Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, August 04, 1910, Image 3
WRECK AND FIRE
A tatngtr Trait Pltifes tkrwafk a
Bttiaf Trrstle SoaAaj.
THE TRAIN BURNED UP
.
HNgtam Hank Taylor ami Fireman
Mmon DuaKnr, Colored, Go Down
With ilRgioe.?Mail Clerk IIloom
Hun. imrm ? wwuVXm
Slightly Injured.
Passenger Train No. 2. on the
8partanburg division of the Charleston
and Western Carolina, due to arrive
in Augusta, from Spartanburg,
at 6.15 p. m., Sunday, ran into u
burning trestle about a mile 'from
Woodlawn. resulting in the total destruction
of the train, the death of
Engineer Hank Taylor, of Laurens.
8. C., and Fireman Simon Dunbar,
colored, of Augusta, and slight Injury
to sixteen passengers.
"When the train was entering onto
a reverse curve Haggagemaster (;?-o.
Box directed the gaze of Conductor
W. II. Verdery to large volumes
of smoke, which he believed to blooming
frum the trestle, t-hen a mile
dinfant from the train, and which
had bee a burned before. At thai
time the tire was on the left side ot
the train and could not have been
seen by Engineer Taylor.
Conductor Verdery watched the '
smoke until the train had rounded
the reverse curve, when he saw that
the lire was on the trestle. Immediately
he pulled the danger signal,
and ran from the baggage roach to
the best class passenger ccach and
pulled the emergency brake, but already
the engine had run or to the
trentla and plunged through to the
little creek below, pulling with it
the tender, baggage car and the
front ef one of ?he passenger
coaches.
The Mach, tilting from the wreckage
k? the road bed above, formed a
flue, through which the flames t'roin
the trestle debris were carried to
the train proper, and in less than
five Minutes the entire train was
aflame.
ngineer Taylor and Fireman
Dunbar went down with the engine,
and worn caught under the tender,
whleh was thrown directly on tcp
of fhw engine. Iloth of these were
either mashed or burned to death,
and the bodies are still In the wreckftUHBagem.inter
Box also went
down with his car. but succeeded tu
esoaytng from the tre with hut slight
InJonrtM.
" Mhil Clerk Bloom, of Spartanburg
did not leave his car and was seriously.
though not fatatly, injured.
He rehtained In the wreckage afi??r
the concussion, working with his
mail, and succeeded In saving (he
bulk of it from the flumes.
None of the passengers *ere injured
hey on d minor cuts and bruises
and of these the larger number wore
among those In the negro coach and
smoker.-- the white coach escaping
any extensive damage beyond a severe
sh.ike up, until the fli?m?s
>?
In ? statement by Superi. tendeut
Anders*:!. Riven out after ini.luiRbt
it Is shewn that the road had reason
to believe that the bridge wa.s fired
and investigation is beinR made In
that connection. The la6t train to
pass ever the bridge ahead ot the
wreck, was six and a half hours earlier
and the officials contend that
this does away with any Idea of falling
hot coals starting the trestle Ore.
BITTKN IIY A RATTIJUt.
While (ImuinR Out m Spi ing I.ig
liattler Strikes.
A special dispatch from Lexington
to The State says J. A. Lucas, a
prominent farmer of Kdward. th.it
county, is lying in a precarious condition
at his home as a result of a
rattlesnak- bite, received while attending
a singing school al Het-hH
church at noon Friday. Mr. Lucas
was in the act of cleaning out a
spring wheu the snake leaped upon
him without warning from the bush
nearby, sinking his teeth deep into
the left knee. The snake was killed
by J. A. Ky/.er, who happened to
be near when t.he snake did it work.
It measured five feet in length and
carried seven rattles and a button.
Drove Buggy in Water.
Harry Smith, a prominent business
roan, Mrs. Bessie Hferd, a widow, and
her Infant baby were drowned in
kRandell reservoir, five miles out front
Denlson, Texas. Sunday afternoon at
4.30 o'rloek. No one saw the accident
and it is thought they drove
into the reservoir to water their
horse, supposing It to be shallow.
They fell iuto sixteen feet of water.
The horse was also drowned. *
Hit them again Dr. you have them
howling.
If you can't specify let us name
instances to bnck up your assertions,
From candidate to editor. At
home and near to nature's heart.
FIEND'S AWFUL CRIME
/
ASSAULTKD A WHITK LADY AXL>
SHOT A XKGKO MAX.
The Fiend 1m IVelng Hunted by
Lbi-?* Ci-owd and WU1 H? Lynt-bfd
\Vhe? (taught.
iMany possea have been scouring
the woods around Axis. Ala., eighteen
miles from Mobile, since shortly
after one o'clock Sunday morning
for Bill Walker, a negro, who
had been loafing around the mill
town, and who criminally assaulted
Mrs. Nettie Gibson. :tl years of age.
wife of J. O. Gibson, superitendent
of a truck farm.
The negro told Mrs. Gibson a
friend was dead and that he had
been sent to accompany her to the
house, where she was wanted to .help
prepare the body. Proceeding a few
hundred feet from the Gibson home,
the negro cegan using his knife and
later accomplished his purpose. The
woman is badly cut up. Her 8-yearold
brother. Clarence Howell, hearing
her screams, ran to the scene anil
tried to protect his sister. He was
also cut by the ne;ro.
Walker, after forcing Mrs. Gibson
to give him what money she had,
left for the home of Jesse Brown,
another negro. He slipped up t
Brown's window and shot him while
asleep. Walker then forced Brown's
wife to accompany hint. They have
I not been found. Citizens of the com|
munity say that the law will net
be needed If Walker is caught.
Sheriff Drago, has his force working
on the case. T.he sheriff promised
the citizens if Walker is captured
ho would ask Mobile Count>
Courts to hold a special session to
try him. Walker's crime is a capi
tal offeuce in Alabama. Mrs. Gibson
and her brother are not fatally
out. but Jesse Brown will die. The
neighborhood for miles Is stirred up
ovei the affair.
At midnight Sunday reports reached
Mobile that the posse had caught
and shot Walker, the fiend, after he
had been strung up. So the State
will be spated the expense of a trial.
XKW (Wit IIKI.XG t'SHIK
Klfi'tHr .Motor ('mi- Srivii'* lanugo- |
rated oa Souther* K*h4.
Blectrip uiotor car service is aoa
being given oil the line of the South
ern Railway and the Blue Ridge
Railway between Oreenville and .1erson.
the intermediate ?er: i. ?->
being peruaps the most thick!*' set
tied milling section in the South, n
eluding the important noints, Pi? i
monf. Pelr-er, WMllaniston and Beltoa.
Only one motor car is how opem ed
and (*? round trips a d>v are
Ttade. Though a large number ?
stops are made the car has no trouble
in making schedule time. The
car no** in use is the property of (he
Teneral Klectric Company and will
be used uniil two ears being built
by thai company especially for the
.Southern Railway are delivered. Tienew
cars will provide seats tor a",
passenger?
The car is run by elc triclty gen
era ted b* a gtsoii e engine. The
powerful machinery is compactlv
placed rn the forward end. !t is
easily manipulated and the <-ar ihandldd
with perfect ease. The
greatest interest is f?*R throughout
the section in the motor car ai d it
is crowded every trip. The tirst da*
it was greeted by great crowds at
every sta'ion. At one place a citizen
was so auxious to get a viewthat
he left tile barber's chair runnine
to fix. alallAn ? ! '? 1*1- -
... ??.?#? III^ i.n t- ru - |
ered with lather.
The new service is in addition to
the steam trains run between (ire.-nville
and Anderson and is expected t
prove a ureal convenience. The operation
of these cars, the liist .1!
their kind in the South, will Inwatched
with sreat interest.
<.hai*TKit or ti: \<;ki?iks.
! Caused by a Neurit K\riii-.|nn oi
l.nst Saturday.
Two negroes killed, another s *r
iously slashed with a knile, av.d tn?
promoter of the excursion robbed
was part ol the results ?>t a negro
excursion from .Macon to Hawkins
ville, Oa., Saturday, when five carloads
of blacks were hro'ight *.<
Ilawkinsvlile. lia. At Oehr.in a ne
gro fell under the cars and was cut
in twnin. At the baseball game m
the afternoon Deputy Sheriff Hon ?
undertook to arrest Jim Harris, and
when two other negroes attempted
to liberate Harris, t.'iey tripped tip
Home ?h'i, from (lie bottom i f the
map. hug* ins way to freedom. A
on?* time it looked as if a riot would
be the result, but Sheriff Rogers
brought order after arresting in "v
'han a dozen negroes.
Iboiin W hen Itont Overturns.
lfarry and Alvin W'lnfield, brothers.
and well-known young men.
were drowned In Krie harbor (Pa.l
Sunday when their sail boat capslzi
ed. They had Just taken n picnic
party safely across to the peninsula
and were returning for another load
of young people, when a gust overturned
them.
*
WILL HOLD CROP
4 Sckeae Landed It Rerdrfwuze tkr
CattM bdaslry.
STAPLF TO BF. STORF.D
.a \vnith?ahe to bo Kstnblished Id
the Sections Wlui* thr Cotton In
Giowh.?The I*roJector.?? Count on
SutIdr fttvo,000,000 a Year to the
Farmer* and Spinners.
Having for Its purpose revolutionizing
the cotton industry of the
t'niled States, a conference was heldFriday
at the home of John Hays
Hammond ut Gloucester, Mass., at
which there were present besides
Mr. Hammond. Daniel J. Sully, the
New York operator, and Scot Del-J
geish of Cairo. Egypt, the representative
of the Hirsch syndicate 01
London.
Briefly, the Idea is to establish
warehouses in all parts of the cotton
producing district of uhis country
as well us in the manufacturing centres
for storing the cotton crop, mi
that instead of selling it from ha. d
to tnoutn. as has ''-en the practice
heretofore, it will be marketed
through tile entire year when desirable.
it is believed that economies
will be ({fleeted ill the marketing of
iottou. which will result in a saving
ot uot less than $*.0,000,000 .111
nually.
The General Cotton Security company,
of which Mr. Hammond Is the
piealdent, and Mr. Sully is vice-president
and general m nuier, is It
ie the organization through which
tills economy is to be effected. Tn<
ilirsch syndicate, it is understood,
has already uuderwi itten the pi
ject.
"Any formal statement of oui i
dans wo Id he premature, as we
have met only lor an iuiotnial di.-tusaion
of the possibilities of the
>lan to etiahlish warehcn.es.' was
he answer that .Messrs. Hammond,
Sully and Del glelsh hade wlu-n
luestioned concerning the results cl
their conference Friday. I'ae coaerees
wished to make It plain that
heir object in considering sueh a
plan was not to corner hut io help
the cotton raiser. Should their plan
be consummated, they said, they
hoped to bting about the standardization
ot cotton and to assist the
grower in selecting the proper seed.
\'o definite steps were taken today
nd probably none would be for sont?time,
they said.
A dispatch from Atlanta says the
project of Daniel .1. Stilly and associates
to establish bonded cotton
warehouses throughout tta- South
<nd at various manufacturing rt nteres
throughout the country, the)
entative plans of vhicit already!
hate been laid before barkers and
not ton factors of the south by AD.
-?ull\ in person, has met with a ta?
orahle re> eplion throughout the co?
ion ?rowiiR stated.
KollowiiiR tbe visit to Atlanta l.? -1
week of Messrs. Sully and I>cl gleleli.
the Atlanta Chamber of Co tunic ret
i t loptcd a resolution favoring the
I establishinent of a chain of wareI
touscs. such as Mr. Sully proposed.
'rcMiifiit Fred J. Fax ton of the
I Thamber of Commerce, >aid the sus.essful
operation of the Sully plat
vould greatly aid the outh in n
aancing 'in* cotton crop a d believed
>t would result in the saving of
Millions of dollars yearly to the cot
ton growers.
During the reeeut visit <?l Messrs.
Sully and Del sleish to Atlanta it
was announced that tin* wa eliou.se-.
A'hich it was planed to buy or built
hrough out the south in time foi
lundling much of Hit Hi 10 crop
'ould !? horded by the Hirs-h s\ n
irate of l.ondon. On the cotton
i ioi ei! in the warehouses iicgoliaDh
J ertilieates are to be issued, Ititetid1
<1 to b>- available as collateral in
ither thi? country or Kurope.
>leet After .Many Veal's.
ludge A. M. Unfile. v,f Malvern.
Vrkanxas. arrived recently and will
spend sometime with his brothei
?/?>v I* 1 r *?
.. .. ik. 11, i?uine, iii Westminster,
le has l?*'??n circuit judi;e for sixti-cm
ears. It has hcru vears shut
he brothers last met and you r<i
nit fairly imagine how good it is
o them m n.eot HKain and talk o
.he days of yore.
Tired of Life.
Kxplaiiiinu that -he was terribly
ored with life, a man named .los ph
Iteslowskv. committed suicide
it Itudapest. Ilnnirarv, at the aye
of 102. lie left a letter sta'iry th. t
fter wailing patiently for half-aeiitury
he decided to take the mater
into h's own hands.
They Itie From Ileal.
Men and animals are sncc.umbin;
o the intense heat in the vicinity ot
Calexioo. on the intense heat in the
^aloxico. on the border of Mexico
Vlight men and as many mutes ataeht
d to a cane camp are said tc
lave died since Saturday. Theri
?.-#> been Numerous prostrations be
sides.
COTTON IN BAD SHAPE
DltOl'CHT HAS Hl'irr BOTH TKAAS
AXD OKLAHOM.V.
There Ha> IWu Some Improvement
io the Other State*, Hut the Weed
1* Small.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal
published this summary of the cotton
crop condition ou Monday:
The cotton crop deterioated during
the week in Texas and Oklahoma by
reason of drought, but improved
elsewhere on an absence of rain.
The situation in Tevn? ar,a nui .
homa is fast becoming serious, seme
shedding being reported in tue driest
places.
Temperatures were very high at
most times, wJiich makes the luck
of moisture more acute. A good rain
immediately would help the crop
wonderfully, but its growth and i
fruiting has already been arrested.
The fieklB east of the Mississippi
River are now nearly clean and the
cotton will be "laid by" in a fairly
xood sta'e *f cultivation. The process
of cleaning some of them has.
however, been severe and the plant
has not yet recuperated and drought
continued for long will work great
injury. During the coming week
moderate showers would be helpful.
Reports are irregular. - There are
->ome that are indifferent and some
that are exceedingly poor. The plant
is genera!)* small and is now begluuing
to bloom freely and make bolls,
it will be cultivated much later than
usual, and if the frost date is delayed
and the August and September
moisture supply is suftiicieut to
enable the netting of bolls to continue
lat?. there is yel hope for a
.air or good crop.
Without a late autumn reports ia.licate
a very moderate out turn in
.he valley and Atlantic States.
TOOK THK KOI'K HOI TK.
lilac!. fiend found in Young (iiil's
Itoom l.yuchcd. . .
Screams of the young daughter r?f
John Wade, ten miles northeast of
Cairo, Ci.. Sunday night, resulted in
the capture ana lynching of a negro
who had ? ntered her room ai d was
discovered at her l>edsiile.
T-he negro, enteilng through a
window, made a noise iu the room
and the your g girl awoke. She it
mce t^Ran to fteream and the rneinhers
of the family rushed iuto ttie
room. The negro had no t'mo to
??svape, hot dived under the hed a.:d
lav still in an effrot to save himself.
He *.a? dragged out from h!s hiding
plate at once.
NV of the capture was sent from
house to house among tJie neighbors.
s?r d a body of men quickly
gathered. A conference was heui. !
and it was decided to punish 'he nerro
immediately. He was placed in
t wagon and o e end of a rope was
tied around hir. neck and th.- other
tie.l to a limb. The wagon wa*
| driven from under him and u voile;,
of siio's rang out.
AITOIST K1M.F1> AT ATLANTA.
! Spcrdway I tares bo on, However.
"Without Accident."
I'Vtv iu the big crowd which witncsse
l Saturday's automobile races
at l.he Atlanta speedway knew thai
two hours before the meet began a
life had been sacrificed to high speed
on the truck. As the pistol cracked
for tne tirst event the body of T. 15.
''i ll. . I Atlanta, was o?
| from the .rounds. 1 >1:?1 was a nie|
huuiciun. and his car a Marion,
?vhile o i a practice spin became itnmanip.able.
ripping tin over inn
tVet o.' t be inside fence en the first
turn of t.">e track and then t train:
wo c iinplete some: vaults. The median.rim
n.id one side ol his hca-i
unshed No one un.; near euottph
to see exactly how l.p met death,
le lived twelve minutes a.ter the
iccident. The races were run withmt
an atcident, both ama'etir and
profession at drivers participating.
Manic* His Mothcr-iu-l.atr.
At Louisville, Kv.. Henr> Knitz
bavins lived to the ripe old ape oi
7."? years Sunday upset nil traditions
>f tlie comic papers by wedding his
noiher-ln-ln w. tip years old. whih
he thermometer stood 100 degree*
n the shade. Mis bride before the
I werldiup was Mrs. Klizubebh Kuehs.
\hos-* daughter divorced Krir.tz sev rnl
years ;:go.
Three .\itiei icons Ivilbul.
N*"- was rnmiv"(1 of the ass.is
sinntion on .Inly 21 in the Ynqnii
valley near C'occorit. Mexico, of Mrs
lennie fv?oudeler. an American wtman,
and her two sons.
Slain About Whiskey.
In a quarrel over a liottle of whiskey
William M. K -ed was sh't lr
death in ("apt. Charles. Va.. by WII>
Mam Richardson, his brother-in-law
Reed was accused of not having paid
his share on the bottle.
^ ?
We niay later have occasion to tie
scribe him as described 10 us by h:i
fellow citi/a*u.
A RACE RIOT
Several Nefraes Were Killed aad Several
Wkite iea WeufaL
OCCURRED AT SLOCUM
Some Reports Uo So Far as to PI*"*
IW';?th (toll of Xcjtroes Fo? jr.
Disturbance (Quieted by the An.
ill of f? ? Trouble Br wring
for Several !) ) ?.
At least IS negroes were killed la
a racial clash lr the extreme em ern
section of Anderson coun?y, Tex.,
| Friday night and Saturday, the culmination
of an enmity between the
races brewing ~ for several weeks.
Eighteen is the number of the dead,
according to more conservative estimates
which have reached Palestine
from the isolated section where the
disorder occurred. Other reports
place the total fatalities at between
HO and 40.
It was reported that several white
men were either kitted or wounded,
but each rumor as to casualties
among the whites has met an auauthoritalive
denial. Saturday night
troops reached Palestine and immediately
began an overland march of
about 23 miles to the sceue of the
rioting. The arrival of the soldiers
had a wholesome effect, and t-he bI'll
ge rents are reported to be dispersing.
Further bloodshed will in all
probability be averted.
The fir*l advices of the disturbance
reached Palestine Saturday morning.
Officers were sent to the scene, local
.inimunitiou stores order *d to suspend
sales and the saloons closed. It
was quickly apparent, however, that
the situation was beyond the control
of the local officers, and troo|>s were
asked for. A company of militia under
command of Captain Codfre>
[Fowler, former United States arm*
j officer and more recently engaged in
Nicaragua in the cause of the insurgents.
dispatched from Marshal,
Texas, arrived Saturday night.
The rioting began near the village
of Slocum. Several reasons are assigned
as the cause for the racial
feeling. First, the refusal of a negro
to pay an obligation on which a
white farmer stood sponsor. This
was seme days ago. Later a white
man received notice that he should
>erforin road work under the supervision
of a ne^ro The white maa
refused.
loiter came reports of secret meetings
among t.ho negroes and an alleged
confession of a negro that the
I murderer of the man in question.
' lames Spurger, and his family, was
planned. The situation reached a
climax, however, when a negro was
discovered advancing on Spurger
from the rear, armed with a shot
gun. He was trailed for some distance
and shot by a posse when he
refused to surrender.
With the shooting of the negro
hose of both races armed themselves
md the rioting began late Friday
light. Throughout the right the
uepting of parties of the two races
was the signal for a resort to arms,
'arn titles attending many of the er.ounters.
Finally the negroes were
"riven to the cover of a heavily timbered
section and the crowd of
w hites, about 200 in number formed
llltO posses and followed sen?t<?vii?.r
| ??\?*r a wide area. As the small
hands met they clashed and, according
to those returning to Palestine in
each instance the negroes were forced
to give groud and finally disappearing
*
It AII, ItOAI> SHOPS BURN*.
Carolina and Northwestern* Sutler
Prom Bla/.e.
The shops of the Carolina andNorthwestern
Railway located at
Chester were burned Friday morning.
The tlames spread rapidly and
in a short time the whole building,
including the engine room, machine
| shop, car shop, storehouse and sttaj
;.ion room were enveloped. The result
was total d?*siructlon oi these
lepnrtinents. with all their contents.
One first class passenger coach was
likewise destroyed. Of two passenier
locomotives in the shop, the
wood work of one was burned off.
the other is badly damaged, the
t.M.-h iimi wnreis netng a11 thai is
left. The loss is estiinatetl to reach
more titan $100,000 and the insurance
will but pnrtia My cover t.he
loss. *
Cigarette Smoker* I tarred.
J My an order issued by Chief K.
I O. Mesnar. of the Fire Itepartinen',
I of Canton. (>.. no cigarette smoker.*
; need apply for jobs under hint. H?
I admits they may have brains, hut
claims they lack nerve and physical
i stamina.
toying Farmer Killed.
Near Waco, Texas as the result of
an impromptu sparring match Robt.
V. Gilber. a farmer, is dead and his
opponent has been arrested. Gilbert
was knocked down during the
; bout and his neck was broken b>
the fail.
THE BRUTAL MURDER
OF A UTTTlK GIRL IS *Qt~ICKLY
AVKNGKD BY CTTtZKXS.
Ih#. Fl * !>? Lajr In Wait fo* Ibrfr
Little Victim.?Hf?r Body Koua4
im m. Pool ?*# W*!??
Two negroes, pleading vainly for
their lives, were strung up T>y am
infuriated mob between Honlfay aud
Dady. Fla., Saturday afternooD. and
while they were dangling from the
ropes were perforated by the bullets
of from fifty to seventy-five white
men of the surrounding countvy.
The crime which caused the lynching
is one of the most brutal ever
known in that county. The two negroes
confessed to murdering little
Hostile Morrison, the 12-year-old
daughter ol Mrs. -Mary Morrison,
who lives near Dady, in the extreme
western end of Holmes county, whose
body was found Saturday morning
in a pool of water between the Morrison
homestead and the little school
at Dady.
The little girl started for school
Friday morning alone, the first intimation
of a tragedy being when
she failed to come home iu the afternoon.
After a reasonable time
had elapsed a searching party was
formed and, after a quest lasting
through Friday ulght. found the
mangled remains of the little yirl in
a pool of water in a swamp sear the
girl's home.
Her body was ba-dlv mangled and
the shrubbery iu the vicinity told of
the one-sided fight of the girl against
the two negro fiends. After committing
the niuider the neg-rees dragged
the body into a nearby swamp
and threw ber remains there, wheis
they were found i>> the Searching
party.
As soon as the significance of the
find dawned en the residents, the
searching party was transformed into
a mob searching for the etilprite.
The sheriff of lionifay was notified
and he. together wiuh twe assistants,
went to Dady where the twe eegroi-n
were already arrested. A oanfosslon,
giving some ef the grewiwme
details of the criminal assault and
subsequent murder were made by
the twe men and feeling was runliln
.. h; .k
uifill mil rooi neaos prevented
a lynching on the sspet.
The sheriff saw that the only
thing to he dore was to vwsh OUe two
men to the county jail, a?d a.f once
started out from Dady. out the itbidents.
who at this time wero arignienfed
h> the arrivals of el b? ks.
got wind oi the sheriff s plan and
started in pursuit and overtook sh?
sheriff on a lonely road, teryowiring
him and taking the rwo ?egl'?ei
to the n?aresr tree, ropes new already
provided for sad it was only
a short time before the negroes wero
Btvun; up.
The two negroes were employed ?
a turpentine camp and wore know
to be of a bad character. They, accord
ing to their confession, laid
along the road io wait fo? the little
girl, who would be going to
school in the morning. Thru was after
they had looked around and
found that there was no white men
in the vicinity. The details of tn*
tragedy are ertremely gruesome
The sheriff of Holmes county arrived
in Honifay Saturday night and
told the full details of the crime,
as far as he knew it and of 'ho
lynching. .'wording to the sheriff
the mob was in such a nic.od that it
could not be controlled, and be readily
saw that white hlood would be
spilled if he did not turn the negroes
over to them. No further trouble
Is apprehended by the nheriff
WANT Til Kilt SIIAJtf-..
The Xegroes Are Holding a I'olitjiul
War Ounce.
At Washington the negro Republicans
are war dancing beca'ise no
patronage plums have come their
way. Various organs of t.he negroes
are teemir.g with unpleasant things
about the administration. Complaint
Is made ihnt the President has tailed
to give a single original appointment
to the colored wing of the party.
Also, that he has actually deposed
a large number of colored office-holders
and gi\?:n their jons to
whites. The number of places so
lost is placed at 7f? to I On. They
are talking of reprisals. In Indiana
they are threatening to vote the socialist
ticket and also lor Heverldge,
because lie has fallen out with President
Taft,
Made I'ust Tme.
With contract requirements calling
for a speed of only 28 knots an hour,
the torpedo boat destroyer. Roe made
1 1 *
..i minis in standardization 'tests
off the Delaware breakwater course
according to a report received at the
navy department from the-board if
inspection. She burns oil as fuel.
Mifts Death I'nder Tmin.
Sacrificing his life by gallantry in
picking up a handkerchief dropped
i on the tracks by a child unidentified,
e sebwav emninvee wis marefed to
death under a train at One hundred
? 1 thirty-fourth street station iu New
' York Wednesday.
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