Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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\ SNOW COVERS DEAD HE VIII If IESCOE IS IAIPU- El BT ITS FALL MANY BODIES IN RUINS FALLEN TO THE BULGAKS ADRIANOPLK W RRKlfDKRED BY TT'RKA AT LAST. TR01IBLE BREWINfi ORION COORTT SBEIIIfE CUSO fin BUASE SAVING THE BIRDS THJS NATIONAL GOVERNMENT PROTECTS THEM. VERV QUEER CASE TOONG HAN VALIS A HILE IN HS SLEEP AND IS HELP PICK UP THE DEAD PASSENGERS ON. TRAIN TELL OP THE TORNADO. With the Oily in FUmea the Com mander Surrender* Hie Army ond Commit* Suicide. ABOUT SELUNG BOOZE Mo«t People Here No Iden of the Benefit of the Bird* to the Fann er* of the Country. MISTAKEN FOR ROBBER The Hospital* are Full end the Churchee and Schools Open Their Doors for the Afflicted—Relatives Hunting Missing Loved Ones in the Morgues of the City. Shivering from cold but awe-in spired by the nature of their work, scores of men, women and children in Omaha Tuesday morning strug gled ITT Che show to recover the dead or rescue the injured who lay buried beneath the wreckage of homes and buildings crushed by the tornado which Sunday swept with death deal ing force over Iowa and Nebraska, killing more than 150 persons in Omaha alone. The snow storm which is seriously hampering rescue work, began short ly after midnight and continued with gathering force. More than three Inches of snow covers the debris in the section of the city which was struck by the wind. Privations of the storm sufferers are being increas ed by the heavy snow storm follow ing so closely in the storm wake. Women tugging at heavy beams, hoping against hope to find the bodies of dear ones near the wreck age; men gruffly cheering their sor rowful mates and weeping children wrapped about with shawls and blan kets were drab colors in the scene which were revealed by dawn to the federal soldiers patrolllag the afflict ed district. The snow which according to re ports is falling blltzard-llke from Colorado to Central Iowa, has ser iously interfered with the slender tbraad of telegraphic communication established from Omaha. Practically no information ha* been obtainable from tbe devaatated section* of Ne- braska and Iowa. The fact that such Intenee suffer log Is being caused there by tbe snow storm la spite of heroic effort* made by tbe city to provide for and protect all who have been made dependent on it. caused Gov Moorehead to fear that tbs conditions within the state are In deplorable shape Me stated that be would hasten action before the atete legislature to secure suffl dent funds for tbe Immediate care of storm victims. Bodies of dead or injured •till lie In tbe debris and wreckage and the search by federal soldiers and am lous ralatlvee of possible victims continued through the storm Monday night and Tuesday morning Home residents of the district declare It their belief that at least one bun dred bodies are buried In the ruins of houeee and brick bulldl^fs of amusement places, which arp known to havt been filled with pleasure seekers on Easter Sunday, Omaha la rallying to (he assistance of the tornado vlctlrog. The hospit als of the city are filled; churches, fraternal order* and publ c Institu tions have opened their doorr. the city officials are busy with relief work and hundreds of officials are of fering their home# and money to aid the stricken one* The city com missioners ’passed an ordinance ap propriating $75,000 for relief »ork t’itliens at the meeting subscribed to an eijual amount The Injured at hospitals are receiving the best P<>» sihle attention. Public subscriptions are being tak en by various newspapers and the amounts already pledged for relief work run into thousands C.ov. Moorehead. after an inspec tion of the storm disaster, said. ‘ This la my conception of hell. It Is horrible and it has presented a most complex situation. The loss of life and dam age to property is the greatest con ceivable blow, not only to Omaha, but to the entire state of Nebraska. I will call upon Nebraska to render every assistance and I am sure tbe state will respond.” YOUNG MAN DROWNED. Circumstances Indicate He Has Met Tragic Fate. A dispatch from Kingstree says much anxiety is felt In that commun ity over the apparent fate of Melvin Nexen, the son of Jno. M. Nexen, a prominent farmer and merchant, near that place. Melvin left home Tuesday, as the family thought, to pay a visit to one of his relatives, some miles below his father’s place, and upon his failure to return Wed ^ nesday his father sent out to see why his stay was being prolonged, and it developed that he was thought to have returned home. A searching party was then organized, and Wed nesday afternoon his horse was found drowned in Black river, near Stew- art’g Landings, with the buggy hitched to It. and great fear* are entertained that young Mr. Nexen was also drowned. Young iMri Nexen was a/boot 14 years of age and unmarried. Ha was a moat promising young man and hia untimely death. If auch be will be greatly deplored. The fortress of Andrianople was taken by storm ,by the Bulgarians Wednesday morning after fighting of the most terrible character since Monday. Flames are devastating the city. At an early hour Wednesday morning fires were raging in various sections of the beleaguered city. The maddened population whose nerves hud been shattered by the almost, in cessant bombardment for a period of over five months as fleeing about the streets from one point to another, not knowing where to find shelter. The great artillery arsenal in the flood swept streets. The man said that the water was ploughing through the streets in a mad rush and that he had had noth ing to eat and very little water to drink for forty-eight hours. He said his name was Davis. . He asked if there could not be relief soon and was glad to iearn that the Governor was moving to their relief by every possible method of communication. Davis said that corpses of human beings and numerous dead animals had floated by their building. Among the debris was an enormous oil tank Davis added that the Equert build ing, in the rear of the Home Tele phone Company's building, bad col lapsed and bad caugbt fire. He said he and his party might have to take a chance with the Hood waters if tin fire got too near them. Tlie building in which Daus and his party are imperilled is at the cor ner of Jefferson and Fourth streets, next to the offices of the Dayton Jour nal. w bid) concern as well as the Dayton News, is half under water Dig sheds, small house* and other buildings were drifting past tbe rei- ugees The phoneton operator re ported that at this stage of the con versation Davis' voice trailed off in indlatinctnesa "I could not have li* tened to any more It got my goat,” aald the local man While the flood ateadtty receded Wednesday afternoon the terrific c ur rent retarded rescue work and a cold smarting rain added to dlacom'ort* of the already overburden •! sto'i i victims Kxpert oarsmen. wh> 'crav ed the Jlde of the huslnc-ss sect o.i of the nubmerged city Wednesday x't •' noon, came bac k nerve wre* .* | to relate narratives of pitiable appeals made to them bv hundred# maroon ed in upper floor* of 'all bul .i n^s. *>»ocit who«e to»er •forte# sw rl* t a flood that threatened the structure* 'oundat i oris The dark color* In the rmi .itu • were lighted here cued there t> v *'o rtes exhibited by many of the floods prisoners X woman with three* chil dren. marooned in the upper floor of her home on the edge of the business district, called to the oarsmen "Oh. 1 know you can t take me off,'' she cried, ' but for the love of humanity, nlease take this loaf of bread and Jug of molaaaes to Sarah Uruyn down the slreel, I know she s starving ” Twice the boatsmen at tempted to take the food, but wave* that eddied about the* submerged house hurled them bsck Further *n In the exclusive r»->l deuce distrl-t they wer** offered fabu lous sum* for rescue by many of the flood * prisoners Their narrative In spired an effort late Wednesday af ternoou to launch a boat for naviga tion on the vaM river, but up to a late- hour the craft had been unable to pass beyond areas already reach ed on the fringe of the flooded dis trict Missing members ,if many fan.ilic were* restored to their loved ones through human clearing bouses es tablished at several points on the fringe of the flood distrief. Great ledgers filled with names and presid ed over by volunteer bank Clerks were at the* disposal of persons seek ing missing kinsmen. If these had registered in the clearing house their addresses were quickly given to the inquirers. Up to seven o’clock Wednesday, three thousand of the homeless were housed in different places of refuge, most of them being cared for at the plant of the National Cash Register Company. Scores of the water vic tims were being carried from their places of imprisonment late Wednes day evening and leaders of the res cuing parties were arranging for re lays of torch bearers to light the work during the night. ♦ ♦ ♦ Verdict Against the State. The jury in the case.of E. O. Black against The State company for libel brought in a verdict for $20,000 at Columbia Wednesday. Lyles & Lyles gave notice of a motion for a new trial. The suit was for $50,000 dam ages. There are two other cases, that of Fingal C. Black and John Black, based on the same publications and these may be called next week . Early in April the department of agriculture will have ready for dis tribution a new bulletin upon birds that will have an important bearing upon the much uiscussed dcLean bird protection bill, which was fiaal- of Union Resent—Statements of; l.v included in the bill making the ap- Tensc Situation Apparently Brought About by the Recent Activities of “Detective’' Fortner, Which People 1 Mayor Duncan and Gov. Blease. rier from Union says a sharp clash A dispatch to The News and Cou- between the city and county officials of Union on one side, and Governor Blease on the other appear immi-: nent. As a result, the people of Uni-j on city and county are very much 1 wrought up, momentarily expecting the smouldering flames to break out in some new quarter in the triangu lar fight now being staged. Following the appearance of Rep resentative Fortner, of Spartanburg, a Blease member of the Legislature, in Union with a commission from Governor Blease as a State detective in his pocket and the big row, it is said, he kicked up by attempting to raid an alleged blind tiger, the mayor of Union and several of the promi nent people caustically condemned the Governor for giving a represent ative a commission as a detective, and tiie people of Union, at least •nany of them, resented the incident utterly afid charged a political plot. Tuesday Sheriff Fant, of Union, receivd a letter from the Governor i barging the sheriff with being dere lict in hi* duty m enforcing the law's, and strongly intimating that unless he performed his duty lie nia> he re- , moved from office in Ms letter to j Sheriff Fant the Governor said "It propriations for the department of agriculture and, as such, approved on March 4 and signed by President Taft as one of his last official acts. The bulletin will be profusely illus trated, picturing wild geese, wild swans, snipe, plover, woodcock, brant, wild pigeons and other migra tory and insectiverous birds which henceforth are to receive protection from the federal government under regulations to be formulated by the department of agriculture. The bill proposed by Senator Mc Lean, of Connecticut, together with those presented to the House by Rep resentatives Weeks, of Massachu setts, and Anthony, of Kansas, is bas- Hubert Smith Jr., While Walking in His Slecif) Went to IHs Uncle’s House, Nearly a Mile Away, Was Mistaken for a .Midnight Marauder and Shot in the Face. Deadlock in Illinois Broken. A dispatch from Springfield, 111., says James Hamilton Lewis, Demo crat, waa Wednesday elected United States Senator for the long term. Lawrence Y. Sherman, Republican, waa elected to the United State# Sen ate for the short term. ha* bf<'n p' -ih!' rrportfd to me that on*- V * Estr.-, running- an open bill’ r’ In the town of Union, wh ^ noi* im '■ to t‘ o c ommuni ty , i that J W Wol'ing. a negro. J Fant. Miller Fant and Du k ah are engag* d in violation* of i.. dlapensar) law It la further reported that the mayor and the police force In the city of Union are not making any effort to enforce the dupenaary law in tbe town of Union In fact, It t* report ed to me that member* of the polir* force kept special vigilance over one of m> detective* #ent there. In order to keep him from accomplishing any thing Many complaint* are coming to thl* office about the open and flagrant violation of the dl*pen*ar> law in the town of Union a* well a* In the t oun i* of I nic'ti I again wr.t<- and b< g of *oU to g>( tju** ami ende.vot to • top t.i-.o violation* of (he law I am writing to other *heriff« i along the name line begging th«m to gel bun), and 1 *inrerely hope that all of the officer* of the State will remember the oath that they have taken and do something to help me In the enforcement of the law I can not do It by myaelf. I can only urge upon vou whose duty it i* t'oncerning a rumor that the Gov ernor had threatened to remove Sher Iff Fant from office and appoint for mer Sheriff Long the sheriff is quoted a* having nothing to say, while Mr Long I* quoted a* »a\lng that If the place m offered to him he would ac cept Mr Kant defeated Mr Long for sheriff of Union county last sum mer. Mayor Duncan I* quoted low - 'Mayor Du man. w 1 ami jvked it he Intel any 'hln regarding 'iovernor Blease c rit irism of t In* police ton e, never give any at'c iition to commun ications of aii anonymous character I ,c t Governor Uleav give name of hi-- informant, giving him informa tion. so-called, regarding action of mayor and police force, and it will he shown that his informant is nothing more than a common everyday liar.’ Union is a thriving little city of some 5.000 inhabitants in the Pied mont section of South Carolina, and the people are mightily stirred over the threatened clash between the local officials. It is said that Will Estes is the owner of the place which Fortner, while in Union with a detec tive's commission, said he would raid or he would have the Governor to place Union under martial law. When asked about the matter Gov ernor Blease said he had not fhreat- ened to remove Sheriff Fant; that all said that complaints had come to him from as good citizens as were in Un ion County, compaining of the "wide open” way in whicli the "blind ti gers" were running, and the Govern or said it was reported to him that tne mayor was encouraging them, as he was opposed to the dispensary. He said that it was also reported that Sheriff Fant had done nothing towards enforcing the law and he was simply calling his attention, to these matters, he being a new official. He said that he had sent three detec tives into Union and each of them had reported that a condition of law lessness prevailed in respect to the blind tiger situation. “I have simply done my duty,” said tne Governor, "in trying to get the officials of Un ion to enforce the laws.” ed upon the fact that the lack of uni form bird protective legislation throughout the country is responsi ble for the enormous decrease and even the threatened extinction of many species of birds that make mi gratory passages north and south each year. It is of no use for one state to pass protective laws so long as in another stat«\ possibly even dur ing the mating and hatching season, then- is no law protecting that same bird. The provision is made that the reg ulations to be formulated by the de partment of agriculture for tin- pro tection of the migratory birds an not to be permitted to interfere w.th the 1 (h a) law* of the states and terri- | tones for the protection ut uou-mi- jgratory game or other 1 :rd> resident 'and breeding with n their borders nor to prevent the -t it*** from enact jilt la.vs to | ruim and render ef ific eiit the regulations of the depart | ment af agrn ul'iire provided for un- d> r tlie new ti. 11 The enforcement of tin* ro w bill la to ‘a- brought about by the ap pointment of deputy United States marshal* to do the work Already hundred* of thousand* of dollar* are being paid out by the different *tat«“* for the support of their game war den*, and the federal marshal could go with them amt cooperate with them for the good of the game mt. r je»o* of the country The sum of | $ 1 11 mm has been ap; ropriat*-1 as i beginn.ng for tlm new protective work From a pra.'nal a- w.;; a- an »e* •!•'! and b im.me vamipoint Mo protection of b.rUi, i* im|Mirtant for t to- benefit of the hat.an Mo*t ; eo pie have 1)(1 1 .lea of the protection bird* give to the crop* of the country There is an annual loss of fson.mMi non In the United State* from p«*sti vorous Inject*, and this lost baa been ateadily increasing in proportion to the decrease of the birds, most o which feed upon them The United State# biological aurvev ha* had the stomach* of more than 5.5no bird examined Thirty grasshopper* am j'.u caterpillar* were found in the stomach of a < u< koo In that of mghthawk were found fifty grasslmp pers and m another more than 5" mosquito.-* Seventy i anker worm were found in the crop of a ceda bird as f .!- Mr Tr. adwfll. of t li c Ho -tun So on! , ot In r orcii; an' of MlO h u i iso at t II St • ti <i t ! \ ( f Natural 1 ■ st, ry . f" 1 a young M." time. h u r r.» . I > ' a light t ho bain . j g to .- i \ n 11. 1 11 -i\ t \ t ght atig !.• w or ms in a Abo A as n * * > ♦ \ fp i v burn •d. Mis ! s *t \ i r" s! tig I" day and a ('a na lian s i 11 1111 >: i'i t t y s 1 i • i-l sti in k oil an iron. sahr - "I J * •port - a rnbiu w hicl ( onsu mod six- \\ In n s! F* mo op 1 cons ciousiioss The Aiken Journal and Review says Hubert Smith Jr., a youth about sixteen years of age, will lose the sight of both eyes, as the result o! a shot fired by his great uncle, Mr. D. B. Hammond, about lliob o'clock Saturday night, in North Augusta, while young Smith, walking in his sleep, was mistaken for a midnight marauder. It is said there is not the slightest hope that his eyesight can be saved. After being shot, he was immediately rushed to the Augusta city hospital, where he was operated upon. The great uncle. Mr. Hammond, was prostrated to find that he had wounded his kinsman. He says that he had retired and was just about to tall off to sleep when he heard a noise upon his piazza, at which he naturally became somewhat alarmed and secured his shotgun. ^Her hearing the noise several tiiii'vi as if some one was trying to torcc an entrance into his house, Mr. Hammond tired a shot through his window without letting up the sash The load w> nt through the glass and took effect in the face and forehead if th" young nephew. When the lad was picked up after being shot, h** was clad in the thin- ic-t raiment, and the only conclusion Mi.it could be arrived at was that the boy had walked to the house In his ilrep. This theory seems plausible. *s it Is known that hi* ancestors were subject to somnambulism The great uncle * bo me is about three quarter* of a mile from the boy * home, and he had evidently walk-'d all that way while in hi* ■ leep N'o one at the home of the boy h^rd him when he got up and left the house Another evinence that he was in a somnambulistic walk was that when rhe operation wa* performed on hi* eye* It was founit the »hot had gone through the lid* while th closed It *v a* announced that hi* in no danger The boy * 'o-en an .nlu-'riou* one. an eons.dered UhUSUaMv br:g!i s' id e« ,»! *< bool the North Xugust.l \cad> He had orUv re. ent.v re turned from a tr p to Wa-h i.gion, where he w 'iie**.,! ti,,- man gel at: on of President Wilson Graphic Dcecriptlon* of Some of the Awful Scene* of the Death-Deal ing Storm. Stories replete with thrills and pathos were related in Chicago Mon day by eye-witnesses of the tornado which swept over parts of Ne braska, Iowa and Illinois Sunday night. Terror-stricken, the narra tors of these stories sat fascinated in the coaches of a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad train watching a great dark cloud skipping wierdly on its work of destruction. In sev eral villages they helped pick up the dead and dying. Tlie wounded and the dead were placed on seats and in the aisles of the cars until the train, which had passed through the beginning of the track of the whirlwind that struck Omaha, reached the latter city. On the way in, the injured told tales of s-uffering and gave vivid descriptions of escapes which seemed to them miraculous. William toon, of Lin coln, Neb., gave a graphic description as he viewed it from tlie platform of the observation car. "For miles," he said, "it seemed as if the train were being pursued by the storm. We were approaching Ralston, Neb., when I first noticed a coppiq'-colored cloud mount ;ng toward the sky. The cloud gre. rapidly and was travelling at tremendous speed. It assumed the form of a funnel and the air was filled with a curious noise, very piercing. The funiml seem< d to grow black ami the smaller ond that noar the groun 1 was about a halt nr.lo m di ameter. It swished in mss Mm rail road track, tkwi strut k the town. Houses collapsed' as though made of p.ij.er The roofs sailed away and the B.des f< 11 1m As the passengers comprehended the decolation wrought, a cry of horror wept up. It w as a tt rrible night Then the train Htopped anti the pa**enger» ran over to the wreckage of the houses We coull hear the groan* of dying men, injured women and children were moaning We gut all of the Injured out of tbe rutna and brought them to the train We were about to leave when our atten tion wa» called to a little house some distant e from the other* It had b. n wretked ami moved from It* foundation, but we fount a mo'her y mg upon a bed unin- '* V * **r4* an 1 I.- r bain J u rod 11 yf wa* \ m t' hor life I ho hail w a* of f bo b"UM- a a .i \ .ml ha t ! tl bis .i ». • \ •* i r , r: HlS boll' ml. n g lions, aid tig a base’ • tit w as ci rr ed w .! tl i •• tin - ! an 1 tiv the ■ '-.ill "It tils 1 ■re mb g I o U 11 I SAVED HER li V li V MsTKK. Then I esl Horribly Burned Mother to Neighbor's for Aid. A dispatch from Spartanburg say* from near Uampbello there came Monday night a story of the rare presence of mint! shown by a threv- year obi girl, the daughter of Mr* San ue 1 Betty, when her mother, holding a nine months-old t ahy in to r arms, feel into an open fireplace \s Mrs Betty w a- nurs.ng the baby -tie .vas overcome u , Mi v e r t, g% and pwth'd forward The little g.rl, the Old eewspepen for e&le at this of fice. . 'v i-.ght i ut worms jn the same pi ] r.od \< cording to c iit-ful m-timati the insect f' t'd.ng birds of Mirssachu S"’t s last year consumed over L’l.om l bushels of insects from May 1 to Sep j tember it". Vet the damage dom ' insects to the crops of that statt ' amounted to $5,uiHi,niin. Thirty species of shore birds eat noxious weeds, .us well as insects, ami at least 150 of the insect ea t ug birds of the country have be?u classed a g..me in both the norther i and south ern states. Even the robin L hem killed legally in seven states. In Vir ginia a petition signed bf 1 00,00e school children secured the protec tion of the robin in that state by a special act of legislature passed last year. In five states the blackbird has been a legal game bird, also. The friends of the birds spared no pains to investigate such birds as have been charged with being ene mies of the farmers. For years the king bird has been considered an ene my to the honey bee and because of that charge has been banished from many communities by the persecution of school hoys. An investigation of this charge recently has been made by a scientist who examined the con tents of the stomachs or crops of no less than 655 king birds. About one-tenth of the contents was vegetable; fully one-half was of recognizable insects including grass hoppers, rose beetles, boll weevils, potato bugs, caterpillars and kindred other pests. This bird shows a pre dilection for the blister bug or mel- oidae. These insects contain a drug known u canthardine which, besides blistering human skin, produces oth er physiological symptoms. The blis ter bag apparently do both ht-r tyt-s wtuf burnt'd out an 1 otir Sldr of lit r fu< " fairly tookfii. UarryitiL’ th.> baity in onf arm. tin 1 little mrl with her other hand led her blind and staggering mother to the home of the nearest neighbor, who lived about a quarter of a mile distant. Little hope is entertained lur Airs. I’uUy s recovery. Four Men l>oose Live*. Four men lost their lives in Lake Apopka near Winter Garden, Fla., Monday, when their launch swamped while in the middle of the lake. They left the pier on the east side of the lake Sunday afternoon for an afternoon's pleasure trip, but during a high wind their craft was swamp ed And all three were drowned. Police Chief Kills Negro. At Louisburg, N. C., Chief of Po lice Claude Tucker shot and killed Fred Green, a negro, Monday night, when the officer was assaulted by fifteen negroes at an alleged blind tiger joint. Twelve negroes have been arrested. It is the first fatality reported as a result of the new soareh-and-seize law. ihe king bird, however, for bugs were found in no less than seventy of the stomachs that were examined. Another insect noted was the rob- berfly which is about three times the size of the ordinary honey bee. This robber Attacks the honey-laden bee, kills it and appropriates the honey. Honey bees were found in only twenty-two of the king birds ex amined and most of these were drones. So, instead of being an ene my, the king bird is really the protec- aot Injure tor and friend of the honey bee. f w.al. 1 i>a * a Im i x tar taflifl niotig . M." t. ■ r. v a r t nr ft at ftT h quitr- T. r tM a ti...t- U lull it *; 1111 up* I. * X nr KfVfti min, who turtifd out to b«> par' o' a rt-pair gang, dropped out Tfi*. next town w *• pasaed through was Henson, where the scenes were still more appalling Several large fat tones there were strewn In hea|>* We p:< ked up a lot of Injured and I don t know how many dead we left behind Then the cloud wheeled and made toward South Omaha We wer« not far behind but our way was I .oi k' 1 by derbi* the tornado had t h row n on t he t rat ks " Another pu-seiuter was Mrs Geo. J H Aniervejr. of Sy rai iiHi'. N V. " bell the Loll-eS lit gall to full.'' she suul. ' 1 saw a little girl dressed in u ■ .-tat t from one ot them ami run do a n t h' st lift with h' r hands above lo r head Just then tlie side of a ho.-e t .ime -oaring through the air It s'rm k tlie child and btine 1 her be- math it " Another eye witness waa a Chicagoan, \yjto told of th" scene* at Omaha when the train stopped there. He said: ' i was just recovering from what I had seen on the train when we pull ed Into Omaha with the injured. It was night then hut such a night - the sky was lighted with a great red glare and the streets were filled with frightened people. It was raining a deluge. Frequently the cries of the weunded unloaded at the station were drowned by terrific peals of thunder. ‘The town is burning; we'll all be killed,’ some kept crying, and this added to the others’ fears. There? was no sleep that night for many of the passengers. As our train left Omaha we could see a big hotel burn ing.” The Mexican Way. Mexicans arriving at Jaurez Lem the south declared they were a part of a firing stfuad which executed Abram Gonzales, governor of Chi huahua, under the Madero govern ment a fortnight ago. Gonzales was law” these Mexicans declared, law’” these Mexicans declarel. Tragedy at Chester. Richard Reighley, a carpenter, shot and instantly killed F. A. Wright, boss of the cloth room of the Repub lic Mills at Great Falls, Chester County, Monday morning, the trag edy, it is said, having grown out of domestic troubles. Reighley surren dered to the authorities and was tak en to Jail.