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1 he Democrat. 'DO TH, 9BBAT MBBftTY, IMPIB? O?B B?HLS ABD H?M0VOUVI8 IB THY BOMMSIOX H A PPT OB OU* DBATH8 SliOBJOO* IB THY OACBB." VOL. XXXIJ rr. DENNETTSVILBE, S. C., FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1907. LOSES HIS LIFE. Cadet Jackson Drowned in the Surf at Isle of Palms. THE ANNUAL PICNIC Wus Tho Event That Took tho Boya to tho Seushoro ?nd tho Outing Was (heady Marred by tho Sad Accident. Cadet Simms, Rigby, Dhubo and Others Tiled (o Save Jackson. Tho Nows and Courier says the annual picnic of tho South Carolina Military Academy canto to a trngio end Thursday hy the drowning of ono of tho cadets in the surf. A num ber of tho cadets went in bathing af tor lunch and about five o'clock it WUB learned that Cadet W. J Jack son, of Winnsboro, was drowned. Tho young man was among tho number of three or four, who moro venture some than the rest, went out in the Boa much too far. It seems that all of theso were good swimmers and felt confident that they could suscessfully battle with the waves despite a warning which had been given (hom that the soa was running high. Young Jack son had become exhausted and his friends nearby became conscious of his perilous condition and immouiate ly callod for bel)). They were all nearly exhausted and wero in great danger themselves. Harold Simms, the nearest to Jack son, soelng his friend drifting away wont bravely to his rescue, lighting manfully against the waves and suc ceeding at expense; of ids remaining Strength to bring tho half drowned boy a few yards shoreward. Ho thou became suddenly helpless, but held on, swearing to his comrade that, he would either save him or drown With him. Jaskson seemed conscious, but altogether helpless, and made no ef fort to save himself, except as is us ual with a drowning mah, at his res cuer's expense. lt is reported that he begged Simms to let him loose and save him self. Cadets Rigby and Dimke, them selves also exhausted rushed as well as they could to the drowning and almost drowned men. They succeed ed in getting them closer to land, when till of a sudden, an Immense breaker came and. broke thom apart. Much of this happened before the peoplo on snore realized its true sig nificance. The calls for help were at first supposed to bo in fun, as so often ls the case. Hut soon it was realized that tho cadets were In grave dangor and tho peoplo on shore Im mediately sot. to work lo aid them. Mr, Wingate, an employee on (he island stripped off his clot nos on the beach and swam out toward the boys. Many cadets were soon with him and they succeeded in bringing Cadets Rigby, Simms and nimbo, they all of them in a state of exhaustion, particularity Simms, who had to bo treated for some time before ho was qidto himself. There wa? no doctor present and tho (ask was very dif ficult. Miss Estelle Thomas rendered n great deal of service to the half drowned youth by her knowledge of nursing. Mr. Wingate swam out ?ts far as ho could with safety to him self and usefulness to the almost, drowned cadet before be gave up tho attempt. There was no boat on the beach, bul Mr. Wingate sent out a squad of cadets to tho back hench, where one was found and brought to him tn the water; he refused to take any of tho crowd but Mr. Dave Coch vun. They rowed finite a distance out, searching ?ill the time for tho body, for too yottng utan had drowned. The search proved futile, and (hey re turned to tho shore. The colleagues of the popular young so I dior were not Content with this and despite the great danger in which they placed themselves, Cadets HUCK, Qrlmhnll, Woodward and (Mark set out again in tho boat. In search. They were also unsuccessful and lt was nor until 10:10 last night, that the body was found by the patrol made tip of cu tlets and their friends. The searching party was organized soon after the affair occurred and the cadets divided themselves up into sec tions to patrol tho beach by turns until tho body was recovered. lt was about 10:10 o'clock when Cadet Wtitson discovered tho body of the ' unfortunate young man about 1,200 feet east, of tho pa viii lon. Imme diately after tho sad event all the pleasures of tho day came lo a close, dancing ceased and tho band lofl tho pravllllon. Al G: lu most of tho crowd loft tho Isle. A gloom was cast over the entire assemblage and the day Ililli dad bo gati so auspiciously and happily caine to a most deplorable close. Cadet William .1. Jackson was a member or the Freshman class, having enter ed the Academy in October, the hol der of a scholarship from Fairfield County. Ills home was in Wlnnsboro and he was the pride and hope of a widowed mother. Mrs. M. A. Jackson. Ho was a young man of flue parts and In bis short career at tho Cita del bas made many friends among tho students and faculty. Ho was a splendid specimen of young manhood stood well in his class and, was f r?roal favorite of all those who knew him. SHOT HHIIH0 Ol'" A XKillT. Husband Missing and Woman Will *fy Probably Not Recover. The police of Sooth Franklin, Mass., have been unable to locale Johan Danollo, who is alleged lo have shel his bride ol' a night. Frances Danollo, ni their newly prepared home SUndiiy night. The young bride was still alive flt midnight, hilt lillie hope was expressed ol' ber re covery . The pair were married Sunday and entertained friends in their new hollie until marly midnight, when (hey retired, tho groom's father who occupied fi room upstairs, being the only other occupant of tho house with them. Farly Monday he was aiTOUSOd by hearing revolver shots downstairs, and bullying down lo tho bridal room ho found tho young woman ly ing on th<> bed, with three bullet wounds and three slab wounds in her body. The husband had dissapeared. No causo ls known for the doed. WAS A DEAD SHOT An Insano Man Uses a Shot-gun With Terrible Results. Little GlvVa Plea Causes Rind Man to Drop Weapon After It Had Peen IA*voled nt Her. At San Francisco Walter Charley ?avis, a carpenter. In a nt of Insan ity Wednesday shot and killed six persons nt 414 Ploro street, tn that city. Davis and his victims all re sided with tho family of Irson Hush, who conducted a boarding house. Davis' homo was in Fnrmvlll, near Violin, where ho has a wlfo and six children. Ho has been working in San Krancisco us a carpenter since Hie flro. Tho shooting was dono with a dou ble barreled shotgun. Davis who slept in tho samo room with young Orson Hush and W. ES. Beard, arose shortly after five o'clock nnd shot hin two room mates. After killing Mush and Heard, Davis took a box of shells from a shelf and walked down tho ball way, where ho mot Mrs. Dillie Cnrothers, a boarder, who had beard tho first two shots nnd had como to her doorway to find what was tho matter. He shot bol and with tho other shell, shot Mrs. Orson Hush. M. ES. Vlnton, a gov ernment BUVeyor, was killed ns be lay In bed. Orson Hush, Sr., beard the shooting and rushed up stairs, whore ho was mot. by the murderer. Tho appearance in tho hall indi cates that Hush bad made a desper ate tight for his life, lils body was found'as it bad fallen nt tho head of the stabs. Seventeen year old Annie Hush came running Into tho hallway and met Davis. He turned tho gun upon tho girl, aiming nt her bead. The girl found voice to say, "Please don't kill me," and the shotgun dropped from Davis' hands. I can't do it," be said. "You are a good girl. Besides you look like my own child, and I would not see h?r face If I killed you." When policemen came to arrest Davis he fought like a demon and a riot call was turned in. Seven ofll ?ors responded In an automobile. Two nfllcers engaged Davis in a conversa tion while the others got behind bim und pinioned his arms. He was then removed to tho detention hospital. .SOU. St'B VIO Y MAPS. Work of The Agricultural Depart ment for this State. Tlie department of agriculture, through each of several bureaus, is giving special attention to the state nf South Carolina. The bureau of soils has a parly in the bold making a very careful survey of tho soil of Leo and Sumter counties. Upon com pletion tho maps will be ready for distribution to all who make appli cation for them. The maps that are now completed and BUbJoel to dis tribution In the state are of the count irs of Anderson, G roon wood, Laurens, Greenville, Spartanburg, Charleston, Col loton, Cherokee, Dar lington, Lancaster, Oconee, Orange burg and York. All reprints are now ivnllable of those counties upon ap plication without cost to the nppli .anls. Chief Clerk Hire will bo dossed to forward to all who can imiko ?i proper uso of them. Professor True, of the divission of Irrigation and drainage, ls now push ing tho drainage work near Charles ton neck. Ho is flnishing the work in ['brist Church Parish! nt a point .ailed Point Pleasant, opposite Char leston, isle of Palms, nnd between Ashley and the ocean. (lo hopes to In great measure make il more heal thy, and to redeem about :iG square milos of land. At .lett burg ?{00 acres of hind that have been given over by the Southern railroad will receive attention, and when the exports have completed their pori of the work, it will be turuod to the Clemson college fol further exploitation. A special effort is hoing made lo benoni healthful conditions and there hy increase the amount of rico lands and better class of lund for truck farming, tho latter crops paying bet ter than other crops. They also wish lo aid the people to pity more atten tion to divers!Mod crops; as this gen erally pays bolter than to rely mainly upon a crop of one kind. S F,< ' I KIM. UK.Il IS OF \V A Y. Work on Fleet ric Hoad to Begin About September I. Mr. John li. Stromnn of Orange burg wont to Aiken last week at ending to business relative to tin oust rut-t ion of the Cha rleston-A ikea oleelric railway, which is hoing fur bored hy tho South Carolina Publi ?service Corporation. Ho ?tato? ih. be rights of way from Springfield U .colt's bildge. on tho ICdisto, h ri vi ?eon seemed rind thal he IH now ne ^.tinting for those from H?tt plitee I' Aiken. Nearly ?ill of tho deals foi .iglits from Springfield lo Orango . urg have been closed. Mr. Stroinan Untos that a double track will proba blj be laid and that it is the purpose >f the promoters to put on fast sched ules, milking probably Tu miles ?in hour. The line of the road from Springfield to Aiken will bo from that place through Mr. .lehn (itiig nnrd's lands to Mr. J. P, Mi Nidi 's place, thence across the Kdisto near Scott's bridge and across Shaw's crook near tho Hnlchawny bridge, thence through thc lands of Messrs. George Wright, L. C. Courtney, Croft ?inti c. K. Henderson Into Aiken. The construction of the road will begin about tho Inst of Septem ber. WO.MFN Ct T TO PIFCFK. Miltl?atOd Willi Ua/.ors at their Home In New York. Al New York Mrs. Marbi Vite and her mother, Mrs. Maria Rl'lglioli were literally stashed to pieces with razors in their home. Giovanni Vito, tho husband of tho young woman is un der arrest, charged With tho crime. Vite says ihiil two men broke in and killed the women, anti tbal be had a struggle with them in their de fence. Mrs. Itrlgnoll gave tho alarm which called the police. An Occupant of n noihhoring apartment heart) a tapping on the window. Looking out she saw Mrs. Krlgnoli on tho flt'O escupe In hor night dross with blood flowing from hor throat. Sho fell back dead. EXCITING RACE. Murderer Carried to Safety In an Auto by the Sheriff. MOB WANTED HIS LIFE Lauded in Miami Jnil Ho Pleads Solf-Dofonce as Excuso for Killing. Asked Stranger to Drink. I'll Compel You!" Ho Shouts, After lief usai; Then Two Bullets Were Fired. Smashing all speed law? and cram ming on every ounce of speed which a big racing automobile was capable, Sheriff Martin Thursday whirled T. W. Troy, of New York, from West Palm Beach to Miami, to prevent his prisoner from hoing lynched for tin; murder or George N. Newcomb. Hud the sheriff delayed five minu tos the friends of the man whom the prisoner shot would have torn him from Hie grasp of the olllclals and un doubtedly killed him. Troy arrived at West Palm Beach on tho steamer Cilecia, from a South American city. Aftor leaving the vessel he went to a saloon and start ed drinking. He is said to have be come almost intoxicated. It is said that Troy asked New comb to drink with him. Newcomb declined. This enraged tho New Yorker, and after a bitter quarrel with the man who Bp urned the invi tation, Troy shouted'. "I'll compel you to drink with me!" The visitor pulled a revolver and leveled lt at Newcomb, who, retained Iiis placid mien, still refused to take a drink with Troy. No sooner had tho second refusal been uttered than Troy pulled the trigger twice add two bullets plough ed into NoWcobm, .. .ling him In stantly. Troy was arrested a few minutes later and taken In chargo by the sheri ff. Newcomb's friends gathered soon afterward and sought out tho Now Yorker, who had quietly gone with the sheriff, saying he had killed lils victim in self-defence. The nows was Hung broadcast, and a crowd gather ed around where Troy was being held. Martin, divining the intent of thc mob, summoned an automobile and soon was dashing lo Miami where he could hind his prisoner In safety, and bo assured of protection against lynchers. Troy says that he and his brother, Dallied W. Troy, who has had offices In No. 6$ Wall street, are In the lum ber business. Ile has telegraphed Uv Daniel to ebh'io and "aid him in his fight, should the case como to trial, as Is expected. MILLIONS TO ll IS WIDOW. Tobacco Magnate Who Wed Nurse Las! October Dead. By the sudden death of Charles H. Ilalliwel), vice-president of the Am erican Tobacco Company, tho bulk of his groat fortune will go to his wife of a few months, who, before her marriage to him, had been Ruth A. Coles, a pretty train nurse, depen dent uI'M)ll her labor for her dally bread. He left, lt ls estimated, $20, 000,006. The fatal seizure came to the To hnceo Trust magnate? while he was at dinner in the Holland House with his bride and his holcc. He was tell ing the two young women a humor ous story when his face suddenly be came swollen and Hushed and ne fell from his chiiir unconscious. Some hours later he died. Apoplexy Will, given as tho cause of Mr. Ililli i wei l's (loath. It was last October that he mar ried the handsome young woman who had nursed him through to conval eseono following an operation for ap pendicitis. His physicians had or dered him to Virginia. Miss Coles chanced to be (be nurse who was de tailed to accompany the Halli well parly. Later, while be was recuperating in ?ltllU?, Miss Coles wen! along, still in tho capacity of nurse for tho idling millionaire. Long before he became convalescent be had fallen in love with the woman. liefere be wont with the trust, Mr. Halllwell was the hoad of the big tobacco firm or Liggett Ai Myers, ?it St. Louis. T I II; DEADLY Airo. Woman Loses Control of Machine and ls Killed. While racing with a Jersey Central railroad train between Point Pleasant .ind Asbtiry Park Wednesday, an au tomobile in Which Mrs. QoorgO H. Royce and Miss A. Wilda Mass, of Point Pleasant, were riding, was ov erturned, and Miss Mass was killed instant ly. Mrs. Royce, wife of un automobile dealer in New York city, was render ed unconscious and was taken to her home In Point Pleasant. Mrs. Royco was operating the ma chine. Tho train had Just left Point Pleasant, bound fen- Asbtiry Pink, whore the automobile, going at a terrific paco, came along tho road way, which parallels the railroad (racks and attempted to pass the I rain. Passengers in the I rain witnessed Hie accident ?uni crowded lo the plal forms and windows, cheering tho two women as the machine steadily forged ahead of the train. Just as the automobile was abreast of the locomotive, and when both were going' ai (be rate of 50 miles an hour, Mrs. Royco lost control of Hie automobile. The machine swerv ed from the roadway, went over an embankment Into a swamp and over turned, .-rushing Miss Mass. MOKi: PAY POR UNCI NEEDS Tho Southern Railway Increases (he Wages of Locomotive Drivers. Effective al onie (he locomotive engineers on Hie Southern Railway through the system have boen grant ed an Increase in wages amounting to ten per cent for passenger engi neers and f. per cent for freight men, and r>0 cents and 4 5 cento, rospcetlve por hour ovorttmo. SCARED TO DEATH. When the Gentleman Got His Sil ver Ear Trumpet The Negro Hotel Porter Thought lt Was a Big Horse Pistol anti Han For His Life. A laughable mistake occurred ono night hist woek at tho Piedmont, ono of Atlanta's big hotels. Tho fol lowing ls tho story ns related by tho Atlanta Journal: A shattered cup of coffee, a porter frightened almost Into hysterics and a narrowly averted panic on tho so cond floor of tho Piedmont hotel wot thc result of nu effort by Grand Com mander .lohn .1. Sony, of Home, to employ bia harmless oar trumpet ns a means for communicating with a negro employe at 5:30 o'clock Thurs day morning. Grand Commander Sony who num bers his friends hy hosts In other or ganizations as well as Masonry, lp compelled to use bis ear trumpet on nearly all occasion?. This little black trumpet is a most, harmless in strument in the eyes of bis friends. To the porter this name ear trumpet was a means of terror nnd it requir ed much persuasion to convince tho negro who had taken refuge behind the elevator shaft and was peering ? with wide anxious eyes at the trum pet Mr. Seay held In bis bands. The grand commander was not j Bile to sleep well Tuodny night on iccount of a severe headache. Un ible to secure any relief bo thought ' lint a cup of black coffee might bo ised as a remedy. Ho telephoned .0 the night clerk and asked him to dense send up the coffee. Realizing that he would not bo j ihlo to hear the porter knock ot bis loor when he came with tho cup of ioffee Mr. Seay left his door slightly f >pon, with the one incandescent light 1 urned on. When the negro came to tho door , dr. Seay saw him in tho half dim ( Ight. Ile sprang from the hod and 1 darted rapidly toward the dresser f vhere bis ear trumpet was. As he ( oached out his hand for the trumpot 1 here came a piercing sbrlok from f he negro and as tho grand common- * 1er turned he saw the cup fall from N be negro's hands and shatter on he floor, the black coffee spattering F he walls. Thon the negro fled to the elevator ?haft, and wrestled vainly with tho 1 loor to escape by means of tho shaft. J ir. Seay with bis oar trumpet fol- J owed. Seeing tho negro's alarmed 1 londition Mr. Seay called to him, f oiling him he did not Intend to hurt J din. ' "Well then, Boss, for Gawd's sake, ^ nit down that big Colt's pistol you J nive in your bands." t . ? ? i M. ????-ttiT-v ?; -<?..?. --rr-- I '. A CYCLONE) IN TEXAS. ['own of Pl ight well Was Completely ? Wiped Out, A dispatch from Mount Pleasant, 'exns, says nine persons were killed n ind many Injured by a tornado which vrecked tho town of Birthright and ^ tldgeway. Details aro meagre, hut ( t. is known that other towns suffer- j id heavily hot h in lifo and property. v The cyclone practically destroyed " ho towns of Ridgeway and Hirth- B ight, forty milos wost of bore. The killed, so far as known, are: ' Mrs. Brazil and baby. Calvin Trammel and son. ? Hoy MoFall. ( -. - -. Stevenson and wife. Sidney I.. Oakley and wlfo ; The Injured reported aro: Hon Pogue, skull fractured; Mrs. ' Ion Pogue, Internally Injured; Mrs. loo Ferguson, scalp wound. Birthright, a town of 500 was com- ( iletely wiped off tho map. Croat lainage ls reported at Caney, a negro settlement, and il is believed many nore were killed there. MURDER AND SUICIDE. Man Kills His Wife and Then Him self By .Shooting;. As the result, it is alleged, of a [(Harrell over a wedding ring, Wm. :). Bice, aged L'5 years, of 131 Heck- ? man street, S. 13., of Washington, and : ii telegraph operator on the Balli- I moro ami Ohio railroad, shot and instantly killed his wife, Lillian, fir- 1 Od n shot at his one year old baby, 1 lOarl, which took effect in tho leg, mid thou committed suicide by shoot ing himself. Rico, who worked nights, return ed to lils home at an early hour Wed nesday morning and finding his wife and baby asleep, woke them up. A discussion ensued regarding Mrs. Rice's wedding ring, lt being alleged, that Rice had possession of the ring and would not return lt to lils wlfo. A quarrel followed, when Rice, soe ing a pistol lying on a table, fired four shots. St ( !CI0EI>8 HIS FATHER W. W. Bradley Elected Trustee of Clemson College. W. W. Bradley of Abbeville bas been elected a lifo member of the board In the place of lils father, J. KS. Bradley, who died a few weeks ago. Mr. w. w. Bradley is Congress man Aiken's private secretary. Mr. Bradley was former chairman of tho State board of equalization, having boon the prime mover in that body's organization. Ho ls about 10 years old. The board of trustees attended to regular routine business. No matters of importance cunio up for discussion Senator Tillman was present, it be ing tho first meeting he has attended In many months. SENSATIONAL CHARGES. Chinese Said To Have lb-en Thrown Into The Sen. It was reported that two sailors who escaped from tho British steam er Marori King which arrived at Sun Diego from Shanghai, make senst t iona I charges of brutality against tho Captain and officers of tho ship. Rumors aro in circulation to the effect that 15 Chin?se wero killed during a riot on board and their bodies cast Into t..o sea. Internat Ional complications are llkoly to result and lt ls believed that tho most serious hart of tho chargos romain to bo told. TRAIN WRECKED. At Least Thirty Persons Killed and Many Wounded. Tho Victims Wore Shrlnors ?nd Their Friends From Ohio and Pennsylvania Coining Home. Thirty people were killed outright mid OB any moro were wounded In wreck Saturday afternoon on tho coast line of thc Southern Pacific Hallway, sevon miles below Surf Cal., Tho train WIIH a special loaded with Myatic Shrlnors, who wore on tlwtlr way home from LOB Angeles where thoy had boon to attend a eon vondon of (ho order. The train con slut?d of BIX coaches and were loaded willi peoplo from Ohio and Ponnsyl vania. While running a( high speed i. wheel on the engine broke and thc locomotive jumped the track and turned over. Four of tho front cars of tho train followed lt and were smashed to pieces. Tho dead and in jured were (brown in every direc tion!, The train caught fire imme diately after tho wreck, hut the lin waa extinguished by passengers of th? two rear coaches, who wore un injured. Tho injured were hurled all over tho ongine and many of the pnssen S-ii's were burned to death by escap ing Bteam. Some of them wore mut ilated beyond recognition. The first man to reach Lo m poe from the wreck i few minnies to 9 o'clock Satur lay night said he had counted 10 load who had been taken from the wreckage and laid beside tho (rack. acoro or more were terribly Injur ?d. Many ol hers received less ser ous Injuries. Tho wreck oren ri ed on a level dretch of track near the beach. The . .odbed is of sand at (his point and nb broken cars ploughed Into 1( and vero half burled. The fireman ea rned alive, (hough Injured. The mgineer was hurt about (he head out wandered down (he track in a lA??ed condition towards Surf live Hifes distant. Ho had almost reach (hat placo when overtaken and i l. d back to the scone of tho A wrecking (rain had reached (he iftojt from Santa Barbara with a large lumbor of physicians and nurses on uiard. Tho Injured were given Ini r.odiato attention. They wore placed vl(h all speed on the train to be nkon either to Santa Harham of San ails Obispo. Several ladles were Linon?" the dead and Injured. Thoy .nd accompanied their husbands to ho meeting of the Shrlnors. Some if those who were killed were horri fy mutilated by being sculled and ..trued. SHOULD WOMEN POP fow York Dames Think They Should Propose To ?Men. Thal women should have equal Ights with men concerning propos ita of marriage was the stand taken ocently at a meet lng of the New fork City Federation of Women's Philis. Mrs. Hello de Rivera, pros dent of the federation, said that vomen certainly should have tin* Ight to propose as well as men. She aid she wondered how women were join g to marry, if they never had aa ipport unity. Speaking on tho same subject, Mrs. )ore Lyon, president of the Electric Mab, said she thouhht lt would bo lerfectly proper for girls to proposo n many cases. She said a rich girl ihould have tho right and that she night go about lt In this way. "Now ny dear, tf you would care to marry ne, 1 will obtain your parents con bul, I am able to support you in ho style your tastes require, and you iced not worry about a bank ac :ot nt." CAI (HIT IN FI KM THAR. Somber of Lives Lost lu Kansas Olly Hy a 1<Mre. A( Kansas CKy, fire destroyed (he Pepper building, a llvo-story struc ture nt Locust, and Ninth streets, ind It is feared that the los? of lifo may be from three to twenty, with 20 injured. Soon after the fire started it was seen that tho building, which was considered a Ore (rap, was doomed and efforts wore directed toward sav ing lives. The building was occupied by Montgomery, Ward & Co., and moro than 2 00 persons, mostly girls, were employed. The tho gained rapid headway. Men and women appeared at the up per stories appealing for help. Many of tho girls wero rescued. LOVE MAI) RIVALS. Foolishly KUI Fach Other Almut a Handsome Olid. A special dispatch from Pueblo, Mexico, says Lauro Jandero, million aire owner of several haciendas, and JofcQ Marla Beltran, municipal direc tor of Tiataiiqill, both aspirants for the hand or the daughter of a promi nent planter in that district, fought a duel with pistols In the streets thia morning In which both wore mortally wounded. The men had quarreled repeated ly and when they met this morning following an encounter or last, night, Beltran opened tire. Jandero re turned the fire and both men fell badly wounded. From their recum bent' positions they continued firing until each had received wounds which physicians say are mortal. BODY TERRIBLY SHOCKED Electrician Lives Aller Receiving I I. ooo Awful V|olls. Eleven thousand volts of elect ri city supposed to have passed through the body of .lames McDonald, un el ectrician, failed to kill him and he ls expected lo recover a! the hospital al New Rochelle N. Y. Ile was un SCOnselollS for SM hours arter Hu Shock which was received while he was working on tho overhead trolley system of the New York, New Haven &. ll arl ford railroad. McDonald fell from a platform and caught hold of a signal rod and a food wiro (o save himself. Follow workmen heard his screams and managed to rescue him by using rub ber glOV08. A BIG BILL Internal Revenue Collector After Dispensary Commission WANTS BACK TAXES Which Ho Claims ls Duo Undo Som On Account of the Dispensary Having Dono ft Wholesale os Well as Retail Business. Claims Thlr ty-livo Thousands Dollars as Li cense Foes. Major Micah Jenkins, collector of Internal revenue for South Carolina, ins notified tho state dispensary com nission that i ni mediato payment mist ho made to his department of loor license foes aggregating more han $33,000. This claim represents tho differ mco to dato between tho gross iniount of license feos actually paid >y the State on behalf of its soversl lounty dispensaries, and the amount vhich the Internal revenue depart nent alleges should have been paid. Che licenses taken out were for re nil beer dealers and permitted sales o individuals in single sales of not ' nore than four and sevon-olghts gal- [ ons each. The department's conten lon ls that nearly every beer dlspen or, as a matter of fact, repeatedly old to individual purchases moro , han tho specified amount of hoer at < ?ne time, and by so doing placed them 1 elves in tho class of wholesale deal- 1 rs. The fees for retail deulors ls 25 per year, that for wholesale ! ealers $125, with a penalty of 50 1 er cent for failure to pay in ad- 1 ance. ? Major Jenkins' claim is lor $28,- ' 00 in hack licenses, prior to the ast fifteen months, and $5,427 in ' ack licenses incurred during that 1 erlod-$3 5,4 27 in all, without in- < hiding the penalty of 50 por cont, * ditch would bring the claim up to t bout $53,000. Tho department has ?' greed, however, to remit the pon- < lty In case the face amount of the l labu ls paid over within ten days. 1 Attorney General Lyons and the s ?\minlssioner*H attorney, Mr. W. F. I tevenson of Cher aw, aro in consul- ] ition r.s to tho validity of the claim, di ich the commissioner has been j noted as saying lt will light. Tho c icnl dispensary organ this morning t noted dispensary olllcials ns saying J mt if beer dispensers had made sin- .1 lo sales in excess of the 4% gallons 1 mit! they did so In disobedience to c xplh.it directions, and the state com- t liBSion could not, therefore, he made I 1 pay excess license fees and penal- $ es, incurred through tho disohedl uce of the dispensers. Tho inter nee drawn was that the department ould have to sue on the individual f onds of the several dispensers, If lt roposed to collect tho $35,427, tho Stall licenses hoing directed to the (sponsors by name. Major Jenkins said that tho de- 1 nrtment bad Issued tho licenses to v lie state hoard as principal, tho dis- H ensera being named merely as I gents, and that ho would certainly 1 ink to Hie state board for tho mon- 1 y. If this hoard cnn reimburse it- 1 idf hy suing on the bonds of the dls onsors, that is its own affair. The x tierna) revenue department bas no < ill against tho several dispensers; < s claim is against their 'principal '? nd employer, the state board. It Is claimed lil certain quarters ? hat tho department cannot collect 1 xcess license foes and penalties for period extending further back than < i ft con months. Tho department alleges that more i han tho legal quantities have been old in the whiskey dispensaries, as troll as in the beor saloons. Tho severol summons in the case : nive boen served upon Dr. W. J. Milr ay, the chairman of the state com nisslon. and Dr. Murray has called n neeting of tho commission. (JOT HIS MISSIVES FlXRD. .reacher Who Sent Love latter to Recorder Resigns. Kev. I). M. Carpenter, pastor of he Holiness Church at Harrington. )0l., got himself into a peek of troti ?le, when, by mistake, ho sent a love otter, addressed to a well-known /oiing woman of Harrington, to Re corder of Deeds James Aaron at Dov Tho preacher, who is married and ins two sons, intended to send tho Itocordor the formal record of a mar lago. Instead, however, ho trans mitted a letter written ill endearing ivords to Miss Della H. Goodrich. No] name was signed to the missive, but Ibo handwriting of the clergyman wits identified. When the news of the affair reach ed Harrington Rev. Mr. Carpenter went to Dover and claimed the. lotter from Recorder Aaron, but tho ofll Cittl refused to give lt up. Subse quent Iv two of tho Harrington church ollicials arrived and Identified tho handwriting ns that of their pastor A COIlgrogntional meeting was call ed to take action on tho affair, Rath er than bo expelled, tho preacher presented hts resignation to tho trus tees. The affair has caused a sensa tion, tho clergyman being well known SCORNS BROWN. Passengers Became Panic Stricken and Jumped Overboard. A dispatch from Montevideo an nounces that tho French transport steamer Poitou from Marseilles on April ;.. for Buenos Ayres, has hoon wrecked off tho coast, of Uruguay. One hundred of her passengers and crew are salt! to have perished. It ls understood that there are 2 00 passengers on board the vessel and that her cargo will prove n total loss The Holton struck at ft ?po? called Rincon do Herrero. A panic, broke out on hoard the vessel, when she grounded, and a great number nf terror-stricken peo ple jumped over board. Some ot ?hem swam ashore, hut many wore drowned. Custom OinC?rs at Hinc?n de TIoi rero savod fifty out of throe hun dred passongors, who aro said to have boon on hoard. How many others havo boen savod is not known DIED AT HIS POST. An Engineer Killed by Robbers for Defending His Train. Northern Pacific Train Hohl Up hi Montana, Hut No Booty Secured. Ono Robber Captured. North Coast Limited, eastbound train No. 22 on tho Northern Pacific railway, was hold up by two masked mon near Wolch's Spur, a siding 18 milos east of Butte, Mon., at 2:15 Wednesday morning. Engineer James Glow was shot nud Instantly killed and Fireman James Sullivan was shot through tho arm. Without making an attempt to blow up the express ear, as was evidently intended, tho robbers jumped from tho ongine and ran down tho moun tain sido diasapearing In a gluoh sov eral hundred yards from the track. Sheriff Henderson of Butte was no tilled and with a posso left on a train for the scene of the hold-up. Sheriff Webb of Yellowstone county was on the train with one of the tho train ero started on tho trail of the hold up men five minutos after the shoot ing. Bloodhounds were put on the trail and one of the fugitives was captur ed at Woodville, nour Butte. Tho robbers left a telescope grip on the tender of the locomotive. The grip was full of giant powder, evi dently Intended for uso in -blowing up the expresa car. The men board ed the train presumably at tho Butte transfer Biatlon, where a locomotive for the Montana division was attach ed. One mlle west of Welch thc men Brawled over tho tender and with irawn guns, commanded the engi neer to stop the train, which ho did. Engineer Clow, however, made a show of resistance and one of the robbers Hied, shooting him through die body, killing him Instantly. The >ther man shot at Sullivan, breaking tils arm. Whent tho train stopped Conductor Hort Culver and tho train crew ran o the engine, where they foun a col >red man, who related the circum itances of the hold-up. This man laid thnt ho had boon stealing a ride ind that the mon offered him a third >f the "booty" if he would assist hem. He said he had refused and ' md taken no part in tho hold-up. He ?aya h can Identify the robber, and he man is being held for this pur )ose. 1 The posse with bloodhounds was I olned at Welsh by R. H. Goddard, < hlef of the Northern Pacific deice- I ives at Livingston; Deputy Sheriff : as. Keon of Gallatin county, and i as. Latta of Boxeman. Keon and I .>atta aro the men who tvacked and aptured "Iko" Gravott, who some ' line ago tried to force the Northern < 'aelflo. Railroad company to pay < 50,000 blackmail. RUNAWAY TRAGEDY. mo Lady Instantly Killed and Anoth er Lady Dying. Near Monroe, Ga., Mrs. Henry tichardson, a well known Walton ountry woman, was killed and hei lster, Mrs. John Palmer, was fatally njured Thursday morning as the esult of an accident with a runaway earn on the bridge at Balle Prong ?reek, a mlle north from Monroe. At the time of tho accident the two vomen were on their way to town to io some shopping. .lust as they Irove onto tho bridge they were mot >y a runaway horse attached to a >uggy. The team was occupied by i negro woman and two children and .vas driven by a negro. Mrs. Palmer, in attempting to get )Ut of tho way of the vehicle caught lier dress on the step and was thrown to the floor of tho bridge. The horse ran over her, dragging tho buggy with him. .Mrs. Richardson escaped without a scar, yet, strange to say, she was the first to die. Tho excitement and worry in try ing to care for her Injured sister caused congestion of tho lungs, from which slie died. The wounded wo man was at once removed to tho \Y. I j. Wood place on the Gratis road, four miles from Monroe, where she and Mrs. Richardson resided. Remarkable to say, the driver and other occupants of the runaway bun gy escaped with only a few scratches. CAMBLEIt KILLS (?AMBLER. Loser at Cards Murders Winner and Takes Money From Pockets. Henry Manigault and .lames Lewis played cards in Savannah. Ga., Oil Sunday. Luck was with Lewis and ne soon won $f>0, all the money .Man lgault had. Manlgault accused him of cheating, got a repeating rille and went hunting for him. Manlgault learned that Lewis had hid on a train that was about to pull out. He moved up the track about 300 yards and as the train came on slowly. Mnnignull covered tho en gineer and ordered him to Stop. The engineer paid no attention and Manl gault sent a bullet through the cab. The engineer then stopped. Meanwhile Lewis leaped from the train and ran. Manlgault sent three bullets after him, all Of which took effect. Manlgault then ran to thc dying man and took from his pockets Ute $.r)0 he had loss at cards. ile then held a crowd at bay with bis rifle and escaped. SPIC IDE NOTIFIED F RIEM) Tobi Timm By Telephone What She Was About to Do. Requesting central to Ring up all ber neighbors ort tho telephone, Mrs George Belts, living near Guthrb Center, Ia., announced to the pcoph who took down the receivers that sin was about to commit suicide bj drinking concentrated lye. She sab she bad been sick for such a lom time, that thO doctor bills were onor mons and thal she would no longo; burdon her husband. Theil she lot the telephone and made good he word. The frantic neighbors tried to cal the woman blick to the telephone, bu she would not answer. The met raced to the Betts home, almost kill lng their horses In their efforts ti ? each the woman before R was toi late. She died alone before the reachod her. Her husband returns from town to find his wifo a corps and was almost crazod with grlof. SLAIN IN SWAMP Negro Who Attempts Cilmlna! As sault on Little Girl ls SHOT FULL OF LEAD. Tho Father of tho Little Girl Is At tracted by Her Screams and Sho ls Thus Saved from tho Hellish Brute Who Had Her Completely nt His Mercy. Tho Brutal Fiend Is Pur sued to tho Swamp mid Killed. A dispatch to The Stato from Mul lins says botwoeu 9 and 10 o'clock Monday criminal assault was at tempted upon tho littlo 12-year-old Tincoy Sawyer, tho daughtor of Mr. John Sawyer, a highly respected far mer, residing in tho Millor's church section, throe milos from Mullins. Her screams and tho hurried re sponso of her father, who was near by, saved her from tho bruie. The child was taking a cow to tho pasture, near her fnthor's home, and upon reaching tho entrance of the pasture, tho negro, Lambboll Carmichael, sprang from a clump of bushes and made for tho girl, who began to scream frantically. Hor lather board tho distressing cries of his little daughtor, and ran to hor assistance. Tho negro, Booing tho approach of Mr. Sawyer, made for the nearby swamp, not, however, un til tho lator was near enough to re cognize him, who is a woll known Character In that section of tho coun ty. Tho nows of tho outrage rapidly spread and within a short Hmo tho whole neighborhood was upon tho track of the fiend. Following in tho direction of lils escape into tho woods from tho scene, the posso wont in hot pursuit. Ho was chased across Buck swami), w"ich is of dense foliage. .It is said that one of tho party who was unarmed got within a few foot of tho negro in the chase, whereupon tho negro stopped and drew a pistol, threatening to blow the brains of his pursuer out. After this ho again disappeared in the swamp. The little girl is a sister of William Sawyer, a well known contractor and builder of this place, thoroforo whon tho news reached Mullins excitement ran high. Many of tho townsmen liastoned lo the scene. Upon reach ing the neighborhood of tho at tempi id crime tboy met tho crowds ro : urning from tho swamp, wearing ?satisfied oxpressinga. When ques tioned as to the outcome of the chase they simply remarked that tboy woro satisfied and that the negro was whore he could do no further crinia. Dther than this-they would not speak if tho nffair. Tile Stale's correspondent learned something of the affair from ono of ho most prominent citizens of that section, who said that frof his knowl edge of it lie believed that the negro was literally riddled with bullets and that his body was left in Buck Swamp, lt is said that ho was killed is a last, resort to effect bis capture. Following upon tho heols of tho Attempted outrage upon Mrs. Charles Sellers at Zion on Saturday night, und but a few miles removed from the Sellers homo, the crime enraged tho people beyond endurance and tho whole neighborhood responded to tho call for a posse to track down the would-be rapist. Carmichael was 17 years old and was horn and raised in this section. Those who have known him for a long time say that ho was a bad character and that tho crime was premeditated, that ho had prepar ed to leave tho neighborhood, having his trunk, a hand arrangement, with him. A sporial from Marion, giving mea gre details of tho attempted assault upon Miss Sawyer and thc ebaso for the rapists, says: The negro was arrested and was being carried to Mullins on warrant issued by Magistrate Norton, but was killed while trying to make bis es cape. Tho negro is said to bo well known in the community and works on the plantation of Mr. Albert Rog ers, a neighbor. WI IX KNOCK TH KM OUT. All Invention That Make Battleships Back Numbers. What is the use of building mou sier battleships, worth $2,ooo,ooo apiece, when they can bo blown all to bits by a man operating milos away with tin instrument no bigger than a hand camera? That ls what a French scientist claims can be ac complished through manipulation of wireless currents found every winne Tho explosion which recently blow up the French battleship Jena at. Toulon was duo to stray electrical currents coming in contact with powder, this genius confidently as serts, and offers to prove that Mils WflS possible by ? series Of long dis lance experiments. DH10AKS HIS NFC lt. By n Fall of Not More Thun Twelve Inches. A remarkable accident happened at Greenwood one night last week, by which .lohn Konoids, a UOgrO train band on the Chariest ern and western Carolina Railway, lost, his life. While asleep in his bunk in tho caboose of his train ho rolled out. of tho bunk and striking the floor bad his neck broken, lt seemed that ho fell OU his hoad and tho weight of body In some way brought about, the'broken neck. There wore Other negroes in tho caboose and they wero awakened by tho fall. Ho foll about ono loot. OLD SOIiDHOB S TBAOIC 1)10 AT U Mr. Jesse Bit mann Flt lier Stopped ev Foti From Train. A dispatch from Cboraw to Tho State says when tho northbound trnln stopped at tho crossing near tho oil mill on Wednesday night, Mr. Josso Pitt man, a veteran 60 years of ago, who was returning from tho reunion in Columbia, met a tragic death. Mr. Pittman thinking lt was tho Cboraw station, started, to loavo tho train and as tho ??irs moved off bo stopped or foll off on bis hoad, crushing in his skull and killing him instantly. Ho llvod nour Ruby In that county.