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SHOT FIRST. Two Would be Assassins Killed and Wounded by Their INTENDED VICTIM. Tillman Barnes and Joe Barnes, Two ^ Colored Farm Hands and Brothers, Tried to Assassinate Mr. Morgan, Near Augusta, Ga? But He Surprised Them, Killing One and Badly Woundfug the Other. At an earlv hour Sunday morning week ago, says the Augusta Herald, two negro brothers, Joe and Tillman Barnes, went to the door of Mr. R. J. Morgan, in this countv. and him out with the intention of murdering him. Mr. Morgan, with suspicions aroused, went out his back door and came around the side of the house. Tillman was standing 011 the ground with a revolver in his hand, while Joe was on the porch with an open knife. Mr. Morgan ordered the former to drop his weapon, and in anyver the negro levelled it to shoot. fllr. Morgan's pistol spoke barely in time, and Tillman Barnes dropped with a bullet through the heart. Joe rushed from the porch with open knife and was met by a bullet which penetrated his right lung. He is at the Lamar Hospital in a dying condition. Mr. Morgan's residence is on the Dean Bridge road, six miles from Augusta. Coroner Ramsey held an inquest at the scene of the shooting, and the jury brought in a verdict of justiflcable homicide. The trouble began several days ago when Mr. Morgan's house was burglarized. He had strong reasons to suspect the negroes of the crime, and after an investigation reported the matter to the city and county police and orders were given for the arrest of the suspects. The negroes knew of this action, and it is believed it constituted their motive for the attempted murder. Saturday night Mr. Morgan was kept away from home until a very late hour hv the aiftkn??i r?f ? nonr relative. It was just as he had reached home, sometime after one o'clock, and was preparing to enter by the back door, according to his usual custom, that he heard a knock at the front door. He responded by asking who was there. Joe Barnes answered that it was he and that he wanted to have a talk with Mr. Morgan, and asked him to come to the door. With suspicions thoroughly aroused Mr. Morgan procured a pistol and quietly stole through the back door, and approached the negroes from the corner of the house. Keeping well in the shadow he saw Tillman Barnes standing on the ground near the porch with a arawn revolver. The other brother was on the porch at the door with a K???ie drawn and ready to cut Mr. Morgan to pieces the moment he opened the door. Wishing still to give the men a chance for their lives, Mr. Morgan called out, "Barnes, isn't that a pistol in your hand? Drop it!" "Yes, By G?d, it is," answered the black, and levelled the weapon. It was his last word on earth. He dropped with a jagged hole drilled through his murderous heart. With a yell Joe Barnes was upon the white man with his gleaming knife, but he was arrested midway in his course by another shot which will probably send him to meet his brother in Hades. The verdict of the coroner's jury was a full and complete exoneration of Mr. Morgan. Me is well-known In Angnsta and throughout Richmond county, and is a brother-in-law of Patrolman George Wolfe. tfAtAi. AfrcmfcS'T. / Five I>ie in Kxplosion of Carload of Powder. Five persons are dead as the result of an explosion of a carload of giant gunpowder on the Chicago, Indiana and Southern railroad at Boise, Idaho, Friday afternoon. A car, loaded with matches, caught afire, and a crowd gathered. It is supposed that the burning matches set off the powder in the adjoining car. The explosion was felt for 20 miles, and many windows were broken. THICK AS HOPS. Army Worms I^ock Traffic oil the Railroads In Arkansas. I Aririv worm a tiro mo Humorous lie I tween Camp Belleview and Nemons, { I Ark., that traffic on the St. Louis, Kanneth and Southeastern railroad has been interrupted. When the car wheels mash them, the track is put in a worse condition than if it had been thoroughly soaped. KILLED IN A RUNAWAY. James Leo, Colored, Lost His Life at Titunionsville. In attempting to stop a runaway mule attached to a wagon, James Lee, colored, was run over and killed in Timmonsvllle, Florence county on Monday of last week. For scratches, burns, cuts, insect bites and the many little hurts common to every family, *)eWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve is the best remedy. It is soothing, clean and healing. Be sure you get DeWitt's. Sold by Conway Drug Co. THE REASON WHY Work Has Been Stopped on the i Electric Railway. South Carolina Public Service Corporation Meets with Opposition in I Some Towns. A dispatch from Spartanburg re- ^ cently stated that the engineering corps of the South Carolina Public Service Corporation, which has headquarters In Charleston, had discontinued all field work. The surveying corps has been at work for some seven months and extensive surveys have been made. It was said in the dispatch that the cause of calling in the engineers 1 from the field was tardiness shown I by some' cities through which it was < proposed that the road passes in ' granting franchises. The News and ? Courier says: Mr. C. R. Van Etten, ! general manager, when asked about ' the discontinuance of work iu Spartanburg gave out the following state- < ment: < "A number of towns have already granted franchises that are fair and equitable to all parties, but there are several towns where franchises are being held up that may necessitate a change in route. In some cases the limitations and restrictions are such as would make the investment of capital a matter of questionable prudence. "Some of the conditions imposed are typical of the position that has been taken by the city of Chicago. The street tail way situation at that point Is eloquent of its results. "The city of New Yorkk has recently been unable to find any one willing to undertake t lie building and operation of further subway railroads under similar limitations and restrictions. "If these conditions retard investment in centres of deuce population and heavy traffic they will be found prohibitive in smaller communities, and we are therefore obliged to await action in the cities concerned before further plans can be definitely determined." A letter has been issueu by the , South Carolina Public Service Corporation to the commitees co-operating with the corporation in a number of towns and cities in the state, announcing the discontinuance of the ( field work until satisfactory franchises have been grated. The letter is signed by the vice president and general manager of the corporation, and the following is a copy: , T have received the following instructions from the executive committee of our board of directors: " 'On account of opposition that has developed in certain municipalities to granting franchises that will permit the corporation to construct 11 o roUrnorl uiul t ro nou/?t ii m l\nal nouo VO I UIII VUU ItllU tl It UOUV< U 1I.O i;UOIIl\yOO on reasonable terms you will discontinue active work in the field until such time as the lines being surveyed are practicable of construction.' "As matters now stand several changes may become necessary. It is manifestly unfair, both to the corporation and the property owners with whom rights of way are being negotiated, to establish a line that subsequently might be abandoned for want of franchise in adjacent towns. In the mutual interests of all conecorned I would, therefore, respectfully ask that the committee in any town where the franchises are being withheld use their good offices towards an early solution of this difficulty." The News and Courier says "the construction of the electric lines through the state, which have been proposed by the South Carolina Public Corporation, would mean a great deal for the development of the state and it is earnestly hoped that matters may be so arranged that the preliminary work can be pushed forward until completed." That is very true, and as soon as the work of constructioni is commenced the Public Service Corporation will find no trouble of getting the right of way and other privileges desired. The people are afraid that it is only a promoting scheme, and they are slow to give such a conccern anything. Put if the public is convinced that the company mean business there will be no trouble. THEY SHOT HIM. (icoi'KC Hudson, Colored, Killed By His Own Hare. George Hudson, colored, went to the house of Will Mlckens, colored, near Johnston on Monday night and 9 knocked him on the head In bed and tried to kill Mlckens' wife. The next <i'i" ? rif nop-tvtnu <rnt lifter Mud son, and as he was about to escape Into a swamp they shot and killed hi in. FOLK AT A I1IHTH. No Hare Suicide *In Tills Indiana Family. Mrs. Frank Croxton,.aged 43 years and the wife of a section foreman 'on Traction line, living near Koanoke, Ind., gave birth to four children Thursday night. There were three girls and a boy. The combined weight of the four was eleven and one-half pounds. Two of the children have since died. There are very few encouraging reports from the cotton crop. Bad stands are general and the plants are not growing as they should. The crop in this section will be short. WANT A ROW. I The Japs Are Mad and May Da- 1 mand an Apology FROM THIS COUNTRY. I iVasliington Officials Are Surprised I At tho Attitude of the Japs, and Can Figure Out No Act That In Likely To Have Ke-opened a Dispute That Has Hern Considered As (Closed. A dispatch from Tokio, Japan, says i deputation from the progressive ;>arty in Japan personally urged Fordgu Minister Hayashi to tuke action to prevent a reoccurrence of antiJapanese outbreaks in San Francisco and explain the government's apparent inaction in ihe recent outbreak. The oppositnon Japanese newspapers prominently quote Count Okurna as urging the< concentration of Japanese national efforts toward the settlement of what is known as the San Francisco question; that Japan should demand a public apology from the mayor of San Francisco, and also that the Japanese should receive treatment similar to that given to Anglo-Saxons in the United States. It is said by the Japanese, who seem determined to pick a row with the United States, that herein lies tho sole hope of definitely settling the question. Otherwise, if necessary, demonstrative measures will bo tak en which It will be Impossible to regard as precipitate in the circumstances. Seven Japanese university professors, famous for agitation in molding public opinion before the war with Russia and during the period when the peace negotiations were in progress. are again bestiring themselves, although, this time, in the direction of a generally more stalwart foreign policy, including Japan's dealings with Korea and China. It is said that the opposition, by means of public meetings and otherwise soon will begin a campaign against the Caionji ministry on the basis that is is showing itself too conciliatory, and too much disposed to make concessions in the matter of the persecution of Japanese in San Francisco. Leading Japanese persons in and out of politics seem to have a feeling of apprehension regarding Japan's* future relations with the United States. The action of the progressives is believed to indicate a desire of certain elements in Japan to make the issue with the United States prominent. Japanese belligerency over the Francisco affair caused surprise in ofllcial Washington, chiefly because no incident of recent date could be suspected of having served to re-o|>en what was generally considered a bit of ancient history, tlenernl Kuroki's recent tour through the country, with its attendant felicitations and expressions of good will, had strengthened the friendly feeling of Americans toward their Oriental neighbors to such an extent that the reports of belated indignation in .Japan came as rather a severe shock. As it stands, the state department is on record as having informed the Japanese government of all the facts it had been able to secure, all tending to show that that last trouble in San Francisco was merely an incident to the great railroad strike, with its accompanying riots. In the case of the school question, the state department did point out the limitation imposed upon the federal government by the constitution and its dealing with individual states but it had reason to suppose, from the reception according its notea and in Tokio, that the Japanese government fully understood the situation of the federal government here and was satisfied with the arrangement of the school question obtained by the president and Secretary Root by the exercise of almost extra-official influence upon the legal authorities of San Francisco. Hence, the officials here can only conjecture that there has not been a publication in Japan of all the official correspondence, which, it is believed, would favorably affect public opinion toward the United States. The attacks upon Japanese restaurants and bath-houses in Sau Francisco are still under investigation by the State authorities of California, and when that inquiry is con eluded doubtless me japanese k?#vernment will be informed of the result, and, if necessary, a proper expression of regret will be made. A Ql' 10Kit CHANGE. A Man Accused of Making His Sister Swallow Needles. Forcing his sister to swallow needles is tho queer charge brought against a man living at Tassin, in the department of the Rhone, France. The slater who ia twenty-two years old declares that he made her swallow needles which he stuck in pears and oranges, because he wanted to get rid of her in order to add her share of the fortune to his own. When she was taken to the hospital, not fewer than 7 2 needles were extracted from the girls body, and more were taken from her afterward. Although she has suffered fearful agony, her life is not in danger. Found Dead. J. M. Mosely, a railroad man was found on Sunday in a vacant lot in Birmingham, Ala., with his head crushed and his pockets tilled. Ignorance that pays looks like wisdom to some peole. ' * * * BOMB HIDDEN In the Wall of Justice's Office in ' New York. BLACK HAND DID IT. Dynamite and (Runt Powder Arrntig- , ed to Fx pi ode by the Telephone 1 Fuse Connection.?Judge Kennel, ( the Intended Victim, Has Bitterly i Fought The Murderous Organi/.a- 1 tion, and They Wanted Itevenge. j Through the timely discovery of a 1 bomb hidden In his office. Police Jus- , 4 tlce Joseph Kennql of Weehawken, New Yofk, propably saved the lives ' of himself and family. Between the wall and a chest of drawers In the office was found a bomb containing sufficient dynamite and giant gunpowder to have wrecked the whole house and blown the occupants to atoms. The office of the Justice is on the Hackensack Plank lload, near the West Shore station at New Durham. It is a room in the two-story frame building he uses as his residence. In addition to the Justice, who is sixty years old, his wife and three children and his mothe-in-law there are three boarders in the house. The office is a semi-public place to which outsiders have access. About f> o'clock in the evening the Justice noticed what he thought was a string sticking out from the space between the wall and the chest of drawers. lie pulled it atHi found it was attached to a fuse. Running his hand back he drew forth a box, five by four inches. The ruse led into it. lie Opened it and found ii ?'? V ?.V? V'it i(l I II dynamite powder and caps. Tlie Justice carried the infernal machine around to the police station. There It was examined hy Chief Jas. Noland and Captain Leonard Mark I. To make sure of the character of the mixture, the police took a pinch of it outside and laid it on a stone. \ piece of the fuse w\.s used. A bright (lame flashed the instant the spark readied the stone. There was according to tlie ponce, enough explosive in the hon\b to have killed the whole family and demolished the house. After this, the police looked around for a means by which the bomb could have been exploded, and belleveu they found it in its location. The machine was so placed that, it was only a few inches from the telephone on the wall, and directly beneath it. They believe the men who placed it. there planned to connect it with the telephone in some manner so that whoever rang the 'phone after the connection was made would have been blown up. There was dust on the bomb, and the opinion is that is was placed there at least two days ago. Justice Kennel in the past lias been very severe on members of the Black Hand brought before him. Ho has held them all for the higuer courts and many threats have been made against him just as they were against justice Cortese, of Patterson, who was blown up in his office. Several times he has been warned by his friends that lie would lie a l/l/lt ( ttl o ll/l I* lo oil 1/1 ^ T ivtnu, ?uu it. ID OUIU 41 I lilt" lllllt; III the Patterson tragedy that the police were quietly warned that Justice Kennel might be next. Nothing came of uie warning, hut while the police were on the alert, and the friends of the Justice, while not permitting him to know it, never allowed him to be alone when "liiack Hand" cases were being investigated. Some of the men the justice has held for the higher courts have received sentences, and it is thought in some circles that their friends planned to kill Kennel. The failure of the plot to work is ascribed to the men having been frightened away before they had the opportunity to make the necessary fuse connections with the 'phone. Three months ago four men found with dynamite in their possession were sent to prison for three months by the justice. They were suspected of being members of a gang of thieves that was dynamiting railroad cars when unable to pick the locks. The sentences of this quartette expired a couple of days ago. They have been released from prison, and in this the police and the justice see a coincidence that may prove to be a clue. Justice Kennel, who is an old sol uier, Hiiy? no uuuh uui iuiiiu uemg blown up, but ho does not care to have his family killed. "TTimrFAT^tTTr" John G. Capers Given a Little More I'op. President Roosevelt has appointed Jno. G. Capers, late district attorney of South flaro'lnn. to tie roivmiiHuion er of Internal revenue until December 1st, when Pearl Wright of New Orleans will take charge. Capers Is now practicing law in Washington. FATAL FIKK. Three Persons Burned to Death and Four Missing. Three lives lost, four persons missing and many thousand's of dollars' loss in a fire at Newark's Turnverein hall Thursday. The dead are the Janitor with his wife and child. % Big Haiti Fall. Beaumont, Texas, had a cloudburst one day last week, when 16 inches of rain fell in four hours. Big Strike On. A strike of forty thousand miners is threatened In the coal districts of Pennsylvania. MANY HURT In a Rail Railroad Accident on the So uthem Road Hie Wreck Saitl to He Caused By Spreading Hails Wlich Threw the Train Off. Going at a speed of 20 and 30 lilies an hour, Southern passenger .rain No. 2, leaving Nashville at 10:30 A. M., plunged off a flfteenfoot embankment at Hlack Branch, tear Lebanon, Tenn., thirty-three aiiles east of Nashvillle, shortly after I I o'clock Thursday tnornlug, Injuring some r?7 persons out of a total of t>0 on board. Among the most seriously injured are: Mrs. J. T. Jennings, I^ebanon, Tenn., l>oth arms broken, skull fractured and cut above both eyes, may recover. Mrs. Sarah Lawrence, Nashville, seriously cut above the face and head fractured skull, dangerous. A. R. Hart, Johnson City, Tenn., side and head bruised ami cut. William Jamison, Auburn, Ky., internally Injured. J. F. Beaty, Nashville, severe cuts on head, arm badly bruised. J. W. l)odd, Nashville, scalp wound Mrs. R. P. Maddox. Nashville, broken hip, serious. Joseph Jones, Monetery, Tenn., Internal injuries. Miss Patsy itussell. Difficult, Tenn., injured in back, serious. Many others were more or less seriously injured. Two passenger coaches, the mail and baggage cars left the track. One report says the wreck was caused by spreading rails, and another that the front trucks of the engine jumped the track, and threw the baggage coach and two passenger coaches off. The ilrst Intimation the naRsenorer? had was a bumping;, jolting; sensation, and the next instant two coaches shot from the rails and turned over on their sides down the embankment. Immediately on the report of the wreck being; received at Lebanon, a relief train was dispatched from that town to the scene, all the physicians in Lebanon, and a number of citizens going to render such assistance as was possible. The train made a quick run to the scene and the work of relief and attending to the needs of the wounded was commenced, every assistance possilde being rendered. The wounded, who llvo In Nashville, were placed upon the regular train for that city. As soon as the news of the wreck was received In Nashville, the Southern officials rushed a relief train to Black Branch. When the relief train arrived at 3:20 o'clock every ambulance in the city stood in waiting to receive the victims and rush them to hospitals for prompt medical attention. Conductor F. A. Dean of Harrinian, Tenn., who was in charge of the train, although severely cut and bruised about the head and face, and on both hands and on the right foreit p tv* ol nob i/k hlo nrvof o n /I no r?\ r? Lnolr ui in, otu\-A ww ii 10 jn/oi. unu \.uum i/ai/ix to Nashville with the train. He did not seem to know Just what had caused (he accident. FOOLED THE DOCTORS. Man Lived .Forty Years After Physiciuns Lave Him Up. Forty years after two physicians had given him up as a hopeless victim of tuberculosis and said his death was a matter of only a few hours Dr. Marvin Chapin, of Chicago, died Sunday, aged eighty-six. Soon after he was pronounced boyond human aid forty years ago he went to the oil fields and roughed it. It is said Dr. unapin cured himself by swallowing crude oil. Dr. Chapin came to Chcago in 1887 and taught a Presbyterian Sunday School Class for twenty years. LEAPtf TO HIS DEATH. A Mail Commits Suicide by Jumping From A Steamer. As the ferry boat Duval was making a landing at Jacksonville at 8 o'clock the other night, a Mr. Pagan leaped into the rived and was drowned. He threw his coat from his shoulders, took his hat from his head and, turning to a man nearby, said: "CJood-bye, I am gone," leaping into the river before he could be caught. I'IjKADKD (HI l/rv .And Much* To Pay a Heavy Pine for \ ( ambling. In Mobile, Ala., 32 defendants pleaded guilty on Tuesday of conspiring to aid the Honduras Lottery company and were fined $150,000; the defendants promising to destroy all the paraphernalia of the lottery company In their possession. TItOl'lthH IN CHINA. Missionaries Are Being Driven Out Of the Country. Mr. Pollard, a Methodist missionary, was fearfully beaten by Chinese on Tuesday at Chiao Tun Fu, one of his lungs being pierced. Missionaries are flocking into Hong Kong from the outlying districts. William S. Davis, Jr., a well known young man of Birmingham, Ala., was killed by James Russell, son of a prominent attorney, in a crap game on Sunday. The good either die young or poor, i A misfit bargain isn't fit for anything. M CHINA SHAKEN By a Terrible Earthquake, Which Kills Four Thousand. MANY HOUSES DOWN And Thousands of P<?opt?? l)it> of Kt* posure.?The Kmproes Dowhk<t lifts Instructed tl?o (t?v?Tnors of Kclghtmring l*rovince.M to Send Relief at Once to the Distressed l*<?ople, Who Iiost Their Homes. Four thousand people were killed tn an earthquake in the province of Using Kiang, China, recently. The first news of the catasrophe was brought to America last week by the steamer Shawmut on Its arrival at Victoria, B. C. Tlie officers report that a telegram announcing the disaster was received at Toklo, Japan, frotn I'ekln, just before the vessel set sail. It reported that many inhabitants of the province were left without homes and food by the -.saster and that suffering was intense. The province of Using Kiang lies in the tibet region, and comprises nearly the whole of Central Asia. It is thickly populated, but beyond all telegraphic communication. The news of the disaster was carried for many miles by runners before it could bo telegraphed to flu* emnress dowaeer at Pekin. Urgent instructions were Issued to the governors of neighboring provinces to take Measures to relieve the distress. It Is now reported that thousands of injured lost their lives through exposure and hunger and on account of lack of proper care. The entire city of Hslng Kinng. capital of the province of the same name, is in ruins. It is located in the northern part of the province in a deep valley surrounded on all sides by towering mountains of volcanic origin. It is one of the most remote of Chinese cities and the home of tho most progressive architects of the em pi re. Many of its buildings ure construct ed from stone and brick, manufactured by crude devices. The city Itself is surrounded by a wail. Most of the buildings were thrown down, crushing their occupants to death in their crowded quarters. The town wall is also In ruins. Hsing is tho capital of a province which luis nd area of 585,500 square miles. Its valleys are fertile beyond description. Its inhabitants are numbered by millions, though the exact number has never been ascertained. Under ordinary conditions food could l>e supplied from the province, but all supplies that could be spared have been disposed of for the relief of famine stricken regions. 1?YT III AM EDITOKS MM El). Members of the Journal's Publication Hoard Chosen. Grand Chancelor Mendel L. Smith Thursday announced the board to publish the proposed Pythian Journal, provided for by the Grand Lodge last week, at Anderson. The board consists of Elbert II. Aull, of New berry, chairman; Past Grand Cnann P UnvurnrH of f'nlnmMi and M. Rutlege Rivers, of Charlestoif; J. Thos. Arnold, of Greenville, and J. E. Williams, of Columbia. ELEVATOR ACCIDENT. * Ten Persons Injured, One Fatally. Car Was Overcrowded. At Akron, Ohio, ten persons were Injured, one fatally when an elevator dropped at the Goodyear Tiro and Rubber company. It is said the car wuh overloaded. The elevator was used to handle freight. Ten employees were loaded on it besides the usual cargo. The car dropped 22 feet. KILLED IIY A FALL. The Sad Fate of a Voting .Man In Georgia. R. C. Peters, a lineman for the Bell Telephone company, was impaled on an ron fence in falling front the second floor of a hotel In Carters vine, iia., on i nursfiay, two or mo pickets passing clean through his body. He died in groat agony. mani? sriciDi-:. A Fast Wife and Jealousy Was tho Cause. Patrick Reardon, aged 2 8, shot Thos. Morton on Thursday tlirough the eye and W. M. Morehead in tho head, and then committed suicide. The wounded men will probably die. A fast wife and jealousy was tho cause. i>iici> in china. Dr. Young J. Mini (Joes to His How ard. * Bishop Chandler of Atlanta received a cablegram on Tuesday announcing the death ut Shanghai of Dr. Young J. Allen, for forty years a missionary in China from the Southern Methodist church. Dr. Allen was 72 years old. "This little pig went to market," doesn't amuse tonight. Raby's not well; what's the matter, dear little cheeks are so white; Poor little tummy is acklng, naughty , old pain go away. ICascasweet mother must give her, then she'll he bright as the day. , It is sold here by Conway Drug Co,