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HOLDS UP TRAIN Work of Lone Bandit Who Took Cash and Left TO PARTS UNKNOWN Compelled Train Crew to unlod Bullion and Coin for Him and Then Orders Them to Proceed. Some of the Booty Recovered, but the Robber Escapes. A dispatch from Lewiston. Pa.. says one of the most audacious and startling holdups of a railroad train In the East for years occurred In the eastern slope of the Allegheney mountains early Tuesday. when a lone highwayman stopped a Penn sylvania railroad express with a dy namite cartridge and at the point of a revolver compelled the crew to c: -ry thousands of dollars in coin and bullion tnom an exprese car to a spot in the wilderness. When the conductor of the train attempted to Interfere with the rob ber's plans he was shot in the hand and the bold bandit succeeded in making good hi. escape. In the darkness. however. he mis took a bag containing 10.000 new LinioIn pennies for gold coin and staggered away with it. leaving the real gold bullion to be recovered. When the news of the robbery reached .the railroad and express company officials they immediately ordered every available detective from the East a d West to the scene in an effort to capture the audacious bandit. Bloodhounds were also put on his track. but up to a late hour Tuesday night no trace of the man had been found. The looted train was made up of an engine, three express cars and two sleeping coaches filled with pas sengers. At about 1:30 a. m. It was running through Lewistown narrows. when suddenly a dynamite cap ex ploded and the engine driver brought the train to a standstill. Then he was confronted by a masked man. with .a gun pointed at him. "Afe there any mall cars on this train?" demanded the highwayman. "No." was the reply of the start led engineer. The engine crew was then forced at the point of the gun to accom pany the robber to the first express car. A revolver was pointed at the messenger's head and threatening to blow up the car. The robber forced the messenger of the two express cars and engine crew to carry all the gold and bullion stacked iu thc Arst car to the side of the track. Conductor L. R. Poffenberger of Harrisburg. Pa.. who came up while this work was being accomplishled, was ordered back by the bandit, who emptied one of~ his revolvers at him. one of the shots penetrating his hand and the others grazing his body. Despite the appearance of three pasengers .who had been awakened by the shooting, the robber calmly ordered the crew hack on the train and compelled them to steam away. leaving the bullion beside the track. * It was recovered later by a posse sent on a special train. When the train was leaving he called out: "Good-by, and good luck; I hope to see you again." It was reported that in addition to the missing pennies several thou sand dollars in currency was miss ing, but the express company of ficials refuse to announce the exact amount of their loss. Agent Hmake of Lewistown sent a safe to the scene of the rob bery to receve six bags of pennies on which the seals had not been broken, but which had, been eat open with a sharp knift to ascer tain the contents and abandoned by the robber in disgust. Smases Reod ENDS HER IFE. Mrs. L. K Fant, Aged Sixty, Takes Cabolc Acid. At Camw'obello Mrs. J. K. Fant. aged .60 iyears. committed suicide Monday by drinking half an ounce talnof carbolic acid. .o cause la ascribed for the deed other than :.he Gead woman iUd 'naen suffering to: some months from dementia. She had been carefully watched but took .?dvantage of tl e fact that her dauzth ter. Miss Bessle Fant, left her alore for a short time. That the suicideo was premeditated was shown by the fact that the windows and doors were carefully closed and a rude pallet prepared on which Mrs. Fant was found dead. She was the wife of a Baptist preacher who died about 10 years ago. She leaves three daugaIters. Mrs. Win. Cobb of Wilmington. N. C.. Mrs. McXillan of Brunswick. N. C.. and Miss Bessle Fant of Campo bello. Two City Blocks Sink. Much damage was done at Scran ton. Pa.. Sunday. by the sinking of a mine cave from two to eight feet, throwing houses from their founda tions. cracking wails and otherwise damaging buildings. The distur ance Is estimated to be about 1'9 feet below surface. Fissures exten-! ix; to the surface and three fert across the tops show themselves In a number of places. Rats by the thousands ran through the fissures and scampered over the streets. Killed by Train. At Woodbury. N. J., Mrs. Jamnes Fraster, sixty years old, and Mrs. Emnia Driscoll. seventy-four. were about to cross the tracks of the South Westvlle station a few days ago when they saw a train approach ing. They tried to cross befo-e It got near them, but were hit by the locomotive and all of the cars ranI over them, cutting them to pieces. Four Bad Boys. At Eankee. Ill., an attempt Sun day by (our boys to wreck the crowd. ed Chicago express. southbound, on .the IlIsois Central railroad. was 5 discovered by a switching crew In d time to prevent accident to the train. h They were all caught and gave as an execnse that they wanted to see I SERIOUS DAMAGE 1EING DOSE BY THF WIRE [ WOR!MS TO COLLETON CROPS. rhe Kuiing of the Field Larks Said to be the Cause of the Destructive Outbreak. Secretary James Henry Rice. Jr.. )f the Audubon Society Of SoutO :arolina. who has just finished a :our of the eastern counties. arrived in Columbia Friday night. As to the menacing outbreak of wire worms in Colleton county which has infested a country 20 miles long 1y 15 broad. practically destroying all the crops. Mr. Rice had the fol .owing to say: "The outbreak originally came 'rom the killing of meadow larks. ,r feld larks. as they are generally %nown in South Carolina. It has --een gathering volume for three -ears or more, and is now spread ng. To what extent it may finally -pread no one can say; such out breaks have covered whole States and have caused millions of dollars in damage. "A gentleman connected with tht government recalled a few hours ago -:bat in one year South Carolina it -elf suffered $5.000.000 damage to he corn crop through the work of xire worms. 'The Clemson authorities and the lepartment of agriculture are both seriously concerned over the pres e.nt outbreak. which began within i short distance of the town of Walterboro-just across the swamp. "The worm makes a thorough job Af the crop by attacking and de stroying the roots. and because he .s under ground no bird. except a ,!oring bird can be of any use in lestroying wire worms. The lark is ideally adapted to this end and 'eeds largely on them.'' On being asked about the origin ,f the worm. M.. Rice said: "The wire worm is the offspring >? one of the click beetles, or in -lain English. snapping bugs. The ,ggs are laid in May and June and ire about the size of number eight hot, white in color. They are laid iear grass roots. They soon hatch 'ut and the larvae dIevelop slowly. -assing the frst winter in the larval or wcrm form. The next year they develop greatest destructiveness. attacking first grass, grain. corn and 'hen almost anything that comes in :heir way. They have some L4 joints. each joint being flanked with a tiny spine and the head is armed with sharp mandibles. The life his :ory of the wire worm is in ail re 'pects similar to the life history of 'he whita, grub (commonly known is grub worm by the small boy the offspring of the May bettle or !une bug.)" "It would be improper for me to liscuss what the entomologists are loing until they are ready to make their own report public, but I do not hespate to say t.hat nothing can avail against the wire worm ex ept the work of the field lark and of this the entomologists are fully aware. "The infested territory is danger ously near the great tri. .king belt around Charleston and should the peet spread back Into this belt the destruction will be enormous, and the consequence frightful. We can only hope that its spread will be cofined to a narrow area. "When the larks are allowed to come back and feed unmolested they are capable of checking any such outbreak and of keeping it well with in bounds. It will be worth the tes-. son, costly as it is. if it shall serve as a warning for the future. As it is many farmers have lost every thing and are downcast and dis heartened over the outlook."* "NUTMBER. PLEASE." That Is the Way the Telephone Girl Must Answer Now. "Did you use the telephone. to day?'' asks the Columbia Record. "Then you noticed a difference in the way the telephone girls answered your call. didn't you? What? Of course you noticed that little "please' that was tacked on after the :all number? Just think a moment and you'll remember. Here's the way It was. Instead of having the tele phone girl answer 'Number?' when you called, she answered 'Number, please?' That's exactly what it was, anl there's a reason for it. "'It may seem a small thing for the telephone girl to tack on that little 'please' at the end of the an swer to the calls, but the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph man agement doesn't think so. The com pany thinks it's amply worth while. consequently an order has been is sued to every telephone exchange in the Southern Beli Company's ter ritoy. which extends over seven States, that every operator answer all calls in the future by 'Numehr. please?' instead of simply inquir ing 'Number?' The order is effective at all ex changes of the company. It is be lieved by the telephone management that the change in the answer made by the telephone girls to the calls that are received will improve the service and be thoroughly appreciat el by the public. Now, don't think because you fail to get the new an swer that the telephone girls are, not on the job as the order calls for.I [t's just a case of having gotten th ej labit-se? Give them a little time; :o tack on the 'please' and see if t r'ou don't feel better with the new , >rder of things. You'll be delight- t ad with that sweet little 'please' be- i ore you knw it." We are not so particular about the I 'please" as we are about having our , ihone n'ork satisactory. c t Still Another Victim.' o At Lowell. Mase., an accident that ti esulted fatally marked the first day f~ f the practice runs in preparation r the week of automobile racing ih!ch opens there Monday. The ictim is Henry Otis, who was ruck by a powerful racing car riven by Joe Matson. The accidentn appened in a dense fog just as Mat- p1 >n was entering the track and be- - ire he had started his machine at MORE LIVES LOST S 4; MEXICAN FLOOD THAN WAS AT FIRST REPORTED. [orrors Increase as the Waters Subside-it is Estnia that Two A Thousand Were Drowned. With eight hundred bodies recov red and buried in Monterey up to tightfall Monday. two thousand It tow the estimate of the city author ties of those who lost their lives broughout the valley of the Santa 3atarina river. The number of iomelesa. many destitute, is placed tt 15.000 and 20.000. The Santa Catarina river at Mon erey has subsided sufficiently to per nit a passage into the district lying o the south and a visit to that sec- A :ion by a correspondent of the As- 1 Lociated Press revealed an appalling 0 -ondition. People who had been sav -d from the flood of Saturday morn ing had been vtithout food until P Mionday. when on some cables a t small amount of bread and beans - was gotten across. Once on the South side of the river. evidencees of the terrible de qtruction wrought by the flood were to be seen on every hand. Five blocks of the district were as though 'hey had never existed and in the remaining portion of the district 'odies were being taken from the ruins and buried by a party of gen larmes sent across for the purpose. At 4 o'clock Monday 400 bodies had been recovered and were burl od on the hillside south of San '.uisito. thus. with the same num Ser buried Sunday. making in all 300 bodies which have been recov ered in Monterey alone. Reports from the country, up and iown the valley, are meagre and hard to obtain, as all telegraphic -ommunication has been cut off in these directions, but from what has been learned, the number of dead has been placed at .000 and the homeless at between 15.000 and 20.000 persons. Most of those peo Dle are in destitute circumstances nd relief is badly needed. Reports from down the river ztate that many bodies have been recovered but there are still many :hat will never be accounted for as -he Santa Catarina bed is filled with iuicksands and many of those lost iave no doubt disappeared in these ands. The authorities are doing all in their power and the federal govern ment has sent $50.000 in money mnd provisions for the relief of the sufferers. Contributions have been received from San Antonio and New York city firms which have agencies in this city have authorized their representatives to contribute liber- k ally to any fund being raised for .-ellef in this vicinity. I Many hbuses have fallen from the effects of the continuous rains which have occurred during the seventy-two hours ending at noon Sunday. During thi, time 21 and| seven-eights inches of rain fell in Monterey and up the Santa Catarina valleys. One of the building. destroyedI was tie San Francisco church, which was the oldest building in the city. it having been built in 1572. The barracks of the rurales was washed away and much military equipment was lost. CATHOLIC ORPHANAGE BURNtED. Seven Bodies Have Been Taken Sol Far From the Wreck., The police report that the bodies| of seven children have been taken from the ruins of St. Malichy's home, a Roman Catholic orphanage| ..t Rockaway Park. L. I., which burned Monday night. Other bodies are believed to be in the r's. AtJ the time of the fire It was b.,ile'ed :hat all of the children were res cued through the quick execution of the fire drill. The fire was discovered in the laundry In the north wing at 8 o'clock Monday night. Three hun dred and fifty small children were in their cots on the third and fourth floors of that wing, and some of the older children were attending the evening prayers in the chapel. As the alarm sounded, the older chil dren marched from the chapel to the board walk along the beach and nurses and attendants rushed to the1 work of carrying the little children I from their cots on the floors above. The firemen assisted in searching the halls and dormitories and found a few children lingering in the halls. ~ too frightened to leave the build ing, but the rescue work had been conducted wIth such dispatch and good order that it was believed un til Tuesday that all children were out of the building. WHITE FIEND CAUGHT.. %n Alleged Rapist Found and Ar. b r rested in Atlanta. A special from Lancaster to The Cews and Courier says Cecil Broom. :he prominent young business man - f Waxhaw. N. C.. who is charged si rith criminally assaulting a young 12 ady in the Van Wyck section of .ancaster county on the 23rd of Ju- i y. and who fled the country after- ' rard, was arrested in Atlanta s ednesday, at the instance of Sher if J. P. Hunter. who has been inde- n aiguble in his efforts to catch his man, spending over $200 in detec Ives' hire, traveling expenses. tel grams. etc. Under the assumed W sine of W. C. Jenkins Broom has 111 eon traced by the sheriff in several th ties. among them Charleston and 5; avannah. finally locating him W iednesday morning in Atlanta. The C: hief of police of that cit'y wires lit 2at the young man will retur-n with- jcas ut requisition papers. Sheriff Hun. a'i or has gone to Atlanta after the igitive. Dies of Wounds. Mi Deputy Sheriff 3. W. Sikes of Nor- sr. ik county. Va.. died Mondao- night W om wounds inflicted by one of three nul 'gro highwaymen. They had been bo aced under arrest by him and two an ecial officers in South Norfolk 1b7 iturday night. The negroes escaped Jfo AID TO BE TRUE -my Pigs Are Carried Off by big Lizards. REMARKABLE TALE mt From the Philippine Islands by tor Capt. Chas. E. Kilbourne, of the cia United States Coast Artillery, Now da: on Duty at Corregidor Island, Not an Farm From Manila. so There comes from the Philippines the thrilling story of the army of liz7 tai rds that ate up the pigs of the Coast to rtillery Corps guarding Manila th ay. It is given over the signature H f Captain Charles h. Kilbourne. )mmanding the Thirty-sixth Com- s-h any, and is about the best nature or hat has ever gone into the records l2 51 f the War Department. Captain ,ilbourne has just been promoted to e a major in the Philippine con- er tabular:. He was sent to the Phil- in ppines with his company from Fort b lonroe. Va. is The Thirty-fifth Company was sent it ut as the first company of coast h, rtillery to man guns outside of the eographical limits of the United tb tates. It was the advance guard cr if the big garrison to be stationed a; t Corregidor Island. which is des- S ined to be the keep of the Philip- w ine Islands and one of the strong- ri St fortificatlons in the world. b In order to fill out the "straight" w -ations allowed by the Government. e he company not only planted its own si ittle vegetable garden, left found ei i chanc'- on Corregidor Island for 1 )ig raising on a large scale. They 0 aid in a stock. which included twelve s iows. Each produced a litter of pigs. tnd the company had enough pigs o ind sows for each soldier of the :ompany to have a whole pig for a bimself. Nothing gave the company , more pleasure after a hard day's a work than to go down to the end 9 )f the company garden. look over the stock of pigs and think of the ane pork chops. sausages and chit- e ings it was to have the coming win- I ter. Their pleasure. however, was ! hortlived. for it was soon noticed b that the pigs were beginniag to dis- b appear. The men got together logs i nd stakes from the adjacent tropi- t cal forest and built a stockade suf- a Rcient in size and strength to keep in the pigs and to keep out anything which, according to the American standards. Icould possibly 'carry a pig away. Still the pigs continued to disap pear, and no explanation could be found. Finally volunteers were call ed for to stand guard over the pigs e and a sentry walked a beaten path ' aroundt the stockade. Just about daylight one morning the sentry saw a sight which he knew no one would ~ believe who had not seen it with his ~ own eyes. So he rushed to the bar- i racks and called out the company. When the men got to the stockade they found that a herd of lizards had come out of the forest and had ~ succeeded in getting into the stock- E ide. t Lizards in the Philippines grow be six feet long and stand up like C a benchlegged bulldog, and they can d run like a deer. The report states that the lizards had the sows at bay In one corner of the stockade. C where they were biting the hogs and ~ whipping them with their tails, while a fher lizards, each wth a pig in Its b mouth, were climbing over the stock ide and making off for the forest. c Only one pig was left for thei ompany, and this one. "Lizzie," wa d aken up to the barracks and has t een made a pet. The Thirty-fifth Company will come home from the PhilippInes next Spring. and it hopes that it will get some pleasant East ern station, where "Lizzle" can spend. :he rest of her days in peace and appineae. TIED TO TREE. h: Liter Being Robbed and Let o d Forty-eight Bours.t di Lumbermen arrive! at Gu'fpor-t, di tiss., Monday night from the Nu- a :ent section, ten miles north of Gulf- te >ort, report that three highwaymen se eld up an employe of the Jngr am- Ie )ay Lumber Company. near Nagn'. of wo days ago and after robbing him fn f forty dollar. tide him sec'irely w: o a tree in the woods, In order to ilence him while they were makis "t ood their escape they stuffed his m 2outh full of paper and rags an't hen left. The man remained in his position for almost 48 hours nd when accidentally discovered, Es as In a pitiful condition. Without mod or water, and suffering agony rom the numerous bites of gnats od mosquitoes, it was several hoursci efore he could even be partiallym Bived. e co Negro Kills Offieer. a At Jackson. Ala., Deputy Sheriff by .L. Wainwright was shot and in- toi antly killed Monday while attempt- bu Lg to arrest Louis and Josiah e.t alaam. negroes. for assault with to tent to murder. Morris Kimball, on, ho was with Wainwright, was ern ightly wounded. A reward has Co ~en offered for the capture of the er4 groes. jtio of A Young Tramp. 'wi Snugly curled up in a milk ear, here he had spent the night, a tle nine-year-old boy, who gave e name of Eddie Corrigan. of 1146 Re ring Garden street. Philadelphia. Ja: is found by Station Agent Willard of -outhamel. at Wycombe. Pa.. The a te fellow said he had r.ept in the g r all night arnd that he had run jee ray from his aunt. i der Commita Suicide. gir J. Ebbie Belger. constable for are igstrate Murdough, committed icide at Hampton on Wednesday., hen he went up to hIs room that J ht he told his wife and little pro y that he intended taking his life Iani d then fired a bullet through his kill a. Belger had been drinking tinj -the !ast few days preceding his Gre SMASHES RECORD ST YEAR'S COTTON CROP THE LARGEST EVER MADE. Tetary Hester Figures Out a Pro luctio of Nearly Fourteen Million ;tatistics showing that more cot i was handled during the commer 1 year ending at midnight Tues r night than ever before and that records had been broken in the Lount of cotton consumed by uthern mills was the features of a annual crop statement of Secre -y Hester of the New Orleans cot 2 erchange. The document forms D preliminary report of Secretary ,ster's annual review of the com !rcial year. The count of the commercial crop owed it to be the largest on ree d. 13.825.457 bales. The previous rgest commercial crop was 13.565. 5. marketed in 1904-05. Last ason's total was only 11.571.966. The very large total for this year's op was a surprise to the trade, cluding both the ,bulls and the ars. and if the figures had been sued while trading was going on is probable that they would have td a depressing effect on prices. The most. 'mportant features in e report next to the size of the op itself was the statement on the nount of cotton consumed by >uthern mills during the season hich closed Tuesday. Here all the cords were again broken, the total !ing 2.559.873 bales. This point as regarded by the bulls as being ren of more importance than the ze of the crop itself. It was tak 2 as official confirmation of th4e any stories of the great expansion f cotton manufacturing in the Duth. The figures compared with .193.000 last season and 2.439. 00 two seasons ago. In the point of port receipts an ther record was broken. Net re tipts at all ports of the season wert ut at 10.052.845 bales, against only .579.842 last year and 9.919,55! wo years ago. Lverpool will have the irs1 hance to trade on the report. The rade is about equally divided ir pinion over the effect of the total uls claiming the bearishness of .h ig crop 5s more than offset by th ullishn of the big consumptiot a spite f the claim of the bear. hat it is a decidedly bearish docu. lent. CUTS THROAT WITH RAZOR. 6A. Bickle, Mail Clerk on Loote Train Ends His Life. L A. Bickle. white, aged 43, at i-mail clerk on the Southern rail ray, almost severed his head fron is body with a razor at his home a ugusta Sunday morning. BicklI ad been in ill health snd it is saki bat his mind was unbalanced be ause of this and recent bereave sents in his family. He happened to be mail clerk outhern train from Charlwto.n oi be night of May 18 last. whasa th' ipress car was rifled and whe~a tne rain reached Augusta the mesm s rag found in a chest. The messqne laimed that he had been knockec own by masked men and , tw.eed a the chest. G. P. Hnmphreys. baggage naer a the train on the night of the ,bbery, cut his throat two tonthi go, dying almost instantly, beeat.e' e was suspected of the robbery lowever, the express officials do not annect Bickle with the robbery. bul is a fact that the detective, a fei ays ago. questioned him regatrding 1s case. NOT CAUSED BY CORN. ady Has Pellagra Who Never Has Eaten Corn at All. At Atlanta a case of pellagra, the Itim of which claimed that she ad never eaten corn bread or any >rn products was revealed in the sath of Mrs. Kate E.rto. Dr. Frank Eskridge. who claima have treated many cases of the sease. save he doubted his own agnosis and thought she might be victim of "sprue." a disease known the tropies, with symptoms re mbing those of pellagra. He esl d in a physician who had had years experience i'n the tropics and >uni that -14s 4Eorginal d'iagnosis as correct. "I am convinced now," he says. hat the disease does not come from usty corn." TOUCHED) WIRE AND) DIED. cperiment of North Carolina Boy Ends Fatally. Harvey Ritehie. 20 years old. mbed into one of the big trans-. ssion2 towers of the Southern Pow Company. at Albemarle. Stanley unty. N. C.. Monday afternoon, to certain if he could get a shock touching the wires. As the youth :ched the deadly wires his feet rsted from the terrific current that tered his body, and he dropped the ground, dead. The tower is e of the series of steel structeures ployed by the Southern Power mpany to transmit electrical en ry from the Catawba river sta us, in this county, to the mills the Piedmont section. and the 'es carry eighty thousand volts. Made Bad .Mlstake. While huntlng squirrels near anoke. Va.. Wednesday morning nes Spencer mistook the gray hat his son, Charles J. Spencer, for iqufirel's tail and fired his shot a through the bushes at the oh t. The load of shot took effect the son's face, neck and shoul s. He was carried to town and on medic-al attention. The wounds not fatal. Bolt Kills Farmer. tiexander Ruyter. aged 35. a minent young planter of Clev'. d county. N. C.. was instantly ed by a lightning bolt while sit in the yard of friends near. ver Monday afternoon. Others: ATTENTION, MEN!, L Inscription Wanted for Woman's Monument SOON TO BE ERECTED Chairman C. Irvine Walker Asks the ti Men of State to Suggest Suitable a Words for the Memorial to be a Erected on Capital Grounds in 0 S Columbia. What do the men of South Car olina owe to the women of the Con- 1 federacy?" asks the Columbia State. 2 The State then goes on to say that a the funds for a memorial to be r erected on the capitol grounads have t been raised. Sculptor F. Welling ton RuckstuLI is now designing the monument and the design has been declared one of the most artistic ever prepared. On the monument Just isz front of the State house, erected by the women of South Car olina to the soldiers who died for the "Lost Cause," are two beautiful inscriptions. These recite the valor and heroism of those "who, true to the instinrts of thber birth have glorifed a fallen cause by the sim ple manhood of their lives and their patient suffering,' and in the dark hours of imprisonment, in the hop.z lessness of the hospital, in the short. Aarp agony of the ield, found hope in tie belief that at home they would not be forgotten" These were some of the words inscribed by the women of South Carolina on the monument to the soldiers. It is now necessary for the men of the State to send to the commIe sion in charge of the work of ereet ing a monument to the women of the Confederacy suitable inseriptions for the tribute to their self-saerilee and devotion. The following has been issued: South Carolina Commisslon for the Monument to the Women of the Confederacy. Columbia. S. C.. Aug. 31, 1909. To the Men of South Carolina: Two inscriptions will be required for the two large panels of the pede .tal of the South Carolina monu ment to the women of the Confeder acy. These inscriptions are desired to "declare to the world what these women of the South did to deserve this honoring.'' Each must conta~n from 60 to 80 words, preferably 60. The men of our State are cordi ally invited to suggest appropriate wording for these inscriptions. Those deemed most suitable by the com I mission will be used. Suggestions should be sent to Capt. Win. E. G ti zales, secretary and treasurer, Co lumbia, before November 1. 1909. C. Irvine Walker, Chairman; T. J7. Moore, C. A.Reed. J. G. Richards, Jr., Win. E. Gonsales. See. and Treas. BLEW OUT HIS BRAINu WhilI Being Hotly Purwood by a Sheriffse Pos. With a posse in elose pursuit and tired of the relentless chase of of I fcers of the law, Jeff Bradley, who killed George Welborn, Jr., near Clayton, Ga., last Monday night, shot himself to death near Mountain City Tuesday afternoon. The suicide oo curred when the officer, were almost within hailing distance of the alleg ed fugitive. The officers, hearing the shot, be lieved that they were about to be ambushed and dropped to cover. They waited for other shots, and then cautiously ventured out and followed the direction of the shot. In an old fleld, face downward, with his gun lying by his side, Bradley was found, with his bratu blown out. Sometime Friday Robert NIx, liv ing in the vicinty. went to a straw stack where Bradley was concealed. Thinking that Nix was hunting for him, although armed with a shet gun. Bradley offered to surrender. Nix told him that he was not hunt ing for him. Subsequently Nix re ported seeing him to She-'ir 1. N. Jones, who formed a posse of men, adstarted in pursuit. Bradley was 27 years or age and unmarried. FIVE PERSONS KILL.n By a Mysterious Gas on Board of a Steamship at Sea.. Mysterious gases released from the hold of the United States collier Nashan when the steel bulkheads of that vessel were stove in by 4 hy phoon were responsible for the death of five members of her crew, accord ing to a s-tory of Third Assistant En gineer Elmer Hutchins. who arrived at San Francisco Monday on board the cruiser Buffalo. The vessel was en route from Ca-t vite to Hong Kong. Shortly after the ship ran into a terrific typhoon a noise like an explosion of gasses was heard. Capt. Carver took five members of the Filipino crew for ward with him to investigate. The failure of the m'n to return led Hutchins to make an investigation and he was also overcome, butwa revived,.as When the men were finally drag god back from the hold. It was found that by some inexplicable freak then bodies had been stripped naked by the fumes. Capt. Carver revivedt hei Chief Officer Larkin. Second Of- - flcer Rapp and three sailors died g from inhailing gases. Strange Occurraan. River men at Columbus. Ga.. are t mystified at the sudden risee of the it Chattahoochee river, which began A Wednesday. Although that ime- A diate section is undergoing a i drought, the river has risen 12 feet re in 24 hours. There have been no at heavy rains reported at any point on the river and the residents a.", uinable to assign any cause for the th HOW THEY VOTED FFICIAL FIGURES FROM EIGH TEEN COUNTIES. ken and Florence Counties Will be Passed On-Abbevllle as Yet Is Incomplete. The omcial results from 18 coun as of the 21 which recently held 2 election on the whiskey question. i passed upon by the State board f canvassers, were given out by ecretary of State McCown. The rotests 'from Mken county were eard before the county board of anvamers and the protests from lorence will be heard later. The tate board of canvassers will meet gain on Friday to decide upon the esults of the last two named coun lee should an appeal be made from he eounty boards. The returns as cbmitted to the board from Abbe ille county were not complete, but here was no contest from that coun 7. The following is the statement is ned by the secretary of State: County For. Against. 3amber .. .. ... 162 663 3arnwell .. .. .. 553 804 3eaufort .. .. .. 250 233 Berkeley ...... 218 540 ,harleetox ..... 1.868 341 ,alhoun .. ... .. 262 285 ,u'eton .. .. .. .A9 876 Dorehester . . .. f ', 666 PaIrfleld .. .. ... 16: 752 Georgetown..... 447 262 Hampton .. .... 181 712 Kershaw .. .. .. 240 674 Lee .. .. .. ..... 309 586 Lexingston ..... 806 1.197 Orangeburg ..... 529 1.499 Richland . ..... 841 762 Sumter .. .. ..... 386 577 Williamsburg . .. 529 859 The tie-up in the State board of canvassers last week has caused a great deal of comment in all see tions of the State. It Is very Inter esting to note that the very mat ter upon which the tie-up arose was not touched upon In the executive session that is the constitutionality of the act providing for the elec tion was not before the board. An affidavit of interest In con nection with the deadlock in the board. which was given out. was filed with Associate Justice Hydrick by Mesrs. Lyon. McCown and Jen nings. The affidavit follows: "Personally appeared R. X. Me Cown. R. H. Jennings and J. Fraser Lyon. who being duly sworn each for himself says that the board of &ate canvassers has not decided whether it has power to eonsider the constitutionality of the act under whieh the election of the 17th inst. was held. that deponents have specif ically refused to pass upon the same at this time. but desire to hear coun sl upon the subject. That it was and now isa the order of the said board to hear such argument In or der that the board may beenlighten ed on the subject, but whenever such arguments commence. Hon. A. W. Jones, comptroller general. leaves the meetings of the board and balks the quorum. "That said board has decided no matter in controversy whatsoever at its present meeting, but will duly and properly- Tender its decision if a quorum may be had." GETS HfIS BEER FEE. Clever Trick Played on Charleston Blinad Tiger. The Charleston Eventag Post says a well kown citizen Is enjoying a barrel of export beer without cost to himself, thanks to the custom of some of the tigers in using .the names of citizens without their con sent by which means contrabanj liquor and beer are smuggled into the city by the police cordons. The etizen who is drinking iced beer free of cost and who has enough to last him fo:- some time to come ten dozen bottle~s being an amnple supply for one time, said that one day recently whe he came home from his daily grind, his wife told him a barrel of beer had been delivered to their house. Now the citizen could not account for this, as he had never ordered so much beer at one time in his life, but he got wise and went out to Inspect the wind fall, which proved to be a barrel of popular export. It did not take Mr. Happyman long to break Into that Darrie, and soon he had a score of bottles rest ng peacefully on a cake o~f ice. He planned to wait for results, mean hile not neglecting his opportuni y of using the beer addressed and ent to him. The next day a driver called at ~is house and said that the beer ad been delivered by mistake. But his trick did not work. '1Ihe citi en who had the free beer wishedI o know who sent it to his house n his name with authorization. de never learned, for the sender li not care to reveal his identity he bee.r is nearly all gone now, for he citizen has been extremely gen .rous with that beverage whch cost uim naught. Varous citizens are complaining hat their names are being used by igers without permission as means f getting beer and lIquor into the ity. and they wish a remedy. The ree beer scheme looks good.* White Fiend Lynehed. FollowIng the lynching of Robert 'oodall. a white man, for a crimi al assault on Myrtle Neal, twelve ears old, a fierce battle broke out iBrookhaven. Miss.. Wednesday ght. A score of persons were ounded. Three companies of -oo's were rushed to the scene. The ty is divided into two camps. The i died Thursday morning-. Made Good Time. L Sunday at Van Patton shoals eni e Enoree river 56 candidates for imersion were baptized by Rev. W I Anderson in 55 minutes. M". v aderson Is pastor of Cedar Gr"-ve a *rch. this county, and in a re'ent vial there the above number of r cessions resulted No man can come ,here and defy e people of this town and not get SAVES MANY Vireless Operator Sacrifices His Life to SAVE PASSENGERS ;ticks to Mis Post Till the Pacinc Liner Went Down-Ris Call Brought Two Shpe-"Goodbye, My God, I'm -," Was His Fina Message to the Land. The coast liner Ohio. of the Alas ka Steamship Company, whose loss was reported in our '-st issue, struck a submerged rock in the Pacific off Steep Point while pushing northward in a fog from Seattle to Valdez with I28 passengers aboard . All the pas sengers were rescued by other ves sels which rushed to the sinking steamer's aid on the call of the wire less "C. Q. D." Purser F. J. Stephens. of Seattle, sank with the ship as he was still lowering passengers over the side In to the boats. Wireless Operator George C. Eccles went down sitting at his machine and istinl sending the story of the wreck to the oper ator at Ketchikan. The quarter master and two seamen also were drowned. At 1 o'clock Saturday morning United Wireless Operator Booth, of the Ketchikan station, was sitting in his cramped little ofice -fronting the sea, on the South Alaskan archi pelago, when the receivers, began ticking frantically the wireless dan ger call for help. "C. Q. D.! C. Q. D! " Booth hurried back his answer, "What ship?" he demanded. "Where are you?" *Steamship Ohio!" came the quick reply. "We've struck rock off Steep Point. Ship sinking. One hundred and twenty-eight passengers aboard. Get help at once or everybody will be lost." Booth knew the Steep Point Rocks are a hundred miles off the main land, opposite Ketchikan-and be knew that the Ohio must have fouled her course ir. a fog. Also he knew the steamship Hum boldt and Rupert City, of the same line, must be threading the tortuous channels not far from where the rock-wrecked boat was going down. Five minutes afterward be had turn ed his machine to their wireless ap paratus, had signalled both of them. though they were a league apart at sea, and had sent them full speed to the rescue. Then came another desperate mes sage from the Ohio. "Ship sinking fast." it ticked in frantic speed. "Cannot hold out another hour. Passengers being tak en off in small boats. Captain and crew will stick to the last. (Signed) "Eccles." Booth. in his little cage at Ket chikan. could do not more than flash word to Eccles that help was on the way. Then he picked up the Humboldt and Rupert City again. "Both headed for Ohio." they re sponded. "Reach her in half an hour." Booth was ticking this out to Eo eles aboard the sinking ship when the latter broke in with his final message. It said: "Passengers all off and adrift in small boats. Captain and crew go Ing off in last boat, waiting for me now. Goodby. My God, I'm"- - Booth at the land end rof the wireless dispatch knew that Eccles, ef the Ohio, had gone down in tho final plunge of the wrecked ship stt1 fashing out his message. Details of the disaster came in later from the -steamship Humboldt. which had rescued the surviving pas sengers. and crew from open boa'A a league from the si... of the wieck and an bi u a'ter Ihes Ohio went down. The big liner, edging slowly north ward, had verred ten miles from her course. A great hole was stove in her bow and she was far down by the head with five feet of water is her hold before the crew could even arouse all the sleeping passengrs. The panic that followed was quelled by officers and crew, who stood at the berth doors and kept all the men and women passing out in line and across the deck to the ship's boats. which waited at the davits. Three seamen went down with Purser Stephens and Eccles, because there was not time between the strik Ing of the ship and her sinking to get all into the boats. Among the passengers was Clar ence Cunningham. the Alaska coal land operator, who lays claims to mines valued at an enormous sum and whose title has been ordered investigated by President Taft. He joined with Mi. 3. Heney, another rescued passenger. In sending this wireless from the Humboldt to Ket chikan: "Stephens and Eccles went down saving the lives of passengers, in stead of looking to their own safety. They are heroes." The Ohio was worth S200.000 and arred a rich cargo. She lies sunk In twenty fathoms of water. SLEEPING CAR LOOTED. Burglas Rob Sleeping Car on Side Track at Memphis. F. M. Jackson. capitalist, of Birm gham. Ala., sidetracked on a sleep ir at Memphis. Tenn.. with his wjfo Lnd three boys, awoke Sunday morn g to discover that during the night he ar had been entered by a thief. and he had been reflexed of cash. >ill of exchange and other valuables o the amount of over $1.000. The amly were en route to the Seattle zpositon but their through sleeper ras held over at Memphis all night y reason of a missed connection. hey slept on the Pullman, in the ards by courtesy of the Pullman anagement. The car was locked, >ut the door was forced by the bber, who carried away satchels nd grips. S. F. Keith. Pullman nductor. was also robbed. The female bargain hunter know,