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16TH YEAR
TWO SAD DEATHS
Two Young Men 60 To a Watery
Grave While Fishing.
THE BODIES FOUND.
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They Visit Their Trout Line on the
Dam :ln a Bateau, and Not Returning,
Causes Alarm and L<eada to a
Search, Which Results in the Find-'
ing of the Bodies of the Two
Young Men.
Early Thursday morning the news
was received in Anderson of the
drowning of J. C. Walker and John
Dickson, which occurred at 2 o'clock
that morning on the pond of the Belton
Power Company, six and a half
miles from Helton, on the Saluda River.
Both of these young gentlemen
were well known in Anderson, as it
waB their former home.
It seems that the two men set out
trout lines across the pond Wednesday
evening, and at two o'clock last
Thursday morning they were in a
batteau visiting the lines, when the
batteau capsized for some unknown
reason.
Ab neither of the gentlemen returned
to their home in time to go
to work Thursday morning, a search
for them was made. The lifeless
uouy 01 air. waiKer was round on one
of the hooke of the trout line.. The
body of Mr. Dickson was found about
noon about 40 feet below where the
boat turned over.
Mr. Walker and Mr. Dickson were
brothers-in-law. They were electrical
engineers and were In charge of
the power house at the 6am. They
had been connected with the company
only a short time. Both were
about twenty-five years of age.
Mr. Walker worked at the sub-station
of the Anderson Power Company
four or Ave years. He left his
position there about five months ago.
He went down on the Laurens road
of the Charleston and Western Carolina
Railroad and from there he
went to work at the Belton dam. He
married Miss Bessie Dickson, the sister
of John Dickson and the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Dickson,
who are now residents of Anderson.
Ills wife survives him.
Mr. Dickson wurked at the substation
with Mr. Walker two years.
He left the services of the Anderson
Water, Light and Power Company
last February, when he moved his
family to tht Belton power dam. Mr.
Dickson married Miss Rossle Kay,
who, with a child of two years and
a child of one week, survive him.
The mother, father, sister _ and
brother of Mr. Dickson went to the
scene of the horrible accident Wednesday
morning. The bodies of the
men were carried to Anderson where
the Interment took place.
MATRIMONIAL SWINDLE.
Victim of lilt Desire to Wed a Titled
n oman.
The arrest of Johann Fiedler, a
tradesman, of Hermannstedt in Transylvania,
am' his wife has revealed a
bare-faced avindle practiced on a
simple mlndid but welthy land owner
of Roumanan nationality named
Konstantan Irateanu.
Fiedler leirning that it was Brateanu's
ambiion to marry a lady of
title introdii-ed him to Frau Fiedler
who posed a? the Baroness Ida Kun
who was unnarried and possessed of
$100,000, Inher own right.
Frau Fieder played her part with
complete sucess, and on the day of
her betrothil her husband received
$15,000? as a commission. Fiedler
next offered to obtain for Brateanu
the title of laron from the Hungarian
Government for another $5,000,
nnrl thia ti\i (ha filmnla lunHnwnar
paid.
Then Fleder and his wife vanished
and Brkeanu realized for the
first time hehad been victimized. ?
tka;fic in wivkm.
Said to be ?Uite a Practice Arnold
Frnch Peasants.
The court of the Haute Loire at
Paris has beore it a case brought by
n peasant wio claims $600 damage?
from anothe peasant for the nonfulfillment
of a contract for the sale of
bis wife. ,
The man who brought the action
bargained tobuy the wife of a neighbor
for $6(0. When the woman
heard of thetransaction she not only
refused to l?ve her husband's house
but told the two men strongly what
she thought ?f them. ,
The buyej wbb furious at not being
able to (btain the execution of s
contract dub drawn up and signed
and he deteimlned to seek legal redress.
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It Is statel that the sale and purchases
of wives have taken place
several timet during recent years.
BITTtN BY WILDCAT.
Never Flinched or Murmured Undei
Preset: *e of Beast 's Jaws.
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When a viMous wild cat bit Henr]
T. Justice in the ankle while he wai
hunting in .he Maine woods, San
Prevost, aa Milde, was astonished a
his employer's bravery.
Justice nerer winced nor made at
orlng to tear.the flesh he took earefu
oring to tear the flest he took earefu
aim and fired at the animal. H
missed the cat and it escaped.
The guide, after he had recovers
from his astonishment at the wonder
ful exhibition of bravery, suggests
that they hurry to a doctor. "No.
said Justice, "what we need la a car
penter. You see the cat bit my oorl
leg."
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CITY WIPED OUT I
In Mexico by a Sudden and De- i
structive Earthquake.
It is Reported That Fire Hundred
People Were Killed by the Terrible
Disaster.
A dispatch from Chilpanclngo,
Mexico, says that city has been completely
destroyed by one of the most
serious enrthniiskaa th.t ?>.. ???
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visited that section. Up to Monday
evening the known dead number 11,
and the badly Injured seven.
panic prevails everywhere and
people are fleeing to the open country.
The earth continues to rock at
half hour intervals, and many minor
shocks completed the work ot destruction.
All telegraphic communication to
the outside world ceased shortly after
11:60 o'clock Monday night, when
the first shock was felt. The telegraph
operators have Installed temporary
quarters In an open square.
The town of Chllapa, 42 kilometers
to the northeastward, has also
been destroyed. As yet no details
have been received as to the number
of dead and wounded, but It is feared
| that the number will be large.
Both the volcanoes of Collma and
Jorullo are In this region and the
people fear that the recent eruption
of the earth may cause these mountains
to become more active and to
debtroy much property and many
lives.
A dispatch from the City of Mexico
says the National Bank of Mexico
has received a telegram saying that
500 lives were lost In the destruction
ot Chllpanclngo and Chllapa. The
telegram adds that both cities were
completely destroyed. In governmental
circles the report Is not credited.
It is admitted that both cities were (
severely damnired hut It in nnt
thought that the death list will even
approximate 500 owing to the fact
that the houses are massive affairs,
built of stone In order to resist earthquake
shocks.
The government of the state of
Ouerrero has dispatched military engineers
and troops to the destroyed
district and the work of rescue and
sanitation Is being carried on in a
systematic way.
A dispatch from the City of Mexico
on Monday night says heavy earthquake
Bhocks continued on the west
| coast until 4 o'clock Monday morning.
At that date news from the
area of greatest destruction shows
that the devastation was greater than
at first supposed.
Besides the destruction of Chllpaniclngo
and Chilapa, It Is now reported
that Tlxtla, between these two
cities, containing about the same pop
ulatlon as Chllpanlclngo, was also
leveled.
Messengers from the coaBt who
have reached Chllpanlclngo say that
the towns of Ayutlo and Ometepec
have been destroyed and that the loss
of life Is very heavy. It will be several
days before full porticulars will
be received.
BAD STATE OF AVFAIKS
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One of tiie Troubles Small Counties I
Have to Contend With.
According to a letter containing
much vigorous language, Governor
Ansel received Thursday from Mr. W.
N. Faulting publisher of the Echo
and Press at Monck's Corner, in Berkeley
county, somebody has been
tampering with the court schedule in
that neck of the woods for the purpose
of securing delay in the trial of
a number of criminal cases.
Mr. Faulting encloses an editorial
clipping from his paper, which cries
out against "the shame that has been
practiced against the people of Berkeley
county." He sayB that for some
reason, which he 1b unable to explain
but on which Senator Haynes of the
county may be able to throw some
lght, the February term of court was
massed up altogether, although the
criminal docket was the heaviest in
'.he history of the county. Ave murder
-aces awaiting trial now.
And according to the new court
chedule for Berkeley, which was
.rovlded for in tho last legislature
here will bo no more regular terms
till next September, which will be 12
months from the last term. Mr.
faulting says the chief justice has
signed an order for a special term to
be held this month, but he wants the
governor to look into the situation
' generally.
In the editorial clipping some
i judge, whose name Is not called. Is
severely scored for enquiring when
i the next train left Monck's Corner
Boon as be landed In town. The edii
tor says that the next Judge who
; came to hold court there should have
the fact Impressed upon his mind
that Berkeley is a part of the State.
WAS A MAI) MAN.
Champ Clark Relates an Incident lit
' Gridiron Dinner.
Champ Clark of Missouri made a
speech at Dea Moines the other evening
in the course of which he snid
r that the half had not been told of the
Incidents at tho Gridiron dinner at
which Foraksr and Roosevelt slashed
at each other.
"I was sitting a little way from the
B President," he said, "and say, I have
1 seen six men meet violent death at
1 different times, but I never Raw a
madder man than Roosevelt was at
? that time In my whole life."
"If," he continued, "we compel the
1 Harrlman-Blise-Odel gang to tell the
0 trnth about the campaign contrlbu
tions, wg would sweep the country.
a If we had a district attorney in New
'' York that was worth powder and
? lead to blow him to hell. Sing Sing
would be so full oi those thelving He"*
publican bosses that their arms and
* legs would be sticking out of the
windowa."
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WHOLE WORLD
Was In the Throes of Hugh Earthouaks
Last Weak.
THOUSANDS KILLED.
The Series Has Been Most General
and Severe in History and Were
Accompanied By Darkness, Lightning
Storms and the Stifling Odor
Burning Sulphur. Authorities Trying
to Suppress Real Loss of Life.
Dispatches received from four continents
indicated that the whole
world has been in the throeB of a remarkable
series of earthquakes.
More than 1,000 lives have been
088 in Merlco and many towns have
seen swallowed in the rents of the
sarth.
Violent earthquakes are reported
n the Russian trans-Caspian terrlx>ry
in Asia; in Southern Spain, in
Tyrol and throughout Turkey and
3yria. The startling eruption of a
rolcano in Chile is accompanied by
larkness, lightning, storms and the
itlfling odor of burning sulphur.
A H lultntn). * CI ?
uiopawu tiuiu t:41 r aou, i l*aub,
lays more than a thousand persons
were killed In the earthquake which
levastated the territory southwest
)f Mexico City.
The list of dead may be increased
greatly, according to late dispatches
ecelvod Friday from the affected
:ountry. New volcanoes have brokm
out and the burning lava has set
9re to the forests and people and live
itock are fleeing for their lives.
Scores of towns lying between Mexico
City and the Pacific ocean have
aeen wiped out by the earthquakes
In many instances the earth opened
ind In the great chasms thus formed,
iwallowed whole vllllges.
The greatest damage done beween
the City of Mexico and the Colma
volcano, which seemed to be tho
itartlng point of the disturbance. Coima
is now in violent eruption, the
lost severe In the history of Mexico,
ind no estimate can now be placed
>n the extent of the damage done or
ret to be done.
One of the most alarming feature"
s the indication that there >an been
i large Iobb of life in the City of Mexco,
a fact which the authorities are
.rylng to suppress. Efforts to comnunlcate
with the authorities have
tailed, but prlvat advices to comnerclal
houses say that the loss of
lfe has been heavy, but that no anaouncement
would be made by the
ifllcials.
Messages received at the town of
laurez, In Mexico, just across the
river from El Paso, say that when all
af the dead In the scores of towns
and vintages to the southwest have
been enumerated, tne list of dead
will far exceed 1,000.
This series of earthquakes was the
most severe in the history of the
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UWUllW.T. iiUl KJIUJ U1U Lilt? UlolUI IJUllUv?
extend froin Mexico City to Colima,
but there was a grent disturbance on
the bottom of the gulf of Mexico.
Fishing boats returning from the
red snapped banks report that they
were overtaken by most remarkable
storms In which cross tides attacked
them, water spouts appeared, and
great columns of steam shot from the
ocean. Several of these boats were
made so hot by the steam from the
sea that ice which their fish were
packed with, was melted.
All of the railroad lines in the
southern and western part of Mexico,
have been practically destroyed. In
scores of places the roadbed was carried
completely away.
This has interfered greatly with
the execution of the government's
measnres of relief. The bishop of
Chilapa telegraphs that the destruction
of Chilapa was almost complete
that in many instances whole families
were killed and that the need of
relief was urgent.
The tidal wave which swept over
the town of Acapulo did great damage.
The tigal waze led two meterologists
to believe that the earthquake
was of world-wide dimensions.
HK OKTS BIG PAY.
,?ohn Hays Hammond Highest Paid
Man in the World.
John Hays Hammond, the mining
engineer of New York, receives a salary
aggregating $800,000 a year,
which is more money than any other
man ever received for his personal
services. Men make millions on investments
or by manipulations of
speculations, but Hammond is the
only man in the world who is paid so
nearly a million dollars a year for
professional advieo.
Hammond is the greatest soldier
of fortune of modern times, perhaps
of all times, and was the model from
which Richard Harding Davis drew
his hero In "Sollders of Fortune."
He was horn in San Francisco flftytwo
years ago. and graduated from
the Shoeld Scientific School of Yale.
During his boyhood In California he
heard and dreamed of nothing hut
gold, for the Western coast was gold
mad during this period.
.Convict Killed.
In an attempt to escape from the
penitentiary at Raliegh, N. C., Thursday
by three young convicts, one ol
them. C. L. Scruggs, was killed and
the others. Jack Williams and Dodd
Wilson, were recaptured, by the
guard.
Killed His Son.
At GAdsden, Ala., 0. P. Dodson, a
telegraph operator, shot and killed
his three-year-old son Thursday while
In a demented condition, and at the
game time tried to kill his wife. He
escaped to the woods, but was lateel
captured by aid of dogs.
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J. C., THURSDAY,,
POISON PLOT
May Kill Three Little Children
In the City of Chicago
Father and Mother Slain. All the
Victims Suddenly 111 After Eating
Oatmeal. ? - ?
Three of the surviving members
of the ill-fated Mette family, of No.
2849 North Harding avenue, are dying
at the Swedish Hospital, Bow
mauTine, xjiucaKu, uti a result or a
second poison plot discovered Thursday
by the Irving Park Authorities,
in the poison mystery that haB already
resulted in the death of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Mette, father and
mother of the latest victims.
One member only of the family
which consisted of father mother
and four children, is now in danger
of death. This is Mrs. Mary Sladek.
the married daughter, who is now at
Dunning being examined for her sanity.
The names of the victims of what
the police believe to be a new attempj
to exterminate the entire Mette family
are: Joseph Mette. nineteen;
Rudolph Mette, thirteen; Frank
Mette, Jr., ten. All of the victims
became suddenly ill Thursday after
eating oatmeal for breakfast.
The boys were unconscious when
the policeman arrived and placed
them In the ambulance. It was dlB
w?ciou iucik who iiu room ior me
victims in Dunning Hospital. The
police took them on to the Swedish
Hospital in Bowmanville, the institution
where their father died.
"The condition of the three boys
is so serious that they are likely to
die at any time," said Captain Haines.
"One of them will not recover
and there is little chance for the
others."
Lieutenant Collins, of the Irving
Park police station, detailed a dozen
policemen and detectives on the case.
^ quantity of the oatmeal found on
the table was given to a cat. which
at once was thrown into spasms. The
police are now certain that food in
the house is Impregnated with poison.
Mrs. Mary Sladek, who was taken
to Dunning Hospital, was again examined
for the "third degree."
Coupled with this renewal of activity
by the police came the report
that Emil Sladek. husband of Mrs.
Mary Sladek is about to bring suit
for divorce, having left her and gone
to Los Angeles.
The police say the woman was on 5
the verge of a breakdown and a confession
was expected momentarily.
The Coroner says the woman is not
insane.
MILLION DOLLARS ASKED
Ah a Hansom for the Little Stolen
Marvin Boy.
A dispatch from Dover. Del., says
one million dollars is the ransom
asked for little Horace Marvin by
Salvotore Antone, of Hoboken, from
whom Dr. Marvin received a letter
Thursday morning.
Antone says he has the child in
his custody, and if an advertisement
is Inserted in a New York paper telling
where Dr. Marvin will meet him,
he will deliver the baby. On the
back of Antone's letter, a large black
hand was drawn.
Dr. Marvin received about thirty
letters Thursday morning from all
parts of the country. Most of them
ofTered condolence, the w Titers expressing
the belief that the child 1j
dead. One writer suggested that D*\
Marvin advertice in the papers of 10
largest cities cf the country. Cleveland
was underscored several timed.
Dr. Marvin said he would advertise
in all the Cleveland papers.
Dr. Marvin was informed Thursday
morning that the Pinkerton detectives,
who had been working on the
case, since the child was reported
missing, had withdrawn.
The distracted father wad hurriedly
summoned from the Capitol Hotel
Thursday morning by the report
that hia baby had been found dead
in the woods near the farm at Dover,
Del. The rumor proved to be untrue.
MANY WAIt SHIPS.
Will Be in the Fleet During the Kxposltion.
Never In the history of the United
States Navy has there been such a
formidable array of warships as that
will Rather in Hampton Roads this
month to participate in the Jamestown
Exposition ,
The largest fleet ever previously
assembled under the command of one
United States naval officer was that
which was reviewed by President
Roosevelt in Long Island. September
3. 1906.
While the Jamestown aggregation
of fighting sea monsters will not
quite equal that of Oyster Bay In
number of numerical strength, it will
surpass it in fighting power, and
counting the foreign vessels of war,
i which will form a part of the naval
display, the Jamestown fleet will be
! superior to the review last fall.
I Visitors to Jamestown, however,
I will be given the opportunity to see
> both fleets, for the navy department
has decided to place in the government
building an exact reproduction
by model of the Long Island Fleet,
i Rear Admiral Evans will be in comI
mand of the Jamestown fleet, which
5 will consist of 36 war-vessels. There
) will be 16 first class and one second
i class battleship, whereas the Oystei
I Bay fleet contained only 12 battleships.
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U'KII. 25.1907.
THE OLD VETS
Program of the Reunion to Be
Held In Columbia
WILL HAVE BIG TIME.
The Sponsors Are Provided For.
Thejr Will Be Given Reception
and Ball. In Most of the Events,
However, Place of Honor Has Been
Reserved for the Old Confederate
Veterans.
Mr. E. B. Clark, chairman of the
committee of the chamber of commerce
which has charge of the preparations
for the Confederate reunion
at Columbia May 7-9, has completed
the detailed program. It is as follows:
Tuesday, May 7.
11 a. m.?Presentation of Gen
Johnson Haygood's portrait at Columbia
theatre.
12 m. to 5 p. m.?Band Music on
Main street.
5 p. m. to 7 p. m.?Reception to
Sponsors at Metropolitan club.
8 p. m. to 10 p. m.?Concert on
capitol grounds by Columbia Brass
band.
8.30 p. m.? Columbia Theatre.
Wednesday, May 8.
9:30 a. m.?Assembly of all who
will occupy seats on the stage at the
Columbia theatre. This will include
all specially invited guests, the may
or and aldermen of the city of Col- ,
umbia, participants in the program. ,
members of the reunion executive
and reception committees and the
auxiliary executive committee of ladles,
the commander of the army of
. . orthern Virginia, and staff, commander
of the Btate division and
staff urigade commanders, commander
of the state division, sons of veterans
and staff; president of the state
organization of Daughters of the |
Confederacy, and the department, division,
brigade and regimental spon- ,
sors of the U. C. V.
10 a. m.?Opening exercises of the
annual reunion of the state division.
United Confederate veterans, the pro- !
gram being as follows:
Overture, Columbia ochestra; dox
ology, assembly called to order, Capt. .
W. D. Starling, commander of Camp ]
Hampton; opening prayer, Rev. Dr. j
J. W. Fllnn; address of wescome on ,
behalf of the city of Columbia. Hon. ,
T. H. Glbbes; music, Columbia or- ,
chestra; address of welcome on behalf
of the Columbia chamber of com- ,
merce. Gen. Wilie Jones, president; j
music, Columbia orchestra; address
of welcome on behalf of Camp Maxey
Gregg, U. S- C. V., Hon. Porter
McMaBter, commander; music. Columbia
orchester; address of welcome
on behalf of Camp Hampton, Col. U.
R. Brooks; music, Columbia orchestra;
address of welcome to the Confederate
veterans by his excellency,
Hon. M. F. Ansel, governor of South
Carolina: resnonse on behalf of the
South Carolina division, U. C. V.. by
General Thomas W. Carwile; music,
Columbia Orchestra; reunion formally
opened; ceremonial tribute of respect
to the Confederate dead by the
assembly; presentation of credentials
and calling rolls of camps, annuoncements,
adjournment.
4 p. m.?Reunion assembles at Columbia
theatre; visit of children of
the city schools.
4:30 p. m.?Business session.
8 p. m.?Presentation of sponsors
atColumbia theatre by Hon. George
Bell Tlmmerman; music, Columbia
orchestra; response on behalf of the
sponsors by Miss Grace Lumkin.
9 p. m.?Presentation of the comedy
drama, "For Her Country's Sake.
Thursday, May O.
9 a. m.?Reunion assembles for
business.
12 m.? Delivery of the anual address
to the division by Hon. Andrew
Crawford.
5 p. m.?Annual veteran's parade
headed by military and flower children.
Line of march from postottlce
to state house.
5:30 p. m.?Reception to the Confederate
veterans by the ladles and
children of Columbia on the eapitol
steps.
8 p. m.?Reunion assembles for
business.
8:30 p. m.?Experience meeting.
9 p. m.?Confederate war tableau
and camp scenes, "Auld Lang Syne;"
final adjournment.
10 p. m.?Annual reunion ball at
Craven Hall.
nfii ikiuuuvuA IIV Til AlkV
iillm i/ior mioaiiA a a?i
What Was Taken During the First
Month.
According to figures which State
Auditor W. B. West has Just checked
up, the gross sale of the Carey-Cothran
dispensary liquor throughout the
State for March, the first month of
business since the new system was
inaugurated, amounted to $153,444,66.
There are now only nineteen
countios under the new system, and
some of these, particularly Charleston,
did not get started under the
new system at once.
The sales by counties were:
Abbeville $ 5,553.85
Aiken 7,917.19
Bamberg 2,668.90
Barnwell 2,015.25
Charleston 17,991.83
Chester 6,900.12
Clarendon 3,826.40
1 Colleton 1,537.10
Dorchester 3,328.10
Fairfield 3,lf7.32
' Florence 6,3 43.65
Georgetown 9,014.95
Kershaw 7,325.35
1 Laurens 4,466.95
' Lexington 1,669.90
I Lee 2.769.85
Orangeburg 16,756.85
Richland 38,438.30
8umter 11,805.98
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1ME
FELLED BY MANIAC.
Paroled Lunatic Attacks An Old
Lady and a Man.
Hie Old Lady Struck in the Head
And the Man Assaulted With an
Axe and Knife.
While In a fit of violent insanlty
and thinking, as he said, that some
one was trying to kill him, Joseph W.
Hagood Saturday made a murderous
attack upon Mrs. Eugenia Smith
with an axe, fracturing her Bkull,
nnd with a long knife stabbed Mr.
John J. Riley in the back in Columbia.
Mrs. Smith and Mr. Riley are
now under care at the Columbia hospital
and some doubts are entertained
as to their recovery.
The State says Hagood has been on
a parole from the Insane asylum for
just 30 days and up to his tragic
deed Saturday has been conducting
himself commendable since his relief.
But Saturday morning he was
seized with a terrible malady and getting
an axe he went to the house occupied
by Mrs. Smith, Mr. Riley and
others, nnd battered down the door
of the roon in which the helpless
was. With a blow he felled Mrs.
Smith across the bed, inflicting a serious
fracture of the skull, and then
he went to the room where Mr. Riley
was in bed.
Mr. Riley, a one-legged man, hearing
the noise in the back part of the
house got out of the bed and started '
to leave the house when he was seen
by Hagood. The manlnc gave chase
to Mr. Riley and soon overtook and
overpowered him, dealing him a blow
on the hip with the axe and then 1
stabbing him in the back with a knife 1
near the backbone.
About this time a general alarm
hnd hoon clron Ku M?*e A A ^ ??r>?*" 1
who was In the house at the time,
and Mr. J. H. Faulk and others over- (
powered the maniac and after summoning
the police patrol placed him
In the wagon, where he was carried
to the station and locked up. '
Dr. C. F. Williams, the city physi- 1
cian, who is attending the injured 1
people, said he can not say just yet 1
what will be the outcome of their in- 1
Juries. Mrs. Smith's fracture is of a 1
very serious nature and may prove '
ratal. Mr. Riley will probably get '
well, unless the knife penetrated into
the lung, which the doctor fears. 1
Both parties were resting well late '
Saturday night. Saturday afternoon '
the unfortunate man was remanded '
to the State hospital for the insane '
again. 1
He was carried to the hospital In (
the patrol wagon and was very order- '
ly and quiet, the only thing that
seemed to worry him was that he !
feared some one would at any time
do him harm, it seems. Hagood is a '
huskster by trade and is married. 1
His wife saw a part of the sad affair and
tried to control her husband, but '
could not. She seemed not to be 1
afraid of him, as she had seen him
undergo spells at other times. (
l>KliI(j!!TFl'L MEETING
The Doctors Had a Pleasant Time
at ltennettNville.
The State Medical Association met
at Ilennettsville this year and the
members had a most pleasant time.
The following officers were elected
to serve for the ensuing yeur.
President, Le Grand Guerry, Columbia;
vice presidents. R. A. Marsh.
Edgefield, J. Adams Hayne, Greenville,
Mary R. Baker, Columbia; secretary.
Walter Cheyne, Sumter; troas
iirnr P Alninr PhorlAotDn
State medical examiners, 1st district,
W. P. Porcher, Charleston; and
oistrict, J. A. Rosamond, Easley; 5th
district, R. A. Hratton, Yorkville; 7th
district, J. J. Watson, Columbia. The
members from the other districts
hold over.
State board of health, Robert Wilson,
Charleston; H. T. Hall, Aiken;
C. C. Cambrell, Abbeville; J. A.
Hayne, Greenville; W. J. Burdell,
I,ugoff; Janirs Evans, Florence; C.
S. Williams, Columbia.
Committee on scientific work, G.
A. Neuffer, Abbeville; J. T. Taylor.
Adams Run.
.Committee on public policy and legislation,
C. B. Earle, Greenville, T.
Grai.ge Simons, Charleston; J. H.
Mcintosh, Columbia.
R. A. Marsh was elected alternate
to the American Medical Association.
The delegate, J. H. Hamilton, was
elected last year. F. II. McLoed was
elected delegate to the North Carolinn
Acunrlntlnn
The resolution to make Columbia
the permanent meeting place was defeated,
and Anderson selected for the
next meeting.
DON'T IIKMKVK I.N WAR.
Bryan Makes Notable Speech Before
the Peace Conference.
William Jennings Bryan was the
last speaker before the New York
Peace Congress on lust Thursday
night, lie said:
"War comes from misunderstandings.
At the flnlsh both parties will
tell you that it was a defensive war.
When they will submit to having a
through understanding of their grievances,
war can be avoided.
"I helleve one of the subjects of
this convention is to cultivate peace
and to dispel the idea that man must
die In the battlefield to be a patriot.
And this convention will not do ita
duty unless it impresses upon the
world the idea that it is as much a
man's duty to live for his country as
it is to die for it.
"I expect to see the world loved
into peace, Ixive is the great force.
Don't tell mo that to secure peace you
must build great armies and navies.
I want to see peace by love and not
by force.
NO. 4.
LITTLE SHOCK i
Of Earthquake Was^Felt in Charlaetnn
1 ??* Cridau
iw?%UII uiiji i i luaj*
IN SUMMERVILLE TOO.
But Nowhere Did Any Damage Result
and There Wus Little Alarm Over
It. Probably a Keflex of the General
Disturbance Over the Karth
Some People Were Awakened.
A little shock of earthquake was
felt in Charleston Friday morning,
causing some alarm among those who
experienced it, hut the seismic disturbance
was not serious and did no
damage except to scare timid peojle.
The Post says the shock occurred
at 3:30 o'clock and was said to have
lasted between eight and ten seconds
and to have been accompanied by a
light roaring sound, puff of wind and
wave motion, the disturbance seemingly
moving from southeast to the
northwest. ,
The shock was more distinctly felt
in Summerville than in Charleston.
At the pineland resort, it is said to
nave been attended with the breaking
of ornaments which fell from maniels.
but this was exceptional.
While the shock was naturally
more generally felt in Summerville
than in Charleston, at neither place
ilid the disturbance reach any decided
proportions or cause exits from
houses or any stampede. The shock
was quite perceptable but it was not
comparable to the shocks which preceded
the great earthquake of Tuesday
night, August 31st, 1886.
There is no seismograph n Charleston
and no register of the undulatory
motion of the earth could be recorded.
The weather bureau has
many delicate instruments with needles,
dipped in ink, moving over tabulated
sheets, recording wind and
rain variations, but node of these
was affected, by the disturbances,
which goes to show how mild the
tremor really was.
The fact that a slight tremor was
felt should cause little if any uneasiness
for the press reports have been
toting these disturbance for some
line. Only a few days ago, reports
>f similar occurrences were heard
Trom Tennessee and Kentucky and at
different times and places report of
earthquake shocks have been made.
The fact that Charleston was
itrlcken with a big shock nearly 21
^ears ago has no significance and it
does not follow that there will be
mother terrible earthquake there.
Another may strike some other city
>r section of the country and prehaps
visit those places with greater destruction
than was ever wrought at
Charleston. Earthquakes are things
which can not be avoided and run
away from.
People may flee from an epidemic
of fever or other disease, but they
can not run away front an earthquake.
for they never know where
one will occur. The disturbance at
Charleston Friday was probably caused
orconnected in some way with the
disturbances in Mexico and the tremor
of the ground may probably be
sinmlv the settling of the uortions
within the earth and the resumption
of normal condition, after the violent
shaking up in Mexico.
The Evening Post received a number
of telegrams and long-distance
telephone messages from newspapers
of many cities making inquiries about
the extent of the damage by the
earthquake. Some of the inquiries
said that it was reported at these
places that Charleston had been destroyed
and that property which the
earthquake had not shaken down
was being devoured by flames.
These exaggerated reports were of
course promptly denied and messages
were put on the press wires as- ft
suring the people of the country that
Charleston was unhurt, that not the
slightest damage had been done to
property, and that the shock was in
fact so light that most people did not
feel it and did not know that it had occurred
until they heard it talked
about during the day.
K ILLKD BY i'llONE.
Turns on l,ight Hearties for Itcccivcr
And Fulls Dead.
At Marlboro, Mass.. Miss Anna
Greenwood, aged twenty-nine, wiih
killed by electricity while using the
telephone at her home. An examlna- >
Hon showed a sngni mini mi me
wrist, indicating that a cuff button
had touched the switch as she turned
on the light, the current passing
through her body into the telephone
instrument, which she was touching
with her other hand.
After dinner she ieft the table
laughing at a remark made by her
father and stepped from the dining
room to telephone to a friend. There
Is an electric light directly over the
telephone, and she reached to turn
it on she started to ring for central
tral. Instantly all the lights In the
house were extinguished, and Mr.
Greenwood heard his daughter fall.
He hurried to her but she was dead.
Girl Defends Self.
Entering a farm house six miles
south of Decatur, Georgia, where Ada
Smith, a fifteen year old girl was
alone with a three year old child, Jim
Elliott, a negro, threatened to kill
the girl with a knife which he carried
threateningly. Miss Smith retreated
across the room and seizing
a shot gun leveled it at Elliott who
Jumped through a window to escape
two shots fired by the brave girl. El;
liott was given a hearing and held
for trial. *