Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"Vi SH SI JBL J3SL if W?li nemoc ..DO THOO, GBlflAT LIBERTY, ^PXaS O?B iOWLS A. UT O MAKIO OUU I/IVES 1ST THY PQ8SW$8ION HAPPY OB QUA DEATHS OLOBIOU8 IK THY OA?S?." BENNETTS VILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, AU Ci; ?4 in-** ST 17, 1906. >t Hemp ind all ?enne?svi?s ?C?""*? r^;iy -NEW SOIlFDULi;. IN EFFECT Ai'iur. 6, 1905. WKST BOUND FHOM BK?NBT5^Vir?? TIT?TN 'I'Jv A i ? No. I. Np- 3. Lv IJouoottfivillo 7 05 ft ra 7 00 p m Ly Islay 7 IO ft 1.1 7 15 p in Lv Mndolino 7 20 ft ni 7 20 p ni RIOT AND FICHT. " Having Strenuous Times in The County of Cherokee. VEED HOT MEETING The Oreat Wonder ls (hal Only One Shot Was Fired and that No One Oot Seriously Hurt. The Trouble Caused by Blind &Tiger Whiskey. A dispatch from Gaffney to The i Nows and Oourior says t.'-.o oounty oampalgn In Ohorokeo ls waxing warm. Tho meeting at Maury's Mil) k Saturday broke up in riot. It was al ; most a miraolo that several people were not killed. The meeting was called In tho morning, and Mr. W. S. Hall, candidato for thc Scuato, was announced as the iirst speaker, whero as it was Echeduled that the candi dates for the Senate stu old speak next to last. Owing to this agreement Mr. Otts, who is opposing Mr. Hall, WSB absent. The meotlr.g went on quiet ly till dinner. A barbecue was sei ved and whiskey is said bo bavo been dis tributed freely by some parties, who, to all appearances, were preparing for a fuss. The first speaker In tho afternoon was Mr. Otts. When he finished c m Will Black wood, a magistrate's con stable, who had, lt ls olalmed, beer, drinking, asked him a purely personal question, which brought on words. Biaokwood thon.applied au oath to Mr Otts, and his friends took lt up and went between tho two. Blaokwood's friends rushed up and began to make a tight. Mr. Otts was tho coolest mar in the whole orowd and stood bis ground well. The whiskey that had been dis tributed got In Its work, however, and the orowd, or a large party of lt, got ina lighting humor. Every man scam ed to want to light somebody it mat / tercd not who. Direotly things got qulotcd down fiomewhat, and Mr. Otts mounted the wagon and made a statement that bc had expected the row ; that ho expect ed it on Friday, but the crowd got drunk too soon, and began righting mong themselves; that he had boen warned betoro ho left town, and aftei jj ! ', (. i/yt:uu?a 'Utit.nf >.??; n aside aud told him min 'xue ? crowd that is flghth g him-not Mr. Hall, but his enemies, who arc follow ing the oampalgn to give bim trouble -had arranged to raise a row when ho got up to speak. He furthermore said that Biaokwood was not tho real one who was trying to make trouble for him, but that he was tho mouth piece for another. . Blackwood carno up to the wagon and started to got In, when Mr. Otts told him not to get In the wagon. Ht thou walked efl and was talking from a distance. Whou Mr. Otts got oui of the wagon there were different groups trying to keep thc men of diff erent faoblons apart. Shoiiff Tnomas was on tho Keene and was doing ad hr Goold to quiet things, when a light ooourred between two men, who be gan knocking each othor about. It was at thisjunoture that one, whose name was Bald to be James Fowler, said to bo from Union, drew his revolver and started to shoot. Bystanders knocked his band up and tho shot went i ff In the air. The orowd aoattorod and hld behind trees, wagons and anything that was handy. There wore at one timo at least a hundred knives opened and ready for use, and tho fact that only one shot was tired was remark able . MAYOA FIGHTS POLICEMAN. Another Lively Horlnuim^n in .Stren uous Ohorokeo County. Another dispatch to Tho News and Courier from Gaffney HajBth? spirit of mars wac IOOBC in Cherokee County on Saturday. The county campaign meeting broko up in a riot, and that was thought bad enough, but that was not all tho excitement for In Ga liney. Saturday night about ten o'clock there was a report of a light on the streets, and an Investigation showed that Mayor J. Q. Little and Chief of Bo lleo Tom Lockhart wore fighting. Soon Mr. Worth Little, a brother of thc mayor, and Mr. never Little, a son, Joined in, as did Officers Cap De mons and Lloyd Autoll. The lighting was brisk for some minutes. The won der is that no shooting irons were not used. There were several knocked down In the melee, but none was Ber iously hurt. After everything had quieted down Mayor Littlo stood in the middle of LlmcHtonoBtreot and mado an address to tho bystanders, tolling them that tho trouble was brought 00 by Chief Lockhart and the other two UH jeri engaged In the dlilluilty neglecting their duty to clectlenocr for Sherill Thomas for re oltctitn, ard lils hav lng to put another niau, J. M. Hump tyn, on thc police force to holp thom 15o their duty. It might bc Bald here that Mayor L.ttlc and Sher ff Thomas are not on good terms and two of thc aldermen are oandldat.es, one for ?her.IT and one lor dork of Court. Mayor Little tous occasion to mako a political address, Having that no tinder should hold of ilco too long, and advising the peoph to put out every man holding < Aloe i>' tho'Court House Before saying thai he said that tho policemen bad no business engaging In politics. Tho correspondent says the otcur renee of Saturday and Saturday night was the talk of Gaffney on Sunday, ll lp the oonoonsus of opinion that the chief, who ls a nephew of the mayor, aotod In self-defence and in the dis charge of bis duty as did tim other policemen who were acting as peace Oflloors. There ls no town thc sl/,3 o? G?ffnoy with amore obliging sot / police offloers. j J HELPi?D ALL ROUND V 8XOHY ?F AO?UAIJ IS XIMB Ill UN OE) SHOWING HOW An Agricultural l?uoation Gave Farm Woik New Meaning and New Joy. M. L Shorman, of Ingham County, Miohlgau, hired a young man who had graduated from an agricultural college and the reBults were BO won derful and far reaching that wo give piuco hero to Mr. Sherman's story, willoh will bo read with interest by all. Wo need to be awakened to the valuo of an agricultural eduoatlon, what it will aooompblivli for us and our children. Few of us havo an ad equate conception of the possibilities along this lino, But liston to Mr. Sherman's story: "For two years I had hired a man who had graduated from our agricultu ral college Some of my neighbors called me a fool for paying the wagcB he demanded, but I never mado a bettor investment, lils knowledge was my lemon and I squeezed it. I bought some hooke on farm chemis try, botany, surveying and horticul ture and took praotloal lessons of my hired help lu these studies. "My hired man honored his profes sion. Ina few weeks.my boy, late lr indifferent to farm work, tagged at his heels and begged to help him. My girl trailed after us with her bot any. I stood speechless ono day when she told me what Ruskin said about the clouds. Her lingers were in a book that had the hired man's ?ame on the Hy- leaf. I looked through lt and showed it to my wlfo. She said if snob oulturo was agricultural abo waa glad hor daughtor was duding lt out. "That summer v/o began war on iuseot pests by studying entomology. My children went wild with enthusl asm, collecting specimens under the hired man's dlreotlons. Because he was watohlng for a certain moth, Will refused to go with some other boys to the circus, though the year before ho oamo near running away to join a olrcu8 company. In his threat to do so ho had quoted the frequent utterance of a neighbor, 'A farmer's lifo is a dog's life. " The lifo of my educated hired man, by its very contrast with a dog's life had saved my boy. "Before summer was over our ohil dreu knew tho birds, their ways and haunts, from the bobolink to the owl. Uj O jtobcr they had set themselves Co proteot quails and partridges. Ag rinultur&i, soleuqoJ^ad taught them that moat buen- ?Uv. r?irmerft' frieda. "In the second yoar of our farm eduoatlon the children gave breathless descriptions of wild fl )wers, ferns and lovely dogwood white with blossoms. Thoy were amazed at the beauty of forest tree Howers. 'Father, did you know that the trees in the woods have ll iwer&V Why did you nevor tells us? Seo the lovely red and green satin ot Mie hickory buds, eyer so much pr?t tier than tulips.' "I was ashamed to confess I had never considered tho lilies or the trees, bow they grow. My girl had become a lover of trees. She made mo promise not to destroy her fairy land, the wood-lot, by felling the ma ples, as 1 had Intended. "The chemistry of foods Improved our diet and lessened the work of the kitchen. Io connection with some ad vice Lom the family physician, I sub stituted the glass of milk for tho mun of older. "1 had tried to forecast tim weath er by tho barometer, but concluded that that Instrument was too merour lal to be reliable. But Mr. Smith deemed to understand ?B changes sui Holen My to keep our hay. out of tin way of long storms, lils observations and mine were another example of btu difference between educated and un educated oyes. "No new buildings were put up. but under Mr. Smith's directions I Hied over our barns and sheds until dryness, ventilation and ?[convenience for cleaning were as good as in oostly structures. O ie result of these im provements was that my boy easily and willingly did the work about sta bles and poultry yards, willoh ho for merly Bhlrkcd. Io harvest time whon work was pushing my wife and daughter took pleasure in d >lng ebor cs, which had been Impossible under old conditions. "My farm was saved: that was much. My boy was save; that was more. Tho farm had become more at tractive Mian the circus or tho city. After Mr. Smith went away tho boy worked on thc farm and with his boo lus to prepare for a course in the agricultural eollege, from whloh he graduated three years later." Does not Mr. Sherman's remarka ble experience suggest the solution of that vexod problem. How to keep tho 'miv on thc farm? 1 think lt does. Long live tho farm college I May lt receive the support which Its import ance morita. liRiifthftii Muy H It'd Falun. In a lettor received by Gen. Wilie Jones Wodnesday William La?aban & Son empatlcallv deny that there ls tho slightest foundation for tho re port that they paid for the repairs on Gm. Jones resldonoe. They deny thlh and all other reports about them and the South Carolina liquor situation and said that tho poople of South Carolina soom more than willing to pub lsh adverse report? about them. The arm says: "Haskell's statement aa published In "The State' of Aug. 2, about you and your house and our selves ls absolutely false. All other statements they have published about us aro likewise false. " ?ot h Shot. Mrs H A. Leaptrot was shot and Instantly killed and her husband probably fatally wounded Thursday night while sitting on the porch ot their residence near Cherry Valley, Ark. The shooting waa done by Chrco mounted mon who ll red from oho front gato. The Uvo Woolb-.ght brothers woio arrcstod on tho marge ..of oompllolty. Two yoars a^u L?apt ' '"?da member of tho Woolbrlght DlVOBCE MCtjWl). ; ?\ M ll.I,ION BKOKEN JliA.llRIA.GKS IN TWENTY YEAHS, . > (Jonnun Pepartment riligently Gath ering Statistics Which President Boosevelt Will Employ. One million divorces, at least, were granted by the courts of this oountry during tho past twenty years. This is an estimate bv tho oensus bureau, and lt is so startling that lt probably will rosult In further Important dis cussion of the question of enaotlng a uniform divorce law in tho various ?States. President Roosovolt, who has dis cussed in bis messages and other pub Ho utterances tho general subj ot of legislation bearing upon marriage and divorce and bas expresod himself strongly In favor of a uniform divoroc law, direoted somo time ago that thc oensus bureau Instituto an inquiry Into the 8ubJeot of divorce No in vcstlgatton Into a social or coonomlo question mado in many years is re garded as more Important to the peo pie of tho country personally than this one, now just fairly begun by Dlreotor North and his corps of assis tants, lt is expected by tho Pros! dent that tho statistics gathered by the oensus bureau, together with thc legitimate deductions from them, will demonstrate conclusively tho neces sity cf uniform divorce laws, and be expects to uso the figures to bring ah ,ut suoh a result. The question has been considered by the President with tho ablest law yers of the Senate and House of Re pr?sentatives. They have c.-ne u led practically that, at present, thc Con gress lacks the constitutional p . w - to enaot a divorce law whloh would applicable lu the States. Tho Fret dent hopes, therefore, to create b sentiment lu favor of uniform legisla tlon on the subject by tho Legislatur es of tho various States or to obtain from tho people, through the Legisla turee, approval of a constitutional amendment confering upon tho Gun gress authority to regulate by law the general matter of marriage and divorce. Tho statistics to be c dleotod and compiled by the census bureau will cover the twenty-year period from 1887 to 1000, inuluslve. A similar In vestigation was made in 1880, cover ing a twenty-year period, and the figures of tho two periods are expected to provo valuablo for comparison. In the period of twenty >ears Just pre ceding 1880,484,083 applications for divoroe wore made to the courts and 328.710 of them subsequently were granted. _Figures already in the handr :!..V>>???: North, of con 4?f>bUi> .reu? ctio ?v*te^t*?>' that, in tue past twonty years, the applications for divorce aggregated nearly a million and a half while the divorce aotually granted numbered moro than a million. Of course, oven this alarming total does not ln jludo all car.es of the infelicity of mar riage, but only thoso which reached the courts In spite of tho apprchen sion of the par des of public sea dal. The inquiry will be oonduo ed along such lines as will make the resultant ligures and deductions valuable in the preparation of laws for the regu'ation of marriage and divorce. Au effort will be mado to collect thc statistics practically simultaneously, as In the case of the taking of tho population of the cour. try. Special agents will bc appointed in all parts of country to examine the records of the dlvoroo courts. In tho United States there aro nearly 3,000 counties, all of which probably have records in their courts jf divorce applications. All details concerning eaoh OSBO will be collected and tabulated with studious care. Pvtlcu'ar reference will be made to the number of children affected by tho dlvoroo oases and how they were affected, as these faots, lt ls believed, will be potent in determining the ao don of the Legislatures In the pass age of laws. When the Investigation shall have been concluded and the figures studied oarcfully with a view to presenting In concrete form thc result of the In quiry, the President will transmit the roport to tho Congress, probably accompanied by a speolal messag. In that utterance to his views on thosub J 'Ot of the action to be taken to correct what is regarded by sociologists as one of tho greatest evils of our time SEVERAL ARRESTED for Throwing ltallrofcd SpikiHAt an Excursion Train, The Floronoc Times says tho Au gusta excursion train which passed Orangeburg about two o'clock Tues day morning roached Florence about live o'oloek that morning. The Times says "this excursion was not aa bad a* somo of the past Augusta excursions for lighting and drinking yet there was some mischief dono to tho train by outside miscreants. "DirectiveC. I? Wheeler and Chief Koopman brought two negro youths and ono whito boy In for throwing spikes at the train. Tho negroes are Willie and Luther Anderson who were arrested for throwing railroad spikes at tuc train at Creston. The whlto man, Hon Gartman was taken up at Orangeburg for the same mlsohlof. These parties will be taken hack to their native counties and doalt with according to law. "At Harnwell on the second section of thccxourslon Flagman MClcnaghan was found In an ur conscious condition with a ??vere gash over bis oyo, and lt was not known how lung hu had been In this condition. When the train reached Denmark his wounds wcro dressed hy a doctor and a speolal oar was taken by tho wounded man until ho readied Florence whore Doc tor Gregg mot thc train and went to work on tho wounded man. "MoClenaghau ls supposod to have beon hit by somo miocrcant throwing rooks at tho train. Tho oxourslon was very orderly going and coming, very little whiskey was In cvldonoe and a good crowd wont." Shot to Deat h, At Shoevoport, La., a man wa? killed by his divorced wifo who in ar Insane condition went to his houst ind domamded her ohiidron. INSIDE STORY Told of the Corey Divorce Case Recently Decided. ITS A VEKY SAD ONE, Mrs. Corey Knew Nothing of Her Hus? band's Intentions to Desert Her Until He Told Her at a Dinner to Which He Had In vited Her. Thero has perhaps oever boon a Ufo with greater oontrast on two sidos and perhaps none more sad In seme rospeots, than tho llvos of William Kills Corey, president of tho Unitod States Steel Corporation, and hlBwlfo, or former wife, which culminated at Reno, Nevada, on Monday, July 29, whon Mrs. Corey was grauted an absoluto divorce from tho millionaire husband, who had tired of hor, ana given the oustodyof hor minor son-. Mrs. Corey is a woman not only of attraotlve appearanoo, but modest of manner and somewhat magnotlo. During the trial of her caso, which was In no wiso contested by Ooroy, and absolutely devoid of any effort at dtfonse, sho was sad. Wli.n the fact was announced that ' she had gained what she asked-freedom from the ian who wanted to be free of her ?>e orled. She stated that she had . o married to Corey, a man then of ar less s di lenee than now, tn P.tts bu'g, on Decembor 1, 188.1, and they lived happily nearly 20 years. His indifference, with accumulation of wealth, developed and ho llnally de serted her. After several weeks of inattention and then desertion, Corey took bur to dinuor, SB he would have taken any other woman ac quaintance and calmly told her she would have to go; that he wae tired bf her and would not live with her longer. Ho was emphatic; his mind waB made up and ho was not to be shaken. She proscrit? a different picture. After snfforlng his inattention and desertion, seoing him the llrst time for weeks at the dinner table In a restaurant, she begged him to go home with her and "talk it over." Indifferently he raised bis hat as he -' oab, and, turning, lei'o uer .'.br?ver.' 'x::au ir,j.Vticii^,"iV(:co;.? ing to Mrs. Corey's testimony, was on May 6. 11)05, and olnoe that time she has never seen him. drey's manner of disposing of her wasdisousaed with his attorneys, and tho statement was made at tho trial that there would be no question of alimony, sinoe that had beon arranged between Mrs. Corey and his attorney. Perhaps onec? tho n cst slgnlllaant features of the trial, and one which sheds thought on what preceded it, ls the evidence q lOted from Miss Addle Corey, his bister. Asked by counsel if she thought her brother a (it person to have custody of young Allan Corey, she replied: "Ho ls not a proper person for his son to asso ciate with. His assoolates and com panions atc not li; companions for a young man of Allan's age. 1 don't think any New York man of wealth Is lib to have ohargo of a boy of his awe." Tho cool deliberation of William Ellis Corey in his determination to rid himself of the ties of matrimony is deplo'.ed In the evidence of his little SOP, who said In oourt, referring to a conversation with lils father on the sublet of tho divorce. ''Ile said that my mother was a good wo man and that my place was at her side. He tedd me I was too young to understand the rearons for tho sepa ration." Another feature of the ouse waa the connection of certain photo graphs with (Jorey's lifo in New York, one of whloh was Miss Gilman, an ao tress, another of Miss Ullman rodin lng on a Bofa In her room, showing Corey's lifoslx? photograph on anoasoi nearby. Whatover may havo beon behind the life ourtaln, or may not have been, deductions are being drawn far and wtdo, and thc caso ls being point ed to as an Incident of too muon raonoy and the desire for gay life and tiring of the ties of homo and wife. Corey has never uttered, so fdr as Is known, a single word rolativo to his wife which could bo construed other than an extolling her good points. In a sense, his son's evidence picures that: "She is a KOOC! woman." Sluco the granting of tho divorce tho story of how Mrs. (Jorey tlrst found out that sho was to he catii olT has come to light. It was not used in the trial of tho caso. After some weeks of neglect Corey asked his wife to dino with him at a fashionable restaurant, and sho eagorly aecoptod the Invitation. The meal was appar ently enjoyod by both of thorn, and Mrs. Corey especially seemod buoyant and bright. Tho various courses had been served and the dinner all but ended. Over the oops of colT.io the two sat chatting when Corey sudden ly leaned across the table, looked his wife tquarcly in tho face, and said. "This is to bo our laso dinner. 1 am going to leavo you tonight. 1 am tired of you and I want you to got a divorce from me." Mrs. Coroy was entirely unprepared for the information. Though she was startled, she maintained her self oontrol, but tho only rep'y she could or did make, was: "You don't know what you aro say ing." (Jorey then bconme hurt. "Yeal do, I havo fully mado U( my mind, and nothing can Ciiango lt, I will not live with you any longoi and 1 want you to got a dlvoroo. 1 , will glvo you everything to enable you to llvo luxuriously-everything you need to bo comfortable." Mrs. Corey could contain horsolf nt i longer, and, showing agitation, said, i "We will dlsou8s the matter whei ? we get homo, Will. Come." Corey had a cab suanxcnacl sn J left tho yestaurant togother. He wont to tiffi ?'urblng with her, assist ed her to ti Vocab, but did not get in. He polite!^ Kited his hat, half smll ing, and , h "This it'*bur good bye And re momber, I wal not be responsible for your debt* ji?til you are willing to make thiR'iW?ratlon final by a divorce dooroo. G'comoye.'' And, without walting to hear more from her. fie turned and walkod away. Tram.ls no evldenco to that effect, bu; :1j!?8. Gorey's money supply was out cl? and In this way she was praotioallv ; fjoroed Into submission. After abe Hied suit for divoroo ber husband paid hor bills. ; T ._ HOJ^BLKOJ?ATH. fMr. ?OAIjDJOptN A KKriL14 OF UOIIi i Caused by the Carelessness of Turning on Ga?stio Before tho Soy i Gould Remove. Tho Au /nata Herald says an acci dent so lyjrrlblo that it beggors all description happenod Thursday, after noon at 4 30 o'cl jok at the Clearwater Iiloachery, in which Jaok J. Widener, the 14 year-old son of Mr. W. H. Widener, met a horrible death from scalding., At tho bloaohory there are a numbor of largo kettles known as keats with a capacity of thousands of yards of . >.h. Into these kettles thc cloth rupa in a methodical, manner and goes idough a obemloal process, by havlrtji; ateam and chemicals turned on lt through Iron pipes, at stated in bervals. To prevent the cloth from piling up and lilllng the kettles before the capacity bad boon roached, a boy is kept tn o^on kettle to koop tho - otb properly wound on a meobanlcal appa ratus, ft?peelally preparod for it. When tho boyabas taxed tho oapaoity of the kentle he comes out and the oaustto ie" turned on. For a long while the littlo son of Mr. W. H. Widener has Ulled this position very creditably^ Day after day he nas taken 1>I? place in the various kettles and woikvd faithfully at his work, nover dicamlug of any danger. Fri day afternoon at 4.30 the boy was In one of;'J\t. kettles working assiduously, possibly in anticipation of the hour when to? whistles of the bleachery would mease him from his work. Little\did tho boy know that as tho lianoa of the dook were moving toward tho time when the ohemioal prooeci. ohould bo turned on that be was to bu,tho victim of a horrible ac cident. - The kettle next to tho one in whi-i'i, Jtok Widener was working wat1 H \d With doth, and Jerry Mid dleton Ne mac. whose business lt . ?t-? .-ir.Y.1. ti,? Inion. tion ot turning tho hot steam Into it, made a mistake and sent the hissing oaustlo into the kettle whore the boy was working. For four minutes tho boy was In the kettle and when William Vernon, an employe, dragged bim out of the awful place, observers say that his I bjdy from his faoo down was baked almost to a crisp. Physicians were quickly summoned and everything possible was dono for the suffering boj ; bis pain was alleviated by the use of anesthetlo?, but death was in evitable The child died at 8 o'olock Friday night, just three hours aud a half after the aooldont. The suffering boy was perfectly conscious up to bin death, and stated that while ho was In the kettle, he realizad that he wes dying and that his body would bo hor ribly dlstlgured, but to save bis faoe bc buried it in tiio doth. Thc acci dent is one of tho ilrst to happen at tho bleachery and lt ls groatly de plored by the otllolais of the company. The parents of tito deceased boy arc highly regardod at Clearv/ater and they have been tho recipient:* of much sy m path y._ WMlo i'rlHonoru Mmtlorotl. H. H. Trawiok and Sam Chandler, whlto mon, conllnod In the Angelina county Jail, Texas, were found dead in their o?ll, Thursday morning, the skulls of both men being orushed, and John Wilson, held on a minor oharge and who waa contincd in thc same cell ls held charged with having murdered bis cell mates. Wnilo denying that he committed tho orlmo Wilson has made a number of coi.bloting state ments ooncernlng the tragedy. Ho declares that at one time during tiie night he discovered the men lighting and separated them. An earthoro cuspidor found in the cell was evi dently the weapon used. It ls bo lleved tho men wero killed while they slept._ In l'erll At MAKAI-*,. The falls of Niagara oamo near dalmlng two men, six women and a baby as victims to its iluods Wednes day night. The party was out boat ing on tho upper rivor in a launch when tho propollor .was injurod by striking a rook. When this occurred the launoh drifted swiftly toward thc falls. Those aboard tho boat throw out an anchor and it oaught as thev woro passing through the Devil's Half Aoro. Then they displayed white gar ments as signals of distress. Other boats put out from shore and rescued them._ FoiiKlit In UMII-KIA HAII. Representative Whitley, of Doug lass oounty, and Solloltor Hill, of the criminal court of Avon county, fought Wednesday on the door of the House. They wore separated by frlonds before olthor was seriously hurt. The tight ls said to have grown out of remarks mado by Whitley In tho House Tues day. The lie was passed between tho men and blows followed. ? Hun o!: Htruok. Lightning struok tho Walnut Grovo Churoh Sunday aud Sunday Soho ?1 waa dismissed. Carl Stinton was fatally burned. Kiri lOmerson's linger and Karl Dyers' toe were burned eff ltuth D;SS was burned about tho faoo and head. Half a dc zen others wore soorchod. Katiti KIKIK, At Cold Springs, Texas, in an elec tion light Friday, E. Ii. Adams, Dom ooratlo nominee for ta* assessor, was instantly killed. Sam Adama, hie brother, fatally jihot in tho head, ami two ether men wounded, HE DENIK8 IT. OAIil>\VI0!ili SAYS HASKELL'S STATE M ION V IS FALSE. Will Make Cath that He Never Heard of Janalian Before in His life. Willie Caldwell has been beard from and he absolutely donles having made the statement Uni. John C. Haskell of Columbia Bays he heard him make about his brother-Jo law, Qon. Wilie Jones. The following ls a quotation from Tho Record's report of Colonel Haskell's speeoh at Bligh's, on July 31, 1900: "lluikoll asssorted that tho dispon nary bad corrupted and besmirched everybody who bad ever been con nected with lt; that the members of the boards of oontrol bad gone In poor men and como out rloh, but that none of them had como out olean. "Mr. Weston: How about Wilie Jones? "Colonel naskoll: I am not oall Ing namos, but his own brother-in law says La?aban paid for tho im provements of bis house. Jones ls not Qod Almighty to r?gul?t? t o af fairs of ittohlaud county." Promptly upon tho appoaranoe of tho above, Con. Wilie Jonos denied that Lanallan bad paid for tho Im provement of bis house and asked Col. Haskell to specify win ah ono of his brothers-ln law had made the alleged statement. Cul. Haskell replied that ho bad heard Willie Caldwell lu conversation with some young men lu front of Pilot' drug store In Columbia assort that Lanallan paid for Improvements of WllleJonos's house. G?n. Joues replied that lt was Im possible for Caldwoll to hayo made nuoh a statement, as Caldwell had loft Columbia two years before his houBe was repaired and bad never returned bo Columbia. L&nabau promptly denied that he had over paid for any Improvements [)f General Jones's house. Soon as Colonel Haskell's statement was printed, General Jones wroto a statement of the case to Mr. Caldwell, who is in California, and also mallee bim soples of tbe papers oontalnlng roports of tho Sllgh's meeting, asking him to tolegraph upon rooclpt there of. It takes some time for tho mall lo get from Columbia to California, but Friday the fellowing telfgram aame to Gen. Wilie Jones from Mr. Caldwell, who had just reoolvcd his lotter: Olio, Calif., Aug. 0, 1U00. Gen. Wilie Jones: Man making statement about me bells diroot falsehood.* Will mako oath never heard of Lanahan before. WUlUm iT.na1r.wnll. This makes complete the vindica tion of General Jones from a oharge bhat nobody over believed. MANY LIV ?S LOBT. Colorado ltlvor Leaves Largo Aroa With DovHHtatlon. Twenty ? vj persons aro known to have been drowned, hundreds we e rendered homeless and $500,000 worm of property was djstoryed as tho re .ult of a Hood In Ttxaa Thursday when the Colorado Uiver was loroed out of Its banks by heavy rains. The death Hst li growing hourly, and lt ls bellt v;d the worst dh aster since the Gai v. eton ll.od has visited Texis. lV.llef trains aro out oil, telegraph and tolcphono wlroa are down, and tho fate of the Inhabitants of several isolated tawns is unknown. Imports from the country say loss of life waa great. Tho rush oarae without warning, and inhabitants at San Angolo and ballinger were forced to deo fors foty in nlyht olotbing. An entire family named Cook at Ballinger wore drown ed in attempting to loavo their homo on an Improvised raft whloh struck an obstruction. Tho Colorado Uiver ls from four to six miles wide In places and tho ti Ibu taries south are out of Danks. Two thousand cattle aro kill ed. Tho Santa Fe track bridges viere washed out and traillo is at A standstill. Persons made homoless sought refuge In churches. Provisions and olotbing were rushed to the scene. Ono man on horsebaok was lost while trying to warn tho inhabitants. A mother and three children at San Angelo pcrlshod in sight of a scoro of men, who woro unablo to attempt a rcsouo. Tho mother was in tho up per story of a house In tho bottoms. She was calling for help when the Hood caused tho small house to totter and collapse. Twelve inches of rain fell all over south Texas last night, caiulng ali rivers to ovorflow their hank*. R. llof trains were rushed oui, btu wcro un able to reaoh thtlr destination. Kosouo parties In boats are going from bouso to house taking peoplo from seoond stories and oarrylng the dead to morgues. It lu ostlmatod that two hundred miles of traok wai washed out, Tho death Hst lnoroases hourly. Telegraph oillues are beselgod by crowds demanding nows from thc thc Hooded districts. IlO llOBOIltB ii. Many a man would be proud to rc 8omblo John D Rookofoller as closely as doo? Dr. James H. Jackson, ol Rockford, 111., but tho Dootor doesn't liko to be reminded lu this way that no Isn't a millionaire. Ho appaared in police court to-day against Joseph Leonard' Reynold Boan and Lee Bro 1 ii ii'ri, charging that they "humllat ed" him by calling him "John I)? on the Btrccts, where evorybody oould hear. Tim culprits woro Unod moder ately. AK-U Connie Suicides. William M. Mothnor, agod 63, and wife, aged 63. sought doath Wednes day morning by inhaling gas ab theil homo In New York Neighbors, at tractcd by tho smell of gas brokodowr tho doors lu timo to savo their lives rhoojuple, who aro now undor arrest charged with attempted suicido, ad mlttod that they had entored Into J death oompiob. Tho/ said they wanttt io dio togothcr as fortune had rcoent y frowned upon them and they want d tn eaoape the poor house. OBJ ..OT hm O? ________ ? \ O it 10 AT SPEAKEIttt DUO RUM AH OOMPAltlHONt [A.jli Man Is Pleased to Learn by f or. sons. The Parables of ('Ju i Prove This Paot. \ Tho suooossful publio speakers^ tho world havo been men who live oloso to nature and knew how to draw their Imagery therefrom. Il?rein lay I the wonderful power ol Llnooln Born in a log oabln, accustomed to the scenes o? farm and wood, deep versed In the vernacular of those around him, he was ir realst ablo before a rural audience. Imagine now thal audience cf K ntucky stook brecdors wore oonvulBed when they heard Hen ry Clay desorlbo a mule as "that use ful animal which has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity." John Raudolph, thereat rival of the im mortal Kentuckian, was equally hap. py before his constituents, nearly all of whom were slaveholding farmers. He Illustrated his arguments by allus ions to tho unfaithful overseer, and in ono or his famous oampaigns desoribedl his opponent as having been imported into the diBtriot, )|?K a Sutton, to run against him. ' Audieuoes are al ways Haltered when they hear allus ions to tho calling with whloh they are fr ?afilar, and he is the wise speak or who comprehends this truth. The greateat of all the t?aohers, fc?j "who spake as never man spf' . . drew nearly all of his luaager.\?i8* at?rela from farm life. Ho was on a farm aud knew all ab simple agriculture of that piv pcriod, which oonsisted lp grape growing, intersperses few cereals and small bords .'AND and sheep. Thus we Hud tl and notable savings color* sions to the shepherd,^ tho lost sheep, the hun ll wors and trees peor orno. OJO day a gre?; issembled on a hill o < Oonnesaarot. They wj rude, dull of uudersi. not ono of them able r To reaoh them tho te; in lauguage that th. stand. (Jhilihood w lugs in story form. I to have thc fao'.s wi - familiar interpreted Tho weaver does not o.i? tions drawu from the i"Oii?rvn*vilvi games; but he will prie .llM OtlgihU when the preaohor talk ' a the work cf the loom, ft ' '\' ii I to have the Ufo wo kno\ vivid the great truths v wibLm-hiy .?. .mwtt-^jnH comprehend. It was to the multitude on tho hill side from a boat that had been pusheo off tho shore that the odebrated par able of the sower was delivered. Prob ably ai he talked a farmer was sowing tho grain in full sight of the speakei and the people. How natural, there fore, to lift forth a hand toward him and say: "Behold, a sower went forth to sow." Simply, easily and natural ly, tho thoughts cf the hearers were lcd up from what was commonplace and everyday to what was new and eternal. JesuB recognized that all o' life 1B a parable. Wnen we oonslder the marvelous application made of the himple peasant life of Galilee, we are constrained to wonder what teaoh logs ho would draw from the complex civilization of today. How oleotrlclty wireless telegraphy, steam and the modern city, with its wonderful build ings, would bo made eloquent with his teaohings of the higher things of the spirit. It is the oilloo of tho par able to invest thc material with thc spiritual moaning, but no imagery ib BO suitable for this purpose as that drawn from rural scenes and tho sur roundings of farm life. Tho fate of the sown grain teaches an agricultu ral as woll as a moral lesson. That which fell on the trampled wayside was lost. So also the portions whioh fell on stouy grouud aud that whloh was choked by tho thorn bushes Ooly thc grain which fell on fruitful soil yielded results, and this produced nany fold. Tao good farmer under stands that if ho would have g?od crops he must use only pure seed and plant it In the right place. Toe great litoraturo of the world likewise owes ils chief charm to 1m agery drawn from nature. Homer de soribes U.ysse8, returning home after his long wanderings, as Unding his wifo, Penelope, "spinning among her handmaids." Poor old Macdui!, heart broken ovor the murder of his wife and children, uses the illustration most familUr to his life in the exola matlon: "They have killed the hen and all her brood at one fell swoop." Gray's immortal elegy, in almost evory stanza, draws on rural scenery to point hlB moral and adorn his tale, lt is "the lowing herd wind slowly o'er tho lea," or "drowsy tlnkllngs lull the distant fold," and lnnumorabh other metaphors drawn from tho Holds that lend beauty to this Inoomparabh prod not of genius. Take the farm and wi rv J It touches out of our pootry and groat would he the loss thereof. On thc contrary, but tho pootry sug gested by thoso things whloh ho deals into the heart of tho farmor, and great would he the addition to the oharms of his existence. Unless w( are able to approolate tho natural boan ties around us, to extract senti ment from leaf and grass and il jwor; wo aro reducod to the lovel of the dumb boasts who know no uso foi suoh things exoept to devour thom. Poiiflton MonrO lOlootod. A mooting of the old Confederate vetorans was held on Saturday to elect a County Hoard of Pensions. The meeting was oallcd to order by Mr. T. 0. Alborgottl, who presided. After stating tho obj oct of the meeting he oalled * for nominations for pension commissioners. Capt. J. A. Petorkin, of Fort Motto, nominated the present pension board, whioh ls oomposed of Messrs G. W. Dannerly, Z M Gram bling, M. F. Antley and T. C. Alber gottl, and they were oleotod uuanl 11 mously, Dr. T. A. Jeffords was elect ed physiolan and T. C. Albergottl Ipension oom-aisslon?r. The meeting then adjourned, uv averell 8 7 30 a tn 7 85 p ni Lv Irby 7 35 n ni 7 -lo pyu Lv Frosts 7 '10 n rrj 7 45 p tu Arrivo KollooH 7 45 o ni 7 55 p ni Arrive Ohoraw S io p m HAST MOUND FROM OJ I KU AW. TRAIN n??lS* y No. 2. No. I. hv (merri w ? ir? p m IJV Kolloek H io H m o 10 p m Lv I<"roKtH 8 20 ? Ol 0 43 p in liv Irby 8 30 n m 0 47 p :?i Uv FiVcrott 8 40 ii ni 0 02 P lil Lv Madolino 8 50 a m 10 00 p m Lvilslay ?J 00 nm 10 05 p ni Ar. BonncltHvillo 0 ls a m IO 2o p in Connections, AT BKNNRTTSUIM.K-Tho tout h bound morning trains on A. 0. h. connects wp h tndu No i. Train No 2 conncotH wltli A. \0. h. local freight north and Routh bound. ( AT KOM.OOK-Train No? 1 and 2 con nect with north and south bound S. A. L. faina. )^ AT CURBAW-Train No 3 connects with prth and Bouth Wutul tt A. Jj. tralnn, dd train No 4 conn. <.< 1 with north bound W0IJ A. L. traiiiH d,8?! - A. J. t?teSON. "in,' V. P. and (Jen. Man. mist--. _. big Des-h J SURETY BONDS. anV. ??DBii?l?Y AND COURT, 3*n INTRACT' and FIDELITY BONDSi ^VbCro arc no better companies tlift'ti bho ho, roprc-cntcd by taio. JNO. S. MOOK?C tfllaNov. 15.1801. professional aaios. II. It. NEWTON, JBNK?N08 K. OWKNN. NEWTON ft OWENS, Attornoys at Law, BENN KTTS VILLE, 80. V?A. unices Over P'iaiiters National hank.. . Attorney at Baw, .Bcnnclbiville, B? 0. Ofllco on Darlington r.frcet near Post* L'olograpb offieo, January, 1809. niPsp??i, DENTIST. Ovvwa UpBtalra in Orosland Itu liding rho n o ISO. BKNNiflTT8VlJL,j,K, B. (j. iLTON MCLAURIN, ~ Attornoy nt Law and Probate Judge OMloo In Court ?IOUHO. l?Wmww.e.'^.jU'.iy.:,'fflslrv:.-.,-i . | *wr> Cl?r?E TMt; # U^PK*S I isboro and prepared for tbe (east. PJiey beat on tomtoms a..d strange irums. Tne vlotlms were laid In a jlrole on the ground whllo the savages brought brushwood and great logs (or Ute Ure. "Tntn a strange thing oarao. They ?ecmed aotually to mako a sort of re? - Hgt.us oeromony out of this horrible Affair. They boat their tomtoms and pulled their hair and uttered their wolrod, guttoral orles. "The rest ls too horrible, bow thej oooked their human food, how they danced about their violins, how. at last that oompany tore the smoking numau tiesh to plooos with their nails .;nd teeth In a mad orgy. The Ouiof atc lirst, and after dano *ng he allowid 'his followers to par cake. Then, at last, when lt seemed bo me that 1 surely could ?taud it no longer, tho savages formed In Uno and started to march away. The tide bad ll owed In and wa were free. "Frantlo to escape, tho frightened sailors who had rosoued mo, made haste to pull away. But now we were seen. Tho savages broke their due and rushed to tho oeach. A score or more of thom entered a canoe and pursued us. We had a lead of sev ora! ..undred fathoms, but tucir oanoe, driven by a soore of sivago arms, fairly leaped through the wator. "Tncy gained on us, fast, faster. I turned sick at heart. I hardly had strength to pray. ' Now, this Island ls a Gorman posBiisiiop, though Inhabited ohlo?y oy oanntbals. Three miles away, across the bay, thoro was a Ger maa i tatton, and for thu we tica led. They gained on us more am m ?re. Wo oould hear their savage cries, but, thank Q >d, there was a Gjrm*n guu ooat In sight. They saw our predioa* ment. Glancing to vard the wanuilp I saw a little puff of smoke curl Out from Its bow and a four Inca sholl carno ricocheting across toe water to ward the oauuibal oanoe. lt missad. Then another carno, and this timo lt hit squarely and exploded and dealt death and destruction. I could see tho survivors jumping inti tho wator and swimming for tho shore. "The Gormam welcomed ui, and I oould not thank them sullloloutly." Ni wund BiraitKO inland Capt. Truebridge, of the steamship Northwestern, Wednesday displayed a photograph that ho brought from the North, taken by an tilljor of the rovenuo cutter Torry, of a newly for mor lying tifty n lies west of Dutch Harbor, directly betwocn tho Bogo dior Islands, commonly known as Cas 't.o and Firo Islands. The new Island made Its that appearonoe during Juno *nd ls now DOO foet high. The length could not bo ascertained as Porry could not got close enough to make an acourato measurement. Clouds of stoam arlso from Its summit and it is I surrounded by boiling water NCKI*OH80B ns Tlgora. In speaking of the acuteness of tho sorvant problem in Greenvlllo the other day, a oltl/.on remarked to & reportor of The Nows that many of I tho uegro women were conducting j blind tigers, and that they wore abm to support entire families on tho re vonuo derived therefrom, and that tho blind tiger was in part at least re sponsible for the reluctance with whloh negroes consent to wash and 000k and for tho Joy with whloh they i relinquish auoh positions. It was stat ed that dally many orders were sont out to whiskey houses by negro wo? i men who conduct blind tigers and Wut the business war. increasing,