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- VOL. XXXIV BARNWELL. S. C., THURSDAY. APRIL 20.1911 NO 88 *■ i' TffO WIPED OUT 1 T ™ B '' sb uncles gRYAN LOVED slusH » stout ; LEFT THE RAD. T«wis tf Wkifiif u4 Bi| Heart Practi- call? Leveled by Tarude. A GREAT SENSATION CREATED IN LOS VEGAS, X. M. ! Seems ta Have (be Inside Track When It Comps ta Popalarity. FIFTEEN WERE KILLED Twelve Thousand Dollars Is 1’akl for i the Return of the Lad Who Was - Kidnapped. STILL DRAW THE CROWD ATTORNEYS DISCREDIT THE DE NIAL OF HINES. Soatkera Railway’s Fast Trail Wrecked Near Blackville. A POPULAR SENATE Reports From Other Places Tell of i Los Vdgas, N\ M. Implicated bv tin' I>eath and Devastation liealt by the ! confpssion of Joe WiKRine, a foi m< r Winds—Probably One Hundred life convict. Will and John Rogeis. uncles of little Waldo Rogers, were Have Been Killed In Kansas, Okla- arrested for complicity in the lad s abduction. For his return JIJ.imhi loma and .Ilssouri. ransom was paid, Will Rogers acting A heavy wind storm, attaining the as aKenL for Mrs Ro ^ ers - velocity of a tornado, in some sec The disclosures have aroused the tions, and accompanied hy rain, hail c ‘^ a degree of excitement that and ll-’htning, swept o er western ,he a'lihoritles fear may result in a Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma Wed- demonstration against the prisoiieis. nesday. killing lb people, practically Tho acuised are. in the county jail destroying two towns, Injuring al- wh ieh is guarded hy a large force of most a hundred persons, wrecking deputies. scores of buildings and putting al- Tho arrfst "f Wiggins came late most every telephone and telegraph Tuesday. His confession, which loi- wire in the territory out of commis- lowed . Z‘ lVf ‘ » ri pw and sensational eion. t° the mystery, which for more. The tornado levied its greatest toll ,han ton days lias surrounded the of dead at Rig Heart. Oklahoma, kidnapping of little Waldo Rogers, where eight [versons were killed, in son ^ r ' an d 'Mrs. A. T. Rogers, injured and almost every building, in an(1 his safe ft'turn uiion the pay- the town wrecked. Whiting, Kan- ment of ransom, sas. was [iractically wiped off 'he According to the story told by map. Sixty buildings were blown Wigvlns. be first became acquainted down, 30 persons hurt and Mrs. Da- vvith Jlm Rent's through the law him vid Stone killed. w 'hich the latter wa^mnployed ivn-d At Powhatan. Kan., a woman and whi,h " as instrumental in getting child were killed. A high seft.io Nvi '-’K ina pardoned from the peniten- huildlng was wrecked at Eskridge. ,iar >'. Wiggins says tliat while woi k- Kan., a number of houses dama-ed ln in ,hf> rr,al 'nines at Madrid, N and frem 1 to 20 persons injured ■ ,10 received a letter from John At Hiawatha. Kansas, a school Roe'*™, suggesting a scheme for niak- house was blown down, an S-year-old inp '‘' as y money." boy. named Felton, was killed, and Wiggins >avs b- came to I.os Veas* in a few da>s ;ind later enit rt'd into Possible Timlver for the Presidency— Drawing the Lines Tighter and Tight er Around Him and the Other Cor- >, | ruptlonlsts. Developinonts In Thursday’s neai- IIOFSE VOTES FOR DIRECT ELEC TION HY PEOPLE. TOOK A HAND ing at Springfield, 111., of tho State Three of the Leaders to he Seen in senate committee investigating the election of United States Senator Washington Bryan, Harmon and william Lorimer were attempts hy attorneys and Investigators of the committee to discredit the dental of Edward Hines-, a Chicago lumber man, accused of having collected a A special to The State from Wash- f lm( j ( n P i Pr t Senator Lorimer, and the practical refusal of Edward T-il- fTurk—Either One of Them Would 1 ill the Hill. ington says since congress began its extra session on April i Democrats den, a Chicago packer .and banker, have had an opportunity to take a ,0 t ,rod " re , ’ t “ for ° ,hp oomniitu ‘‘‘ llis look at three of the men who ar- ac™'"''* in various banks mentioned as probable candidates fo. , trough w » R '’h be does business , * c _ ^ ^ , v, , the [iresidenry when the next nomi- Mr. Tilden’s attitude on the wit ness stand resulted in the serving of a second subpoena upon him as he stepped from the witness chair this They have hern looked over with aR< ‘ rnonn - nating convention is held — Willfam .1 Hryan/Judson Harmon and Champ Clark. a scrutinizing eye—one that looks for the winning horse and while o Can not he said that either of these three mentioned lias shown any de cided advatage over the others there are unmistakable signs that point to Mr. Bryan’s great popularity, what ever his enemies may say to the ,o mpt being issued against -contrary. It commands Mr. Tilden to produce before tbe committee next I'htusday the records of Ins various bank ac counts in the year 1000. Refusal to do so, Mr. Tilden was given to understand hy the commit tee, will result in an order of con- him. The testimony -Din a v. k ilo hy Clarence S. Funk, general man- in the house on the day congress assembled for its extra session work, the reception accorded Bryan and Harmon was not noticeably different, unless It was the .act that more persons seemed to shake hands with nian Hot,,or Ij,m,> °r Company ager of the International Harvestei Company, was corroborated to a con siderable degree by Herman H. Het tier of Chicago, president of the H» r- several building; were struck by lightning Several persons are known to have been hurt at Xetawaka. Has A boy was killed at Manville. Kas The Kansan end of the tornado started near Whiting and swept in a southeasterly direction for a distant of more than ,'.0 miles. It Is thought many more persons wore killed or injured than have been reported at this time. Telegraph and telephone crews are working, now that the storm has abated, to g- t the wlro« in shape Two more deaths were reported from Hiawatha late Wodmsday ni'-’ht Geraldine Melsenhelmer. I" years old. and a small rhild of Otis Mellon ^re the victims The M*u-en heimer girl sought refuge with thte- companions in a country school house, and the building was wrei k. d soon afterward The d.-ad gin's companions wer-' injured. It is not known now the M- Mot child met its death A Topeka. Kansas, dispatch s.ivs i tornado traveling in a southeasterh direction destroyed the town of W hiting, 2T> miles north of Topeka, late this afternoon Sixty houn-s were blown down and 3n [versons in jured Eskridge Is 2f. mibs south of To- I" ka. The storm struck there short the |.|ot, Waldo Rogers, the t w o- vear-old son of Mr and Mrs. A. T Rogers, .and th. grandson of 11 L Waldo, a Kansas (’.tv in'll:oi,aire. was kidnaiqied from the family . ts- idence on th.- ni ht of March 2a Taking advantage of 'he ;ib.->"ic.. from thi' ntv of the h 'y's father iwl. mask'd men went to tlie Uog.-rs home shortly befnre inidnlglit and at the point of a revulv-r eo'nii. Ile.l Mrs R(* - ers to diess the child for a night ride and d-diver him to them They repeatedly a.-sured her tha’ t lo- child would not he harm-.i aiid that he would !>.■ cturned safely pro \;ded the [Volire were nM tn'orttl'O and $12.""" in small bills was paid to t!" dr p present a' 1\ es The-, named a Ion Iv s;iot 11 in le nur'h of Lo- \’eg.ts as'tlle [it.oe wh ,. th<> motiMy was K) he delivered to Mrs Rogers' re[tres>'titativ.i. who was to come to thr rendezvous alum th following day Mrs Rovers seeup'd S 1 2 """ th.' following niiTning and ibd’vep'd p to Will Rogers to tarry 'o the [ilace of meet ing. Ris ers return, tl Thur-dav n ght wall the ildd. wht> was w eH ami un- tianmai. IF to'd Mrs Rogers and later the atithori'ies that he had me' at the appointed pla-" a man who. at I'.ryan fhan with the great Ohian This may have been dtn> to the larger aequnintanco of Mr Bryan and to th" fa'-t also that on thr'." di(T*ient oi • ,'tsions he had be.-n on the course and :n that wav naturillv knew ami wa> faiidl ar vvith more of the uousi. 11• • fti"erais rhui liis distmguisli.il fri'-ml from i )h io !’... tl a as it may. how-ver. the fact that Mr Itr'an was in the eapi- tal df.tw around hint wlier.ver h< wtnf n t rein, tidous crowd E. on thos" who are opiio-f'd to the polit'- cal poln ies of Mr i.^van have h< "n fore, d t" admit that h s re . ;,t ion in M i-tiington. at tlm eapital. around til" ho’els and i luhs. and at privat.. resideneos and eutertainmonts wliere he a| neared, was nothing short of marvelous e n-nbriag the fa"* that he has Is'Cn th. i tndi'lat.. u, • - Denioi rats for presulent 'hn e times md t hree t imes has sufl.-p d d I'.Mt I’.o'h .1 ud.-.oh llarmou and Wood row Wilson draw crowds when ih.v come to Washington not onD he- 1 u of.tin ■' . t that th'v arc now Although Mr. Hettlcr stated that Mr Hines said nothing of the use of money or improper methods in the election of Senator Lorimer, Mr Hines was quoted as boasting a per sonal achievement in ‘‘[Hitting Lori mer over " Mr. I! ett ler said he had tlm con versation with Mr Hines in the I'm ion League club, the same [il.ee n which Mr Funk testified that Im tmt Hines when tin alleged proposii to (ontribute $ 1 i\ooq to tit'- I.nritm t elect ion fund was made to Mr Funk WHEN THE WAR REGAN. in ' h .r [ U ' ! ' ,•>(> :is !>:'<"'id<’ 'tit ial rim •rh" i 1 ei*f 1 e vv .1 ^ w ;• Ilex ’*• r t»' l T '<•( aux' ■f 11" i r [> ■ r >< >I i. ht\ ; . ifls of ;i«‘(i;le. wlua .i n«l th. * ft .'lid- ' tM .h cf 1 In ■rn i.. i ^ u • r . i (Hit n Charley 'rh. . r n "’MU’- !l, | ’f' • are -i in T*' .-ml 1 '((•• t vv () (lavs the ". I’.’TI ni n. ite! one \\ ' (i rai' 4 in « m n - int. rvals more or le ! act W 1; t h them a s t Ik v n 1 M\ ’m f : -U!’! ■n ! h v niuht as well .•Mir , f To \ ">im ' an n Ct fai1 ' ( ) <m!*\ . i r, > vv i h - of itt!(Test* 1 (1 ani L u t h. V * r v - r is _» t q 'heir Ii; in- 1-' 'll 1" I’K* 1 tied t he h‘»» • r ‘ <4«R' ii < entury Ago I'ort Sumter Was l ired On. Timtsday was tin' fiftietli nnnivir- siry of tin tirmg of tlie Confederate forts ami bit’erns on I'ol'rt Sum'er. ’hell garrisoned by 'lie I nited State- t r ops. preeipi; at ing the civ I war. Milminat ing in th. surrender of Fort ■' l mt "r two days later, are . <hi. > a i a ly few and last becoming ext'i-no seil by thou crowded the on I't'e endured ss ppu ra. ted as dav. the ly before 4 o'clock The high school ' Pr TVM,<MV!ne ;,n,| ro " n,m ^ ’ h ‘’ dieates tin r' part \ f. rv. rr a ml lov ,iF;\ L .t with Mr. Bryan it is possible ..ml witnessed it. Tho guns would call tie water from boo Ml i II of the (Towds to the building was blown down and ?<l stu dents were Injured A woman and a child were killed at Powhatan Mrs David Stone, wife of a farmer living near Whiting, was swept from the steps of her home into a neighbor’s yard half a mil- away She was picked up dead An interrupted telephone tims-age fr cm N’etawka says many persons were Injured (her*- Only one tele phone wire is working between here and Kansas City Georg-. A. S.ott, an Atchison, To- I-eka & Sante Fe engineer, who was in Kskridge at tho time of the storm says at least 13 houses were Mown down. After he left Eskridge, says Scott he could see the tornado sweeping across the country for a distance of 10 miles, overturning houses, barns whit and sheds In its path. He heard of no one being killed in Eskridge. Benjamin Beseh, a fireman on his engine was blown out of the cab window and hurled across tbe street. The only Injury he sustained was a slight cut on hie head. While Mrs. Ray Garnum of Pow- ey, direited him to a canyon 13 miles south of the place of m.eting whop, he found the bov !\:n: in an al'ppe, wrapped in a blanket. A reward of $2".""" was offered for the rapture and c nvhtinn of t lie kidnappers and the vicinity was ablaze w Rh indignation. Nix;ROES NOT \\ ANTED. — — The Lily Whites So I>-■< lure at Tltoir Meeting. Indorsing the administration of President Taft and pled-Ing him tlm 1'v del-.cat. s from this State for hm renomination and pla- lug itself squar-ly against the appointment n: negroes to federal olfices in tlm South, the executive committee of Republican party of South Carolina, numbering 23 men from all of tlm congressional districts of the Slat-’, met in Columbia Wednes day The meeting was held by call of John G. Capers. The meeting in Columbia was held for the purpose of perfecting the organization set on . foot in Columbia last October when hatan was sitting in her house, ihe the nof;r0( , s w( , re efiminated. The storm swept the greater part of the refioluUous niose lav- bu ldlrvg from over head. She was orab , e anxi indor8e( i tllP Taft aUmin- " 8 . f 1 y nrt ' istration throughout. This white or- A Big Heart. Okla . dispatch says ^ niz;ition has not y „ t 1)et , n rP( , 0 ,. eight persons were killed and 10 in- nizod by the national , )artv . jured in a tornado which struck lhat t a t place at 4 o’clock Wednesday after noon, leaving but few houses stand ing. The tornado swept everything In Its path. Houses were blown from their foundations and the occupants were whirled through the hir. Inis town was demoralized and telegraph ic communlcat-tyon cut off. Relief trains were started from Avant and Pa wh u ska. ippn Mill hi m in the vv n v t he people i i h rad poor a 1 ’ k e ..oliMejan a ml plain man crowd to In ar what he has 'o iv Fast v Mimlav !m w a s S' 11 e (1 j 11 * ■' i speak at i tt n til he i' of" 'he \\ t.-'.ing'on (liu''!; s on reli (ins topics. Everywhere he appeared crowd- t"Ught their vv a •. to gam en- ' ram (\ and .' w os m ms- irv in sotta" ' as» - for poli, eineti to beat tbe pen pie ha K. so d'-sirou.s v\i re they of < 11 ing to a pi.i. e vv here they i ould hear what Mr. I'.ryan had to say I n tr 1 "it of fife i h urclm- tip crow ds paek.-d 'he stiads to such an » xtetit 'hat i 1 was ne' essat y to ee-1,1 cillhers through the crowds to make room for i • d-.si Ha ns Not s (Cslied w ith thmir failure to h.ar Mr B-mra -peak many of thege ' r, '" lr "°( t ,ir ’. I'ln.-kilv hold ' ""i'lo S' - ins -ted on Ms talking to 'he overflow crowd "nisido tlm ehunji doors, ami t his the great Nebraskan willingly did. / Such a man ifes'ution of .admira tion may mean something or it mav not. hut it (ertainly shows that, how ever Mr Rryan may he held in the minds of those opposed to him po litically, he draws tremendous crowds whenever tie appears in puhlie Shooting Scrape. ■'ample Golphfn, a negro, has sur rendered himself to the sheriff ( f Aiken county, ho hav.ng killed an other negro. John lllm k, near Silver- ton some days ato. The m groes me! near (iolphin’s home, and it is said , in-Washington, ^gcood only in sjzr thst it whs ftimut diolidvin’s wife. A to the crowds that go to SO" and shot gun wastisdl, and R.lm k's bruins hear a president of the Fnited States. were blown out. He died time iifter he was sh«t. a short Sisters Are Drowned. While driving from llroQkport. Ill . to Metropolis 111 , eight miles away, Mrs. Louis Herter and Mrs. James 'Wllford, sisters-in-law, were drowneu when a bridge across Massa creek gave way, throwing both women into the swollen stream. The two horses tho women were driving, swam to Raid Not. to Marry. Three New Haven, Conn., girls, the ,V Took His <)w n Life. C. Hutchins, formerly of Cimr Meyer Feuchtvv anger, who died in New York April ti. for not marrying shore and thus gave the first alarm Big Heart has a population of ,40ft. of the (loul,,e drowning. The St. Joseph & Grand Island de pot and box cars at Manville, Kan., were blown over by a tornado Wed- Killed Hi fusel f. Jacob W\ Clute, three times mayor nesday afternoon. A farm house was Schenectady, N. Y.. killed himself also wrecked and one child killed. w ith a pistol in the bath room of accordint to information received by bis home Wednesday while the sheriff the Grand Island officers at that an d under sheriff were waiting at the that the dog had a had case of hydro place. Telegraphic and telephone d°or with a body execution for him, wires are down. growing out of alleged irregularities should be treated at once. ♦ ♦ in the handling of an estate. » ♦ ♦ Blown Into River. i ♦ ♦ At St. Louis an eight-story grain “Bad Man ’ FoumlrDe-ad* elevator valued at $700,000 located Al Lawtcr, Fla., John Bennett, in (hi? extreme northern end of tnc known in that section as a "had Train in the Ditch. Mobile & Ohio passenger train No. 4, leaving Mobile Tuesday morning, First Rill on the I>eiiincratic'Program Rushed L» Its Passage Over Pro tests of Republicans. The house of representatives, by a vote of 290 to 16, early Thursday of the Accident Not Re- evening passed the Rucker resolution proposing a constitutional amend ment for the direct election of Fnited States senators. This is the first of t tie Democratic program measures passed hy the house. Back ed hy a solid Democratic phalanx, it went through without modification and with a speed that brought pro tests from the Republicans. SAVED BY STEEL CARS Luckily No One Was Seriously Hurt —< 'a use terinineil Yet—The Wreckage Was Scmui Cleared and Regular Trallie Resumed. saved the lives • of passengers Ste- l framed ears of more than a sci.r Thursday, when train No. 31. the Southern railway's "Southeastern Limited." left the track four miles , , . . The- resolution, as the house ap- sou.h of Barnwell, savs Joe Sl^rksl^ ^ j8 , n the form of the nor . in (he Columbia State The train 1 ab resolution reported out of the was running; over 13 miles an hour, senate judiciary committee in The officials failed to determine the closing days of the last congress cause of t he accident. the Re publican opposition to the Rucker resolution in the house was based ! here were F. passengers on the on fact tliat | t d j d not contain train, hut none were serlousty in- 1 tho change afterward made In the I jured The passengers w. re slightly passengers w. re jarred. The train was in (barge of Conductor .1. \Y. Blanton of Char- hittc. All of th" seven cars weri -t-U-mwn Bran the -t-rsw-k .m epi the two Rullmans. was injured. The w reek occurred at lo in o’clock Thusday morning, and the track was cleared at X: 4 5 o’clock the same night The following Is a list of those in jured as announced hy Hie officials of the road fight In the senate, which jissured to .congress continued control over elec tions In the several statea. After six hours of debate, In wtaicn mrav demands were mad" for this change in the resolution, all but 13 of Not one of the train crew 'he Republicans voted for the pas sage of the resolution. Mr McDermott (111.) was the only Democrat voting against the resolu tion Jos G. Cannon, former speaker, fas R Mann, Republican leader, and others of the Republicans who voteo ( a-Tulnst the measure declared that its form was such as to threaten federal government with the loss of the con trol over senatorial elections In the States given to safeguard the Integ rity of these elections. They Insist, :id did other Republicans who ulti mately voted for the resolution, that the direct election amendment should he offered without any language at- t ietied that might he dangerous t«. the future congressional supervision of senatorial elections. Democratic leaders declared that the resolution was open to no such (onstmctlon and that It offered the most nearly perfect constitutional imcndment that could he devised. An ui Sttf lexical FiffcL PROTECT OUR PEOPLE Allendale, hip Ch attanoog.i, ight Mrs Alice Hard, spra i tied Mrs Etta G. Hahn nervous shock M S Ivermun, Cleveland, Ohio, brui-ed about for. head and leg (’ ('. Irri'F \\ , nston -Salem , N t' . kle e sprained Employes injured include the fol low ine .1 F Duster, express messeng( r, anklo s[ r eried X II Dullock special agent, left hip bruised. D A ()v .-rst reel. mail ( lerk hand cut .1 D. Thompson mail eh rk arm sprained. Sa iii M ilien, ( olor. d hruis. (1 N’o one ciii ti ll v. hat i rased the .'re k. and i' is \er\ [irotiahle that tlo e a u - e will never he known." said lloiii v Williams, the vet. ran railroad man and superintendent of the Co- lutnliia division of the Southern rail way. who personally looked clearing away the wreckage. nn= theories as to the probable ratise of t ho an i(h nt were advanced John G. Rh hards. Jr , a member of 'ho railroad com m i.-sion. inspected I!, wreck He fai led • t o find t tie hi Shots From the Battlefield EndUaf cred Dou^Ijm, Arizona, Where • Number of People Were Killed bjr Stray Bullet*, pad American Sold iers Put an End to the Battle. A dispatch from Dougl&a, Arizona, says during a battle which lasted all Thursday afternoon and resulted in the capture of Agua Prleta, by the Mexican rebels, the American troop* crossed the border and stopped, the fighting. The action was taken after’ three men had been killed and aerer* al wounded in Douglas, and the con tinued firing was endangering th* Uvea of Americana on United States •oil. Douglas was under constant fire for three hours. A dispatch from Agua Prieta, Mex- co, says the rebels have attacked Auga Prieta and a fierce battle is in progress. Two Americans hpn been shot. One of them, C. W. Crow, dead, and the other, Ben Armstrong, has been taken to the hospita', seri ously wounded. Both were on tho American side of the line and vere struck by stray bullets. Americans rushed to the interna tional line, but as the firing contlpu-. eded, they had to seek shelter behind buildings and in ditches. About IS minutes after the firing on the town began the headquarters of the com missariat blew up with a terrible re port. It is not known whether a rebel bullet struck the magasine at the headquarters where the dyna mite was recently stored or the fed- erals blew up tbe magasine to pre vent the rebels getting supplies.’ The rebels arrived on the train they captured at Fronteras earlier In the day, and their appearance was entirely unexpected. The federal isjarrlson of 65 men had stood its ground well, as is indicated by the fierce fighting. The rebels attack Is from the west. Detraining just below the town, they marched to the west and then with little rushes took shelter 1 > ■ r 11 r. amendment offered hy Representative i *be railroad embankments, retting their rifles over the rails a* they shot Into the town. One fedeal office on top of the commissary at headquarters remain ed and directed the movements of the federal troops. The federafs til ed from doorways and from any bar ricade that could be u^ed. Two groups of rebels advanced un til they were In the shadow of the Ymme (Mich i adding lanrtiage that revomMed that of the Sutherland amendment adopted in the senate two months ago. was defeated hy a party v ote, 121 to 190. The Republican Insurgents, led by Representatives lyenroot and Coojter of Wisconsin, forced a record vote on after 'h p final [tossage of the esolutlon. Yari house voted overwhelmingly in favor of the measure when Speaker j ^ mer * can cu *l oni house, where they Dark called for the viva voce vote, hut the Insiir-'ents demanded a roll call In order to put the house on record on the subject. :ha* tit . her Harmon n r Wilson t an ' a,, ‘ r front. a » quickly as a tempo r.irv termination of hostilities would result in a dispcrseni. nt of the spei tators The engagement was par ticiilnrly beautiful at nigh* with tie liu11 ing of tti> red hot projei tiles through the air and tlm bursting of many bombs, eausin-• fires frequ'irl.v wherever the shells landed \ three-cornered fight was in pro gress From the "Iron Datterv ' on Morris Island, so-called beaux' n w a.- constructed of railroad iron laid at angles to detbet projei t lies, from Fort Johnson, from Fort M 'iilir - nnd from a floating battery at tie end of Sullivan's Island, tear lie w harf of the old ferry ( (impair.. a ste.olv stream of shot was poured a! Fort Sumter and the game little for erase and said that it was a wonder rra ' 9 ‘I'lickly seconded this demand, tint ath on the train had not, .been R of lively debate. I’rsc- contlnued to fire. The federsls, a few minutes later, essaysd a rush from the centre of the town and took The Demo- of »n adobe almost within the rebels' ranks. The rebels retreated before this sortie. One dropped within the ahad- HK l>FX LINES TO GO. ing out 'o the last In fere Major An (Mrsoq was finally compelled of rar render ' a yed ( rosst b broken rail There was no testimony tu support any of these theories. Train No. 3 1 is the Southern rail- wcr, -‘ lo al, y way threatened, way's fast fiver from New York to • • • th. Florida w inter resorts Tho train was ((imposed of two Pullman cars, i dining car. passenger car, comldna- • ton car and a mail and an express car The engine w as No 1913. The engineer w as Jj G McAllister of Co lumbia considered one of the best men in the service of the company \I1 who witnessed the tumbled heap of wreckage along the track for over .'.I'" feet wondered how it was possible that no one was killed or evin seriously injured Engineer M< \llister stud that ho was running about 13 miles an hour a grinding noise. Turning in his seat he saw the front wheel of the tender leave the track. The . ngine tore itself loose from the train and was brought to a stop several hundred yards away. Seelnj* Rr ^ 1 i u ' 0U i rt ' hat the tender had jumped the track tin en.ineer applied the emergency brake. This hrak* is almost instan- kilbd The general conclusion is tlcaR V every man who apoke fssored , , that the wreck was caused bv t do- lt "' direct election amendment. The, ow th * custom house and Is still a rroktnange or a difference arot.- mainly over the con-1 ly,n * ‘“ere. ”1. faithful dog Its. stitutlonal argument of whether the i * 1 * m w *f c hlng over the body, imwers of the federal government rebels, cheered on by the crie. of “Vivla Madero" from s thousand Mexicans lined up at the American custom house, repulsed the sortie gf- ter a few minutes’ firing. Soon . thin line of federsls began pouring The Governor In Invited to Go to the out of Ague Prieta straight for the Hot Place ! American boundary. | At this juncture, with a cloud of While at Greenville on Wednesday dust,, the United States First Cavalry Gov Blea&e made the following state- ment; "I will show the [teople that a county officer like Goodwin can’t tell the Governor of this State to go to troops, under Capt. Guajot, charged down the line from their headquart ers, and the fleeing federal, atoppeo. Some took refuge In the adobe house on the line, while others dropped Hades. I expect to pursue the regu- fri® trenches partly filled up some time ago by order of Maj. Garnder, then commanding In Douglas. Later a third American was shot bar course In presenting papers for He heard rf) Bcction of the salary of Detec tive Head, and, If the county of Greenville refuses to pay the money, Douglas. In an adobe building I will secure the services of a lawyer near Forth atreet a man was killed, and take the case to the State court*. 'Many bullet, fell in Douglas, »s the If that fails, I will take It to the Su- re bel force of the aouthwest fired 11nto northwest Douglas where the The statement was made In con- Mexicans live. Cries of “Viva Ma- nection with the Supervisor Good- dero ’ were ■ t °PP €< l by the American, win's refusal to pay the salary of ** it was feared the federsls might taneous on the new type of loeomo^ Officer Head, dispensary constable ap- Are on the American custom hoa^ five, tt-erf hr*ween Columbia and rom*-*! by Governor Blew, for the . Twenty mlnutw after tbe^ battle reason that the county delegation failed to make appropriation for the Misses ^Delle. Henrietta and Marion Feticht wang' r. will receive $lo,""0 lotto, N. C.. president and tronsiD'ct each from the estate of th'ir uncle. °f the Alta Vista cotton mills af Alta iiolnts South, The mail car, just behind the ten- —, der. gave a sudden lurch forwent h “ and land'd 75 feet away fror.. ,n< track in a cotton patch. The corn b- fell on its side E. O. Overstreet and Vista, a short distance south of Lynchburg. Va.. shot himself through during his lifetime. The voting wo- the head Wednesday, death being in men have just filed a petition, saying stantancous. A coroner's Inquest n - that they had complied with 'Mieir turned a verdict of suicide bir the uncle's wishes. « evidence threw no li-'lit on th > < a use ♦ ♦ leading to the act. Bitten hy Mad l»og. ♦ Two hoys and one man was bitten ! Blease KatNIied. by a mad dog at Beaufort on Friday Go von or Blease said Thursday, week ago. The dog was killed and u l )0n return from the Red Nb n s its head sent to the Pasteur institute convention in Greenville: ‘T rom m- in Columbia for inspection. A tele- q' lir >e s ’among the 1 >2 delegates and 'sram was received promptly, stating I ,ro P' e from the cotton mills and no funds to apply to this purpose Th(^ Greenville view is that the Gov- Zxrnor has misunderstood the situa tion. Supervisor Goodwin, In an In terview says he has always treated the Governor with utmost respect, especially in the matter under dis- enseion. bev.n a squad Station at the American custom house and fired from a distance of 10 feet from the sight-seers. The rebel com mander claims that reinforcements are coining immediately. — ♦♦♦ Fell Into Roiling Soap. While playing with other children in the yard of bet parents* uome, near Friendship Baptist church Wed nesday, Gertie Hargrove, aged 12, stumbled and fell into a kettle of elsewhere, I satisfied myself that I phobia’, and that the bitten ones was m hch stronger politically with tho [teople who elected me than ever I was before.’’ J T Thompson,, the two mail clerks ware not injured. It hapitened wo '[Mek that they did not realize that an accident had occurred until they tumbled from tM side of the coach through a door to the soft sand The express car was thrown across the tack. It required some time to remove this car. The combination passenger and baggage car, used by office building Wednesday night, sev- negroes, was thrown from the traik ering his left ear. He was taken to a and one end was buried several feet hospital, the ear soaked In warm wa-; nent family of Stokes county, in the soft sand. There we're a B‘ r f° r a while and sewed on again., number of negroes in the rear car, Ambulance Physician D. M. Wall de-f Found Dead In Stable* all of which were very excited. dared the ear would probably be-i Dr. D. It. HolUngwortb. one tf The passenger car, occupied hy come securely attached to the head leading physicians of Mt. Alrey, Ear Sewed On. At Chicago Edward^W^McCarthy. i boiling lye soap, sustaining bum. 31 years old. fell down stairs In an from which she died early that day. The child was the daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Henry Hargrove, h. proml- N. C. ly Tuesday. He had Jest relumed city on the Burlington tracks, was blown into the Mississippi by a se vere wind,, storm Thursday night. Two women are reported to have died from fright, making three deaths up to tbe prwtnt, traceable to the stfirm. martv’’ having been arrested many times for shooting affairs, was found dead on a street Thursday. There were several bullet bounds in his body and it is suppoeei} that he had been killed by some enemy. Cloaks His Calling. After the arrest of Andrew Bu' tus went into the ditch two miles south at Chicago on a^ charge of counter- of Muldon, Miss., that afternoon. The ^ e ' Rn ^’ * n 'ted .'tafes secret service engine and baggage car was derailed, men fo,infl a p ounterfeiting plafit for the engine turning completely over ra t 8 > n ? Y- bills to $2" hidden under and killing Engineer Jasper Adams a P Re °f Bibles in Ductus room. iand injuring the baggagemaster, por-i " ben arrested, Buctus said he was a Iter and five passengers. j Bible salesman. about 2u passengers was thrown off and said McCarthy’s hearing would C„ was found dead his stable a»r- the track. The dining car left the n °t be injured, rails. The two Pullman cars did not - ■ ♦ leave the track. Although there was Damaged hy Storms, a epneral shaking up, not a window- Considerable damage was done to glass in any of the cars was broken, crops and property In central Loulsl- The trucks of all cars were torn ana Wednesday by rain, hall and away and massed into a heap. ! wind storms. At Covington, on Lake A wrecking train was hurried to Pontchartraln, several residences the scene as soon as possible. The were shaken from their foundations, through trains were delayed for In New Orleans the streets were only one hour, having detoured by flooded. Reports from Baton Rouge the way of Fairfax, over the Sea- ; say the storm was the worst experl- board Air Line. j enced there in aeveral years. from a 1 professional visit and was putting up his two horses when ha was stricken with itarL _diaMute. K wife and two children snrvtva W. H. Brown and Rom,/ were given a verdict tern Union Telegraph Charleston on Thnrsdnjr flnr for “sssatsl