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I V BIOUDY AFFRAY Three Men Are Wound d in a Pitched t Baltie Near Cashvillt, S. C. . , SHOTGUNS VS. PISTOLS OT N. CJ. Alverson, Tally Norris and / I ait tor's S<?n Kvrlianiie Shots on i ;.w. ..i* 1*1 v iH/uiiMtii j uuir ?n Miiiiiii ?nn> >nir Cnsliville in Spartanburg County Wednesday Morning. The Herald says news reached Spartanburg Thursday of a battle near Cashville Wednesday morning between a farmer armed with a pistol and two of hiR neighbors with shotguns. Three persons were seriouely, though not fatally, wounded. There has been bad blood for several weeks between N. G. Alverson, a brother of Sergeant Alverson, of the Spartanburg police department, and Tally Norrls, who has an adJoining plantation. It started in a dispute over a house. Further particulars as to the cause of the quarrel could not be learned last evening. The quarrel became more and more bitter, harsh words were exchanged, threats made and when the neighbors met Wednesday morning they were prepared for violence. Mr. Alverson came to the boundary line between his and Mr. Norrls' plantation alone. Mr. Norris was accompanied by his two sons one named Alexander, and the name of the other has not been ascertained. 'From the accounts of the affair which leaked out Mr. Alverson opened fire on Mr. Norris with a thirty-two calibre revolver, shooting him in the hip. The Norrises were standing on their own property, but only fifteen or twenty feet from Mr. Aiver son. Alexander Norrls, It. Is said, fired at Mr. Alverson with a shotgun. The latter was fortunately not. facing the Run directly, else he probably would have been killed. As it was, tin* shot struck him sldewise, putting out his left eye and passing through Ids nose. Other shots entered his fare and neck. Mr. Alverson fell to the ground hut managed to fire at Alexander, shooting him in the calf of the leg and breaking a hone. Mr. Norrls' other son then fired at Mr. Alverson from farther a way than Alexander had been. The shot struek Mr. Alverson in the stomach. He returned the lire, while still lying on the ground, and sent a bullet % through the other's trousers leg. The Norrises then retired. Mr. Alverson. though weak and in great pain from the loss of his eye, got on his feet and walked a distance of two hundred yards bark to his home. Drs. Posey and Alexander were called from Woodruff and are attending to all of the injured. Mr. Alverson's wounds are said to lie the most serious. All three are in lied, but are likely to recover. No arrests have been made. Mr. Alverson is about fifty veins old and has a family. Tally Norris is about the same ave. One of his sons is said to lie twenty-three years old and the of nor twonty-ono. The scene of the fight Is about one ixii 1 o from Cashvllle and three miles from Reldvillo. Mr. Alverson has been living (hero for iwpnfy-five years. The Norrlses removed there about Christmas time. Sergeant Alverson visited bis brother Thursday, but found him reluctant to talk about the quarrel. * TRAINS fOMK TOCKTIIKK. Six Persons Met Death in the Terrible Crash. In a collision between trains No. 49, the Tloston and Buffalo special, and train No. 23, on the New York Central railroad, at Batavla today, aix persons were killed and 1S seriously Injured, some of them perhaps fatally. The accident took place at 5:30 o'clock when train No. 4 9, due at the station at 6:35 and ahead of time, was standing In the station. Train 23, the Western express due at 5:2t? o'clock, a little late, crashed into the waiting train from the rear. i lie engine or telescoped Hie rear Pullman of the waiting train and smashed Into a day coach which was next. Three bodies of passengers in the wreckage of the crushed sleep- I er were so mutilated as to make identification difficult. Beneath one of the unidentified bodies was found a silver locket and a Masonic charm inscribed "Cassius C. Perrin, 9S1 Mecca Temple, NT. Y." * Cheap Candy Killed. Eating large quantity of cheap, colored candy, which its parents had gotten at a bargain, the 18-nionths^ old child of Mr. and .Mrs. Henry B Smith, of Montgomery, Mo., became 111 and died before a physician could be summoned. * |l Hoggish Freak. H| The latest freak in the pig lino HA turned up at Pawnee, Okla. It is a little pig with 'our ears ani eight ^^B legs, and appm x-mt'.y Is going to live to put them all to use. * El RADICAL CHANGES J SUGGESTED IX THE NEW S? IIOOI. AS RECOMMENDED. Commission to Revise State's Sjsfm Reports to I^Kisluture After Year of Hard Work. Three amendments to the cons i- ^ tution and important and far-reaching alterations in the present school law are recommended in the report made to the general assembly Friday by the "commission to examine and revise the school law of the State and to recommend changes In the same." this report, with the accompanying hill, constituting perhaps ' the most important document yet 4 presented to the 1911-12 legislature. 4 The commission was created by ' joint resolution of the general as- , sembly, approved February 23, 1910, s the suggestion for its creation hav- r ing been made in the annual report 4 for 1909 of Mr. J. E. Swearingen, 4 State superintendent of education. ' It was directed to "carefully examine 1 and revise the common and high 4 school laws of the State, with power to recommend any changes in the ex- : isting law by bill or otherwise," and ( was required to "report to the next 1 session of the general assembly." ' In the resolution, it was specified ' that the following should be mem- ' hers of the commission: "The State ' superintendent of education, the in- I spector of high schools, the president 1 of ono of the State institutions of ' higher learning, one person familiar with graded and common school sys- ' terns, ami one person learned in the ' law." Members not specifically des- 1 ignated were to be appointed by the I' governor. As organized for worn, I 1 the commission was composed of Mr.]' J. 13. Swearingen. State superintend-j! ent of e'ucation; Mr. W. II. Hand,!* State inspector of high schools: I ?r. ; I>. H. Johnson, president of Winthropj College: Mr. S. IT. Edmunds, super-|' intendent of the Sumter city schools, and Mr. .Mendel I.. Smith, attorney, of Camden. Mr. Swearingen was ! chairman and Mr. Hand the secretary. The commission thus summarizes i' its important recommendations: "The commission has endeavored j' to make a practical and progressive i1 report. It has sought to retain the!' host features of the present law and to avoid radical or revolutionary ! chances. It has been compelled, ' however, to recommend some important and far-reachinc alterations 1 in order that the new school law may 1 help to meet present needs and to ( Improve present conditions. ( "1. An intendment to section 2, 1 article II. and to section 24, article : III, of the constitution, will remove ' the obstacle that prevents many of 1 our best man from serving as school trustees. Though the constitution forbids the holdin.c of two offices, 1 this provision has, by common consent. been widely disregarded. This amendment seeks merely to legalize I service to education when rendered] in connection with other service to j the State. "2. The State superintendent of j education is held responsible for the arts of the State Hoard of Education, , and, in the opinion of the eommis-j sion, ho should have some voice in i selecting its members. Tt is, there- j fore, recommended that section 2. article XI. of the constitution, he amended so that henceforth (lie gov- j ernor shall appoint the Fta'e board i of education, upon the reeommenda- : t ion of the State superintendent. The commission recommends ' the appointment of a State hoard of! examiners for teachers in order that the present varying standards may be harmonized by the establishment of a uniform method in the examination and graduation of applicants to teach. "4. The county hoard of education is given large powers in three important respects: a. To levy a spec'al county tax. b. To apportion public school funds, c. To choose from eligible applicants the county superintendent of education to serve for a term of four years. "t>. The right of ail special school districts organized under special acts of the general assembly to adont their own text-hooks has been withdrawn. The State superintendent of eduea'lon is empowered to appoint _ text-hook commission, composed of five public school men. to act concurrently vith the State hoard of education to adopt a dual list of textbooks and to prescribe unified courses of study for all the free public schools of the State. "<?. The members of the State board of ex nniners for teachers shall serve also as division supervisors of schools, who. under tho direction of the State superintendent, shall audit school a> ounts and perforin such other duties as may tie assigned. "7. The county superintendent of education is to he elected by the county hoard of education, in order that restricted qualifications may he demanded of all applicants. The term of the county superintendent is made four years, and the minimum salary In -nv county Is $1,200. "8. The otate high school law is 1 simplified and strengthened, and the high school appropriation .increased to $7r?,000. < "9. The State hoard of education ' is authorised to classify under a rec- | ognlzed nomenclature the schools < . -i , . ? j*' t ., > Wb llHftiii I AN AWFUL TOLL [ight Thousand Babies Facing Death in Chicago Lab >r War. SUFFERING PITIABIE Nu? Striking ( nrmcnt Workers Are Starving to Death in Staking to' Tln-ir Cans'1 Legislature May In- 1 vest {gate and Try to lH'vise a Kenedy for the Trouble. Eight thousand infants in Chicago ace death from starvation ana dis>aso as the result of tho garment j vorkers' strike, which for four nonths has dragged its length out vtth no prospect of settlement in light. This is the statement of both :lty authorities and union sympathizers. the latter of whom are at their vitg end to obtain milk for the ba- ; pies In the strikers' home, many of vhom are already in the shadow of ieath from want. During tho past week the health mthorities reported more than lot)' *ases of pneumonia and diptheria j imong these children with a large lumber of deaths. With the uttet J exhaustion of the milk supply?now ess than a week away if charity conributions do not increase, it is expected that cold, hunger and illness j trill quickly end the miseries of scores of tiie younger children At least one of the strikers, Mrs Rose Siegelheimer, has already died pf starvation. For the support of her wo children with whom she lived n a dingy casement, the woman h;:<! been foraging cruets from garbage ana. Of r\cn such aid as was avillblo she was apparently ignorant ind tho poor provender she found ivont into 'V1 mouths of her children. When nature gave out. the woman Tell across tier miserable pall, and ivab found ( img by neighbors This ivas the seventh death due to the strike. Many cases of the same sot* are being reported, and even the adult strikers are suffering terribly, it is Inevitable that if aid does not come disease, starvation anl death will win the labor war and force tbe hungry thousands back to toil under conditions to remedy which they have given their lives and the lives of their little ones. The latest hope for the situatio i arises from tho action of the Illinois senate authorizing an investigation rpf the causes of the strike and an luluiry into what stens have been taken to bring about a settlement. Tho iction authorizes the presiding officer to appoint a committee of five senators to go to Chicago and hegin the strike Investigation at once. The resolution calls for a report in HO rlavs. Steps leading to the adjustment of the strike arbitration and to fix responsibility, with a view to legislation making arhtraton compulsory, are contemplated in the resolution. Four Too Many. The Rev. Samuel E. Howard is under arrest .11 Shelhina. Mo., on charge of bigamy, lie is accused of having five wives, three of the marria.es having been contracted since last October. an 1 'olle-es of the State. "10. County boards of education and school district boards of trustees .... mil i ' i i ii i i s mmn'S > ! in (I'M that a majority of their members may be able, at all times, to form legal contracts. "1. An adequate system o' reports is provided in order that, school statistics may be reliable. "12. The State superintendent of education is required to keep a correct account of all school bonds and tax levies provided for their retirement. "111. Each rounty superintendent of education is required to submit to the grand jury a written report showing, by school districts, all receipts and disbursements made by him. "14. All alterations of whatever kind in school district lines must be recorded by the clerk of court. Since the school district has been made the unit of taxation for school purposes. it is absolutely necessary that school district lines bo clearly and definitely established. "la. The most fundamental change recommended in the report is the new definition of enrollment, which bases I h<? apportionment of public school funds on the average attendance of pupils. Under this definition the teacher, the school, and i in' ii if 11 i('i n?se money every nay a pupil is'absent, and Rain every day lie is present. "tf>. An attempt is made to establish a perniaii :it State school fund and a permanent huildinR fund. "17. The additional expenditures required by this report will be increase 1 salaries for county superintendents of education, a small appropriation guaranteeing to each school district ono separate school for three months for pupils of each race, the salaries of the division supervisors. all of which will Impose only slight expenditures above present appropriations made either oy the several counties or by the general assembly." GAVE UP WIFE SACRIFICE ON THE ALTAR OF IA)YE HE LIVES DYING. Gave llcr I'p to Her Former Sweetheart and He Goes to the Hospital to Die. His great art of self-sacrifire accomplished by giving up the English wifo 1 nVPtl tn thn mnn elm lr?vo<l Kunisan Tnomata, the son of a wealthy Japanese of Tokyo, is dying in the charity hospital at Vicksburg, Miss., of a broken heart and a wasting disease, while his former wife and the man she married are, by tender attention, trying to make his last hours easier. With the stoicism of the oriental, he suffers and says nothing, but behind his suffering lies a strange romance. Almost a decade ago Helen A. Hunt, whose father was mayor of a small town near London, England, and well-to-do, loved a young Englishman named James Gibson. A quarrel with her sweetheart caused the girl to come to America. Eight years ago she found herself in lloston penniless. While working in the store of M. Yamataro there she met Inomata. The Japanese loved her and his gentle ways won Miss Hunt. They were married and went to New Orleans. The girl fell ill and Inomata worked night and day to make enough money to pay doctors' bills and hospital fees. His own health became undermined and he became despondent. Some months ago, while Inomata and his wife were in Jackson, Miss., on business, she met Gibson, he, too, having come to America. On sight of him the girl declared she still loved him and Gibson swore that he had loved her al, ways. After days of silent anguish. Mrs, Inomata confessed to her husband that she loved Gibson. The Japanese listened with stoical silence to the story and abruptly left his wife tc I think it over. On his return to theit 'boarding house In New Orleans, Ino! mata said to his wife: '1 am failing in health. Ynu go tr Jackson, bring suit for divorce and I will not oppose it. 1 will say nothing. Then go and marry this Englishman yon love." The rirl followed his advice. On I t.o.- i~-> ?? Ii * in i tr-i <H I \f III |N1 II lt?U U)* I 111 man who had boon hor husband, and j 'ho man who had boon hor by-gone (sweetheart. tho woman came tc i Vickshurg. Hero she and C.ihsou wore married. That night Inomata the ltuskin of Japan, went to the hospital to die. * Til KY IIAI) XAKKOW KSCAPK, Two Fariiiei.s Tried to Shoot Ilallooni.sts in Passing. J. Cowan Ilulbort and Paul .T. Mo Cullough, the aeronauts of St. Louis, whose flight front that city last Sunday terminated when the balloon landed near Scooba, Miss., on Monday, after being fired at twice, arrived in New Orleans Wednesdaj morning. They will take a ship from hero to New York. "High winds drifted us south ward." said Mr. Ilulbort, "and in stead of landing in New York we har to come down in Mississippi to av-?i. I being blown out over the gulf. "After leaving St. Louis a stron? I wind got us and wo were blowr across Illinois. Near Mount Vernon when less titan S00 feet high. w< heard a shot, and a bullet whist let through the basket, barely missin? us. In Kentucky another farmei fired at us, but we were out o ran?e." "We passed over the Wabash rivei into Indiana and were blown to tin southeast across Kentucky and Ten nt'ssop. into Alabama, passing neai Rirniingham." * W.WTKi) WATKK, C.IVRN ACID Young Whlow Confesses (living ("till? Deadly Poison. Arrested as she claimed her trunk at the New York Central station Frl day, Mrs. Edith Melber, a widow who says she Is 23 years old, of Sche nectady, confessed that in a ewami near Albany last Friday afternoor she gave her five-year-old son C.eorge, carbolic acid, from the ef fects of which he died. In explanation of her crime, th< police sav, Mrs. Melber asserts tha she has been a widow four years during which time she has had t [struggle to care for herself am! hoi child. anil that this battle for an ox istonoo drove her to take her babv'l life. She is an unusually attraotivi young woman, and at the on I of hoi examination was unnerved and weep 1 ing hysterieally. | When she made her eonfession, ae eordlvR to the police, Mrs. Melhe said that she pave the child the acii when he asked for a drink. ' Killed in Riot. At Bombay, India, eighteen per sons were killed and 24 other wounded during yesterday's rioting As usual, the occasion of the Muhar 1 ram festival brought about a elasl | between Sunnoites and the Shiahs Troops called out. to restore ordo fired several volleys Into the mob. ' LYNCH THREE * K Mob \ttacks the J ail and takes Oat Negroes and Kills Them. ? i Twn unwr Awn nwr cu/vr i hu nuiiu nnu uhl jiiv/i Ono Vnder Sent euro of Death for ii Wife Murder, Awaiting Setting of ? a Date of Execution?Two Others ,j Charged With Assaulting White Cirls 1 Int Not Yet Tried. tl Storming the Shelby county jail at t Shelbyville, Ky., on Sunday morning, d a mob composed of less than 100 men seized and lynched threo lie- " groes, two of whom were charged * with assaulting white girls and a ' third sentenced to hang for the mur- 1 der of his wife and held in jail un- 1 til the day for his execution could be s set. r Tho three were lynched in differ- ? ent places, and what first seemed to s have been a simile lynching was found to have ben a triple one only with the finding of the three bodies. The body of Eugene Marshall, sentenced to hang for the murder of his wife, whom ho had beheaded, was found hanging to a bridge over the Eminence l'ike, only a short distance from the jail. Jim West, employed as a chauffeur at Shelbyville for several months and who, it is said, had been seen throwing kisses at white girls, and who was charged with assaulting the daughter of a Shelby county farmer, was one of tiie victims. lie, too, was hanged to the bridge. Wnde Patterson, the third negro lynched, was also charged with assaulting a white woman. Patterson attempted to escape from the niol? i and was shot and his body thro wn into a creek. The mob which attacked tlie Jail went about its work quietly and fewpersons knew of tlie triple lvnehing 'I . innii mo uouies wcro toiiiui several hours later. Few of the mob were masked. The ' jail lock was smashed with a sledge hammer and there was little dillleul- 1 ty in getting to the prisoners. According to Deputy Jailer llorn- ' back. Jailer Edward Thompson hid ' the jail keys when the mob appeared ' I and later, when the mob became ' more insistent, Hornback let the men ' into the jail oflice. 1 "They said there were three negroes here they were going to get or else blow up the jail," Hornback said. "They kept yelling: for the r dynamite, while some of the mob started to beat on the cell locks with a sledge hammer. About twelve men had their guns pointed at me. demanding the keys, but I insisted I did not know where they were. Finally, at 3.25, they broke open the cell door and took out West, Mar, shall and Patterson," i ITI.IiKI) TIIK APOSTLE. ( Chicago Police Interfere With "Aliso- 1 i lute Life" Colony. Evelyn Arthur See, self-declared 1 . "apostle of a new life" in which all ' I beings will be perfect, is held in jail I j in Chicago, m., to answer a charge of disorderly conduct growing out of , I ms ansniuic mo colony. See in i I court refused the services of an at1 tornev, saying lie hail the counsel of > God, and would purify all those presI out in tlie court room. , When the police raided See's quar- ' r ters they found two girls, one Ifi C years and the other 17, who admitted in court that they had been living r with See for several months, unehap3 eroned. Mona Rees, the older of the 1 . two girls, according to the plan of r See, is to become the mother of the first "nearly perfect" child, she herself being almost perfect, according to the cult's teachings. The other girl, 'Mildred Bridges, was striving I To attain that state of purity, she declared. that would place her on the same plane with the Rees girl. The "perfect, and hence sinless" ' trio will appear in court at the time of the final hearing. See will be sent. ' to jail, and the girls probably will ' be placed with some society. Itattle With Bandits. 'm Three robbers attempted to rob , the postolllce at l'tica, Ohio, early , , Friday and as a result a pistol battle ( was fought, one of the robbers was I wounded in the breast and one of 1 t their horres was shot. The robbers j r seized a mail wagon and two horses and pid !ng up the wounded man es-| j raped towards Newark. r .Adrift on Ice Floe. Eighty-five fishermen were carried out into the Caspian sea on an - ice floe Tuesday. A steamer was rer quleitioned at Baku and sent to the 1 rescue of (lie men. but the chances ' that any of the number will escape death is poor. His New Jot), s A San Francisco conductor who . recently embraced religion, was - called upon to take up the Sunday i morning offering. He did very well . until he came to a boy. "Young r man," he said sternly, "you will have * | to pay half fare." * \ L I BOLD YOUNG GaNG TVK NEW YOItK YOUTHS WERE CAUGHT WITH RIG PLUNDER. 'lie Cellar, Where Tliey Conducted a "Fence/" Was Filled With Valuable stuir. Five young men, comprising the lost active gang of burglars thai has perated In New York city in ye.is, re under arrest charged with lienreds of the'ts. When Donutv l'olieo 'onunissioner Flynn, with Acting 'apt. Price, of the Uronx Detective ureau, and five detectives, raided he den where the plunder was kept hey found 510,000 worth of pluner. it is estimated the young fellows ave taken goods to the value ot 2f?.000 In the past five years. The risoners are Grover Delsser. aged 7: George Straub. 10; Jesse Swain. 7: Henry Ross, 1 f>; and Herman Ichultz. aged 27. The first three are harged with burglarly. Ross ana ichultz are accused of receiving tolen goods. Detectives have evidence implicatng otlier youths in the wholesale obberies of recent months and it is ikelv mor" arrests will follow. At he hearing of the first five, Schultz vas accused to teaching the boys to teal. Th?y swore that when they vere still innocent, five years ago, ho rot them under his control, and sinco hat time has been conducting a 'fence" and profiting through the sale of their plunder. Young Ross las been sent to the Children's Aid Society home. The other members >f the band will be sent to the pcntentiary. According to Acting Capt. Price, lie police have been looking for M-hultz for some time. Five yei-s igo he wis an interpreter at Kills stand, but was dismissed. Later lie ivod in a basement and it was there ie was caught when the raid was nude. He was alone at the time but ho police waited until the entire rang had gathered. There ;\re over 1 rtrt bicycles, a moor cycle, i dynamo and many sets ?f valuable tools on the list of -roods dolen. In one'corner was a huge tamper lincked with valuable silverware, cut -lass .clothing, whole suits, Iresses, bolts of cloth, cigars and rinkets. When the loot had been oaded in a patrol wagon and taken o the Morrisania station it filled the jack room and part of the captain's room. Tilt: ItKA/t IXIAN W AY. rhc Forty-Five Rebels Meet Mysteri According to reports from Brazil Tao Candido. loader of tlio recent revolt in the navy, and I t other mutineers have met sudden deaths. Canlido succumbed to gangrene while a prisoner, 2f> of his assistants died from sunstroke while engaged in repairing the fortress on Cobris island, ind IS others were suffocated in their ells in the prison on Villegainon island. When the later of the two recent naval revolts in Brazil was put down three weeks ago it was announced that the mutinous sailors had been sent to states remote from Ttio Janeiro, whore they were employed in the construction of highways and Call roads. Since that time comparatively little news has been gotten out of Brazil, but there have been persistent rumors of disturbances in the stafo nf Para on the north coast due to political dissatisfaction. * W AS i.t IB. I,I K S A 1,1,V. Telephone Kmploye Supplied tlio Facts to Itobbers. Fred P. Hoffman, Bell telephone employe, is in j:iil at Cleveland, (?., in connection with several recent house burglaries, and has confessed to the police that he was a spy for a gang of thievee. whose loot has amounted to thousands of dollars. He told where the booty could be found, and the police have discovered it. Hoffman kep* up a card index system, which was also found in the raid a nhis room and those of Hurt Holsridge and Arhel Harrison, arrested as burglars, in which were the names arid full information about prospects. Hoffman told the police he would get information about the houses when he Installed and removed telephones The index system showed how locks were fixed, where the silver wis ke:?t, size of families, their habits and other things about them. Hoards on Train. Bandits who aro ambitious to hold up passenger tr ins on the Utah division of the Union Paeific will encounter the nu st Improved ritles in the hands of men who know how to use them. Under an order from tho division superintendent, eaeh passenger train will carry an armed guard. The plan is the result of the robbery of the Overland Limited last week near 0?den, Utah. Tho hardest fight for the improvement of the Fdisto river is yet to come, and every one should do all he can to meet and overcome it. J iMfc