Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, May 19, 1910, Image 3
VERY BAD MESS
GareriBent Employee Makes Sensational
Stat en rat Afoot Taft
AND A CERTAIN LETTER
StenoRraphcr in Secretary Ballinger's
\ Offlcfc jyeclar-^s that l*resident*?
letter Exonerating Ballinger wan
Substantially Prepared by Man in
His Office.
There was made public in Washington
on Saturday afternoon what
purports to be a statement of Frederick
M. Kerby, a stenographer In
the office of Richard A. Ballinger.
Secretary of the Interior, to the effect
that he and other stenographers
In the department wrote from the
dictation of Oscar Lawler, assistant
Attorney General for the interior department,
a letter wTilch he alleges '
to hare been substantially the foundation
for President Taft's letter exonerating
Secretary Ballinger from
the charges of L. R. Glavis.
The Kerby statement further alleges
that the original drafts of the
Lawler letter were burned in a grate
la the interior department, at the
suggestion of Don M. Carr, Ballinger's
private secretary.
The statement attributed to Kerby
says in part, t-hat after the visit
of Secretary Ballinger and Lawler to
the President's summer residence at
Beverly, in the week beginning September
5, Lawler returned to Washington
and "took up his quarters in
Balllnger's private oflioe, calling in
Massey and me for dictation."
Kerby says that what Lawler dictated
referred to Ballinger as "you"
In each case, and the personal pronoun
"I" was used throughout. From
the context the "I" could be no other
than Taft himself.
"There could be no question,"
eays the Kerby statement, "that
Lawler was drafting a letter for
Taft's signature, reviewing the Gla ls
charges and exonerating the sec
retary. It wsb written in such form
thai TaCt might have adt}pted 'it
bodily.
"As I have eaid, the letter was
dictated in Balllnger's private otllce
by Lawler. Probably half a dozen
drafts were made before the final
one was accepted. Each time a fresh
draft was completed it would be tak?n
to lawler, who would revise it.
For two days MaBsey and I did
nothing but help rush this work.
Dawler frequently consulted E. C.
-^1 Finney, assistant to Balliugor."
The statement goes on to say that
the draft was the subject of several
conferences, in which participated,
the statement says, "Ballinger, Lawler,
Finuey, Commissioner Frederick
Dennett, of the land office, Chief of
Field Serviee Schwartz, and. I
think, First Assistant Secretary
Frank Pierce, and Private Secretary
Carr."
Kerby is quoted as saying:
"Without attempting to forco my
own conclusions upon any reader of
this statement, I want it to be remembered
that it waa the draft of
the letter exonerating Ballinger in
the charges Glavis bus made against
him."
The statement says further:
"Early in the work Lawler had
given Massey and myself instructions
that all rough draft copies discarded
In the composition of the final drafts
were to be retained by us.
"We all understood from the form
of the letter that It was to be the
Kfiala r* f Tu ft * r% 1 tor * u
W4 ?? ??. a ivwv/i uw?ci tug mo
Glavis charges. It was understood
by us that this work was of special
Importance.
"The general arrangement of facts,
the order in which tl~ey come in the
President's letter is praet.caily identical
with the arra'.i.'njfci.rs of facts
tn the final Lawler draft, or ho-calbd
memorandum."
Kerby is quoted as saying
"Certain parts of the T.ift loiter
I can identity as being in substance
the thoughts of the Lawler letter.
For instance, there is the passage
In the Taft letter, which cer ainly
embodies Lawler's thought: 'The
general responsibility of Cabinet
positions demands the selection,
therefore, of men of the highest
character and integrity.
" 'Possession of these qualities, as
well as an ability and experience
which have especially fitted you to
direct the afTalrs of the department
of the Interior, warranted your appointment
as Secretary.
"In general, Taft softened Lawler's
draft, and doubtless very materially
changed the wording in that he substituted
for certain Ijiwlor nhrtiaoo
phrasos of his own, meaning Uie same
thing."
When newa of the sensational
statement Issued by Frederick M.
Kerby reached the interior depart
meat, an emissary was sent by the
department to Kerby, who was off
duty, to ascertain the verity of the
report. He admitted that the story
was true, and that he had issued
such a statement.
Kerby reported at the department
for duty next morning and obtained
permission from Private Secretary
LAWLER WROTE LETTER
PORTION OF WHICH PRESIDENT
TAFT USED AS HIS.
This Is Shown by Comparison of
the Two letters. Notwithstanding I
the Dentals.
Jt is said in Washington that O3- ,
car Lawler, assistant Attorney General
for the interior department, of
w.hlch Richard A. Ballinger is the
head, did in fact prepare a draft of
a letter addressed to Secretary Bailinger
and in such form and phrase
*hat it might have been adopted verbatim
and signed by the President,
as Mr. Taft's exoneration of the Secretary
from the charges of L. R. 1
Glavis, and authorizing the dismis- 1
sal of Glavis from his position of ,
special agent of the interior depart- ,
ment. ,
This draft by Mr. Lawler was de- ,
livered Saturday afternoon to the (
Hallinger-Pinchot committee, and or- ,
dered spread upon the records of the |
investigation. Careful comparison
of the Lawler draft with the letter ,
of the President shows that Mr. Taft
did in fact a lopt practically verbatim (
two short paragraphs of Mr. Lawler's
language. The substances of
the two documents is otherwise wide- j
ly dissimilar.
Almost simultaneously with the
publication of the Kerby statement.
Attorney General Wicker sham sent (
to the Ballinger-Pinchot investigating
committee, then in session, a
copy of the Lawler draft, accompanied
by a letter to Chairman Nelson,
in which Mr. Wiehersliam declared
t.he document had been overlooked
In sending the papers requisitioned
by tho committee at the
request 01 Attorney Brandels.
When Ballinger emerged from
the conference be showed signs of
angry concern, but declared vehemently
that th re was "nothing to be
nalio ninH r\9 ''
"With reference to the published
affidavit of P. M. Kerby, a stenographer
in the office of the Secretary
of the Interior, to the effect that
the President's letter of September
13, 1909, exonerating Secretary llalllnger,
was substantially prepared for
the President's signature by assistant
Attorney General Lawler, it was
said at the W.hito House Saturday
that there is absolutely no foundation
for any such statement. The President
dictated his letter personally
as the result of his own investigation
of the records, and consideration of
documents and papers in his posession
at the tinve, and upon the report
to him of the Attorney General."
Taft Owns the Corn.
Mr. Taft declares not only that
Kawler did prepare such a letter as
Kerby said he did, but that he hid '
so by the President's specific direc- 1
tion. When he received it he found,
he says, that it was not what he :
wanted to issue, and he wrote the
letter .himself in the form in which
he desired it, using from Hawler's
draft only one or two general statements.
The President -goes still further
and takes up the question of the
"back dating" of Attorney General
? - ~
ii ><.?r>a>i?ni n a II III III a TJ UI Lilt' liiaVIB
charges, to which Attorney IajuIs 1).
Brandeis has drawn attention. Mr.
Taft says that the Attorney General's
letter was in fact "back dated," and
that this was also done by his specific
direction.
Carr to bo off duty Monday.
When Mr. Carr was seen Saturday
afternoon he said he had nothing to
say at the present time, but later,
after he had fuller read uhe story,
would make reply.
<"I made the facts public because
I had decided that loyalty to Mr.
Ballinger did not justify disloyalty
to the country," said Frederick M.
Kerby Saturday night.
lie added that In view of what he
had heard of "snake killing" ho
iHsuiued he would be dismissed from
the interior department.
"If the Secretary of the Interior
believes that my statement of facts,"
he continued, "calls for my separation
from the service, tt is up to him.
I have only stated the facts. He
has said that he wants the publication
of all the facts. I have only
made by contribution of what he
has failed to make public."
STTDKNT FOl'N It DEAD.
S. O. Fleming, of Davidson, Expired |
Suddenly. 1
'At Davidson, N*. C., Mr. Samuel ]
O. Fleming, the twenty-year-old son i
of 'Mr. and Mrs. J. O. C. Fleming, of ]
Laurens, S. C., was found dead in
his bed Thursday night. The cause
of Jiis death has not been positively
ascertained, but It Is supposed to
have followed an attack of acute In- 1
digestion. lie went to his room 1
shortly after dinner to take a nap, '
having stood a fatiguing examina- '
tlon in the morning. He was miss- 1
ed from supper and his roommate,
seeking to find the cause, entered
the room and found him dead. The
death of young Mr. Fleming is particularly
sad because he was a pros- 1
pecttve honor man of the senior i
class of Davidson College, with only
two examinations between him and i
his diploma.
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THE DEATH TOLL
Mast Be Paid ia the Meter Races at Brifhtea
Beach, New Yarh.
ONE DEAD AND TWO HURT
The Frist Fatality Occurred About
Midnight Friday Night.?Another
Serious Accident Shortly Afterwards.?Miraculous
Bscapew Ordinary
Incidents.
One man killed and mother painfully
maimed and three mors h?Hi?
bruised was the record for tho flrst
ten hours of the 24 hour race held
at the Brighton Beach motordrome
track Friday night and Saturday. At
the end of the tenth .hour the Flat
:ar led with 4 97 milee to its credit
and the Rainier was only ene mile
bohlnd. The oars, with the Bulck
l>alr in the lead, raa without aeriouB
mishap until midnight, thus disappointing
the argtiries of those who
criticised the starting of the contest
on Friday, tho Isth.
Eighteen minutes after midnight
(he looked-for crash came. The Marlon
car, drirod by Hubert Anderson,
tore through the feace on the turn
into the home stretch and turned
turtle. Anderson jumped clear of the
wreck, hut hi9 mechanician, William
Bradley, was so badly mangled that
he died an hour later ia the emergency
hospital at Coney Island from
concussion of tho brain and a fracture
of the skull.
The second accident happened at
two o'clock Saturday morning, when
tlie Bulck car No. 2, driven by George
Dewitt, crashed tb'ough the inner
fence on the turn into the back
stretc.h. The driver escaped unhurt,
but the mechanician. Jack Towers,
sii8talued a fracture of the h"g and
internal injuries. Early Saturday
morning the doctors at the emergency
hospital, said that Towers was
resting easy and would probably recover.
At 9.50 the driver, sustained a
severe injury to one of his legs and
Mechanician John C. McGruder cut
on 'the shoulder. Tho physicians
say the Endlcott will not bo able to
continue in tdie raoe.
CKEIGHTON'9 APPEAL.
Was Xot Passed On by tint General
Conference.
The following letter from Rev. C.
W. Oreigton explains itself:
Tho Associated Press dispatch aont j
am rroni Ashevllle, statiug that the
committee of appeals by a rota of
13 to 6 sustained tha decision of the
South Carolina aonfaranca which
tried the complaint* against me in
'06 was erroneous. My appeal t?
the general conference waa not heard
and, hence, the questions involved
in tlie case were not passed on by
the committee of appeal. The bishop
held that as 1 had preached since
I took th? appeal I had forfeited the
ri?.ht to appeal. Iu this view he succeeded
in .having a majority of the
committee agree with him.
The report of the committee waa
as follows:
"Your committee on appeals has
had beflore it the appeal of C.
W. Creighton of the South Carolina
conference, and the appeal was disallowed.
Eugene R. Hendrix,
"R. A. Meek. President.
"Secretary."
This leaves the issues involved
just where they were four years ago.
I hope the papers which published
the dispatch sent out from Ashevllle
will also publish the statement that
the true facts may appear.
C. W. Creighton.
IX>ST HIS FAITH I.N WOMEN.
I'nlontown Merchant Will Not Wed
J list Now.
Gannon Thomas, 51 years old, a
merchant of Unlontown, Pa., who
procured a license to marry Carrie
Belle Itrown, a widow 42 years old.
returned iho license, saying that it
was worthless, as the widow had
flown after persuading him to buy
her trouseau and advance her a goodly
sum of money. The courtship
:overed 12 hours. She said she was
going to the hotel, but instead was
speeding to Pittsburg| "I will trust
women no more," he added. "One
I had to work for me at Unlontown
ran away with $50#, but this one
has almost broken my heart."
Kills Girl and Self.
John Going shot and instantly killed
his sweetheart, .^llss Baton, Sun
lay In Amherst county. Virginia, because
.he found the young woman
driving with his brother. He then
turned the revolver upon himself.
His wounds will probably prove fatal.
Perish in Flumes.
At Faribault, Minn., Hert Sperry,
hia three children, and their grand
mother were burned to death in a
fire whlcii destroyed their home Fri
day. Mrs. Sperry and two children
wero saved.
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EAGLES ATTACK MEN
ark despkratk while forag^^g
for their young.
Attack* on Lite Stock Are Becoming
Preqnent in the Northwest
and Bird* Are More Numerous.
Kaglee. now bUBy gathering food
for their young, are creating no end
of fear iu the Northwest. Scarcely
a day passes without reports of attacks
upon men. women, children
or upon th? smaller animals of the
farms. It is said more eagles are
uestine anions the crags of the Cascade
and Olympic mountains than
ever before and that the reason for
their presence is the increased numbers
of lamtts. pigs, dogs, eats and
poultry. Many of the big birds hare
been shot, but few farmers will shoot
to kill unless the giant birds beeonae
too bold.
'Maddened eagles attacked and tore
the flesh of Oeorge Hartman, a hunter.
in the vieinity of North Yakima,
Wash. A day later a wtage driver
was attasked as he sat oa the seat
of his coaeh and was driving toward
Hartford, Wash. His face was badly
torn by the bird's talons.
Farmers near Hrlnnon declare the
thieving eagles are causing them
great loss among their young stock.
A big rooster in Mason eounty is reported
to have given battle to a small
eagle and to have beaten off the marauder.
In all parts of the country
eagles are said to be swooping down
and carrying away many ducks and
geese.
(Farmers in the vicinity ef Blaine
report having seen eagles carry off
two-davs-old lambs. In oue pen the
flapping of their wings caused such
terror that the sheep rushed from
their enclosure and 15 were drowned
in a nearby stream.
Near Enumclaw. a young eaglet
fell from Its nest 300 feet into the
valley. Children passing the place
were set upon by the old eagles and
driven to their homes. The birds
were routed by the firing of shotguiiB
as they circled over the houses. In
the Cascade mountains on the Pacific
slope great inroads are being made
on the pigpens, and near Seattle,
Wash., one eagle was killed while
trying to capture a dog in the city
pound.
TWO I>EA1> IN' PISTOL DUEL.
llow Over tlio Closinn; of Saloon Kodit
Fr-Uuly.
As a result of n duel between Daniel
Hanson and his 9on. on on* hind,
and Policemen Hiers and Amnions,
on the other, the elder Hanson a?.i
Policeman lliors are dead, a worn in
ompantou of Hanson ae-'aualy
wounded and |iarry Hanson is in jail,
charged with murder.
The flght was ca -si ( Policvatam
Amnions attempting to el)r* Jiansoa's
saloon, which was in operation alter
.hours. Aftf-r everything else aad
failed, the policeman sl-irt J to clufc
the < ldor Hanson, when his son fired
the first shot, shiiier.a,; Amnions'
hand.
The policeman i.sec drew his re'
olver aad coir.lt.eics' sho ?tini;
Qred six shots at Hanson, everyone
taking effect. Policeman Hiers. attracted
liy the reports, came up ami
was shot through the heutl by the
younger Dans).). *
ODD i'KLLOWM KLKCT.
Wade Hampton ('ebb, of Columbia,
Is Next IKiputy Oram! Master.
The grand lodge of South Carolina
Independent Order of Odd Follows
adjourned Thursday morning
arter a two days session at Spartauburg,
the most satisfactory and the
moBt largely attended In its long history
of seventy seven years, to meet
next year in Greenville.
The election of officers at the
morning session resulted as follows:
Grand Master, Wade Hampton Cobb,
Columbia; Deputy Grand Master,
James G. Long, Jr., Union; Grand
Warden, James H. Craig, Anderson;
Grand Secretary, S. F. Killingsworth,
Columbia; Grand Treasurer, H. Endel,
Greenville.
OFPFIOKK KILLS WATCH EH
Of a Negro Gambling lien at lHirhum
in Self Defence.
At Durham, N. C., In a gnn conflict
Friday night, Policeman W. A.
Cobb shot and Instantly killed Tom
Hawkins, a desperate negro, who
barely missed blowing Sergeant Pendorgrast's
head off with a shotgun
before dropping dead from Cobb's
pistol shot. The officers were raiding
a gambling den which Hawkins
seems to hare been guarding. When
they appeared two women cried out,
"Pol'cemens is in the house." The
negroes ran like rats.
lloblxHt the Passenger*!
At Seattle three highwaymen held
up a "pay as you enter" street car
on the South park line of the Seattle
Electric company Thursday morning
and escaped wit^t money and oth|
er valuables estinn ted at between
$1,500 and $2,000. Their victims
J were twenty male passengors.
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GOT TM HOT "
And tbe Bud #f Robbers Fled Fron tbe
Citizess aid Police.
SAFE BLOWERS WORKED
While Their Ix?dfrs Fought (XT the
di
dtlzens Who Attempted to Stop
Tliem, Having Been llroiight to ^ *
in
he Scene by the ISzpIoeion Wlilch ec
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Wrecked the Post-office. tj,
A gang of robbers In endeavoring
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to rob tho postoffioe at Scottsburg. g(
Ind., on Saturday practically wreck- n
ed the building and fired nt citizens et
who had boon aroused by the ex- w
plosion and escaped without, it is ?'
believed. securing any money. Posses
were quiokly organized and sent in in
pursuit. hi'
1V
Fire alarm there are sounded by '
oi
revolver shots and in response to a S(
fusilade the whole t\??vn turned out v<
to Qnd, not a house ablaze, but a en
band of safe blowers busy with the ?'
strong box at the poBtotllce and exohaugiug
bullets with meu iu a hotel
across tho street. K<
Y< lis of the robbers and redoubled
shots kept the crowd back for a ,r
while, but it grew and surrounded "
the i>oBtoflico building, the robbers
lost their uerve, dropped their tools '
and tied Into the darkuess. They ' j
had not yet cracked tiie innermost li
vault.
The robbers blew off the door of
the safe with nitro-glycerine and the
explosion jarred the hotel and awakened
the men asleep there. TJie "
guests that had revolvers shot from 11
the windows and doors.
One of the robbers, evidently the
chief, was stationed in the street. He
stood his ground and fired rapidly in
return, calling to his comrades: "Get
the money quick or I'll blow your
brains out."
As the street began to fill with ?
people it was this man that gave the
order for the retreat. n,1
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1>RAGGK1> TO DEATH.
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Most Horrible Fate That llefell a ol
Bright Young Boy. ^
Anthony Howard, the 13-year-old "1
son of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Howard of ^
Pink Hill Township, Lenoir county. cj
N. C., met a most horrible death in a
runaway Saturday afternoon while gI
riding a mule from the field to the m
house to g*t shelter from an ap- cc
proachlng storm. d<
The lad was ploughing in the fG
field a half mile from the house, and si
seeing the storm approaching, ho
hastily unhooked the mule from the cc
plow, threw the trace chains across jn
the mule's withers, mounted and ol
started home The mule shied and p(
threw the hoy off. h<
The boy's legs became entangled hi
in the chain, which held him fast, is
This frightened the mule and ho ran
away, dragging the entangled boy
along tho woods road which was full
of roots and stumps. Thus dragged
along young Howard's head and body
were dashed against the ground,
roots and stumps until life was extinct.
His skull was crushed in
sexeral places and the bones of the tl
upper part of his body were broken.
To add to the horror of the sltua- h
tlon the young boy's mother, seeing d,
the mule coming dragging her eon.
ran to render him assistance, but a
was powerless to do so and the panic hi
stricken mule dashed by her and 0|
leaped the fence, with tho boy dang- a
liiug to the plow chains. i,i
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THBEK MKN KILhKI). h<
Ity the Accidental Explosion of a w
gi
Powder lllast. H
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At Copper Hill, Tenn., three men j
were killed and considerable damage p(
dona throughout tho Ticlnity, is the cj
Vecord of an explosion which occurred
at the furnace of Kershaw
Brothers, of Atlanta. The dead are:
Engineer Greene, Atlanta; Craneman
Cook, Atlanta; Laborer Abe Dlllard.
Copper 1HU. The accident resulted m
from tho striking of an unexpected ar
re
blast of powder by the teeth of a
steam shovel.
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Hilda His Lifn.
b*I
A man about twenty-flve years old,
committed suicide by drinking carbolic
acid Sunday morning, on the
northbound Missouri, Kansas and fr
Texas Railway "flyer," shortly after
tho train left Temple, Texas. A s(
leather cigar case was found on the ^
body with the name C. J. Smith, OI
and a railroad ticket from San An.onio
to Kansas City.
Loved tlie King.
At Minneapolis Mrs. Sarah J. P.
Mobley, aged 70 years and reputed T
wealthy, is dead, according to Cor- gc
oner Seashore, of heart failure cans- II
ed by reading of the death of King ai
Edward. "King Edward is my ideal w
of a man," she often said to her ! d
neighbors. j P
"wiugoITAIONEIAITISTS
AGAINST MERGLNG Hf
MISSION WORK.
orihern Baptists Want Souther*
Baptists to Help Them Help tbe
Brother in Black.
Home missions furnished one hundred
topics for consideration at Frlay's
session of the Southern Baptist
onventlon, now in session at Baltlore.
The Rev. Dr. Burrows report1
that there was a general increase
iring the past year of $1 1 4,000 for
le home and foreign mission hoards.
Tho board of home missions enirsed
strongly the policy of the
nithern Baptist Convention of havg
no "entangling alliance" with oth
Christian bodies that can in any
ay endanger the Baptist doctrines
practices as Baptists.
This utterance referred specifically
i the labors of the Doard iu Panama
and Cuba, where It was Btated
lat the work was progressing rapid,
but that difficulties in the way
' the work of both the Sunday:hool8
and other phases have dedoped
in the trend toward# "boilled
church union efforts and the
diteration of denominational lines."
"We report." th? l>oard adds, that
ie lives of professing Christians who
i to the Canal Zone for money-maktg
are a hindrance instead of a help
? the Baptist church. Then, too,
ie efforts of some Cnristian workers
i discredit denominational work in
10 interests of an undefended Chrisan
union are adding to the difliculos
of our missions."
The report, though not stating
leciflcally, was aimed at Uie Young
en's Christian Association, accordig
to a statement by the Rev. E. C.
argan, of Macon, Ga., member of
ie Cuba and Panama committee,
fter the session he said:
In Cuba and Panama the Y. M. C.
. stands for undenominational premutation
of Christ; the Baptist
huroh has always, and will always,
and for the Baptist presentation,
do not mean to speak disparagingly
' the Y. M. C. A. I only mean that
ie Baptist Church ought not to
erge with anybody in work among
ie missions."
'An appeal from the Baptists of the
orth. asking that their brethren of
ie South aid them in tuklng care
' the negroes, created a stir in
ie Convention. The matter was rerred
to a committee and will come
? later for discussion.
The communication came from the
merican Baptist Home Mission Soety,
headquarters in New York. It
iclared that two-thirds of the no o
Baptist ministers have had no
ore than the merest rudiments of a
immon school education, "and are
jplorably deficient in qualification
>r spiritural edification and leaderilp."
The Northern societr d??ir.-?a
-operation of the Southern Baptists
the management and maintenance
' its schools in the South and projses
the establishment of a num:>r
of summer schools there for the
sneilt of the negro Baptist mintry.
Bt.lliT OOMJCT I'lUfOF CAVK.
uliforniun Expects to Bo Earth's
S?lo Survivor.
When Halley's comet approaches
le earth StepJien Barter, of Pasaena.
Cal., is likely to he the only
uman survivor, according to his
eclaration.
Barter, who is a gardner, has dug
cave in his back yard, w.hich he
as stocked with canned goods and
ther provisions and provided with
system of ventilators, controlled
Y strings leading to the inner cliam?r.
There he will hide when the
eavenly wanderer comes.
Barter believes all life on earth
ill be snuffed out by the deadly
ases which compose the comet's tall,
e does not propose to he snuffed
it, and each nigJit he retires to
id in the inner chamber, the strings
mtrolllng the ventilation hanging
oho behind his heud.
Two Will <Jo.
Adjutant General Doyd was aulorlzed
Friday to send two reglents
to the encampment at Chicnauga.
The 3d regiment has alady
been designated.* It is opMonwith
tho 2d regiment between An*
;rson and Chicamauga. The 1st
giment will go to Greenville or
tartanburg.
Fell Between Gars.
While returning to Dawson, Ga.,
om a Sunday school picnic to Coimbus,
J. H. Armstrong was Inantly
killed when he fell between
ie cars when trying to pass from
10 coach to another. Portions of
ie body were strewn along the track
r a considerable dlstaree.
Married His Grandmother.
William Pounds, of Hoflln, Ala.,
hursdav married Mrs. John T. Rur>ss.
who Is legally his grandmother.
urg?'ss was Pounds' grandfather,
ad was over seventy years of age,
hen he married several years ago,
ying shortly afterwards. Mrs. i
'uunds is now twenty-two. , ja
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