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mr?*mm mm mm ry h y*y wt?\j ^7r~T'iCT j 11 i ^i ? AWFUL TRAGEDY Wrigk Biplue Buckled Uader Bin Oae yp*-'.. Hoodred Feet in Air. f . . | HE FALLS TO HIS DEATH I'remelr Amount Flower of British H Aristocratic SjH?itsiiian, Charles <J a Stewart Bolls, Who Flew Across i , Cliaimel ami Back Without a Stop ' v Crushed to Death at Feet of Ad- I t miring Thousands. f At Bournemouth, Eng., the first H flying tournament of the year was ( hmnirht to ? trauic clo86 Tuesday v morning 'by the dramatic death of * aviator, the Hon. Charles S. Rons, third son of Lord Llangattock. In the presence of a great company of spectators, a majority of whom 41 "were ladies and children and many l personal friends of the young avi- ( ator, the Wright biplane on which lie was flying fell suddenly with ter- 1 rific speed froiii a height of 100 k feet. It struck the ground close ( to the crowded grandstand, smashed ' into a tangled mass and before the doctors and their assistants could reach the spot Rolls was dead. The event in which Rolls was competing was for a prize for the aviator alighting nearest a given mark. The goal was directly in front of the .grand stand where the spectators were massed. He had risen to a good height and then shut off his motor and was gliding in a broad circle to the mark. "Without warning the tail piece r of the biplaiie snapped off. The ma- ' chine gave a sudden lurch and the framework crumpled up in the air. "When it struck the groud it was smashed to splinters. The doctors found that Rolls iiad sustained a fractured skull. The wreck of the machine and twisted stays surrounded the body so that there was difficulty in extricating him. Imediately after the result of Roll's acident was known the com- 1 mlttee announced that flying wouiu be suspended for the day. Capt. The Hon. Charles Stewart 1 Rolls was thirty three years old and was one of the most popular young all around Knglish sportsman. His 1 death will he a great blow to aristocratic sporting enthusiasts, with all of wdioin he wus a great favorite. At ballooning, motoring and later ir. I the held of .aviation he had distinguished hirpself by his utter fearlessness and was satisfied with nothing short of record breaking in whatever line of sport he took to. Undoubtedly his crowning feat was his round trip across the chan- <i nel between Dover and Calais in \ his Wright biplane 011 June 2 last. Two Frenchmen, Louis Bleriot and ( <V)unt de Lesseps, already had cross- f ed the channel and Hubert Latham had almost succeeded. Channel flying was at a discount in Kngland , because it was considered an old t story and because national pride had suffered from the monopoly of it by Frenchmen, when Rolls electriled the entire kingdom by doubling the accomplishments of his j predecessors. The distance between Dover and Calais is 21 miles and when Rolls did the round trip of , 42 miles In 90 minutes without stopping his performance was mar- ( velous both for distance and time. In his vouth Rolls was one of the ? Iti .liolnrini? ill Fimlailci. |;IUI1CCI >1 111 ? ? i He drove a motor car about while > the ordinance was still in force that every self propelled vehicle on the public roads must be proceeded by a nuui carrying a red flag to warn pedestrians. In 1900 .he won tiie gold medal in the thousand miles automobile race. He was the representative of Greut Britain in the Gordan Bennett race in 1905 ad several times made world's records for speed. As a balloonist Rolls had more than 150 ascensions and had crossed the channel several times in ^ balloons?. Another Aeronaut l>ead. Daniel Klnet, the Belgian aeronaut, who fell when the rudder of his aeroplane broke last Sunday at Gand, Belgium, died Friday. Kinet held the world's record for an aeroplane flight with a passenger. On May 15 he remained in the air with a companion for two hours and fifty-one minutes. * \ Shortage in Funds. u\ shortage of at least $2,1,000 has been discovered in the accounts of the Citizen's Hank of Swainsboro, Ga., as a result of which Hugh D. Strickland, cashier, and I,. YY. Ponder, former iwiokkeeper, are under bond of $10,000 each and bank examiners from Atlanta are working on the books of the institution. Kun Down l?y Auto. The first really serious automobile accident in Sumter happened YVednesbay afternoon. J. C. Huger, driving a heavy Cadillac car, ran into William Hurress, a negro man The man's skull was fractured and he was otherwise injured. The accident happened on Main street $ MAYOR SUSPENDS jJOV. HARMON OF OHIO SFSi I'BN 1)8 NEWARK MAYOR. 'ormal Complaint of N>({leot of f>11ty Mude AKainnt Sheriff IJpke and Mayor Atlierton. Monday Governor Harmon took j tops* looking to the retirement from ifllce of Mayor Atlierton. of Newark, Hid Sheriff Linke, rA Licking Conny, as a result of the recent lynch ng. Simultaneously, arrangements vere made at Newark for the emuinelling of a special grand jury to >egin a probe into the lynching, and he Newark police arrested a negro , uspected of assisting in battering lown the doors of tin. jail, from vhicn Kther.ington was forcibly tak- , 'li. Hecause of a formal complaint igainst the sdieriff of neglect of duy, file:! with the Governor, and the mnouncement by Mr. Harmon thai i hearing would be held 011 the barges July 25, there was a dispolitlon on the part of the State olli- j :ials to have Common IMeas Judge Jeward, who ordered the grand jury tailed, to have this action delayed 0 that a new sheriff would serve he summons, but after a conference vith Judge Seward, Governor liar- , 11011 decided not to interfere with he probe. The grand jury will be 11 the personal charge of Attorney Jeneral Denuin. IJefore he had lieen in office an lour Monday, J. N. Ankele, tJie vice nayor elevated to the office of chief xecutive of Newark following the inspension of Mayor Herbert At her- ' on by Governor Harmon, had sumnarilv removed Chief of Police ? Sergeibel and Police Captain Rob- ' ?rt Hell. He gave as his grounds for renoval the non-enforcement of the ounty option law, which resulted n the lynching or Detective I'Jtneington Friday night.' Charles Hindel, a former deputy, is chief of police, and patrolman Charles Swank, as captain. He gave hem orders Lo commence the im- j nediate enforcement of all laws to he letter. As soon as the new police officials lad assumed oflice, they caused tin? rrest of a second negro, who is leld in connection with the Friday 1 lots. citossKS ox haft. | Ticoiiscious Sailor from Wrecked t Ship (last on Iteacli. Paul Stanich, 3 7-years-old, was 1 ticked up unconscious on the West j ?exas coast near Point Isabel Thurs- , < lay night and taken to a hospital, j vhero he revived and told a story i >f having been carried across the 3ulf of Mexico 011 a piece of wreck- ' ige about ten feet long by four feet vide. Staunich said he Jiad been * vithout food or water since early 1 Monday morning, when the fishing 1 ichooner Flontano, of whose crew lie ' vas a member, was wrecked about 1 hundred miles southeast of Tain [)ico, Mexico. 1 here were len men on the schooner, and ho doesn t know w.hat. beeaiue of the other nine. Clinging to a piece of wreckage when the boat went to pieces in a storm Sfannich was carried out into the gulf and at daybreak was out of sight of land. Several vessels passed, but didn't notice him He kept his lips moistened with salt water and chewed the leather on his shoes. He was cut and blistered about the bead and body and lost consciousness a few .hours before his craft was beached. ? ?OKS TO WATKItV GItAVK. His limit Capsl/.od, Could \ot Swim, Was Drowned. Frank Kennedy, son of (I. W. Kennedy, of Scranton, was drowned in Lynches river, near Mass Bridge on Saturday, while in bathing with several other boys. Frank could not swim so was using a boat to cross the deep places. Falling from the boat he was carried down so rapidly that the other hoys were unable to save him. The last reports were that so far they had not found the body. Killed by Lightning. Mr. Frank Miller, who lived in t.he Flint Ridge section of Lancaster County, was killed by lightning on Thursday afternoon. It seems that. in company wnn some oi ins neigubors, he was making cider. Some other men were bearing down on the pole when the lightning struck a nearby tree. From the tree it went to the hole and from t.he pole to the top of Mr. Miller's head. Children Binned to Death. Two children of Joseph Magee. aged 1 and t> years, respectively, were burned to deaf at their home in Rockdale, Texas. The children were playing with a kerosene oil can and in some way the oil became ignited, the clothing of the children catching fire and burning them so severely that they died within a short time.* ' " . : . RUNS A MUCK # \ Drug Crazed Negre Kills Three of His Own Race at Tampa, Fla. WAS A COCAINE FIEND ? Bnti'rs a Church and Shoots I town the l*ienrhc?r and Organist.?Then Murders His Mother-in-Law and Wounds llis Wife and Sister and a I'olicesnan. 1 At Tampa, Fla., on Friday nig at Will Fllison, a negro, crazed with i :ocainc, shot and killed his mother- ( n-law, Ceiia Bryant; the Kev. Jesse W. Avery, of the First African Methodist Church; Henry Clark, negro organist at the church, and seriously wounded his wife, Eva Ellison, and liis sister-in-law, Mary Bryant. While trying to escape he encountered Mounted Policeman I layman, shooting hi in in the breast, fatally Injuring hiin. Following the shooting , a riot alarm was sent in and the entire police force was sent to the scene 01 the shooting, where the wildest excitement reigned among the negroci l'.he tragedy occurred in a section ;>f the city densely populated wiln negroes, kr.own as the "Scrub." Ellison's first outbreak was at the Methodist Church, where services were in progress. He entered the church armed with a shotgun. He shouted th.it he was preparing #o send all dinners to their reward an i fired at the Rev. Avery, a load of ihot entering his breast. Clark was litting at the organ at the time and the second shot tore a hole in his [jack, several ahot penetrating his tieart and causing instant death. After firing another shot Ellison flurried from the church and went Lo the home of his wife's motliei, "elia Bryant, where ho shot his nother-in-law's head off with a load if bucksiiot. When his wife a in J jister-in-law hurried to the front of .he house lie fired on them, the sis.er-in-law being fatally injured. Ellison had evidently planned his rime and made ready for his escape is he had a liorse tethered near his nother-in-la w's home. He mounted he -horse and started away at a gal- i op. He encountered Officer Hay- i nan and, without warning, opened Ire on him. The first shot took ef'ect in the officers breast, just above he heart, knocking him l'roiu his ! lorse. Haynian returned the fire and the legro darted down a dark alley. The ilace where he was supposed to be n hiding was surrounded, and after I careful search the ne-?ro was found (list inside a white resident's yard. II a siting posture. His gun was between his knees and he was seen to tie in an unconscious state. He was placed in the patrol wagon and hurried to police station t' ascape the wrath of the rapidly gathering mob. When the officers lifted hi in from flic patrol wagon at the station, it was found that lie wis dead. Exaininnton did not discover any wounds, but a bottle of whiskey, into which had been emptied a large portion or" strychnine, was found. Examination by physicians disclosed that Ellison had swallowed a largo portion of the contents of the bottle, which caused his death. Following the shooting in th?* church, the wildest confusion reigned. Several members of the congregation fainted and in the stampede which followed several were in J II I I'll. lliutl * I I O 11 n i l ^ I I 111 i \t I lhe negro's crimes. * TILliMAX HACK IN IIA UN ESS. Attends Mrotinn of Hoard of Tm.sIm oi Clemson ("ollrgo. Perhaps (many people have noi noticed the tact, hut Senator Tillman is back in harness. He attended j the meeting of the Clemson hoard of | trustees, and while t.he reports did not say that he took an especially active part, he "was there.* As is well known to many of the scniot Senator's friends, he takes a great interest in Clemson College, and he was berv much worried last yeai about the presidency matter. Nov that things are running all right, it is supposed the Senator's mind is at rest in regard to Clemson. * 1 Drops Into Itiver. Dropping 7f> feet, A. L. Pfitizner. of llammondsport. X. Y.. landed with his hurgess biplane in the I'luni Island river, near Newbury part, Mass., Saturday. He managed to disentangle himself and get ashore, severely shaken up and bruised, hut not seriously hurt. The machine was badly damaged. - ? Forms Novel l.oan Fund. William R. Hradbury, a wealthy man, who served a term in t.he State prison at San Quontin, Cal., on conviction of perjury was released recently and deposited $10,000 as a fund from which ex-convicts may borrow and pay 10 per cent, interest. The fund will be in charge of Warder Hoyle. BODY REVEALS MURDER CASK IS STRIKINGLY SIMILAR TO CHARLTON TltAGKDY. Detectives Not Suspicious I'ntil the Disappearance of Dr. Ct'ippeit, the Woman's Husband. A dispatch from I?ndon says Scotland Yard is engaged with the murder of an American woman and Thursday cabled the police of the United States requesting the arrest of the woman's husband, l)r. Hawley Harvey Crippen, also an American, who is believed to have sailed from New York on Saturday last. The case is strikingly similar to that of the Charlton murder at Lake 1 Como, Italy. Hoth women were actresses who left their American homes to meet death by violence in i foreign land and in each instance the police pursued the American husband to the shores of his native land. On Saturday noon last Dr. Crippen disappeared and since then the police have not been able to locate him. Thursday a search was made of the Crippen home by police and the battered body of a woman was found buried in the cellar. It had been placed in quicklime and was burned beyond recognition, but the (hiding of the body together witn other discoveries had left no doubt in the minds of the authorities that the murdered woman was Mrs. Crippen. VICTIMS OF FLYING MA CHINKS. Names of the Men Who i/ost Their Lives in Them. Captain Rolls, who was killed in 10ngland Tuesday, was the twelfth victim of aviation in heavier-thanair machines, the history of (lying with balloons, plain and dirgible, having a death list of greater length nil of its own. Fatal accidents with the real flying machines include the following in two years: 1 9ox ?September 1 7?Selfridge. Lieut. Thomas B., U. S. A., killed in fall wiili Orv'ile Wright near Washington. 1 909?September 7?Ena, Rosso, Italian, killed in Rome, in machine September 7?Lefebyre, 10., killed in Wright maohine at J uvissy-SurDrge, France. September 2 2? Feb re, Capt. Louis i\, killed at Boulogne, France. December 6?Antonio Fernandez Spaniard, killed at Nice, falling one thousand feet after motor exploded. 1910?January 4?DeLa Grange, Deon, killed at Bordeaux, France. April 2 ? Herbert, Lebelon, instantly killed, falling on rocks at San Sebastian, Spain. .May 12?Michelin, Chevlette, killed at Lyons, France. dune 17?Speyer, Eugene, killed at San Francisco. June IS ?U.bi, killed at Stettin, Genua ny: duly 7?Warhter, Charles, killed at Rheims, in Antoinette monoplane. Baroness De La Roche was almost killed by a fall in her Voisin biplane at the Rheims meeting on I uly St.b. K1GGS STILL IN CHAIUJK. ('an not .Make I p Their .Mind About New President. The annual summer meeting of t.he Clemson board of trustees adjourned Wednesday afternoon. No acting as president was continued. t ion <>t a president.. I he arrangement l>v which \V. M. Uiggs has been actig as preside! was continued. The beard authorized Acting President Risgs and Chairman Johnstone of the hoard to make :meh arrangements as they thought wise and necessary in regard to the conduct of the engineering department, of which Prof Riggs is director. The lK>ard expressed itself as well pleased with the condition of affairs at the college, the business affairs being so thoroughly systematized as to meet the entire approval of t.he board, which felt that neither the college nor the people of the State could lose anvthing under a contir.nance of the present arrangement until the board was thoroughly prepared to elect a permanent president. IH<1 Not Commit Suicide. A dispatch from Tampa, Fin., says an autopsy held on the bodv of Will Kllison, the slayer of two ot ter negroes and who it was supposed suicided revealed that the negro died front suspended heart action as a result of over stimulation. It is the opinion of physicians that the ex-1 I cessive use of cocaine caused the negroes death. lOva lOllison the wife of the negro, is expected to die at any moment. Policeman Hyniun, it is now expected, will recover, none of the small shot entering his breast penal rating a vital spot. Nineteen Killed. Nineteen persons were killed and thirty-one others Injured by the derailment of a train near the station of Kisilarwat, on the Trans-Caspian railway in Russia. SERIOUS CHARGE Well Known A simile Mas Accessory to C McGhee Murder. DENIES WHOLE STORY ? J. II. Allison, Slayer of F. M. Mo (iluH', Makes Confession in Which ) Ho Implicates Fort or Webb.? ( Says Webb ami "Wonutit in the 1 Case" Had Formed Conspiracy. A dispatch from A&hville, N. C.. says the killing a few days ago Floyd Al. AlcGhee, the patrol wagon ( driver, by J. It. Allison took a sennational turn Friday afternoon when Porter Webb, a member of the linn of W. A. Wepb & Son, liverymen, and one of the best known youi g . men of the town, was arrested by Deputy Mitchell on a warrant charging him with aiding anl abetting in ing him with aiding and abetting n ' T.he arrest of Webb was the result of a confession made to Deputy Sheriff Williams, Deputy Sheriff Mitchell and Sheriff Hunter by Allison. Sheriff Hunter said that Allison called his deputies and binis-i'*. U the jail and told a story that left nothing for the s-heriff to do hut issue a warrant for Webb. According to Sheriff Hunter, the slayer of Floyd McGhee, now in jail waiting the action of the grand jury, declared that Porter Webb told him (Allison) that McGhee and the "woman in Hie case" had formed a conspiracy to kill Allison anl said that Webb advised Allison to take his gun and kill McGhee. That was on the day of the homicide. Allison replied to what Webb , said, according to his confession to the Sheriff that he did not a iv > v pistol and Webb said he would send for one; that he had a gun. He stated that he did send to the niar> who had it and that the man replied it was at his room. Then, according to the confession, Porter Webb sent a negro stable boy to the room and brought it to Webb. The pistol. Allison said, was given over to him and Webb said: "Go kill the rascal and I'll stand hv you." , Allison said t.hat he took the pistol and did >*0 and kill Floyd Ale- , Ghee. Allison told the officers that ' he had sent for Porter Webb to come ] and sec him; that he had waited ( days and that Webb had not been , near him. Allison said to Sheriff Hunter that he did not t.hink under | the circumstances-?rather the alleged circumstances?that he should bear the whole thing and that he had , decided to tell "everything." The arrest of Porter Webb 011 so serious a charge came as a shock to the many friends of that young , man. Webb, after his arrest, was taken to the oflice of Magistrate \Y\ K. Gudyer, where bond in the sum of $2,000 was required, pending a preliminary hearing. Webb, when seen by a newspaper man at the magistrate's court, had this and only this to say about the charge: "The Lord knows I did not know anything about it. I did not have the least idea about if. If 1 had known he (Allison) was going to do anything like that I would have helped to prevent it." * TKUKIFIC STOILM. Visits Hock Hill at Night l>oing Serious Damage. Not in years has such a terrific storm struck Hock Hill as the one which broke over that city Thursday night about eleven o'clock. The lightning was of an awful character and the thunder sounded like the universe was being split. The electrical display was continuous for over an hour and rain fell in veritable tloods. Lightning struck the home of J. S. Stowe, in Woodland park, and knocked a hole in the side of the building; large enough to crawl through. Strange to say no one was injured, nor the house burned. * ? . KitlHi by Lightning. Geo. t*. Wilson, a prominent young man of Mayodan, N. C\, was struck by lightning on Friday afternoon and instantly killed. Mr. Wilson wae standing near the chimney hue ir the store of his brother, where he worked. A bolt from a passing thnn der storm struck this tine and it some way was communicated in Mi Wilson. An Kngine llnlked. A loaded passenger train on the Georgia and Florida railroad spent last night in the woods, three miles north of Valdosta, Ga., because the engine balked. An official in his private car was on the train and kept the passengers supplied with food. The engine began moving about sun rise. Kstlmntcs Population. An estimate of the population oI South Carolina was made by Col. K J. Watson. The figures are 1.6 2 3.000. The population as given by the census of 1000 was 1.340,316, showing an Increase for the ten years be y ' F Vv'JPf TRAIN KILLS THREE KEMHEHS OF THE CKKW WHEX IT LEFT THE TRACK. rho Xew York Central Evpresa Rolls ino the Ditch, Shaking l'p Ihp I'aasengers. Three trainmen wjre killed and i train load of passengers were badly shaken up when northbound rain No. 59 on the New York Cenral. known as the Northern and Western Express, was wrecked near S'ewton Hook, nine miles south of 11 udson. The engine and ba?gage ear Jumped tho track and toppled completely jver. The railroad o dices report Lhat all of the passengers were aide :o continue their journey. The Twentieth Century Limited, in which .lack Jonhson the heavyweignt champion tighter, was traveling. was del lyed an hour by this jmash-u p. Three persons, all railroad employees, were killed in the wreck of train No. at Newton Hook, according to reports received at the New York Central oflice. One passenger, name not yet ascertained, was injured, the officials said. The killed are engipeinan J. Tyndall, Firomran U. Holes and Baggageman F. Hay. The fatalities were primarily due to the overturning of the engine completely when they left the rails. Every other car of the seven comprising the train were derailed. but only the baggage ear was overturned. The tracks were badly torn up and traffic was blocked. Aside from the baggage car the train equipment comprised Pullman coaches. The train, north bound, was known as the Northern and Western Express, and carried sleepers for Utica, Syracuse, Buffalo, and it her points, including one for Si.. Louis. The train left New York at 1 2.03 A. M. THIKD TO ASSASSINATE HIM. \ liiiiigley Fttimer Shot and Seriously Wounded. Hen Hankinson, a prominent white farmer, living a few miles from Langley, was shot by some party, as yet unknown, and probably fatally wounded Saturday, while on his way homo from Langley, where he had been on business. Complete mystery surrounds the shooting, which occurred on a secluded road, hedged in by a very thick growth of hushes on either side; the spot of the alleged attack being at a dip in t.he road between two hills and about 250 yards from the nearest house. The spot where the shooting took place is a mile and a half from Mr. Ilankln>on's home. Mr. llankiuson says he was riding along the road near the Koch Hill colored churo.h, close to the residence of A. P. Franklin, and a man with a dark moustache came from behing a bush and tired twice at him. The unknown assassin missed -his aim the first shot, hut the second one pierced Mr. Kankinson's left breast just above the heart and went through the back of the buggy seat, falling to the ground close by. The physician who examined Mr Hankinson said that had it not b? it for the muscular contraction of th? -h art the bullet would have hit a vital organ causing death. Nincttvn Persons Kille<l. Nineteen persons were killed outright, three probably fatally hurt, and half a dozen were seriously injured in a headon collision between a freight and passenger train on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railroad at Middletown, O., Monday evening. Of the killed 18 were passengers, the other victim being a member of the train crew. Ball Cartridge Among Blanks. While playing the leading part in a local talent "Wild West" play at Stone Bluff, near Muskogee, Okla.t Friday night, Jacob Winkler was shot and instantly killed by Hverett Olden, also a member of the cast. A ball cartridge which had become n?ix?Hl with he blanks was responsible for the tragedy. The Cotton Tare Case. In fewer words perhaps than it has taken the Supreme Court to tell of much less important vases, that tribunal Thursday evening in an opinion being .handed down by Justice Kit gene H. Cray dismisses the apnt' YV (1 Ytiilliiw in thn now famous cotton tare case involving nearly two million lollars. ? Klks in Chicago. What is said to be the biggest annual reunion in the history of the benevolent and Protective Order of Klks got fully under way Monday at Chicago with hundreds of additional delegates still arriving hourly. Moot I>cnth on Hail. Said to be the fourth member of his family to lose his life as a result of a railroad accident, David * Coleman, a young man of Fordycej^fC Ark., who was struck by a log at Pack ton. l.a., Wednesday, died Friday night. His body was shipped