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i . THE FORT MILL TIMES. 7TH TEAR FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAT, SEPTEMBER 3, 1908 NO 22 1 I ANSEL ELECTED. DEFEATED II LEASE 1)Y A GOOD MAJORITY. No Choice for United States Senator, Superintendent of Education, or llailroud Coiiiiulssiouer. For United States Senator. Jno. Gary Evan.*: 25,723 Jno. I*. Grace 1,41)4 George Johnstone .... 13,405 W. \V. Liimkin 3,430 O. II. Martin 0,274 It. G. Khett 22,348 , E. D. Smith 28,840 For Governor. M. F. Ansel 00,402 Cole L. Mease 41,085 Vnr (VtmnlHillov N. W. IlitMikor A. W. Jonns "0,7(KI SFor Adjutant uud Inspector General. J. V. Boyd 57,-101 li. T. Tho mpsoii. . . .42,710 . For State Supt. of Education. K. C. Elmore 39,107 Stiles It. Melllchanip. . .31,310 J. E. Sweai-ingen >19,102 For It. It. Coinnilssioner. Jut. Cannier 23.GSO Hanks li. Caughmaii . . .31,113 Frank ('. Flshburne . . . 9,715 II. \V. Richardson. . . .10,737 ,). A. Suimnersett. . . .23,270 i In the race for the United States , Senate. E. D. Smith Is leading, with John Gary Evans second and R. G. Rhett third. Johnstone Is fourth man The second race will be between Smith and Evans. For Governor, Ansel is elected. 1!.' will defeat Hlease by 16,000 to 20,000 votes. Boyd Is re-elected adjutant and In- . spector general, defeating Col. Henry ( T. Thompson. Jones is re-elected comptroller general, defeating Brooker oy a large majority. Swearlngen, the blind man. Is leading for State superintendent of education. The second race will be be- ( tween Swearingen and Mellichamp. For railroad commissioner, Caugh- , man is leading, with Canaler and Summersett not far behind. It looks like the second race is between Cuughmau and Cansler. ntoniNU RACE WAR. Npringflchl (iraml Jury Still Invest!- ' gating. I A dispatch from Springfield, 111, says with a total of 78 indictments , returned the special grand Jury empanelled to hear evidence on the recent race riots, is still in session and there is little probability thnt tills body will adjourn before the latter part of next week. After failing to make a return for two days, the grand jury presented seventeen true bills to Judge Crcighton. til iii^iici im*111 i iiiii^niK miiruei was returned against Frank Bryant, alias Frank Sullivan. The young man has confessed to killing Thomas Brady last Monday morning. William Phillips, better known as "Fuzzy" Philips, an ex-police officer, was indicted on the charge of attempting to commit arson and also riot. Two more indictments were brought Ernest Humphrey, one of the alleged rioters, and under indictment for the murder of Win. Donnignn. lto> Young was indicted for arson. Tin grand Jury took a recess until Moil day. * AMBUSH KILLING AT YK.MASSKF. Two Xcgni Car Thieves Kill Tw< Members of Posse. At Yemassee, a negro boy whlh hunting coons Friday morning ran acrrosR two negro men who had robbed cars Thursday night and were awaiting a chance to bundle theii spoils and to leave at 11 o'clock. The l>oy reported the matter to Capt. \Vm. M. Elliott, who is the Atlantic Coast Line's special agent, and several started In pursuit. S. W. Litchfield, white, a merchant, and Joe Francis, colored, were shot and killed from ambush by the robbers. They ran through an old rice field, making their escape. They wore seen by several parties, who could easily identify either of them. Friday the Rheriff was notified by the train dispatcher of the Atlantic Coast Line, of the robbery and killing at Yemassee and requested to send blood hounds to the scene, bat unfortunately Sheriff Martin has no dogs at his disposal. No. details were given of the robbery and killing, only a request that the dogs be sent to Special Agent Elliott at Yemassee. General's Wife Murdered. The wife of Major General Chas. Eaward Lur.rd. retired officer of the Royal Engineers, was murdered in the woods near London, England, last week. Robbery is believed to have been the motive as her Jewel BRICK WALL KILLS EIGHT. Laborer** at Chelsea, Mass, Crushed by Falling Wall. A dispatch from Chelsea, Mass, says a forty-five-foot high brick wall iu Chelsea square collapsed suddenly Tuesday, burying beneath it some thirty workmen. Eight were killed outright or died in ambulances on the way to the hospital. About twenty others were injured, eleven of whom were" taken to the United States Marine and Navtfl Hospital, some of them in a serious condition. A number of others escaped with but minor injuries. The dead: Meyer Arlwok, 60 years old. Ferri Santi, 4 8 years old. Eelechl Genellfla, 34 years old. 1 John Co8tcllo, 55 years old. Morris Zachlad. Joseph Adler, 3 8 years old. t Carnifllo Murzello, 23 years old. 1 Unknown man, features hardly re- 1 cognizable. I M. Gordon, of the firm of Gordon i & Seegal, the contractor who had the 1 work in hand, was arrested late Tues- ( day on u warrant fiiarging man- t cl (i n frli tot* onH hlo i\n rt nnr Con rr o I was arrested that night. 1 Five minutes before the collapse i of the wall, it is said. Inspector of 1 Buildings Frank Yevmouth had or- t dered the foreman of the gang to c stop work, as he saw the wall was i crumbling. It was planned to build j a four-story house on the spot, which c was the site of the old Academy of i Music. I The wall which fell upon the t workmen stood against the Park c Motel. Beams of wood were being fitted into this old wall in order that it might be utilized for the new structure. It is claimed that the j wall was undermined by the large \ boles that were dug into it and that, j] with no proper support, it gave way. c t>.\M AHOVK AUGUSTA BREAKS. ( c riiree Lives lx>st and Property I>uni- n aged to Great Extent. / A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga., 3 says the floods in the Carolinas and b Georgia culminated Wednesday in the h breaking of the big dam six miles c Trom Augusta, which diverts the c water f rom the Savannah River into v lie canal at that point. The great li lood of water let loose soon found n ts way Into the city and that night, from 15th street to the eastern C boundary, Augusta was under from I dx to twelve feet of water, which Is e gradually rising. o The bridge across the Savannah r River went down In the rush of e waters and the dam at the locks, . -even miles above the city collapsed, t" Hiding to the flood. t The Associated Press cor; espond- a nt at Augusta succeeded in getting d i tel< phone wire to work in the h imilding next to the Augusta Herald h >fllee, and from there the first com- h inunlcatlon was obtained after the d wires went down. r He reported three deaths, two fl white persons and one negro, but ,? "ould not give any names, as the j means of travelling were only by boat. , l< At It o'clock Wednesday night two 'elegraph operators employed by the Western I'nion Telegraph Company -wain to the Chamber of Commerce building and cut in on a wire that had tot been cut down. This wire, with lOssthly n railroad wire into the j. ards in outlying sections of the city. t no the only means of communica ion to the outside world. The current through the city streets is swift, but not enough to 1 nore than carry away debris, box ' ' rees, store boxes and loose signs. TWO XEtiltOKS DROWNKD. c ?? A I * * .? IX l'ikk< vnree ?no ?fu. uui ... , llrlilKo M?'t Disaster. A snedal from Saiuria says Tues'ay afternoon Dock Abney and Sam 'Tolland, two negroes wore drowned In the So In (I a River at fllggins Fer ry. Wallace Sheppard another ne tro. liarely escaped being drowned ( with them. The three negroes had gone out In i about from the Saluda side to see ? how the bridge was standing the flood, and the boat, a small one, be- | "anio entangled In some telephone t wires and was capsized. The Shepnard negro hnd a hard struggle, finally caught in a tree and was later rescued. The long bridge at Chappell's was swept away Tuesday morning and the steel bridge at Higgins' Ferry went down that evening. Saluda River was four feet higher than it was in 1 8R8. * SEABOARD TRAIN* I/)ST. Passenger Train on Line Rctwen Co Minima aim navniinnn Train No. 81. on the Seaboard Air Lino, which has been "lost," since Thursday at noon, so far as the Savannah dispatcher's office is concerned. is still in the lo*t column. No word of the train has reached the operating office there. All tl^at it teems to know is that the train is tome where between there and Columbia. it is thought that it must be tied up at some river or stream where the rCMle has been washed away, with no open way of escape behind it, and with wires down. There was a dining car with the train, so pas'srengers will not suffor for food. COVERED BY WATER. THE CITY OF AUGUST A IS INUNDATED. i i l Flood Girutest iu suite's History? i The Property Loss Will Reach . Euoruious Figures. Property damaged to the extent of I hundreds of thousands of dollars, at least two or three lives lost, devested farms, ruined crops. bridges washed away, cotton milis and power plants closed, railroad service traffic paralyzed, and telephone and telepgraph service badly crippled, tell the story of the flood which has been rawliio- In 1,1? ~ ? ? --o ?r> ... iuv neainoni and I'eeDee sections of South Carolina, and the eastern portion of North Carolina for the past few days, and which 1 is undoubtedly the most destructive :hat has ever visited this section of ^ :he country. The rivers are ail out of their v >anks and some of them are steadily ? *islng. It is Impossible to give any s air estimate of the loss, but it will to into the millions. Owing to the 1 Unorganized condition of the usual ' noans of communication. Tt is 1m- 1 tossible to get dispatches from all ?f the couuties where the flood 1 s highest and the damages greatest, s >ut sufficient information was secured a o give a tolerably fair Idea of the 0 sxtent of the flood. a Flood lliillctin Issued. A dlpatch from Washington, says he weather bureau at 10 o'clock Vednesday night issued the following lood bulletin: B The heavy rains that have fallen ontlnuously since Sunday over the 'arollnas and Eastern Georgia have aused widespread floods of the ? nost dangerous and destructive haracter. The Savannah River, at " uigusta, \vill likely reach a stage of ' 8 feet, or 6 feet above flood stage. T iy midnight Wednesday, and there r ? grave probability that the entire ^' ity will be flooded. Telegraphhic r: ommunlcatlon with the outside rorld has been cut oft and no reports iave been received since Wednesday K norning. pi "The Cntawba Hlver, of North H larolina, and the Wateree and Pee- B )ee rivers, of South Carolina, have xeeeded all previous stages by sev- ri ral feet, while Eastern North Carolina ?*? eports indicate the greatest flood w ver known in that section. Toe w ninfall was particularly h-mvy ir d1 he vicinity of Raleigh, N. C,. where M he total fall since Sunday was ex- it ctly ten inches. The losses and H a in ages are enormous. Railroads ts lave annulled trains, bridges* have ir icen washed away, roads rendered tnpassable and large areas of crops ' estroyed. The Oconee and Ocniulgee ivers, of Georgia, are also above ood stage and high water will be xperienced in the Altamaha River uripg n- "ch of So; t.? inner " tERN IS FORMALLY NOTIFIED. a h a H?nioorntic nndidate For Vice ITes- t| ident Accepts. a At Indianapolis, Ind John Woi'h tl Cern, Democratic candidate for Vice resident, v. as notified formally on 11 "uesday of his nomination by the Na- c ional Convention at Denver and acopted the honor in a speech deliver d to 15,000 people in the Coliseum it the State Fair grounds. t, The notification speech was made ( >y Theodore E. Hell, of California, hairman of the committee, selected it Denver to officially Inform Mr. ^ tern. William J. Hryan, candidate j "or President, was present, and poke at length on the subject of rusts. The meeting was called to >rder by Thomas Taggart, member t >f the national committee from InMana, who relinquished the gavel to V'orman E. Mark, of Huffalo, N. Y., diairman of the national committee. Mr. Mark presided through the 1 meeting. Mr. Mark was given an K enthusiastic reception. Tie spoke ' very briefly. Tie predicted victory ' In November for the national Demo- 0 r*ratir ticket. He introduced Theo. ' K. Hell, of California, who as chairman of the notification committee. 1 formerly announced to Mr. Kern his ' nomination by the Denver Couven- ' tion. t CLAMOR MANIAC MAY DTK. 1 i i Swallows Iodoform After He Is 1*1 ho- ( efl Hehind the Hnrs. I At St. Louis Robert Caulefleld. a boiiermaker, suffering from clamor mania, "a passion for noise," after a struggle with a policeman on a street * car. is in a hospital sutrering rrom a dose of iodoform. His chance of recovery is slight. Ho was found near the Broadway viaduct unconscious on last Monday night, and taken to the hospital. The quietness of the place caused him to rave incessantly. It was decided to take htm to jail handcuffed and in charge of a policeman. Caulcfleid was placed on a suburban street car. When the car entered the quiet country district he became violent, and attacked the policeman. Later he was placed i|^ jail. Five minutes after he was locked un he swallowed iodoform. GAMBLERS FLEECE YOUTH. Captain of Liner Helps a Heidelberg Graduate Keep His Funds. A news dispatch from New York say a wise captain, a letter of credit and a efllncient service saved August Walter, recently graduated from the meshes of a quartette of professional gamblers who tried to get his money on board the liner Kfoupriuzessln Cecille, which arrived at New York Tuesday from Hremem. The young man met the gamblers In the smoking room of the steamer ?oon after she cleared the English ;hannel. They Induced him to throw lice for $r> a throw and let him win. Then they let him lose, and when he >howed a letter of credit and explained that he would give them checks, they told him that it was all ight and urged him to continue the ;anie. When he had handed out I. O. IT v o the amount of $1,520. the young nan decided to stop. He said he could pet some cash before the learner docked and pay up before he nnded. A fatherly German ap roached the Heildelburg man later, ind told him the men were profesional Ramblers. Young Walter unburdened his tale o Capt. Hodgemann, and he sent a rireless message for the boy to the atter's banker's in New York, advisng them to refuse payment of the hecks, if presented. When the teamer docked, there was no scene, nd the gamblers did not refer to a ash payment of the debt. They rere informed of Capt. Hogemann's ction, and will be apprehended if hey attempt to cash the checks. * TWO DROWNED IN KERSHAW. Iridge Over the Wateree Goes Ilown Carrying Man and Roy to IVath. A dispatch from Camden, says the Tateree iron bridge, which was perated by a corporation as a toll ridge, was completely wrecked uesday by the high water. The Iver is higher than it has been for ears and the immense amount of ifts and a large flat which came nating down the stream was more lan it could stand. At the time it ave way there were a number of eople on the bridge, including Mr. VUI j uuvagr, U1U pn^lUt'Ul UL Lilt' ridge Company. Mr. Savage and vo negroes went floating down th?ver on a raft. The negroes nianagi to get out and the others that ent in at the time the bridge gave ay were all rescued, but the most (stressing feature of it all ts that [r. George Kabon. who was crossing i a wagoii with a littleboy named mson, went in. and it is almost cerilu that they were drowned. Nothig has been heard of them. "AFFINITY" EARLE IX UMBO. Ian Who Created Sensation Several Months Ago, Placed in Jail. Ferdinand P. Earl, the artist of (flnity fame, was arrested at his ome near Monroe, N. Y.. Tuesday fternoon charged with assault in tie second degree, alleged to have een. committed on his wife on or l?out August 16. twelve days after tie birth of their child. The complainant was Mrs. Inez lardy, an aunt of Mrs. Earle. It is ot known on what the assault harge is based. Earle pleaded uilty to the charge and was held to wait the action of the grand jury, 'referring to be locked up rather han give ball. Earle wos conveyed to he county jail at Goshen. In the Court Earle appeared to be ery much affected, tears streaming own his cheeks during the proceedngs. YEGGMAX SHOW THE POLICE. Jives Demonst rat km of How Safes Arc Cracked. Acting Capt. Council, of the deteoIve bureau In Newark, N. J. and evcrnl of his men had a practical iiustration at police headquaters of hat city of how safes are operated in by expert "yeggmen" preparatory o blowing them open. The demonstrator was George K. iVllllams, alias "Humpty," the lead r of the gang of burglars captured n Newark last Friday night. Williams deftly applied a block to he knob of the safe in the office of ""hief of Police Corbitt, put his drill ?ud prepared to connect the battery fvith the dynamite. Rut when the teir.onstrator tried to insert a charge >f dynamite and explode it the police tiastilyreturned him to hlscell. LIGHTNING KILLS MILES. |-W? / L'??U T* 1/ ill^rV i ?ur innu ii * ?* ! ninr^i?? Vol Injured. Monday afternoon about 4 o'clock near Rhem's. about ten miles from Georgetown, lightning struck and killed three mutes belonging to F Rhem and Son. The instance was very peculiar.- F. Rhem and his son had seni their three double teams to Lak< City to carry tobacco to market. Or their way back about four o'clocV lifhtning struck and killed one roub from each wagon, leaving the otbei three unharmed. The drivers of th< wagons were stunned but recoverer shortly after the stroke. ' | TOURIST ROBBED IN YELLOW STONE l'AKK BY LONE HIGHWAYMAN, < i < < Who Held l'|? a Number of Stage 1 < Coaches and Went Through the t Passengers. 1 The most daring stag i hold-up in < the West in many years occurred t Tuesday within the boundaries of t the Yellowstone Park. The work s was done by a lone highwayman and t the passengers were absolutely help- r less in his hands as no guns are per* c mitted in the park to either drivers c or tourists. From the statements of i passengers, It is estimated that ap- f proximately $2,000 in cash was ob- t tained, drafts worth $10,000 and I other papers and transportation be- a sides a rich haul in watches aud t jewelry. s In all, twenty-one coaches left the li upper geyser basin. The highwayman t was encountered about live miles further on at a lonely point along d the banks of Spring creek, a tribu- c 'ary of the Fire river. The creek is o lined with bushes. The first lot of a coaches, numbering seven and fol- si lowing each other closely, passed the ii place unharmed. There was a gap b between that and the next lot of tl ?ight following. As the first of the n eight came along the highwayman u stepped from the bushes and ordered tl the driver to halt. He did not molest auy of the drivers. s< On 'the first seat sat B. Drew, of ? Orlando, Fla., and his stepson, 11. v< Gaskin. Mr. Drew, with the gun n: upon him. was ordered to "hand fi jover," which he did to the extent of d $90. Young Gaskin was ordered to lismount and hold the man's sack, la This he did at the point of a gun, h long the eight coaches. Every ti driver was warned not to start his m team or he would be shot. ti In one of the other coaches Forest Stevens, of Wilkes IJarre, gave a nervous laugh which seemed to enrage the bandit, and he was ordered \ .o dismount and also accompany the highwuyman when he got out. He started to go around the rig. but was summarily ordered to come back and X got a whack over the head with the Tl barrel of tli? rifle for his pains. in When the last of the eight coaches L< was reached the highwayman re- in marked that he had a good mind to of shoot Stevens any way, and did fire 1 shot nvor ?i?? l J "" . ...... ...q ucnu. i nen uoili til men were ordered back to their rigs m ind the drivers ordered to move on m These eight conches had scarcely yc gone when three more came along and these were robbed in like man- m ner. In one of these coaches was M. L. Walker, a Oklahoma banker. He nad $10,000 in drafts in his pocket ?0 book and tried to conceal this under y< the seat. The robber saw him and ot ordered him to bring it forward. Mr. cr Walker asked for his drafts and trail- jt sportation, but they was contemp- h, tuously thrown into the hushes with tr the remark that the bandit would ^ not have done so if Walker had not tried to hide his money. I The last coach contained five voting ladies. The highwayman oil- j tained very little from them, but w stopped long enough to appropriate some candy. al In all about 123 people were held nj up but not all of these suffered loss- a( es. When he ordered the drivers to St move the bandit stood a few minutes with his gun pointed toward then and then walked down the road. As quickly as possible after a telephone y was reached at Thumb station, word was sent to the soldiers and a detail started after him. The man is described as about 3 ^ feet 8 inches high and having bluish grey eyes, bristling grey whiskers and j acted either as a man who was short of breath or a consumptive. He un- ^ derstood German, as he answered questions asked him in that langu- ^ age. He had on bluish brown over- s alls, brown shirt, soft felt hat and carried an automatic rifle used smokeless powder. tl WASHED FROM HOVSK TOP. ^ Negro Family l)rr?wn?l in Darlington c on lAst Tuesday. A dispatch from Darlington says a Joe Rrown's family, consisting of his 1 wife and three children, all coiored, t were drowned in the Pee Dee Tues- o day. Their home was situated in s the swamp at Pee Dee on a planta- ^ tion belonging to John A. Russell, and It was surrounded by water of the freshet. Before they ha dtime to e scape I they lrst climbed to the top of the house, but It was Anally swept away from it position and was carried 1 down the stream. But before going ( very far the wife and children were ( drowned. Brown himself escaped by ^ holding on to the top of a tree, which was not fully covered by water, and ( held there until recsued . Great , damage has been done to the river , plantations in Darlington county. The bodies of those drowned have not ( been recovered. Soldiers Ordered to Leave. A dispatch from Springfield. 111., says the "th regiment I. N. O., has been ordered to withdraw from the city and by 10 o'clock Wednesday morning there will be no more solders in Springfield. a PRESERVE THE FORESTS. | An Urgent Plea for the Prcnervution of Our Forests. 1 Washington, I). C.. Aug. 25?The iisastrous floods now raging throughjut the South, with their appalling Damage to huma nlives and to property, is a striking though laiuenta- y Die and costly object lesson, said an jiliciul of the National Forest Associaiou today. With the torrential rainfall in the Piedmout and Appalachian fountain region, coupled with the irlminal deforestation of the niouu- S1 ain sides throughout this section, at ri he headquarters of our Southern S| icvere floods can be expected; and ^ his condition, as bad as it is, tj nust steadily grow worse and in- e) reasiugly more damaging, until ^ ?ur people return to sanity 0 n their treatment of the forests. t proves as no other lesson can. |( he need of the forest covering and js tears eloquent testimony to what we rf ,re preaching day in and day out, a, hat our forests are absolutely es- w ential to the Nations life and must |? ie preserved, if -?11 -- ?u\ nil I/Ulllllion and losses are to he prevented. is Such work as our Association is t*.( oing. in getting forth the facts, in ailing attention to the results of ol ur present methods and policies; in wakening the interest and concience of the earnest and thoughtful tidlvldual, must in time, and wo hope -pj efore all the forests are gone, make ]y tie South reall/.e that her forests ^ lust lie saved, and must call forth jj nanimous sentiment and effort j( lerefor. that they will lie saved. s() Surely we are not true to our?lves or to our Southland, if this rave matter, affecting as it does the j( ery life of our people and their , ^ laterial prosperity now iwul in the ^ lture, does not receive the immolate attention it deserves. We must have not only the Appaichian National Forest, hut we must nve state forest throghout the en- . re South?it is only through and by leans of both that rorest perpetuaon will become a reality. * TILLMAN SKillS LOK HOMK. ha ml the Hog ami Hominy He Can't } tiet in Europe. A dispatch from London to The ^ ew York llerald says: Senator , 1 lllman, of South Carolina, who is uking his first European tour, likes ondon very much, though he sigh ' vain for the delicacies of the table ' "down South." "Young man." said the Senator ^ iin IHUI uiiiKi 11 ,WU Will Ulliy lf?il e where I can get some real corn eal In this town you will make nic is )ur debtor for life." , ai A friend who was standing near ;lJ ipplied the Information and the Miator was effusive in his thanks. "Well, sir," "I've had a hard tinn i get something to eat over here. 11,1 on know a man used all his life to ir Southern cooking Just naturally aves for something that has corn in /<M I don't eat beef and I have the "? ml est time everywhere I've been V' ying to explain what I meant by reakfast bacon, hut as for corn ,ls' read and hominy grits, why sir. (<>l haven't been able to find a trace of ' ? lent anywhere, so I just thought if s!" could only find somebody to toll me here I could get some corn meal 1 ould take It to my stopping place id show the cook how to make a Ice yellw pone of corn bread or an ih-cake. Brompton road, did you ly? I am certainly much obliged." na Sl'KIDK WAS A TEACIIKH. pa 0 Heasou Known for I'rof. Krewer's in Self Destruction. sW More light was thrown upon the tr; ientity of J. Al. lvrewer, who coiniltted suicide at a downtown hotel Bt 1 Chicago on Tuesday, by J. L. Hill, 1 r' teacher in Vreneh and German, of taying at the same hotel, who said Hi tint Krewer was a teacher in Ger- in tan an3 French at the I nlversity chool at Louisville. Y< Hill said he was acquainted with th ;rewer for several years and during he past summer Krower had lleen A' n instructor in a school in New 'ork. From papers found among the suiide's effects, the police learned that I ill knew Krower. A telegram was ent to New York, where Hill lives, nd an answer was received in which 11 t was told that Hill was at the ho- sa el in Chicago. Hill was surprised a m hearing of Krewer's death. 11c "1 mid he had not known thaf his friend ,r cas in Chicago. * hi SHOT RY HIS S1STKR. u ______ ol Hhu ftrings Rride Home, Hut Couple r'( vl Isn't Welcomed. n Hecause her brother, John Vincent, who is twenty-eight years old, married and was about to leave his parent's home in Brooklyn, N. Y , I' Franeesca Vincent, seventeen years old. Vincent alleges, fired two shots at him with a revolver. He was shot twice in the left arm. ?. Franeesca ran from the house and \ disappeared. ( Vincent says he married several v months ego and brought his wife , home. His sister scolded him for ^ marrying, and thereafter refused to jspeak to him. He told her that if f she did not treat him and his wife r with respect, he would move to some } other house. He says his sister then ^ opened fire on him. * i i DAMAGE AT AUGUSTA 'WKXTY-TWO 1IOD1KS REtXlYKHKi>?STKAMKH SAW THIItTY. w the Water Recedes It Ls Found That the Losm lias Heen (Jreatly L'udersti mated. A dispatch from Augusta Friday ays the flood water is receding lipidly and as the water leaves the treets It is apparent that the loss as been underestimated. In ad (lion to the disasters already reportti It is found that the Riverside lills, in damage to plant and loss f cotton which floated away, suslins a loss of $100,000; Reid's eot>n ware house th?? ?.?? - * , ill llll* flOUtll damaged in a large sum. but it will quire a survey to determine the liount; Triangular block, where the holesale houses are assembled. Is idly Injured. The Neisou, Morris Co s ware house has collapsed and being ranged; the Augusta Grocery ampnny's building is damaged in 5,000: Hill Merry escaped seriis loss; C. 1). Carr & Co.. Paul I. ustin & Murphy are comparatively ightly damaged; the National Hislit Company building Is wrecked, lie Central Grammer School is badhurt. and the Davidson Grunnnur :hool Is damaged severely. In adtion to the fires already reported developes that there were ten nailer houses burned in different ctions of the city. As the water goes down further is feared that damage similar to e Traiugular block damage will velop. As to thi- loss of life twenty-two idles have been recovered and rpses are found every hour or so. le captain of the river steamer tan. which got in Friday, reports at he saw on the up-trip. at least corpses, all negroes except one. a lite man. There aro reports of my drownings among negro farm nds in the lower valley. The ironicle estimates the death list at it.v. The citizens in mass meeting, the y council In special session and [ board health in special session ve taken measures to re.ieve the dress. Citizens are subscribing to fund to help the poorer people in p submerged districts, for portions the town arc still under water, lere is sure to be the greatest suf iug. and relief must be quick to went starvation swelling the death t. In some districts people who nnot leave their houses have not 5tod food since Wednesday night, i gust a is trying hard to measure to the demand upon her. At the Idle meetings it was decided not to ike an appeal for outside assistive. but to accept any contributions ered. It is a question if the citi>s' meeting and city council did t err in declining to make a public peal for assistance, and many beve they will yet be compelled to k aid of the outside world. It is rtnin that the mayor will gladly acpt contributions, and he so publicly Id in reply to Atlanta's inquiry. * VHTOIIY SITIIK, SAYS MACK. tliana, Illinois, Ohio and New York for Bryan and Kern Chairman Mack, of the Democratic tional committee, arrived Tuesday New York to inaugurate the catiiign in the Kast. He said: "The elements of doubt the coining election are being 'opt awav by the drift of the couiiy toward the Democracy. I am abinii'iv confident of the election ot yan and Kern. 1 say this frankly. Dm the fact that reports received oonvasxes made are the Indexes at the next administration at Washgton will be Democratic. "Indiana. Illinois. Ohio and New irk will undoubtedly go Democratic is year." * rr.\<K OX "MKHIIY \VI1H?\VS." enturky Night Hitlers Vent Their Fury on Dig llats. Prejudice against "Merry Widow" its is so stiong in Mead county, K\ i.vs a telegram from Elizabeth, that hnnd of forty night riders desc-nl (ion the village of Cnston and d< soyed the milinery store of Miss Jenle Myor. A tobacco bam was .i!so urned in the raid, but the Merry "idow hats were the special objects r the moh'f fury. The raid follow1 the adoption of resolutions in 1 e lllage church declaring the hats a tiisance and a sin. SI" It TDK AT !.ATHENS. Tisoncr In Police Station House llanos Himself Willi Itlanket. A dispatch from Laurens, Tuesday ays the city was stirred by the news hat some time during' the night Mr. C. Wilson, a white man about 50 ears old, had committed suicide in he police station house by hanging dmself with the blanket from his >unk. Patrolman W. Ii. Dodson disovered the pendant body at about 1 ?>1ork Tuesday morning on a casual .troll through the building. Life vas extinct, the neck having been token.