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i > AWFUL TRAGEDY A Drunken Man Slays Two Men on a Train Near Wilmington, Del. KILLER SHOT TO DEATH J. H. Bethea of Dillon, S. C., Kills a Colored Porter and (lie* Conductor on a Pullman Car and Is Finally Killed in Battle With the Police. An exciting battle in which three men were killed took place on n north bound Baltimore and Ohi< railroad train Wednesday afternoon The fight began at Newark, Del., and ended at Wilmington, Del. Several persons were wounded i;i the deadly affray which occurred at the Delaware avenue station at Wilmington following the arrival of tlu train at 5:17 o'clock. The dead: O. E. Wellman, aged 40, of Philadelphia, conductor of tlu train Samuel Williams, aged 50, negio Pullman porter, whose home is aid to have been in Jersey City; J. H. Bethea, aged 40, Dillon, S. C. The injured: John O. Wiley, aged 40, a park guard of Wilmington. Del., shot in the hand and leg; Matthew llaley, a citizen of Wi'minvton, shot in (he leg. Others were grazed by flying bullets. The foi lowing graphic story of the awful tragedy was told by one of the mem bers of the train crow. "We left Washington at three o'clock " said the member of the crew, "but nothing peculiar in the actions of Bethea was observed until the train pulled out of Baltimore. We had scarcely reached the outskirts of the city, when Bethea, who was occupying a chair Mn the parlor car, threatened to chastise Williams, because of no apparent reason, other than he took exception to the porter being a negro. "A short time later the porter again had occasion to pass through the car. He was busy ooening a ventilator, when Bethea arose and lunged toward him. The porter hurriedly left the car aid reported the matter to Conductor Wellman. The latter toll Williams to remain out of the car unless it was aosciutely necessary for him to enter. Bethea in the meantime had taken a seat in a coach. "When the train was between Harvo de Grance and Newark, the porter started through the coa<m, not noticing Bethea. The latter was apparently dosing in his seat, bet just as the colored man passed him he rose and said: 'You negro; I'll shoot you full of holes." "Williams was less than four feet from the enraged man and as Bethea spoke Williams turned half aroui d in evident surprise. As he did so Bethea tired a shot into the porter's heart. Williams fell back into a seat, and as Conductor Wellman approached the murderer, Bethea tired again. This last shot went throngn Williams' thigh and buried it3elf in the woodwork in the side of the car. "By this time pandemonium reigned. There were about thirty persons in the car and they made a mad rush for both doors. Conductor Wellman apparently didn't know that Williams had been fatally shot, as the negro was sitting upright in the seat. As Wellman spoke to Bethea the latter turned livid with rage, and placing his revolver almost on the conductor's chest, fired. Wellman dropped without moving an Inch and Bethea, flourishing his revolver, backed toward the toilet room, entered and closed the door. "In the meantime the train had reached Newark, Del, No stop was made but a message was thrown off asking the railroad officials at Wilmington, 12 miles distant, to have policemen on hand to arrest Bethea. None of us knew at this time that either Williams or Conductor "Wellman was dead. Before the train reached Wilmington the door was barred from the outside and a hasty examination of both men showed that life was extinct. "So bitter was the feeling against the desperate man among the passengers that he could have been torn limb from limb had they been able to gain admittance to the toilet. "When Wilmington was reached a score of policemen and citizen* were waiting on the station platform - / r?^4i - * - i jiu tup ui ntiiuea s neaa could lh Been above the window blind as h< was standing in the toilet. Captaii Kane of the Wilmington police ?orc< was the first man to step on 0111 train. We was folLowod by half i dozen other policemen. As they ap p roach ed the toilet room Bethei threatened to murder the whol< bunch, if they attempted to entei the room. The officers withdrew from the car and held a consultation This conference was interrupted bj several shots from the toilet window. Uethea then drew back as Hk policemen returned the fire. "At this Juncture a fire appartus appeared and a stream was turned in the broken window. JJethea kept on firing, but we had all secured convenient posts and waited developments. In a few minutes Bethea _ 'rn ii " COOK'S SAD PLIGHT llllOKKX IX II10 AT II AX I) WITHOUT FI NDS OH FK HON 1)8. Knows no One lie Could Trust to go to Airtlc Regions After l*roofs il lie llud the Money. . Dr. William II. Axtell, of Delllngham, Wash., a personal friend ol Dr. Frede iek A. Cook, the explorer, Wednesday received a letter from Mrs. Cook, dated Valparaiso, Chile . in which she says the explorer it linik'ini it) hi<:)lt)i vi it limit fundi: n 111 unable to continue bis fight to es, tablish his claim that he discovered the North Pole. Dr. Axtel said: "Mrs. Cook telli mo in her letter that Cook made con siderable money out of his trip whei he first landed in New York, bin that he spent it in defending himself) against the bitter attacks from his enemies before the Copenhagen de cision was made public. Cook left New York later to escape contumely says Mrs. Cook, and to go before tlu board of iquiry at Copenhagen ahis own representative. Then Mrs Cook sought him, met him in England, found him a nervous wreck and very ill. "She writes that it was her fault that Cook did not appoar publicly at the time he was unfavorably reported on. She says she took him to Holland, France, 1 tally and then to Spain, where they embarked f?>' Huenos Aires. "Fnom Htienos Aires they went around Cape Horn to Chile. Cook is still very ill and will he in no condition to take up his light for th*1 honors which he still says should been his." Dr. wtell added that, according to the let er, the explorer and his family w iil arrive quietly In New York an . st: tie down for a quiet life "Aiis. Cook says," ho continued, "tin t her husband lias no funds with which to go to the Arctic regions after the proofs required by the University of Copenhagen, and that if he had the necessary cash, he kiuows of no one he could trest to do the work for him." TWELVE CI it LS PERISH. In Factory Ftro Caused by Explosion of Ren/.ine. Twelve persons are reported dead in a fire which attacked the L'Fish Furniture company building at 1006 Wabash Availue, Chicago Friday.. About 4 0 employes escaped. A girl who jumped from a third story window died at a hospital. The dead were tntnped, it is said on the fourth fifty anal sixth floors, when an explosion of benzine on the fourth lloor wrapped the building in flames. Ladders were raised to the sixth floor, the topmost one, in a desper aie enori 10 resuoe any person who might be alive there. The lire is said to have started from an explosion of benzine in the repair rooms on the fourth floor, probably from a carelessly dropped match. Two cabinet makers who at work in the repair room were among those who escaped slightly burned. When a great shheet of flame shot across the floor they were knocked down, but although almost stifled they managed to crawl to the front stairway, whence they made their escape to the street below. The lire, the said, was preceded by an explosion which shook the building. A Tug and Crew Lost. The tug Arthur B., from Tacoma to Vancouver, floundered Wednesday night off Frazer river lightship. Six men were drowned. The tug was used in the cement and plaster carrying trade between Pugct sound and British Columbia ports. Fifteen Drowned. The Norwegian steamer, Dixie, bound from a Scotland port capsized in the mouth of the Elbe river, during a severe storm Thursday and the crew of 15 were drawned. staggered from his arsenal, lie was still firing his revolver. As he started to leave the car an officer shot him in the face and a second later another shot shattered his arm. Still ! struggling to thrust his revolve! from his injured arm to the sound 1 member, the man dropped dead, i "In the toilet room we found near. ly fifty empty cartridges, while the j window was a full of holes as a pep 3 per box. i There was no way of identifying ? him by baggage, as we could find r none. In his pocket was a memv orandum book containing the name - of J. II. Ilethea, Dillon, S. C., aged i 10 years.' "There were half a dozen wounds r on his body. lie was shot in the ' arm, face and shoulder. "I never saw such a scene in my r life and never want to see a rep. etition of it. The women passen? gers were screaming and wero so hysterical that they even attempted \ to Jump from the train. Even after It was known that the murderer was dead we had our hands full In quioting some of the more nervous in the run from Wilmington to this city." mJtoHZZ'Z* - .. MANY PARDONS GRANTED BY T1IK BARRON BOARD RIKINO T1IK VKAK lyot). i Nearly Kvory Crime ami Comity Is ' Represented by Those Who Received Pardons. An examination of the pardon re[ cord for the year 1909 shows that - the following pardons were granted: i Usra Alnian?Spartanburg conn, ty; crime, manslaughter; sentence, a two years imprisonment. Pardon I granted August 2, 1909. Matthew Atkinson ? Darlington I county; crime, drunkenness and stealing; sentence, thirty days on i chain gang. Pordon granted Octo . her 2, 19 09. i ;\V. It. Cade?Williamsburg count ty; crlnve, murder; sentence, life lmt, prisonment. Pardon granted April $ 24, 1 909, upon recommendation of . board of pardons. I J. M. Cortex?Aiken cofinty; crime housebreaking; sentence, eighteen > months in the penitentiary. Pardon ; granted March IS, 1909. Mike Durham?Spartanburg coun. ty; crime, receiving stolen goods; sentence, fine of $00 or six months on chain gang. Pardon granted to restore to citizenship. Henry Fowler?Spartanburg county; crime manslaughter; sentence , two years imprisonment. Pardon ! granted October 1 9, 1909. Hansom Gardner-?Lancaster county; crime, receiving stolen goods; senteco, line of $1,000 or two years in the penitentiary. Pardon granted to use as witness April 24, 1909. Joseph Green?Orangeburg county; crime, burglary and larceny; sentence, life in penitentiary. Pardon granted Dec. 1, 1909. Gus Jackson?Fairfield county; crime, entering house with intent to kill; sentence, one year in the penitentiary. Pardon granted to restore to citizenhip Feb. 17, 1909. Abram Joffnrdn?.t .OvilUnn nAnn- i ty; crime, burglary and larceny; sentence, life imprisonment. Pardon gran tied Jan. 6, 1900. bark Kirby?Greenville county; crime,, statutory burglary and larceny; sentence, impirsonment for life, but coni'muted to live years, Dec. 1 8, 1007. Pardon granted to be used as witness May 6, 1000. John Martin?Hampton county; crime, murder; sentence, imprisonment for life. Pardon granted April 14, 1009, unon recommendation ol ooard of pardons. John Priestley?Oconee county; crime, manslaughter; sentence, 15 years In the penitentiary. Pardon gran bed October 19, 1909, upon recommendation of board of pardons. Robert Robinson?Greenwood county; "rime, petit larceny; sentence, 30 days imprisonment. Pardon granted to restore to citizenship, Oct. 18, 1909. Shelly Robinson ? Orangeburg county; crime, housebreaking and larceny; sentence, three months on chain gang. Pardon granted to restore to citizenship, August 10, 1909. (Walter Samuels?Edgefield county; crime, rape; senetnee, ,1 ife in tin penitentiary. Pardon granted October 19, 19 0 9, upon recommendation of the board of pardons. bige Simpson?Newberry county; crime, receiving stolen goods; sentr nee, pay a line of $8 0. Pardon granted to restore to citizenship, December G, 1909. Robert Singlctary?Florence county; crime, obtaining goods under false pretences, sentence . Par- I don granted to restore to citizenship I October 15, 1909. Samuel Smalls, George Simmons, Thomas Rivers?Charleston county; I crime, rape; sentence, life In the I penitentiary. Pardon granted April 24, 1909, upon recommendation of I board of pardons. It. N. Terry?Greenville county; I crime, bastardy; sentence, three hun-j Id red dollars flive to he paid twenty- J live dollars each year for twelve. I Pardon granted October 19, 1 909. S. C. Timer?Spartanburg county; crime, manslaughter; sentence three years imprisonment. Pardon granted April 8, 1909. Rlic Thompson?Barnwell county; I crime, housebreaking and larceny; I sentence, 18 months on chain gang. Pardon granted to restore to citizen! ship for witnessing .July 15, 1909. I K. S. Villeplgue?Kershaw coun. ty; crime, obtaining money under! ! false pretences; sentece, tine imposed by magistrate. Pardon granted to restore to citizenship March 17, 1909. William Westmoreland?Taxing-1 ton county; crime, adultery; sen-J r tence, fine, which has been paid. [ Pardon granted to restore to citizenship. * I I I Incendiary Sentenced. For having twice set lire to teno5 mont houses in New York, where ( dwelt a married woman who repulsed his advances, Daniel Roe, convict. ed of arson in tho first degree, must , serve twenty years and one month in the penitentiary. lie is twenty-eight ( years old. Bodies From Wreck. Two unidentified bodies, a life buoy marked Prinz Willent II, sev eral oars and much miscellaneous wreckage were washed ashore at Belle Isle, France, last Wednesday. THEY RAN HIM DOWN MAX WHO SWINIHjKD PEOPLE IX THIS STATE CAUGHT At Oklulionm .City, Okla., Wore He Was Itunning a Hinder Swindle Than at Greenwood. A special from Greenwood to The X? ws and Courier says I'ostolhee Inspector Gregory, who went to Oklahoma to arrest W. .1. Xicholls, former president of the Metropilitan Loan and Trust Company, lias returned after having performed his part of the business in locating the man, arresting him and having the Federal authorities there "put next." Inspector Gregory's report of the trail and final capture of Nicholls, as well as the varied career of Nicholls, himself, re axis like a romance, WJien located in Oklahoma City, Nicholls, now going as "Mr. C. L?. Jackson," was tit the head of a concern that was doing about the biggest business in that hustling community. He had an ofllce like a railroad president, and Mr. Gregory said he had seventeen stenographers, young nik-n and young women as busy as bees, llis oncern was alread attract-: ing attention from Uncle Sam's men, and Federal district attorney there told Mr. Gregory that as soon as the time was ripe he would have been nabbed. He was "selling the right to sell the right to sell," a certain kind of stove, a sort of endless chain eontract business. No provision was nuade us to seeing how or where the stoves could be secured but the right to sell the right was what Jackson was doing. It was the washing machine swindle attempted sn this State some years/ago with stoves substituted for washing machines. Mr. Gregory said when he called on Nieholls he had no little trouble in getting into his private oflice. ( When he finally reached it, he found his attorney there, and his private stenographer also present. He asked Nieholls or Jackson for a few ( words in private, and was told to , go ahead as the other two were in a confidential relation. Mr. Gregory insisted, so these two finally returned to an adjoining room and then Mr. Gregory addressed him as Nieholls, and asked about Greenwood. Jackson was quite indignant it the joke, and carriet his part out well, until Mr. Gregory showed him his own photo, and he saw the jig was up. He trembling all over, Mr. Gregory said, although he still stoutly denied that his name was other than C. L. Jackson. As an indication of what a rushing business Nieholls was doing in selling the right to sell the right to sell a stove that needed no right to sell a hardware man at Oklahoma City told Mr. Gregory that Nieholls had paid him ten thousand dollars cash for a lot of stoves to bo used by his demonstrators. People love to be swindled. gone to see teddie. And Talk Over Party Troubles in (he Party Hanks. Tt is said in Washington on the best of authority that both Garfield and Pinchol wrote letters to Roosevelt at Khartum, telling him of the sad occurrences there under the leadership of Taft. They told Roosevelt that if he wished it one of them either Garfield or Pinchot would l meet him in Europe and give him ( further particulars. Roosevelt cabled to them to come. Garfield was to go, but owing to the c Ohio government matter Pinchot f went. Now what does it mean? "All I Washington" is speculating upon s that question. Hack from Elba? Is that it? i Mr. Taft is now squarely allign- C ed with the so-called "reactionaries" t of the Republican party, those who 1 have all along been fighting the so- s called "Roosevelt policies"?the ( central idea of which, as we all un- i derstand, is to stav the t.h ronton in or t storm of wrath against the alliance of the Republican party with "predatory wealth." The same man that made these "policies" made also Mr. . Taft, and promised the American people that Taft would carry them out. Now what is he going to do when lie gets back here? Echo answers "what"? I ? < Let Them Alone. ] Does the man who sends to a mall < order house ever take into account I the cost of postage, cxpressage and | other expenses involved in placing an i order and getting it filled? Does t he also take into account the vexa- i tious delays he often meets, and the I probability that what ho bought is t not in quality and other features I that which he expected it to he? 1 When a man buys of his local iner- 1 chant he knows what ho is getting ana no does not have to wait for it. Will Meet Teddy. < In roHponce to a cablegram from r former President Roosevelt it be- i came known Tuesday that Gifford c Pinchot, the deposed chief forester '1 sailed from New York Saturday on i the steamer President Grant, and f will meet Roosevelt in London. a LOCKS GCCD TO HEM KECK NT ELECTION RETURNS I*LEASES DEMOCRATS. The Election in Massachusetts Tuesday Turned Out Better Than the One in Missouri. Zach McGhee says the Democrats in Washington are jubilant over the results of the by-elections in Missouri and Massachusetts. The Missouri district, the ono formerly re presented by the late David A. ?kArniond, is taken as a typical Mldd.e Western district. In it the Democratic candidate made large gains in the election in January. Now in Massachusetts, in the most hide-bound Republican district of all New England, 0110 never heretofore known to go Democratic, not even in the Cleveland landslide, has been changed from 14,Odd Republican majority to G,0o0 Democratic majority. In each of these district trie ta"iff and the Republican ring rale wcr* the issms. Mr. Llody, the chairman of the Democratic congressional committee, who went up there last week, came back with the opinion that there would be Democratic gains and declaring that if the 14,00b Republican majority should be cut down to G.000 Republican nnjovty the Democrats would be doing mighty well and should be highly satisfied When the returns came in Tuesday night, with 12,000 nio^e Democratic votes than Mr. Lloyd had counted on, there was jollification itlflrwwl !) 11 U lllr. Ilonillvli/1.1 > --- - n ii hi i< <i ii w-ru un*.* stricken. The Republicans do not pretend to minimize tlie significance, but frankly admit that the situnt oa .i onininous of a Democratic tidal wave n November, unless it can be stayed. They generally stay these threatening tidal waves, you know; and they may be able to stay this one; but they are wearing exceedingly gloomy faces. The whole political situation gets more and more interesting every day. On Capital hill the Democrats are standing together in solid phalanx, and, contrary to the usual habit, are saying mighty little. The breach in the Republican ranks shows no signs of healing. Not even the threat of Democratic victory seems to frighten either faction into making overtures to the other. The Cannon or organization men in the house are disconserted, it is true, and all the insurgents are sure of it that they have strengthened their own individual position at home by finding a scape goat in Cannon for the sins of their party. But those same insurgents have little spirit in any further attacks upon their organization. The victory last week, so far as they are concerned, is a sort of Borodino. They may have captured Moscow by it but are so disabled as to be unable to hold it. And it looks as if they are going to let Cannon dominate the rules committee after all. The regular Republicans, or the Cannon forces, are counting on Mr. Taft to help them out, if not in the house. then in the country, and Mr. Taft seems in truth to be doing all in his power to fulfill the expectation. IIOGUS IIONDS AGAIN. Vevada legislature Is Anxious to Take Them Up. A special dispatch to the Charotto Observer from Italeigu says governor Kitchin received a telegraphic request from the Governor >f Nevada asking for all possmle in'ormation regarding the repudiated S'orth Carolina special tax bonds, tome of which have been offered Nevada in order to induce that hate to sue North Carolina 'I he Governor of Nevada says lie declines o accept the bonds, but the Legis- ' ature is trying to force him to do ;o. Governor Kitchin and Attorney ienoral Hickitt sent him a mass of nforination showing how fraudulent lie bonds were. IVftTIII'll - Hi'iH I'.ll.tlj Clinton It linden Shot to Boath by \V. II. Glenn on Street. A fatal shooting took place at ttatesburg on Thursday when \V. B. 31enn, superintendent of the electric ight plant, shot Clinton Rhoden, to leath, on one of the main streets of he town. The weapon used was a [>istol; four shots were fired, and ?ach shot took effect. One witness i Rated that Rhoden was unarmed. It s stated that there had been bad blood between the men for some line. Much sympathy is expressed for all parties concerned, as each ( nan has a large family. The affair las cast gloom over the town. < Maple Sap Kills Flames. i Maplcsap saved the blazing house i if George Fall at Pharsalia, N. Y., i Thursday night. According to dislatches receive, Fall was boiling lown the sap when the roof of his 1 ioubo caught fire. His cries brought . ieighl)ors who quickly put out the ( Ire with several hundred quarts of ] iap from the storage tank. , .i 1 Ini?thiN* - . ? V FATAL WRECK " Army Chief of Staff Sericusly Injured in Auto Crash. . V: MRS. SLOCUM IS KILLED A Trolley Car ami an Automobile Crash in Washington, by Which Mrs. Herbert J. Slociuii Loses Iler Life an<l (Jen. J. K, Bell was Very Seriously Injured. Maj. Gen. .T. Franklin Bell, chief y of staff of the United States army, who was injured early Wednesday in Washington in an automobile accident, in which Mrs. Herbert J. Slocum, wife of Maj. Slocum, U. S. A., was almost instantly killed, was reported at a late hour that night to be. resting comfortably. One of his ribs was broken and he suffered some scalp wounds but no internal injuries have been discovered and no complications of any sort have set in. Maj. Slocum, who is a member of tHe Seventh Cavalry, now stationed at Governor's Island, N. Y., arrived in Washington Wednesday I night. The accident was caused by a south liound trolley car of the Wisconsin avenue car line, near Tenskirts of the city, colliding with an automobile owned by Gen. Bell. The car was occupied by Mrs. II. J. Slocum, aged GO years, Mrs. H. L. Green and Gen. Bell. Mrs. Slocum, who received internal injuries, was removed to Georgetown hospital in an automobile, where she was pronounced dead. Chauffeur Ward was unhurt, but was soon arrested, together with the motorman and conductor of the trolley car. They were latter released from clistnd v V? num.*"*** ? ? V.wvw?j ? uuh wci 9 uii uruers from Coroner Nevitt, who instructed them to appear at the inquest. Mrs. Slocum, whose husband is a nephew of Mrs. Russell Sage, was visiting her sister, Mrs. H. L. Green, at the Wyoming, a department houso in Washington, but Tuesday went to Fort Myer to visit Mr. and Mrs. Bell, with whom she and her husband were on terms of intimate friendship. It ^ was on the way back to the Wyoming that the fatal collision occurred. The Tennallytown road, oflicially known as Wisconsin Avenue, runs north fnom Georgetown through the westernly environs of the city, and is a favorite route for automobiles. Crossing the Georgetown bridge from Fort Myer, the car turned forth into Wisconsin avenue and was about to turn easterly along the northerly boundary of the city when at Garfield street the collision occurred. The fast moving trolley car, when V. the two came together, completely demolished the automobile. Tho automobile was hurled about five feet against a trolley pole. It finally turned over. General Roll was thrown out. Ward was pinned under the front of the car, but managed to extricato himself. Mrs. Slocum was crushed under the body of the car. Bleedin fT nlmiif U" 1 1 - * " me iiuiuis ana nead, Gen. Hell directed the passengers on the car and others in lifting the automobile from the injured woman. Mrs. Slocum was then hurried to tho ^ hospital. HEATING A HIDE. Falls From Moving Train and Is ( round to oDath. While heating his way on a freight train Wednesday afternoon Charles I.ockahill of Lexington, X. C., better known as "Clad", fell under the moving train and was cut in two across the stomach, dying almost instantly. The accident happened in the eastern part of Tltomasville, a short distance above the cllege. No particulars further are known of the killing. Uockahill has a wife and four small children. He was a brick mason by trade and was considered a good peacable fellow, except. at times he would get on a spree. SHOOTS DOWN1 GUARDS. Mortally Wounds Wardens at City t Workhouse. At Wilmincrtnn r?-i ...0 i/ci., oiepnen Hunter, a negro prisoner at the Newcastle workhouse, who recently camo to Delaware from South Carolina, shot and fatally wounded two guards Walter Hastings and Thomas McCullough. The negro struck clown Has'* tings as the latter handed him his breakfast through the cell door. Se- ^ curing the guard's revolver he emptied two shots into Hasting's body and then dropped McCullough, who had come to the rescue. The nei?ro was himself wounded before being overcome. His mind is believed to have become deranged. Poetry read recently in the Okla-? homa senate nearly caused a fight. Apparently the period of gentle toleration and pity for the versifier has ~ passed away from the confines of 7 hat State.