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ijA END OP ALL ANIMOSITY. Kf A Notable Utterance from the Lips of Senator Ben Tillman. This being a year of Civil war an* niversaries, the Southern papers, as well as others, have been collecting expressions of opinion as to what fifty years have done for the country. Notable in more ways than one is a statement by Senator Tillman, printed in the Newberry (S. C.) Observer, for by source as well as by substance Jpr it shows that for everybody, at last, "the war is over." Its wording illustrates the ability which nobody ever denied to Senator Tillman, and it is a sort of "confession" that explains why he has been loved as : wel1 as hated, often by the same perSp; son. He says: "I have seen the hatred between the North and South pass away and the people of the two sections reunited in real bonds of respect and affection. The hate I once felt for the 'Yankee' is gone, and I find no evidence of any of it in the senate Kay among Southerners nor any feeling of animosity toward the South among Northern men. We have indeed at 'I last come to know one another, and \ that was all that was necessary to W\ bring about the peace which Grant ^ prayed for in 1865." E| Were Senator Tillman still the savage fighter of other days, these words might lend themselves to comp, ment not wholly serious or wholly kind, but now they are too pathetic as well as too admirable for anything * except appreciation.?New York Times. Howling Dog a Nuisance. One of the most unusual warrants p- that has ever been issued in this county in a long time was granted I"1* this morning when W. L. Moorehead I came before Magistrate Samuel I? Stradley and had a warrant issued for the arrest of one Archie Thompson, charging him with maintaining a t v common nuisance, to wit keeping a dog tied a fence near the home of Moorehead that kept up a.great noise by howling all night and greatly an| \ noying the family of Mr. Moorehead. The warrant was issued early this i morning before Magistrate Stradley, who turned the warrant over to the sheriff for execution. The sheriff no tilled Archie Thompson tnat ne was wanted, and he immediately came hefore Magistrate Stradley, who released him on a bond of $200 for his appearance for a preliminary hearing that will be held in the next few days. Thompson is an employe of $ ? the Greenville Lumber company and is well known in the city, while Moorehead runs on the Southern Railway as a baggage master for the (express company. Moorehead and Thompson are next door neighbors on Stall street and Thompson, it is said, has a dog that he keeps tied to a fence that separates his yard from that of the Moorehead family. It is claimed * that the dog keeps up such'a howl II that it greatly aiihmys the family of Moorehead until ke) has ta,fcen steps . to have Thompson prosecuted for maintaining a common nuisance. He claims that the dog is tied near the bed room of Mr. Moorehead and disturbs him and his family at night. Thompson came to the city as soon as he was notified by the sheriff that ho was wanted and gave bond for the sum of $200 for his appearance at the preliminary hearing. Both __ men have a good reputation in the I . neighborhood in which they live and the affair over the dog is brought about by the nightly revels of the ? canine. The case is a most unusual one, and one that will be watched with close interest in the city. The date for the trial has not yet been set.? Greenville Piedmont. All Quit in a Bunch. ~ Anderson, Aug. 24.?According to * information received here to-night, the thriving town of Pendleton, this county, is without any executive ofIficers. It seems that a few days ago Dr. R. B. Day, the mayor, became disgusted because of some criticism i " on the part of certain citizens as to an official act of his, in dispensing the town's water, and at a meeting f of city council he handed in his resignation and the members of the board of aldermen did likewise. ft According to the law, the mayor and aldermen will have to hold to their jobs until their successors are elected and qualify. An election has been ordered for September 5, when mmnaacnrs trill hp chnspn. LiiCXi ' ? f SUFFERED FOR ANOTHER. , Man Who Served Unjust Sentence, ^ Goes to Native Land. New York, Aug. 23.?Andrew Toth, the Pittsburg steel mill hand, who served 20 years in prison for a * murder he did not commit, and was pardoned when the real murderer made a dying confession, sailed for his home in Hungary to-day to pass his declining years with his wife. =? Andrew Carnegie has given him a life pension of $40 a month. I r, r ' - t.- ( . , .. PlrL-x.: V' CUT THROAT IN JAIL. Virginia Eloper Attempted Suicide in North Carolina Prison. Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 24.?In Wayne county jail at Goldsboro, N. C., to-day Buford Miles, from Chesterfield county, Va., cut his throat with a suicidal intent and to-night the jail physician says there is very little hope of recovery. Miles was arrested yesterday charged with elop> 4- V* Vt DA^I A?3 Q (rpH 1 Q Of 1U& wiiii oa i axi uun jtij, . vj ? Chesterfield, Va. They arrived in Goldsboro after passing through Raleigh and were identified by de-. scriptions sent out by Viriginia officers. Miles is said to be married, and to have three children in Virginia. The father of the girl, David Bowles, arrived at Goldsboro to have Miles taken back to Virginia for trial. He refused to go and it was while awaiting requisition papers that he was confined to jail. To-day he slashed his throat and nearly bled to death before the jail physician reached him. Road Bond Issne Defeated. Hampton, Aug. 22.?There Was an election in this county to-day on the question of bonding the various townships for the purpose of improving and building roads. From reports received at Hampton late this afternoon, the election resulted in an overwhelming vote against the issue of bonds. It was proposed to issue $25,000 in each of the townships of the county for the purpose of building roads of sand clay. .The question was not greatly agitated, a gooa many reasons have been advanced why the issue of the bonds would be impracticable at this time, and but very few reasons for the issue of bonds were advanced. TOLD OF JOHN W. GATES. When He Gambled He Preferred to Gamble Big. Mr. Gates's last office was in the Trinity building. He called his firm Charles G. Gates & Co. Others termed it "The House of the Twelve Apostles," as a dozen partners were in it. When the stock market closed for the day a card game usually began. Gates was immoderately fond of all games of chance, particularly card games, and probably more anecdotes have been told of his daring and generosity in poker than have fallen to the lot of any other man of these times. One day there were only ?* ? -i. - X- 1 1 A tnree ill tne omce 10 iaj&e nanus, a young man of good family, but not wealthy, came in. ' . "Sit down," said Gates. "I hate to play with a dummy." "How much a point do you play?" asked the new comer. "Fifty." "I can't afford it. Twenty-five is a big game for me." "Well, make up the. rubber. We'll play for twenty-five," said Gates, dejectedly. The young man played well, had luck and won. The next day he got a check for $13,000, and took it back j- - _ S ? u ^ VA J to times, Baying ttutt ue tutu wuu $130. "We were playing for 25 cents a point, weren't we?" he asked. "We were playing for $25 a point," said Gates. He would hear no protests and ordered the young man to go and cash the check. Once when Gates was on tour in the west he came to a town where a boom was needed. The chamber of commerce hearing of Gates's liking for poker, had made up a pot of $25,000 to give him a game. But Gates was impatient; he didn't want to play that day. The merchants were aggressive in their hospitality. Finally he yielded. "I haven't time to play poker," he said. "But I'll tell you what I will do. I'll shake you dice, one toss, for the bundle." In everything Gates did he figured spectacularly. He paid $40,000 rental for his suite at the Waldorf, and Richard A. Canfield had the ceiling of his gambling saloon lifted so as not to restrict Gates when he played fare. He tried to corner wheat, and paid $5,000,000 for information as to the difficulty of -that undertaking. After his withdrawal from Wall street Gates devoted his attention to industries in Texas, where he made his home. As an exponent of the Texas Oil company, capitalized at $36,000,000, he became a formidable adversary of the Standard Oil company.?New York Sun. 7 Loss by Fire in Barnwell. Barnwell, Aug. 23.?A fire that is thought to have been caused by light ning during a thunder storm at an early hour yesterday morning, destroyed a barn on one of the farms of Mr. M. B. Hagood, about three miles from town, together with a large quantity of forage, a mule and a pig. Mr. Hagood estimates his loss at between $500 and $600, with qo insurance. V : .* V. - i-J. WIFE PLAYS THE INFORMER. Causes Husband's Arrest for Killing * Done Nine Years Ago. Jacksonville, Aug. 22.?After evading arrest since October 22, 1902, on which date he is alleged to have killed Charles Ellen, in Harnett j county, North Carolina, Zash Marks has been arrested in Santa Rosa county, Florida, where he served at one time as deputy sheriff, later as postmaster at Gattis, a village named from T. Z. Gattis, his alias, and where also he became a successful naval stores operator. He stated while here that he killed Ellen *n self-defense, after the latter had tried to force his younger brother to drink wine with him. He was informed upon by his wife, who charges him with brutal treatment, recently, toward his step-daughter and herself. SHOOTS HIS BEEFSTEAK. Brooklyn Man Uses Bullets on Food He Couldn't Chew. New York, Aug. 23.?John Cook was not pleased by the food served him in a restaurant at No. 1928 Gates avenue, Brooklyn, yesterday, so he drew a revolver and shot at it. Then he made a bull's eye on a beefsteak on the next table and plunked a pork chop three tables away. The other patrons of the restaurant tumbled over each other into the street; the waiters dived into the kitchen. Cook was arrested and held in $100 bail. The Death Dice. There is shown in the Hohenzollern museum, a gift of the emperor of Germany, the "death dice," with 1 * - v ? J /I A/1 A wnicn one 01 iiis aueestuie uctiucu ? difficult case in the seventeenth century. Their history is an interesting one. A young girl had been murdered. Suspicion fell upon two soldiers, Ralph and Alfred, who were suitors for her hand. Both of the accused men denied their guilt, and even torture failed to extract a confession from either of them. Then Elector Frederick William decided to cut the knot by means of the dice box. The two soldiers should throw for their lives, and the loser should be executed as the murderer. The event was celebrated with great pomp and solemnity. Ralph had his chance first and threw sixes, the highest possible number. The dice box was then given to Alfred. He fell on his knees and prayed aloud: "Almighty God, Thou knowest I am innocenf. Protect me, I beseech Thee!" Then he arose from his feet and threw the dice with such force that one of them was broken. The whole one showed six, the broken one also gave six on the larger portion, and the fragment split off showed one. This was a fragment of 13, one beyond Ralph's throw. The audience held its breath in amazement. "God has spoken!" cried the prince. Ralph, appalled by what he regarded as a sign from heaven, confessed his guilt and was sentenced to death. Logic. I . , A hungry customer seated hinjself n f o foKla in o roatail. aw <* wauiV/ IU a v^uiva iuuvu & vovau rant and ordered a chicken pie. When it arrived he raised the lid and sat gazing at the contents intently for a while. Finally he called the. waiter. "Look here, Sam," he said, "what did I order?" "Chicken pie, sah." "And what have you brought me?" "Chicken pie, sah." "Chicken pie, you black rascal!" the customer replied. "Chicken pie?" Why, there's not a piece of chicken in it, and never was." "Dats right, boss?dey ain't no chicken in it." "Then why do you call It chicken pie?" I never heard of such a thing." "Dat's all right, boss. Dey don't have to be no chicken in a chicken pie. Dey ain't no dog in a dog biscuit, is dey?"?Everybody's. TO BUILD ANDERSON COLLEGE. Contract for Three Buildings Let for Seventy Thousand Dollars. Anderson, Aug. 22.?The contract for the administration building and two dormitories for Anderson College was let this afternoon to the Wise Granite PnmTianv. nf Wise. N. C.. for approximately $70,000. Seven other bids were received by the building committee, ranging from the amount of the Wise bid to $92,000. The contract awarded does not include the heating system, plumbing and furnishings. The work is to commence immediately and be completed by June 15, 1912. It will be recalled that $100,000 was raised by public subscription here and presented to the State Baptist Convention for the college. The college will be run and governed by the convention. : . . . I son siLiys father. Says Self-Defence Prompted Fatal Blow with Axe. Booneville, Ind., Aug. 25.?After having been pressed by continuous questioning for almost 30 hours in jail, William Lee late to-day made a written statement, in which he said he had killed his father, Richard Lee, in self-defence, after the father had murdered his wife and younger son, Clarence. The bodies of Lee's father, mother and brother were found in their burning home early yesterday, and Lee "was charged with their murder. After young Lee's statement to-day, Sheriff Scales, fear ing the prisoner would he lynched, secretly took him to Evansville. Lee, who is but 22 years old, calmly reiterated his story that he knew nothing of the circumstances of the killing of his family until late this afternoon, when he suddenly said: "I have something preying on my mind," and calling for paper and pencil, he wrote as follows: Prisoner's Statement. "I was awakened by a noise, and went into the bed room, where my father and mother and brother slept. As I opened the door I saw that my mother and my brother had been murdered. My father sprang at me, axe in hand, exclaiming, 'I will get you too.' I grabbed the axe away from him and hit him over the head with it. I could smell kerosene, and I found oil had already been poured over the bed. Just because matches were handy, and I did not know what else to do, I set fire to the bed clothing, and then gave the alarm of fire." After he had completed this statement, fie said: "I didn't know what else to do when I set the place on fire. I didn't know how the thing would look." No Faith in Statement. The streets about the jail were crowded all day with townspeople and farmers. The county officials said they placed no faith in his statement. The motives ascribed by the officials in charging Lee with the mur ueio is uiiat uc wioucu i/Vi v/uwiu money with which to be married to Mina Taylor. Cash amounting to $100, said to have been in the Lee house Wednesday, has not' been found. The lives of Richard and Clarence Lee were insured for $700. William Lee is known to have quarrelled with his parents because they opposed his marriage. A MILE OP MELONS. Or Rather a Mile of Cars Loaded With 2,000,000 Cantaloupes. The Southern Pacific has practi cany completed one 01 tne must remarkable crop movements in its history in the handling of the crop in the Imperial Valley. The total number of cars shipped to date amounts to 2,600, says the Los Angeles Times, with about 100 acres additional to mov<e. This is approximately 900 acres more than was harvested in any season before. There were 56,000,000 pounds of ice used in the field and Yuma, Ariz., to take care of these shipments. The biggest day's picking was June 11, when 133 carloads were harvested. These cars were hauled from Brawley, the shipping centre, to Imperial Junction on the main line in one train, the length of which was 6,175 feet, considerably more than a mile long* There were 324 crates in each car and 45 melons to the crate, or a total number of 14,580 melons in each car, and in the train 1,939, 140 melons. When one appreciates the fact that each of these melons was handled at least three times in picking, wrapping and crating he can readily imagine the army of men necessary in the field to do this work. This was probably the greatest number of fruit cars of the same class and loaded with the same product ever hauled in one train. Smith Fears Free Passes. Atlanta, Aug. 24.?The law passed by the recent legislature, permitting the exchange of railroad mileage for newspaper advertising, was vetoed to-day by Gov. Hoke Simtn. He held that as the measure did not specify that the railroads must give mileage in strict accordance with value received, it might be used to practically restore the old days of free passes. Studying the Boll Weevil. Natchez, Miss., Aug. 23.?A party of 25 Georgians, accompanied by G. H. Alford, of the farmers' co-operative department in the department of agriculture, was here to-day to study the work of the boll weevil and the best way to combat that pest. They went to the chamber of commerce and addresses were delivered by former President Sim H. Lowenberg and C. .R. 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