Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, December 15, 1910, Image 3
A GREAT NATION
Orer Oje Hundred and One Million Under
the S:ars and Stripes.
WHAT EACH STATE HAS
llMra Are Nearly Ninety-Two MMHon
People in the United States Pro^v
and Over Ten Million People in t!ie
Philippine*. Porto Rico and Other
Island*.
In the United States and all Its
po?esslons the Stars and Stripes protect
101.100.000 souls. This enormous
number is the official estimate
of the United States bureau of cencus,
announced today in connection
with tho population statistics of the
country as enumerated in the thirteenth
decennial census.
It includes the Philippines, \5amoa.
Guam, Hawaii. Alaska and the Panama
Canal Zone. Within its borders
on tho North American continent,
exc'usive of Alaska, the United States
has a population of 91,972,266 Inhabitants.
During the last ten years
the States of the Union had an aggregate
Increase In population of 15,177,691,
which amounts to 21 per
cent over the 1900 figures.
Rin Oft fhd fl rat rononc x%r oo folran I r*
1790, the country has grown twentyIre
times as large, the population
then having been 3,929,214 slightly
larger than the present population of
the Btate of Texas. The growth of
the country was greater than haR
heea expected by the expert statisticians
who have closely watched
the progress of the country's population.
Census Director Durand says:
"The States showing the lowest
rates of Increase, falling below 10
g>er cent, are Qve In the great Central
section of the country, namely.
Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana
and Tennessee; the three Northern
Krw England States and Maryland
and Delaware.
"The States showing the next higher
increase between 10 and 20 pecent
lie adjacent to those showing
the lowest rate and include, in the
Middle West, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Illinois. Minnesota, Nebraska
and Kansas, and on the other hand
a great belt of Southern States,
namely, Virginia, North Carolina.
Sorth Carolina. Georgia, Alabama
and Mississippi.
"States which show an increase
trom 20 to 3 0 per cent are, for the
most, the great manufacturing
States, Including Massachusetts,
Rhode Island. Connecticut, New
Torh, Pennsylvania and West Virt
guile, the only other States Increasing
between 20 and 30 per cent are
A-kar.sas and Texas.
"The States which show an Increase
exceeding 30 per cent are,
kT T
j me c*v.c|>iiuu ui i>?:w jersey anu
Florida, all located In the West and
make up a solid belt comprising
fully one-third of the area of the
~Y United States. South Dakota, Colorado
and Utah had rates of Increase
between 30 and 50 per cent, while
North Dakota, Wyoming, Oregon,
California, New Mexico and Arizona
Increased between 50 and 100 per
cent, and Oklahoma, Idaho and
Washington more than 100 per cent.
The greatest change in rate of
growth is found In the three Pacific
coast states, and Nevada and New
Mexico, all of which grew far faster
during the last ton years than during
the precedtug period.
"The population of the Middle Atlantic
State* Is 19,315,892 and the
South Atlantic States I2.194.89f>.
The percentage of Increases of the
South Atlantic States Is 11.84.
"The fact that the rate of increase*
for the country as a whole
was greater from 1900 to 1910 than
. during the preceding decade wag due
entirely to the added rate of growth
Is the Middle Atlantic, Mountatu and
Pacific divisions. In all bIx of the
Other divisions tho increase during
the last decade wns less than during
(the previous one."
The following Is tho population r>y
the States:
Alabama. 2,138,093
Aria oik! 204,354
Arkansas 1,574,449
California 2.377.T.49
'?> .Colorado 799,024
&tK/hectlcut 1.114 7f.fi
Delaware 202.322
District of Columbia.. .. 331.060
Florida. . .. 7.11,139
Georgia 3,609,121
Idaho.. - 326,694
Illinois 5,638.691
Indiana 2,700,876
Iowa 2,224,771
Kansas .. 1,690,9 19
Kentucky . . 2,289,90.7
Louisiana .a .. 1,606.438
Maine 742,371
Maryland 1,295.346
Massachusetts .. 3,336,4 16
Michigan.. ... 2,810,173
Minnesota 2.075.708
Mississippi 1,797,114
Missouri .. 3,293.335
P Montana 376,053
Nebraska .. 1,192,2 14
Nevada .. 81,975
New Hampshire.. .. .. 430.572,
New Jersey .. 2,537,167!
New Mexico.. ... .. .3*7,301 |
N?w York.. ,.w .. .. ? 9,113,279'
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North Carolina 2.206,287
North Dakota 577.056
Ohio 4.-767.121
Oklahoma .. 1,657,155
Oregon.. .. .. * 672,765
Pennsylvania. 7,665,111 1
tltode Island 542,610
South Carolina 1,515,400
South Dakota 583,888
Tennessee- 2,184,789
Texas 3.896,542
Utah 373,351
Vermont 355,956
Virginia 2,016,612
Washington 1,141,990 (
West Virginia 1,221,119
Wisconsin 2,333,860
Wyoming 145,966
Alaska 64,356
Hawaii 191,900
Porto Rico 1,118,012
The States in their respective ranks
according to population are:
New York, Pennsylvania. Illinois,
Ohio, Texas, Massachusetts, Ken- v
lucky, lo*a. North Carolina. Tennes- f
ftte, Alabama, Minnesota, Virginia. t>
Mifeoiesipjl. Kansas, Oklahoma, Lou- 1
is<ana, Arkansas, South Carolina, c
M**yland. West Virginia, Nebraska, t
Wcshlnstcn. Porto Rloo. Connecticut. y
CVoradc, Florida, Maine, Oregon, I
oouth Dnkota, North Dakota, Rhode c
Island, New Hampshire. Montana, 1
I ah, Vermont, District of Columbia, I
.* .i v. Mexico, Idaho, Arizona, Dela- 1
wate, Hawaii, Wyoming, Nevada and 3
Alaska. t
Corrected figures Issued by the
census office today give the State of v
New York population as 9,113.614, t
increase 1,844,720. or 25.4 per cent; d
Florida 752,619, increase 224,077. or i
42.4 per cent, and Maryland 1,295,- c
.14 6, increase 107,302, or 9 per cent, f
Unquestionably it will be necessary
to alter the basis of representation r
'.ji CV egress. At the present ratio of v
194,000 people to each member of c
the House of Representatives, the f
llouse would contain about 474 I
irembers as agaist 392 at. present. It t
i* the general belief that this uum- 1
her would be unwleldly. Even at I
the rate of 220,000 as a basis the 1
public assembly would contain 4 IS t
members, an Inorense of 27. a
CHRISTIAN'S IHTCUKRKD. q
, il
(icneral Mawacrs in a Turkish Town
by lledoulu.s. r
n
A telegram from Jerusalem sta'es f
that lledoulns have massacred the c
urkish garrison at Kerak, a town in v
the Turkish vilayet of Syria, and s
killed more than 100 Christian in- ''
tiabitants of the place In revenge for
the execution of a Bedouin chief. r
The Bedouins, the dispatch add6, now
hold the fortress, in the vicinity of '
which thero hns been desultory lightIng
between the tribesmen and the 1
government troops for the past year ^
and a half.
Kerak. formerly the capital of u
Moab, has a population of 8.000. of ^
whom 6,000 are Moslems. Tho town ,
is me taat on the road from Hamate
cub to Mecca, where the Chrintlans
may reside. It stands on the inoun- s
tains of Moab and may bo seen from ?
Jerusalem. DO miles away.
There aru no American missionaries
there, the only missionary station
being that of the British church
missionary society for Africa and the .
East. This Is a branch of the organization
at Es-Salt, and is composed
of one missionary, his wife and one
native worker. "
FOUND 1>KAI> IN HOOM.
Expert Telephone Engineer Hire Suddenly
at Hotel. f
C. E. Stinson of Buffalo. N. Y., *
the telephone engineer, who wan re- ,
cently employed by the Spartanburg .
chamber of commerce to appraise the s
plant of the Southern Bell Telephone f
company, with a view to testifying *
before the State railroad commission t
In a complaint a k a I n a t the company, \
was found dead in bed at the Hotel r
Finch Friday. t
Dr. Defotx Wilson said that death r
was due to alcoholism Mr. Htlnson I
called Dr. Wllaon yesterday. He was c
highly nervous but Dr. Wilson found
nothing alarming In hla condition c
and left, after prescribing a sedative. \
John Wood, secretary of the cham- \
her of commerce, will leave for Iluf- s
falo with the body tomorrow morn- \
Ing. Aa a result of Mr. Stiiihon's p
death the plana of the chaml>er of |
commerce with reference to the tele- 1
phone sltun'lou will temporarily be )
beld in abeyance * f
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Tulkn War in Japan !
That Japan must prepare for war
with the United Utiles Is the n? \t of <
an article published by the Tokio t
Nippon Japan uiuat ask herself,
says the Nippon, "'what object an ele- '
ment of United States cljhzena have 1
In view when they advocate the ex- i
pendlture of enormous sums on fur- 1
ulshing the 1'aclBc with a big fleet, of
v k-.uiuk a jiuw*tiui army ou me Fa- *
clflc slope, of building a huso canal '
depot and naval station In Hawaii (
and of fortifying the Philippines, .
Hawaii and Panama."
ficut Hack Home.
Eleven hundred, arrivlns; at San !
Francisco, on the steamer Manchuria,1
will be deported under a medical Inspector's
order The Hindus are af- ;
flitted with the hook-worm. Itnntl- I
gration authorities say they are do- 1
porting many recent arrivals because ;
of tho existence of hook-worm die- <
UM SOMtoi them i
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PITIABLE STORY
lie Murder of Langford Was Do* to Most
Extraordinary Cannes.
PATHOS WITH TRAGEDY
onditlons Surrounding the Harris
Girl is Moat Heartrending and the
Coroner'? Jury Verdict Has the
Approval of All Familiar With the
Evidence Adduced at Hearing.
A correspondent of The State,
writing from Brunson, says distasteul
us is the task it Is best that the
tory of the killing of J. R. Laniford
e told and necessarily in the telling
>f it there must be related the too
ragic story of Mary Harris, the
oung white girl who is in the penlentiarv
at Columbia, an eye-witness
>f the killing and the occasion of it.
There is no charge against her.
t is possible there may be one
rought?for by her own admission
he was accessory after the fact to
he murder of Mr. Langford.
After hearing of the life and cnIroninent
of this poor child, one can
>r.t recall what was traced In the
lust by the fingers of Him who came
o save sinners: "He that Is wlthiut
sin among ye, lot him cast the
irst stone."
With hardly an exception the peo>le
of this place and, indeed, all
kho have heard the details of the
ase, think the coroner's jury which
i\ed the killing of Mr Langford upon
tichard Williams, the negro now in
he penitentiary, were right In their
>nding. Two other negroes have
>een urrested and released under
.ond to appear as witnesses when
ho trial Is held. They are Ed Roubo
nd Jake Urov/n.
The evidence adduced at the Inluest
In brief Is: On Tuesday jnorung
Mr. Langford, who ran a hotel at
Irunson and also operated a sawmill,
eft his home in a buggy, about 8
'clock. He drove by the telegraph
fllce and Bent a message which was
.led at S:10. This Axes the time
ssenttnlly. From there he drove toward
his sawmill at Hopeep, but
topped a short way from the cororate
limits and the house of Bob
larris. where ho talked to Mary Hurls,
who was cutting wood in the
ard. He drove off a short distance,
urned out of the road, tied his home
nd cot out of the buggy. The girl
aviug made a flro. crossed the field
nd met Mr. Langford In the woods.
>n her way she^saw a buggy coming
p the road and recognized the ocupants
as Kd. Rouso and Richard
Vllllams, nerroea, both of whom she
new. She did not know she was
ollowod by Williams, and did not
ee him again until he was standing
ver Mr. Langford with a stick or
lub upraised. The blow fell and
.angford's head dropped. He groaned
ut did not speak, though she called
o him. The negro upbraided her
vith being unfaithful. She was
Tightened and ran home. The ne;ro
did not follow. She wanted to
eP of the crome but was afraid.
The girl talked freely when ?he
lid tell. Her story was straightforvard
and despite traps that were laivl
ler evidence was never shaken in the
east.
The story of the search for Mr.
.angford and the finding of his body
>n a t)tig?y road in the woods has
IOIQ.
Suspicion fell on Williams before
dary Harris told of the par' she had
>)ayed In the tragedy. While the
;earch was being made for Mr. I^angord,
Williams volunteered the inormatlon
that he had seen him on
he new Fairfax road nt an hour
vhen. It wns shown by the evidence
>f the other negro, eorrolmrating
hat of Mary Harris, that he could
tot have tn?en In Bight of the road,
lo did cross the road later in the
lay.
Fid. lion He testified that he was
lrlvlnv* to Tlrunson and overtook
rVllllams, taking him in his buggy
vlth him. When they got within
light of the Harris home, Wlliams,
vho Is a turpentine scraper, got out,
laving he had left some of hie tools
n the wools and had to pet them,
louse did not see Mr. Langford's
torse and hnggy nor did he see the
;lrl. It is supposed that Williams
aw both. He described accurately
dr. Lang ford's dress.
On this evidence the negro was
barged by the coroner's jury with
he crime.
There is pathos Immeasurable in
he story of Mary Harris and though
he mind revolts from degradation
?u*h as she has confessed to yet It
r.ust be said that she is not all had
nd is the result of an environment
hiob Is deplorable, and a poverty of
Ine should "Impoto the fault
ft. a soul 1' the fud. to starved by
Stinted of warmth, It will not blow
this yonr
v?or r cottniz the orb which sprtngflowers
know."
Dwelling in a honse so open that,
ts It was described by a resident
hero, tho birds can fly through It,
Mary Harris, herself only 18 or 20
pears old now, the eldest of a family
c?f four girls, has had to work like, a
Logro and with negroes Fler moth
or died two years ago, and her father,
a simple hatf-witted unfortunate,
feave eloquent testimony that there
Is a great deal of good In the girl.
"Don't keep Mary long," said the
nftnr man -'"k* ? ?
, ?.uu v>v uigui DUO was laaeu
f'ora home. "She has been daddy
and mammy bnth to these girls.
? >' venteen years 1 ha* worked for
Poy Tuten for wages and I are worn
oat. Mary's & good daughter." That
this is true there is abundant testimony
In Branson.
Bob Harris is described not as
half-witted but as less than that. His
wife is said to have been not much
above her husband in intelligence.
The children are intelligent, even
bright. They are small.
In Brunson it is said that Mary
! arris. in all probability, gav ? bert*lf
from li e poverty and not fr-M
waywardness. 8ho had ionr echo i !
ing, can read and write and a<.""e
years back the children came ty Sinduy
school in Brunson. Mary has
worked hard for Mr. Tuten, who
owns much of the land around here
nnd 98 seres within the corporate
limits. Since she ha?i grown to do
largo enougn she has labored ?r. the
cotton fields with the negroes. bean
hauled from one field to another with
t iem in tho same \va?on, and for
some years no?roes have been al
most her only associates. Jake
Brown's wife has been good to her.
she said pathetically when aBked whv
she went to the negro's house. With
the care of her young slBters forced
upon her without tho association of
ary white woman, is It any wonder
this wretched and forsaken chil-t
.irned to this negro woman who had
known her from her infancy?
"She was tho only one 1 could go
to for advice; when she told me not
to do things I followed her directions,"
said the girl. "Bhe was good
to me."
Battling agaloBt such odds, no
mother, no friends, a partly helpleess
father who nevor was of full Intelligence
and who had been whipped In
lie battle with poverty, herself Had
fcur others to feed and clothe, can
ono greatly wonder that this child
strayed from the right path? And
v hen Hhe had strayed where wasl
there one to direct her to Him who
eald to another erring woman: "Go
and sin no more. Thy sins are forciven
thee?"
There he Home "blind mouths"
who condemn utterly and talk extravagantly,
but let it be said that it
was not due to fear of any violence
N'nr offered that the girl was taken
to Columbia. She was as safe In
iampton jail as she is behind the
vails of the penitentiary, but to prevent
her being talked to by tne morlodly
curious the sheriff thought it
est to send her away.
Meantime the three little sisters
and the father who has worked 17
>earn for wages are without the girl
who "was a good daughter and both
mammy and daddy" to her mother's
children.
IlKSCl'El) BY T11K POLICE.
Hoy Taken from the Kidnappers
Who IIart Stolen Him.
"They told me I was in Chicago,"
.saiti Giusseppl bongo, 8 years old,
when the police led him to freedom
from the tenement room in New
York where ho had boon locked a
prisoner by kidnappers.
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. ..<r iic?? >vii? traced r?y tne aid of
another ch'ld whose brother Is alsi.
held for rimsotn. Tho police learned
that Giusseppl was a prisoner In an
East Side tenement. They aearched
the corridors. llatenelng at transoms.
At the door of a rear room they
heard a child crying. The little guide
was lifted up and peered over the
transom. "Tut's him.' he whispered
excitedly and the police broke lu the
door.
Guarding Glussoppl wore two wen
and in the same room with him were
two other children, a boy and a girl
whom he knew only by their tlrBt
names. The police think they also
may have )w*?n kidnapped. The two
men on guard were arrested, as were
Ave other Italians, among them a
worn an,
Gluf-seppl's father Is a well-to <1a
I Brooklyn business man The elder
Isougo has received two letters from
the kidnappers, tho first asking for
$10.OOo and tho second $15,000. Th<*
recovery of the i>oy makes the third
In less than a week, two other Ttalinn
youngsters having turned up without
tho aid of the police. *
Served Iliin ltigtitConductor
J. B. Stevens, who runs
between Atlanta and VI ** ?
Southern railway shot and fatally
wounded Henry Scott, a negro, Friday
morning became* ho had insulted
hia housekeeper. Th? housekeeper
told him of the negro'B proposals and
Cupt. Stevens immediately got tho
negro In his bouse. He denied making
the insult, hut when confroted by
tho woman admitted his guilt and
attempted to attack ber. It was then
that Capt. Stevens fired every bullet
taking effect.
Another Democrat Fleeted.
A Madison. Wis., dirpatch says the
State Hoard of Convassors late Wednesday
afternoon completed Its Invest!
-atiou for congressman In the
Ninth district and issued a certificate
of election to Thomas W. Konep of
Kewaunee, the Democratic candidate.
The final returns give Konep a plurality
of five votes over Gustavo Kustormaun
BEGAN ALL OVER;
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Career of Colonel Andrews as Related by
Colonel August Kobn,
SERVED WITH HAMPTON
I Railroad Service of the Southern
Railway's Famous First Vice President
Interrupted by the War J
During Which He Rendered Conspicuous
Military Service to the
Confederacy.
(Seated in an arm-chair at the
Metropolitan Club In Columbia Wed- j
nesday night was Col. A. B. An- j
drew*. first vice president of tho
Southern railway system. Mr. Sam |
H. Hardwick and I hud a little argument
about Col. Andrews' first railroad
experience and we went over to
Col. Andrevs to have him settle the
Issue. The point was decided in favor
of the newspaper inan aud, by :
way of explanation.
Col. Andrews took from his trouser
pocket two well rubbed and shin- I
Ing Mexican silver dollars. There !
were two of them and they had I
rubbed against each other for a long
time, for there were perhaps no companion
pieces. These two Mexican
dolars represented the worldly pos- j
sessions of Col. Andrews when he left j
tho Confederate army, at the close!
of tho struggle, except two mules, j
The mules and two unspent Mexican !
dollars represented the beginnings j
of his present accumulations.
nut tne point Is: When did Col.
Andrews begin his railroad service?
It was before the war, before 18G0,
when aa a lad of seventeen he was j
given charge of the trains that hauled j
the atone used in the construction of
the masonry on the present Mine
Ridge railroad, running from Helton
to Walhalla, via Anderson. Col. Andrews'
uncle had the contract to construct
the Blue Ridge railroad?the
plneer road that was to have pierced
the mountains and provided a
through line from the coast to the
West.
The original contract was for company
to haul the stone to he used j
In the construction work, but the,
deliveries were so unsatisfactory
that Col. Andrews, then a mero lad.
was put In charge of the train that
hauled the rock. That was his first
service us a superintendent of a railroad.
loiter he was a real superintendent
and he has gone the entire
gamut of railroad service?active
and actual service.
| Then came the war and Col. Andrews,
as he Is now called?and ho
Is a real colonel, and not one by
post-war service?entered tho 1st
North Carolina cavalry as a lieutenant
He served In tho Hampton Cavalry.
and with distinction and courage.
He was in the stress of many
of the serious engagements with
Wade Hampton, and the laRt time he
saw Hampton that distinguished
I chieftain remarked to him: "Andrews.
I am going to wlte something
that I hope will give full credit to
your North Carolina men In my com
j iiuma. lor i do not think you have
[over gotten full justice in recorded
I history." Unfortunately that promise
was unfulfilled, for G?*n. Hampton
died ar?out two weeka later.
With his two dollars and mulea
Col. Andrews went to work. He saw
the destruction that had been
wrought and It occurred to him thai
there would be money and service in
rebuilding bridges?railroad bridges.
Ho borrowed money and got the job
of reconstructing the bridges on the
old Raleigh and Gaston railroad. He
| remained with the Raleigh and Gaston
road for ten years, during which
time he was its superintendent.
Then he went with what was formerly
the Richmond and Danville
road; perhaps his devotion to this
system is accentuated by the fact that
Col. Andrews' wife is the daughter
of Col. Johnson, who was the first
president of the Charlotte and Augusta
railroad Thirty-five years ago
Col. Andrews entered the service of
the nucleus of the present great
Southern railway system. It has been
largely due to his constructive genius.
his capacity for work and his
knowledge of men that the weakling
roads here and there have been
hrniiO'Kf orr,.?U. ? *
.......cm.. iuf,nun uuiij tonay the system
aggregates over 8.000 miles
When Samuel Spencer and his
predecessor* were gathering In weak
roads, pulling them out of bankrupt
courts and whipping the lines into
shape Col. Andrew* was his righthand
and his safoty check Col. Andrews
then as now was first vice
president of the system He kept
unceasingly at work to mako the
Southern railway a great system and
tie a* persistently kept In tho background
When Mr. Silencer was
killed he showed the same keen spirit
of co-operation towards a younger!
man. President W. \V. Klnlcy, rer< g- !
ni/ing in him a man of abundant
ability and energy
Col. Andrews was severely wounded
in tho war. Several years ago the ,
physicians told him his "boilers
would not stand full pressure," but
it is even now difficult to keep him
from doing too much work.
Of course he is interested In the
pending "merger' litigation, for It
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BOUZe THE CAUSE \
a )
FATAL SHOOTING AFFRAT OCCURS
NEAR HARTSYILLB.
1 lia Fight Commenced in a Negrwhi
House Where the Belligerent* Had
frmc to Buy Whiskey.
A terrible tragedy was enacted
COtr Hartsvllle about twelve o'clock
cu Sunday, in which E. D. Boeemta,
a fai tner aoout 65 years old. vai shot
t) death and hla eon, Otto Bosemajg.
.?ged 72, badly if not fatally woundad
by Coy Blackman, a youth of SI
yenrv. lllackman made his escape.
T> ?> shooting began in the house of
Ciceio Byrd, a negro, who Uvea oa
the plantation of S. W. Byrd, a prominent
farmer, living a bo ,t five mile*
wc-ht of HartavlUe. The two young
men had gone to the house, supposedly
to buy something to drink, and
a quarrel aroee over the ownersh.p
of a pistol, which was in Blackman'a
possession, but which the younger
Boseman claimed belonged to hinf.
j lie oemanded that the weapon be
: given him and advanced on BlackI
man brandishing a bear bottle,
ttlckman fired, the ball takiug ef[
' hut not making a seriou* wound.
Blackman retreated to the yard
and was followed by the younger
Baseman and his father, who had
come to the negro's house also. la
Lhe yard Blackman resumed firing.
h.2 first ball striking the elder Mr.
Cosemnn in the heart, killing him Inatanlly.
He then shot the young
man and seriously wounded him. The
phys'cian who was called says that
tt will lie impossible to tell whether
the wound will be fatal until after
an operation.
Iho two young men, Otto Booomannan
and Blackntan were onee
companions and had formerly worked
to f ether at Roanoke Rapids, N. C.
It is understood that they had a fight
once before and the trouble today
probably resulted from a renewal of
the old quarrel in a slightly different
fc rni. An inquest over the body of
the older Boseman revealed the fact*
above ctated.
Sick From lint Bile.
Bitten in the center of his forehead
by a black rat more than a week
ago, Thomas V. Itlackshear, u firstwear
medical student at Atlanta, Is
lying at the point of death In a local
hospital. The case is one of the
oddest known to the physicians of
Atlanta. Blackshear was bitten while
ho was lying asleep. He and his
roommate killed the rodent. A hoi* Mfr
a# lnrv'" as .1 dollar marks the pls.ee
whore tho poisoned flesh was eat ^
from the wound. '
Past Ccnturj Murk.
With a salute of 100 guns Friday
afternoon. Augusta honored tho hundredth
birthday anniversary of Mr
Jonathan Miller, tho father-in-law *f
State Treasurer Pope Brown, and
next to the oldest person In the city.
Despite bis hundred years tho old
gentleman is In good health, though
his sight has failed of recent years.
Friday afternoon ho was tendered a
public reception at the home of Horn.
Henry Hammond, Judge of the superior
court circuit.
Swept by ("ydone.
Western Spain was swept by s cy
tiouo R?:coruing to advices. Several
veneels sang In Coruna harbor. Munj
prisoners were drowned. At Bevtlle
the river rose ten feet, flooding the
valley. Several persons were killed
near Bilbour.
IVwIl; (lM<>l)>ne.
At Orange, N. J., Raymond Hamli
ton, a chafTeur was burned to death
while on hla back beneath bin em
ployer's automobile, trying to adjust
the running gear by the light of a
kerosene lantern, when a sudden explosion
occurred *
We fail to aee how any one caa
Justify a protective tnrifT that en
lichee the few at the expnese of the
jaanv, and if the Democrats don't
show their willingness to lift the
burden Imposed by tho Republican
tariff on the people they will 6tand
no chance of electing the president
'n 1912.
It is a great mistake to attempt to
rowd too much work into a limited
mount of time. The result is In
oinpletenese of achievement, and for
he individual himself anxiety and
mu'-cessary nervous strain. One
hing at a time and that one tbintr
lone well is the beet rule to adopt
A. young widow of Shrov'-port, La.
recovered $500 damans from a man
*ho kissed her hy force. Tne judge
tc entering judgment told the Kisser
.hat he looked old enough to know
better. That is what v* would call
expensive asceriation
was he and C 1. D. I. Abney who
handled the transaction hy which the
Southern railway took the properties
"out of the wet' and undertook to
develop them, and thereby the State
At that time Col. Andrews went over
tlie entire system and saw what was
ahead, and is abundantly satisfied
with his prophecy that South Carolina
had not then seen the dawn of
the great industrial future that was
\head August Kohn *