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\ __ THREE KILLED" And Two Injured by an Automobile Jumping From a Bridge ? WITH WEDDING PARTY * ? The Prospective Groom Was Killed Outright and the Prospective Bride Was Badly Hurt?The Young Oouplo llad Kunuwaj' and Was Hunting Preacher to Marry Them. An awful automobile accident happened near Cuthbort, Ga., late Sunday night, resulting in the instant death of three men and the probublo fatal injury of two young ladles. Curtis Williams, of Fort Gaines, Ga.; James Shepard* of Edison, Ga.; Horace Bhepard. of Edison, Ga., were killed, and Miss Helene Mattox, aged 20. Coleman, Ga.; Miss Mary Mattox, aged 16, of Colemnu, Ga., are supposed to be fatally injured. The accident occurred two miles west of Cuthbert as the party was returning from that place to Qoleman. With the purpose of being married, James Shopard and Miss llelene Mattox, accompanied by Horace Shopard, a brother of the prospective groom, and MIbs Mary Mattox, a sister of the bride-to-be, secured an automobile from Herat's garage at Fort Gaines, late Sunday afternoon and were quickly driven to Cuthbert by Curtis Williams. Upon reaching that point, all the ministers of the place refused to marry the couple on account of their ' youth, neither of them having yet passed their ewtntleth birthday. After being unable to secure the services of a minister the party hastily left town. Speeding along at the rate of thirty miles an hour, and while attempting to light a cigarette, Chauffeur Williams lost control of his machine crossing a thirty foot bridge over the Central Railway and the party was dashed to the railroad track oeiow, me macnino railing upon Shepard and Williams. Williams' neck was broken and death resulted instantly. The twc Shepards were frightfully injured, and death resulted in a few moments. Miss Helene Mattox was severely bruised and her faco and arms were badly lacerated. She also received internal Injuries. Miss Mary Mattox was terribly injured. The ladies were removed to o neighboring farm house. The bodiee of the three men were carried to Cuthbert on a hand car. Williams was 23 years of age and married. A negro witnessed the accident, and rushed away to tell the story. MURDERED BY NKtiltOKS. A Man Set Upon and I>ono to Death by Several Thieves. At Madeline, a station on tho Bennettsville and Cheraw Railroad, C. B. Conner, a lumberman, was murdered Saturday morning by three negroes, Tom Harrington, Will Harrington and Rd Davis, all of North Carolina. Conner, It seems, suspected Davis of stealing a pistol. When he went to investigate ho was set upon by the negroes, who knocked him down and then fired two shots in his head. Conner went to Madeline some months ago from Wllmot, N. C. He leaves a wife and three children. Cook and Peary will both profit by the little spat they had, as the tax office receipts will show. * SUBSG > ** .. i lly Baking Powder From Royal Grape earn of Tartar mi) PATHETIC MESSAGE BELIEVE IN HIM, THAT IS ALL, DEAR, <;OI> BLESS YOU.** A Touching Letter Written to Ills Wife by a Young Seotcii Miner Willie Entombed in Cherry Mine. A Cherry, 111., dispatch says letters written in their underground prison by some of the miners rescued alive came to light in various quarters. One of the most touching was written by John Lorrimer to his wife, Sadie. Lorrimer is a young Scot from Aryshire, whence he came to America 10 years ago. "He just laughs and says he will go back to the mine when ho is well," said his wife. "Although I'd he willing, after what has happened, to support him myself if he would only Ret safer work." As was the case at the homo of each of the score of men rescued ! allvo, Lorrlmer received in his bedroom many callers who wished to congratulate him 011 his escape. Lorrimer's letter follows: "I>enr Wife: I am living, although it is now five o'clock o'clock on Sunday morning and all hope is gone as the black damp is getting the best of us. There is 21 of us all together. Dear wife, don't grieve. We will meet you. God bless you. Believe in Him. He will take care of you. I guess wo will meet in a better land. When you get over this let them know at homo (Scotland). That is all, dear. God bless i you. ' "Your loving husband." All of the farewell letters were I written 011 pages torn from the timo-book carried by mine boss Walter Waite. Waito had the only lead pencil in the group and it was passed from hand to hand iu order that all might write. One instance of the self-sacrifice of the more sturdy prisoners was related by Lorrlmer. "Walczlnski, I think that was his * name, was sixty years old, and the L weakest among us," said Lorrlmer. "Our greatest suffering camo from thirst, for only thimblefuls could be 1 got from the seepago. Walczlnski > grew so exhausted that he could" not ' stoop over but had to lie on his face to drink. wo made lioles In the ground with our fingers and then 1 . waited for the oozing water to fill 1 them. When water filled a small holo there was not a man but craved it madly. Hut the stronger men fre> quently passed their turns to let tho old mun drink." 0 0 0 i bitten by kattleic Young Girl Htruck by Snake and Dies in Agony. Miss Hello Jones, daughter of a well-to-do farmer living near Amsterdam, Ga., is dead as tho result of a rattlesnake bite received in a pasture near her homo. Tho young woman stepped upon a log in tho pasture, when tho snake struck her between the ankle and the knee. Tho snake was not killed, as Miss Jones was alone, and had to pull it loose from her with her hands, when she hastened homo for assistance. The marks of the reptile's fangs were over three Inches apart, which shows that It's size must have been enormous. l _ _ _ Miss Jones Buffered terrible agony ! for two daya and nights before she died. Doctors were In attendance day and night from the time Rhe was bitten until she died, but without avail. The tragedy la doeply , felt by all of her friends and neigh' bore. RISE NO 1 ^ FORTY SAVED After Seven Days of Horror Miners Are Rescued From the Mine THE MEN COULD NOT SEE When Brought to Light, After Their Imprisonment ? (?rvat Rejoicing Among the Relatives of the Men When They Are Brought As From Death to Life. At two o'clock Saturday afternoon it was reported that forty men were alive in tho coal mine at Cherry, 111. Tho men were reached after a wall of debris had been broken down. At llrst the men were supposed to bo dead, but one of them raised his hand and tho rest were found to be breathing. Tho living men wero at once brought to the hasting shaft and stimulants wore administered. One of tho men after being brought to tho sun light after scve ndays entombment was only able to mutter Incoherently. His face was black from tho amoke and slightly scorched. It appears that the men after discovering thoir predicament, walled themselves iu. Tho accident In tho St. Faul mine occurred at 4 p. m. Saturday, November 13. Tho men taken out alive at 2 p. m. Saturday were therefore in the mine 166 hours. Tho fight against death was led by Joseph Crescinl. Cresclni was one of the two men brought up in the cage. Mo reported between 3 0 and 4 0 other men alive in the south wing. In tho darkness where they waited for seven days in au agony of hunger and suspense, they lost tract of time, and thought that today was Sunday. Hefore reporters could be allowed personally to interview the men brought to the surface, doctors ordered that they tohould bo given nourishment. This was administered in tho form of milk diluted with water and administered in small portions until their stomaches could retain it. The next trip of the cage brought seven other survivors. They werr smiling and healthy save for weak nRriH rill** t n lnrlr r*f fnrvri Vou/u nl the rescue of these men traveled with lightuingliko rapidity and tht change from -despair to hope, whlcl: swept over the crowd was most dra matic and impressive. When Spogatta was led to the din ing car he fairly ran into the arini of his wifo and two children. Then was a? short hysterical torrent o endearing words poured from her lipt and then tho mother turned and kiss ed the feet of tho man who hat brought him out. Then she pullet her children down and they perform ed thov same ceremony of gratitude The wifo of another man fainted ii her husband's arms. At 3:20 o'clock rescuers came t< the surface and reported that fire hat temporarily cut off the rescue work A call for fresh volunteers was is sued and immediately a scoro of mei shot downward again. It was be lloved the ftre would be extinguishet shortly. A man Just brought up called on from the car window that ho believ ed 150 men wore alive in the oas shuft. When tho last man was up, wo men who had found none they ree ognlzcd, walked about distractedly again and again returning to attacl tho military guard who guarded th< house. The lire men were first discover ed by Superintendent Powell, oi Hraceville, III. When the men wen n-uciiru, mune wore mixing ana jok ing, apparently mentally affected bj their long Imprisonment. William Cleland was reacued bj Robert, his own brother, who car rtod the man to the surface withoui recognising who he was. * Ooold Hot Deliver Cotton. Shannon & Hope, of Sharon, ir York county, a large mercantile flrrr of that place. It is stated that the firm on the strength of buying con tracts with neighboring farmers, sold several hundred bales of cotton foi fall delivery and that the farmers with whom the oontracts were mad' refused to bring In the cotton, henct the firm's loss and the present ac tfon. * ? a Mricken With Pellagra. At Baltimore. Md.. Mrs. Williair II. Reynolds, of Tallahassee, Fla. principal of tho Florida Woraen'f college and wife of a former comp troller of the State of Florida, waf stricken at St. Agnes hospital ThurH day, suffering with pellagra, accord log to the physicians. * W TO v FINDING THE DEAD FIRST HOD1KS BROUGHT UI? FBI- , DAY OUT OF THK MINKS. Go# Kxploaioiix Continue, Which Alarm the Rescuers luid Impede* Their Work of Ix>ve. A dispatch from Cherry, 111., says , the dark tomb of the Cherry mines has been conquered. After an allnight battlo in clearing the shafts of the burning mine, three bodies, the llrst recovered through the main shaft, were brought to the surface at 8 o'clock Saturday morning. Inspcctators and geological experts, while penetrating the dismal ] depths, lighting tho smouldering lire , in the coal veins, caught sight of , piles of other charred bodies, but their passago was hampered by lire. 1 At 6 o'clock Saturday morning a group of miners and railroad men entered tho mine, working without oxygen helmets, but thoro was no ' suffering from noxious gas. Strug- 1 gling through tho dark tomb, i the llremen discovered in the second 1 vein a pile of bodies, from which threo were recovered. 1 The east portion of tho gallery, where the liro originated, is badly caved in. The west portion of the gallery is still alire, but llremen with hose got within HO feet of the vein. Fireman O'Connor and many other llremen from Chicago, lighting the underground flames, emerged from the main shaft declaring that they ' believed that tho fire would be extinguished before many hours. They saw many pilos of human bodies , buried in the wreckage of the gallery running from tho main shaft to tho air vent. They also saw bodies lying in heaps in tho west vein ; where the lire is still raging. Mine Inspector Taylor, who Thursday declared that ho would enter ' tho mine or dio In tho attempt, spent tho night in tho initio, and gavo a gruesomo account of tho pilos of human bodies sighted, hut impossible 1 to reach. Inspector Taylor sent workmen Into tho mine to repair 1 the east vein, tho approach timbers having burned. 1 Another body of volunteers was sent later today Into the miaies. On the second trip of tho cage, four other bodies, one thnt of a boy, were brought to tho surface. An ambulance, guarded by militiamen, * was followed by crowds to tho town hall, a temporary morgue. Here scores of grief-stricken, sobbing widows sought to identify the bodies as their own husbands, but tho condition of tho bodies rendered identification difficult. Crowds of grief-stricken men, women and children formed a great ' circle about the bodies brought from the mines. Many turned away, unable to bear the cries of the bereaved wives and mothers. Three bodies were identified: Richard Ruckles, a stable boy; Louis Gibbs, George MoMullen. Tho condition of the bodies recovered indicates that tho men died from suffocation the first day of ir.v prisonment. * BLIND JUSTICE. ? . . ^ White Man Found Guilty for Killj ing Negro Woman. At Spartanburg Thomas Badgott, white, who shot and killed Zerkena " Suber, colored, two weeks ago, was found guilty of manslaughter, tho Jury returning a verdict Thursday morning, after being out all night. The defence claimed tho killing was ' accidental. A statement made by tlfe c woman beforo her death stating that * the shooting was accidontal was admitted In evidence. Badgott is well " known in Spartanburg and Laurens counties. Ho is an expert bookkeeper and a fine business man. His friends rogrot his trouble very much. f The killing was dono at tho woman's house. f I" Victim of Football. , A dispatch from Richmond, Va., says sympathetic sorrow pervaded tho city for tho mother and family of Archer Christian, tho eightoen1 year-old halfback of tho University i of Virginia football team, who, dur* ing the gamo at Washington on Sat urday between tho 'varsity and 1 Georgetown University, was fatally * Injured in a mass play during tho ? last five minutes of game, and died j twelve hours lator in a hospital. ( , 0 m ? Froze to lteath. 1 Cleveland Andrews, a whlto man, aged 2 4 voars. was found frozon tn death in a small skiff on the Ocmuli gee river near Macon, Ga., Friday , morning. Thursday he wont down i the river hunting with a man named Will Bass a nd whon they returned * to the c ty he would not leave the * boat. It was testified at the coro ner's inquest that he had been drink* ing heavily. THE HO UNCLE SAM MAD WiD Demand Reparation if Things Are As Represented WILL PUNISH DAGOS The United States Will ?t Once !>< maiid Iteparntiou From the Viraragutui Government For the Death of the Two Americans Shot There Last Week. Following a conference with the president at the Whito House Sun Jay night on the Nlcaraguan situuation, Secretary of State Knox authorized the following statement: "If certain representations of facts which have boon made to the State Department concerning the Groco and Cannon case are verified by inquiries that have been made, this government will at once prepare a demand on the Nicaraguan government for reparation for the death of those two men." It was announced that neither the Secretary nor the White Uouho would discuss in any way the pending difficulty with Nicaragua, and both the president and Mr. Knox refused flatly to make any comment on their tnlk. The only other event of Importance that transpired during the day was the dispatch of orders to the transport Huffalo, on duty on the Pacific const, to sail at once for Panama, from Pinehlinquo bay, California, after taking on adequate supplies of coal and provisions. This ordering of the Huffalo south on hurry-up schedule is taken to mean that this government Is making ready to throw a column of United States marines into the Nicaraguan turmoil for the protection of American lives and property. While the five hundred marines are scattered generally over the canal zone they can be concentrated by means of the railroad quickly at Panama, whore there are military stores and supplies. Any expedition against Nicaragua In which the marines figuro would ho undertaken on the PnelAc aide of the isthums. Tho Buffalo would land the men at tho port of Corlnto, which in a abort forty miles from Managua. The authorities Insist that tho dispatch of the Buffalo is not to be accepted as meaning that an expedition is to be launched against the Zelayan government, but that the vessel is ordered in order to be in readiness should occasion sud- | denly arise. The Buffalo carries six guns, is of 6,8 8 8 tons burden and her engines develop 3,600 horsepower. Tho vessel will be driven at top speed to Panama whero oh hor arrival her commander has been instructed to rei>ort immediately to Washington. POLITE RUBE HAVKS ItUKOLAK. Hhnkes Hands With Iutciide<J VlctJirf, Apologi/<? and Escapes. Allen Douglass, son of E. T. Douglass, general manager of the Westorn Transit Company, was so dumbfounded when a burglar faced him in his home a few days ago in Buffalo, N. Y., that ho shook hands with him and watched him Jump through a window and escape from the roof of a voranda, powerless to raise an alarm. "i didn't realize that the man waa a burglar until he waa gono," said young I)ouglu6a. "I waa intensely Inter estod in a book when I heard a noise and, looking up, flaw tho man. He extended his hand courteously and I graepod it and ahook it.' "I'm looking for my sister, old pal, but I guees she isn't here," ho said, and apologizing for his intrusion, Jumped out tho window. Tho burglar got nothing. Down on Big Hats. Calling for co-operation on tho part of tho woman of other churches, tho South Carolina Baptist Woman's Missionary Union at Greenwood launched a movement designed tc put a stop to the woaring of big hats in ehurch. The resolution dononnciug the peaoh-hasket and merry widow 8tyle8 of headi??mr tnr Sunday wear waa passed and amid great enthusiasm. * Football Victims. Football has claimed a toll of thirty lives and 218 injuries during the pceaent season, according to figurea compiled by the Chicago RecordHerald. This is the largest number of deaths recorded in nino years, according to tho Record-IIerald figures, which have been kept since 1901. RSY HEI FIRE ON POSSE UNRULY BLACKS WOUND NINE MKMHKHH OF POS8K. Shooting Stirs People of Town But Anger Dies Down?One Man Was Arrested. Following two days of tense excitoment. with a race riot of serious proportions threatened, as a result of the wholesales wounding of a deputy sheriff's posse by drunken negroes in the eastern section of tho city of Union, S. C.. Saturday night, quiet again prevails, and tho officials of that town bolievo they have tho situation in hand. The negroes who did the shooting mane ineir escape and this probably acrountfl for the fact that further disorders woro not rocordod later. Late Monday afternoon ono of the negroes charged with the shooting was arrested and lodged In Jail. Three others for whom warrants wore issued have not been apprehended. Following repeated efforts on the part of Deputy Sheriff A. S. McCool to put a stop to the noisy revelry at a negro "frolic" Saturday, ho, with a party of citizens, started for the house occupied by the negroes. The latter opened lire with shotguns, wounding nine members of the officers' force, including the deputy sheriff, who received wouuds in each leg. The others wounded were W. A. Dye, two loads of shot in chest and face; Boyd Harris, shot in legs; Herbert Brandon, shot in faco and body; II. L. Timmons, shot in legs; Rudolph Lowe, both legs peppered with shot; Earl Boiling, shot in l>ody; Albert Wright, body peppered with shot; Grady Reynolds, shot in head and body. One negro was found near the house seriously wounded. It is said that he got within range of his companion's shots when the attack was made upon the ofllcers. Hherlff G. G. Long was summoned and immediately went to tho scene with II nON?44* nrmoH riinuotln? rifles. The negroes had fled, however, and the sheriff and hla men directed their attention to a systematic search of the negro section for the guilty ones, but without result. A large quantity of whiskey was found in the house occupiod by the negroes. Later the wounded negro was found by the officers near the house, where he had crawled after his companions fled. Dye is the most seriously wounded of the posse, but it is ot thought his wounds will provu fatal. Eightythree shot were removed from his body. HWINDLKK IN KAMTOVK1L Hevoral Persons There Were ('aught by Ills Game. A dispatch from Eastover to The State says for the past fow days there has been a swindler in the community. A white man has been. cunv??Pln# tlftO Gauntry under the name of agent for a certain sick benefit society. Ho would approach a porson, generally a negro, and Interest him in the subject. Then he would win his point by saying, "You know Mr. T. H. Auld of Eastover, don't you? Well, he Is gonoral agent for the company In all this lower Richland county. Now you give mo $1 and I'll glvo you my receipt and you take it to Mr. Auld and he'll issue you the policy." Severul persons fell for this game and now are bemoaning tho loss of their dollars. Dying Man Left Note. " Apflfloiltlll atlnnAil n r\ A " ..WV?V?4> kMIKF,,'u UMU 1 was the contents of a note found Sunday In the dense thicket beside the body of I. B. Borland, aged GO years, former county treasurer and a prominent politician of Krankltn, Pa., who has boon missing from i home since Friday. A wound in the left leg caused Borland to bloed to death, according to the coronor. The accident was the result of a hunting trip. Naval Cadet Fired. The Secretary of the Navy has approved the recommendation of the superintendent of the Naval Academy for the dismissal of Cadet John P. Ilyraan, of South Carolina. General inaptitude, which has caused seven other cadets to leave the Academy this year. Is the cause of the dismissal of Ilyman. Killed About Lynching. At Cairo, 111., Wednesday Henry Small, a aegro shot and killed William Pope, one of the negro soldiers discharged from the United 8tate<! itrmy nrtor the ^'shooting up* oC nrownsvillo, Toxaa. The shooting followed argument over the lynching there last week of Will James, the negro accused of the murder ofl Miss Annie Pelley. RflLD f X