Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ht: ■'***Ti ■ •pp ipi 'T: i , 5 ' n ss;: .. , • yol. xvni. BARNWELL, S. O., THURSDAY. JUNE 29, 1006. ■ ^ . .. . t ■ j *»> ••♦j? . —. NO. PICTURE. Negroes of the West India Islands Said to be Drifting BACK TO BARBARISM I . Coaditioo in the Islands. When the Blacks Have Control Race Problem ' Is Beinf Settled Afslast the White Man. Sad Sifht at Ruin* o! St. Pierre. I haw recently returned from d trip to the West Indies and the Spanish Main, in the course of which I visited most of the Windward as well as the Leeward Islands of the group, writes Lambert Tree, In the Chicago Trib une. We went within 10 minutes of the Equator, and I found it hot down there, with 90 to 96 degrees In the hence Is perceived everywhere, sub stantially, negro control. The English islands of Barbados, Trinidad and Jamaica are no exception to this rale. For whllr governors with fat salaries are still appointed by the imperial Government, the local offices are filled by blacks, the Islands policed by them, and their general political," social and moral tone given by them. What next? That la the question which.-one nnnslantlT propounds to SSSSESS 48 A ttELIWOTS KITE. racial antagonism or mutual avers! n existing between white and black In the Islands which be has been aocus A STRANGE SECT Who Nailed a Young Man to a — Cross Good Friday. tomed tosuppoee oely prevailed in the Hlf Hsidi^nl P«et Were Spiked Je t|« ours lu the afternoon, when the chief _ I rammer seas and blue skies in the tropics all the time, and the trip was in many respects Interesting. Of course I saw our new colonial arqulsi tlon, Porto Rloo, and have no tears to shed on acoount of its being ours, al beit I wish the popujation was of a higher grade, we cannot have every thing In this world, th< ugh, just as we would like It, and besides If there were not room for improvement In tbs peo pie of tbe Island, neither would there be any room for progress. “They are In high feather down there just now with the brilliant proepect of a large crop of sugar, on which they expect to realize a net profit of 60 per cent. On the whole, things are deold edly looking up In tbe affaira of the Island under American auspices. One of the ssddeH sights I have ever seen In my life is the ruins of tbe city of St. Pierre, Martinique, wbipee pop nlation of 40,000 was wiped out, it is said, in 20 seooLds bv poisonous gsses, which suddenly burst from the sides of Mont Pelee at tbe tlmaof the erap tlon three years sgo. Only the walls Of the great ware houses along the quay and of the cathedral, balk, theatres, churches, business houses and.homes remain as sllent^wltaensce to testify that there was onoe an ao tlve, gay and bustling Trenob city standing there. - J r- Tbe streets are heaped 10 feet deep with ashes, belched forth from tbe crater. The trees, which cnce shaded Urn streets snd adorned ita famous bo tanical gardens are lei fl as and ugly monuments of its destruction. When 1 landed from the ship In a small boat not a soul survived to meet me and tell tbe story of that fearful moment All was the silecoe of death, and there was not even the rustle of tbe fer de lance among tbe pitiful ruins— that dread snake whose bite is certain and speedy death, and which used to Infest tbe sides of Pelee and steal down times, it is said, Into tbe gardens of St. Pierre. It, too, has been eliminat ed from tbe scene by tbe impartial volcano, which spared neither sex, age, color nor any living thing. In our cruise we followed In part tbe same watery paths pun u3d by Co lumbus more than four centuries ago, and saw personified In some of the Is- lands, If not paradises Inhabited by devils, at least gardens of Eden, con trolled by populations, which were ap parently drifting back Into that bir barism, whence they were taken when they were brought over by English, Trench and Spanish slavers and dis trlbuted among them. The racial problem Is being worked out In tbe tropical West Indies, and worked out, if not in favor of tbe ns gro, at least against the white man. No re fleeting person can visit these la lands without feeling, after what he sees there, that tbs Almighty has fix ed certain zones for the habitation of tbe white and black races respective- Everywhere In those Islands the evi dence exists that the white man hak lost 1e tbe struggle which he has been maintaining for centuries there to preserve bis racial superiority even as an inhabitant of countries witbin the troploal zone. Gradually but surely be has deterio- ated physically, morally and mentally. Of all tbe emigrants, forced or volua tary, who bave peopled those islands since the ruthless slaughter of the na tive Caribeee by the soldiers Sbd gov eraors from tbe highly oiviliz >d na tions of enlightened Europe, only tbe negro from tbe Congo or tbe gold ooast Of Africa, whose forebears were brought there as slaves, has flourish ed. Instead of deteriorating he has, oon sidering him as an animal, physically Improved In stature and muscular pow er. The climate being equivalent to bis own, all the rest Is doubtless the result of more fsvoraole physios surrounding ss to nsture snd lodg noent than be had been accustomed to Africa in spite of hli condition of ivery. He has also mini pi led rapid until he has become In all of the is iwmia vastly dominant in numbers. Nltarally, therefore, the white who has grown all the time fee bler, mentally and physically, and who eaeb year dwindles in numbers, has already lost bis hold on some dt the Is lands, snd Is in a fair way to ime 1 > on tbe result of them. Cuba excepted and perhaps fprto Rico,.where oilman to oondltlQlil. are much mofwlMi for him. As the white man loses his gxip the black man tightens his, an United States. It Is an interesting fact also that as rapidly ss the negro secures Absolute control In the Islands be just ss car- tainly applies the thumb screw to the white, whom he bates In that hearty spirit which finds it origin only In ra cial antagonisms that neither constit utions nor laws can eradicate or sup- press. Thus in that 'precious republic, Haiti, the white man is not permitted to hold real estate, and a number of other privileges are denied him which are permitted to the black citizen. Judging from the examples of negro rule in Haiti and Santo Domingo, as well as from tbe social and political conditions In other of the West Indies where they are in partial control, i* would seem that tbe negro Is seen at htsbest where he is under the Irfluenoe dri ven through his hands and he was Cross Beams of the Structure They Called the Cross, Where the Victim Remained UfitU Tsken Down Dead.. Oa “Calvary Hill,” near Torres, Colorado, In Las Animas County, an accident happened on Good Friday. A young man named Jesus Gonzales was nailed to a cross during the Eas ter religious ceremonials of the Pont tentes, snd expired In view of the awe struck spectators. He had vol unteered to take the part of the Sa viour In the solemn ritual of the sect, snd his wrists and ankles had been firmly bound to the cross with ropes. At his own request nails were then snd control of a considerable body of white men. By himself, It is nearly, or quite, self-evident that he Is not capable of administering Government for the gen eral welfare of the people over whom he rules. Tbe negro la an Imitator, and with the Influence and example of the white man absent racial Instincts beyond his control seem to draw him back as by “tbe oaU of tbe wild." His Idea of government In tbe repqbltos in the West Indies be rales over Is te plunder the weak. “Might makes right” Is the rule Of tbe barbaric, and this Is the rale of those whence he sprang and toward whom he is again drifting. If the negro Is left to himself much longer In Haiti and Santo Domingo all government will ultimately disap pear except that of tribal relation'. Nothing is more clear than that he is retrograding in that direct loo. All this would be mere abstract spec ulation for Americans if we were not confronted with a racial problem of tbe same kind In our own land. As ft is, however, we are facing it now. Many pie in the country, and they are Ing in cumber every day, tblnk grave mistakes have been made In tbe treatment of the negro question slnoe the abolition of slavery, and they would gladly see undone some of tbe things which have been done. Just ss many persons, wbo are in creasing just as fast In cumber; be lleve that ss the Southern people are taoe to face with tbe problem and un derstand It better In *11 its phases than tbe people of any other portion of the country, they ought ty be let alone to settle It themselves *ln tbe way In which It seems to tbem wisest under tbe circumstances. Upon tbem, their children and children’s children must rest the brunt of tbe onsequeCces, whichever way the problem is settled. Mask the problem ss we will, tbe i act remains that tbe people cf tbe South—tboee people wbo have ss lofty Ideas lo religion, morals and honor ss any In tbe world—those people who have produced some of our greatest statesmen, soldiers snd scholars, and among whom the bigbest type of- the pure American Is found, are to day en aged In a straggle for race supremacy success n their States. Upon the lasut of "that struggle many therp are, lu the South as well In the North, who earnestly and devotedly believe depends the question whether tbe Soutbern States shall be come a second coition of the West In dies or remain under tbe control of tbe owners of tbe soil snd tbe build ers of - their universities colleges, schools, churches and olvlo institu lions. Queer Physical Facte. The two sides of s person’s face are never alike. The eyes are out of Hue In two cases out of five and one eye is stronger than tbe other in seven per sons out of ten. Tbe right eye Is also ss a rule higher than the left. Only one person In fifteen has perfect eyes, the largest percentage of defects pre vailing among fair haired people. The smallest Vibration of sound can be distinguished better with one ear than with both. .The nails of two fingers never grow with the same rapidity, that of the middle finger growing the fastest, while that of the thumb grows slowest. Id 54 oases out of 100 the left leg Is shorter than the right. ^ For the Uaual Crime. A dispatch from Nashville, Tsno. says Slncm Ford, a negro, wbo as saulted a white woman near Rtveslde has been taken from jail at Hohenwak by a mob of fifty men and abut and killed. Ford was arrested after being perhaps fatally wounded. After his srrest be admitted his guilt and was Identified by his victims. Ford was hauled to tbe eoene, about ten miles, suffering from his wounds. He asker to be killed Abe quickest way and did not plead for bis life. Leaded la Jail. ’ Rev. Monion T. Dye, who beads the flocks of religious enthusiasts at Danville, Va., known aa “Holy Jump er*,” was committed to jail for dlsre garding the mayor’s Injunction to re frain from boteterouaneas In hls open sir meetingtrin tbe street. He re- ' to 9lp~ttie fins or to Allow, others todoIt, preferring the role | a martyr. spiked to the cross beam of the cross. At a signal from the high priest of the Penltentes the cross was elevated and the ceremonial continued. Following literally the New Testa ment narrative of the Saviour’s oruci- fixloo, every incident and episode was imitated. Some of the Penitential Brothers performed tbe part of Ro man soldiers, and one of tbem pressed s sponge of vinegar to the Ups of Gor ziles. The pseudo Christ smiled feebly and whispered tbe Saviour’s last words, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.” Tue Penltentes then divided Gonzales’s clothes and cast lot# for them, ss told in the Scriptural account. A brother then seized a spear and plunged it in to Gonzales’s side, snd hls face light ed up with the beatific smile of a mar tyr. Meanwhile the various episodes of the crucifixion were executed with solemn z*al, while the victim hung weak and bleeding on tbe cross over head. A priest Approached and re peated the words of St. Luke, “He saved others; let him save himself, If he be Crist, the chosen of God.” Some of the brothers who took the part of Roman idolaters, then crowded up to tbe croav, mocking snd scoffing snd shouting, “If thou be tbe King of the Jews, save thyself!” Finally the inscription, written inSpablah, “This is the King of the Jews,” was nailed on the cron, and then Marv a^d Mar tha and tbe women of Galilee ( mper sonated by women of the sect) ap proached. This was the signal for lowering the cross—but the smiling lips of Gocztles were silent forever, the eyes upturned to the sky were rigid In death. The Penltentes looked at each other in startled surprise snd said ’God’s will be doue.” Tue agony of the cr ss had been too. much; the naif hour they had intended to keep him there had stretched to nearly two hours; In s religious frenzy of lamen tatlons the Penltentes carried tbe swollen, bleeding bodv of Gonzales to a b mb in the cemetery over the hill. Tne coupty authorities have made efforts at an Investigation of this Good Friday tragedy, but with little The Y eDitMlMs are Mexi cans, speaking little but Spanish, and they refuse any Information what ever. Tne penitential Brothers, or ;Los Hermanos Penltentes," have been oast out by tbe Rjmsu^Cathollos and have been pursued by the local authorities lu Colorado and new Mex ipj until they have been driven to re- mote mountain pIao38 a here the could conduct their rites without In terference. Tbe writer witnessed a part of tbe ceremonials of Easter time ss per formed by the Penltentes near Clay ton, New Mexico, last year. SUrtlng ’rom Clayton, s small town on the Gulf road, we rode all day across the bot, dry prairies on which tbe only comrades, who are naked, except for short cotton trousers, snd these ooos- s’onally are lined with cacti, and bound tight to make the suffering tbe more Intense, The reader of prayers Is among their number. At short In tervals they stop to make the “sta tionsjpf the cross.’’ Arriving at Calvary, the cron bear ers He at fuU leftgth with the heavy beams on the Ir backs while the piper others pray. Then the prooeaslon returns to tbe obspel, the men going Ins da for meditation, and tbe women remaining outside. These pilgrimages are kept up during tbe day and tbe climax pf the tragedy oc enters tbe obspel and comes with the victim, who Is to Impersonate Christ. In some places be Is a volunteer, and In others he Is chosen by lot. Cal vary iias been freshly prepared for him aadJbe walks to the spot, lies at full length on the now recumbent cross, hls back to tbe standard, and hls ara& outstretched. Tbe alter dints take stout ropes snd la&h the arms and legsof tbe pen- Itente to the cross, binding him so tightly that tbe strardi actually sink into tbe flesh, but not a sound Is beard from the martyr. It is custo mary to spike the victim to the cross, but public opinion has wrought a com promise Id some localities and the ac tual driving of nails into the hands is omitted. Even in the very remote old Mexican towns, where a crucifix ion always takes place, the victim of tbe crucifixion usually survives tbe ordeal, sr d proudly shows the scars ss evidence. Long ropes are fastened to the head of the cross to steady It, and other brothers raise it to an up right position. As Its base meets the tbe excavation tbe whole mass slips down with a thud that must cause ex eructating pain to the victim, but he never utters A complaint. The cross Is then maintained in its position by ropes and loose stones thrown into the hole.— mm n The poor penitents must suffer the most Intense agony—his skin puffs up sod discolors and hls face betrays great anguish. The silence was Im pressive—no sound of bird or Insect In this desert land and all the brother hood were in silent prayer. Some were lying on Mattes of cacti; all tbe officers wore crowns of thorns snd some were besting themselves with the prickly Spanish bayonet plant. It seemed ss If we could not endure the strata. About half an hour after the cross was raised tbe chief gave the' order to lower It. Tbe hoods were loosed snd the blood began to freely circulate in the ylotlm’s veins, but the pseudo Christ was limp and unoon- scious. Then following the testaments! story, s few women gather about the or<es, wailing dismally and Imper-. sonatlog Mary and Martha. The body is wrapped in a cloth and borne to a cave in the foothills. The general c*owd returns to town to a lively tune from tbe piper, but a ciosen few 're main to apply rest iratlves snd resur rect tbe erstwhile Christ. If no mis hso has occurred the honored one quickly recovers and by evening wiU strut about the town, the most impor tant one of the Inhabitants. T en follows a religious dance and a fra-t, and the community settles down to a nemi-civir.z«d life, once more. Toe procession of flagellants we did not witness, having arrived too late, but they march over cacti aud prickly pear with tbeir bare feet and wear nothing but short cotton breeches. Tnen tiiey lasb. their backs with thorns and the blood trickles down in streams. NORTH CAROLINA SENSATION. Two Men Charged With Trying to Bribs tbe Ktlgo Jury. A dispatch from Raleigh, N. U, says the sensation In the State is tbe finding of two well known white men ANOTHER WRECK. V-'l ' A Fast Train Jumps the Track at Mentor, Ohio. . NINETEEN KILLED And Over A Score Were Hurt. There Is Plain Evidence Thnt n Switch Hnd f . Been Maliciously Tampered With by Some Person or Persons. od tbe work of naone snd led hls fol low trainmen and the 1ms seriously hurt of the pamangrrs In deeds that were truly heroic. The wrecked train was making nearly 75 mi lee an hour when the accident occurred, accord ing to Fireman Aaron Gorham Nor walk, who, badly braised, but other wise uninjured, miraculously escaped death. “We were speeding like the wind,” said Gorham, “when the engine left the track. It occurred so quickly that I little knew what happened un til we crashed Into the Mentor freight house. I neither heard nor saw the engineer after that The engine over turned aud somehow the tank man MANY KILLED, Death Dealing Wreck on Maryland Railroad. TRAINMEN VICTIMS. u Of signs of life are herds of cattle, plenty of antelope and the shrill whistling curlew. We knew the danger of ex Qitlng the Brotherhood, but we deter- tnlued to see, and photograph all we could of the oeremonles, and to that end had literally armed ourselves to the teeth—dressed like Mexicans to attract lets attention, and hid the camera under the writer's coat;, As cending a bill we unexpectedly came upou the scene of aztton, and never can we forget the sight. It was late in the afternoon of a hot, dear day, not a breath of wind was stirring. Below us stretched s small valley whose side hills were scantily covered with a growth of scrub oak and pine. The little stone chapel was at tbe head pf the valley ; about five hundred feet away on a small knoll, represent log the hill of Calvary, was erected s s huge wooden cross. Grouped about this, kneeling de voutly, ware perhaps fifty people, snd when they began to chant the “Mis erere” in a melancholy wall the effect was wonderfully weird- When this oeased, the “Procmslbn of Cross Bearers” left tbo chapel. Men chief ly take part in the actual cere monks though woman -are present. The crosses are large wooden Affaira, and weigh ovar two hundred pounds each Thorn doing penance frequently eon oaal their faces with black cloths, and tbe ' fficers may be known by tbe fil et MS heir heads. The procession Is -be-4p by A. piper. Thao of that county guUty oUttemptingjto Influence the jurors for Kllgo In tbe well-known case of T. J. Gattls, s Methodist minister, afcainst President Kilgo of Trinity college snd B. N. Duke of the American Tobacco com >any, which was non suited there Wednesday, Kilgo and Duke being charged with malicious libel. Tne action was taken by Judge Fred Moore, presiding in the superior court. He Issued bench warrants for J. Rowan Rogers, former Republican sheriff, and now court receiver in tbe federal court there, and J. P. Sorrell, a prominent farmer. The testimony of two veniremen,- one accepted as a juror, was that Rogers and Sorrel bad beau to them and urged them to help out Dr. Kilgo Id hls suit, and they would be taken care of If trouble came. Kilgo, Duke and their known attor neys swore that they knew notbing of tbe matter. Judge Moore found both Rogers and Sorrell guilty and sent tbem to jail for 30 days with a fine of 150 each. It is to be hoped that Kilgo, who Is well-known In South Carolina, had nothing to do with trying to fix the iury, but It looks quite flihy, to say tbe least of it. The Iury that was fixed exanerated Ktlko aud Duke. Shot and Killed. Robert J. Barnes, a well known cot ton man. wasshot and instantly killed Wednesday by Byron TrammeU, postmaster at Dothan, Ala. Barnes boarded at Trammell's home snd as he Running at the rata of 60 or 60 miles an hour, tbe Twentieth Century limited on the Lake Shore railroad dashed into an open switch at tbe pas seeger station at Mentor, Ohio, shortly before 10 o'clbdk .Wednesday night. The* combination baggage and smoking buffet oar and tbe coach be hind It, caught fire and ware destroy ed. The train was esstbound, having left Cleveland about 9 o’clock and as It d )es not stop here it was running at great speed. The engineer did pot no tice the open switch until the train struck It. The engine left the rails and plowed into the ground, tearing up the track for yards. The two coaoh- followlng It jammed Into It with great force and ware crushed, the fire from the engine setting them ablaze. Fortunately most of the occupants of these two coaches were rescued before the fire reached them. Nineteen dead and a dozen slightly Injured comprised the casualty list made by the wrecking iff tbe train. It it maintained by railway officials that tbe switch on which the limited was wrecked was thrown open and looked and the switch light extlngulsed by some person, either a maniac or some one seeking revenge It Is still unknown wbo tills person Is, although detectiv es are working on tbe ossa. A careful examination of tbe switch sbowed that it was in perfect condition. Trainsmen are of tbe opinion that the engineer of the Twentieth Century was deceived by the light of s switch just beyond the opra switch, tbe Ugbt of which is said to have bean out. W. H. Marshall, general manasrer of the Lake Shore, says the spaed of the train was not s contributory cause to the wrack. He said that other Like Shore trains travel through Meato at a speed equal to that attained by the limited last night, which was not, Mr. Marshall said, above 60 miles an oour. The schedule for the train calls f or a speed of 57 miles an hour. Coro ner OouA of Lake county announced Toursday evening that an icquest would begin next Monday In Paines- vllle. ' UiT OF THK DBAD. A revised list of the dead follows: John R Bennett, attorney, 31 Nas sau street, New York. John A. Bradley, of the law firm of R *#ley, Rodgers, Bradley & Rvck well. Akron, Ohio. T. R. Morgan, second vice presi dent of tbe Wellman-Sea vers-Morgan company, Cleveland. C, H. Wellman of the Wellman- Sea vert Morgan company, Cleveland, died in hospital. A. L Rogers, New York, represen tstlve of the Piatt City Iron, Works of Dayton, Otno, died in hospital: 8. C.‘Beckwith, 115 One Hundred and Seventy-fourth street, New York. A. H Head, London, representa tive of the Otis Steel company, of Cleveland, died In bostital. H. H. Wright, traveling man, Chi os gp, died in hospstal. E. Arthur, traveling man, MU- waukee, died In hospital. J, H Gibson, Chicago,. traveling man, died In hospital. H. C. Meohllng, New York city,, with the Wheeling Corrugated Iron company. — • L. M. Elrlck, manager Keith’s the atre, c Cleveland. » E. E. Naugle, Chicago, proprietor of a railway supply house. Two unidentified bodies, supposed to be those of L. A- Johnson, of the mil Inery firm of Comey & Johnson, Cleveland, snd Henry Trlnse, barber on the train.' Allen Tyler, engineer, OolUnwood, Ol lo, died in hospital. F. J. Brant, bead brake man, 2012 Asb street, Erie, Ps., died in hospi- tal. - N; B. Walters, baggage man, Ham burg, N. Y., died in hospital. W. D. Mickey, porter, Chicago. APPALLING SCBNB8. The scenes following tbe wreck were appalling. Tbe night was dark, save for tbe light from the blazing wreck of tbe coach that was crushed snd splintered on top of the engine. Men swarmed about It combatting the flames with the means at band, grop ing their way through the blinding, scalding steam that rose In clou Is, bunting for the injured whose piteous cries were such as chilled the hearts of those who beard them. The water ►apply was small and the means at hand for fighting the flames were pitifully inadequate, but the seel of aged to fall upon _ me, ndHieavfly and I was sheltered by It. I lost oon aolousness from the terrible blow which I had received upon tbe bead and I knew nothing until I was drag ged from underneath the wrecked engine.” Conductor Alexander Ham mond of the limits! raid: “I rushed back to tbe switch im mediately after the wreck. It was open and looked open. I tried It and found that It worked all right. The switch light was out Not a wheel rolled over the switch slnoe No. 10, the esstbound Chicago and Boston train, went through 45 minutes be fore.” People Were Werelsfirtir' art's Seen . til HELD UP BY FUOI PAD. And Relieved by All tbe Money They — ~ Had A boat them. 7 * rf- The Atlanta Journal says John L. Tlppin, 18 years old, and Joseph E. Brown, 18 years old, of 609 S. Boule vard snd 48 Cherokee avenue, respec tively, were hold up and robbed at the points of two revolvers thrust In their faces by a white man on South Boule vard at the edge of Grant park Mon* dav night. Tne robber got 16 cents, snd then stating that he himself was going in the direction of the Federal prison, ordered bis victims to tarn back In an opposite direction. The footpad then disappeared In the dark ness. Brown had been with Tippln to a party at HoweU’s station, and on tbeir return! Tippln Invited hls friend to spend tbe night with him at hls bouse near Grant park. When they got off tbe car at the park they went to a bench and sat down. A man who bad followed tbem from the car, accosted them, and asked them If they could change a five-dellar bill. Tlppin . remarked that tbe least he bad was 95. Then when the two young para started to Tipple’s bouss, the man followed them. Suddenly he step ped to Tippln'■ aids with a revolver In each hand. He said: “Halt, and bold up your hands” Tippln and Brown obeyed without any hesitation. Then tbe footpad put one revolver In hls pocket, and keep ing the other thrust upon hls victims, went through their clothes. He fished out 15 cents, snd grunted with dis gust. “Where is that 96 you were talking about?” he asked. “We were only Jiking^iaald Brown. The robber put the money In hls pocket contemptuously, and then ask ed bis victims which way they were going. “Out South Boulevard,” was the response. “No you ain’t” replied the footpad, “for I am going that way myself—In the direction of the federal prison Now you boys go back the way you came and don’t follow mar”— . Tne boys obeyed, snd the footpad disappeared. Tbe program was then reversed, and Tlppin spent the night with Brown on Cherokee avenue. The footpad^* hat was puIIecT down over hli eyes and neither Brown nor Tip pin aw hls features distinctly.” ‘■eldfrpshoCHy. At San Francisco Thomas Lobb, s maniac, barricaded himself In a room In tbe United States Hotel Wednes day, and after holding a thousand people st bay for two hours, shooting aud more or leu seriously wounding nine people and defying the police, killed himself. Lobb went to the ho tel Tuesday night. Wednesday morn ing he began throwing furniture from the windows to the street. Then he began firing with a shot gun, placing s fifty hundred dollar bill in the muz zle of the weapon. Fragments of tbe paper money were scattered over tbe street. Street car traffic was entire ly suspended after ooe car had been fired upon and the windows broken. ^ Crashed tote a OeeMe Header Freight, Redadag all Thru Eagiaes to Scrap iraa. By far the worst wreck in the hto- tory of the Western Maryland railroad occurred Saturday avanlng at a point about a quarter of a mile from Patap- soo, a email station between Welt- minster and Finks burg, Md. At least 25 people are believed to have been killed and a score More injured. Pusenger Train No. 51, east bound, was running at a very high rate at speed when, at the point named, It crashed Into a doable-header freight running east All three of the engines were reduced to scrap Iron, the express and baggage can at the pausnutf were smashed and a number of tbe freight cars were splintered. The passenger coaches sustained little In jury and almost without exception their occupants escaped with nothing worse than abed shaking op. The fa talities and Injuries were to tbe crews of the engines and to workmen em ployed by tbe railroad. It is a remark able coincidence that these latter should have been at wort repairing the damage caused by a recent small wreck thatoerarred at Moot Hope eta- tlon, near Baltimore. They were on tbeir way to tbeir homes, In email towns along tbe West ern Maryland railroad, to spend Sun day. Not being regular passengers they had boarded tbe beoMto «ar and engine. When the orara came, the more fortunate who were on the en gine jumped or were thrown fn-m the train and were only Injured. Those In tbe baggage oar were terribly man gled and the crews of all three engines were killed. Tbeir bodies are aU be lieved to be under tbe wreckage of tbe engines. Just before the first relief train carrying injured tothe hospitals of Baltimore left theeorae, the wreokate about them began to burn. The first rallef train to reaoh Bxlttmore hrooglM 11 badly Injurel One had died on tbe trip. A do* *n ambulances await ed tbe arrival of the relief train at tbe union station rad harried the In jured to hospitals as fast as they could be taken from tbe can. The point at which the accident occurred la so situ- MUST BS STOPPED. -,#wm •1 '41 •a > An Ifileven-Year-Old Wife. New York's sensational martial case was brought Into the courts again Tuesday when the trial of Jacob Flne- Hte was continued before Magistrate Finn. FlneUte Is being prosecuted by Lena Flnellte, a child of eleven years, who claims that shr wra mar ried to the man'ln January and that he has abandoned her. refusing longer The order The Kenning of Freight Bmnday by tbo J The Columbia Record saya ai a re sult of a complaint received by the railroad commission regarding the running of freight trains on Sunday a formal order has been Issued neiiing attention to the law oq the subject and ordering the cessation of the pra- tioe, if it exlits, Tbe complaint came Irom | namber^of minister* of Spar tanburg and other cities In the upper part of the state, and the letters re ceived stated Mtot the law had bssn constantly violated. The railroad commission spent several boars dis cussing the situation, andi after an exam In tlon of the law, decided that If the complaint was true the railroads were subject to s fine. Railroad people state that the eem- plaint If altogether unfounded and that the railroads with few excep tions, do not violate the law. There Is a special provlson made for the fast vegetable and fruit trains are hurried North as rapidly ss possible that these trains are tbe ones about which com plaint has been filed. If that is the case the order will, of course, not af fect tbeir running, as they come un der the interstate commerce law and cannot be touched. Outside of these,' however, there are no local freight trains that an considered violation of the law. Oneome of the roads trains arrive or depart from their terminals late Saturday and sometimes tbe hours of the crews extend over Sunday, bat this Is considered absolutely neoemary In the business of tbe road and does not apply In the order to be Issued. will only apply to traina iv.'l to contribute to her support Flne- Hte is about thirty-five and wealthy. He has denied that he married the child, but s certificate and bave been produced which seem to bear out the troth of the child’s claims. " Tornado In Wisconsin. A farmhand was killed on the farm of Charles Collins, several other per sons were injured'at various points, over 9150,000 damage was done to | and farm buildings, and of head of stock were destroyed by a I grabbed the pump andoarried M fired on a word. -TT- -*■ -jii- brother walking'hart ward And ng a crucifix. He Is followed by the j, • , entered the door, TrammeU fired him twffe without speaking One ball entered the eye and another the left arm. TrammeU surrendered himself, making tbe statement that Barnes ’^naHtpraked bis home.” B »th men stood weir In the' community, TraomeRimvlQg been appointed poet- a year ago, lo luoeesd W. W. MUllkan^ the rescurers wrought great things fpr on toe first few minutes. ^Pullman Conductor J. J. O’Neill, with hls force of porters, did valiant work In helping oare for tbe Injured as they were taken from the wreck. Bedding, blankets and sheets were stripped. from the bunks of the four Pullman coaches and used for the re lief of the sufferers. Conductor Alex ander Hammond, wbo eraaped, start- : ■' v ‘ * ■. ^ tornado that pawed through Dane and Iowa counties and over the town ships of Barneveld and BlOemounds Monday night. carrying freight that make a buslneaa of running Sunay and if there are aay of these they are subject to a fine. It is eatotoiaj, however, that there are none and that the roads are not violat ing the law. Drowootfta Well. AtTMadlaon, Ga., Wednesday night Cal Fits, a negro, was drowned in the large well et tbe lee factory. He was trying to fix the pump, which was oat - of order, and stopped on a rotten la taUtefee*- dltqpra with him. At tha curbing of the well gave way, | caused Um aides to eave, and fell in on tbe man. Colored Womaa Killed. I < Katie I A colored woman, wboaa name W. W.Oarr, could not be learned was killed ajt Greers Friday evening by No. 40, the Ulfated pemenger train that was ahroge wrecked nauy.King's Mountain that Tuada< [night.