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THE FORT MILL TIMES. 16TH. TEAR. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAT, AUGUST 22, 1907. NO. 21. . N . % f j * HOTELS BURNED And Many Guests Turned Out And Had to Leave. AT OLD ORCHARD, ME. Tijo Lives Lost and Five Persons injured in Conflagrat ion at Old >reliard, Maine?Soda Tank Kxplosion Mows Man's Head Off? Visitors Compelled to Leave by Lack of Aceontmodntions. T?,n 1 1 1 ? ? - ? nu uico were uihi ana nve persons were Injured, three seriously, as a result of the fire which swept through Old Orchard. Maine, Thursday night, causing a loss estimated at $800,000. The dead: Philip Partridge, 2 4 years old. of Pittsburg, Pu., struck liy Boston & Maine train at Kennehunk and killed while on way to fire. Unidentified man, killed by explosion of soda tank; head blown off. The injured: Rev. Kufus H. Jones, pastor Trinity Episcopal church, Saco, Me.; M. T. Morrill, Salem, Mass. Unidentified man, probably fatally hurt by tank explosion. Samuel Emerson of Old Orchard. Miss Alice Minard, severely bruised by being thrown from carriage at Kennehunk while on way to Old Orchard with Philip Partridge, who was killed. Seventeen summer hotels, 60 cottages and a score of buildings occupied by stores were destroyed. .The explosion which caused so many injuries occurred in Morgan's drug store on Old Orchard avenue. It Is believed that the fire started from an overturned lamp in the annex of the Hotel Olympia. The total insurance on the burned property, it is understood, will not exceed $150,000. The water supply is getting very low and it is feared the residents may suffer from the lack of water. As a result of the fire the season at Old Orchard is brought to an abrupt close, as only one large hotel. t.ne uio urcnara, remains, aii trains Including several extras, were packed with persons leaving the shore. The people who were driven from the hotels were compelled to spend the night on the beach. TKIKD AND F1NKD 11Y PHONE. Wyoming Man Satisfied Just leu Over Wire, Saving Journey. Tried, found guilty, and sentenced over the telephone was the unique way in which Miles Fitzgerald satisfled justice at Cheyenne. Judge W. P. Carroll, of that city, has just finished this cases, saving at the same time a trip of fifty miles over the mountains for the principals in the proceeding. Albert Bristol and Fitzgerald, of Bear Creek, had a fight and Bristol called by telephone and asked for a warrant for Fitzgerald. Judge Carroll granted the warrant and telephoned Fitzgerald to come in foi trial. Fitzgerald replied that he was too busy, and asked that a hearing be given him over the phone. Arrangements were made, attorneys obtained by both men, and the case came to trial, the lawyers appearing before the court in Cheyenne, while both men remained at the ranch. Testimony was heard over tin "phone, and then l>otn lawyers made their plea. Judge Carroll fined Fit/. Rerald $15, and he agreed to mail a check for the amount. KHOl'LI) UK SWING. Negro Boys Cliurged With Assault ing Colored Girl. At Annopolls, Md., Leroy Haste _ aged seventeen, and James Harrit V eighteen, both colored, were com * mitted to jail, without hail, hy Jus tlce John N. I)avis, the .charges la ing assault, upon lx>ttle Brook* fourteen years old. of the same race The offoiiHe is alleged to have bee. committed on the night of July 4. The girl is employed in the hoin< of one of the professors at St. John college, and was returning from he work. She testified that she wh: seized hy the colored youths whih she was in a lonely section of th< town, and tnat she was assaulted bj hotn. At the ..earing ,jo girl positive^ Identified both of the accused. Botl /loniorl ovorv ututofnoiit A numlip of persons, however, testified In cor roboration of certain points of th< girl's story. The girl Is neat In up pearaance and decidedly abovo the average in Intelligence. KI 1?Y LITTliK FALL. After Climbing to l>iz/.y Heights foi Twenty Years. The New York American say* * "Steeplejack" Hill Anderson, after 2< *3* years of climbing to the top of th? | BEv loftiest towers and most dangerom f flagstaffs In New York, with never i K> slip nor fall, was killed by a prettj | Blittle drop of six feet the other day. It was an odd end to a steeple ' Jack's career BUI laughed when he tackled the six foot Job. It was to paint a pole on the roof of the Hotel Belmont The pole base If only a tall . Jf man's height above the roof. Bill ran & up the short ladder like an ordinary Jll' cltlaeu would run upstairs. } But as he turned to call to an a8bis bnflgWf tor the first time lp* bis life, an* p! unged tl <h1 roof. He died York Hoepttal am' vi u Iractured skull GENERAL SUMTER. A Monument to His Memory Unveiled at Statesburg. Mr. II. A. M. Smith, as Orator of the l>ay, Delivered Historical Address of Great Interest and Value. The monument to General Thomas Sumter in the cemetary at Statesburg, where this Revolutionary sol uier aim eariy American statesman lies buried, was unveiled on Wednesday of last week In the presence of a large leathering of South Carolinians and with interesting and brilliant exercises. The little town of Statesburg was more lively Wednesday thau at any time of its history and the occasion will lie notable In the annals of Sumter county. The Charleston contingent, Including the regular troops from the artillery |Hist at Fort Moultrie, accompanied by the band, arrived early In the morning, coming by way of the Atlantic Coast Line on a special train which was run to Seale's Siding, from which point the troops, three hundred in number, marched and the other members of the party rode to State8burg. A number of people came to Claremont on the Southern railway, and were conveyed from that station to Statesburg. At 11 o'clock the procession was 1 formed in the grove of the Gen. Sumter Memorial Academy, and inarched from there to the cemetarv, the regulars lending with their band, and followed Immediately by the Sumter 1 Light Infantry with the Second Regiment band of Sumter, the whole gathering of people following the military. Arriving at the grave the invocation was pronounced by Rev. H. 11. 1 Covington, of Sumter, and the monument was unveiled, the cords releasing the draperies being pulled by Mrs. ? J. Herbert Haynesworth and Miss I Beatrice Sumter, great-great-grand- I daughters of Gen. Sumter, the bands ' playing stiring military airs. < The procession then reformed and the whole assemblage returned to the I grove, whence it had started, there to 1 carry out the program of the exer- I clses. ! The chairman of the monument < committee. Col. J. J. Dargan, called < the gathering to order and introduced < Oov. Ansel as the presiding officer of 1 the occasion. The Governor made a I brief address on assuming the chair. < Hon. Richard 1. Manning, of Sumter. 1 then introduced former Gov. A. J. i Monatague, of Virginaa, who deliver- i ed a most interesting and eloquent s address. The orator of the day. Hon. H. A. i M. Smith, of Charleston, was presented by Hon. Marion Moise, of Sumter, and delivered an extended and admir- i able address. i He reviewed the services of Gen. < Sumter, recounting his military ex- i ploits which won him the title of the I "Gamecock" from his admiring Brit- I ish foes, and his services as a statesman in the Legislature of South Car- 1 oiina and in the House of Represents- ' tives and the Senate of the United ; States. i Mr. Smith's address was a most i valuable contribution to the history i of the State and is probably the most < complete record of the Ufe and ser- i vices of Gen. Sumter, which lias ever been prepared. i After music by the hands, following the address of Mr. Smith. Gov. i Ansel read a letter from President \ Roosevelt, written for the occasion, i paying tribute to the services of Gen. Sumter. BOYS IIAVK "BLACK HAXD." \diuit Threat ruing to Kill Youth I'll loss Mother rahl. Charged with attempted hlaekmail md with sending threatening letters through the mallB, two tifteen-year>ld boys were arrested early Wednev luy morning by Acting Captain O')ay, of the Kast Twenty-second St.. tation, New York and sent to the Children's society for safe keeping ( 111 til their eases can he tried in the Children's court. The boys gave their names as 'eter Hoyle, of ^-il Kast TwentyIrst street, and Palmer Murcha, ol Kast Twenty-first street. It it harged that these hoys, who wore 'ragged out of bed by the police hortly after midnight, had written a hreatcnlng letter to Mrs. A. C. W-hupp, of 204 Kast Twenty-first treet, demanding *100. and threatening to "take away your son and ill him" if the money failed to be orth-coniing when a "man with a treen necktie and a w...ie cap" pass>d her stoop on the night of Saturday ast. The letter read as follows: "Dear Madam: If you don't give 5100 to a man with a green necktie md a white cap who will pass by your stoop tonight at 10 o'clock, vour son will be taken away and killed. "Beware." The hoys admitted to the police hat they were guilty. 1N' SA N K PKOM CKiAICKTT KS. lioy Tries to l>o Hlmscslf llarm and Is in Hospital. Excessive cigarette smoaking has made a raving muniac of "Buck" Glover, nineteen years old. whose home has l>een with his parents on Glasgow street. Portsmouth Va. He Is now confined in the hospital ward of the Portsmouth jail. The young man has been acting strungeiy for several days, but it was aot until Wednesday that he became violently insane. He tried to do himself bodily harm, and to prevent this the police were called 'In. In a moment of calm he consented to accompany the police to tho jail, but on the way he became so i violent thtt It was necessary for the. mm. I WATSON'S PLAN For the Farmers to Protect Theii Best Interests. SAYS HE WILL HELP In the Fight and I'rges National Policy for Organization?Mays Farmers Should Work Along Lines of the Old Farmers Vlliauce?Think. the Movement Will March Stcadily On. At White Oak camp groundB, near Thomson, Ga., Hon. Thomas E. Watson was the guest of honor of the Farmer's Union. He addressed an audience of some 1,000 or 1,200, Including people of live counties, McDuffle, Lincoln. Wilkes, Columbia and Warren. '1 hey had met under the auspices of the Farmer's Educational and Co-operative Union The burden of Mr. Watson's address was that the Farmer's Union must have a national scope, a national creed national principles and a national purpose. "The Farmer's Union is going to declare the same principles and make the same light attempted by the old Farmer's Amanre, and in that fight I am going to help," he said. He is convinced that the time has come when this organization, embracing in its membership 1,200,000 farmers. cannot be held together by the restricted plans and narrow purposes which now prevail. In beginning his address Mr. Watson said: , "In "Memoirs of General Sam Dale,' who was one of the officers in charge of the Indians that were being removed from Alabama and Georgia, we are told in a most touching way of the love those red men bore this beautiful laud. "General Dale relates that not only the women and children heartbroken will grief at having to give up their homes, but that the warriors them selves were utterly unmanned. Stoi al braves who would have died unlet torture without a groan broke Jown and cried like children when the United States soldiers cante Lo march them off to the West. General Dale says that after the Indians had been collected and started on their long journey, they would return, each right, to their homes, to see them once more. This was kept up tintII the camp was pitched forty miles away. "In all the wide world the stars of 1831 looked down ui>on no sight more pitiful than that of these children of the forest, stealing out of t-atnp at night to walk hack twenty, thirty and forty miles, to get one last look at the humble cabins which had been their homes. "But who need wonder that the Indians loved this Southern land? Where did the smile of God, on Creation's morning, rest more radiantly than upon this marvelous clime of the green field and cloud-topped mountains, of shadowy forest and verdant valley, of dimpled lake and rushing river? "The red men loved it?loved it with all their simple hearts. "They loved it well enough to fight for it. They never gave it up until every battlefield upon which they could muster an army was red with their blood. "But they lost their homes, never theless?why? Because in the subtler combat of. mind against mind they were no match for the whites. The pale face deceived his red brother, when the Indians were the strongest, and when at length the whites were the stronger, the red men had to give up their homes. "Brethern of the South! Will you learn nothing from the past? Have you no eyes to see what is going on? Do you not realize that in the war of wits you are losing ground? Will you never understand that national policies and laws can be so shaped as to give all the advantage to one class, r oiip section? Is It impossible for you to learn that special privilege always lives at the expense of the unprivileged is a deadly parasite that will sap the live of the noblest tree? "Use your eyes. Book about you. See things as they are. Where is the bulk of the wealth of the nation? "In that portion of it which nature did the least for New England? How did bleak, barren New England come to be so rich? She made the laws to suit herself, and these laws took the prosperity of the South and West and gave it to the capitalists of the East and North. "Who owns your railroads? The North. Your mills? The North. Your banks? The North. Your mines? The North. There Isn't a merchant, banker, miner, manufacturer, farmer or 11 .1 i.. a i? v..?* ' i tin I (Htut-r in tut" ou 11111 niai uurou i have to depend on the North for money. Yet the most of that money wbh made tn the South and West. The financial currents which flow West and South from lew York, first flowed In New York from the South and West. Practically uone of that wealth was created In New York. ."Consider the laws which the manufacturers of the North have made for themselves. These capitalists are protected from outside competition; they monopolize- the home market; they form a triut to dictate output and price, and they sell their goods abroad cheaper than at home. "What Is the result? "They are making yearly a net profit of $2,800,000,000. which is two billions more than 8 per cent upon the money invested. "Think of it! After allowlrg them selves a clear income of 8 per cent upon their investment, they compel the consumer of manufactured goods to yield to them a yearly tribute ol two thousand millions of dollars! "Thus eveiy man, woman and child lu America is taxed about $25 GREATLY SHOCKED. . The Odd Experience of a Philadelphia Woman. Turned on Light and Found Burglar to Be a Man From Whom She Hail Been Divorced. To be coufronted by the form of a crouching burglar, to flre at him, and then to flash up the light and And herself face to face with a man from who she had been divorced in California, such was the dramatic experience of Mrs. Richard Smith, of 327 West York street, Philadelphia, Thursday. It happened at about 3 o'clock in the morning. Mrs. Smith's husband is a traveling man at present on the roud. She was sleeping in her house with her three children. Awakened by tho noise of someone moving about in her room, Mrs. Smith saw the shadow of a man's iigure near the bedroom. Reaching under her pillow, she drew out a revolver, and, raising herself on the bed, tired. i he bullet crashing into the doorjatnb and a man's voice yelled: "Don't shoot!" Mrs. Smith reached to the side of the bed and turned a switch that flashed up the lights. She saw the face of a man standing in the doorway. She gave a scream as she recognised the features and dropped her revolver. Whether or not the' man recognized her, she does not know. As he saw her drop the pistol he made a jump for the stairs, cleared them in three or four bounds and bolted from the house. Mrs. Smith summoned the police by telephone, and when they reached her house, told her story. She declared positively that she recognized the man as William Benson, al>out fortyfive years old, and that the shock of recognition made her drop the pistol. Sht*told the police that she was a California girl and had married Benson in Sacremento. He was, she asserted, the black sheep of a weiiknown family, his father having been r. wealthy "Forty-niner" and his brother today being a well-known citizen of the California city. She declared Benson had been convicted of highway robbery in California. Under her divorce from him she had married her present husband, who is a well-known resident of the northeastern section of that city. Mrs. Smith was completely unnerved by her experience. "Now that he knows where I am. I am afraid he will come back and murder me. as perhaps he actually sought me out to do me harm." she told the police. "I had put him completely out of my life and to encounter him in such a dramatic matter is terrible." The police of the Fourth and York streets station say they think that Benson was not aware of the identity of the resident of the house which he entered. "It was just an accident that Ba aK/\ulH hdvn hrnlton Into tho flnm. icile of his former wife," the police SH>'. They are working on the theory that he is the man wanted for ja.llbreaking by the autnoritles of California. They have sent out a general alarm for the man with his description. A police guard Is being kept on Mrs. Smith's house in case the intruder should make any attempt to return. LKiHTMN'U SPLITS TONUUK. Man Strangely Mangled by Bolt From the Sky. In the midst of a terrific electric storm. Bird Blackburn, a prosperous farmer of Hanover county, Va., was struck dead while loading his cart. Blackburn was in his cornfield, about 200 yards from his home when he was killed. His tongue was split, both jaw l>ones broken and his neck and chest badly burned. Leander Blackburn, a son, was on the cart a few feet away. He was not even stunned. per year to give special privilege to the manufacturer. On every family of five, this is a crushing burden of $125 per year?and it is nothing more than shameless, heartlesss confiscation." In speakiug of the effect of this system Mr. Watson said: "Under this diabolical system of national taxation, John D. Rockefeller, worth his $5,000,000,000, pays no greater sum toward the support of the national government than many a two-horse farmer pays. Under any decently fair system of taxation, Rockefeller would pay five hundred thousand times more taxes to the federal government than are paid by a farmer who is worth one thousand dollars. But, under the policy, the farmer may pity more than Rockefeller?the tax not being paid upon income, or accumulated wealth, but upon the amount of manufactured articles consumed. Thus the literal truth Is that our national Kuveniuicui uuro uui iu^ wealth at all. It allows the rich the benefit of special privilege which not only exempts them from nat'on.il taxation, but permits them to tax the unprivileged." In speaking of the part the farmers' Union should play, Mr. Watson said. "The Farmers' Union is hut the rein< arnation of the Farmers' Alliance The new order takeB the place of the old. The prophet dies, but the word lives The flag which one brave standi ard bearer drops from his dying hand another catches up and carries on. "And so, rnder the blessings of the i Most High, the Farmers' Union will i march on, until it plants its victorlI ous banner on the walls which the i Farmers' Alliance was not permitted f to storm. "Rome was not built in a day. 'Try, I try again,' is the watchword of all > progress, individual or collective." BRUTAL MURDER A White Man Killed by a Negro at Summerville. l/IIAAI/rn ixnuuivtu ram uuwn And Beat Him to Death With the Bar of a Store Door, While the Proprietor of the Store Apparently Looked On Without Raising His Hand to Prevent the Brutal Murder of an Unarmed Man. A dispatch to The News and Courier says Mr. Robert H. Graham of Summervllle was assaulted between 8 and 9 o'clock Saturday night by Luke Chlsolm. colored, and died at 7 o'clock Sunday morning without having regained consciousness. The assault occurred at the store of Mr. K. R. Smith, in Stailsville. Chisolm it appears, became offended at a remark made by Mr. Graham, and knocked him down, kicking him after he fell to the floor and 'hen beating hiin info unconsciousness with the bar used in fastening the front door of the store. Mr. Graham, who was a son of the late Judge R. F. Graham, a brother of Dr. W. F. Graham and a stepson of Dr. R. A. Muckenfuss, of Summervllle about 8 o'clock Saturday night to go to his home in the southwestern limits of the town. About half an hour afterwards he entered the store of Mr. Smith, in Stailsville. When a little later, Luke Chisolm, walked into the store, Mr. Graham, according to the evidence, Graham extended his hand to him saying: "This is a white man's hand and 1 am going to carry you home," or words to that effect. Thereupon Chisolm, it is alleged, somewhat Insultingly replied, "You are drunk," and knocked Mr. Graham down. struck him with both fists and also kicked him. Mr. Graham and the negro Bcufiled on the floor and then tumbled out of the front door. One of the witness said he "heard the bar of the door fall out, saw Luke Chisolm grab it and heard him hit Mr. Graham with it." The proprietor of the store, seeing the parties standing at the door when Chisolm entered and talking together, was under the impression that the meeting was friendly, and turning away to attend to a customer heard some one shortly after fall, and looking backwards found Graham on the floor, saw Chisolm strike him twice with his fist and kick him in the side. Mr. Smith called upon Chisolm to desist, but Chisolm ran round towards the door, got the bar and struck at Mr. Graham, and in a few seconds they rolled out from the store into the highway opposite. Mr. Smith then closed the door and a few minutes after went out and found Mr. Graham lying face downwards in front of the store. He then went over and notified Mr. Robert I. Limehouse, who lives nearby. Mr. Limehouse had the injured man immediately removed to his house, and medical assistance was sent for. Dr. J. Julian Carroll, upon arriving and examination, found a contused wound of the left eye; apparently produced by a fist, and a wound about two Inches in length on the right side of the head behind the right ear. This wound extendou through the scalp and the inner and outer tables of the skull, producing a compound rracture. 'mere was also a fracture at the base of the brain superinduced by the force of the blow. Chisolm, after the assault and while his victim was lying at the door of Mr. Smith's store, endeavored to have Mr. Smith let him in, stating that he wished to talk with .um. Mr. Smith replied that he had closed and would not open again that night. Mr. Graham's assailant soon after this left the Brallsford plantation about three mile from Summervilie, wuere he was living, and during the night was taken into custouy by a party of citizens who weni ....ere for that purpose. While bringing him ~.?ck to Summervilie it is stated that ^^.solm declared that Mr. Graham had cursed him and struck him, and that ho (Chisolm) struck him back, kicked him and after they had rolled from the store, hit uim twice in the uead with the door bar. Magistrate Richard Cook, acting as coroner, empanelled a jury of inquest, with Mr. William T. Mackay as foreman, which, after hearing the facts related substantially above, and the. testimony of Dr. Carroll, rendered a verdict that the deceased came to his death by a blow or blows on the head, inflicted by a bar in the hunds of Luke Chisolm. During the day there was some rash talk, but intelligence and a desire that the law should hold sway prevailed, and Chisolm was committed Snndav afternoon to the county Jail At St. George to await trial at the Court of Sessions In October. Chief Waring and the county officials were fully alert to the exigencies of the situation. Mr. Graham was a man of many excellent traits of character, intelligent and kind hearted. Ho leaves a widow, the daughter of Mr. L. C. Boyle, of St. Paul's Parish, and several children. IMPALKI) AHLKKI*. Somnambulist Walks Out ami IColls Upon Fence Pickets. Kdward Hornsley plunged 40 feet to his death during a somnambulistic wandering at Mahanoy, Pa., for his body was impaled on a picket fence. The young fellow walked through the third-story window of his home and dropped headlong to a kitchen roof then rolled off upon the sharp prongs of the fence. A I TELLS OF KOREA. Pity Of Senator Stone Rises at t I Crushing Of Nation. Marquis Ho Hulcs By K?m<?Km- | peror and Father 1'rinuners in l?alacc?Reckoning is Certain. Senator William J. Stone, of Mis- ^ souri, who spent a week at Seoul, Korea, investigating the Korean situation, was received in audience by the Emperor, and the Marquis Ito chaperoned him. Senator Stone, summing up the situation, said to a cor respondent or the St. I^ouis GlobeDemocrat: "From a Korean standpoint the situation is pathetic. For the first r time in my life I have seen the mail- * ed hand of a foreigner lay ruthlessly 1 over a conquered people. One Em- v peror has been forced to abdicate to c make place for a weakling. Doth are c held in practical Imprisonment by a their conquerors. 11 There is an armeu Japanese force a about the palace, and Koreans are f denied the right of access or com- t munication with the palace, all but t the suppliant ministers doing the bid- c ding of Marquis Ito, and who dare not show themselves in the streets li of Seoul without a Japanese guard. 1< "No man, Korean or foreigner, can s have an audience with the Emperer t except by permission, and in the pres- g ence of Marquis Ito. The Emperor t and his father are prisoners in their n own palace, and the Marquis Ito is ii the real ruler. The Government is a a despotism of foreigners, upheld by t< military force. s "The people of ->rea are overawed. intimidated and subdued, and b well they may be. for he who rules d them if as ruthless and as arbitrary t< as a savage and is supreme e "It is pitiful to note the hopeless- hi ness and helplessness of this unhap- o py people. No American could wit- s ness this tragedy without a feeling g of profound sorrow for the victim, but unhappily, in view of the Philippines, the American protest is silent e from an international standpoint. s '"The purpose of the Japanese is to \> appropriate Korea and make it a e gateway for encroachment upon h China. The Chinese policy of Japan q is one of territorial and commercial aggrandizement, and this j>olicy is (, carried forward with a ruthlessness t| unexampled in modern times. Right c is based on might, while the world looks on Indifferently. g "But history is being made here. ^ which, in its ultimate and intended consequences, is far beyond the con- a fines of this country and involves far w rnnrn Ihon thlu py Empire. Some day there will be, t] and must lie, a reckoning." j, CHILI) KILLED. 7 h w Auto Went Over Embankment Si'Vfii- p I ty-Five Feet High. a As a result of an automobile accl- 1 dent near Susquehannah, Pa., Helen Brush, aged 6 years, was killed, and * three others seriously injured. The c machine which was owned by Harry " Brush, went, over an embankment 7"> " feet high and plunged into the Sus- 11 quehanna river. The car was occupied by Mr. Brush c his daughter who was killed, Francis I1 Gritlin and Thomas Loylan. Brush e was held in the automobile; the two girls were thrown out and hurled e against trees. Boylan jumped from ? the car when it began its descent. '' Brush was caught in the steering ^ gear and had a leg broken. He went 1 into the river with the car but was v rescued by boys who were swimming. <' BULLET IN BRAIN FIGHT YEARS, n t Now Feels Effect, an~ Surgeons Try ^ To Remove It. ] (For eight years John Vandyne ot tl Wheeling, W. Va,. has carried a bul- > let around inside his skull. Wednes- s day he felt the first bad effects or it. e He became suddenly ill, lapsed into unconsciousness, and paroxysms foi- p lowed. d Surgeons hurried him to a liospi- l tal and performed an operation, t which afforded temporary relief, and <j will endeavor later to locate and re- y move the bullet. c Eight years ago he waas handling a revolver, which was accidental- t ly discharged, the bullet penetrating d his skull and lodging in the brain. n III11DK SEVENTY. * 1 Marries .Man Thirty Years Younger i v Than She Is. ) |l A grand mother, and nearly seven- , ty years of age, Mrs. Mary Louth, a j, former resident of New York, became the bride of William H. Becker, a j blacksmith aged 40 at New Castle , Conn. f The ceremony was performed by , Rev. George T. Alderson. Mrs. J. Auld and Mrs. George Gill, daugh- * ters of the bride, were matrons of honor, and Harry B. I^t?uth, son of the bride, was the best man. After the wedding reception the couple departed for Niagara PallH, as happy as though in their teens. ' t ?D#It' UUA1IUU CJI'CHT Three Big Ones Caught on the (Thar* leston Waterfront. The Post says three large sharks were caught along the river front In Charleston on Thursday afternoon by amateur fisherman, and their capture excited a lot. of Interest from the passengers of the 6:30 boat. A ninefoot shark and a six-foot, monster were caught off Union wharf, and a five-foot fist got hooked off the old Market street wharf. Thero were also a shark seen off the Mount Pleasant wharf Friday morning. BAFFLE POLICE. Captain Schneider Says Spook's Mystery is a Puzzling One. CAN'T CATCH THEM. riiPNi" Invisible living Chase People From Tlieir Houses?The Members of One Family Flee ('Ih<I in Their Night Clothes?Tlj^JPnosts Bombards Houses With I^rks and Stones. "Spooks" aren't afraid of policenen. At least, those 'hat have been taunting Brown street, in CJeorgeown, I). C.. are not. Despite the igiiance of Capt. Schneider and his iflicers, of the Seventh precinct, they ontinue night after night their weird ind ghost-like tricks. The police are inable to stop the showers of gravel nd stones, which appear to be the avorite means of manifestation of hese materialistic ghosts; nor are hey able to discover whence they ome. With renewed vigor these invisible icing visited 'heir wrath on the helpess and terrorized denizens of Drown treet Thursday night, and the visiation was one that will never be forotten. The colored people, who are he principle victims of the spookish lalevolence, were thrown into a panit. The police are utterly mysterficd. nd the musty records of (Jeorgoown's ancient times do not shorn a it nation quite so strange. The ghosts temporarily suspended ombardnient of the outside of the writings Thursday night and sought i> play pranks in several of the houss, where the occupants were hidden ome of them in closets. The family f "Spike" Hampton tied into the treets to get out of the way of a host, which, they claim, was stalktig from one room to another. The Hampton family say that hidous sounds were heard in the house hortly after dark. While Hampton as half asleep, he declared, a Agure, lothod in white stood at the foot of is bed. 11c screamed, and the object isi-apeared. The whole f inilly a few econds later noticed a weired spe?-sr as it flitted about the rooms, and he hurriedly escaped in their night iothes. Policeman Young, who has led the host hunt and who was stationed dth several other policemen near by. raved the horrors o! the situation nd invaded the house. But no ghost, as found. While Young was in the ouse, however, the beings made heir presence manifest by turning >ose a rustiiude of bricks and stones, 'hey rattled against the side of the ouse, and "a brick, going through a rindow, fell at Young's feet. The olicernan captured it for anaylsls. t was a sure-enough brick and had 11 the appearances of one made from his earth's clay. "Aunt Jane" Holding, as ex-slave, .ho lives at 3218 Brown street, delared no ghost could make her run, nd sat all evening on the front of ier porch, defying the onslaughts lade all around her. The other ocupants of her house made their esape and sought the protection of the olice, who are as much baffled as ver. The ghost mystery is as puzzling as ver asd the police are completely utwitted. The best sleuths in the irecinct have tried to fathom it. and lave squads of policemen who have >een nightly detailed in the block, trere last night augmented by scores if fearless citizens, who elaim that hey are not superstitious. They witlessed with their eyes and ears hings that they had not heretofore ;iven credence. The colored folks adhere religlousy to the belief that the spirit of old Mike" Catos, a daring and notorious Igure in that part of Georgetown 2't rears ago, has returned to haunt ome of his neighbors, whom he hatid and distrusted. Another thing that strengthens the ;host theory in the minds of the resilanio nf lirr>wii street is the estab ished fact that the houses on the horoughfare were all built of brick lug out of vaults is an old grave urd, which is within A stone's throw >f the haunted place. "I have been on the police foree wenty-five years," said Capt. Schnellei to a Post reporter, "and I have lever struck a puzzle like this. My nen have worked like trojans to olve the mystery, and have failed. Svery night since these ^trange bengs started their trouble, aliout a veek ago, from ten to twelve officers lave been detailed on the roofs of louses, in trees, in chimneys, and very other conceivable place, and lave found absolutely nothing that vi 11 explain these manifestations. If t Isn't ghosts I don't know what it is. it first we thought the pranks were hose of a clever midnight culprit. iut this supposition no longer holds [round. We huven't given the case ip, and expect to fathom It before we top." ItlSKKI) ritlSON TKItM. f?? Make His Sweet heart llelicve He Whs Itlcli. .At Des Moines taking the chances >f a long term in prison and discovery l?y his sweetheart that he was not eally a young millionaire, Robert Itevens has been stealing automobiles o take the young woman for drives. The thefts continued with regularty and apparently the polled were telpless until they discovered a >unch of sweet peas in an empty ma:hine. . In the bunch was one of a peculiar ihade, which it was found was grown >nly in one garden in the city. Stevens was shadowed for several lays by the detectives until the other night when he was arrested. J