University of South Carolina Libraries
, THE FORT MILL TIMES. ^ - , 7TH TEAR FORT MILT.S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1908 NO 21 1115 KtUUKU CLEARED. OLD SWKKTHEAKT SAVES SOLDI EH HETKAYED BY HIS WIFE. Shooting Affray of Three Yean Standing Led to Sensational Incident in New England. The remarkable Btory of William Howard, who was betrayed into the arms of the law by his wife, and then saved from Imprisonment by the testimony of a woman he had loved, but given up, is still the sensation of Southern New England. The ordinary quiet city of New* Bedford, Mass., was the center of the sensation, which occurred three yeai<s ago. The fatal shot was fired at Hazelwood park on the evening of July 12, 1905. The persistent work of the New Bedford police failed to clear the mystery, which surrounded the death of Edward D^whurst, Clew after clew' was taken up and abandoned. In July, 1908, a few days after the anniversary of the shooting, his bride of ten months betrayed Howard to the police, charging him with the killing of Dewhurst, Her story was a sensation. The betrayal came as the result of a series of complications in Howard s life. It appears that on the night of the shooting thp soldier was walking through Hazelwood park with a Miss Grace Strutevant. They were assaulted by Dewhurst, who was not known to either. Howard shut hlni in self-defense and he and Miss Sturtevant vowed never to tell the secret. Suspicion was never directed to them. Then Howi rd married another woman. He felt it a duty to keep in touch with his former sweetheart that she might not change her mind, as his marriage was being kept secret. His wife became jealous. Howard then confessed the killing to her and gave this as his reuson for paying attention to the former sweetheart. I^ater the wifo came to the conclusion that the devotion was too real. Then cntne her confession to the police. Since the trial the ccouple have been living apart. Howard was arretsed, charged with manslaughter and tried on the statement of his wife of an alleged confession. At the hearing Miss Sturtevant testified she nad been with Howard on the night of the shooting. They were walking together when a man stepped in front of them and pointed a revolver into Howard's face. He in turn pulled his revolver and fired just in time as the wounded man's revolver exploded as he fell. She declared Howard fired in selfe-defense. She said HBf they did not stop to see how badly j^F the man was hurt and that her soldier friend wanted to come into town and surrender at once but she insisted that he should not. hTen they agreed never to tell and the girl kept her pledge. Howard Is now serving a term of re'-enrollinent at Fort Rodman. Mass., and declarer "Miss Sturtevant is the truest, most honest and loyal woman he has ever met.. SIX CHILDREN CREMATED. Home Hums While Men are at Work and Women at Theatre. Six children are dead and two others are burned so seriously that recovery is doubtful, at the H. W. Schultz ranch, between Colfax and Palouse, Wash., resulting from a fire that destroyed tne nonic wnanuauay night. Four of the dead were children of Schultz. The other two were children of W. VV. Fox. a brother-in-law. The men were away harvesting and thr mothers were attending a theatrical performance. The two eldest Schultz girls attempted to rescue the children, hut lost the way to the door and were forced to drop the babies to make their own escape. The cause of the (ire is a mystery.* TIIIKD OF I JFK. Well Known Insurance Man Puts ai Knd to It. At Louisville, Ky., Alfred 'i. Mini berly. State Manager of the Rank era Life Association of Des Moines and a well-known insurance man wai found dead in bed at his home Tues day afternoon. Death was caused by self inflicted pistol wound according to Coroners verdict. He left a note saying he had no trouble of any kind but was simply tired of living. Trip to 1>j??I a Year. The round the world cruise ol the Atlantic fleet began from Hampton Roads on December 16, 1907 and the opinion of the naval author! ties is that the cruise will have lasted a year when the fleet bellows fortt its reply to the welcome that wll ( be tendered it by the shipping ant forts in New York harbor. lightning Hit Htm on Head. L \i Durham. N. C., while, loadin: ing tobacco on Thursday, 19 mile from there .lightning struck Jess< Fearrington on the head, tearing i hole in his hat and glancing to tree Bp nearby. Though unconscious sever ^ .al hours, he recovered. lr flHfeiBLA ' * KKSCUE HELPLESS. Driven B?ck by Flames From En< tombed Miners. According to a dispatch from London a message from Wigin says that after recovering the bodies of 20 miners, victims of the terrific explosion in the Wigin mine Tuesday night the rescuers were driven back by flames early Wednesday morning. Ail hope of rescuing any of the 65 men, still remaining alive, has been abandoned, but the officials of the mine are making desperate efforts to quench the flames. 8even of the rescue party were brought to the surface unconscious. The scene aroun dthe mouth of thfc pit is pathetic in the extreme. Half crazed mothers and wives maintained all-night vigil, hoping against hope that their loved ones would come to the surface alive, but when daylight came only four of the 80 men who went to work Tuesday morning had been rescued alive and they were all unconscious, but will recover. The bodies of the 20 dead are so horribly burned that they cannot be identified. It is realized that after the flames are drowned out it will be many hours before a party can be again sent into the mine owing to the gases. The only cause assigned for the explosion so far, is that a naked lamp came In contact with a pocket of gas In one of the workings. ANOTHER MURDER MYSTERY. Body of Unknown Man Found iu a Trunk Near Camden, N. J. After a day of careful Investigation the authorities have concluded that there is small possibility of solving the mystery surrounding the Identity and death of the man whose body was found in an old trunk in a ravine near Mount Kphran, near Camden, N. J.f Sunday. It was at first reported that the coroner had found that death was caused by a bullet wound in the breast, but a careful examination of the body made by Dr. W. C. Jones, failed to show any cause of death. It was found that no bones were broken and the man had not been shot, and apparently he had not been strangled. The most important thing discovered by the authorities was a note or memorandum in one of the trouser pockets of the unknown. This is being carefuly dried and an effort will be made to read it under a magnifying glass. HAD FATAL FALL. ??? Over Five Tlmnsniul People WHnested the Accident. At Patterson, N. J., Sonny Briggs, the motor-cyclist and former amateur light-weight champion boxer, was killed In the presence of 5,000 persons at the Clifton stadium Briggs came here to pace Jimmy Morau in a twenty-mile motor paced race. After making four laps of the saucer track, Briggs was appearing to slow up when the machine waboled and crashed into the grand stand. Briggs was hurled fifty feet through the air, landing on the track. His neck, one arm and leg were broken. Briggs died before reaching the hospital. Briggs was 2 8 years old and began his cycling career with Jimmy Moran and Dutch Walter. He acted at pacemaker in this country for Tlmmy Michaels, the former English champion cyclist. SAVED BY CXJHK EE OS. Policemen's Artificial Limbs Enable Him to Itescue the Other. At Pittsburg. Pa.. Harry Plnkeron, a police alarm oprator, was able 0 save a fellow man's life Tuesday light because he is a cripple, having wo artificial legs. As Pinkerton was walking along 1 street on the North Side he saw William Wilson writhing in agony at he end of a trolley line feed wire arrying i.ouu vniis, mai nan oroaen from its moorings. Wilson could not let bo of the dangling wire he had picked up. Pinkerton hurried to Wilson, caught, him around the waist and ierked him away from the wire Pinkerton's cork and wooden legs being non-conductors, the current could not reach the ground through his body. BRYAN RKCKIVK8 TRICK MFLK Mascot of Democrats For Campaign Busy on Speeches. A dispatch from Lincoln, Neb. says W. J. Bryan received Wednesday from the Minnesota State Agricultur . al Society, the long expected tricl . mule, which is to he the "mascot' 1 >r toe party tnis rail. me jduk I was taken out to Fairvlew, wnere 1 was given a hearty welcome by th' candidate and his family. "I am going to have a caucus o , the newspaper correspondents to se lect a name for this mascot of mine. f declared Bryan, as be led the. anlma p about a lawn by a halter. "Tbey tel ? me that It is the best trained roul f In the United States, and we t 11 have to properly name it before th day is over." MAKES NEW RECORD. THE LUSITANIA MAKES THE BEST RUN YET. i \ Rig Canard Turbine r Crosses the At* Ian tic In Four Dajs, Fifteen Hours and Twenty-five Minute*. A dispatch from New York, say with the best previous record for ft Trans-Atlantic voyage lowered by more than three hours, the Cunara turbine steamship Luisitania arrived off Sand Hook light ship at 10 o'cTock Wednesday night, having made the run across the Atlantic over the short course in four days, fifteen hours and twenty-five minutes. The Lusitania's former record, which was also the ocean record, was foi.r days, and eighteen hours and forty minutes, the steamer by her new performance lowering her former mark and the record by three hours c and fifteen minutes. The Lusitania's previous best performance was made laBt November* when the short course was still in \ use. As the season advanced the big turbiners, with the rest of th6 great liners, began using the southern, or long, course, to avoid dang-r y er from icebergs. Both the Lusltania ^ and her sister ship, the Manretania. f then began a series of record-break- ^ lng performances over the long route ^ which continued until recently, when the vessels again sought the short t course for the fall and winter sea- t son. r Tuned up hy her many fast trips t in spring and summer, the Lusltania began speeding for a record-break- a lng run over sea Immediately on y leaving Queenstown, Sunday morn- j ing. She passed Daunt's Rock, from R which her leaving time Is taken, at 11:35 that forenoon, and up to noon had traveled at the rate of 22.91 { miles an hour. When fairly out, d however, she struck up a still smart- c er pace, and in the next twenty-four g hours, up to noon on Monday, the 17, had logged the record total of ^ 650 knots, seven knots more than the previous best record for a day's ^ run, made by her on Ju?y 6, last. In doing this she had made an average ^ speed for the twenty-four hours of 25.66 knots. The run ending at noon Tuesday was Bllghtly slower, but still a high rate of speed?631 miles at 25.21 knots an hour. The Lusltania did not attemnt to come up the hay. anchoring outside .. the bar at 10:13 o'clock. * j" WIL.I, l*OST DRUNKARDS. s a Richmond Polic? Publish Names of Habitual Inebriates. | Every saloon in Richmond, Va., 8 is to be supplied by the police depart- 1 nient with a placard bearing the names of habitual drunkards and ' bearing the warning that the own- a ers of the names are undeY the banof the probation officer and must not be allowed to purchase any intoxicating drinks. The cards will be plac- ^ ed in conspicuous places on the walls of the saloons. the names being written or printed large enough to be easily read. Clerks in the department are now preparing the cards, which will go to the printers next week. Tllank spaces will be left on the cards for the names of unfortunates who may fall from grace after the original cards have been printed. R1NU IN BIRD'S NEST, bimuoiid Circlet Is Found by Wo nitui While Walking. < 1 Miss A una Dodge, of Brooklyn. f who Is visiting friends in Caldwell,N. I., while in the woods of that vicinity with friends, found a diamond ling valued at $350. . Her attention was drawn to a bird's nest at the foot of a tree, and thinking it had been wantonly thrown to , the ground by some small hoy, pick. ed it up. In the nset was the ring. It is set with four diamonds of rare , brilliancy. A jeweler says it Is worth $350. The nest was that of a blackbird, | and it is supposed the bird carried the ring there. Funds For Campaign. 1 More than $5,600 has been turned Into the Democratic national cam; palgn fund up to date by William J. Aryan's political paper, as the proceeds of subscriptions sent In dlrect' ly to it by individuals, clubs and newsnaoers. This amount does not Include any personal contributions by Mr. Bryan. or receipts from tho i publication of the paper over and - above the running expenses, which ( the candidate for president has pro' mised to give to the national carab patgn, t s Murderer Adjudged Insane. f At Pensacola, Fla. a lunacy comK mission Wednesday adjudged Clifford " Touaft insane. Touart is tbe~~man tl who shot and killed bis wife at BagII dale. Fla. several weeks ago. Sine# e the tragedy he has become a ravihf II maniac. He is a printing pressman e and a member of a French family - hero prominent on the Gulf coast. J LIGHTNING GOKS DOWN CHIMNKY Hoom1 in Ointer Struck by an Klectrlc Bolt Thursday. A dispatch from Chester, says Mr. T. C. Faley's house on Columbia Btreet was struck by lightning Thursday afternoon while an exciting electrical storm was In progress, and it Is a wonder that very serious damage was not done to me building and contents. As it was a good-six-' ed hole w as knocked through the BUtside wall of the building, while ?n the front a clean aperture that looked as If it might have been made oy a missle about the size of a base Ball, is to be seen. A considerable quantity of plastsring was torn from the ceiling in >ne of the front rooms, and pictures ind ornaments on the mantel were hrown far and wide, and some of hem broken and otherwise damaged. The bolt seems to have struck >ne of the chimneys of the house tnd divided, a s part passing down he chimney on the outside, while he rest of the bolt went down the :himney. * EARTH IN CALIFORNIA. ? alls Cracked and Crockery Broken by Two Shocks. Three sharp earthquake shocks, rhlch knocked down more than a mndred chimneys, shattered about orty plate glass windows in the ' lusineas portion of Eureka, Cal., iroke much crockery in the houses nd sent many people scurrying from , heir beds Into the streets, occurred here early Tuesday. The damage eported so far is estimated at beween $2,000 and $3,000. The first and sharpest shock came t 2:58 a. m. It was almost as seere as the one felt there on April 1 8. 1905. At 3.06 another slighter 1 hock was experienced, followed by third at 5:30 o'clock. The first shock caused practically ill the damage. Besides shaking 1 own many chimneys and breaking rockery, the trembler caused the ixteen-foot statue of Minerva, on he Court House grounds, to drop er heavy staff. HOP LIFTER HANGS HWWRM.V "oung Woman Commits Suicide <u New York Police Station. Possibly acting on the suggestion ontained In a magazine story which he had Just read, a young woman waiting trial on a charge of shopIfting committed suicide in her cell n the Jefferson Market prison New fork Friday night by hanging herelf to the transom of the door with l rope taken from the prison cot. The name given by the woman at he time of her arrest was Marion >esmond, but it is believed this is ssumed. Another theory advanced n explanation of the woman's act s that it was brought about through ear of her Identity being discovered it the trial. * CLINTON MAN MISSING. Fohn Causley Leaves His Wife on Train at Laurens and Disappears. The police of Spartanburg and Laurens are searching for John "iAItslOV Vhn itlcDnnnnrail l? * 'IIS Thursday while enroute to .ranite Falls, N. C., with his wife. Vtr. and Mrs. Causley loft Clinton rhursday morning and changed cars tt Laurens. Causley left the train, tayini; he wanted to step up-town, put he never returned. Mrs. Causey came on to Spartanburg and appealed to the police there to aid her n searching for her husband. The Spartanburg officials have been in communication with the police of Laurens, but no trace of the missing man has been found. * ficorgia's Convict Inquiry Ends. Inquiry into the convict lease system of Georgia ended Wednesday. The legislative committee, which has been operating the probe, is now engaged in making up its report, which will be submitted to a special session of the Legislature called by Governor Smith to assemble on August 25. * Seventy-Six Miners Perished. A dispatch from Wigan, England, says It is now known that 7fi miners oerished in the explosion and the fire that followed It in the Maypole mine. Finding that it would he 1m A ^ ? __ 4U^ J1 An otlll possinie to rerovtr nit* uuuicd aim In the pit, the fire having taken such a firm hold, the directors decided to flood the mine. Ten Reported Killed. At Grafton. W. Va., Ten persons are reported to have been killed and many others Injured Wednesday when a passenger train on the Pennshoro and Harrisville Railroad, bearing excursionists from the Richie County Fair, one mile from Pennsboro, broke down. * Killed in Runaway at Pickens. Pickens was saddened Wednesday errening by the death of J. R. Harris. He was out driving and his horse ran against a telephone post, throwing him out. and breaking his neck.He died suddenly.He was an efficient clerk for Heath. Bruce. Morrow & Co and vyas twenty-three years old His home was in Charlotte, to which place was hia body shipped. KILLED HIS FATHER. A FOUL TRAGEDY NEAR EVTAW YILLK. Mr. Harry Clark, Agi'd Stxty*Scve? Slain and His Body Concealed In i TUIcket by his Son. A letter from Butawvllle to The News and Courier, under date ol August 15, says that community was very much shocked Friday afternoon upon hearing of the horrible death of Mr. Calvin W. Clark. Mr. Clark was missed by his relatives and friends on Thursday morning, but little was thought of this until Friday morning, when a little negro uu) imormea the eldest of Mr. Clark's sons, Newton Clark, that he had accompanied Jeff Clark, the youngest son. with the body of Mr. C. W. Clark in a wagon to a thicket on a nearby plantation, called Brush Pond. Newton Clark then informed Mr. W. B. Stroman, the man to whom he was hired, what the little negro boy had told him. Mr. Stroman came at once to Eutawville and notified the proper authorities. A party was at once organized and a search cotnmencd. This little negro boy. without hesitation, carried the party to a thick clump of bushes and told them that they would find the l>ody in this thicket. When the party entered the thicket they saw what apparently was a pile of straw.but upon a removal of the upper layer an odor was detected, and upon further removal of the straw the body was found, with the face so badly mutilated that the person was scarcely recognizable. Suspicion, of course, rested upon the youngest son. Jeff Clark, and he was brought to the scene immediately, but he said that he knew nothing at all about the affair. The house where the father and the son were living together was then searched. and blood stains were found upon the "set" dining table, and on the floor under the table. Upon further investigation and inquiry, it was found that JefT Clark had gone to his brother, Newton Clark) early Wednesday morning, and tried to borrow his pistol. This Newton Clark refused to give him. and he went to a store nearby and bought a can of concentrated lye, and then returned to his father's hnuso Jeff Clark prepared breakfast for his father as usual, and when Mr. Clark had begun to drink his coffee he stopped suddenly, and said: "There's something wrong with tnis coffee, for it is barely warm and my mouth has begun to blister already." JefT Clark left the house then very hurriedly, but returned during the day finding his father still alive. Therefore, it was concluded that the fatal shot or shots were fired on the following morning. Jeff Clark was removed from the town jail Friday night, and carried on the Coast Line train to Elloree for safe keeping, as there was some fear of lynching. Later he was taken to Monck's Corner, and put in Jail, along with his mother, who is thought to know more of the murder than she Is willing to tell. Mr. A W. Clark was about fi7 years of age, and lived on the place of Mr. VV. R. Rantzler. Jeff Clark is about 21 years of age. and there has been apparently no ill feeling between him and his father. Jeff Clark the miirdhrnr ic u Itrifrht mnlntfn hiw mother Ik a negress, and Clark, the aged victim, was a white man. It was reported by Special Constable B. Press Winter, who carried the Clark woman to the Monck's Corner Jail, that a determined effort was made near Eutawvllle tc lynch Jeff Clark, the crowd even going to the length of putting a rope around the accused man's neck. Mr Winter also says that on the waj over to Monck's Corner from Eutaw ville the woman told him enough ol the crime to indicate that young Clark Is the murderer of his father An effort will be made to secure bai for the woman, but It is not hough that young Clark would bo wiling t< leave the safety of the county jai to face probable vilence outside even if ball would be granted. WRECKED BY DYNAMITE Home of Mine Ross Dynamited hi Strikers. At Birmingham, Ala., the honn of homas Dugan, a mine boss of tti< Tennessee Coal and Iron company at Pratt City, was dynamited a 10:45 Wednesday morning. Th explosion practically demolished th front portion of the house. Two o Dngan's daughters were renderei unconscious, hut are not seriousl hurt. The other members of th family escaped unhurt. About 1 o'clock dynamite wa thrown on the porch of Andy Pavb a negro non-union miner, but th occupants were not injured. Walker Finalay and A. J. Jonei negro strike miners, were arreste charged with the outrage. For time it was feared a lynching woul result, but the deputies dispatche I from Birmingham succeeded i i bringing the accused men safely t the Jefferson county Jail. WILL MAKE APPEAL. To Newspapers to liaise Money I Campaign Fund. A dispatch from Chicago sa every Democratic and independe newspapers throughout th Uulti States will be appealed to by the D i mocratic national committee to a: subscriptions for the Democrat ' campaign fund in their newspapei This plan, which was made knov by Col. Moses C. Wetmore, chalrim of the finance committee, is distln f from the effort already inauguratt 5 by the national committee to obta money through financial represent tives under the direction of the n tional committeeman in each of.tt States of the country. Col. We i more said: "We are going to get the mom to run this campaign, make no mi take about that. Th eHepublicar know where to got theirs, no mnt** wnat contributions they may ha\ to turn back to comply with the lav Every source that we can find wi be tapped and the results of our e forts so far are fairly encouragini make appeals to editors of all Dt mocratic and independent newspapei to start subscription lists and t every contributor the national con mittee will send an aeknowledgiuet as a souvenir of the campaign. Th appeal is signed by Chairman Macl Gov. Haskell, treasurer of the con mittee, and myself." TWO KILLED 11Y EXPLOSION. Saw Mill Engine Boiler Bursts i North Carolina, Two men lost their lives and tw others were fatally Injured by th explosion of the Boston boiler a William Heid's saw mill, near Drr co. Caldwell County, N. C., Sunda morning at 11 o'cclok. The dead are: Henry Gilbert, aged !>0. Fred Jackson, aged 21. The fatally njured: Mm. Held, owner of the mill. Hugh Heid, his son. The dead and injured ar ewhit and were working at the mill whe the explosion occurred. It is sai that Gilbert, who was engineer c the plant had the safety valve dow and high pressure on the bollr cans ed the explosion. The boiler wa thrown fifty yards, and the plant ws wrecked by the force of the exph sion. Gilbert and Jackson wet horribly mangld. Heid and his so in addition to receiving terribl wounds from the flying wreckag were badly scalded, and neither wi live. Heid is a well-to-do citizen an lives sixteen miles from Taylorsvilh on the Southern Railroad. PEAKED It.X.NKS; IICKIED MONK Arkansas Man's Decayed Fortui Saved for Him by Woman. A dispatch from Washingtoi says of $ 10,000 in decayed greet hacks sent to the treasury depar ment for redemption by O. I). Knt of Morrillon, Ark. all but 2f? hat been Identified and a check for $9 97.r> was mailed to Mr. Early Frlda Fearing the banks were ansa Mr. Earl buried his savings in s old pail in 1904. Recently he dt up his treasury only to find that tl bills were so decayed that he con not discern meir numbers. A i that was left of the roll was a bum t of paper resembling a package > i dried leaves, with here and there tl i torn end of a note displaying a ii i ure. Mrs A. E. Brown, the bur ! money expert of the redemption dii sion, was given custody of the u recognizable mass when Mr. En 1 forwarded what was left of his fo i tune to the treasury departmer After much tedious work she h ' succceeded in identifying most of tl money. rattler in <;nti/s bed. r Timely Discovery by Her Ilrotli ? Saved Her Life. I Miss Mildred Crawford, a beau t ful 16-year-old girl living near Stan > ton. Va.. had the novel and soni 1 what thrilling experience of slee ing with an imense rattlesnake night or two ago. Her brother entered her room a found a three-foot rattler colled the bed hv the side of the you lady, but soon succeeded in rescui * his sister from the dangerous pi dicament without disturbing the ri tier, and now the girl wears t B snake skin around Her waist as p belt. f chafin notifikd. R ______ p Mode a Short Sj?ecch Saying Tl i He Would Accept. ^ A dispatch from Chicago, says meeting at which Eugene W. Chafir s Chicago was formerly notified of i, nomination as the prohibition can e date for president was held Tuest! evening. The notification addr u. was made by the secretary of I d temperance committee of tho Pros a ferlan church of America. Kollr d ing the notification. Chafln deiivei d his speech of acceptance, in wh n he outlined the policies for wh o prohibitionists will make the ca palgn. ORDER RESTORED. or _ SPRINGFIELD CITIZENS TO OOMys RAT MOB ELEMENT, nt ed e^ First Troops Sent Away?Law and lc Order IIcIuk Gradually Restored? '3,n City I'nder Strict Surveillance. in With a special grand Jury voting ct true hills against men who particlipated in the rioting at Springfield, n 111., on last Friday and Sauraay a" nights, with the coroner holding inH" quests over the victims and colleet^ ine " ?1 ~ * u mi in si tue rioters for ^"Ithe grand jury and with the strict Ienforcement of law and order in all y I parts of the city the first troops havo 8" I been sent away. 181 The First regiment left at ten ?r I o'clock Wednesday morning for e I Chicago. v l Coroner Woodruff continues tak" I ing evidence at the inquest over 1 Scott llrown, the first negro lynched. ^ 1 The doors of the inquest room nro 1 kept locked and newspaper men are s I excluded. ?l The funeral of William H. Donejjlgan. the eightv-year-old negro, who I was lynched by the mob on Saturday ' I night, was held from St. John's hos^ 1 pital Wednesday morning. Not more I than a dozen persons attended the Iservice, as all of the victims of the I family are in Chicago, where they I (led the night of the lynching. I Now that CJeorge Richardson, tho I negro, has been indicted for attackling Mrs. Earl Hallam, the state's attorney declares he will make every ? I effort to try him at once. The negro el members of tfie Springfield Are dcit I partment have been discharged by I Mayor Reece "for the good of tho I service." N I There has been severe friction in II he fire stations ever since the riot I of Friday night and the mayor I'bought it best to rid the departI ment of negroes and avoid trouble I imong the firemen. The negroes I<ay they are glad to get out of the I service, as they realize that their ? 1 association with the white members n, of the department Is Impossible. I Many persons are being held by 'n|the lHilice for partlclnnMm. '? -t *? 111 rt { I riots. According to the police, lngldlctments will be returned against s I each one. j. I Two hundred men, womeu and ,e I children slept In the state arsenal n I Tuesday night, guarded by troops. le I While there was no disturbance of e I my kind in any $u?rt of the city III these people have not yet recovered d I from their fright of Friday and SatB lurday nights and are afraid to remain I at their own homes during the night. I VII left the arsenal early Wednesday ^ I ind returned to their homes. ,J FOHEST FIltK SI'KKADINU. I Kate of Scattered Handlers Is t'n? I known. u-1 Forest fires on Vancouver Island I I are extending In every direction, and ;e|ihe latest reports Indicate that the )t. I settlements are threatened. In y I Kogsilah district, 20 square miles fr I are ablaze. in I The fate of the scattered ranchers ip lis unknown. The flames are adwjvancing on Goldstream and 150 inld I habitants are back-firing to save the dl Milage. Several lumber camps have ?h I been wiped out. of I Telegraph and telephone messages ieIstate that the eastern side of Howg-len island Is a mass of fire . In one nt I settlement 80 souls were scattered rl-J about the section which has been n-1 swept by the flames, but it is ini irl possible to ascertain their fate. r it. IllOW FliOM BOTTLK FATAL, as tie Two Anderson Xcrtocs Quarrel and # n Killing Results. A peculiar homicide occurred at Anderson Friday when Floyd Tuck r was killed by Harvey Thompson, both colored. Thompson was employed at the plant of the Anderson fee Company. Tucker visited the 'plant to Ret a load of ice. The two n' became enRHRed in a controversy ie" because one of the blocks of ice they !P* were loadiiiR tell on Tucker's foot. a Tucker cursed Thompson severely, so it was said at the coroner's inn<l quest, whereupon Thompson cllnch011 ed him. They were separated, but nk roI toRether a few minutes later. nK Tucker had an iron rod in his hands re" and dealt Thompson two or three '*** blows. Thompson had a coca-cola l?ottle in his hand and rapped Tucka er over the head three times, the intra striae snanerinK inc nmiic m pieces. Tucker arose from the ground where he was knocked l>y Thompson and got In his wagon to ,H drive off Soon after getting in the wagon he became unconscious and was hurried to a drug store for ata tention. He dfed two hours later lof without regaining consciousness, hi? Thompson is in the county jail. * di lay Aged Lady Commits Suicide. ess Mrs. Peter Phillips. 60 years old. (he the wife of a prominent, farmer at hy- Hanson. Fla.. committed suicide >w- Tuesday at Madison. ?'la. The daughred ter awoke at three o'clock that ich morning, and found her mother miHich sing from the room. Mtb. Phillips im- was found in a well, with her neck broken.