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MAKE A BIG HAUL BANDITS SECURE SIXTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS I ? WAS VERY BALD HOLD HP Throe White Bandits With BlackenI ed l^ju'es Held I'p the Cashier and ( Two Assistants ??f a Construction Company at l*arr Shoals Station in Broad Open Daylight. Three daring highwaymen, alleged to have been disguised with blackened faces, held up and robbed three oillciale of the J. G. White Engineering Company at Parr Shoals Station on the Southern Railway about twenty miles above Columbia, in broad open daylight on Friday afternoon of $ 1 6,000. The money was sent out from the National Loan and Exchange bank of Columbia on Southern passenger train No. 13, of the Columbia and Spartanburg division, which is due at Parr Shoals at 3:10 p. m., and was addressed to .1. T. McLellen, superintendent of the J. G. White Construction company. The money had been receipted for by II. W. Mahar, the cashier of the J. G. White Construction company. A few minutes later as lie, with Fred Dultiuan, assistant cashier, and J. C. Joyner, Fairfield county deputy, were on their way to the olliccs of the com pany, they were confronted by three white men, each armed with two revolvers. Deputy Joyner hesitated to raise his hands and reached for his pistol. As ho did so he was shot, receiving a painful though not serious llesh wound in the thigh. Three other shots were fired, it is said, but there went wild. The money was in three packages, one containing $11,000 in gold, another $12,655 in currency, and a third tilled with $353.11 in small change. After the hold-up tho robbers oasnon across mo railroad and Into tho woods on the oast side of the track. The entire plant of the construction company was shut down that the men might assist in scouring the woods. The searchers were divided into parties, each headed by a captain, and as many as 2,000 men are believed to be hunting the robbers. As stated above, the money was in charge of 11. W. Mahar, cashier of the engineering company, Fred Bultman, assistant cashier, and Deputy Joyner, a policeman at Parr Shoals. The robbers were also three in number and had blackened their faces that they might appear like negroes. As (lie bearers of the money were passing through a railway cut between a string of box cars and the side of the cut they were confronted by the highwaymen and had six pistols thrust in their faces. At the command to throw up their hands, Deputy Joyner hesitated and made an effort to pull his pistol. As he did so he was shot through the thigh, the bullet inflicting a painful, though not serious, flesh wound. Maliar and Bultman did not offer resistance, it is said, after the deputy had been shot. down. Seizing the three packages of money the robbers dashed down the railroad track by tho station and on into the woods down the Mayo creek. The ofllces of the company are only about a quarter of a mile from the station up a hill. There is a steep embankment on the west sido of the railroad track, and a stairway leads to tho top of this. As the three men in charge of the money ascended the stairs, they had to pass between a part of the embankment and a group of box cars. It was while in this narrow gorge that they were confronted by three white men, who had blackened their faces. Each of the assailants carried two revolvers, and those were thrust into the faces of the bearers of the money with the demand that their hands be thrown up. Two minutes after the bandits made off with the money, the whole camp was thrown into confusion by the news of the daring deed of the bandits. The news flashed instantly to all corners of the camp, and the 700 laborers were at once released that they might join in scouring the woods for the highwaymen. The men were organized into small eompanied, each directed by a captain, and were sent out in every direction to patrol roads and to keep a sharp lookout for any suspect. Telephone messages were sent to tho police department in Columbia and to Sheriff McCain of Richland county for bloodhounds. Richland county happens to have no flogs of its own, but the message was transferred to the State penitentiary, and William H. Sondley, captain of the guard, dispatched the dogs kept at tlie penitentiary. They left Columbia at 4 o'clock and were under the supervision of .T. C. Robbins, guard, who has led many chases in South Carolina for fleeing criminals. Sheriff Miller of Lexington county was als . so notified and he also went to the scene. As the robbers passed tho statior J. A. Hancock, tho camp boss, attempted to intercept them. He wat CHARGED WITH MURDER I \ ? WALKED AN1? RON INVOLVED IN 1)10 ATI I OF 1IAHTKH. The Testimony Drought Out Causes Authorities to Keep Them llotli in ('list o<ly. The coroner's jury of inquest over the dead body of J. R. llarter, chief of police of Allendale, who was killed Sunday afternoon at Lena, 1 lampion county, Monday evening rendered a verdict that the otllcer "came to his death by pistol shot wounds from a pistol in the hand of J. F. Walker, aided and abetted by Den Walker, his son." Don Walker the eighteenyear-old son of Joo F. Walker, was arrested, and the coroner's jury implicated him in tho shooting of Darter. The Inquest was held at Estill. J. M. Patterson, R. P. Searson, Jr., and .T. Ilenry Johnson, of Allendale, conducted the examination of witnesses for the coroner, while Cieorgo Warren, of Hampton, was present looking after the interests of Walker, though he did not examine any of the witnesses. D, J. Peoples was the first witness. Ho testified that ho heard Walker make some threat against the Allendale l)ol iceman. Oscar Pnslnfnn T H. Prosser, T. J. Mcintosh and J. E. Young, all eye-witnesses to tho killing, testified in substance to the following state of facts: On Sunday afternoon at about 3 o'clock Mr. ITarter was sitting on bench on tho depot platform at Lena in company of the Rev. William J. Langston, of Columbia, and Octor Carlton. J. F. Walker and his son, Ben, came walking down the railroad from tho direction of their home. On arriving at the bench, Mr. Walker demanded his pistol from Mr. llarter, who stated that he did not have it. When the request was refused Walker hit Mr. llarter over tho head with a pistol. Mr. llarter attempted to resist but was pushed back by Walker repeatedly, while Walker and hi.s son, Ben, kept, up a continuous fire in the direction of llarter,- the younger man standing on tho left of his father. The attention of the witnesses was not called to tho affair until after several shots were fired. Each of them swore that ho did not seo llarter shoot at all. After shooting the witnesses walked about 3 00 yards to the place of the shootiug and found llarter gaping and dying. There was a 38-calibro pistol with ono empty cartridge in it lying half way between the dyintr moll nnif -I"1 1 111^ I11UU UllVl ? IIC CVlftC *11 LIU" form. It was teRtified by several witnesses that Walker had threatened the life of ITartor because Harter had officially taken a pistol from the prisoner at Allendale a year iiko, l)r. Daw ton, who held the post mortem examination, testified that four 3 8 pistol halls entered the front of the body and passed through the body, one of them going through the heart, and two 32 pistol balls entered the left arm. One of them was cut out and introduced in evidence. The doctor stated after the inquest that he dressed a slight scalp wound on Mr. Walker after the tragedy. One of the witnesses stated that Walker was bloody. Several testified that Mr. Harter never rose from the bench on which be was sitting The elder Walker was Interviewed Monday and referred every one to hi? attorneys, Messrs. Warren and Warren. The attorneys, when asked foi a statement, said that the defense was self-defense. Beyond this nc statement was given out. .TAILED FOR WHITE SLAVERY. * Ri'oiiiiiicnt Farmers of Georgia Lur< Little Girl. George and William Walker, prom nent farmers of Walker county, Ga. are in jail awaiting trial on a serioui charge. It is alleged that they luret from her home, Susie Fricks, the pretty 14-year-old daughter of 5 neighbor, took her to the homo o George Walker, in the absence of hi wife, where she spent tho night, con coaled her the next day from her par and put her on a train hound fo Alabama City Ala., where Georg Walker, it is said, promised to joii her. Tho child attracted the nttentioi of tho railroad conductor, who per suaded her to return home. The par onts and put her on a train hound fo conducting a vigorous serch who 4 1, 1i#4l<-, r. I ?, 1 T, - r , .in; ill in; F.HI uauriHJU. . li()I?rO HO departure she had loft a note statin that sho was to marry in a short tim and go to Oklahoma to live. Oeorg Walker, tho alleged instigator of th crime, is a married man. Williar I Walker is being hold as an accessor] fired upon three times, none of th ! shots hitting him. After passing th . station tho robbers made their wa . down tho railroad track for som distance and then turned off and (lit , appeared in the woods. Six hundre i dollars reward has been offered fc the bandits and every effort will t made to catch them. Tt. was one c 5 tho boldest robberies that ever too place in this State. L ? ? Old newspapers for sale at this o i flee. i. 1 t ,\A A TWENTY ONE KILLED NEARLY SIXTY MORE ARE INJURED IN WRECK ON NEW ENGLAND BA1LRTAD R|khh11iik ut Forty-Milo Hate in Thick l'"u?, M'hito Mountain Express Crashes into Second Section of Ear Harbor Express? EiiKiilO Goes Through Two Pullman (Kirs. Twenty-one persons were killed and nearly ilfty injured, some of whom may die. In a rear-end collision shortly beforo seven o'clock Tuesday morning 011 the Now York, New Haven and Hartford railroad six miles north of New Haven, Conn. The iirst section of the White Mountain Express, bound for New York, speeding along at probably forty miles an hour, in a thick fog, rushed by a danger signal, it is said, and crashed Into the rear of the second section of the Har Harbor Express standing 100 feet beyond the block signal. The White Mountain engine cleaved through the two rear Pullman cars, both of wood, splitting them in two and losing their wreckage and three-score of mangled human be-1 ings, some alive, some dead, on elth. 1 or side of the track. The third car, also of wood and occupied by forty boys on their way from a summer camp at Monmouth, Maine, was lifted Into the air and fell on its side, crumpled up and crushing two of the boys to death and Injuring others. C? ^ .rx /xf ~ ? i - * ijwunj \ji i iiki virnuiM ui 111(3 two roar Pullmans woro hurled from berths over a fenco paralleling' the track fifty foot distant; mattresses, bedding and clothing found lodgment In the telegraph wires. It w?s tljo third serious wreck the Now Haven has suffered within a year and Inaugurated the first day of the regime of Howard Elliott, the newly elected head of the road. Mr. Elliott, returning from his summer home in New Hampshire to assume his duties, pased over tlio scene of tho wreck on an earlier train less than an hour before. Practically all tho passengers on both trains were returning home from summer vacations and all but two of a camping party of nine, guests of S. Crozer Eox, of Elklne Park, returning from Maine, were wiped out. Fox was among those killed. No 0110 was hurt in tho White Mountain train. I lio Now Haven officials wore frank to admit that the Ho-eal)od "banjo" block signal ay stem, which on this part of the lino has not yot boon replaced by the semaphore system recommended by the public utilities commission last Docombor, was in a measure responsible for the wreck, although the question as to whether the engineer of the White Mountain train, Augustus II. Miller, was making too much speed under the weather conditions is under investigation. According to Vice-President Whaloy, of the New TIaven, it. would not 1 have been posible at the speed the train was making for Engineer Miller ' to have stopped within l,f>00 feet ? after ho saw the signal. The engineer did not see it, he said, until he was almost upon it, or scarcely more than one hundred feet from the rear ) of the Par Harbor Express, and at the same moment he heard the torpedoes. "I do not wish to place any blame on the engineer," said Mr. Whaloy, , "hut in view of the foggy condition? a question to be determined is whoth or ho was running too fast undor the circumstances. Tliore Is no rule ol tho road which would require him tc ? mako up time, and take a risk while 9 running in a fog, and as far a? 1 * know, ho received no Instructions tc ! in'ake up time." Chief Enginoor Elwell said Tues ^ day night that tho New Haven ha< 9 been twice advised by tho public util ities commission to abolish tho "ban Jo" system, onco last December am r again in March, following minoi 0 wrecks, in both of which tho blame n was laid at tho door of tho "banjo' system. There are eighteen in the hospital! and somo are in a serious condition " Some of tho loss seriously hurt wen 1 on to New York. The death list grow from thirtoei r to exactly twlco that number durinj ^ tho afternoon and evening. Severn 0 _ m ii _ \ .11.. !.. i ,1 .11 l l \ i or iitubb UtKiiy injuruu cueu 011 11101 0 way to hospitals or after reachinj 0 there. 11 First steps to determine who wa r' to blame wero taken in secret. No ? will the inquest ho public if Corone e Mix adheres to his announced plan o At the preliminary hearing Tuesda y afternoon trainmen of the two train lo were examined. ? ? . d Every one is satisfied with Prosi dent Wilson's Mexican policy excep o Alsorandolph ITearst. and Coverno >f Please. So the President will have t k pet along without their valuable sup port. ? ? f- Tho new tariff bill will soon bo law of tho land. REPORT CAUSES RISE I + COTTON ENJOYS SENSATIONAL ' ADVANCE or TO POINTS. ? Prices Sbi>ot Ypwaril as Kosult of Poor (Vtiulition llcport'?biggest Jump hi Itm'nt Years. Tho government report report making tlie condition of tho coming cotton crop only 08.2 per cent., compared with 7 4.8 per cent, last year, and 711.2 two years ago, was followed by one of the most sensational advances that lias ever occurred on a government report day during recent years. Private condition figures had prepared the trade for a bullish report and tho market had advanced very rapidly since the middle of last month, but tho official figures proved even less favorable than anticipated and Inspired a general movement. I Tho South was credited with selling on the advance, supposedly agalast tho coming, but both trade interests and speculators were heavy buyers, and while offerings were heavy enough to cause slight reactions the general tendency of the market was > upward. December contracts sold at 12.94 in t lve late trading, practically the 13-eent level, and 211 points, or % I O.r.f) per bale above the low record of August M. Closing prices were 8 or i points off from the best, but the final tone was firm :it ;i not entn - - - - - - " ** r->141 1 o# f>7 to 7 1 points as coin pared with the clotting figuies of last b'rhlay. New York statisticians said that on the basis of the acreage the official statement that 1 <>0 per cent, at this season of the year is equivalent to 252 pounds to tin4 acre, Tuesday's figures -pointed mathematically to a crop of not over 13,500,000 bales, and while the figures did not seem to ho at all generally accepted, the action of the market certainly suggested a considerable scaling down of average crop views, particularly as deterioration reports have continued to come i .. upd 1 he bulls claim that cotton ha*' 'os? ground since the government i port was compiled. Liverpool made a firm showing over the 1 r' holidays, and the market at No York opened firm at an advance < 8 *o 23 points, Prices sold 30 t 3 5 oo'nts net higher hefore the [""""riiMioni report was issued and 'he m: . ?.et was extremely ucuve (in 11 g onure <ioy. according t( vVv York firuros 1 ho commercial crop of 101 2-1 3, 14.1 03,7f>7 bales and I ho Now Orleans Kxchauge ofltimatod tlio world's consumption at, 14.000.000 bales, suggesting a big decrease in the world's mill stocks for the season. "KIUL" >11 NICK'S CAKMKIl lCNDtil). j Notorious Koblier Dies W hile Prisoner on Georgia State Farm. Death has freed "Hill" Miner, notorious robber, jail-breaker and "gentleman of fortune", from bis last prison term. His picturesque career* which included clashes with the laws of more than a score of states and several Canadian provinces, ended Wednesday night at the Georgia State prison farm near Milledgeville. lie had been ill for several months from gastritis. Ho was seventy-live 1 years old. Miner's criminal career began nearly sixty years ago, l?o is aaid to have left his home in Kentucky be' fnr? liD U'na fI ftofin vnaro r?l/l nn/1 ! gone West. Ho admitted stage coach robberies and train hold-lips and was several tinies incarcerated for burglarizing banks. ITo was known throughout the West, worked into * North Canada and then invaded the > Eastern States. ITo escaped many ' tinies from jails and State prisons. - Three years ago he was brought to 5 Iho Stato prison farm at Milledgevillo f for robbing a train near Taila, C.a., > and began a term of twenty years. ' He has since escaped and been recap[ tured twice. > For several years Miner was a member of the outlaw band led by - Jesse James. His real name, he told I prison authorities a few days before " he died, was Ceorge Anderson. 1 "Mt'KI>KltKI>" MAN ALIVE, r 4 - I)issaj?erc<! Ton Years A#o?Cilvon 1'p for Dead, The mystery that surrounded the Hli nnntirt/1 mnr/lor /if I f/?nru A \T I n /\r .'? !/|fw?iv\i a iiui viv/i wj i IUIII J *TI llll/l 1 in St. Louis, ton yoars ago lias been solved by the finding of Mr. Minor in 1 Morton, Ark. Minor was yoars of ' ago when bo disappeared from St. ' Louis. On the morning bo was missed r bis trunks were found to liavo been '' rifled and all bis valuables taken. Blood on the floor Indicated murder, s After seven years he was pronounced 1 legally dead and bis wife received r $1,000 on his life. Recently, while holding religious y services in llorton, Ark., the Rev.J a 10. Stout saw Minor enter the church Ifo recognized him intsantly. , The sweetest music, heard now ir t. these parts is tho sound of the hum r mlng cotton gin. It means that the o farmers are about to put the wonltl ?- he created this year oil tho marke for tho benefit of all. a The farmer is driving dull tlmei frPm all the mfasts of trade. WINS DELAY IN FIGHT tii.wv ur/ri h\i:i) to j ail l?kni>in<; ji ik;k*s iwcision. ? Fugitive from New York Now Face* Influence <?f Attorney (acnerul of l'ro\ hu e. Harry K. Thaw won another delay in his tight against return to the Mat tea wan asylum and Tuesday night lie %a? hack in the Sherhrooke, Que., juil. There he will remain until Superior Judge Matthew Hutchinson renders his decision on the question of sustaining or dismissing t.ho habeas corpus writ, arguments on which wore hot*rd Tuesday in champers. The] decision may ?omo at any day, hut more probably Thursday. It was a day of alternate joy and depression for Thaw. At the opening of the lulling he faced a. new and dangerous opponent in Ainie (Jeoffrion of Quebec, special emissary from the provincial attorney general and premier, Sir Lorn or (louin, *nd from ids lips Thaw heard that the attorney general was insistent that there bo no more delay in the case and that the habeas corpus writ failing, other steps would be taken to insure Thaw's release and seizure by the immigration authorifies. From his counsel Thaw heard nr gumonts against sustaining (ho writ; pleas for delay; from the crowd (hat packed (he court house and fit reamed over tho lawn he ho*ird cheers and whouts and words of rncourniement. tie was nervous throughout the ordeai and returned to his cell tired out with the excitement. Thaw's lawyers characterized the proceedings by which Jerome I'.ou droau, the chief of ipdiee of Oonticook, s<M-ks to free the man he arrested two weeks ago as smacking of fraud and hvprocrisv. The Txdief pevailod in Sherhrooke that if the writ Is thrown out the at torney general will take immediate steps to have the commitment quashed. Thaw will then ho free that is. for the brief instant before he is taken in charge by the immigration au1 horit iefi. + ?. .? SMITH'S ml,I, VVIWINH. ItcliovT^ That ('uncus May < 'lutiigo and Support I lint. Senator 10. I). Smith of ?outh Carolina and Senator Clarke of Arkansas had a spirited colloquy in the Senate Monday over their respective cotton hills. Senator Smith proposes to require all contracts for future delivery to specify tho grades proposed to be delivered, while Senator Clarke proposes to levy a tax of 50c per bale on 11 cotton eold for future delivery. Senator Clarke made a long speech in behalf of his bill. Senator Smith took the position that such a law would not stop speculation, hut would amount to a tax on cotton, lie alsc read into tho record over a hundred letters from farmers of South Carolina protesting against the Clarke bill. Several Southern State Farm ers' unions have sent resolutions op posing the Clarke hill and favoring the Smith bill. The Clarke hill hat been indorsed by tine Democratic can cus as an amendment to tho tarifl bill, hut the feeling is growing ilia! this was a niistako, A caucus ol Democratic senators was called foi Tuesday night and the outlook is thai the Smith bill will he substituted foi the Clarke nmondmont norlinnu \t-5?i modifications. The discussion was tho most spirited that has l)oon hat on any subject since the tariff bil was taken up, but Senator Smith wa at all times more than master of tin situation. I>LI0S WIIKX HOME lit UN'S. ? I'ciidleton Man's Charred Ilody i Found in ltiiins. F. W. Jones, ?a white man abou fifty years of ago, was burned t< death in his homo on tho outskirt of Pendleton and his houso and con tents were destroyed Tuesday night in a tire which is supposed to hav been started through his own care lessnoss. Jones was drinking, it i said, and ran off members of his fam ily. Tt seems that one of the boys re turned hater, when his father was no noticing, to secure his clothes and h noticed that tho father had built roaring nro in mo stove. It la pre sinned that the firo started from th , stovo and that Jones' condition pre vented liia setting out. A charre mass of hones and flesh was foun In the embers. ? ? . The Gaffney Ledger puts tills on I In tho question box: "If, as the e? I ports tell us. hookworms stay In th sand and dirt, how Is It that the i weren't all parched to death durln . the last two months.'' It seems tht . tho hook worm and the boll weev can survive all sorts of weather. i The General Assembly at Its no: - meeting should apply the provlslor 5 of the Webb law to South Carolin i Then we would be in a position f< t State wldo prohibition that won prohibit. ? * Why don't they let Tha\v go? N body cares. THE COTTON REPORT SHOWS BIG CHOP DETERIORATION SINCE JULY te SOUTH CAROLINA GAINS ] + * Cotton Condition Is Way Itolow TcnVoar Average, but Crop in This .< State Holds its Own?Croatest I a >ss Has Horn Felt in Western I'ait of Ifailt. I Announcement Tuesday by the de- ' partmeut of agriculture, that the condition of the growing cotton crop of the United States was OS.2 per I cent, of a normal on August 25, disclosed the facts that, the crop had de- | terlorated 11.4 per cent, since the July report was taken. The August figures wore the same as those of August, 1 900, and the condition at this period has been lower only three times during the past twenty-two years; in 189G, when it n an ?>i.? |H'I 1 fill . , IJl I !IUu, WI1C11 It wuk 64 per cent., and in 1909, when it as 6:5.7 per cont. The greatest deterioration was in Oklahoma, where the condition dropped 3 6 per cent, to 4 5 per cent. In Texas the condition of 64 per cent, showed a deterioration of 17 percent. Deterioration in other States in the part of the belt stricken by drought w a s: Arkansas, 15 per cent.; Missouri, | 14 per cent.; Louisiana, 12 per cent.; Tennessee, 10 per cent.; Mississippi, 8 per cent., and Alabama, 7 per cent, in all the States the condition was much lower than the 10-year average report. Comparisons of conditions, by States, follow: Ity States. Aug July Aug 2 5 2 5 2 5. 10-yr 1 9 1 3 19 13 1912 Av. Virginia so Si so S2 North Carolina . . 7 8 7 7 7 5 7S South Carolina . .77 7 5 7:5 7 7 (leorgia 7 0 7 6 7 0 7 7 Florida SI 8 2 7 3 Alabama 72 79 75 7 5 Mississippi. . . .69 7 7 7 0 7 5 Louisiana 6 5 7 9 7 1 6 t Texas 64 SI 7 6 7 2 Arkansas 7 2 S7 7 7 7 7 Tennofcsee SO 9 0 7 6 8 3 Missouri 7 2 S6 7 8 8 4 Oklahoma 4 5 8 1 84 7 6 California 96 1 00 95 United States. 68.2 79.6 74.8 74.7 nmuo in'* .1111y rcpori growing con ditions had been generally favorable ' throughout the eastern section of tho cotton belt and (ho condition of tho i plant in tho states east of tho Missisi sippi. was expected to show up well. r In the states west of tho Mississippi I conditions were not so favorable, i drought In Texas and Oklahoma, [ parts of Arkansas, Missouri and - Louisiana marking the early part of > tho period which Tuesday's report covers. High temperatures prevailed - prevailed throughout most of this j section. Tho drought was partially i relieved during tho last week of tho - period. r ? f IAX)SK Lfl'KS IN AUTO. r ^ r l Trying to Avoid Negro Hoy Causes Several Wm ks. i h At Nashville, Tenu., Monday four 1 persons were killed and three injur1 ed when four of tho six racing autos mobiles competing in a twenty-fivoe mile race at tho State fair grounds track were wrecked. A Labor day crowd of 5,000 witnessed the accident. Tho dead are: John W. Sherrill, driver; Thomas I*. Bridges, mechanician; William Sherrod, drivs er; "Gooch" Brown, mechanician. The injured are: Clydo Donovan and Kdward I'olk, drivers, and Freet man Ormsby, mechanician, o Tho accident occurred at a point s on tho mile track directly across tho - field from tho grandstand and in nhiin alcrht r>f tlir? ernwrU Ttio at* o cars were running1 nt a torriflc rato !- when Donovan, who was loading, was s compelled to cwervo suddenly to - avoid running down a small negro !- hoy who had run across the track, t In doing this ho burst a front tiro, e and in an effort to clear tho eourso a turned his car into tho fence. Tho !- car crashed through tho harrier, o which fell hack on tho track. Tho 5- car just behind was ahlo to avoid tho d wrecqage, hut tho machines which d followed were not so fortunate. Sher rod's moor struck tho obstruction, leaped high in tho air and turned a 0 complete somersault. Into this mass f_ of wreekago plunged Sherrill's car. _ Tho machino was demolished, driver 0 v and mechanicians beilng instantly killed. The machino driven by Polk lt was only slightly damaged. All tho jj deed and injured lived at Nashville. ? ? A religious fanatic says that tho Kt drouth that affected Kansas and is some other states this summer was a. Clod's punishment on tho people of >r thoso states for raising so many hogs. Id Peoplo may easily differ as to tho value of pork as an article of food, but it is rank foolishness to talk o- about divine Judgment in such a connection.