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VOL. XXXI HARWELL, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 1?}. 1908 NO. 50 A MASS OF FLAMES. NOTHING CAN SAVE VANCOUVER FROM DESTRUCTION, Wr* Flghtera Fleeing Frym Re a th . ou Train Kncvunler a Wall of Flame—A r ight For T.if<• C., s&}s three days the people ,of Michel have fought for their live* and homes, but at dust Wednesday the cfty started - to burn. Nothing can save it from ruin. A gale from . the west sprung up in the afternoon. At the edge of the town 100,000 feet of mine timl>er owned by a coal company caught fire, and four load- •ed railroad cars standing on the side track were consumed. Two-(’anaTttaTr~^^ vf winter wheat oT about 14.3 and Pacific 'locomotives were hitched to a trajn to carry the fire fighters away to the west to safety. The train got only a half mile on it* Journey when it encountered a wall of flames. There was danger of Its being hemmed in and burned with everybody aboard, so the loco- ^motives were reversed and run back b^lth all possible speed. By the'timc Hie train returned all the houses - on the flat district back,of th Great .Northern depot were biw-Hteg—*trd , and the maip town seemed likely to catch at any moment: REPORT OF CROP CONDITION. Bureau of Statistics of Agricultural Department tissue Ilulletin. The crop- reporting board of the bureau of statistics of* the depart ment of agriculture In a bulletin is sued Friday shows that the condition of corn on August 1-was 82.& pet cent, of a normal, as compared with FLIES THROUGH AIR. TWENTV-FOUR HOUR YOVAtTK BEGUN BY- COUNT ZEPPELIN. 1 907, and 83.1, th^ 10-year averagt oil -August:.-!.',— -The-condltloii in tin Southern States was: 1908.. 10-years. Texas.... .. . . . .-I* ' . 7» — Georgia . . . .89 86 ' • wn lucky.. .. . . . .83 85 Tennessee.. . . ..85 8 4 ' Alabama. . X7 . X-4 — North -Carolina. - . .91 8 7 Arkansas,. 83 Mississippi. . . . .. . . .86 South Atlantic .. ..89 Preliminary returns 80 86.4 indicate bushels per acre, or a total of 42a. 94o,000 bushels, which Comparer with 14 6 bushels and 409.442,000 bushels, respectively, the final esti mates of last year s crop. The aver- age quality of the crop is 90.1 against,90.5 last year. Average eondtion of spring wheat on August 1 was 80.7^ pe rcent. o normal as compared with 80.4o t month ago. 7S».4 on August J. f9l»7 t s M.on August L.: 1906. and .82.7 ' WILL GRATIFY AMBITION. Edison To Give Himself a Roving Commission Into Science. Thomas A. Edison has begun to gratify an ambition he has cherish ed many years, and the laboraton at Llewellyn. ,N. V. will see. co m paratlvely little of him henceforth Mr. Edlnon s ambition has been to give himself a roving commission *lnto pure science and to steer clear of commercialism. Me' doc* am want to increase his fortune H* has got 13.'.,000.000, which he thinks is more than enough All his life he has been turning out mone> making Inventions. He will devote his remaining years to investigate anything that strikes his fancy with out regard to its financial produc tiveness. It Is learned that the man who has achieved so many marvels in electricity has a greater love for chemistry than electricity. Chemis try was the first science to Captivae his wonderful Intellect but he ha. never had a chance to dig as deej Into its mysteries as he wanted to Now he proposes to give himselt the chance. Moreover he is going to take life more easily. He has promised his family and hla friends to give up sl;i\ing night and day, Sundays and holidays in hla labortory. Not only that but h* Is going to^take Jaunts about and See-, something of !^e rest of th« woAld He has Itought himself e plac^ in Florida where he w|H spend a coliple of months in the late win ter arid early spring next year •Toward the end of this month he la going with his wife on a month “ trip to the Pacific coast. He wil’, stay more than a month If the fancy strikes him Monday, instead of be log in his laboratory;'he was Dm making with some'’ - friends down o'n Long Island where he went on Fri day to spend three days. Only One .Descent. A. dispatch flrom Frledrichschaf- en, Germany, says arising from its Wo ? tln K tf®! on the dark Veen w.iteis of Lake Constance early Tuesday morning the great dirigible air ship of Count Zeppelin was sdnt (away fur a 24 hour jourhey in the air to Mayence and return. Late that night the apex of the triangu lar flight had been turned, and trtu monster of the air, with nose point- eu southward, was reported speeding along und^r starry skies toward Fried rich ech a fen, where it 'is hoped the journey will end Wednesday. The flight to Mayence, however, was not an uninterrupted one, for something was wrong with a propeller while speeding along above the valley of the Rhine ayd Count Zeppelin was compelled to bring the air ship down ’o the surlaco of the river at Xacheu- heim. eig'ht miles frorm Mayence;, itrtglhle again was sent on high and the trip- mat urobahly w>|l. prove ,_a. the*; 'average" h|i Augwwt ‘M ^ was yece.m^neqjeed. * . The condition of the oat cron oi leather for Bsrenslon was it crop or Aug. 1. was TT..*? per cent, of norma isr-compared with 85 7 TasC moiivh 75 6 on August 1. 1907. 82.7.ot Aug 1, lf.06 , The pro|H)rtion of the oats crop n 'ast^vear in the hands of fanners o’ August 1 is estimated at 5.0 p*>r c.'ii ‘Ouivalent ro 38,ono,oon t.ushels, a 'on>pared with 7.1 per rent, and, 68, itOn.OOO, Ittisheis, respectivelv, th» 'oyrrespondiiig figures of a year ago The condition of rye of August 1 vr at the time of harvesting, wa. 88.3 t>ei~cenf. of a normal. The average condition of tohacc on with Aug JY 1 was 85.8, a scomparcf the 10-year average.* Th< 'ondition of tlax on August 1 wa 46.1; ENTIRE FAMILY KILLED, .x ’ r- North C»rolln» Farmer, His Wlf«* au< Son, Slain by Lightning. -f* A special to the Charlotte Obser ver from Sparta, Alleghany County brings news of the death of an en tire family at Edmonds, ten mile across the mountains from Sparta on Friday by lightning. Frank Mm phy. a farmer, and his wife am ypung son w’ere in the field stackin' rye when the storm came up. Th« trio ran for shelter, but were strlck en„down before they reached th bouse and presumably Instantly kill ed. The bodies were found latei by neighbors' * TILLMAN IN ITALY. AY rites to Gen. Jones for News From the Campaign. . , Gen. Wilie Jones, chairman of the State Democratic, executive com mittee and Senator Tillman's sub- ~3*tltute on the national Democratic J committee. Monday received a letter from the senator. The .after is now in Italy and finds the lakes over there very beautiful. Senator Tillman will be in London on the 10th of August; The State a Democratic primary is on the 25th /TSeqator Tillman asks Gen. Jones for '''-Yfiformatlon from the campaign. Rolls Down Embankment. The work train on a narrow- gauge road running to the Borer Iron Mines, ♦e-o mile*, from P/'*noke - Va.. FrHay !«ft rails and relied down a high embankment en the mountain side. A number of men riding on the- train were caught un der the engine and cars. Three were fcUjwd nod several more seriously injured. Tte deed; Jam** Tyree. JMM WVw John Brown. * TWO KILLED RY LIGHTNING. Electric Holt Flays Strange Flunk- in New Jersey Home. Two persons were killed ir.J tw< >thers severely injured by lightnin. luring a severe electrical storm th» -wept over Eastern Pennsylvani; tnd New Jersey Friday, ‘caualni nui h havoc. , Robert Helmbach, a farmer, wa struck and instantly killed, noa he fields, and Walter Gattelh age- t.ewlstiurg, F*. while working li he Aids, and Walter Cattell, ag.-i 17 years, was struck and killed :iear Glnssborct, N. J. His sister. Mal*e|, and Relvecc: rurner, were also struck and severe !>• Injured, the latter being in : serious condition. CattHI. his kb er and Miss Turner were seated un ler a shixl watchinc the lightning when a bolt hit the peak of th* •bed. where they wroe siting. The lightning broke the legs ol he rhnirsfand rendered the trio uh •onsoious. - The charge passea) dowi '’atfeH's back and he was deai when picked up. The shoes wen ipped from the feet of his sister but she recovered consciostiness af er a short tinicC and is seriously il rom the shock- - One corner of th' OtrtteH home was torn out of tit' 'milditig by the ligntning. Buildings of all soft Were struc 1 n various sections and destroyed ^nd many districts ^suffered -froi fooding. Philadelphia, tn connectin' with the storm, was pelted by on the most severe f alls of ball th? tas occurred in a number of years. FOLIiOWS HRYAN’S AUTIOX. I lie Ascent Made A ery Successfully Traveled Over 250 Miles. With SENATOR ALLISON DEAD. ; ^ Heart Failure Removes Iowa’s Grand ' old Man. United. States Senator W. B. Alli son died at his home in Dubuque Iowa, Tuesday afternoon, the imme diate cause of his death was heart failure. The end came as a result of a serious sinking spell due to prpstatlc enlargement.—compUeuted OUTLOOK HOPEFUL. / DEMOt HATS HA YE GOOD GRANGE IN NEW YORK. ^ UhaJnnan Mack -Holds Cunfbrence With M^irpliy, Senator Daniel, lg|, halhwtN mak es ascent. His Dirigible llalloon toM-s Five — Miles, Making Complete Circle. ‘' We «igbted' thWenemy 1 ’ fhost —WofdjF were shonte<Y bv i’Hpt. :Bj|id- wln ;\t Fort Vly. i'^urtH^rHays a dis patch from Washington, as he pilot ed ids balhim to the ground aftet making aX'ifccssfuJ tUghi <if neuriA with kidney disease, and during a period of unconsciousness, which hml lasted since Saturday afternoon. ■ -T Tw< ? weeks ago the Senator left * , hia home in the city to escape th^-r, AD iniportant conference to out- Si-nator Pettigrew and Henry Wat- terson. heat. He went to the home of Mrs. Fannie Stout, a friend of the family, living on the Asbury road a few miles from town,For a'few days days his conidtion seemed to improve but he later began to grow worse. Medical advisers urged that an opera tion be performed to relieve the prostatic enlargment, which was bringing his condition to a crisis. Saturday morning the Senator was brought back home. , Soon after wards he ^elapsed into a condition of semi-unconsciousness. Except for '•rief periods of partial recovery he remained in this condition until death came* Tuesday afternoon. 'TCH’TH SHOOTS > SWEETHEART. r aft Makes a Sp^-ech to a Phonogrupl to Hare it Reproduced. The use of a phonogarph by Candi late Taft as a means for diss^mina ion of his speeches, as reported in ‘he dispatches from Hot Springs. \ r a., excited the liveliest interest ol W. J. Bryan, so much as that he gave mt the following statement in re gard to it. “The republican papers have been making fun of me for using the phonograph as a means ‘of reaching the public, but since tjio-republican "andldafe^has followed my example I presume that the criticism will cease and that this will now be re graded as a dignified method of dis cussing public questions. “It looks as if the democrats were going to have a hard time this year protecting their patents from in fringement.. The republicans seemf to be bent upon imitating not, only our p}atform, but our campaign me thods. There is, however, some ad vantage in the fact that we are set ting the pattern This year" , . Sul'd* at arin C«p> D G Purse prctEiceat cFi rs n, noted deVeiopej industrial ActiL- er sod fnvreoter. and having con nections in New York. Pittsburg and other centres, committed suicide a-‘ Savannah Thursday by shoo Ur 5. No cause la given !pr the deed. * most auspicious. Tho-ship of the air rose majestically to a height of ion feet. and crossing the lake circl ’d the town-of Constance, then turn ing retraced the path of Its flight, and describing a |>erfect circle, pass-, ng over Friedrlebt-ehafen and then -oared westward over the lake to Basle,'on the Sw iss frontier. Turn ing the vessel slightly toward the northwest Count Zeppelin steered it •ver Mulhausen, and then directed Its flighty, northeasterly to Strass- •urg. the.ee followed the valley of Rhine norhward to'Mayence. a dis- ance altogether <-f 251 • _mi 1 es. Everything was going smoothly when the trouble to the propeller (ccurred and somewhat impeded the ■ rogress of the air ship, but when tne ball-von had * been brought down ’ount Zeppelin found the defect so slight that he telephoned his secre tary at his office in Frledrichschaf- en: “We will start again some time to-night and complete the trip.” His expectations were realized, for in less than four hours every- 'hing had been made perfect. The people gathered on the banks »f the stream and sang patriotic !ongs and cheered Count Zeppelin. At 10.15 p. m.. the .air ship rose igain and turned her liows toward Mayence, where she arrived at - - > clock, and passed over the gaa- "t cily almost b'e>;ond the view >f the iHipulacc, wbictf had gathered n the streets expecting to witness ne passage tlie balloon. Soaring onward for a short dis- ance. tin- air ship was turned home ward? 'Whether it will follow the tmei'kry laid down by Count Zeppe- ’in. reracing Its outward path to varlsruhe and thence flyinp south- •asterly"over Stutgart to Lake Con stance, is not known. If the air hip maintains the speed at which it was travelling today, it should irrivp in Friedrichachafen tomorrow- forenoon. The quiet villages and small towns along the shores of I.ase Cosntance awoke this morning to find that the groat event for which they had wait- ed for w eeks and months had occurred ed—-Uount Zeppelin's air ship had started on an epoch making journey. V majority of the scant |>opulation >f Friedrlchschafeu, however. de- pite the strict secrecy of the Count's iSsociations, got wind that sometli ng was about to happen and as sembled before daybreak at Mutv- ell. opposite the floating balloon bed. in this shed, throughout M< nday night workmen had been busy making everything ready - for the journey. At 6 o'clock that riiorn- ng, everything was in readiness for the exit of the aTr ship. y Count Zeppelin could 'not have ’boson more delightful weather for a start. A glorious sunrise inau gurated the day. and there was not a cloud in the sky. The lake was as smooth as a irfirror. Moots AVI Mi Disaster. Count Zeppelin's airship, which descended on a plateau near the vil lage of Echterdingen, five miles south of Stuttgart, Shortly before 8 o’clock Wednesday morning, owing to a defect in one of tire motors, b r ok e- a'w a y f rom _ i Uv: moor jugs linrlu g a sn’iVrni at i« o clerk That attarnodii hurst into flames ami exploded. Four t ter sons were injured by flying debris.. Count Zeppelin es-, raped "uninjured. The airship was completely wrecked. The storm blow up unexpectedly. A fierce gust of w ind tore the balloon from Hr anchorage and drove it- in a southwesterly direction for some 50 yards. Here the, rear end of the great fabric dropped and smoke and flames were seen to burst, out from one end to the other. Then in a few reoendf - came »he exploMpn 8 n , l 3 grea* r o!umn of flern-s fJjcH upward into fhe nr* Thu ^as fe!!e**d bv the crashing dewc to-the e^rth 6f the motors and .frames thgt had been attached to the under side of the akship. Several bystanders were knocked down. It was necepsary to land the at»b bhjp at Echterdinren owin* to t^ o'verteatvig of the platen hex of the ‘ ■ V !■ fllrl Futully AA'oiuuUxl Because She Refiise<l His Coriipany. A dispatch from Greensboro, N. ( . says news has reached that place of the shooting In AVilkes .county Sunday of Miss Mary Ball by Free- and Tharp. Miss Ball was teacher in a rural school and Tharp had been paying Ifer attention. She re fused to go with him to church but went with his brother instead, while Freeland Tharp eseorted another voting woman who lived at the same house with Miss Ball. AVhen they had returned from cnurci., just as Miss Ball was entering tne porch Freelatjd Tharp drew His pistol hnd fired three shots at her. One of the InDlets entered her tefrlyreasi aTioiit an inch above the heart, inflicting a fatal wound. Tharp was captur ed. relieved of his weapon and is now in jail at AVilkeslwiro, TOO MUCH HARD CIDER. AA’hlle Alan Kills Two Xegnies Near Lynchburg. Near Concord. 10 miles east of — — Lynchburg; \'a., Mondair-night Jack Lee, white, shot and instantly killed Beverely Cardwell, colored, and mor tally wounded his brother Sgniuel, who died Tuesday morning. The men, whites and blacks, were drink ing hard cider and had a drunken misunderstanding. Lee was arrest ed. line a plan of campaign in New A'ork State was held Monday by Norman E. Mack, chairman of the Democratic national committee, with Charles F. Murpny, leader of Tanimauy Hall at New York. The .conference con tinued for some timeVid it was said that the part which the national De mocratic committee will play in he campaign in this State was determin ed. After a conference lasting ovel two hours. Chairman Mack s'ajd; ‘Mr. Murphy and I talked of the situation in the State and what is being done to elect the national ticket. A more active campaign ill be nlade here after the State conven tion. No mentioiR* was made of gubernatorial candidates, — "The State committee will direct the campaign In this State and as long as everything Is-sattsfactOry— and everything has l>een so far— the national committee will not in terfere. “Much has been said of Mr. Bry an’s speaking campaign. It is Mr Bryan’s intention to speak in cen tres of doubtful States, though he will not make the number of speech es that he made In his former aern- paigns. As has -been announced, he will speak twice In this State, once in Greater New York and once In Buffalo, but I shall try to irersuade him to speak also at some point in the centre of the State. He will not speak in the State until some time after the State convention, which I understand #111 Re Ihe latter part of Septemlier or the first part of October. “1 believe New York to be the battleground where the Democratic l»arty has a good chance of success.” Senator John A\\ Daniel of Vir ginia, Henry AVatterson and Former Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota had a conference with Mr. Mack. Senator Daniel will leave for Europe tomorrow to be away- a month attending to his duties as a five miletTlH -afreffort-trr fltrrmrnHtrtfie the usefuln.ess of an air ship in wa. Time. . Rising from -the gtround like a monster bird of the air, slowly bu buoyantly, -at 6.21 o clock Frida, evening, the aerial s„.p, built --n the United States army, was heatfbd intt The westerly Wlml i.v n n | f ^. )n A complete circle was described,’th< h&lloon rlping gradually to a heigh of 200 febt. - Again pointing to th< west, and attaining at estimated speed of twelve miles an hour, th< ship voyaged in a direct line fot nearly two miles. * The trip,was made with the wind, which was blowing at the rate of 7 miles .an hour. , The throttle wa» thrown open a little wider by Mr. Curtiss, wjio again operated the on gine, and the -ship flew along at n speed of eighteen or twenty miles an hour. AN hen the dirigible-|Hissed over tire starting-point It was al^rtit flVe hun dred feet In the air. Bringing hit tirrrwma; "Capt. Baid- Win made a landing much the sann as pilots of water craft I,ring theli vessels to the side of a dock. • APPEALS FOR FUNDS. BUY AN CALLH AGAIN FOB CAM- • (tl.NTIUlU TIONS. -4^-/ f'- Johnson’s Manager CalLTind Amor. **,Rnraa of JotuMoaV AVlilkagn** ' to Take Htunip. , Of more than usual significant* was the visit to Falrview Wednesday of l rank B. Lynch, of St. Paul. De mocratic national committeeman from Mnnesota, and manager of Gover- nor .inhusoii h Campaign for tht Pre- sidential nomlnati n at the Denver Convention. Mr. 1 Lynch arrived about noon in company with B. F. Nelson, of Mnne&polls, president of the State Fair Association. Mr Lynch's presence at Fairview was at the special request of Mr. Bryan. Ho lost no time in conveying to the Demcratllc nominee Governor John son's assurance of loyal support of the Democratc ticket and his Inten tion to take the stump in Mr. Bryan’s behalf. ) There is no animosity toward Bryan in Minnesota.” sad Mr. Lynca. •'While I do not promise that the Democrats wil carry Minnesota tms year. I think they have a good chance.” RODDERY AT El TAAATILLK. Mr. Lynch declared that nothing rankled in Governor Johnson'a'heart because he was defeated for the no- mlnaton. “He feels ail right about It.” said he “and all Mlnesota De mocrats are fot 1 Bryan.” stor- .,r ‘ \i %. . I Th * which brought Mr. * . nrruH Entered and Nelson to Falrview was to Invite Mr. Some Goods Stlocn. Bryan to attend the State Fair In 8t. ' Paul and deliver an address. The fn- On Thursday morning lift Mr. M. vltatlon was accepted, the date beng Marcus, a merchant of Eutawvilleh 1 ”** August 31. but wtb the un- was aroused by the chief marshal M^slanding that there should be no of the town, who Informed him thatK har * f ' for admission on the ground some one had broken into his store on that day. _ Mr. Marcus hastened down to his Mr. Bryan Wednesday nght caused place of business and, in approach-jfo *>* given out for publication the it he saw that the robber hail I following appear for campaign: broken a hole in the front of his "Wanted—Campagn contributions store, which l>eing of glass, was not "From citizens of the Republic hard to break through As ne en- who favor these Democratc propodl- tered his store and looked aroiinty Dons: he supposed that lie had only lostl “Tarff revison by repraentavec of one or two pair of shoes and a suit not by the agents of those who make or two of clothes, but luckily he had exorbitant profits by manufacture just taken stock the day before, so I and sale of highly protected pro be again checked up his goods andMnets. found bar he had lost several suits] “Election of United States Senator of clothes, a few pairs of shoes, aj by popular ote, thus breaking up hat, some underwear, socks, stock- the Senatorial oligarchy .headed by member of the monetary comnris-P n * 8 am * few other things, -all Standard OH, whch Is strong enough sion. On his return he said he will take an active part in the campaign. JEALOUSY CAUSES SHOOTING. Mr. Watterson is engaged in theU° un< * formation of his committee of edi tors throughout the country favor- able to Mr. Bryan's candidacy Chair man Mack, accompanied by SeCre-jAccusixl Man of Inipro|ier Conduct tary Urey Woodson, left for Chicago amounting to about $50, more or I successfully to resist all measurers less. The robber has not yet been [offered in behalf of the public wel fare. Negro llanged in Mississippi. After having been twice respited by the Governor, George Tootnlnt, an old negro, was hanged at AVaynes- boro, Miss., Tuesday for the murder rtf his brother-in-law. Owen Pitt man, thirteen months ago. Thursday and will not return until after the Bryan notification. On his arrival in that city he will announce! the makeup of the subcommittee which will have control of the cam-j paign cast of the Alleghanles. Toward Ills AA’ife and is Shot. A, dispatch from Richmond. Va.,|,|, c tvimts. “Guarantee of all national bank deposits, thereby preventing all absolute confidence lu all banka. “Deatructon of private monopoly and the enforcement of law against trusts by the people who are opposed by the trustaand not by the agents ot TICKET TAKER ARRESTED. says Jacob L. Hecblor is ijglleved to he mortally wounded*, and Royal E Ellison, in the city jail on the char ge of attempted murder. The shoot-] mg Umk place in Hechler's home Tuesday. Hechler. accused Ellerson forward motor and the escape of considerable gas. owing to the fact that Count Zeppelin tok the airship to a height of about 6,000 feeL The Zeppelin airship completed the most remarkable voyage in the history of aerial navigation. It left the Lake of Constance Tuesday morning for a trip to Mayence and return The flight was successful ln| a great many ways. The machine responded absolutely to the control of its pilots and was navigated over the I^ake of Constance, down -the valley of the Rhine, over Strassburg and several other cities and ^was ex pected at Friedrichshafen, its sort ing point. Count Zeppelin has devoted his lifetime and his personal fortune to the development of hife airship. The vessel that was ipst Wednesday was t..e fourth he has constructed. When his own money had become ex hausted the German reienstag voted experiments. The government agreed fo purchase this ship on con-, dition that it fulfilled certain re quirements. the principal one being that it remaitu in The air 24 hours and land on “term firma. mis stipu lation had not yet been fulfilled. The airship was 4 43 feet long, with a- diameter of about 45 feet. It tapered to a blunt point at the bow, while at the stern were various rudders and frames used in’, stepr ing. It was fitted underneath with a motor capable of developing 140 home powwr. _As many as 16 pas- sengrtrs had been taken aliML at one tme. Sleeping accommoda- the^jons wre provided for the crew and apparatus was Installed for 4he dispatch and.receipt of wire less telegraph messages. The - inflat ing gas was dstributed among 16 seperate interior compartments which were contained within the out- •er rigid envelop of aluminum. The accident to th*< Zeppelin air- shijUrecalls the end. of the French milm»TV alrshiP Patrte, in Decem ber, 1*07, which was then consider ered the finest dirigible balloon n existence Th* Pair* was undergo ing repairt to asschiner-r a*, a^rdun a sudden gust o! struck the airship and ue 200 men who were holding the guide ropes were drag ged alftg for several hundred yards before they let go. ihe balloon then shot up to a great height and disappear,*! and-jwk* never hexrd from. “I’ubllcity of campaign contributions before election day, so that the peo ple may know who is paying the ex penses of candidates, and why paying. “Adopton of an ncome tax because It is just, and under what may bar Southern -Employee in Drawing I’istot on 1‘n.vsengcr Trouble fol conduct toward hts wife. pFO , )0rtlonate Bhare of the bur _ and Ellerson shot-him three times- of the Federa , Government twice In the face and once in the .. Jhp p , in8hmPnt of ^ who lungs. Friends of Hechler tried ♦<• manlpulate ranroad stocks and owner- •ynch Ellerson. and"six policemen! h(p8 the engagement of railroad were engaged for neany an hour in' At Spartanburg. \V, R. Lucas ticket taker on Southern Trraln, wa arpested Friday-night '“wfieTf tin train pulled into the station on th' |e ra | persons trying to shoot him charge of drawing a pistol on one of the passengers. On the train from Greenville Friday afternoon about two hundred base ball fam were aboard returning to Spartan burg from the ball game in Green ville. Trouble arose about fares and a difficulty was narrowly averted. Lucas drew, his pistol and when the getting the man to the station, sev- A SEVERE STORM, - Lightning Strikes Resiliences, < hur dles and stuns Several People. w At Spartanburg, lightning struck four residences, two churches and train pulled Into the station he war I stunned several people during a se- arrested by the police. * | vere electrical storm Wednesday afternoon. Three of the residences| AUTOMATIC DOFFING MACHINE, [that were struck were badly damag ed and one was set on fire. Silver 111 vent ion for Cotton Mihs Designed | Hill Methodist church was struck in threeplaces. and thefower demolish- by South < urolinians. |^d. a small colored church* on An automatic doffing machine Binaries street was set on fire by a the joint invention .of A. O. Hoozer | and the flr? de P &rt * of Greenville and 'George HUT of fucapau. The machine, is now in successful operation at lucapau mil! in Spartanburg county. The need of a machine for this work has long been an impprtant one, for the help to do the doffing in the* spinning plants has always been difficult to secure. [ment had to be called out to extin guish the flames. * .HEADQUARTERS AT CHICAGO. | Chairman Mack to Open There. Finance Committee. head- construction upon abualness-llke bas is and railroad operation wtta far re turns in wages and profits to workers and owners on honest valuation and honest labor, but ntik on watered stock and false bond issues created by exploitation.” The appeal closes with a copy of the resoluton adopted by the Demo- |crac national committee upon the occasion of their visit to Falrview July 14, declaring for publicity of contributons before the electon; individual contributions to $10,000 and providing for the publication of all contrbutions over $100. Mr. Bryan outlined the subjects which he will discuss in his forth coming speech of acceptance. The speech wil be confined practically to the questions, “shall the people rule” and “the measure of rewards.” The other issues of the campaign, such as guarantee of bank depostors, the tariff, the trusts, etc., will be treated in the several speeches he will make In the next thirty days and hia let ter of acceptance, COAV AVRECKS A TRAIN. The Demoeraiic national quarters opened for the season at | |.' our Person* Killed in Accident on the Auditorium Annex Wednesday', Two Men And a AAoman Killed in |Chairman Mack, of the national com- FKUBISTS IN RIG FIGHT. Kentucky. The bloodiest feudist battle it years took place at Layman, Horlin county, Ky., late Thursday afternoon Three persons , w ere, killed, one 1 ic ing a woman, and one woman wa wounded. The trouble dates bad for generations between Blanton* Texas Tram Road. Tour persons were ktttfid and fonr [others were injured, two probably fatally, when an engine on the tram by Roger- -U.- Sullivan, ol Illinois, have arrived [ in Chicago. „ - Chairman Mack is expected to an- _ notinre the membership of the finan- road of the Livingston Lumber Com- oe committee and various sub-com- pany struck a cow and plunged into miUees not yet appointed^ | a deep ravine, near Livingston, Texas Friday. The dead: Watson Scott, , en gineers Kawette Rogers, .fireman; MAN STABS HIS AATFE. and Taylors. The immediate cause ■ 1 of the shooting was a dispute ovet |-\Voman‘* Injuries*Considered Serion* | Finis Peebles. Henry Young.^^colo^ a &chpol election. Sy Husband In Jail. BAjlBBR STABS AATFE. ed, ,Brad Hickman and a young man named Clark. are perhaps fatally negroes are lean Narrowly- -Heoapea E-nr.g Lyre hed Tom Vick, a raili operative, is inP njar d * . - . serlousW injured Hh* c«ur9v mi! at Greenville charted by Asfiry Mob At Burlington. N. J.. fingered and I injuries are said to New Cotton Sold at OJo. Th first bale of naw crop with £*Abbl!tg h!S wife at their Cot- faee la the tuburfct of that place Friday afternoon. The woxnan't. be sarioua. ew ‘ n Edens to Jealous because Ws wife wished ♦olpeclaliv the wound in her sida. AfAck I evening y * go for a walk* Adam Popial, a bar-J also plunged the plad* in his wife's bternberger inpooy^^ her, fhnrsday night subbed the wo-lthroat, the wound bataf about an weighed *_ 4 _ mia kid ii turn waj aiicoit lyscicijiaci deep. The a Jr ay sonmi to kave|kai * rcu f^t by an ang^ry mdS. | yeea the ontcome of a '** “ tjw. *|tnk wm plk«U| Mait> 1