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:? I /- . " * * FORT MILL TIMES. VOL. XII. FORT MILL, S. C., WEDNESDAY, M AY (!, 100:5. NO. 7. ROOSEVELT SPEAKS. A Fierce Wind Prevailed and the Cold Was Severe. MEMORABLE OCCASION INST. LOUIS Roosevelt the Only One Whose Voice Could be Heard Fifty Feet From the l?o?;trtin-> St. Louis, Special.?The buildings of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition were formally dedicated Thursday, with all pomp and ceremony. In every way. save one, the exercises were a success, and this one circumstance was the weather. The wind blew flercly from the west, sending great clouds of dust whirling into the faces of the troops as they marched past the President. and at times so nearly blinding the President that it was well nigh impossible for him to see across the street upon which the troops were marching. Added to the discomfort of the wind ami dust, was a temorature which sought for the marrow and generally reached it. The ladies, who, on the strength of the warm weather yesterday. came in summer dresses to the reviewing stand, suit red keenly, and but for the thoughtfuiness of ofTchYs commanding the guard thrown around me reviewing stand, who provided them with blankets, many of them would have been compel!' d to leave the plaee. Hath President llooscveit and Ex-President Cleveland remained in the stand exposed to the raw wind until the end of the parade, although their fares were blue and their limbs stiffened by the eold. Despite this heavy handicap, however, the ceremonies proper were splendidly handled and the programme was carried out to the letter. The paraue. which took place [ in the morning, was somewhat longer i in passing the Piesident than had been j expected, and he was fifteen minutes ' behind the si edtiled time when he was escorted liy the committee into the Liberal Arts building. In order to arrive e ven as early as that, he \ as compelled to take his noonday nmal under somewhat, uncomfortable ciivnnistanees. During the luncheon the f<>|^H was placed on a rectanzuinr irmnt^B and the* President, like everybody el^^B "helped himself." The crowd inside tent was dense when the Preside^^H with Secretary Wilson and others, tered. lie was so closely pressed when he attempted to move his nj^Hj his elbow disturbed a cup of coffee hj^^H by C.cncral Cochin. With some cult> forced the crow allow th<* distinguished guest elli^^H room, but they w a'.!?,w hi: ing more. This teuvre forced IhH adjutant n< nil out the sandiwehes, hut the President I H voted one hand to passing food to escort, while the other was dcvotci^HB his own advantage. Owing to his vantageous position the President s^^Bj felt iutile i upon to h.dp passing ,.,l,t l >111111 Mcrvn'i> hp j>? rt? . with rity and cheerfulness. Tin* impnrt^^H ceremonies in tin* I.ilnT.il \ris hn:l<l|Hpp wore handled with all possible patch. Early in the exercises woid was brought to Senator Carter, tiio President of the day. that some portions of the hall were being dangcronly congested, and he was asked to avoid tie- ; lays as far as possible. He did so. and from the lirst to last the events on the programme succeeded each other rapidly. Of all the speakers. President Roosevelt alone was able to make his I voice carry further than 50 ftjet from ' the stage. Hy 'ar the largest nart i f I me assembly could hear notning. and thousands of people ir? the rear part of the hall were constantly moving about and producing a muffled roar that would have baffled a fog horn. When the President rose to speak he was cheered to the echo. He bowed again and again, and suggested by Ids manner that quiet, be restored. Finally he mounted the board railing in front of the rostrum, where he could be seen from every part of the hall, and again motioned for silence. There was everything but silence, and President Francis suggested that he proceed with his speech and quiet would follow. Prcsl dent Roosevelt laughed and shook his head. Taking advantage of the luii be called, "Now you. my fellow-citizens, give me all the chance you can, for I need it." The chance was given and he began his address. A hurst of applause greeted hfa statement that the Dutch had done great things for the | country in its infancy, and the Presl- I dent laughed in a mannei which idnin- I ty ssua: "Tirnt means my anrcitora." Another outburst of applause, which was long continued after ho had spahen about 15 minutes, caused him to laugh and remark to President Francis, "Now they think I'm done," and when the applause died away he wont on with his speech. Dispersion < f th? Squadron Norfolk, Special,?Admiral Barke. aatuxc.cZ coxmutd of tic North At lantic squadron, and sailed for Tomr klBsville. with the battleships Kean Barge. Alabama. Iowa and Masse chusotts. which will go into dry <locl nt Brooklyn, preparatory to inaklnj their cruise to the Azores this surr. mer. The battleships Illinois and Texar the rruiser Ol.vnipin and the refrifce* atinp ship Culpoa. proceeded to Ol Poln*. The torpedo flotilla and tb small vessels which w?ro*at the drl grounds hturned t > the N ' folk nav; ya:-'h i BELIEVES PRIEST INNOCENT. Ue\. (iiHH. Iteichlin, Krotlicr <?r Hie Murdered tJirl Makes Statement. Lorainc, O.. Special.?The Rev. Chan Relchlin. pastor of St. .Joseph's church, in this city, and brother of Agatha Relchlin. who was murdered last Thursday night, Sunday made a sensational denunciation of the authorities for the arrest of Rev. Ferdinand Walser. on the charge of murdering his sister. The occasion was at the yerviees in the morning in that church and the place was from the altar steps. Father Iteichlin was greatly affected over the happenings of tlie week and could hardly speak. Several tiroes his voice was husky from emotion and he paused frequently to overcome his feelings. Father Reichiin's statement was as follows: "Various rYcnts have happened during the week past. No doubt they are a lesson to us. The lesson is that \vc tmoiiu! always no ready lor death. for we know not when it will please the Lord to call us to Himself. Avoid sin anil do good. Tha lesson is how little we can trust the world. "Brutality is not a thing that is eonfltled to so-called dark ages, li is delusively confined to non-civilized countries: it is right here at our home, ir. this twentieth century. The world see? u every day. "1 am sorry to see that Father Wuiser is connected with the murder of my sister. 1 am sorry been use I know I am convinced before God that he is absolutely innocent, and that no matter how strortg public opinion is. howspiteful. how atroi iocs that public opinion may he. it cannot make him out a murderer, the murderer of my sifetei. The time will conic* when I will give the version of the bloodhound story upon which the character of public opinion seems to be base 1. My friends, i believe Father Walser innocent until he is proven guilty. "Personally. I must say that I do not know which assault Is most brutal ?the assault of the murderer upon my sister or the assault upon the reputation of Father Walser?the assault made by public opinion upon that good priest. * "Tn your prayers pray for my poor lrlr I' fill' |iP. [ k. L i. kvo k-as the in a<[ on cor l-m lr HimflBi^aBBllj^9^'' t hi^^^nioritW^^n^iot disposed to give expression to any views. Support of the belief that a burglar committed the crime was given impetuosity by the statements of several neighbors who had seen a stranger hanging around tin* KelehMn home for several hours on tiro night of the rrime. Euiperor Visits the Tope. Rome, Ry Cable.?Kinpcrlor William was received by the Pope Sunday. He had a conference with the Pontiff of 40 minutes* duration and then returned to the residence of the Prussian minister to the Holy See. Tito day was bright and as the Emntror and Ms suite traversed the Klr< ets of Home. Mis Majccty presented Prince Fredrick William and Prince Klthel to the Pontiff. At the Vatican the Emperor was received with military honors by the. Palatin Guards and a platoon of gendarmes, and he was welcomed by the high dignitaries of the ponliflcial court. The visit of Kmperior William was returned by Cardinal Rampolla. Pupa) Secretary of State, at the Prussian legation. L: .... 1.1 ! ? .-mlihiiuus i'll 111 iiprpii i.j iiit. Chicago. Special.?Kin* destroyed the five-story building fit 131-l"i3 Wabash avenue, cuisine a less of lr.O.oOO. The principal losers are the Waterbury Clock Company; Spiegle tJios. tailors, ap.-l A. U. Spalding Co. The latter firm used the two upper stories as a store room and their loss is heavy. \ i'IhIa !' *Jiouii.. Texuc, Special.?News has reached ^iyt ot a tripe tragedy occurring Sunday morning at Bristol, an inland town 10 miles north of Ennis. Mrs. Idneberger/a woman of about CO, and lier ron. Vestus, '22 years of age, were found dead, both having been chopped to pieces, with an axe. The, husband and father, \V. ('. I.ir.oborger, aged 70. was subsequently found on bis farm, four miics north or Bristol, with his brains blown out with .i shotgun. The ! anchiij fi ^ came here from Tennessee. No cause for the tragedy ix? known. I BILL ARP. | v w 51 5' *fcfc%fe***?iK**Si?1iKK1iiatintliintK Where is my grindstone? Where is my rake and my axe? Did anybody ever hear of a negro stealing a grindstone. He stole it to sell or else he thought it was a cheese. I'll bet there are twenty negroes in sight of my house who know all about that grindstone, but they won't tell. That is a race trait?not to tell on one another. Who steals my young pigeons before we get up in the morning? We haven't had a squab to eat in three months. Mr. Cleveland made a good speech In Now York on the race problem, and so did Mr. Parkhurst, but you can't make a good citieen out of a negro without he has a master or a boss en whom he has to depend. My opinion from observation is that Tuskec gee can r no it nor any other school. The more education, the less inclination to work for a living. Where arc the Tuskecgee graduates? Just lnzying around or teaching school. ! read in yesterday's paper where a negro school teacher was caught in having made a fake list of his scholars and drew more money than he was entitled to. Hut neither Cleveland nor Park hurst nor any other northern man knows enough about the negro to talk intelligently about him. Nor does this generation of southern men know much more. Nobody knows now but the few old men who are left. Our editors and newspaper men do not know. They are all too your.," and most of them came from stock that did not own negroes in the old slavery times. I do not. assert this through conceit, but it pains and astonisl 03 me to hear northern speakers and some editors Hani the south saying that since the negro was ret free ho bad made wonderful progress, considering that for a thousand years li had been either a savage or a slave. Mr. Cleveland said "there is still a grievous amount of ignorance, ? sua amount of vieiousness and a tr mcndotts amount of laziness and thriftlessness intermingled with their citizenship." If Mr. Cleveland iiad been an old citizen of the south he would have said: "Before freedom came the negro was docile, moral. Industrious, and as intelligent as thousands of the tineducated white people of the south. Not an outrage was committed by them during the war front the Potomne to the Hio Grande. There was not a convict eamp nor a ('hanging in all the south. The marriage relation was faithfully observed, and negro families were contented and happy, for most of them had kind masters and mistresses, who would get tip itt the night and minister to their sick. Bad negroes had to be punished, of course, end so do bad white children, but it seldom had to bo done. Talk about the shackles and the chains of slavery. It is all rot and imagination. Our children have a master until they are 21. The negro had one all his life, and. as )?r. Parkhursi said. iuu.->l of them needed one. and need one now. and so <lo thousands of white people. The faet is there are but few people who have not got one. 1 do not admit that 1 have, but I have a mistress, and that is the same thing. There is not a elerk in a store, whether male or female, but is under the control of somebody; not. a conductor on a railroad nor a sailor on a ship nor a pupil in the schools nor a policeman in the towns. Nine-tenths of the people in civilized countries are subordinate to the other t nth. and it looks like everybody in these United States belongs to Teddy Roosevelt, save a few besides myself and some Mississippi bears. The old-time slaves got a good, fair education from contact with their masters and their mnctci-'j /.s ;ia and that is where they had the advantage of the poor whites. Most all of the family servants could read, notwithstanding there was a law for bidding their being taught, shackles and chains! Where is my grindstone and my rake and my ax ? The negro, especially tho3c of the copper colored type (I don't mean mulattos) are naturalborn in chunks. We had in (Jeorgia more negro carpenters, blacksmiths and shoemakers than there were whites of the same trade. These kind of mechanics are all over the State now. nut they man i come from Tuskeegee. For several year:; I have been looking for a laboring graduatt of that school or any other negro . chool. but hav not found one. , A New York friend told me not long ?K<> mai i could nun nrt.v of them as waiters in one hotel in New York city. That is all right. The money for their education came from up there and we can spare the whole turnout. "Just emerged from bondage and ig norancc and were a thousand year.; behind the white race when their shackles were knocked off."' On. my country: wnere is my gridbtone'.' before those imaginary shackles were knocked off our slaves wore so obedient and law-abiding we did not need a prison, and now there are -t.40fi in the chain gangs of Georgia. Wonderful progress! With all their edi ea io;l they are moaner, lazier, dirtier and ten times more immoral In their domestic relations thnn ever before. And yet some southern editors boast of their acquisition of property and run it up in the millions. Of course there arc some good and some thrifty negroes who have made money, hut they are not f> per cent*of the masses. Oru- negro in this town is worth more money than all the rest. The cities are full of vagabonds who play craps ami steal atnl snatch purses from women and fcurglarizr houses and k'op women ahd < iiildrett In a stnio of eon stnnt alarm. Stealing is as much a race trait with them as it is annum the Hedowin Arabs. Where are my young pigeons and what becomes of my atove wood and <oal? No our editors ar> too young to re alize the UifTerenee between now and then. Why. my faithful man suvant Tip could tell them more about slavery than they all know. Did I ever whip Tip1 No. never. 1 never thought of such a thhig I never whipped but one of my negroes. My wife's father. Judge llutehine. owned over a hundred and I never heard of him whip ping one or mem. ne nad one very i)a(l negro who got mad and run away and stayed in the woods a month out of spite and when he got tired ( and ?ante home the old judge drove , him oft" again and told him to stay in the woods, that he didn't, want him any more, hut he finally begg -l his way hack and gave no more trouble. Chains and shackles! Mr. Limoln knocked them off of his. There are i many kinds of chains, hut the ehains ' ef siav ry were not to he compared with the ehains of the ehain gang or the ehains of matrimony that many a poor wife is suffering from. Now let us hear no nvore about rhackles nor about the negro being a : thousand years behind the white man. | The truth is the old time negro was morally a thousand years ahead of tho rascals up north who brought him hotv in slave ships and sold hini to us because they could not use them at home. But the Lord is merciful and wo had rather endure the negro than listen to northern slanders. They have just found a mare's nest. If it has taken them forty years to realize their folly, how long will it take them to pay us for what they swindled us out of? Where is in> grindstone? It. was an unshackled nigger that stole it. and the folks that unshackled him ought to pay f.ir it.? Hill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. HATS ARE A HABIT. Those Used to Going Without Head Coverings Seem Healthy. Some time ago I spoke of a young iticnd ?>( tu:*:o who had recently given up wearing a hat on every occasion when his mental condition was not liable to be Questioned. I scarcely tuink he lias pursued his laudable purpose during the r? ? ut severe weather. Hut I believe it you lake to this hind of thins early enough you may make it last tV.ougl out your life. I know the other day. going along Pall Mall on one of the coldest days we have had this season. I saw one of ' the smallest hluecoat hoys it lias ever ! been my fortune to behold, of course without a liead-coverlng, but lie did not stem to feel the cold in the leastHe was bright and rosy, he chattered gayly. he laughed merrily, he sioppod ! and lonke.t in m ?in. ?? r?* ?w | # niUUUWP, and he sauntered alone: s!' wly as if it i wore a summer's day. i I inused over this infinitesimal bluo; coat hoy and marveled at his independenc-e of the rutting northeast I winds and biting frost, and I wondered ! whether colds in the head were on tirely due to wearing hats. And then 1 noted that he wore yellow stockings. Now. possibly, yellow stockings arc an antidote to all hibernal misery, and that is why ray young . friend looked to jovial, while all of us around him were steeped in fur ! coats and mufflers and misery. 1 do not. somehow, think I hat 1 | should look well In yellow stockings, ; but 1 would gladly don a pair if they wnnlH rnrp mo "f '?"> I from which I am now suffering. I should like to see an article in the Lancet on "Yellow Stockings as a Cure for Catarrh."?Ixmdon Graphic. STORIES TOLD OF LAWYERS. Gocd Tales Culled From English Illustrated Magazine. Some interesting anecdotes and gosj sip. new and old. of the law courts I arc given In tin' English Illustrated j Magazine. The writer of (he article. | Mr. A. J. Hughes, was once present ; in court when a juror who opened tho ball by saying: "This rase, my lord, really lies in a nutshell," received tho reply, "You erark it then." There have been times when elever witnesses have got the better of counsel in a skirmish of words. When the | farrier was asked where he got his ; knowledge of tho mare's age from, ho said: From the mare's own mouth, sir." Irish lawyers are generally endowed by Dame Nature with quirk wits. Among them all. perhaps. Curran hold the palm for lightness and vivacity. When someone told him that ",o student should be railed to the bar who did not oossrss n lanrlPil ! of his ovn, he retorted. "How inany acres make a wiseacre?" But it was a Scotsman, appropriately enough Lord Brougham, who, seeing his horses take fright, >clled to the coachman, "Drivo ioto something cheap!" , ;? Point Overlooked. Superintendent Smith of the Manm hattan elevated road was showing a Western railioad man over the system the other day. When they camo to the junction at Ninth avenue and Fifty-Third street the Chicago man remarked. with evident astonishment: "I don't see any derailing switches to prevent collisions." "Oreat Scott, man," exclaimed the Manhattan man. "do you consider how far a derailed train would have to diop?" BRYAN ON ROADS. General Miles Favors Governmental Aid in Improving the Roads. FARMERS SHOULD INSIST ON TliEM. j ?_ ? j Some of the Honey Squandered in the Philippine.* Could have Been Used in I'll at Respect. St. Louis. Special. At the second day's session of the National and International (loud Roads <'onv<ntion. lien. Nolson A Miles, who is president of the national highway commission, made an address on "Military Heads and a National Ilighwa> " and said in part: "Our government lias expended $500.?Mto,mm for tiie improvement of our harbors and waterways, and now the attention of the public is being ealled to our postal roads and avenues. of communication that are most useful and important to all our people. if surh expenditures of the national Treasury have been made in the past for the development of railroads and waterways, is it not now a most appropriate time that the improvement of our roads should receive na , i in inn ihhi. poverninontal aid?" Ex-Govornor liopp, v?f Texas, pointed out th?> necessity for pood roads, which, lie believed, could be secured only throuph the aid of the national poverniuent. He spoke of the insular policy v?f the poverniuent. an.l said if some money that is hoiup squandered in the Philippines could l?e used here in the improv mont of the highways, our roads would be in ; far better condition. Wnt J. llryan spoke at the after ! noon session, rcceivinp an ovation, lie said in part: "Tiie expenditure of money for the pcrmun at improvenn nt of the common roads can l??? defended, first as a matter of justice to the people who live in the country; second as a matter of advantage to the people who do not live in the country, and third, on the pround that the wel| fare of the nation demands that the | comforts of countrv I if.. Oiiili nu f-.t I as possible, ket p pace with the com forts of city life. It is a well known fact or a fact easily ascertained .that the people in the country, while pay ins their full share of county. State and Federal taxes, receive as a rule only the general be nefits of - govern ment. while the people in the cities have, in addition, good streets, side walks, etc. "The improvement of the country roads can be justified also on tie ground that the farmer, the first ami most imfKirtant of the producers <>! I wealth, ought to be in a position tu I hold his crop and market it at the ! most favorable opportunity, whereas | at present lie is virtually under com I pulsion to sell it as soon as it is xnaI furrtl hi?pnuv:i? tin* ???.?.. 1 I ? > v - iwavio ina> i?u-t\MJIt I impassable at any time during tin fall, winter or spring. Instead of he iiiR his own warehouseman, the far iner is compelled to employ middlemen land share with them the profit upon j his lahor. The farmer has a right, too ; to insist upon roads that will enahh j him to go tv? town, to ehureh. to tin ' school house and to the homes of hi: j n? ighhors as occasion may require ! and with the extension of rural deliv ery as lie has an additional need tot good roads in order that he may b< kept In communication with the out side world." Ilearst Married. New York Sneeinl ?P inonmum<1n elect. William Randolph Hearst, pro ' prietor of The New York American i Now York Kvonlng Journal. Chicane American, ami The San Francipco E\ ! aminer. was married here to Miss Mil j lirent Willpon. daughter r>f (ieorge H , Willson. president of the Advane: ! Music Company, of this city. The cere ! many was performed in the < hantry n\ i (trace church. Bishop Potter ofliciat j Ing. A number of the personal fricn 1: ! of the couple were present. Mr Hearst's best man was O.rln Peek, ol San Francisco, and the witnesses wen S. S. Carvelho and P. J. Marr. Tin newly-married couple will sail by th? steain< r Kaiser Wilhelm II this after noon for Kuropo. (Jets S'x Years. | \ Atlanta. Special.?(5. Hall man Sims Tuesday pleaded guilty to the emhez /.lenient of $94,000 of tl o funds of th< Capital City National Bank* and \va. sentenced to six yea s in the Fodera prison. Sims was collection clerk o the bank, and was for some time : nrhmincni fl mir*. !n ? U/_ ?? !? ! ? - - ' - Ufiui c ?w 11: v ruv-iai WUIII of Atlanta. liffort Hails. Tallahafci.ee. Fla., Speclal.*-~Repro scntative Long introduced a join resolution projjcsing an amendment t the constitution providing that in th collection of taxes a separate if con be kept of all taxes paid by white am colored tax-payers and that the schoc fund derived from taxing each race h devoted exclusively to schools of tha race. Thirty-nine voted for the amend ment to four against it. A change i the eonstltutlon requires a tlire< fifths vote of all the members elerte to each house. Many did not vote o the amendment, and It lacked two c ' receiving the required majority. / THE PRESIDENT IN ST. LOUIS 1 lie Chief IZxcetitive \\ as Takert Immediately to (iood Roads fleet. St l.oni- SiMM-ial President Roofo volt arrived Wednesday afternoon to participate in tin* dedication ceremoni??R of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. ! was expected generally that ho wciiM have his train at the union station and a dense throng had congregated there. But to avoid such an assemblage thorp, arrangement wore made to have him have the train at Forsythe Junction. three miles front the centre of the city. Members of the national commission of the World's Fair, a reception commPVo headed by President Francis and a crowd of spectators were present to welcome the President. President Francis, of the Louisiana Putohp.-a* Exposition, seized the hand of the President and cave him an in (onii:iI wt'lrnnic to St. Louis. Mayor Wells ami other# shook hands with the President. who was at once driven otT to th" good road.; convention. Just as the earri ige started, a middle-aged woman rushed through tIt** line of officers. wildly waving her handkerchief and vociferously > hi ering the Prcsii dent. She attempted t? reach i:i and seize his hand, hut the quickening pare j of the h >rs s p:< vented and although she ran afu r ilie v hide, sliil cheering' and waving her handkerchief for ih? distance of half a biock, she was tinaliy distanced and lust in the crowd. The military companies and n platoon of police had hocn waiting two blocks awa\ and as soon as the line of carriages apt eared a slower march wan , taken up to .-over the three miles to Oden Hall. lVotdc were congregated along tin' strcetn an I wi'dly cheering as the President passed. He continually doffed his hat in acknowledgement. The halt was packed with a. crowd | which had been waiting patiently for I hours. The President spoke of good roads in nous which showed, as well as his t i words, thai he was thoroughly in sym, pathy with the object of the asslciations. "Roads," he declared, "tell fho greatms of a nn ion. The influence of ! | the nations which have not hecn roadj hnild is has bcei. evanescent. Rome, 1 j the most powerful of I lie old civilizations. left her imprisson literature and p - . h: .<> changed the iHiuudaries of ! | nations. but plainer than anything else left to r unhid lis of the Roman i civilization, are the Roman roads." At 1 this point in ih - President's speech the . crowd rose, cheered and waved hats and hnn Ikcrchh fs. The President. de! | clarcd that good roads probably were the greatest am my for regulating the i flow from th country to the city o. i young men and young women. Prom Od( on Hall the President was 'driven at a sharp trot to St. lx>uis University. A few minutes wore spenr. lure, inter which the President anil other guests repaired to the homo of President Pram is for dinner. > President C!< v* land nrrlveil over the IViltiniore .v Ohio Southwestern at !?;30 i 'chick. 2f? minims late, and a Inry.o rc| reptlon committer \v:.s wait in}? for hint. The member?' o tin diplomatic corps ariivtd shortly before. Ar Mr. Cleve lan I al'mlitri from the train, he was vaunly if 1 hy .President Francis. \vh.? had driven rapidly to the depot i after Krctin?; Prsidont Roosevelt at i l'orrythe .i'Mu ;i<>n. The members of the committee iov V I around and Mr, Cleveland v. , amble to proceed for > si vera I i .. i . so thick was the .... 1 .. . tins'. o passage wan dually cleared and wit!' President j Franc's he waited through th" aisles. ; formed l?v tho rmw.l and entering a : < arrlapo was drivi 11 t.t the rcsldcnco of I?:t i", i where President ; Roost v. It is also a gnert. Kdled Ict S\ r i k. Torre Haute. Intl., Special.?Three - pcr. ons w* re killed, two fatally injur. ed and a down v 'dourly injured in a ? wreck in tin' raiiroid yards here Tuesday niy.kf. A west-hound V'andalia train struck a switch engine and two . c:ii! ncn t '?? ! ii riilnri ! Steel Mill. The > Idil'd art (Mar-m linrnhart, Colutn ! 1ms. t).: Nicholas A. Lutz. baggage f muster: ttni(!ot:ti!ietl man. Attached *o tin train was a special car carrying i , ' party of 21 p> -do from Philadelphia . ' tr? the notional V. M. C. A. convention r j Topeka. Kansas. Another car carried > the New Jersey d< I .gallon to the > l.ouisiara Purchase Exposition dedilation. N<>?" of the members of eith t parte w s injttrcd. The killed and injured were in the day coach. 11 ft S cars Old. .MimiUt. :ncry. Ala.. Special.? Mrs. Marsjiia Keiih. Liu* oldest person !rs 1 A5a! arn?. diel Wednesday, having < celebrated r 1 Hhh birthday March 1 i. Sli- retained her intellectual facult ! 1 *s till death. She had IS children. * Jl livlr. : r. nndc htldrcn, 2<> great' grandchildren and two groat greatgrandchildren. Lumber L5o.it [)!<fihUJ, Newport News, Vn.. Special?The t ; r.c.v lumber ship Frauds H. Lcggett. 0 | frcm Newport News to San Francisco, c' 1 rtnrnc 1 to r'irt, having 1? en badly 1 crl| pled in a yale otT Hatteraa. On ^ her v(iva?:> out to her gome port, fIio ran into a nasty northcar.ter. H?r n steering rear broke and the vessel, I which has very little free board, ship,, pod a quantity of water. With Jiffleult.v she was brought rbout and pro ,j ceeded to the shipyard here for reii pair p. The Lcggett b;ul en board 1.300 ,f lens steel rails and two locomotive f the 1 li.eia-.cnd Lumber Company.