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The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
GOAT HELD BY HORNS
IN A FENCE BEFORE HE WAS RE-
LEASED FROM 1T.
Train Grew 0rs the Augusta Southern
Railroad Stopped the Train and
!. Locsed Him.
Locsed Him.

The Augusta Herald says the tray-
eiers on the Augusta Southern road
are telling quite funny but pathet-
ic little story about goat who butted
into a fence and stayed until the
crew of No. "A came to his assistance.
Col Henry S. Jones, of Herhlz:-
bah, while returning home from his
office in Augusta Thursday afternoon,
noticed a goat patiently standing by
wire fence on Mr.. w. W. Hacks
place at DeBruce, small, station just
beyond the old Richmond Factory
pond, and remembered that he had
seen it there for the third day stand
ing sentinel-like with it's eyes stead
fastly fixed upon the Augusta South
ern tracks which are only few feet
away.
He looked carefully and saw that
the goat had fastened himself in the
wire fence anu had seemed to aoan
don all efforts to- gain his freedom.
The poor goat stood in the one spot
for three days and nights, lonely and
cared for by no one. He was almost
dead of starvation.
Col. Jones, taking pity On the goat,
asked Mr.. M. S. Bridgers, chief train
dispatcher of the Augusta Southern,
who was on the train Thursday af-
ternoon with him, to have the next
train stopped and some of the train
men get off and relieve the animal
from its serious and uncomfortable
condition.
This Mr.. Bridgers did. He noti-
fed passenger train No. IA coming to
Augusta Thursday night to stop near
the Richmond Factory pond where
the unfortunate goat was being held
and to have some Of the crew get off
and let the poor animal loose. The
billy goats life was saved by the
crew Of No. IA.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
Thirty. Three Killed ID Pitched Battle in
Streets Of PuebIa.
ATTACK ON THE TROOPS
Some of the late Rebels in Mexico
Force Some Federal Soldiers TO
Their Quarters Until They We're
Relieved.

A dispatch from Puebla, Mexico,
says fighting between federals and
Maderistas which began Thursday
night and lasted until daylight was
resumed Friday afternoon at Cerro
San Juan, close to Puebla. The bat
tie ragged for three hours and is said
to have claimed more than forty in
killed and wounded.
A party of Maderists who fed from
the bull ring Wednesday night after
stiff fight with the federals, out
the interoceanic railroad at Fabrica
de Matienzo, took possession of
traiL and proceeded to San Marlin,
25 miles to the north, to procure
rifles and ammunition with the a7ow-
ed intention to return and renew the
attack.
The fight, according TO witnesses,
was provoked by three men, one Of
whom was said to be son of Former
Governor Mucio Martinez, who passed
the bull ring where the Maderistas
were quartered and fired into the
place and into the barracks of the
Zaragosa battalion of State troops
opposite.
The fight was taken up by both
sides, each thinking the other had
started the trouble. The fight was
bloody and among the 40 dead were
several women and federal lieu
tenant colonel, Noises Breton. The
affair is laid by the revolutionosts
at the door of the Cientificos, who are
said to have arranged the details in
advance and calculated upon the eff
feet of the preliminary shooting
BY others the clash was said to-
have been provoked by an attack by
a drunken revolutionists upon the
penitentiary with the intention to
liberate the prisoners.
At the first volley the State troops
came out of their quarters but were
triven back by the revolutionists.
The latter kept up a spasmodic fire
battalion Of federals was ordered to-
their relief. The fighting. ceased only
when Gov. Canete appeared with d
white flag and pleaded for peace.
A special train with Francisco L.
Madero on board arrived in the city
soon after the battle began. 1t Is
alleged drunken Maderistas made an
attack upon the penitentiary with
dynamite bombs in an effort to re-
lease the prisoners. The Saragossa
troops stationed close by opening fire.
Maderistas from the bull ring at
tackled the federals and forced them
back into their quarters. A scatter
ing fire was kept up ali night. At
davbreak the Twenty-niEth battalion
came to the rescue of the other fed
erals and used a machine gun to clear
the streets. At this attack the Mad
eristas fed, leaving large number
of dead and wounded in the streets.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
VOTE BAILEY DOWN
THE SENATE KILLS HIS FREE
LIST AMENDMENT.
Hepburn Says the Republican Party
Is on Its Death Bed Because of its
Divided Ranks. !.

Senator Bailey's free list amend
ment to the Canadian recirocity bill
was defeated in the Senate late We'd
day by large majority. So evident
was the margin against it that Mr..
Bailey did not ask for roll call.
Pursuing the policy Of forcing the
opponents of reciprocity to- proceed
without delay, Senator Penrose urs>
ed Senator Bailey to introduce his
wool tarig amendment a tonce. The
latter did 80. lg
"Semi-D borrowed
Democrats" and like terms were ap-
piled to- the Republican Senators sup
porting the bill, by Senator Hey
burn, of Idaho, in speech against
the measure. He declared that when
vote on the bill is taken; al rea.
Republicans in the Senate will be OPP
posed to it, when the "Semi-Demo-
Gratis will vote for it, along with the
."fee-simple Democrats. =
"Row can we educate the leader of
the party back to Republican princi-
ples," asked Senate rNelson, Of Min
nesota.
"Who is the leader of the Repu.-
lican party?" asked Hepburn.
Senator Bailey declared that the
Republicans were in state of mutt
ny and did not know tleir leader.
Mr.. Hepburn declared that the rec
irrocity bill came to Congress wrap
ped in the flag OF pirate.
Here's the bill; now you pass It
without any change" said Mr.. Hey
burn.
He declared that he opposed all
amendments to the bill as we'll as
the bill itself, because "every amend
ment is "a splinter off the Republican
flag staff of protective policy"
"That can't be-" interjected Sena-
tor Clapp; "the flag staff has been
broken and the flag pulled down"
"Ill bet you 100000 Republican
votes that is not true" Said Hey
burn. He added that he believed
that the Republicans would ultimate
ly come together again on protective
principles.
Asked by Senator Bailey how he
vould classify the insurgents, Mr..
Hepburn said they were mavericks"
waiting to be branded:
"If they can be rounded upan the
White House lot, I.know they will be
branded" said Mr.. Bailey.
Senator Hepburn, characterized
some of the progressives as 'pro-
crossing as crab; you can't tell that
they're going" =
.i""This is the deathbed of the Re-
publican party" said Senator Hey
burn, referring to the split in the
Republica ranks, "but it will be the
death. bed of may of the men who are
supporting this reciprocity bill, when
thepeople realize that it means put
ting down of the protective system" "
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
THEY WANT RAIN.
Indian Tribal Customs to Obtain 1t
Are Being Used.

The Creek Indians in the vicinity
of Wetunka, Owla., are resortfng TO
ancient tribal customs in an attempt
to obtain a rainfall.
One of their customs which has
been widely followed in the last week
is to stake mud turtles on the edge o.
stream just far enough away from
the water so that it cannot reach 1t.
It is the Indians belief that the tur-
tie despairing of their attempts to
reach the water invoke the aid of the
"Great Spirit to send rain so that
the stream will be raised and brought
to them.
Since the turtles we're first staked
out several rains have fallen. The
Indians believe their prayers are be-
ing answered and they are fastening
up more turtles to pray for still
greater rainfall.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
WOMAN and MAN DROWN.
Giant Lake Wave Sweeps Them from
Rescuing Arms.

At Auburn, N. Y, gigantic wave
on Owasco Lake swept Miss Adelaide
Mccarthy, IS years old, Iand her cous-
in, Edward George Burke, % years
old, of Philadelphia, from the grasp
of rescuers, to death in the lane on
Wednesday night.
Burke, a good swimmer, had bat
tied for the life of his companion for
half an hour and was preparing to
assist her to the hands Of four men
in a motorboat when wave swept
them away, half filled the boat, ST.
fenced the engine and set the craft
adrift.
"Sfve the girl, fellows, don't try
to take me in," shouted Burke, who
was treading water with the girl in
his arms. A moment later the wave
blotted them both from view. Their
bodies still lie at the bottom Of the
lake.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
WENT DOWN BANK
LADY GUEST AND OWNER ARE
INSTANTLY KILLED.
The Big Touring Car Turned Over
When the Road Bank Crumbled

Suucf
A special dispatch from Henderson
vile, N. c., to the Columbia Record
says:
In an automobile accident Wednes-
day night about two O'Clock, two peo-
pie were killed when the powerful
Ramble machine of Mr.. B. w. Bet
tis went over an embapkment on the
Asheville road, arout two miles from
Hendersonville.
The dead are: Miss Lemie Bow
man, of Sumter, S. c., daughter of
Mr. P. G. Bowman and Mr.. B. w.
Bettis of Trenton, S. c., who was
driving the car.
There were eight people in the car,
taking a ride while returning from
Lake View Hotel after a dance, Miss
Mabel Bowman and Miss Lemie Bow
man with Mr.. B. W. Belts occupied
the front seat. Those in the back
seat were: Mrs P. G. Bowman,
Miss Mary Pitts, Mr. W. Hammond,
Newman, Miss Jennette Henry, Of
Sumter, Miss Rosa Sharfson Of AL
lenale.
Coming to IA steep fill on the newly
built Asheville-Hendersonville high
way, the driver saw vehicle in front
and gave room, going to the right.
The loose dirt caved with the heavy
machine and before he could turn,
the machine turtled, catching the oc-
cupants under the car.
Miss Mabel Bowman, who receiv-
ed serious bruises will recover. Mr..
Belts body was shipped home Thurs
day on the Carolina Special" Of the
Southern railway Miss Sharfson is
a graduate of the College for Women
at Columbia.
Miss Bowman and Mr.. Bettis were
to have been married in IA few weeks.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
POISONED BY INSECTS?
Probable Cause Of Death in Newberry
County.

The sudden death Of four negroes,
three Of them in one family and in
one house near Shelton, in Fairfield
County, is supposed to have been
caused by poisonous insects on black
berries, which the negroes had pick
ed and, eaten a short time before
their deaths. 1t is said that the ne
groes were about grown and two 9TH
ers were smaller. The four had
been blackberry picking in the after
noon and that night, or early the
next morning, according to the infor-
nation, they died. 1t is not known
what else could have caused their
death and the cause stated is gen.
eraly accepted by the community and
is supported by medical opinion.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
False Story Denounced.

A. "a meeting of several Confeder-
ate veterans, members of camp No.
2, Army of the Tennessee, a state
ment, said to have appeared in a
weekly magazine on Juno 10 last In
which it was asserted that school
teacher of New Haven, Conn.,, was de-
ruded, tarred and feathered IN a
public square of New Orleans dur
ing the civil war, was strongly de-
nounced as a falsehcod.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
REAL STORY TOLD
CONNECTED ACCOUNT OF FIRE
SWEPT DISTRICT.
Two Cities We're Wiped Out by the
Flames and Many Were Drowned
to Avoid Awful Death.

Eugene A.. Thomson, business man
and fire ehiaf, who Wednesday night
brought a party Of refugees to De-
troit from the burned towns of Au
Sable and Oscoda furnished the first
connected story. which has come from
the fire swept district.
'HThe first serious fire on the out
skirts of the town was discovered
Sunday and a crew fought it until 1t
was under CONTROL" he said. Monday
nothing was done and on Tuesday,
aided by ligh winds, it burst out
again with great fury.
"The fir:t alarm in Osceoda came
in at 3 o'clork from private house.
President Gowley and myself pro-
cured pals from the Loud Company's g
office to fight the flames that had
spread to the Catholic cemetery. The
next alarm came in from Au Sable
township slab piles. Just about the
time the L ost was working well we
got an alarm from the village of Os-
coda. The first to go was the Oscoda
and Au Sable canning factory and in
a few mirntes the fire was general,
breaking out north, east, south and
west all at once.
"Our equipment of three hose carts
and thirty-six volunteers fought for
an hour and a half with good sup
ply of water.
''Then the flames reached the
pumping station and it went out of
commission. A few inhabitants
among them myself and my father
and mother, went to the steamer Nj
ko, Captai: Meyers, which was lying
at my own door.
"When we left the dock between
200 and 800 people were on 1t, 80 OF
them were nursing children, cut off
from shore, with the tramway over
head afire. There was no escape for
them unless they jumped into the wa
ter. / saw Peter Duval struggle down
the tramway with his aged father
in-law on his back, but the flames
forced him back nnd cannot tell
whether he was saved.
II saw woman with two children
in her arms rush out on the dock.
One of the children fell into the wa
ter and a young man leaped in after
it and saved it.
"When the fire started the wind
was blowing about so miles an hour
from the southeast. Then 1t shifted
20 the westward and the flames COM
pletely swept the towns. Two hours
afterward it shifted to the northeast
and swept the blaze back over the
ground it already had travelled, lick
ing up the whole of Oscoda and Au
Sable city and township for a radius
CT three miles.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
Nerer Been to Town.

Mrs. Polly Monk, s4 years of age
Is dead in North Christian county,
Tenn. She had lived all her life on
p farm, outlived two husbands and
had never seen a train and had an
ig within two miles of Crofton. She
had never seen a train, and had on
antipathy for "new tangled things"
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
Had q Close Call.

When the first execution under the
new law providing for electrocution
in place of hanging took place IN
the State penitentiary at Eddyville,
Ky, recently it came near ending IN
the death of two persons instead OF
one. Prison physician Moss stepped
forward to feel the pulse Of the negro
who formed the first subject before
the current had been turned of and
barely missed having several thous-
and volts pass through his BODY.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
THE GRAY AND BLUE.
President Taft Will Follow Bull Run
Retreat.

When President Taft goes to Ma
nassas, Va, 25 miles southwest of
washington on July 21 to speak at
the. Joint reunion of the blue and gray
armies on the battlefield of Bull Run,
he will travel over the same old turn
pike that thousands of Union SOL
diers used SO years ago. The Presi-
dent will motor down from the capi-
tai with Secretary Hilles and Maj. A.
w. Butt. Much of the ride will be
over the road used by Gen. McDow-
ellis soldiers when the tide Of battle
curned against them and they fled
back toward Washington.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
SENATOR TILLMAN TO SPEAK.
Annual Picnic of Old Soldiers ut
OIanto Saturday.

A dispatch from Florence to The
News and Courier says the annual
picnic for the old soldiers will be
held at their picnic grounds, at
Olanta, in lower Florence County, on
Saturday, July %, at which time
United States Senator Benjamin R.
Tillman and others will make ad-
iresses. The old soldiers picnic at
Olanta is always one OF the great
events Of the year in lower Florence.
Last year there were more than g.
COO people present, and from present
indications there will be not less than
10000 people there this year. Ev-
erybody is invited. to these events,
but the old soldiers come first.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
Killed by Caisson.

Ebert ]. Baum of battery A. Third
U. S. field artillery, was killed dur
ing target practice Thursday near
San Antonio, Tex. Baum was driVed
of caisson. His horses took fright
at the firing and in endeavoring to
keen them from running away Baum
fell from his seat and was run over.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
Drowned Himself.

Ensign R. S. Young, of Concord, n
c., disappeared from the destroyer
Perkins, at the New York Navy yard
Wednesday night leaving a note stat
ing that he intended to drown him.
self. The young officer had slightly
overstayed his shore leave and had
been called upon for an explanation,
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
Refused Tainted Money.

BY a six to three vote the city
council of Jacksonville Florida re-
fused to appropriate money for the
maintenance of a Carnegie public IL
brary. The philanthropist had Of
fered $4,000 if Pensacola would
raise one-tenth OF that amount. The
people turned down the proposition
several weeks ago on referendum
vote. The argument was advanced
that Carnegie's money was "tainted.'
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
Clemson's Big Income.

Clemson College will this year re-
ceive about s26O,OO0 from the sale
of the fertilizer tags. Since the first
of the wear the sum of s242,6S3 has
been received, as compared with
s216,7O3 on the same date of last
wear. The total amount received by
the school last year was S24S,O9S.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
Caught on Firc.

A Washington dispatch says the
House had an exciting scene when
Representative Willis of Ohio, rushed
from his desk, his clothing afire.
Several members came to his aid and
extinguished the flames. He was un-
injured. A box of matches in his coat
aocket caught fire.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
Cha,red Bodies Found.

The charred bodies CT Arthur Per-
"eval, r. prominent farmer, and his
w;:e we've found in the ruins of their
burned farm house near Princeton,
N. c., Wednesday The discovery
vas made by neighbors. An investi-
cation is in progress to determine
under what circumstances the couple
met death.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
Shot by CuDid.

The Greenville Daily Piedmont
says Deputy Judge of Probate James
R. Bates issued a marriage license
to probably the oldest couple that
has received license since the nlai-
riage license law has been in effect in
this State. The two were Henry
Nix, aged "a, ad Mrs. Melvia v.
Rochester, Al, both of the American
Spinning Company's village, near
Greenvil!e.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
They Had Hot Time.

In a free-for-all fight, at an outing
and dance given by some Polish min
ers near Adna, Ohio, three men were
stabbed to death, three more were
fatally injured and about score of
persons, including several women, re-
ceiyed knife wounds.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
MADE his LAST LEAP.
A Real Tragedy Caught on Film OF
Moving Pictures.


A real tragedy was recorded on
the film of a moving picture machine
at New York late Wednesday. AS
Albert Breyton, actor and expert
swimmer and diver, leaped from a
boat in "a Staten Island pond, the
machine was set in motion, its lens
focused on the bubbling surface of
the pond where he had disappeared,
to picture his aquatic feats as he
came to surface. The moments pass
ed and the widening circles from the
impact of his dive touched the shores.
The divers feat had been caught on
the film. He did not appear and is
supposed to have been held fast by
the soft mud at the bottom. The
body was lgrappled for and recovered.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
Convict Was Killed.

While trying to escape from the
State prison at Milledgeville, Ca, w.
H. O'Neal, a white convict, who had
served one year of a three-year SEN
tence, was shot to death By guards.
C'Neal was sentenced for stabblng
MS wife.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
Lots of Cotton Burn.

A dispatch from St. Petersburg,
Russia, says the fire that broke out
among the cotton bales in the port
section Of the city was extinguished
after damage laggregating 100000
had never been to town, although liv-
ed in the loss.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
The Mob Got Him.

Will McGriff, the negro who shot
and killed Will Washington, a white
man, and wounded two colored men,
was arrested lat Boconton Wednesday
afternoon and later killed by mob
estimated at more than five hundred
men.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
Killed by Lightning.

While working in a field near Ar
thur, Tenn. two little boys, Will
Pierce and Link Eads, suffered severe
shocks, and the latter is not expected
to live.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15
Terrific Explosion.

Near Frankfort-on-the-M'ain, Ger
many ten persons were killed and
twenty others seriously injured By an
explosion in dynamite factory We'd
nesday.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-07-15

fight with the flames, in which many
we're badly injured. They lost every
thing but the clothes they wore.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1911-06-01
INDUSTRY
| AND
|llECHANI()
PIANO TRUCK WORKS EASILY
Enables One Man to Transport
Heavy instrument Without Appa-
rent EHort-Worked by Lever.

One man, unaided, can move 4 pi.
ano about with ease II he has one CT
the piano trucks designed by a Wis
consin man. The truck comprises a
supporting frame with big roller
pivoted at the bottom. Handles ex-
tend from the top at right angles end
have braces to help bear the strain
upon them. Across the framework
are two roller pads and at the bottom
are two metal rests. The roller on
which the whole apparatus is moved
is itself movable on the frame, and Is
adjusted by means Of lever operated
by a footpiece. To move a piano a
man rolls the truck up to the in
strument and inserts the metal rests
in the small space between II and the
floor. He then shifts the bottom
roller to the point where 1t will lest
support the weight and by pulling
back on the truck lifts the other side
Of the piano clear Of the floor, the
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1911-06-01

bones OF a prehistoric man buried ITO
feet deep under a terrace, which Is re-
garded. and with good reason. as the
ancient bed Of the Thames river.
There Is no reason to believe that
the elevation or depression of the
land. which leads to the rise and fall
In the level Of the river. has not been
uniform. The past must be judged
from what we know of the present.
and on this basis the land movement
which formed the terrace. and which
has scarcely changed since the Roman
period, has been deposited at the rate
OF one foot In 1000 years, this as
signing a period OF at least 100000
years since the high-level terrace was
laid down at Galley Hill. and the an
.ient Briton was entombed In the
liver bed.
This ancient Briton was FIVE feet
one inch IN height. The neck was
enormously thick and the chest was
narrow and protruding.