I VIVID STORY
I Ytnf Lad Tells of His Shipwreck and
I Fierce Sattle for Lite
AMID RAGING WATERS
>ed, ttii< Twelve Year Old Sob oX.
the Late ("apt. K. O. Miller, of the
i Wrecked Schooner Converge, Telln
Ulo IV.... < I. unit
HI* Own K .rap?.
The Augusta Chronicle says the
body of Capt hi. G. Miller, of Hephzibah,
Ga.. commander of the threemasted
schooner William W. Converse,
which was wrecked In the recent
hurricane, 30 miles below St.
Augustine, Fla.', 'has never been recovered.
Shortly after the vessel
went to pieces a body drifted ashore
that wan thought to be that of Capt.
Miller, but later the body was found
to be that of another victim of the
treat storm.
The late Capt. Miller was a prominent
citisen of Hephzibah. Ills
shore-leaves were all spent at his
home in Itochmond county. He was a
prominent Mason and his fellow
tpembers of the order were active
la the efforts to find his body af.'ar
the wreck. Hut all hope Is now abandoned
that the sea will ever give
op the body of this man who had
spent his life In Its service.
On his last trip Capt. Miller was
accompanied by his son, Fred 'Miller,
It years old. The boy had a terrible
experience in the storm 'n which
his father, the mate aud a seaman
lost their lives. Fred Miller was
brought to his home In Hephzibah
last Friday night a week ago. 1Mb
story of his experience Ls a thrilling
taLe of the sea.
The vessel ran into the hurricane
off Savannah early Tuesday morning
last week. The Converse was i
staunch schooner and Capt. Miller
held to his course, believing, no
doubt, that this boat could weather
it as she had weathered many before.
He had a cargo of coal aboard
and was bound for Cuba. The hurricane
Increased in fury and when
about 30 mlle9 below St. Augustine
the vessel was blown upon the rocks
about a mile and a half off he Florida
coast. The waves wee rolling
mountain-high and the boat began
to break up almost immediately.
Oapt. Miller ordered all hands to don
life-preservers and take to the wutei,
a* no boat could be launched tu
such a sea.
Captain Miller himself prepared
his son for the terrible Journey and
after telling the boy to keep his ey '6
on the shore and not look behind
him the captain saw that he was
safely started upon his trip ami th-?:i
stood back until every one of his man
had left. Then the captain abandoned
the doomed ship.
'Fred Miller says he will remember
that 6hort but awful journey
until hla dying day. The boy is .in
excellent swimmer, but no man's
strength could buffet those waves
and live. It was every man for himself.
The life-preserver kept the
boy's head above water and then h"?
had all he could do to keep his
breath from being literally pounded
out of him by the raging, roaring
seas.
Though his father had ordered
him not to look behind him the boy
could not resist the Impulse to loo?
back just once. He saw his father
battling with the waves a short distance
behind. Captain Miller wuv;d
his hand encouragingly to his sou
and that was the last the boy ever
saw of his father, for just then a
monster wave came over and engulf
ed them all.
Fred Miller felt himseil going
down, clown, down. Ho no longer
heard the airoan and roaring of the
form, hut In his ears was a deafening
humming that no words can describe
He felt as though he were
enmeshed In some giant threshing
machine that was ripping and tearing
him to pieces.
He tried to hold his breath but
ha was under water so long, hours
It seemed to him. that he was forcer
to swallow salt water until. he
feared he would burst. He guve up
*11 hope of ever breathing again,
but he kept kicking and struggling
to escapo the maelstrom that ha 1
him in its deadly grip.
At last the wave passed over anu
his body shot to the surface. His
life-preserver, even hie Jacket, had
been torn from him. But the great
wave robbed him of his father, and
which had almost torn all the doming
from his own body, had also, is
If shamed by the havoc it had
wrought, borne the boy much nearer
the shore.
Now hla ability a* a swimmer
served him well, and In spile of his
bruises ho was able, by swimming
and clinKin* to bits of wreckage. in
keep himself ntloat untii rescued ay
the life-boat from a noarby station.
This life-boat rescued all the men
Id the water except the captain aud
the mate, who could not be found.
?>d one seaman whose brains were
beaten out by a heavy timber just
as the reecurers were making toward
bias.
MADE BOLD ATTACK
CAIJiKD TO MIS DOOR AMI
KXOCKTD UNCONSCIOUS.
The Object of the Attach l? Supposed
to " be Robbery and KotUiui i
Klse.
A dispatch from Gaffney w.ys that
plure was a?os with excitement
Thursday night over a bold attempt
to rob and poestbly murder Will 1.
Francis, superintendent of the public
schools of that city. It seems from
~ I * I I
" uiu v cwi uc ivai uuvi */? iur ouuaiiuu j
that Professor Francis was Bitting ?n
hiB roora at his home alone counting
over a big roll of Confederate
money.
The blinds In the room were turned,
affording a clear view' to any
one who might be passing. It is
evident that some perosn or persons!
were outside the window and saw
the money. They went to the hack
of the house and knocked on the
door.
Prof. Francis, with his pistol in
his hand, walked to the roar and
opened the door, stepping out on the
steps. When he did so some one
hit hini on the head, knocking him
to the ground. He was knocked
unconscious and then an attempt
was evidently made to cut him, as
his beh and suspenders are cut in
two places.
He soon regained consciousness
and he heard the party climbing over
a back fence. He shot at them
three times and then arose, going
over to the residence of Mr. it. A.
Jones, next door, and when the door
was opened fell into the house. H<
has now aunost recovered and is able
to walk, although his head is badly
laccrateJ and bruised.
Oflict is were summoned lrom town
and bio dhounds were secured and
now a strenuous search is beiuu
made by the officers and a posse of
citizens. Mr. Francis Is unable to
state whether there was more than
one ass ilaut or not. He cannot sny
what he was struck with. The blood
uuuuun imik- I I1IIK1II luc irail UUU [ill'
mlscrea'.na may he captured.
TIIK UAO<iA(iK LAW.
Kuilroa.l <'ononis-, loners Will Kn
force It.
The railroad commission w 11
strictly nforce the law with reference
to the loading and unloading
of bagg go at all towns of over 600
Inhabitants. A circular calling attention
to the act passed by the general
assembly with referene to the
loading of baggage has been seal
to all o: the roads of the State.
The ."oliowing is the section referred
lo: "All railroad companies
shall p: ovide such means or appliances
as may he necessary to secure
the car?-nil handling and prevent Injury
to baggage. At all stations
where i o proper appliances are supplied
the baggagemnster shall have
such assistance from the train hands
or others as may be necessary to
handle -be bagtige without injury to
same. That all Junctional points
and towns of over 500 Inhabitant),
sufficient trucks be furnished to load
and unload the baggage. *
TIIK l*AKt<3KST STBA-MSHIP.
The Ol.i tuple Whs l*auitchcd in Ireland
laist Week.
At th - Immense shlnhullitin * vur.tv
at Belfast, Ireland, last week, wa?
launch* .1 the world's largest steamship,
tl.e Olympic, of the White Star
line. '1 he tniinense craft, to be used
in carrying passengers across the Atlantic
between New York city and
Southhampton, is 822 feet long, has
a breadth of 92 feet and a h* ig.it
from the keel to the top of the cap
tuin's house of 105 feet. There are
eleven steel decks and 15 water-tight
bulkhe: ds. lu the ship 2,000.000
steel r!\eis. weighing in nil 1.200
tons, h: vo been employed to bind the
massivt st? el plates in 6 soring the
greates stability; and the rudder on
the ves .el weighs 10o tons, yet will
be moved by electricity almost as
lightly as a feather.
t U'KKI) HOY'S DKATIl.
Hit Willi u Potato Over the Heart
by His Father.
I'eeu .:ir accident resulted :n the.
death < two children near Winston
Salem, S C.. on lust Saturday. While
gatehnaK his crop of Irish potatoes.
J. W. ilennotf threw one towards i
basket, hut the tuber struck his Iyear-olo
eoy. standing nearby, ju*i
over tfc?- heart. The hoy died before
a phyAU'ian could be summoned. The
four-year-old daughter of J. li. EverbaTt.
a Sew Vernon farmer, was ki!led
w-ben her skull was crushed between
he barn and the bub ot a
wagon -* her father was putting up
his tec in.
Kred Miller Is recovering from
biti Injuries at bis home In llophtibah.
" an boy's body is a mass ol
bruise* and cuts, but none of bis
Injurle- will prove fatal, and be will
be abb to be about in a few Juy*
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FOULLY SLAIN.
Negro Fern Hand Charged With Hardering
a Floreoce Farmer
IN HIS COUNTRY HOME
Four Load** from Hhotffun Kind
Lodgment tn Victim's Budjr.?
Killing (krurs in DcmI Han's liesMence
where Hiajrw Kvldentlj Lay
Id Waiting for His Iteturn.
A dispatch to The News and Courier
from Florence says to be foully
murdered within the confines of his
own home was the fute of Mr. Kllhu
M. Moye, a well known and highly
respected farmer and citizen of the
Ebenezer section, about ten o'clock
Friday night, and Clarence 11am, a
ginger-cake colored negro, about 3 U
years old. is in jail, charged by the
coroner's jury with being the mau
who committed the heinous crime,
and using Moye's own gun to kill
his victim with.
The news of the horrible deed
wjs telegraphed in to Florence at
an early hour Saturday morning
to the sheriff, asking that he come at
once to Ebettezer and bring with uiru
Coroner Cooper, as Mr. Moye had
been found deud on his piazza, supposedly
from the hands of a murderer.
Sheriff Bureli and Coroner Cooper
hustlly went to the scour, and the
news as telephoned In proved to be
a reality. The news spread througnout
the Kt?enezer section with ngntning-like
rapidity, and It was only a
short time before hundreds of people
had gathered about the Moye home,
with the hope of guiuing some information
a.- to how he mot de. th in
such a foul and dastardly maimer.
.All the while from the time tie- new*
became known until the coioner's
Jury had been empanelled, t.ie entii?
neighborhood was wrought up and
there Is no telling what might have
happened had it been known at that
time that Clarence Haui, t lie negro
now in jail, had had auythtug to do
with the taking of the life of Klibu
Moye.
The Sheriff had learned that Clar
euee Hum had 'been in tiie employ of
Mr. Move some weeks ago and had
been discharged because he failed to
work to suit his employer. Luat
week, however, Mr. .\ioye agreed to
tuke Ham back and i>ut him to work
Saturday morning Hani %va* the only
negro on the plantation who. failed
to show up, and Sherifl (lurch, it.
order to see what there was In him,
nut him up before the juty to testify
and lie stated that he had left th?
place Into Friday and went to a woman's
house by the name of Ethel
Wilds Friday night, where he stayed.
While he was testifying, Deputy
Sheriff llurrell was sent to the Wilds
woman's house to bring her also as
a witness and while at the house
Deputy liarrell thought he would
search tho premises.
He found iu a bureau drawer s
coat belonging to Mr. Move and a
pair of trousers. These he took
ilong with him to tho imiuoet, and it
proved to be the right evidence on
which the murder could be laid at
Ham's door, for it was tho coat that
Mr. Move wore Friday uight. and
tho one ho had Just divested himself
of a lew moineuts before tho
killing took place, as was sworn to
by Mr. Harold Cole, who had accompanied
Mr. Move to TimmonsvHle to
a protracted meeting. Letters and
other paper of Mr. Moye s were
found in the pockets, going still further
to prove Mr. Colo's testimony,
and lending to show that Hani is
the criminal .
Mr Moye was married several
j.eirs ago to Miss Minnie llitrvHi,
vv ho preceded him some eighteen
months a^o He ?> ?? " '
_ _ _ in Hi
.done. excepting when his maiden sister
visited him. Ho was a son of 106
: ?le Wash Move, of old Darlington,
mil Is survived by one brother. \lr.
Theodore A Moyo, and two slBtets,
vl'vs Mary Move nnd Mrs Sarah
Mann, all of Florence county, together
with a large and wide circle of
nonr relatives and hosts of friends.
The horrible murder has been the
talk of the town and county, for an
the people knew Kllhu Moyo. and
they were terr bly shocked * hen the
news was fitst hunde.l out.
Clarence Ham. the supported slayer
of Mr. Mok. Ifi behind the bars
of the Florence Count; prison and
stands ehariM d ?>v fl>?
x-.-.wu.-. n ju I jr
the slayer of Mr. Moye. Hail it
not hnv? been that a petition wah
quickly circulated immediately after
the inquest, calling upon Solicitoi
W. H Wells, by Mr. John YtcSweon,
of Tlminonavllle, unking the Governor
to order a special term of tne
Criminal Court in the county to t-y
Ham. nad the cooler beads of those
present, there ?? no telling but what
H ati's bod) would now In* ewirtj
ing from a tree In the forest near
Mr. Moye's home. All Interested,
however, agreed to awult the Cour''a
verdict and ilaui lives
After next Tuesday Toddy will be a
has been. He will he disastrously
i beaten in New York.
WANT A MONK
WHO IS CHAKtiKD WITH SO.MK
TKKIUH1.K CKLMKS.
Ik?tectives Hunt in Tim* Countries,
Cloweljr Wstchlns tor the MUslnfl
Monk to Arrest Hliu.
The Police of Germany. Austria,
and Russia are searching for a fugitive
Paulist monk, who is charged
with the robbery of precarious stones
valued at $3,000,000. and the murder
of his brother, a postman. The
robbery took pluce a year ago at
Czestochowu, Russian Poland. Tne
church there contains an image ot
the Virgiu and Child ascribed to St.
Luke. The image once belonged to
the mothed of Constantine the Great,
and has been at Czestochowa since
1382.
Miraculous powers are ascribed to
It, and myriads of pilgrims have visited
it during the past six centuries
Some 3OQ.000 Popes go there each
year. The Image had been deoorut
ed with precious objects of vast
worth, presented by Popes. Kmperors
and Kings. The Virgin's crown.
I given by Pope Clement in 171b. was
valued at $.">0,000. A rope of pearls
given by Queen fledwig, of Poland,
w is worth hundreds of thousunds of
poundB.
There was a painful sensation
throughout Poland when the news
of the robbery of $3,000,000 worth
of the treasure was made kuown
The missing monk, who was attain
ed to a Czestochowa inona?t???-i ...
I yaid to have boon Inst beard of at
I Lodz. He is stated to have own livI
lng rioutously with a woman at WarI
cuw and other towns.
I The discovery of a body in the r!v
er Warta adds to the mystery. TUa
man who had evidently murdered.
1 was found sewn up In a sol'u He
I proved to be u postman, brother 01
I the monk. The public proseeutoi
I has nie awhile ascertained that the
monastery authorities nils let" the po
I lice in their attempts to trace tue
I authors both of the rolvbery and th*
I iiostman's death. The monastery
I hns now been officially sealed and e.\I
haustive Investigations nro taking
I place. Several :uoukr are under arI
rest. *
I MBKTi.Nti WILL 1SK HKIJV
|lte\i?(il Sen ires itl Fair (arouiMl* on
Thursday.
I That a great meet lug will be hoel
in the fair grounds on Thursday
I night of the state fair wus the uu1
nouncement made Friday by th"
1 committee of ministers who for over
I three weeks have been conducting
I tho revival services in Columbia.
J The first meetings were held by all
I the congregations simultaneously,
leach church securing its workers,
I and leaving to the other churches
I the matter of selecting preachers,
I etc. With the close of these meetI
ings Sunday, it was announced that
I meetings would be held In the state
I house. These meetings will be con
Itiuued. but the ma.^s meeting wlil be
J held at the fair grounds, and it 's
{proposed to secure a larger hall for
jtho other Services In Columbia durj
lng the week. *
WOMAN'S ACT OF 1IKHOISM.
She May Hie After SavIiik Her >IiGCicy.
from it Fire.
At Albany, On.. LUlle Preston, a
negro vuman, employed by Mr... l.??
Whidby. wife of u local nievc! , at. In
near death, after having s \?-<l uer
1 mistress from death by tl;.ate bunday
nb'ht. Mrs. Whldb dress was
I limited at an open grate hint sue ran
into the ,-ard of Ler home. The ne?.ro
woman overpowered her, druggod
h?T *o the bath room, nd extinguished
the flume*. Mrs Whidby
is very seriously burned, but will recover.
The negro woman's hands
wore burned to a qrlap and she is
badly burned elsewhere.
INFANT! LB PA KA LYSIS PI CALK.
Klfortx to Ascertain Cause and Treti
inent Futile.
A d'.?i>.?tch from Providence. K I.,
pays siiK-e June I, *05 capes of Infantile
purnlynis have b. on reported to
the ft't'.o board of Health. Of this
number '.'3 have, resulted ?u death.
Nine other suspected cases are being
watched. Every effort to deter
mino the cause, treatment and cur?
of the malady has proved practically
futile. Not only have children been
afflicted, but many adults have been
victims and several have died. It
was thou :ht that adults w ere tmtnume
from th?> dlstoase *
tftxil \V?r Shell Explode
A hombshd? which h d fair, half
^buried since civil war days In the
| vsrd of a nopro. Oeorpe Towns, ;>f
! I>akon. Oa., within a short diptance
(of the old breastworks. exploded
j Friday w-hen struck with a piece of
(Iron In the hands of Tow nV grand'
sou. The child's mother was alight,
l> hurt and the clothing of two boya
j standing Oearby caught Ore *
"HELLO, YANK!"
i
Two Brother* Meet on the Battery in
Charleston Very Recently
AFTER FIFTY YEARS
A Grand Army Man Waw Gazing at
Fort Sumter and Was Accosted by
n Coofodrrote Veteran and lteeognltion
Follows .in the Old Soldiers
St Hike Hands.
To meet one's brother suddonly
by the merest accident arter a separation
of tifty years is a thing thai
bus happened to very few people on
earth, yet that Is whnt befell Capt.
Itobort Oruhnm. of this city, not
long ago says the News and Courier.
Capt. Graham Is a well known citizen
of Charleston, being manager of the
American Brewing Company, of this
city, and formerly clerk of Court.
He was among the earliest to enter
the Confederate service after Soul i
Carolina hud seceded from the Uniou.
and ho Berved in the Washington
Artillery with courage und fidelity
throughout the war. He was also
a prominent member of tne South
Carolina Jockey Club lu the obi
horse racing days In this State. The
story of tho dramatic reunion of
1 Capt. Graham and his brother. Samuel,
who served In tho Union array
and who Is now a resident of liayonne,
N. J., is told as follows In tho
New York Telegram:
Parted noarly a haf-century, !
four years of which they spent ou
opposite sides of the blazing, shotto
in battlefields of the civil war, two
brothers have just been reunited by
' t chance meeting In a Southern city,
but* of them lived in Uayonuo, N. J.,
the other in Charleston, S. C., ev^r
since the early eighties, and both
have achieved success.
Mr. Samuel Graham, who lives a.
No. 411 Fast 4 2nd. street. Uayonn),
Ik a grand Army man, with a most
brilliant record of service in the
Union army during the civil war.
Naturally proud of the organization
ii wqicq ne is u member, be wear*
its button wherever he goes.
On a recent visit to Charleston,
S. C., the home of his childhood, he
was standing on the Battery looking
across the bay at Fort Sumtur nncl
mi.sing on the stirring events which
occurred there neurly half a ceutur>
ago. He was suddenly shipped on
the shoulder, hb a genial Southern
voice exclaimed:
"Hello, there, Yank!"
"Hello, there, Johliny Rob!" answered
Mr. Graham, turning with a
smile to greet the tine looking Confederate
Veteran who had interrupted
his musings.
Both smiling, they extended their
hands and exchanged a heart) greeting
Then, as eacn man wan about to
make some commonplace remark,
the smile died on his face. Their
looked ut each other's face with a
curious interest, which was uot with
out a touch of awe. Memories of
days long past surged Into the minds
of both, and trembling hands wore
raised as the simultaneous ejaculaeoi.fi
ejaculations -sprang font thoir
tlon sprang froui their lips.
" Robert!"
"Samuel!"
"Brother!'
Reunited after flftw years, the bra
thers, who as boyn had parted, oue
to
fight for the Confederacy, the oth
or for tlie Union, foil into each owner's
arms.
Mr. Giabam, of Itayonne. wan taken
forthwith to the old taomestoiu
by hie brother Robert, and 'n a j
union with his relatives there, mark,
ed by all the warmth and affection
which has usade Southern hospital!
ty famous, he on joyed a most teem- !
! m-able visit.
j With the firing of Fort Snruter.
thu brothers" rilatione were abruptly
severe 1 Robert, the shier, t.o-n
, only nineteen years old. enlisted in
the ranks o! the So rh under Gen. I
TUauregavu and !ai ,-r touh rough
out the war w|*h (ion Wade *fn:np (
ton Samuel was onl> ti:i?* i. yearold
at the outbreak of Lost .inw but
in tin- second year of ;n" * :
he enlisted tn the s-trh regin.ent o
New York
Mr Clrnhftrr. ot Huyontu >* the;
distinction ot being oue of .1 dr?/.-. i.
survivors of a party of two thotaad
who stormed a rebel battery at tre 1
j battle of Williamsburg The pari; '
I 'A* 14 * Olriitfkdl finnihli. ? -> ? - *
n*i?uAiiilti|*<1 I ?> l.itt VH '
my's guns. a mere handful, of whim j
he was jix, eat-aplng rolling d'? u ]
i t!?< hill torn by the deadly Or* of
, the Southern artillery.
At th? close ol the war the bro>
lh? rs went their separate w.iys ai?.l
I never met until the riramntt: rvun?ion
of h few days ago at Cmrl?f?*un
| Hohert, the elder brother hramo
1 prominent as a breeder of throuorgbhred
hor?ws In Charleston and achlev 1
' ??<3 consider',Sl?* suroeea a.' u dealer
| Samuel learned the printers trade,
''.n Ne.w York and worked at dlfieront
tiroes on most of the dnlly newspapers
of the metropolis, amonx
' them the K-veninx Telegram H; was I
a reporter and proof-reader ou ' he |
old Kxprese when Amos Caromlnxs, .
i one time Representative In Conitrw.
was lu charge of that lournal Huh
BREAKS THE RECORD
FOR GROWING CORN O.N ONK
ACT.K OF RAND BY BOY8.
A Marlboro County Roy IVxIbm^
Over Two Hundred and TweotyKigtit
UusheLs on One A<h?.
The Htate says another world's record
for corn production hSa been
broken In South Carolina. A ioyear-old
boy residing In the Pee I>eo
section of the 8tate nan produced
228 bushels and three pocks of corn
on one acre of land. Besides the money
that he will receive from his crop
he is to get $600 in prizes and a trip
to Washington.
The unknown hoy. for his name
will not be announced for eeveral
days from the Washington ofllee of
the United States furm deuionbtra
lion work is a member of one of the
hoy's corn clubs and his record Is
sworn to by witnesses. The olhciat
announcement and the boy's own story
of how he secured such a marvelous
yield will be printed In The State
within the next several days.
CThe unknown boy has broken au
world's records for production of
i corn by a boy and he is v'.ihin 27
J bushels of the great yield of 266
bushels by Drake, the Marlboro
I county farmer. The boy is the sou
of a minister and the record-break |
ing yield was grown upon the pur
sonage land. His story of how he
accomplished such an unusual feat m
of exceptional human interest.
The boy grew the coru under the
direction of the United States farm
demonstration work, of which Ira W.
Williams is at the head in this Sm?e.
The largest yield list year was l?>2
1-2 bushels, which was secured by
Baaoombe I'Nher. lie will send ?a
excellent exhibit to the South Atlantic
States corn exposition, whb-n
is to be held in Columbia from t>eceinber
6 to 8.
Stt'lVIU IV/' ~
- i nr. AMiKOKS.
\ White lUscul Arrested White At
ti Xejeni Church.
j A dls(>alrh to the News and CouI
Her say* a white man was arrested
Wednesday in a negro church about
| a mile below Cross Hill, expiating
to the negroes a great scheme or
lending them money at 5 per cent
interest.
It seems that a man was irxuud
some two or three months ago and
arranged everything with the ne
groes. and this men was to receive
the commissions, and the money was
to be let to the negroes la'er He
told the negroes elj:- tuo'/.w'-Olio
told the negroes a woman died a
the North some time ago aud left
$.">0,000,000 to be loaned to the ne
groes at f> p>*r cent interest, but they
were to pay as a matter of gooo
faith so much money dov n haforo
the money could be gotten, according
to their rating, according to the
property they had, some paying
$13.25, $:o, $30 and $50
He was Just about ready to receive
their money when Officer Kane
and Policeman Ko??n arrested hiui
He is being tried now before Magistrate
Culberson, at Cross Hill. Ho
was at a negro church Tuesday, and
.L is said took in a good deal of
money from the negroes, 'l'be man
had an appointment Thurudav at *
large negro church Burnt1 live miles
from Cross Hill, where he wouia
doubtless hove gotten luore money,
.?k the negroes ure "well to do "
WANTKI) TO lllOAK TtUtlfJIK).
Hut It ll?**<(iltc<t in the I tenth of ?
l?'ttrn?er Nearby.
The IiOitiKvlllo and Nashville railroad
agent at Elkuiout, Ala., placed
a target torpedo on the tra<*k Satur
day afternoon," Jr.st to lie.tr it explode."
A passenger train, south
betid, exploded the torpedo T. VV
Wells, well known farmer of Heeat
ur county, was waiting for tha
i in to go home when the torpedo
-truck him near the heart, killing
hi.): instantly. The agent who plac
d 'he torpedo on the track was w?t
in lured.
)*c u-ntly Mr (Jraham opened a
printing establishment ol his own at
Vo 20 Frankfort street, New York
He has lived in Hayonnc more
!hr?n thirty year- and has held nearly
every oUlce within the gift of that
rlty These Include terms as school
'trustee, councilman, police romml* doner
health cor.iuiisslonur und juotice
of the pence He is now em
fdov.xt le ?-"
, , " ?? " ~i?kiiin uriiiirimeni at
jioiicc* headquarters
AmonK 'he coiiD f 1?*bs incidents
?hich Tnad?- his Southern visit (lellttbtfol
to hln? Mr ?;ratiRm says
nofh!n? pleased him morn than ?.
greeting bo received from s?*v?n
beanUfnl yrmiiK Southern nortifii,
<rh?. ?I'lfomrd h'n. with the cry
"Thcre'r our llriclr Sara! *
To Ms delighted surprise ho found
that they were all nrloos.
Mr. Ornhinn Is ."till Id excellent
health and does not appear to bo
Althlo a decode of the age of 80.
to v hlch ho confesses. He t? onto
of the be?t known and cao*i popular
I'Mtdroti of l!ttyonn?