Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, June 24, 1909, Image 1
THE FORT MILL TIMES
VOLUME XVIII FORT MILL, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 19Q9 NO. 1Q
EXPLAINS VOTE
Sayt Duty on Iron Oro Will No1
Hurt Consumors.
TILLMAN'S LETTER
The Me Bator in a Reply to a Letter
From a Citizen of Williston, Stated
His Reasons for Voting for a
Doty on Ore?Claims There Ait?
No "Independents."
Senator Tillman has Just received
a letter from W. C. Smith, of Willtston,
asking the Senator to explain
why he voted for a duty on Iron ore.
This letter ie oh follows:
"Wllllstou, May 27th. 1909.
Senator B. R. Tillman, Washington.
D. C.?Dear Senator. Having
always been a "Tillmanlte" at the
cmiot do*, i am emboldened to ask
If have ever stated your reaso-.
for voting for a duty on Iron ore
aad if Mich statement is in prl-v..
that yon will send It to me. i' am
?3% ^corlooa-to know why. Yours truly
$M . J ~~ "W. C. SMITH."
' To which Senator Tillman replied:
"Your letter of May 27th has remained
unanswered simply because
I have been overwhelmed with work
here, and have spent several days in
South Carolina, looking after matters
at Clernson, and lost one day as
I returned by reason of a rullroad
wreck.
"I have never printed anything
about my vote on iron ore, and will
% very gladly give you an explanation
direct. I notice that my old enemies
are making a great howl about
my votes up here, while many others
who have not been enemies are
yelping In ohorus, simply because
they are Ignorant of conditions. Th<
trouble with many editors In South
Carolina, is they take and read the
Associated Press dispatches, which
k are colored in behuif of the KepubI
llcan party, and are garbled and
r condensed, and give no adequate
| concept J uu of things as they realb
happen.
The fa els in regard to iron ore are
imply these: There is overwhelming
evidence that there are no independent
steel or iron producers.
tan Dim irum uas ausoiuif control
end enjoys a monopoly of the iron
a ad stee-l business In this country.
The so-called independent concerns
are dominated and controlled by it.
though not all owned by It. The
8t?el Trusts fixes prices and the
others conform.
"There ure immense, well-night
inexhaustible deposits of iron ore in
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota,
and the Steel Trust controls imuienfie
deposits in those States. It
also controls, or some of its sub- J
sidary companies do, largo deposits
la Cuba. It was brought out in the
debate, that Fomo of the Eastern
companies have contracts with the
Cuban mine owners, to import not
less than a million tons a year of
Cuban ore, and I do not think it
worth while to let this come in free
when it would make no difference
whatever to the consumers of iron
ond steel as to the price we would
pay for thoae articles. I believe that
the American producers of iron anil
6feel (that Is the Steel TruBt mainly),
can compete with England, Germany
and France In the markets of
, the world, aad that the whole scheme
f* of protection of manufactured steel
Is a bare faced robbery of the Amer
icao people. No one but an idiot
will increa?e' the price of anything
^jpanufactured of iron, to the Ainerlt
:4 consumer. If we could reduce
tariff on manufarctured iron we
W could get cheaper prices, but tinder
" ' existing circumstances the tariff lawbars
out the European competitor,
who is already handicapped hv having
the ocean freights to pay. and
our people ore charged the cost of
production in Europe, phis the
freight, plus the tariff, and this is
the source of Carnegie's millions.
Assuring you of my high appreciation
of your friendship in the past,
and hoping to continue to merit your
confidence, and support, I am,
"Sincerely yours.
"B. R. TILLMAN.
KILLED MI LK AND 8KLF.
ptoynlflr Tragedy Is Enacted in
Horry County.
A rpe^lal dispatch from Conwav
M. - TV-. i A aa CO Pnrhona Ko IUAIO
TO I ur CMB/O. ? w. tur uiwn.
peculiar suicide aver heard of was
committed In this county Thursday.
Mr. John S. Grainger, a white farmer
shout 40 years of age. wEo lives near
Green Sea. shot and killed his niuio
and then turned the gun on himself,
dying almost instantly.
The facts as reported from LorH
by teleph.'V c.-e. that Mr. "War*
held a b li r; sale for on the
mule owned by Mr. Grainger and a
few das ago sent word to Grainger
that unless he paid off tho bill of
sale at once he would send for the
mule.
Grainger, it is reported, sated
that Watts would never get the mills
and Thursday morning led tbe animal
in tbe nearby woods and killed
It and. returniuc to the house, shot
himself, using the same weapon with
which be klled his animal.
No cause for the suicide othei
than the above has yet developed.
ft
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CORPORATION TAX
TAFT SENDS MESSAGE MAKING
HIS RECOMMENDATION.
Advocate* Amending the Constitatioa
to Give Congress Right to Tu
Incomes.
Recommending legislation looking
to the placing of a two per cent to*
on the net income of corporations
ind also the adoption of an amendment
to the Constitution providing
for the imposition of an income ta*
without an apportionment among
the several States, President Taft
Wednesday sent to Congress a mesnage
embodying his views on the
subject. This action followed a
protracted spt&lal meeting of the
Cabinet.
In hie messago the President
speaks of the apparent Inability of
Congress to agree to an inheritance
tax, and as regards an income ta* he
refers to the decision of the Supreme
Court In the case of Pollock vs.
Farmers' I,oan and Trust Company
In which the court held the tax to
>e unconstitutional unless aDDortion
ed according to population. "It is,"
says the President^ "undoubtedly a
power which the government ought
lo have. It might be Indispensable
to the nation's life in great crises."
The amendment, therefore, he declared,
was the only proper course.
Such an amendment to the Constitution,
he contended, was preferable
to the one proposed of reviving a
law judicially declared to be unconstitutional.
The amendment which he proposes
should .be made to the tarifT bill
provides for the imposition upon all
.corporations and joint stock companies
for profit, except national
banks (otherwise taxed), savings
banks and building and loan associations,
of an dxcise tax of 2 per
cent of the net income of said incorporations.
This, it is estimated
by him, will bring an annual revenue
>f $2,r>.000.000. "This is a tax on
privilege and not on property," he
- aid, "and is within the Federal power
without apportionment according
'o population."
The president points out that
another merit to the tax on corporations
is the Federal supervision,
which will glvp to the government,
the stockholders and the public,
knowledge of the real business transactions
nnd the gains and profits of
every corporation In the country.
The adoption of the amendment, he
qavs will moire o i*-- ?*? "*
.? iuiik siep "toward
(hat supervisory control of corporations
which in ay prevent a further
abuao of power."
The message concludes:
"I recommend then, first, the adoption
of a joint resolution by twothirds
of both houses, proposing to
the States an amendment of the Constitution
granting to the Federal
Government the right to levy and
collect an income tax without apportionment
among the States, according
to population: and. second.
he enactment, as part of the pending
revenue measure, either as a substitute
for. o?* in addition to. the
Inheritance tax. of an excise tax upon
all corporations, measures by two
per cent of their net income."
The message was referred to the
finance committee.
DRIVKX FROM TOWN
tiecuu.se They Tired to Force Social
Recognition.
At Green\ille, Miss., efforts of n
legro girl to force white women to
address her as "Miss" resulted
Wednesday night In the hasty deparure
of the family of E. W. I>ampton,
bishoy of the American Methodist
Episcopal church. The girl is Bish>p
Lampion's daughter. fiho has
vainlv Inwuti"! o- ?i?i- v
iu?i. me une ue used
>y saleswomen in stores and by tol phono
operators.
On Saturday, after some sharp
words addressed to one of the telephone
operators, she said that her
father \yould SPP that she was spoken
'o in a respectful manner.
Bishop Lampton called on the telephone
manager and demanded that
all the young women at the exchange
bp ordered to address his daughter
as Miss Lampton. The manager declined
and made the interview
known. An Indignntion meeting was
held by citizens and Bishop Lampton
was given five hours to take his
family from the city.
STFUTK BY LIGHTNING.
Bolt From Clear Sky Strikes Young
T .a. v ?"
>u?j .n-or \ iiBfinifP.
Lightning from a clear sky struck
Miss Sallte Underwood. 16 years old,
daughter of R. .T. Underwood. at
River Rend, X. C., a remote town In
Gaston county. Wednesday, felling
bor and producing a state of coma j
Crom which physiolans have been i
unable to arouse her. The girl was
still unconscious at last report.
, Killed by T.iRhtT?ing.
Relton Goff. a well known young
I white man. 22 years of age and unmarried.
whose home was about
i .-even miles from Camden, was killed
Wednesday evening by lightning.
lie was going from his barn to the
1 house when struck.
ACCEPT DESIGNS
GREENVILLE FIRM AWARDKI
CONTRACT
For Silver Sritlre?Historic Scene*
Will be Reproduced and Plans ol
Commission are Carried Out.
The commission in charge of the
selection of the silver service for
the battleship South Carolina decided
Thursday to award Gorham &
Co., of Now York, represented by the
Gilroath-Durham Co., of Greenville,
ithe construction )jf the designs.
The service will cost 95,000, the
amount appropriated and with the
exception of a few minor changes
the design as originally planed by
the commission will be carried out.
The designs submitted werie very
tasteful. There is a dsign showing
the battle of King's Mountain, another
showing the reception by Gen.
Marion to the British officers when
it was claimed that the dinner consisted
of boiled potatoes, another
showing .Taspor replacing the battle
Hag and other historical scenes. On
the large bowl are the historical
words of Pinckney, "Millions for defense
but not one cent for tribute."
Throughout the design the seal of
the State, (the palmetto tree and
various symbols and scenes are reproduced.
The company wa? represented here
by Mr. E. J. Dings of New York and
D. C. Durham of Greenville. Other
Arms who had representatives present
were Jas.f Allan & Co., of Charleston.
Chas. F. Sentz, of Columbia,
and S. Thos. Thomas and llro., of
Charleston.
The South Carolina is expected
to go in commission in December,
and this service is to be ready to be
presented to the battleship about
the middle of January, and the service
is to consist of the following
pieces:
One punch bowl and ladle.
Twently-four punch cups and
plateau.
One centre piece and plateau.
One water set of four pieces.
One tea set 3nd kettle aud waiter.
Two fruit dishes.
Two meat platters.
One fish dish.
Two salad bowls, with forks and
spoons.
Two bon-bon dishes.
Two compotleis. largo, two small.
i wo vegeiaoie dlabes.
Two centre dishes.
The price to be paid is $3,000,
being the amount appropriated by
this State.
OONVICTKD OF AKSOX.
Negro Found Guilty at Aiken of Setting
Fire to a I la en.
A dispatch from Aiken says
Wednesday night the jury in the case
of the State against Moses Stevens,
charged with arson, returned a verdict
of guilty, which carries with it
a sentence of death. This case has
created a great deal of Interest, as
this is the second conviction for the
burning of the barn of Mrs. M. C.
Moseley. About three years ago her
barn was burned under suspicious
circumstances, and a negro was tried
and convicted of the crime of burning
the building. Ho is now serving
a sentence of twenty years in the
State Penitentiary.
Last summer the bnrn on Mrs.
Moseley's place was again razed to
the ground by fire. In the early part
of the night. The burning was
again under suspicious circumstances,
and detectives were put on the
vmov. i/v? Vila " no (U I US was
also Henry Clark, another negro.
They were held for several weeks,
and then released for want of sufficient
evidence to convict. The case
was Riven up for the time being,
but later?this spring?evidence
cropped out against Stevens, and detectives
were again employed, with
the result that Mosea Stevens was
again arrested.
The trial consumed all Tuesday
The main witnesses were the wife
and mother-in-law of the defendant,
both of whom testified that Mosee
told them he committed the crime,
and that he attempted to commit
snicido at the time, by attempting
do shoot himself, and then tried
to cut his throat, the knife being
taken away from him, and then hf
threw himself against a wall several
times. They said be told them hf
had poured oil on the pea heap in
the loft of the barn and set flr?
to It, because he had gone to Mrs
Moselev to borrow some money, and
she refused him, and he did it fot
revenge. The defence, conducted bj
w. M. nmnaK, Kaq., attempted tc
show that these witnesses, as was
also George Washngton, father-inlaw
of the defendant, were prejudlc
rd heeause they had fallen out with
him, and were attempting to gel
him out of the way.
I Stevens has not yet been senteno
ed and it is probable that the east
| will be appealed. The crime rarriei
the death sentence because of th<
close proximity of the barn to th<
residence of Mrs. Moseley.
niaokborries Cause Death.
| As a result of eating blaekberrie:
1 picked in a field near Amite. La.
. two negroes died Wednesday. Then
is said to be a poisonous insert, eg!
en some of the berries which i
j deadly.
TARIFF ROBBED
' People Yearly Plundered ot Billions
for
BENEFIT OF TRUSTS
> Senator Bacon, of Georgia, Ciives
Some Startling Facta as to lfow
the Mujwtes of (no I'foplt are Held
I'p aud Robbed I'ndcr Form of
On May 7 in the discussion of the
tariff bill Senator A. O. Bacon made
an argument which will be the death
knell of the tariff system when the
people shall once clearly understand
It Tl,? I?> -? 1 ?
?.. t uc rciiiiiur IlilU HUUWU IlOW 111
tho higher price of goods due to the
tarifF duties the people are made to
pay $2,000,000,000 a year to enrich
favored corporations nnd individuals,
and the Republican members, excited
by the fearful arraignment of the
tariff that wus being made, were plying
the senator with a rapid flre of |
questions. Hut unconcerned thereby.
Senator Ilacon continued:
"In considering tho protective
tariff senators lose sight of two great
questions. One is: Whrt is best
in order to rnise revenue for the government?
The others is: Who pays
thiH money? The great cotton industry
of the South, makingl 3,000.000
bales of cotton, which preserves
the balance of trade between this
country and Kurope, brings into this
country every year in gold, or keeps
gold from going out of the country
through bills of exchange more
money nearly twice over than all the
gold that is mined in all the mines
of all the world each year.
"What possible excuse can be given
that this immense industry shall
be required to pile up here in this
chamber, not only for once but for
every year, its great proportion of
this two thousand million dollars
of tariff tux, and ray that it shall
be distributed without return as a
bonus to other parties, who are
either unable to live upon the profits
of their own business, and who demand
that the public shall contribute
out of their pockets that which is
necessary thus either to reserve them
or to still further enrich tbem?
"Suppose that instead of this indirect
way of collecting money and
paying it over to the favored industries,
we, here sitting in our sovereign
luw-making capacity were to
determine, so far as it could be done
under constitutional limitations, tuat
a tax gatherer should be appointed
by the law of congress, and that he
should proceed through the country
to levy and collect this two thousand
million dollars, und have it said
by this tax gatherer, as he took this
tribute from men toiling with brain
and muscle, 'this is not for the government,
nor a dollar of that will
go to the public treasury, it is to
be carried to Washington and piled
up in front of the secretary's desk
in the senate chamber, to be distributed
by the senate to private
parties to aid them in their private
personal business.'
"And after it has been thus collected
front the people by the taxgatherer
and piled up in a great
heap in this chamber, suppose that
we should then be aarrounded in all
these lobbies and hotels with men
engaged in other bronches of industry,
and that they should importune
us that this money should be
given to them for their private gain,
^at we should listen to them and
to their demands, that the Hepubli
can senators stiould hear them in
bosom talks in the secret conclave,
in that marble palace of which I
have spoken, and to which the senator
from Iowa alluded day before
yesterday, and according as this one
might have political influence, or
that one might have power, or that
' one might excite pity, and thus secure
the recommendation of the Hepublican
members of the finance
committee in favor of this one, that
' and the other, this two thousand mil1
lion of dollars, gold dollars, thus
gathered out of the toll of the American
people, should be put in bags
and handed out to them at the door
' cl the senate chamber, and they
' should walk away with it?each om
of them taking in his hand his hag
of ill-gotten gold, llow long would
it be before the people of the United
1 States would rbe up in revolt and
overthrow it? Yet that is not an
overdrawn picture. It Is the God's
' truth as to what in practical effect
is being done under the operation
of a protective tariff.
' "The most tin welcome visitor tn
1 the world Is the taxgatheror. We
have in the I'nited State* two wtnH*
' I of taxgatherors outside of the inter'
! na! revenue officers. Wo have tax1
. gatherers who are at the ports and
| who Rather through duties on im|
ports the taxes that are necessary
' : for the support of the government.
5 ' Who gathers the other taxes? Who
1 , gathers the $2.00(1.000.000, that
3 ! men and women and the industries of
: all kinds In this country are required
I to bring here and pile up in gold
'dollars before that desk? Who are
s the tax-gatherers? There is not a
. corner grocery store that sells a
e pound of sugar to a poor widow but
? what at. the time it. sells that sugar
? gets the value of the sugar and then
collects froru that widow between
THE AWFUL CRIME
OF A BLACK FIEND IN GEORGETOWN
COUNTY.
Young Ljidj School Teacher Dragged
From a Bnggy and Fiendishly
Assaulted.
A dispatch from Georgetown to
The Newa and Courier says; At
four o'clock Friday afternoon word
was hurriedly brought to Sheriff
Scurry that a criminal assault had
I just been committed ui>on the oer
BUYS ANOTHER ROAD
GEORGIA CENTRAL IS TRANSFERRED
TO HARRIMAN.
Be P?jr* Three MOUoim for Stock of
tho Par Valuo of Fire Millions,
at $CO Per Share.
The sale of the Central of Georgia
Railway to the Illinois Central
Railway, carrying out plans forecasted
more than a year ago. was
announced Wednesday. Tho transaction
originated in negotiations culminating
in November, 1907, when
tho entire capital stock of the Central
of Georgia passed into the hands
of Wm. Nelson Cromwell and John
W. Castles. The purchase, it was
announced a few months later, was
for E. II. Harriman, whose intention,
it was then stated, was to transfer
it to the Illinois Central. The price
paid by the Illinois Central was not
given out.
Announcement of the traasfer was
made in New York by John F. Han ?ou,
of Atlanta, president of tho
Central of Georgia. The price paid
by Mr. Harriman for the stock, to
the par vulue of $5,000,000, it was
stated, was $3,000,000, or at the rate
of $60 per share.
The entire capital stock of the
Central of Georgia was originally
held by the reorganization committee
of the Richmond and West Point
Terminal Railroad and Ware House
Company. In June, 1907, the stock
was sold to Oakleigh Thorne, of
New York, and Marsden J. Perry, of
Providence, R. I., who agreed to
retain voting control for at least
two years. It was from these gentlemen
that Messrs. Cromwell and Castles
secured the stock, and they Gold
it to Mr. Harriman.
The transfer of the Central of
Georgia carries with it the control
,,f torr. - ? C!_
v. ? ? v uu.nui^ IIUVO, UUC 1IUU1 OUvannah
to New York, and the other
from Savannah to Boston, operated
by the Ocean Steamship Company.
The Central of Ocorgia operates a
little over 1.000 miles of road. Us
system touched that of the Illinois
Central at Birmingham. Ala.
RATS THE NEWSPAPERS.
"Headlight* of Protection" Crjr for
Free Paper, Sa.ra Tillman.
Immediately upon tuklng up the
tariff bill Thursday the Senate agreed
to the amendments previously offer^
by Mr. Aldrich for the committee
on finance relating to flint
glazed and other surface coated papers
and calendars, cigar bands, etc.,
composed of lithograph paper.
Alter disposing with little difflculy
of a number of disputed paragraphs
iu the tariff bill, the Senate
began the coisideratlon of the print
paper and wood pulp provisions of
the tariff bill. The subject was lnroduced
by Senator Aldrich, who, as
hainnan of the finance committee.
?roposed an amendment Increasing
he duty on print paper to $4 u ton.
The House reduced It to $2 a ton.
Senator Browne offered an amend
ment to place print paper ou the
free list.
"These very papers that are ?sk|
:ng for free papers.'" said Mr. Tillnan.
"are the very headlights of
orotectlon and they deny me the
>pportunlty to buy this coat or these
shees," Illustrating by pointing to
the article of attire. "Yet they want
free paper."
Mr. Tillman brought his foot down
in the velvet carpet with a resounding
effect as he added that they are
humbugs.
FIRES ON STEAMER.
Russian Wurship Opens Pits* ou
Ilritish Vessel.
A dispatch from Vlborg, Finland,
says a Itrltish steamer has been fired
upon by a Russian torpedo boat for
approaching too close to tho bay on
'he Finnish coast, where Emperor
Nicholas and Emperor William were
'o meet Thursday.
The Hritish steamer in question
is the Nothburg. She waa hailed
and fired upon off Wirolahti, Island
of Rlorke.
The projectile from the torpedo
tx>at pierced a stt-amplpe and one
member of (he crew of the English
vessel was wounded.
Must C?ire I*p Cigarettes.
Governor Kitchen, of North Carolina.
granted a pardon to Jacob
Splvey of Gulford county on condition
that be abstain from smoking
clgaretts. Splvey is 15 years old.
The charge was trespassing and the
sentence was six months In ttao work
house.
1 and 2 cents, 1 think is is approximately
2 cents, from that purchaser,
not. for the benefit of the government,
hut for the benefit of the Sugar
trust."
Some time the people will understand
how shamelessly they are being
robbed by tlfs protective tariff iniquity.
and then they will hinasb
it and eternally darao the party
I whi<"h ha* been its sponsor and chatnI
plon.
A "
too of a >oung woman school teacher
by an unknown negro at Crab
Hall, a place situated immediately
across Wlnyah Day from Oeorgetown,
on Waccamaw Neck.
The young lady boards at the home
of Mr. Huck Coins, and whllo out
driving with one of the Cains children,
a little girl, she was dragged
from the buggy and carried into
the woods by her asaula*', who ordered
the child to flee at the peril of
her life.
The child's father returned with
her to the spot to Hnd the young
lady in a terrible plight, and bloody
from the fearful struggle which r-he
had bravely woged. The man had
fled.
The sheriff and his posse is in pursuit
with dogs, and numerous parties
of mou from the city are scouring
the woods in search of the
brute.
WIND MOVES HOUSE.
Home of Farmer Near S< ronton
Ciiveo Now Locution in Htorm.
Monday afternoon the Liberty section,
about seven miles from Scranton,
was visited by a heavy wind
storm, lightning and some rain. The
only damage so fur as this correspondent
has been able to ascertain,
except slight damage to crops, is
that Mr. Josiah Cock field, a 6on of
the late Capt. James A. H. Cockfleld.
a prosperous young farmer, had
bin residence lifted from the blocks
and carried somo distance away, and
the plaz7.a completely torn from the
body of the honse. Mr. Crockfleld
was away at tho time, and his wife
and young babe, being frightened,
went to a near neighbor's houso for
shelter. Just at this time the accident
is a heavy loss, as Mr. Cockfield
will he compelled to rebuild,
besides the damage to all his household
goods. ' During the 6torm
lightning struck the old gin house of
the late Capt. James A. H. Cockfield
and demolished the old building
to a considerable extent. So far
this rorresponcjent has not heard
of any injuries or lives lost.
QUKKR AGREEMENT FROl'OSKI).
Atlanta Woman Tells of Husband's
1*10 position.
fn a suit for divorce on the ground
of penury, Mrs. E. L. Douglas, a
wealthy Atlanta woman, Monday
filed a petition setting forth an agreement
which she alleges her husband
asked her to sign. Article "fourteenth"
of this agreement reads as
follows:
"Neither party shall under any
circumstances speak or act In a disparaging.
petulant or unkind way,
trx cv#
w?; ui vt iuu uvuri uuut'i u luriri*
ture, or penalty of making a humble
apology, either public or private, as
the offended party shall elect, nnd
also submit to be kissed by the other
party one hundred times, or less,
at option of said party as to time
or place."
Tho other articles, numbering
twenty-four, covered the financial relations
of the couple in detail. Mrs.
Douglas said she refused to sign this
agreement.
Policeman Acquitted.
John G. Darby, chief of police
for the town of Hatesburg, charged
with assault with Intent to ravish,
was acquitted by the jury Friday
morning, after they had deliberated
for thirty minutes. The trial of Mr.
Darby has attracted a great deal of
attention, and he was the recipient
of many warm congratulations in
his acquittal. *
Print Piq>er Taxed.
Just before adjournment Friday
night the Senate adopted by a vote
of 44 to K2 the amendment of the
Senate committee *e ffnance fixing
a duty of |4 a ton on print paper,
in place of the House rate of $2
a ton, but the other amendments
to the wood pulp and print paper
afhfvrf !i1a<i haH V?cwx n rxti a/4 itrvsxn
when the Senate adjourned at 7
o'clock. *
I/wt While at Soa.
I On the arrival at Naples Saturday
from Genoa of the North Gor.nan
j Lloyd steamer Berlin, It was ascertained
that Holland Bennett, of Boston.
U. S. A., who was traveling with
his wlfo on their bridal trip, was
missing from the vessel and the belief
prevailed among the passengers
that ho either committed suicide or
fell overboard and was drowned.
Shipment of Alligator*.
A carload of alligators, said to
be the largest number ever shipped
over a railroad, left New Orleaus
for Loa Angeles Thursdav.
DIE IN WRECK
Fatal Accidant on Southern Railway
Thursday.
TRAIN DERAILED
Engineer W. II. Turner of C olumbia
and Fireman J. Y. Carlisle of FairHeld
Killed in the l>erailng of
an Extra Freight Train Near
Columbia.
The derailing of an extra freight.
No. 2 75, at Ktyx, a few miles south
of Columbia on the Savannah line
of the Southern railway Thursday
morning about 10 o'clock, caused
the death of Engineer W. II. Turner
of Columbia and Fireman J. Y.
Carlisle, a native of Fairfield, but a
resident of Columbia, his home being
directly opposite that of Engineer
Turner on east Laurel street.
Just how the derailment occurred
will probably never be known, but
It was thought to be due to a defective
tie or rail caused on account
of the ruins. The engine and about
18 cars turned over and several
others left the track. Engineer
Turner was fatally injured and lived
but a short time and Fireman CarI
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loir) ?ua uunea unaer trie werckage,
his body not being taken out until
several hours afterwards.
As soon as the news was received
in Columbia a relief train was made
up and sent from Columbia to the
wreck. Here passengers on train No.
134 from Augusta were transferred
and the remains of Engineer Turner
carried to Columbia and turned over
to Undertaker VanMetre.
Engineer Turner was on? of th?
most popular men in the employ of
the Southern. He is survived by a
wife aud four children. He was a
member of the Richland lodge of
Masons and of the local order of th?
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
The funeral was hold at th?
reaidence, 2315 Laurel street, at
4:30 o'clock Friday aftemon and
the interment was made at Elm wood
cemetery with Masonic nonors.
The body of J. Y. Carlisle was
taken to Wlnnsboro for burial. Mr.
Carlisle was a member of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen and
well known throughout tho 8tote.
His body was buried under a mass
of debris and was badly mutilated.
It was necessary for the wrecking
crew to work several hours before
he could be located and one of th?
remarkable discoveries made when
his body was removed was that his
watch was uninjured and still running.
Almost every part of his body
was covered with wreckage but his
watch was uninjured. His death
was instantaneous.
The news of the accident spread
quickly and many expressions of
sympathy were heard for the family
of the railroad men who met sudden
death. It Is tho first fatal accident
on this division in some time.
MURDERER CAUCJIIT.
Arrested in Columbus, Ohio. Hlurta
Out Ktory.
Solomon Shepherd, alias William
Thouiae, a negro, confessed by accident
to the Columbus, Ohio, police
that he Is want?*d at Durham, N. C.,
for murder. Ho Is held awaiting
word from Durham. Shepherd was
pawning a watch when the police
arrested him. He began to deny that
he had "killed the man." After
some questionlng as to what he
meant. Shepherd said he was Implicated
In the killing of Knglner Holt,
on the Seaboard Air Line botween
Winston and Durham last October
He said the engineers caught him
riding the blind baggage and threw
him off. whereupon he fired at the
engineer.
DOCRLE TRAGEDY.
Macon I'olkeman Kills u Woman
nnd Himself.
About one o'clock Thursday morning
Officer Oscar Abel of the Macon
police force shot and killed Emma
Raymond, in the red-light district
of Macon, Ga. Whether a quarrel
ensued before the double murder o*
not cannot be ascert'iw ed as tb?
coroner has not arrived ?ip to a late
iiours. Tie v ! o'e af-.'r i.. 6hvunjcd
mystery- "1 ho office w:n dre s- d
In his uniform at the time, badge
and all. The woman was shot. thr?-o
times in the breast. Abel lived only
a short time after shooting himself
? n'loo In Vto Kah/4
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Killed by Lightning.
A special from Camden to the
i News and Courier tho lfith say*:
: "Helton doff, a well known young
' wblto man, 22 years of ago and tin:
married, whose home was about
' seven miles from Camden, was killed
j by lightning.
They Tako a Ride.
The Newberry Observer says the
English spnrrows have hit upon a
: bran new wrinkle; they perch theiu'
| selves on tho bands of the city clock
i and take a ride. It is funny to s::o
them slide off when the bands approach
a vertical position.