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BANDIT KILLED JUdc ai Attempt to Bold Dp Passenger Trail oo Vestera Road, KNOCKED DOWN BY ROCK Thrown by the Bruve Engineer Afte* He Wa8 Shot in tlie Leg by the liohber, Who Was Iiuttantly Killed by the Blow.?Body Has Not U<*n Identified. In a desperate attempt to hold up westbound Colorado Midland train No. 3, four miles west of Divide, Cal., early Friday morning, an unknown bandit was instantly killed by a rock thrown by Engineer Frank Stewart after he had shot the engineer in the leg. Two young men who were found near the scene of the hold-up, are held for investigation as to their complicity in the robbery. One was slightly wounded in the head by a bullet. The highwaymen crawled over the tender as the train slowed up at a siding to meet an eastbotind train. As he stopped the train, Stewart turned to see his fireman, Paul Bachman, standing with his hands ? 1 i U ^ Ya above his head ana nearu lu? iuuber say: "Put up your hands or I'll jblow your head off." The robber then forced both men to leave the engine and marched them before him to the express car. . According to the story told by 6tewart, who was brought to a hospital, the robber ordered them to tell the express messenger they were In peril of their lives, that the train bad been held up and that the robber was determined to have the money in the express car. Stewart states that the robber fired several ahots at the heads of passengers who looked out to see what was happening. "When we got to the express car," Baid Stewart, "my fireman dashed under the car and crawled to the other side. The robber leaned under the car to shoot at him, and when lie took his eyes off me, I struck [ him with all my strength with a rock I had picked up as I jumped off the tender. As I did so, he whirled and shot at me, the bullet striking me in the leg. Guess my blow finished him, for he never moved after the rock hit him. I must have fainted then, for the next 1 knew the conductor and express messenger and a group of excired passenger were standing about me. ' (When the remainder of the train crew heard the shots they seized weapons and rushed to the head of the train, firing as they came. Stewart was given immediate medical attention by physicians who were on board the train, and was brought to Colorada Springs. Ilis condition la not serious. Shortly after the hold-lip Sheriff ?ha Von Puhl ana a posse m-uuieu c.?c country near the scene of the attempted holdup and discovered the two unknown men hiding in the brush. One was dazed by a bullet wound in the head. He Is out on parole from tho State reformatory. The men claim they were riding the blind baggage and were beating their ^ way to Grand Junction. They say Jpone was struck by a stray bullet from the bandits' gun. They are held for investigation. The, dead robber wore a cloth mask and a gunnysack tied about ' his neck. He has been identified There was no unusual shipment of money in the express car, but the bandit told the fireman as they marched along the train that lie intended to rifle the passengers as well as the We s-r a.?,'? box. * I AUTO TIRE HURST. ( y^On<> Mail Killed ami Four Others | Painfully Hurt. A bursted fire caused a touring car, in which five men were riding, | a Knmersault Sunday on a | IX.O I ? part of the grand prize race course, near Savannah, and almost instantly killed Mike Jones, a well known retail furniture merchant in Savannah. The four other men were badly bruised, hut not seriously hurt. Jones, was picked up by an autot mobile, which had followed the party, and was hurried to a hospital, but died just as he reached the building. He was the owner of the wrecked automobile, and was at the wheel when the accident occurred. The machine was torn to pieces. It was stated that Jones's head was caught by the steering wheel as the car turned over, and his neck was broken. Otherwise, he was not even very badly bruised. suesi I ' V SUNDERS SQUELCHED CERTAIN REPORTS ABOUT FEATHEK8TONE DENIED. r ^ Prominent Bu?ine<M Men of IwiureuM and Members of His Church Testify to His Character. To the General Public: It having come to our notice that rumors to the contrary are current, we, the undersigned citizens and business men of the city of Laurens, desire to bear testimony to the moral character, business ability and integrity of C. C. Featherstone. .Having Known nun in uusumss and socially for over twenty five years, beg to say that he is a man of capacity, of correct habits, of a high sense of honor, whose word is as good as a bond, * and whose ideas represent the highest and heat type of citizenship. He is progressive, public-spirited and loyal to all that he believes to be true. He has worked his way up in spite of the handicap of modest pecuniary endowments by the practice of perseverance, industry and self-education in the school of experience. The breath of scandal can annoy but not besmirch a record such as his. To counteract the gross injustice that some would do him, we feel called upon to bear witness to facts whereof we know. We, his neighbors, know nothing and are satisfied there is nothing against his habits, character or standing that would make him an unworthy occupant of the responsible position to which he aspires. We are satisfied, that if elected, he will always conduct him 8<i 1 f in such a way as to reflect credit upon himself, his family, his country and the entire State. YY\ A. Watts, president of People's Loan and Exchange Hank. O. B. Simmons, president of Hank of La urens. N. B. Dial, president of Enterprise Hank. J. J. Pluss, president of Palmetto Bank. C. VV. Tune, secretary and treasurer of' Laurens Trust Company. I). A. Davis, president of Davis-Roper company. S. M. Wilkes of S. M. & E. H. Wilkes com pa ny. H. K. Aiken of the Laurens Drug company. P. A. Simpson, of Todd, Simpson & Co. R. E. Babb, of Simpson, Cooper & Hal>l>. J. C. Owings, of Owings and Bolio. it. A. Cooper, solicitor Eighth circuit. W. L. Gray, of Laurens Hardware com pany. John W. Ferguson, attorney. John F. Bolt, clerk of court. L. P. McGheo, pastor of First Methodist church. (I have known him for some ten years. Have known him personally for nearly a year. W. E. Thayer, pastor of First Baptist churcn. (I have known him personally for nearly three years.) C. F. Rankin, pastor of First Pros byterian church. (1 have known Mr. Feathorsto.-? for two and o?uhalf years and heartily indorse the paper above, i From Hoard of Stewards. Whereas, certain defamatory reports are being circulated in Colum bia, Spartanburg and elsewhere ( throughout the State derogatory to | the moral and Christian character of t'. C. Featherstone: "<? V l*? ?? 'I* I l. I 1 UtM til Ul tT, l>U It ii'nui i 1:11, i 11 it we, the board of stewards of the First M. KJ-. Church, South, of l,aurens, S. C.t of which Mr. Featherstone is a member, do hereby take pleasure in asserting. That we have been intimately associated with C. C. Featherston? as J a member of our board for ovr. twenty years, and that his character' has been that of an upright Chris-j tian gentleman, and consistent and loyal member of our church. That he has been for 15 years superintendent of our Sunday school and twice in the last ten years a delegate to the general conference of the M. 10. Church, South, as the representative of his church from South Carolina. That we brand as maliciously false any and all reports circulated inconsistent with the above resolution. John F. Holt, chairman of the board; W. L. Gray, J. F. Tolbert, H. Tor% ry, J. .1. Pluss, O. B. Simmons, G. G. Halle, .Jr., Aug. Huff, It. K. Babb, S. G. McDanlel, J. L. Hopkins. Laurens, S. C., Sept. 1, 1010. ? ? Died from Carbolic Acid. John Schlute, a brother of Frank I Schlute, the outfleelder of the Chicago National baseball club, was' found dead in bed in a hotel in Les-1 tershire Monday. Death was due| to carbolic acid taken with suicidal j intent, according to thee coroners inquest. BRIBE HI BOLD BANDITS v * Hold Up aid Jlnrter Paymaster Aod His Companion Aid Guard. THE ROBBERS ESCAPE The liohl Murder ami Robbery Occurred in Sight of the Brick Factory, to Which the Victims Were Ooiiig With Money to Pay Off the Workmen There. Masked robbers sprang: out of the bushes alongside of a lonely road near Hudson, N\ Y., Saturday afternoon, held up Dent Fowler, paymaster of the Atlas Brick Company, and his negro driver, shot the driver dead, wounded Fowler mortally and made off with a chest of pay envelopes containing $5,000. George Kagsdale, the driver, died instantly; his head was torn away by two 4 4caliber bullets. He was GO years old and a trusted employe. Fowler was wounded over the heart and died without regaining lull consciousness. He was 2 1 years old. The robbers escaped. -Saturday is pay day at the yards of the Atlas Brick Company and, according to custom Fowler called at . the Newburgh bank for bis pay mon-j ey, sorted it out into the properi amounts, ticketed tbe envelopes and started back to the yards, half a mile out of town on the banks of the Hudson river. He went armed as paymasters do and for further . protection took with him Kagsdale, | who was stable boss at the yards, j It was raining and thev rode with' the buggy top up, the hoot well rais-i ed in front and their heads far hack | in the hood. That made it easy for! the robbers. | .J list what happened when the hold-up came will never be known . until the murderers are caught and | confess. Fowler died before he could . utter more than a few unintelligible words. j Although the shooting wrts done within three hundred yards of the, State Firemen's Home and within j sight of the yards themselves, it was neither seen nor heard. The police have to piece together a theory of the crime from bullet holes and footprints. Five shots were fired. Two of them tore away the side of Itagsdale's head. A third struck the paymaster above the heart. The fourth and fifth passed through the hack of the raised buggy top. From the size of the holes it would appear that the robbers used regulation army 4 4calibro revolvers. From the foot prints there seem to have been live in the band. The hold-up and the shooting must' have followed each other almost with the rapidity of the shots themselves. It can be seen that somebody grabbed hold of the horse's bridle. If a demand for the paymaster's box was made he never had time to refuse or comply. There is no evidence that j he attempted to defend himself. His; revolver is still clean. Huddled in. the buggy top. muffled in the boot, I he must have been shot down like a 1 traoned animal. From this unreas-1 oiling haste the police deduce that J the robbers were desperately tend-! fled. The police are inclined to believe that the holdup was a professional job. The robbers carried with them the small pay chest. It has not been recovered and may have been weighted down and thrown into the river. Five sets of tracks led northward from the scene of the murder. At a short distance from the roadside New York Central detectives and the Hudson police found where the trails seperated, but they have no other clue and no description. It was variously reported that the murderers got $15,000 and $7,500, but advices from Newburgh, where the money was drawn, place the amount at $5,000. Killed by Lightning. NYilie Sherill, a white man, living on the place of \\\ B. Hrunson, in the Antioeh section of Darlington county, was killed by lightning Friday afternoon about four o'clock and Dr. VV. A. Carrigan, of Society Mill was severely shocked. The men were working on a horse at the time which was also killed by the bolt. Mr. Sherill was about thirty-five { vnaru '.i o'rfi nt\il Inn vnu *2 m i 1 v Killed l?y His Friend. While several small boys were playin g on the hack porch at the home of A. H. Whitesides, a dairy wagon driver, in Atlanta, Saturday afternoon, Harold Whitesides shot and instantly killed "Son" Hewett, ap;ed 12, the bullet passing through, the boy's head. It was said at the Whitesides home, that the shooting was accidental. \ aw to i CHOLERA IN RUSSIA 8EVBNTY THOV8AXI) HAVE DIED WITH THE DISEASE. Situation throws More Serious Hut the Government Is Working Hard to Stay the Epidemic. The cholera situation in Russia steadily grows more alarming. Already figures show that there have been more than 70,000 deaths from the plague, and new points of infection are reported daily. The best estimates now place the number of cases at 65,000, and the death rate has so far been fully 50 per cent. The output of coal in the Donetz I't^irinn him nwl ncnil liv (.It tw-M* cent., and a partial paralysis of railway and industrial operations has set in. The ignorance of the peasants, coupled with the awful lack of proper medical and sanitary organization, makes the task of coping with the unprecedented epidemic well-nigh desperate. Prof. Rein and a numerous medical staff have gone south with instructions from the government to take every measure to arrest the progress of the cholera, especially iti the colliery districts. The action is somewhat tardy. The epidemic h is already laid low 4,000 miners and thousands of others have tied to their homes, spreading contagion in the I villages in the central and southern 1 districts. The Novoe Vreinya depicts the situation in the gloomiest colors. It fears that cholera riots on a lat-te scale will take palce. The local authorities have decreed severe pains and penalties for concealment of cases, or for offering resistance to the sanitary detatchments. .Nevertheless tiie lives of the doctors and nurses are in constant peril, for the benighted peasants are persuaded that they sow the germs of the disease. The Novoe Vremya points out that agriculture is suffering severely he cause of lack of hands to harvest th? crops and convey the grain to the railways. A coal famine Is imminent. Empty trucks are accumulating at wayside stations. Prices are rising rapidly. A DEADLY SIN DAY. Three Drowned and One Suicide in Tampa, Florida. Three drownings and one suicide were the tragic events in Tampa, Florida, last Sunday: Harry T. Cole, London, sailor on steamship Cayo Manzanillo, drowned at Seaboard terminals. Hubert Stainm, n rem em, fireman on stoamsbin St .lohann. drowned u\ Port Tampa. Herman, Knoll, Rremem, fireman on steamship* St. Johann, drowned at Prot Tain pa. C. R. lOvans, collector, suicide. Stamm and Knoll were in swimming; at Port Tampa. Knoll, the younger of the two, could not swim, and when he reached water over his head called for help. Stamm went to his assistance and both were drowned. Cole was in swimming near the Seaboard terminals, when he was seized with cramps. His body has not been recovered. lOvans* body was found in the grass 011 Nebraska avenue by a nePTo mull :i ml hiv; ? ! I'o ivuc ;? n ???? " " v. ?????.? ( bottle half filled with whiskey and morphine. Me was a collector for a local loan association and was recently married. >IA\ KILLS IIIS WIFK. After the Rental Deed He Dared Any to Follow Him. With a foul oath, Alinon Rains shot and killed his wife, Stella Rains, at Friendship, a lumber siding two miles below Apex, N. 0., Saturday morning. He used a breech loading shotgun, which he borrowed from a neighbor for the purpose. He flred a load stjuarely in her eye, tearing off the top of her head. Death was instantaneous. Loading the gun again he dared and to follow him. He came to Apex and caught a north* I M J I 1 I I U j P<1 onl ll I I I ' I I I I . \ I 1 I 11*11 II Ivo along tho line were notified to look out for him. No cause is assigned for this rash act. Tho woman killed had a had reputation. Peculiar Accident. Oscar 11. Kason, a young white man. was literally hanged by a plank over the Chattohoochie River, near Columbus, (la., on Saturday. He was at work on a dam. which is being built, across the river, when a plank struck against his neck and pinned him to some timbers. His neck was broken, and when the plank slipped away he dropped into tho river. THE HI SIZES OP TEDDY Speeches tf Roosevelt Severely Criticised by Wn. Banes, Jr. TWO ROGUES FALL OUT New York Republican leader Declare# in Statement that MHysteria Ha# Run Riot Throughout this Country" and Inferrentlally Places Responsibility. The old adage that when rogues fall out honest men will get their dues, is on the way to verification In the State of New York, where the Republican leaders are gunnipg for Teddy, who has fallen like a firebrand in their midst. It is to be hoped that the fight will be a veritable kilkenny cat affair. The people would be benefited. Win. Barnes, Jr., Republican Stato committeeman and leader of Albany issued a statement Friday night, in which he declares that "hysteria has run riot throughout this country, ' and that the question to be decided at the coming Republican State Convention at Saratoga, is "whether tho Republican party will fight, the disease or succumb in the interests of politicians seeking ollice or temporary acclaim..' The character of the recent ad dresses of Theodore Roosevelt in the Weyt, he says, "has startled all thoughtful men and impressed them with the frightful danger which lies in his political ascendency." When he talked with Col. Roosevelt, after the meeting that selected Mr. Sherman temporary chairman of the Convention over the Colonel and learned his attitude toward public matters." Mr. Barnes says he told the former President he never could have voted for him. 'Mr. Barnes' statement in part says: "At the coining Convention it will be determined whether the Republican party of this State, otlicially, through its chosen representatives In Convention, intends to^ bow its head to the political agitation of the hour, which is the cause of the palsy overhanging the business world today or will stand firmly and in unmistakeable terms by its rock-ribbed conservative principles, which have when it is in power, given confidence to the business world and encouraged enterprises. "Hysteria has run riot throughout this country, expressing itself ?n one form or another, such as 'direct nominations,' the 'initiative and referendum,' the initiative and recall' ?it matters little what particular form hysteria takes-?the ? question to be decided at Saratoga is whether the Republican party will fight the disease or succumb in the interests of the politicians seeking office or temporary acclaim. "The recent attack on the Supreme Court of the United States by a keen witted and aspiring citizen could not have been made without a purpose well considered. It was an appeal to passion. If this appeal against judicial decision is popular and not rebuked there is no reason whatsoever, if a direct primary law should be enacte din this state, why candidates for judicial offices, compelled to run the gauntlet of a district or Statewide primary, would not, in order to appeal to the temporary sentiments of the moment, declare in advance their attitude upon matters which come before them for judicial review. Instead of men of long legal experience and judicial training, there would be as candidates for the Bench lawyers who would not hesitate to make that kind of appeal to the people, which would be a disgrace to their profession." Takes Cp For Teddy. When Mr. Barnes' statement was communicated to Lloyd C. Ciriseom, president of the New York county Republican committee, at his country place at Fairlleld, Conn., Friday night, he dictated the following reply: "Mr. Barnes is trying by words to make the public forget he and his closest associates have recently been caught in an ugly and deceitful at tempt to obtain control of the coming Republican State Convention. The Republican party in New York State will have a welcome opportunity at the Convention to reprove such methods." * Killed in Runaway. Mrs. Wesley Miller, the widow who was injured Friday near Zeb, three miles from Salisbury, X. C., bv ' being thrown from a wagon occupied by herself and two children, the mule running away, died at the Whitehead Stokes sanitarium Saturday, never having regained consciousness. A 9RRY HE COTTON CROP REPORT SOUTH CAROLINA CROP 18 PUT AT SKVENTYVTHREK. Tl?e Crop Reporters for the Government I mm ue a Statement of Cotton on Condition. The crop reporting board of the 1/fjJrt i i mcii i ui s\ |j> i iv. u 11 u i c rn mtiaiv o that the average condition of the cotton crop on August 25 was 72.1 as compared with 75.5 on July 25, 1910; 63.7 on August 25, 1909; 76.1 on Auig-ust 25,1908; and 73.1 the average of the past ten years on August 25. 'Comparisons of conditions on August 25 follows: 10-Year States 19 1 0 1909 Average Virginia 82 73 79 North Carolina..76 73 76 South Carolina..73 74 76 Georgia 7 1 73 7 6 Florida 7 4 75 7 8 Alabama 7.2 66 7 2 Mississippi 7 1 61 7 5 Louisiana 6 0 4 8 7 1 Texas 69 59 69 Arkansas 7 8 6 0 7 3 Tennessee 7 8 7 5 8 1 Missouri 7 8 8 0 Sf> Oklahoma 85 56 75 California . . . . 95 United States... 72.1 63.7 73.1 While the average condition of cotton on August 25, according to the figures of the crop reporting board of the Department is 8.4 per cent, better than it was at the corresponding date last year, it is lowered by 3.4 per cent, that 't was a month ago. It is I per cent, lower than it was at tins time in Ji?us, ana is 1 per cent, below tho average for the last ten years. Officials of the Department of Agriculture declined to estimate the effect of the (lures made by the crop reporting board. The old crop of I cotton, by reason of existing high prices, has been practically exhausted. "Twenty-cent cotton" has called substantially every bale of spot cotton from its hiding place, according to tho views of the department officials. Just now the new crop is beginning to come into the market. In Southern Texas the crop is being picked and ginned as rapidly as possible and from now on the crop marketed will continue to increase for several months. TRAIN CLAIMS THREE VICTIMS. Two Men and One Woman Killed at Different Points. Two killed at a distance of twenty miles apart is the record mad? by the Southern Passejiger train No. 8 7 Saturday as it passed through Rowan and Carbarus counties, N. C. At Lin wood, near Spencer, an unidentified peddler was struck and instantly killed as he stepped out of the way of a freight and was struck by the fast vestibule. At Concord Mrs. Florence Hatley, while endeavoring to lead her cow off on the south-bound track was killed as was 121 I A 1 I. I naewise i lie row, i\u uiuuie was attached to the train crew on acscount of the accidents. Near Lexington Frank Hillings, a farmer, was struck and instantly killed by train No. 3 7. He was walking on one of the tracks when northhound train No. 4 4, approached and he stepped over on the Southbound track and was killed by No. 3 7. WORK OF A OKAZY MAX. Shut His Wife Vp in a Cave With Two Huge Snakes. That her husband had Imprisoned her in a cave in which there were two huge snakes, from which she barely escaped with her life, and that later he attempted to tie her hands and feet and place her on a red-hot stove, was the testimony given by Mrs. Fannie S. Wood, of Denver, Oal., in the district court in her suit for divorce from Chester L. Wood yesterday. She secured her decree. Wood became insane several months ago and when officers came to take him in charge took refuge in a culvert half tilled with water, where for several hours he put up a desperate flg.ht, finally overcome after he had received severe injuries. Auto Turned Over. Turning turtle near Camp Opeeche Saturday an automobile flung a party of eight men and women into the road, instantly killed Mrs. \V. C. Sears, wife of a prominent lumberman of llvannis. ? Deadly Lightning. During a terrific electric storm which passed over the Southern section of Rowan county, N. C., Saturday afternoon Ferric (lihson, colored. used 1 M years, was instantly killed by lightning. RAID