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Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-09-26

i"CHCyNCWo VI JHe DOuleS we've re-
moved to Concord during the day.
The most seriously injured who
we're taken to the Margaret Hitch
cock hospital, at Hanover, N. H., in
clude an unknown boy with both
legs broken and arm torn out and
head injured. dying. So.
Mrs. S. Saunders, Nashua, head
and back injured.
Mrs. C. n. Saunders, Nashua,
wounds on head.
Mrs. c. Saunders, Nashua, contus-
ions on face. OH
Miss d. Saunders, Nashua, internM
injuries.
Fred Saunders, Nashua. shoulder
injured. i..d
Mrs. Hester Saunders, Brockton,
Mass, head and back injured.
Charles st. Pierre. Isle Verte.
Que, internal injuries.
Arthur jacques, Milbufy, internal
injuries.
E. A. Batchleder, Somerville. an
kle broken.
Philip Gagmon. Sherbrooke, inter
nal injuries.
John Barrett. Manchester, N H.,
head and breast injured.
Miss Abby Jansen, Nashua, broken
frontal bone
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-09-26
POSED AS MERMAID.
In a Lilly Pond and Photographed by
photographer.

The fashionable North Riverside
Park district of Wichita, Kansas was
thrown into a turmoil when the res
idents saw a young woman scantily
clad, posed in a lily pond, while
nan with a large camera made sever
III exposures. Twenty-Five calls were
.eceived at police headquarters and
he people rushed out OF their houses
o the spot. The girl, Miss Mona
layton, nineteen years old, was sent
ZONE. and the photographer, j. j.
Todd was arrested.
Todd said that he wanted picture
o enter in a Photographic contest.
lie said he wanted to take the pic
'ure of the girls head and shoulders
nd convert it into a picture OF
mermaid basking in pond of lines.
Women who discovered the photoS-
~apher at work declare they found
her clothing on a park bench. The
police have taken charge OF Todd
camera, and the plates he made
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-09-26
NARROW ESCAPE.
A York County Man Had Close Call
With Train.

A dispatch from Rock Hill to The
State says Mr.. w. Edwin Walker of
the Neely's Creek section is suffer
ing from bad leg sprain which he
received in an accident which mar
rowly missed being a fatal one for
him. He was driving to Leslie Sta
tion with pair of horses attached to
his wagon and the early morning
passenger train having just passed
the crossing not more than the fourth
of a mile distant he had no idea that
another train was near. He proceed
ed on his way and when almost up
on the crossing, he saw approaching
and engine and cab. He was upon
the rails and so he whipped up in
the effort to clear the track before
the engine passed.
Just before the cowcatcher struck
the rear of the wagon Mr.. Walker
jumped and was not struck by the
train. but the wagon was thrown up
on him, injuring him severely. The
train was a special one, otherwise
the injured man would have been
more upon the alert.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-09-26
DEATH OF A LARGE WOMAN.
She Weighed Seven Hundred and
Twenty-Five Pounds.

So large that her casket could not
be taken in a hearse, but har to be
removed to a cemetary on a truck
Mrs. Walter Short, aged 38 years,
who weighed 725 pounds, was buried
at Smyrna, Delaware. Fourteen pail
bearers were necessary. Over 900
persons witnessed the interment, the
corpse being the largest ever buried
in Delaware.
Mrs. Short, who lived on a farm
near Smyrna, was the largest woman
in this part of the country. She was
afflicted with tumors, which grew to
gigantic proportions. This did not
cause her death, however, she having
dropped dead last Friday from heart
disease.
The woman was short OF stature,
but her arms were forty-six inches
in circumference. The casket was
but four feet six inches in length,
but was three feet FIVE inches in
width. The combined weight of the
corpse and casket was 925 pounds.
Mrs. Short was able to move about
freely until the day of her death. The
casket was one of the largest ever
made in this country.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-09-26
TERRIBLE DISASTER
On Board Of a Large Japanese
Battleship.
fTarty OF the Officers and Enlisted
Men Killed and Wounded by the
Accident. :.


A dispatch from Toxic tells of q
terrible disaster on a Japanese wsr-
ship. The dispatch says forty OF the
crew including nine officers. were
Killed and injured on board the Jan
anese battleship Kashlma by the ex-
plosion of 12-inch shell within the
shield after target practice near Kure
at p m, on SEPTEMBER 9.
The Kashima. under command of
Capt. koizumi, reached Kure a, 6
p M, where the wounded were ,lac-
ed in the hospital, The fatalities in
cluded a lieutenant, two cadets and
one staf officer, the rank and name
OF whom is not given.
The exact detail regarding the eff
1ects OF the explosion are lacking
nut 1t was terrific and the shin is
BADLY damaged. A majority of the
bystanders were fearfulIy mutilated
me cause of the explosion is under
investigation.
IL occurred inside OF the shield of
the starboard after 10-inch gun. II
was not the shell which exploded but
powder which evidently caught fire
from the gas emitted from the
breech when opened for the purpose
or ploading the gun. The hull of
the Kashima is not damaged.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-09-26

seif-government. we shall lose the
substance of liberty and nothing Du'
the shadow will be left. When states
are hampered by federal interference,
when the people are harrassed an1
plundered by corporations. we must
look ahead and steer away from dis
aster.
do not think there is any likell-
hood of war with Japan. japan IL
too busy heading off bankruptcy 10
think about fghting us. Ii mlgh'
he dificult If we were prosecuting
Japan like Russia did, when Japan
ese national pride would Immediately
mt them to fight If they were on
their knees when the scrap began
Occurrences in British Columoia
md the Dominion of Canada and the
demand for exclusion will heip out
in settling the question. Japan is
not going to rear up and tear around
with her ally, England, and when
she gets through pleading with Eng
land they won't try to blum old
Uncle Sam. The Japanese diplomats
are acute and alive men, and, oil
course, they are not going to be dis
advantaged by us IL they can help IT.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-09-26
RESISTED ARREST.
Man and Woman Wounded by
Constable Near ParIer.
The Trouble Over the Contract Labor
Law-The Officer Shot to Save His
Own Life.

Law-The Officer Shot to Save Hi.
Own Life.
A shooting ARRAY occurred nea,
Parler on Wednesday. AS result oi
the shooting, Charles Watson, color
ed, is painfully but not seriousl,
wounded, and his wife who was also
wounded may die. They did moi
only resist arrest. but attempted tc
cut and shot the constable who wen,
to arrest them.
| 1t appears that Watson was under
contract with Mrs. M. l.. Fielder OF
Parler, but learning of the recent
decision on the labor contract law
moved away leaving a debt behind
Mrs. Fielder sent her son to see Wat
sosn. who refused to pay the account
| and in the meantime returned to
| Mrs. Felder's place and gathered the
| extra crop upon which Mrs. Fielder
had claims.
Mr.. d. p. Dantzler, a son-in-law
| collect the account, but Watson re-
fused to pay it in insulting terms. A
warrant was issued before Magistrate
T. M. Fielder for Watson's arrest, and
| also search warrant for the cotton.
Constable w. c. Griffith and Mr..
d. p. Dantzler were sent to arrest
Watson and take charge of the cot
| ton.
The latter proved to he in hiding
in woods neal his house. These
gentlemen acting under the search
warrant proceeded to seize the cotton
| when Watson came up. Constable
Griffith attempted to arrest Watson,
who with opened knife advanced
upon the officer.
Mr.. Griffith fired to scare the ne
gro. who made a dash for Mr.. Gri-
fifth. but the next shot the officer S
aim was more steady and the negro
was shot in the thigh. While this
was happening Watson's wife was
standing in the door, and her shot
gun was leveled on Mr.. Dantzler, but
before the weapon was discharged,
Mr.. Dantzler fired at the woman, the
ranging downward.
Her wound is regarded as serious.
No further resistance was offered and
the wounded negroes were attended
by DR.. P. l.. Fielder. Watson was
taken in charge by Constable Girl
fifth and Mr.. Dantzler and was lodg-
ed in jail at Orangeburg. Watson
and his wife moved to Parler from
Wedgefield early in January.
Judge Brawley's decision still
gives trouble. 1t has caused the
death of several persons. The negroes
seem to have gotten 1t in their heads
that they have a right to shoot down
constables who attempt to arrest
them, but when one or two of them
get their necks cracked for murder
ing constables they will realize their
mistake. If the woman dies she has
nobody to blame but herself and hus-
band as the both resisted arrest of
a legally constituted posse and at
tempted to murder the people COM
posing it.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-09-26
NURSE, WIFE AND WIDOW.
The Unusual Experience of Young
New York Woman.

To have been nurse and bride and
widow all within few hours is the
unusual experience of Mrs. Alfred
Adler OF New York Mr.. Adler was
wealthy Broadway glove manufac-
turer
He was taken with typhoid fever
on the way back from a trip to Yel-
lowstone Park with his fiancee, who
was Miss Joanna Hartung of New
York and a party of friends.
On being taken to the hospital,
Miss Hartung. to whom he had been
engaged eight years. became his
nurse. He succumbed to the disease,
but before his death he and Miss
Hartung were married.
The wedding took place at $50
and he died at 10 o'clock. For
three nights previous to his death
Miss Hartung did not leave his bed
side
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-09-26
LARGEST ON RECORD
Many People Killed and Wounded i'm
Climbing the Alps.

A dispatch from Berne, Switzer-
land says the toll of Summer victims
of Alpine accidents is the heaviest
ever recorded. Eighty persons were
killed and twenty two injured in min
ETY. accidents this year, as against the
previous record, seventy. six fatali-
ties in 1906 in seventy one accidents.
Thirty-eight of the eighty persons
killed were guides, thirty-one were
spending vacations in the Alps and
the remainder were native flower
gathers. Three-quarters of the fatal
tiles we're caused by falls over prec-
ipices. The others were due to ava
lanches, snowstorms and lightning.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-09-26

In its daily consular and trade re
port of "Wednesday the department
of commerce and at Washing
ton says:
Consul John l.. Grifiths write
that prominence has been given n
the Liverpool newspapers to an an
nouncement OF the sale on that mar
ket OF n sample of five bales of I'M
dian Spence cotton at 10 cents pe|
pound. The consul sends the follow
ing on this subject. concerning whicI
considerable has been printed frori
consuls in India:
The sample of cotton referred ID
is the result of three years experj
iments with an indigenous Indial
cotton by j. r. Spence, formerly
member of the Liverpool Cotton as|
sociation. The product is stated I'd
be strong and wiry, with a staple oi
l to l IA inches in length. 1t Is
suggested that the sale of the sample
OF Spence cotton" at the prioe named
indicates important possibilities in
the vast cultivabie area of India. A
local paper says:
There are now considerably
over 10000 trees on Mr.. Spence
plantation at Deesa, Bombay presi.
dency, in a most fourishing condi.
ton. growing to a height of from G
to feet, full of buds and bolls and
bearing cotton daily. The yield OF
the first year has proved to be 1-2
ounces per tree. and as there are ovey
5000 trees to the acre, this gives the
first years yield 500 pounds pei
acre. The second years crop has
proved double that of the first
and it increases every year"
This cotton it is claimed is able
to Withstand long periods of drought
and has so far escaped the raVages o!
the troublesome boil worm. The In
dian cotton tree does not appear t.
require much attention after it has
been once planted, and it grows to Il
height of six or seven feet. Its
greatest production is in its third
year. An effort is now being made IN
England to organize a company for
tie production and exploitation o.
this cotton"
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-09-26
WAR STILLl0N.
The Allied Forces HurI Death In
to the Moors
AND MANY ARE SLAIN

A"o rrdhcO-Span1Sh Army DaShet
Upon the Rebel Camp Under Gov
er of Heavy Fog-Many of tn,
MoOrs Are Killed and the Other,
Took to Their Heels and Mad,
Their Escape.
The war between France and
spain on the one side and Morocco
on the other goes merrily on.
The allied Franco-Spanish army
Thursday made a sudden and SUCCESS.
ful move on Taddert where the Moors
were massed in force.
The camp of the latter was DESTROY
ed by bombardment and the enem,
was put to flight, leaving many dean
on the field. The French lost oue
man killed and six men wounded.
The attack was based largely on
she observations of the Moors posi-.
ton from a miliatary balloon. The
allied army which was divided into
two columns. left the camp at six
o'clock in the morning, leaving sew
eral companies Of infantry to defend
the base of Casa blanca.
The first column was composed OF
four companies of regular infantry
several companies of sharpshooters,
a battery OF artillery and all the saw
;.fry. The second column consisted o.
six companies of infantry and n hat,
terry of artillery
The march was carried out under
the cover of a fog until half way IN
Taddert, when the fog lifted and dis.
closed several large bands of the
enemy.
The allied army then charged sew
erai large bands of the enemy at the
point OF the bayonet. The allied in
fantry advanced on the Moorish
camp which was completely DESTROYED
after sharp fight the allied army
advanced to Taddert
After the bombardment of that
place by the French artillery as well
as by the guns of the French cruiser
Clorie which fired rs shells. the allied
infantry advanced on the Moorish
camp where the enemy was max ing a
steadfast stand.
A short engagement followed and
the Moors fled in wild disorder pur-
sued for several miles by the irregu-
lar Algerian calvary in the French
service. The Moorish camp was COM
pletely destroyed. The exact loss Of
the Moors is not known, as they car
ried away many of their dead. The
allied army then returned to Casa
Blanca.
When the Moors saw their camp
in flames they set fire to all the farms
and woods they could reach and soon
the country surrounding Taddert was
covered with smoke and flames.
General Drude, who has recovered
from his attack of fever, personally
conducted the military operations
When disastrously beaten, the Moors
disappeared among the hills.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-09-26
VICTIM OF JEALOUoI.
An Ex-Austrian Army Officer Shoots
Young Lady.

Screaming Julius. you won't kill
me, will you?" Miss Draga Seigel. a
pretty 20-year-old girl, was shot
down early Wednesday by Julius
Hoffman, former lieutenant in the
Austrian army, in a furnished room
at No. 215 West Thirty-seventh
street.
This girl is dying in Bellevue hos
pital from three bullet wounds and
Hoffman is locked up in the Thirty
fifth street police station. Jealousy
led to the tragedy.
The victim is the daughter of a
colonel in the Austrian army who
died recently, leaving her 100000
which she was to receive on her
twenty--first birthday.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-09-26

CLOSE CALL.
A Tiger In the Bedroom When
Nurse Took in Baby.
Grandson Of n Georgia Legislator
Comes Near Being Eaten by the

Comes Near Being Eaten by TIN,
Beast.
A special to the Atlanta Journa
from Columbus, Ga, says the little
son OF Mr.. and Mrs Thomas b. Sladt
came within an ace of being placed
In the mouth of ferocious Mexican
tiger by its nurse a few nights ago
according to a letter that has beer
received in this city from Mrs. Slade
who was Miss Thurza Kirven, daugh
ter OF r. M. Kirven of Columbus
The little one who so narrowly es
capped death Is a grandson OF Hon
James j. Slade, one of Muscogee
connty's representatives in the Geor
gia legislature.
The story is a most thrilling one
Mr.. and Mrs. Slade are in Mexico
where Mr.. Slade is engaged in civil
engineering work. 1t was in the eve
ming the twilight had gathered and
the shades of night had gathered
The nurse of the little one had per-
formed her duty by her charge, by
singing and rocking II to sleep; then
she gathered him in her arms to
carry him to his little bed.
AS she went into the darkened
room and started to lay the little
fellow to rest for the night. she was
arrested by deep growl. The frigh-
tened nurse hurriedly gathered the
In IN
the front porch, which she had but
recently quilted, where Mr.. and Mrs
Slade were sitting and in a voice that
gave every evidence of fright, she
told Mr.. Slade that there was a dog
on the bed.
Mr.. Slade hurrfedly grabbed a
spade with which he had but shortly
before been doing some work in the
yard and went into the room. AS
he did so he noticed two glaring balls
of fire on the bed in his room. He
had no weapon other than the spade.
his pistol being in a room adjoining
the one in which the ferocious beast
had taken refuge. He seized the i'm
plement which he held with firmer
grasp, and boldly went into the room,
Dut strange 10 say the peaSt ala not
attack him. He slipped into the room
where his pistol lay and seizod it.
hurrying back to where the beast
was. and firing at IL. The shot did
not strike vital spot, and the beast
was In a frenzy. 1t began to tear
around the room in n terribly fero-
cious attitude and Mr.. Slade quickly
emptied the contents of his weapon
into its body, killing it.
Later 1t was ascertained that some
soldiers in garrison which had been
located near where Mr.. Slade resided
had had a tiger, which had escaped
from them. 1t 1t believed that the
tiger that was slain by Mr.. Slade
was the escaped pet.
But this fact did not rob his ex-
perience of any OF the excitement at
tendant upon 1t. for he did not know
at the time that it was such, and it
is possible that If the nurse had not
snatched the infant from the bed as
hurriedly as she did, the ANIMAL would
have done 1t great injury. Mr.. SEade
has had the animal skinned and will
preserve the skin as a trophy for his
son.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-09-26
TRAIN RUN DOWN
And Many Passengers Are Killed
and Wounded.
FAULT Of OPERATOR.

A Heavily Loaded Excursion Train
on the Boston and Maine Railroad
Returning From the Canadian
Provinces Almost Telcscoped nv .
Long and Heavily Loaded Freight
Train.
A fearful head-on collision be-
tween the southbound Quebec and a
northbound freight train on the Con-
cord division of the Boston & Maine
railroad occurred four miles north of
Canan Station, VT, early Sunday.
due to mistake in train dispatcher's
orders and from demolished pas
senger coach there were taken "a
dead and dying and twenty-seven
other passengers, most of them SER
iously wounded. Nearly all those
who were in the death car were re-
turning from fair at Sherbrock.
Quebec, 160 miles north.
The conductor of the freight train
was given to understand that he had
plenty of time to reach siding by
the night operator at Canaan Sta
ton. receiving, according to the sup
erintendent of the division, copy OF
the telegraph order from the train
dispatcher at Concord which confus-
ed the train Nos. SO and "a. The
wreck occurred just after the ex-
press had rounded into straight
of track but, owing to the
early morning mist. neither engineer
saw the others headlight until IL was
too late.
According to w. r. Ray. Jr., di-
vision superintendent; ]. r. Crow
ley, the night train dispatcher at
Concord. sent a dispatch to John
Greely, the night operator at Canaan.
hat No. "a was one hour and 10
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-09-26
MARTYR TO SCIENCE.
Major Carroll Succumbs to Third In
oculation from Mosquito.

Major James Carroll. surgeon.
United States Army, who was mem
ber OF the commission sent to Cuba
to study yellow fever just after the
close OF the Spanish war. died at his
home in Washington, martyr to
science. 1t was his commission that
fixed definitely on the mosquito as the
medium of TRANSMISSION in yellow few
er.
DR.. Carroll allowed himself to be
bitten by mosquito that had been
infected from three distinct yellow
fever cases. He developed the dis
ease four days after being bitten. His
last illness was the direct result of
his work in the study Of tropical dis
easJs.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-09-26
A FATAL JUMP.
Became Panic Stricken and Plunged
From Stone Barge.

Six Italian laborers employed in
the new government dam in the AL
legheny river at Aspinwall, Pa, lost
their lives Thursday evening when
they became panic stricken and leap
ed from a fat boat on which they
we're taking some stone from a dam.
The men jumped from one end OF
the boat into 4 feet of water instead
of stepping from the other end to a
sand bar.
Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-09-26
Wholesale Arrests of the AlIeg-
ed Grafters In Pennsylvania.
ROBBED THE STATE.
Some High Officials Charged With
Crime-Alleged in the Indictments
That Five Millions of the Total
Was Purely Graft-The Names of
Those That Are Under Arrest for
the Steal.


The long expected arrest of those
held to be responsible for the frauds
committed in the furnishing and dec.
Grating of Pennsylvania $4,000.
600 capitol were made Wednesday
the attorney general causing war.
rants to be issued for IA of the IS
persons and firms named by the cap.
itol Investigating commission as be.
ing involved in the scandal. Those
for whom warrants were issued are:
Joseph M. Hudson, architect, and
his active assistant, Sanford B. Lew.
is. both of Philadelphia.
John II. Sanderson, PHILADELPHIA,
chief contractor for furnishings.
| Congressman II. Burd Cassell.
treasurer and executive officer of the
Pennsylvania Construction company
contractors for steel filing cases.
James HI. Shumaker, Johnstown,
Pa, former superintendent of public
grounds and buildings. who receipt
ed for the furnishings.
George F. Payne and his partner.
Charles G.. Wetter. both of Philadel-
phia, builders of the capitol and con-
tractors for the S303,OOO ettic.
William p. Snyder, Spring City,
Pa, former auditor general who ap-
proved the warrants of the contrac-
tors.
William l.. Matthews, Media, Pa,
former State treasurer, who paid the
bills of the contractors.
Charles F. Kinsman, Willis Boi-
leau, John G.. Neider and Geo. K.
Storm, all of Philadelphia, stock
holders in the Pennsylvania Bronze
company, organized by Sanderson for
the manufacture of the $2,OOO,OOO
lighting fixture.
Frank Irvine, auditor in the aud
itor generals's office, who audited the
accounts Of the contractors.
Nearly all the defendants appeared
during the day, waived hearing and
entered bail for their appearance in
the Dauphin county court. The
principal defendants were held in
100000 bail, which was furnished in
every instance by surety companies.
All the defendants are charged
with conspiracy to cheat and defraud
the State by making false invoices,
which were approved by Huston and
Shumaker. Charges OF obtaining
money by false pretense were also
entered against Sanderson, Congress-
man Cassel, Payne and Wetter, it
being alleged they furnished ficti-
tious bills for a greater amount than
they were entitled to receive under
their contracts.
The action was the outcome of an
allegation made by State Treasurer
William II. Berry during the cam
paign of 1905. He startled the State
by charging that, according to the
State treasury books. the building
and furnishings of the State capitol
had cost 81 8, 100000 and not $1,000
900. as had been generally believed,
and that $9,000,O0~ went to furnish
the building.
He charged that s5.O00.0OO of the
$9,000,000 was pure graft" Gov.
Pennypacker, other State officials
and contractors denied the charges,
but the agitation for an investigation
which Immediately began continued
until the legislature appointed com
mission to investigate the whole
affair.