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SHOT HIM DOWN | Jbyor Gaynor of New York Fired oo by Former City Employee I ; SERIOUSLY WOUNDED The Mayor Waa Standing On the Deck of an Ocean Steamer Chatting With Several Friends Who Had Called to See llim Oil' on a Trip to Kurope. Msyor William J. Gaynor, of New York, was f-hot in the neck and badly wounded Tuesday morning by Jas. J. Gallagher, a discharged employe of the city dock department. The r.cr trknU nkop on the deck of PUUUtltAV, 1 the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm tier Grosse, lying at her pier in Hobo- | ken, N. J., on which the mayor was on the point of sailing for a month's vacation abroad. Gallagher was a: once arrested. The bullet entered just below the right ear, passing through the mastoid and traveling from right to left and slightly downward. Gallagher evidently has a fancied grievance against Mayor Gaynor. He declared after the shooting that the mayor had deprived him of his "bread and butter." Gallagher was mobbed and his life was threatened before the police could lodge him in jail. Three shots were fired at the may<"?T Twr* nf thorn missed and the third lodged in the fleshy portion of the left side of the neck. Blood gushed from the wound and the first hasty examinations led to the belief of serious and perhaps fatal consequences. The mayor retained odn ciousness and later examination by the physicians when the mayor was taken to the hospital gave a hopeful outlook. Mayor Gaynor and city officials were standing in a group about to have their pictures taken when the shooting began. Blood spurted from the wound in the neck as the mayor fell to the deck. Officer Fitzgering, one of the guard of the North Ger man Lloyd line, was standing near at the time. He had in his hand a small police club, with which he hit the assailant a blow on the head, felling him to the deck. The man was seized by officers. In the scuffle his hat fell off, disclosing the initials "H. C. G." Throughout the strugggle the man retained a pipe in his hand. Meantime there was intense excitement on the deck of the steamer. The Mayor's secretary, Mr. Adamson, lifted the stricken executive to his feet and with the assistance of others carried him to a state room. Later he was conveyed to the hospital. The revolver used by the assassin was found to contain four empty shells. As Mayor Gaynor was being borne by his friends he remarked simple: "Say goodbye to the people." At the city hall it is believed that Gallagher Is the man who had been soticed loitering in city hall park for ! several weeks apparently trying to see Mayor Gaynor. The attendants ( at the city hall, however, prevented '< the man reaching the mayor. Mayor Gaynor's administration, ' which began on January 1, last, had been so drastic in its reforms and he had condemned so many persons and parties in such strong terms that he became the subject of many threats. In municipal offices ho made many bitter enemies and a number of powerful organizations were uncompromisingly against him. Several months ago an armed vis- ] itor at tlm city hall was found try- ] fng to approach Mayor Gaynor and he was removed. Robert Adamson, secretary to the mayor, was quoted as saying he feared a crank might sometime attempt to klil the mayor. Mayor Gaynor was sailing on the first vacation ho had since taking office on January 1. lie has been at work from 14 to 16 hours a day and imperltlvely felt the need or a rest. In order to be out of reach of the affaire of his office it was his intention to avoid all the European cities to take a jaunt through the North Sea to the coast of Norway. He expected to be absent about one month Gallagher was appointed a watchman in the New York City Dock department April 7, 1903. He was discharged July 19, 1910, after having been found guilty of neglect of duty and misconduct. Among his other transgressions was the fact that he had failed to punch the dial on the time clock that recorded his presence. He was also charged with using insulting language to an inspector. Since his discharge Gallan gher has been writing letters to the Mayor. ? Jury Cleared Him. "Justfflcable homicide" was the verdict of the coroner's jury at Columbus, Ga., in the case of James H. Knowles, a white express employe, who shot to death Ben Tillman, a negro, as the latter was advancing on him with a hatchet at the Union I station, following a heated controversy. CRUSHED TO DEATH TRAIN STRIKES AUTO KILLING FIVE PEOPLE. Every Person in the Automobile Was Instantly Killed by Heing Terribly I Crushed. Five persons were crushed to death Tuesday night when an express train on the Pennsylvania railroad struck an automobile at Mill Lane Crossing, on the West Jersey and Seashore itailroad. T.he dead are: Frederick W. Feidner and wife; Fritz Mergenthaler and wife; M. C. Jones, chauffeur, all of Baltimore. Mergenthaler was the son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. Feidner. I The party had been spending a few days in Atlantic City and that afternoon left for an automobile ride to Cape May. As they approached the tracks the express was hidden from view by a corn field and it was impossible for the chauffeur to see the train- until he was within a few feet of the track*,. As the automobile bore down toward the tracks, (Mrs. Thomas McNeill, who resides close to the crossI cow tho rnniftlv n nnrnach ill er ox | n*h i X' X' - --o press, and waved her hand for the automobile driver to stop his car, but the man either did not see the danger or thought he could cross the tracks before the train reached him, and dashed on to the road just as the train reached the crossing. The train struck the automobile squarely between the wheels, and threw it and all of the occupants clear of the tracks. All five of the riders were instantly kiled and badly cut and bruised. The bodies were quickly gathered together and a physician hurriedly summoned, but a glance at the mangled forms showed plainly no need for medical aid. So severe was the impact that pieces of the machine were driven I on the piston rod. Tlio ovnrocu otrnnlf Mio Q u t Atnn JL II v v* |/I vop UV? 11V1V V?? V U u vvra?*v bile squarely between the wJieels and threw it and all the occupants clear of the tracks. All five of the riders were instantly killed. Coroner Reeves reached the scene a few minutes after the accident occurrd. He took charge of the five bodies and had them carried to the morgue. TIMBER KILLS SAWYER. Colored Man Meets With Fatal Mishap at Saw Mill. A colored man employed at the Pen.iL Lumber Company, at Sumter, suffered a horrible death Monday. A sharp piece of wood entered his eye with terrific force, completely penetrating his head and causing almost instant death. Singleton held the position of sawyer at the lumber yard, and when hit by the timber, be 1 was running what is know as the ' "rip" saw. Ho v/as ripping the 1 rough edge off a board, and when i the edge was off the saw, in some < unaccountable way, jecked it back, < sending it oil its deathdealing mis- > sion. Singleton was rushed to the ^ Sumter hospital, where an operation a was hurriedly performed, but with- 1 out success. The patient lived but \ few minutes after the operation s bad been completed. No inquest was li held. 1 ? ? SLAVED HIS imOTllTK. s Whom lie Hud Mistaken for a Hob- j! l?er of Their Home. ^ 1; Relieving he was shooting at a e burglar, Ivy Land, aged 22, after midnight Monday morning, shot and a killed his brother, Quintus Land, 20, c years of age at Albany, Oa. Ivy e was aroused by the screaming of a woman in the neighborhood and with his shotgun ran to hey assistance. Shortly afterwards he heard another * ( woman screaming In the direction of ^ his own home. He ran back just in ^ time to see his younger brother, who { also had been aroused and was hurrying to investigate the cause of the trouble, leap from a window of their home. Ho lired, killing bis brother instantly. ^ ? DAMAGED HY FI/OOD. TKnnvaiwIi; in .lumin \l iwlo 11 < kill<>1 I * '"MMTMI.X.n ... ....j,.... ' * - by Water. The devastation wrought throughout many districts in Japan by the recent floodss is appalling. Whole villages and towns have been washed away and many lives have been lost. In the lower sections of Tokio alone 30,000 houses were submerged. Communication by railroad throughout the flooded area has been interrupted. There is much suffering and in many places the inhabitats are destitute and threatened with starvation. The loss amounts to millions of dollars. ? Collier Hunk. The naval collier Marcellus, lieB at the bottom of the ocean, in latitude 36, longitude 74.8, having sunk in ten hours after she was struck by the Norwegian fruit steamer, S. Rosario di Giorgio, last Tuesday WANTED HIS MONEY A MOST HOI HUB J CBIME BY A . F ABM KB PKKAC1IKB. Cliai'Kod With Murdering Youth foi Insurance Money and Then Setting Fire to the House. The supposed murder of a youH to secure $2,500 insurance 011 hi! life, the gutting of Hie Rock Sprint hotel, a combination hotel and lodg ing house on the wharf, the arrest o J. C. Holly, about 4 0 years old, pro prietor of the house, erst whil< preacher of Uie Janctiflcation faith constituted the sensational of a trag ic lire which occurred in Wilming ton, X. C., says a dispatch to Tin State. Edward Cromwell, 19 years old said to have come to Wilmington foui months ago from an orphan home ii Charleston, and was cook at the ho tel, was found lying on the lloor ol his room, in his night clotlies, nearlj an hour after the iirse was discov ered. Capt. W. P. Monroe, assistant chief of the fire department, who was the first to enter the room, testified at the coroner's investigation thai the body was lying parallel with the bed, which sJiowed no evidence of having been disturbed, his feet toward the head of the bed, thus exploding the theory that the youtn fell from the bed. The mattress, he testified, was saturuated with kerosene oil and under the head of the dead youth was found a counterpane also saturated with oil, while two large empty oil cans were found in an adjoining room. Other witnesses testified to hearing a noise as if a struggle about midnight in the youth's room. J. H. Scull testified that on Monday, acting as notary public he signed certificate of transfer of insurance policy for $2,500 from Cromwell to Holly, the premium on which he was informed was paid by Holly, who had applied foi insurance to tiie amount of $5,000, the company refusing more than $2,500. This is supposed tc have furnished the motive for the crime that is believed to have been committeod. The most important development was discovered by Dr. W. C. Bell, coroner, that L. B. Sasser, a druggist sold to J. C. Holly, proprietor of the hotel, sixteen ounces of Bateman'e drops, containing laudanum, etc., al about ten o'clock Tuesday night, and tJie subsequent finding by the physician of the bottle in the hotel with le*ss than a teaspoonful of the drug in it. / WOULD SAVE HIMSELF. Gov. Patterson Sees Handwriting on the Wall. As an outcome of the recent judicial election in Tennessee, in which the regular Democratic nominee, which he suported were defeated i>y ndependents who had the active aid >g the Republican organization. Govjrnor Patterson has issued a state-, nent expressing a willingness to vaive the Democratic nomination for i third term, which he has already eceived and again test the question if the choice of Democracy in any ort of a primary. Thus he would lope, .he says, to save the State to )emocracy. The address among other things ays: The pernicious inter-meddling of Republican President with the afairs of the Democratic party in our Itate should be resented and his well aid plan to Republicanize it thwartd before it is too late. "Those Democrats who are active! \ iding and abetting his efforts exuse their treason by saying that it s necessary in order to eliminate me rom politics. "If t.his is true, why not bring it iDont in a way that will restore harnony and not destroy Democratic as pendancy? If the majority of the Jemocrats are opposed to me as it s claimed, I should not represent hem as their candidate for Governor." The Governor then offers to enter \ new primary and adds: "The only condition 1 make is that the successful nominee shall he supported in the November election by all who participate in the primary." ? ? CONDITION FAVORABLE. Official lluInlet ins Cheerful.?Sleeping Well. Expressions of encouragement on the part of all the watchers by Mayor William J. Gaynor's bedside ushered in the fourth day of his fight for recovery. An official bulletin at 7.10 o'clock Friday morning said "Mayor Gaynor passed a very good night. He slept seven hours. He is comfortable this morning and is is excellent general conditions. His temperature is 100; pulse 70; respiration 16." ? + Died in the Surf. 'William J. Day, a young man aged 19 of Richmond, Va., was drowned while bathing Sunday at Ocean View. The body has not been recovered. Several girl friends saw young Day drown, but were powerless to aid him. A BREAK SOLID SOUn k president wants to patch up POIilTICAL trouble. r Tuft Summons to Beverly the Reputv ; Means from Tennessee to Discust Matters in that State. i President Talf and President Had 3 ley of Yale were in conference al ? Beverly in regard to the personnel of the commission which is to be ap1 pointed to inquire into the proposed " regulations of the issues of stock* 1 and bonds by railroads. While Mr. Hadley has not yet defi " nitely accepted t.he tendered positioi; " of chairman of the commission, lie 5 is giving the president all the assist ance he can in formulating a plan oJ ? work, and it is believed that evenr tually he will take the chairmanship 1 Mr. Taft is strongly urging the mat" ter upon him. f An effort is being made to have r the commission represent all phrase* " of the work. The so-called "progressive" sentiment of the republican ^ party is to be represented. 5 President Taft and his poliitcal ad 1 visers believe that the republican : party has a good opportunity to car' ry Tennessee this fall and thus make a break in the "Solid South"?one of the president's ambitions. With this in view Mr. Taft has in1 vited a number of the party leaders in Tennessee to Beverly in order to ' see if the republicans cannot adjust their differences of the pass and go ; into the coming campaign in harmony. The Tenneseeans lunched Friday with the President. Among them were Representative Sanders and Judge G. M. Henderson. The Republican hope as viewed from Beverley is based on the split in the democratic party and the re1 cent overwhelming victory of the in1 dependent judicial ticket, which won 1 by from 45.000 to 50,000 majority. In addition to a governor, there is - to be elected this fall a legislature, ! which will name a successor to Sen1 ator Frazier. ? i CELEBRATE THEIR BIRTHDAY. Senator Tillman and I)r. Bubcock Dined Together. i Thursday was the birthday of two exceedingly well known South CaroI linians, Benjamin Ryan Tillman, an . unique figure in the United States senate, and Dr. James Woods Babcock, one of the leading alienists of the country. While in many respects vastly different from each other, tJie sena/or and the doctor are intimate personal friends and have many tastes in common. Each in his sphere has rendered distinguished service to his state. The senator Thursday entered his 64 bh year, the doctor his 55th. Dr. Babcock was in a good berth with a large asylum in the North when Senator Tillman sought him out and brought him South to take charge of bhe State Hospital for the insane at Columbia and the soundness of this choice has been amply vindicated by the career of Dr. Babcock since that time. The two friends had planned a little dinner last Sunday at Senator Tillman's plantation home at Tren on, as a sort of anticipatory celebration of the birth lays, but urgent odiritil business kept Dr. Habcock in Columbia that clay, but the two (lined together on Thursday. ? 4 I'KO.M I'TLY I.YX<'IIKi{ HIM. Negro Kutered (jiiT.s Itoom and Tlien the Nevt World. Jim Toler, a negro, was lynched at one o'clock Thursday morning at Alma, (Ja., by a mob of over 100 men for having entered the room of two daughters of a prominent plater of Montgomery county Tuesday night, while the girls were in bed asleep. It is stated that one of uie gins was awakened by Toler when he raised the mosquito netting over the bed and that her screams frightened him away. Search for the negro began at once and the next afternoon a posse of men came upon Toler working in a corn field and aoused him of the crime. He confessed his guilt and was tied to a tree and shot to death RUN OVER BY TRAIN. Young Man Killed on C., C. and O. Near Spartanburg. Vernon Jolley, 19 years old, son of Stephen Jolley, a well known and highly respected farmer living six miles west of Chester in Spartanburg 1 County, was run over and killed early Thursday morning on the C., C. and O., about ono mile above the 1 Chesney depot. He was killed by the excursion train which had taken a party to Johnson City, and was returning to Bostic after putting off I the passengers at Spartanburg. The I accident happened at 12.30 a. mM . and the body was not discovered un til after sunrise, when Mr. Black well, who lives near the scene of the acci] dent, happened to be going down the drack. | FIRST NATK A CONAVA ? CAPITAL STOCK ' ? SURPLUS PROFITS , /|y TOTAL ASSESTS f 1)1 RFC J. A. MeDermott, John ( t J|W H. G. CoJlins, H. L. I [ lb M. Burroughs, C. P. Qui Successor to the Bank 01 ' lb Horry County, and a pioneer ? vlJ ]y allied with the recent dev /jft Republic. Backed by the - it United States Bonds, we are i 1 & toniers any reasonable aeconu J /fit H. A. SPIVEY, 1 $ Cashier. bankTOI k Conwa Has largest capital and surplus of a than the combined capital and surp ! CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOCK SECURITY OF DEPOSIT! DIRE( Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, George J. Holiday, We offer our customers every acc< will justify, and we i ROBERT B. SCARBOROUGH, D i'kkhidkm. We continue to pay 5 pel PROFESSIONAL. CARDS. H. H. WOODWARD Attorney and Councelor At La*. CONWAY, 8. O. R. B. SCARBKOUGH CONWAY, S. C. Attorney at Law. H. H. BURROUGHS (Physician and Surgeoi. CONWAY, 8. C. B. WOFFORD WAIT. Attorney at Yi? Rank of Horry Ruilding. I CONWAY, 8. O. ? THE WORLDS 6REATEST SEWING MACHINE a feLIGHT RUNNING ^ ffyon want either a Vibrating Shuttle, Rotary buttle or a Mingle Thread (Cham Stitch} Be wing Machine write to THE MEW HUH SEWINC MACHINE OCMPANT Orange, Mass. Clear sewing machines are made to sett recardtees Sf auaiitr. but the New JRonao is made to weac. Our ruaraatr never runt out AeM bf aalkerlaad dealers ealfs roe seta av y ???? ?? <v\t t wa nn dunniiuuan mc i/wujujui a w<| Conway, B. C. ? Attacked by Gamecock. Everett Tlusse Weber, a five-yearold boy, was attacked and badly Injured at Chicago Monday by a thoroughbred game rooster. The child was unconscious when the bird was driven from him. The rooster jumped at the boy's head and inflicted several gashes in his forehead. In one a blood vessel was bursted. ' Four Men Dead. % Four men were killed and six otaers injured when an equipment train bucko into a moving yard engine in , the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad i yards at llandley, W. Va., Saturday night. 4 Jj W^H *9 JP-" W'W'Jjr ygjn DNAL BANK |J Y, S. C. ? I . . $25,000.00 ^ B 2,500.00 rfS m 125,000.00 P TOPS: T I 3. Spivey, D. T. McNeill, K luck, W. H. Lewis, I). jgk fl attlebaum, I). A. Spivey. 9 f Conway, t.he oldest Hank in JjL fi in Wastern Carolina. Close- J* IE elopnient of the Independent Ijj Government' and secured by JIL 9 irepared to extend to our cub- JL g modations. KwS B H. O. COLLINS, President. ^ jgj f HORRY, I v. SL c. ^1 jw i ny bank in Horry county. More lus of all other banks in the county. $50,00? 12,500 HOLDERS . . . . 50,000 DRS 112,500 ;tors j D. V. Richardson, i W. A. Johnson, l "Will A. Freeman. 1 Dmmodation which their accounts solicit your business. . V. Richardson, will a.'fbekmae 1 Vice Pk?:8idknt. Cashiee a r cent, on yearly deposits. flj a CENSUS WILL REVEAL 1 (NATION'S POPULATION ABOUT I NINETY MILLIONS. J liclipved Tluit Tliis This lie Figute Shown by Thirteenth Census.? . Tiio Counting. fl It will be October before the peo- 1 pie of the United States learn their fl true numbers as revealed by the ofli- I cial count of the 1:1th census. It is fl generally believed that tJie number I will be about 90,000,000, and certsus fl eilicials are known to share in this fl general belief, although they know fl nothing about this. 1 This belief is based on the fact 1 that an increase slightly in excess I oi the 13,000,000 increase during J the previous deeade would bring the 1 population in 1910 to the 90,000.000 fl in; rk. About 300 of the more than fl IN,000 census clerks an-* eompMii g fl population figures, while the oth- fl ?T8 are working on other statistics. fl V/Oil I I'll ry I O lilt; giMH'iiii U|UIHUU, .ii* Mie counting of the people is done >.y clerks, the tabulating machines being used only in classification as to race, sex and other conditions. m Enumeration figures will continue fl to he given out day by day for the next two months or more, while the 4|H sociological and industrial figures S will come later. All enumerated lig- M ures are counted from three to times and an investigation is order- '"ii ed if there is any sugggestion of or ror. In two cases evidence of fraud had been discovered and in one, that of Great Falls, Mont., a prosecution 1 has been undertaken for fraudulent u enumeration. The intention of Director Durand is to tabulate first the population of the large cities, after which the figures for the States will he given out | as they are ascertained, the returns for all counties in the State being announced at the same time as the figures for the State. I IXCKE A SEI> ACCIDENTS. Xumber Killed During First Quarter Eleven Hundred. A considerable increase in the | number of persons killed and injur- | ed on the railways of the United fl States during the months of January, J February and'March, 1910, is shown m over the corresponding period of year. The total number killed dur-^ ing the quarter was 1,100 and 21,- |j 323 were injured. This was an in- ^ crease of 466 killed and 6,110 in jured, as compared with the corres- ^ ponding period last year. There were 9 19 killed on electric railways and | 669 injured. The figures were made | public by the interstate commerce commission from reports submitted by railroads as required by law. Policeman Suicides. , Jaso D. Shockney aged 43, police- i man at Centennial Park, Nashville, A Tenn. committed suicide at his homo^fl by shooting himself with a revolver.^? | No cause is known for his dead. Meat is higher again. The trusJHj has to get its money back somehow, since no one eats any meat now but tj the iiired girl. 9