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yi*. ivtiJ DOWN b ' ? > In the Street and Killed by Two * Bicycle Riders IN CITl OF ATLANTA. The Victim a Prominent Insurance Man and Had Just Gotten Off of a Street Car to go to His Home When Run Over. One Rider Arrested. The Injurics of Hoscoe W. Gorman, who was run over by two bloyclcs on Peachtrec street Monday evening, proved fatal. Mr. Gorman died Thursday morohig at 3:30 o'clock from a fraotji^e of the skull. Ills death ocat the school of Miss Thornbury," 128 Peaohtree street, where he was moved after the accident, and he never regained com-clousncss from the time he fell until he breathed his last. Mr. Gorman's death was caused by two negro boys racing on bicycles. It is saltl they were ridiug betweeu the car tracks, coming Into the city, at a rate of 25 miles an hour. Mr. Gorman had stepped elf the car at the corner r f I'liie and Pea.nht.Vf-p sit.rrptu and getting otT on the right side of the car he had to go around and behind the car bo walk down Pine street to wards his homo. The negro hoys dashed around the car and struck Mr. Gorman with terrible force, lie fell heavily upon the pavement and the fall caused a fracture at the base of the skull. Ho was picked up Immediately v after the accident and he was unconscious, the blood flowing froiu both b ears. 0- The hoy whose wheel first struck 0 Mr. Gorman has not been caught. The ] other boy, Will Martin, was tried in v the recorder's court Thursday after no n. He was fined $10 75 for the v reokless riding of a bicycle, and held t In a $ 100 bound for crl mtnal negllcnce. j There were four witnesses who saw 1 the accident. Dr. Gilbert was the liist n person to reach Mr. Gorman. He saw II a bicycle boy run over him after he i was down, but did not see the li st ( rider. 0 J. M. Walker was on the rear plat j form of the car and Mr Gorman spoke >?. to b.lm a> he got ( IT. Mr. Walker v.athc last person Mr. Gorman ever addressed. 1 "I saw something fall behind the i car," testified Mr. Walker, "and 1 next saw a hoy ride over the man on the ground. The whole thing happen eel In a few seconds." T. M. Smith, who was also on the rear platform of the car, testified that he saw someone run into Mr. Gorman and knock him down. Dr. 11. 11. Spurlook did not witness the accident, but saw a hicscle boy fall headlong to the pavement imtne dlately after Mr. Gorman was run gi over. VV i 11 MurUn of u, "AXIVIII rtlrtliCU IIUIU lie W( rKCQ p for the Todd Drug Company. lles-.ld v he met up with another nnyro boy on r a bicycle at the oorner of Peaohtree c and Linden streets. "The other boy was ahead," said ( the prisoner, "and he ran into the white man lirst. I was close behind him and could not stop before I ran y over the man. We were not racing. *" The other boy was going faster than ^ I was." 8^e) OMccr Belcher, who, with Ollicer RuMUM*"lini.il 4+^ jinest, test)tied that from what he learned of the affair, the boys must have been r&otng and were riding about twenty five miles an hour. Will Martin, Is a son of R >bert Martin, who works for Colonel .1. W. English, Jr. "There has been a human life taken," stated the recorder, "all because two boys rode their wheels at a reckless speed. This fast riding of bicycles on the streets should be stopped." After sentencing the boy to pay a line of $10.76 and binding him over for criminal negligence, the recorder expressed the hope that the other boy be caught. Funeral services over the body of ^ ^IrGonrun will be held at his late resiBencb, 327 Spring street, at 10 30 o'clock Thursday morning. After the funeral the body will be taken to the Atlanta and West Point train, and at 12:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon It will leave for Newnan, Ga. The interment will be directly after the arrival of the body. Central Lodge No. 28, I. O. O. F., and the Kolghts of Pythias, the do ceased having been a prominent member of both, will attend the funeral, aD(l a delegation from both will accompany the body to Newnau.?Atlanta Journal. # No Worthlf-HH OnkvN Wanted.] A dispatch from New York nays It Virw.o I 11 r _ J J _ ... . auuwu YY tUIJUNUiiy liIiaL Alldrew Carnegie's nkoo, Nancy, was JH"d about a year ago to a riding muster^named lleaver, whom ahe met at Newport. Tiie story whs confirmed by Mr. Carnegie. "My niece was married to Mr. Heaver in New York about a year ago," he said "Mr Heaver wan a riding teacher iu the family- The family has no objeo lion to the match. Mr. Heaver is an . honest, upright man. I would rather I Nancy had married a poor, honest man than a worthless duke. We want no rioh men in the family." Mr. Carnegie said that Mr. and Mrs. Heaver went to Europe Immediately aftheir marriage. They returned a Mm a days ago and are now on a visit A liuv Eogland. Mr. Hoaver was a (1 ( coachman for his wife's 1 y'i rottMor, Mrs. Thomas M. Carnegie, , A 'n Pittsburg and at her winter home ' 'A Fernandlna, Fla Ho was a ( widower witl) two small ohlldren. York, . lk^ponitfliln lor tlio Mllvnrwaro. Mr. i Wtsndell Pulllipi was In a hotel at New H&Oharlcston, had breakfast In his room, ertson. nd v*as served l>y a slave. Mr. PhilMrs Jips jjpot^^Uilm as an Absolitlonlst, York, N ,$C\trie oflipfeemed to he more conMiss M*rned abhor tho breakfast titan about N. Y.; Julmself. Ftnally, Mr. Phillips told Mrs. Adm to go away, aylrg ite could not ton, I). Ce&r to ba waited upon by a slave. Mrs. Qhe other remonstrated, "'Scuse me, N. Y.; Mlsssa, but I'se 'bilged to stay yere, Ml allevse I'se 'sponsible fo' de silverE. E. MoOlre." Mr. W. Y.; Mr. E Fine MMtiostlon. Uav. a?\ little girl was overheard talking Brookln, flher doll, whose arm had oome off, losing the sawdust stuffing. "You i| gocd, obedient dolly. I knew I old you to chew your food fine, ' didn't think you would chew it v "?rv * t ? * " A SAD ENDING. A Young Lady of St. George Marries a 8tra ger' | Who In Arrested for UiKtiuy at Orangeburg and the Yooiik lady UcturiiH Home. A special dispatch from St. Georges to the State, under date of last Wednesday, says nearly three weeks ago a g ntleman calling himself Dr. Kenyon Millard, halliug from ludian&polis, I rid., arrived at St. George wearing a silk hat and prince albert coat, going to the home of Mrs. M. O. Kenyon, who is the proprietress of the Averle'gh House in that town. Soon after it was announced by Madam Rumor that this gentleman was to wed Miss Sallle Kenyon, the accomplished daughter of the boarding house keeper. The dispatch goes on to say that all kinds of time were reported by rumor when the wedding was to take place, then it would be reported that it had becu called oIT, and so it went for a week or more, but tinally on Tuesday or last we kit was announced that the marrhige would take place at the home of the bride's mother on Thursday night of last week, and the friends of the bride were busy making arrangements for the alTalr, and every tiling to make the occasion attractive I was b dog dono, when on the evening I of Tuesday of last week the intended gro iffl in company with the to be bride weut to call upon the Rev. M. W. Rankin, pastor of the St. George baptist Ciiurch, to request his service In performing the marriage ceremony. Tnc I lev. Mr. Rankin refused to act because he had learned that the would be groom had been divorced j from a former wife. Then the plans of the couple chai gad and they called In the arrangements fc r the marriage ! oil I'll ir<ft:iu AVArinu nt M nn Worln<?. (lay morning packed their respective baggage and bought tickets for Orangeburg, and left on the 9 o'clock i rain over the' Southern railway, when it is said tl.at they will procure the services of the Rev. K. M. Lightfoot of the Baptist cl.urch to perform the ceremony. The groom beh g Una Is tied witli a marriage in a Slate wliere there is no license required, Ihey will take the earliest train for Augu-ti, (la., where tli^y will procure a license and be remarried by a justlee of the peace. I)r. Millard heard of Miss Kenyon about four montl s ago through cor;isiondence. It is said that she saw wlmre he had made several lectures and Miss Kenyon's first acquaintance with h'rn was In reply to some advertisement that she saw in which this gentleman was askii g to oommunicate with his kin. Till* correspondence ed to a courtship which brought Dr. Millard to St. Geo'gi about three wieksago, which was the tirst time that Mis*- K njon saw hlra or ho saw ber. Dr. Millard says that he has raveled in Africa and other eastern oouutrirs, has been married and divorced, iris divorced wife since having died. II is a culture 1 g ntleman of about f>f) years and lias lectured in the churches at St. Georges several times while thero. Mist Kenyon comes from one of Uie beit families hi this section. MAR III KD IX OltANOKHUUO. Dr. Millard and Miss Kenyon arrived In Orangeburg on Wednesday morning and after putting up at a boarding house called on the Rev. E. M. L'glitfoot at the parsonage and were married by him. The minister bad no cause to think that the couple should not be married when he p rformed the ceremony, as he had not seen The State with the article from St George. Mr. Lightfo t has known the bride for several years, and when the couple came to him with the request that he marry thrm, he made Inquiries as to why they should come to him to ho married. He was given to understand that there was no op position among the family to the marriage, but that neither the i/on Human nor lady liked the lbiptDt minister at St. George* Mr?$Unkln, and that they preferred piping to Orangeburg to being marrWrby Mr. Ktnkln. Mr. Lightfoot also says that Dr. Mlllard said that after living all these years without a mate, lie had come all the way to South Carolina to net a wife from among the distinguished Carolina womeu." Mr. Light f<ot says that the impression conveyed not < nly upon hlms .If, but upon the members of his family pres ent, was that Dr. Millard had never before been married. Immediately upon seeing The State Thursday morning, Mr Lightfoot called on Millard and asked if It were true that he was a divorced man, to which lie replied that he bad been divorced but that his tirst wife had sine i died. W. en asked why he didn't admit the fa^t Wednesday he said he considered it no one's business, either individually or State. Mr. Lightfoot was born in Pennsylvania and raised In New York, but although his ministry has thk n him from the Atlantic to the prairies, and although all of his ministry up to three years ago was sp nt In divorce granting States, he has never knowingly married a divorced party and regrets exceedingly that he was misled Wednesday. He so told Millard and further suggested that the couple go to another State and have the marriage p. rformed again. The following card from Mr. Lightfoot fully explains his connec tion with the atT ilr: MR. LIOIITFOOT'S STATEMENT. In Thur day's State is an artiole from your St. George corre?p indent in regard to D*. Kouyon V. Millard of Indianapolis, Ind., and Miss Sallie K Kenyon of Dorchester's capital, both of whom were married by me Wednesday, April 19th. Hoth Dr. Mdlard and Miss ICcnyon, the latter I have known for sometime, were perfectly frank livtilking of their desire to be married. Dr Millard oer tain I y gave myself and family the lm? pression that he never had been mar ried, and ^h- n I accused him of this fact Wednesday, said: "Certainly I co sidered it nobody's business, either individual or State, that I had been divorced." My reply was that South Carolina had Rettlcd that matter and had I known of the dlvoroo I never would have roarriel them. Dr. Millard has the best of recommendations from eminent men and newspapers. He has no desire to, be known as an adventurer. lie evidently is too widely known to have any such aspirations. Just why the St. George people who know me so well, especially the Rev. M. W. RanaMn of that place, did not Inform me of the above facts I cannot understand, unless they preferred a sensation to sending me information which would have saved some annoyance at least. Let me add in closing that when I , / > asked both the groom and bride why they were not married in St. George by Miss Kenyon's pastor, tbelr reply was they preferred the writer and I had no Idea they had been refused a marriage at that place until I saw The State Thursday. E. M. Lioiitxoot. Ilaptlst Minister. Instead of taking Mr. Llghtfoot's advice, Millard made himself oomfortable in Orangeburg and seemed to be in no hurry to get away. He was on the street fr<queutly Thursday and Friday morning and improssed those he came in contact with as being a gentleman, lie announced that he would deliver a free leoture at the courthouse on Friday night, as will be seen by the card published below: millard's 8tatkmknt. Millard on Friday gave out the fol* lowing card: To the People of Orangeburg: I am glad of the opportunity to say a few words In The Evening News in behalf of myself. 1 came to your city Wednesday and was married to a lovable woman by the Uev. Or. K M. Llghtfoot. I am from Indiana, and was perfectly Ignorant of the laws of South Carolina in regard to divorces, being unhappily married over 20 years ago and having lived only a few years with my wife, who, upon her own oonfesslon, proved herself to be a most depraved woman, 1 obtained a divorce for such cause as Christ himself designated. I have always conducted myself as a Christian gentleman, devoting myself all these years to the cause of Christ and denying myself the pleasures of a home, and all Its sweet influences, uutll my acquaintance with my cousin, the good Christian girl whom 1 have Just married. The article which appeared In The Columbia State of Wednesday Is an outrage and a malicious He. Our marriage was not the outcome of an advertis :ment as therein stated, but of frendship of many, many months, I have not deceived anvnno and am here t > teach people to live as Christians in all love and sincerity. I am oharmed with y< ur town, and your people have treated myself and wife as you would wish to he treated yourselves. Yes, I have been treated royally by you all and I thank you most heartily. I am no fraud as the article In The State would make It appear. 1 am of world wide reputation and my char acter Is above reproach. It Is unchrlstlanllke to attack In such a manner one, who though a stranger, wishes only to do good and one who never harmed a living being. I have decided to g'vo free lecture In the court house tonigot and cordl ally Invite the whole town to come out. Those who wish can contribute to a g neral collection after the lec ture if they feel they have beeu prof11 ed. 1 am very co'dlally and sincerely yours. Kknyon V Millaud. akrkstkd on 8kuiou8 chahob. While Millard was making himself at home in Orangeburg enjoying the honey moon with Ids new wife serious trouble was brewing for him at St George. It seems that Mrs. Mary Klce, sister of the young lady that Millard had just married, had gone down to St George on Tnursday night to are about the report of the marriage. Friday morning Mrs. Klce and hor mother, Mrs. Kenyon, overhauled some of Millard's proscsslons which he had left at the hotel when he came to Orangeburg to git married. It Is said tin S3 ladles found a letter or letters from a wife of Millard's now liv ing In the west, In which is stated that she is tired of the treatment that she is receiving at his hands, after having been married for 23 years, and that she had just learned that Millard had au undivorc ed wife, to whom he had been married previous to the one from which the letter In question came. The wife who wrote the letter states, It is said, In the course of her letter, that Millard's four ohlldren,calling them by name, send love to their father. This intelligence came as a great shock to the mother and sister of the present bride, and they were so horritied to think that their daughter and sister had been duped that they sum m?,neci Mr. 11. L. Weeks, their at torncy, who arranged to ha,ve Millard arrested at Orangeburg upon a warrant that was arranged to be sworn out upon Information and belief. The arrest was made by Chief of Police Fischer on a warrant sworn out by ollloer S. J. Bozard. As soon as the arrest was made Millard was taken to the otllce of Magistrate Brunson, where he was examined. lie was represented by Judge James F. Izlar. Millard was quite indignant over his arrest, aud was at times dramatto In his expressions. After living an honorable life so far, he said, it was bitter to think of being ''arrested and seperated from his beautiful flower." Commitment papers were made out and Millard was remanded to the custody of the police. He is at a boarding house under guard of the police, bail having been tixed at $500 but not given. He was committed to jail on Saturday morning. Millard sent the following telegram on Friday afternoon: County Clerk Haw, Kureka, Humboldt County, Cadfornia. Was a decree of divorce Issued for M's Ada Millard against K. V. Millard, Dec. 4oh, 1904? K V Millard. No answer oam-; to the toienrauQ. Mrs. Kcnyon and Mrs. Rice, the mother and sister of the your g lady who married Millard came to Orangeburg on Friday evening and carried the young lady hick to her home at St. George. Messrs. Riy-?or & Summers are associated with Solicitor HUdebrand in the prosecution of the case as representatives of Mrs. Kenyon, mother of the young lady who last married Millard. Standard Oil Must I*ajr. Comptroller General Jones has notified counsel for the Standard OH Company that the valuation of Its proper ty in this state had been raised from 156,000, as returned, to 1200 000 This action was taken after a oireful examination of the returns made for the various counties in this state. In Columbia the plant is valued at t4,500, and the highest va'uitlon In the UtQ t ?% la f Wftt A# .A ? uui?xjkj mo vuctu ui wi1ct0 there are supply tanks and other works for supplying the entire state. The entire plant Is valued at $37,000. A confidential report received by the comptroller plaoes the valuation of of this plant at olose to $100,000. The time has past for the payment of the license tax under the law for such cor- I poratlons, but the comptroller will extend the time in this oase, as there ' will oertalnly be a protest. ] It is a poor policy to let the stook 1 tramp over the cornstalk fields when \ the frost Is coming out in the spring. , Such tramping either on field or i meadow at that time is always lnjurl- : on* to the soil, yet most men do It. ] FORGOT HIS RAMS. A Man or Tbla Kind Turned Up In Charleston. The Charleston police and oity hospital authorities had a problem on their hands last week In ascertaining the Identity and the treat ment of a man who presented himself one morning at the police station. It was a case not of mistaken, but cf what might be termed unknown, Identity. The man's mind was an absolute blank on every matter which might Identify him. He had forgotteu his name, residence, relatives and there was nothing about bis person which could positively tell who he was or where he belonged. Realizing the predicament of the police otllcials, when the man entered the station and asked that he be sent to the hospital for treatment, he sugguested that he bo called Harry Sinolalr, but he added that this was not his name. Ills mind was perfeotly clear about his movements since April 10, when he came to consciousness in Savannah. He definitely traced his movements to Charleston from that time, but still he could not solve the mystery which surrounded his being. He was refused free treatment in the Savannah hospital, he states, when he came to himself, and he then came to Charleston. Ills money give out and he pawued his gold cut! buttons to tile him over, and he finally had to present himself to the station and ask to be given medical treatment. Finally the man was identltied as G C. Wooten, of Columbia. It Is thought that the man had been sand-bagged by footpads. Victims <>t Vanity. Woman's vanity has proved a fertile Held for George Lavlne, who, by nattering his victims with the bell f that they are social leaders, has swindled many women In Chicago recently. Levine pleaded guilty In Judge Tuthlll's coift to the charge of oper attng a confidence game, and was sent to j dl pending an Investigation of his operations in Eastern cities. "I have been sent to you because you are one of the leading society women of the city," Levine said to his victim, "and you have been selected to share In the distribution of prizes by my tlrm for advertising purposes " Ho then pro duced a package of envelops and declared each envelope contained money, The envelops he sold at prices ranging from $1 to $15 each, with the stlpula tion that they should not be opened until he had been gone half an hour The envelopes contained only blank paper. Won Nniim oi Kimo. Do Witt's Little Early Risers, the famous little pills, have been made famous by their certain yet harmless and gentle action upon the bowels and liver. They have no equal for biliousness. constipation, etc. They do not weaken the stomach, gripe, or make you feel sick. Once used always preferred. They strengthen. Sold by Dr E. Norton. liinlu tin) Kilted. A distressing accident occurred Monday afternoon at the home of N. Z. Belder, near Bamberg, by which Ids 9-year-old son, Sam, lost his life. The little fellow, with others, was playing hall and while running along with a bat In h s bands, fell and struck one end of the bat on the ground and the other under his chin. His neck was dislocated and despite the attention of several physicians he died about 9 o'clock Thurday night. He was a bright little fellow and his death Is a terrible blow to his parants and his little companions He was a student or tne graded school and was present Monday. The (tight Name In Do Witt. DeWltt's Witch Hazel Salve cools, soothes and heals cuts, burns, boils, bruises, piles and all skin diseases, lv. B. Zickefoose. Adolph, W. Va., says: "My little daughter had white swelling so bad that piece after piece of bone worked out of her leg. DeWitt's Witch llazel Salve cured her." It is the most wonderful healing salve in the world, Beware of counterfeits Sold by Dr. E. Norton. Gat holloa Ilcoomo Haptiata. An Independent French Catholic church at Manchang, Mass., has liecome Protestant, and its pastor, Rev. A. E Rlbourg and his forty-two pari shoners have been formally received into the baptist denomination. The forty-two members were formerly communicants of the regular R iman Catholic parish at Manchang, but they withdrew from the parent church two or three years ago because of differences with the pastor. The dissenters built an independent church and selected as their pastor, Rev. Father Rlbourg, who once belonged to the Roman Catholic church in France. R oontly the little parish accepted Protestant principles largely through the medium of Frencli Baptist missionaries. A Tried amd I'run Friend. One Minute (3ough Curc contains not an atom of any harmful drug, and it has been curing Coughs, Colds, C roup and Whooping Cough so long that it has proven itself to be a tried and true friend to the many who use it* Sold by Dr. E. Norton. Found Dying. At New Orleans Thursday a well dressed young man apparently 36 years old was found lying on a bench In the city park. Employes tried to awaken him but failed. He was sent to the hospital where he died from the effects, it was found, of morphine poisoning. Three photographs of a handsome young woman and a note were found In his pockets. The lat ter asked that Miss Lola Green, of 2703 Chase street, Anderson, Iowa, and Mrs. Tj. Mat.fchAwa nf Tnfnni. o. ?. ? ?, w? Auivuvd) vaii" ad&, be notified if anything happened to him. Woman a Huioltlo. I The body of Mrs. Graoe Loomis, 1 who claimed to be the wife of Charles 1 Loomis, said to be a millionaire, was found Thursday in a half-flllled bath 1 tub in a fashionable boarding house in 1 Chicago. Frequent threats that she Intended to kill herself leave no doubt of suicide. Domestio trouble was the t cause. I PorRfli About Your tkomaeh. < If your digestion is bad the vital or- i (jans of your body arc not fed and nour- 1 lsh? d as they should be. They grow | weak and invite disease. Kodol I)ys- , pepsla cure digests what you cat, t ;ures indigestion ..nd all stomach troubles. You forget you have a atom- . ich from the very day you begin tak- 1 Ing It. This Is because it gets a rest? ( recuperates aDd gradually grows so < itrong and healthy that it troubles ] pou no more. Sold by i Dr. X. Norton 11 WATCH HAlHP3!m> And Ciew on Duty Forty Hours Be fore the Wreck, M*de It l*o?sibIe tor the Wreck Near St. Georges on the South. ern to Have Occurred. Forty hours on duty without sleep That was the oondltlon of the train orew which handled the freight train wrecked at Hadham's on the morning of April 2nd. These facts were biought out Tuesday at the hearing before the railroad commission. There were several witnesses examined, and the members of the commission questioned them olosely, particularly Maj. Eirle. According to the evidence given before the commission, the crew had been on duty 29 hours and 40 minutes without a meal?without even a sandwich, it was stated?when the train arrived at Klugville and the crew was asked if it could take the train on into Charleston, lb Is said, however, that this is not a condition but a very unusual case. Freight train No 155 left Itock Illll at 2.45on the afternoon of March 31, although the crew had been called at 12 o'clock arid had been on duty about three hours before the train started. The train was 12 hours late getting to Camden, reaching thai place at 3 a. m. After shifting at Camden for three hours the train was delayed on account of being run into by a train on the Northwestern rail road, which necessitated quite a long wait. It was 5 05 p. in , April 1 before the train reached Klngvllle, after having be< n out from It >ck Hill over 24 hours, and the orew had been on dutv 29 hours. At Klngvllle the members of the crew were asked by the train dispatcher at Charleston if they felt like taking the train on iuto Charleston. As it was Saturday afternoon and they wanted to spend Sunday in Charleston, and as the train had heen delayed many hours already and their dt clininir to it int./* eh??iM ton might cause the freight to lie over until Monday morning at King ville, the crew decided to go on with it. At Kingvlllo they got something to eat for the first time since leaving It >ck Hill. But It was not until 11 p. m. that the train pulled out of Ktngvllle. Arriving at Orang' burg the members of the crew were asked by the operator at that otllje if they could go on to Charleston, and they replied that they would. This was also the answer to the Inquiry from theopera tor at Branchvllle. When the latter operator asked the con iuctor where lie would pass the passenger train, the latter replied at St. George he thought. The collision with westbound passenger No 16 occurred one aud onehalf miles west of St. George, between 4:30 and 4:40 a. m. Conductor Stanley said yesterday that he had thought that the trains would meet at It evesville, two miles west of Badham. According ty his acoount, when the freight struck the switch at Iteevesville and went on by, he looked at his watch and saw that even if the passenger were five minutes late the freight cmld not make Badham, which is a mile west of St. George. Accordingly he sprang out of the cab to Hag the engineer. Thero were 30 cars on the train, and the two last were not supplied with airbrakes When he had climbed over these lie came upon a Hit car loaded with all kinds of debits, and before lie ccu'd pick his way over the car the collision came. It was a foggy morning and the two trams could not see each other, it seems. The passenger train had no orders to look out for the extra freight, it in n u of of o'l ?? ?*?. ? A 1 noa avauou yeatci Uiiy, tlUCl 11)0 0XIT1 freight, knowing the passenger's schedule, was not given very definite Instructions as to the passenger, but had careful orders to watch out for the passenger train from Columbia, which was following. The passenger train was three minutes late, showing that had the engineer's watch l>een right he would have stopped at Reevesvllle. Those who lost their lives were : T. M. Conlon, engineer of the passenger ; A. T. Reed, engineer of the freight ; John Adams and Thomas Johnson, colored tiremen of the pas senger and the freight respectively ; H. II. Stokes, white brakeman of the extra freight. Engineer Reed did not die immediately, and before death admitted that hR watch was half an hour slow. Had his watch been correct it Is probable that there never would have been any collision, for he would have been forewarned, but no doubt he thought he had plenty of time to make St. George when he looked at his watch. Conductor Stanley and Engineer Reed compared watches at Kingvi le, and there was but ten seconds dliierence in the time. Rut when the conductor went to the dying engineer and looked at his watch he s iw that it was half an hour slow. There is no way to account for this except that the watch stopped in the engi neer's pocket, and he was too tired to observe it, but afterwards wound ii mechanically without ? - ? v from his po-ket. The loss of time was 23 minutes. Among the witnesses examined yesterday were Supt. Heether of the Charleston division; Conduct'>r Stanley of the ill-fated freight; C. H. Mar low, the flagman of the regular passenger; 0 . II. Mallard, baggagemaster, who was the first to reach Engineer Reed, and the following operators. Landfordof K'ngville, Hair of Branchvilie, Agnew of Charleston and Izlar of Orangeburg. The commission has made no report on the hearing which was held Tuesday, but the members unofficially say that the stopping of the engineer's watch caused the wreck. Some of the members think the railroad company ' did wrong to accept the services of men who had been on duty so long. Even if the men wore willing to work, ' and few would have declined under ' such circumstances, the company 1 should have laid them off as unfit, for ' there were other men's lives as well * as their own to be considered.?Colum- ' bia State: Poisoned Candy. At Mobile, Ala., on Wednesday a , report was lodged at police headquar- , ters of an alleged attempt made | pn the life of Mrs. Florence Hogan by \ means of a box of candy sent her through the mails by some unknown person as a birthday present. When ihe opened the box she found it oon- i talned fine candy, but emitted a pe- 1 Miliar odor and was covered with a i fine powder. She took it to a nearby t iruggist and was Informed that it J jontained enough poison to kill fifty t people. Detectives arc on the oase t tnd it is understood the government c will make an Investigation. i ' #^SlLlBLtFU!L. Alleged 8?lea Are Out ol Proportion With Consumption. Col. R. W. Simpson, chairman of the board of trustees of Clemson oollege, has made the following statement in referenoe to the sale of fertilizers In this State. In reply to a letter from Sprunt & Son, cotton faotors of Wilmington, N C.: "Replying to your luqulry of the 10th Inst., as to the sales of fertilizer tags this season, as oompared with the samo date last year, beg to say the records of the department here show as follows, viz: "Amount received to this date last year $104,609 00. "Amount received to end of season, June 30, 1904, $106,730 00. "This amount was almost exclusively for fertilizers, but little fir meal. "Redeemed tags sold In 1904 (round numbers,) $10,000.00. "Leaving amount of fertilizer tags actually sold and used in 1904, 996 309 00. "Amount received in 1905, to date, $125,023 00. ' Amount for c tton seed meal for feed purposes, $19,413.75. "Making a total or $105 609 00. "It has been ascertained that a large number of tags have been purchased more than were necessary?-anyone may well understand for what purpose?and which wl 1 have to be redeemed according to our rules, and (Stlmated to be $30 000.00. "Leaving actual amount purchased to be used this year, $76,609.26." 1'raiHO for the l'lanti r?. In a recent edition of "Cotton Facts," edited by Col. A. B. Shepp rson, who is au authority on cotton statistics, the ability of t e plant- r> to carry out the program of acr age reduction Is commented on from a rather original angle. The whole world Is asking whether the farmers will be able to hold their surplu. f'OOj the mark't, whether they Intend to be stead ast, and "Cotton Facts" answers that the southern farmers1 piiug from the most resolute ra^e in the world, and can do anything they want to do. "In reaching an opinion," says the writer, "In regard to the action of lire s mthern farmers it is well to remember that the white people of tire south who control the production and the marketing of the cotton crops are of the purest and best type of the Angl Saxon race to he found beyond the borders of England. The southern states were sott ed mainly by the English and Scotch-Irish. T ie tide of foreign Immigration which lias flooded other sections of our countr y, has not yet piaetratcd to tire south land (except to a very limited extent In Texas,) and, therefore, her people have in the highest degree the sterl ing attributes of their Anglo-Saxon ancestry. Predominant traits of the Anglo-Sax >n race, as all the world krrows. are steadfastness and tonaclty of purpose." This is a high compliment to the planters of the south, and one of which they are entirely worthy. The farmers must stick to the program outlined by the Southern Cotton association. If they do, tlrey have the game in their own bauds. They must hang together. They must show that they are altogether worthv of the praise quoted above, and make "steadfastness and tenacity of pur p >se" win a victory not for themselvt s alone but for the whole south. Toe prosperity of the cotton states depends upon whether they stand to their guns or not Festival of ttio i'aNHovor. The Jpwisih rif tlm I>jco/m.o. v >M? v/t unv> i begins this evening and will close on Thursday of next week. The Fass over comes at the same season <>f the * ear as the Easter of tho Christian. This festival has been celebrated among the Jews since an eirly date in their history, and is commemorative of the (light out of Egyptian bondage, when God wn light the heaviest aHllction on the idolaters by killing the iirst born in every household, save that on whose portals ap peared the sign. The celebration of this feast Is placed from the 1 1th to the 21st day of Nlsan, which varying in accordance with the coming of the foil moon makes the feast a change able one. In Hebrew homes, where the people are still steadfast in the faith of their fathers, only unleavened bread Is eaten. The symbol of un leavened bread has to the Jews a twofold significance. First, to signify the haste with which the prepa atlons for the flight out of Egypt was made, and, second, a commemoration of the harvest When the grain had b. en garnered In before any one partook thereof the tlrst and finest of the sheaves was placed on the altar as a burnt saerilice, and then the people hasten to pat some of the t ame grain which they had offered to their Go 1 as a sign of gratitude fjr the bounteous harvest. Ijack <>t Homo Training. Two or three contributors huve com plained In the Columbia State recently of the very marked lack of polite ness among young men and boys of that city. The State charges this lack of politeness to defective home training?and there Is no doubt the chief trouble lies just there. The N<*wborry Observer says "schools arc expected to do everything now and to relieve parents of all responsibility. The day school Is expected to educate the minds and the Sunday school to save the souls, while parents delude them selves?>r try to?with tho idea that they have done their duty by their children when they hayc sent them to these institutions. The rest of the time children are allowed to loaf on the streets or arouud railroad stations or the Lord only knows where else parents oertalnly don't. Home train ing is alm< st a lost art." There is too much truth In what the Observer *ays. Very few children these days Eire ooutrolled by their parents as they should bo, which makes it a matter of )t impossibility for the teachers of the lay or Sunday School to .train them. Children can be ooutrolled easy enough If parents will only set a good example >y controlling themselves. Firmness ind kindness will control any ohlld ind make him stay in the hands of lis parents to be made In any shape they desire. Two Miner* FooikI Dead. A special irom Gadsden, Ala., says <wo miners, Bob Heald and Horace Williams, were found dead In a coal nine near Atalla Wednesday. Fifteen niners left the mine Tuesday night on iccount of bad air, but the two went lack to Investigate and did not re urn. It is not known whether they lied from black damp or because fchot ilr wag pumped Into the mine. r i jWi -^S^entcrtalnlng and Instructive an ? way of cure In your own home \ A pensoof a local doctor or druggist. I V y/ tliun a quarter of a century and ha ffjf/ hundreds of men whom I have cure* for Iho book. In these 25 years I hat r new and original and differs widely i to euro men In half tho time. In a simple yet effeel way to got hack your vitality and strength, your worn you nro, end so thoroughly that you will sta; are affected 1 will enclose besides theot-page book (hat I can mako a study of your ease and report to; books that I will send to men free on receipt of nan Write tue today sure. DR. J. NBWTON IIATttAV 88 Inman Building 22 1-2 Sol KILFYRE! KILFYRI That is exactly what It Is; aFir day at tho State Fair showing its tiro Kvory Farmer, Oil Mill, Saw Mil property should have them. For salt COLUMBIA SO Columbia. C* The mac Wh'ske I Morphine I Clgaret | Habit I Habit Curod by Keeley ii 132) Lady St. (or P O. Rox 75) Oolui so oltd STheGuinard I o COUITMHl j Manufacturers Rrlck, Fire Proof'1 + Flue linings and Drain Tile. Prej or millions. KILLED AT BAMDERD. J. M. Jolins Crushed to l)ek!h by n Train. A special dispatch from Bamberg to The State says J. M. Johns, a white man about 45 \ears old, was struck and killed Sunday morning about 3 o'clock by train No. 25, going from CliarU stun to Augusta. The accident happened on the east side of town Just beyond the oil mill switch. The train crew notified Policeman Dickinson of the killing when the train stopped at the d pot. It is stated that the engineer said the man was sitting on the cross!ies on the right side of ihe track with his right hand up to his head. He was seen plainly by the engineer, but it was so close the train could not 1)2 stopped. This Is a mixed train, and tiie speed rarely exceeds 30 miles an hour. The man's head was split open and I is brains came out. His right arm was broken as well. There were no other bruises on his body. Evidently the bl iw which crushed his skull was oaused by his head coming in contact with the end of the crossties. The body was guarded at the spot where lie was killed until about 0 o'cl< ck Sunday morning. The coroner em paneled a jury and viewed the body where It lay, then adjourned until Monday morning, when the members of the train crew will testify. Johns lived in the Ehrhardt section of IHmbcrg county, being constable for MIR 1st rate J. C. Copt-land. fie had been In town all the week attending court as a bailiff. He was drinking Saturday afternoon and was seen by the writer on Main street Just Ire fore dark, and he was evidently und r the inll lence of liquor. Various parties sa* him Saturday night, and it ^ is the general opinion that lie was ? drunk. What he was doing in that part < f the town is not known, hut it is presumed he was just wandering art und. Two bottles of whiskey a:.d a pistol wete found on Ills bedy, tie i bottles not belt g broken, ills wife is dead, but lie leaves four children. Toe ^ body was brought to the court house Sunday morning. Airet*tod lor Arson. J The Columbia Record says a war < rant lias b-ten sworn out for toe arrest ( of J. K Boyer, a merchant of Bn>ok p land, charging him with being respon ll slble for the tire which burned that ll suburb of Columbia last month. It 0 will lie remembered that tills fire de | str >yed practically the whole village and Inllloted a heavy lass on the Co lumhla Ml is company and the res' dent owners of that town. Since that ' time an investigation was ordered by " the comptroller general as required by law, and Mr. Henry W. Holloway, of Columbia, was employed to look into ~ the matter. Testimony was taken from f several witnesses in the village, and \ after some coirespond) nee with Solicitor Tim merman it was decided to arrest Boyer. ? Item milled lilt* Father. ' Two Irishmen who had not s en eacli other for a long time met at a f fair. () Brlen: "Shore, it's married I am; an' I've got a tine, healthy boy, z which the neighbors say Is the very ^ plc;er of me.'' Malone: "Ojli, well, what's the harm so long as the child's ~ healthy V g ^ ^ S A Proposition of Interest To all readers of this paper, who call or write for treatment within the J next 30 days I will cure them of the following diseases for ONE-HALF my usual charge: LOST MANHOOD, 2 SYPHILIS (Wood poison), GO NO IUIE, GLEET, STRICTURE, VARI COCKLE, RUPTURE, CATARRH 2 and all CHRONIC DISEASES, of Z both sexes. 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