Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, June 13, 1907, Image 1
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.
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- 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
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