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THE FORT MILL TIMES.
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16TH TEAR ~ FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1907. NO- 7
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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
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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.