HOLDS UP TRAIN
Work of Lono Bandit Who Took
Cash and Loft
> TO PARTS UNKNOWN
Compelled Train Crew to Unload
Bullion and Coin for Him and
Then Order* Them to Proceed.
Home of the Booty Recovered, but
the Robber Escapes.
A dispatch from Lewlston, Pa.,
says oue of the most audacious aud
startling holdups of a railroad train
In the Bast for years occurred in
the eastern slope of the Allegheney
mountains early Tuesday, when a
lone highwayman stopped a Pennsylvania
railroad express with a dynamite
cartridge and at the point
of a revolver comDelled the crew to
carry thousands of dollars in coin
and bullion fijom an express car
to a spot In the wilderness.
When the conductor of the train
attempted to interfere with the robber's
plans he was shot in the hand
and the bold bandit succeeded in
making good his escape.
In the darknesB. however, he mistook
a bag containing 10,000 new
Llnioln pennies for gold coin and
staggered away with it, leaving the
real gold bullion to be recovered.
When the news of the robberyreached
the railroad and express
company officials they immediately
ordered every available detective
from the East and West to the Bcene
In an effort to capture the audacious
bandit. Bloodhounds were also put
on his track, but up to a late hour
Tuesday night no trace of the man
had been found.
The looted train was made up of
an engine, three express carB and
two sleeping coaches filled with passengers.
At about 1:30 a. m. It was
running through Lewlstown narrows,
when suddenly a dynamite cap exploded
and the engine driver brought
the train to a standstill. Then he
was confronted by a masked man,
with a gun pointed at him.
"Are there any mall cars on this
train?" demanded the highwayman.
"No," was the reply of the startled
engineer.
The engine crew was then forced
at the point of the gun to accompany
the robber to the first express
car. A revolver was pointed at the
messenger's head and threatening to
blow up the ear. The robber forcod
the messenger of the two express
cars and engine crew to carry all
the gold and bullion stacked in the
first car to the side of the track.
Conductor L. R. Poffenberger ol
Harrlsburg. Pa., who came up while
this work was being accomplished,
was ordered back by the bandit, who
emptied one of his revolvers at him,
one of the shots penetrating his hand
and the others grazing his body.
Despite the appearance of three
passengers who had been awakened
by the shooting, the robber calmly
ordered the crew back on the train
and compelled them to steam away,
leaving the bullion beside the tj-ack.
-It was recovered later by a posse
sent on a special train. When the
train was leaving he called out:
"Good-by. nnd good luck; I hope to
see you again."
It was reported that In addition
to the missing pennies Bevoral thousand
dollars In currency was missing.
but the express company officials
refuse to announce the exact
amount of their loss.
Agent Hammaker of Lewlstown
sent a safe to the scene of the robbery
to receve six bags of pennies
on which the senls had not been
broken, but which had, been out
open with a sharp knift to ascer*
A- - ? - -
vo>u ui? kuuieuvH nnn ananaoned by
the robber in dlBgast.
Smashes Records
ENDS IIKit LIFE.
Mm. J. K. Fant, Aged Sixty, Takes
Carbolic Add.
At Campobello Mrs. J. K. Fant,
aged 60 years, committed suicide
Monday by drinking half an ounce
tainof carbolic acid. No cause is
ascribed for the deed other than the
uead woman h.-.d been suffering for
some months from dementia. Shu
had been carefully watched but look
.'.dvantnge of the fact thai her daughter.
Miss Bessie Fant, left her aloro
for a short time. That the sulcldo
was premeditated was shown by tin
fact that the windows and doori
were carefully closed and a rude
pallet prepared on which Mrs. Fant
was found dead.
She was the wife of a Baptist
preacher who died about 10 years
ago. She leaves three daughters,
Mrs. Wm. Cobb of Wilmington, N.
C., Mrs. McMillan of Brunswick, N.
C.. and Miss Bessie Fant of Campobello.
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Killed by Train.
At Woodbury. N. J.. Mrs. James
Frazler, sixty years old. and Mrs.
Emma Drlscoll. seventy-four, were
about to crofs the tracks of the
South Westvllle station a few days
ago when they saw a train approaching.
They tried to cross before It
got near them, but were hit by the
locomotive and all of the cars ran
over them, cutting them to pieces.
Four Bad Boys.
At Kankee. 111., an attempt Sunday
by four boys to wreck the crowded
Chicago express, southbound, on
Jthe Illinois Central railroad, was
discovered by a switching crew In
time to prevent accident to the train.
They were all caught and gave as i
an excuse that they wanted to see
a wreck- 11
MORE LIVES LOST <
IN MEXICAN FLOOD THAN WAS
AT FIRST REPORTED.
Horrors Increase as the Waters
Subside?It Is Estimated that Two j
Thousand Were Drowned.
With eight hundred bodies recov
ered and burled In Monterey up to
nightfall Monday, two thousand la
now the estimate of the city authorities
of those who lost their lives
throughout the valley of the Santa
Catarlna river. The number of
homeless, many destitute, Is placed
at 15,000 and 20,000.
The Santa Catarlna river at Monterey
has subsided sufficiently to per- ?
mit a passage into the district lying ?
to the south and a visit to that sec- i
tion by a correspondent of the As- ]
soclated Press revealed an appalling
condition. People who had been saved
from the flood of Saturday morn- (
lng bad been wfltblput food until 1
Monday, when on some cables a
small amount of bread and beans '
was gotten across.
Once on the South side of the
river, evldencees of the terrible de- 1
structlon wrought by the flood were '
to be Been on every hand. Five
blocks of the district were as though
they had never existed and in the 1
remaining portion of the district 1
bodies were being taken from the 1
ruins and buried by a party of gen- 1
darmes sent across for the purpose. '
At 4 o'clock Monday 400 bodies
had been recovered and were burled
on the hillside south of San
Luislto, thus, with the same number
buried Sunday, making in all
800 bodies which have been recovered
in Monterey alone.
Report 'rom the country, up and
down the valley, are meagre and
hard to obtain, as all telegraphic
communication has been cut off in
these directions, but from what has
been learned, the number of dead
has been placed at 2,000 and the
homeless at between 15,000 and
20,000 persons. Most of those people
are in destitute circumstances
and relief is badly needed.
Reports from down the river
tate that many bodies have been
recovered but ther? ?r? ntlll mnnv
that will never be accounted for as
the Santa Catarlna bed la filled with
quicksands and many of those lost
have no doubt disappeared in these
-andB.
The authorities are doing all in
, their power and the federal governj
ment has sent $60,000 in money
\nd provisions for the relief of tbo
. .sufferers. Contributions have been
I received from San Antonio and New
( York city firms which have agencies
in this city have authorized their
. representatives to contribute llber,
ally to any fund being raised for
relief in this vicinity.
| Many hbuses have fallen from
the effects of the continuous ralnB
which have occurred during the
seventy-two hours ending at noon
, Sunday. During this time 21 and
I seven-eights Inches of rain fell In
, Monterey and up the Santa Catarlna
valleys.
One of the buildings destroyed
was the San Francisco church, which
, was the oldest building In the city,
, It having been built In 1672. The
barracks o! the rurales was washed
, iway and much military equipment
was lost.
CATHOLIC ORPHANAGE BURNED.
Seven Bodies Have Been Taken So
Far From the Wreck.
The police report that the bodies
of seven children have been taken
from the ruins of St. Malichy'B
home, a Roman Catholic orphanage
at Rockaway Park, L. I., which
burned Monday night. Other bodies
are believed to be In the ruins. At
the time of the fire it was believed
that all of the children were rescued
through the quick execution of
the fire drill.
The fire was discovered in the
laundry in the north wing at 8
o'clock Monday night. Three hundred
and fifty small children were in
their cotB on the third and fourth
floors of that wing, and some of the
older children were attending the
evening prayers in the chapel. As
the alarm sounded, the older children
marched from the chapel to I
the hoard walk along the beach and
nurses and attendants rushed to the
work of carrying the little children
from their cots on the floors above. '
The firemen assisted in searching 1
the halls and dormitories and found '
n few children lingering In the halls, i
too frightened to leave the build- I
ing, but the rescue work had been i
conducted with such dispatch and t
good order that it was believed uu- 1
til Tuesday that all children were i
out of the building. 1
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Two City Blocks Sink. 1
Much damage was done at Scran- f
| ton. Pa.. Sunday, by the sinking of 1
| a mine cave from two to eight feet, 1
throwing houses from their foundations.
cracking walla and otherwise
damaging buildings. The disturbance
is estimated to be about 1*9 1
feet below surface. Fissunes extend- 1
ing to the surface and ttxree fejt t
across the tops show therrsselves in {
s number of places. Rats by the i
thousands ran through the Assures (
and rcampered over the atnfcets. 1
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Negro Kills Officer. t
At Jackson, Ala.. Deputy Sheriff
J. L. Walnwrlght was shot and instantly
killed Monday while afttempting
to arrest Louis and Josiah t
Balaam, negroes, for assault with f
Intent to murder. Morris Kinlball, r
wno was with- Walnwrlght, was I
lightly wound pd. A reward e
been offered fc ir the capture of thV 6
negroies. J a
SAID TO BE TRUE
rniy Pigs Art Carried Off by
big Lizards.
\ REMARKABLE TALE
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lent From the Philippine Islands by
Capt. Chas. E. Kilbourne, of the
l mw*u diau'n toast Artillery, Now
on Duty at Corregldor Island, Not
Farm From Manila.
There comes from the Philippines
i thrilling story of the army of lizirds
that ate up the pigs of the Coast
Artillery Corps guarding Manila
3ay. It 1b given over the signature
>f Captain Charles h>. Kllbourne,
commanding the Thirty-sixth Company,
and Is about the best nature
;hat has ever gone into the records
bf the War Department. Captain
Kllbourne has just been promoted to
be a major In the Philippine constabulary.
He was sent to the Philippines
with his company from Fort
Monroe, Va.
The Thirty-fifth Company was sent
out as tnc first company of coast
artillery to man guns outside of the
geographical limits of the United
States. It was the advance guard
of the big garrison to be stationed
at Corregldor Island, which is destined
to be the keep of the Philippine
Islands and one of the strongest
fortifications in the world.
In ordor to fill out the "straight"
rations allowed by the Government,
the company not only planted its own
little vegetable garden, left found
a chance on Corregldor Island for
pig raising on a large scale. They
laid in a stock, which included twelve
sows. Each produced a litter of pigs,
and the company had enough pigs
and sows for each soldier of the
company to have a whole pig for
himself. Nothing gave the company
more pleasure after a hard day's
work than to go down to the end
of the company garden, look over
mr block oi pigs ana mink or the
fine pork chops, sausages and chltUngs
It was to have the coming winter.
Their pleasure, however, was
shortlived, for it was seon noticed
that the pigs were beginning to disappear.
The men got together logs
and stakes from the adjacent tropical
forest and built a stockade sufficient
in size and strength to keep
in the pigs and to keep out anything
which, according to the American
standards, |couhi possibly 'carry a
pig away.
Still uho pigs continued to disappear,
and no explanation could be
found. Finally volunteers were called
for to stand guard over the plg?
and a sentry walked a beaten patt
aroundt the stockade. Just about
daylight one morning the sentry saw
a sight which he knew no one would
believe who had not seen it with hit
own eyes. So he rushed to the barracks
and called out the company.
When the men got to the stockade
they found that a herd of lizarde
had come out of the forest and had
succeeded in getting into the stockade.
Lizards in the Philippines grow
be six feet long and stand up like
a bencblegged bulldog, and they can
run like a deer. The report states
that the lizards had the sows at
bay in one corner of the stockade,
where thev were hltlnc thA s??<?
. _ ? n v??v uv/gn uiiu
whipping them with their tails, while
other lizards, each wth a pig in its
mouth, were climbing over the stockade
and making off for the forest.
Only one pig was left for the
company, and this one. "Lizzie," was
taken up ^o the barracks and hks
been made a pet. The Thirty-flfth
Company will come home from the
Philippines next Spring, and it hopes
that it will get some pleasant Eastern
station, where "Lizzie" can spend
the rest of her days in peace and
happiness.
TIKI) TO TRKE.
After Ilcing Robbed and I^eft for
Forty-eight Hours.
Lumbermen arrive! at Gulfport,
Miss., Monday night from the Nugent
section, ten miles north of Gulfport,
report that three highwaymen
held up an employe of the Jngiam[)ay
Lumber Company, near Nugent,
two days ago and after robbing hltn
of forty dollars, tide him securely
to a tree in the woods. In order to
silence him while they wero making
good their escape they stuffed his
mouth full of paper and rags and
then left. The man remained in
this position for almost 4 8 hours
md when accidentally discovered,
was in a pltifrl coudltlon. Without
food or water, and suffering agony
from the numerous bites of gnats
ind mosquitoes, it was several hours
before u ? .i- ,*
?u vvuiu w?cu uo |>ai ' lany
revived.
A Young Tramp.
Snugly curled up In a milk car,
s-here he had spent the night, a
Ittle nine-year-old boy, who gave
be name of Eddie Corrigan, of 114fi
Spring Garden street. Phi.adelphla,
vas found by Station Agent Willard
Srouthamel. at Wycombe. Pa.. The
ittle fellow said he had slept in the
ar all night and that he had run
iway from his aunt.
Dies of Wounds.
Peptity Sheriff J. W. Slkes of Nor?Ik
county, Va., died Monday night
r6m wounds inflicted by one of three
?egro highwaymen. They had been
?laced under arrest by him and two
peclal officers in South Norfolk
Saturday night. The negroes escaped
(hid fled.
SMASHES RECORD
LAST YEAR'S COTTON CROP THE
LARGEST EVER MADE.
Secretary Hester Figures Out a Production
of Nearly Fourteen Million
Bales.
Statistics showing that more cotton
was handled during the commercial
year ending at midnight Tuesday
night than ever before and that
all records had been broken In the
amount of cotton consumed v
Southern mills was the feo#* of
the annual ***** of Secretary
Hester of the New Orleans cotton
erchange. The document forms
the preliminary report of Secretary
Hester's annual review of the commercial
year.
The count of the commercial crop
showed it to be the largest on record.
13.825.467 bales. The previous
largest commercial crop was 13,565,585,
marketed In 1904-05. Hast
season's total was only 11,571,966.
The very large total for this year's
crop was a surprise to the trade,
including both the /bulls and the
bears, and If the figures had been
Issued while trading was going on
it is orobable that they would have
had a depressing effect on prices.
The most important features In
the report next to the size of the
crop Itself was the statement on the
amount of cotton consumed by
Southern mills during the season
which closed Tuesday. Here all the
records were again broken, the total
being 2,559,873 bales. This point
was regarded by the bulls qb being
even of more importance than the
size of the crop itself. It was taken
as official confirmation of the
many stories of the great expansion
of cotton manufacturing In the
South The figures compared with
2,193,000 last season and 2,439,000
two reasons ago.
In the point of port receipts another
record was broken. Net receipts
at all ports of the season were
put at 10,062,845 bales, against onl>
8,679,842 last year and 9,919,555
two years ago.
L4Merpoo! will have the Aral
i chance to trade on the report. Tht
trade Is about equally divided lr
opinion over the effect of the total
bulls claiming the bearlshnesB of the
i big crop Is more than offset by th<
bullishness of the big consumptior
In spite of the claim of the beari
i that It is a decidedly bearish dofcu
ment.
> OL'TS THROAT WITH RAZOR.
1 I/. A. Rickle, Mail Clerk on Lootc.
Train Ends His Life.
, L. A. Blckle, white, aged 43, ni
ex-mall clerk on the Southern rail
( way, almost severed his hetid fron
( his body with a razor at his home a
Augusta Sunday morning. Blckh
"r had been in ill health and It is sail
[ that his mind was unbalanced be
( cause of this and recent bereave
ments In his family.
He happened to be mail clerk i
Southern train from Charleston 01
the night of May 18 last, whan tin
^ express car was rifled and wh?.n tin
train reached Augusta the meiwa.ice
was found in a chest. The messen^ei
p claimed that he had been knockec
down by masked men and , iacec
lu the cheat.
Q. P. Humphreys, baggage nas ei
on the train on the night of tin
robbery, cut his throat two lonthi
1 ago, dying almost Instantly, becai.M
he was suspected of the robbery
' However, the express officials do 1101
connect Bickle with the robbery, bin
it is a fact that the detective, a few
days ago, questioned him reg.irdlnf
the case.
NOT CAUSED BY CORN.
!>ady Has Pellairra Who Never Hn?
Eaten Corn at All.
At Atlanta a case of pellagra, th<
victim of which claimed that sh?
had never eaten corn bread or anj
corn products was revealed in th<
death of Mrs. Kate Barto.
Dr. Frank Eskridge, who claimr
to have treated many cases of tht
dlseape, save he doubted his own
diagnosis and thought she might be
a victim of "sprue," a disease known
to the tropics, with symptoms resembling
tho&e of pellagra. He called
in a physician who had had year?
wi icuce hi me tropic? and
foun J that hps ^original (flagnosis
was correct.
"I am convinced now," he says,
"that the disease does not come from
musty corn."
TOUCHED WIRE AND DIED.
Experiment of North Carolina Boy
Ends Fatally.
Harvey Ritchie, 2rt years old.
climbed Into one of t-he big transmission
towers of the Southern Power
Company, at Albemarle. Stanley
county. N. C.. Monday afternoon, to
ascertain If he could get a shock
by touching the wires. As the youth
touched the deadly wires his feet
uuiMt-a irom ine lerrinc current that
entered his body, and he dropped
to the ground, dead. The tower Is
one of the series of steel struct*ures
employed by the Southern Power
Company to transmit electrical energy
from the Catawba river stations.
In this county, to the mills
of the Piedmont section, and the
wires carry eighty thousand volts.
Bolt Kills Farmer.
Alexander Ruyter. aged 35, a
prominent young planter of Cleveland
county. N. C., was Instantly
killed by a lightning bolt while sitting
In the yard of friends near
Grover Monday afternoon. Others
present were not shocked.
ATTENTION, MEN!
inscription Wanted for Woman'*
Monument
SOON TO BE ERECTEt
Chalnr an C. Irvine Walker Aski th
M n of State to Suggest Sultabl
Words for the Memorial to b
Erected on Capital Grounds t
Columbia.
"What do the men of South Cai
olina owe to the women of the Coi
federacy?" asks the Columbia Stat*
The State then goes on to say tht
the fundB for a memorial to t
erected on the capltol grounds hav
been raised. Sculptor F. Wellini
ton Ruckstuhl is now designing tt
mnnnmpnt nnH tho rtpalcn hoo Kt?c
declared one of the moat artist
ever prepared. On the monumei
just in front of the State houa
erected by the women of South Ca
ollna to the soldiers who died f<
the "Lost Cause," are two beautlfi
Inscriptions. These recite the val<
and heroism of those "who, true t
the instincts of {their birth ha^
glorified a fallen cause by the sit
pie manhood of their lives and the
pntient Buffering,' and in the dai
hours of Imprisonment, in the hop
lcssness of the hospital, In the ahoi
sharp agony of the field, found ho]
In the belief that at home they wou
not be forgotten."
1 These were some of the won
Inscribed by the women of Sou
1 Carolina on the monument to tl
soldiers.
1 It Is now necessary for the mi
of the State to send to the commi
s-ion in charge of the work of ere<
ing a monument to the women of t
' Confederacy suitable inscriptions f
the tribute to their self-sacrifice ai
1 devotion.
The following has been Issued:
South Carolina Commission
for the Monument to the Women
the Confederacy.
Columbia, S. C., Aug. 31, 1909.
To the Men of South Carolina:
\ Two inscriptions will be requir
, for the two large panels of the pe<!
i rtal of the South Carolina moti
j ment to the women of the Confedi
acy. These inscriptions are deslr
to "declare to the world what the
women of the South did to deser
this honoring " Kach must conts
from 60 to 80 words, preferably (
j The men of our State are con
ally Invited to suggest appropric
wording for these inscriptions. The
deemed most suitable by the co
1 mission will be used. Suggestlo
" should be sent to Capt. Wm. H. Qc
zales, secretary and treasurer, C
1 lumbla, before November 1, 1909.
fl. Irvlno U'oIWa
1 Chairman;
T. J. Moore,
C. A. Reed.
J. Q. Richards. Jr.,
Wm. B. Gonzales,
Sec. and Treas.
BLEW OUT HIS BRAINS
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1 While Being llotly Pursued by
1
Sheriff's Posse.
1 With a posse in close pursuit a
' tired of the relentless chase of <
J tlcers of the law, Jeff Bradley, w
* killed George Welhorn, Jr., ne
* Clayton, Ga., last Monday night, sli
himself to death near Mountain CI
Tuesday afternoon. The suicide t
eurred when the officers were alm<
' within hailing distance of the all*
ed fugitive.
The officers, hearing the shot, t
lieved that they were about to
ambushed and dropped to cov<
They waited for other shots, a
then cautiously ventured out ai
followed the direction of the shi
* In an old field, face downward, wl
' his gun lying by his side, Bradl
' was found, with hta i?mi? ?.i~
Mi WIU UlUf
' out.
Sometime Fridny Robert Js'i*. li
1 ing In the vlclnty, went to a strs
' stack where Rradley was conceale
1 Thinking that Nix wan hunting f
him. although armed with a she
1 gun, Bradley offered to surrendc
Nix told him that he was not hut
Ing for him. Subsequently Nix r
ported seeing him to Shov'ff J. !
Jones, who formed a posse of me
and started in pursuit. Bradley w
27 years of age and unmarried.
FIVE PERSONS KILLED.
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By a Mysterious (ins on Board
a Steamship at Sea.
Mysterious gases released from tl
hold of the United States colli
Nashan when the steel bulkheads <
that vessel were stove In by i h
phoon were responsible for the deal
of five members of her crew, accor
ing to a story of Third Assistant Ei
gineer Elmer Hutchins. who arrivt
at San Francisco Monday on boai
the cruiser Buffalo.
The vessel was en route from Ci
vlte to Hone'
0 ---?o? tJHWI H,V nil*
the ship ran Into a terrific typhoc
a noise like an explosion of gasst
was heard. Capt. Carver took An
members of the Filipino crew fo:
ward with him to investigate. Th
failure of th? men to return le
Hutehlns to make an investigatio
and he wr.a also overcom?. but wa
revived.
When the men were finally drag
ged back from the hold, it was foun
that by some inexplicable freak th
bodies had been stripped naked b
the fumes. Capt. Carver revived
but Chief Officer Larkin, Second Oj
fleer Rapj) and three sailors die
from lahaiUoc gases.
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OFFICIAL FIGURES FROM EIGH
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TEEN COUNTIES,
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nd Aiken and Florence Counties Will Ix
I'wiM'd On?Abbeville ax Yet li
Incomplete.
The official rfltiillo frnm i o r>,-?i?r.
ties of the 21 which recently hel<
an election on the whiskey question
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le as passed upon by the State bourc
of canvassers, were given out b;
?? - Secretary of State McCown. Thi
e<* protests from Aiken county wen
's? heard before the county hoard o
y? canvassers and the protests fron
',u Florence will be henrd later. Th'
State board of canvassers will moe
again on Friday to decide upon th
ite results of the last two named coun
ties should an appeal be made fron
m" the county boards. The returns a
ins submitted to the board from Abbe
,a" vllle county were not complete, bu
'O* thera was no contest from that coun
tr.
The following is the statement 1s
sued by the secretary of State:
County For. Against
Ramber 162 663
Rarnwell 553 804
Beaufort 250 233
Berkeley 213 540
Charleston 1,868 341
Calhoun 262 281
Col'eton L09 876
Dorchester . . . . ( \. 666
* Fairfield 168 752
Georgetown 4 47 363
Hampton 181* 712
nd Kershaw 340 674
Lee 309 586
ho Lexlngston 806 1,197
ar Orangeburg 529 1,499
lot Richland 841 762
Ity Sumter 386 577
)C- Williamsburg . . . , 529 859
ist The tle-nn In v. i _
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>g- canvassers last week has caused i
great deal of comment In all sec
>e- tlons of the State. It is very inter
be esting to note that the very mat
sr. ter upon which the tie-up arose wa
nd not touched upon in the executlvi
d session that Is the constitutlonalit;
5t. of the act providing for the elec
th tlon was not before the board.
ey An affidavit of interest in con
vn nection with the deadlock in tht
board, which was given out, wai
v. filed with Associate Justice Hvdricl
lw by Messrs. Lyon, McCown and Jen
)(j nlngs. The affidavit follows:
or "Personally appeared R. M. Mr
Cown, R. H. Jennings and J. Frasei
5r Lyon, who being duly sworn eacl
for himself says that the board o
^ State canvassers has not decider
^ whether it has power to considei
the constitutionality of the act undei
11' which the election of the 17th inst
(18
was held, that deponents have specif
irally refused to pass upon the sanit
at this time, but desire to hear conn
sel upon the subject. That it was
and now la the order of the sai<!
of board to hear such argument in or
der that the board mny beenllghten
ed on the subject, but whenever such
lft arguments commence, Hon. A. W
0r Jones, comptroller general, leaves
nt the meetings of the .-.i
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y. the quorum.
|u "That Raid hoard has decided nc
matter in controversy whatsoever a(
n. Its present meeting, but will duly
and properly render its decision 11
>(j a quorum may be had."
j. Made Good Time.
Sr Sunday at Van Patton shoals on
m the Enoree river f>fi candidates for
>s immersion wore baptized by Rev. W
re A. Anderson In f>5 minutes. Mr.
r- Anderson Is pastor of Cedar Or'-ve
ie church, this county, and In a recent
d revival there the above number of
n accessions resulted.
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Hurglais Rob Sleeping Car on Sldo
Track at Memphis.
F. M. Jackson, capitalist, of Birmingham,
Ala., sidetracked on a sleeper
at Memphis, Tenn., with his wife
and three boys, awoke Sunday morning
to discover that during the night
s the car had been entered by a thief,
and he bad been rellexed of cash,
bill of exchange and other valuables
. to the amount of over fl.OOU. The
j 1 family were en route to the Seattle
exposition but their through sleeper
' was held over at Memphis all night
1 by rearon of a missed connection.
y They slept on the Pullman, in the
B yards by courtesy of the Pullman
p management. The car was locked,
but the door was forced by the
^ robber, who carried away satchels
1 and grips. S. F. Keith, Pullman
p conductor, was also robbed,
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