The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, July 08, 1909, Image 2
SSMISJI
T r r,T?rrlfic Quakes Pel
habitants In Panic?fi
Babe And Dies Wi
^ Crtl.-M.~u>. .xpaneneed
two terrific earthquakes at
bout 7:30 o'clock Thursday mornIbf,
which were accompanied by
oaring sounds and are said to have
had a stronger and more undulatory
movement than the earthquake of
December which destroyed Messina,
Reggio and other cities, laid
waste to many villages in Calabria
nd killed 200,jJO people.
Although the shocks Thursday had
no such terrible consequences the
25,000 residents of this city were
thrown into a state of terror. They
an into the streets panic striken and
Thursday night nearly the entire population
was encamped in the open.
The broken walls of the old ruins
were thrown to the ground and Mes-1
aina wag for a f?w minutes smothered
in a cloud of dust.
The casualties were few and the
only persons killed, so far as is
known, were a young woman and
ker infant. The woman had come
kere only a few days ago and had
E/ . nettled in rooms, which the great !
earthquake had left relatively undamaged.
She was standing at the
ORV1LLE WRIGHT MAKES Tl
!
Washington, Special.?Calm, confident
and nerveless, Orville Wright
late Thursday encircled the Ft. Meyer
drill grounds time after time in his
aeroplane in three successful flights
while a crowd of thousands cheered
aim for the success that attended his
B| persistency and pluck. While the machine
oscillated at certain points in
its flights and dipped and rose suddenly
at other points, it was evident
from the regularity with which these
Muugs nujijitiii'u niai uiey were due
to the condition of the atmosphere
and not to any fault of the machine.
For the first flight the mnchine got
away with a fine start. Down the
field the aeroplane sailed, curved
gracefully and came back up the east
aide of the field along the edge of
Arlington Cemetery. The machine
seemed to be behaving beautifully.
The first round was made in fifty seconds.
Five times the machines skirted
the field, attaining a height which
varied from 15 to 30 feet.
On the sixth round Mr. Wright
came to earth within a few hundred
feet of the starting point, completing
the flight in exactly five minutes. The
landing was perfect, the machine
awooping down in successive glides
until Orville pulled the string which
stops his motor and the aeroplane |
gnaea smoothly over the grass on its
kids until it came to a stop. The machine
was returned to the starting apparatus
and again was placed in position,
and another flight was essayed.
COMMISSION DECIDES ADV1
Washington, Special.?The Inter- '
state Commerce Commission has decided
adversely in the matter of the
complaints filed before them by five
bishops of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church, who claimed that
thuy had been the victims of discrimination
while passengers on Southern
railroads. The eomplaints were directed
against the Pullman Company
and the Richmond, Fredericksburg
STRANGE FREAK OF LIGHT
Cumberland, Md., Spocial.?LightM
ning struck the house of Johnson
Collins, last Wednesday, four miles
*- ?*
wav ui iuuvmuue, wunu mr. ana
Mrs. Collins, their 8ix children and
Mrs. Johnson, a neighbor, were in
the kitehen. Mrs. Collins was putting
pies in the bake oven. When Mr.
Cbllins recovered from the shock he
found his wife and the youngest
MAY BE THE BODY OF E
New York, Special?Although complete
identification was impossible as
jet, there appears to be a strong
probability that the body of a Chinanan,
which was found floating in the
Hudson river in the upper part of the
eitv Thursday evening, was that of
Leon Ling or William L. Leon, the
inruerer of Elsie Sigel. The man's
eight, weight and general appearlce
tallies with that of Leon Ling,
t as tho body was nude, except for
suk undershirt, and had been in the
eater for more than a week, a thorugh
examination will be necessary,
oroner McDonald, who was the first
e?,ITlCAL PRISONERS Mi
ttle, Wash.?A cable dispatch
Nome, Alaska, describes a
- outbreak of Russian political
in tha Yakutsk District,
and the ifht of the nmti-om
the wilderns? less aid
rails in mm effort to reach
*. The dispatch says:
vieee from Yladmir Station of
Northern Siberia Conspany,
Behring Strait, are to tho silt
a band of prisoners in thai
;i shocked
? sion
t Thursday?The 25.000 bU1 N
eorpo
I other Dashes For Her I lions.
resolu
th It In Her Arms. eoiiec
m whate
door when the shook occurred and o?*5?*
rushed inside to sere her child. Bo- ^
fore she eould escape from the room tural
the second shock threw down the than
walls, burying both mother and child ma(le
under the debris. Soldiers and enpounc
gineers who rushed to the rescue qq th
beard the voice of the mother call- Ine
llLff f A* Knln mewl tknw a nlAM)
?^ uuu ?U?J WV1ACU IKUVMT I "
ally for several hours, when they j
found the dead bodies, the mother |jat
with her ehild in her arms. *41R
The first shock was followed quick- ed in
ly by a second and the people fled
pell mell to the American quarter, an<j ^
which they seemed to feel was the deciai
safest place of refuge. So great was as to
the rush to the American huts that *,on /
the authorities were unable to check cont"
the invasion and as a consequence ^
these structures, which were design- ameni
ed for the most needy of the popu- pounc
lace, were taken possession of by the
I first comers. The soldiers, however, _
I ' in com
; soon drew a cordon around this Senat
quarter and a guard was mounted at port
the bridge leading to it. Many of the as a
panic stricken people were driven off *ax' 1
and orders were issued that no one p^th
be permitted to occupy the American Demo
quarter pending further instructions, was i
part
HREE SUCCESSFUL FLIGHTS ator
The start was as successful as the ct
first. In the seeond flight Orville a
made much wider turns and rose to a%or,
a greater height. Wilbur Wright a or
watched every detail of the flight *' a
with care. te.
It was noticed that at timoa the . lI\
motor skipped, but this seemed to '
have no effect on the progress of the '
aeroplane. The starting rail runs v k c.
downward into a little hollow in the , ea"
field and whenever the aeroplane ePos
passed over this hollow it dipped no- J1 a
ticeably and whenever it passed over ^
a vacant space between two of the jnc
stables, it was seen to rise as though jjons
on billow of air, but these atmos- gena(
pheric conditions were easily over- ^.ere
come by the clever manipulation of w^o
j the levers. On his second flight, Or- ODD^
| ville made nino rounds of the field in
a few seconds less than eight min- gj j
u,es- . Owen
In his last attempt he remained iru-om
aloft for a few seconds more than rU(
nine minutes and encircled the field j
nine and one half times. For one next
complete round he flew very close t* as
the ground, evidently preparing to on
land. This he did within two hun- tariff
dred feet of the aeroplane shed. Dur- Orv
ing this last flight he went higher fu] fl
than on his previous trials, reaching pQrt
a height of forty feet. Just before remaii
making his landing the left wing a|] to]
scraped the ground and raised a feet,
cloud of dust, but Mr. Wright con- por
tinued to fly half way around the day,
field before descending. ceedei
ER.SELY IN BISHOPS' CASE 811-15
and Potomac, the Southern and the 8
Central Railway of Georgia. ^
The complainants were Bishops . R
Wesley J. Gaines, H. M. Turner,
Evans Tyree, C. S. Smith and E. ,
W Brampton. Unite,
The principle involved in the com- p
plaint was the old one of the "Jim- "j
Crow" car, it being alleged that the aer^ i
coaches furnished for the negroes are ^
not as good as those for white pas- jjv y
sengers and that the negroes were re- .
fused sleeping accommodations and ,
food on trains. fhe ? (
fiiphi in mailt land town ?tart"
child in her arms standing under a
tree in the yard. She could not tell pe^j
how she got there. One of her shoes chare?
had been torn from her foot and the p
flesh was scraped from her ankle were ,
downward almost to the bone. The court
roof was torn from the house, one jajjer
side of the building demolished, tho willia
stone chimney shattered in pieces g(j
and dishes in the cupboard broken. preVei
lsie sTgel's murderer.
to inspect the body, believes that it is vent
Leon's as do a number of polieemen, the t<
but until measurements and facial resem
characteristics are carefully gone co tri
over the identification will remain in the S
doubt.
If it is Leon the cause of his death The
will be another mystery although one marie
theory, that of suicide, would appear the ti
reasonable. In salient features the The p
body bore a marked resemblance to to effi
Leon Ling. The teeth were good, as must
were Leon's, the height about 5 feet proch
4 inches, which was Leon's height, duty <
and the weight 125 pounds, whieh dition
was about Leon's. bill, '
^ ^ ? ? ; r"_ airrppi
A^L HASH f OK FREEDOM come
I Yakutsk district revolted and killed tion t
the guards and started on a retreat eatioi
of 2,000 miles for East Cape, where Pr?
they planned to take small boats and Wash
make the mainland of Alaska, thirty- Bevei
six miles away. ehildi
Captain KalinnHtof, acting gover- Presi
nor of the district, ordered Coesaeks brati<
to overtake the prisoners. The fa~ 'the f
gitires in amhnsk killed four Cos- Mood
wsandsd twelve sthnrs^ j ter-ee
WASHINGTON NOTES |
) Senate concluded its discus
of the schedules of the ttttll ,
[onday and is now ready for the j
ration and income tax quea- I
Senator Aldrich introduced a
ition proposing an amendment to ]
t the taxes on incomes from ?
sver source derived and without <
tionment among the several '
i. 1
increase in the duty on strue- I
iron and steel valued -at more t
9-10 of a cent per pound Was*
by the Senate, the increase berom
3-10 to 4-10 of a cent per
L. Cotton bagging was placed ^
e free list.
ffectual efforts were made to ^
cotton ties, school books, bind- ,
wine and salt on the free list
Egyptian cotton on the dutiable y
1
? M
rhat is whiskey 1" was discussthe
Cabinet room of the White
?. President Toft listening to
leys for rectifying distilleries
lenders, who oppose the recent
on of Solicitor General Bowers
what should be labeled 'imitavhiskey."
The hearing will be
iued. ''
er defeating Senator Tillman's
iment for a tax of 10 cents a
1 on tea by a vote of 18 to 55,
concluding the schedules of the
bill, the Senate took up the
e and corporation tax questions,
or Aldrich said he would supthe
corporation tax amendment
means of defeating the income
sxpressing the opinion that the
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vuiu ut i^^caicu aiicr www jeura
e rate materially lowered. The j,
crats held that this position T
a subterfuge on Mr. Aldrich's e
to destroy the income tax. Sen- c
Flint, who will hare charge of
rporation tax amendment, spoke a
vor of it. Senator Cummins in 1
of the income tax; and Sen- J
Dixon in favor of an inheritance
ilthough the latter said he would
for the corporation tax Senator q
said the corporation tax would g
in his opinion, a revenue of c
)0.000 to $50,000,000 a year,
retary of the Treasury Macti
made a call on national bank
itories for a return to Treasf
government funds approximate ^
25,000,000. "
ome and corporation tax ques- "
were discussed Thursday in the
3. Among those who spoke
Senator Root, of New York, t
advocated the corporation and
ed the income tax; Senator c
i, of Idaho, who took opposite r
with Mr. Root; and Senator? *
and Clapp, who favored the
e tax. 1
for the objection of one Sena- "
At. Bulkeley, of Connecticut.
Tuesday would have been fixed
i date for a vote by the Senate f,
i income tax amendment to the cl
bill. n
ille Wright made three successights
in his new aeroplane at n
Myer late Thursday afternoon.
ning in the air about 22 minute* Y
id and raising to a height of 4(
1?
the fiscal year ended Wednes- b
government disbursements ex- T
1 government receipts by $89,- w
>6, according to the Treasury
lent. C
r Admiral Potter became chiei
s buearu of navigation succeed- w
ear Admiral Pillsbury, retired
n'
ive-hour flight of oratory in th? gi
i States Senate by Senator tt
lins, of Iowa, and a thirty-secflight
of the Wright brothers' a
lane were the principal happen>f
interest in the national cap- t?
Wednesday.
nishap to Orville Wright's ma- it
put an end to his flights for y<
ay less than a minute after h< 81
i for his first flight. The dam3
the aeroplane, however, wai
itions for rehearing on th< tl
5 against them for contempt ol
Inited States Snnrpmp t.
received by the clerk of th<
from Sheriff Joseph F. Shipp a
Jeremiah Gibson and Luthei
ims, three Tennesseeans accus- a
having failed in their duty t? s
it a lynching.
test against the effort to pre- h
the use of coupons to Stimulat<
obacco trade was made by repit
atives of the so-called "tobacjst"
before a sub-committee oJ
enate finance committee.
i Senate Saturday adopted th<
num and minimum provisions of
iriff bill by a vote of 36 to 16
irovisions of the measure go inect
March 31, 1910, and 20 day?
elapse before the President'i
imation applying the maximun
of 25 per cent ad valorem, in adto
other duties, provided in th<
will be operative. The Senat<
d on the submission of an in
tax amendment to the constitute
the several Slates for ratifi
i.
isident and Mrs. Taft left
ington Saturday afternoon foi
ly, Mass.,, where Mrs. Taft an<,
en will spend the summer. Th<
dent, after speaking at the eele
>n of the 250th anniversary ol
bunding of Norwieh, Conn., ot
lay, and participating is th?
mtenary ealebration of the die
y of Laka Champlain, will re
tarn to Washington to await the ad
[o Urn merit of Congieao.
Orville Wright left Situday foi
Dayton, 0V to get eloth for repair
ing the lower plane of his machine
irhich was badly ripped in strikiiif
i tree Friday while the aviator wai
gliding to earth.
President T&ft Saturday was th<
principal speaker at the unveiling o)
>f granite monument erected in thii
sity, as a memorial to the funder ol
the Grand Army of the Republic
if a j or Benjamin Franklin Stephen
ion, of Iillinoia. The monument ii
he first of its kind.
NKWSY GLEANINGS.
New York City realised only '
>00 from Its first day's tax sale
The Senate refused to low*
luty on cash registers or farm :
nents.
Governor Hoke Smith, of Georgia,
vas succeeded in office by Joseph M.
grown.
Protests against the President's
nan ror a corporation tax flooded the
(en ate.
Abdallah, the strong man, killed
tlmself In Ma home In a New York
31ty tenement.
The bill appropriating 910,000,000
or taking the thirteenth census
jassed'the Senate.
The strike of the carmen complete7
tied up street car service in Pltts>urg,
only one car carrying mall beng
operated.
Among early bills introduced In the
Georgia Legislature was one to pro*
libit intoxicated persona from operating
automobiles.
Scores of human skeletons and a
letrjfled body, believed to be that of
in Indian, were found by a party extlorlng
a natural cave near Cordele,
la.
The Celtic brought into port at
?ew York City six Ballormen of the
rhaltng brig Sullivan, who had driftid
kIt davi and navon nl?hf? ???
oast of Africa.
Four thousand men In Grand
treet, New York City, attacked a moorman
whose car had killed a little
;lrl and were driven back by the poIce
with drawn revolvers.
The Republic Iron and Steel Comlany
joined the American Sheet and
?in Plate Company, a United States
Iteel Corporation subsidiary. In delarlng
for the open shop policy.
SPORTIJKJ BKHVITLES.
Verdun, owned by Baron Manrlee
te Rothschild,, won the Grand Prix
it Longchamps.
J. R. Keene's Coronal won a selling
take at Newbury, England, and was
ild up to $3750.
It took Harvard eleven tunings to
lefeat Yale In the opening game of
heir series at Cambridge.
J. J. Lee, the Junior national cross
ountry champion, won a ten-mile
un from scratch In the gamed of
he Cork Men's Association.
The Stanford oarsmen will coach
hemselves next season because the
lonev allowed for rowing will not
ermlt of re-engaging Dan Murphy.
Miss Louise Hammond, of New
'ork, kept New York in the running
or the national women's lawn tennis
hamplonshlp by defeating her Mlnesota
opponent.
Miss Hazel Hotchklss, of Callforla,
Is the new woman lawn tennis
bamplon of the United Htntee rk?
efeated Mrs. Barger Wallach, of New
ork, by 6?0, 6?-1.
Progress on Colombia's new ath?tlc
Held Is rapid, and It certainly
eglns to look like something now.
here's a fine grassy Infield which
ould do well for football.
Dick Hyland's Ylctory over Leach
ross In the forty-first round at Colla
stunned the East Side sporting
lement of New York Clty,.<as Cross'
as regarded as a sure winner.
Howe, of Yale, who won both
urdle races In the Intercollegiate
imes, ran altogether 660 yards over
le sticks In semi-finals and finals on
le second day of the meet. That Is
pretty hard stunt for anybpdy.
8. C. Hildreth, who Is the first man
i earn the distinction of owning and
alnlng the winners of the three
g spring handicaps?the Metropolan,
Brooklyn and Suburban?In one
sar, deserves the full credit for his
iccess.
FEMININE NEWS NOTES.
The Queen of Rumania has written
hlrty volumes.
Florence Nightingale has entered
er ninetieth year.
Queen Alexandra Is said to be
gainst woman suffrage.
By a recent decree women are not
llowed to engage In bullfights in
ipaln.
Patents for Inventions relating to
ylng machines have been applied for
y British women.
Miss Mary Harrlman, eldest daugher
of E. H. Harrlman, gave an Erie
erryboat for a consumptive camp to
irooklyn.
Tha fllatarhnafl
uBt opened a new branch in the form
>f a home for Jewlah girls in East
lixty-flrst street, New York City.
Mother Frances Xavler Cabrini,
luperior-Oeneral of the Missionary
listers of the Sacred Heart, has reurned
to this country from Brazil.
Miss Josephine R. Upham has aeepted
the post of woman missionary
n the new American^Beamen's Friend
lociety Institute in West street. New
fork City.
Mme. Poppova, a Russian woman,
las invented a rudderless airship,
ehlch she has named the annulated
Iragon because of the peculiar shape
if its body.
Miss Charlotte Church, who Is
caching in a new schoolhouse on the
tecanlcum, Oregon, is "baching" In a
:abln about a mile from her school,
laving no near neighbors bat wild
inlmals.
wife in New York City who got
i decree of separation in IdOl, with
fit a week allsaony, told the court
he other day that it haa coat her
marly ltd every week steee that time
eoUoet the fid.
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Hit HEWS IH Hllff
Ream of Interest Gathered By
Wire and Cable
GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO DAY
Utt Items Osrerfag Erects of More
or Less Interest at Borne aid
Abroad.
i Thj ' r*it bj ' <4ttuo ? tl ten*
"?x w.'.. * '* ^ .
M It brolftftit
1 ' t .a g ?j?av g i*er ' >* r.t:
ftf >??'., ha v-.ii'- :!* ,i . .? . !? !
^c\tt< .a ' cap.'t.i ,t v v.!, ?'h :o
uab tee water.
Little Loeretia Noma waa born
six years ago in Omaha, Neb., with a
deformed jaw. Some days ago the
argeona took away the bad part of
her jaw bone and inserted a chicken
bone in its place. The operation is
said to be a complete success.
Joseph M. Brown was inaugurated
governor of Georgia last Saturday
and.governor Hoke Smith retired ap-,
parenfly not in happy frame of mind.
" Wheatland," the home of President
James Buchanan at Lancaster,
Pa., was destroyed by lightning lost
week.
The steamship Cartigo was 150
miles from New Orleans and by wireless
called to the surgeons on shore
for a prescription for a case of blood
poison. It was promptly dispatched
and when the ship arrived Friday the
patient was improving.
Bernard J. Dobbin, while setting
a trawl got lost from his fishing vessel
by a dense fog and drifted for
eight days with a half pint of water
and a little raw fish, when picked up
almost famished and brought into
Rockland, Maine, Monday. His mates
searched for him 24 hours and he
rowed his strength away trying to
reach them. He saw a number of
vessels pass but could not attract attention.
A singular test was made in the
Chicago Appelate court last week,
where a physician claims that he was
to give patient treatment for life and
receive $100,000 at the death of the
patient. The courts declared the
contract void in that such contracts
are fraught with the temptation for
a physician to hasten the death of the
patient.
At the mortar gun practice last
week at Fort Monroe, two companies
made 50 per cent of hits while firing
so rapidl}' that each gun kept two
shots in the air at once all the time.
The Virginia Passenger and Power
Company will effect a complete physical
reorganization of its railway
lines in Richmond.
There is a strange phenomenon in
New York in the case of one Mary
Moldon, a cook. She is known as
"Typhoid Mary." She is, immune
herself, but is infested with the
germs and conveys them to those
with whom she comes in contact. She
has to be quarantined.
Evidence has been found that Leon
Ling tried to bury Elsie Sigel's body
under the floor of the Harlem laundry.
A dray was driven down Market
street in San Francisco, Monday
morning, hauling $10,000,000 in gold.
Mrs. Louis La Bartia, in New York
on Monday fired four pistol bullets
into the man that killed her husband
a year ago.
Nine deaths in Philadelphia and
ten in Chicago were recorded last
Monday as heat fatalities.
Washington News Notes.
Marines have been restored to all
the battleships and cruisers.
Ex.-Gov. W. M. O. Dawson, of
West Virginia, has been aDDointed a
United States commercial agent is
China.
Fifty babiea and six adults have
succombed to the heat in Washington
the past week.
New restrictions are imposed on
the Civil Service law by the bill providing
for the Thirteenth Census,
which was sent to the President for
his signature.
The income tax resolution was reported
to the Senate from the Finance
Committee by Senator AJdrich
Monday.
At the very last moment cotton
bagging and ammonia which enters
into the Southern fertiliser business
was voted into the senate tariff bill.
The Senate put cotton bagging and
binding twii^e on the free Hst Monday,
and closed the discussion on the
Payne-Aldrich b'\U schedules.
Extensive experiments in wireless
telegraphy will be made by the Atlantic
fleet during its war maneuvers
nflf *h. V.? J- T?1? I
VMV *?vtt Uii^iaiiu V uoai ill Iiuijr* |
The Aldrich committee and the |
Senate have made a thousand changes
in the House Tariff bill.
Foreign Affairs.
The thirteenth vain attempt of the
militant suffragettes to obtain access
to Premier Aequith by deputation
resulted in exciting scenes in Parliment
Square Wednesday night, and
in the arrest of more than 100 women
in London.
later of Great Britain and Lord
nmbia, is in London for his health
and it is rumored that he will w#
retprn to his Sooth dmarisan Stale
bat he eeeer*~ t-> * <? ?his>i
i 111 ? i m 'P' wm vmT r-wr . .
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AREGRANTEDNEW TRIAL
Supreme Court Reverses Verdict is
' the Oases Against the Murderers
of Captain Quentin Rankin on
Technical Grounds.
Jackson, Tenn., Special.?The
eases of the eight night riders, 6 of y
whom were uider the death sentence
charged with the murder of Captain
Quentin Rankn, at Walnut Log, on
Reel Foot late October 19 last, were
reversed by the State Supreme
i " ~ ' ' ' remand jd
j i f * , > ?
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*ia Ouva cv/uitij y aal'ii/ul
Cloar, Fred Pinioi, Sam Applewhite,
Tid Burton and ?oy Ransom. The
other two, Bud Morris and Bob Huffman,
were convicUi of murder in the
second degree. s?
The opinion in tie case was deliverpH
hv Snppiol .Tndlao
? J Wfrvvawa v umiVC 11C1II ^ V/I U1 iff
of Memphis, appoiited in the stead
of Justice M. M. Nil.
In reversing the <ase, he assigned
two principal reason. The first was
that the grand jury rhich found the
indictments against tie alleged night
riders, was not seelced in a proper
manner. The grand jiry was selected
out of a panel nan?d by Judge J.
E. Jones, the trial judje, whereas the
law provides the panelmust be chosen
by at least three n-inhere of the *
county court. The seond error oil
which the reversal was jased is that
the State did not allow the defendants
a sufficient numbr of challenges.
The eight were ried on one
indictment and trial cour upheld the
State's contention that te eight defendants
were only enti'ed to the
legal number of challenge, twentyfour,
which would apply ! on8 man
was on trial.
When Justice Craft conluded hie
opinion a storm of applase broke
out in the court room, but vis quickly
stopped by the marshal and hie
deputies. The nrisoners willh^ lot
en back to Union City and<,
will be made to secure theii
on bail pending a second >
their cases.
Those most active in the prose
tion of the alleged riders of K
Foot lake consider the situation n>
such as may again assume a serif,
phase. That it will be difficult l
secure a jury to again hear the case
is conceded and as yet no decision has
been reached by the representatives
of the State as to their future plans.
An immediate trial of other pending
cases of a similar nature, however, is
not looked for.
Killed Whole Family.
Aberdeen, S. D., Special.?J. W.
Christie, a farmer living near here,
his wife, his daughter Mildred, aged
18 years, nnd a boy named Roy:nainef
were murdered Saturday. Mr. Christie
was milking a cow in his barnyard
when the unknown person or
persons shot him dead.
The murderers hurried to the house .?
and fining Mrs. Christie and her
daughter and the Roymaine boy, who
was visiting at the house, they began
firing upon them. The first shots
took effect and the two women and
the boy fell dead.
It is supposed the men who com- ^
mitted the crime were acquainted to
some extent with the Christie family
nnd their habits, for few people
knew that Christie kept large sums
of money in his house. It is believed
he had several thousand dollars in
VlVC nrv> A of * ! *? ^ 1 * ? *
mo iivinc at i iic iline ox. xnf muraer*
The entire countryside is wrought
up. Bands of farmers were immediately
organized and search for the
murderers was begun. The farmers
threaten the murderers with lynching
if they are caught.
Mr. Christie was one of the most ,
prosperous farmers in the Northwest.
Continued Earth Shocks Keep Messina
Alarmed. ?
Messina, By Cable.?Seven earth
shocks of Saturday and Sunday
which have kept the populace in a .
state of Alarm. A fire broke oat in
the wreckage, and while the troops
were trying to extinguish the flames
another fire started at Milazzo, a
short distance away. .
A Woman's Heroism.
Mobile, Ala., Special.?W. L S:r:eon,
bridge-keeper for the Loi. - 1 *
ft Nashville at Bayou Sara, v'-t.,
early Thursday night wds in h
near the bridge when lightaing i . !!<-..!
I him and threw his bodv into C
water in front of his wife and ",!)
child. Mrs. Samson remained the
bridge all Thursday night ant 'ho
greater part of Friday alone wi < 1 r
child, seeing that trains could . <-1j
pass the structure. As it was not &
stopping point she could not get assistance
until Saturday when she
succeeded in flagging a train.
Boll Weevil Reaches Mississippi.
New Orleans, Special.?A reportthat
the boll weevil in its flight east*
ward has reached Pike county, Mia*
aissippi, and that several specimens '
were fonnd near Magnolia, that
State, is contained in Thb Picayune'a
weekly summary of cotton crop conditions
in Mississippi and Louisiana.
| The pest appears to have gained an
early start this season in the infested
I territory and planters are abandonI
? rr-nl ridden eotton.