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THE FORT MILL TIMES. * - " ' ... . .. ,i.i u, ....... ? . . ^ ^ , . , ... _ 16TH TEAR ~ FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1907. NO- 7 ? . w I i ' ? :?? LOSES HIS LIFE. Cadet Jackson Drowned in the Surf at Isle of Palms. THE ANNUAL PICNIC Was The Event That Took the Roys to the Seashore and the Outing Was Greatly Marred by the Bad Accident. Cadet Simms, Rigby, l)lrul>e and Others Tried to 8avo Jackson. The Nowr and Cou^er says the annual picnic of the South Carolina Military Academy came to a tragic end Thursday by the drowning of one of the cadets in the surf. A number of the cadets went In bathing after lunch and about five o'clock it was learned that Cadet W. J. Jackson, of WInnsboro, was drowned. The young man was among the number of three or four, who more venturesome than the rest, went out In the sea much too far. It seems that ail of these were good swimmers and felt confident that they could suscessfully battle with the waves despite a warning which had been given them that the sea was running high. Young Jackson had become exhausted and his frlftllHo noo^Kw .ical u; IICCUIIIH COnHClOUB Ol htB perilous condition and immeuiately called for help. They were all nearly exhausted and were in great danger themselves. Harold Simms. the nearest to Jackson, seeing his friend drifting away went bravely to his rescue, fighting manfully againBt the waves and succeeding at expense of his remaining Rtrengtti to bring the half drowned lK>y a few yards shoreward. He then became suddenly helpless, but held on, swearing to his comrade that he would either save him or drown with ' him. Jaskson seemed conscious, but altogether helpless, and made no effort to save himself, except as is usual with a drowning man, at his rescuer's expense. ' It is reported that he begged ' Simms to let him loose and save him- 1 self. Cadets Righy and Dirube, them 1 selves also exhausted rushed as well 1 as they could to the drowning and almost drowned men. They succeeded In getting them closer to land, when all of a sudden, an iwmenso 1 breaker came and broke them apart. Much of this happened before the people on Bhoro realized itB true significance. The calls for help were * at flrBt supposed to be in fun, as so I often is the case. Hut soon it was I leallzed that the cadets were in grave < danger and the people on shore im- ? mediately set to work to aid them. * Mr. Wlngate, an employee on the 1 island stripped off his clotnes on the I beach and Swam out toward the boys, f Many cadets were soon with him and ? they succeeded In bringing Cadets * ltlgby, Simms and Dirube, they all I of them in a state of exhaustion, < particularity Simms, who had to be1 I treated for some time before he was ( quite himself. There was no doctor 1 preeent and the task was very dif- I ftcult. Miss Est el lu Thomas rendered a f great deal of service to the half- r drowned youth by her knowledge of F nursing. Mr. Wingate swam out as n far as he could with Bafetv to him aelf and usefulness to the almost/ 1 'Vowned cadet before he Rave up the I attempt. There was no boat on the t beach, but Mr. Wingate sent out a C squad of cadets to the back beach, r. tvnere one was found and brought to l< Mm In the water; he refused to take A :^ny of the crowd but Mr. Dave Coch- ii ran. t They rowed quite a distance out. 1 searching all the time for the l>ody, for tne young man had drowned. The h anarch proved futile, and they re- r turned to the shore. The colleagues a t?f the popular young soldier were not *! content with this and despite the d great tjanger in which they placed ' themselves. Cadets Buck, Grimball, \\I nnH U/orrl nn/1 4 ? ' ' ? ? vv/M ? t?? w I?1IU Villi n OCl uuv nftmu I In the lioat in search. They were ? ulao unsuccessful and it was not until i 10:10 last night that the body wat found liy the patrol made up of ca- < dets and their friends. < The searching party was organized I soon nfter the affair occurred and the j cadets divided themselves up into sec i tions to patrol the lieach by turns until the body was recovered. It was about 10:10 o'clock when Cadet Watson discovered the body of the y unfortunate young man al>out 1,200 feet east of the pavillion. Immediately after the sad event all the pleasures of the day came to a close, dancing ceased and the band left the hi pravillion. At 6:16 most of the 'i crowd left the Isle. it A gloom was cast over the entire h assemblage and the day that dad tie- d? gun so auspiciously and happily came to a most deplorable close. Cadet ?' William J. Jackson was a member ft of the Freshman class, having enter- tt ed the Academy in October, the hoi- w der of a scholarship from Fairfield County. His home was ip Wlnnsboro a] and he was the pride and hope of a w widowed mother, Mrs. M. A. Jackson. B He was a young man of fine parts nl and in his short career at the Clta- h< /lot Iido moHo mono frlnnrlo onir>n<r the students and faculty. He wan a splendid specimen of young manhood stood well in hin clsss and. wan a ci great favorite of all those who knew Hum. MORE PAY FOR ENGINEERS ________ w The Southern Railway Increase* the Wages of Locomotive Drivers. Effective at once the locomotive engineers on the Southern Railway ef! tnrough the system have been grant- dt ed an Increase in wages amounting be to ten per cent for passenger engineers and 6 per cent for freight men, lil and 50 cents and 45 cpnts, respective- th per hour overtime. re i WIS A DEAD SHOT An Instin Man Uses a Shot-gun | WW Terrible Results. LJttfe Gits Plea Causes Mad Man t<>Dr> Weapon After It Had lleen Ieveltdat Her. Al San'ranclsco Walter Charley Davis, a cpenter. In a fit of Insanity Wednday shot and killed six persons all 14 Plere street, in that city. Dav and his victims all resided wlthhe family of Irson Bush, who condtted a boarding house. Davis' hon was in Farmvlll. near Vialia. whe he has a wife and six children. !e has been working In San Francco as a carpenter since the Are. The shocng was done with a double barrel* shotgun. Davis who slept In th same room with young Orson Bus.and W. E. Beard, arose shortly aft five o'clock and shot his two run mates. After killing Bush and eard, Davis took a box of shells t>m a shelf and walked down the all way, where he met Mrs. Lillle arothers, a boarder, who had heard he first two shotB and had come o her <loorway to find what was le matter. He shot her and with tj other shell, shot Mrs. Orson Busl M. E. Vinton, a government sieyor, was killed as he lay in bed. Orson Rush, Sr., heard the shootin. and rushed up stairs, where he wr met by the murderer. The apperance in the hall indicates, that hsh had made a desperate fight fo'his life. His body was found as it ad fallen at the head of the stairs. Seventeen year old Annie Dush came runnit: Into the hallway and met Davis. le turned the gun upon the girl, airing at her head. The girl found vice to say. "Please don't kill me." ad the shotgun dropped from Davis'tands. I can't doit," he Bald. "You are a good girl. Dsldes you look like my own child, ad I would not see her face if I kilId you/' When pocemen came to arrest Davis he foght like a demon and a riot call wa turned in. 8even officers respondd In an automobile. Two officers engaed Davis In a conversation while te others got behind him and pinlonei his arms. He was then removed to he detention hospital. SOILSUKVKY MAPS. Work of Tie Agricultural Ropartnelil for this State. The epskrtment of agriculture, through jac(h of several bureaus, is rlvinfr QUrln 1 o fnn Inn 1a fho otntn >f South Carolina. The bureau of lolls hasa party In the field making i very cireful Burvey of the soil of ..ee and iumter counties. Upon com>letlon tie maps will be ready for listrlbutbn to all who make appli:atlon foi them. The maps that are low completed and subject to disribution in the state are of the counties of Anderson, Greenwood, ..aurens, Greenville, Spartanburg, ^harlestoi, Colleton, Cherokee, Darington, Iancaster, Oconee, Orange>urg and Tork. All reprints are now ivallable st those counties upon apdication without cost to the appliants. Chief Clerk Rice will be leased to forward to all who can nake a prt.per use of them. Professor True, of the divission of rrlgation ind drainage, is now ptiHhng the drainage work near Charlesr>n neck. He is finishing the work in Jhrist Church Parish; at a point ailed Point Pleasant, opposite Charleston, Isle of Palms, and between shley and the ocean. He hopes to 1 great measure make it more healhy, and to redeem about 36 square illes of land. At Jettburg 300 acres of land that ave been Riven over by the Southern allroad will receive attention, and rhen the experts have completed heir partAof the work, it will be urned to 'the ClemRon college for urther exploitation. A special effort is being made to eneflt hea'thful conditions and there y increase the amount of rice lands nd better class of land for truck arming, the latter crops paying bet sr than other crops. They also wish a aid the people to pay more at tenion to diversified crops; as this genrally pays!better than to rely mainl> pon a oro?> of one kind. WOMpON Ct'T TO l'l KCTES. J I lutilated Wit h Razors at their Home In New York. At New York Mrs. Maria Vite and er mother, Mrs. Maria Brignoli were terally siasli ed to pieces with razors i their hom 0. Glevanni Vite, the nchanH rvf h n* vmm tr wnmnn Ic 11 ft - sr arrest, ch arged with the crime. Vite says ( hat two men broke in nd killed the> women, and that he had struggle w ith them in their demce. * Mrs. | [trignoli gave the alarm hich called the police. An occupi int. of a nelht>oring l>artment hfSard a tapping on the indow. Lookling out she saw Mrs. rignoll on tfhe fire escape in her Ight dress with blood flowing from &r throat. Slhe fell back dead. SENNATl?NAI, CHAHCiF.S. hinese Sni<$ To Have" Been Thrown iA The Sen. It was rej^Kted that two sailors ho escaped Km the British steam Marorl Kii^ft which arrived at San lego from ^Aanghai, make senatonal charg^H of brutality against a osntaln * .< nee - tKn ahin IP v>a la i bbh UIII\<PI o vi tup on 11* Rumors ar^lln circulation to the feet that lH Chln|se were killed irlng a rtoH en Aard and their >dies cast InH t~e tea International complications are kely to reeu^Hand ltMs believed that a most eerl^Ks paiV of the charges main to be Sd. I EXCITING RACE. Murderer Carried to Safety in an Auto by the Sheriff. MOB WANTED HIS LIFE Landed in Miami Jail He Pleads Self-Defence as Kxcuse fur Killing. Asked Stranger to Drink. I'll Compel You!" He Shouts, After Refusal; Then Two llullets Were Fired. Smashing all speed laws and cramming on every ounce of speed which a big racing automobile was capable, Sheriff Martin Thn rod o nrhi.i-J ? ...u.ouu; "IHUCU A . W. Troy, of New York, from West Palm Beach to Miami, to prevent his prisoner from being lynched for the murder of George N. Newcomb. Had the sheriff delayed five minutes the friends of the man whom the prisoner shot would have torn him from the grasp of the officials and undoubtedly killed him. Troy arrived at West Palm Beach on the steamer Cilecia, from a South American city. After leaving the vessel he went to a saloon and started drinking. He is said to have become almost intoxicated. It is said that Troy asked Newcomb to drink with him. Newcomb declined. This enraged the Now Yorker, and after a bitter quarrel with the man who spurned the invitation, Troy shouted: "I'll compel you to drink with me!" The visitor pulled a revolver and leveled it at Newcomb, who, retained his placid mien, still refused to take a drink with Troy. No sooner had the second refusal been uttered thau Troy pulled the trigger twice and two bullets ploughed into Newcobm, K..ling him instantly. Troy was arrested a few minutes later and taken in charge by the sheriff. Newcomb's friends gathered soon afterward and sought out the New ! Yorker, who had quietly gone with the Hheriff, saying he had killed his victim in self-defence. The news was Hung broadcast, and a crowd gathered around where Troy was being held. Martin, divining the intent of the mob, summoned an automobile and uiirtii wan rinHhlnc tn Mlnmi whprp ho could land hie prisoner in sufety, and l>e assured of protection against lynchers. Troy says that he and his brother, Daniel W. Troy, who has had offices in No. 6$ Wall street, are in the lumber business. He has telegraphed to Daniel to come and aid him til his fight, should the case come to trial, as is expected. THE DEADLY AUTO. Woman Loses Control of Machine and Is Killed. While racing with a Jersey Central railroad train between Point Pieasailt and Asbury Park Wednesday, an automobile in which Mrs. George B. Boyce and Miss A. Wilda Mass, of Point Pleasant, were riding, was overturned. and Miss Mass was killed instantly. Mrs. Boyce, wife of an automobile dealer in New York city, was rendered unconscious and was taken to her home in Point Pleasant. Mrs. Boyce was operating the machine. The train had just left Point Pleasant, bound for Asbury Park, where the automobile, going at a terrific pace, came along the roadway, which parallels the railroad tracks and attempted to pass the train. Passengers in the train witnessed the accident and crowded to the platforms and windows, cheering the two women as the machine steadily forged ahead of the train. Just as the automobile was abreast of the locomotive, and when l>oth were going at the rate of r?0 miles an hour, Mrs. Uoyce lost control of the automobile. The machine swerved from the roadway, went over an embankment into a swamp and overturned, crushing Miss Mass. MOSTLY IN THE PAPERS. County People Not Interested in Proposed New County. The St. Matthews correspondent of The State says more aggltation on the subject of a new county has been conducted by the various county papers and their correspondents than by the people who are most interested. One meeting was held in that portion of Lexington county that was to be Included in the new county, but results were not so satisfactory In fact no definite steps toward the foi matien of a new county have been taken, such as su^eylng the lines, etc., and these lines must be established before the real fight begins. In * * #_l AnAk ino mnHniiiiiH irit-iiu? iDiiuiuii nni.ii view of the subject are lining up for the fight. OLD SOLIUKK'S THACJIC DKATH Mr. Jesse I'itnuinn Kit her Stepju-d or Fell From Train. A dispatch from Cheraw to The State says when the northbound train stopped at the crossing near the oil mill on Wednesday night, Mr. Jesse Pittman, a veteran 60 years of age, who was returning from the reunion in Columbia, met a tragic death. Mr. Pittman thinking it was the Cheraw station, started to leave the train and as the cars moved off he stepped or fell off on his head, crushing in his skull and killing him Instantly. He lived near Ruby in that county. / * SCARED TO DEATH. , When the Gentleman Got His Silver Ear Trumpet The Negro Hotel Porter Thought It Was a Big Horse Pistol and Kan For His Life. A laughable mistake occurred one night last week at the Piedmont, one of Atlanta's big hotels. The following is the story as related by the Atlanta Journal: A shattered cup of cofTee, a porter frightened almost into hysterics and a narrowly averted panic on the se wnu uuui ui me rieamoni noiei war tho result of an effort by Grand Commander John J. Seay, of Rome, to employ his harmless ear trumpet as a means for communicating with a negro employe at 5:30 o'clock Thursday morning. Grand Commander Seay who numbers his friends by hosts in other organizations as well as Masonry, is compelled to use his ear trumpet on nearly all occasions. This little black trumpet is a most harmless instrument in the eyes of his friends. To the porter this same ear trumpet was a means of terror and it required much persuasion to convince the negro who had taken refuge behind the elevator shaft and was peering with wide anxious eyes at the trumpet Mr. Seay held In his hands. The grand commander was not able to Bleep well Tueday night on account <rt a severe headache. Unable to secure any relief he thought that a cup of black coffee might be used as a remedy. He telephoned to the night clerk and asked him to please send up the coffee. Realizing that he would not lie able to hear the porter knock at his door when he came with the cup of coffee Mr. Seay left hlH door slightly open, with the one incandescent light turned on. When the negro came to the door Mr. Seny saw him in tho half dim light. He sprang from the bed and started rapidly toward the dresser where his ear trumpet was. As he reached out his hand for the trumpet there came a piercing shriek from the negro and as the grand commander turned he saw the cup fall from the negro's hands and shatter on the floor, the black coffee spattering tho wallB. Then the negro fled to the elevator shaft, and wrestled vainly with the door to escape by means of the shaft. Mr. Seay with his ear trumpet followed. Seeing the negro's alarmed condition Mr. Seay called to him, telling him he did not intend to hurt him. "Well then. Boss, for Gawd's sake, put down that big Colt's pistol you have in your hands." A CYOliONK IN TMXAS. Town of Brightwell Was Completely Wiped Out. A dispatch from Mount Pleasant, Toxas, says nine persons were Kineo 'and many injured l?y a tornado which wrecked the town of Birthright and Ridgeway. Details are meagre, hut it is known that other towns suffered heavily both in life and property. The cyclone practically destroyed the towns of Ridgeway and Birthright, forty miles west of here. The killed, so far ns known, are: MrR. Ilrar.il and baby. Calvin Trammel and son. Roy Mci^ali. -?. ?. Stevenson and wife. Sidney L. Oakley and wife The injured reported are: Hen Pogue. skull fractured; Mrs. Ben Pogue, internally injured; Mrs. Joe Ferguson, scalp wound. Birthright, a town of BOO was completely wiped off the map. Great damage is reported at Oaney, a negro settlement, and it Is believed many more were killed there. MI'KDUK AM) SI/ICIDK. Mun Kills His Wife and Then Himself Hy Shooting. As the result, It Is alleged, of a quarrel 1 over a wedding ring, Wm. O. Rico, aged 25 years, of 131 Heckman street, S. S3., of Washington, and a telegraph operator on the Haitimore and Ohio railroad, shot and instantly killed his wife, Lillian, fired a shot at his one year old baby, Karl, which took effect in the leg, and then committed suicide by shooting himself. Rice, who worked nights, returned to his home at an early hour Wednesday morning and finding his wife and baby asieep, woke them up. A discussion ensued regarding Mrs. Rice's wedding ring. It being alleged, that Rice had possession of the ring and would not return it to his wife. A quarrel followed, when Rice, seeing a pistol lying on a table, fired four Bhots. I>OYE MAI> KIVALH. Foolishly Kill Each Other Alstiit a Handsome Ciirl. A special dispatch from Pueblo, Mexico, says Lauro Jandero, millionaire owner of several haciendas, and Job* Maria Tleltran, municipal director of Tiatanqui, la>th aspirants for the hand of the daughter of a prominent planter in that district, fought a due! with pistols in the streets this morning in which both were mortally wounded. The men had quarreled repeatedly and when they met this morning following an encounter of last night, Beltran opened Are. Jandero returned the Are and both men foil badly wounded. From their recumbent positions they continued Aring until each had received wounds which physicians say are mortal. . -ftnatiifffll A BIG BILL Internal Revenue Collector Aftei Dispensary Commission WANTS BACK TAXES Which Ho Claims Is Duo Undo San: On Account of the Dlspensar] Having Done a Wholesale as Well M Retail Business. Claims Thirty-five Thousands Dollars as Idronup Yfaoci Major MIcah Jenkins, collector ol internal revenue for South Carolina, has notified the state dispensary commission that immediate payment must be made to his department ol beer license fees aggregating more than $33,000. This claim represents the difference to date between the gross amount of license fees actually paid by the State on behalf of its several county dispensaries, and the amount which the internal revenue department alleges should have been paid. The licenses taken out were for retall beer dealers and permitted sales to individuals in single sales of not more than four and seven-elghtB gallons each. The department's contention is that nearly every beer dispenser, as a matter of fact, repeatedly sold to individual purchases more than the specified amount of beer at one time, and by so doing placed them selves in the elass of wholesale dealers. The fees for retail dealers is $25 per year, that for wholesale rlAAlAra f 1 with n nnnoltv r\t r?A per cent for failure to pay in advance. Major Jenkins' claim la for $28.000 in back licenses, prior to the past fifteen months, and $5,427 in back licenses incurred during that period?$35,427 in all, without including the penalty of 50 per cent, which would bring the claim up to about $53,000. The department has agreed, however, to remit the penalty in case the face amount of the claim is paid over within ten days. Attorney General Lyons and the commissioner's attorney, Mr. W. F. Stevenson of Cheraw, are In consultation as to the validity of the claim, which the commissioner has been quoted as saying it will fight. The local dispensary organ this morning quoted dispensary officials as saying that if beer dispensers had made single Bales In excess of the 4 % gallons limit, they did so in disobedience to explicit directions, and the state commission could not, therefore, be made to pay excess license iOes and penalties, incurred through the disobedience of the dispensers. The Inference drawn was that the department would have to sue on the Individual bonds of the several dispensers, if 1? proposed to collect the $35,427, the retail licenses being directed to the dispensers by name. Major Jenkins said that the deI ,vn m# m Kn#l (ooiin/i t Ko li/>onCOU t i |iui 11iiciu uavi iooucu mc uvvuow vw the state board as principal, the dispensers being named merely as agents, and that he would certainly look to the state l>oard for the money. If this lioard can reimburse itself by suing on the bonds of the disj pensers, that is its own affair. The internal revenue department has no bill against the several dispensers; its claim is against their principal and employer, the state board. It is claimed in certain quarters that the department cannot collect excess license fees and penalties for a period extending further back than fifteen months. The department alleges that more than the legal quantities have been sold in the whiskey dispensaries, as well as in the beer saloons. The several summons in the case have been served upon Dr. W. J.Mur ray, the chairman or tne stare commission, and Dr. Murray has called a meeting of the commission. SCORES DROWN. Passengers Ileenmc Panic Stricken and Jumped Overlxmrd. A dispatch from Montevideo announces that the French transport steamer Poitou from Marseilles on April 5. for liuenos Ay res, has been wrecked ofT the coast of Uruguay. One hundred of her passengers and crew are said to have perished. It is understood that there are 200 passengers on board the vessel and that her cargo will prove a total '.oss, The Poitou struck at a spot called Rincon de Herrero. A panic broke out on board thf vessel, when she grounded, and n great number of terror-stricken people jumped over board. Some of them swam ashore, but many werr drowned. rbistom officers at Rincon de Her rero saved fifty out of three hundred passengers, who are said tr have been on board. How man) others have been saved is not known WILL knock thkm out. An Invention That Make llattlcMhipi Hack Numbers. What is the use of building mon ster battleships, worth $2,000,00< apiece, when they can be blown a) to bits by a man operating mile: away with an instrument no blgge than a hand camera? That is wha a French scientist claims can be ac complished through manipulation o wireless currents found everywher The explosion which recently blei up the French battleship Jena a Toulon was due to stray electrics currents coming in contact wit! powder, this genius confidently at serts, and offers to prove that thl 1 was possible by a series of long dif tance experiments. . A ~ i V / S* DIED AT HIS POST. An Engineer Killed by Robbers for r Defending His Train. Northern Pacific Train Held Up in Moutann, Hut No Booty Secured. * One Robber Captured. North Coast Limited, eastbound train No. 22 on the Northern Pacific railway, was held up by two masked i men near Welch's Spu a siding 18 r miles east of Butte, Mou., at 2:15 Wednesday morning. ' Engineer James Clow was shot and . instantly killed and Fireman James Sullivan was shot through the arm. Without making an attempt to blow up the express car, as was evidently ? intended, the robbers jumped from the engine and ran down the nioun- 1 , tain side dlssapearing in a gluch several hundred yards from the track. ' Sheriff Henderson of Butte was no- r tified and with a posse left on a train [ for the scene of the hold-up. Sheriff Webb of Yellowstone county was on the train with one of the the train 1 ere started on the trail of the hold- ) 1 up men five minutes after the shoot- s ing. I Bloodhounds were put on the trail and one of the fugitives was captur- t ed at Woodville, near Butte. i The robbers left a telescope grip t on the tender of the locomotive. The ( grip was full of giant powder, evi- 1 dently intended for use in blowing t up the express car. The men board- f ed the train presumably at the Butte 1 transfer station, where a locomotive i for the Montana division wns attach- s ed. One mile west of Welch the men t crawled over the tender and with t drawn guns, commanded the engi- c neer to stop the train, which he did. c Engineer Clow, however, made a t show of resistance and one of the robbers fired, shooting him through s the body, killing him instantly. The v other man shot at Sullivan, breaking t his arm. d Whent the train stopped Conductor f Bert Culver and the train crew ran r to the engine, where they foun a col- ? ored man, who related the circum- ii stances of the hold-up. This man u said that he had been stealing a ride n and that the men offered him a third r of the "booty" if he would assist t them. He said he had refused and had taken no part In the hold-up. He (] says h can identify the robber, and the man is being held for this pur- g pose. I The posse with bloodhounds was t joined at Welsh by R. H. Goddard, r chief of the Northern Pacific detec- h fives at Livingston; Deputy Sheriff i Jas. Keon of Gnllatin county, and e JaB. Latta of Hoxeman. Keon and t Lntta are the men who tracked and H captured "Ike" Gravett, who some t time ago tried to force the Northern t Pacific Railroad company to pay s $50,000 blackmail. v HI NAWAY TRAGEDY. One I>ndy Instantly Killed and Anotli- s t er l^idy Dying. s Near Monroe, Ga., Mrs. Henry v Richardson, a well known Walton t country woman, was killed and her S sister. Mrs. John Palmer, was fatally a Injured Thursday morning as the a result of an accident with a runaway g team on the bridge at Halle Prong n creek, a mile north from Monroe. t At the time of the accident the two t women were on their way to town to v do some shopping. Just as they c drove onto the bridge they were met v by a runaway horse attached to a buggy. The team was occupied by v a negro woman and two children and '1 was driven by a negro. 1 Mrs. fanner, in attempting to gei c out of the way of the vehicle caught r her dress on the step and was e thrown to the floor of the bridge. The t horse ran over her, dragging the t buggy with him. Mrs. Richardson escaped without g a scar, yet, strange to say, she was i the first to die. t The excitement and worry in trying to care for her injured sister I caused congestion of the lungs, from S which she died. The wounded wo- V man was at once removed to the VV. c L. Wood place on the Gratis road, 1 four miles from Monroe, where she c and Mrs. Richardson resided. e Remarkable to say, the driver and other occupants of the runaway buggy escaped with only a few scratches. IXFKKNAL MACHINE Intended For An Atlanta Girl Was Opened by Her Mother. 1 I Atlanta has another sensation on ] hand. Fred Rush, arrested for send- i t lug an infernal machine to the home . of his sweetheart. Miss Kate Mc ! ' Carthy, was said to have been Identi- < ' fled bv a neero m onsen erer bnv who i said he received the package from a , man "who looked like Bush and who , stood in the street after sending in > the cal!. The machine exploded , ' when Mrs. McCarthy, mother of the , . girl opened the package and the < house was almost demolished. The negro said he had instructions not to send the box until Thursday it morning but It went out last night by mistake. Miss McCarthy was at the theater, and her mother received the package Instead. An attempt to " open it resulted in an explosion which ] shattered the interior of the home ' and threw Mrs. McCarthy across the s hall into the room where twins were r sleeping. She suffered serious in1 Juries, but will recover. " Bush is a business partner of C. ' V. Doolittle, a commission merchant R who accompanied Miss Bush to .the v theater. Bush, when arrested, denl 1 ed any knowledge of the irffernal 1 machine. The box waa of oak, eight ^ Inches long. It contained dynamite and a pistol so arranged as to ex8 plode when the box was opened. The concussion shook tho whole block. SLAIN IN SWAMP Negro Who Attempts Criminal Assault on Little Girl Is SHOT FULL OF LEAD. Tlio Father of the Little Girl is Attracted by Her Screams and She is Thus Knved from the Hellish Brute Who Had Her Completely at His Mercy. The Brutal Fiend Is Parsued to the Hwump and Killed. A dispatch to The State from Mullins says between 9 and 10 o'clock Monday criminal assault was attempted upon the little 12-year-old Tincey Sawyer, the daughter of Mr. iohn Sawyer, a highly respected farner, residing in the Miller's church section, three miles from Mulllnn. Her screams and the hurried response of her father, who was nearly, saved her from the brute. The child was taking a cow to he pasture, near her father's home, ind upon reaching the entrance of nc iiuBiure, me negro, i^amoDOll 3armichael, sprang from a clump of rushes and made for the girl, who regan to scream frantically. Her atiier heard the distressing cries of ris little daughter, and ran to her issistance. The negro, seeing the ipproach of Mr. Sawyer, made for he nearby swamp, not, however, unit the later was near enough to re:ognize him, who is a well known iharacter in that section of the couny. The news of the outrage rapidly pread and v/lthln a short time the vhole neighborhood was upon the rack of the fiend. Following in the lirection of his escape into the woods rotn the scene, the posse went in hot nirsult. He was chased across Buck wamp, which is of dense foliage. It s said that one of the party who was inarmed got within a few feet of the legro in the chase, whereupon the legro stopped and drew a pistol, hreatening to blow the lirainB of his tursuer out. After this he again [isappeared in the swamp. The little girl Is a sister of William lawyer, a well known contractor and" milder of this place, therefore when he news reached Mullins excitement an high. Many of the townsmen lastened to the scene. Upon reachng the neighborhood of the attemptd crime they met the crowds reaming from the swamp, wearing atisiied expressing*. When quesloned as to the outcome of the chase hey simply remarked that they were atisiied and that the negro was k'here he could do no further crime. )ther than this they would not speak if the affair. The State's correspondent learned omething of the affair from one of he most prominent citizens of that ection, who said that frof his knowldge of it he believed that the negro yas literally riddled with bullets and hat his body was left In BuckI warn p. It is said that he was killed ,s a last resort to efTect his capture. Following upon the heels of the attempted outrage upon Mrs. Charles Sellers at Zion on Saturday night, ,nd but a few miles removed from he Sellers home, the crime enraged he people beyond endurance and the rhoie neighborhood responded to the all for a posse to track down the vould-be rapist. Carmicha- 1 was 17 years old and vas born and raised in this section. ^Aon tL'lw\ hti vn knnu n him fnr H ong time say that he was a bad haracter and that the crime was iremeditated, that he had prepared to leave the neighborhood, having lis trunk, a hand arrangement, with ilm. A sperial from Marion, giving meagre details of the attempted assault ipon Miss Sawyer and the chase for he rapists, says: The negro was arrested and was >eing carried to Mullins on warrant ssued by Magistrate Norton, but was tilled while trying to make his es:ape. The negro is said to lie well mown in the community and works in the plantation of Mr. Albert Rogirs, a neighbor. SI CCKKliS HIS FATHER iV. \V. Ilradley Klected Trustee of < Iciiison College. W. W. Hradley of Abbeville has >een elected a life member of the mard in the place of his father, J. E. Ilradley, who died a few weeks igO. I if \\T DenHInt' iu Pnncrpctfi man Aiken's private secretary. Mr. itradley was former chairman of the State hoard of equalization, having l?een the prime mover in that body's organization. He is about 4 0 years old. The looa.'d of trustees attended to regular routine business. No matters of Importance came up for discussion Senator Tillman was present, it being the first meeting he has attended in many months. IlltK.VKH HIS NKCK. By a Fnll of Not More Than Twelve Inches. A remarkable accident happened at Greenwood one night last week, by which John Renolds, a negro train hand on the Charlestern and Western Carolina Railway, lost his life. While asleep In his hunk In the caboose of his train he rolled out of the bunk and striking the floor had * his neck broken. It seemed that he fell on his head and the weight of body In Rome way brought, about the broken neck. There were other negroes In the caboose and they were awakened by the fall. He fell about one foot.