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MEAN NEGRO SHOT AFTER HE HAD FATALLY SHOT CONSTABLE BATES WENT TO ARREST NEGRO V" Constable Hughlet Bates, Attempting to Arrest Negro in Ellen tonDuulmrton Section, is Perhaps Fatally Shot.?Falling, Officer Kills Assailant. A dispatch from Aike ntells of a fatal shooting at Ellenton on Wednesday morning. Resisting arrest at AY>/\ h it n /I o /?f n ti /xifl/iot* nrli a on luc iiaiiuD vjL au uiuv/vi f nuv tau*vu a warrant for his apprehension, Adolplius Jackson, a negro, of Ellentcn, lies dead, while the constable, Mr. Hughlet Bates, is seriously, may be fatally, wounded. The affair occurred at Ellenton Wednesday morning. " It appears that the homicide arose as the sequel to an incident some two or three days prior to the shooting. On Monday an officer or officers had gone to the home of Andy and Adolphus Jackson with a view to arresting the former, who was charged with some minor offence. However, considerable difficulty was experienced in accomplishing this end, Adolphus, the dead negro, endeavoring to prevent or resist the arrest of his brother, Andy, and creating no small degree of disturbance. But Andy was taken Into custody, tried and found guilty in the misdemeanor charged against him, and a small fine imposed upon him. Mr. Hughlet Bates then obtained a warrant for the arrest of Adolphus Jackson, the warrant charging Jackson with resisting arrest and interfering with the arm of the law, but when the warrant was served, Jackson, with a bitter and threatening oath, - A.X 1 1 ^..1 J M 4 ^ sworo uiai no wuuiu not wuumit iu arrest. The officer was equally determined that ho should bo arrested and started to uso force, whereupon the negro drew a gun and shot him, the missle piercing the lungs of the constable, who fell to the ground, drawing his own pistol and Bliot his assailant to death. Physicians were summoned from Barnwell and Ellenton, but they gave little hope of the wounded man's recovery. Preparations were made to eap*y Bates to an Augusta hospital Thursday morning should he still be alive. Mr. Bates was hurried to an Augusta hospital later, where his wound received attention. His wound is of a very serious nature. However, the physicians attendant ' K ti itAn li t tvi r\ 1 nl aii t It A no f a?? rn_ >. 111111 11U1U \J Ut DV/II1V il IV/l A Vy covery. Indignation over the shooting was high in Dunbarton Wednesday afternoon and Wednesday night, and that there may be a general race riot there is not at all improbable, as the negroes in that section are said to be "bad". In response to telegram received at Barnwell Thursday morning, Sheriff F. H. Creech and a deputy left in an automobile for the scene of the tragedy. It is hoped that they will be ablo to control the situation and avert further trouble. The trouble started, it is said, when Bates, together with two other men, went to arrest the negro, who, with an oath, making the statement that he "would die and go to hell before he would be arrested", shot Bates in the right side in the neighborhood of his lung. There are two stories as to the killing of the negro, one being that he was shot by Bates while the latter was lying on the ground, the other that Bates' companions did the killing. A dispatch from Augusta Thursday says a statement from the City Hospital at midnight is that attending physicians cannot determine yet whether or not Constable Hughlet Bates, shot at Dunbarton, is fatally wounded. The wound penetrated the right lung and his chances are very slim. The white people are greatly wrought up and there is fear of further trouble. , SPKNT MONEY ON DRINK ? I Hew in Forty Thousand Dollars in Five Years. At St. Louis Mo., Waldemar B. Archer a lumberman, well known there and in New Orleans, is in jail and admits forging eight checks for an aggregate amount of $82, after having wasted his savings of $40,000 for drink in the last five years. Six of the checks were on the First National bank of Beaumont, Texas, and two- on the first National bank of Pensaeola. Fla.. in both of which cities he was acquainttd. Five years ago, according to his statement, he retired as secretary of the Malvern Lumber company of Arkansas, and since then he has wandered aimlessly from coast to coast. For short times he held responsible positions in Careyville, Fla., and Pickering, La. Archer says he will make good the checks when ho gets on his feet." Find Them Roth Dead. At Portago Lake, Me., a double tragedy was revealed Saturday night when the mayor and other officials forced an entrance into the homo of Daniel Emory and found the bodies of Emory and his wife. Mrs. Emory had been strangled to death, in the opinion of the town authorities and Emery's death was due to bullet wounds in the head. ? ? Fireman Fattaly Injured. Fireman J. R. Hacker was probaby Monday near Douglasville, Georgia, trainmen serio-uls hurt when two Southern freight trains collided eary Monday near Douglasville, Ga. ConConfusioti of orders is given as the cause of accident. DEMAND FROM DLEASE THE GOVERNOR TELLS COMMITTEE IT MUST ACT. ? Says He is Ready ot Lead His Followers in the Protection of His and Their Rights. Gov. Cole" L. Bleaso issued a lengthy statement Thursday "to the voters of South Carolina," in which he dtmanded of the State executive committee that it declare him the nominee or tne Democratic party, ne declared himself to be the representative of 72,000 voters in the State, a majority o fthe whole, and speaks for them in demanding action. He charges that the machinery of the recent primary was in the hands of his political enemies and that if fraud were practiced, it was perpetrated by voters who were not his friends. In view of recent editorial expressions b ythe few papers supporting the Governor that civil war will break out if Blease is not declared the nominee ,the concluding words of Gov. 'Blease's statement may be significant. They are: "I rejoice that I have the courage, the loyalty and devotion to the Democratis of the State, who have fought for me, to lead them in whatever direction and course that they shall devise or wish in the protection of their right to vote for the candidates of their choice and have such vote~de clared in accordance with the constitution and the rules of the party, and with the true result of the vote, and to resent any wrongs which may bo attempted to be done by them." There looks before them, he says, the black cloud of negro participation in our politics and of negro balance of power and the action of the committee and its continued delay is placing in jeopardy the Democracy of South Carolina. He says it may be the purpose or the desire of the majority of the committee to attempt to taint his title as the Democratic candidate, but if such be its purpose it must be carried out against the expressed wishes of over seventy-two thousand white voters. TROUBLE OVER IN AIKEN. Threats Made Against Mr. Hugh Dong of Wagoner. A letter from Aiken says considerable interest attaches to the election in the recent second primary of Mr. Hugh Long to the House of Representatives, in that it is reported that, as a direct result of his election .there have come, from the eastern section of the county, particularly Wagener?of which town he is the present mayor?and environs, alleged threats of dire violence to his person in the event that he should return to his home. When interviewed at Aiken Thursday Mr. Long, without any show of hesitancy, announced that he, too, had heard these rumors, but that he believed them to be without any very material foundation, since_tliey had emanted from irresponsible sources. He admitted tnat, as a result or tne spirit of local factionalism in Wagener, springing from the fact that two residents from the town were in the race for the House of Representatives, considerable bitterness was felt by his non-supporters over his election. However, Mr. Long stated that he accredited his strongest political enemies with the possession of too much manhood ,too much strength of character and purpose, too high a sense of justice, to give vent to any such foolish threats, and any such puerile bickerings, as have been received in Aiken, and alleged to have come from Wagoner. And in this connection, he reiterated his belief that the threats had come from irrej sponsible persons, who were incapable of realizing the enormity of their expressions, thoughtlessly made and without the sanction of his political opposers, for, ho said, it was foolish to make such threats, and would be more serious still to endeavor to execute them, simply because the majority of the voters of Aiken County had seen fit to select him as one of their representatives in the State legislative body. . Mr. Long stated that {several times during his absence from Wagoner his ofiice had been surreptitiously entered, even broken into, for the purpose, he believed, of gaining access to his private papers and such records as ho might have on file. Concluding the interview, iMr. Long stated that, as an evidence of his disbelief in the alleged threats of violence, ho was certainly going back to Wagoner, his home, so soon as he shall have mado adjustment of certain political mat* ters now demanding his attention and his presence in Aiken. i The Anderson Intelligencer, which is eaueu oy i 01. ij. Lj. ureen, or tnc Governor's staff, puts the Democratic j Executive Committee on notice that , "they will seat Colo Ulease or there is going to bo civil war in South Carolina." Wonder if Col. Green is to bo the commonder-in-chief of the forces that will take the field against the State Committee? I Killed by Hallway Train. i Adolph Unfiling of New York, a wealthy iron and stell manufacturer, was struck and instantly killed by a Boston flyer westbound at the station at New Rocfielle, N. Y., Tuesday night. Ho was hurled about fiO feet in the air and when picked up lie was 1 dead. ? ? ? < Keeping Negro on Peonage Charged with keeping a negro in peonage at his large turpentine distillery in Rarbou county, Ala., Sam- i uel Godfrey was brought Thursday i by United States officers and released < under a thousand dollar bail, awaiting a preliminary hearing. |i A PITCHED BATTLE FIRING UPON HOUSE CONTINUES MOST OF NIGHT. MANY SHOTS EXCHANGED Quarrel Bttween Norman Odom ar.d Dorse English Starts Row, and English Gets Bullet in Beg, Mrs. \V. B. Odom Struck in Arm and House Peppered with Shot. A dispatch from Bennettsville says there was a war near Antioch Church, in Brightsville, Monday night, in which JX>roo English received a pistol ball in his leg, the frnnt r?f Wm R Oriom's residence was literally filled with shot, Mrs. Odom was struck in the arm, Norman Odom was struck by small shot and one or more negroes were wounded. Reports which come from that section of the county, which is ten miles north of Bennettsville, say that on Monday afternoon Dorse English, Brooks English and Tilden Quick went to a saw mill, which is operated at Harris Peele's gin by Zack Justice. They got into a difficulty with Justice, and some rough language was used. Monday night Norman Odom went to the home of Dorst English, called English out and asked him about a debt which Odom claimed English owed him. There was a dispute about it, some hot words and then an exchange of pistol shots. A ball from Odom's pistol struck English in the left leg, inflicting a painful wound. Odom then went homt to his father's, Wm. B. Odom's. A little later several unknown persons started out on the war path with shotguns. They passed Justice's saw mill and fired into the seed room, where he and his hands slept. The shot struck one or two of the negioes, but did not seriously wound them. They fired at Oscar Odom, who happened to be passing along the road, and was probably mistaken for Norman Odom. Oscar took to his heels and escaped without injury. The party next went to tht home of W. B. Odom and commenced bombarding his house. Norman went out into the yard and, from behind a tree. enmmonood firine in the direc tion of the flashes of the gun. His mother, fearing for Norman's safety, cracked open the door and called to him to come in. As she did so a gun fired and she was struck in the arm by some of the shot. Some of the shot from the bombarding guns struck Norman's clothes, but did him no harm. After Norman went back into the house the firing continued most of the night. The residence of Mr. Odom shows the extent of the bombarding, for the whole front of the house is literally filled with shot, which seems to be about No. 6. No positi\p evidence has been brought out as to who did the shooting. Rural Policemen Chavis and Peavy and Deputy Sheriff Hubbard B.rooks English and Calip Odom were arrested and carried before Magistrate J. 'McB. llarley, who released them on bond. Norman Odom came down and gave bond to Magistrate J. P. Gibson. The whole matter will be investigated and a hearing had as soon as Dorse English is able to appear in Court as a witness. FEARFUL WRECK OF TRAIN. + Fourteen People are Ivilecl and Fifty Are Injhrcd. Fourteen persons were killed and fiifty injured by the derailment Tuesday of the Express from Chester to Liverpool at Diton Junction, eight miles from Liverpool. The train was running down an incline when the engine jumped the rails and crash ed ito the buttress of a bridge span.ing the line. The coupling of the car next to the engine parted and the train of nine cars sped on the to the station. The leading cars crashed into the platform with terrific force and were wrecked. One car was overturned and caught lire, and soon was burned. Several bodies in this car were cremated. Sev oral of the injured were rescured from windows. The engineer was crushed to death and the fireman had both legs broken. He was pined under the derbis for two hours. ? seems to mo bad people + One Man in Every Twelve is Accused of Sonic Crime. One man in every twelve residing permanently in Atlantic City has been accused of some crime and will come up for consideration before the October term of the grand jury according to starting figures given at the prosecutor's office Tuesday. At this term GOO new cases have already liooii Ifctnd i Iwi frroo 1 oof 11 n m l\/ir \ *\ UV'l II I lOl V-U, tlK> (III Ol 11 II I I I I / v ~ 1 111 ho history of tlio county. With those will 1)0 considered 200 referred to the October term disposed of at special sesions. Two hundred more are in ibo hands of the special counsel for the attorney general in connection with gambling and election offences which also will be tried by the October jurynient, making a total of 1 ,000. Most of those cases concern men. Tho voting population of Atlantic City is 1 0,000. ? ? After the Stock Exchange. Thomas W. Lawson renews his expose of the financial underworld m the October "Everybody". Me will endeavor to close the stock exchange which ho says robs tho pjopie of Lbrce billions annually. RIGHT MAN FOR PLAGE LEVER IS GOOD PREACHER OF j DIVERSIFICATION. And Should be at the Head of the Congressional Committee of Agriculture. 1 [ The Anderson Mail some time ago called attention to the fact that [ ongresman A. F. Lever of this Sstato will he the next chairman of the House committee on agriculture, if the democrats hold their majority in congress as they probably will. It will be of interest to know what this committee does and what aro Mr. Lever's ideals. The following are excerpts from a speech made by Mr. Lever two years ago, and while congress even this year has taken another forward steps for the promotion of agriculture, yet the general principles as outlined by Mr. I^ever two years ago give a correct idea of his attitude toward his committee work. Eighty percentum of the population of South Carolina depend upon agriculture, in fact is directly concerned in all that goes to the upbuilding of agriculture. I have been & member of this committee for fours years and am now the second democrat on it and one of the five members who make up the appropriation bill which keeps thedepartmentofagriculture going which in turn gives us our soil survey, our demonstration farm work, our dairy work, our cattle tick eradication work our diversification interests and all of the various lines of work being done by the department in the South. The appropriations of this department, durng this year, 1910, amounted to nearly $12,000,000 exclusive of the $3,000,000,000 which wo appropriated for enforcing the meat inspection anh pure food laws. It is not hard for you to appreciate the responsibility that rests upon one who has to vouch for the appropriation of this tremendous sum of money, which is nearly ten times as much as the amount appropriated to run your entire government. I have had a deep appreciation of the possibilities of southern agriculture ahd am an enthusiast with respect to them. It has been my effort t.o interest the department in our section and to secure appropriations for the initiation of new lines of work and the development of the old ones. First of all you will remember that it was my bill that secured the appropriation of $20,000 for the teaching of dairying in the south. When we remember that South Carolina imports dairy products to the value of three and one-half million dollars per year you can readily understand how important it is to the state that this young industry be promoted and given every consideration which is legtimate. The experts of the department, men who have had actual experience, are teaching our dairymen the most improved methods of the business. The result is shown in the report of the secretary of agriculture for 1907 in which the statement is made that the herds with which the department has dealt show an increase in value of production of $3.7 5 per month for each diary cow. This gives you some little idea of the valoe of export information as it touches our natural resources. There is no reason why the south should not be a successful dairying country. It depends upon the use of improved methods in the business. The department of agriculture is giving these. The result is certain. 1 f n d O \r O Am A I CA pet L LU OUU luc VUI.J v -i/iiiu n nv>n a great live stock industry will be built up in the south. Dairy and beef cattle are at the very foundation of sjucessfyil agriculture the world over. The trouble has been the slavishness of our people to the one crop system?cotton?and the presence of the cattle tick, the latter rraking it impossible almost to make the cattle industry profitable. Several yeare ago the department began the work of the eradication of the cattle tick in the infested area covering fifteen states, this state being one of them. I am very much impressed with the promising results and have my whole heart in the effort to secure large appropriations to enable the department to conduct a campaign against this southern pest which it is estimated is losting the south not less than $1,000,000,000 er vear. and this state $800,000. The appropriation for 1901) was $150,000, which was secured largely through my efforts in the committee. For 1910 this appropriation was incseased $100,000. Your state legislature appropriated $5,000 to co-operate with the federal government in this work. It has already begun in several of the counties in the northern part or the state. It is my hope that during the present year the quarantine line will be moved as far down as Columbia and that the next year or so will see the quarantine lifted from the South Carolina cattle, and this you understand will give your cattle access to all of the markets of the world. I have long felt that the solution of many of the ills of southern agriculture lies in the diversilication of her agriculture. My observations toppflior with thn htwtorv of nerrionl tnre convince me that no nation can reply with confidence upon one crop system as the basis of its agricultural welfare. The story of the northwest with reference to wheat is only a repetition of the conditions that have existed in the south for years and years The northwest depended entirely upon wheat . If the crop were good, tho farmers were happy, if it happened to he bad, they wero not and so it. is with us. If the seasons are propitious, we make money on our cotton. If the rain comes and the grass grows and the crop is a failuro, thero is a complete failure. The doctrino that I have taught is that cot MAKES EARLY START I NEGRO OP FOUR YEARS KILLS SISTER WITH GUN Although Child Weighs Only 25 Pounds Was Able to Discharge the 1 Weapon. A Special dispatch from Spartanburg to the State tells of a most remarkable killing with a gun of one negro child by another. The dispatch is as folows: Not quite four years of age and weighing only 25 pounds, Willie Lee Lindsay, son of Henry Lindsay, a negro, managed in some manner to discharge a shotgun and killed his 8 year old half sister, Marian Lindsay, at their home on J. L. Maxwell's place at east Spartanburg, about 8:30 o'clock Thursday. Willie then sought his parents, who were away from home at the time, and informed them that a mad dog had killed Marian. Lindsay and his wife said the shotgun had laid under the bed unloaded and that the cartridges were in the bureau drawer. It is supposed that the children took the gun from its hiding place and loaded it. It is thought unlikely that the boy would have, been able to do so alone. When found after the tragedy the gun was unbreeched and looked as if an effort had been made to extract the empty shell. Coroner John S. Turner investigator! fho Paso and said there was no doubt that Willie had shot his sister. As the child is too young to be prosecuted and the parents are confident that Willie killed the girl no inquest will be held. ton as far as possible should be made surplus crop. No farmer can afford to buy the ordinary necessitities or life, when they can be raised upon his farm. No farmer can afford to buy his meat in Chicago, or his wheat and corn in Iowa when his own soil is especially adopted to the growing of these. Farmers organizations and farmers' resolutions will amount to nothing unless the farmer himself has made himself independent of his cotton crop. What we are trying to do for the south through the department of agriculture through its demonstration farm work, its soil surveys, its breeding work and all of that is to bring the southern people to the print where they can be independent of king, cotton, where they shall be able to make of this tyrant a servant, who sh&ll contribute to the happiness and welfare of all of the people. We are now slaves to it, and can never realize our full possibilities until we have taken of his shackles. 1 do not preach the doctrine of reducing the cotton production, I plead only for an increase in the acreage oi oiner crops. i pieau iur an increase in yield per acre in cotton and and increase in acreage for other crops. To this end the department has begun a soil demonstration work. I believe that this work is the beginning of a new era in southern agricultrure. I do not believe that it is too much to say that it is fraught with more possibilities for good than within recent years, with the possible exception of rural delivery. What we want to do is to put the farmers in a position to hold his cotton as it pleases him and not as it gratifies someone else and this can never be done until the farmer is aught successful agriculture and successful agriculture means diversitled and intensified agriculture. It is a new work, the result of which cannot be seen in a day but will go on and on and 011 gathering strength with each day. In my experience as a practical farmer and my observations I have been struck with the fact of a lack of uniformity in the grading of cotton in the different cotton markets of the country and I have had the idea in mind for a long time that the lack of uniforimity had caused the cotton producer to suffer largely. In a bulletin 011 cotton just issued, at the South Carolina experiment station, the statement is made, that 011 account, of the lack of such uni formity tho variations and difference some times amount to twenty dollars per bale. This is a loss to tho farmer who does not know whether lie lias middling or strict middling. He must depend upon the judgement to say the least of tho cotton merchant and to that extent he is at the absolute mercy of the buyer. Having this fact in mind, T put upon the agricultural appropriation bill at this session an amendment which provides for the establishment of a national standard for cotton grading. ( ^ i John \t. is for Teddy, John Li. Sullivan, former world's champion heavyweight pugilist, has notified Matthew Hale leader of tho Progressives in Massachusetts, that he desires to stump the State for the , ticket. "I am anxious to do what T ' can to insure the success of ex-President ltoosevelt and the Progressive Party," he said. +. ? Woman Dies at Ago of 122, Mrs. Nellie Neapyear, aged 122, prouaDiy mo oiuesi poison in ino i u- , itod States, is dead at the home or a , relative near Walnut Ridge, Ark. She was born in North Carolina. Three Americans Killed. * Later reports of tlie massacre of Nlcaraguan loyal troops at Leon Augusta 19 mention an American but mako no further mention of Phillips, also reported killed. J Before the next primary some radleal changes must bo made In the ( man should pose as a Democrat if \ he really wants Roosevelt elected. < THE WAGES OF SIN ? WIFE'S PERFIDY LEADS TO DEATH OF TWO MEN BY THE INJUREO HUSBAND Young Ohttlcinnn Who Eloped With llnnLor'u Wifo. is Shot and Kille<I ill a Texas Town by the Wronged Man, Who I.<ast Year Killeil the Hunker's Father. A1 Boyce, Jr., the young cattleman whose elopement last October from Fort Worth, Texas, with the wife of John lieal Sneed, Amarillo banker, fiollowed by the detention of the couple in Canada, the return of the woman to Fort Worth, and later the killing of the young man's father by Sneed, was shot to death there and a few moments later Sneed, clad in overalls and hardly recognizable because of a hairy growth of beard, surrendered to the coroner, and was formally charged with the killing. Boyce, who recently returned from Canada, was walking along one of the principal streets of Amarillo, when Sneed advanced to the middle of the street and opened tire with an automatic shotgun, firing three charges. Boyce fell in the doorway of a church and died within a few moments from the effects of thirty buckshot, which struck him in the right side. Boyce's aged mother and his two brothers were on the scene in a few minutes. In the meantime, Sneed voluntarily made his way to prison and submitted to arrest. 'I3eside9 the weapon with which Boyce was killed, Sneed was armed with two revolvers. lie announced to tho newspaper men that he had no statement to make. The disappearance of Mrs. Sneed from a Fort Worth sanitarium last fall was later followed by her detention with Boyce in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Mutual friends brought about a reconciliation between the banker and his wife and Boyce was released from custody after the couple had returned to Fort Worth. Boyce, Sr., was shot and killed in tho lobby of a Fort Worth hotel January 13 last because of remarks he is alleged to have mudo derogatory to Mrs. Sneed. Sneed was tried for tho killing but the jury was unable to 1 .1; ciuu, cv oi;tuuu u uu, which is set For November 12, he was released under bond. Young Boyco returned to Amarillo only a week ago. He has been running a big ranch in western Canada. It was not known that Sneed was in tlit? city. Boyco did not recognise Sneed when they had met on the street. Feeling is running high, as the Boyces have thousands of friends and supporters. Only a few weeks ago Mrs. Sneed and her husband were reconciled and were supposed to be living together in Georgetown, Texas. Both the Bpyce and Sneed families are very wealthy in land, cattle and banking i n tnrn?t ? llnfnrn thtiv uinnt In Ain:\r ilia the two families were neighbors and friends at Georgetown. The police theory is that Sneed had made careful preparations to kill young Bovce. This belief is based on the fact that, oi.dy two days before the tragedy a man giving the samo name of W. A. Walker, and answering the description of Sneed, rented a small cottage from which it is thought tho first shot at Boyco was commanded a view as well as a wide home three blocks away, this cottage range of sidewalk. Families living on either sido of the cottage leased by the mysterious party complained to the owner of the property that the now occupant behaved suspiciously and asked that ail investigation be made. The investigation was delayed and the cottage now is vacant. It was stated by eye witnesses that the Boyce's slayer removed a gun from a box when the shooting took place. At the cottage Immediately after the tragedy, a box was found conforming to the size of the weapon. It is now known that during tho days the cottage is believed to have been occupied by Sneed and that Boyee passed several times on the opposite side of the street, but so far as is known he was in company with one or more parties. Sunday, it is believed, was the tlrst time he walked down the street alone. So far as is known, Boyee had no intimation that Sneed had been in Amarillo since ho himself returned. "That there was fraud in the recent primary all over the State is a matter too well conceded to admit of question. In Greenwood tho Democratic Exeoutive Committee reports 105 fraudulent votes. Sixty men voted moro than one time, and four minors voted." We call the attention of the Newberry Herald and vt . ii. ? ~ 1 .... .. .. .1 .../.n 1 .1 hi./. l\t'\V8 IU UIW illK-'V*-, UUU WUU1U it to say whether it believes*it or not. ? ? ? Jumps From Oimrating Tabic. Mrs. Lou Boyd jumped from an operating table in the hospital in Mn:.on .(la., and ran home. She declared the operation on her thumb was not sufficient to keep her from her baby. Mrs. Boyd slipped from tho room when the nurse was about to iress her wound and was not overtaken before she reached home, clad in a bin kimonn and a pair of slippers. Another (Vossing Tragedy. At Muskogeon, Mich, three women ollecting provisions for a church supper were killed Monday when a train crashed into a rig in which they were riding. The accident occured at a lo;al crossing and the engino carried :ho victims about 500 feet before it :ame to a stop.