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r THE FORT MILL TIMES. fl 16TH. YEAR. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1907r no. 26 ? GIVES HIS VIEWS Senator Tillman Talks on Questions of the Day. TOURED MANY STATES 8ajm Plutocrat Press Has Misled People Regarding Heal Ishucs?Thinks That American People Will Never Be "Bamboozled" by Corporation Interests?Says Centralization Will be Vital Issue in CominK Campaign Senator Benjamin It. Tillman, af tor visiting thirty states since the adjournment of congress, and meeting thousands of people, gives the Hearst New Service at San Francisco his observations on the vital questions of the hour and issues that will predominate in the coming presdential campaign. He does not discuss candidates or politicians, because he says he does not know anything about what they are doing in the way of political combinations and tickets. The one significant transaction or fact that has come to the front since the adjournment of congress last March is the apparent clash, or threatened clash, between state and national authority, in the effort to control corporations and railroads. Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Alabama have passed twocent fare bills and taken other prominent action in the direction of regulating charges for freight and passenger transportation. Governor Hughes vetoed the New York bill. The Pennsylvania railroad, which owns the State, set al>out annulling the two-cent fare bill. People of other States felt grateful except in North Carolina and Alabama. United States Circuit Judge Jones issue 1 sweeping injunctions restraining the state officials from enforcing the laws The constitutionality of the law was not attacked. It could not be attacked, except upon the plea of conI ?? iiBcaiiuu. 1 While the matter was in the public mind, the plutocratic press teemed with editorials and cartoons, all intended to direct the attention of the eople to the ghost of state rights, which we were told was shot to deatn In '61 and '65. The country was led to suppose that North Carolina *nd Governor Glenn were at tempting a revival of the old ante-bellum doctrine. In truth, these organs of Morgan. Harrlinan, Rockefeller, et al.,haveattempted to misleud the people and bolster up the Root idea of national authority ujion absolutely false grounds. } When Judge Prichard and Jones btand up and proclaim in thundering denes "We are the nation; we have jthe power and authority to protect Rested interests and the state shall not destroy the property of the railroads," they wave their arms frantically and the ghost of Calhoun is conjured from under the bed. The bid it be gone. People who have eyes and who exnmlned This affair closely, saw, looking over the judges shoulders. the grinning faces of the railroad magnates?and the judges are 'mere mannikins, obeying the orders of their former employers. The American people will never be baml>oozled and driven by fake ap peals to the national spirit, invoked to protect the Harriman, Morgan Rockefeller gang in their efforts to comp?l producers of the country u pay tribute to them and dividends oi. watered stock. The ursurpations of power by th? federal judieary and the absolute sovereignty by many federal judge? in the interests of the trusts and th? necessity for congressional action in rlnarlv dofinincr and lavine down the Jurisdiction and power of federal courts, will attract more attention than the great question of regulating trusts themselves. Judical usurpation and trust alms es and co-relative questions?the tw are interlocked and one hinges on th? other, as President Rooscveld recent ly recognized when he made the is sue in 1004 and 1906, that the railroad rate fixed by the commission should go into efTect Immediately an 1 stick there till reversed by the courts Of course, we^all know he surrendered on this Important point and tha\ Aldrlch came off victor. This bit of legislatives history turns the lght on the striking fact that in North Carolina the attempt was made to do just what the president declared all railroads ought to lie compelled to do. H?it the federal court hutted in and said they could not do it, hut .they did. The Root Idea of centralization ) will be the vital issue in the next ' presdential campaign. The Root idea 't will l>e prevred l>v the Repuhlioan'and Roosevelt; the Democrat-* v. 111. naturally and Inevitably, tako the other side. j This nation must spealc th'-ongh ! congress and define the powers ot ^ f federal courts that are clutching i states and everything else by the / throats. 1 The real and proper meth??d ol ) government control and regulation ot ( trusts is the other Important f.ues1 tlon which must be determined in the I next campaign. L Whenever the people give up local " V'\ ^1 RESISTED ARREST. Man and Woman Wounded by Constable Near Parler. The Trouble Over the Contract I>ahor Ijaw?The Officer Shot to Save His Own Life. A shooting affray occurred near Parler on Wednesday. As a result of the shooting, Charles Watson, colored, 1b painfully but not seriously wounded, and his wife who was also wounded may die. They did not only resist arrest, but attempted to cut and shot the constable who went to arrest them. If onoooea lUnl J np|rcuio tiiat vr aiouit nan iiiiut'r contract with Mrs. M. L.. Feider of Parler, but learning of the recent decision on the labor contract law, moved away leaving a debt behind. Mrs. Feider sent her son to see Wat808n, who refused to pay the account, and in the meantime returned to Mrs. Felder's place and gathered the extra crop upon which Mrs. Feider had claims. Mr. D. P. Dantzler, a son-in-law of Mrs. Feider, was sent by her to collect the account, but Watson refused to pay it in Insulting terms. A warrant was issued before Magistrate T. M. Feider for Watson's arrest, and also a search warrant for the cotton. Constable W. C. Griffith and Mr. D. P. Pantzler were sent to arrest Watson and take charge of the cotton. The latter proved to be in hiding in a woods nea? his house. These gentlemen acting under the search warrant proceeded to seize the cotton when Watson came up. Constable Griffith attempted to arrest Watson, who with opened knife advanced upon the officer. Mr. Griffith fired to scare the negro, who made a dash for Mr. Griffith, but the next shot the officer s aim was more steady and the negro waa shot in the thigh. While this was happening Watson's wife was standing In the door, and her shot gun was leveled on Mr. Dantzler, hut before the weapon was discharged, Mr. Dantzler fired at the woman, the ball taking effect in her side and ranging downward. Her wound is regarded as serious. No further resistance was offered and the wounded negroes were attended by Dr. P. L. Felder. Watson was taken in charge by Constable GriftUh and Mr. Dantzler and was lodged in jail at Orangeburg. Watson and his wife moved to Parler from Wedgefleld early in January. Judge Brawley's decision still gives trouble. It has caused the death of several persons. The negroes seem to have gotten it in their heads that they have a right to shoot down constables who attempt to arrest hem, but when one or two of them J get. their necks cracked for murdering constables they will realize their mistake. If the woman dies she has nobody to blame but herself and husband as the both resisted arrest of a legally constituted posse and attempted to murder the people composing it. POSKD AS MKK.MAIl?. In a Lily I'ond and Photographed by Photographer. The fashionable North Riverside 'ark district of Wichita, Kansas was 'hrown into a turmoil when the residents saw n young woman scantily clad, posed iu a lily pond, while a nan with a large camera made severil exposures. Twenty-flve calls were eceived at police headquarters and he people rushed out of their houses o the spot. The girl. Miss Mona ayton, nineteen years old. was sent tome, and the photographer. J. J. Todd was arrested. Todd said that he wanted a picture o enter in a photographic contest. Me said he wanted to take the picure of the gill's head and shoulders nd convert it into a picture of a nerinaid basking In a pond of lilies. >Vonien who discovered the photog apher at work declare thev found her clothing on a park bench. The nilice have taken charge of Todd's camera, and the plates he made. self-government, we shall lose the - ?i. a.. rt/.tRincr Kill substance 01 iineny uuu nvv.....n the shadow will be left. When states are hampered by federal interference, when the people are harrassed and plundered by corporations, we must look ahead and steer away from disaster. I do not think there is any likelihood of war with Japan. Japan is too busy heading off bankruptcy to think about fighting us. It might be difficult if we were persecuting Japan like Russia did. when Japanese national pride would immediately out thc.n to fight if they were on their knees when the scrap began. Occurrences in Bi Itlsh Columbia nd the Dominion of Canada and the demand for exclusion will help out in settling the question. Japan is not going to rear up and tear around with her ally, England, and when she gets through pleading with England they won't try to bluff old Uncle Sam. The Japanese diplomats are acute and alive men, and, of course, they are not going to be disadvantaged by us if they can help it. I 1 MADE A HAUL Wholesale Arrests of the Alleg ed Grafters In Pennslyvania. ROBBED THE STATE. Homo High Officials Charged Wit) Crime?Alleged in the Indictment That Five Millions of the Tota Was Purely Graft?The Names o Those That Are Under Arrest to the Steal. i The long expected arrest of thos< held to be responsible for the fraud: committed in the furnishing and dec orating of Pennsylvania's $13,000, 000 capitol were made Wednesday the attorney general causing war rants to be issued for 14 of the 11 persons and Arms named by the cap itol Investigating commission as be ing involved in the scandal. Thos< for whom warrants were issued are Joseph M. Hudson, architect, ant his active assistant, Sanford B. Lew is, both of Philadelphia. John H. Sanderson, Philadelphia chief contractor for furnishings. Congressman H. Burd Cassell treasurer and executive officer of th< Pennsylvania Construction company contractors for steel filing cases. James H. Shumaker, Johnstown Pa., former superintendant of publit grounds and buildings, who receipt ed for the furnishings. George F. Payne and his partner Charles G. Wetter, both of Philadel phia, builders of the capitol and con tractors for the $303,000 attic. William P. Snyder, Spring City Pa., former auditor general who approved the warrants of the contractors. William L. Mattheus, Media, Pa. former State treasurer, who paid th* bills of the contractors. Charles F. Kinsman, Willis Bolleau, John G. Neider and Geo. K Storm, all of Philadelphia, stockholders in the Pennsylvania Bronze company, organized by Sanderson for the manufacture of the $2,000,000 ngnting nxture. Frank Irvine, auditor In the auditor generals's office, who audited the accounts of the contractors. Nearly all the defendants appeared during the day, waived a hearing and entered bail for their appearance in the Dauphin county court. The principal defendants were held in $60,000 ball, which was furnished in every instance by surety companies. All the defendants are charged with conspiracy to cheat and defraud the State by making false invoices, which were approved by Huston and Shumaker. Charges of obtaining money by false pretense were also entered against Sanderson, Congressman Cassel. Payne and Wetter, it being alleged they furnished fictitious bills for a greater amount than they were entitled to receive under their contracts. The action was the outcome of an allegation made by State TrecBurer William H. Berry during the campaign of i905. He startled the State by charging that, according to the State treasury books, the building and furnishings of the State capitol had cost $1 3,000,000 and not $5,000.000, as had been generally believed and that $9,000,0o* went to furnish the building. He charged that $5,000,000 of the $9,000,000 was pure "graft." Gov Penn.vpac.ker, other State official: and contractors denied the charges DUi tne agitation for an investigatlor which immediately began continued until the legislature appointed a com mission to investigate the whoh n ffnir. NIR8K, WIFE AXI) WIDOW. Tile I'miMinl Experience of a Younf New York Woman. To have been nurse ami bride ant widow all within a few hours is the unusual experience of Mrs. Alfrec Adler of New York. Mr. Adler wai a wealthy Hroadway glove manufac turer. He was taken with typhoid fevei on the way back from a trip to Yel lowstone Park with his fiancee, wh< was Miss Joanna Hartung of Nev York and a party of friends. On being taken to the hospital Miss Hartung. to whom he had beei engaged eight years, became hi nurse. He succumbed to the disease but before his death he and Mis Hartuna were married. The wedding took place at 8:3( and he died at 10 o'clock. Fo three nights previous to his deatl Miss Hartung did not leave his bed side. A FATAL JI MP. Became Panic Stricken and Plnngei From Stone Barge. Six Italian laborers employed i the new government dam in the A1 legheny river at Aspinwall, Pa., loe their lives Thursday evening whe they became panic stricken and lear ed from a flat boat on which the were taking some stone from a dan The men Jumped from one end c the boat Into 12 feet of water instea of stepping from the other end to sand bar. S CLOSE CALL _ A Tiger In the Bedroom Whon Nurse Took in Boby. Grandson of a Georgia Legislator | Comes Near Being Eaten by the Beast. ( A special to the Atlanta Journal 1 from ColumbuB, Ga.t says the little s son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Slade J came within an ace of being placed . in the mouth of a ferocious Mexican I . .. - - - tiger Dy lis nurse a lew nights ago, r according to a letter that has been received in this city from Mrs. Slade who was Miss Thurza Klrven, daugh^ ter of R. M. Kirven of (Columbus. < The little one who so narrowly escaped death is a grandson of Hon. James J. Slade, one of Muscogee ' county's representatives in tthe Geor^ gia legislature. I The story is a most thrilling one. , Mr. and Mrs. Slade are in Mexico. a where Mr. Slade is engaged in civil . engineering work. It was in the eve- 4 j ning; the twilight had gathered and >' the shades of night had gathered. , The nurse of the little one had performed her duty by her charge, by 1 singing and rocking it to sleep; th^tL she gathered him in her arms to m j carry him to his little bed. < As she went into the darkened, room and started to lay the little fellow to rest for the night, she was ^ arrested by a deep growl. The frigh- < * tened nurse hurriedly gathered the < boy in her arms again and rushed to 1 the front porch, which she had but [ recently quitted, where Mr. and Mrs. 1 Slade were sitting and in a voice that ? gave every evidence of fright, she ? told Mr. Slade that there was a dog s [ on the bed. a Mr. Slade hurrtodly grabbed a t spade with which he had but shortly before been doing some work in the t \ yard and went into the room. As H he did so he noticed two glaring balls c of flre on the bed in his room. He e had no weapon other than the spade, . his pistol being in a room adjoining e , the one in which the ferocious beast j . naa taicen reiuge. He seteed the Im f i plemont which he held, with a firmer c grasp, and boldly went Into the room, a . but strange to say the beast did not ? , attack him. He slipped Into the room where his pistol lay and seized it. f [ hurrying back to where the beast a I was, and flri.ig at li. The shot did ( not strike a vital spot, and ihe b*-ast t was In a frenzy. It hegan to tear c around the room in a terribly fero-' a clous attitude aud Mr. Slade quickly emptied the contents of his weapon, t I into its body, killing it. s I Later It was ascertained that some i soldiers in a garrison which had been a j located near where Mr. Slade resided r had had a tiger, which had escaped t | from them. It it believed that the r . tiger that was slain by Mr. Slade fi was the escaped pet. j But this fact did not rob his exi perience of any of tho excitement at- j . tendant upon it, for he did not know ? at the time that it was such, and it t , is possible that if the nurse had not c . snatched the infant from the beef as . hurriedly as she did, the anmal would f , have done it great injury. Mr. Slade c . has had the animal skinned and will y r preserve the skin as a trophy for his ^ I son. NARROW ESCAPE. F i ?? ^ A York Conntjr Man Had a dose Call With Traiu. i A dispatch from Rock Hill to The | State says Mr. W. Edwin Walker of r 1 the Neelv's Creek section is suffer- j ' ing from a bad leg sprain which he v received in an accident which nar- u rowly missed being a fatal one for 1 him. He was driving to Leslie Sta- [ tion with a pair of horses attached to c his wagon and the early morning i passenger train having just passed * the crossing not more than the fourt h r of a mile distant he had no idea that i another train was near. He proceed- a I ed on his way and when almost up- ? ? on the crossing, he saw approaching c 1 and engine and cab. He was upon c 3 the rails and so ht whipped up in ci - the effort to clear the track before the engine passed. 1 r Just before the cowcatcher struck i - the rear of the wagon Mr. Walker \ > jumped and was not struck by the i v train, but the wagon was thrown up- ^ on him. injuring him severely. The c , train was a special one. otherwise j i the injured man would have been f s more upon the alert. { g MARTYR TO SCIKNCK. ' 0 Major Carroll Succumbs to Third Inr I, ovulation from Mosquito. Major James Carroll, surgeon, United States Army, who was a member of the commission sent to Cuba t j to study yellow fever just after the ' close of the Spanish war, died at his ( home In Washington, a martyr to 1 science. It was his commission that J n fixed definitely on the mosquto as the f '* medium of transmisson in yellow fev ? lt er. n Dr. Carroll allowed himself to be 1 bitten by a mosquito that had been y infected from three distinct yellow ' ' fever cases. He developed the dis- ' "J ease four days after being bitten. His last Illness was the direct result of * a his work in the study of tropical dis- ' esses. JL WAR STILLlON The Allied Forces Hurl Death In- 1 to the Moors AND MANY ARE SLAIN Tne Franco-Spanish Army Daebeg Upon the Rebel Camp Under Cover of Heavy Fog?Many of the Moors Are Killed and tho on.. ??-r I Took to Their Heels and Mado Their Escape. i i The war between France and 1 3pain on the one side and MoroccaJ 3n the other goes merrily on. The allied Franco-Spanish army Thursday made a sudden and success- * ful move on Taddert where the Moors < were massed in force. ( The camp of the latter was destroyed by bombardment aud the enemy 3 was put to flight, leaving many deaad J an the field. The French lost one , man killed and six men wounded. The attack was based largely on 1 the observations of the Moors position from a miliatary balloon. The illied ar*?y which was divided into . two columilS. left the camp at six f >'clock lu the onorning. leaving sev- ? ?ral companies ^infantry to defend e he base of Casa n'^nca. t The first column \V?s composed of 'our compauies of reguT*ir infantry, several companies of shai-T^iill'oters. i battery of artillery and nil the*?***- j < dry. The second column consisted o?( ^ tlx companies of Infanl-y and a batr cry of artillery. "i he march was carried out un<ier he cover of a fog until half way, to 0 raddort, when the fog lifted and <Jts- ( dosed several large bands of the meray. t The allied army then charged eev- , sral large bands of the enecmy at the oint of the bayonet. The allied in- ^ autry advanced on the Moorish (J amp which was completely destroyed ifter a sharp fight the allied army idvanceu to Taddert. o After the bombardment of that r dace by the French artillery as well is by the guns of the French cruiser , Jlorie which fired 75 shellB, the allied ^ nfantry advanced on the Moorish :amp where the enemy was makfrig a ' teadfast stand. A short engagement followed and he Moors fled in wild disorder pur- t tued for several miles by the irreguar Algerian calvary in the French lervice. The Moorish camp was coon- . >letely destroyed. The exact loss of ' he Moors is not known, as they carled away many of their dead. The tilled army then returned to Casa llanca. ? When the Moors saw their camp n flames they set fire to all the farms md woods they couid reach and soon he country surrounding Taddert was J overed with smoke and flames. *' General Drude, who has recovered rom his attack of fever, pernonally ? :uuuuuiuu uie military operjitions. \'hen disastrously beaten, the Moors* f' llsappeared among the hills. a< U DEATH OF A LARUE WOMAN. ai ilie Weighed Seven Hundred and ui Twenty-Five Pounds. tl d! So large that her casket could not r{ >e taken in a hearse, but bar to be enioved to a cemetary on a truck, jl( drs. Walter Short, aged .18 years, g, vho weighed 725 pounds, was buried it Smyrna, Delaware. Fourteen pall- g learers were necessary. Over 1,000 ^ >ersons witnessed the interment, the tj. orpse being the largest ever buried n Delaware. Mrs. Short, who lived on a farm lear Smyrna, was the largest woman T n this part of the country. She was iftlictcd with tumors, which grew to dgantic proportions. This did not ause her death, however, she having Iropped dead last Friday from heart lisease. ^ The woman was short of stature, >ut her arms were forty-six inches n circumference. The casket was ai nit four feet six inches in length. ^ jut was three feet five inches in vidth. The combined weight of the :orpse and casket was 925 pounds. ^ dra. Short was able to move about 11 reely until the day of her death. The kl asket was one of the largest ever s' nade in this country. 11 w VICTIM OP JKALOto*. ct In Kx-Anstrimi Army Officer Shoots Young Lady. M Screaming "Julius, you won't kill ne, will you?" Miss Draga Seigel, a iretty 20-year-old girl, was shot lown early Wednesday by Julius la -loffman, a former lieutenant in the of \.ustrian army, in a furnished room ei it No. 215 West Thirty-seventh kl itreet. et Ths girl is dying in Bellevue hos- pi dtal from three bullet wounds and ti Hoffman Is locked up In the ThirtySfth street police station. Jealousy kl ed to the tragedy. sj The victim is the daughter of a tl lolonel In the Austrian army who gi lied recently, leaving her $100,000, it ?vhich she was to receive on her If twenty-first birthday. la TERRIBLE DISASTER Qa Board of a Largo Japanese Battleship. Curly of the Officers and Enlisted Men Killed and Wounded by tire Accident. A dispatch from Tokio tells of a terrible disaster on a Japanese warship. The dispatch says forty of the crew including nine officers, were killed and injured on board the Japanese battleship Kashima by the explosion of a 12-inch shell within the i shield after, target practice near Kure at 4 p. iu., on Septemebr 9. The Kashima, under command of Ciapt. Koizumi, reached Kure a'. 6 3. m., where the wounded were placid in the hospital. The fatalities included a lieutenant, two cadets and >ne staff officer, the rank aud name >f whom is not given. The exact detail regarding the effects of the explosion are lacking nit it was terrific and the ship is adly damaged. A majority of the ?ystanders were fearfully mutilated. The cause of the explosion is under nvestigation. It occurred inside of the shield of he 8tarlK>ard after 10-inch gun. It vas not the shell which exploded but >owder which evidently caught fire rom the gas emitted from the reeoh when opened for the purpose >f reloading the gun. The hull of he Kashima is not. damaged. / SPKM'K COTTON. Consul Griffiths Tells of An Must Indian Cotton Tree. InittT'itei'y consular and trndo re,ort 0f vvYrrtnesdav the department f commerce and*S^!^" Washingon says: | i "Consul John T,. GrifflthsNti^'fS i nai prominence has been given^TVMi he Liverpool newspapers to an anfll ouncement of the sale on that mailE et of a sample of tlvo hales of lti^| ian 'Spence cotton' at 15 cents pe^H ound. The consul sends the foIlow^E ag on this subject, concerning whic^fl onslderahle has been printed froi^H onsuls in India: wB " 'The sample of cotton referred tHl s the result of three years' expei^H nents with an indigenous India^^ atton by J. R. Spence, formerly lemher of the Liverpool Cotton asHj relation. The product is stated t(^| e strong and wiry, with a staple oHj to 11-4 inches in length. It iiH nggested that the sale of the samplfH f "Spence cotton" at the price ldlcates important possil>ilities inH te vast cultivable area of India. aH >cal paper says: jjgjj " ' "There arc now coneiderablyH ver 20,000 trc.-s on Mr. Spence'sH lantntion at Deosa, Bombay presil ency, in a most flourishing condi-H on, growing to a height of from r>l > 7 feet, full of buds and bolls audi earing cotton daily. The yield ofl 10 first year has proved to be 2 I unces per tree, and as there tire ovel ,000 trees to the acre, this gives th<-l rst year's yield 800 pounds perl ere. The second year's crop has I roved double that of the first,I [in it uicreanes every year. Egg " 'This cotton it Is claimed is ahlcfl > withstand long periods of drought.I id has so far escaped the ravages offl le troublesome boll worm. The Tn-fl ian cotton tree does not appear t->B squire much attention after it hu*fl ?en once planted, and it grows to ;il eight of six or seven feet. It^B reatest production is in Its thirdB jar. An effort is now being made Infl ngland to organze a company forB V production and exploitation of lis cotton.' " n WAS HIS OW N CHI 1.1). w c he Sad Experience of a Massacliu- c li setts Surg<*on. h At Springfield. Mass., Pauline 11. eardon, six and one-half years old. a le daughter of Dr. Thomas C. Rearin, was struck and fatally injured i front of her home Wednesday by 1 automobile owned by Dr. Charles ' . Hooker and driven by Ernest juthard. 11 Dr. Hooker, without knowing who , _ . . . . . . . ii le gin was carried ner into nr. eardon's house. The latter's first nowledge of the accident was the glit of his child lying on his opening tahle. The girl died soor after- ^ ard. Southard was arrested on a large of manslaughter. LAIMIEST ON RKCORI* k any People Killed and Wounded in " ('limbing the Alps. ti A dispatch from Berne, Switzer- j nd says the toll of Summer victims ' Alpine accidents is the heaviest rer recorded. Eighty persons were tlled and twenty two injured in nin- 1 y accidents this year, as against the evious record, seventy, six fatal ies in 1906 in seventy one accidents. Thirty-eight of the eighty persons Hied were guides, thirty-one were lending vacations in the Alps and " le remainder were native flower * itliers. Three-quarters of the fatalies were caused by falls over precdces. The others were due to avainchec, snowstorms and lightning. i j ' I ' TRAIN RUN DOWNH And Many Passengers Are KiHed and Wounded. jHH FAULT OF OPERATOR. A Heavily Loaded Fveursion Train on the Iloston and Maiue Railroad Returning From the Canadian Provinces Almost Telescoped by a Long and Heavily leaded Freight Train. A fearful head-on collisslon between the southbound Quebec and a northbound freight train on the Con- ^ _?* cord division of the Boston & Maine railroad occurred four miles north of Canan Station, Vt., early Sunday, due to a mistake in train dispatcher's orders and from a demolished passenger coach there were taken 2 4 dead and dying and twenty-seven other passengers, most of them seriously wounded. Nearly all those who were In the death car were returning from a fair at Sherbrock, Quebec, 160 miles north. The conductor of the freight train was given to understand that he had plenty of time to reach a siding by the night operator at Canaan Sta- ? tion, receiving, according to the superintendent of the division, a copy o\ A the telegraph order from the train dispatcher at Concord which confused the train Nos. 30 and 3 4. The wreck occurred just after the express had rounded into a straight stretch of track but, owing to the early morning mist, neither enginerr saw the other's headlight until It was too According to W. R. Ray. Jr., di- yflraaS vision superintendent; J. R. Crowley, the night train dispatcher nt Jg Concord, sent a dispatch to John M Sreely, the night operator at Canaan. 'hat No. 3 4 was one hour and 10 jgj loved to Concord during the day. , The most seriously injured who rere taken to the Margaret Hitchock hospital, at Hanover, N. H., inlude an unknown boy with lK?th sgs broken and arm torn out and ead injured, dying. Mrs. S. Saunders, Nashua, head' nd back injured. Mrs. C. N. Saunders, Nashua, rounds on head. ? Mrs. C. Saunders, Nashua, contus-. ins on face. Miss I). Saunders, Nashua, hit i juries. Fred Saunders, Nashua, shoulder ijured. . if Mrs. Hester Saunders, Brockton, iass., head and back injured. Charles St. Pierre, Isle Verte, pie., internal injuries. Arthur Jacques, Millbury, Internal njuries. E. A. Batchleder, Somervllle. anle broken. Philip Gagnion. Sherbrooke, interal Injuries. John Barrett, Manchester, N. H , AO el fl r* A l-i-e-'fi ^ Miss Ahhy Jansen, Nashua. broken rontal bono. I lilt VAN WIMi SPFAK. rho Nehraskaii Will Address the Macon Negro Fair. William Jennings Bryan has aeepted an invitation to deliver an iddress at the negro state fair at ilacon, Ga., in October. The invitaion to visit Macon was extended to Jr. Bryan some months ugo, but his icccptance was not received until ecently. It Is not. yet certain what > late he will be there. ^ |