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E e/XMOBN eMRQNieLE UK XVII. CAM DUN, S. 0., KKIDAV. Jl l.V 27. !!><)<>. N<). >\>, trains Crash Together With ghtful Loss of Human Life IS ARE INJURED < tho Wounded, Near ly Are Colored, Taken to Special Train?One ite and Another on rtion?Nearly All Be in Charlotte Serious |^nd Other Deaths Ex JCkaje Not Yet Cleared !Other Victims May Be Already Large Death C., Special.?Twenty land 23 injured as the ?ad-on collision between ami a special freight fcrd midway between this gj&ingham. 1!> yf tlie )es. The dead are: jfank B. Lewis, Hamlet, jtef Byrd. fpm llill, colored, ftt Boggan, colored. KFaddcn, colored, 11am I' ?? V hlc, colored, I;anrinburg. ^Rockingham. JMcNair and Child, eol Ki: [nd, colorcd. gjrfce,. Bennettsville, S.X*. Bell IlofTman. Hirgton's baby, colored, fwn colored men. tftown colored women. )n's baby, colored. kman. }d are as follows: ?n, white conductor, Wil- j - S. Birmingham, white, K.J. O. Buuday, engineer, 1 Cross, white, fireman, ;orgo Morgan, Cicero -wife, Oscar Lee. Oscar rt Hanton, Richard Doug )ouglass, Ivcr, Oxendine, ft* Jim Odell, Tonny Lee, (Jadyen, Octavia Jackson, |art, Henry Stewart, Car '8am Co]>els, Percy Clark, f, Jrflk1 Radley, Richard i ifle Stewart, Victor Free- j iree others unknown. >ry of the Wreck. ' train No. 44, which left it 5 o'clock Sunday after running late at a speed >0 miles an hour, with or- i ir'for Ilamlet three miles Skingham. jhieer Frank Lewis pulled ?a round a curve and en-1 jjp cut he saw a light,within and a special train load lit-'bore dovyri'iipon him at ? jual to his own. The col- j inevitable and the two en- j together with tremendous j led themselves to each oth- j lied over in the ditch. The behind crashed into VhtrJ jfues and ? reduced them/ to j fwood. The negro cotvch I Id J ike an csrg shell and ev-1 int was killed or injured, lpact Engineer Lewis was i dozen yards from his en-' never drew breath again. ?e just pulled the body of Iuh ! inn, Tom Hill, from un- j 6bri?. J. O. Bundy, engineer sight, and his fireman both ! ind escaped with injuries, pork of rescue began almost tely after the Occident. The id passengers helped the sur Manufacturing Industry, largest manufacturing inclus ion! h Carolina, next to cot ie making of lumber, accord bulletin just received.from sail of manufactures. The Sturc of coAton is by far the kportant manufacturing indus ?.the State, being? in 1000 tV^l ^t. and in 11)05, 72.(i per ccn?T rhole. Lumber ranks next. tefellcr Laughs at the Idea of His Arrest. . ' '' eland, Ohio, Special.?Tl?e indi are that. John D. Rockefeller leriff (Jrpves, of Findlay, who irarrant-Tor the president of tlie \r Oil Company, charging vnjla the State anti-trust laws in .^k county, are going to clash, ^feller, before he left huroj>e irn to this country, ridiculed I his companions Jihe idea of ?st. Groves says he is deter to carry out tlie mandate of 'eevil-Proof Cotton Found, ?n Rouge, La., Special.?An m?nt that a variety of cotton a* ''Jriumpl*'' Cotton is ap itly not sttaoJ^d by the boll wee* made by Entomologist New ror the State, crop, commission, i plant is announced t6 be freo m ymf other eoMon pests. It la over hslf a bale to the acre and pt msilive to weather conditions. viving members of the train crew to pull tlu' doad and dying from tho tangled heap of wood and iron. Peo I j>U* came from Hamlet and Rocking ! hum to assist, and all nijfht tho work : wits kept up. When the lirst :</oy | morning light eamo dead fyodies, in ! eluding those of two babies, had been ' found. Some of the injured managed ? ti) yt't themselves free, others wove I found pinned down. Several were un I conscious. As soon as it was possi Ide a train was brought from Mon roe; I lie injured were placed <?n this, ; with I he bodies of mosl of the dead i negroes. The dead were taken olT ? at Rockingham and Monroe, the in jured at Chariot to. Two of the in jured died en route. The wreck is supposed to have boon I caused by tho failure of the telegraph i operator at Hockingham to deliver I orders to tho passenger train to meet : the freight train. The passenger, it is said, had no orders to meet the freight and it is tho presumption that the freight overlooked its orders, |t is also stated that a lap order caused | thf catastrophe. The passenger I train, this report states, had orders' , to meet the freight at Hamlet, while I the freight's orders was to meet the i passenger at Hockingham. , The freight was an extra fruit train westward bound. The 1 wo trains ool - lided with an awful roar and crash in a deep cut one mile from Hamlet. Engineer Lewis and his fireman was instantly killed and dyath came in the , twinkling of an eye to the passengers lin the colored coach. 'I he scene is indescribable. Tho j wreckage is piled high on the tracks and trallic is completely blocked, j Both the second and lirst class coacli . es were overturned and the colored jpassengors wort simply ground to I death. Many of the dead bodies are ^ horribly mangled and some of those i who eseaped with their lives are bruis ed almost bewoud recognition. I As quickly as possible after the dis j aster, railroad men, citizens and pas sengers who were uninjured, began ( to work heroically to recover the dead , and injured, who were imprisoned un j der the cars. If the lamps in the | coaches hrid not been extinguished | the accident would have been made ! more horrible by fire. The engineer and fireman of the freight train jumped and escaped with lew bruises. The coach foj* eol | ored people w;is torn all to pieces and everyone in it who did not meet death was more or loss seriously injured. Both engines \\M> demolished and the ? baggage cars and coaches were jum | bled together in ail unsightly mass. 'I he colored passengers, most of ; whom were from Laurinburg, had ; been to attend a big church gathering. I Lvery seat in the car was taken, many | of the?,crowd being women and ehil j (lion. Tho cries of the children pin j ioptffT^TMiderncath tho cars, added to pt-ne horryrs ot tho catastrophe. ! As soon as possible after ? the wreck tho injured were sent to Char lotte on a special train, in order t<\ i give them hospital accommodations, j There were 23 colored people and five whites in the number. The chief dis patcher of the Seaboard at Raleigh given instructions to the under taker at Rockingham to furnish cof fins for all of the dead. All of the doctors from Rockingham and Ham let were dispatched to the scene and did valiant service to the injured, ft took about live hours to got the dead and injured from the ? wreck. N. C. Banks Designated. Washington, Kpecial.-r-Thp national hank of Fayetteville North Carolina lias been designated as a government depository to the amount of $100, 000 and the City National Bank of Greensboro at $1.">0,000. Both were 'unsuccessful bidders for the Panama canal bonds. FIVE KILLED BY LIGHTNING Bolt Strikes Grand Stand at Base ball Game in Manitowoc, Wis.? More Than 20 Injured. Manitowoc, Wis., Specials*?Five pej-soiTs wero killed and more (ban*a score injured Sunday afternoon by ' a bolt of lightning which struck the ? grandstand of the baseball park where J 150 i>e??ple had gathered to see a ! name bettvecn a local tcuiu and a nine ? from Plymouth, Wis. Ntw Enjland Rifle Tourney. Wakefield, Mass., Special.?The an nual rifle tournament under^the aus pices of the New England Military , Kifle Association opened here and will ? continue till August 6. Every one of 1 the New England States is represent ed by piclsnd teams including neai)> every crack shot of the New Eng. land militia. Some valuable troph. | iea and other prizes will he contested Tor, - ? WOUNDED TAKEN TO HOSil Al Wounded Victims of Hamlet Wrack Being Oared For ( harlotte, N. ' ('., Special.- I he fijH'cial train hearing the -?> injured colored |?eople reached Charlolte Mon day morning at 7 o'clock. It sistcd of three express cars, iu which were placed r?gular passenger coach seats for the comfort of the sutfer ers. The live injured white people were taken to Hocking ha in lor treat uii'iii, li is thought that they will recover, Nearly all of the others are seriously injured. Dr. 11. M. Wilder, resident physi cian for the Seaboard Air Line, with a corps of other Charlotte physiviaus hastily summoned, met the Kain nn<l amended to the removal and treat motit of the sufferers. A number of physicians from Hamlet, Rocking ham and other towns on the Be aboard, came iu on the special train, The pa ticut> were taken immediately to the (lood Samaritan Hospital, where 1 hey are being shown e\ery attention. One of the injured died bef??ro the train reached (.'harlot to. Another breathed his last before the hospital was reached. Their names ar ?>uot obtainable. Dr. IT. M. "NVUder states that the majority of t!ie 2'2 yet liv ing are seriously injured. A numbe of them will probably not liv through the night. The (lood fjainaritan Hospital is scene of confusion. The hospital is surrounded by a large crowd of tin curious who are anxious to gain ad mittance. The groans of the suf feeing ones adds to tlit* horror of th< scene. The colored trained nurses are working valiantly and the doctors. 12 or 15 in number, are doing evfcry tfhing in their power to relieve pain. A number of while people have volun teered their services as nurses. <? It is almost impossible to get an accurate, account of the wreck from any of the colored people. A report er asked two or three to state how it all happened, but they could tell noth ing about it that is different from the report sent out from Iiainlet. Near ly all those \ylio were injured were unconscious for an hour or more after the disaster. The second class car, one of the colored people states, is a mass of ruins. It was turned com pletely over, crushing its occupants I almost beyond recognition. This man, who received an ugly'lgaslj in the torhend, said that he crawled out to the ground through a hole in <he car made by the crash. From his statements the tragedy is indescrib able. .. . {/?pt'. Lewis the deijd engineer, was well ..known in Charlotte. Tie was one of the most popular employes of the railway company. I lis houip was at llamlet. Russell Sage Meets End. New ^ i^k. Special.?Russell Saj.*e ?lied suddenly Sunday at his country home, "(Vdar Crofti" at Lawrence. L. I. The immediate cause.of death was heart failure resulting from a complication of diseases incident to old Jjge. The veteran financier would have oeK-bra rod his S7th birthday, on August 4. Mr. Sage had been in ex ceptionally good health sinee^his ar rival at his summer home about six months ago. At noon Sunday he was seized with' a sinking spell'and col lapsed, fallin?jr into unconsciousness about two hours before his death. \^hieh occurred at 4:110 o'clock. Factories Blown Up. Berlin. By Cable.?A despntch from Katfowit/., Prussian Silesia. announc es- the Singer Sew in"* Machine facfo rics at Sosnowice and Bend/.in have been blown up by bombs at about the same time. At Sonsowice six persons were severely wonuib'd and at Beud ziu four badly hurt. Reformed Church Reunion. Baltimore. Special'.*?The 17:h an nual reunion of the Reformed church in Maryland. Pennsylvania, Yirgin ia ami West Virginia has eoiiuncneed. the atteiulance beinif very lalrgc. Rev. J. T. /Hacker, of Roanoke, delivered the address. A Quartette of Politicians. r Oyster Bay, Special.?A quartette of Republican lenders went to Saga more Hill to talk over the coining congressional campaign with Presi dent Roosevelt. Tim parly consisted of Sjvaker Cannon. Representatives Sherman, chairman of the Aarnpnign ftqinmit tee; l.r?inlenKlaiger" of New Jersey, an<l McKiwley of Illinois, .sec retary and treasurer of the commit tee. Sherman said the President was not going to be the leader of the campaign bid whs going to co-opera to most heartily in evcrv wav he could. Four Killed in Wreck.v Spokane, Wash., Special?Four men were killed and a numtxhvof persons injured, none totally, in ar ypWk on the Spokane' F>Hs"A- Northern Rail way. One eolch at the end of the train left the trucks while the train was rearing a bridge over Beaver creek and rolled down the bank drag g'njf one coach itith it. The rest.of the tram erom-d tlfc ijtidp tn safe LYtHLY MURUEK EXAMINATION Attorneys Getting at the Truth in the Now Pamoua Lyerly Murder Caae - The Witnesses. Public interest in tin* now l'mnous Lyerly murder thai occurred at Har bor's .1 unction now ccnteis, in the 'j ml oI tho^j vo negroes now in (lie Cluirlotb jaWehnrgod with the erjino. Tito lir&t examination of wituofecg lor the Sinti! was held at Salisbury last S'filitn'ay, and the proceedings, are givciv in substance as reported by Mr. H. I'!. C. Bryant, a staff corre spondent of the Charlotte ()bscrver. Story of Murdered Man's Son. The lirst witness to make a state ment was .Mr. (i, L.veily, a son of the murdered jjian and a halff brotn er of the children, He said: 'Mini Taylor, the hoy who had been work ing for my father;' told me of the murder about *1 o'clock in the morn ing. Taylor had sj>ont the bight at Mr, If. F? Cookers, wtUi Sum. I went wi.h Mr. PIpss Barber to the obi home Fd. Harbor, Charlie Hrown'ahd Kd Carl?r were there when we ar lived. I think Mr. Matt. 1,. Webb was the li*.st man on the premises after the girls left, lie was aeoom <ompanicd by a Mr. Watson, a cattle dealer who occasionally with my fatli ej. Watson was on his way there that morning to get breakfast. "Soon alter 1 arrived there those who had assembled thought it best to invest Ja<.k l)iliin?.,l.,ini, as the girls bad said something about a quarrel that fnthcr and .lack i:ad had the day before. 'I 'ie negio had said some tb'.ig about cursing father. '4 tVheti ive crtertd the house we found/ the front door cp n, jusu.as ibe ufirls bad lel'i it, wboi they start i .l lot M v. Cooto's l:cn<'. The bodies of father and .lolin were on the tloor. Dr. Chenault and myself hunted for and found the money, about. $175 that father kept in the house. Some of it was upstairs in a drawer, and remainder in the little rear room, ?lear the kitchen.? ?*? ?'The house u which Nease Cjilles pie lived is located about a quarter <T a mile west of the Lyerly home. ?Tne.k Dillingham lived southwest, about 300 yards. "When we went up to father's borne we saw a feather bed, a bureau drawer and a lamn in the front walk, where the girls bad left them. The Lyerlvs were all' friendly. Father and his children were on the best of terms. "Last Christmas I heard father say that ho and Nease bad had some words about their contract. Father had told Nease that he would have to work a crop, as he had promised to do, or get out of his house. Nease cursed him, an, in turn, was ordered out of the yard. Ileiirv, old Fannie (iillcpsie's son.'.left and went to Mr. Leroy Fowl ass' to live. Nease coh tinued to drive for Mr. John Penning er, a saw mill man." Mary Lyorly Makes a Statement. The next witness to take the stand was Miss Mary Lyerly, the oldest daughter, of Mr. Isaac Lyerly. She was dressed iu black. Miss Lyorly is 18 years old, has an attractive face, light chestnut hair and soft, attrac tive brown eyes. Her lips are thin and sensitive. She seems intelligent and sprightly. After a most trying week she appeared fresh and composed yestiwday. Her manner was of a quiet, modest but plucky maiden. She is neither backward nor brazen, but willing and ready. "1 knew nothing after 1 retired about 0 o'clock," said Miss Lyerly, "until Addie called mo, declaring that tin; bouse was on lire and that papa and mamma were dead. 1 was nearly suffocated. The house was full of smoke. ""When I went down I found Ad die at work. She had already drag ged papa and .John from the bed and was lighting ibe lire. I caught hold of papa and pulled him further out from the bed. We threw water on the bed and carried out the burning t hintrs. "I went over and felt mamma's face; it was cold. She was lying just as she lay when she wont to sleep, except that her feet were hang ing out. I saw blood all over the pillow. I picked Alice, who was still I nlive, 111> in litv firms mid carried lior out into tlio vanl. where we tried tn hrinj; her too. We could hnrely hear her breathe. Addie went-Ijnck ?up ! stairs and brought us fonaof e|oth?**. which we put on in the yard. We then left for Mr. Cooke's, Addie lead. inj? Janio and I carrying Aliee. h - - Door and Window Open. | "The<. fropt door and the Window that opensjjiflffc,papa's room front the j*>reh were open. The key \va* on the inside of the door. I always lock ed the door at nitfht but after papa went out and, on returning, forgot to turn 'lie kev. Any one eould have gotten in through tlie window, with out much effort. "Papa's axe Jay at the woodpile, for I saw "it there the afternoon be fore. John and Alice had befn cut ting wood. "When I went to bed papa wa? fast asleep, snoring. Mamma wa? dor.ing off. That was afew minute? bofoYe 9 oVloek. Addie and I slept together. T heard no noise. "Thft^lamp, whirl) had a porcelain how4,Aras nearly full of oil. It?liad 1>**n filled the Saturday Wfom know that it was sitting on the bn ivatt an<i tin* hunter \\;is on. Whoi Wi' arose, l In* I;ilit|* was t?n I lie !li'.t i t 11 "John ? iillepsie and llonr\ I.?>?? >ou Uliil step son Sense, starter a ciop. They livedfc.u tin' house will N'case and Ins w iI??j'ol?| Fannie. < )m da\ Fannie canto dft>wn homo ami got a I t/'r papa t??r havfug Henry ami hi' will1 lvie in with t lie tit. She was mat because tliev slept oil her beds. Sat unlay following, Nea e eante an<l :o?k e.l tuthor what was the trouble will him and the hoys. Tliev hud soim conversation and Nea>e cursed papa who drove hint out of the yard. (leo .'ronford, who worked for us then, tuid that Neuse declared that ho Aoiild kill * old Ike hyorly.' Mr. Pratt ford told us about it the next MKiritiuK. Nenso was mud. Papa ojtl him that he would liavo to sow ho whoa I or louvu. ?'Mr. Cruat'ord wont front hero to lis home at liildehrand. " Noase was down there once or iwico alter that hut I never hoard illy more until a low days before the . ra^edy. Nea.se came down ami aak ?m! jrapa what ho wit* going to do with the wheat. Papa told him 'thia.-h it.' '?Delia, .lack's wife, and mamma had trouble Friday morning about ;lte soap suds in the tub. After mant aia loft I went down to tbe spring ilit 1 heard Delia say: 'If v-ltc* (mean ing mamma) had said three more words I would have downed Iter.' ".lack and papa di not got along :ogp|b?r. Jaok had boon there just thout a WHi?k. He told papa that ho was going to work for .Jr. Peiiniugeir. Papa said, ' Well Jack, if on ,ro there tnd woj?k live days without laying >ff. I will treat.' "I hoard Ji.ek sin* that ho would lot yo to work for no maa before > 'clock. "Mr. Jim Taylor, who had boon working for us and sleeping in the 'io;.: >. spent hist Friday night with, -mm Cooke. 1 was straining the milk when ho left. Sum Cooke had come >ver to our house lo bring a grain ?radle which his father had borrow >d that morning. Jack wis at the '<>1 with Delia wlu>({tt'lp<d us to milk the cows. Jim Taylor, Sam Cooke I ind Jack left logetho.' ?nung down the path toward the oritur. That morning Jack had worked for Mr. Cooke and then he went down lo Mr. Ponningor and secured work." On being questioned by the law i vers Miss hyerly continued: "Papa kept most of his inotioy in the bureau upstairs. Nothing in Ihe house was listurbod. Kvon Alice's little pocket >ook, which contained 2.r> cents, was left on the bureau by her bed. "Wo did yot go by Jack Dilling ham's house, which was close to the path that loads to Mr. Cooke's. ;for we wore afraid that Jaok might hear us. We slipped by, fearing that he might kill us loo. Sister Janiejwho is 1(1, going on 11, said that she heard talking in Jack's house as we passed. I was then about 11:30 o'clock. We arrived at Mr. Cooke's at 11 :.r>.r>." "A fire was liurning slowly but ?steadily in. Ihe middle of the bod. The bureau dflnwer lay inverted upon Ihe breast of John, who lay on his stoma Ob. The drawer avos burning. John's feel extended over the edge of the bed. "f pulled pnpn and John to tho; floor and called Mary. We worked in t ho' dark. "After wo had put ont the fire L run upstairs arid got sonm clothes for us. I tlid not soi! any light or hear any talk as*wo passed .Tank's house." Miss Addle corroborated other statements made by her sister. On being interrogated she the made ,tl?e ^following additional declarations: "When I went down mama \s face was covered with a pillow. One of her feet was on (he floor, I.ittlo' sister lay beside her on her back, just as .she ii.td ->lcpt7 ? "When papa turned olT the Oil le'spie boys, X <;!><? came down and asked him why lie had done it. Pupil lob: bin that tlie.y woithl not work th-' land, and (hey had to get out. was ordered away and as he I went be muttered something but I could net understand what he said. Mr. ('ranlord told uus that Xease was sayiny that he would kill 'old Ike L\erl v.' ?'.lack' wile said that if mamma had uttered three more words she \\ultf<l hu\c downed her. ''IVila, that is Jack's wife, knew how slept." ^ Mr. J Matt L. Webb, mi illiterate white/man drove a wagon for Mr. Pcnnifciger, staled that he and Neaso hud worked together. In part he said: "Three weeks before the. trag edy, in conversation with me, while loading lumber at Mr. Powln?$\ Xease brought up the subject of wheat. Ho declared that J?o, thought the erop would be pretty good this year. I told him 'ye*.' Then he said: "Well, old man Ike Lyerly can cut mine but. he won't eat it. or get the money for it. 1 told .Ioiw? TH*QS^s?ii^wiM?t Xease had said and./he deHared that Xease wasn't dawWrous." Little Henry Tells Hia Story. After the foregoing pontons had hod their way a small, bright faced, curly haired hoy, with blue eyes, and pretty features came in. He carried n little while, soiled hat in hia hand. His lips twitched nervously, and he seemed uneasy. He looks mora like his Auglo-Saxon father than he doea his Afriean mother. - When asked i who his father waa he called tfce i name of a well-known. Ibite man. \ -"Do you Tike Keaae Gillespie V | some one aaked. "No, ||.< has been i iwii *i |<? in,. wa> 111f <|tii<? U lepK Solniior IlaimiHi' Henry be tween hi* |ej:>. | iiillctl ?ir his hat a till patted 1 ? 11)i <iii slit?(ibiers, Having: ''lioy, we iv n??r ;?oing to hurt you. Nobody wants in harm you. Now von must <<'ll us all you know." " Noase tlill?'s|?if? lu-ats mo, He's my grandpa. No w)ii|>))?>?! mo last l-'riday. Pa I moaning Nea^e) am) John mot Henry l.oo and Jack at the braneh, this si?|o of Mr. Ike's, Fri day night. That's what pa and John said when they oaiuo baok. Pa said that ho ilidn't oaro what they did with him iittoi lie had done what lie wanted to do. Maw, old Fannie, a>k ed paw whore ho was going and he said 'It's none <? I your business, tint you'll know when I oome baok.' Sin said no more: Paw and .lolin oame bark hel'iue day. 1 was in bed with ma w. " W hen paw a and John oame it: they s.-i down by (In* lire and maw asked paw \\ 11?? r?? he had been and lie said: 'I've bee]) down to obi Ike T.yerly's. I went down there and kill ed I hem. 1 tobi you I w as' going to k.Jl tlmm, rind so, by (lod. J did.' "It skeored maw nearly tc? death when paw said that. John didu 't say nothing'. Juek and pnw done it. Paw said that Jaek's wife liobl the lamp. All met at the braneh. Paw took. his axe with him. I saw him got jt. He washed it otT at the braneh but there was some blond left oil the polo. Ho and John said they washed it. }Vo saw tin* axe the next morning and there was a spoek of blood oil it. Paw said be killed Mr. Ike and Miss (lus sie (Mrs. Lyerly) and Jack killed John and Alice. 4, * "Maw never asked no more, for she was skeored. ''Jack used Mr. Ike's axe. He and Ml". Ike fell out about a horse. Paw and John said they set the bed allre. " Hefore day paw put bis old over alls with John's, in a bed tick of straw ami burned them. lie burned bis shirts, too. We saw them burn ing them. They burned them be cause they had blood oil thein. Hlood was all over the shirts and the over alls. "I loft Home early that inoruing and told Mr. Mann Walton that paw had killed Mr. Ike and Miss Unssie." "Do you know where you would go if you were t?? tell a storv, Hen ry?" asked Solicitor Hammer. "Yes, sir, to the bad placc," ans wered Henry. "Who made you?" "The Lot d," was I be ready re ply. "Paw said they threw (lie lamp in the brier pateli. I saw a church lamp at Jack's bouse the day ma and me went down there." The boy started when Mr. Ham mer called to some one in a loud voice, and said: "They are not going to hurt me; a re they?" * lie was assured by a number of his country acquaintances that lie would be all right if he told the truth. "I saw the lamp on the mantel piece. Paw said that they threw it in a brier thicket." This little negro tells a most in teresting siorv. His words are full ni" meaning and the State must rel.\ largely o*> what he says to convict the negroes who are now ton prisoned in the Charlotte jail. Henry is dis posed to tell too much but bis story tallies, in the main, with the one h< told the day after the murder nt the coroner's inquest. He is smart and very bright. If his story is tru< Neaso (tillespio, John Henry. (leorgi Ervin and Jack and bis wife wil hang. No half-arrown btVV ever bar more responsibility resting upon him It is a question of life or death. The testimony of the negro womer contradicted that of the boy. num her of -witnesses are still in rosorv* for the State. Held For Burglary. Spencer, Special. -I'lrnest llolmcs, colored, was !)i)iiii(l over to court hero on the* charge of burglarizing I lie home of II. \V. Ilolt al I his place. The burglar was seen taking a watch which was afterward found on Holmes, who w.is arrested for the cap ital olYcuse. |fe i* a desperate char acter and will he tried for his life. The erimo and the capture, following so soon afterwards, Created a small sensation here and feeling ran high for-a time. A WHITE. SUMMER. At rccent smart functions and at the most fashionable resorts tho abundance of wblte dresses confirms a prediction of some time ago that J this will be a white season. Princess Rowas are vory much 'In evidence Dresses and coats of white cloth arc j in many instances successfully re lieved by black velvet, In the shape of straps, buttons, r6Vers, collars, |K)ckct lappets etc. Anothor very pnv ncur.ccd feature 1? Hit) vogue for short, loose coats. Just reaching hp low the waist, and either pleated or much ornamented with stitched straps and small volants. These coats arc certainly not so becoming as the small bolero, which does not conceal the curves of the figure, so gracefully defined by the princess and the corse let skirt. A very noticeable tendency toward the old-fashioned trimmings ^whlch ornamented our grandmother** toilets la also noticeable.. Fringes are used on coats, on oatdoor gowns. Ha well as on evening drawees; Whllf brown and black rlW^aa, In an OH World dtsiga, have ?a|^a?ir res* SOU ill UrtKuuua OkWi d Condition of South Carolina Crops For Week Ending Monday, July 23, 190ti, as Given Out by th* De partment. Oao of llu' iiiiii11 features ot' the week's weather was ilie continuation of excessive cloudiness thai lifts been so characteristic a feature since iho lirst ??r llu1 montl>, although in many localities fherfi was slightly more sun shine than there was in the two pre vious week clear days having been noted in various parts of the State on Frida\ ami Sat unlay. Tin1 t?*iii|?oi*niurt> was <|iiite uniform throughout the entire week with no noteworthy variation from the norma! or seasonal heat. The weekly range in tempera!me was from a minimum of I>2 degrees at Greenville on the 18th to a maximum of 9(5 degrees at Heath Springs on the 201 h. There were npmerous showers and thunderstorms during the week, rain havinng fallen on l'roiu three to six days in nearly every part of the Slate. The weekly amounts of rainfall were generally above normal at all sta tions, while in the extreme northwest ern bonier range of counties the rain fall was excessive, having been six inches or more, for the week, with a maximum fall of (i.SS inches at Clem son College. These heavy fains and some that fell in the central and east . ... , /...nittged lands, locally by washing them and flooded bottom lands on small streams, but caused no very high water ifi the larger riv ers. Great Damage By Storms. Greenville, Special.? For three sue- " cc&sive days Greenville has 1>een vis ited by severe thunder storms ae companied by terrific rains. I'p to this time notfone has been killed by lightning, but three houses have been struck in the city and several persons have been stunned. The lirst damage done by this series of storms oe.curr- ~ ed Thursday afternoon when tho Cumperdown warehouse was struck and suffered damage b.V fire that fol lowed. On the same afternoon a no-* gro house in West Greenville was hit. The walls and ehimney wero badly shattered, but tho family es-.. caped, having been huddled together in another room. In a residence on Washington street a child was stun ned but thero was no evidence of the building having suffered from the electrical discharge. The third storm of the series came up about 9 o'clock < Saturday night, and though less se vere than those proceeding it, there was electricity enough in the atmos phere to huru out the motor on a trolley car, shocking the occupants severely. Of tho 950 telephone sta tions in Greenville 400 have been put out of use by lightning. The local management has found it-"necessary to bring a force of linemen here from Atlanta io assist the Greenville men in repairing the damage* which will ? cost the Bell people hundreds of dol lars. Paving Work Begup. Spartanburg, S|>ecial.?|\'ork has ' been commenced in earnest1 upon the $125,000 contract, whicltpwas recently let by the city of Spartanburg for street paving. For some time the work has been held up on account of the fact that Chief .Justice Pope had granted a tem|M>rarv injunction against the contracting company and the city. The injunction now being dissolved, work is to be pushed. The preparation of tho street for the coat of bitlnilithic pavement is being done and within a short time the paving proper will be laid. Going to Egypt. (Jrcenwood, Specinl.~Mr. &. A. Pressly, of Duo West, was hero- on It is way lo AshuI., Kgypt, where ho will leach in the College of Assut. Mr. Prossly was a member of the sen ior class at Erskine College this year. Assut. is about 300 miles from the month of the Nile and is n eity of about 40,000 inhabitants. The col lege there has 850'students. 1 t ? '? Kershaw Remains Dry. At. a special session of the supreme court the county boord of control of Kershaw county was enjoined from establishing a dispensary at the town of Kershaw. The decision is of very great importance to the people of Lancaster who have foturht against' the establishment of this dispensary for some timo and they will be grat ified to learn that the legal ohjee tions raised by them "~crc- oufuoiviu to m^ke permanent a temporary In junction ordered some time ago. Tb? reasons for the decision will be filed, later. ? Charters aad OoaaMoas. ; ; ^ The aecretary of atate issued7 * number'of charters and commissions as follows: t The Belton Printiflfc Company also secured a commisaion. Tk w ton are: R. A. Lewla, D. A. Oj B?- 4<ger and others pubKah a newspaper and dcr.j j printing work wkb a capital .