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THE FORT MILL TIMES. 16TH. YEAR. FORT MILL. S. .. THURSDAY, JUNE 13. 1907. NO. 11. SHOT FIRST. Two Would be Assassins Killed and Wounded by Their INTENDED VICTIM. I Tillnan Barnm ami .)<m> ltarncs. Twn Colored Farm Hands and Hrotln'in, Med to Aaaas^lnate Mr. Morgan, fear Augusta, <*?., But He Surprised Them, Killing One and Had* I| Wounding the Othe-. A an early hour Sunday morning *e? ago, says the Augusta Herald, twonegro brothers, Joe and Tillman Banes, went to the door of Mr. R. J. Morgan, in this county, and called VI? ?..> ?lit- i?-- ?'** muuui nun iiu* imeimon or inurderag him. Mr. Morgan, with stisplctns aroused, went out his hark doo and cante around the side of the toufte. Hi man was standing on the grand with a revolver in hie hand, whfe Joe was on the j>orch with an ope knife. Mr. Morgun ordered the forier to drop his weapon, and in anser the negro levelled it to shoot. V. Morgan's pistol spoke barely in tare, and Tillman Barnes dropped will a bullet through the heart. Joe rushd from the porch with open knit and was met by a bullet which pemrated his right lung. He is at the ?mar Hospital in a dying condition M Morgan's residence is on the Dea Bridge road, six miles from Augata. Coroner Hninsev held an inqtst at the scene of the shooting, andhe Jury brought in a verdict of justtcable homicide. To trouble began several days ago whe Mr. Morgan's house was burglaeed. He had strong reusons to 8U8|Ct the negroes of the crime, and afte an investigation reported the matsr to the city and county police anHirrlerfi w?re rlumi tnr afi-noi of tfe suspects. The negroes knew of thlRiCtlon, and It is believed it constitied their motive for the atlenipted mrder. Sturday night Mr. Morgan was keptaway from home until a very lateiour by the sickness of a near relave. It was just as he hud reached bme, sometime after one o'clock, and was preparing to enter by the back door, according to hiH usual custfh. that he heard a knock at the fron d?br. H responded by asking who was then' Joe Harues answered that It wa he and that he wanted to have a talk with Mr. Morgan, and ask4 hint to come to the door. With susrcions thoroughly aroused Mr. Morpn procured a pistol and quietly stolethrough the hack door, and approahed the negroes from the corner 'f the house. Keeping well in the hadow he saw Tillman Barnes staning on the ground near the pore with a orawn revolver. The othe brother was on the porch at the door with a Kane drawn and ready to cf. Mr. Morgan to pieces the moment he opened the door. Wahlng still to give the men a chane for their lives, Mr. Morgan calle. out, "limes, isn't that u pistol in your han<f Drop it!" "Tes. By G?d. It Is." answered the lack, and levelled the weapon. It was his last word on earth. He dropped with a jagged hole drltld through his murderous heart Wth a yell Joe Barnes was upon the vhite man with his gleaming knife but he was arrested midway in his ourse by another shot which wil! probibly send him to meet his brother in Hades. Thi verdict of the coroner's jury was i full and complete exoneratior of M\ Morgan. He is well-knowi in Aigusta and throughout Rich mom county, and is a brother-in-law of Pitrolman George Wolfe. COTTON CONDITION. Go vein m en t Iteport Indicates I'ooi State for Growing Crop. According to the government re port Issued last week, the average condlion of the growing cotton croj on M\y 25 was 70.5 per cent as com pared with .84.6 in 1900, and 77.2 it 1905, and the ten-year average o 83.6. Th> report shows that the acreag< on Mjty 26 was 32,060,000 as coin pared with 32,049,000 last year a the Btme date. his iR an Increasi of 11,000 acres for the current sea son. Acreage and condtlon by States according to the report, were as fol lows: ? Condi Acreage, tlon Virginia 37,000 80 North Carolina.. ..1,437,000 80 South Carolina.. ..2,463,000 77 Georgia 4,823.000 74 Florida 2 79,000 80 Alabama 3,509,000 65 Mississippi 5,252,000 65 Louisiana 1,707,000 6 4 Texas 9.439.000 70 Arkansas 2,01 1,000 65 Tennessee 765,000 63 Missouri 7 4.000 65 - * i o O O AAA tf n 1 -o lndlafe Territory .. 942,000 <s f.KAPS TO HIS DKATIl. ".\Mf jrf.-r _ A Man Commits Suicide by Jumpin ^ From A Steamer. ' ' \ \ . As .the ferry boat Duval was maV log a landing at Jacksonville at J*'' o'clock the other night, a Mr. Faga leaped Into the rived and was drowr oil. He threw h!a coat frpm hi bdulders. took hla hat from hi 'fififeta headman*. turning to a man nearb; raid: '"OOod-bye. I am gone." leapln tito the river before he could t THE REASON WHY I Work Has Been Stopped on the Electric Railway. South Carolina l'ublic Service Corporation Meets with Opposition in Some Towns. A dispatch from Spartanburg recently stated that .the engineering corps of - the South Carolina Public Service Corporation, which has headquarters in Charleston, had dlscon tinned all field work. The surveying eorps has been at work for some seven months and extensive surveys have been made. It was said in the dispatch that the cause of calling in the engineers from the field was tardiness shown by some cities through which it was proposed that the road passes in granting franchises. The News and Courier says: Mr. C. R. Van Etten. general manager, when asked about the discontinuance of work in Spartanburg gave out the following statement: "A'number of towns have already granted franchises that are fair and equitable to all parties, but there are several towns where franchises are being held up that may necessitate a change in route. In some cases the limitations and restrictions are such as would make the investment of capital a matter of questionable prudence. "Some of the conditions imimsed are typical of the position that has been taken by the city of Chicago. The street railway situation at that point is eloquent of its results. "The city of New Yorkk has re i t-mi.Y utrou ii tin nit? iu iiit 11 liny uih1 willing to undertake the hullding and operation of further subway railroads under similar limitations and restrictions. "If these conditions retard investment in centres of deuce population and heavy traffic they will be found prohibitive in smaller communities, and we are therefore obliged to await action in the cities concerned before further plans can be definitely determined." A letter has been lssueu by the South Carolina Public Service Corporation to the coinmitee8 co-operating with the corporation in a number of towns and cities in the state, announcing the discontinuance of the field work until satisfactory franchises have been grated. The letter is signed by the vice president and general manager of the' corporation, and the following is a copy: 'I have received the following instructions from the executive committee of our board of directors: " "On account of opposition that has developed in certain municipalities to granting franchises that will permit the corporation to construct its railroad and transact its business on reasonable terms you will discontinue active work in the field until i such time as the lines being surveyed i are practicable of construction.' "As matters now stand several changes may become necessary. It is manifestly unfair, both to the cor-, poration and the property owners with whom rights of way are being negotiated, to establish a line that i subsequently might be abandoned for i want of franchise in adjacent towns. In the mutual interests of all cone' cerned I would, therefore, respectfully ask that the committee in any I town where the franchises are being withheld use their good olfices towards an early solution of this diffi' culty." Tho Vi?u? niwl Pnnrlpp ttnVH "tllP 1 construction of the electric lines ' through the state, which have been 1 proposed by the South Carolina Pub' lie Corporation, would mean a great ' deal for the development of the state and it is earnestly hoped that matters may he so arranged that the pre1 liminary work can he pushed for1 ward until completed." That is very true, and as soon us the work of construction: is commenced the Public Service Corpora tion will find no trouble of getting 'he right of way ami other privileges lesired. The people are afraid that r it is only a promoting scheme, and hey are slow to give such a conccern anything. Hut if the public is con vinced?lhat the company mean bust ness there will he no trouble. > WIFK IIKIil'KI) THK III ItHLAIt. I Held Husband, Thinking He (inly Had a Xght inure. Hecause he was subject to nightt mures. David Ordway. of Dak* wood, e Ohio, Wednesday, lost jewelry valued . at $500. lie was awakened by a burglar in his room, and, hoping to ,t frighten the burglar yelled at the top I of his voice. Then he tried to get up and chase the midnight invader, but . just as he was making a flying leap " - - " o -x l?. km (till (II Itl'll, 111* ?IIC, niUIIDCII u; i.v I husband's cries, seized him. "Burglars! Burglars!" shouied Ordway while trying to free himself from his wife's grasp. But she held on with a deathlike firmness and urged him to lie down and go to sleep She thought he had a nightmare and feared he would injure himself il permitted to pursue a phantom rob her. The couple had a lively tussle Ordway finally tore away, only tc find the burglar had made his es cape. Two diamond rings and a din mond stud were missing from theii bedroom dresser. KOl'H AT A BIHTII. " Xo llarr Suicide In This Indian; Family. [8 Mrs. Frank Croxton. aged 43 year n and the wife of a Rectlon foreman 01 t- Traction line, living near Roanoke Ik Ind.. gave birth to four chlldrei is Thursday night. There were thre< j. girls and a boy. The combine* g weight of the four was eleven an* >e one-half pounds. Two of the chll dren have since died. FOREIGN PEDDLERS. Compete Unfairly With Merchants Who Pay Heavy License. They IK> Xo to the City or the County, as They Pay No License, Kent or Taxes. The Columbia Record says its at tent ion has been called to a band of peddlers who make Columbia headquarters and who sell their wares in this and nearby communities. The Record is informed that many of these venders pay no licenses. This is a matter that is deserving of attention. These peddlers with packs on their shoulders call at practically every house in the county In the course of a few months, and they take in thousands of dolla'rs in the run of a year. While they do not sell much to any one buyer, they sell a great deal in the aggregate, and much of the money which they pick up should go to merchants who are regularly engaged In trade. Now. here's the point. These pedplers are entering into the limited competition with the merchants of this city and county and taking business from them without paying a cent of licenses. Such goods as they sell, they buy from distant markets, much of it from Europe they do not pay rent, or license, or taxes and the money they take in goes out of circulation, for it is known that the greater ix>r tion of it is sent out of this country. Such people are parasites 011 the community and should not he tolerated. They enter Into competition with merchants who are required to pay as they no und from 110 viewpoint is their presence in the community desirable. Doubtless when the situation has been called to their attention, the city and county authorities will look into the matter. The oflicers should be directed? if they have not been so directed already?to stop every peddler they see and demand exhibition of a license. Lacking a proper license certerticate the peddler should be arrested and punished as the law and facts might warrant. There are too many traders of this class in Richland. If they would carry on their business here, they should be made to pay for the privlledge. These peddlers seem to stroll over the State, and something should be Hnnp nhnul It. Thnv fronneiitlv visit thi ssection, and many of the goods they sell are of the sorriest kind. Some of them sell goods on the Installment plan, charging exorbitant, prices for what they sell. Get them alone and buy from home merchants, is our advcc to our readers. BOAKI) Ok KQI ALIZATION. Will Hold Its First .Meeting in Columbia 011 June 12. Governor Ansel has called for a meeting of the state board of equalization, to be held in the offices of the comptroller general, on the 12th of June. Wednesday at which time the assessments of the cotton, mills, cotton seed oil mills, fertilizer mills and power companies producing power for rent or hire will be revised and 11 A 111 . I lit" I KI il I II r.UUMSlO U1 U1IC member from each county, usunlly tho chairman of the county board of equalization or some other member of the county board. The state honrd of railroad assessors. which Is a sperate body, meets in the comptroller general's affice on June 19 th. The hoard of equalization consists this year of the following the appointments having only recently been completed: Abbeville. J. E. Ix>niax. Aiken. J. 0. Humby. Anderson. George M. Green. Bamberg. S. C. Guess. Barnwell, it. H. Johnstone. Beaufort, J. Berry. Berkeley. J. St.C. White. Charleston. P. 11. Gardner. Cherokee. J. N. Lipscomb. Chester. E. H. Hardin. Chesterfield. J. C. Blackwell. Clarendon. A. J. Richburg. Colleton. J. T. (larrls. Darlington, E. N. Cannon. Dorchester. C. M. Garvin. Edgefield. K. A. Cothran. FaiPfleld, Thomas M. Taylor. Florence. Chas. A. Smith. Georgetown. J. H. Reed. Greenville. R. \?. Cleveland. Greenwood, J. \V. Aiken. Hamilton, C. J. Gray. Horry, Jenkins K. Smith. Kershaw. Sam R. Adams. Lancaster, Wade C. Thompson. Laurens, it. P. Adair. Lee. J. J. Shaw. Lexington. N. It. Wannamaker. Marlon, L. It. (Sogers. Marllioro, Jno. N. Drake. Newherry, R. T. C. Hunter. 1 Oconee. A. Zimmerman. Orangeburg. R. M. Claffv. ' Pickens. W. T. O'dell. Richland. J. H. RolHn. Saluda. \V. K. Ilodie. . Spartanburg. W. W. Mursh. Sumter, II. J. McCrackin. Union. R. C. Hill. ' Williamsburg. W. R. Frank. . ' York, J. F. Ashe. IIF.WV WOMAN. r Shr Weighed Five Hundred and Kiev en Pounds Not. At Louisville. Ky.. Martha John 1 son. whose- weight is 511 pounds died early Wednesday of heart fail lire. She was 62 years old and he g lieved to he the largest person ii i Kentucky. The undertaker who wa called said that fluid sufficient t , embalm six ordinary persons wa B necessary In preparing the woman' 1 body for burial. i The casket is six feet long, thre - feet wide and 21 inchea deep. Twelv stout negroes have been selected e pallbearers. WANT A ROW. The Japs Are Mad and May Demand an Apology FROM THIS COUNTRY. Washington Officials Arc Surprised At the Attitude of the Japs, and ('un Figure Out Xo Act That Is Likely To Hare Re-opened a Dispute That Has Been Considered As Closed. A dispatch from Tokio, Japan, says fl Hpnilf ntlon fe/\n? ?? * ?, ...... >ivui uic |num party in Japan personally urged Foreign Minister Hayashi to take action to prevent a reoccurrence of antiJapanese outbreaks in San Francisco and explain the government's apparent inaction in ihe recent outbreak. The opiKisitnon Japanese newspapers prominently quote Count Okuma as urging the concentration of Japanese national efforts toward the settlement of what is known a^| the San Francisco question: that Japan should demand a public apology from the mayor of San Francisco, and also that the Japanese should receive treatment similar to that given to Anglo-Saxons In the United States. It is said by the Japanese, who seem determined to pick a row with the United States, that herein lies the sole hope of definitely settling the question. Otherwise, if necessary, demonstrative measures will be tak en which it will be impossible to regard as precipitate in the circumstances. Seven Japanese university professors, famous for agitation in molding public opinion before the war with Russia and during the period when the peace negotiations were in progress. are again bestlring themselves, although, this time, in the direction of a generally more stalwart foreign policy, including Jupan's dealings with Korea and China. It is said that the opi>osition. hy means of public meetings and otherwise soon will begin a campaign against the Caionji ministry on the basis that is is showing itself too conciliatory, and too much disposed to make concessions in the matter of the persecution of Japanese in San Francisco. Leading Japanese persons in and out of politics seem to have a feeling of apprehension regarding Japan's future relations with the United States. The action of the progressives is believed to indicate a desire of certain elements in-Japan to make the issue with the United States prominent. Japanese belligerency over the Francisco affair caused surprise in official Washington, chiefly because no incident of recent date could be suspected of having served to re-open what was generally considered a bit of ancient history. CJeneral Kuroki's recent tour through the country, with its attendant felicitations and ex presslons of good will, hnd strengthened the friendly feeling of Americans toward their Oriental neighbors to such an extent that the reports of belated indignation in Japan came as rather a severe shock. As it stands, the state department is oil record as having informed the Japanese government of all the facts it had been able to secure, all tending to show that that last trouble in San Francisco was merely an incident to the great railroad strike, with its accompanying riots. In the case of the school question, the state department did point out the limitation imposed upon the federal government by the constitution and its dealing with individual states Ktit it hnrl roncnn fn siiiuinhp from the reception according its notes and in Tokio. that the Japanese government fully understood the situation of the federal government here and was satisfied with the arrangement of the school question obtained by the president and Secretary Root by the exercise of almost extra-official influence upon the legal authorities of San Francisco. Hence, the officials here can only conjecture that there has not been a publication in Japan of all the official correspondence, which, it is believed, would favorably affect public opinion toward the United States. The attacks upon Japanese restaurants and bath-houses in San Francisco are still under investigation by the State authorities of California. and when that inquiry is concluded doubtless the Japanese government will be informed of the result. and, if necessary, a proper expression of regret will be made. (JIVKX FULL LIMIT. Judge Ibint/Jer Ix>cks Fiend t*|> foi Thirty Years. The Columbia State says Johr Richardson was convicted on the charge.of assault with intent to rav Ish. The prosecuting witnesses were Misses l.ula and Leila Norton. When the jury returned verdict o guilty Judge Dantzler inquired wha Richardson had to say why sentence of the court should not be passed - The negro started to make* som< i. statement reflecting upon the char - acter, when Judge Dantzler promptly rebuked the defendant and gave hln a the limit of the lgw?30 years, s Richardson worked at the housi r> of the father of these young womei s and slept on the place. One night hi s placed a ladder beside the house am was discovered trying to enter thi e room. He is a negro of brutish ap e pearanee and the sentence which h< it received gave entire satisfaction t all who witnessed the proceedings. WITHOUT A SUMMER. Snow and Ice Prevailed in June. July and August Of tin* Vrnr KI({ht?Tii 11 untlced and Sixteen Throughout The \ortli ami Kast. The 1816 was known throughnut thn Pnlt > ? ?..V v.ic vuiicni Oliues illlCI HUrOpe US the coldest ever experienced by any person then living. There are persons in Northern New York, who have been in the habit of keeping diaries for years, and it is from the pages of an old diary began in 1810 and kept up unbroken until 18 40 that the following information regarding this year without a summer has been taken: January was so mild that most persons allowed their fires to go out and did not burn wood except for cooking . There were a few cold days, but they were very few. Most of the time the air was warm and springlike. February was not cold. Some days were colder than any in January, but the weather was about the same. March, from the 1st. was inclined to be windy. It came In like a small lion and went out like a very nnocent sheep. April came in warm, but as the days grew longer, the air liecame cold ii, nnu n.v me nr?t ui may mere was a temperature like that of winter, with plenty of snow and ice. In May the young buds were frozen dead, ice formed half an inch thick on ponds and rivers, corn was killed, and the cornfields were planted again and again, until it became too late to raise a crop. By the last of May in this climate the trees are usually in leaf and birds and flowers are plentiful. When the last of May arrived in 1816, everything had been killed by the cold. June was the coldest month of roses ever experienced in this latitude. Frost and ice were as common as buttercups usually are. Almost every green thing was killed; all fruit was destroyed. Snow fell ten inches deep in Vermont. There was a 7-inch fall in the interior of NewYork Stale, and the same in Massachuseltes. There was a seven-inch fall in the interior of New York State and the same in Massachusetts. There were only a few moderately warm days. Everybody looked, longed, and waited for warm weather, but warm weather did not come. It was also dry; vory little rain fell. All summer long the wind blew steadily from the north in blasts, laden with snow and ice. Mothers knit Hficks nf Hfiiililp thlrk np?? for their children, and made thick mittens. Planting and shivering were done together, and the farmers who worked out their taxes on the conntry roads wore overcoats and mittens. On June 17 there was a heavy fall of snow. A Vermont farmer sent a flock of sheep to pasture on June 16. The morning of the 17 th dawned with the thermometer below the freezing point. About 9 o'clock in the morning the owner of the sheep started to look for his flock. Before leaving home he turned to his wife and said jokingly: "Better start the neighbors soon; it's the middle of June and I may get lost in the snow." An hour after he had left home a terrible snowstorm came up. The snow fell thick and fast and. as there was so much wind, the fleecy masses piled in great drifts along the windward side of the fences and outbuildings. Night came and the farmer had not been heard of. His wife became frightened and alarmed the neighborhood. All the neighl)ors joined the searching party. On the third day they found him. He was lying in a hollow on the side hill with both feet frozen; he was half covered with snow, but alive. Most of the sheep were lost. A farmer near Tewksbury, Vt., owned a large field of corn, lie built fires. Nearly every night he and his men took turns in keeping up the fire and watching that the corn did not freeze. The farmer was rewarded for his tireless labors by having the only crop of corn in the region. July came in with ice and snow. On the 1th of July Ice as thick as window glass formed throughout New England, New York and in some parts ot the State of Pennsylvania. Indian corn, which in some parts of the East had struggled through May and June, gave up, froze and died. To the surprise of everybody, August proved the worst month of all. Almost every green thing in this country and Europe was olasled with frost. Snow fell at Harnet, thirty miles from I^ondon. on August SO. . Newspapers received from England stated that 1816 would be remember ed by the existing generation as thf year in wheh there was no summer, Very little corn ripened In New England. There was great privation and thousands of persons would havt perished in this country had it noi . been for the abundance of fish and wild game.?Danbury. Conn., News Tl'RKKY ON THF TRACK. i _________ ' Engine's Headlight Hlinded n Bij Clobler One Night. The Columbia Record sayR th< 1 other night Engineer J. A. Ashley, o 1 this city, while his train was thun * dering over the Seaboard Air Lini * tracks on its way from Savannal * north, saw between the rails as h? * was traversing Rlack Swamp a bij f wild turkey gobbler. 1 As the big locomotive was almos upon him, the gobbler attempted t< B escape, but flew straight into th? 1 headlight, the Impact throwing hin ? upon the pilot, where he caught am * held fast. Mr. Ashley stopped hi ? train and walked out on the runnlm board to the pilot. The bird vg p found to weigh twenty-three pound; 0 and proved delicious, when prepare* In huntsman's style. JONES-WRIGHT FUED. Took 50 Lives to Bring Leaders to Senses. KeutuckJans Who Fought for Botcii Years, S|K>ud Days of Retirement As Old Chums. The principals of the Jones-Wright fued war which waged during the 80's in Letchor and Knott counties in the state of Kentucky, are now friends. It took a death-dealing fight that lasted over seven years and cost the lives of 50 men to bring inese men to their senses. Now they live in retirement in their country homes and spend much of their times as old chums. John W. Wright was the ieador of the Wright faction. He is living on the headwaters of the Elk horn creek in L.etchor county, with his wife and two children. He receives his sustenance from the proceeds of a 3 00-acre mountain farm. Once In a while he goes after a desperate criminal and captures him. He will not go after a fugitive from justice unless there is a high price on his head. Caleb Jones lives in Knott county. Both men are now 50 years of age and have retired from active life. It was in the early 70's that the bitter warfare between the Jones and Wright factions began. The first encounter occurred on the morning ot July 10, 1881!, in the town of Hindman, Knott county. Hoth Jones and Wright were backed by 25 brave, tried, trusty and true men. It was a tight to the finish. Each side loss heavily. Two days later another battle followed after each side had been reinforced and supplied with munitions of war. Ten men were killed. Men of each side of the feud were continually in danger of uieir lives. Comparative quiet followed for a year, when Roscoe McCoy was shot from ambush at -oone He was one of Wright's most trusted men. A challenge followed and an encounter on the headwater of Trouble creek. The last battle was fought on the morning of May 4, 1889, on Cross Fork, Knott county. In the midst of the fight Jones and Wright met face to face. Neither would give in. Finally the two came to an agreement. They shook hands and made up. Since that time they have been fast friends. Wright still follows his vocation as u detective. He is a dead shot and is credited with having killed 18 men in his lifetime, but was never arrested for a single killing. When a boy of 16 he shot aud killed Floyd .tall, because the two could not decide which was the best shot in the country. Wright was a leader against the Ku-Klux element. In the battles with the desperadoes he was in the lead, but was never wounded, though not one of his trusty comrades is living to enjoy the quiet life which the former leader and fighter is enjoying. While in Hawkins county, Tenn., carrying on a moonshine business. Wright says he killed three men and soon after his return and before the fued with ,Iones broke out, he killed two men who had been stealing horses in his neighborhood. He says he has not killed all the men credited to him, but that in all his fighting he has never shot a man in the back. If he ran he refused to kill a coward. If he stood it was a "square deal" to lire rather than he fired upon for being too slow to grasp a situation. KI LL.KI) AT A CltOSKI XCi. Engineer llowcn and Machinist liar* rison Victims of Crash. A dispatch from Savannah. Ga . to the Augusta Chronicle says Engineer Daniel Howen and Machinist William T. Harrison met their death at 3 o'clock Wednesday morning in a wreck at the crossing of the Central of Georgia and the Charleston and Savannah railroad. The light engine Howen was driving crashed into another of which H. J. Allen was engineer. Allen was slightly bruised about the face, his escape being regarded as miraculous. Harrison crawled from beneath the wrckage, terribly injured. As he lav on the track he heeeed niteouslv that he be killed to relieve his terrible agony. He welcomed death when it came. CAIiLED OX ROOSEVKLT. Some Confederate Veterans (io to See the President. | A number of Confederate veteran* who attended the reunion at Rich mond last week, were in Washington ' sight-seeing, several parties called at the White House and were introduced to the president, former Sei;a1 tor Jones heading a party from Arkansas. and Representative Kenned> of Ohio, one from Georgetown. Ky. The latter were Gen. Morgan's men [ five of whom were officers. They had 1 a pleasant talk with the preaidenl and told Mm if he were again in need of rough riders they were readj for service. The president told hii visitors several good stories and thej C came away highly pleased with theli call. FOOLED TUB DOCTORS. % f - Man Lived Forty Years After Pliysi ' ' eians Gave Him Up. D Forty years after two physician: ; had given hinf up as a hopeless vie tlm of tuberculosis and said his deatl 1 was a matter of only a few hours Dr 3 Marvin Chapln, of Chicago, died Sun p day, aged eighty-si*. [J Soon after he was pronounced be 1 yond human aid forty years ago h 8 went to the oil fields and roughed il It la said Dr. unapin cured himsel * by swallowing crude oil. Dr. Chapl ' came to Chcago in 1897 and taught Presbyterian Sunday School Class fo twenty years. BOMB HIDDEN In the Wall of Justice's Office in New York. BLACK HAND DID IT. 9 Dynamic*' and Clarit Powder Arranged to Kxplode l?y the Telephone Fuse Connection.?Judge Kennel, the Intended Victim, Has ltitterly Fought The Murderous Orguai/.ntion, and They Wanted Hevenge. Through the timely discovery of a bomb hidden in his otlice. Police Justice Joseph Kennel of Weohawkeii. Now York, propably saved the lives of himself and family. Mel ween the wall and a chest of drawers in the office was found a bomb containing sufficient dynamite and giant gunpowder to have wrecked the whole house and blown the occupants to atoms. The otllce of the Justice is on the llackensack Plank Hoad, near the West Shore station at New Durham. It is a room in the two-story frame building he uses as his residence. In addition to the Justice, who is sixty years old, his wife and three children and his mothe-in-law there are three boarders^ in the house. The office is a semi-public place to which outsiders have access. About o'clock in the evening the Justice noticed what he thought was a string sticking out front the space between the wall and ?l?r> ? ?,.??? ? Ho pulled it aiiu found it was attached to a fuse. Running his hand hack he drew forth a box, five by four inches. The tuse led into it. Ho opened it and found it to contain dynamite powder and caps. The Justice carried the infernal machine around to the police station There It was examined by Chief Jas. Noland and Captain Leonard Marki. To make sure of the character of the mixture, the police took a pinch of it outside and laid it on a stone. \ piece of the fuse was used. A bright Maine flashed the instant the spark reached the stone. There was according to the ponce, enough explosive in the bomb to have killed the whole family and demolished the house. After this, the police looked around for a means by which the bomb could have been exploded. and believeu they found it in its location. The machine was so placed that it was only a few inches from the telephone on the wall, and directly beneath it. They believe the men who placed it there planned to connect it with the telephone in some manner so that whoever rang the 'phone after the connection was made would have been blown up. There was dust on the bomb, and the opinion is that is was placed there at least two rf*v? Justice Kennel in the past has been very severe on members of the Mlack Hand brought before him. lie has held them all for the higuer courts and many threats have been made against him just as they were against justice Cortese. of Patterson, who was blown up in his office. Several times he has been warned by his friends that he would be a victim, and it is said at the time of the Patterson tragedy that the police were euietly warned that Justice Kennel might be next. Nothing came of me warning, but while the police were on the alert, and the friends of the Justice, while not permitting him to know it. never allowed him to be alone when "Hoick Hand" cases were being investigated. Some of the men the justice has held for the higher courts have received sentences, and it is thought in some circles that their friends planned to kill Kennel. The failure of the plot to work is ascribed to the men having been frightened away before they had the opportunity to make the necessary fuse connections with the 'phone. Three months ago four men found with dynamite in their possession were sent to prison for three months by the justice. They were suspected of being members of a gang of thieves that was dynamiting railroad cars when unable to pick the iuuivb. The sentences of this quartette ex1 pired a couple of days ago. They have, been released from prison, and in this the police and the justice see a coincidence that may prove to- he a clue. Justice Kennel, who is an old solI dier, says he does not mind being blown up. hut he does not care to have his family killed. Ql'AKK K11,1?S M AN Y. i Many Houses I>estroy?*d and the People la'ft Starving. 1 The steamer Shawmut has brought news of disastrous loss of life follow* ing an earthquake at Hsing-Kiang, [ China. 1 A telegram received from Poking by the Nishi Shimhun at Tokio shortly before the Shawmut sailed, reported that 4,000 persons were crushed to death, a vast number of houses de stroyed-and many persons left starving. The Kmpress Dowager telegraphed R urgent Instructions to local governors to take measures to relieve the dts^ tress. FATAL F1RK. . i. Three Persons Burned to Death aiul Four Missing. ' . Three lives lost, four persons missn ing and many thousand's of dollars' a loss in a fire at Newark's Turnyerein r hall Thursday. The dead are the . I.nlt.r ?.?*V 1,1. -I#. 1 J I JHMIVVI ?ivu uic ^ iiv uuu tuna.