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V VOL XVII. SOME BAD NEWS. 1 P a p President Roosevelt Has Surgical Op- ?, ii eration On His Leg. n P t INJURY BY A TROLLEY CAR t v a llOHultod tu the Formution ol' ail /\l>- II * hCflHH ?>li llin I ...? ~ * (I / Necessitated t'se ?> t Sui'KOoiih li it ile. P President Roosevelt's western trip a came to an untimely end In lodiauapoils, Indiana, on 'I'ucsday, 28, instant. i< lie was found to lie suffering from a p swelling in the left leg, between the h knee and the ankle, which required s immediate surgical attention and, in- r stead of being taken to tlie train to o continue his journey to Port Wayne / and Milwaukee, he was conveyed to h St. Vincent's hospital, where he was t operated on. The operation occurred h at 8:45 o'clock and lasted only a short p time. Then lie was taken to a pri- p vatc room In the hospital to rest. Af- t ter taking a light luncheon at 7::u> p. t m. he was conveyed on a stretcher to i< his train, which had been backed up t on a l4Y" near the hospital, and at 10 h minutes before 8 o'clock the train left t for Washington. t The first intimation that anything t was wrong came in the form of rumors h to the great crowd, which was pa- s< tiently waiting near the Columbia t club and the Soldiers' and Sailors' p monument for the president to appear, c It was about 2:80 o'clock, half an s hour after the time set for the prcsl- t dent, tn leave Mm nit v ii,?,i o '? . ~ v.ixy v.UJ , I IKU (V IClV <1 orcd ones in the crowd received Inti- c mations that the president was sick r and that the rest of the trip probably would lie abandoned. Those state- p inents were as promptly denied, as v fast as tlioy gained currency, but soon s the rumors began to take on a more t serious character. r "The president has burst a blood o vessel," was a whisper that went s around anion# the police otllcers and \ soldiers. p "This cannot be true," said others, o "for the president is in the corridor t conversing with Senator Fairbanks." a Then it was said that the president a was sick, that lie had fainted, and li- c nally a rumor was st arted that he had g been shot. These rumors, however,did not appear to reach the crowd. A half hour or more passed, and finally it was noticed that a movement of some kind ' was on. The president's carriage stood v in front of the entrance of the club, (> with Col. Wilson, the governor's pri- ' vatc secretary,inside holding the large * bunch of American beauty roses that s had been given the president In the ^ hall. The soldiers of the National Guard were drawn up along the street 1 Just in the rear. The secret service s men and the local police and detect- ^ % i ves crowded the sidewalks in front of s * the club, keeping back the people. s The command was given to "make a room," and a path was cleared from 1 the club entrance to the carriage and, ^ as if In answer to the rumors of his !l illness, the president, accomuanied bv s Senator Fairbanks, with a quick and a sturdy gait, came down the steps and ^ hastily entered the carriage. Senator ^ Fairbanks, Secretary Cortelyou and Gov. Durbin took seats in tlie carriage with tlie president. The carriage | started immediately for St. Vincent hospital. Though the carriage was closed, the crowds on the streets ^ cheered. At the hospital the president j alighted and walked with Senator Fairbanks and Gov. Durbin up the ^ steps of the hospital. A squad of po- v lice formed a cordon alxnit the build- , ing. e After the president entered the operating room he sat down and waited ^ for instructions from the physicians .j and surgeons, watching their prcpara* tions with a keen interest. "I am awfully sorry 1 cannot continuc my western trip," said he, ' "Can't you let me go ahead with it ( after this thing is over?" Several of the surgeons turned to him, and one said: "It is my opinion that you would he very indiscreet to continue on your r feet as would he necessary in your 0 speechmaking trip after your opera- c tion. This is by no means a serious j tiling and there is absolutely no dan- j gcr of serious consequences from it if } yuu aiu uiiieim arm slay oir your rcet until the trouble is over. Hut you ' should by all means, Mr. President, f discontinue your trip." "Very well, then, it will have to he ( that way," said the president resign- . edly. The operation was begun without j delay. The pain caused the president s to mutter several times In a low voice, but he said nothing that was distinct, except to ask for a glass of water hefore the needle had been removed. \ After the operation was over, he made rj several laughing remarks. c After being taken to an upper room ( from the operating room, the presi- a dent was served with a light luncheon r\ and chatted pleasantly to those in the 8 room. He made several kind remarks c to the attending nurses aliout the j -trouble lie was causing, and shifted t, 'his position several times nervously. s At 7:45 p. m., a white blanket was i thrown around him and he was placed 011 the hospital stretcher and escorted by a company of Infantry, was carried to the car a block away by four negro si porters from the train. rJ The swelling of the president's leg, c which made an operation necessary, 1 was occasioned by a bruise lie received c at the time of the trolley accident at s Pittstield, Mass. y Besides being Injured in the face and s across the eye, the president at that J fat' j L x:>* v ?1 ~ - <* ~ imo received ;i blow upon t,l?e inner art of the left leg, between the ankle nd the knee, but eharacteristi ally be aid no attention to it, ignoring it as cing a slight bruise, not worth talkig about. For several weeks he took o heed of It. but finally it began to ain him so as to enforce his attenion. After starting on Ills western rip, he determined that Dr. Lung, .ho was aboard the train, should exmine it. The doctor did so and proounced It to be a serious matter. Vhcn In Detroit, the doctor finally eclared that something must bo done, ifter consulting with Dr. Richardson nother member of the party, it was ecided that, in order to avoid the lui/ai'imy 111 mono poisoning, 1L proobly would be wise to have an opera ion performed. The president was ery much averse, to anything of the ind. but nevertheless when Logansort, Ind., had been reached lie had iecn prevailed on to deliver the tarilT peecli at Milwaukee, and which was egarded as one of the most important f ids proposed speeches for the west. it Logansport Senator lleverldge carded tlie train and after a consul* ation with him, it was decided that e should summon several of the best hysiclans o." Indianapolis to meet the resident. When the train pulled into lie station the doctors were taken by lie senator immediately Into the present's ear. When the president rose o acknowledge tlie reception given iim at the hail, and also when he rose o make 11is address, it was noticed by hose near him in front of the hall hat he stood with all his weight on lis right leg, and the posture seemed [> awkward and so much like a pose hat it caused comment. When the resident was taken to the Columbia lub for luncheon lie was made the object of a serious consultation by he physicians. His leg was bared, iid the swelling examined. After a onslderable time the physicians arived at the verdict. Said Dr. Oliver: "In order to avoid osslble blood poisoning setting in, it /111 be necessary for the president to ubmit to a slight operation," and in Ills view all the other doctors concured. The president wished that, the peration, since it was necessary hould lie postponed until he reached Vashington, but the physicians again irov<>d fibrin r?it.n 'Plmu I * .... ?!...?. ... . ^ . I. n K.J ? u ti; an UIH1I pinion that the bruisob could not be rilled with in its present condition, nd that no one could atTord under 11 the circumstances to take any hanccs in postponing the needed surioal attention. i Waylaid l?y a Demon. George Hundriek shot and killed ohn J. Shrouder Wednesday morning vhilo the latter with his wife was proceding in a buggy to their home near tallies, Ga. IUmdricHt had claimed hat a negro on Shrimper's place had tolen his pocket knife and had underaken to arrest three ("if Shrouder's lands. Shrouder offered; to pay for he knife in order that hro farm force hould not l>o interfcrred with at, this ime. Mundrick accused Slirouder of idlng with the negroes. Shrouder aid he would meet Itundyick as soon s he could take his wife home. They hen parted, hundrick went out on he road and waylaid the young man nd his wife, sending a load of buckhot into them. Shrouder fell dead nd the wife was mortally injured, he horse running away and throwing he wife violently to the ground. A Hold Hohheryi^y Robbers tried to carry olf thg safe n the railroad depot at Walterboro no night last week, but were frlghtncd away by some one who happened o be passing. They had a handcar on he track immediately In front of the loor. but, left, hoforo thou omihl imt he safe on it. The safe and the tools /ere left in the middle of the room, t seems that the robbers forced an ntrancc in the waiting room and lushed a boy through the ticket hole /ho opened the door from the inside. The hat of .Joe Teasdale, a negro Isiy /ho has been working for I>r. Ackernan, was found just outside the door, nd .losh is now resting in jail charged /1th the commission of the crime. )thcr negroes in town are suspected nd more arrests will probably follow. A Gcx xl Thiiif?. The novel invention of i'rof. ArtenlelT gives security to workers in labratories using high-tension electric urrents. It is a safety dress of tine >ut closely woven wire gau/.c, weighng pounds, and completely enelosng the wearer, including hands, feet, aid head. The cooling surface is so ;reat that ?i powerful current passed or several seconds from one hand to he other without perceptible heating. Mad in this armor, the inventor reeived discharges from currents of 5-000 to 150,000 volts and handled ivc wires at pleasure, all without any ensation of electric shock. Suicided. A young white man by the name of blither Dent, committed suicide on Tuesday of last week by taking an tiror/l/too /if loii/lrtinitw r? ft 1. w? 1 ? nuiuunt v/i mimimiihiih cii; inn i nniit: in Columbia. Mr. Dent was 23 years old tnd married. He was the son of Mr. Chomas Dent, of Lexington. For orae time ho had Ijecn in the employ f the Virginia Life insurance Com>any. His wife was not at home at he time of Ills death, having been abent for three days on a visit to relaives in Lexington. A Fatal l>uol. In a duel early Wednesday morning kt Ocala, Fla., Moses Brown and W. l\ Frierson, Brown was shot and killd and Frierson dangerously wounded. Hie trouble Is said to have been a used by Brown's attentions to Frieron's wife. Brown was a prominent oung business man of Ocala. Public ympathy appears to be entirely with j'rierson. Pi 9 CONWAY, fSHOT JMJWN On His Own Doorsteps by a Brutal Negro. WHO IS CAUGHT AND KILLED. The Mur<lerct* Wan OiuikIiI by InceiiHod (/ili/iOiiN Who Mont t?> Columbia for tin- I'eulteiitinry llloodlioumlH. The Columbia State says Mr. Jim Irby, one of the guards at the State penitentiary, went to Newberry Wednesday to assist in tlie hunt for <?oorge Caughman who in fiendish spirit mnrderered a white farmer of that county Tuesday morning. News of the tragedy did not reach Columbia until yesterday, although the blood hounds were wired for Tuesday night. Mr. Cole L. Hlea.se, who was lu the city yesterday, gave the details of the terrible crime for which the negro is being bunted. Caughman, who is known In Newberry city as an impudent negro, bad been picking cotton for a Mr. Smith, a farmer who lives near Hush Itlver church, near tlie I.aureus count y line. Caughman's inamorata was also living on this farm. Monday night Caughman, while enraged for some cause, administered a whipping, and the woman, fearing further violence, sent a little boy to tell the farm overseer, Mr. ftd. Adams. As to what followed there is some discrepancy In the reports. Some say that Mr. Adams, accompanied by a Mr. Hoe, went to Hie house and gave Caughman a severe thrash'ng and ran him otT the place. The oilier account. Is to the elTect that the white men did not whip Caughman but ran him away. The following morning, Tuesday, Mr. Adams was called from his break fast table by the negro (laugh man who declared that he wanted a settleim nt for his time while picking cotton. Mr. Adams went towards the gate and was lircd upon three times. Kach shot took cITect in a vital spot. The lirst, struck him in the left side of the abdomen, the second just, below the left nipple and the third entered the brain Just over the left eye. Leaving his victim dead at Ids own doorstep the assassin made his erapc. The surrounding country was soon in the saddle, but the negro could not be found. The houso of his wife was surrounded and watched all night and the posse drew away yesterday morning confident that he was not in that neighborhood. The woman says that the pursuers had lecn gone less than lf> minutes when George came for some clothes. Some discredited the woman's story, thinking she was trying to throw the posse olT of the scent, but it was I bought advisable to try the dogs. When Mr. irby arrived in Newberry with his string of blood hounds, he went to the scene of the tragedy, and was accompanied by the deputy sheriff. Mr. Johnson, Mr. Tom Davenport and Magistrate Chappclle. SherilT 1 led ford remained In his olllce. It was reported here that the white people were very much enraged and that If Caughinan should he caught it would probably mean a case for the coroner. SHOT HIMSELF. Wednesday night at 10.20 The State received a dispatch from Newberry stating that the negro had been caught "and had shot himself fatally." No particulars were given and It is not known whether the negro was caught by the agency of the dogs. A dispatch from Newberry, to The State, under date of '1 hursday, gives the following particulars of the negro shooting himself: Caughman was captured Wednesday afternoon. He was trailed by bloodhounds to a point about 100 yards behind his own home, being liotly pursued, he shot himself early Wednesday morning,but did not kill himself. When found he was almost In a dying condition. About loo men on horseback followed the dogs. Immediately upon the discovery of Caughman, excitement ran to a fever heat and a lynching was narrowly prevented. Caughman is at present in the Newberry Jail. It is barfly possible that he will live more than a few days. In his testimony taken while he thought he was dying he implicated two other negroes in the crime. who are also lodged in Jail. NoRrocH Not Wanted. Negroes are being driven out of Illinois by the whites. The AdjutantGeneral of the State reports a serious condition of alTairs at Eldorado, and It was found necessary to detail a larger force, the troops now there being unable to suppress nightly attacks upon the negroes. lie says the outrages have extended to the surrounding country and iifty-foiir negro families, some of them owning Improved farms, have been compelled to sacrifice their property and leave. lie reports that no clew has l>cen found to the perpetrators of the outrages, and that none can be found who is willing to talk because of fear of violence. At the request of the governor, General Smith lias arranged to keep the Mattoon company of forty men at Eldorado for the winter. IJhc(1 Our Flag. A Gern^g merchant, who escaped from Cii^^B Bolivar, Venezuela,made a sy^en^^Ko ofllclals that the Venezuelan ?ffliWf-war Hying the American Hag recently surprised and bombarded Cludad, Bolivar. The Navy Department Is investigating tho report. * [IV VII < V C., THURSDAY, ( A FIEND1SHMAN BRAKEMAN. llrutally Shot anil Fatally Wotimled a Colored lloy. A dispatch from '"Spartanburg to The State says a Rl-year-okl boy died at 1 o'clock Tuesday morning at the lodging house of a colored man named Adams, near the Southern depot, j in that city, from the etTects of a pistol shot received Saturday afternoon at Melrose on the Spartanburg and Ashevlllc railroad. Kwm accounts the shooting was an act of wanton brutality and the pistol was tired by a negro, presumably an employe of a freight train. The boy, Yank Dooley, and bis brother John wore walking from Melrose towards Spartanburg on the railroad track. They stopped at Melrose and seated themselves on a piece of sewer pipe about 1 p. m. Saturday. NVIille there a freight train passed by coming this way. As the train passed. according to the testimony of John Dooley, at the coroner's inquest a negro brakeman brandishing a pistol tn one hand swung from the side of the car next to the cab and 11 red, the ball striking tlie boy Yank. The negro then tired twice more. The boy was picked up and it was discovered that be was dangerously wounded. The agent at Melrose telegraphed to Tryon, and further down the line, to have the negro on the freight train who did the shooting captured. The scoundrel had made his escape prior to the t rain reaching Tryon. lie has not been seen nor heard from since. The wounded boy and his brother were carried on a train to Saluda, and from there they were brought to Spartanburg on the passenger train Saturday night. Yank Dooley lived until I a. m. Tuesday and died from his wound. While bis brother was the only witness who testified at the coroner's Iquestbe gave Ids testimony in a strnigtforward manner, and, if It be true, the negro who did the shooting should be captured and dealt wit h to the extreme end of the law. SOME SLICK RASCALS 11' I... ? ?? i mii .-?? ? inilicii noTomi I' nriiMM'.s In IjAuimwin County. A dispatch from Laurens to The State says recently several fanners in that county have lieen swindled out of sums of money ranging from $10 to $.">o hy two well-dressed fellows of gentlemanly bearing who represented1 themselves as agents of a well-known supply company of Chicago. II. M. Smith, a good citizen of High i'ohit, h;us sworn out a warrant for the men and the warrant has been placed In the bands of the sheriff. Mr. Smith holds a receipt for $10 signed hy It. l<\ Jones, lie was duped Into paying this on the promise that a high grade huggy would he shipped to him within 12 days, considerably under the listed prices in t he catalogue, etc., which they exhibited. At the expiration of the 12 days, no huggy having come, Mr. Smith proceeded to Investigate the matter and to his astonishment upon wiring the alleged Chicago house he w;us advised i that they employed no traveling agents and the men were lmposters and frauds. lu the meantime Information reaches hero from a point in Georgia , that two men answering Jones' and his companion's description had been operating the same scheme tnere and are badly wanted by the authorities I In that State also. They travel by , private conveyance and crossed this country two weeks ago, traveling eastward. It Is said that the same parties WnrUnil l.hn f'J r mni-u Iif . . W. U?IV i(VI lllVid Ul HJ/JMTI IVIUIIKIIIU county and the Dutch fork of Lexington county and that warrants have been sworn out in those counties for ' the arrest of the scamps. A Bad Wreck. The worst wreck in the history of the Kessemer road was occasioned try a head-on collision between two freight trains at a point two miles east of Mercer, I'a., Thursday, in which four were killed and three injured. The wreck was caused hy a cross order Issued for the two freight trains. At present the blame cannot be ascertained. Three engines and eight steel cars are badly wrecked. The injured are in the Mercer Cottage Steel hospital and will recover. Seven Sinters Meet. The Columbia State makes note of a remarkable gathering, which took place In that city one day last week. Seven sisters long separated by marri1 age and otlrcVwisc, met together. They were the Misses Aycock of the famous Aycock family of North Carolina, and arc now Mesdamcs K. L. Caughman, M. W. Peurlfoy, John Denny, P. W. Karnes, J. P. West, and Misses Lou and Sudie Aycock. Slain by a Madman. Polk Hill, a guard at the Davidson county asylum, five miles from Chattanooga, Tenn., was killed Thursday , ??-J by Thomas Copely, an Inmate of the institution. ILill was about to serve Copcly with breakfast when the latter came up l>ohind and stabbed the guard below the heart with a knife. Hill died two hours later. lleconiCH Active Again. A dispatch from Itomc says the volcano Htromboli Island, off the north coast of Sicily, has t>een active for several days past. A large conical mass has appeared on the edge of one of the craters and a tissure at thojeratcr is pouring out lava, and Jets of ttame to a height of 300 yards. fiml XD )CTOBEIt 2. H)(>2. DEMOCRATIC HOPES I In Tariff Revision, and Light is Shining in the West. ROOSEVELT ON THE TRUSTS In Dnlnjr I'.noctivr Work lor lh*ino? I cratH Hcciiiimo of I'uiliiro to I Mwggesi i'i it ii I'or Their Con f rol. "President Roosevelt Is our strongest speaker in the Held " This was (lie smiling remark of Chairiuan .lames M. Criggs of the Democratic' Congressional campaign commit tee, says the Washington correspondent of The State, when asked reeent 1 v what he thought of the president's Cincinnat i speech in which the tarilT question as it relates to trusts, was dwelt on at length. "The president Is erystall/.lng the popular belief which is Just at this time electrifying the mindsof the people of this country that the trusts should he regulated. At the same time that the president Is crystall/.ing this belief, he is telling t he people in almost direct language that they can expect nothing from his party In the way of remedial legislat ion, at least not for years. "With this in mind, the people will realize that the Democratic party is the party, and the only party ready for action now. There Is absolutely 110 ground for the president's warning that the Democratic party would destroy both the t rusts that do ill and the trusts that do good, as he terms them, as well as the general prosperity of the country. The Democratic party will lie just, as careful in administering its trust medicine as the Republican party can be. We shall neither destroy the business interests I of the country nor injure the wage earners. We are :i? i>:ilrlnl,ie fiu tin. 1 Republican parky and we. are not opposed to vested rights or to properly as sucli. Weslmply favor giving every man an equal chance, in the race of life, and wlicreever the tarllT 'shelters the trusts,' as we know it does, we propose to so modify it as to remedy the evil. "The president, admits that the removal of the tarilT from some of the t rust, products would he a remedy, and the more the president talks along these lines, the better will the Democrats be satisfied." In commenting on Chairman Dabcock's confidence of Republican success In the fall elections, Mr. Griggs said that he could not exactly figure out Mr. Rabcock's philosophy. "Though be Is confident that the Republicans will control the fifty-eight congress," be at the same time predicts that they will lose some members. Mr. Rabcock may know more about sliding down bill than I do, but 1 never yet have been able to understand bow a man who begins to slide down can know exactly the point above the bottom at which he will or can stop." WILL ATTACK TIIKTAItlKK. Mr. Griggs ascribes no other reason for Speaker Henderson's withdrawal from the race in his home district than that assigned by the speaker bimvifl ill lli? fliK'llliiit inn nn I In, *> I'HT ... ..... MVVIIIII?VIUII */U tUV/ tu 1111. "I regret very much that It should have heen stated the Democratic campaign managers have heen contemplating any personal attack on Speaker Henderson," continued Mr. Griggs. "Nothing lias heen further from our intentions. I believe Mr. Henderson retired from the race because of the reasons lie gave. To Ixdieve anything else, it seems to inc, would he a reflection upon his integrity as a man and his standing as a Republican. 1 believe what he says, whether his pr >fessed friends believe it or not. "This only accentuates the fact that tariir reform Is coming in spite of anything the Republican leaders may do or say. The people are tired of fostering Industries, which, in the language of Mr. J'ou, 'treat us not only worse than they do foreigners, but worse than they do savages' by charging us higher prices for American made goods than they charge aliens for the same class of goods. This Is creating a strong sentiment in favor of a proper revision of the Dlngley tarilT law, as it ought to do." Killed liy a Train. The Eastover correspondent of The State says Tuesday morning of last week while the rock train was moving through Eastover, Charlie Sheppard, colored, who had brought a bale of cotton to the gin for Mr. It. VV. Rurkett, was instantly killed by the train. It seems that Sheppard was at the gin house, whien is about 160 yards from the depot, and when he saw the train coming ran to where the train was and caught and swung on to the side of t.hfi cara Au bo rmcuoz-l a orooo lug at tho depot a bridge railing struck his head breaking ids skull in several places. He fell from the train and was very much mutilated. The verdict of the coroner's jury was that lie came to ids death by misfortune and accident caused by ills own carelessness. Maken n Oooil One. Mrs. Kenyon of Monoroc, Neb., is employed in the free delivery mail service and makes her daily trips witli promptness, no matter how much 'weather" there may be. She is no stranger to outdoor life. When only 13 years old she aided in removing the Pawnee Indians from Nebraska to their reservation In Oklahoma, making the round trip on horseback. SLANDERING THIS STATE Some KcNolut Ioiim .AdoptimI liy a l<?l tior I'tiloii In Maine. As ;i sample of the malicious falsehoods circulated hi the Nortli about child labor in tills state, secretary of ( state recently received .1 eonv of some i resolutions adopted at Portland, Mo., over l ,.*>00 miles away, concerning the working of children in mills. The resolution was unanimously adopted hy the Central Lalnir Union of that city and a copy of them was ordered sent, to the legislatures of South Carolina and Alabama. The tirst pa11 of the resolutions refers par- is tleularly to Alabama and is. eompara- ;l lively speaking, mild. South Carolina, ,v however, is severely denounced for ' permitt ing "20,000 children half star- ' ved, too spiritless to laugh and too f dead to weep," to work in the mills. 1 The paper goes on to say that t he <1 people of this state should be ashamed v to permit themselves to he so con* trolled by the capitalists, and winds 1 up with the hint that the national f government may take a hand in the 11 matter. ' As a matter of fact, out of 20,000 v employees in the cotton mills only N about ooo are children; and as a re- ' cent art irk* published in The Kecord taken from The Tradesman, a Southern Industrial magazine, states, this i number will be much reduced, (, when t he schools open. t The resolutions referred to alxive have been adopted In one or two Mas- N sachusetts towns, where the competl- j tion of Southern mills Is keenly felt, , and it Is not likely the Southern operatives will take kindly to this Interference from the North. a Manned lor Murder. j Will Matt.his, white, and Orlando s Lester, colored, wore handed at < >x- s ford, Miss., on Wednesday for the d murder of Deputy United St.ates Mar- c shals.lohn A. and Hugh II. Montgnm- I cry. The crime was commit.ted No- < vcinber 10 last, l"? miles from Oxford at Matt.his home, whit her the otllclals had gone. to ai test, him for illicit (lis- n tilling. Mat,this escaped to the c swamps of the Yocona river, where i for t hree days he successfully eluded a \ large posse with blood hounds, lie t was liually forced to surrender and < )rlanda Lester, t he negro who was work- s ing for Mat.tisat the time the murder t oecured, Hill Jackson, (Jeorge .Jackson I Whit Owens, Mattbis' father-in-law, , and Mrs. Matt his also were arrested charged with the coinpllosty In the crime. Mat t his and Lester made confessions which t hey later rcoudlated \ but they were found guilty of murder i and sentenced to deat.ii. Whit Owens r also was found guilty and will be 1 hanged (Ictobcr 21. i T/ikon (|m Cako. The following from the Columbia ' State takes the cake. The State says ' "two railroad men were discussing a 1 wreck on a northern road. One of them cited the most remarkable wreck on record. A freight train left the making up point with 2tl cars. Arriving at the destination the conductor found that he had hut 25 cars. It was a through freight and none hut momentary stops had been made. Investigation developed the fact that a car had jumped out of the middle of the train, at the same time uncoupling itself from the severed sections. The cars which had been following were not derailed or even checked in speed, but ran into the forward section and In some way coupled up. The truant car was badly wrecked and no one knew It until the search was made." DlNnnl roiiH ICftrt hqmikcH. A dispatch received at Herlin, from Tashkent, capital of Uusslan Turkestan, reports a terrible earthquake August 22, the shocks continuing until September 0. One hundred persons were killed at Kashgar, In eastern Turkestan, 400 In the village of Astyn, 20 at Jangl, while the town of Aksuksltche was completely destroyed. The disturbances also wrecked many villages In the northern part of the province, the total of persons killed being l,ooo. There were no premonitory signs, says the dispatch, but a pronounced rise in temperature followed the principal shock. The temperature continued to rise during the subsequent days, which were attended by a repetition of slight quakes. The dispatch says no Europeans lost their lives. c , Aii AliNiiril Story. , Mr. Franklin F. Shumway of Hos- t ton has written the secretary of State f asking for a statement as to the truth ^ of assertions that have recently been t made in the eastern States that in the * cotton mills of South Carolina "there j arc thousands of little children, many f of them not over six years old, who ] work from > o'clock In the morning f till 7 o'clock in the evening." and that, i when they go "to eat their pittance j of a lunch they fall asleep from sheer J exhaustion." This gives an idea of the extent to which the child labor agitation has gone. lliK I'lece of Ki|trflH?. The State says the Columbia ex- ] press ortlce Thursday received the < heaviest express packago ever known i in this city, it was a piece of mas- < sive electrical machinery for the new | glass factory, and weighing 2,025 | pounds, the express fees upon the j shipment amounting to $128. It seems i that this one piece of machinery was all that was needed to get tho J factory in condition for operation,and the management being desirous of | getting it home in a hurry ordered it t sent by express. i NO. lO. A Ql'EKR CASK. \n Alleged Groom Who Denicu that He Is Married. )THERS CLAIMS THAT HE IS. It Ik NiiM Tlint tin* CourtN Will llnvn to Docltlo tlio Mnttrr, tin tl??> I it I on l>o Not For sometime there has been conidcrahlc talk in Columbia alniut the dleged marriage of Mr. Frederick ichmidt, tlio proprietor of the Coluin>ia Steam Laundry, and Miss Nora dart in, hut The State says It lias rerained from mentioning the matter inderstanding that it would he a lUCHtion for the courts to determine vhether the couple have entered Into , binding contract. The case Is a nost peculiar and unusual one, and or tills reason has cxelted much comucnt. The matter came to the pubic prints by means of the following vhich appeared in t he class! tied n? I 'ertlscmont column of The State on rucsclay morning Sept.. U.'t: MAUKIKI). Martin-Schmidt September 13, by lev. W. W. Daniel, at tlio residence if Hie bride's father, Miss Nora Marin to Mr. Frederick Schmidt. Wednesday morning, also In the adertislng columns of The State, apicared the following, which caused nany to wonder: TO TUB I'Um.ic. The notice In tills morning's State uinouncing the marriage of Miss S'ora Martin 1?? Fred Sclimidt was Inert ed witiiout my knowledge or eon cut. Notiee Is hereby given that I i< 11y mm: marriage and r?*rus?5 to rrognl/.c Miss Mart in as my wife or to M? in any manner liable for her debts >r contracts. Fred Schmidt. Sept. 23, 1002. These notices holng so completely it, variance the public Interest beanie Intensilied, and inquiries were nade as to the Issue Involved. "-It developed quite early In the investigation hat. legal proceedings were in the air. It. Is needless to give the various itorics that arc In circulation. Mr. Schmidt has employed Allen J. Green, Esq., it Is said, to represent him In my developments in the matter. Wednesday night when Mr. Green was seen he declined to have anything whatever to say for publication. It vas stated, however, that Mr. Schmidt claims that, when the cerenony was performed, between 1 and 5 o'clock in the day, that lie was not n mental condition to enter into uirh a solemn and binding contract. The lady in the case is highly esteemed by all who know her, and the natter Is much regretted by her 'rlends. Mr. Schmidt has lived lie re for /ears and was an alderman of the city. He is well known all over Columbia. On account of the Interest maul'ested by the public in this strange ase, Mr. W. I'.oyd Evans was asked ^ 'or a statement of the alleged bride's lide of the ease. At the door of the ifllcc the representative of The State net Mr. Schmidt accompanied by VIr. Jesse Martin, who Is alleged to >e Mr. Schmidt's father-in-law. They ire quite good friends and want the Hibllc to let the ease alone. Mr. Evans stated that Mr. Schmidt lad been paying attentions to the /oung woman for some time. Rccenty she received a hurt and was under nodical treatment. When her phyilolan, I)r. Kendall, called on the Saturday of the alleged marriage, he 'ound Mr. Schmidt there. The subnet of m:irrl:n/r? iviu ?. .-..i .?nv I I I II y (IUU Dr. Kendall was delegated to go and fet the llev. Dr. Daniel t<> perform the ceremony. When Dr. Daniel jame In he Inquired particularly If the ceremony should he proceeded with md was given an affirmative answer. 1'he minister observed that Mr. Schmidt was In a happy frame of nlnrl but did not appear to be in a itate of mental Incapacity on account >f drugs or such Influences. The witnesses wero Dr. Kendall md a Mr. illgglns, who boards In the louse and Is a rural free mall delivery igent. Mrs. Martin and her other laughter would not witness the cerenony and Mr. Martin was in the sountry. Mr. Schmidt remained iround the house until late In the afternoon saying that he would be back ,vhen he had paid oft his workmen at the laundry, lie did not come back Saturday night and Mrs. Schmidt liefan to make Inquiry. It was then that she was Informed that-Mr. Schmidt's family declared the mlirriige a nullity on the ground that Mr. Schmidt was irresponsible at the time. VIr. Evans says tbat a memlicr of Mr. Schmidt's family called at the Martin ?lace, 1414 Pickens street, and congratulated the newlv wedded nalr Saturday afternoon. -The State. Trunk Kxploilcd. A trunk exploded In a baggage car it the union station Thursday, and the baggage master has a novel experience to relate. Mr. Kirk Robinson was the ofllcial who was In charge of the ear. The trunk was the property M an elderly lady, and she stoutly denied that It contained explosives, but the odor of powder was unmistakable xnd the top and the bottom were blown off. There Is a hackneyed old |oke about baggage masters and purtjrs handling trunks roughly, but Mr Robinson's narrow escape from being blown up will no doubt guarantee that no trunks arc badly treated around Columbia State.