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THE FORT MILL TIMES VOLUME XVIII FORT MILL, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1H()9 NO. 7 ??i i ? ^ OLD BEN GOT MAD With McCumber's Tactics and Voted Wrong. * TILLMAN EXPLAINS Why Ho Voted With tha Republicans AgaiiiNt Free Lumber?Had Ho Not Been So Tired aud Thinking More Clearly Would Have Voted for Free Lumber. Zach McGee in his letter to The State says Senator Tillman's vote for a duty on lumber Monday against the unqualified declaration for free lumber in the Denver platform was a great surprise here. A short while before the vote was taken in the senate Senator Tillman arose. Inter- 1 rupting Senator liurkett of Nebras ka and said: 1 "Mr. President, will the senator 1 from Nebraska luform nie why It Is, although we were told the other 1 day that there wore only live razor I manufacturers In this country, that ? 8 0,000,000 Americans were compelled to pay those five fellows a trlb- ' ute and lncreaso the price of razors 1 if you are going to put lumber on the free list. I am going to vote to ! put lumber on the free list, but 1 ' just wanted to understand the con- 1 tradictlons in the reasonings and the ' arguments on that subject if pos- 1 slide." That was not strange, for the ' senior South Carolina senator along 1 with the Junior senator had declar- 1 ed time and time again that he was ' going to vote for free lumber. Just 1 before the vote was taken Senator 1 llalley Trr.de oue of his bold, em- 4 phatic speeches, in which 'he said 1 he utterly refused to be bouud by the Denver platform on lumber bo- ' cause he said It was "undemocratic" ] and loudly declared in effect tlmt no ' man was a Democrat who voted for ( free lumber. Immediately after Pailey sat down ' the vote wan tnken and Tillman had 1 for some reason changed his mind 1 for lie voted against the free lum- ' > ber amendment. Senator Smith, as n stated in the dispatch of Monday, 4 was paired with Senator Warren of ' W ruining. He stated he would vote for free lumber If Mr. Warren was 4 present. ' Senator Tillman Kxplulus. W. Slnkler Manning. Washington J correspondent of the Columbia Record, In his lettir Wednesday says: "To ine Mr. Tillman explained that ( his vote came from displeasure at the j maneuvering of Senator McCumber, ( and not from any change in regard to the duty Itself. Shortly before the McCumber amendment was vote.l on, Mr. Tillman had supported the Johnston amendment, putting all 1 building materials on the free list, and as long as. Mr. McCumber left his amendment, removing from the dutiable list all kinds of lumber, ( Mr. Tillman said that he had Intend- ( ed to vote with him. At the last j moment, however. In an attempt to ( strengthen his cause, Mr. McCumber j modified his amendment leaving certain cheaper grades of lumber under a duty of 50 cents. "I just. got. disgusted with that , kind of monkey business," said Mr. Tilliunn, and decided to vote against tho whole thing. If the lumber , schedule had come up today I in- , tended to offer an amendment put- ( ting the whole paragraph on the free list, and 1 may do. so yet just as | a matter of record. Rut there is no chance of passing such an amend- , ment; half the Democrats are vot- , lug the other way. I wr.s very tired at the time, but If I had been think- ( ing more clearly perhaps I would have contented myself with getting what 1 could and voted for the McCumber half-hearted proposition. But 1 was too disgusted just then." A Further Kvplnnat ion. Znoh McGee, In his letter to The State, says Senator Tillman stated Wednesday that when he said on the floor of the senate Monday that he was going to vote for lumber oti the free list he meant It, and that he voted against Senator McCumber's motion only because it dl 1 / not Include all lumber, but left cer- , tain kinds of sawed lumber and some ?- other kluds dutiable at 60 cents a thousand. Senator McCumber Just before the Vote was .taken aro.-e and said: "I wish to amend my amendment ?o that It will be limited somewhat. "I move to strike out all after the word 'measure' In line 8. paragraph ' 197, down to and Including the rest, of the paragraph. That simply leaves the parngraph *-eadlng 'saved hoards, planks, deals, sycamore and ?? basswood. 60 cents per thousand ? ' feet hoard measure.' " The rest of the paragraph, which Mr. McCumber prope. ed to strike >itil( was "saner! lumber, not spec* ' Jy provided for In th's section, J . p . thousand feet, bourl neasurr," end the pro/i-e of Rfl ee,.is additional for each side plane,*., ;.\.t so on. Senator 'Human svys he was 'n ' favor of striking out the entire para? . graph, and as McCumber, the Republican "Insutgent," d'd not coni suit him, or so far as ha knew, nnv other "Democrat, before modifying hla amendment, he just d-cid<.1 to vote against the whole thing. Then he expected, he say*, to of - BEING WATCHED BECAUSE HE THREATENED DR. BABOOCK'S LIFE. V For Pronouncing Him Dangerously Insane While They Were Both In France. The Columbia Record says a sen- r sationol and partially Inaccurate story Is published In Wednesday's Issue of the Augusta Chronicle to the effect that the Btato Hospital for the iusane is being guarded by the Columbia police lu order to protect the superintendent. Dr. Babcock. from personal violence at the t hands of a young physician, who was formerly in the United States 1 navy. 1' The story has a foundation in the * fact that the life of Dr. Babcock is 1 said to have been threatened by this " young physician, who has for aev- ^ ituI days been under the surveillance 11 Df the Columbia police, but there 1 h >1 u Ixioii ti/\ ovl rn/M*/l ln?i * ' ^ uu>j uwu iiu vau oui vtiiim j J/1 CLH uHon taken to guard the State Hos- r l>ltal for the Insane, and Dr. Dab- 11 ock has gone about his usual duties both Inside and outside of the 1 grounds, without any fear or Inter- A ruptlon. '* It will be remembered that last ' summer this physician, who was for several years a surgeon In the navy, 11 (vas placed in confinement In Paris ind committed to a French asylum n 'or the Insane. It happened that Dr. " flabcock and Senator Tillman were fl n France at the time and they In- '' erested themselves In the young H nan's behalf. At the request of tho ^ American consul, Dr. Habcock exam- 01 ned tho surgeon and regretfully ^ nude a report that the surgeon was s' luugerously insane and should not v )e released. ? I.ater the friends of the surgeon wrought him to this country and he t( mis since been at his former home " n the upper portion of South Car>llna. It is said that he now proloses to bring suit against the n "reach government for his confine h nent and that the certificate given 11 1 i he American consul by Dr. Rabcoc.k s considered by the surgeon to he " l harrier In the prosecution of his ase. He is. of course, no longer " n the naval service. When he came to Columbia some 0 lays ago and it was learned that he 1 tad made threats against I)r. Rah- 11 ock, the friends of Dr. Iiahcock, who a, nstructed the patrolman on the asyum beat to keep a watch out for the ? surgeon, und that Is the extent to ft vhich the asylum has been guarded by tho police, and the story pubishod in the Augusta Chronicle has his much foundation in fact. ti FIVE PERSONS DEAD It V Vntl Many ' ujured as Result of y Heavy i la ins. Five persons are dead, at least 10 ' icriously Injured, several acres of rops are Innudated and every stream K n the northern un*l eastern part of >klahoma is raging as a result of leavy rains during fhe Inst few days. V number of houses were washed iway. The dead are: 11 Mrs. W. \V. Brown and three child- ( en of Foraker, and Mat tie Jones, a lcgrcBS. Mrs. Brown and her children were drowned on Salt Creek vliile attempting to escape from high , waters. The negress dropped dead & From fright when the waters of Bog- w zy creek near Enid surrounded her tome. e A small tornado struck Morris, de- (> mollshing the Methodist church and () leveral residences, Including that of a Ernest Scott. He and his wife and ( child were seriosuly Injured. a Drummer Commits Suicide. John W. Hill, drummer for a t wholesale drug firm at ChattanoogMH:., I'< mi . committed Hiilcldo near Kap^^l Mill, Surry N. by shooting himself through t^Kg head. He received a letter an ho^Kls >r two before he shot himself, It is believed that the contents Hm the letter were responsible for suicide. 1^1 ' e fer another motion striking out the j entire paragraph. The senate lm- ^ mediately adjourned, however, and f the next day took up the isugar j, schedule. r Hut, he Bays, he intends yet. to v offer the motion to strike out all ( the lumber paragraph, thus putting j all lumber on the free list, t Lever's Joy Short Lived. (< Tn Mr. Tillman's vote, it ran he j stated generally that Mr. Lever sees Justification for the action of him- r self and those of his colleagues who r voted for protected lumber in the house, though Air. Tillman's explana- f tion will probably disappoint him. 5 Perhaps Mr. Lever finds additional i j Justification in the fact that Senator t Bailey not only voted for protected 1 lumber?on tHe grounds of reve- t nue, to be sure?but spoke for it. ; But in speaking of Orover Cleveland 1 and in spite of his wordy declaration ( of respect for the last Democratic 1 president in the abstract, he left ( the defense to Senator Aldrleh. Be- ? sides. Senator Ballsy haa been play- 1 Ing so close to Senator Aldrleh and the Repujdicvns through ell this fight that his support must be graded I < below par, from a Democratic view- 1 1 point. ' I g CAN'T AGREE Tha Firemen's Strike Causes Great Tension. TRYING TO SETTLE Transportation Facilities Along the LIup Consist Chiefly of Automobiles, Mule Carts iu?d Hand Cars. All Anxious to Kud Strike and Lay Vgly Spectre of Have Conilict. A dispatch from Atlanta 6ays the eusloa in the Georgia railroad fireuen'a strike is increasing with each lour's delay in settling the race quesion involved. This was the atitude In which negotations for terninatlng the strike were conducted Vednesdav in Atlanta. United States nails held up since the beginning of lie week, a dozen counties facing [ lemoralization of business, and the I ace Issue brought continually into inwholesome prominence were the actors which spurred the negotialons through hours of discussion, although uo statements were made s to the grouHd covered, it was iorued that a very quick settlement i looked for, provided any agreement can he reached. It was learned that a feeling of ervousness exists on bo*?", aides in tie controversy over the gravity of urther delay. This was taken to ndicate the pos.fi blu approach *?f n agreement despite a report that Ir. Scott has praciicaliy refused to onslder any basis of settlement that oes not permit recognition of tho euiority of certain negro lireuieu. lr. Scott, however, has not refused utright to enter into arbitration. That Mr. Scott urged Gov. Smith i issue a law and order proclamaion, in the communities bordering tie railroad was reported. Gov. mith maintained his previous auounced attitude that until there ave appeared some definite danger liat property will be destroyed or vea Jeopardized no such proclainaon should be issued. Gov. Smith and General Manager eott of the Georgia railroad had a mg conference, at which was disussed the feasibility of suimiitting tie trouble to a board made up of leu conversant with local conditions long the ruilroad. United States ommissioner of Labor Neill called n Gov. Smith. Gov. Smith and Mr. Scott conirred again and there were several leetings of the representatives of tie opposing Interests. Various towns in the strike dis-ict took inventory of their visible apply of food. Madison reported at >ast 15 days of plenty in prospect, lushington reported a shortage in east and prices rising. At hilhouia Mayor ltrand said: if supplies should run short aud it ecomes necessary I shall simply coueinu the train load of perishable oods now on the siding at hithoniu nd tell the citizens to help llienii'lves." '1 here are 1 1 cars of provisions t hit lion ia and ice has been suplied to maintain the perishable potion of their contents in good conition. in addition to the visible supplies, lie towns have their visible means f transportation, headed by a tmelon engine traveling nearly a mile nd a half per hour, automobiles rith daring drivers and dangerous oads, mule teams with darkey drivrs and cracking whips?altogether a ombinatlon which had furnished a right side to the strike and many holiday prank for rural comiuuuiies. This good nature of the country long the silent railroad was a censuring feature during the negotia s i ffort is being made to charge the irotherbood of Locomotive Firemen ud Enginetuen with responslbllity or interference with the United j Mates mails on the (Jeorgia railosd. So far fro::; this being Xrue, re stand prepared to aid yon in gating the mails through. 1 should >e glad to confer with any represenative of the postolTire department lesignated by. you ami to aid you n accomplishing this result." The hand car which is carrying nail out of Atlanta went nearly 40 niles to Union Point. Six strikebreakers who left the mploy ment of the Georgia railroad Saturday complained to tho Atlanta >olice commission charging that hey had been brought here by misepresentations and had been pracJeally prisoners for several days in i hotel, finally getting Into com nunication with strikers by notes 1 topped from the windows. A detec i\e agency which has had chaigo f '.he squad of strikebreakers msweivd the cha ge, declaring th- in l ntrue. No plan for starting train service * :is reached by tn, of the conferences. The question of putting Guards on trains was mentioned :is a last resort, to be avoided by all DAMAGE WROUGHT DEVASTATION IN WAKK OF RAIN AND WIND STORMS. I Cn>|<s Over Wi<lo Territory Are Almost Destroyed, Towns I'nder Wa- | ter and Families Take to Roofs. A dispatch from Memphis, Tenn., says rept rts fro:n the surrounding 1 country brlug advices of devastations by the recent rain and wind storms. Mississippi and Arkansas seemed to have suffered most. The Arkansas river is out of bank and flood warnings have been sent out that other rivers will rise above the danger point. In both States crops are said to " have been almost totally destroyed v while numbers of towns are under t water and families have been driven to the roofs of their homes and the only means of transit is by boat. Great damage was done to the 11 railroads and in several places trains o are tied up. c A tornado passed over the north- S ern portion of Mississippi, wrecking A many houses. No deaths are re- P ported. n Practically every stream in lower Zl Alabama and Mississippi is at flood !> stage. They have practically destroy- sl ed all the lowland crops. tl Destruction of cattle and loss of S1 timber has occurred. The Mobile and Ohio suffered a serious inter- 11 ruption of traffic. h G CLOUDBLKST DDKS DAMAGE. " II o Track Washed Out, Bridge Daniaged, Mines Flooded. it: Over two miles -of track of the o Virginia Anthracite were washed out, g: bridges were damaged and the Merrimac Coal mines near Blacksburg, v< Va., were flooded by a cloudburst II a few days ago. Officials of the road h say it will be at least five days before al the track can be put In shape for ? ( traffic again. Meanwhile all mail ni and passenger service between tl r.lackshurg, where is located Virgin- al ia Polytechnic institute, and Chr:?- st tiansburg, must be carried on by a la hack line. The cloudburst extended over three miles between these two it places. An early report Indicate, it: much damage to crops by high water. Many telephone lines are down. Th p stornt at Blacksburg was the heaviest a for ninnir .......... """'J <1 I I AilKKSTKD i.OXG AFTKlt CIUMI'!. Pi William Brown llcld for Complicity 'V i in Murder Case. o< g' Seven years almost to a day since the alleged crime was committed, n William Brown, a hard working man w who has been a citizen of Macon, tt Ga., and provided well for his fami- u ly for two years, was Wednesday w arrested, and, upon requisition of a Gov. Comer of Alabama, will be carried back to Tuscaloose, where he b will he tried for complicity in a mur- w der. Brown made no effort when arrested to conceal his connection with si the crime. He said that he, in com- a pany with George Moore and War- a ren Fuller, killed a negro in a dif- ft llculty at Dadeville, Ala., and that ho n escaped. The other two men served b sentences in the penitentiary, ho a said. n f; si;wkkagk so.\kki> mi;at d it At Greenville was Bendered Into '' a Soap Grease. ti 16,000 pounds of condemned meat %v in the local warehouse of Swift & v, Co., at Greenville, was Wednesday <i unaiiv disposed of, the whole lot be- |, ins sent to the Greenville central ? slaughter pen, where it was render- w eel into soap grease. Each load was h weighed and taken to the tank under h the personal supervision of Dr. C. ti E. Smith, the city meat and milk inspector. This is the meat that was f submerged in the recent heavy rains a when the sewerage pipes were backed up by the swollen waters of a f nearby creek. o s KIDDED IN WHKCK. h 11 I Collision on New York, Philadelphia ' I k and Norfolk Kail road. )i The northbound Norfolk express j, on the New York. Philadelphia & v Norfolk railroad ran into a freight s train standing 011 a sidling, two \ miles south of Sallisbury, Md., g Wednesday. Edward T. West, en- c gineer of the passenger train, was j killed, and William W. Guthrie, baggagemaster, and \V. W. Wright, ex- f press messenger, were slightly In- j jured. All the victims lived at t Delmar, Del. 1 I moans on account of the enmity it l might stir up. t An agreement to arbitrate appears j to be the only other means of get- j l tllng the strike and there was some i 1 doubt that the mere fact of such I i an agreement would remove the j danger to such of the roads negro t firemen as might work pending a i final settlement of the dispute. ( Reports from the towns affected 3 by the strike said that perfect order | prevailed and that expressions of t opinion favorable to the strikers pre- i dominate throughout the strike ter- 1 ritory. t FEARED ARREST Commits Suicide in Tragic Man ner With Razor. WAS HOUNDED DOWN lly Detectives, Who Searched His House oil Last Tuesday?In a Note to His Wife Declared His Iiinocciit-e?Then Went Out and Killed Himself on the Street. A sad tragedy took place in AuHista, Ga., on Wednesday evening. *iicit ? 11.au auuuaca aown oy aeectives took his own life. Rendered desperate becau?o suspiion was rested again.-t him in conection v'th the sensational robbery f the Southern Express Company's ar on the Charleston division of the outhcrn Railway recently, says the ugusta Chronicle. George I*. Hunihrey. a baggage master on that tiad, slashed his throat with a rabt Wednesday night at 11 o'clock, t. the corner of Houston and Ellis treets, and died an hour later aT tie City Hospital. Humphrey never l?oke after the cutting. When the razor cut his head allost half off, Kvander Humphrey, is brother, was at the corner of reene and Houston streets, rutting to overtake him, as George luntphrey's w..'e had sent him to vertake her '. ..sband in order to revent him front taking his life. Evander Humphrey arrived almost i time to catch the prostrate form f bis brother as he fell to the round. The brother cried out In a loud Bice, horrified at the sight of George [untphrey dying on the street at is feet. 1>. F. Meredith, who lives L 131 Ellis street, rushed to the inter and the brother of the dying urn and Meredith carried him to le store of Mr. W. 11. Broadwater, L the corner of Houston and Ellis reets, where the hospital ambutnce was telephoned for. The lightning flashed and rain fell i torrents ^hile Humphrey was be ig carried Into the piazza. Just, prior to ending his life, Huinhrey took a drink of whiskey frotu pint bottle. After laying It down, rew his razor, and slashed at his iroat. Lieutenant Britt, of the police denrtment, ns soon as notified of the nt, sent Station Guard Tom Wilam? to the point where the killing ccurred, ordered the ambulance to et there as quickly as possible. Humphrey died at the hospital at ddnlght. Coroner W. A. Ramsey as notified at once and he permit d the body to be taken to Wilson's ndertaking establishment and he ill make an investigation of the (fair. To a Chronicle reporter the heartroken widow, between sobes, told hy her husband ended his life: "He was as innocent as a child," iid Mrs. Humphrey frantically, "and Ithough three detectives came here nd searcehd our house, still they mnd nothing that would implicate ly husband in that express car robory. lie was the best of husbands nd every month he nave me all lie uide. He had worried about being dsely charged so much that he was riven to frenzy, although 1 had 110 lea that, he contemplated killing imself, lie told me over and over gain that ho was innocent. "Tonight we had been sitting down liking just after he came from his ork, and about 11 o clock ho was 'riting something in a book. Sudenly he got up, and tossing the 00k into my lap, put on his rain oat and left hurriedly, saying he as going to use a telephone. After e had gotten out of the door I was orrifled to find these words writpn in the hook. " 'I kill myself this night to keep rem going to jail and save my wife nd little children from disgrace.' "Oh, God! I cried, and called for leorge's brother to follow him at nee. He ran out as quickly as posible, but failed to reach him before " had cut his throat. I ran to where ay husbanl lay on the piazza of Mrs. troadwater's store and he tried to iss me and talk to me, although It* could not simali "There was never a more devoted inshand and father than George, and re had lived so happily together ever inre our marriage three years sro. Ve have two children, one a little :irl a year and a half old. and our ?ther is a baby hoy, that was born n March." Mrs. Humphrey was formerly Miss <ate Speering, and many of fhe peo>le who live in the neighborhood of he couple say that they were very liuch devoted to each other. Humphrey cut what is commonly mown at the "Adam s apple" in wain, and slso his wind pipe. The ihvsicians assert that there would lave been no chance to save his life lad he received surgical attention mmediately after he cut himself. II ifm phrey had been working for he Southern Railway for six years, ind has been baggage master on the Charleston division for about three rears. Wednesday night he tamo in from his "run" from Rranchvillc on the passenger train due In Augusta it 10:30 o'clock and went directly home. He was baggage master on the same train the night that the STRANGE DISEASE OF PELLACKA TO BE D1SCVSSE1 BY CAROLINIANS. Rrs. BalKfick and Williams Askti to Address Scientist** oil tit Deadly Malady. The Columbia Record says a pape upon pellagra is being prepare* jointly by Dr. J. VV. Dabcock an* Dr. C. F. Williams and will be rea* next week by Dr. Dabcock at tin meeting of the Asylum Physicians as sociation at Atlantic City, and by Dr Williams at lite meeting of the Stat* boards of health in Washington. This paper will give the statistica and geographical history of pellagrt in this country, it has been fount that the disease exists not only it South Carolina, but in Pennsylvania .Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina Ueorgia, Florida, Alabama Mississip pie Louisiana and Tennessee, witl isolated cases in New York, Texas and Arkansas. It is estimated that not less than 1,0.j3 cases have been recognized it his country, ami Dr. I.nvindcr, ol the tinted States marine hospita ...vi-, ..mi ik nuw in c;oiunihi<i .villi headquarters at the Statu bos>ital service, ultimate that there have been l.aOO casus in the South ni Status ill the last two years. The paper being prepared by ins. Babcock and Williams will give a thorough review of the investigation* concerning this? disease in the South. Dr. Babcock, superin.undent of th< >tati> Hospital for the insane, leaves arly next week for Atlantic City to attend the meeting of the asylum physicians, and Dr. Williams, State health officer, leaves about the sane time for the meeting in Washington ol" the Statu boards of health. TKKMIXATFS IX TlCAtJKRY. Two Brothers Shot by Foes in Xorth < aioliiia. Arthur and Andy Franklin were shot to death Mondav nignt in t.anrel township, a remote section of Madison county, N. C., in a four-cornered dm 1, in which the Franklins were arrayed against the Tweed brothers. Robert Tweed and Arthur Franklin met at the store of Arthur Franklin, and resuming the quarrel several days old, both opened ilre, And Franklin endeavored to stop the fight, hut Major Tweed interfered. and both drawing pistols the light became general. And Franklin was instantly killed; Arthur Franklin died later of his wounds and Major Tweed received a serious wound in the thigh. Beverly Stanton, a bystander, was shot in the thigh. No arrests have been made. The parties concerned were among the best citizens of the county. SFVFX liltOWXKI) By the Upsetting of a (insoliie Boat in 11 Storm. The? gasoline boat Dorris, with t 11 pa sengPVs on liourd capsized in tlie storm at midnight. a few days ago and seven persons are believed to have been drowned. The known dead are: Kd. Mandy, Reii McKlroy, Charles Murphy, Kddb Tickle, M. Alexander, Joe Page. tiegro porter. The l>oat was returning to Vieksbnrg, Mii-s., from one of tlx saloons on the island. The wave were about four feet high on tlx lake and it will be impossible t< recover any of the bodies unti late in the day. fik.ni> nr\({ twick. The Hope llroke in Two Ihit Tliej Swung Mini Again. At PineblufT, Ai'lc, I.avett Davis a negro charged with attacking t sixteen-year-old white girl, was takci from jail by an unmasked mob 01 two hundred men and hanged to t telegraph pole in one of the principa streets. Just as the negro was be ing raised above the street, the ropi broke but he was raised again tint left hanging. A number of armet deputies were on guard but wen overpowered and the door brokei with sledge hammers. Killed Himself. Mr. David J. Young of the Stove neighliorhood of Chester county c jiu mitted suicide a few days ag> i; cutting his throat with a <*azor. Mi |atar?"d to where his h-other w;t at work near the house, and wh found was dead TM-? cause is a tributod to poor health. Ho was o years of age. express ear robbery occurred. Mrs. Humphrey stated that th detectives had all of the train ot tieials examined regarding the roll bery and that a negro swore he husband was in the robbed car whe it passed Rroad street, attired in white cap and shirt. Mrs. Hum phrey says that her husband alway wears a blue shirt, which kind h wore when he ended his life. I). K Meredith, a fireman of th Augusta department, says that n< only was Humphrey's resldenr searched by the detectives severr days ago, hut aHo was Thomas ! Hutto's, the express messenger wh was found locked in a chest whe ?the robbed car reached the depot. ACTS THE BULLY Ssnator Bailey Attacks Mr. W. S. Manning in the ' MAIN SENATE LOBBY j The I>itli<-nlty Wiis f'auscd by .i J Newspaper Story Published in the 1 B New York Times, of Which Paper Mr. Manning is a Washington Cor2 respondent. ! The spectacle of a United States t Senator, weighing 220 pounds, about j 4r> years of age, attacking a young , man weighing just liJo pounds and less than half his age-?was the scene enacted in the main lobby of the Senate late Thursday afternoon, j when Senator Joseph Weldon Halley. . of Texas, made a virions attack on William Sinkler Mantling, of the ( Washington staff of the New York ( Times. The following particulars of the affair, which was not very creditI able to Senator Hailey, is furnished { The News and Courier hv "1\ II. McCI," its Washington correspou, dent: Hecoming angered by a publication in the paper referred to concerning his connection with the income tax amendment Senator Hailey declared the writer to be a liar. Hater on Manning met Senator Hailey in the lobby near the Senate, and assured him that he was not the ( author of the article referred to. Hailey became angry and made a .tinge at Manning, catching him by , tbe throat and attempting to choke him. Manning, however, was game and hronc the hold of the Texas Senator, who is powerfully built and Is also very strong. After breaking the grip that Hailey bad on him. Manning ' ;ot in some good ones, and though it close range, did most of tbe hitting. lie bears no marks of violence in his person tonight, except that it neck is somewhat red and swollen from Ridley's grasp upon him. I After the combatants liad been separated, and Manning, who had an umbrella in his hand at the time Hailey attacked him. had picked it ip off the tloor, he said to Hailey. showing him how the umbrella had been bent: "This is the way you ittnek a gentleman and ruin a good umbrella." With that Hailey mado mother frantic effort to knock Manning down! Several Senators then lushed in, and the trouble came to an end. Washington is discussing the affair tonight i>s it has talked of nothing , else in a long time. The shame of t it is on Hailey, that a I'nited States Senator should so lose control of himself and become so angered as to make an assault of this kind. Regardless of the merits of the article in the New York paper, it is said everywhere that there was not lie slightest provocation for the attack on Hailey's part, after Manning had assured him that he was not its author. Mr. Manning is a son of R. I. Manning of Sumter, lie came to Wash. ington about a year ago from New , York, and became ataehed to the Washington oilier of the NVw York , Times. He is one of the most gentl"manly young men employed in nows; paper work in Washington, and is , probably the last per on in the world ; to provoke an assault without cause. . However, once in the light, it was , only to lie expected that, he would I give a good account of himself. lie could not do otherwise with such an ancestry as he possesses. Senator Bailey, it is understood, has been endeavoring to have the matter suppressed. c\m:i,i:ss siioimwc;. Yorkville Doctor Came Near llo1 1 ing Shot. By It. r ( On the 10th instant, at night, 1 while Dr. J no. I. Barron was driving to see a patient several miles east , of Yorkville, he was shot at twice j from the roadside, one hall going j between the legs of his horse and . the other just hack of his buggy ton. 1 He is satisfied the shots were not intended for liini, as the party, evidently being out of ammunition, threw rorks at a negro in a buggy just behind him. A negro named .las. Crawford was arrested, chare d with the shooting, and taken before S Magistrate It. It. DeliOacli and gavo bond in the snni of $.">00 for his appearance at a preliminary hearing. 1 Tho negro he was after is named Henry Jones, and there is a woman in the case. Kntire Family Wiped Out. John Carter, aged 75, an old sailor, _ and three children of Mrs. Leila Shaw, his daughter, were burned r to death early one morning a few n days ago in a fire which destroyed ,, tho Shaw home in Rldon, >owa. ft Carter was helpless with old age 3 A lamp was overturned In the room p and all perished before aid could reach them. e "" ' >t Drowned t'mler Automobile. ? At Stockton, Cal.f Mrs. Warren >1 Jones, wife of a wealthy farmer, ' and the 3-year-old son of his sister, o Mrs. Isaac Robinson, lost their ftvea n in an automobile In two feet of water.