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The ITIO t'W)TB,8?l?T UMIBI, IWWBB 0VBI0VUAVO HACHOOS UTH CTTBT ?OWfeMION HAPPT OB OU? ?JB4.THB OIOBIO?? IN THY 0*.UB?." VOL&XI. BHNNBTTSVIIiliB, 8. O., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 23, 1908. NO.-?T. A BLACK HAND Killed at Rendezvous by An In tended Victim of a VERY BOLD ROBBERY. ft Handed Over Only TweofyElght Dollars Instead of Five Hundred sad then Shoots the Would*Be Robber, Who Dies Later at Ills Home. There are many queerythings hap pening in New York every week, and the following from The American tells j of one of these strange happenings in | that great ol ty; In the centre of tho throng that al t ways swirls in the daytime around Mott and Grand streets, New York, Munztato Legato, identified later by Governor Aorltelll as a member of the "Black Hand," was shot to death | Wednesday by Enrico Revono, of No. 12*7 llcator Btreet, apparently in self defense. In the Mulberry Street Station, Pavone, who had surrendered to Pat rolman Wilson after the latter had threatened to kill him if he didn't I stop running, said quietly: "lam glad I killed him. Ho tried to make me pay 9500 to his sooloty, the 'Mano Noro,'-what you call the J ""^?lack Hanu-and he tried tu mnko mer take a woman who is on Ellis Is land a?rrny wife." From the garbled English the man us-wd, the polloe behove Lagato wae engaged in an attempt to havo PA vone aid him in work similar to that! of the East Side cadets. The sympa thy ot the poltoo is with the prlsouor, who is looked up in Hcacquartors I awaiting the result of tho Coroner's investigation. Pavone has a wife In Italy. He has slaved to save enough money to bring her to Now York and establish a home. Whon ho liad collooted the neo essary amount, ho was so j jyful he an p nounood that ho was abc ut to send a money order to his native country. He Bays Legato heard the proudly . made boast and demanded 9600 from him. Legato ls alleged to havo said that if the money were not paid his life would be the forfeit. An addi tional proviso was made, the prisoner swears by whioh ho was to claim as his wife a beautiful young woman de talnod at Ellis Island. and loaded it. "When Lhad the gun," ho aaid, "I knew I could take care of myself, and that the law would protect me after I had protected myself." The two men met at Mott and Grand streets Wednosday. Legato had named the rendezvous. Pavone, will ing to oompromlue, handed over 928. Legato demanded the rest of the mon ey. Pavono said he hadu't lt. Tho prisoner swears that Legato thon made a qulok movement for his back pooket, where the polloo later found a loaded revolver. But PAVOUO Je.rkod his gun from his ooat pockat, lilied Legato full of holes and lied. Patrolman Wilson pursued him, ?touting: "Stop, or I'll blow your head oft1?" Pavone would not stop, but a p^de strain tripped hbo, and Wilson jump ed on tho iugltivo. Turuiog on hid back, Pavono said quietly: .'Don't shoot. Here's my gun." Vv ilium took the.weapon, and, fol lowed by a crowd of perhaps tw< thousand, took his man to tim station house. Pavone waa cool-oool as leo, He said: "Sergeant, if I didn't shoot first 1 # would havo been a dead man. 1 am willing to tell the truth and expose the dirty work of this gang." Coroner Aorltelll and Deteotive Ser geant Potrosinl aro reported to oon sider thc shooting as an altair thal may load to the rounding up of ; blackmailing organization on the Eas Side. _ Honklotl to DoRtn. Six men v/ore killed and flvo wer seriously Injured last week when ? boiler in thc power house of the Lak Shore Railroad, In Collingwood, a su burb of Cleveland, Oblo, blew ur. The mon were oloso to tho bolle working on the.foundation for a dj namo. They wero all in tho mout of a subway facing the end of th boiler that blow outs and the six mo wero soalded to death by the fttean; Engineers at the power house sa tho explosi?n waa duo to thc form* tion of a "mud ring" In tho liltorln apparatus whioh ular:Ho? tho wat( before it passes into tho boilor. Tl: shook of tiie explosion created muc excitement._ _ Silvor UOUB Up. Bar Bilvor has roaohed a price i high that tho dlrcotor of tho mil deems it inadvisable for tho goven ment to make any moro purohases i present. For several weeks tho go ornment has bien buying oliver f coinage, and thoprlocs have boon i .?variably high. The purchases la Week were at as high a ligure as Vi. per lino ouoco, but tho lowest bid r ooived Wednesday was 72 oenl JDlreotor R;berta thereupon re J ?ot tho bids, and announced that no m j purchases would be mado until KU timo as the pries of bu silver dedin toward tho normal Ho Fought 11 o d. At Mllledgovlllo, Ga., on Fridi Mims Devereux, a negro, fought t bheriff and his deputy who ontoi his cell to escort him to to tho so fold. Aftor a hard light the nej was overcome and v/as later hangi Previously he had tried unsuccoss?u to kill himself with a broken gi bottlo. Doveioux was convloted killing anothor negro in a oard gan An applioaiion for commutation aontence was ; efused by tho oort n Dion Thursday. WOKE BEGUN ON l'H? NE W Kl ii WX'KU) RAIL' WAY THAT WILL Connect Charleston, Orangeburg, Co lumbia and Augusta, Some f aots About the Enterprise If the purpose ot the South Caro lina Public Service corporation a new ly organ'z ?d conoern with a oapltal of ten million dollars, are oarried out, thin Btato will witness a transporta tion development within the next ten yeais that will silence the now oon staut ory of delayed passenger trains and dolayod frolguts and revolutlonlz* tbo business of the state. This will be the first strictly electric railway development tn th? South. It ls not to bo a Holley system, but a trolley - loss eleotrlo system with a high rate of speed and a heavy freight oarrying oapaoity. ? Mr. Van Etton, onojof the promot ers of the soheme, who ls at Orango burg now with a number of his asso* olaten arranging matters for the es tabllsL^v it of an important terminus hore says that tho general plan for development in this state had been finally determined upon and that the system would be built as rapidly as 1. could be laid out and the tracks laid. He expoated to bave the system in oporation throughout tho state within two years, starting from Oharleston. "Columbia is to bo the homo of the general ondeos of the company," he said in answor to questions, "and we are to radiate from there to Oharlot'e and the Piedmont. Wo will first go thrcugb O lu ?bia and branch out Just hoyond there for Charlotte with ont lins and Spartai.burg with ibo otu??, taking In G. convlllo in thc loop back to Columbia or down to Augusta. The obj no t is to got an outlet to tho sea for all that rioh Piedmont country. Coming up f/ora Charleston we wit) branch at Oratio burg, ono Hue gol ag to Augusta and the other going to Columbia." Answering other questions, the pro moter said that it could not bo said just yet what cxaot routea any of the lines viould take. "Tuat matter do pends oa tho grades largely," he said. "Wo aro after a high speed and want to avoid grades of more thau ono per cont. We will tlrst plok out the moBt important town we want to make be tween tho sevoral Junotional points I have ju it mentioned to you and mako thoaa, getting to the prlnoipal mill towns and other important interme diate centers the best way we can, considering tho grades." "And how aro tho oities and towns you touoh expected to 'oome across?1 How muoh purchasing of bonds will they bo expected to do?" "The oom towns for anything but franchises to enter thora, and all wo want of the in tervening territory is rights of way." Tho Columbia Record says Mr, Ar temus E. Legare, of tbat city has signad a two year oontraot with tho company to do engineering work, and ho begins operations this week with a for?a of assistants between Columbia and Charleston. Prom what bas beeD printed so far about the new projaot many people have acquired the idea that tho the only object the company has ls to construct a Una between Or angoburg and Oharleston. Tho new oompany mean business, and wo be lieve that within tho next two years Oraugoburg will bs oonneoted with Oharleston, Columbia and AugUBta with a first c'ass eleotrlo railway. GOING P0a3rAj&?DA?T? OIL. ty be ed af /jo ad Hy ass 0 DC nf >1* i'lio ?ovomimnit Sturts Kult to Hronk Up Monopoly, Attorney Genoral Moody Thursday, acting through tho resldout United States district attorney, instituted proceeding against tho Standard O l Compauy of New Jersey uudor tho Sherman anti-trust act, by filing In tho Untied States district court at St. li nils a petition in equity against it and its seventy constituent corpo rations and partnerships and seven in dividual defendants, asking that the combination be declared unlawful, and in lutnro onjolned from entering into any oontraot or combination In restraint of trade. This suit was instituted in the name of tho Untied States by direc tion of the Attorney General, againsl John D Rockofollor, William Rocke feller, Henry H. Rogers, Honry M, Flaglor, John I). Atchbold, Oliver ll, Payne, Charles M. Pratt, and seventy ono corporations and partnerships, cVtavglDg thean with having vlolatec sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman anti trust act. Tho govornmont asks for ari in junction against thoso defendant which, If granted, will result In th dissolution of the alleged combination It ls allegod lu tho petition tba John I). Rooketellor and bis asaool ates, the oihor individual dofondanta formed a conspiracy to monopoliz tho cominero In petroleum and it produats at a vory oarly dato-abou the year 1870 -and that tho nome li: divlduals havo controlled the oomb! nation during all thoso years, in "a Ita forma, and now oontrol it. It wu therefore doomed wiso to Dtafce In th patlon the oomplcto history au growth of th's conspiracy. Ne?ro Maiik Closed. The Working men's Savings ar Loan company, a nogro bank I Groonvillo was oloaed last wook h Stat? Rank Examiner Holloraai Tho books of the bank aro In a voi bad condition and is probable tin thero will havo to be a complete roo ganiz&tion boforo tho institution CE resumo operations. It Is not thougl that thero lias boon anything orlmln In oonncotlou with tho bank it boll merely mismanaged. The bank h rando sovaral bad Investments ai has been running at a loss for son time The hank ; loco Its institut!) ha? paid a dividend of 10 .por oe annually and lt ls thought tnat tl was paid out of the capital Instead the earnings. SHOT TO DEATH A MARTJBOUO DOOZEI 8KL.LEU HlIiliElO ABOUT GIN. Th? Quarrel Arose About the Pay ment of a Bill for Strong Drink. Dry OQuntles have a har? time managing their blind tigere. In Marl? boro Oounty Jule Combs, proprietor of one of the notorious line bara, was shot and killed In his bar room Sun day night week ago. Comb's olork and two other witness es say that Ebbte Qu lok, Carey Qulok, Louder Q dok and Love Knight went to the bar together Sunday night and wore drinking. Comba told Knight tbat he owed htm for a half-pint of gin. Knight Bald he did not. Combs then struck him in the faoo, and the wltnesias ian out. After they got out they heard pistol shots Inside. It is not known which of the four men in side fired tho fatal shot. The bar room ls only a foy? foot from the line, on the North Carolina side, Combs was taken to his homo, on the South Carolina side, and dlod there two or three hours later. Coroner Mo Call and Sher: ff Creen went up and hold the lr. quest Tuesday. Thoro is some quastlou as to wheth er too trial Bhouid be held in- North Carolina or in thia State, but lt is the general opinion that it should be in che oounty lu wbioh the crime was committed. For generations there has been a string of bar rooms extending along tho State Hue, from tho northeast cor oner of the State, westward aoross tho barron sand hills, for throe or four mltrtn I,'.... L*VM?1- 1.1 * v_? EV. nu.vim runiti xu ?V, JLJRUJL ay kopt the most pretentious of these bars, and als > oporatod a distillery on uhe lino. When tho Watts law was passed in North Carolina Laokey abandoned his plant on tho line and moved to Htmlot. From thcro ho wau driven, a year later, by the pro hibition law for Richmond County. AU of the other Hue bar keepers also olosed up and left except two-Will GHnn and Jule Combs. They contin ued to soil liquor on the line between two prohibition counties. As tho State line through that bar ron country was not marked, it was difficulty to prove in which State the bars wore looited. This was the malu reason why the two States through their Legislatures provided for a joint aurvey to establish and permanently mark the line between Marlboro and Rlohmoud counties. This survey was made last fall, and all of the bar rooms were found to bo in South Carolina, although it was previously believod that thoy were in North Carolina. Will Ginn pretended to abandon hi3 " uior shoo.. alfchoupd* h* Mi-^tjno-f -mov?'?O aorossxne une . oe to tho Courts annul the survey, i Carolina oonstablos made several ef forts to oapture his liquor, but they found lt stored in his barn, which was in North Carolina. Jule Combs Immediately built a now bar room, on tho North Carolina side and oontinuod his business thore In open violation of the law. It was in this now building that he was kill ed by one of his customers Sunday night. Several years ago, on Christmas Day, Combs shot and killed a man by the namo of < jireh, lu bia old ba) room, a few yaids from where he lost his own Ufo. He claimed acoldent OJ self-defenoe, and was acquitted al Rookingbam. Tho death of Combs probably ends tho career of the open bara whloh havt nourished on tho State Uno for a con tury._ Doisti'uoiivo Flood. A dood of 300 square miles ii Northwestern Washington is theresul of heavy rain and melting snow whlol for forly-olght hours have rushei from the Northwest to spread ove the low lands. Several persons ar reported drowned and the monet?r; loss is already many thousands of dol lora. Seattle and soores of towns hav beon for the last thirty-six hours cu off from outside oommunloaUon Bridges have boen swept away, ral road traoks washed out and tolephon and holograph wires torn down. A far as can ba learned half a dozo lives have been lost. K/ery rallroa in the Northwest is tied up an though a few trains aro boing rui no attempt is boing made at a sche( ule. Traoks were washed away I many places on tho different roat but lt is hopod to have tho damas ropalred in a few days._ Farmor Kilto.1. Mr. D. B. Padgett, a prosporot tenant farmer, living alone about tv milos from Brimson, was oalled to h door about 8 o'olook Thursday nigl: and abot to doath. Tho killing wi disoovorod early Friday morning by near neighbor. Tho whole load fro a shotgun wa? fired into tho head the murdered man. Tho object the killing waa evidently robbery, Padgott was known to have sevor hundred dollars lu oash. Tho clot mg worn hy tho dead man show? that they bad been searched by blooi banda and tho monoy takon. Tl neighborhood is aroused and dillige searoh la being mado for the asaassi Mr. Padgett waa a Confederate vt oran and served in Virginia In Ham ton's cavalry. Klllod by lOxpoulon, Don't fool with railroad torpedc should you happen to find one a timo unexploded by tho traok. dispatch from GainosviUo, Fla., se tho young daughter of Martin Smlt a prominent farmor, was Instant killod by tho explosion of a rallrc torpedo, willoh she was trying broak opon with a hammer. She li piokod up tho tor podo by the ratta traok, where lt had fallon. ttiyen'a j>tvoroo. At ParlB, Franco, tho Counter Castellano watt Wodncsday gran an absoluto dlvoroo from her husbi Count Boni, and the oonrt gave tho oustody of thoir two ohilib While the Countess will h oharge of her sons the decree of fi oonrt forbids hor taking them oft Franco without the court's pori? I sion. J KILLS FIVE MEN And Is Hunted Down and Shot Like a Beast. MET DESERVED PATE. II? Had Killed Two Policemen and Three Innocent Negroes on (he Streets of Asheville, N. C., and Is Run Down and Riddled With Ba?lela. Fighting bravely in defense of their captain, Patrolman Charles Blaok stook and William Bailoy, two of the most efflolent members of the Ashe ville, N. 0?, polioe foroe,'{were shot to death on South Main street at 11,80 o'olook, on Tuesday night of last week by a negro, who said bia name waa Will Harris, of Charlotte, a desperado for whom a large roward hu been offered for some timo. Prior to the death of the two o Ulcers, a negro restaurant keeper named Ben Allison foll dead at the hands of Harris, who, handling a Savage rlfia, killed him without provocation. An other negro named Tom Nell, was mortally wounded, he, too, being shot before the officers took a hand in the melee. Harris started out on his death dealing tour from a negro house on Valley street. Ho flrod into two houses as he made his way to South Main street, one of the pr ind pal streets of the city. As he reaohd Eigle street he fired at and killed Allison. On South Main street tho desperado encountered Tom Nell and fired point blank at bim, He then shot and instantly killed an old negro that happened to be in his way. The noise of the shooting caused Police Captain Page and OtHoers Balley and Blaokstook to start from police headquarters on the run, blow ing their whistles as they went. Bailey took his stand at the head of South Main street and tho court house square, leaving his captain and Blaokstook to go on ahead. Captain Page met the negro In the c tor of Main street, tbe former rec. ig a bullet in the arm from tho negro's rifle. The wounded captain oalled upon Blaokstook to fire, but before the officer could do so, he fell dead with a aiarteu on a ?ua ior the equate, where Patrolman Balley was walting for him. Bailey fired twioe, but miss ed his mau, tho negro, turning his rifle on the officer, sent a bullet orash lng through the latter's brain. The oflloer lived but a few minutos after bo fell. The negro then ran down South Main siroet toward Biltmore, and made his esoape. The greatest ex oltement followed the killing of the two innocent negroes and tho oftloere, A general fire alarm was turned lr by the oblef of police, Bernard, foi the purpose of calling out the militia companies, and several posses qulokl) formed to take up the pursuit of tht murderer. The store of the Ashe ville Hardware oompany was broker into by polioe officers, and tho posse: were armed with winchester rliles an shotguns. Blood hounds wore put on tho trai of the outlaw and they at last rat him down and held him at Bay soon distance from tho soeno of his mur dors after following him a day ant night. Ab seven o'olook Thursda; morning a report reaohod Ashovilh that the blood hounds had followot the desperado to Buena Vista some ten miles away. Three posses o oftioers and oitizeui immediately so 0 out for Buena Vista, and thero lt wa t learned that the negro desperado ha i. been seen leaving a barn just bofor 1 daybroak. It was stated that th e fugitive had taken the high road fo a Arden, three miles further on. 0 The trail of the dosporado had bee d lost by the dogs about tb 1B time o vi ? lng to interforenoe with some hog! b but those who wore hunting Harri know he waB near by. So actln n under the advloe of ErOhlof c: is Police Jordan, tho posse was divide Ie up into f quads, each one taking st parate routes toward Arden. A tho posses carno together at Flother1 and there Ex-Chief of Polloo Jorda doolded that tho best course to pin sue waa to again divide tho fifty c more men oto squads. Two of then scoured Blake's woods, one doployo ll to the left, while another was lol guarding the road in front of Our in of nlngbam's storo. 0f Dr. L. P. Bussoll, N. B. Baldwi ag and Harry Roberts oaugbt first sigh ftl of the neg'o in Blake's woods, an h- tho signal /.greed upon, "two shots i ad rapid suco'Jrtton,''warned tho soarot jv ors that Ute quarry had been run t i-l0 earth. Again the rlficB rang out an afc tho fleeing form of a negro who ca n rlod a rifle ?morged from the Biak property ani ran aoross tho high roa to a field Barbing tho Weatfoldt pr< perky. Oa the/oroh of a privato houso a< joining tie Cunningham storo atoi J, H. C/n?>, editor of tho Ashcvll ny 01tU?n/who was ono of tho sq us A whiohloft at Floober's to guai tys the ro^d. As the negro reached tl ?h, open 'Held adjoining tho house on ?lr doat^uu Gain opened fire with a 3 tad calore revolver, but nono of hts abo to to* effoot, for the fugitive nev iad Hiokoncd his paoo, but mado for tl ray v^cds and was seemingly swallow* lp. Down tho road at a 2.40 galt oan Ex-Ohlof Jordan, O. II. W?lls, D Russell, H. M. Roborfca and N. Baldwin, shouting to othor mombo of the posaos to make for the wooi where the negro had taken ref og The posses qulokly closed in, toi the road turning to the right fro Fletcher's and a lusillade of "hots fro the woods ten minutes later told tl inhabitants of the surrounding cou try that Justloe had been done, ai that the cold-blooded murderer of ii wu Yffdvo pulloomea and threo limo cent nogroes had been avenged. At about 2.30 tbe posse arrived In Asheville with the body of the dead man, whloh was taken at once to tho undertaking rooms. Like, wlld-flro spread the news of the man's death and In less than half an hour South Mainstreet wau blooked wlthaorowd lng, shouting ma?s of men and wo men, toisao tho roan who in lens than twenty minutes had takon tho lives of Ave mon, threo of bis own raoe. For some time lt was feared that the mob would take tho body of the negro from th.? officers and follow out itu threat of burning lt. But the sheriff and his men guarded the doorway of tho undertaking establishment with loaded ?illos and the orowd later dis persed. ' BRYAN AND I??K8T, Odoll ??ya Tlioy \Vould|bo Hurd to Boat In 1 008. B. B. O loll of Newburg, former governor and ex-ohalrman of the Now York stato ropublioan commit* too, ii*.* X that tho management of the republican stato campaign was the "most asinino" that he over knew. Tho whole state tlokct, ho said, might juBt ai? well have boon oleotcd. As tho rena?t stands, it looks like a de mocratic vlotory, and leaves tho re publlot a party in bad shapo with a uatlon.il oampatgn coming on, The ropublioans, he deolared, made no campaign at all, bub pub lt all on Mr. Hughe*' ohoulders. Continuing Mr. Odell paid: "Th-*- people of this state have al ways resented the Interference of a president of tho United States in bhoir lOQal oleotlons. They have done so slued the days of De Witt Clinton. I thinb that the intorforeuoo of Presi dent Roosevelt did moro harm than good. "I realize now," saki Mr. O loll, "that i mfcde a mistako when 1 ao oopted the ohairmauship of tho stato oommittco while 1 waa governor. Tho people resent official and. outside in terfereaoe in tuoir looal polltioal .\ IT Airs. That lu why 1 say that the lnterierenoe of Prestos t Boosevelt In the last oarapaign did more harm than good. "I Uo not wish to appear In tho role of general orltici of the oouduot of tho Campaign, but, so far as I oan make < ut, thorn was no real cam paign. JNo use was made of there cord of tho rcpublioau party. It was all a eade of personalitUB between the oandld^es for governor. Wo should have i: .-iud for many of tho things thU fcfy. Hearst advocated, like the olght-. 'mr law, the three platoon j sya tpw *or the po'doo and firemen." [ . ->?.>,< Lu -'-i.-. ?/r- n.."i. w," ???,ti\V " ?BU.I?,.IBU ?a ? p-unmoci i?^\ox 1 ->y hts oampaigu, and that wa)\e b e might not be oleotod presi dent, h ? waB now a man to bs reckon ed with In thc future. Ho said that a oomYtlnatlon of Bryan and Hearst would, be hard for the republicans to beat. 't_ A Failli ll UK, After a day spent iu Investigating the de&bh of Thomas Dougherty, of Dunmore, Pa., who ?vas killed by be ing pierced by alon? needle; the lo loal polloe decided to withdraw tho , warrant that had bee,- issued for tho j arrest of Kal o Burke, tao girl who Was suspeocod of having caused Doug? j Duogherty's dfja?.h Mis.* Burke baja a J she had been mondiug ber brother's I oluthes with a loi.g needle, and that ongoing down town In tho evening j she stuok lt in the husein of hor drona. A Dougherty, who bad boon he.*" swoot i hears, hailed hor and aoked her to I take a walk with him. Ho aur.rap j ted to embrace her, aud the point of tho needle that waa . in lier dres? ? I oaught lu his vast while, tho blunt j ond rested against her corset. In the I embraoo tlio uoedlo wau forced into f his body, througii tho fifth rib and t into the oavity between tho pericar 8 dlum and tho heart. Hemorrhage rt resulted that caused tho death. el Thur Munt ba Closed, 8 A dispatoh from Topeka, Kansas, r says owing to tho great danger to n both human and animal lifo oaused ,. by tho abandoned ubi. fui in the Kan l( 8*s and Mlsu'ouil aloe Uolda stops will ? immediately bo t^^ou co havo thom K dosed up. In some parts of this Stato ,f there ate areas of acres in extont cl where tho Bimi is are not moro than j. twenty feo'o apart, arv;, owing to the ?llway they arc covered with R?ase*, 'H weeds and shrubs are extremely dan u gorouB to lhe. Aa tho laws of the f. stato com am? lt public sentiment wi tr compel the c Mol ala to order tho own ie I ners of tho property to close up tho d snafu It is generality believed in this 't State that horses and oattle advet i- Used as stolen have boon kat in th: shafts and tlio opinion la also preva il lont that a very largo number of pAr it soii'iwho have boen rio elbe J from tlm;j ri time as "missing" mot their deaths n lu thom, as tho two States are honey \. combed with thom In sovoral plaoes. 'j (). )( HOAIldAlH. f. It now appears tliab many Bums of :e money large and small, that were >d sent from di ? forent States to San > Franolsoo for tiio roliof of sufforors from tho oalamlly novar reached the 1- relief ooramltteo. Some of these id amounts, whloh aggrcate.d largo suma lo ware mailed bo the caro of Mayor kd SchmliiZ. F. J. Hooey, Detective rd Willly .i? Burus md about 105 govern io munt agents havs boon making an In? a vcstlgatlou, President .ttousovolt Ifi 8- tho moving spirit behind tho Inquiry, ts atid ho dr elat es that no man gull y ol or diverting the relief funds shall esoape io Justice. The oases come within jd j lrlsdiotion of tho Fedoral authoritlet oeoauso of tho Interstate oharaotor ol io tho pestai sorvico willoh lt ls allogod, was crlrolnallv tamporod with. It h P. said that in tho aggregate the steal ra inga will amount of 91 ;003,000, 0, J Will Honor liOO. )k Tho University of South Oarollnt m will observe in titting manner the cen m tenary of Robert V) Loo. Majoi tie Young of Charleston, one of the few n- surviving morabers of General Loe'i id IsUCf, will dollvor an address, SAD 8T0EY OF A YOUNO MAN AT BAIJIBBUHY, N.O. Who ?tole Fifteen Thousand Dollars < From the Express Comp any and left. The Columbia Rooord says Super* In tondent O. M. Sadler, of the South- 1 ?rn Express oompany, has been in 1 Salisbury for soveral days, Investiga* 1 ting tho disappearance ci W. S. Gray, j the young night olerk at Salisbury, who absconded Sunday night with all iii? collection from the.afternoon and 1 night train?, aggregating a total which the oompany has not yet been ' kble to estimate exaotly, but which lt ls feared will mn upwards of $15,000. Gray ls well known In Columbia, es- 1 peolally among the expressmen and lo railroad circles. He is only about sev* ' anteen, but has baen in the employ of the Southern Express company for 1 levoral years. How much confidence din superiors had in him ls shown by 1 the foot that he was entirely in charge A tho money shipments at night, and 1 these ran into fabulous sums now and then, at a juuotional point on a main 1 trunk lino, suoh as Salisbury. Many 1 af tho paroel8 of money are in looked 1 and Bealed pouches and the olork oan only gueBS at their value, but often he 1 ls perfectly aware of the faot that 1 uurrcnoy, Jewels or securities *t enor- 1 mous worth are in his keeping. Gray has the appearance of a man twenty-one years old, and is about Qvo and a half fest) in height, with light hair and eyes and bad complex ion. Four of his front teeth are out. He ' lites with his left hand in a very poculiar way. When last seen by oom pany oQloiais he was wearing a dark 1 mit of olothes and a gray sweater with 1 % blaok slouch hat. De took with him, 1 in addition to the missing 816,000 or < moro m oash, a Harrington & Rloh irdson revolver and a small ?iamond ? pin. He is a native of Greensboro, 1 where ho has prominent relatives, and waa looked upon by the oompany as a j promibing and strlotly reliable young tuan. Gray absconded Sunday night, after mooting No. 36, his last train, and [?.ho monoy in his possession was miss* ?d shortly afterward, but until Wed nesday afternoon the offioials kept the matter quiet, pushing an Investiga tion and trying to got somo cluo as to Stray's whereabouts. Gray was bond id with a surety oompany, but lt ls not known whether the amount ls mffiolent to oovor his shortage- He ara ve receipts for all paokagea entrust ad to him, and lt in only in having all the messengers who passed through Salisbury Sunday night roport their receipts and from these traolng the ! packages to the sending offices that tho exa? '^mount of the young olorkjs a dc ?rn important) "' jain Vine wains, all of whioh oarry heavy oxpress ship ments, passsd Salisbury during Sunday night, and Gray made exobangea with all of them, probably getting monoy consignments from most of them. One Columbia express messouger handled under similar circumstances.on a re cant night's work currenoy, green backs and seourltlos whioh he knew amounted to approximately $1,200, ooo. SPEAK KINDLY. Bo Careful What You Hay to All About You. Nevor speak words that are calcu lated to unnecessarily wound tho feel ings of any one. If you have an ene my, do not say harsh or unkind words to him. It will only mako him a great er enemy. Lifo is not long and his enmity oanuot last long, and that probably that next time you seo him he will ho cold In death. Then you will wish you had not said hard things to him, Don't speak unkindly to your friend for fear you make an enemy out of him. You need all the friendships you oan make in this world. If you have a mothor, never say an unkind or slight word to her but re member that for you she has toiled and labored and su Herod; her constant thoughts have boon employed for you; her most earnest prayers have boen of ferod for you; hor love for you will last though all tho world may be against you. If you have children, apoak uot unkindly to them. You oan win and keep their love better by kindness than by harah wolds. If you have u wife that you love, say not ono cutting or unkind word to hoi. Say not a word that would have tuc least tendonoy to wound her footings, causo a pang of sorrow or one moment of sad roilooblon, for if you do, you my drlvo away the oonildenc? she has in you and cause her wounds that time oan nevor hoal. Wo should he cautious in what we say to thoBe whom we lovo and whom heaven has ?ivan us to bo our own. Not even jestingly should we say that whioh will mako tho slightest wounds, for somotlmos oven words, jestingly oi i onrelcssly spoken loavo a sting that last forever. ' Trftvol TbrouKb Air* Santo-Dumont, sinoo tho successful flight of his aeroplano, "Tho Bird ol Proy," predicts tho early approaoh ol tho day whon all mankind will bc navigating the air and whon flying machines will be moro oommon than automobiles. Indood he thinks, that thc dying machine will eventually be ; come the "pom man's automobile.' It will hu saver, raster and ohoapor. He said that next yoar pooplo will be ablo to go to tho seashoro on theil aeroplanes. It will beoomo the fad ' and oommenoomont of an industry. Family Tragedy. ' Milton Pitts, a prosperous farmei i nix milesifrom Griffin, Ga., shot and > killed his brother, Charles, 61 yean I old. Tho elder brother, Ben, ther i turned his woapon upon himself i sending a bullet through his heart - Jealousy oauscd the double tragedy Mrs. Milton Pitts having been obsorv od speaking to Charles after her hus hand had warned hor not to do so. Nogro llAiifsod. Ciarles E. Grant, a negro, whi murdered a negro woman named Bvi Barnes was hanged at Washington D. C, on Friday. BU) W?ECK. ?NB MAN IUI,MOO AND ANOTHBll FATAl/IiY INJUIIISD. Collision Between a Work Train aud a Freight Attended With Fatal EeaulU. One man was killed, another fatally injured, several others severely hurt in a collision Friday morning between % work train and a freight so von miles from Columbia on the road between Columbia and Charlotte. T. G. Lloyd flagman, on the woik brain, was killed. M. W. Kelsey, white, flagman on the work train, was fatally Injured, but was brought to Columbia alive. J. A. Triplett, oonduoter, bruised and sbaken up. G. W. Parish, engineer, slightly hurt. W. F. Snipes, engineer, seriously injured. Ernest Clayborn, fireman, slightly injured. M. T. Crouch, fireman, slightly hurt. All of these llvo in Columbia, ex oept Kelsey, whose home ls in ?hester. All are white. Orouoh had only recently gone to work on the railroad, having served an enlistment o? four years in the navy. Ue ls a oousin of Senator eleot B. W. Orouoh, of Saluda. The work train was extra No. 476, working with limits between Oolum bia and Bljthewood, a distanco of 19 milos. The work train had orders to orotoot againBtNo. 828, extra freight, northbound. It is siatod by the railroad offlolals that these orders wero disregarded and that tho work brain was on the main track when it mould have been on the sido traok, ?nd as usual tno orew of the train mitered for tho oversight Extra frolgbt, No. 828, north bound, ran Into the work train at 8 05 o'olook. Tho orew ot the freight bralu saw the work train In time to jump and none of them was hurt. The freight was in charge of Oonduo tor .E. S. Motte and Engineer George W. Parish. Capt. Mott's home Is at No. 2,303 Park street, Columbia. Engineer Parish lives at No. 1,010 Blending street Columbia. The work train was in oharge of Oonduotor J. A. Triplett and Ea g.necr W. F. Snipes. Conductor Tripletas home is at No. 1,017 Tay lor street. Tue oolllslon ooourred at the 99 mlle post, seven miles north of Co lumbla. The engine of No. 470 wa? badly damaged, and the oabooso also A oar of merohandise and seed wes born up, but the rest of the train was not seriously Injured. Passenger train No. 30, duo to leave there at ? 10, was tunning two Ko?iva ?.ml 20 m o*'-* late and reach it oooun The passengers from No. 27, due aero at 10 a. m., were transferred to No. 20 and No. 30 oame back to this olty, being sent to Ohar lotte by way of Spartanburg. Neither No. 30 or extra freight No. 828 had any orders in regard to tho work train, as it was tho duty of the work train to keep out of the way of the freight and passenger trains. The orew of the freight train saved themselves by Jumping, as they saw the work train 100 yards off and thc engineer put on the breaks In time. It would seem that the men on thc work train did not know anything at all about tho approach of tho freight, as thoy were all hurt more or lext seriously. Southern's surgeon, Dr. F. D. Ken dall went at onoo the soeno with wrecking train, and Dr. Kon dall came back to the o 11 : with the Injured. Capt. William? remained at the sooue all day super lntonding the work of clearing th traok. flumed to Duath, Near Cold Water, Mich., Mrs Charles Mowry, aged 21 years, am her three ohildren, aged six, three and baby six months, wore burned fc death early Wednesday In their hom on the farm at Batavia station Oharles Mowry, tho husband am father rose oarly and built fires li the house, ne then wont to th barn to do ohores and while there dis coverod that his houso was atlro. II rushed baok, but the flames had mad suoh headway that he could not cr tor tho houso and his oalls through tb windows to his family brought no r< sponso. It ls thought that tho mot! er and throe ohildren suffooated t death while asloeep. Flo wily Col lo?? Mon. AtFayottovlll, Ark., Henry Rougl a policeman, was shot and serious wounded during a riot with Btuden of the University of Kansas. Thre hundrod oollcgo boya wero parcdh tho streets and giving their oolloj yolls, booausoof an atholotlo vlotoi over a rival. When tho oflloor ask? them to boooms less riotous they d filed him and ho arrested ono of tber. The students then surrounded tl oillccrs and in the molee whioh fe lowed he was shot in the baok. Rou* promply released tho boy under a rostand tired sovoral shots at tho fie lng orowd, but none took effect. Bhonltl Bo ll mu';. Silas Con?way, a minor, of Flusl lng, Oblo, shot and instantly kilU Marom) Plvorlttl, an Italian stor keepor with whom he qaarroled Sa; nay-night. Following the murd Oonaway made his esoape anda poss formed by Shorift Amrlno, is now I pursuit. Tho murdor has oaust muon cxolbCoienb among the forelf population of Flushing. In 1884 1 shot and badly wcunded Marsh Jos. McCjnnaughy of Brldgcpor Ohio, and sorvod twolvo years for tl orlmo lu tho Ohio penitentiary. lulled by Auto, By the overturning of au so-im bile, eau .ed Ly tho breaking of tl steorlng gear, near Five-milo ?ree near Birmingham, AU., Friday af tl noon, "Jack" Mart!n, a prominent a tornoy of that olby was lnatautly kl ei, and Dwid J. Fox, a well knov business nun, waa aovlonsly Injure Martin oame to Birmingham flttoi year? *go frc m OlMkavllie, Tenn, FRAUD ORDER Issued Against the Western v*at r]monial Agency Which Did a TBBIVING BUSINESS In Trying lo Get Husbands and Wives for Women and Mea Who Would linn?Soy Them Prom Time to Time. Barred Prom the Malls. Zack McGhee, the splended 'Wash ington correspondent of The State, . says a rather novel fraud order just issued by the posto ill oe department ls against no leas a beneficent publto in situation than a matrimonial agency, an institution not much known in our part of the oountry. As a rule in tho South people of marriageable proollv tics have a bettor way of m?etlng each other. It is Only when they send afar off for a mate that they patronise some of tho Northern matrimonial agenoles. But In Borne of these Northern towna, where matrimony ls more of a business than a pleasure, the matri monial agenoles sometimes do almost aa big a business as the divorce courts. O .io Adolph J. Miller of Detroit, Mtoh., has been conducting one of these agencies, and with apparent success, but at last ho has run a muck of tho postal laws of the United States, and they are about to put him out of business. Some of the papers announoed something r bout lb Wed nesday, but thc quite interesting faots, whioh this correspondent bas obtain ed at the depsrtment, were not given. The "Home Olrole" is the came of thia great institution for the dispen sation of marital bliss, and the price for enlistment is for men $5, for ladles (thero are no womer) $4. The little preliminary fee was io furnish infor mation to the men about the ladles, and to the ladies abc ut the men, ana to oontrlvo after some manner ap proved in saolety to lntroduoe thoona to tho other. So far, good. There is no fraud in this. Rut the manager ot "the Home Ol'rcle" began, it is alleg ed, to misropresent tho ladles, assign ing to them traits of oharaoter whioh they had not, or whioh their acquain tances know not of. This, of course, was highly reprehensible, and Uncle Sam Intervened so far as the usa of the malls by the business is concerned. There must be a square deal, he says. s Oao of the advertisements im a in Washington; age 24; worth $3 600 cash; bachelor, girl, ago 23; worth $12,000. Write us." Now tneso bb valuab.e maidens, one worth $3.600 and the other $12,000, and- suspicion was naturally aroused. An investiga tion showed that this manager of tho Home Circle really knew no snoh maidens, at least none who had en trusted their futuro happiness to him. One of his letters to a prospeob reeds: "We have a member living not so far from vou who would like to corres pond with a view to marriage. The lady mentioned above ls 26 years of ago, has dark hair and dark eyes; height 6, 6; weight 120; she wishes to correspond with a view to marriage. 1 'If you beoome a member, we will do cur best to give you satisfaction. Wc havo reliable members in all parts of the United States, and can give you a list and suit almost any descrip tions that you may wish. "Our Interest in you does not cease when you become a member. Wo are more interested then than ever before. When you aro a member we strive td ( marry you speedily." To this letter were appended a few 'Remarks," reading, "We consider this a brilliant chance; she has money, ls handsome, and a lady in every *>ouse of the word." The postoiboo inspeotor reported that this enterprising manager was misrepresenting some of these ladies he had on his list. He said the names, given with so muoh aocuraoy of detail, oto., wore liotltious. The manager, he believoB, knowing that thee were suoh ladies in tho world somewhere corresponding to the above descrip tion--and wanting to get married, too -wliy he Just undertook to advertise them. And somohow he seemod to have dono a good business, so that he must havi had some Inside knowledge of human nature. Naturally a mat rimonial agency, as a fortune teller, must havo. ! Pint io Kill KiiiK? The pol leo of Rome, Italy, have boon informed that several people j who are In the habit of renting win e" dows along tho route usually taken by uj royal processions, have been approach ed by mysterious persons who wiBh to rent not only windows, but entire rooms for the day when the King of Greeoo arrives ab Rome. Tue polioo botet ve this to be au ovidonoo of an anarohist plot. v id o a or e, In d rn ie al b, 16 0< ne k. ir -t li ra a, in BhoottiiK Mompo* During a quarrel at Sayres Mino a fow milos from ibrminhtm, Ala., Sunday afternoon Doo Mau and Oioar Linn, two whito men, ensrrged in a shooting affray in -.vhtoh both reoelved mortal inj iri?. Sam Stevens, a ne gro, who was standing near, received injuries from whioh ho will die. l.lrlK?n()B /Votivo. Reports aro bolng reoelvod at Athens, Greece, constantly concern ing the aotivity of brigands in tho Salonika. It ls (Iodated that a num ber of men, women and oh lld ron hate been massoared at Ko.ialuoo and Ram ell, and that a band killed 'fifteen Greeks in the neighborhood of Nl&ous ta and carried their mutilated bodies into that town. Die? -From Wounds. Dr. E. 8. MoDow, who was shot bj his brother-in-law, J. A. Bridges, on the street of Heath Springs, died of his wounds. Bridges has surrendered,