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THE FORT MILL TIMES.
16TH. TEAR. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAT, AUGUST 22, 1907. NO. 21.
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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
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Auto Went Over Embankment Si'Vfii- p
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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
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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. *
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Marries .Man Thirty Years Younger i
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Than She Is. )
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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.
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