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VOL. XXXI BARNWELL, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1907 NO.6 CHASING TIGERS. Tftt DtipMSiry Auttiorttl«s 6«t tin Bisy in Ctiariatton. AUDITOR WEST BUSY OeitlBg Oat Injanctioas to Mop the Sale of Illicit Boom 1b the City by the See.—The Isle of Palms Per manently and Other Places Tem porarily Enjoined.—Blind Tiger# Are Surprised Bat Not Worried. dispatch from Charleston to The State* says Auditor W. B. West ar- rived In Charleston Thursday morn ing with a bundle of injunctions from the supreme court, and hasten ing to the sheriff's office, placed them in the hands of an officer for service on the Charleston hotel, the Argyie hotel, the Occidental- cafe, the Schuet- senpiatz and the proprietors of the isle of Palms. Ail of these places of business have been restrained from selling intoxicants, the isle of Palms permanently, and the other four temporarily. Rumor coining along with Mr. Westjggys that a hundred or two more of these temporary Injunctions are bound* Charlestonward to be aet Not a Very Common Thing Bat Some times Conscience Stricken People Do Send Money to the OMcinls. Supt. D. W. Newell of the Rock Hill division of the Southern railway received a letter the other day with a special delivery stamp on it which told him that a man had stolen some of his property ten years ago,* and that he wanted to make restitution. It seems that the writer had been converted to Christianity lately HaA been conscience-stricken over the offense which he committed over tea years ago. Capt. Newell had forgot ten all about the loss of his property and the letterwras a great surprise to him. A prominent railroad official of Co lumbia was .asl^ed recently if it were not unusual for a person to return stolen property as was done in the case of Capt Newell. ‘‘Well,” he replied, “ we run np against some peculiar things in the course of a year which the public never hears of. It is.not often that a cage like the one referred to gets into the public prints. These men whose conscience prick them because of some known wrong which they have done usually add a request at the foot of their letters that their name be not divulged. xadom-aU^Uacas- wharoJlqnoE^la said ^^t -here known ■■pf -a number •of *oritie property.- Mr: Qeorge rirCor to be sold, the revenue license list furnishing a basis for service,' and that Charleston will also have at an early date a force of constables, to be paid by the county dispensary board, to enforcqfthe dispensary law rigidly. The coming o( f Mr. West to Char leston and the Closing of the cafes of the hotels, reytoprant. and at the Sehutsenplats ha^ naturally thrown the city In a state of tense excite ment. The Injunction proceedings were made up of a petition for a temporary Injunction, the order of temporary Injunction on affidavit* which have been made out by agenU of the auditor and through his per sonal work. The blow struck is a natural con sequence of the succebs attending the efforts of Auditor West to close the Isle of Palms cafe permanently. From the outlook at present every cafe and club In the city and every other place where liquor is sold 'will be similarly closed. In the live sets of pspers served all the owners and the cafe managers were reached. A Mr. CruetOBf, satd to be the future chief constable for this county, has been in the city for a couple of weeks at work getting evidence. He accompanied.the sher iff’s officer in the service of the pa pers. A few days ago a copy Of the permanent injunction against the Isle of Palms cafe was died in the office of the clerk of court and along with service of the permanent injunction papers came also the unexpected temporary Injunction proceedings. THB^ipQRPMK ROHE la the. Coffin and the Mourners Left la a Harry. . * Relative of Mrs. YVeA Hartsell. wife Of a farmer living near Hunting- ton, W. Va.. were bemoaning hei death over her coffin, a few minuter before the minister arrived to con duct the last rites, when she suddenh sat up, aud with a dazed look, cllm^ ed out. There was a rush of mourners foi the open air, windows being uses at exits. The mourners were terroi stricken and the minister swoonet when a pale-faced woman, ovei whose remains he had been called u conduct met him at the door. a The family were too poor to.!mv< a pLysichin, and the woman Tell into a syvoon. In which she remained ttirfb or four days. Her husband thought her dead and sent for the undertaker fHe prepar ed the supposed corpse fof interment without discovering that life still lingered. COMMITS SUICIDE Becaate He Had Accidentally Killed His Pet Dog. At New York Albert Schauer, a well-to-do manufacturer, who had just returned from a hunting trip In Maine, committed suicide apparently because of the death of his pet setter dog, which he had ac cldentally shot during his^hunting trip. He was inconsolable over jhls loss when he returned and finally shot himself with the gun that had killed his pet. CAUSED PANIC. Tongue of Bell in Church Steeple Fell # Daring Services. The tongue weighing sixteen hun dred pounds, of the bell in the steeple of the Church of the Resurrection at St. Petersburg, Russia, fell daring morning services recently, creating a panic and endangering the chapel,, re cently erected over the spot where Emperor Alexander was assnfsinmt- ; \ r RESTITUTION Son* Stolon Proporty Rotor nod Aftor Ton Yoars. cases where some party had defraud ed the railroad company or had stol en something from them and return- it in after years after undergoing a change of heart, but Supt. Newell’s case Is the first that has come under my observation where anything stoi- .possession of the Interest coupons for en from an official of the company has been ceturned. “Not so very long ago a case came under' my observation where a man who had ‘beat’ g ride on one of our trains returned the price of the fare to the conductor some months later by mail, adding that he had been con verted and wished to be forgiven for his act. Another case was where a certain Aan in this State had for POKER MEN GONE. Spartanburg Man Oat $900 and Two Expert Card Players Missing. John Davidson and Aibert Dear- man, alleged to be expert stud poker players, ore missing from the city, and D. W. Thomas, a well-known young man, has between nine hun dred and a thousand Hollar* l»»a than he had Tuesday night. Mr. Thomas sold his business Tues- day for 93,000 cash. He deposited two thousand in & bank, and kept nine hundred expecting to pay off a claim the next morning. - ' Tuesday night, tt la said, he visit ed the room where Dearman and Da vison bung out, and the next morning when Thomas came to himself Dear- man and Davidson were gone, and he was short about nine hundred. Davi- *on and Dearman left Spartanburg that morning for the Jamestown Ex position, and the wires aye being used <n an effort to bring them back. In- lictments have been handed to the Trand Jury by Solicitor Sease.- SERVED HIM RIGHT. Vegro Shot Attacked Man and time and snapped the weapon a third time when the negro scrambled to his feet and made his escape. . ARM jerked off THE LOST BONDS Of Mr. AMpMis ConMlson’s Es tate Cannat ba Fauai - INTEREST COUPONS Cashed by n Farmer in Anstralin, Who Says He Found Them In a Hollow Tree.—It Is Said Me. Cor* nelson Tree Out Died 'by This There, and His Brother Is Trying To Solve the Mystery. Adolphus Cornelson, who will be well remembered by the people of Orangeburg, as a well-to-do farmer oving afew miles out In the country on his valuable plantation, and whose dead body was found leaning against a tree In Australia about six years ago, where he had gone in quest of health after a trip to the Father- land, was the owner, along with a large amount of other property, of 910,000 of South Carolina State bonds which will likely never be re covered tp his estate. A strange and interesting story of the lost bonds is revealed by the ex- perlence of Mr. George H. Cornelson, of Orangeburg, In his long quest to recover this and other property left by bis brother, who died without leaving iT will nor 4ny explanation as DASHED IN SIDING. Eicbt KHM In Wrack on Balti- —and Ohio. Failed to Throw Switch and Sharp Curve Completed Arrangements for the Accident. Eight were killed and a score in jured, a number fatally, at Bellaire, nelson, who is executor of the estate, is a wealthy retired merchant and cot ton mill man, whose own estate Is vnueTWIT million dollars. After sevWal years’ work the ex ecutor has just been able to trace bee year, which turned up in a mys terious manner at the State treasur- er's office for payment the very day, and perhaps the very hour, that the legislative committee reported favor ably on a bill introduced by a friend of the Cornelsons to have the State issue certificates of State stock for the lost bonds, Mr. Cornelson being prepared to qut qp an indemnity bond of 920,000 to protect the State Ohio, at 3.15 Saturday afteifrcton when the Chicago and Wheeling ex press train on the Baltimore A Ohio railroad crashed into a freight train which was slowly moving on a siding. The wreck was due. it is said, to the failure of an operator to throw a switch. The. westbound freight had receved orders to meet the passenger^ at the western limits of the Bellaire yards, and was moving slowly along the siding. At the point where the wreck occurred there Is a very sharp curve which preveats the engineers of the eastbound trains from seeing more than a few feet ahead. The passenger train swunk around the curve very rapidly, being three hours late, and should have gone on In safety on the main line The switch to the siding, however, had not been turned and the train shot on to the siding and into the freight. There was scarcely time to apply the brakes and no time for the englnemen to jump. The two big engines were reduced to junk by the impact, but the worst damage was ffona-to the saioker, whieh vrag fete BURGLAR BAND LNty * Wemin at Min CiVi, Long Island, ARE BOLD ROBBERS. They Have Stolen Twenty Thousand Dollars in Six Weeks—The Track . of an Automobile and the Foot prints of a Woman the Only Tangi ble Clews.—Rich Residents "Be comes Vigilant*. In the strangest burglar hunt ever known ab&ut New York posses of wealthy cottagers are nightly patrol- ing the shores of Glen Cove, L. I. With guns on their shoulders and revolvers at their belta&they have replaced the paid watchmen of the villages about the Cove, . through whose lines the looters slipped In and out like eela, and they are looking (or a daring band of land and water pirates led by a slender-footed wo man of beauty and good taste. During the past six weeks the thieves with their woman leader have secured more than 920,000 worth of silverware and Jewelry; that in one of their marauding trips tbey ohloro- formed a well-known matron and her maid, and that on several occasions, ^ Uy. tba-aid of-.owWt orator boats- or tbs ksfflM. 'ffPki months been taking his children with !ln case the lost bonds should ever him on Che train without paying fqr turn up. them, assuring tbe conductor that, they were under age. The amount he returned was no small sum. He stated in his letter to the conductor that he had been converted and de sired to make restitution for thla wrong and asked tcTbe forgiven. As I said, the amount this man returned wail no email Suin 'and he must have had a genuine conversion.'’. (This interest bill amounted to 9450 and tn order to reimburse. the Aus tralian brokers, who cashed them ihroagh the Bank of AustrslK, the farmer who sold them to the brokers jias had to mortgage his little Aus tralian farm. This farmer says tfiat these Interest coupons were all that )ra had, that he has never seen the bonds and never heard of them. He goes on to explain that the coupons were found in a hollow tree on bis place by a farm hand. Possibly it was this same against which Adolphus Cornelson leaned when, he breathed Ms last. He Iras Bring In that neighborhood and tt was hts custom’to go out for long walks, and he died while out on one of thes^ trlps. Whether this expla nation needs further elucidation, whether he was murdered, whether nds are not now being held- secretly In New York by persons ■coped so completely by the baggage car that every seat was thrown out of the coach. Every occupant of the coach was badly Injured. The pas sengers In the other day coach and the two Pnllmans were tumbled .rom their seats, but not seriously injured. Engineer Galbraith was burned to a crisp by escaping tteam. . Tbe In jured were taken to the Glendale. W V„ and Bellaire hospitals. General Manager Fitsgerald, who was In the neighborhood on an ln- spectipn tour, and General Superin tendent W. C. Loree of Wheeling, personally superintended the rescue work. Great difficulty was exper- nnced In removing the injured pas sengers from the wrecked smoaker. Work was slow because every move ment of the dabrls caused some one to shriek with pain, as the victims were entangled in a mast of timbers and twisted Iron. Among the passengers on the wrecked train were the members of Richard Carte’s "'Spring Chicken’’ swatting opportunity to present them tor payment the public* ere left to guess. When the coupons were presented faent through tbe Palmetto National Bank of Columbia along with 30,000 others amounting to 9143,000, which represents the State semi-annual In terest bill on the bonded debt, Chief Clerk Carter had much difficulty in facing their arrival in South Caro lina. Finally it was discovered that they were sent here by the Hanover National Bank of New York. Armed with leitecs-of introduction, Mr. Geo. H. Cornelson went to New York, where the president of the Hanover Bank informed him that the coupons came from the Gerald National Bank, through whose president Mr. Cornel son found the New York brokers who had cashed them. The brokers refused to give any information, but finally by a court order they were made to explain. Mr. Cornelson knew from the stamp on the back of the coupons that they had been cashed by the Bank of Aus tralia originally, and the brokers gave him the name of the Australian brokers firm who aent them to New York. * A decision of tbe South Carolina Supreme Court just rendered quakes a South Carolina bond as good as currency, decides that the innocent purchaser of even a stolen bond has g perfectly valid claim against the State tor the face of his bond. So it would seem If these Cornelson boiids Wife In Mr. Daniel Roseman and Mrs. (losenian, living fifteen miles from Salisbury, N. C„ had an experience a week age that has never been given the officers and fell Into newspaper hands by accident. They were on their way home from Salisbury, when near tht Yadkin railroad crossing at Faith, they were attacked by a negro. The fellow call ed tp Mr. Roseman to stop, but no at tention was paid to him. Then he stopped the horse and slipping up be- hlng the buggy, seized Mrs. Roseman who called to her husband. Mr. Roseman drew his pistol from the bottom of the buggy and fired in to the negro's body, causing Kiln to falh-; Mr. Roseman shot a s ® c i on( | are being secretly held they can now While Trying to Take Some Mm Oat of a Cotton Gin. A terrible rccident happened at Jokfison Humphrey's cotton gin, Dal las. N. C.. Thursday afternoon, of which Mr. William Smith, a prosper ous farmer, wee the unfortunate vic tim. While trying to take tome Unt oqr from under th£ gin hie right arm was caught by the saws and was com pletely jerked off. At preeent be Is resting very vail. be eeeily transformed Into Cub. Fur ther Interesting revelation^ are there fore expected. The case on which the Supreme Court has just passed Involved the validity Of, $12,5$$ worth BtetolThnrqday mmmlng bonds purloined from Ura State treas urer's office by Bond Clerk Daniel Zimmerman, who was also originally en Orangeburg man aqd sold through e broker who was a partner -to the crime. • "> i_ Edward Ehrlich, a wealthy mer chant of Colombia who-era* an lino- cent purchaser of one of the bonds, Instituted mandamus proceedings la the Supreme Coart to compel tbe State treasurer to validate It which Now tbe State is /to sue * automobiles, they escaped aimpst un der the eyes of the posses. None of these wealthy sleuths has seen the much-feared woman leader of the-pirates yet, though some ser vants have. But the rich vigilantes feave-found her tracks—made by nar row, pointed, highheeled No. 3A shoes—leading from their homes to the beaches, where she got into the motor boat or to the roadways, where she entered the automobile, l- The latest of the robberies occur red Saturday night. The home of Mrs. John LHHe, widow of a prominent politician in Mlneola, wu broken In to In the usual mysterious fuhion, and -fil.eee worth of silverware car ried off. Wheel marks, apparently made by an automobile, were found in front of the house the next morn ing. A well-dressed woman, clad in a tailored suit of blue, had been seen walking about the grounds just be- comic opera, which was to have play ed at Wheeling that afternoon and evening. All the members of the company escaped serious injury ex cept Alfred Bolby, the musical direc tor. It was found necessary to am putate his right arm, thus ending his career In the prefeaeton. He was riding in the smoker end war found with a heavy timber tightly binding him by the krma. ' , The wrecked passenger train left Chicago for Pittsburg end Wheeling at 9.30, lest train. The train la di vided at-Chicago Junction, part going en to Pittsburg by way of Akron and tBe other part coming through to Wheeling via Newark. The Wheel ing end of the train consisted~M six coaches. At the office of Superintendent' Loree Saturday night it wee said that they were notret certain which oper ator is to blame for the accident, but thorough investigation was under way. ' j ~ Tbe property-damage will amount to about $$0,000. A curious feature of the,wreck is that the baggage car and the smoker were the only cars on the passenger train damaged. BAND OF ROBBERS. They Hold Up a Train and Set It On Fire. At Odessa, Russia, a train having on board over 200 passengers was held up by a band of robbers, who opened the mail car by exploding dynamite. The explosion set the car on fire and the flames were communicated to a crowded passenger car, with the result that several women and chil dren were badly burned before they could escape. While the robbers were trying to blow open the safe in the mail car they were attacked by some gen darmes,, who were passengers on the train. Several on both sides were wounded but the robbers escaped. STEAMER BURNED. Boat and Cargo Loot and Two Ne. groem Drowned. The steamboat Raymond H., which runs on the flint river between Al bany and points below, was burned to tbe water's edge at Jones Landing The boat wa« loaded with cotton, naval stores and cotton seed. Two negro boat hands were drowned. The boat and cargo are a total loss. three State .treasurers on their per sonal bonds for the amount the State has lost by the thefts, which extend ed through throe administrations, and which were not detected until tour years after the bead clerk was KILLED I M Ttaw lujund by tht Expto- stofl ofCnri* OIL Window Glass in Homes and Street Cars Was Shattered and People Terribly Shocked by Explosion. At New York on Friday three men were killed and three Injured, one probably totally, windows in houses and trolley cars were shattered and the residents tor several miles around panic stricken by the explosion of a tank of 20,000 gallons of crude oil on Protectory avenue. The deed aft: James Cooper, 20 years old, Union- port. Richard Smith, of Van Nesa, of the Bronx. , John Riley, address unknown, body not recovered. The inured are: -— Allan Johnson, 26 years old, of Unionport, volunteer fireman, burned about body, head and arms, probably fatally. Arthur Jordan, niounted policeman burned about hands and arma trying to rescue Cooper. James Conway, burned about the hands and arma while trying to rea cne Cooper. The bodies of two of the victims was secured after four hours work by the light of the Illumination of the flame a hundred feet high. Hoya and men searched houses WORK OF FEN) A Brutal Naftra MM tea Caeart •fYaoiiaJy. AND ASSAULTED HEX. sea and then explosion Wu indirectly due to the automobile races at Morris Park track. The men who met death were pumping oil from the tank witk which to oil the track for the races. The tank $ras thirty feet high and twenty feet in diameter sad stood be tween twd abandoned gas tanks. The sprinkling wagon was drawn np bo ride the tank, a ladder placed against the side and Cooper and Smith as cended to the top of the tank to pump out the oil. Riley remained the wagon. Just what caused the ex plosion la not known. Without an" Instant of warning there was s terrifying report, a col umn of flames shot hundreds of feet in the air and the huge top of the tank waa kurled a thousand feet, ailing tn the woods tn the ground of the Catholic Protectory. The shock , waa felt tor milee around, breaking windows and Yat- fore nightfall. Not only does this «ing dishes alarming the occupants fact and the tracks of a pair of dainty shoes indicate that the woman la of the burglar band,. There are other evidences. For instance, in several houses’ rare linens and laces, whose value few men could possibly know, were taken. Half eaten bite of candy were'Yound about one or tWo' of The looted houses, indicating the femi nine leader’s sweet tooth and also her calmness while on a job. Her band apparently was not de terred by the fate of that other band of Long Island burglars who were rounded up during the Summer by District Attorney Coles and Sheriff Glldersieeve, of Nassau County. They were sent to jail for terms ranging from fourteen to forty years. Officials say no lighter sentences will be Im posed upon this band if its members llnally fall into the millionaires’ drag net. /One rewanPwf 9 MOO has been standing Tor two weeks. Jb! Young Sunday added ilfTndlvldual reward of 9S00 more. It la expected that no less than 9599 additional will be gained through the pitf,' “The Wotmra Pirate.” A feeling, that the burglars are al most uncanny has spread through the towns. So completely have they dis appeared within a few minutes of the lootings, that it seems as though they demateriallze themselves. I determined, with some friends, it would be best to go out and hunt the burglars ourselves,” s$ld Mr. Young, the bank president, Sunday. “They looted my house and got off clearly, though my coachman fired upon one of them—a masked man. Last week the burglars were auda cious enough to come back after what- they had left from, their first visit. Bit they were scared off. One of the band waa seen quieting my watchdog with a piece of meat. We hope to get them some of these nights.” The robbery of the home of Frank 8. Smithers is responsible for the copifeg theatrical performance. Mrs. Smithers may be the impersonator of the mysterious woman leader. It was at their home the feamale desperado’s tracks were first discov ered. Charles Williams, a watchman, .pointed them out to the rich Vigi (antes. Then the procured rules and tape meastyes, did some Bertlllbn work in the sand, and learned from a shoe man that the woman wore dain ty No. 3 A oxfords. ’* *• I watched her house for awhile and hqarda whittle that sounded like when darkness fell," said Williams. ‘.Three hours afterward, the Smithers home was robbed though I could not legally connect the woman with it.” An automobile was used in con nection with the Wetdenfeld and Stevens robberies at Oyster Bay. Wheel marks were found on the lawns of the houses next morning From the Wetdenfeld boose groat chest of silver was taken weight must have taxed the strength of three or tour Men. The empty ■*' . * i. ■ i&a.j « * . * of shel(<Mu hoqpee. In the Catholic Protectory, there was almost a panic among the 1,500 inmates. They rushed from their beds, but ths Ire drill was put In fores by the Chris tian brothers In charge and order soon restored. NEITHER $(ANTB HIM. In Trouble Aboat Two Wives. John William MaHhi and Mis Ft- sneer, Miss Aaiffito Paused to SH on imf la . Hollow When From Bashes, ffasdteff Him lem and Mm* Him Twice, Shot and probably totally wounded by an unidentified negro, who then attacked the young woman who no- companied him. and to. whom ho was to have been married within a few days. John William Mullen, of 1 Off# hlrty-fourth street, N. W„ Washing ton,' D. is at Georgetown Hospital • a critical condition. Miss Amelin Weiee. IS years of age, hts fiancee. Is at the hoase of Crnndhl Mackey, commonwealth's at torney to Alexandria county, at Rock lilt, Va., and is also fn a critical con dition. Ths colored assailant mode his escape and up to a late hoar the posse,, which eeohvOff the woods In ths vicinity, had not located him. George Bradley, a astro, wan ar- ito# enrtyr did nlthouffh Is an swers the description given girt of her assailant, he has proven that he was now scene of the crime at the committed. Mullen and Mias Weiss to rest on a toff In what Is hi Dead man ’s Hollow,” a swampf of land near the Aqnednct bridge. burly negro rwhod from the bushes la the roar and dealt Mnllen a blow over the head with a elah. The man fell beelhrard> a word he drawl 99 eallber and fired several shots at ths train man. .. . . - - ; ' 0*e ballot atrnek him In tho catting bin tongue In $alf and at oat several to “ struck him tn tho mfikll of tho. nnd In believed to hank lodged ii It is thin douad that physicians fear win result tetany. The astro then sprang « helpless girt and dratted her thickest of tke woods, whom he her prisoner for nearly a* horn the expiration of this tSsao ho od hor that ho waa totat where he had left hep fiance him. He told her thfift he wotid the man. nnd thnt shi might grave, near the mtato of the and weep over his reffialns. The negro then disappeared the girl staggered from the and mode her way to hor how Mulloo la meaatiaM sufficiently to drag hlmadtf to tho railway station, seme distance away, from whence he waa hospital by a policeman. Following tbe action of wife No. 2 in flling an application tor tbe annul ment of her marriage, or pretended marriage, with Benjamin James Hamilton, a well-known young Insur ance man of Atlanta. Mrs. Rnth H. |th , , TnTM - th . Hamilton, bis lawful wife, nee RbS^ “**? — wx proves tbe aaeniutet no elt Posses were Immoliatoly forced and a sharp watch hOs erts, filed in the superior court for total divorce. In the meantime, Hamilton, who went to Atlanta from Rome, where he was well thought of, has disap peared from the city and Is dodging the bigamy charge brought np against him.' Miss Emmie Louise Wood of 220 East Georgia avenue, la the second wife, and the alleged marriage with her took place on September 17. He married hia first wife on January 21, 1906. The two young women met just after the second marriage and disclosures followed. Hamilton learn ed this fact and made himself scarce. COTTON GINNED. The Ceos os Bureau Report Up to September 20. The census bureau reports 1,430,- 265 bales counting round as half baTes, ginned from the growth of 1907 up to September 25, as compar ed with 1,199,423 bales for the same period of last year. The report"show ed the number of active ginneries to be 2,177. Of seven hundred counties ninety-five are not heard from. box was found by the roadside later. I firmly believe a woman led the robbers, said Mrs. Wetdenfeld re cently. “A woman came to my hoase the day of the robbery, looked around and told the maid ahe intended pur chasing a house just, like It. From where ahe stood in the hall she coaid plainly see the silver chest. “After the robbery I found broken up bite of candy on the floor, must have been chloroformed that nlfbt—and my maid. too. All the fol lowing day I felt heavy and drowsy. My maid, who la troubled with in somnia and sleeps only In little napa overslept herself by hoars the morn Ing aftor the house was broken Into.’ The boldest robbery of all wee per petrated at the home of Charlps Os wald, a farmer, living hear Mlneola In broad daylight three men ran automobile up to the fanabou knocked down Herman Behwerter term hand, and forced chloral hla^lhroei. Then they looted place before Oswald returned. etna been obtained of him. ACCUSES Virginia Moa Who Was Attached Do- dare It Waa Nat a Negro. From his bed In the hospital at Washington where ho Is critically ill, as the result cf being ambushed and shot while oat walklafi la the woods near Roysslyn, Va, Sunday night with hia fiancee, Mies Amelin Weiss, John W. Mullen, Tuesday positively iden tified Charles Weiss, brother of tho girl, as his assailant. Mullen from the outeet stoutly maintained that It was not a negro who at ticked him, hat a relative of a girl. Weiss approached the bed of the prostrate man. reminded him of bis precarious condition aad asked him to take another look at him, be cause it meant so much to him. Muir, leu, however, draateftcatly doclarod that Weiss was the one who attack ed him. Weiss was taken back to hfs ceinr Await requisition papers from Governor Swanson of Virginia. FOUR BLOCKS ilJBff KD In Port Llama aad Loan Their Idves. Capt, Aamat, of the Norwegien fruit steamer Bertha, which arrived at Mobile Thursday evening, brought news of a disastrous fire, supposed of Incendiary origin, which vtotted Port Llmon last Wednesday ararateg and entailed a 1 oetu estimated at 9190,009. Four bldekh in the heart of the businees section of too town were destroyed, and thro* lost their lives in the lags. *-****•