The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 23, 1906, Image 6
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A BRIDAL TRIP
In an Airship that Proved Fatal
to Bride and Groom.
FELL INTO ,THE SEA.
How the Bridal Baloon Collapsed In MidAir
and the Count Nazzarl Lost His
Bride of a Night in the Angry
Waters of the Adiiatic.
Sad Honeymoon.
The most pitiful tragedy that ever
icnuivcu HUUi 1/liO I'lUliUUH ATI/ UI
aerial navigation has just thrown the
leading noble families of Milan, Italy,
Into deep mourning.
A fair young bride of only a day
lost her life in this threat tragedy cf
the upper air.
Count Naz/.arl, the youthful head
of an ancient and wealthy family of
Milan, was like that other young
millionaire, M. Santos Dumont,
passionately devoted to aeronautics,
lie was perpetually experimenting
with new devices for solving the
great problem of aerial navigation. It
was his constant occupation, and he
spent almost his entire income upon
It. He has been the owner of twentyfive
balloons and airBhips. He made
ascents in them continually. He had
a great many accidents, but alway
came baok alive after getting into
the most perilous situations. He escaped
being smashed to pieces once
by grabbing at a window sill as his
balloon fell to the ground, and on another
occasion by olutchlng at the
branches of a tall tree, ne got out
of so many troubles so luckily that
his friends said he had a charmed life.
Count Nazzarl became engaged to a
lovely girl, who took the greatest in
tcrest in his favorite amubfcment.
They were both reckless, daring, original
and full of high spirits. They
decided that they would have ?
honeymoon qulto different from anythai
had ever been heard of. They
would spend their honeymoon In the
air. Instead of sneaking off mysleri
ously to pome unknown place, as
wedded ceuples arc wont to do, they
would rise triumphantly Into the air
before their assembled friends and
slowly fade away into the blue j
heavens.
Count. Nazzari prepared his latest
atr6bip for the journey?a Riant cigar-'
shaped vessel with two fan shaped attachments
for fteering. She was
named the Retina Helena, or Queen
Helena, In honor of the present
beautiful Queen of Italy. She was
fitted with every luxury that a bride
who was willing to take an aerial voyage
could expect. A little boudoir
was constructed for the bride, finished
with green and gold cushions and
curtains, and supplied with many
accessories of the toilet. The airship
was provisioned for two weeks, with
dozens of cold chickens, pigeons,
hams, sausages and bottles of old
Chlautl, while an alcohol stove enabled
them to do light cooking.
The airship was moored In an open
space outside the churoh, where the
wedding was celebrated In the most
brilliant fashion before a great gathering
of the nobility and fashionable
nf Mllin ~
wuwva/ v> ?? UbU 1U TT M UVt!I
the proud bridegroom, with his radiant,
black-eyed bride upon his arm,
marched down the aisle to the great
west door, while the organ played the
glorious Wedding March from "Lohengrin."
There was a short al fresco breakfast
in the place where the airship
was moored. Toasts were freely drunk.
The women friends of the bride embraced
her and wept over her.
At 2 o'clock the depart uie for the
skies tock place. Count Nazzarl carried
with him besides his bride one
friend?Signor Usuelle, a fearless, experienced
and enthusiastic aeronaut,
Count Nazaari needed seme one he
could rely on to handle the airship
while he was giving the necessary attention
to the bride.
As the balloon rose from the earth
It was surrounded by the merry, excitable
crowd of Italian wedding guests
cheering, laughing and weeping. They
declaring it was the loveliest wedding
they had ever dreamed of. They stood
there fascinated, with feet rooted to
the ground and faces upturned, as the
great airship rose higher and higher
into the air and sped away to the
southeast, until it was only a speck In
the dark blue Italian sky. At last It
vaan?i|'|?tlilVU SUVV^bVlibli JL 11C ^UCSUl
said It was just like going to heaven
for a bcneymoon.
Within the snuggly fitted oar all
was happiness for a few hours. If she
shuddered a little as she peeped over
at the earth immeasurably beneath
her she was reassured by the warm
pressure ol her husband's arms. Grave
trouble soon menaced the party. About
sunset a storm sprung up with the
suddenness characteristic of the Italian
climate. The balloon was driven
rapidly over Adriatic Sea. All night
long she was driven over the water.
The steering apparatus proved utterly
useless against this terrific hurrloane.
In the morning the balloon was
Sighted over the Adriatic Sea in the
vicinity of Ancona. Finding that
the wind was at last blowing him
n?-&r l&ni Ccunt N?zz-*ri made a desjk
"ate tfforb to descend. ln*bis b*ste
he opened the gas valve too wide and
tt im, soiing u gather with a sudden
quo.11 upset the equilibrium of the
dfiat-shapea vessel so completely that
the oar was turnad upaida down. Tha
bride fall Into the stormy sea. but the
two men he in on to tha balloon by ro
pes. Within a faw momenta this fall
Into the watar. The hutband plung
ad Into the ocean In search of his
bride but his companion remained on
the wreckage of the balloon, believing
wisely that ha could be more useful In
keeping a lookout from that position.
Torpedo boats and fishing boats
came out from Anoona to the rescue
of the party. After a long search they
found the floating wreokage with Slgnor
Usuelll on It. He thought that
both the others were drowned but a
search was made and Count Nazzari,
a very powerful man, was found still
buffeting tha angry waves In the hope
of finding his lost bride. He was pull*
ed on board a torpedo boat In a state
of dellrim. A watch was kept on the
waters In this vicinity for some hours,
but nothing could be seen of the young
bride There was no doubt that she
was drowned and her body washed far
away.
CONVlCIS KILL OTABD.
Mutiny and Murder at trie (tiarkk
ton County Htockado.
The Charleston Evening Tost says
Heiman G. Stello, a chain gang guard
at tne seven mite stockade, was |
killed Thursday afternoon at about
2:30 o'olock by three convicts, Alonzo
Goodwin, Hammond Wilson and
George Kenny, who made their eaoape,
and are now in the woods on
Charleston neck, with Deputy Sheriff
PculDot at the head of a posse on
their heels.
The murder occurred at the stockade
camp. Stello's throat was out
open. lie was asked by the three men
who played sick Thursday and were
left behind at camp shut up in a
house with two trusties, to bring
them a buoket of water. The trusties
they looked up In the kitchen. When
Stello approohed the men, they rushed
upon him, overpowered him and out
his throat.
The convicts overpowered the trus
ties or cowed them, made their etoape
easily. The Imprisoned trusties cut
their way from the kitchen and ran
to the store of Mr. Hettinger at Seven
Mile House. lie immediately telephoned
the news of the murder and
escape to Sheriff Martlr. The PherliT
at once ordered a pease to ko to the
scene of the tragedy.
Deputy Sher.ff Pculnot, with
special deputies, Messrs. G'orge
Douglas, It. L. Knox and Drisco 1,
end Rural Policemeu Burton ar d
Kelly, hastened up the road by the
t.vr.llau Una 1 4- <? ?U....?U4 4U.4 i-I- .
va wiib/ 1j1jo. iU 19 bUILI/
escaped convicts arc armed. They
arc still in the woods. Every effort
will be made to oatch them. liioodhounds
will bo put on their tracks.
Mr. Stello was a man of over 50
years of age and married. lie lived
at No. .'10 Inspection street. Stell<
was the only guard at the stockade,
the others having gone out with the
gang which Is working on the drains.
THK LO&T OF LIVING,
Especially in All Food Supplies
.Steadily lnoro?no8.
Figures prepared by the Department
of Labor show beyond doubt
that retail prices of food are on the
ascendency and that year by year tbe
American housekeeper tinds himself
called upon to draw more largely on
his bank acoouut to keep up his establishment.
Statistics that are in every particular
reliable have been seoured by the
department from retail merchants in
Charleston, Norfolk and other cities
from whioh the department tigures
out that the retail prices of food iu
1905 were at the highest point during
the sixteen year period covered by tbe
investigation. The average prices of
the twenty-three of the thirty artloles
included in this compilation of
prices were higher in 1905 than in
1904, and the price of every article In
oluded, except. otiYee and prunes, was
higher in 1905 than In 1890, the year
of lowest prices during the last sixteen
years.
The advance In bacon since 1896
has been 43.5 per cent; Irish potatoes,
43.1 per cent; eggs 41 8 per cent; dry
or pickled pork 31.0 per cent; fresh
pork 30 per cent; Hour 29.8 per cent;
corn meal 28 0 per cent. The advance
In food when each of the thirty articles
are given a weight according to
Its consumption In the family of the
workingman, has been 0.6 percent
slnoe 1904; 17.7 per cent sluce 1896
and 12.4 percent compared *ith the
average for the 10 year period, 1890
to 1899.
Killed the Wrong M?n.
R. E. Wlshart, of Ooala, Fla., was
killed at San Antonio, Pasco county,
Friday mornlDg by a turpentine man
named Burton. Wlshart operated a
tu < >?>? ?* Wt?? ?-? ?"* * -
| m vio u?lu y aw i'juiou kuu wivi1 1118 i wo
[daughters went to S&n Antonio to
have dental work*done lor one. While
the young lady was In the dentist's
obair and Wishart wae waiting in the
office, Burton, who had a grievance
against the dentist, whose name Is
Nichols, oame to the door and asked
il tfiohols was in. Wishart replied
that he was and Burton, thinking it
was Nichols who spoke, fired a load
Irom a shotgun into Wishart's heart,
killing him instantly. As Burton
fired be called out: "Niohols, you
have ruined my wile." Wishart oame
to Florida from Lumberton, N. 0.,
eight years ago and owned considerable
property on the west coast.
When a man starts after something
be usually finds it ooming to meet
him. If he waits fcr it he usually
sees it lading away.
Firmness is hot buliheadedness.
Easy won poorly kept.
SOME PLAIN FACTS
ABOUT THE WHISKEY QUESTION
PLAINLY STATED.
A Prohibitionists Whom the High
Lioense or Barroom Adyoc&tes
Can't Fool.
Editor Columbia Reoord:
To bear some people talk and to
read the comments of the different
editors sbout over the state upon the
dispensary, one would naturally oon
olude that South Carolina bad been,
prior to the enactment of the dispensary
law, inhabited by pure, sweet
aDgelio people oud not by mortal,
mean wicked men. That these antidispensary
fellows were the soul of
honor and the embodiment of every
virtue; that in them was no guile 0r
graft and, like George Washington,
had Dever told a lie. That vice, ras
callty and crime were unknown in the
laud until a big devil carr.e up domewhere
out of the woods, with the dis
pens&ry (n his pocket, and turned 11
loose among these lambs.
Hut all this edltoriallng and preach
log and speech making about the virtue
and Godliness of South Carolina,
before Ben Tillman and the dispensary
appeared upon the scene, fools
nobody. No, Indeed, South Carolina
has never been an unspoiled Eden,
and I fear It will be the l*st place the
millennium will strike. Reverse your
think box for a few moments and
take a retrospective view and you will
be reminded that South Carolina has
been dead drunk and full or rascals
for two centuries. Every one knows,
or should know, that a very high per
cent of her people, of all classes, were
drunkards, murderers, liars, grafters
and robbers lrom the very start. The
tlrst boat that landed here brought
the germs of all these villainies with
them from Europe. And It seems to
me to be dlslugenious and unworthy
to write and talk and try to make
people believe the dispensary created
the germs, and hatched out the tirst
brood of these villains ever seen hereabouts.
No, siree, some of us know
better.
Under the old barroom system the
state was as much in the whiskey
business as she is today. Yes, she
legalized the trallo and farmed out
the Iniquity of selling whiskey to her
citizens, and put the niOtiov In her
treasury and used It tor all purpose**.
Chaplain, who offered prayers to
heaven etc* morning for divine wisdom
to guide and direct our general
assembly, were paid with this same
toaihoakecl money. And yet we hear
people Insisting that the state was
never In the rum business before auri
that the blowing of a palmettto tree
iu a glass bottle put her in this nefarious
business, disgraced her fair and
spotless name and made liars and
rogues of her oltizens. May the fool
killer spare thcBe idiots and hypocrites.
South Carolina was not only In this
hell-horn tratllc as a state but many
of ber honored and respected citizens,
standing high In the community and
church, were silent mouey partners
in Illicit distilleries and barroom-hells.
Under the dispensary regime many of
this same class have made the rural
districts drunk and disorderly by
furnishing dirty, lazy, worthless niggers
whiskey to sell, thereby jeopardizing
the lives and property or the
community. Rapid-lire talking-tubes
of every caliber and press-batteries of
all sizes have been trained upon the
dispensary, and for what reason?
llow many of them ever took a shot
at Mr. Barroom? Certainly he was a
bad man. Yes, he was a bold, wick
ed man, who murdered more honor
and killed more men and undermined
their character and destroyed the prospec
to of morQ boys, and heart b.oke
more women, In one year tban the
dispensary has since it was establish
ed. Mr. High License is the same
old Mr. Barroom dressed in anew suit
of constitutionals, and would certain*
ly prove just as bad.
Did you ever think how funny It
sounds to hear people damning the
dispensary and cussing the labes and
X's on the bottles and swearing ai
Hub Evans' beaver bat, who never in
all their pious and righteous lives
ever raised their voices against the
whiskey demon? Funny, Isn't it?
You must please excuse me If I get
mixed as to whether they are lighting
whiskey as an evil or the disnen.
sary for the same other reason.
Were drunkb and crime of the barroom
brand any better than those
of the dispensary label? Were hear;
broken widows and poor orphan children
of barroom manufacture less
helpless and pltlble than those of the
dispensary stamp? Some people think
so. Now let us be honest and consistent
and go to lighting whiskey as
the-great enemy of pure manhood and
womanhood, and stop this hypocritical
scolding and railing at the dispensary
simply to gratify some seitish
prejudice. Whiskey has been one of
the great crime breeders and man destroyers
from the beginning and its
manutaciure and sale should not be
tolerated under any arrangement
whatsoever, and would not be if we
were Just one quarter as Qod serving
and neighbor loving as we pretend to
Kn T t fh/MiA ?V>A a v. ? ?-31 - M
wwi j.i VUV90 wuu uvunui vuo breua or
events had fought half as hard to banish
whiskey from the state as one half
of them have fought to destroy the
dispensary and the other half to preserve
that Institution, there would not
be enough whiskey In South Carolina
today to make a mint julep. .
Admit the dispensary management
to be oorrupt and then ask yourself Is
there any other management or business
or system or anything In South
Carolina or anywhere else in these
United States today clean of graft, In
Juatioe and raaoallty, and not more or
leu corrupt? If, aa many honeat, fair
and unprejudload mlnda believe, the
dispensary Is the beat Bolutlon of the
whiskey problem, it will be exceedingly
unwise to destroy it because
some of the graft has developed in
the system. I think It very wonderful
that it has not been very muoh
worse in view of the way the enemies
of the dispensary have acted towards
that institution. Cleanse the management
as far as possible and let the
system stand or enaot a prohibition
law. In spite of everything that has
been said or oan be said, high license
simply means a return to the open,
attractive, luring and iniqultlous barroom
system.
The devil has been smiling with satisfaction
since the day prohibition lost
and the dispensary became the law of
a great state, but don't lot him win
another victory by fooling you to
trade off the dispensary for high license.
The dispensary is a part of
the government and if it be true that
a part of the government is corrupt
and cannot be cleansed, then the whole
must become putrid and rotten. This
would be an awful and horrible fact.
I do not believe it, aud think tho dispensary
oan be kept as clean as any
other department of the government.
The dispensary is today every bit as
clean as the power that controls it?
that power is the government or
state. If the dispensary, and not the
government of state, is to blame, then
>ou have a clear case of the tall wagging
the dog.
If the state allows the dispensary,
her own dear son, to stay out at night
and go to the ball, what makes you
think she will love high license, who
is only her step-son, any better and
keep a closer watch on his golDg and
coming. Men of South Carolina, if
you love the little boys and girls, and
have any thought or care for their future,
never vote for a law carpenter
wuu says i>nat witn my little saw and
hatchet I will build a barroom. I)o
what you please with the dispensary?
kick It down, tear It down, burn it
down, but In God's name never, never
by your vote htlp build up a barroom
?and that Is what you will do If you
vote to send hitfh license or local option
men to the legislature.
Fkancis Elk in Villi ams.
TIRED OF NEGRO TROOPS.
Petition War Department HokkIiik
that Thoy l>o Kcniovod.
Senator Bailey a.id Representative
Garner and several other memiiers of
the Texas delegation In Congress,
have joined In a protest which was
r? celvid at the war department Thur> day
ag&luat the presence of negro
troops In Texas. The protest was sent
by wire and was prompted by tbe reoent
trouble in Brownsville, where
the colored soldiers, tilled up with liquor,
weut on a rampage, killing oue
citizen, wounding the chief of pllice
kuu unun in; uieaui)g 8UCI1 a 018
turbanoe that there was some talk of
having the Governor call out the militia
to quell the disorder.
The telegram from Texans points
out that the presence of the colored
troops Is a menace, and that trouble
similar to that which disturbed
Brownsville Is likely to happen at any
time owing to the prejudice agalnBt
them. Three oompanics of the 25th
infantry, which is colored, have been
for some time at Fort Bliss, yTexas.
and the remaining companies of the
regiment have been recently ordered
to different p dirs in that State from
Fort Niebrara, Nebraska and Fort
Washakie, Wyoming. All of them
have arrived there except one company,
and it was the memoers of one
of the companies of this regiment
which caused the riot at Brownsville.
The war department replied to
the protest by stating that nothing
could be chne in the matter at the
present time, as the Brownsville
incident is being thoroughly luvestl
gated. Tnus far, however, the
Instigators of the riot have not been
detected.
Throe Autolete Killed.
I
Three automoblllsts were killed
and another fatally Injured at Allaire
orosslng on the Pennsylvania railroad
near Asbury Park, N. J., Saturday
night, when an express train crashed
Into the automobile of J. George
Laffargue, a piano manufacturer of
New York. Mr. Laffargue, bis wife
and Mr. and Mm. Gh*ri?? T.nroh war*
Instantly killed. Mr. Lurch, tne
only other oooupant of the car, was
jmconscious when picked up and is In
a preoaiious condition. Mr. Latlar
gue handled the car himself and as
the party approached the crossing
the oar was going at a good Bpeed.
as it swept upon the tracks a train
crashed into it and the occupants
were thrown into the air. The car
was hurled 30 feet and wrecked
against the Allaire station. When
assistance arrived Mr. and Mrs.
Laffargue and Mrs. Lurch wore dead,
and Mr. Lurch barely alive. No
hope of his reooveiy is held out.
Attacked by a Panther.
The llentige, Texas, News says last
Friday a panther attacked the little
son of Mr. Bud May, a few miles north
of town. The little fellow was a short
distanoe from the house when the
beaBt attacked hi a. His cries of
terror attracted an older sister who
bravely went to the aid of the little
fellow, snatching him from the
olutohes of the enraged brute. As
she ran to the house with the boy in
her arms, the animal made several
attemps to take him from her, Jumping
over her shoulders in its frantio
efforts. She succeeded in reaching
the house and shutting the door in i
the face of the beast. 11 tried to
foroe its wav Into the house and 1
failing, gave vent to the mOst awful
screams and cries. The child was i
scratched, but not severely. i
SHE WOBKKD MEN.
HANDSOME WOMAN ON HUNT
FOll HUSBAND.
Her Letters Brought Dupes?Then
She "Fulled Their Legs" Good
and Proper?In Jail.
At New York a handsome young
woman, olalmlngtobe Mrs. Hamilton,
of 320 West Eighty -seoond street,
has been oommltted for trial by
United States Commissioner Shield*,
on a oharge of mailing letters in
which, under a pretense of matrimony,
she is alleged to have oon
ducted a scheme to defraud. The
complainant was James B. McClelland
a business man of Philadelphia, who
avers hlB acquaintance with the
young woman cost him $800. In
possession of Assistant United States
District Attorney Carmondy are
seveial score of letters, all of unusual
warmth, but It la charged that a
sordid motive was really responsible
for the youDg woman's apparent
affeotion.
According to MoOlelland's story,
he saw an advertisement in a Philadelphia
paper which stated that a
"young widow, engaging, of liberal
income and beautiful home, desired
meeting a young gentleman of
character, business, and position."
lie sent an answer to "Sincerity,"
and was invited to call on Mrs.
Hamilton at No. 320 West Eightysecond
street. He did so, and met,
he says, a butler at the door of the
apartment, who said Mrs. Hamilton
would see him.
' McClelland was much Impressed,
and says the woman told him her
husband had been dead two years.
She was lonely and wished to marry
She said, the complainant alleges,
that she erj iyed an income of 810,000
a year, which she received from a
brother, a mine owner in Mexioo.
McClelland said, in telling his story
today, that lie made several trips to
this city, and dually became engaged,
and that the engagement ring the
woman picked out e st 8000. Next,
he says he received the following
letter, being a part of the complaint:
"D. arest Sweetheart: Your lovely
loiter readied me this morning, and 1
could hardly wait to get it. You are
a dear sweetheart, and I love you
more than I thought it possible to
love a man. Yes, 1 feel sure we shall
hA f tt.rfiiriijln ? ? A- ?
nup^jr tut 1H IlObll
lug to compare with true love and
companionship." After asking Mo
Cleiland to call later In the week, the
letter coiiw aet:
'I wish you would call me up by
'phone, for I want the happiness ol
hearing your voice. J ust as soon as
possible 1 will get a photograph for
you, and, speaking of pictures, 1
nave your dear picture before me, and
always want it where 1 can look at it
and show it to my friends.
"Wnen I was at Asheville, N. 0., 1
was a most beautiful turquoise locket
and chain, solid Oriental turquoises
and l always thought if 1 bad any
one I could love sullicleutly 1 would
want that loeaet aud chain, so 1
could voar this picture around my
neck. Yours is the one I want in it
and I sent for it today, for I know
you would be glad to give it to me
for my birth day, which Is next
Thursday.
' It will only be $200, and It is the
one kind I have not in my collection
of jewels, and I dearly love turquoises,
for biue lias forever represented pure
love. Can't you have a little mlnia
cure taken about an inch tquare ho I
oan have it ready for the locketV I
can cut this one out and use it, but
wouin like to keep this one also."
McClelland says he promptly forwarded
the check for the 9200 and
upon his next visit he uays he saw the
tucket.
II.* mndn J "
ummuv n iu n i Al/Ti 1 V 1211 LH ttDQ 1'IIGIrece
ived a long teW gram from the
woman, statin# her brother had
suddenly arrived from M"xc>, and
was furious about her proposed marriage
to him, and had by legal Injunction,
out ctT her $10,000 income. She
wished to visit Provk.enoe, R I., at
once, and retain a lawyer acquainted
with her family affairs and light the
writ.
McClelland sa'd he was never afterward
able to tiad Mrs. Hamilton,
although he called repeatedly. Finally
he disguised himself and watoued her
uouse, and when he saw her enter it
caused ner arrest. The woman was
held in $1,000 ball for trial. It is
alleged that Mrs. Hamilton scoured
$2,800 in all from MoCielland.
Denounced tho Judge.
KaTle Fletcher, colored, who was
hanged at Birmingham, Ala., on Friday,
for the murder of Bob Paine, a
fellow convlot at Eiat Top mines,
created a scene by denouncing Judge
S. L. Weaver from ti e scaffold just
before the drop fell. Fletcher declared
that tht judge had granted a habeas
corpus to John WilHams, a white
man, and saved Williams neck. But
when it came to his (Fletcher1*) case i
the onurr. floVii? " -
?*VU V UQU1 Kg. neicnor said
that ' going fishing" was given as an I
excuse for the judge to avoid grantting
a habeas corpus.
' " 1 1 ?
Tried to Rill All.
In a fit of insanity, Emil Berner, a
mecbanio of Batavla, Illinois, murdered
his brother-in-law, Ernest
Franzen. by cutting bis throat with a
razor, slashed Mrs. Berner so severely
that she will die, then out bis throat
and died within a few moments. The
tragedy was enacted at the Berner
home, Berner had been ill for three
weeks, and at times delirious, but no
symptoms of violent Insanity bad been
previously noticed.
1 Thank Thee Lord.
I thank Thee, Lord, because I live,
With loving heart and patient
mind:
Because I have the gift to give,
Of sympathy to all my kiud.
I thank Thee, too, because my ears
Along earth's barren waste have
lain,
And for the sweet and human, tears,
Thereon dissolved like summer
rain.
I thank Thee for each sad mistake
That seemed to wreck some cherished
dream;
Nor would I mend the piteous break
Twixt Then and Now, or hide the
seam,
1 know, O Lord, Thy gentle hands
Have led me safe through sun and
cold;
Because my soul now understands
The peace within the Shepard's
fold.
Therefore I thank Thee, Lord, because
Thou dids't not leave me to tho
blast;
But with the gentle love that draws
Led me to Thy dear feet at last.
H?r(l to Kill. ^
At Hatttesburg, Miss., after
receiving one bullet straight through
the heart and another entirely
through the head, Charles Williams,
a negro has survived three days and
will prohably recover. The wounds
were indicted bv a .'18 oalibre revolver
tired at short range. Williams fell
over as though dead. The undertaker
was telephoned for but the
surgeon arrived in the meantime and
when the undertaker's wagon arrived
the wounded negro was able to sit up.
Since then he has been eating heartily
and the physioians venture the
opinion that he will recover if no
complications arise.
K<llc(t Near iladham. * N John
Brown, a negro employed at
the brick works cf the Dorchester
Lumber Company, was klhed and his
body horribly mutilated by an eastbound
Southern train passing Badham
Friday night about 9 o'clock. It is
said he came into Badham frnm Sum.
merville riding ou blind end of baggage
oar In an intoxicated condition,
and expressed his Intention of returning
Friday night to Summervllle In
ohe aame manner. Ills wangled body
found at daylight Saturday morning,
a few feet beyond the depot, shows
that he had attempted to carry out
the Intention.
hiK Sheep liAiioii.
The Sabinal, Texas, Seutlnal says
.Inhll A uuiit. rflfinrt.u tint >? 1. - -
.f , ^ v m?a<u unnu LIU 11IW bUC*
cessfully brought through the soason
1(300 lambs which are lu line condition
and that his spring olip of wool
amounted to 17,009 pouuds whioh he
expects to get 22 cents for. lie has
now about four thousand bead of old
sheep which with his lambs make a
dock of 5,(300 and ho is doing a nice
business with them. This shows
what a mau oan do who wants to
wcrk and is willing to get at it. Mr.
Avant watches hi8 sheep closely and
has four Mexican helpers.
Found * Motoorito,
On Tuesday evening of last week,
while Mrs. A. L McLmdon was sitting
on the veranda of her home, stvs
the Live Oak (Texas) Democrat, she
saw a v.vid Hash and heard a noise
like a stone striking the fence directly
iu front of her. She was within a
few feet of it and rushing out, picked
up the stoue. It proved to be a meteorite
about the size of a bmall egg
and was hot when picked up. The
stone looks like the common variety
of iron stone, is of a brown color and
is heavy. It Is on exhibition.
Liives Lost in Fire.
At Buffalo, N. Y., Capt. Rxbioson,
a veteran Lake Master, was burned to
death, B. J. Johnson, sailor, was fatally
burned and a score of persons
had a narrow escape in & tire in a
building occupied by tbe Buffalo
Chandlery, supposed to have been
caused by explosion. Tae Are "Dread
to the St. Charles Hotel, the A .mes
rolled high and much damage was
done. Loss Is 8750,000.
To Fx plot t Cuban baii'ls.
The Cuban Invescing Corporation
of New York, which will conduct a
general agricultural and manufacturing
business iu Cuba, has been incorporated
with a capital of 83,000.000.
The directors of record include E O.
TT* I ** ? " ?
I roauurgn, M.Kerr, L. W. Stiuioon,
| 0. H. Kayler, W. W. Day, Jr., Norfolk,
V-i.; R. J. Camp, Franklin, V*.;
and 0. T. Ladson, Atlanta. Ga.
Blind Tlffori and Sunday.
D. S. Hammond, Darltutf ton correspondent
of the lUrtsvllle Meweug3r,
writing of tbe whiskey situation In
Darlington says: "Blind tigers and
Sunday sellers art having more
visitors on Sunday than the ohurohes.
Darlington is one of the oountles that
nag voted out the dispensary, but it
BOTiua i.uaL pronioition falls to forbid
it there.
An Old Man.
James Webb, of Peters, San Joaquin
county, Oal., celebrated oq Jqly
27 bis one hundredth birthday. He
was born in Kentucky. He had
thirteen ohildren, seven of whom survive,
the eldest being eighty. He '
has fifty-one grandchildren, about
160 great-grandchildren and twenty
great-great-grandchildren. One
hundred of his descendants attended
the celebration.
t
Helped Catch Htm.
It is said Mr. Ragsdale, candidate
for attorney general, deserted the
campaign p arty at Greenwood Wednesday
and joined the posie searching
the swamps frr the negro, Bob Davis.
Q Rusting cut it not xsstirg. _