The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 09, 1909, Image 7
pAMDEN SHAKEN
e Buildings Are Wrecked and a DeW'
structive Fire Follows
f r A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION
*
vevcral 1Vi"?'ms Hurt, and I*rop?'rty !
Worth Approximately One IJun- j
fc, JS.
dred Thousand Dollars I>estroycd j
mo Result of Explosion of I'ncer- ;
tain Origin in Express Ofllco.
A special dispatch to The State ,
says as a result of the explosion of
a presto-carbon tank In the Southern
Express company's oflloe Thursday !
night, Friday morning found about!
a half block of Camden's finest!
Knolnncia nlnmiu in nuht>C fine rfllftf- ;
UV10|Ui;D(7 J/IUV^ O IU mmkvwi v- .. ^ ^ |
ed man probably killed, though this!
could not be verified; two prominent j
young men badly hurt, and live oth- j
era painfully Injured.
About 7:110 o'clock Thursday night
a severe shock was felt all over
the town and people rushed from !
their homes and places of business j
to find flames already gushing from !
Walk in Brothers' establishment audi
the express office and to learn th.it !
the explosion had broken the wall
between the express oflice and Wat- j
kins' store, causing it to fall on [
the occupants of the latter, not one
of them escaping without Injury.
Those in the store at the time
were Willie Salmond, Andrew j
Wbitaker, Charlie Watkins, Willie
Watklns and Arthur Watkins. j
Messrs. Whitakor and Arthur Watkins
were badly hurt, while the oth- !
era escaped with severe bruises. >
Had all of the mou been as badly |
hurt as Messrs. Whitakor and Wat-1
. kins, it is likely that none would;
have escaped.* Fortunately, however,
three of the men were able to free
themselves from the wreckage and ;
' get the other two out with the assistance
of other men who happened
to bo near at hand before the
*r? i 1 l.. I
nutunng was anaiue. iuu mss >
> estimated at over $100,000.
It is generally thought that the
explosion was that of a presto-ear- J
bon tank which had come to the ex-;
press ofllve consigned to \V. H. Do- '
? Louche
for automobile lighting. It ;
was stated by employes of the ex- j
proas oillcc that the tank was some!
V 4 distance from the stove, which had j
little or no lire in it, and the cause j
of the explosion is practically un- 1
known.
^ The explosion threw the walls on j
either side in to the Watkins'
Brothers and Barucho-Nettles es- I
tablishment respectively. Fortu*
nately, however, the express office
and the Bn ruche-Nettles store had !
closed Bomo time before and only j
the occupants in Watkins Brothers:
were hurt. The explosion shatter-'
* ed glasses throughout the city, principally
on Main street, and the shock
. could be distinctly felt for miles,
; " . many thinking that It was an earth- j
quake.
In the nearby bather shop men
] j rushed to the streets with half shav,
en faces and one shoe shined to j
finish their toilet at some future 1
time.
x The firemen did fine work and !
f K/MtnrK ko n/liiMi 1,1'i.irl hv t lftU'
I avu^u iiuiivuvMppx u i.'j ?..v -w .. ,
pressure of the water, succeeding
in checking the fire at W. T. Smith's
store and made a noble effort at j
saving Bruce & Langs, but it was of
x no avail.
;> During the course of fighting the
!. fire W. It. DeLoach and Tom Goodale
received slight injuries. Messrs.
\ Andrew Whitaker and Arthur Watkins
were the men most seriously
hurt. Mr. Watkins was taken to tho
4 ;
hotel Camden after being rescued
and appeared to be resting well un?
d*T tho care of two physicians and
a trained nurse. The extent of the
injuries of Messrs. Whitaker and
| Watkins could not be ascertained,
as they were too painfully hurt to
he lmitfedtytcly examined. Willie
Sulmoad was taken home. Willie
and Charlie Watkins were able to
% remain to make arrangements to
open up their business Friday morning
at another location.
[ | SOCIETY GIHL KILLS HERSELF
K Miss Ethel Norman of Grw^nslwi'O
? N. Cm Ends Hot- Life.
^ Without any provious intimation
i and with no incentive other than a
^ slight remonstrance from a member
} of her family about extravagant in'
| dulgences, Miss Kthel Norman, aged
17, prominent in society in Greens
boro, N. C., committed suicide
| Wednesday afternoon by shooting
I herself through the heart with a
\ revolver. She enmo homo about
1 6:30 o'clock and passing her mother
I in the hall went directly to her room,
I where sho pressed the revolver to
( her heart and fired, death resulting
J, instantly.
"y Horses Hum in Stable.
At Kansas City, Mo., one hundred
f and forty horses were cremated Moni
day night in a livery stable, which
[ burned to the ground. Two of the
I animals were high-class driving horsI
eg, which had taken blue ribbons
/ at horseshows. Tho total loss was
^ about $60,000.
y
ffl SL
SOCIETY OF GOOD CHEER j
YOUNG LAD IKS FOUM ASSOC1AA
TION TO VISIT SICK.
The Work is Now Ilogiuning in
New York, but Will Very Likely
Kxteud Over the Country.
The Society of Good Cheer has
been chartered under the State laws ^
of New York, says a message from
New York city, by a group of young
women of the upper West side of
1- .iU.r aiisnnui
i"N W 1 UIIS, i nt'fjv vni nvov
workers aim to cheer the sick and
especially the convalescent, to give
a touch of joy to those lives that
have been brought low through sickness,
to Uiul the "stranger within *i
the gates" that may be very much e
in need of cheer, and to promulgate ^
cheerfulness among all classes of
people. c
For sometime these young ladles j,
have made it a part of their every
day life to visit hoarding houses, hotela,
hospitals and private residenc- t
es where the sick are convalescing j
and by distributing dowers, hooks,
magazines and good cheer, have y
assisted, many people hack to rugged
health and rea. life. .
Miss Theora Carter, the leading v
spirit among these young ladies, ?
conceived the idea ot' organizing a <
Society of Good Cheer to be composed
of young ladies who would ,
devote a portion of their titno to
helpfulness and cheer. t
Miss Carter became sick while attending
the Post Graduate classes ^
in Chicago and mapped out the
work w hile convalescing. She is now .
levoting her ample income and time i
to the society and has inspired such .
a spirit .of cheer among her young r
nctaiiiiiint in Vow York th:?t mnilv
have joined in the work.
Miss Carter is the President of v
tilt.- society and she and her coworkers
are successfully creating an ?
j 1
organization Hhat will isoon he a ,
potent factor in our national life. -j
Many lodges have been formed q
and others are ready for organiza- r
tion. It is proposed to institute lodg- ^
es in all the centers of the country j
to work with physicians in aiding j
and assisting the convalescent and j
to bring before the entire people j,
the necessity of good cheer at all
times.
Already the famous Hampton
Court estate of Staten Island, with
its eighty acres of fine lawns and
parks, lias been thrown open to the
members of the society in their
work.
A tented city in New Mexico lias
been planned for incipient consumptives
and a number of New York's
wealthy men will give over their
yachts in the summer for several
days in order that excursions may
be taken along the Hudson.
The society is distributing hangers'
and cards among business houses
with the words, "Cheerfulness is
an asset."
The patrons of the society include
some of the leading women of the
land.
This society is not a charity.
Those who join must give a portion
of their time and, where that is
impossible, they are expected to give
way to others who are ready to do '
work in person.
One of the aims of the society
id rutuui a^i; uii'ii iw v; i1 ru i uj#
their friends and acquaintances when f
sick and convalescing.
Many men have an idea that
when they are sick it is best to be
left alone, a kind of independence
that does not always work out well
with the other man.
One of the strict rules of the society
is that young ladies in visiting
must go in pairs or groups and
must study sanitation and hygienic
rules.
Sometimes just the fact that young
ladies have called and left a dower
and a card will aid a convalescing
person to a joy?a cheer that is
indeed beneficial.
IIOMIl H11IIIM) DKSK.
Murderous l*lot Discovered at Fort
Worth Monday.
By the opportune discovery Monday
of a stick of dynamite, with a
cap attached, which had been placed
on the window sill back of the
sergeant's desk at the police station
at Fort Worth, Texas, it is be- ,
lleved thai a plot to kill one of the J
throe desk sergeants was frustrnted.
The explosive was so placed <
that a slight movement of the desk (
would have thrown it to the floor, j
It is certain that the dynamite was j
sufficient to have wrecked the City {
"Hall. All efforts by the police to (
discover who placed the bomb have
so far failed.
Furniture May Cost More.
The National Furniture Manuafc- ]
turers* Association, representing the \
leading furniture makers of the i
country, met in annual session at i
the Auditorium in Chicago a few i
days ago. Statements mado by i
prominent members of the association
indicated that action will prob- i
ably be taken looking to an ad
vance of 10 per cent in the price
of furniture, to take effect at the
opening of the spring season in
| January.
BOOZE JEN MAE
ind May Boycott South Carolina's Si:
Dispensary Counties
WOULD BE GOOD THING
hould the Firms Against Whon
the Dispcnwny Ilourd Fouml OverJmlgmoiits
Krfuse to Ship Ant
Morn Liquor Into This State, a?
They Threaten 10 l>o.
The Colunybla correspondent oi
"he News and Court u* k?;"s "<3i>
ounties wet?twenty that have o*m
ry during various periods of time
?one which has had prohib.tior
or forty odd years, and fifteen late
y added to the dusty column wit?
he probability that several of th?
iret counties may be forced dry bj
he different whiskey houses refus
ng to ship their goods into th?
>tate, is the whiskey situation ii
louth Carolina.
It is nil problematical yet, then
s a possibility that the firms ngains
vhom the commlsfdgir found over
udgmeuts will boycott the Sout!
Carolina trade.
The dispensary winding-up com
nission recently passed a resolutioi
inlering the dispensary auditor no
o approve the claims of a numbe
>f tlrms. This matter was referre<
o (lovernor Ansel, who ordered tin
lispensary bourds in the six eouu
ies retaining the dispensaries
uild up the claims. Just how mud
vus held up by the order is no
mown, but the amount is ostimat
>d at about $-0,000. The totn
iinount held up in the dry countie
ens altout $0U,000.
The following are the firms naimM
n the resolution jiassed by the com
nission: Thomas F. McNulty, Joht
\ llarbee & Co., the Jack Crnnstoi
lompnny, R. Clrabfelder Co., liar
et Ai. Co., William Lanahan Ai Sons
lallard Distilling Company, Meyer
Mtts Co., Strauss, Fritz & Co.
llumenthal Ai Hickert, Cook A!
lernheimer Company, and Fried
am, Roller & Co.
The next awards to be made by
ho boards in several of the* counties
ctalning the dispensaries will b<
bout the tlrst of January.
It has been stated that the at
ornevs for the above named firms
11 several instances, have notiftec
heir houses not to ship any mort
,'hiskey Into South Carolina.
It is also being talked that tht
olding up of the claims by the com
lission of the whiskey firms doin^
usiness with the county dispensariet
.'ill have the effect of causing othei
.hiskey houses to "shy" at tradt
>ith the dispensaries in this State
Should the whiskey houses refus?
o fill orders contracted for the dis
tensaries in several of the wet coun
ies they would very probably have ft
lose, thus leaving the State prncti
ally prohibition for a time at least
M A\C'Hl'ItlAN LARKS.
rhese Ate Being Imputed by til
Oregon Woman.
Manchurian larks will bo liberat
?d in Oregon next spring, and it i
udieved the feathered songsters wil
hrive in this cljmate. They will b
ho llrst birds of the species eve
nought to America. Mrs. Fred I
Fisher, wife of the American consti
it Niu-ehwang, Manchuria, wh
reached Portland a short time ag
with her husband from the Orieni
lirought 15 of the birds back wit
tier.
The larks will be cared for thi
winter by Mrs. Fisher in Portlam
ind liberated next spring in Jose
ihine county, Oregon. It is though
Lhat by turning them out in th
iprlng, after the winter has passed
hey will have a better chance t
thrive in their new homes.
These birds, little known in Amer
ca, are rated as among the fines
iongsters in the world. They ar
ibout the sizo of native America'
arks, but are the color of the wren
Flecausc of their splendid voices th
Chinese keep them in cages in thei
ionics.
This importation is the second o
Chinese birds to the Stato of Oregon
The Mongolian, Denny or Chines
:?h?*asant was brought to Oregoi
'roin China by the late O. N. Denny
if Portland, who served as consu
it Tien Tin. The game birds wer
liberated there 2G years ago an<
lave spread to such an extent tha
.hey have become the State's great
>Ht game bird.
-
Negro Mui'dcml at Lnnc^strr.
Dave McKinoy, a negro, was sho
ind killed Monday afternoon b
Frank White, another negro, on th
plantation ot' B. Y. Funderburk,
mile south of Lancaster, S. C. Th
negroes farmed together this yea
find a dispute occurred over a set
tlenient they were making. Afte
McKlnney was shot White turned t
run and as he did so MeKlnney emp
tied both barrels of a shotgun int
him, one shot taking effect in th
leg and tho other in the hear
neither of which is serious. Whil
was Immediately arrested.
| WHAT THE FARMER DOES
TO .MAKK I'llOSPKltOl'S TIMIOS
* IN THIS (aKKAT COI XTHV.
During the Past \ onr He lias
Made Nearly Mnt? Hillion Hollars
on His Farm.
^ Most prosperous of all year* :s
the place to which 190y is entitled
in agriculture, declares the secre,
tary of Agriculture in his thirteenth
annual report, made public a few
? days ago. The value of farm products
is so incomprehensibly large
that it has become merely a row oT
f figures. For this year it is $S,7Gu,000.BOO,
a cuin of $S00,000,UO0 ovei
litOS. Tho value of the products
has nearlv doubled in ten
' Tho report says:
"Eleven years of agriculture, beginning
with a production of $t,1
4 17,000,000 and ending with $8,7 00,?
000,000! A sum of $7 0,000,000,'
000 for the period! It has paid off
mortgages, it has established banks,
" it has made better homes, it has
1 helped to make the farmer a citizen
of the world, and it has provided
him with means for improving his
soil and making it more productive.'
The most striking fact in tie
1 world's agriculture is the value of
the corn crop for 1009, which is
about $1,7 2 0,000,000. It nearly
equals the value of the clothing and
1 personal adornments of 7G,000,uo0
1 people, according to the census ol
' 1900. The gold and silver coin am!
1 bullion of t hi- I'nited States are not
of greater value. It has grown up
13 from the soil and out of the air in
3 120 days $lf?,000,000 a day for one
crop, nearly enough for two Dread.
naughts daily for peace or war. This
crop exceeds in value the average
s of the crops of the live preceding
years by 20 per cent.
Cotton is now the second crop in
value, and this year's cotton crop
1 is easily the most valuable one to
1 the farmer that has boon produced.
With cotton lint selling at 12.7 cents
' on the farm November 1, and with
' cotton seed selling for about $25
' per ton, the lint and seed of this
' crop are worth about $850,000,000
to the farmer. No cotton crop since
1872 lias been sold by farmers for
as high a price per pound as this
one.
>
Third in value is wheat, worth
about $125,000,000 at the farm, and
this largely exceeds all previous vnl'
ill's: The XiiviMnliiii' I'n fi" "I'l"" ? ?...
... ... .......... ....... I" ?' *7
almost an even dollar a bushel, a
price which has not boon equalled
since 18X1. This is the third wheat
crop in point of size, with 7 25,000,000
bushels.
The hay crop is valued at $665,000,000;
oats at $400.000.OO0; potatoes
at $212,000,000, and tobacco
at nearly $100,000,000. Beet and
cane sugar and molasses and syrup.
.JFroni farm and factory, will reach
the total of about $95,000,000. The
barley crop Is worth $88,000,000,
} flaxseed $26,000,000, and 1,000.000,000
pounds of rice $25,000,000.
The production of all cereals combined
is 1,711,000.01/0 bushels, an
amount considerably greater then
fhat for any other year, except llMiG.
a It exceeds the average of the preceding
five years by 8.5 per cent.
The value of all cereals in 1909 nas
_ never been equalled in a pr wl >us
s year. It is almost exactly $2,000,000,000,
or 34 per cent abov j '.he
* five-year average.
? Compared with the average of the
r previous five years, till principal
>. crops are greater in quantity this
il year, except cotton, flaxseed, nops
o and cane sugar: hut without eve??...
o tion every crop is worth more to
I, the farmer than the live year hvh
erazo.
This is the y-nr of highest pro
s duction for p< tntes, tobacco,
d sugar, all su;<?**\ and rice; lext to
the highest production for orn,
t oats and all cereals. Compared with
p 1908, gains in value are found all
1, along the line, the exception be!?.g
0 barley, buckwheat, rye and uiiik.
The increase for cotton, lint and
- seed is $1108,000,000; wheat $101,t
OOW.OOO; corn $105,000,000; hay
e $20,000,000; oats $22,000,000; toil
bacco $18,000,000; potatoes $15,i.
000,000.
e The increase in the value of farm
r products this year over 1908, $869,000,000,
is enough to buy a new
f equipment of farm machinery for
i. over G, 000,000 farms. The value
e of the cereal crops to the farmer
ti would pay for all of the machinery;
tools and Implements of the entire
1 manufacturing industry. The valc
uo of all crops, $5,700,000,00u,
1 would make a half payment on the
t value of all steam railroads, accord
ing to the valuation of 1 904.
Secretary Wilson concludes his re
view of tho production of 1909 as
follows: "The agricultural product
tlon of 1909 must add much to tho
y prosperity of farmors. The record
e is unexampled in wealth production
ft and t?*lIs of abundance in quantity,
o Year by year the farmer is better
r and better prepared to provide the
- capital and make the expenditures
r needed to improve his agriculture
o and to educate his children for
>- farm life and work."
o ? - ?
e It is said that most suicides reI,
gret it after swallowing the fatal
e dose?just as some men do after
getting married.
WHAT COAL COST
In Human Lives Before Reaching the
Consumer.
MANY MINERS KILLED
Statistics Show That Over Thirty
Thousand iittvo IVrislicd in the
l.ast Twenty Years, Which is Lour (
Times as Many as \S err Killed ]
in Lurope. 1
1
Tin* mine-rescue station represents- j
olio of tlw most recent efforts mad*
by tho government to reduce tin
number of fatal accidents in rn nes,
I
and it is but one f? aturo of a gen |
oral study of the causes of mint ?
disasters now Icing undertaken b\
the Cieologieal Survey at tho mine
accidents station in Pittsburg, Pa
This humanitarian work wia
started in July, 100H, by authorize
Hon of congress, which appropriat
ed $ 150,000 for tlits purpose, afteT
four explosions in coal mines in December,
1907, costing 700 lives
These disasters startled the cntir#
country and led to a general inquir?
into the death rates among miners
in the I'nited States,
Statistics gathered by the Pnited
States (ieologica 1 Survey shows
L'.ihi | miners killed and 4,S00 in
j u red in the coal mines in IMOd,
and ,12.*? killed and h.SOO injur*"1
in 1 907. '!'lie death rate for 19 01
was 4.St) for every 1.000 men employed.
In 1 00S, 2. Ir?0 men were
killed, or 2.00 i:i ?oery l.uon employed.
a reduction of 07!? in th*
number of deaths from ID07.
Kuropean eonl-produejiig com.trie}
| show death rates in mining as iow
as 1 ill every 1.000 lie n mnloved
and not more than 11 In of In i
words for every man killed in
Europe coal mines from two to foilr
arc killed in the mines of the I'nitcd
States. Since ISSmore than !
UO.OOo miners hav?> hoen killed in
the I'niied States. The lower death |
rate in European countries is due
to the establishment of governrm nt
testing stations for the investigation
of problems relating to safety .
in mining, including the use of ex|)losives.
The principal work at the Pittsburg
sation consists of testing explosives
to determine their safety :
when tired In the presence of explo- ,
sive gas or coal dust, and much
progress has already boon made In
this work. It is the purpose of the
government to continue the tests of
explosives until certain of them can ]
be recommended to state mining bureaus,
coal-mine owners, and miners i
as reasonably safe. i
Government mining engineers i
thoroughly trained in the use of
rescue apparatus have been assigned
to the stations already establish- '
ed and are ready at a moment's notice
to go to any disaster in their
.district. When an explosion occurs
in a coal mine, the re-establishing of
the ventilating current is often delayed
s veral hours, and many lives
have been lost apparently because
rescuers have been unable to advance
beyond the area where, the
mine was ventilated in order to find
persons who had suffered no physical
injury from the explosion, but
who were slowly dying from inhalation
of poisonous and iion-life-sun
porting gases.
With ii propnxjy e quip pod rescue
corps wearing oxygen helmets many
lives may be saved if the rescuers
can reach the mine within two or
three hours after the explosion. Such
is the record at mines in foreign
countries which are equipped with
similar rescue apparatus has been
brought into action within a few
hours after the explosion. Several
coal-operating companies have
realized the advantage of such safety
appliances and hive installed them
at some place convenient to their
mines. Equipped with the oxygen
helmets, which permit artificial
breathing, the rescuers are enabled
to enter a mine at once, even though
it is filled with noxious and irrespirahle
gases or with smoke.
? ?
DEADLY WOltK OF FIENDS.
Young Widow Hound and Ilurned
to Death by Tliem.
At Tampa, Fin., Marie Acosta, a
young Cuban widow, died Monday
afternoon from frightful burns, inflicted
upon her by a rejected suitor.
Miguel Gomez is under arrest. Hefore
she died the young woman
charged Gomez with having set her
afire. She declared that she hod
rejected Gomez's suit, and that, with
two confederates, he forcibly entered
her home in West Tampa a few
nights ago. She was bound hand
and foot. Then the h?en saturated
her clothing with gasoline and touched
a lighted match to her. The unfortunate
woman was found Monday,
frightfully burned from head
to foot, and she died at 2 p. m.,
after making a statement to the police.
She did not recognize the men
who wore with Gomez, and who aided
him, she charged, In perpetrat'
ing tlie awful crime.
DECISIVE DEFEAT
IOK rilOIIIIUTlO\ AMfvNI>MKNT
TO A l,.\ll.\M.\ < ONsTl i l TIC>\.
IIusIih'sn M?*n ol' su?i?* Say I'n'luro \
?>? i>>nwitutlon;il rrohibitinn lk>e*
Not lndic?(o "Wot"' Sentiment.
A dispatch from Birmingham,
Ala . says later returns from the
State indicate that Tuesday s majori
y against the prohibition constltutlonal
amendment will run ahov? t
>:?,000. It appears that a vote o?
lot less than ll'f-.ooo was polled.
:ho largest in the history of tlx?
State.
As the sweeping nature ?>f the d?
'eat ?>f the amendment is realised,
here is a disposition in all circles
o s?m? too result of its probaoh effect
on future legislation in the
State.
Industrial leaders and business
uien of Birmingham are al. ost ^
unanimous in their belief that the jfl
result was a rebuke to recent d ras- M-j
tic legislation and a declaration of
the people of Alabama of their det?
rminatlon to return to conservatism.
. . .
Leaders of tie; Birmingham chamber
of commerce believe the election
will have the effect of brlncin^
a great deal of Iv-tstern capital to
Manama, which has lieen timid for |
the past two or three years.
loaders of tlx amendux nt t. c> s Ni
were overw helmed b\ tlx- news of
the result. ;x 'hev were absolute:,
onhdent of vi tor> up to the last
monxnit. (Jov. Comer left for Mississippi
the night before on a hshing
t rip.
"The election determined that the
men of Alabama did not wish to
write into their constitution police
theasurts, nor s'nrretider rights they
have ex presslv res. rvrit " ? li.l
<1 States Senator Johnson "IT
i1o?-h not moan the rot urn of tho saloon,
nor any backward stop in public.
morals.
"It moans that Alabama is run- .
jorvafivc and not to bo shaken off
hor feet by mere sentimental appoats."
IIALI.HV'S COMHT.
Dii'octor of VorkoM Observatory Declares
will Ho No III lOlVecls.
"Those are tho views of Professor
Barnard and myself as to the
'rt'oct of tho earth's passing through
the tnil of ilalley's comet," said
Professor K. H. Frost, director of
Yerkes Observatory, at William*
flay, Wis., a few days ago:
"Present computations by Scarie
:uul by Seagrave indicate the passage
of the comet between the earth
ind the sun at a distance of 10,000,000
miles from the earth on
May IS, at 10 p. in., Central lime.
The tail always points away from
tho sun, and hence toward the
earth. At that time it is doubtful
whether the tail will be long enough
to reach the earth.
"Meteors are the debris of comets.
Therefore, if the end of the tail
reaches to the earth a meteoric
shower may reasonably bo expected.
Some illumination of the sky, a little
different from the ordinary,
might occur. Comtintntinn iniiion^i.
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the earth probably passed through
the toil of a enroot on June 30, IStJi,
at 13,000,000 miles from the head,
without any noticeable consequences.
"Comets undoubtedly contain
noxious Rases, compounds of carbon
and nitrogen, but their destiny is
so slight that no appreciable effect
should be produced in our atmosphere
even if we were very near the
head, whleh wc shall not he."
ALL WW) THAC;iC DKATIIS.
Fourth of Five Brothers Killed by
If is Ilrother-ln-Law .
Dr. Clay Henderson, a prominent
physician of Leake county, was shot
and filled .Monday night by Bell
Hudson, his brother-in-law, near Zion,
20 miles north of Forest, Miss.
The killing occurred at the home of
Hudson, but details of the tragedy
are not known. Dr. Henderson is
the fourth of live brothers to moot
a tragic death. A few years ago
Dr. Tom Henderson was shot and
killed by a man named Morehead
near Zion. A short time afterwards
another brother was mortally wounded
by the accidental discharge of a
i* vulvar, ADoui a year ago a third
brother (lied an a result of swallowing
carbolic acid by mistake.
Installs Telephone System.
A dispatch from Hocky Mount, N.
C., says Sunday morning the telephone
train dispatching system recently
ordered by the Atlantic Coast
Line was put into use and all trains
between Richmond and that city
Sunday and Monday wtro handled
by wire messages that were spoken.
The telegraph wires over that division
are practically dumb so far as
train orders are concerned and tho
telephone is handling all of tho
business under the directorship or
a chief dispatcher who sits at the
telephone with the receiver to his
car all of the time.
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