The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 02, 1903, Image 6
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Do Old Men Die f
0HEUK Is certainly far l
dreariness of old age afte
frotn the shortening of 111
activity. Two notable ins
than mest as to whether
diseasr of old age of a
Napoleon the (ireat and
St. Helena, the other eigl
out bis heart." If ever t
position to have been killed by the totai
two ought to have been, but it would
they were. Though Napoleon was no n
specific disease of cancer of the stomach
between his exiled loneliness and the <div
very apparent. On the other hand, Risni;
be was dismissed from the Cluucellorshi
more prolonged years than he actually j
. continued an office until the end. A wise
lose tench with actual life. There arc <
elder when he has a young heart is perlia
can show us.?London Saturday Levlew.
Concerning Spi
By Lilian Bell.
*4AM44AVT >?.v strong fortress for J
n t>y the work of her hands,
?T T3 TT seeds or picking flowers. I
t ination and her sense of J
Wftfofrfrr? may laugh at fate, for yoj
rusts nor disintegrates. If
yourself as the football of destiny, kick
If jou think people snub you; if you sus]
ward vou. or even of dclil?erate slights?if
dark and brooding over these things, the
It is your fault liecause you take a nio
wholesome and malarial your mind mnsi
your heart Think of the microbes whicl
. disagreeable person as you are determine
#nubbed and left out of parties and pi
funeral about?
Don't lay It to the influence of the ha
But you may lay it to the influence of
?onsists of hall bedrooms. If there is an;
tiouse habit, it can only be the wrapper
enly women. If a woman wears a wraj
<nrl papers at breakfast, she deserves
Woman with a husband dors it. she deser
jZ>
America the
By Prof. Stewart Culin
' iiii'IWiihii L it idea that America is ;
f point of European disco'
f f its inhabitants and thei
e accepted almost witnou
mental notion, having 1>
sentiment ard historic t
discovery, learned write
theory of an Asiatic im
of the arts, religions, an
Wtiegofthe language and physical types
v Preo^iupied with the notion that Ai
' adfoilngly lo$t sight ot the fact that th*
proof of American Intercourse"witii Asia
our continent.
In supporting the latter view the writ*
if not a higher, antiquity for man on the
the most remote historical perspective of
upon to establish the American origin of
fera. their birth and subsequent dcvelopr
" demonstrate the probability of their trai
s tions.
The games of the Eastern continentpresent
day, but from what we know of
to. but practically identical with, those o
externals, but. If we may so apply the
And, It may be added, they extend over ii
f the same underlying culture. They bet
Man eveidently wandered far and wi
gan. Shall we, *with our American expla
not alone for games, which are but the '
mjSL. occontn thp finim that ancient 1
jWC UVV acovuti ?v v?v -w ?
extent usually unimagiiied, her share of
-Harper's Magazine.
"V- ^
Whither Are \
By Garrett P. Serviss.
. . ^ Importance which relatl
I ^1T | taches to the expedition w
? I Lick Observatory in Cal
n whither we are all bound.
" a I Everybody has heard t
? towar(l the south. It is a
AS t*ian miles straight
day and night. It is a m<
earth's annual revolution
that revolution from carrying the earth 1
In space.
In truth, we never get back to the sa
Trith the globe at a point more than 300."
northern star, named Vega, than it was a
now In hand goes, the flight of the sun to
of an arrow, but the path described by tl
??, , wlllwi Hvinx
tvniie 10 circie ruunu .mu , ^v. ........
And thus wo sweep onward, moving (
through what perils nobody can guess?p(
force as mysterious as that which drew
Sights to be wrecked on the Mountain of
It is this strange voyage of the sun a
ocean of immensity that the Caliiornia
America to investigate.
The only way in which we become a
System is by watching the counter moti(
on the deck of a ship moving swiftly thro
and velocity of our motion are indicated
tious of the other craft and the shores i
we are overhauling, loom continually larj
ieg. dwindle in the distance.
This docs not quite apply in the case
infinitely far away, and the change in
approach to those in the north, and our r
slight to be noticed even from year to y<
dn the work for us. The light of the st
ils undulations practically shortened by
those which we are leaving behind has i
and the spectroscope not only detects tl
enables us by their means to measure
deduce lis exact direction.
The problem is complicated by the f;
like the sr.n, going in various directions,
a detail with which astronomers can deal.
Now, the precise object of the cxpedit
the southern stars from which we are :
less studied than have the northern stai
It is as if the people on the bow of a shi
effects of their approach to objects abea
note the recession of objects behind. '
nervations the speed and direction of the
But there are many other absorbinglj
organization of the universe, and our ]
brought nearer to solution by the succet
Jteavens now beginninr
naag.
rom Idleness?
noro evidence for the l>elief in the
r active work bus been laid aside tlroi
fe which results from the enforced. Intances,
and perhaps freer from doubt
it is enuui alone that kills and not the
more specific malady, are those of
Bismarck. The one lived six years in
it years at Friodrichmh. each "eating
hove were men who ought on the sup.
I suspension of their activities those
he extremely ditHcult to show that
tore than fifty-three, yet it was the
of which he died, and the connection
pet muse of his death does not seem |
trek., ttt the age or sevenxy-nve. wm-n
p. cnctld not have had a likelihood of
tchievcd out of ottiee even If he had
man. if no; too dyspeptic, will never
>ld men with young hearts, and the
ps the most delightful type humauity
nsters.
the unreconciled spinster is not bnilt
whether it be egg-gathering, planting
t lies in the cultivation of her iutngbumor.
If you have these two you
x are elad in an armor which never
you are inclined to be bitter, to viewed
from one discomfort to another;
H*ct your friends of growing cold toyou
are in the habit of sitting in the
fault or the whole matter lies withiu.
rh!?l linint- of view. Tlihlli how lUt
t be. Consider the stagnant state of
i are eating your soul away. Such a
ed to be deserves to lie slighted and
ciiics: Who wants such a walking
11 bedroom. That would not be fair,
the boarding-house, which generally
v one thing worse than the boardingand
curl-paper habit of certain slov.
>pcr mornings and keeps her hair in
never to get a husband. And if a
ves to lose him.?Harper's Bazar.
radle of Asm.
a new world, not only from the viewrery,
but actually, so far as concerns
ir civilization, is one that has been
t question. It is, indeed, a fundaatk
of it all the impetus of religious
radition. Almost from the period of
?rs have endeavored to confirm the
? ' +1?o roeoniHI O nr-O
uu^ruliuxi, auuutui^ iuv .
d symbolism, and the supposed idenof
the Indians with those of the in?
nerica is the new world, they have
?se resemblances offer quite as good
as they do of an Asiatic invasion of
?r is aware that it premises the same,
American continent us is revealed by
Egypt or Babylon; that he is called
the particular things tovwhich he reueut
in America, and furthermore to
isfer from America to other civilizaand
I spcal: now not so much of the
the remote past?are not only similar
f America, and are not only alike in
word, in their morphology as well,
lto Asia from America as expressions
ong to the same culture,
de over the world before history bonations
in mind?and they hold good
stalking-horse" of the student?shall
America may have contributed, to an
what is now the world's civilization?
> /E>
rnjr
?e Bo!5i\d?
ivcly few persons .ire a ware of athieli
Las just gone to Chile from the
iforuia. Its object is to find out
hat the Solar System Is flying swiftly
plunging flight that carries us more
through the ether every hour of the
>tion that has nothing to do with the
about the sun, except as it prevents
back turn and turn to the same spot
me place. Every new year comes in
DOO.OOD miles nearer to a very bright
. year earlier. As far as the evidence
ward the north is as straight as that
lie earth, since it is compelled all the
: sun. Is a great spiral,
continually into new regions, running
rliaps none at all?and impelled by a
the unfortunate ship in the Arabian
Adamant.
nd its worlds through the unexplored
in astronomers have gone to South
ware of the great flight of tho Solar
ins of the stars. We are like people
ugh a crowded harbor. The direction
by the changes in the apparent posi
around us. Ships ahead of us, which
jer; those behind, which we arc lcavof
the stars, because they are almost
their brightness resulting from our
etreat from those in the south, is too
?ar. But, luckily, the waves of light
ars, toward which we arc going lias
our swift approach, and the light of
ts undulations practically lengthened,
lose changes in the light-waves, but
the rate of our motion, and also to
let that the stars also are in motion,
and with various speed, but that is
ion to Chile is to examine the light of
tfying away. They have been much
:s, to which we are drawing nearer,
p. after watching for a long time the
d. should visit the stern in order to
Through a combination of such obship's
motion could be deduced.
r interesting questions relating to the
dace and rank in it, which will be
;s of the exploration of the southern
" ?HC=?
y TRAIN FALLS FROM BRIDGE
Perhaps as /lany as One Hundred
People Killed.
Madrid, By Cable.?Fourteen bodies
and 50 injured persons have been extricated
from the wrecks of the Bilboa
train, which overturned at Nejerilla
river Saturday night.
According to official information. 30
persons were killed and 69 others seriously
injured. Many of the injured
will die. Of the three hundred passengers
on the train it is stated that
only six escapted unhurt.
The train, which was composed of
two engine and sixteen coaches was
crossing the bridge when the couplings
between the engines broke. The second
cngin left the track and fell, followed
by the entire train into the bed
of the river. Fortunately the water
was low. The nearest medical attendance
was a mile and a half distant
Those passengers who were least injured
aided the others and did all possible
until the arrival of reliof trains
bringing nurses, doctors and soldiers
from Bilboa.
The train fell 50 feet from the bridge
to the river bed. the coaches piling up
in a mas3 of splintered wood and iron
work. The scene is described as horrifying.
Many corpses were carried
down the stream, which was actually
reddened with blood. It was found impossible
to extricate numbers of the
injured who were pinioned under the
wreckage. A railway guard was arrested
in the act of robbing the dead
and narrowly escaped lynching.
It is believed that tht official figures
undo.estimate the number of the killed.
some accounts giving the number
of dead as 100. The full extent of the
catastrcphe will be known only when
the wreckage has been cleaicd away.
The latest dispatches from Saragassa,
near which place the catastrophe
occurred, give the number of dead as
90 and the injuiod as 100. The rescue
of the injured from the debris is not
vet completed.
Shot By Pol'cmsn.
Gadsden. Ala.. Special.?Gus Steadman
was shot and killed at Alabama
City, by Policemen N. P. Jarrard and
A. N. Barnes, while attcmupting to
make his escape. It is alleged that John |
Steadman had kidnapped Mamie Me- j
Knight, the 13-year-old daughter of R.
R Mcknight, stole $7 from her and. it
:s said, forced her to go with him to the
woods, where It is reported Gus Steadman
and Sue Harvey a woman of Chattanooga.
wore in hiding from the officers.
Steadman claims, it is understood,
that he intended marrying the
girl. John Steadman and Sue Harvey
have- been jailed and the McKnight
girl has been taken home by her father.
There is great indignation at Alabama
City.
Oil cire Scare.
Sour Lake. Tex., Special.?Considerable
excitement prevailed in the oil
field for a time just after noon Saturday,
caused by flames springing up on
the oil wastes belonging to the Guffeys
& Texas Addition Company. The
fire was caused by some one throwing
a lighted match into the oil. For a
time the flames were fierce ana lea 10
the belief that the big GufTey tanks
weic on fire. Surface accumulations
soon burned over, however, and by 3
o'clock the flames were completely under
control and the loss is comparatively
Insignificant.
Riot at Unveiling.
London, By Cable.?During the unveiling
at Arklow, Ireland, of a monument
to the rebels who fell in the
battle of Arklow, in 1798, at which
ceremony 30,000 Nationalists were
present, the latter collided with a band
of street preachers, one of whom narrowly
escaped death at the hands of
the mob. The house in which he took
refuge was wrecked. Sever&l hundred
policemen wore obliged to charge the
Nationalists, and stones were thrown
batons freely used and many persons
were injured before the mob was mastered.
Another Kentucky War.
Jackson. Ky., Special.?In a feud
fight Saturday night, near Daisy Beil,
Breathitt county. Hiram Barnctt was
killed and John Henry Hooker and Joe
Hccker were seriously wounded. The
men. with Samuel and Silas Barnett,
met at the home of Miss Leila Burns,
neice of Burns Fitspatrick, who was
the only juror against the conviction
of Curtis Jett. While discussing the
course of Juror Fitspatrick, John Henry
Hecker, the friend of Miss Burns,
resented what was said and all soon
began shooting. There have been no
arrests and no one can tell who llred
the first shots that took effect
Girl Killed By Lover.
Sherman. Conn., Special.?Angered
over her refusal to marry him, P. H.
Worden, of Carmical, Killed urnim nuscoe,
also of that town, by cutting her
throat. He then attacked Mrs. Sherman
Roscoe, sister-in-law of Miss Roscoe
with a hammer, crushing her skull
and inflicting probably fatal injuries.
Worden then attempted to kill himself.
The tragedy occurred at the Roscoe
home.
A Serious Clash.
Vienna, By Cable.?The Neue Frele
Press published a dispatch announcing
that armed peasants attacked gendarmes
at Ludberg. Croatia, yesterday,
whereupon the gendarmes fired a volley
killing four men and wounding
others. Peasants elsewhere in Croatia.
It is added, are rising in revolt and
martial law was proclaimed at Lud- i
oerg recently on account of rioting.
LYNCHING OF THREE
. ,
A Very Deplorable Matter Occurs in a
Georgia Town
TRAGIC EVENT WAS UNEXPECTED ]
O (
Three Negroes Lynched For a Killing '
- - - i
wneretne condition 01 mo i ordered
Man's Family Was Considered
By the /lob.
Macon, Ga.. Special.?An Albany
dispatch to the Telegraph says: '
"Baker County was the 3cene of a
tripple lynching about 2 o'clock Friday
morning when a mob of 50 determined
men entered the town, of
Newton and secured possession
of Garfield McCoy, Wiley Anette 1
and George McKinney, Miller County
negroes who had been arrested and
lodged in jail for the murder last Saturday
night of F. S. Bullard, prominent
white farmer of the seventh dis- '
trict of Baker County. The manner
in which the prisoners were obtained
is unique and altogether without pre
cedent. Jailer Wm. Screws who resides
in the jail, was awakened about ;
12 o'clock by Bailiff R. C. Tucker, who
stated that he had a prisoner to place
in the lock-up. The jailer hastily
donned his clothes and proceeded to i
the jail. As isoon as he had
unlocked the prison door he was j
suddenly surrounded by a swarm of
men with drav/n revolvers, who de- i
manded that he unlock the cell in <
which the negroes were lodged. He i
did as commanded under protest, and
the three negroes were dragged from 1
the jail, the prisoner of Tucker ir.ak- i
fng his escape during the excitement.
Their appeals for mercy was lost on i
the mob. who began beating and 1
'lapping then^ as soon as they had i
left the jail door. <
"The mob lost no time in leaving 1
Newton with the negroes and when 1
a mile from town the three men were i
halted, nooses tied around their necks <
and, amid the shouts of the men, were t
strung up. The mob fired several <
hundred shots into the swaying bod- 1
ies after which they quietly dispersed.
"The crime for which the nogroe3 1
were lynched occurred on the planta- 1
tion of Bullard last Saturday night 1
during the progress of a dance given 1
by one of Bullard's tenants. Negroes t
from Early, Miller and Decatur coun- c
ties were present, and trouble was ?
started by McKinney and the others i
putting out the lights. Just at this 1
juncture Bullard appeared on the t
scene and commanded order. His in- 1
wriereuue was icscmeu uy uie mree '
negroes who opened fire on him with '<
revolvers. Bullard fell mortally 1
wounded and died on Tuesday. 1
"The negroes were arrested Tuesday
and lodged in jail at Newton. At 1
their commitment trial it was proven <
that the shot that killed Bullard was <
fired by McKinney, and that Anette rand
McCoy also fired at him. The ne- t
groes were remanded to jail to await 1
trial at the next session of Baker Su- 1
perior Court, and absolutely no talk *
of lynching was indulged in by citizens.
It is the consensus of opinion
that the work of the mob was largely
due to the fact that Bullard's family is r
left in a sad condition, his wife being .
a hopeless invalid and several small r
children are dependent. The lynch- t
ing was a great surprise to the people c
of the county, as It was generally be- ^
lieved that the law would be allowed .
to take its course in their cases. The
lynching is generally deplored." ?
Railroad Agent Shot r
Goldsboro, N. C., Special.?A shoot- I
ing occurred at Dudley station Friday I
nine miles south of Goldsboro. C. A. 3
Spruill, a railroad agent, attempted to c
thrash J. M. B. Fields, who shot
Spruill in the abdomen. Fields fired
four shcts. one of them striking J.
Kornegav, an innocent spectator, in _
the arm. Mr. Spruill was carried to t(
Rocky Mount on the noon train to ic- 0
ceive medical attention. His wound is n
a serious one. Spruill claims that q
Fields had been lying about him. n
iCMAlrla i o ttnrlat* o?i*opf Tf lo lofor ?
ported that a woman is the cause of ?
the trouble. '
Big Fire at Milwaukee.
Milwaukee, Special.?Fire Friday
night practically destroyed the building t
at 313,315-317 Grand Avenue, which ex- c
tends in an "L" shape to Third street, q
The fire was carried to the Davidson
Hotel, on Third street and to the Boston
store on Grand avenue. The total t
loss Is estimated at about 5250,000, par- .
tially covered by insurance.
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Agreement In Sight. t
Birmingham, Ala., Special.?A set- n
tlement on a wage scale between op- t
erators and miners is now in sight The t
operators have made an offer of 2*6 "
cents per ton on both the maximum
and minimum wage scales of the
miners, with a corresponding increase
in day labor and night work. The only ^
difference in the present scale is that
iron at 512 is made the basis instead of ^
511. The miners went into executive
session after receiving the offer to discuss
the same and there are probabili- t
ties that it will be accepted with some t
minor changes. t!
Bloody Affray.
Knoxville, Tenn., Special.?At the
t ~ A 1/wAn/lAM Dao ttio o notrrA "u
iiULUt Ul niCAQUUC A UVU ktiv,, M. uvbiv/
shoemaker, four members of his family a
were shot, three fatally. When Samuel b
and Warren, two sons, aged about 20, !
engaged in a quarrel, each pulled a 2
pistol and fired at the other. Both were t
fatally wounded, each receiving a bul- c
let in the abdomen. The mother of s
the boys ran into the house and was g
accidentally shot in the left side. She d
will die. A daughter, hearing her e
mother's screams, also ran in and was c
shot in the arm. b
SERIOUS SEABOARD COLLISION
ii-'"
Four Killed N'fiar Southern Pines, N.
C., and Freight Train Demolished.
Southern Pines, N. C., Special.?The
worst wreck in this section for many
pears occurred at 10 o'clock Tuesday
morning about 200 yards north of
Niagara station and three mile3 north
of Southern Pines. An engine and a
local freight train collided head-on,
the boilers of both engines exploding.
Engineer Wm. P. "Vail and S. D.
Stewart, of Raleigh, and Fireman
Walter Barnes, of Concord, and Charlie
Brewer, of Aberdeen, were killed.
Fireman J. F. Wright, of Raleigh, was
seriously Injured by jumping.
From the best information at hand
it appears that a flying engine left
Vass, a small station about three
miles north, without orders, g^ing
south, and attempted to make the siding
at Manly, a half-way station between
Southern Pines and Niagara.
Local freight train No. 6, north-bound,
left Southern Pines on time and was
running on regular orders under full
headway down gTade and was run into
by the flying engine, going at the rate
of 45 miles an hour. It was a head-on
collision, on a sharp curve, and in a
deep cat. Both boilers exploded and
the scene was beyond description.
Engineer Wall was killed on train
No. G. His fireman, J. F. Wright, escaped
by jumping, though he is
Beriously injured. Engineer S. D.
Stewart and his fireman, Walter
Barnes, on the shifting engine, were
both killed, as was also Charlie Brewer,
of Aberdeen, who, it is said, was
making the trip up on No. 6 to accept
a position of fireman on the road.
Drs. Edwin Gladmon, K. M. Fergu
Bon and A. H. McLeod were quickly
on hand and relieved the injured man
and looked after the dead bodies,
which were taken to Niagara station,
from which point they will be carried
to Raleigh.
Fireman Bames had a piece of 2x4
scantling driven through his body,
which had to be sawed off at the back
and front before the body could be
iressed, while Engineer Wall was entirely
disemboweled. His leg was
broken and bis head smashed. Engineer
Brewer was found with his face
-irectly in front cf the big fire-box of
the engine on No. 6. his hands burned
iff and his flesh cooked In steam and
burning coals.
The track was terribly blocked and
:9m up and parts of tlw engines were
Found several hundred yards away,
while the tender of the flying engine
backed away about two miles after
:he collision. Two wrecking trains are
hi the scene |pd a large force of men
ire tracking around the wreck, so that
t is expected to get trains through
jy midnight or possibly an hour or
:wo later. The railroad company will
)e fortunate if it can find room enough
n this deep cut for an extra track,
is It is very narrow and one of the
argest freight engines is lying directy
crossways of the cut.
The freight train was loaded mostly
vith lumber and crossties and was
.arrying a few well-built steel coal
>ars. which were almost a total loss
rrain No. 38. the Atlanta special, got
hrough before the wreck, but the Sea>oard
limited from Jacksonville, Fla.,
n charge of Conductor Shannonlouse,
is tied up at Southern Pines.
Will Press Investigation.
Washington, Special.?At the cabilet
meeting some consideration was
jiven to affairs in the Postofflce Bejartment
but no definite action was
aken. The investigation, it was stated
igain, would be pressed until no
race of suspicion auacnea to me ukmrtmcnt.
While absolute conflrmaion
of the statement is withheld, it
s reasonably certain that Holmes Conad.
former solicitor general of the Delartment
of Justice, and Charles Bona
>arte. have been selected by the De
lartment of Justice to assist the Asistant
Attorney General in the proseution
of .the postofflce cases.
Col. Adcms Will Act.
Washington, Special.?The War Deartment
designated Col. H. M. Adams
o act as the representative of the govrcment
in the matter of the transfer
f the Eads property at New Orleans,
'olonel Adams will pay the money appropriated
by Congress for this purose
to the Eads heirs. This formaiity
; necessary to comply with the laws
f Louisiana.
Grand Jury Investigates.
Washington, Special.?Having reurned
indictments against the parties
oncerned in the transactions of the
iroff Brothers, involving street letter
ox fasteners, the grand Jury has been
the investigation of other conracts
with the free delivery service,
t is said that the Postofilce Departaent
through its inspectors who have
icen working on the case for some
ime has made some discoveries which
aade it imperative that the grand jury
ake the matter up. The contracts reerred
to pertain to the use of alurai,um
paint on street letter boxes
hroughout the country.
British Bark Sal;.
Pemracola, Fla., Special.?The Brit.v.
Ka?.i- S9 divs nut from
lew York, has arrived at quarantine
ere. The bark had been reported aa
eing missing. The master reports
aving encountered headwinds during
he entire Dassage and on several days
here were dead calms. The passage of
he vessel is the longest on record.
The Bomb Exploded.
Chicago, Special.?Twenty persons
trcre in ured, seven of them severely,
nd the front of a building destroyed
y the explosion of a bomb in front cf
Yed Cummings' saloon. 954 Clybcurne
.venue, last week. John Laxner found
he bomb on his way home from the
ity dump. He carried it to Cummings'
alocn, where he told John McNally to
;ivc a fire-works display. McNally
irilled a hole in the bomb, inserted a
natch and the fire-works arrived at
nee. McNally lost an eye and was
mrned so badly he may die.
BOMB IS EXPLODED
Richmond Street Car Strike Reaches
yft
Danger Stage
WAR-LIKE TIMES IN VIRGINIA CITY
Sheriff of Henrico County Refuses to
Ask For Troops?Alilitary People
Quard Cars.
Richmond, Special?Street cars have
been run on all lines under military
protection. The cars have been manned
by strike-breakers. Two militiamen,
with bayonets fixed, stood guard on the
front and two on the rear platforms of
each car. The power house and supply
depots within the city have also been
guarded by militia and a military guard
has been on duty at the State arsenal,
while sentinels have been posted at car
line crossings. Notwithstanding these
precautions the first car of the Ciay
street line to leave the East End Wednesday
morning was attacked and obstructed
by a mob, and Captain Skippwith,
with" one of the Richmond companies,
was wounded in the leg by a
fragment of bomb exploded on the
track. The car made its way into the
more central part of the city without
further casualties.
The West End car barns are in Henrico
county, outside the city limits, ^
and the sheriff of the county refuses^*--to
ask for the aid of troop3. The barns
are guarded by armed men in the em
ploy of the company and details from
the guard protect the cars between the
barns end the city line. There is much
strike sympathy in both the East and
West Ends, and the greatest danger
points in the present difficulty are
there, the barns being centres around
which disturbers gather. Prominent in
the crowds that hoot and jeer the cars,
the strike-breakers and the militiamen
ere women, the wives and daughters of
the strikers and strike sympathisers.
Six n.-n Injured
Richmond, Special.?Six men were
wounded, two of them seriously, bystreet
railway company guards, who
fired into a crowd of strike sympathizers
at Main and Lombardy streets,
just outside the city limits.
A car guarded by employes of the
company, armed with shot-guns, was
standing at that point. There had been
a big crowd there all the evening. The
company claims that the guards were
first fired on. At any rate, they fired
into the crowd and a brisk fusilade
followed. At least six persons were
struck, and two of them seriously hurt,
being peppered in the back with buckshot.
While this was taking place in the
West End, exciting scenes were enacted
in the East End, where efforts were
made to operat? cars under the protection
of the military. All sorts of missiles
were hurled at the cars and obstructions
placed on the track. Finally
the cars under the pilotage of a detachment
of the Howitbers, with a
Catling gun, were taken to the barns.
All cars were withdrawn from the
streets at 9:45 p. m. for the night.
Five companies of the Seventy-First ^
Regiment, of Norfolk and Newport ^
News, are en route ror ine ciiy iu itenforce
the troops already here, and
ere expected to arrive in the early
morning hours. The mayor has Issued
an address asking women and children
to keep off the streets tomorrow. It
In proposed in the event that the military
are unable at that time to cope
with the mob, to order out the fire department
and have streams from the
hose played upon the disorderly gatherings.
Three of the militiamen were
wounded by the accidental discharge of
a rifle. One of them was taken to a hospital.
but Is not dangerously injured.
At 11 o'clock at night Sheriff Solomons,
of Henrico county, decided to
ask for troops. He made the request
and the Governor issued orders to the
military authorities accordingly. Militia
will therefore guard the cars and
car barns and patrol the lines of the
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as well as within. the city limits.
Late it developed that one of the
street car company's guards at Main
and Lombardy streets, was slightly
wounded in the shooting at that place.
Sergeant Daniel Porter, of Staunton,
was badly hurt by a brick thrown at a
car. He had to be carried into a nearby
residence, where he remains under
medical treatment. The mob in this
case was dispersed by a stream of
water from a fire engine, ordered out
for the purpose.
Officials Arrested.
Toledo, O., Special.?George E. Lorenz
and his wife. Marthia, who were
indicted by the Federal grand jury at
Washington a few days ago in connection
with the scandal in the Postofilce
Department were arrested Wednesday.
They were taken before United
States Commissioner Brough, where
their attorney. John F. Kumler. demanded
the right to a preliminary
hearing. This has been set for 2
o'clock tomorrow afternoon, but it if
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not believed that the reaerm ttUVUVl *
ties will be ready for a hearing at that m
time, and the case will probably be'
continued to a later date. Mr. and Mrs.
Lorenz each gave bond in the sun of
$5,000.
Mexico on Gold Basis.
Mexico City, Special.?It is believed
in well informed circles that
the new modified gold standard, with
a peso valued at 50 cents, will be
adopted by January 1, next year.
Some large transactions involving
heavy investments of foreign capital
have been made on information that
this is the outcome of the present deliberations
of the monetary conference
and the efforts of Mexico's commissioners
abroad.