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THEY MET AGAIN: ? After Years of Seperation and Remarried. I . f vA GEORGIA ROMANCE A Voting HuMuuul axid Wife IWjitvo i Kstrung^l and Parted, uud After ! j Marrying Again, They Meet and | ICeaiew Vows of Love and Marry j I ttK? SocOlkd TIIIM*. A dispatch t'tom Fitzgerald. Ga., I t? the Augusta Chronicle, tells this j ^tory: Unhiding over with u case of ?omiln<> love, mellowed hv a twenty tiv? years experience of hardship, yearning disappointment and longing . for a lost tirst love, Mr. uud Mrs. J. j <i. T. Thomas walked into the of- j lice of the .'sews yesterday afternoon and asked that their checkered career be published to the world. \nd such a record! It Is truth, every word of it, but there is no fiction half so strange or romantic. Twenty-five jears ago these two were married. After two and a half years of wedded life they lost each other and for twenty-three yours, four months ami one day they neither saw or heard of each other, until two weeks ago they met face to face, lecourted and married agaiu on Thursday night and today are the happiest bride and groom man ever looked upon. "Fiction," do you say? If the writer could compose such tlction he would not bo grinding away on a daily paper for bread! With some embellishments of latt,*uage and connection this is the fctrvry as told by Mrs. Thomas hor"Twenty-five years ago, Mr. Thomas and I were married at Cedar Keys. We lx?th were (Jeorgians, he j having been reared in Clinch and 1 j in Dooley county and our fnmllt.es i had drifted down Into Florida, lie wi*? twenty-one and I fifteen and our j native similarities drew us together; and we were married. "For two and a half years we lived ; together as happy as most couples j do. but I was young and foolish, and, j like many girl wives, 1 had a yearn- j iing to try my husband's lovo and j jhbow my power over him. Wo had t %ome trifling misunderstanding, in j which I was wholly to blame and one I morning l ran away irom noiue. 1 , did not go far away and It wan my j intention to write him after a month j r two and make him como to me., | or If he declined to come, I, of course, I waa going back home to him. I waited two months and wrote. Hut, lo! 1 e diil not come and my letter r?v I turned to me unanswered. Then I 1 to hint ? or where I had left Him, but he was not to be found. I He had gone in search of mo and I 1 *^i?ew not where to look for hlin. ''I came back to Georgia, I search- j <-d the country from Atlanta to IIh-I Nana, but nowhere could I find anyone who could give me any information about him, and, after years of search, I gav?. up hope. Later, a Cuban named Frank Perry wanted to marry me and I finally got a divorce from rn\ lost husband and married him. "For fifteen years Perry and I lived together and be treated mo well. Wo lived some in Florida, some In Cnba and some in Georgia. Five yearn ago Mr. Ferry died at .Jacksonville and I came back to Georgia and started a cigar factory, the only thing I knew how to do. For four yearn I have b?en making cigars at Wray, Georgia, not far from hero, and two months ago I went to Sylvester and started a factory thero. "A little over two weks ago I went on an excursion to Tampa to purchase some tobacco for my factory. I went to one of the big factories there late one afternoon, Just as the men were leaving and asked the watchman where I could see tho manager. He was an Italian, aud as I had forgot how to speak the Italian language I turned to a man I heard peaking English to ask him to in interpret for me 1 looked him full | in the face athd my heart leaped into my mouth. "What is your name?" I asked. "Thomas," he said. "G" orge Thomas?" ^ "George Thomas Is my name," said he. "Do you know me?" I saked. I 44 \T/\ T rl A n A! " I "Pointing to a scar on my roc'; caused from a rore in my party life, I said: "I)o you know that soar?" "Ilis face lighted up. and laving his hand on a panel close by, ho jjjtid, "Do you recognize that nand?" "Two of his fingers wero partly cut off when a boy, and with these tok"fcls of recognition we stepped u?ido Md took a seat on the factory steps V Jr101*0 he was watchman. I^"And there w? sat tho night out, tolling of all we had dono and whore j wo had been during tho years of soy**1 atlon. "And here In subetaneo is tho story he told ine: "After five years of incessant search for me, George gave up in despair and settled down at Jackson* BURIED ALIVE MKN AT WOIIK IN DKKP TKHNCH SUDDKNLY TKHISH llencuth Thousoutb of Tons of Karth. lUllway Tracks, Curs and Travelling Cranes. It Is estimated that twenty men perished Kriday by the sudden colla p?e of the west wall of the new lock at the entrance to the Alexandra dock, Newport, Kngland. The extension of the dock work hart been in progress for some time, and fifty men wore working in a trench sixty feet deep preparing for the laying of a concrete foundation Without tho slightest warning the heavy shoring lumbers gav? way iu tho middle, and tho entire structure collapsed and carried down with It thousands of tons ol' earth, the railway lines on both sides of the j trench, many railway cars and four : travelling cranes. The men at tho bottom of the trench, which was 100 yards long i and thirty foot wide, had no chance | to escape, but many of these workI lug nearer the surface were uuinjurled. The work of rescue was begun j immediately after tho collapse and J three men were taken out alive. , The bodies of some of the dead also } were rescued. I Late Friday night four men, still i living, were pinned in the debris I in the trench. The incoming tide made the work of rescue very difI lleult. I The engineers in charge of the ' work are unable to account for the j collapse of the shoring timbers. At ; midnight the rescuers were still busy j wit h t heir work. Conversations were Vdng held with | a few of the imptlsoned men with j the aid of speaking tubes, and stimulants and cigarettes were passed I down to them, but tnere was little 1 hope of rescuing tho victims because ; the removal of the debris that was ' pinning them down was likely to I cause further falls of earth and ! beams. ITp to midnight eleven persons had been extricated, dead or injured, and it was believed that there stHl were sixteen bodies under tho debris. * A White Garrison. It was announced Monday at Brownsville, Texas, that tho war do purtrncnt will send two companies <?f white troops to occupy Fort Brown, formerly hold by negro soldiers of (ho 2I?tii regiment, who woro discharged from tho service following the riot. High Diver Killed. I At Beaumont, Texas, Charles Harris, aged about 30, professional high i diver, was killed while making a | dive into the Noches river from a | 00-foot ladder Monday evening. His i neck was brokon. His home and | relatives are unknown. Fell From Holloou. ,\t lli.r P n r\ Afr. C- . . * .??. in^ k viitfi ? ?*., rttii uniit,) , during a Fourth of July celebration, I'M ward ("ox, a farmer, was instantly | killed. He was watching a balloon I ascend and his feet caught In the | ropes of the parachute. Ho was car; rled high in the alt and fell, receiving fatal injuries. * T'nwritten Law Ln ('hie-ago. | In Chicago Tuesday the "unwrltI ten law" was sustained by the jury j in Judge Kersti's court, which freed | Michael Pacollano, charged with the murder of Frank Soreuo, as the result, it is alleged, of the lattor's betrayal of I'acellano's sister. 1 ; vllle. Here he decided to mar v again and after getting a divorce from me, j married a woman named?" Here Mrs. Thomas halted and fin! ally said?"Since It is our affair, wo ' will not drag other names into it, I whose families might ob.l- et. George's second wife is dead now. we think, j but long ago they decided they could not live together and he secured a divorce from her. I i \ i r ? ti i? ? - vvuh, no wana't'121> ana aown I through Florida and finally nettled j at Tampa whore ho has been employed for several years as night watchman for ono of the big factories. | And there la whore I ran Into him jtwo weeks ago. "The next day was Sunday and we went to the beach and spent the I day telling each other of what wo had done during that twenty-five years. It took a long time to toll it, for on Sunday night I sat on the stops of the factory again all night with George, and tho ?'*xt morning when I had to leave Tampa for my Georgia home, wo had not yet finishI ed all wo had to say, and I promised him that In two weeks I would j wlro him if I wanted to hear tho I rest, and when tho two weeks were out, I was glad enough to send him a telegram to como to Sylvester. "I wanted to hear what else ho hod to say, and ho came." And hero George, with a great Joy beaming from his eyes said, "Yes, I wanted to hear what she had to say, too. And eho said it was All right," and George broke into a big laugh. PASSED SENATE The Corporation Tax Plan Adept ed at Last BY LARGE MAJORITY Vote od file Troublesome Question KeaclieU Unexpectedly on u Mr>tiou to Substitute the Corporation Tax Amendment for the Income Tax Amendment. The corporation tax amendment, which wub nuggested by President Taft, is au integral part of the tariff bill as that bill now stands. After much tribulation, the Senate reached a vote shortly before adjourning at 7 o'clock p. in. Friday, and the amendment was agreed to, 60 to 11. Many Democrats voted with most of the Republicans for th?' amendment. Only three Democrats voted against the provision on th?> final tote, but some retrained from voting at all. The test rote was on the substitution of the corporation tax amendment for the income tax provision, and on that vote forty-five Senators oast their ballots in the ufllrinative and thirty-one in tin* negntive. On this ballot all the Democratic votes worn cast in favor of tlu? income tax, which also received the support of a number of the insurgent Republicans. There was a steady fire of oratory front the beginning of the session at !0 o'clock until 4:30 o'clock Friday afternoon. When the tiro had ceased Mr. Aldrieh took the floor and made a t que.st for unanimous agreement foi n vote on the corporation tax anundniont Saturday at 1 o'clock. Previous to presenting this request there had been much conferring between Mr. Aldrieh and Messrs. Flallcy, Cummins, Month and other opponents of the amendment, and it waa generally supposed that they had reached an understanding that the vot? should he taken Saturday as suggested by Mr. Aldrieh. When it seemed that such a compact was probable, Senator Cummins entered formal objection to the unanimous agreement which not only had the effort of preventing the fixing of inn vui? , [jui oi lorcing it Friday. Tho tlrst vote wart upon tho motion to subBtitute tho corporation amendment for the Lodge countervailing duty amendment and thin prevailed, 4 5 to 31. Tho nfflrinativo vote was cast entirely by Republicans, even Senator McEnery, of Louisiana, who has voted with the majority uldo for all protective meanurea, throwing hly ballot with his own party. Immediately following Mr. Lodge withdrew his amendment, and a vote wa?s taken on a motion to substitute tho corporation tax amendment for tho income tax amendment offered Jointly by Messrs. Huiley and Cummins. Tho result wa.s an exact counterpart of the vote on the previous roll W. I 1 1 K,n i & . I Next cnmo the vote upon tho corporation tax provision upon its own merits, but before this l>allot could i bo reached Mr. Bacon sought to obtain action upon two amendments to that provision, prosnntod by him- j self, both of which Mr. Aldrich moved to lay upon tho tablo with suecess f u 1 result. The first provided for an excrnp- I tion of educational, charitable and religious institutions, against which Mr. Aldrich made his first point of order. Because he did he fell into a sharp clash with lbs author. The effect of the point of ordor was to cut off debate, hut Mr. Aldrich chanced to drop tho remark that he would "allow" Mr. Bacon to proceed. Tho form of tho expression seemed to incense tho Georgia Senator, and he retorted sharply to tho effect that he was "not surprised that Mr. Aldrich should assume such a manner, because he had been dictating to the Senate so long that he was accustomed to nfw. lanffimo-n r?f " -.-V - ? "O ??.?r,v> \/? ? nut n Ul\l. V\ hen the amend mont was laid on tho toblo by a vote of 42 to 32, the Georgia Senator immediately proBented miother amendment requiring the taxation of bonds, which was rejected, 4 1 to 3 4. Then, without any preliminaries, the final vote was taken. It was upon agreeing to tho corporation tax amendment as a part of tho tariff bill. This amendment was adopted, 60 to 11. Of tho negative votes eight were cost by Republicans and three bv j Democrats, the Republicans being ! Ilorah, Hristow, Bulkoley, Clapp, j CumminB, Dolliver, Hey burn and 1 Dafolletto, and tho Democrats, Chamberlln, Hugos and Shlveley. Refuses to Displace Negroes. Following tho Georgia railroad's refusal to grant the onion firemen's demand for All whito firemen, tho Houston & Texas Central railroad | Monday answered the demands of the switchmen in Houston and refused to displace negroes for white in tho yards. % PUZZLE TO POLICE Al/rilOl'<ikI sill! cxh'ld livk in LrXl'KY AT HOMK Pennsylvania Maiden I'refoiu to lie Chambermaid So She May Have Chance to Steal. Police authorities in Reading, Pa., believo they havo a prisoner who should be made a study of by psychologists. The girl, who comes from a good family and whose parents are able to keep her in luxury, prefers work as a chambermaid and In other humble positions which offer an opportunity to steal. "Wheuever 1 entered a room and saw Jewels or line dresses," she said, "a voice would whisper in my ear. 'take them.' I tried to resist the voice, but could not, and finally 1 took the things. In one room of the hotel I look two big diamonds and a pearl pin. No sooner would 1 get the things to my room than I would feel sorry for what I had done. The jewels wero of no use to me, for 1 could not wear them without danger of arrest. I did not want to sell them, so 1 simply hid them in my trunk." Police as well as physicians who have examined Miss Florence Albright declare they believe she has .. !... c? vt uai juji r?v? 11<1 l l L) . When Florence was arrested she admitted that she had stolen jewels and women's finery in all the places in which she had worked. Why idle went to work and turned thiol' alio could not explain, as she could have had finery of equal value at home. Her father is a prosperous merchant and lives in one of the best houses in the suburbs. The daughter was a student in High school when she disappeared. Her parents were distracted and I had the police as well as private detectives search for her. They obtained no clew to her whereabouts until three months ago, when she was arrested on a charge of stealing jewels worth $1,000 from the home of a physician. It was brought out at the hearing that the girl, after leaving home, had found employment as a maid in the physician's home and that after taking the jewels she hid them in a room. On the plea of her father, Florence was released. She promised to remain at hotne, hut two weeks after she was discharged her disappearance was reported 'to the police. She went to Philadelphia, where she worked in a restaurant as waitress. She admitted later that she stole plates, although she had no use for them. When she was susptected of theft she left the restaurant and lounu employment an cnambormald in a hotel. The girl finally left Philadelphia and returned to Heading. Although she knew she would find a welcome in her homo, she obtained employment as maid in another physician's house. Again she could not resist the impulse to steal, and she took jewels worth several hundred dollars. She was arrested and Mayor Kick sent her to the House of the Good Shepherd where she will remain until I she is 21. * KILLKI) BY LIVK WlltK. i I illOftlJt it in INwlr llill X4II1 XI?.? - I mmm. - v?'\ IX lllll i*? HI .?!? V <t Nuddcn Death. Robert Rarron, colored, known nt "Rud" Rarron, a faithful lineman who has been in tho employ of the Water, Light & Power Company of Rock Hill, for a good many years, was killed Saturday morning about 1 1 o'clock by coming in contact with a heavily charged wiro. The accident occurred near Davis' store in the western part of the city while the linemen wcro at work making a repair. Rarron, who was at tho top of tho pole, had his strap buckled and consequently did not fall to tho ground. Other workmen mounted and brought him down after which ho lived for a few moments only. When Dr. Crawford reached him lie was dead. His fingers were burnod to tho bone and flesh charred. Rarron leaves a wife and several children. ASSAULTED WHILE BATHING. U/m a 1 Wvm I w* * m vrtlll^ 17*'M ?? I lUI IUiail SeriouNly Injured. John T. Lewis, Jr., the young son of John T. Lewis, State Inspector of | convicts in Florida, was seriously injured near Moss Bluff, Fla., Sunday morning while in bathing in a lake by Arthur Hull, who Is is charged, attacked the lad with a heavy Lillet of wood, beating him over tho head. Lewis was rescued by frlonds nnd carried to Ocala, where an operation was performed in an effort to save his llfo. Hull has not yet been arreated. The cause of tho difficulty Is not known. Young Tyowia' condition , Is said to ho critical. j Mempius Harbor Bliot. Bd HarelBon,.a harbor, was shot and killed at Memphis, Tenn., Sunday by Henry Nightengale, colored, a former employee. 1 MANY VICTIMS Result of Fourth of July Celebrations. TOY PISTOL FATAL The Celebration of the Fourth of July llws Its I suul < 'usual ties. Many Ate Injured, and ivs the Result Karlj Chaves lluve lloen ltiou^ht to Home. A dispatch from New York says the first case of death by tetanus Wim recorit?*it Hiin/lnu ~?.v ?v - - - ? ii if, ii i, .1 11 ii() n t; 11 the noisy Fourth of July celebration does not begin until Monday. Every precaution has been taken by the board of health to deal with the long list of casualties that always follow a Fourth. I>nst year the record stood: Seven dead, 2 f? b seriously injured and hundreds more hurt, of whom ten ultimately lost their eyesight. Twelve distributors of antitoxin have been appointed and all the hospitals have laid in extra supplies. The tlrst victim was a ten-year-old Italian boy, who shot himself in the hand with a toy pistol. The thermometer at 7 o'clock Sunday morning registered f>H degrees, the lowest mark for the Fourth of July recorded since the weather bureau was established in New York in 1 8 7 1. Cannon Explodes Too Soon. Chief of Police Hyatt, of Albany, N. Y. issued orders fr?r ?S-v i. ^ - .? . "I V ? * I will til of July celebration prohibiting the sale of explosives of extraordinary power. Through the premature explosion of a cannon, Thomas MeQuade was badly burntnl about the face, arms and hands in Albany. One pi'ad, tOO Hurt at St. Louis. A dispatch from St. Louis says one person dead, five fatally and thirty seriously injured and close to 100 hurt were the Independence Day record for St. Louis up until Sunday night. The more serious accidents were due to stray bullets or explosions of gas pipe cannon. 1V?j'h Finger Illowu Off. While 19-year-old Manson Taylor, of Klinira, N. Y., was loading a small cannon with dynamite Sunday evening, a quantity of the explosive was discharged blowing off the index linger of the t/oy's right hand. ItaHtroyOd Hoy's Thumb. A dispatch from I'oughkeepsio, N. Y., says Ixmis Santo, aged 9 years, had his thumb torn to shreds Sunday when a dynamite firecracker exploded in his hand. "Sane Fourth" at Cleveland. To such an extent did the "sane Fourth" idea prevail in Cleveland, Ohio, that up to a late hour Sunday night no casualties had been reported. The city's restriction against tho use of explosive fireworks were rigidly enforced and not a firecracker was heard to pop all day. Monday ten thousand children paraded the streets in a "sane Fourth" demonstration. Stable Hurned; One Ifeiul. After a skyrocket went through an open window in the hay mow of a livery stable Sunday, at Coshon, Ind., tiie building was burned and Kay Konstong, twenty years old, who was sleeping on the second floor, was suffocated. Mill**-Worker Miirdcrcd. At Mahanoy City, F*a., Patrick Grant, aged 35 years, a minor, was murdered a few days ago on tho outskirts of tho city while returning homo with hie pay. His body was found and it was learned his skull was fractured and there were half a dozen stab wounds in his back. Several arrests have been made of persons suspected of tho crime. Lynched in Georgia. Riddled with bullets, the body of nciiry isaac, a negro, was stil hanging to the limb of a tree late Friday afternoon, a short distance from tho town of Harwick, Ga., where it was strung up at 3 o'clock Friday morning by a small niob. Tho negro was found under the bed of a little daughter of J. F. Headley, a leading citizen of Berwick. Ilo was captured and tho mob quickly formed. First Bale of New Cotton. "Meforo the war" prices were received on the floor of the Cotton Exchange at Houston, Texas, Monday, when the first hale of the season's cotton sold at auction at $125. Tho halo came from Mercedes, Hidalgo county, and weighed 368 pounds. Tho first bale last year arrived on Juno 20. Where a girl is smart is knowing how many moro beaux she can have >by being pretty without tho brains. EIGHT MEN SHOT OXH I?KIUIA1*S FATAIJ.Y WOUNDKI> IIV MIST A K K. I)os|>orat<t Fu^itlvp, Said to tat Kk* (,'onvict, WoundtHl Six P?rti?pfH 11 ixl Was 1(11iist11f Shot. At Ion?\ Orn., Saturday, oight. mon worn nhot in a battle between a Hherlff's ponso and T. <?. Barhart, 8aid to be an ex-convict. W. M. ICscue, an a??-d man of Portland, wnn snot oy mcmocrg t?f a posse by I mistake and Karhart was wounded in the back after having shot eight of his pursuers. None of the vlctims, with the exception of Kscue. is seriously wounded. fclarhart sur| rendered to the posse after his ammunition was exhausted and he was taken to Heppner. The wounded: William Clark. shot in shoulder. Joseph K. Roealy, shot in the face and legs. K. T Perkins, postmaster, shot in foot. John Johnson, shot in leg. iJeputy Sheriff W. C. (latwon, allot in back. Charles Ritchie, shot, in log. W. 11. ICsciie, shot in body, perhaps fatally, by members of the posse. T (J. lOarhart, shot in back. lOurhnrt quarreled with K. K. .Miller, on whom he is alleged to have drawn a knife. lOarhart afterward, it is stated, broke into a store and sioie a snotgun an<l a quantity of ammunition. Meanwhilo Deputy Sheriff Casson gathered a pobho and railed on Furhart tr? surrender. Tho reply was a shot and then Furhart started to run. The posse fired several dozen shot after tin* fhndng man, who returned the fire. Furhart took refuse under a warohouse, whence In* tired at his pursuers. hitting several. Kscue, who had been sleeping on the ground nearby, arose, and some memltors of the possy mistook him for Karhart and tired at him Inflicting lnjuriea from which ho may die. When Farhart's ammunition was exhausted he surrendered. * KKillT IN TilK DAlUiNKSS. I Two (i(M>r^iaiis Ktigago in a Hloody | Duel in t'nuNual Firm instance**. John Finch, a well known planter, t\ ,1 T f m w ... v. j.nou ii, v, 11 itiuuiish, rormeiy 3 county commissioner, were principals in a duel in the dark hours of early morning 10 miles from American, (la., Sunday. An a result Finch has two pistol bullet wounds. ('hatnl)llsH stated to officers that he was driving in a buggy toward* bin homo and that ho mot Finch, who was also in a buggy going In the opposite direction. Chambltss spoke, without knowing who was tho occupant of the other buggy. Chambliss said ho could nee the other in it it ralao a shotgun as If to flro and that anticipating trouble ho drew his pistol and fired. One bullet cut throngh Finch's fingers an they grasped tho trigger of his weapon, and unothor ploughed Into his thigh. Finch finally fired but the load of shot struck Chambliss' horee and the I animal, pain-maddened, ran away, abruptly ending the unusual duol. * AUTO TURNS TUKTLK. Four IVrsoas Seriously Hurt in Accident at Macon. At Macon, Oa., eight persons were injured, four seriously, when the largo touring car of J. W. Millirons turned turtle Friday evening. The injured: .1. W. Mllllrons, head cut and serious internal injuries. W. VV. Shropshire, internal In1 i i Juries. Miss Hefisle Shropshire, knee broken. Mrs. y L. Millirons, severe contusions about face. Sandford Garfield, aged 13, badly bruised. Three infants severely bruised. The four latter are not seriously hurt. Mr. Millirons was driving the machine when the accident occurred. He attempted to pass another automobile when he lost control of his i i car, ana it dashed Into a barbed wlr^ fence. Three of the occupants wore lacerated by being thrown on the fence. Tragedy in Alabama* Doc Darton, a well known merchant at Fork land, in CJreene connty. Ala., whr fatally shot lato Monday afternoon by W. A. Collins, a grocer, 1 of IMrminghani, who was visiting 1 at Forkland. Itarton is a brotherin-law of Collin*, and it is stated the shooting grew out of an old family troublo. Throe Men Drowned. Threo negroes and Will Crow, a white man, were drowned in the Mississippi river near Hickman, Ky., Saturday when a skiff, containing ( nine men, upend during a squall. *