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WILD MAN HELD Arrested After Fighting a Whole Section ? of Lexington County. A MYSTERIOUS TERROR ? A Coal Black Negro. Who Seems to Be an Odd Character Has Been Put in Jull in Lexington.?No One 8eenu? to Knows Where He Came From. A dispatch from Lexington to The State says the negro who has been terrorizing the {neighborhood near Lexington for nearly a week has at last been captured and is now be hind the prison bars in jail. Thursday, after the officers had been in Bea/rch for him all day, aided by 4 0 or 50 citizenB of the community, the negTo turned up at the home of Isaiah Lindior, a farmer, about five miles from the court house and asked for something to eat with the request that ho be allowed to do some work in compensation for it. He remained there all day and Friday morning the officers were notified by 'phone that the man they had been bunting for for several days had been located. Shoriff Corley and Deputy Bherlff Miller went to the scene at once and carried the negro to jail. lie is evidently crazy for he can not tell what his name is or where ho halls from. He says that hen has been all over the world; has crossed the ocean on boat and has viewed all the old countries. He says that his parents died when he was a child just beginning to walk and that ho has been walking ever since. He Bays that the people call him so Tnonv lift real ly does not know what his right name Is, but that he mostly calls himself John Graham or Jack Graham. Where the man came from is a mystery, save that he came from Columbia on a wagon with some negroes who live on the plantation of Mr. John Corley. He spent the n*ght at one of the farm houses but left early next morning. Since then he has been turning up at first one (house and then another, terrifying the entire community by his strange actions. I On Tuesday more than HO people were in pursuit of him and he was traced from one end of tho territory to the other and at times the posse was almost upon him, but every time tie would elude his pursuers. lie is as black as tho ace of epades and looks to be about 4.r> years of age. His forefinger on the right hand Is off at the joint. He says that it was cut off by some of the children when he was himself a child. He was barefooted for the most of tho time, but when he arrived at the jail he had on a pair of shoes that had evidently seen better days. It is the general belief that the negro escaped from an insane asylum some where, for it does not seem possible that anyone so demented would bo allowed to roam about the country in any such manner. Tho officers are making an effort to send him to the hospital for the insane at Columbia. He was examined by Drs. Derrick ? and Roberts, both of whom pronounced him insane. The difficulty in placing him there, however, will arise from the fact that absolutely f nothing is known of his people nor | of himself, and it is impossible to give the usual desired information. It would doubtless be a great relief to the officers if those who know anything of the man would communicate with them at once. In the meantime the people of the community are now resting at ease, since the "wild man from Rorneo," as he has been styled, is safe behind I the prison bars. * I ? POSTMASTER SUICIDES. Act Followed Report of Inspector at Delnnd, Fin. - - ? -- ? ?~i. ? i. 1 David H. Margrave?, assistant puvmaster at Deland, Fla., suicided Friday afternoon by shooting himself through the head, dying almost instantly. Margraves' act followed the Investigation of the office by a postoffice inspector, who reported that he was short in his accounts. At the time of the investigation Postmaster Allen was in attendance upon the postmasters' Convention at Ocala. The dead man leaves a wife and fo-flr children. * Shot by Cra/.y Man. Frank Skala, an editor and mission worker of Pittsburg, Pa., was ?ssassinated just after he had flnluhed preaching a sermon and was leaving the church. The man that did the shooting was crazy. Skala's co-laborer, John Gay, was also wounded by the same man. ? Burned to Death. In a fire which destroyed their home at Morgantown, W. Va., Saturday Luther C. Johnson and his 3year-old daughter were cremated. (Mirs. Johnson and her two-year-old son escaped. FIGHT TO THE DEATH KIMi EACH OTHER IN ROW OVER ROAD CROSSING. Two Families Meet in Open and Shoot Until Three of the Com. batants Are Killed. Two dead, one dying and probably one or two others slightly wounded are the results of a Sunday afternoon battle In an inter-family feud of long standing, which was renewed Sunday afternoon near Emanuel, Ga. The dead are: E. S. Collins, road overseer for his district, and a wellto-do farmer, and his son, William Collins, both of whom died during the progress of the fight. Alma Lew is is so badly wounded that he is expected to die at any moment. The battle was between the family of Collins and the family of Lewis, and was the outcome of a dispute over a public road crossing. The two families reside less than a mile apart and the county line runs between their homes. Fathers and sons met in a lane Sunday afternoon near the Lewis home. Just how the battle started Is not known. The members of the Collins family were armed with pistols, while two shotguns were used on the otherside. A number of persons watchod the battle, which was fought in the open, both sides standing bravely up to the marK. Joseph Lewis, father of Alma Lewis. Is alleged to have fired the shot that ended the 1 ITe of the elder Collins. The sheriffs of both Tombs and Emanuel counties have gone to the scene of the trouble with physicians. As both families ?re well-to-do and well known, the shooting created a sensation in both counties. It was known that they were not on the best of terms. A dozen or more shots were fired and it was stated that the others who were wounded besides Alma Lewta are but little hurt. It was stated later that three arrests had been made of survivors of the battle. BARELY MISSED DEATH. Lightning Struck Commissioner WatvSOIl's Ofilco. The records of the department of agriculture for tho past five years came very near being destroyed late Qntiirrlau n < <r h l whdll n ltr>11 of liuilt UUWUI VAMJ 1< 1^ .? % ?? --W ning struck the state house at Columbia and passed down a ventilation pipe to the oillce of Commissioner Watson. The Commissioner had just left his desk and would have be*n instantly killed had he been seated. The pipe comes from the top of the building and passes down one corner of the room. Here, are located the records of the office in shelves. The shelves are of wood. All wires in the office were burnt out. Just before the l>olt struck Commissioner Watson left the office and walked to Main street to a drug store. On goin.? out into the street, he saw a mass of flames in his office. He rushed to the scene and with the assistance of a water cooler extinguished the fire. CltAZY NKdllO SHOT. In a Desperate Street Battle at Marietta, Gtn>rgia. In a desperate street battle at Marietta, Ga.t Friday, Charles Lloyd, an insane negro, stabbed and seriously wounded Sheriff McKinney, of Cobb county, and Policeman Osborne. As the negro started to flee he was shot twice by McKinney, and when he turned a corner of the street he was shot twice more by Chief of Police Grogan, who had just come upon the scene. The negro Anally was overpowered and taken to Jail. lie is not expected to live. The fact that the negro was crazy was all that prevented a lynching. * Assassin Caught. The Chief of Police of Augusta, Ga., lias, as the result of his invesgation of Dr. C. \V. Hickman murder case, turned over to the solicitor general evidence, which he says, warratns the indictment and conviction of John Henry Mathls. This negro, three weeks ago, was caught in the act of trying to pawn the watch torn from the vest of Dr. Hickman the night of the murder. * Good Fish Story. A dispatch from Columbus, Ga., says during a heavy rain and hallstorm Friday afternoon a trout four in in <yf ii nnH vnrv much alive 1IU lll fl III IV ?.nw.. Ml.x? X,. t, was picked up in the business see-1 tion of the town. Prominent citi- [ tr.r>c vouch for the statement that the fish was rained from the clouds. Death by Train. A distressingly sad accident occurred at Belmont Saturday niehf about 10 o'clock when Mr. ttoy Metcalf of Bessemer, N. C., was instantly killed and his body horribly mangled by southbound freight No. 75. It is thought he attempted to board the train and was thrown under it. BURN AND LOOT Foreign Buildings io Chug Sha, China, are* Destroyed h? Mth. THE GOYERNOR KILLED Tlie Cliinwe Offlicials Iwiuod a Proclamation That They Were Unable to Protect Life and Property, and Thereupon Foreigners Made Haste to Leave the City at Oace. All the foreign owned buildings in Chang Sha, China, have been destroyed by fire with the exception of the British consulate. The buildings rented by foreigners have been looted. The Chinese officers issued a proclamation that they wore unable to protect life and property, and thereupon foreigners made haste to leave the city. (So far as is known, no foreigner has lost his life. The governor, Hu Nan of the province of Wu TehungSlu, and his son, were killed and several other government officials fled. Even yet a section of the city is in flames. Six thousand foreign drilled soldiers are stationed there and a few of these protected the governor's house for a time, but soon all joined the rioters. The riots began on April 13, when the famine sufferers looted the rice shops. A captain of police was ? i i. it. i i .. i ^ ? .. wounaea wnne irymg iu rwwro urder, but thousands crowded around him and his assistants, and he was obliged to flee to the yamen. The rioters followed him there and besieged the place all nitght. The following day the disturbance became anti-foreign, this being a strong anti-foreign province. The China-Inland mission and the Norwegian and Catholic missions were burned. The other missions were destroyed on April 15th. Tho missionaries attached to the American Episcopalian missionary alliance, the United Exangellc church and the Wesleyan and Yale missions, numbering 41 in all, took refuge in foats. They left all of their effects. The destruction of all foreign property, including the Japanese consulate and the British warehouses followed. Tho fate of the Standard Oil company's newly erected tanks Is unknown. The British consul detained two steamers for the refugees, who Include 70 Japanese. Owing, however, to the shortage of provisions and the hopelessness of tho situation, it was decided to start for Hankow. Tho official buildings were destroyed tho same day, tho troops joined the Tioters, who numbered not less than 24,000. Eight Germans attach.%/ ! ?Vin I la)iun7Al1 mloalnn wpr*? In i UU L KJ mu Ui^UVUUV** ?** .. v, ... Chang Sha when the trouble began. They fled from the city, and it Is ( reported that three of them proceeded to Hankow In a junk without lights were run down by the British gunboat Thistle and drowned. Another report says the men drowned were Americans but this is not confirmed. The cause of the riots was the scarcity and high cost of rice. According to one report the governor of Hu Nan committed suicide after notifying the government that he was responsible for the rioting. SUSPECTED OF CHIME. Two Men Charged With Murdering Six Year Old Girl. At Chicago two men taken into custody in connection with the murder of Alfreds Doverlska, 6 years old, whose body, horribly mutilated, was found in a shed Saturday afternoon, Sunday were identified as having been seen in company with the murdered child shortly before she disappeared. The men are Barney Bizoska, a blacksmith's helper, and Jos. Pilarski, a laborer. Blood stains were found on Bizoska's clothing. Another girl told the police she was coming from a candy store with the Deverlska girl and was chased away by the men. Fatal Lightning Bolt. During a severe thunder storm Sunday night at Salisbury, X. C., a lightning bolt descended upon tbe fishing camp ;on the banks of a creek eight miles from the town, instantly killing Charles Carroll, 1' years old, and knocking into unconsciousness Floyd Bost, a companion, of the same ago. The other two in the party escaped injury. The injured lad has not regained consciousness and is not expected to recover. Sleet Breaks Wires. I At Grandgorks, N. D., snow and sleet has broken down miles of telegraph poles along the Great Northern railroad. Trains cannot be reached by the dispatchers and are running without orders. Dentil of a Miser. With a bank account of $250,000 and owning several blue grass rarms in Kentucky. William M. Gold, who worked for several years on a farm for his board, is dead at Amarillo, ~ - - * < - u u i? | Texas. Gold up to tne nme 01 m? death was believed to be poor. LYNCHED TWO NEGROES FIVE WHITE MEN ARE CHARGER I WITH THE CRIME. WmtadUi Are Sworn Out for their Arrest by Two Negro Women and Sheriff Makes the Arrest. Quite a sensation was created at Ashburn, Qa? Friday when the newB of the killing of two negro men near Ambroy, about four miles north of that place, was received there. Tatar r?n In the Hnv warranto worn Wl%vvt v ** '"V ~ ?? WMVW " v? V sworn out by two negro women and charged five prominent white men in that section of the county with the lynchtixg. The negroes who were killed were Albert Royal and Charley Jackson. The verdict of the coroner's jury was delivered sealed and nothing is known of its action. The trouble is said to have started over an alleged criminal assault near Ashburn about two weeks ago. Charley Jackson, one of the negroes, was arrested at the time charged with criminal aseault on a white woman, but was released on ball. Tho other negro, Albert Royal, is said to have signed the bond of the accussed man. After having kept silent about the matter for a time, the two negroes began to openly boast of the brutal deed and spoke of it with pride to their fellows. They kept up their talk until tho matter was brought to the ears of several white men In that community. The two men were chased down and capA - - ? ? '1 ik * h ^ lr { 1 11 twr I o oo irl I n in reu uiiu i>nrii iue nuuu^ ?o omu have followed. The local population is greatly evclted over the matter. It is not known whether or not the white men implicated in the affair were exonerated by the coroner's jury. * AWFUL STATK OF AFFAIRS. Thousands of School Children Debauched by Cocaine. The different forms in which the drug cocaine is prepared fctfr sale to its victims were exhibited to President Taft Thursday by Dr. Joseph H. Remington, of Philadelphia, chairman of the committee on revision of the United States pharmacopeia, which holds its next convention ii) this city May 10. Dr. Remington told the president that the illicit sale of cocaine had grown to porportions In this country that seriously threaten future citizenship. It has been discovered in Philadelphia, ho said, that the drug was sold In large quantities to school children, hundreds of them having been debauched through its agencies. Restrictive laws in cities and states were ineffective because the drug could be obtained by mail from other States. What was needed was national legislation under the interstate com merce clause of the constitution that would forbid the handling or sale of the medicine except by licensed druggists and physicians. The president was appalled by the facts told him and promised to give his aid in any way possible. * KILLED HIMSELF. Daughter, Sitting oil Porch Saw the Horrible Deed. Sitting on the porch of her parents' home at Breekville, O., Mrs. Alice Wehman, a bride of two weeks, watched her father hang himself late Thursday, unaware until too late of what he was doing. n 111 n I /I n UMlliom n rnott n ro i ui; suiisiiic;, t* iiiiuiu v? ? iv ? v/ tired farmer, had been despondent through ill health for some time. Securing a rope and some tools, he went to an outhouse in full view of Mrs. Wehman, saying he was going to fix the docAr which was loose. Not until her father had kicked a box from under his feet and was actually in his death struggle, did the young woman realize the meaning of his actions. Her screams aroused the neighborhood, but Green was dead when cut down. * HKN AhliKN FOUND. +. .. . ' A Hoarder Arrested is Charged with Killing the Man. Hen Allen, a white man, residing at No. 204 Hammetl street, Greenville was found in his bed Thursday morning at 2 o'clock, with a bullet in his head. The coroner's jury returned a verdict that he came to his death from a wound unknown to the jury. Humors of suicide and murder were afloat, and late Thursday afternoon a man named Lindley, who boarded at Allen's house, was -~~.i niiomvrt/i u'ith iHlHntr Allen ni i rnicu ? >irtt ot\i .. .v.. c T,indey denies his guilt. * Attempts Murder. A sensation was caused in the palace of the justice of Paris Thursday when an anarchist, in revenge, fired four shots et M. Flory, the professor of the court, which found the man quilty a year ago. Florey was not hit and the anarchist was arrested. STORM SWEPT DesUmdiofl of Property Follow ii the ' Wake of Seme Winds. CROPS BADLY DAMAGED (^orgl* and Alabama Report I?cal Cyclones and Many Sections of These and Other States Report i ( Damages to Houses that Had Reen Unroofed by the Hurricane. One of the severest storms in re- i cent years, assuming the proporcuu? ' of torrential gales Is a number of localities, swept over the southern states east of the seaboard Friday. , leaving its trail of damage, death and destruction. So far as known there have been only two fatalities, but it is feared that later reports will show a still heavier toll of victims. The storm of wind, rain and hail, which swept through the lower potion of Tennessee Friday night, reached the Georgia line Saturday morning and passed towards Alabama. Towns of northern Georgia severely felt the effects of the hail, where the vegetation was damaged. It is also feared that the cold wave following close behind the rain and wind will do serious damage. The cold has already been feit in the trans-Mississippi states. Damage to fruit is reported as far west a3 New Mexico and western Texas. ,Local storms, which developed cyclonic proportions, were reported in a number of places, the most serious being at Gainsville, Ala., where a hotel was unroofed and at Woodland, Ga., where a number of houses were unroofed and blown down. It is thought that tho damage will probably reach $750,000 or more. At Oakman, Ga., hall fell to a depth of five Inches Friday afternoon and drifted in places to 2 1-2 feet deep. The rain was terrific, and wind high, but no serious damage from wind is reported. Hailstones were as large as hen eggs. The mountains are as white as If covered with snow, and trees are stripped of all twigs and small limbs. All vegetation was beaten into tho ground. This was the heaviest hall ever known In that section. All crops that are up are ruined and will have be be planted a second time. lAt Dalton, Ga., a hail storm did great damage Friday afternoon. Wheat, cotton and corn was cut down by tho hail atones, and several local merchants sustained several hundred dollars of loss from damaged goods the water in several instances beating through the roofs. The peach orchards in the neighborhood were almost entirely stripp ed of fruit, and the crop In the immediate vicinity of Dalton wll be practically nothing. Gardens were cut down and buried beneath the heavy fall of hail, which covered everything;. In drifts tho hail in some places measured at least six Inches in depth. A dispatch from Chatsworth, Ga., says the longest drouth ever known in that section was broken Friday afternoon by an unprecedented hail and rain storm of a few minutes duration. The ground was covered with hail stones as large as partridge eggs and drifted in places several inches deep, doing considerable damage to young crops. Manchester, Ga., experienced a destructive cyclone Friday afternoon, practically every house in the town being more or less seriously damag1 1 _ C _ 4 - .. | _ en. a. numuer ui huii'vb wciv ??most completely wrecked, as were several residences and large trees wene uprooted throughout the town. Several persons are reported seriously injured. The railroad suffered heavy damago in the wrecking of two freight trains and a badly damaged track. When the blow struck Woodland, five cars of a side tracked freight were blown over onto the main lise and a moment later another freight dashed into them, making kindling wood of the box cars and tearing up the track for a distance of 100 yards. No member of the crews of the two trains were injured. Only Husband Left. With her husband, W. E. Griffin, critically ill, Mrs. Maggie Griffin, at Savannah was making arrangements Saturday to bury her little girl, AnI na, who died Friday night, when she lay down on the bed to rest a lew minutes and died of heart failure. Wrecked by Storm. Greenala Hotel, half a dozen stcries, many residences were wrecked Saturday at Greenville, Alabama, by the storm. At Forest Hume several houses were unroofed and two negroes were injured. Killed by Train. 'At Charlotte Doll Harris, a young negro man, was run over by a Southern train near the Carolina Oil Mill Saturday night and both legs were horribly mutilated, it being necessary to amputate them. The negro died shortly after tho operation. BURIED BY LANDSIDE ? RAILWAY' CONSTRUCTION CAMJP WIPED OUT. Not a Workmen in the Oarap Escaped and Practically Every One in In Working Gsistfj Injured. An Immense landslide, started by a blast of dynamite early Friday, carried a score of men down the Bide of the steep hill and buried the construction camp of the Ha Ha Bay Railway at St. Alfonso, Que., under tons of earth and rock. Not a workman in the camp escaped and practically every one in the working gang on tho hill was more or less seriously injured. Lp to ft late hour Friday afternoon a rescue party had taken out eight dead, including Ladislas Gagne of St. Joseph, Que., chief engineer in charge of the work; his assistants William O'Brien and Joseph Jennings of Toronto, Out., and five laborers. Seven are missing. The men killed were asleep in the camp at the foot of the hill when, the blast was set off. All the m^n in tho working gang who escaped serious injury were at once ordered into a rescue party and word was sont to St. Alfonse for aid. It will take several days to reach all parts of the burled camp. * ^ TUHNKI) ENGINE LOOSE. Tho Fiendish Work of Bandits Who Koblnsl a Trahi. Tho China-Japan mail, which left San Francisco over Southern Pacific for tho East at 9 o'clock Saturday uiight was held up by two masked in on nl- .Snriiip fn 1 12.3ft o'rloolt Sunday morning and robbed of nine pouches of registered mail. The train carried no express matter. Four or the pouches have been recovered, but the robbers rifled the others and are now in hiding in the hills and canyons between Martinez and Oakland. Sheriffs' posses from two counties, detectives and postofflce inspectors on horses and in automobiles are engaged in the manhunt. The robberB were well armed, and a l>attT~ is expected. The passengers on the train were not disturbed, and several of them did not learn of the robbery until next morning. After getting the sacks, the robbers cut the engine and sent it wild, the throttle open, down the main track to the East. The engine was thrown into a ditch In the nick of time to prevent it colliding with an oast-bound train. The train robbery is the first in California in several years. It was planned and executed in a most daring manner. BEAUFOKT MAX WOUNDED Shot tn the Back While in His Store By Unknown Assailant. Mr. Paul Rauch was shot in his back by an unknown party shortly af'er six o'clock Friday sight, as he was standing in his sto're on the Po-rt Royal Ferry road, near Gray's Hill, eight miles out of Beoufort. It. is not now thought that the wound will be fatal. Thirty small shot were extracted from his right side and arm. No arrest has yet been made, though the victim has strong suspicion a/gainst a negro, whom the sheriff expects to get. A Young Swindler. A thirteen year old white girl has been arrested in Greenville county for raising a two dollar bill to $20 and sending the money to Sears, Roebuck and Company and ordered false hair and some other articles. Her father put up bond for her appearance in court. Short on Oa?sh. J. Alex Gordon, the alleged defaulting assistant cashier of the Germania Savings bank of Charleston was arrested Flriday afternoon on the charge of being short is his accounts to tho extent of $10,520.27. The warrant was sworn out by State Bank Examiner Wilson. ? o A White Rente. At Hampton, Va., Earl A. Vandyke. a white man, was convicted on Saturday of attempted criminal assault upon Rebecca Chandler, nineyear-old negro girl, and given 18 years in the penitentiary It was the first case in Virginia in which a white in tii was convicted of such crime. Costa Rica Quakes. Senor Calvo, minister to the United States from Costa Rica, received a cablegram Friday from San Jose stating that an earthquake shock had been felt in all parts of the republic Thursday. Slight damage was reported from various sections but there were no fatalities. Drops Read. At Columbus, Ga.f Dr. C. S. Swan, a negro physician, fell dead from heart disease on the witness stand In tho city court Saturday morning, cau si nig some excitement and a long Interruption in the proceedings. s