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~T. XVTTT MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1909 NO.52 PLANT STRUCK By Ughtning and Managp Knocked Senseless. EQUIPMENT RUINED The Wireem Telegraph Station at Charlsson Torn Up by a Flash of .Lightning-Manager .Ferrick Had Taken Off Head HarUMess When Bolt Struck. The Charleston Post says William j. FerrieLk manager of the wireless telegraph plant at Hampton park. was knocked senseless and his In strument ruined Wednesday after noon by a lightning bolt which struck his office at about 4:30. The operator barely escaped being killed. the fact that he had removed his ear pAeces just a moment before the bolt hit. saving him from be ing electrocuted. It will be neces sary to rush new Instruments from New York to put the wireless sta tion here into working order again. Mr. Ferrick was sitting at his key during the storm of Wednesday afternoon, as usual, ready to receive or send messages to and from the sea. and through some intuitive feeling, most probably. with the lightning flashing in a lively manner about him. he took off his head har ness for the time being. Hardly had he done so. when a blinding flask' accompanied by a terrific crash of thunder. swept through his offce. and he knew no more until about twenty minutes later, when he found htmslf lying on his back half way Into his sleeping room, Afteen feet away. The large glass of the win dow In front of his key was smash ed., and investigation showed that his ear-pieces, which he had remov ed from his head just before the stroke, were burned and useless. while his tuner, and his magnets I were burned out and the city tele phone receiver fused. Fortunately the once did not catch on Are with the operator senseless on the floor. I Mr. Ferrick thinr that the bolt crashed through the glass in front of him and struck his Instrument. putting them out of business. He was somewhat brulsed from the shock and the violence with wheih he was hurled from his chair upon the floor. but beyond a ringing In one of his ears today he is unhurt. 4 rush order has been sent by th wireless manager to New York for new equipment his plant here. and he thinks that by early next week he will be able to receive and sand messages again, with his usualI facility. Further examination of the plant failed to show any damage to the tali mast or to the superstructure < of the wireless equipmen*. The 4 whole damage was confined to the offce and Instrument. It was a provideatial escape from instant death that the manager had, and if he had not removed his ear pieces.. he would have been fatally shocked by the bolt. The operator at Hampton park 1 has been on duty here about two years. coming to Charleston from New York, and has been in the wire less service for a longer time, but he has never before had such a close escape from being killed by light ning. He declared that it was not the custom or lightning to strike the plants of the company. Because of the accident to the plant, at aboutI the time the Arapahoe sustained her i accident off the coast of North Car olina, no messages were caught from1 the wireless Instrument on the steamship, and consequently Infor mation of the trouble she was in came through other stations of the United Wireless Company. CRVSADE ON COCAINE SELLES-' Two White Doctors and Fifteen No. groes Arrested. Savannah has begun a crusade against cocaine sellers and uses which ought to be followed all over the South. Former Coroner Dr. H. B. Stanley and Dr. W. W. LIM. white. and Dr. E. M. Pickney. col ored, were arrested a few days ago as a result of statements made in the police court by fourteen men and women, mostly negroes. who were rounded up as the beginning of a crusade on cocain sellers. Dr Lee has not yet made bond, but Drs. Stanley and Plnckney gave bond of $1.000 each. The fourteen other defendants were all bound over to the city court. The physicians de elar'd they wrote cocaine prescrip tions only to alleviate suffering. de claring the "flends" had to have the drug. A score or more of the "Sends" were used as witnesses. Slayer Telephones Sheriff. Charles Pons. one of the best known residents of Duval county. Fla.. Wednesday night telephoned to Sheriff Bowden's residence and in formed him that he had just killed his brother-in-law. Charles Wiggins. at his home near Gravely Hill. iseven miles from Jacksonville. and re quested the sheriff to place him un der arrest. Pons alleges that Mrs. Pons was slapped by Wiggyins. Killed by Accident. At Spartanburg Henry Wyatt. ag ed twenty-seven years. car inspec tor of the Southern at Spartanburng Junction. was killed Wednesday morning by being run over by a freight car. The body was shipped to Belton. in Anderson county, his former home, for Interment. He 1 A FIEND HUNG PAYS THE DEATH PENALTY FOR! HIS ATTEMPTED CRIME. The Negro Who Attempted to As mit a Young Lady Near George.. town Confeesed Before Execution. At Georgetown on FrIday Alfred y ackson. alias "Slippery Joint. who was convicted of an assault and an attempt to commit criminal assault on a young white school teacher at the special term of court which was held on July 27. paid the death penalty for his crime on the gal lows. In accordance with the senten- VC ce which was passed upon him by S Judge John S. Wilson to hang on if August 13. tk Jenkins. just before leaving his cell for the gallows. confessed his I crime. saying that he had had a dream In which the Lord told him to tell the truth before he died. T! Jenkins up to this time had denied that he was the guilty party and at. 1o his trial he put up the plea of an to alibi. D. While on the gallows he made no re statement regarding his crime. the N< >nly thing he said oeing. "Lord have th mercy on my soul. The Lord is my tb hepherd. I shall not want." H ilis spiritual advisor. Rev. A. B. ca Jackson. colored, made a prayer In oc yehalf of the condemned man on the gallows. After the prayer Sherlid fo curry asked Jenkins if he had any- C bng else to say, to which he re- m >lied. "No." wj The sheriff sprung the trap at C :3 lo'clock and Jenkins hung for th ;ixteen and a half minutes before be fe was pronounced extinct by Drs. Si )Hn Sawyer. Gaillard and Meorer. co Jenkins did not show any signs wc )f nervousness when he walked up po he steps on the gallows except that >erspiration was streamin from his ed lace. RA The execution passed off quietly be .nd his family took charge of the co: ody. th One of the witnesses of the ere- ed ution fainted when the trap was lic prung and was taken to the jail St ouse by the doctors, who were pres- de tut for attention. *Th pe SWEPT BY FLOOD. pr th fany Lives Lost and Many Houses MA Are Destroyed. Sp A dispatch from Monterey. Mexico. Ca ays the Santa Catarina River has r eturned to its banks. leaving a W core of desolation and destruction do n the southern part of the city. thi rourteen lives are known to have kn een lost, and estimates place the umber as high as fifty. The exact us gres will never se known, as theth ~arro of San Luisito, where most H f the damage occurred. is inhabit- it d by the poorer classes mostly, and , mny occupied houses were washed de way Over 600 houses have been ,2 rashed away in this one district, and ~ractically all those left standing are lic nore or less damaged. ' en The people returned to the strick- ha n district a few days ago and spent ap he time in cleaning the deposits of' tel nd from the housas. Many fami- lit le have lost all their possessions Mi .d there is great suffering among Re :hem. In the city proper 'averal ?h louses caved in as a result of the , torm and the damage all over the lie dty has been great. The Monterey bath house wasca loded by rain. One man lost his th fe in the swimming pool. Houses og hroughout the lower sections of the g ity were inundated and the fami- g e forced to move out. The elec- d ri light plant was damaged, as a was the power plant of the street thi allway system. The rains continue si d another flood is expeted In the th anta Catarine. e be wl PARCHED BY DROUGHT. (orn Crop in Northern Virginia R th Almost a Failure. s Dispatches from Winchester. Va., i says the great corn field of North- si rn Virginia are burning up. The c ~everst drought of years is prevail ng and for more than six weeks lit- d :Ie if any rain has fallen in the P shenandoah and Page valleys. t 3treams are tower than for years td many are dry. The corn crop t will be almost a total failure, while ill rowing crops are cut short. Should the drought prevail much be longer the apple crop, which gave j ne promise. will be seriously af- e etetd. Thousands of dollars have p mlready been lost to the farmers and ) ach day the loss increases. t The railroads are reriously troub led, hay fields being set on fire byD passing locomotives and valuable, property damaged. Strike Breaker Killed. At Bisbee. Ariz., William Pfan-, t kuch a striking printer, shot and In- Sc stantly killed Asa A. Hoy, former be business manager of the Review, the morning paper of that city, and wil- at 11am Bockholz, of Covington. Ky--. early Friday. The union printers T: on The Review struck several days is ago and Hoy and Bockholz were op- al erating linotype machines in their:g Brothers Marry Siters. More than 50 immediate reia-i tives of the brides and bride-grooms were in attendance at the marriage; eremony in Kent county. Ky., re- c ently which united five sisters to si ive brothers. Misses Maud. Nellie,.t Kate Anna and Susle Martin were tV married to John, Dan Hagh, Jack s r WAR TO THE LIMIT ITH NO QUARTER ASKED OR 0 GIVEN WITH CONTROL Of the Republican National Organi zation as the Stake Is Declared by the Progresiive Republicans. War to the limit with no quarter asked or given and with the control e of the Republican national organ! zation the one great prize at stake is officially declared b ythe Progres e sive Republicans. The Republican National Conven tion of 1912 Is the promised field of * the spectacular battle of the cam e paign already initiated. The tariff and how to revise it furnishes the line of demarcation between the op posing forces. A dispatch from Ch! cago says: Senator Albert B. Cummins of f Iowa homeward bound from Wash ington, flung down the gauntlet and t for all practical purposes officially and formally delivered the political ultimatum which opens hostilities between the Progressive and the old order, which has aligned in Wash ington by Senator Aldrich. The big items emphasized by Sen ator Cummins as critical points to be pushed to the fore by the Pro gressives are these: 1. Placing in control at the head of organized Republicanism men who will stand absolutely by plat form pledges. 2. Struggle for this policy at every convention, local. Congress ional or State between now and 1912 where there are enough Progressive Republicans to make it worth while. 3. No general revision of the tar Iff for perhaps a decade, but re visloa from time to time In partie ular schedules as expert investiga tion demonstrates to be necessary and at the same time conforming with the broad principle of protec tion. 4. Appointment of an expert tar iff commissioner at the earliest prao ticable moment to furnish this In- I formation to Congress. 5. And, particularly, no oppo sition to President Taft-whom the Progressives believe to have a thor oughly progressive program in hand for his administration-at least un- c til the Presidential policy demon- t strates the contrary. "What immediate step will be taken by the Progressives?" Sena- I tor Cummins was asked. "We shall present the issue flatly t to every Republican convention be tween the present and the National Convention of 1912 where it is pos sible for the issue to be presented. That Issue is: Shall the men now in control of the party's destinies I be permitted further to disregard plain party declarations?" DOCTOR RUNS AWAY. Gave Patient Chloroform and He Dies at Once The sudden and excited departu-e I of Dr.. Philip Sussman from thee apartment of \Mrs. Abran-un Lazerc witz, in the East Side tenement, New York, before daylight Wednesday. was explained later by the doctor tot Coroner Harburger as being occa soned by his fear that the woman and her family would attack him when they learned of the death of their sixteen-year-old son, whom the doctor was attending. 1 Dr. Sussman was called to per form an operation on the boy's knee and to do so he said that he had administered chloroform. Before he was ready to operate, however, he discovered that the boy had died while under the influence of the -chloroform. 1 "I know how excited those fami lies become on such an occasion.'' the doctor is reported to have told the coroner. "and I left the house.a telling the mother that I was going for my instruments. Had I remain-f ed there until they discovered that he was dead they and the neighbors would have mobbed me." When the doctor did not return to the house in halt an hour the mother discovered that her son was dead and called the police. The coroner will hold an inquest. A STRANGE VISITOR. 'Psu Calls at the Sumter Post office for Mall. The Sumter Watchman-Southron says of all the extraordinary inci dents that occur around this city. the most extraordinary and unusual happened In the postoffice Thursday night about 9 o'clock. Mr. Furman Tisdale. night clerk at the postoffice. opened the back door of the office, and a nice fat 'possum walked in. r He was so well pleased with his new , quarters that he utterly refused to -depart. an:! consequently the door was closed upon him and he spent - a pleasant night's rest behind a box. SHe is now under arrest for forcing -.his way into government premises. . and will v'ery probably be held. pend y ing the arrival of President Taft in -this State in November. 8 Towboat CapsizCs. The naval tug Zeninscot, from, Portsmouth to Boston. capsized off; Cape Ann early Wednesday. Several of her crew were drowned. The sec nond offieer, the captain's wife, her d little boy and four of the crew were a landed on the tug's boat. The cap - tan. surgeon. engineer and three. a other members of the crew, who took: n a raft, were blown off shore. They, were. resced later. 1OOR BILL TAF be Wicked Hitchcock Said t be Plotting to INDO ALL HIS PLANI 'o Break Solid South by Givin Weak Kneed Democrats a Chant at the Republican Pie Cou- r I Exchange for Their Support of th Taft Program. President Taft's well-directed el rts in 1xing his policy towards th )uth are threatened with ruptur not destruction as the result o to political games being played I: nnectk-a with the appointment o insus supervisors, says P. H. MeG ie Washington correspondent o he News and Courier. He says up to a few days ago I oked as though the appointment these places would be made b: [rector Durand. of the census bu an. with the President's approval )w, however. It has been learne< at the real power behind th, rone is none other than Fraul . Hitchcock. aided by the Republi n referees from the various Dom ratie States. It has be) known in Washingtc. r several days that so far as Soutl Lrolha was oorvcerned no appoint Dnt as supervisors would be mad( thcut the approval of John G Lpers and Leumas Blalock, and at In Virginia. another rock-rib d Democratic State. Congressmaz Dmp and Alvah Martin would bN naulted before anything defnite >uld be announced as to the ap ntments. In addition to this it was learn that Cecil Lyon, the head of the publican machine in Texas. has en here for several days holdinj ferences with Mr. Hitchcock and at everything , now cut and dr1 for naming at least ten Repub an supervisors in the Lone Star te, which sends to Congress a legation of sixteen Democrats, at at least ten of the sixteen sn rvisors will be Republicans is ctically settled, and it !s possible it even a greater division may be We. It is learned, too that Judge sneer Adams. the recognized oss" of North Carolina Republ! a politics, has also been talking er matters with Mr. Hitchcock. ben seen and asked what would be ne In a general way regarding se appointments. Judge Adams ew nothing about them except tat he had heard or read in the wspapers, and hardly knew that are was such a man as Franki tchceck. But, being on to him. did not take Washington corre andents who haunt the postofice partment long to figure out just Lat his business might be here. North Carolina has three Repub an members of Congress and sen Democrats, and as President Taft s already indicate^- that he would point more muprvisors of the lat Sparty in States like North Caro a, Virginia. West Virginia and ssourl. where there is a maraked publican tendency, it Is probablE t in the division North Carolina 11 get about six or seven Repub ans and three or four Democrats. Though Georgia has no Republi ns In Congress, It is understood at six Republicans will be appoint there, leaving room for Ave Dem rats. In Florida, Alaama and her Southern States, where the legatons are solidly Democratic, d there is to be a supervisor for a Congressional district, the dlvi >n will be made equally between s Democrats and Republicans ex pt that where there is an odd num r of Representatives the odd mar i be from the Republican ranks. It is known that nothing can be ied by the appointment or a few publcan supervisors In any of Southern States, and in those tions overwhelmingly Democratic would probably be Mr. Taft's de -e to give the places to the Demo its, but for the pressure comini m the Hitchcock machine fora rision to be made strictly along rty lines with most or the pie or e Republican side and what may split to go to hungry Democrats These appointments are small ings within themselves, and it i iown that Mr. Taft would gladl: the Southern people have them it for the reasons just given. and st here the iniquitous work of th< er-ready machine begins to be ap. rent. The appointment of Repub an supervisors naturally mean: e appointment of at least a limit Snumber of negroes, according t< rector Durand, as enumerators id that is just where many South people may part company witi r. Taft. The appointment of ne oes to office anywhere and unde e conditions-specially in th >uth-eaVOrs strongly of carpet tg tactics. It seems-all things considered id especially with reference to th' ltchcock manipulations, that Mr aft's much-cherished hopes of unil *g the Southern people to him b: pointing only the best men to of :e. Irrespective of politics, are to b 3.shed to destruction through th ork of the all-powerful machine. P. H. McG. Commits Suicide. Henry P. Plunkett, a Frankli yunty, Virginia, farmer. committe 2icide by hanging himself from ee in his orchard Wednesday al rnoon. He body was found by >n. He icaves a widow and te SOME FOOLISH TALK PUTS A MOUTHEY BA3BERG NE GRO ON CHAIN GANG. Said the Negroes Ought to Kil the Police and Then Burn the Town Down. The Bamberg Herald says last Fri day night Ben Black, a negro who keeps a little shop on Main street, was arrested by Policeman C. C. Rowell. Black was standing in a crowd of negroes behInd the depot at train time when the eight o'clock train arrived. and Mr. Rowell heard him say that a negro had no rights in Bamberg. and the only thing to do was to kill some of these smart oMfcers or burn out the town, using oaths. His talk was occasioned by the fact that. acting under orders from the mayor. Policeman Rowell has been keeping negroes and others who had no business there, away from the trains, in order that passengers could get on and of. conditions on the arrival of trains having become ntolerable, as the negroes would rowd the narrow space between the epot and the track. As soon as the train left Mr. Row ell went down to Black's shop and rirrested him. He attempted to re ist. and Mr. Rowell gave him two taps with his club which quieted dm. Then J. A. Nimmons. the col )red barber, went on hIs bond, but s soon as he found out the charge tgainst Black, he came off the bond. ;o Black was rearrested and placed n the guard house. He was tried Saturday afternoon before Mayor J. A. Wyman and 'ound guilty on three counts: Curs ng at the depot Friday night, re sting an officer and cursing at the lepot one night last fall, this fact iaving come out after his arrest. ast fall he stated with an oath that iter Taft's election negroes would ;et on juries, and he wanted to get n and hang some white man, as rhite men had been convicting ne yroes. This was heard by a white nan and testified to Saturday after loon. The maximum fine and imprison neat was put on in each case: 100 or thirty days, making a total f $300 or ninety days. Black took he days, and was sent to the chain rang late Saturday afternoon. This egro has long been regarded as an mpudent fellow by the white peo le of Bamberg. and he bears any hing but a good reputation. He rill no doubt learn some sense rhile serving his sentence. HAVE NO FUNDS. I Yan to Send Cotton Erpert Abroad Falls Through.| According to a letter received at ommissoner Watson's offce in Co mbia from the chief of the bureau f manufactures of the department f comnmerce and labor, it will be :possible to send an expert to rigni countries to gather data and oforation for the benefit of the otton producers of the South. The eason given is that there is no ap ~ropriation for the sending of an ,gent at this time for the special ervice. The request was made on e National Government as a result if a resolution adopted at a recent neeting of the State Farmers' Union eld in Columbia. A similar resoln-| ion was also passed at a meeting if the National Union held at Atlan-| a, some time ago. *| WOMAN TAKES A.RSNIO i ter a Very Heated Argument With Her Husband. At Atlanta. angered with her hus iand over some trival family dis iut, Mrs. A. Gilbert. Friday swal-1 owed a quantity of arsnic in the Iresence of her husband. Gilbert Lt once hurried to a nearby drug tore and secure an emetic, which he 'orced his wife to swallow, after hich he summoned an ambulance Lnd had the woman rushed to the ;rady HospitaL It is thought she will recover. Gilbert declared he had no doubt s wife took the poison with suici [al intent, but declined to discuss ls family troubles. He said his wife became enraged during an ar ;ument shortly after breakfast, and unnounced her intention of ending tall ',y taking poison. Pellagra e Durham. A report from Durham. N. C.. tays an epidemic of pellagra result 'd in the fifth death there a few1 a:.' ago, that of Mrs. D. C. Mitch 1 a native Georgian, and the wife f an extensive lumber dealer. hysicians are not able to assign ny cause for the disease. There av been eight deaths from pellagra| .n Durham and adjacent territory.* Feil From Third Story. Arthur Bleakley, one of the lead ng dry goods merchants of Augusta. Ga.. fell from a window of his fiat, third story, over his store, to the sidewallr Friday morning about 1 'clock. suffering a broken leg and other injuries. He died Friday nght at a local hospital. Death esulted from shock.* Has Fatal Fall. While directing work on the roof of a new building at Buena Vista. Va. Wednesday, C. H. Ridings. nmhr of the firm of Ridings Brothers. contractors and building material dealers,. fell to the ground. eceivng injuries that caused him dath later. A FATAL FIGHT A Gilted Lover and Brother Killed Brothers OF THE YOUNG LADY The Dead Men's Father in Attempt ing to Avenge Their Death by Shooting Their Murderers Kills a Man Pasing That Way by His Wild Shooting. The Latin temperament is ever ready to fly to extremes, and, par ticularly when jealously supplies the motive. Thus it was that the little village of Genzano, near Rome, Italy, was a few days ago provided with all the elements of a lurid mel odrama. Evaristo Apenni was mad ly enamored of a certain Esmeralda Bernono, who. however, had given her heart to Arturo Caroggi. Between the Apenni and Eernoni families a good deal of rancor had arisen on this account, which had hitherto only found expresson in scowling looks and muttered threats. Evaristo Apenni, boiling with rage, under the effects of a new repulse by the enchanting Emeralda. was walking through the streets of Gengano, In company with his brother, Saverio. when they met Achille and Cesare Bernoni, broth ers of the fair enslaver, and the lat ler's father. A few brief but ex asperating words were exchanged. and soon. long-bladed knives were basing through the air. The two Bernonis, on the one side, and the two Apennis on the other separated for a brief moment to get breath, ind then fell to again with redoubled rigor. The second round was brief but decisive. Hardly had the prelimi aary f-3ints for advantage been ex :hanged before the Apennis' knives struck home and the Bernonis fell o the ground mortally wounded. But the battle was not yet over, for t new combatant appeared on the Meld. This was the Bernons' father, who, maddened by the sight of his wo sons lying on the ground with heir life-blood ebbing away, pulled )ut his revolver and fired two shots at the Apennis. Neither bullet took offect. Achil e Bernoni. however, although lying wounded on the ground, had yet ufficient strength left to enable him :o draw his revolver also. Four imes he pulled the trigger, and al hough he missed his antagonist, one >f the shots struck a passer by. 'rancesso Valente, who was killed. Meanwhile. on hearing the firing, ~arabineers hurried to the spot, and n their appearance the Apennis ook to flight. The father of the 3rnonis was arrested with the re olver in his hand and his two sons ere taken to the hospital, where hey expired. After a brief chase averio Apenni was caught by the clice, but so far Evaristo has elud d the vigilance of his pursuers.* RUN DOWN BY SURREY. te. W. P. Jacobs Seriously Hurt in Washington. Refusing to be taken to the hos ital, although perhaps fatally in ured, until the promise was made to dm that the person who injured tim would not be arrested, Rev. Wil am P. Jacobs, a Presbyterian cler yman, aged sixty, of Clinton, S. C.. ,ut the golden rule of life, which eo has preached for many years. in o practice. Mr. Jacobs, in Washington on a ight-seeing trip, was run over on ensylvania avenue Tuesday night y a two-seated surrey. "I do not want the driver prose :uted," said the minister, "as I know t was not his fault." Despite the promise of the police : the injured man, however, the iriver was arrested. Mr. Jacobs ounded the Thornwell orphanage. of rhich he is president. In charitable ork he is known widely. BLOWS OUT HIS BRAINS. oung Man in Lancaster Takes His Own Life. Ernest Clyburn, a young man bout 19 years old, son of Capt. W. 7Clyburn, of the Haile Gold Mines ~ection. Lancaster county, commit :ed suicide Friday afternoon by ocking himself in his father's room ad blowing out his brains with a 5hotgun. No cause is known for :he rash act. He was a young man f quiet. steady habits and deserved y popular. He was a brother of oung Thomas Clyburn, who lost his ife in the double tragedy at Ker 5haw about two years ago. The rather of young Clyburn was on his way to Hot Springs, N. C.. Friday afternoon when his son took his wn life. Capt. Clyurn was notified at Monroe of his son's tragic death. * HOOTS HDISELF WITH RIFLE. segatof Coast Artillery Flees From Financial Troubles. Discovery was made a few days ago that Sergt. Max Block of the oast artillery, station at Fort Du ont. had " smitted suicide a few ghts bi., a. by shooting himself with his rifle. He had propped the rifle againist a wall and tied a string to the trigger which he pulled after placing his body against the muzzle. Money losses are believed to have caused Block to kill himself. His ome wa in Morgan, Ala. MAN UNDER THE BED HE REACBED OUT AND GRAB BED A LADY'S ANKLE. The Bold and Daring Act of a Ne. gro, For Which He Wl Pay Very Dearly. Mrs. Iverna Hicks. who lives in Marietta. Ga.. returned home at 4:30 o'clock Tuesday evening with her two children and her brother-in-law, Charley Hicks, a 12-year-old boy. Her father and mother. Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Horn, with whom she and her husband live, were away and the house was empty. The Atlanta Journal says Mrs. Hicks entered and went into one of the downstairs bedrooms. She de posited some bundles on a chair she carried and vthen walked over to the bed in one corner and began to take off her hat. As she was doing * a negro reached out from under the bed and caught her by the an kle. She tried to jerk loose, but the negro held her tightly. She scream ed and the little boy screamed al so. Their cries frightened the ne gro, who loosed his hold on Mrs. Hicks and began to scramble from under the bed. She herself picked up her two children and ran toward the front of the house. The little boy, how ever, ran toward the back of the house, but found the back door lock ed. He tried to climb through a window, but he could only get part ly across the sll. The negro, too, ran toward the back of the house and being un able to get through the door, turn ed to the window. He brushed the boy out of the way and crawled through the window and to the ground. Possles were quickly formed and search for the negro begun. Every negro who in any way ansewered the description fmnshed was ar rested. About 2:30 o'clock Wednes day morning a negro 19 or 20 years old, named Alvin Gibson, was arrest 9d at a negro suburb of Marietta known as Louisville. The boy Identified this negro and the officers are sure that he Is the one by whom Mrs. Hicks was at tacked. She herself saw only the back of the head of the negro who seized her and Is unable to say what was his appearance. The little boy. however, got a good look at the ne gro when the latter pushed him from the window. He says that the one now under rrest is exactly like the assailant of rs. Hicks. even to a peculiar tear In his overalls. It has been found. too, that the shoes of this negro fit exactly into the Impressions made y Mrs. Hicks' assailant in a plot of ,ft earth when he jumped from the ear window. He is being held for rial.1 Mrs. Hicks is unhiurt, save for a ervous shock from fright. She is he wife of Will Hicks, a fireman n the W. & A. road. Mr. Hicks was on his run at the time his wife was attacked by the negro.* OOMPANY TO MA~KE PICER. reparing to Equip Two of Fourch er Machines. The Augusta Chronicle says a ompany has been formed to perfect wo of the Fourcher cotton pickers td put them in the field for the nal and thorough test. Organiza ion was had a few days ago. The stock subscriptions foot up etween $6,000 and $7,000, and were made by a number of gentle nen of Augusta in stock-takings of $250 to $500 each. This prelim! ary company secures an interest In be different patents. If the picker fevelops into the success that is hop d for it and claimed for it :he fur her capitilization for manufacture >f the machine will be quickly pro ~eeded with. The plan is to have the inventor o to one of the big manufacturies f the east and perfect and turn out wo pickers. The sum named is ully ample for that purpose. Eve y facility will be provided to en ble Mr. Furcher to manufacture the ickers. He will leave for the east nu a few days. One of the best 9:'own and one f the best equipped manufa~tories n the country has been arranged with in which to make the pickers When the machines are completed hey will be tried out in the cottan l'ed and on this practical test of he perfected picker will depend th'e ate of the invention. WOMAN FINDS SNAKE IN BED. Was Awakened by Reptile Crawling Over Her Face. Mrs. John McKnight of Shartles. ille. Pa.. had an experfence with a lak snake which she is not likely o forget for some time. The fami y retired as usual and when Mrs. icKight had been in bed but a short time she heard a peculiar oise back of her pillew. Thinking it was an insect of some ind she thought no more of th3 :atter and went to sleep. She had just fallen into a doze when she felt a peculiar sensation on her face. Reaching up to her forehead she was herrified to find a snake crawl inc over her face. Grabb'ing it. with a shriek she bur!ed the reptile acrose the room. Arising, she found the snake lying in a corner of the room and killed it with a cane. The snake measur ed three feet, four inches in DIED A HERO Brave Engineer, Fatally Hurt Told Rescuers TO ATTEND OTHERS Passengers who Were in Bristol Wreck Tell Graphic Story of the Bravery of Engineer Bush, Who Was Fatally Hurt In the Accident That Wrecked His Train. Passengers who were on the Southern train wrecked near Bristol. Va., Thursday evening arrived at Atlanta Friday night, bringing de tails of the bravery of Engineer Samuel Bush, of Knoxville. who died Friday as a result of his injuries. Bush was slowly and painfully working his way out of the wreck of his engine, scalded and fright fully bruised, when the few pas sengers who retained their senses, dug into the mass of twisted and burning iron to meet him. He was lifted out upon the ground and a hurried call for physicians resulted in the discovery that there was not a doctor on the train. As the passengers began a hznt for whiskey to stimulate him and were breaking open suit cases In their search. Bueh asked for a last look at his old engine, as hopeless a wreck as was Its engineer. When they came to him with the liquor, he begged them to look after the comfort of the passengers. Told that no passengers had bee- Injured, he said: "That's good. But before I take this whiskey, I want you men to smell my breath and testify, If ueed be. that I had not been. drinking when this happened." Although suffering horrible ago nies, the brave engineer would not tounch the stimulant until four of the men had smelled his breath and promised to bear witness to his sob riety. "All an engineer has Is his ree ord." he said feebly, "and be cannot afford to have anything against that." And Engineer Rush went out upon his last run with his record spotless. Engineer Rush was a native of Bedford county, Virginia, being a , member of an old and widely known family in that section of the State. He had been in the service of the Southern Railway for- more than thirty years. He laves an estate valued at $100,000. ELEPHINT SHARK CAUGHT. Fishermen Have Exciting Battle With Big Flih A shark of the elephant spectes. said to be the largest ever caught a ong the Jersey coast. 's on exhi ition in a Long Branch, N. 3. shop. It is tu'~elve 'e'et long and weighs 1.000 pounds. It was capture I of[ Long '3ranich by a fishing crew after M 1.otbs battle. '7ise shari, which is of the man eating variety and with a reputation for combativeness, was feasting in a school of mackerel when the fish ermen speared him. For a half hour the monstarr ..owed the fish rmen's boat around the ocean be fore he was subdued with hooks andl rongs. The presence of this shark has intimidated many of the bathers long the Jersey coast who fear that t may be a forerunner of many oth rs. STAKE ALL ON CHANCE. rwo Greenville Candidates Will Draw for Office. Two candidates in Greenville who tied in the election for aldemen have it on a novel way to decide who hall have the office. A dispatch from Greenville says: "The city emocratic committee found that C. H. Webb and W. T. Bull, candidates for aldermen' from the first ward, ad each 718 votes. The committee will meet again this morning and ake up the matter of the challenge roters. If the result is not changed, he names of the two candidates will ye placed in a hat and a boy not >ver ten years of age will draw out he one who is to represent the ward n the council. It is a state of af fairs never seen here before." This will save the trouble of holding tnother election. Young Lady Drowns. M~ss Caroline Middieton, the six een-year-old daughter of Mr. James . Middleton. of 6.6 Piedmont ave .ue. Atlanta. Ga., was drowned In iast Lake at the Country Club of he Atlanta Athletic Club Friday norning about 11 o'clock, whilo in athing with a number of young lady friends. The family went to Atlanta from Charleston.* Acuused of Terrible Crime. Grover Henderson. a young man ho lives in the Ezells section of herokee county, was committed to ail by Magistrate Scruggs, of Mor an Township, charged with an at empt criminal assault upon the >erson of a young married woman in he upper part of the county. Tired of Life. At McCamb. Ohio. the bodies of Mrs. James H. Ritter, long In ill ealth, and her year-old daughter. were found in an abandoned well by the woman's husband. The cor oner pronounced the case suicide. The body of the baby was clasped tigtl in the mother's arms.