentiary. The jury in rendering its verdict recommended the prisoner to the mercy of the court. Judge Hanckel. submitted this recommendation to c the Governor, who declared that if W he should commute Gilbert, he could h not permit another man to be exe- hi cuted for murder, so long as he a occupied the gubernatorial chair. The Supreme Court was then ap- t: appealed to, among the grounds be- " Ing that Gilbert had become insane u since his convictIon and that the I: act of the Legislature changing the b mode of inflicting the deat'. penalty t< In Virginia from hanging to electro- a cution was "strange and unusual.'' and, therefore, in conflict with the b Constitution of the State. The Su- ti preme Court denied a writ of error ' on Gilbert's appeal, and Governor u Swanson. who had granted numerous s respites to permit court action, re- 2 fused to Interfere further. Gilbert's parents spent their all in an effort to save his life, even mortgaging theIr beds to raise mon- I ey with whichi to carry the fight to the higher courts. Daniel Coleman, Jr.. the lawyer who defended Gilbert. not only received no compensation. but had to supplement from his own pocket the money raised by Gilbert'sy parents to carry on the fight for the condemned boy. Gilbert after being carried to thet penitentiary repented and had his spiritual adviser write to the parentst of his victim asking forgiveness, the5 youth saying that he could die easier 1 if he had his forgiveness. *t CRIMINAL CARELESSNESS. Though Pistol Was Unloaded and Killed a Man., Spartanburg, March 17.-While fooling with a pistol supposed to be unloaded, Sam James shot Perry Loister, his brother-in-law, at Greers this morninlg. James was trying to clean an old pistol and Loister was sitting in a chair watching him. The pistol went off accidentally, the ball entering Loister's forehead, pen etrating the brain and causing in stant death. James is prostrated with grief. THREE WERE KILLED. Coast Line Train Leaves Track at 4Pikeville, N. C. Charlotte, N. C.,7' March 17.--A fast passenger train on the Atlandec Coast Line jumped the track at Pike ville, a flag station between Golds boro and Wilmington after midnight killing the engineer and fireman, and Brakeman Oifert. Conductor W. H. Newell and several pasengers were seriously injured. Detaig of the accident could not be obtained at Ithis h~ur. JURY SHED TEARS 5ENSATIONAL MURDER TFIAL ENDS IN CHICAGO. Defense Was an Alibi-Jury Took But One Ballot-Women Specta tors Hysterical. Chicago, March 18.-Luman C. dann, was today declared not guilty >f the murder of Mrs. Frances Gil nore Thompson. Several members of the jury E-hed ears when Mann, between choling obs, thanked them and promised to ead a better life. Attorney Erb tein, who defended the case, was airly mobbed by dozens of weaping romen, who have been coastant at endants at the trial, and who in isted upon kissing him. The evidence against Mann was ircumstantial; his de-fence an alibi. he jury took but one ballot. With the words "not guilty" from he lips of the foreman, the scene a court became one of excitement ordering on hysteria. 'Tre been a bad man, but ye arz I rom now you will hear of me as : n honest citizen,' Mann said in banking the jury. Tears were roll ig down his cheeks and his sobs iade it almost impossible for him c y speak. "We knew you were innocent," I aid one of the jurors, his tears I owing freely. Other jurors furi rely applied handkerchiefs to their a Fes as Mann returned to his nroth- I r, throwing his arms about her neck I ad crying like a child. C Under cross examination the de- 1 endant was compelled to relate a a rrow story at which his mot ier I ung her head. He told of drinki.ng r outs, during one of which he spent e 1,000 in a single night of gambl:.ng r d of low associates. t Fanny Thompson, bound, gagged ad the finger marks of a strangler f a her throat was found dead Ir. a t oming house at 1242 Michigan c venue, July 1st last. She lad I een dead four days, and this period c [ann was compelled to cover in 1 tinute detail to establish his alibi. p esides himself, he produced more c ian a score of witnesses. The evidence against him consist- a I chiefly of his acquaintance with c :rs. Thompson, when she was a serv- a at in his father's house, the fact f iat he wore a cap similar to the '1 e which Mrs. Hamilton. keeper of s ie rooming house, said was worn a v the man who accompanied Mrs. hompson to the house, and a state ent made to his sister prior to the agedy that he "knew a woman 3 hose diamonds he would get if a had to choke her." This state- y ient Mann explained on the stand , as purely a thoughtless jest made s L the course of conversation in a ght vein. c SLASHER SCORES WOMEN. f nknown Culprit Cuts Up Clothes in Subway Station. New York, March 18.--Complaints hich are reaching the police indi ~to that a "slasher" is again at ork in New York. Several women ave reported that their garments I ave been cut In the subway station r t 42nd street.s All cases bear a striking similari- 1 r which makes it appear as if the 1 'ork were being done by one man, a sing the same sharp knife. In most t istances the garments cut have een women's coats, slashes a little the left of the center of the back bout 12 Inches from the bottom. One woman's handsome coat of y roadcloth was badly mutilated in e subway yesterday morning. Two ears ago a "slasher" difd similar ork and while detective!; were put pecifically on the case, ;he culprit. ras never captured. ROBBED ON TRAIN. 'assenger Claims He Lost Ten Thousand Dollars. Philadelphia, March 19.--The de ective bureau here last night re eived a message from Wilmington, )el., that a passenger on the Penn lvania railroad express train had een robbed of $10,000 prior to the rain's arrival there. The passenger, who was on his way o Philadelphia from Aiken, S. C., nformed the conductor that he had een robbed of a traveling bag con aining $10,000 in money. He said hat he left the bag in the chair ar while he went to the smoking ~ompartment.* TIED AGENT TO TRACK. Was Liberated by Man Just Before Train Passed. Roxie, Miss, March 18.-Ropes which bound Agent Shingleton, of the Mississippi Central Railroad to the tracks over which a train was soon to pass last night were cut by a man who found him as the rumble of the locomotive was heard in the distance. He had been kno.cked in the head and tied to the track by negroes who attempted to rob the depot. SUICIDE AT NORFOLK. Act Due to Despondency Because He Lacked Work. Lynchburg. VTa., March 18.-Hans A. Herzfeld, aged fifty-two, a native of Savannah and bookkeeper for a brewing company here for some time, committed suicide at his home today by shooting himself in the head. He was despondent because he had been out of work since the saloons closed NEW STRANGE SECT WANT TO ESTABLISH A SOUTH ERN COLONY IN GEORGIA. Five Hundred of Them Live in One House, "The Temple of David,"-at Benton Harbor, Mich. It is very probable that some point iear Atlanta or Macon, Ga., will be ,hosen as a site for the location of he new Southern colony of the :sraelites, a new sect of religionists, whose American rljeadquarters are iow located in Benton Harbor, Mich. :t became known that a Southern col >ny of this sect was to be establish d when the Rev. James E. Tucker, L minister of the new faith, visited ;everal cities in 'Georgia, looking ip various sites in search of one on vhich to locate the colony home. The Rev. Mr. Tucker and his com >anion, the Rev. W. I. Smith, a fel ow minister of the new sect, caused . mild sensation when they first ap >eared In Georgia. 'Both of the min sters wore streaming beards and owing hair, which fell in profusion 'ver their shoulders. This allowing he hair and beard to grow is one ne of the tenets of the new faith. n explaining the new sect, the Rev. fr. Tucker told of the home of the sraelites in Benton Harbor. According to his statement there re 'n the Benton Harbor home 500 nen, women angl childiren, gliving a the House of David, which is lo ated in a bea'utiful park of 85 acres. 'he Israelites live close to nature, mong the trees and in close com anionship with the birds and ani ials. Strict vegetarianism Is observ d, and there is no giving in mar iage. They eat of no meat, and he closest celibacy is practiced. Recruits and converts of this new aith are taken from all parts of le world, but only from the Cau asion race. The colony at Benton [arbor, .Mich., -is one of three, the thers being located in England and .ustralia. According to the present lans, Georgia will have the fourth lony. "Christ Is the head of our church, nd the saviour of the body," de lared the minister. "Israelites have membership of 144,000 or 12,000 Dr each of the 12 sons of Jacob. 'he Israelites have discovered the acrets and mysteries of the Bible nd are unsealing them to all the -orld. We have our own publish ig house, where tracts, papers, amphlets, etc., are being dissemi ated to all parts of the world. "In the beautiful park in Benton [arbor we have five brass bands, hich give free concerts during the ummer months, and several auto iobiles which are used by our reachers on their tours over the ountry in the interest of the ath." * WHOLE TOWN CRIPPLED. angers of Lumbering Jobs Shown in Washington Settlement. The little town of Hoquiam, Sash., with 6,000 inhabitants, has iore maimed, scarred and crippled eople than any other town of the Ize in the world. There are 500 ien who have either lost a leg, arm, and, foot, finger, toe or ear. There re many more who will carry to he grave ugly scars. None of these men has ever been a an Indian fight,, nor have any articipated In battles. They are ,ggers and sawmill men, who have aet with accident in one of the most angerous occupations. Not a day asses in the sawmill districts of his State but that someone is killed r Injured. The city officials recently took a ensus and the tabulations now in n file with the town clerk show: Fifty-six men with one leg each. Five legless men. Two men have lost both legs and ne hand.. Twenty-three men have no feet. Three handless men. Four men have one leg and one rm. Nine men have lost one ear each. One man lost nose, and ears. Eleven men have but one eye each. Two men 'have been scalped. One hundred and fifty men have xcars on faces. One hundred men have other in luries that have maimed them for ife. All these accidents have been met in the woods or in the sawmills in the Grays Harbor district. * DEPOT DESTROYED BY FIRE. Flames Consume Ujnion Station in Louisville, Ky. Louisville, Ky., March 18.-By the destruction here tonight at a loss of $400,000 of the union depot, the local terminal for five of the coun try's leading railroads, Lrouisville will probably benefit by a iew union station. Crossed wires in the atic of the big structuer, which was erected by the Illinois Central in 1890, caused the blaze, wh-ich made an empty shlell of the depot before the entire fire department of the city, which was called, had arrived. W. G. Roach, chief clerk to Superintendent Egan of the Illinois Central, fell through a skylight. All other oc cupants escaped unharmed. Using the depot were the Illinois Central, thie Big Four, the Southern, the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern and the Chesapeake & Ohio. The rescue of a woman telephone operator from the fifth story by fire men and the great height to which the flames rose made the fire unusit MAN STEALS BOY And Holds Him For Ten Thous and Dollar Ransom FATHER WILL COMPLY The Lad Is a Son of Attorney Whitla, of Sharon, Pa., and Was Taken From School by a Stranger-The Boy's Hat Found in a Buggy in Ohio. Sharon, Pa., March 18.-Ten thousand dollars ransom Is demanded for the return of William Whitla, Attorney James P. Whitla's eight year-old boy, who was spirited away from school here this morning by an unknown man, furnishing a mys tery which the detectives of the coun ty are being asked to solve. Ac companying the demand for ransom is a covert threat that the boy will be killed unless the money is pro duced. Hundreds of telegrams and tele phone messages have been sent to the police of various cities asking their assistance in the search for the boy and his abductors. The first fruit of these came tonight when Chief of Police Crain, of this city, received word that a rig, in which the lad had been taken away, had been recovered at Warren, O., with the child's hat on the seat of the buggy. At 9:30 o'clock this morning a stranger drove up to the east ward school house, where young Whitla is a pupil In Room No. 2, and told the janitor, Wesley Sloss, the lad was wanted at once at his father's office. Sloss conveyed the message to Mrs. Anna Lewis, the boy's teach er, who dismissed the child. As she was helping him put on his overcoat, she remarked, half jokingly, "I hope that man does not kidnap Willie." The man in the buggy had a dark complexion, dark hair and a stubby mustache. He was stockily built. He spoke excellent English, and was evidently American-born. When Sloss appeared with the boy. the stranger smiled and helped him up to the seat beside him. He then drove off in the direction of Mr. Whitla's office. Several persons to night say a confederate joined the kidnapper before he had left town. Little was thought of the incident, and there was no belief.that a crime had been committed until the lad failed to appear for his noon day meal. Becoming worried, Mrs. Whitla began a search, and at the school she learned of what had oc curred there three hours before. At 1 o'clock a letter directed to the mother, was delivered to the house by a mail carrier. Mrs. Whitla at once recognized the handwriting on the envelope as that of her son. Opening it she found the following communication written in a strange hand. "We have your boy and will re turn him for $10,000. Will see your advertisement in the .papers. In sert In Indianapolis News, Cleveland Press, Pittsburg Dispatch, Youngs town VIndicator: 'A. A.-Wl11 do as requested, J. P. W.' Dead boys are not desirable." The penmanship and spelling of the note indicated It had been written by a man of fair education. Mr. Whitla decided to comply with the conditions of the letter, and sent for publication to each of the newspapers specified the note it directed him to insert. DEATH OF DR. JONES. The Great War Chaplain of the Con federacy Gone. New Orleans, La., March 18.--By command of Gen. Clement A. Evans, general commanding, Adjutant Gen eral and Chief of Staff William E. Mickle issued from the headquarters of the United Confederate Veterans today an order giving official notice of the death of Chaplain Gen. J. William Jones, which occurred yes terday at Columbus, Ga. After re citing his achievements in military and civil life the order concludes: "His devotion to his work and his people. his ability as a writer, his eloquence as speaker, his amiability as a companion, stand out with con spicuous brightness, and he has left a record free from stain and worthy of imitation." COMPULSORY EDUCATION. Superintendent Swearingen Favors Local Option. Columbia, March 18.--State Su perintendent of Education J. E. Swearingen gave out a statement tonight touching his views on the compulsory education question. Mr. Swearingen said in part: "While compulsory education is neither need ed nor desired in many localities, in others it is eminently desirable. School districts, county and incor 'porated towns should be allowed to decide the question for itself. The passage of a law allowing each school unit to decide this question for itsell will soon show whether the people wish compulsory education." Murderer Lynched. Elkin, WV. Va., March 19.--Josept Brown, said to have been an ex convict, shot and seriously wound ed Chief of Police Scott White a Whitmer, near here, was taken fron the jail by a crowd of men earl: TWO BRAVE MEN AFTER BEING SEPARATED FOR FORTY-FOUR YEARS Meet for the First Time Since the War and Talk Over Their War Experience. Newberry, March 17.-Mr. Samuel Dixon, of Florence, came to Newber ry recently to visit Col. D. A.Dickert, and thereby hangs a tale, says the Observer, which it relates as follows: In the closing days of the Confed eracy, during the spring of 1865, Gen. Hardee, then approaching Che raw in his retreat before Sherman's invading army, sent for Col . D. A. Dickert, of Newberry county, of the famous old Third regiment, and told him he had a dangerous and impor- 1 tan work to be done, that was to carry a message through Sherman's i lines to General Hood, who was then < down toward Savannah, and tell < General Hood where to meet Har dee's army. The general knew of some of Col. Dickert's scouted the mission and was permitted to select I his companion. Captain Richard O'Neal recommended to him a young man In his company by the name of Sam Dixon, saying that he was quiet i and cool and not afraid of danger. ] Colonel Dickert selected Mr. Dixon, and he accepted without hesitation. They knew that tiey would have to disguise themselves to get through Sherman's lines, and that if caught I their lives would pay the forfeit; J but that did not deter them, and < they set out on their mission- < strangers hitherto, but now strong < friends, bound together by a common j cause and a common danger. They I fulfilled their mission, passing twice I through Sherman's lines. 3 Some time ago Mr. Tom Harrell, of Newberry, was in Florence and was talking with Mr. Dixon, who'now I lives there, though at the time above I spoken of he was from Richland county. Mr. Dixon asked him if he knew a man from Newberry named i D. A. ,Dickert. Yes, he said, he I knew him well; saw him very often. t From that a correspondence ensued t between the two former comrades- - in-arms, resulting in a cordial and I pressing invitation from Colonel Dickert to'Mr. Dixon to visit him in Newberry. On Tuesday Mr. Dixon came, and the two men, who had I braved death together forty-four years ago, stood face to face for the c first time since then. Both men have held their own well, Mr. Dixon f being particularly active and bright; I tall and as straight as an Indian; of E quiet demeanor, but cheerful and I full of life-like a young man but z for his gray hair; and gray hairs r have ceased to be a sign of old age. I The men are now 65, there being three months differonce in their I ages. When they performed the I dangerous feat of carrying General Hardee's message they were little f more than boys,., and yet had seen four years of hard fighting. Speaking of Mr. Dixon, Colonel t Dickert said that he was the bravest and pmost cheerful man under hard ships and dangers he ever saw. POSTMASTER AT FLORENCE. Several Aspirants for the Place Are Working For IR. Washington, March 17.-Senator E. D. Smith went to see President Taft today about naming. some one for the Florence postoffice to succeed Josh Wilson, the negro, who was recently named for another term by Mr. Roosevelt, and who failed to have his nomination stick. Sena tor Smith, of course, wants a Dem ocrat if he can squeeze one in, and it Is understood that if a good Re publican can not be found Mr. Smith may be called on to name a Demo crat. At this time, however, the Republicans are being mentioned here for the place, Cassell and La throp. Cassell's father is a member of the House from Pennsylvania, and is said to be working for his son. POETRY PARTS A COUPLE. Wife Tried to Force Husband to Print Her Writings. Des Moines, Iowa, March 19. "She insists on writing poetry, which somehow the general reading public does not appreciate, but it takes lots of my money to have the stuff print ed and put out in book form." This is the charge made against Elizabeth Morris by her husband, George Morris, in a cross bill filed to her petition for divorce. Since their marriage, he asserts, she has led him away on "wild chases" over the United States, at which times she sought to be close to nature, occupying all her leisure mo ments in writing pages of poetry. These equsions, Morris says, he was forced to put out in book form for her. And he says it was an awful drain on his patience and his pock etbook. GILTED) GIRL STRICKEN DUMB. Falls Into Coma on Hearing Her Fi ance Has Married. Syracuse, N. Y., March 18. Stricken dumb when she learned on Friday that her fiance had married another, Miss Belle Raum, of No. 424 Harrison street, 17 years old, has not been able to speak a word since. Dr. J. S. Heiman attributes her loss of speech to hysteria. Un til this morning she was in a state of coma. This morning the physiC ian questioned her, and although she was unable to speak, she could write answers. The man who jilted her is William Meyer. of Liverpool. On Thursday he and Miss Ann King were . maeid in Buffalo. * THE NEW BILL On the Tariff Brought in Early On Wednesday MAJORITY MEASURE [ntroduced by Chairman Payne, of the Ways and Means Com. mittee-Free Reciprocity With Cuba and Philippines Except on Sugar and Tobacco. Washington, March 17.-Chair nan Payne of the ways and means :ommittee introduced a new tariff )ill today. It provides for a $40, )00,000 issue of Panama canal bonds, 'e-enacts provision for the issuance )f treasury..certificates to the amount )f $250,000,000, provides for gradu ted Inheritance tax similar to the ew York State law and Imposes luties on maximum and - minimum ases. Cotton seed oil, iron ore, tal ow, flax straw and undressed flax, nechanically ground wood pulp, ides, and works of art more than :enty years old are placed on free ist where coffee remains. Tea is taxed eight cents per pound, Lnd internal revenue tax on heavy rade cigaretts Is increased sixty ents and on those weighing less han three pounds to .the thousand, t is increased to $1.56. Lumber Is ut fifty per cent, refined sugar, five one-hundredths of a cent per pound; rude gypsum, ten cents per ton; re-brick ten per centum and valo -em, steel and- Iron schedule, from 'orty to. fifty per cent; tin plates,. linety per cent; bacon and hams, one cent; dextrin and starch, one talf cent; wool, shoddy and waste, ive cents, and boots and shoes and eather goods, from forty to fifty ier cent. Bituminous coal and agricultaral mplements imported from countries >ermitting free. entry of these ar icles from United States, are admit ed free of duty. Other reductions i-e on marble, plate glass, mica, eadbearing ore, wool, grease, barley nd barley malt, flax gill nettings, ingle yarns and threads, oilcloth, otton shirts and collars and print ng paper. Increases In duties are made on hicory root and roasted coffee and ,rticles used as a substitute for cof-. ee, cocoa, spices, coal tar dyes, Ceene's cement, asphaltum,. flour par, zinc in ore, osler or willow, figs, emons, pineapples, Mercerized fab ics and gloves embrofdery and lace naking machines are to be Imported ree until July 1911. Free reciprocal trade with the >hilippines is provided for, but lim ting free sugar to 300,000 tons; rrapper tobacco, to 300,000 pounds; iller tobacco, to 300,0)00 pounds, n 150,000,000 cigars a year. The xemption Is confined to p'roducts of he Islands. The contilnation of the Cuban eciprocity provisions of Dingley bill tre continued, provisions for dr'aw acks and method of valuation are 'xtended and broadened. Increases In cotton schedule are: in additional duty of 1 cent per rard on mercerized fabrics (a new >rocess of manufacturing Invented ince present law was enacted). Also small additicual duty on lap ets. There is also pan Increase duty n stockings, fashioned and shaped wholy or In part on knitting ma ~hines. In his statement on the bill, hairman Payne said: "The bll )rovdes for reciprocal free trade with hilippine islands, on all ar :icles, but limiting sugar to be Im orted free of duty -to .300.000 tons: rapper tobacco to 300,000 pounds Ld 3,000,000 pounids of filler to acco and 150,000,000 cigars in any ne fiscal year. The excess of sugar, obacco and cigars to pay full tariff rates." A section is inserted preserving Juban reciprocity provisions of pres mt law. Tax on cigaretts is In :reased, -those weighing over three pounds per thousand, from $3 to $3.50, and those weighing less, from $1 to $1.50. BOY CRUSHED UNDER ROgK. Lad Upsets Park Feature and is Killed Instantly. Middletown, N. Y., March 15.-A balanced rock, weighing two tons, which has been one of the curiosi ties in Tuxedo park, was upset by a small boy yest:erday afternoon, crusjing him 'beneath its great weight and causing practically in stantaneous death. The victim was Frederick Cox, the fourteen-year old son ot William Cox, a park policeman. Frederick attempted to climb, to the top of the rock while his little sister looked on and laughed. Sud denly the immense stone rolled over and pinned his body underneath It. It required nearly an hour's work to move the stone so that the crush ed form could be taken from under SMITH LOST HIS HAT At the White House When He Called on Mr. Taft. Washington, March 17.-Senator E. D. Smith, junior Senator from South Carolina, today paid his first official visit to the White House to. see the president, and lost his hat there. Representative Moon, of Ten nessee, who is said to have the larg est head of any man in Congress, with the exception of Congressman Brownlow, also of Tennessee, Is sup posed to have gotten the Smith head piece. So far It has not 1pen re overed.