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THE FORT MILL TIMES. 10TH YEAR FORT MILT, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1907 NO. 28 t?????????? ?? CHASING TIGERS. The Dispensary Authorities Getting Busy In Charleston. AUDITOR WEST BUSY Getting Out Injunction!* to Stop the Sale of Illicit Booze in the City by the Sea.?The Isle of Palms Permanently and Other Places Temporarily Enjoined.?Blind Tigers Are Surprised But Not Worried. A dispatch from Charleston to The State says Auditor W. B. West arrived In Charleston Thursday morning with a bundle of injunctions ironi me supreme court, anu Hastening to the sheriff's office, placed them in the hands of an officer for service on the Charleston hotel, the Argyle hotel, the Occidental cafe, the Schuetzenplatz and the proprietors of the Isle of Paints. Ail of these places of business have been restrained from selling intoxicants, the Isle of Palms permanently, and the other four temporarily. Humor coming along with Mr. West says that a hundred or two more of these temporary injunctions are hound" Charlestonward to be served on all places where liquor is said to be sold, the revenue license list furnishing a basis for service, and that Charleston will also have at an early date a force of constables, to be paid by the county dispensary board, to enforce the dispensary law rigidly. The coming of Mr. West to Charleston and the closing of the cafes of the hotels, restaurant, an^ at the tichutzenplatz have naturally thrown the clt> in a state of tense excitement. The injunction proceedings were made up of a petition for k temporary injunction, the order of temporary injunction on affidavits which have been made out by agents of the auditor and through his personal work. The blow struck is a natural consequence of the success attending the efforts of Auditor West to close the Isle of Palms cafe permanently. From the outlook at preseut every cafe and club In the city and every other place where liquor is sold will be Himilarly cloned. In the Ave sets of papers serveu all the owners and the cafe managers were reached. A Mr. Crneton, said to be the future chief constable for this county, has been In the city for a couple of weeks at work getting evidence. He accompanied the sheriff's officer In the service of the papers. A few days ago a copy of the permanent Injunction ngainst the Isle of Palms cafe was filed in the office of the clerk of court and along with service of the permanent Injunction papers came also the unexpected tcmjiorary Injunction proceedings. THE OORP8K HOSE * In the Coffin and the Mourners Left in a Hurry. Relative of Mrs. Fred Hartsell. wife of a farmer living near Hunting ton, W. Va., were bemoaning he' death over her coffin, a few minute: before the minister arrived to con duct the last rites, when she guddenl; sat up, and with a dazed look, climb ed out. There was a rush of mourners fothe open air. windows l??ln'? u*es as exits. Tho mourners were terro striekon and the minister swoone< when a pale-faced woman, ove whoso remains he had been ca.led ti conduct met him at the door. The family were too poor to hara physician, and the woman toll int< a swoon. In which she remained thro, or four days. Her husband thought he- dead nn< sent for the undertaker Me prepar ed the supposed corpse for in:ormen> without discovering that life stil lingered. COMMITS HI'ICIl)K Recattsc He Had Accidentally Killer. His I'et Hog. At New York Albert Schuuer, a well-lo-do manufacturer, who had just returned from a hunting trip in Maine, committed suicide apparentl> because of the death of his pet settei dog. which he had ac cldentally shot during his hunting trip. He was inconsolable over his loss when he returned and finnllv shot himself with the gun that had killed his pet. CAVMKD PANIC. Tongue of Bell in Church Steeple Fell During SerTices. The tongue weighing sixteen hundred pounds, of tho bell in the steeple of the Church of the Resurrection at St. Petersburg. Russia, fell during morning servi><?s recently, creating a panic and endangering the chapel, re<*ontly erectwj over the spot where Emperor Alexander was assar inated. - ?f? PwwBi^MHlTnWirePPw w& MADE RESTITUTION. Some Stolen Property Returned After Ten Years. i Nut a Very Common Thing But Sometimes Conscience Stricken People lk> Send Money to the Officials. Supt. D. W. Newell of the Rock Hill division of the Southern railway received a letter the other day with a special delivery stamp on it which told him that a man had stolen some of his property ten years ago, and that he wanted to make restitution. It seems that the writer had been converted to Christianity lately and has been conscience-stricken over the offense which he committed over ten years ago. Capt. Newell had forgot ien un anoui me loss oi Dis propertv and the letter was a great surprise to him. A prominent railroad official of Columbia was asked recently if it were not unusual for a person to return stolen property us was doue in the cuse of Capt Newell. "Well," he replied. " we run up against some peculiar things in the course of a year which the public uever hears of. It is not often that u case like the one referred to gets into the public prints. These men whosa conscience prick them becausa of some known wrong which they have done usually add a request at the foot of their letters that their name be not divulged. "I have known of a number of cases where some party had defrauded the railroad company or had stolen something from them and returned it in after years after undergoing a change of heart, but Supt. Newcll's case is the first that has come under my observation where anything stolen from an official of the company has been ceturned. "Not so very long ago a case came tinder my observation where a man who had 'beat' a ride on one of our trains returned the price of the fare to the conductor some months later by mail, adding that he had been converted and wished to be forgiven for his act. Another case was where a certain man in this State had for months been taking his children with him on the train without paying for them, assuring the conductor that they were under age. The amount he returned was no small sum. He -dated In his letter to the conductor that he had been converted and deired to make restitution for this wrong and asked to be forgiven. As I said, the amount this man returned was no small sum and he must have had a genuine conversion." POKER MEN GONE. Hpartunburg Man Out $000 and Two Expert Curd Players Missing. John Davidson and Albert Dearman, alleged to be expert stud poker players, are missing from the city, md D. W. Thomas, a well-known young man, has between nine hundred and a thousand dollars less than he had Tuesday night. Mr. Thomas sold his business Tuesday for $3,000 cash. He deposited wo thousand in a bank, and kept due hundred expecting to pay off a :laim the next morning. Tuesday night, it is said, he visit ><1 the room where Dearmun and Da/laon hung out. and the next morning ^hen Thomas came to himself Pearnan and Ravidson were gone, and he vas short about nine hundred. Pavi;on and Pearman left Spartanburg hat morning for the Jamestown Exlositlon, and the wires are being used n an effort to bring them back. InMotments have been handed to the trand Jury by Solicitor Sease. SEKVEP HIM ItlGHT. Negro Sliot Who Attacked Man anil Wife in Buggy. Mr. Pauicl Hoseman and Mrs. loseman. living fifteen miles from Salisbury, N. C.. had an experience a veek ago that has never been given he officers and fell into newspaper lands by accident. They were on their way home from Salisbury, when near tht Yadkin ail road crossing at Faith, they were it tacked by a negro. The fellow called to Mr. Rodman to stop, but no atontlon was paid to him. Then he -.topped the horse and slipping up belling the buggy, seized Mrs. Roseman vho railed to her husband. Mr. Roseman drew his pistol from ho bottom of the buggy and fired ino the negro's body, causing him tc 'all. Mr. Roseman shot a second inic and snapped the weapon a third tire when ihe p<*gro scrambled to hif feet and made his escape. ARM JERKED OFF i Uhilf Trying to Take Some MntgM of Cotton Ctn. A terrible accident beppenot^B Johnson Humphrey's cotton gin.^H las. N. C., Thursday afteruoon^E which Mr. William Pmi'h. ; pro^H ous farmer, was the unfnrtunat'.^H tim. While trying to take somrH out from under fhe gin his right wa? caught by the saws and was MB pletely Jerked off. At present l^H resting very well. fSBI - f ; AW THE LOST BONDS ' Of Mr. Adolphus Cornelson's Estate Cannot be Found. ; INTEREST COUPONS : Cashed by a Farmer iu Australia, Who Says He Found Them in a i , Hollow Tree.?It is Said Mr. Cor1 nelsou Died by This Tree Out There, and His Brother Is Trying To Solve the .Mystery. Mr. Adolphus Cornelson, who will be well remembered by the people of -1 1 A- - ? vsi i K, da ? wcn-iu-uu lurmer living afew miles out in the country on his valuable plautation, and whose dead body was found leaning against a tree in Australia about six years ago. where he had gone in quest of health after a trip to the Fatherland. was the owner, along with a large amount of other property, of $10,000 of South Carolina State bonds which will likely uever be recovered to his estate. A strange and interesting story of the lost bonds is revealed by the experience of Mr. George H. Cornelson, of Orangeburg, in his long quest to recover this and other property left by his brother, who died without leaving a will nor any explanation as to his property. Mr. George H. Cornelson. who is executor of the estate, is a wealthy retired merchant und cotton mill man, whose own estate Is valued at a million dollars. After several years' work the executor has just been able to trace possession of the interest coupons for one year, which turned up in a mysterious manner at the State treasurer's office for payment the very day, and perhaps the very hour, that the legislative committee reported favorably 011 a bill introduced by a friend of the Cornelsons to have the State Issue certificates of State stock for (he lost bonds, Mr. CornelBon being prepared to put up an indemnity bond of $30,000 to protect the State In case the lost bonds should ever turn up. iThls Interest bill amounted to $450 and in order to reimburse the Australian brokers, who cashed them through the Bank of Australia, the farmer who sold thmi to the brokers has had to mortgage his little Australian farm. This farmer saya that these interest coupons we-o all that he had, that he has never seen the bonds and never heard of them. He goes on to explain that the coupons were found in a hollo .v tree on his place hy a farm hand. Possibly It was this same tree against which Adolphua Cornelson leaned when he breathed his last. He was living in that neighborhood and it was his custom to go out for long walks, and he died whi'e out on one of these trips. Whether this explanation needs further elucidation, whether he was murdered, whether these bonds are not now being held secretly in New York by persons awaiting opportunity to present them for payment the public are- left to guess. When (he coupons were presented at -the State treasurer's office for payment through the Palmetto National Hank of Columbia along with 30,000 others amounting to $1 43,000, which represents the Slate semi-annual Interest bill on the bonded debt, Chief Clerk Carter had much difficulty in tracing their arrival in South Carolina. Finally it was discovered that they were sent here by the Hanover National Bank of New York. Armed with letters of Introduction. Mr. Geo. H. Cornelson went to New York, here the president of the Hanover Hank informed him that the coupons ante from the Gerald National Hank, through whose president Mr. Cornelson found the New York brokers who had cashed them. The brokers refused to give any iiiiorimmon, mil nnnily hy a court order they were made to explain. Mr. Cornelson knew from the stamp on the back of the coupons that they had been cashed by the Bank of Australia originally, and the brokers 1 gave him the name of the Australian ' brokers firm who srnt them to New York. A decision of the South Carolina Supreme Court just rendered makes a South Carolina bond as good as currency, decides that the innocent purchaser of even a stolen bond has a perfectly valid claim against th< State for the face of his bond. So it would seem If these Cornelson bonds are being secretly held they can now he easily transformed Into cash. Fur iher Interesting revelations are there fore expected. The case on which the Suprem< Court has just passed involved th< validity of >12,500 worjlLof Stat* BgBMMlM&greaBa^gMMnKi th? e r q? Bp^HhHs8BB58BBBHR!I th< HWPRHHQHHR ?u< I ? fDASHED IN SIDING. Eight Killod in Wreck on Baltimore and Ohio. Failed to Throw Switch and Sharp Curve Completed Arrangements for the Accident. Eight were killed and a score injured. a number fatally, at Bellaire, 1 Ohio, at 3.15 Saturday afternoon when the Chicago and Wheeling express train on the Baltimore & Ohio railrohd crashed Into a freight train | which was slowly moving on a siding. i iiw wrecK was aue. it is said, to the failure of an operator to throw a switch. The westbound freight had roceved orders to meet the passenger at the western limits of the Bellaire yards, and was moving slowly along the siding. At the point where the wreck occurred there is a very,sharp curve which prevents the engineers of the eastbound trains from seeing more than a few feet ahead. The passenger train swunk around the curve very rapidly, being three hours late, and should have gone on in safety on the main line. The switch to the siding, however, had not been turned and the train shot on to the siding and into the freight. There was scarcely time to apply the brakeB and no time for the ( engincmen to jump. The two big engines were reduced to junk by the impact, but the worst damage was done to the smoker, which was telescoped so completely by the baggage car that every seat was thrown out of the coach. Every occupant of the coach was badly injured. The passengers in the other day coach and the two Pullmans were tumbled ?roni their seats, but not seriously injured. Engineer Galbraith was burned to a crisp by escaping steam. The in- ' jured were taken to the Glendale, W V., and Bellaire hospitals. General Manager Fitzgerald, who was in the neighborhood on an inspection tour, and General Superintendent W. C. Loree of Wheeling, personally superintended the rescue work. Great difficulty was experienced in removing the injured pas sengers from the wrecked smoaker. Work was alow because every movement of the debris caused some one to shriek with pain, as the victims were entangled in a mass of timbers ' and twisted iron. Among the passengers on the wrecked train were the members of Richard Carle's "Spring Chicken" 1 comic opera, which was to have played at Wheeling that afternoon and evening. All the members of the company escaped serious injury except Alfred Dolby, the musical director. It was found necessary to amputate his right arm, thus ending bis career in the profession. He was riding in the smoker and was found with a heavy timber tightly binding him by the arms. The wrecked passenger train left ( Chicago for Pittsburg and Wheeling at 9.30, last train. The train is divided at Chicago Junction, part going ' on to Pittsburg by way of Akron and the other part coming through to Wha^Knir <>U Vn,,.,,..!, Tl.? uri 1 I fT MWIIIIP) ?io iicnai i\. t lie: n nwi" ing end of the train consisted of six ' coaches. At the office of Superintendent 1 Loree Saturday night it was said that they were not yet certain which operator is to blame for the accident, but a thorough investigation was under way. The property damage will amount to about $60,000. A curious feature of the wreck is that the baggage car and the smoker were the only cars on the passenger train damaged. HAM) OF ROBBERS. Tlicy Hold lTp a Train and Set It On Fire. At Odessa. Russia, a train having on board over 200 passengers was held up by a band of robbers, who opened the mail car by exploding dynamite. The explosion set the car on fire and the flames were communicated to a crowded passenger car, with the result that several women and chit dren were badly burned before they could escape. While the robbers were trying to blow open the safe in the mail car they were attacked by some gen! darracs, who were passengers on the ! train. Several on both sides were wounded but the robbers escaped. STEAMER Rl'RNED. i , Itoat and Cargo Lost and Two Negroes Drowned. The steamboat Raymond H., which runs on the flint river between Als bany and points below, was burned to > the water's edge at Jones Landing > Thursday morning. The boat was loaded with cotton, I naval stores and cotton seed. Two ' negro boat hands wore drowned. The i boat and cargo are a total loss. 5 ______________________________ . three State treasurers on their per sonal bonds for the amount the State , has lost by the thefts, which extendi ed through three administrations, s and which were not detected until i four years after the bond clerk was ! resigned. t _ ; BURGLAR BAND Led by a Woman at Glen Cove, ' Long Island, ARE BOLD ROBBERS. They Have Stolen Twenty Thousand Dollars in Six Weeks.?The Track p of an Automobile and the Foof- ? prints of a Woman the Only Taugb P ble Clews.?Rich Residents lie- 0 conies Yigilants. In the strangest burglar hunt ever p known about Xow -? ? - ?w. * vi i\ puooca ui wealthy cottagers are nightly patrol- 13 iug the shores of Glen Cove, L. I. u With guns on their shoulders and revolvers at their belts, they have replaced the paid watchmen of the ^ villages about the Cove, through a whose lines the looters slipped In and out like eels, and they are looking for a daring band of land and water '* pirates led by a slender-footed woman of beauty and good taste. During the past six weeks the thieves with their woman leader have c' secured more than $20,000 worth of silverware ar.d jewelry; that in one w of their marauding trips they chloroformed a well-known niatrou and her maid, and that on severul occasions. al by the aid of swift motor boats or automobiles, they escaped almost un- '' der the eyes of the posses. n None of these wealthy sleuths has seen the much-feared wouiun Reader l> of the pirates yet, though some ser- w vants have. But the rich vigilantes T have found her tracks?made by nar- ^ row, pointed, htghheeled No. 3A ^ shoes?leading from their homes to B) the beaches, where she got into the s' motor boat or to the roadways, where " she entered the automobile. c< The latest of the robberies occur- P red Saturday night. The home of Mrs. John Lillie, widow of a prominent P politician in Mineola, was broken into in the usual mysterious fashion. ^ and $1,000 worth of silverware car- J1 riea on. Wheel marks, apparently made by an automobile, were found in front of the house the next morning. A well-dressed woman, rlad In ^ a tailored suit of blue, hud been seen walking about the grounds just be- ai fore nightfall. Not only does this fact and the tracks of a pair of dainty ?' shoes indicate that the woman is of the burglar band. There are other ai evidences. For instance, in several n houses rare linens and laces, whose di value few men could possibly know, *1 were taken. Half eaten bits of candy s( were found about one or two of the looted houses, indicating the feminine leader's sweet tooth and also her calmness while on a job. A Her band apparently was not deterred by the fate of that other band of Long Island burglars who were rounded up during the Summer by jc District Attorney Coles and Sheriff n] CJildersleeve, of Nassau County. They ^ were sent to jail for terms ranging ^ from fourteen to forty years. Officials al say no lighter sentences will he im- H posed upon this band if Its members e| finally fall into the millionaires' drag (c net. One reward of $1.0o0 has been v standing for two weeks. John Alvin j1( Young Sunday added an individual ))( reward of $300 more. It is expected tj that no less than $300 additional will a| lie gained through the play, "The Woman Pirate." H A feeling that the burglars are al- w most uncanny has spread through the ^ towns. So completely have they dis- ,r appeared within a few minutes of the j lootings, that it seems as though they j, dematerialize themselves. (j< "I determined; with some friends, e< it would be best to go out and hunt the burglars ourselves," said Mr. Young, the bank president, Sunday. "They looted my house and got off >jclearly, though my coachman fired upon one of them?a masked man. Last week the burglars were audacious enough to come back after what they had left from their 'first ~ visit. But they were scared ofT. One ' of the band was seen quieting my watchdog with a piece of meat. We hope to get them some of these '' nights." The robbery of the home of Frank 1 S. Smithers is responsible for the n coming theatrical performance. Mrs. Z Smithers may be the Impersonator of |> the mysterious woman leader. It was at their home the feamale r< desperado's tracks were first discov- c< ored. Charles Williams, a watchman, tl pointed them out to the rich Vigi- a lantes. Then the procured rules and ? tape measures, did some Bcrtillon u work in the sand, and learnod from a p shoe man that the woman wore dainty No. 3A oxfords. u "I watched her house for awhile n and heard a whistle that sounded like n a signal when darkness fell," said h Williams. "Three hours afterward N the Smlthers home was robhed. s though I could not legally connect o the woman with it." ii An automobile was used in connection with the Weidenfeld and p Stevens robberies at Oyster Ray. v Wheel marks were found on the I lawns of the houses next morning, a From the Weidenfeld house a i great chest of silver was taken whose f weight must have taxed the strength h of three or four men. The empty j I. '1 THREE KILLED tnd Three Injured by the Explosion of Crude Oil. I'iudow Glass in Houses aiul SI reel Cars Was Shattered and People Terribly Shocked by Explosion. At New York on Friday three uieu ere killed and three Injured, one robably fatally; windows in houses ud trolley cars were shattered and ae residents for severul miles around anic stricken by the explosion of a ink of 20,000 gallons of crude oil n Protectory nvenno The dead are: James Cooper, 2 6 years old. Untonort. Richard Smith, of Van Ness, of the ronx. John Riley, address unknown, body ot recovered. The Inured are: Allun Johnson, 26 years old. of nionport, volunteer fireman, burned bout body, head and arms, probably Rally. Arthur Jordan, mounted policeman urned about hands and arms tryiug > rescue Cooper. James Conway, burned about the ands and arms while trying to resile Cooper. The bodies of two of the victims as secured after four hours work by te light %..* the illumination of the anie a Lcadred feet high. Hoys nd men searched houses and there )und the bodies. The explosion was idirectly due to the automobile ices at Morris Park track. The men who met death were limping oil from the tank with hlch to oil the track for the races, he tank was thirty, feet high and venty feet in diameter and stood beveeu two abandoned gas tanks. The crinkling wagon was drawn up bode the tank, a ladder placed against le side und Cooper and Smith as>nded to the top of the tank to ump out the oil. Riley remained le wagon. Just what cuused the exlosion is not known. Without an instunt of warning lere was a terrifying report, a colmn of flames shot hundreds of feet i the air and the huge top of the ink was hurled a thousand feet, illing In the woods in the ground-of le Catholic Protectory. The shock was felt for miles round, breaking windows and rating dishes alarming the occupants f shaken houses. In the Catholic rotectory, there was almost a panic aiong the 1,500 inmates. They ished from their beds, but the fire rill was put in force by the Chrisan brothers in charge and order >011 restored. J? KITH Kit WANTS 111 M. 11 Atlanta Man in Trouble About Two Wives. Following the action of wife No. 2 1 filing an application for the anuullent of her marriage, or pretended larriage, with Benjamin .lames amilton. a well-known young insurace man of Atlanta, Mrs. Ruth 11. amilton. his lawful wife, nee Robots, filed in the superior court for >tal divorce. In the meantime, Hamilton, who ent to Atlanta from Rome, where e was well thought of. has disap jarea irom me city ana is (lodging le bigamy charge brought up gainst him. Miss Emmie Louise Wood of 2 20 ast Georgia avenue, is the second ife. and the alleged marriage with er took place on September 17. He larried his first wife on January 21. 906. The two young women met tst after the second marriage and Isclosures followed. Hamilton learn1 this fact and made himself scarce. COTTON GINNED. he Census Bureau Ite|M>rt Up to September 24t. The census bureau reports 1,430,63 bales counting round as half ule3, ginned from the growth of 9 07 tip to September 23. as com pa r1 with 1,199,423 bales for the same erlod of last year. The report show1 the number of active ginneries to e 2,177. Of seven hundred counties inetv-flve are not heard from. ox was found by the roadside later. "i firmly believe a woman led the obbers, said Mrs. Weidenfeld reently. "A woman came to my house lie day of the robbery, looked around nd told the maid she intended purhasing a house just like it. From here she stood in the hall she could iniuiy see ine silver cnesr. "After the robbery I found broken p bits of candy 011 the floor. I 111st have been chloroformed that ight?and my maid. too. All the folawing day I felt heavy and drowsy. Iy maid, who is troubled with lnomnia and sleeps only in little naps, verslept herself by hours the mornng after the house was broken into." The boldest robbery of all was perpetrated at the home of Charles Oswald, a farmer, living near Mineola n broad daylight three men ran an lUtomobile up to the farmhouse, mocked down Herman Schwerter. a arm hand, and forced chloral down lis throat. Then they looted the dace before Oswald returned. WORK OF FIEND A Brutal Negro Shot the Escort of Young Lady. AND ASSAULTED HER. John William .Mullen nnd llis FIhiiw, Miss Amelia Weiss, Had Paused to Sit oil Ia>k in lH'adiu&n'a Hollow When Hurl; Klaek Rushed From Hushes, Kuoeked lliin Sense less and Shot Him Twice. Shot and probably fatally wounded bv an unidentified negro, who then attacked the young woman who accompanied him, and to whom he was to have been married within a few days, John William Mullen, of 140fi Thirty-fourth street, N. W., Washington, D. C.. is at Georgetown Hospital in a critical condition. Miss Amelia Weiss, ti? years of age, his fiancee, is at the home of Crandal Mackey. commonwealth's attorney to Alexandria county, at Rock llill, Va., and is also in a critical condition. The colored assailant made his escape and up to a late hour the posse, which scoured the woods in the vicinity, had not located hint. George Bradley, a negro, was arrested earlv, and although he answers the description given by the girl of her assailant, he has virtually proven that he was nowhere near the scene of the crime at the time it was committed. Mullen and Miss Weiss had paused to rest on a log in what Is known as "Dcaduian's Hollow," a swampy piece of land near the Aqueduct bridge. A burly negro rushed froru the bushes in the roar and dealt Mullen a blow over the head with a club. The man fell backward. Without a word he drew a 32 caliber revolver and bred several shots at the prostrate man. One bullet struck him in the mouth cutting his tongue in half and knocking out several teeth, while another struck him in the small of the back and is believed to have lodged in the abdomen. It is this wound that the physicians fear will result fatally. The negro then sprang upon the helpless girl and dragged her into the thickest of the woods, where he kept her prisoner for nearly an hour. At the expiration of this time he informed her thut he was going back to where he had left her fiance and kill him. Me told her that he would bury the man, and that she might visit his grave, near the scene of the attack and weep over his remains. The negro then disappeared and the girl staggered from the woods and made her way to her home. Mullen in meantime had recovered sufficiently to drag himself to the railway station, some distance away, from whence he was assisted to the hospital by a policeman. Posses were immediately formed and a sharp watch has been kept in the vicinity. Unless the negro Bradley proves the assailant no clue has been obtained of him. AUt'fSKS ItltOTHHIt. Virginia .Man Who Was Attacked 1>?*clare It Was Not a Negro. Froin his bed in the hospital at Washington where he is critically ill. as the result of being ambushed and shot while out walking In the woods near Roysslyn. Va, Sunday night with his fiancee. Miss Amelia Weiss, John W. Mullen, Tuesday positively identified Charles Weiss, brother of the girl, as his assailant. Mullen from the outset stoutly maintained that it was not a negro who attacked him, but a relative of a girl. Weiss approached the bed of the prostrate man. reminded him of his precarious condition and asked him to take another look at him, because It meant so much to him. Mullen, however, dramatically declared that. Weiss was the one who attacked him. Weiss was taken back to his cell to await requisition papers from Governor Swanson of Virginia. Foi it In Port (union and Three Persons laist Their Lives. Capt, Aamat, of the Norwegian fruit steamer Bertha, which arrived at Mobile Thursday evening, brought nows nf a <1 luufctrmis flm Aiinnnupri of incendiary origin, which visited Port Limon last Wednesday morning and entailed a I oss estimated at $100,000. Four blocks in the heart of the business section of the town were destroyed, and three persons lost their lives in the burned buildings. korK^Pwreck. Forty-Two Persons Killed by Derailment of Train. Forty-two persons including thirty Japanese soldiers, were killed or injured by the derailment of the south bound train from Seol, Korea. Responsibility for the wreck is not plac