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' ~i TRAIN DERAILED. Five Seriously Hurt, But No One ^ Killed. Washington, Aug. 24.?Five were seriously hurt and 20 received lesser injuries to-day when train No. 22 of the Southern railwav was derailed * six miles west of Salisbury, N. C. The engine and all of the coaches left the track, and a chair car went down a 25-foot embankment. Those sejk riously injured are: F. S. Taylor, 78 years old, New Orleans; head cut, injured internally. Three-year-old son of Mrs. Richard Clark Wilson, New Orleans; legs badly mutilated. % John P. Simms, 30 years old, Augusta, Ga.; right hip and leg and bach injured. Dr. J. M. Belk, 47 years old, Mon* iroe, N. C.; back of head hurt, spinal cord seemingly affected. I Judson Buchanan, 51 years old, Chattanooga, Tenn.; head severely cut and bruised. (The seriously injured were remov^ ed to a hospital in Salisbury. The cause of the accident has not been officially determined. Those receiving minor injuries ?? are: Taylor Daniels, colored porter; W. A. Harrison, fireman, Asheville division; Rev. C. R. Beaman and iiS* Miss Catherine C. Beaman, Durham, |pi N. C.; E. W. Tatum, Salisbury, N. C.; W. S. Garrett, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Margaret Hunt, Lexington, N. C.; L. W. Wessell, Wilmington, N. C.; I. W. Solomon, Wilmington, N. C.; Mrs. E. W. Habel, Fred Habel, Jr., Raleigh, N. C.; Mrs. Richard Clark Wilson, New Orleans; Nell Piper, Durham; Elizabeth Warren Thompson, Raleigh, N. C.; G. C. Scarlet, LaFayette, La.; Lilly Gray, * Durham, N. C.; H. E. Ortman, Willi t mington. 1 Building in Barnwell. Barnwell, Aug. 3.?Barnwell's postoffice building is practically completed and Postmaster Moseley expects to move in to-morrow evening. This building is owned by Frank Q. ?, O'Neall, of Charleston, and was built; & V expressly for a postoffice. The in| terior is handsomely finished. B C. N. Burkhalter has been improving his nroDertv on Main street by e renovating the interior and the workmen are now engaged in installiiig a L' modern front in the building. When finished the building will be occupied (by U. B. Hammett, who will conduct a grocery store. Next week Mr. Burkhalter will begin tearing down the old frame buildings adjoining the store, now occupied by T. J. Attaway, preparatory to the erection of two handsome brick store rooms. The new home of the Barnwell $ \ . Sentinel is nearmg completion, and I, * < the management hopes that it will be ready for occupancy within the next t "week. Work will commence in a few days | on the Barnwell County Farmers' Union cotton warehouse, according. |t to Col. Harry D. Calhoun, who is the prime mover in the new enterprise. The site of the building has not been B * definitely, decided on yet, but Col. ^ Calhoun stated a few days ago that ft the matter would be settled this P week. The warehouse will be ready in time to handle the coming crop. || The Southern and Atlantic Coast Line railroads have promised to have , their new passenger depots ready for l|| V the fall trade. The Coast Line audi. . thorities have already had the old - f V>?> building movea preptuau/i J VUV erection of the new depot, and the Southern has given out that* their j new station will be located on the fe ' west side of the track, ft Building operations are not confe -fined solely to the business district, I" as several handsome new homes are in course of construction. Barnwell has improved wonderfully in the past * several months, and at the rate it is going now, will soon be classed f:.. , among the most progressive towns in V-V * the State. f Mandamus Proceedings Dropped. Attorneys representing the Carolina Glass company of Columbia last Saturday filed a request with Attorney General Lyon and the supreme court, asking that the mandamus V proceedings recently instituted to reij - quire the dispensary commission to | | review the case of the glass company ||* be dismissed. The action of the glass company follows the filing of the return by Attorney General Lyon. The Carolina Glass case involves about $53,000, and the company was seeking an order to force the dispenj* sary commission to review the ac* tion of the old dispensary commis?*?.. i sion. PThe proceedings were brought in the supreme court several weeks ago by the glass company. As pointed out by Attorney General Lyon, the ; .V';. V members of the dispensary commis-1 sion failed to notify him of the case. The supreme court gave Attorney General Lyon permission to file a return. The return reviewed the en-i tire case in full. | j Just what steps the Carolina Glass I t company will take is not known. The! 1 case will very probably be appealed! I?? V PELLAGRA FILLING HOSPITAL. During May 40 Per Cent, of Admissions Had Pellagra. Spartanburg, Aug. 1.?That inI s^jiity is increasing in South Carolina I at a greater rate than the populal tion of the State is increasing was ! the statement made yesterday by Mr. I J. Wright Nash, a member of the board of regents of the State hospital for the insane. Mr. Nash said that the increase was probably due to pellagra, which frequently produces insanity. He said that in May there were 89 admissions to the State asylum and that probably 40 per cent, of this number were pellagra cases. "Von would be surprised," said I Mr. Nash, "to know of the interest that is taken in the State hospital. More people than you would imagine | have friends or relatives or acquaintt ances or somebody in whom they are interested in the hospital. Nearly 1,700 Patients* "There are nearly 900 white people and nearly 800 colored in the hos; pital. It is the biggest institution in the State. Taking care of so many people, even if they were healthy and sane, would be a large task, and ' to take care of that many crazy peo! pie is a tremendous undertaking. "The old idea of treating the insane was to whip them and bind j them and manacle them?to treat | them harshly and kill them as quickj ly as possible. | "The modern idea is that they are ill?that they are not criminals, but j unfortunate people and that everything possible should be done to cure them and restore them to society as useful citizens'. And I am glad to say that our institution is curing patients and restoring them to society every week. Wards Comfortable. """ - > A r A A ?.U ; + ? r,.nm rt-n ""mere are auoui ow wmtc wumgu / patjents in the hospital. Their wards are as clean and sanitary and comfortable as they can be made. In fact, I can't see how they could very well be improved. "We are now beginning to improve the condition of the wards of the wrhite men?in fact all the other wards. "The institution has been in operation for nearly 90 years. In all that time no effort has been made up to the present to separate patients suffering from tuberculosis from the others. "The tuberculosis patients have gone into the same wards, occupied the same rooms and eaten at the same tables as the others. The re A *** r% fATtr TTAO r*a Q CO SUll WUS up ill a ic n jbu?u the death rate from tuberculosis was very high. And new cases were contracted in many instances within the institution." Naval Officer Found Dead. New York, Aug. 3.?Lieut. Charles E. Brillhart of the Washington navy yard was found shot to death this af s- a- _ i. *1 A O ternoon in ms ruum at mo nwioi tor. The case was reported to the coroner as a. suicide. Lieut. Charles E. Brillhart of the United States navy was found dead from a bullet wound in the temple in his room at the Hotel Astor late to-day. There was no circumstance to contradict the coroner's immediate opinion that the case was one of suicide. He clutched a .32 calibre revolver with all but one of the six chambers loaded. The bullet from the empty chamber had struck his right temple, made its way through his head and was found on the floor behind him. To Mrs. Charles Brillhart, who is said to be his bride of but eight months, the navy lieutenant had sealed, addressed and stamped a letter which the coroner forwarded to-night without opening to Washington, D. C. Lieut. Brillhart arrived at the Astor shortly before noon Tuesday without baggage. Nothing was heard from him until a maid complained this afternoon that she could not get into his room. Entrance was forced and the body was fdund as described. Identification was made from a check book, showing a balance of $202 in a Washington bank, August 1, cards and signet rings. The body was removed to the Bellevue hospital morgue, where an autopsy will be performed. No one at the hotel could be found who heard the shot, but it was the coroner's opinion that the lieutenant had been dead at least 12 hours. He was apparently between 35 and 40 years old. Scraps of News. Uncle Sam has 51,000 saw mills. More than 57,000 motor vehicles have been registered in Loudon. To trim the edges of lawns easily, a New Hampshire man has invented a rotary sod cutter. School children in Germany are taught to swim by going through the motions without entering the water. 5 or 6 doses "666" will cure any case of Chills and Fever. Price, 25c. COULDN'T BREAK ENGAGEMENT. Flogging of Bradley Was Recourse of Girl's People. Augusta, Ga., Aug. 4.?Because her parents could not break up an engagement between and prevent the marriage of a daughter of A. L. Holstein and Columbus Stradley, Sidney, R. H., J. C., and T. C. Holstein and Robert Cockrell are >now in Aiken county jail, Mrs. Ben Spradley is dead from nervous fright, Ben Spradley is not expected to recover from the effect of a merciless flogging and Columbus Spradley is missing. Both families are fairly well to do and are prominent in the section in which the flogging occurred. When the parents of the young lady found that they could not break up the love match, members of the Holstein " - **? A x C?*\r?n <11 /Mr llAtnO iamny wcm lu cue opiauic; uumv Wednesday night and calling Columbus Spradley from the house took him to a nearby field and began flogging him in a merciless manner, telling him meanwhile that he would have to leave the community. Ben Spradley followed the Holsteins and Cockrell to the field, and when he attempted to interfere was treated similarly, being so severely flogged about the stomach that he is still in an unconscious condition and physicians say he has little'chance of recovery. Mrs. Spradley, formerly Miss Ettie Ail--.-. /intinfr tl'Oe fVlP sawyer, ui aikcu wuuij, nu? ? ? >mother of a five weeks' old baby, and in her weakened condition, bearing the screams of the flogged men and probably seeing the flogging going on, succumbed to nervous fright. She was found dead the following morning in the Spradley home. Sheriff Raborn, Rural Policemen Holley and Solicitor Gunter are still on the scene. When the officers arrived there yesterday afternoon they found Ben Spradley unconscious. Police Theory Scouted. Augusta, Aug. 3.?While the local police department has practically arrived at the conclusion that Robert C. Shirer, of Orangeburg, the young baggagemaster on the Southern road, who was found dead in the Savannah river at the foot of Washington street yesterday morning, was not murdered in the upper part of the hndv thrown into the CltJ ftuu J river, and that in all probability the death was an accidental one, this opinion is not commonly entertained. While the inquest or none of the other clews run down by the officials have placed Shirer later than 1 o'clock Tuesday morning, it developed to-night that three men were seen at 3 o'clock the same morning turning out Washington street toward the river, and Shirer is believed to have been one of them. } The department is inclined to believe that Shirer fell from the Southern's bridge into the river and broke his neck on a piling. However, it is known that members of the family are not satisfied with or do not en tertain wholly this opinion, because his brother, T. D. Shirer, of Orangeburg, will return to Augusta to-morrow to assist in the investigation. It is also stated that an outside detective will be put on the case at once by members of the family and secret orders of which the dead man was a / member in Augusta. Senator Percy to Resign. Greenville, Miss., Aug. 3.?Declaring that the "result of the election entirely absolves me from the State, and that which they have chosen for themselves," United States Senator Leroy Percy formally announced tonight that he would tender his resignation at the next session of the legislature. Senator Percy's intention was made known to a gathering of his friends on the lawn of the Percy home, his first public utterance since Tuesday's primary. "The returns from the senatorial election are decisive," Senator Percy said to his fellow townsmen. * "In no uncertain manner the voters have indorsed Vardamanism and all that it stands for in Mississippi. The result calls for no comment or criticism, certainly no complaint from me. "That the people of the State deserve the consequences which will follow this election I am unwilling to say. An indictment so severe I would draw against no people, but, believing in a government of majorities, I have no desire to thwart their expressed will." Just Dropped In. Returning from a week's vacation in Lancaster county, Silas Mulford tells of a conversation between a farmer and a tramp that indicate the intellectual advancement of the knights of the road. The tramp was in the farmer's cherry tree eating his fill of luscious fruit. ' "Hey, there," yelled the farmer, "what are you doing in my cherry tree?" "Tryin' to get out," explained the tramp. "I just fell down from a balloon."?Philadelphia Times. $15,000 REAL ESTATE DEAL. Peterman Place, Containing 547 Acres, Brings $28 Per Acre. The following will be of interest to many Bamberg people, as the Messrs. Spann are well-known and have many friends and relatives here, having lived in Bamberg for several year: "Deeds were delivered to-day conveying to Spann Brothers the Peterman place four miles west of Dothan, on the Brannan Stand road. The consideration was $15,000, which is the record price so far this year as consideration for a single transaction in farm lands. The big place consisting of 547 acres brought an average price of $28 per acre, indicating that the farm land values are still on the rise. The place is considered one of the choicest in the county and the new owners will continue to improve it. It lies just west of the Calhoun place" which H. H. Dowling and Company sold in March to some gentlemen from New York, and much of the land is of the same quality as the Calhoun place. It is a good sign when our farm lands attract the attention of business men such as Spann Brothers, who are recognized as among the most successful in this part of the State. "Spann Brothers, Fletcher, P. N. and M. S., are from Fountain, Fla., where they own some large tracts of land, and where they have been in the turpentine and timber business. Messrs. P. N. and M. S. Spann moved to Dothan some time ago, and have erected handsome houses on W. Main street, and this last deal will result in bringing Mr. Fletcher Spann to Dothan. These are enterprising people and Dothan people are glad to see them locate here, and invest some of their money in this section. "The deal was negotiated by L. G. Biggers, secretary of the Dothan Land and Development Company. This company has been instrumental in bringing over $60,000 of outside money into Dothan since January 1. Mr. Biggers, who is the active manager of the company, makes a specialty of going after outside money and holds as one of the mottoes of his business that it is of little value to the city to promote trading among local people, as no wealth* is added . to the community by local trading." ? ? ^ _ - A 1a ?uotnan .News, uumaix, au. Many Bonds Cancelled. Columbia, Aug. 1.?Bonds with attached coupons, aggregating, in face value $2,365,000, were cancelled today by the State treasurer, Capt. R. H. Jennings, and his assistant, Judge J. Fuller Lyon, bond clerk. The bonds numbered 1,000, each being of the denomination of $1,000. These bonds were turned into the State treasury by the American Bank Note company of New York, by which they were lithographed in 1869 on the order of Niles G. Parker, who was then treasurer in South Carolina. The bonds were to have fallen due in 1888. .The securities; have lain all these years in the vaults of the lithographing company and they were surrendered for cancellation in order that they might not fall into the wrong hands some time and afterward he'filed for redemption. Antomobile Race.- Dead. Greenwood, July 31.?Russell Lawson, the young man whose reputation as an automobile racer was State-wide until he was injured so severely last November that he could no longer figure in races, died here last night at the home of his mother, Mrs. Kate Lawson, on Oak street. , Young Lawson, who was only 19 years old at the time of the accident, made a brave fight for life, but it has ( been known ever since the accident that he could never recover. Lawson was making a preliminary run in his car, Ford 99, on the track in Columbia Saturday afternoon, November 5, 1910, when the accident occurred. While going rapidly the spindle of the right fore axle broke and he was thrown violently from the car, striking a small oak tree near the track, the blow fracturing his spinal column. He was picked up unconscious by a man riding behind him, hurried to a hospital in Columbia, and though he subsequently regained consciousness he never arose from his bed. His lower limbs have been paralyzed since the accident. He remained in Columbia some time, but some months ago was brought here. He has been growing weaker for the past few weeks. * * '? art/1 He is survived oy m? mumoi two sisters. Conductor J. M. Lawson of the Southern Railway is a halfbrother. The burial took place in the family plat in the cemetery at Hodges this afternoon. Had to Bathe or Pay Fine. Antonio Irovano, of Waterbury, Conn., paid a fine of $17 rather than take a bath. He was arrested on a trespass charge. He protested that he was "too poor to pay a fine" and was sent to jail. At the jail he was told to take a bath. Rather than bathe, he pulled $200 from his coat lining and paid the fine and departed. Has since 1894 given "Thorough Instruction under positively Christian influences at the lowest possible cost*" RESULT: It la to-day with Its faculty of 32. a boarding patronage of 828, its student body of 400, and its plant worth $140,000 THE LEADING TRAINING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS IN VIRGINIA $150 pays all charges for the year, Including table board, room, lights, steam heat, laundry, medical attention, physical culture, and tuition In all subjects except music and elocution. For catalogue and application blank address, REV. THOS. ROSSER REEVES, B. A., Principal. BLACKSTONE, VA.^ <MM|I * Take it from the oldest man in the bunch, " Red Meat" tobacco is the chew for men. No spice?no excessive sweetening? nothing to hurt your stomach?just good old North Carolina tobacco, properly aged and perfectly sweetened. That's why it won't give you heartburn. i ^ "Jjjl It's our treat to put yqu on to the real thing in good chewing. Cut out this ad and mail to us with your name and address for attractive FREE offer to chewers only. T JTPRRRT SCALES CO.. Winston-Salem. N. C Name Address , , , Suitable for all lands of buildings. We have local representatives almost I everywhere but if^none in yo^^irnmediate locality, write us direct for ' -d > j|jj ; CORTRIGHT METAL ROOFING COMPANY I ? - " ?? - mi a _ *_# ?_ I r^kwSsB joWN AN AUTOMOBILE!'! J 4 I have for sale, at prices that will as- * ' 4 tonish you, two second-hand rebuilt auto- v ' la ?? mobiles which are iust as good as the day T--MiM 4 they came from the factory, one model v ; <^9 4 "S" two-passenger Ford, and one four- * ^ passenger Buick touring car. Come and -JM 4 let me snow you wnat par^auis mvy <uo. -m J J. B. BRICKLEt 4. The Repair Man Bamberg, 8. 0. ? l & NEGRO BOY KILLS ANOTHER. BEATTIE ONE OF JUDGES. Claims it Was Accident, Bnt is Charg- Alleged 7 Wife Murderer Could Not />||? ed With Murder. Serve, However. Newberry, Aug. 3.?Richard Wick- \ Richmond, Va., Aug. 3. Henry ?"|? er, a negro boy about 15, was shoti ?Iay Beattle- Jr- the aIleged mur" and killed yesterday evening in No. d?rey' is one, of the J""1??8 of the 11 township by Manuel Chaplin, an- elect,on ?PPOtated to serve in Washother negro, about 10 years of age. i ^D^ton ward at Pr^mar5r to be The Chaplin negro claims that it September 7. was an accident, but the testimony Beattle was Pat ?? the 1,8t many did not convince the coroner's jury 'montha *#>. His official connection v at the inquest held to-day and he was, wlth the eulection waa ?,blocked unUl | arrested and charge with murder. t0"day' when an eIectl011 offlcer ap* The weapon used was a pistol. pearad bef?re tbe Huatin88 to Sheriff Buford reutrned yesterday 88 or instru?t onsfrom Fayetteville, N. C? with Andrew _ The ?hf offlcers tn Beattle 8 Pre* Pratt, a negro, who ran'away after w'" b? P* ?"?d t0 swear ln ? shooting and killing Gordon Hodges, Judge to Uke fri8J>laceanother negro, in a negro church near CAN NOT UNRAVEL TANGLE. Maybinton on June 25. The sheriff , fv.ov.oH him to TTavfitteville. where he investigators of Negro Fraternal Or tl awu UJ.UX VV ? ?^ w... , was passing under the name of Wil- ? der h,?v stumped. -M liam Allen. m Richmond, Va., Aug. 3.?The Man Killed by Train. grand jury Investigating the fraud? ' ~ ^ that led to the failure of the True Union, Aug. 4. This afternoon, Ref0rmers bank, an adjunct of the about 5 o'clock, the second fatal rail- Qran(i Fountain of the Order of True road accident of the day for this Reformers, a negro fraternal order, county occurred. The Union & Glenn has encountered what is described at Springs train, while en route to Buf- an jncre(iible tangle of irregular fifalo and about a quarter of a mile nancing A State insurance actuary from the depot, ran over and killed g^tes that the details may never be Bud Lipsey, a white man. It Is said unraveled. that Lipsey was rather deaf. It is committee appointed to ferret understood that he is a married man ou^ frau(jg appeared before the , f* and was about 30 jrears of age. jury to-day to eeek the indictment of 5 or 6 doses "666" will cure any three Virginia negroes, alleging con* case of Chills and Fever. Price, 25c. spiracy to plunder the bank.