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BANDIT KILLED BY ENGINEER. Desperate Attempt to Hold up Passenger Train on Western Road. Colorado Springs, Col., September 2.?In a desperate attempt to hold up West-bound Colorado Midland train No. 3, four miles west of Divide. early this morning, an unknown bandit was instantly killed by a rock thrown by Engineer Frank Stewart after he had shot the engineer in the leg. Two men, who were found near the scene of the hold-up, are held for investigation as to their complicity in the robbery. One was slightly wounded in the head by a bullet. The highwayman crawled over the tender as the train slowed up at a siding to meet an East-bound train. As he stopped the train, Stewart turned to see the fireman, Paul Bachman. standing with his hands above his hpad and heard the robber say: "Put | up your hands or I'll blow your head off." The robber then forced both men to leave the engine and marched them before him to the express car. According to the story told by Stewart, who was brought to a hospital, the robber ordered them to tell the express messenger they were in peril of their lives; that the train had been held up and that the robber was determined to have the money in the express car. Stwart states that the robber fired several shots at the heads of passengers who looked out to see what was happening. "When we got to the express car," said Stewart, 'my fireman dashed under the car and crawled to the other tko T-rvhh?r ipanpri under the car OiU^. 1 UV 1 WWV* ? to shoot at him, and when-he took his eyes off me, I struck him with all my strength with a rock I had picked up as I jumped off the tender. As I did so, he whirled and shot at me, the bullet striking me in the leg. Guess my blow finished him, for he never moved after the rock hit him. I must have fainted then, for the next I knew the conductor and express messenger were standing about me." When the remainder of the train crew heard the shots they seized weapons and rushed to the head of the train, firing as they came. Stewart was given immediate medt ical attention by physicians who were on beard the train, and was brought to Colorado Springs. His condition is not serious. Shortly after the hold-up Sheriff Von Puhl and a posse scoured the country near the scene of the attempted hold-up and discovered two young men hiding in the bush. One was dazed by a bullet wound in the head. He is out on parole from the State reformatory. The men claim they were riding in the blind baggage and were beating their way to Grand Junction. They say one was struck by a stray bullet from the bandit's gun. They are held for investiga; tion. * The dead robber wore a cloth mask and a gunnysack tied ai'ound his neck. He has not been identified. mere was no unusual snipnieut ui money in the express car, but the bandit told the fireman as they marched along the train that he intended to rifle the passengers as well as the Wells-Fargo box. f INDIANS SACRIFICE $2,000. Poor Indians* Hum Their Money at Funeral Ceremonies. ( A dispatch from Los Angeles. Cal.. on Friday, says: Two thousand dol- i lars was sa-crificed to the god of fire 5 by poor Indians at the cremation of ? the body of one of their tribe. Jose c Escalate, in the Yuma district. c The superstitious act was reported ? to the Bureau of Indian Affairs at j .Washington, and the bureau has sent c as order that the burning of money a .was fer.bidden for the future on the 1 reservation. Escalate, who. was a a teacher in the government school at p Old Fort Yuma, had committed sui- I cide when his love was rejected by a p white girl. h Congi*essjn?n Patterson Strongly En- j dorsed. f 1 . i] Barnwell, September 1.?The ex- f, ecutive committee met here to-day i, to tabulate the returns for Barnwell county, and after having done so the p fnllnwinsr resolution was adopted bv t unanimous vote: v "Whereas, Barnwell county has for e the past six years offered her fav- p orite son, J, O. Patterson, as a fit- p ting man for congress from the sec- h and congressional district, and he having been approved of and honored by her sister counties in his election b as congressman, and whereas at the fi 11th hour in the recent primary a o certain scandalous letter reflecting p upon him (the authorship of which i is denied) was used. -] "We desire to condemn in the $ strongest terms such a class of poli- r tics, ana 10 say 10 our sisitr i-uumies we have known J. 0. Patterson all of onr lives and they will make no mistake in voting for this man, who c has on every occasion made good to f our certain knowledge." ( BALKY HORSES. ?4 It is Sometimes Possible to Make , Permanent Cure. "It is sometimes possible to con vert a balky horse and make it se the error of its ways." said the an cient liveryman, according to th Chicago News, "but such an anims can never be counted on as reliable It's apt to return to its evil course at inconvenient times. When I wa a young man I considered mysel extremely skilful with horses an took especial pride in overcomin balky ones. I was in love with beautiful young schoolma'am and oi ten drove to her schoolliouse in th afternoon to take her for a driv when her day's work was done. "One day it was raining in seve languages when I went to take he home. I had a top buggy and rangy nag that used to think ball ing was its special mission on eartl I had cured the beast of that tricl or I thought I had. and he hadn shown a contrary streak for month: I was always bragging of my victor over that horse and must have bore the schoolma'am a good deal wit my horse talk. "She was mighty glad to see m loom up with the buggy that da and as we drove homeward I talke nothing but horse. I told how I ha conquered the obstinate brute th* was hauling us after he had bee given up as worthless and meanwhil the rain was slopping down to be* all creation. We came to the cree and found it rising like a house afir I drove into it and the water cam up to the buggy box. And just whe we got to the midde that fool hors stopped dead short and turned h: head around and looked at us i the idiotic way that balky horse have. "Well, I reasoned and argued wit him for ten minutes and tried to pr him ahead with the buggy whip, bi it was no use. And the water wa rising about an inch a minute, told the teacher I'd have to carry he ashore and I took her in my arms. "She was a good, honest, corn-fe girl, and she weighed like a load c baled hay and the water was runnin like a mill race, and so it isn't woi derful that I lost my balance and w came down kerflop in that mois gurgling creek and we were a sig't for drowned rats when we final! landed. "It shows how unfair women at that this schoolma'am would neve speak to me again, and that's why am an old bachelor with a secret so: row. "The horse? That feeble-minde beast stood there until the water wa so high he could hardly keep his nos above it and then he swam half mils down the creek and landed i the fork of a big elm and when th water went down he was hangin there, with the buggy dangling Unde him. "There was an old man named Bi lvpost who bought a horse that turr ed out to be balky. If the nag wa obstinate, so was old Billypost. H said he'd break that critter and cur it of its delusions if it took him th rest of his life. He had plenty c money and wrestling with old som got to be his life's work. "At last he figured Out a scheme c his own. He put some sort of gal vanic battery in his buggy with wire running up the shafts. The curren ?ould be controlled by a little Ieve in the front of the buggy. He in rited a lot of us to see his first experiment with this scheme and w lathered around in the interest o science. Billypost hitched up hi: 'harger and climbed into the bugg: md told Dobbin to go. Dobbin flip >ed an ear and looked back at th< >ld man and winked the other eye ,s much as to say: 'You soak youi lead.' The old man pulled his leve; little and shot a few volts or amieres or whatever you call 'em intc )obbin and I never saw such a surrised and pained expression on s :orse's face as appeared on that ne's. He humped his back and iimnr./! AT'QV o tliAvrt unip^u a iiiv/i u iitu^v i *? v* ? v eet high and just tore the landscape tito shreds with his feet. He made orty miles in two hours, which is the ong-distance record, I believe. "Old man Billypost was dumped nto that thorn hedge and we had he awfulest time getting him out rfcole. For days and days the vetrinary surgeon worked with him. lulling out thorns with a pair of inchers and squirting liniment on iim with a seltzer bottle." When an article stays on the mar:et, used daily by the people for ifteen years and still makes good, if known quality, reputation and rice, why experiment? I have sold lock Hill buggies for fifteen years, "hey are good buggies. I have reluced the price. See my advertisenent to the first fifty in this issue. G. FRANK BAMBERG. Highest prices paid for cotton seed, >r I will give you a good exchange or C. S. meal. W. G. HUTTO at ?opeland's store. CHARGED WITH BIGAMY. a Young Woman of Lexington County and Butler Grimsley Married. _ Lexington, August 31.?Deputy e Sheriff Sim J. Miller, of this county, returned last night from Washington. e whither he had gone on Saturday, j with a warrant for the arrest of But? ler Grimsley, alias H. T. Timmons, ,s charged with bigamy. s On the 17th of August Grimsley [f was married to Miss Ella Earhardt. d daughter of Joseph Earhardt _ o nrnminpnt farmer residinsr near g ~ 0 ? a New Brookland, the Rev. C. A. f. Waters, pastor of the New Brookland e Baptist Church, officiating. The e marriage certificate is made ont in the name of "Harry Timmons." The n happy couple left immediately there?r after for Washington to spend their a "honeymoon." joining the excursionc_ ists in Columbia. u Nothing further was heard from the young couple by the bride's rela't tives until the 23rd. when the follow5. ing telegram was received by Mrs. y Addie Kneece, of Columbia, sister of d the bride: "Wire $15 or $20 at once, h am in bed sick. ' (Signed) E. Timmons. ie This aroused the suspicions of the v family, who at once began to investid gate. The money was not sent howd ever, and on the following day, the 24th, another message was received n the 25th Mrs. Kneece received ante other telegram, which was signed ,< "Mrs. E. Williams." requesting her It ? - ? k to wire $25 at once, e. Instead of sending the money the Le father of the young girl came to Lexa ington and laid the matter before the ie officers, in the meantime swearing is .out a warrant against Grimsley. n Deputy Sheriff Miller was placed in >s charge of the case and he immediately sent a telegram to Mrs. E. Thomas, h in care of Fred Williams, telling her v to look out for a registered letter. tt The deputy sheriff left Lexington on IS Saturday evening and arrived in I Washington Sunday morning about >r 9 o'clock. He went to the office of the district commissioner, and Detecd tive Berman was engaged to assist )f the Lexington officer in the hunt g for the young couple. In less than i- an hour the two officers had found e them. Grimsley was in bed suffering t, from an attack of typhoid, and upon it the advice of the attending physiv cian the officers would not attempt to bring him back to South Carolina. a But the doctors consented that the >r man be removed to the Washington I Hospital for the Insane, where he r_ will be kept under close surveillance until he has sufficiently recovered to d be removed back to South Carolina, is The young bride upon being in;e formed that her husband had another a wife living in Columbia broke down n and wept bitterly. After kissing her e husband a last farewell, she consentg ed to accompany the Lexington offi>r cer back home. Miss Eardhardt, who is Oiiiy Shout 1- 18 years of age. is a niece of the t- wife of the deputy who went to .s Washington in search for her huse band. The courtship began while e the young lady was on a visit to her e aunt at the county jail about nine if months ago. Grimslev's attentions >1 to the young woman were marked. and there were no objections raised ,f on the part of her parents. The cul[. mination of the marriage at the Baps tist parsonage in Brook land was not t thought to be at all unusual, and r many rushed to offer congratulations, _ it is said. Should Grimsley recover requisie tion papers will be secured and he f will be brought back to Lexington s for trial, r ~~ In >Iemoi*iam. The members of Mt. Pleasant Missionarv Society desire to pay their r tribute of respect to the memory ot .Mrs. Lucille Clayton. ) Therefore be it resolved: 1. Whereas, God in His all wise t providence has called from us our friend and co-worker. We are all | well aware (as far as human beings can form a judgment of the lives of ^ their fellow creatures) she was in every act. deed and word a true Christian; 2. The account of her death is deeply touching, but how grateful we must feel to see her so resigned, and happy in the thought that we would meet her hereafter in that better world, where no trouble or sori^w is . to be found; 3. She was good in every acceptation. her cheerful willingness to re lieve in real distress, her talents and charms endeared her to all. Naturally we must grieve for the loss of one so dear and excellent to us; 4. May God comfort the bereaved family and loving husband, and may we all look forward to that brighter and happier world in which we can go to those who cannot return to us. Request, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the husband and to the family and also the Lutheran Church Visitor and our county paper for publication. 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