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i VOLUME XVIII. ' CAMDEN, S. O., FRIDAY, A I l-V 2(5. P.HI7. NO. 2?. PALMETTO HAPPENINGS Newsy Items Gathered from the Different Sections of South Carolina. New Naval Constructor for Charles ton Yard. Charlciitpu, Special. ? Navul Con fctruetfor Julius A. Purer has suc (:cetle<i Coyjtructor John A. Spilman at the ('harleston navy yard, the lat ter having been d(itached for special duty in the construction of vessel* at navy yards*, Lieut. Finer comes t > Charleston from the New York navy yard. Lieut. Furer has been in the service more than 10 years and he will .succeed Lieut. Spilman in the direction of construction work at the navy yard. All work of tho construc tion and repair department "Otlmes under the charge of the naval cons tructor. Lieut. Spilman has been on duty at the navy yard for several months, but the need of his service is felt for ship building and he has consequently been detached and Lieut Furer sent here from the New York navy yard to succeed him. Speakers Failed to Arrive. Newberry, Special. ? Over 200 far mers of Newberry county were at the court house in response to an an nouncement by Mr. T. C. Hunter,; president of the Newberry County Cotton Growers' Association tha* Messrs. E. 1). Smith, president of the State Cotton Growers' Association; F. 11. Hyatt and P. 11. Weston would be in Newberry on the 15th Inst, for the purpose of addressing the farmers and business men of the county. Neither of tho speakers put in an ap pearance and the crowd was disap pointed. The meeting was held in the opera house and there was a large crowd present. The following of ficers were elected: R. T. C. Hunter, president; W. C. Brown, Secretary; Alan Johnston, treasurer. The fol lowing resolution was unanimously adopted: , "That the cotton association re gards the decision of Judge Urawley on ilie contract labor system a.; in jurious to the agricultural interests." The Kershaw Election. Columbia, Special. ? The Stat??, hoard of election canvassers met i >1 consider < lie matter of the election' 011 the dispensary question in Kpr sliaw county. A mass of papers'Was, submitted and attorneys were present1 to present both sides but on account, of the absence of Attorney General Lyon and Comptroller General Jones it was decided to defer consideration and action until the entire board can be present, as this case will probably be a precedent. The members' of tho. board present had about arrived at a I conclusion, but considered this a very important-case and wished for tho board as a whole to go on record. State Health Board. Columbia, Special. ? The State, board t>f health met last week and talked ^Qver a number of matters af fecting the health of the State. Noth ing of particular importance was done although there are several matters up for future discussion. One^of thet.Cj is t lie pro^position made to the Stare board of education at Chick Springs suggesting the teaching of hygiene and health in the public schools through suitable books and by lect ures. This is now before -a speAial commit tee of the board of education to frame up. Q^hc board unanimously endorsed the suggestion of the com mittee from theKboard of health. Abbeville Cotton Growers. Abbeville, Special. ?^^fes9rs. E. D. Smith and F. H.. Weston ofs$he South ern Cotton assocjhtion spokeliere to a very largo croWcl in the court house, I Much enthusiast^ was shown $000 be ing subscribed to"--?arry. on the-wnrlc of I he association. Mr. Smith's speech wa$ logical and to the point and abounded as usual in wit and humor. Mr. I. A- Keller, president of the Abbeville county association presided Steamer For the Pee Dee. Georgetown, Special. ? Messrs. W. M. Duval and Wm. Godfrey of,Che raw were in Georgetown last wesic ?*> representatives of the Cheraw stock* holders of the Cheraw Georgetown Steamboat company, and* they with the stockholders in Georgetown pur chased the Steamer Merchant from the Georgetown and Pee Dee Steam boat company, the purchase price be ing $livK)0. This steamer has a net carrying capacity of - 344 ton#, - and one great advantage of this ste**ier is that *she carries her immense freight on a very small draught of water. pkoepbate . Charleston, Special. ? Tbe South Carolina pfaospliatg - eommiwien ?* ?mined the phosphate mines about last week. Tbe ooramis srcrsmfaaMin of tbo having been bfre in two veers. ' The New Station For Florence. - Florence, Special. ? It is gratify ing to the people of Florence and vi cinity and will no doubt bo of inter est to the traveling public in general to know that ground lias been broken for the eerction of the handsome- pas senger station in the cifljfc It is un derstood that the removal of the di vision headquarters of the Atlantic, Coast Line from Wilmington to Flor ence, which has been announced will lake place on the 1st of August will have the effect of giving Florence a handsomer and larger station than was at first planned. Petition in Circulation. Batesburg, Special. ? A petition addressed to the second assistant post master general is being circulated in Batesburg and the towns along the Carolina Midland railroad, asking t hat* better mail facilities he provided for the people along the line between Batesburg and Allendale. At present there is but one train each way on ihis road and ii a mixed train. The mail is supplied to the various towns along tho railroad in locked pouches, which of necessity is not satisfactory. Belter mail ami passenger facilities over tl^ road have been in demand (for many years. Fromiring Youilg Man Meets Untime ly Death. Florence, Special. ? A horrible ac cident occurred at Winston by which a promising young man by the name of A. W. I'rice lost his life. Young Price had fbp some tiji'ie been acting as assistant, jto the de|x?i-?gent, tho' not in the employ of the railroad company, and it seems in delivering orders to the engineer or conductor, slipped under, or was in some way caught by, the wheels of the train and was crushed to death. lie was the son of a widowed mother. Shooting/in Greenville. Greenville, Special. ? Isaac Griffin was shot antl perhaps fatally wound ed Sunday aflernoop by Butler Allen in the northern part of tliis county. The men are lirst cousins and ore both under age. Allen came to the city and gave himself up to the, au thorities,* but refused to discuss the affair when seen at the county jail, other than to hint that he acted in self-defense. Both families are well known. Allen is a cousin of Walter Allen who is serving a life sentence for the murder of lly Trammel in tho same neighborhood some years ago. Died From Fright. Anderson, Special. ? Solicitoi Boggs arrived in the city and brought the news of the rather unique death i of Mi". M. B. Waters of Brevard, N C., who lost his life from fright near Quickens. R seems that Mr. and Mr:;. >Vaters were driving out in the coun try when their horse became fright ened and was rearing upon it's hind feet. Mr. Waters became frightened on account of his wife and collapsed dying eight minutes later. The horse did not ritn but fell back and injured Mrs. Wafers slightlv. Dispenser For Bamberg. Bamberg, Special. ? The countv board has appointed Mr. C. R. Clay ton of Ehrliardt as dispenser at that place to take the place of Mr. J. C. McKenzie, who died recently. Mr. Clayton waj a member of tho old county board when the dispensary watf3 in the hands of the State. He Is the father of Mr. (1. B. Clayton, who is a member of the present board. Teachers for Cameron School. Cameron, Special. ? The trustees of the Cameron graded school have elected teachers for another term, as fallows: Prof. A. T. Davis, of Ches terfield, principal; Miss Pearl Powell of Columbia, for the intermediate RTnde; Miss Marion M. Lykcs of Ly kcslaud as primary teacher, and Miss Virginia Walker of Cameron has heen re-elected os music teacher. All or the above are experienced teachers. </ Officers Elected and Dividend De clared. Spartanburg, Special. ?The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Cowpens Manufacturing Company held in this city was most satisfac tory. President R. R. Brown was re elected a* were all the old members of the board of directors. A semi*nn nual dividend of 3 1-2 per cent, was declared. President Brown reported that thfc enlargement of the plant that has been completed and that the new machinery installed would be in operation within the next few day*. Drowned Whjle in Bviaalnf. Rock Hill, Special.? About 10 o'doek Wednesday night, while bath* ing in'a pood at the Arcade Mill in this eHy a yonng white mate named JUUy, 23 yaar* of a$e Was drowi Ha' was a good swimmer and it d that ho was seised with white in the water which win fltt water was .drained an n ran u tu Steamer and Schooner Clash Off California Coast OVER 100 LIVES LOST IN WRECK Ihe Steamer Columbia and Steam Schooner San Pedro Collide Off tli^ California Coast and Many Per sons Find Watery Graven. San Francisco, Special.?In one of the worst marine disasters in the his tory of tho California coast, between 100 and 150 liverf were lost, as far as has been learned, by a midnight col lision between the steamer Columbia and the steam lumber schooner San Pedro, in Shelter Cove, 12 miles southwest of the Mcdocina-Mumboldt county line, between 12 and 1 o'clock Monday morning. Only meagre de tails of the tragedy have been receiv ed, though every effort has been made to get the facts. Scores of telegrams to Eureka, the nearest point of im portance, remain unanswered. Tlio few details known here were brought by (lie steamer Roanoke and tho steam schooner Daisy Mitchell, which arrived in San Francisco in the fort uoou. TheC'olumbia, a 300-foot steel ves sel of the San Francisco and Port land Steamship Company, wh'le bound from San Frisco for Portland, Ore., with 189 passengers and a crow of GO, collided with and was rammed by the San Pedro, a 170-foot wooden steamer, soutbbouud, for this city. The sea was smooth, but the weather was fogy. The San Pedro, looming out of the mist a few lengths away, bore down on the Columbia at hi$h speed, despite frantic efforts to clear. With a grinding crash, the Sun Pedro sank, her stem fully 10 fe?.t into the Columbia's port bow. Jury Instructed to Acquit. Louisville, Ivy., Special.?A special from Sandy Ilook, Ky., says Judge Mood v instructed tho jury in the case of James Hargis, on trial for complicity in tho assassination ftf Dr. B. I). Cox, to acquit the prisoner. This is the last case against Hargis for al leged complicity in the Breathitt county crimes and Hargis walked from-the court room a free man. The judge's instructions followed the withdrawal of Attorneys Byrd and Jouett, for the prosecution, from the case, the lawyoj* stating "J that the State was unable to produce its wit nesses. \ \ .7 American Shoes Abroad. Washington, Special.?-The bureau of manufacturers has ready for issue a report of the leather, boot and shoe trade in FiUropcan markets prepared by S|)ecial Agent Arthur B. Buitman showing that shoes are popular in all the countries visited and that their sale has become so general that En* ropean manufacturers are imitating teh American shapes and styles and the more progressive of them have im ported the most improved American machinos. In many cases the Euro pean imitations are stamped with the brand "American shoes." Cotton Outlook in Alabama. Montgomery, Ala., Special.?In re ports to President Seymour, of the Alabama section of the Cotton Asso cintion, it is indicated that the .cotton crop in Alnhama with averag?V com ditions from now on, will make 65 to 70 per cent, of a crop. With ideal captions 90 per cent may be mado. News in Brief. Tlio question of limiting aramen'.s is to be taken up at The Hague and General Porter made an address In advocacy of tlie American proposition to collect debts. A new York woman who asphyxia ted herself and daughter with jjas, tn a note described the dying struggles of the girl. / < ? General Aliklianoff and two other persons were killed by. the explosion of a bomb. By the collapse of a building J.t London, Ontario, a mini be r of people are believed to have been killed. The report that Count Leo Tolstoi had been killed is denied. . * The election of the Elks- was so close that* tho result will not nounced until later. Klaw & Erlanger arc credited- with a plan to organize a world's theatre trust. . . l The National Educational Associa tion declared itself in favor of re formed spelling. Col. Charles G. Ayres has been or dered before a .board to examine his iBttneaa for retirement from the Unit ed States Army. W Interstate railroad fares have been reduced to twe cents per mile by moot | ?f* the jtattwrn aadWeetarn rail roada. - ??? ,? . ~~ Nina aAs were Hlled and i bW numbar aarkmdy bin nail In ?pov> der expfa*M? on tba fcrttlesfctp Oao* vVr'. E? fi* P" UNDER THE liECEIVEUSI !ll?. -Week'* (.'U'veruRt Cartoon by Miu auli-y, In th,> N,>w Vorlt World. LULL IN ATTACK ON TRUSTS. Purdy, Author of the Injuction-Kcceiv crshlp Method, Goes to Europe For a Rest. Washington, I). C.? Milton D. Ptiijv d.v, assistant to the Attorne.v-Genof'al and author of the injunction-receiver ship method of dialing wifcli tho trusts, has sailed for Eurorfe for a vacation of six weeks or two months. It is probable that there will he no great activity in trust prpsecultons during the next tw<i months, foi At torney-General iJqnaparte spends most of his time at? his country seat in Maryland, Solicitor-General lloyt. is already in Eurcipe and Assistant Attorney-General McReynolds, who ' prepared the case against the so called tobacco monopoly, accompanies Mr. Purdy oft his European journey. Only two more anti-trust suits are in immediate contemplation. The case against the Du Pont Powder Corporation is in print, ready foi the final approval of the Attorney-Gen eral, and the papers in the case have been submitted to him. The other proposed action is against the In ternational IIai;vestejy Company, which is declared by the Government officers to be a monopoly in restraint of interstate commerce. The investigation'- of the Harves ter Company has neyftf.. been com pleted, although the preliminary ex amination, which was enough to sat isfy officers of the Department of Jus tice that some action should bo taken against the corporation, was com pleted Bome time ar?o. The prosecu tion of the Harvester Company may possibly go over until the autumn. An experiment will be made in the suit against the Tobacco Company, which is charged with violating the Sherman law. An injunction will be asked against it to prevent it engag ing in interstate commerce, and the court will be asked to appoint a re ceiver. SPOKE TO NO MAN FOR 70 YEARS. Oldest Maklen in Indiana Never For gave Sex For Faithless Ijover. Lawrenceburg, Ind ?Miss Sarah Ann,Daniel, ninety-five years of age, died a few days ago at her country home two miles north of this city. She is believed to have boon the old est maiden in Indiana. For nearly seventy years she had lived in tho same neighborhood and had refused absolutely to have any communica tion whatevei with men. Tradition has it that Miss Daniel was one of the mo?vfc popular girls in the county when she was sixteen and that she engaged herself to a young man who was teaching school in a distant part of the county. He vis ited her regularly, but at tho close of school term he, left the county with out a word of ^explanation and Miss Daniel never heard from him again. She was never afterward seen in company, and wh6n her father died, and later her mother, she was so heavily veiled at the funeral that her face could not be seen. She contin ued to occupy ? lie old homestead, but all business in connection with the farm was transacted through neigh bors of her own sex and it is said that, she never spoke to a man after her lover disappeared. VERY MUCH A GRANDFATHER. Captain J. F. It,van Mas Three Grand children in as Many Hours. Louisville, Ky.?To be made a grandfather three times in little more than that number of hours is the unusual experience of Captain J. E. Ryan, of Jeffersonvillc. The proud fathers are the Captain's three eons, John G. and Thomas If Ryan,-of Jeffersonvillc, and William D. Ryan, of Louisville. 'The children of John and William are boys, and Thom^V child la a girl. Tobacco Acreage Lam. Tobacco acreage is lesa than that of last year by about 44,000 acres, or 5.6 per cent.. The average condi tion on July 1 was 81.3, against 80.7 oh July 1, 1906, and 87.4 on July 1, 1.06. ? Fanner* _ Wold Wheat. The amount of wheat remaining lands of farmer* on Jul/ I la ~ at nbout &M63,000 bueh A MURDER OVER TELEPHONE. Official of Lowell, Mass., Heard Screams, I'lstol Shot and Falling Body. ... -Lowell, Mass.-- Hearing a murder over a telephone was tin? surprising e<perioneo ??f Bernard J. (lately, a constable, who hoard tho screams and tho shot when Mrs. Mary A. Mc Bride, a milliner, was fatally attacked in her office. In her millinery shop at No. Button street, before her helpless employes, Mrs. McBrldo waa^Hhot down by a man, who rushed 1ii, IIred a revolver at her and escaped. The woman, at the St. John Hospital, re gained consciousness long enough to say:-?"John Kelley shot me." The constable who had the re?., markable experience was some dls-< tunce away at his office in the Cen tral Building. Ho cnllod thti milliner by telephone regarding a legal matter. Tho voice at the other opd of the wire an swered:-?"This is Mrs. McBrlde, and I refer you to my attorney, Daniel J. Donahue." Then tho constable heard a scuf fle and loud cries. "My God, don't shoot me! Don't shoot me!". Then he heard clearly over the tel ephone a revolver shot, followed by a woman's moaning, which grew faint er, until all was still. (lately was paralyzed for a moment at tho unusual sounds over the wire, but gathering his senses, rushed for the millinery store. Ho found Mrs. McBrido lying un conscious with an ugly wound over her right eye In one corner was Miss Vanassc, the milliner's assistant, half falntlug from the experience and moaning that Mrs, ^ McBrlde had been JtlMed. ,Tho assistant explained that the shooting was done by John Kelley, v/ho was madly in love with the mar ried woman. Kelley was found near tho scene of the shooting and was arrested charged with attempt to murder. DOWN ON CARTWHEEL HAT. Beauty Specialists Tell Women It Causes Wrinkles and Bad Figures. London.ArBeauty specialists here ere trying to kill tho women's so called cartwheel hat, which . has reached enormous, tentlike dimen sions. Tho specialists suy the wear ers are crushed by these monstrosi ties, which are ruining their figures. To sit in a carriage in comfort a woman would bo obliged to put the feather of her hat out of one window, the hunch of flowers out of tho other and the bow of ribbon through a trap door in the roof. As she cannot do this she sits crouched, with her shoul-' dors huddled, her nock bent and that expression of patient, resignation on her face which is tho sure forerun ner of wrinkles. Double chins, bent backs and un sightly n^cks and figures robbed of their natural poise will bo the result If this ridiculous headgear Is not modified. A great majority of the mun of tho .present day want tho women to keep thorn. <711A KIT* TO HONOR EMPEROR. Old Arc Fund of $25,000,000 Pro posed For Jubilee. Vlonna.?The lower house of tho Austrian Rolchsratli to-day adopted a motion to appoint a special commit tee to draft proposals for the celebra tion by tho State of tho sixtieth anni versary of Km per or Francis Joseph's accession to the throne. It will bo suggested to the committee that $25, 000,000 be voted to found an old ago and sickness insurance fund. Francis Joseph, Emperor of Aus tria and King of Hungary, was pro claimed Emperor after the abdica tion of his uncle, Ferdinand I. and the renunciation of the crown by hi* father, December 2, 1848. Three Robbers I lunged.1 T^ree of the men who robbed a pawnshop In St. Petersburg, Russia. Jane 12, were hanged. The case of the fourth robber is to be investi gated * second time. Increased Price* For Labor. 7 Scarcity of -farm laborers at tbfe busy veasoa II also feeporta^ from many sections, wages of Iff a month being offered wtthont sacoeaa tA pro BITS?! NEWS IS ANlll\<JTO\.. Now customs regulations f.doptcd l>V iho Treasury Department will ro mo\o objectionable features of the present system of examining baggage, Tho convention of the Army and Navy Union at Washington adopted a strong resolution In favor of tho lesforatlon of the army canteen as a "4 em porn nee" measu re. Tho man who Is all powerful at tho NVhito Houso during theso hot ? lays Ik Hudolph Forstor, tho nsslst ant secretary to tho Prostdent, who, since he got IiIh training under Mr. Cortelyou, is a past master' in the art of keeping Hllont ivr nlftmt seven teen different languages, Tho State Deplfrtment has perfect ? rd a Far Fast/nut bureau to have charge ol* all/correspondence and preliminary treaty negotiations with the Oriental governments. For the next isix<> days tho Nation al CSovornmont will ho run hy proxy with the departure of Secretary Cor telyou and Postmastor-Cenoral Mey er from Washington for their sum mer vacations, s?very responsible head of tho Covernmetit Is out of the city, and tho weighty problems of State are nolng solved by tho as sistant Cabinet officers. f (H'H APOPTF.D ISLANDS. The export of Manila cigars amounts to nearly $1,900,000 a yenr. and (lie homo consumption is prob ably larger. Tne most valuable crop In the Phil ippines It; hnnip; rice routes noxt. fol lowed hy tobacco. Tho Supreme Cour'. of the Philip* pilio Islands has increased the sen tences of ox-Col. Mil I lord of the Nebraska Volunteers, who w.'.s thrice convic'ed at Frstafa In connection | with live defunct American Panic, | from sis to min?* years' imprison ment. F. It MeSlocUo:1 : on in lajv of Afone, the ceniinll-t. who formerly lived in Honolulu, llivvnil and died in China, lwir. sued tho Afolig estate for $7r.,ooo. In respous?,v to tho call Issued l>v ilovernor Post.(he Mavors of sixty-six munlclnrillt los assembled at San ?Inan. Porto Hlco. to discuss munici pal problems and to consider meas ures for brlngltr* (lie cllies into do k?i' relation with the Insular (iovcrn ment. Cuban liberals oiiposi d l he policy of federalization of Havana. Cub,in liberals awed Senator Za vas and (leneriil/iome)? to resign as aspirants for the presidency In the interest of party peace. DOMESTIC. Samuel \i?llo3, alleged to bo a mom hor of a Black Hand society, was shot dead by itnknown persons at Sharon. Pa , ami two men with him were fatally wounded. John A. Bagloy, formerly Attor noy General c?f Idaho. declared Ilarry Orchard woold ho hanged whatever the outcome of the Haywood trial in Boise. 1)1 vid('>id.> to Kcjnitahlo l,ife policy holders were less by thirteen. per cent, this year than In' 1 !)<>("? or Jftoil. Officers say this is due to tho revalu ation of tho "company'* surplus. Annual MtafemenlH of tho Union Pacific, and Southern Pacific Knil roads showed a high state of pros perity. The hero of the Georgia was din covered to !)o Seer.inn Beniaivin Krei ger. Tho d(Raster was found to ho due to tho haste of the gunners in an effort to break the record for quick firing. <*A compromise van reached where by all danger of a strlko of telegraph operators wa-t averted. District Attorney Jerome, of New York, again declined to |rt*oduce tho list of contributors to his cam paigif fund. Thero were 1,28.1,34!) alien immi grants lauded in this country in tho year ended June .'10, o<ceedlng the previous high record by six pot cent. With their wedding planned for the near future, .f. L. Davis and MIkh Docla Vebryke were drowned by tho overturning of their boat at. Lima, Ohio. K. H. Harriman'r. plan I'1 cleU A. O. Hackstaflf secretary of the Illinois Central Railroad Company was thwarted by Stuyvesant Fish. rOHKIGN. A Persian parliamentary commit tee refused to submit to vote the pro posals of the German Bank at Tehe ran. Count Tornlelli introduced a pro posal at The Hague regarding bom-1 hardments of unfortified towns which emhodies the views of all the coun tries Intereated in the question. Tho marriage in Chicago of Prince Robert do Broglle and Mrs. R. B. Velt, aee Alexander, was declared void by a Paris court. The King's Bench Division, in Ix>ndon, dismissed the appeal of the executors of the estate of W. L. Wlnans for the return of *650,000 of death dutiea. The Argentine stejunuhip Toro haa been wrecked near/Santiago, Chile. Seventeen persons' nro reported drowned. Alexander Grtger'i: r,lander suit against Count and Countess'da Por zlc was dismissed by a French coQrt. Tho Japaneso ct#ck market 3howcd a sharp rise in prices, due to public confidence that no tronbto was to be expected betwoen America and Japan. "A member of the Popo's hottMkoM, in aa interview published at Rome, tells of a miracle at the "Vatican la which the Virgin appeared la a ?* -lot? to the Pontiff, at?al(yiai a#* proval of the reeeat ?. ?Mrs. Saaford Anderson, of HUtt~ bore, Mow Braaawlek, .wan fatadtf woaaded hy her ftv?-yoar?ld mm, who waa patriae wtth a i<folwt. ofParllaaa % scores KILIEO OB EXCUDSiON 1RH WRECK Freight Ciuw Forgot Oitiers ami Collision Results. VICTIMS RAIl.ROAD EMPLOYES I'lvlHhl Train hi m Ich^an l)j(, N<)f ,,o;' I'm iccsi.,nisi S|toejti| "Hit (lui Two (i.hiik Mel Head <)??Tin* Work ol |,VM ur, Salem, Mlrh.^xThlrty-ouo iiereoua were killed ami more il.an seventy in. Jurod, many of them ueriotiiily, when <i 1'oro Alan) nolle excursion train ,,ounti ln'?> Ionia to i.jlit roil. crashed Into a west-bound frc|c,lf t|.fljn jn a uit located at a rur/c of -iho 1 'Me iMaifjncit? Hailroad about. Ii milo east ol Salt in. Tho passenger tiMn of eleven cars cnnyiiiH t)i?, IVrn Mm.motto shop employe, frf lonin and (heir .amlUou on> their aiiuuiiI exeumio... was run ii . \ apeed, probably fifty , ? ai! , vn' 'lowii a sleep Blade. Hi.' /'"i i i'T ,ll,''lut,r of iorV,? '!, ! wll,t HlKl' terrific roimil'( >u 11 freiulit onglim 1*1?tv 1 > aroivnd. i'lie wrecked lo~ ??onioi ivc'H lav r.ide by ?i?i0, bblli head on ^usiward. ? Only a t,,w ,M |!i(l train "i>r? !"!h Besides tho two V K ,VII lwo,,,,?'-lvw. Dowevor, six u'n h, -i ,I,e-?;?B?'-,nsoi' train lay piled P In a l opnlw wreck. Po,,.* : tho <a's remalmd on tho track ,?;,l?|iy ! and v,ere ..sod to convoy (;u,d JnJiired to Ionia One., * i,H ,ol'W(irtl trucks ii11"(l o i (11(> ia11 v > r? 'irU} i i,r1 ?ihcad of iheso if. I'll scoped I ho noxi car for l^.od i?Iaiosi on end after tho i , T, i , fonV{,,,tl ond resting on ; hed and iiii? rear ond high In Urii ' ii?tV/" ?" ,wo ,0,C8popod earn ua had I ol lowing It. Two ?heU,iru'?fUl'l'.,'? ,!lrown orosuwise of I,. . . . !;0 Kiiupondod from fro .i \ ,f "u> c?" 'Ive or six fcUabovoXiho rail*, Of tflio ha?^ ?&??. ! / enough ronialncd to ?ho* whoro it bad been tossed. Por d?',i"hnmi 1"! Ml" loto??<'tlvo ten ? and fi (>!,",ht cam were idled In n Indescribable mass of debris ii.very family on tlio tralm 'had w,!!? /(,sk',,s' ninny of (hom IokcIlut i,Wll<!" 1110 tvn,ns crushed near ti n win l,us8?n?erH sitting , tn? windows of the rear un* t'indowL rmn"" <l,rown tho windows lo the ground. There wan a panic in tlio uninjured cam for a f' w momenta. Then those nassen !'Z^ln-!o!l /,onVho,cn,B to 1116 r?? of fiieiidt' and relatives who wore !-'?!!,7n 1,1 U'0 wret'knlfo ahead of It. i amnios wore scattered amoiig dlf f'toul cars, and (here wero frouzlecVO em r!m n?is:dnK relatives. Moth-" ua ian acreamlng up and down many of8 tho' vl,loil ^lldre^ while 'n?n> of tho >oun? peonle wer? an frantically calling for their parents. James Boyle, a farmer, wa3 work fron "thii ? i!rubKb,y 400 teat "way iiom the track Avhon tho two trains approached from opposite direction?. mi th? k g wns movinff alowly '''h? ,h.oav>' Biado and had just Lm. A? i cu? vo when t}io pasuen gei ti alu appeared, running at hlKh speed, lloylo saw the passenger en Off his steam And apply the biakes und saw the crows of both eng nea jump jnst before the crash. ? hi i i the,trac,{?. where ho found ; ,Ja.. iUe paBsengerH from the eai coaches running forward, and Joined with them In pulling out the hand6 wbo cou'^ he seen on every BJe, ,(l0^ w<>'0 Placed in a row alongside the track and the Injured ' wore in ado as comfortablo as poaa? J. under the circumstances and until the arrival of the wrecking trains fiom Detroit, Grand Hapids, and Sag inaw, which mado it possible to send them to Ionia and Detroit. ini?l?* tvvonty-elght dead bodies first taken out of the wreck \yere shipped to Ionia and tho Injured wero placed XX. i\Vo# V, ' 10n,? of which headed - lot Detiqlt and (ho other for lonla I here were about thirty-five Injured persons on each train. Later others were found. 7 p I.lst of (he Dead. The following is the licit of dead,, all from Ion in except as indicated: Homer Smith,aboy; AlbertTraunt* wine, John Tofel, Charles Hess, Her man Hess. Paul Hess, Willlanj. Cor nell, Don Rogers, Lowell, "Mich.; Dick Jonex, Mrs. Abiaham Eddy, J3dr ward Gallagher, eighteen years;. Frank Douse, J*. K.' Merelt,- ftfty eigbt years; Henry Reynolds, Pero Marq?i(#ttu; Charles McCaulley, Sr.; Al. jf. Hefbort, 13dward Durllng, Chafles Broad, eighteen years; James Vizard, Willurd Stager, Wllliam/Jott, Mrs. August illehter, Fred/Fitzger alu, Ed. Corwan, brakciuan:*iCftoWles, flromun; Charles Funton, fireman; William Evans, Frank Reynolds, Ben inmiti Durliug, Charles Fenton. Harry Williams, E. J. Pixley. conductor. Respoi.bibUity is put squarely up to the crew of the freight train by of ficials of the road. Tho.so who ar? rived at the scene of the wreck soon after the accident, obtained from the ; crew of the freight the orderlffohder which It was i aiming. They emfrjkiy showed the position of the excwslos^ traift, and that the freight had en croached upon its runifoig time. The' freight crew loft the scene early, but railroad officiate said that - tb->y-e*Tr plained simply that they hai forgot ten the orders. . ? t? -y Profcrty ?t Kca Kxempt* America's proposition to exempt projpL?rty japt. ? was approved in comwlttce lu Ty, Hagao Peace Conference by tfrrttjl^ ow eonntrle* to eleven: mler W