The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, September 02, 1909, Image 3
A
CROWDS ATTEND
Reunion of Survivors of Red
Shirt tteartrs in the
> HAMPTON CAMPAIGM
Fifteen TliouNuid Tlsilora ?l Anderson
Wednesday to Witness and
Participate in the First State Reunion
of Men Who lad Democracy
to Victory in *7fl.
A nnntnl itiKnuto K to The News
rv O ^,'V V ll? ? ?- ?
and Courier Bays fifteen thousand
A men, women and children came to
to Anderson today, some to take part
in and the others to witness the
great Red Shirt parade, and to hear
the orators of the day. The line of
march was formed shortly after 9
o'clock Wednesday morning, and at
11 o'clock the parade moved under
Commander J. C. Stribling, passing
in review, and witnessed by
thouF-ands on the street, sidewalks,
in the windows, balconies, etc.
IPour thousand men and ladles
wearing red shirts, some mounted
and the others on foot, formed the
parade, which was more than a milo
long. After the review the line
marched to lUiena Vista Park, weher,
under the large and shady trees,
ex-Governor John C. Sheppard, of
Edgefield, and Senator Tillman spoke
to five thousand persons. Col. K.
W. Simpson presided over the meeting.
Governor Sheppard was the first
speaker, and his remarks were entirely
of matters pertaining to the
Red Shirt men. He recited personal
experiences during the campaign of
1 876, and most interestingly told of
tho deeds of the brave men who wore
the shirts of red. He recited their
history and explained to the young
folks in the audience why the Red
Shirts organized and told what they
accomplished. Hie remarks, last
ing nnarly two hours, were brimful
of Interesting facta of the campaign
made necessary to take the rule of
the State from the negroes and carpet-baggers.
Senator Tillman was the next and
last speaker. He opened by hurling
^ compliments at the newspapers and
ridiculed their editorials about his
leaving Washington during the tariff
session and going out West to make
addresses. He sarcastically raked
the newspapers over the country
about their 'barking at my heels just
because I have made arrangements
to leave my lecturing tour to come
to South Carolina to make five or
six speeches."
Ho declared that President Taft
Is "the tool of a great political nuii
oh in p." and that the nresident's
?
appointment of census enumerators
in the South is but a furtherance of
A his efforts to break the "Solid
South." He said the "machine" is
preventing Mr. Taft from carrying
out his intentions as expressed in his
Atlanta speech. Senator Tillman
warned the peoplo of the State
against compulsory education, saying
that it would prepare the negroes
for the ballot and might in time result
in their controlling ejections in
South Carolina
He told how he blocked the Senate
in the Crum matte \ and said
that nothing pleated him better than
getting money from the republicans
for making two-hour lectures, in
which he would tell them they were
fools and idiots He slapped The
News and Courier and the St: te. He
said that Deacon Hemphill was advocating
the organization of a commercial
party, which is nothing shoit
of Republican. He then spoke of
the days of *76. His speech in full
on this subject is printed elsewhere.
Read it.
Senator Tillman was given an ovation
when introduced, and throughout
his speech there was considerable
appaluse. The audience was
With him from start to finish, and
every utterance, especially when
sarcasm was used or when an attack
was made, brought forth yells upon
yells. He spoke for nearly two
hours.
iWhen Senator Tillman concluded
a picnic dinner was served in tho
grove to the Immense crowd. The
day passed off pleasantly. Good
weather prevailed and few arrests
resulted. There were no appreciable
delays in carrying out the program
of events and the first Red
Shirt Reunion has gone into history
as a grand success.
Convicts K scape.
At the State farm at Goodland,
Va., Wednesday, Guard A. H. Pamp1
in was attacker by Patrick Hyatt
and Charles Goode, while convicts,
who took his gun away from him and
** made their escape, taking with them
the two bloodhounds to prevent the
v prision authorities from using the
animals on their trail. The convicts
experienced little difficulty in overpowering
the guard. No trace has
been found of the fleeing convicts.
Selfishness is one thing no person
can be selfish enough to keep entirely
to himself.
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THE DRASTIC LAW
TO IIAVK L1QUOH 18 ALSO INHIBITED
BY ITS TEHMS.
la Ifoa-dinpeinMkry Countioa the I'o? etwioa
of Intoxicant*; in Any
Qaantlty Said to be Vuluwful.
if - ? / \ it. .1 f ..
?r\y n man tor womau) living 111
a South Carolina county which is
without dispensaries have in possession
a gallon, pint, or gill of whiskey
or other intoxicants without violating
the provisions of the criminal
code and subjecting himself (or herself)
to a lino and imprisonment or
both?the penalty for a second offense
being imprisonment without
alternative?
The Stato says good lawyers and
perhaps judges are answering the
question "no," but it is only during
the last few days that the people
seem to be awakening to this drastic
construction of the law. There
are those who hold that the Lexington
or Sumter or Bamberg lady who
has "in possession" a quart of cooking
sherry Is no less amenable to
prosecution and punishment than is
i a "Mind t itrnr."
In other words, the former dispensary
acts were aimed at tho manufacture
and sale of intoxicants and
not at having them in possession.
The act passed at the last session
of the general assembly and approved
March 2, 1909, after declaring
alcoholic liquors "which if drunk to
excess will produce intoxication" to
be "against the morals, good health
and safety of the State" proceeds to
say "That it shall bo unlawful for
any persons, firm, corporation of association
within this State to manufacture,
sell, barter, exchange, receive,
give away to induce trade, deliver,
store, keep in possession in this
State, furnish at public places or
otherwise dispose of any malt, vinous,
fermented, brewed or other
liquors and beverages, or any compound
or mixture thereof which contuins
alcohol nnd is used as a beverage,
and which if drunk to exceai
will produce intoxication, except as
hereinafter provided."
In the act it does not appear to
bo thoroinafter "provided" that any
person may "keep in possession in
this State" one drop of any alcoholic
liquor of a a iture to "make drunk
co'tie" when inured to excess, except
In counties having dispensaries.
The penalty for violation of the
act contained In section 11 and declaring;
violation a misdemeanor la
a line of from $100 to $f?00 or imprisonment
at hard labor of from
three to 12 months and for any second
or subsequent offense, upon conviction,
imprisonment of from one to
flvo years at hard labor without any
alternative lino.
At a picnic in Zarline in Anderson
county a few days ago Messrs.
J. U. IIlake of Greenwood and Legislator
Josh Ashley among others
wero speakers.
The story goes that Mr. Ashley
spoke with his accustomed fiery eloquence
and pith for prohibition, and
Mr. Illake later uttered sentiments
somewhat to the contrary. Mr. Blake
then read from the act already quoted.
Mr. .Ashley, In his gentle way,
questioned the accuracy of the inhibitions
as contained in the print
read by Mr. Blake.
"Do you 'keep in possession within
this State' any intoxicating liquors?"
inquired Mr. Black of the llonea
Path delegation.
The lionea Path delegation, it is
said, admitted that the jug might
not be wholly dry, whereupon Mr.
Black read again the stern, inexorable
condemnation of the law.
Whether or not the Law and Order
League in the dry counties will
see to it that all the kitchen closets
?l,nll I 1 ?--- * ?
oiici11 i)\z itcttrunuu uy cousindigs ror
cooking sherry and brandied peaches
remains to 1)0 seen?or it may be
that astute lawyers will prove that
to "keep in possession' any intoxicating
liquors "within this State"
is not the law as it is written.
Had they "to keep in possession"
provision of the act been discussed
before the elections, how would it
have affected the voting? Was the
law understood by the voters? Was
it understood that to give away or
"to receive" n toddy in a dry county
would bo a misdemeanor?
Fatal Fx plosion.
George W. Drinkwater, of Jersey,
City, second engineer, was instantly
killed and three other men were
fatally injured Wednesday by the
exoloHtnn r?f o ten* A A
, u iv/ru "II Lilt* lUR"
boat Bee, In the East rivor. Peter
Barltn and John Jacobs, firemen, and
Albert Cardoll, the cook, were scalded
by escaping steam and were unconscious
when dragged from the
engine room by the crew.
Fatal Explosion at Itevard.
A chemical fire engine, at Brevard,
thirty miles from Asheville, N. C.,
exploded Wednesday, killing J. P.
Aiken, a negro, and Injuring four
firemen, including Fire Chief J. A.
Galloway, J. W. Chapman, president
of the Electric Light Company, of
Vrevard, and C. B. Wilson.
DUTY WELL DONE
Sanator Tillman to the Rtd
Shirt Survivors.
SOME STORMY TIMES
Hocalhtl as tho Stiiriig I>ays of
lU'dcmptlon Are Passed in lieview?What
the Older People Did
to lUtlwm South Carolina in the
Hampton Campaign.
Several thousand people heard and
frequently heartily cheered Senator
Tillman in his address at Anderson
on Wednesday before the convention
of the survivors of what is known
as the Red Shirt organization, which
supported Gen. Hampton in the
dangerous undertaking of redeeming
the State of South Carolina from Republican
rule and Reconstruction in
1 87<?. Senator Tillman was particularly
interesting 'in his Remarks
touching that memorable period in
the State's history, and what he had
to say was listened to with the closest
attention. Ho appeared to carry
vivid pictures in his mind of that
time, when he was young and impressionable.
What he hod to say
is also of interest from the viewpoint
of his own political history
and personal character. lie spoke
for the most part in the high pitched
Vnii'P Vio pl)!l runt ??riut lr? r? f liim
speaking on a topic near to his feelings.
He said:
There has been more or less discussion
lu the papers of the State
recently about the origin of the red
shirts as the Democratic uniform in
1 87 6. I shall leave it to others
to sift the ovidence and determine if
it can bo done, just where the credit
lies. 1 want to tell what I know
about the bloody shirt and its effective
use in that memorablo crisis.
In my story of the Hamburg
riot I have mentioned the drumhead
court martial which condemned and
executed,prisoners aftor the lighting
or tiring had ceased.
The last man selected to be shot
was a notorious thief by the name
of Pomp Curry whom I had known
from boyhood. He had furnished
the names of all whom he recognized
to District Attorney Stone and this
evidence caused warrants to be issued
against practically all the members
of the Sweetwater Sabre club
and a few others who were not members.
We were charged with murder
and conspiracy to murder and the
sheriff of Aiken county was ordered
to make the arrests. Like a wise
and prudent man he did not attempt
to execute the warrants, but communicated
with Col. Butler, our captain,
and by common understanding
all of the men thus charged assembled
at Lower Cherokee pond, a place
near Col. Butler's home, and started
for Aiken. The procession was led
by the sheriff in a buggy, followed
by the so-called prisoners, armed to
the teeth, and accompanied by baggage
wagons with supplies for horses
and men, cooks and a full camping
outfit except tents. ltev. William
Shaw who owned a plantation
two miles west of Aiken, the dwel15114*
tlOIIUO fill urhi/.li 1 1
uu ' ii iv. 11 n tin iH'CUJIK'd,
had kindly offered it for our use.
We reached this place some time before
sundown, took up our quarters
for the night. Court was to convene
two days later and we were
thus early on the ground in order
to give the lawyers who had our
case in hand opportunity to draw up
the papers and prepare for obtaining
bail if we were to be allowed to
return home. Gen. Butler, who was
under indictment, Hon. George W.
Croft, Hon. I). S. Henderson of the
Aiken bar and Maj. William T. Gray
were acting as our attorneys.
Among those whose interest had
induced them to accompany us was
my L rot her, lion. George D. Tillman,
who had been nominated as a
candidate in our congressional dis
trict. He had been in correspondence
with Gen., afterwards Senator
J. Z. George, of Mississippi, the man
whose constructive statesmanship in
devising means to safe-guard South
ern civilization by the elimination
of the negro vote will cause his name
to shine for all time as a great constitutional
lawyer and benefactor of
the South. It was under him that
Mississippi led off in disfranchising
the negro and practically every
Southern State has followed suit.
Mississippi had thrown off the carpet-bag
yoke two years before that
and (Jen. (Jeorge advised my brother
to have the South Carolinians impress
the negroes both as to our
strength and the purpose of the
whites hv nsinf? n an?/>Jo/>n1oK
"--"O ? W|'VVVW\yUU?| UIHform
ami urged the parade of long
processions of armed white men
through the country.
The Hamburg riot had caused
such a furore throughout the North
and the Republican press of that
section was waving tho bloody shirt
with such frantic energy that Mr.
Tlillman 'suggested .to Col. Rutler
that we, though then assembled as
prisoners, should wave the bloody
shirt in reality as a token of defiance.
The idea was seized upon by all of
us and Luther Ransom and myself
wore appointed a committee to visit
Aiken, confer with the Democratic
authorities, and see if we could induce
them to help us in securing
shirts to be donned as uniforms.
Col. George W. Croft, then county
chlrman, entered into the scheme
with groat seal, and guve us an order
for the necessary yellow home- !
spun. Having obtained this, Hansom
who knew nearly all of the
ladies of Aiken, accompanied me in
my buggy and wo distributed the
bolts of cloth among the ladles, with
the request that they make us forty
homesnun shirts iust as soon as
(everything having been done In
possible. As I remember, the cloth
was distributed one afternoon and
the next morning we drove into town
from our camp and gathered up the
garments, obtaining a good supply
of turpentine oil and Venetian red
at the same time. I had telegraphed
to a friend in Augusta, Tom Henry,
to send me without fail two negro
paper masks or doughfaces and a
kinky chignon. I had ordered a
carpenter to make a large tlag staff
in the shape of a cross and I got
one of the ladies to make an enormous
shirt bigger than (Joliath of
Oath would have worn. This shirt
was turned into a flag with the arms
outstretched over tin? cross pieces.
The negro faces were takced to the
top back to back so as to make a
grinning .negro {head Prom either
side and the chignon was nailed on
top of these.
Satan's appeal to the fallen angels:
"Awake, arise or he forever fallen,"
had been emblazoned in largo
black letters on one side and my
! hf/v? ItMK nii(V(Y<xnt<w1 t f.. ~
j 111 ui m i r* u ^ 1 I'll i iH! iin/uu iin I III*
other side: "None hut the guilty
need four."
The shirt was made bloody with
the marks of bullet wounds in red,
and when the work of making the
unique banner was completed, Hansom
and others making suggestions,
it was surely a most ghostly object.
The yellow homespun shirts had
been put on and every wearer stained
his shirt with artificial blood according
to his own fancy. Some
used poke-berries to make the color
more fiery than the Venetian red
and turpentine, and vary the tine.
Everything in readiness about 4
o'clock the day before court was to
convene the Hamburg rioters to the
number of forty, uniformed as no
men have ever been before or since,
rode into the town of Aiken in coi
UQiu of two's. The flag, which wan
in itself not very heavy, required
a very strong and muscular man to
handle it when wj cegan to gallop,
and Milledge Horn was selected as
flag-bearer. He was six feet high,
weighed over 2 00 pounds and was
correspondingly muscular and had
lost five brothers in the Confederate
army, a sure guarantee of his courage
and daring.
As soon as we reached Aiken we
rode quietly by every house where
the ladies had been at work cm our
shirts so as to let them see us. Then |
stringing out in column of file, male- |
ing a line nearly a quarter of a mile
long, the order was given to gallop,
and for half an hour at break-neck
speed wo paraded through every
street. It being dry we soon picked
up a great mold of dust while all
the men in the town, as well as the
women and children, lined the spaces
in front of their houses and waved
handkerchiefs and cheered us. Not
a negro did we see.
Having shown how little terrified
we were to thus beard the lion in
his den, we proceeded in column of
two's to Coker Springs where we
consumed an hour or more in washing
the dirt off our faces and out
of our eyes and ears, and watering
mir tir.riiCB
At that time there was stationed
at Aiken a company of United States
regulars. These were encamped on
the bluff overhanging Coker Springs.
The strange and unique appearance
of this new uniform and the men
in it caused all of the soldiers to
line up on the bluff and watch us
with great curiosity and interest.
When all our men had finished washing
and we were again in our places
military style, one man holding three
horses with linked bridles while the
other three washed at the horse
trough, Col. Butler gave the command:
"Fours left, left dress." j
This threw us itno line facing the i
bluff whore the Yankees were gath- j
ered, some sixty yeards away and
about forty feet above us. Then the
order was given: "Three cheers for
the boys in blue," and if there was
ever a "rebel yell" it must have leaped
from the throats of those determined
and desperate men. As soon
as the cheers were given the com
inana followed: "Four loft, left by
two's, march," and we started off
back up the hill briskly towards the
town.
Almost as if by magic the Yankee
soldiers who were all In uniform
received the order from someone:
"Fall in, right dress." As they
were already in line it took them
only two or three seconds to get In
military formation and without
counting off the order was given:
"Three cheers for the men in white."
Tho answering call of the Northern
white men to the Southern white
man was hearty and vigorous as
our own defiance had been.
I will say in passing, that, while
I some of these same men marched
sixteen miles to Rouse's Bridge to
stop the Ellenton riot, some weeks
later, and were held along with a
largo number of other troops in the
disturbed region?one whole regiment
btiug sent to Rdgeflekl court
bouse In October?none of the soldo
>s e\ei displayed any other than
the most friendly and kindly fee'
ing and they had no stomach whatever
for the dirty work they had
l.etn scut Into State to do. Yto y
obeyed orders which Is the duty o(
a soldier, but they never showed any
feeling other than good will and sympathy
for our people. Hut while the
Sweetwater Sabre club and Its successor
in Meriweather Township, the
Democratic Fighting club, came in
contact with the troops on several
occasions, afterwards they were never
permitted to cheer us again.
The rioters in their bloody shirts
returned to their quarters. In
tills parade the shirts were worn as
blouses over the pants with pistol
belts outside. Some of the men
wore them home, and one young
man, John Crawford, I think, caused
his sister to become dreadfully j
frightened because they thought he
was wounded. I carried tlio Hag
io my nomc and I have always re- |
gretted that, it was destroyed by fire
when my residence was burned soiuc
three years later.
It was a unique scene in the court
room when Judge Maher ordered
bail to be granted, fixing the sum as
I recall it, at $1,000 each. The argument
of the case had delayed action
far into the night. Lamps had
to bo brought in and as the restless
"prisoners" would pass in and out
of the court room and take their
seats the thud of the barrels of their
revolvers could be heard as they
came in contact with the benches.
When court was adjourned the
men began to make inquiry of the
clerk of the court .as to when tlmy
could tile their bonds. lie in a
rather petulant .and irritable manner,
which was natural, became he
must have been very much fatigued,
replied: "Sometime in the morning."
Just then I overheard Sheriff
Jordan whisper to him: "You had
better let these men get. out of town
tonight, else they may burn it and
iiuiik juu ui'ioru morning. ' in a
nice manner the clerk changed an 1
he liogan to hand out blank bail
bonds to be signed by all the applicants
and their sureties. We all
went on each other's bonds, and It
became a joke, causing great amusement,
that Walker Matlieny, who
did not own ten dollars worth of
property, had signed bonds to the
extent of $20,000. In trutti the
whole performance was a perfunctory
and in many respects a laugh- I
able travesty on law, for if they had
attempted to put ub in jail, I am
sure, few or none of us would have
acquesceded and we would have
probably killed every obnoxious radical
in the court room and town, and
gone to Texas, or some other hiding
place. In an hour we had departed
and gathering up our camp followers
were 011 our way home.
We had In truth waved the bloody
shirt in the face of the Yankee bull
and dared him to do his worst. It
io iiwmusi 10 say iniB daring act
on the part of the whites served
to intensify the dread of the negroes.
While among the whites the hand of
race drew us closer closer together.
It was "all for one, 0110 for all,"'
and the State's motto: "Animis
opibusque parati"?ready with our
lives and fortunes?pulsated as the
sentiment in every bosom.
SMASHES ALL ItECOKDH.
I'utilliaii Flies Further and Longer
Than Wright.
Another sensational exploit was
added to the marvels of aviation
week at Rhemis Wednesday when
Paulhan t - ?1_.
~ V, i I C I Ull iivitlior,
broke tho world's record In a wonderful
night of two hours, fifty-three
minues and twenty-four seconds.
During twenty mlnues of the time
Paulhan had a heavy rain and wind
storm to contend against.
The pervious official record for
time in the air was made by Wilbur
Wright at Le Mans, December 3 1,
two hours, twenty minues, twentythree
and one-fifth seconds.
Paulhan's new record for distance
was about 134 kilometres, or eightythree
miles. He made thirteen circuits
of the course . As he was coming
down the home stretch for the
last time the dirigible, Col. Renard,
appeared to the westward, ploughing
its way majestically through the
smoke of tho city of Rhemis.
STAVS SINGLK TO OET FORTUNE.
Philadelphiaa Agrees to Terms of
a Unique Will.
In order to comply with his brother's
will, which required hlin to remain
a bachelor, William Taggart,
of Philadelphia, Pa., announced
Wednesday that he would give up
Mil '
marriage and will thereby
receive a legacy of $7 5,000, and
valuable ranch lands in California.
Taggart made the announcement
after he had received word of the
bequest from an attorney in Calejo,
Cal. Tho estate originally belonged
to an uHcle, who died many years
ago, leaving the property to David
S. Taggart, a brother of William,
on condition that he remain unmarried.
The brother died last week at
Calejo, and he passed the estate to
William, provided that the matrimonial
restriction was observed.
SHOT HIM HAD I
A Family Row Catses Killing at H
Johnson, S. C. H
A PHYSICIAN SLAiN I
?
l>r. Tltwell Killed by His Ilrotfwrin*ljAWi
Mr. May?Mrs. TIImtaII
Mad Lett tier Home and Gone to
May's II tint', WIdtc She was KoU I
lowed by Her Husband.
Dr. Charles Tltwell was shot and |H
fatally wounded by his brother-lnlaw,
Mr. Yancey M. May, at John- l^fl
Mlon Thursday morning, about 9
q'clock. The weapon used was a
shotgun. Dr. 'liiwell received two
wounds, one a little to iho left of
the backbone on the lft side, and H
the othor In the shoulder. He lived I
about thirty minutes after ho was I
shot, and it is said that ho rnado
an ante-mortem statement to Dr. li. H
I.. Allen, t>ut what it was has not I
been disclosed. 11
From the testimony taken at the I
in<inest It appears that the deceased I
and his wife had had some trouble H
Wednesday, during which ho chas- m
tised her. It was alleged that she
left and went to the home of her
brother-in-law, and that her litis
hand went there and endeavored to ^
hnr f *\ ? **# ? ?* ?1 * *
.r ?* i ? i HI II UUIIIC, WHICH StlO
refused to do. \
It Is stated that during his stay
Mr. May and the* doctor not Int.o an
altercation, during which tinio Mrs.
Tit well left and went to a neighbor's
house. The deceased then
came hack info the street, and was
going In pursuit of his wife, when
Mr. May appeared on the scene with
a shotgun, the contents of which he
emptied Into the body of Dr. Titwell.
The shooting occurred some distance
from the house of Mr. May,
nnd as yet it is not known what the
deceased was doing at the time bo
received his mortal wounds.
} Tit well Is from Newberry county,
and has only lived in Johnston a
nnd unavoidable. Mr. Mnv has snirendered
to the sheriff, and will apply
for l>tii 1 at once before Judge
Oevore here.
Tltweil's remains were sent to his
home In Newberry. The said affair
is deeply deplored by all.
HOMKHOIIY'H HLUNDKIt
Came Near Causing Tragedy at Kilos
Institution.
At Albany, C.n., during an initiation
in the Kilts' Lodge Wednesday
night, Cleve Cox, a prominent young
Klk, who was helping conduct the
initiation, was shot through the
fleshy part of the leg with a 3 2-calibre
ball, from a cartridge that was
? >
I Iiuiihiil lU III! lilillliv.
The floor of the lodge room Hhowff
the marks of several bullets fired'
during the initiation. An investigation
after the accident revealed
the fact that In some unaccountable
manner some cartridges of the kfmb
used in shooting galleries had become
mixed with the blank cartridges
used In initiations.
Three doctors were hurridely summoned
to the lodge rooms to attend
the injury to Mr. Cox. The shooting
gallery cartridges responsible-for the
short while. May is one of Johnston's
best citizens, and claims that
the killing was entirely justifiable,
accident looked so much like blank
cartridges that the difference could
scarcely be distinguished. The accident
caused much excitement in the
lodge room and put an end to the
initiation exercises.
Tit AMI' WAS KILLED.
Voting Lid Slays Man Whom He
Found in His Kitchen.
At Dover Dam, near Asheville, N.
C., an unknown tramp was shot and
killed by Den Morris, aged 17, late
W (wtnnoiln tr * " '
... i(ij ui^oiiiuuii. aii me members
of the Morris family were away
from home except young lien, and
when he returned to the house, after
a temporary absence, he found
the tramp in the kitchen. The Ich
truder warned him to keep out, and
threw dishes through the window,
and then held the door against him.
Young Morris went around to the
front door and seizing a shotgun,
went to look for the tramp. The
c.oiup mei nun nourishing a raaor,
young Morris says, and grappled 1
with him. After seufllling a while
Morris managed to break away far
enough to fire the gun. The charge
hit the intruder in the face, and he
died almost immediately.
South Carolina the Fastest.
The battleship South Carolina
finished her official trial runs off the
Delaware capes Friday and the <*? sensns
of opinion of the exports
that she is the fastest and most economical
in coal consumption of any
battleship in her class. On the fonr
hour endurance run the South Carolina
consumed one and four-tcath*
pounds per indicated horsepowet^J*
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