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WILD RIDE DOWN MOUNTAIN.
Engineer Coble on Runaway.
Asheville, Jan. 17. Engineer
Coble, pulling the throttle of a
westbound freight train on the
Murphy division of the Southern
Railway, had one of the most
thrilling experiences on Balsam
mountain Friday, between Will
ets and Heauty, recorded in rail
way circles here for many a year.
The engineer was on a runaway
train down the mountain, and
while escaping without a scratch
he will perhaps never be able to
forget that wild ride down Bal
sam. All the other members of
the train crew jumped.
Engineer Coble, a stalwart son
of Erin and making his first run
as an engineer, elected - to stay
with the train, for a distance of
perhaps six or eight miles, with
the runaway hitting itup at times
at the rate of 100 miles or more
an hour; worked with the big
machine, and finally getting it
under control, brought it to a
stop. The train's flight, how
ever, was not checked until it had
whipped off five of the seven
cars, practically destroyed the
telegraph office and wires at Ad
die and made kindling wood of a
part of the Addie station.
Crew Jumps To Safety.
According to reliable informa
tion received hereto-day a freight
train of seven cars was passing
over the Murphy di ision west
bound. Engineer Coble was pull
ing the train and, reaching the
top of Balsam, started to ease
down in careful and efficient man
ner. About the time tbe water
the mountain, red, the
wheels began slipping. Soon the
train was gathering headway and
then the crew, realizing that the
thing was from under control of
the engineer, lost no time in
swinging off to safety. Some of
them perhaps had been o i runa
way trains on Balsam before and
they didn't care to go through
another experience. Engineer
Coble, - however, stuck to his post.
He worked manfully at his re
verse and his brakes, but his ef
forts were in vain. The train
kept getting faster. It swung
down the mountain side with a
mighty rush and those persons a
bout Addie station, on a curve
near the foot of the mountain,
hearing the noise but not know
ing what it was, took precaution
and sought places of safety.
Addie Station Destroyed.
And it was well they did. In
an instant or two the engine with
seven cars plunged into sight. It
is said that the thing was going
at 100 miles an hour or more. At
Addie iive of tiie ears were whip
ped oi" like the tail of a kite. One
of the cars was thrown against
the front door of the station and
that part of the building was con
verted into kindling wood. The
telegraph office, instruments and
wires were simply demolished.
The operator or station master
had got away just in the niche
of time. Another car was thrown
into the yard in front of the sta
tion, while others were piled a
bout the place in heaps.
The engine in which sat engin
eer Coble and to which the re
maining two cars were attached
never hesitated. Making the
curve it just kept a-going. All
the time the engineer was work
ing desperately at his brakes and
the reverse. The loss of five cars
didn't seem to disturb him. Past
Addie and on down the track
went the runaway. Two miles
further, with the steep incline
passed, the engineer succeeded
in again bringing his engine un
der control and then to a stop.
He had a frightful ride and a
thrilling experience, but he was
unhurt.
The Asheville division officials
were notified shortly after the
runaway occurred and wrecking
train was sent to the scene. The
runaway happened about noon
and it was well toward nine
o'clock that night before the de
bris at Addie was cleared and
the track made ready for use.
Those who viewed the scene at
Addie yesterday declare that they
have never before seen so com
plete a demolishment.
Battle With IJandlts.
London, Jan. 23. Three per
sons were killed and 21 injured
at Walthamstow, a suburb of
London, as the result of asen
satioml attempt made to-day by
two Russians at highway robbery.
The men were run down and sur
rounded bv a posse, and one of
them finally committed suicide.
The other attempted suicide but
did not succeed, although he is
now lying in a critical condition
at Tottenham Hospital.
Two of their victims, a police
man and a boy of 10. lie dead,
while five of the injued are in a
hospital seriously wounded.
London is breathless at the in
troduction into its precincts of
Russian revolutionary metnrds.
One of the revolvers used by
the men was found to be the
same type as that used by Rus
sian revolutionists, having a
large butt with rest, a long, nar
row muzzle and firing bullets of
the soft nosed, expanding Maus
er pattern.
The bandits held ,up an auto-
wuti at the entrance to the rub
ber works at Walthamstow and
made off with the money. They
were followed by a few employes
and a gradually increasing crowd
of police and civilians, few of
whom were armed.
The police jumped aboard a
trolley car, and the bandits, find
ing themselves closely pursued,
jumped aboard another car and
forced the driver with a revolver
at his head, to send his car along
at full speed.
One of the men ran to the rear
of the car and repeatedly emp
tied his revolver at thp pursuers.
Reinforcements of armed po
lice on foot, bicycles and on
horseback joined in the chase
and fussillades were exchanged
for a distance of a mile.
The car went thundering down
the track with the mounted and
bicycle police straining every ef
fort to keep up with the peace
makers. Nearing the Tottenham
marshes the bandits made the
motorman slow down and, jump
ing off, seized a milk cart and
made for the country district. An
automobile was pressed into ser
vice by the police and it was rap
idly overhauling the assassins
when they took to the marshes.
The pursuit in this treacherous
ground was a difficult one, but
eventually the police succeeded
in overtaking one of the men.
who, finding his position hope
less, turned his weapon upon
himself, inflicting a dangerous,
though not a fatal wound. The
other man, failing to reach Ep
ping forest, took refuge in a cot
tage, which the police, now re
inforced by buckshooters, who;
were in the vicinity, first fusilla
ded and then stormed. They
found the assassin dead on the
floor, he having sent a bullet into
his own head.
Charlie There was a splendid
trick done last evening. I saw
a man actually turn a handker
chief into an egg.
Billv-That's nothing. I saw
a man only about two weeks ago
turn a cow into a field.
Carnegia Medals Awarded.
Pittsburg, Jan. 20. -The Car
negie hero fund commission, at
its annual meeting here to-day
awarded 26 medals, $14,750 in
cash, and pensions aggregating
$565 per month for deeds of valor
investigated since the last meet
ing of the commission last Octo
ber. Joseph A. Forsyth, aged 40
years, of Atlanta Ga., recived a
bronze medal and $1,500 with
which to liquidate a nnrtgageon
his prooerty. Fur yt.h :i Febru
ary 10th, 1907. pullel John C.
Reed, aged 71, from the railroad
tracks just as a train reached the
spot.
For rescuing Carl V. Chalk,
aged 18, and his father, Walter
V. Chalk, aged 38, from drown
ing, on July 4th, 1907, James H.
Archibald, aged 35, of Gates
Tenn., was awarded a bronze
medal and $1,000 to be applied
toward the purchase of a farm.
The younger Chalk had be
come exhausted while swimming,
and hampered his father so much
when the latter tried to save him
that both men would have drown
ed but for Archibald's assistance.
A silver medal and $1,000.00
awarded to James B. Goldman,
of Cambridge, S. C, who risked
his life to save Warren Finley. a
negro section hand, from being
run over by a train near Water
loo, June 29th, 1007. Finley's
legs were cut off but his life was
saved.
A silver medal and $50 a month,
with five dollars for each depen
dent child under 16, was award
ed BSsa Omner, of New Orleans,
widow of Frank Omner, f?ho
ist his nfe rescuing John' Levi
(colored) who was overcome by
sewer gas October 22d, 1907, in
a citv sewer.
Cleansing His Conscience.
There was once in Boston an
old codfish dealer, a very earnest
a:id sincere man, who lived pray
erfully every day. One of the
great joys of I.h life was the fam
ily worship hour. On year two
other merchants asked him to go
into a deal with them bv which
they could control all the codfish
in the market, and greatly in
crease the price. The plan was
succeeding well, when this good
man learned that many poor per
sons in Boston were suffering be
cause of the great advance in the
price of codfish. It troubled him
so that he broke down, in trying
to pray at the family altar, and
went straight to the men who led
him into the plot, and told them
that he could not go orf with it.
Said the old man: "I can't af
ford to do anything which inter
feres with my fa r.ily prayers.
And this morning when 1 got
down on my knees and tried to
pray, there was a mountain of
codfish before me high enough
to shut out the throne of God,
and I could not pray. I tried my
besf to get around it, or get over
it, but every time I started to
pray, that codfish loomed up be
tween me and my God. I would
not have my family prayer spoil
ed for all the codfish in the At
lantic Ocean, and I shall have
nothing more to do with it, or
with any money made out of it."
Selected.
A Religioui Author's Statement.
For several years I was afflicted ith
kidney trouble and last winter I was
suddenly stricken with a severe pain in
my kidneys and was confined to bed
eight days unable to get up wii-hout as
tMHtanre. My urine contained a thick
white sediment and I passed same fre
quently day and night. I commenced
taking Foley's Kidney Remedy, and the
pain gradually abated and finally ceas
fd and my urine became normal. I
cheerfully recommend Foley's Kidney
Remedy. Sold by J. H. Gwyn.
PinealveACTS
Court Stops His Persistent Wooing.
"And it being satisfactorily
shown to the court that the love
of William C. Ragan, party of
the second part, is distasteful
and otherwise objectionable to
Mrs. Elsie Smith, partv of the
first part, it is ordered, adjudged
and otherwise decreed that the
lavishing of the affections of
said William C. Ragan. party of
the second part, toward said
Mrs. Elsie Smith, party of the
first part, is hereby enjoined and
otherwise prohibited. And the
said William C. Ragan, party of
the second part, is ordered to
come into court and show cause
why said decree against his am
orous activities should not be de
clared final."
So the courts of the land and
the State of Ohio heartlessly,
cruelly and with all the stern
ness of their puissant powers
have put to fight, imprisoned,
but not conquered the divine pas
sion of the enraptured Ragan,
writes the Toledo correspondent
of the Chicago Inter Ocean.
Blind justice has ordered that
the faithful and persistent swain
shall no more utter oot-see-003
in the presence of his adored,
shall no more warble lovelorn
ditties to the trumming of his
soft guitar, shall no more shower
her with theater tickets and be
ribboned boxes of bonbons.
And all because the object of
his affections cares not for them
whenthev emanate from Wil
liam C. Ragan. Tis a bitter
world!
Two years ago the sprightly
and comely widow Mrs. Elsie
Smith met the unhappy Rajran.
Sines tHt ill fated hour RTan
i.iT .., 'the ' '"devWea luv"o?
the pretty widow. His visits to
her home number hundreds, his
proposals reach the scores, his
attentions know no bounds.
But despite the ardor and the
persistence of this attack, on her
heart the affections of the widow
remaided intact. And as the
weeks wore on the more distaste
ful became the attentions of her
admirer.
"Get out," she ordered as h
proposed for the three hundred
and thirty-eighth time last week.
"If you run me away I'll take
carbolic acid, shout my head o!f
and jump in a been- vat," h.)
threatened.
"I'll give you a $100 if you
don't," she promised, and sur
reptitiously winked the other
eye.
"Under those conditions I'll
postpone suicide until you refuse
me tomorrow night," replied the
would-be benedict.
"Here's the check. On your
way," and as her admirer disap
peared the comeiy widow's voice
was iicnra sropjrng payment om
the chock over the tvlei!)o:u.
In desperation she appealed to
the courts. Her ietition for it -
junction wai granted but the
order does not extend to prevent
ing Ragan taking his own life.
It is not chronicled in the court
record that the young woman
asked that boon.
She Oidn't Sleep Well.
A woman who lives in an in
land town, while going to a con
vention in a distant city spent
one night of the journey onboard
a steamboat. It was the first
time she had ever traveled by
water. She reached her journey's
ena extremely latigued. lo a
friend who remarked it she re
plied: "Yes, I'm tired to death. I
don't know as I care to travel by
water again. I read the state
ment about how to put the life
preserver on, and I thought I un
derstood it; but I guess I didn't.
Somehow, I couldn't go to sleep
with the thing on."
SAYINGS OF MRS. SOLOMAN
Being the Confessions of the 700th
Wife, as Translated.
Wouldst thou be a bachelor
girl, my daughter? For this is
the great feminine bluff; and no
such thing existeth. except in the
magazines and the imaginary.
u), a Dacneior gin may ot. .
sweet young thing who assumeth
a becoming pose, or she may be
an old maid who maketh the
best of an unbecoming situation;
but a confirmed bachelor girl is
one who hath not married - yet.
For the single life is a perfect
ly lovely thing in story books.
Yea, it is made up of rarebit sup
pers and high art and the admir
ation of the multitude; but in
real life it is a bak hall bedroom
with a gas stove for company
and twenty-five cent table d'hote
for excitement.
Verily, I say unto thee, no wo
man who would not exchange a
type-writer for a cradle, and a
desk for a sewing machine, and
an easel for a cook stove, and an
armful of diplomas for an armful
of babies and a latch key for a
nice pair of broad shoulders if
the right man oiTered them to
her.
Yea, observe how easily a lady
college professor droppeth her
Hebrew and her Greek and
learneth to talk baby-talk.
And mark how willingly a lady
doctor stoppeth rolling pills for
the pleasuriroI!ing a baby
carriage.
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bout its rf
tie it yjf
thou canst
fiot run try fingers
through its nair. nor call it fun
ny nicknames, nor cry upon its
coat lapel. Neither canst thou
worry about it, nor wait upon it,
nor "fus" over it. Verily, verily
a woman must have something
to coddle and a man is better
than a teddy bear. Solah!
For Apartment Houses In City.
Winston-Salem Journal.
With the intention of con
structing mlol apartment
houses, Mrs. R. J. Reynolds yes
terday through Mr. Jas. S. Dunn
purchased from Maj. T. J. Brown
a lot on West End. The lot,
which fronts on Fifth street, is
150 feet wide and extends back
to 5 1-2 street a distance of 200
feet. The price paid was $8,000.
Mrs. Reynolds proposes to
erect the most up to date apart
ment houses possible. They will
be furnished with every conven
ience, including janitor service
and heat. This will be the first
real ambitous attempt to erect
modern apartment houses in the
city and they will be similar to
the larger cities. The plans for
the houses have not been drawn
vct-
It is interesting to note in con
neetion with the purchase of the
lot by Mr&. Reynolds from Maj.
Brown tnat he purchased this
piece ot property in 88o from
the congregation of the Moravian 'Statements upon whac has al
Brethren for the sum of S320. ! ready been accomplished by the
Threi years agj Maj. Brown
sold a slice of filtv feet fronting
nn Fifth tn Mr T. iLhrrr,n w
$1,20J, and yesterday disposed
of the remaining 150 feet frQnt
for ?8.000. Real estate property
has increased at practically the
same rale throughout the city.
PIGS.
Fine Polan China and Mammoth rigs ready
to ship. Order before they are picked over.
JOHN A. YOUNG,
Greensboro, N. C.
The Tactful Suiter.
Harper's Weekly.
A youth in Trenton, whose de
votion to the young woman of his
choice has encountered many ob
stacles during his long courtship,
recently sought her out with this
, encouraging statement:
i mi ins. k a au ngni now,
Alice. I managed to get access
to your father the other day and
while he wouldn't exactly give
hi3 consent I rather imagine I've
made some headway. He bor
rowed $10 of me. Surely he can't
stand me off much longer after
that."
The young woman sighed.
"Yes, I've heard about," she said
"and I think you've made an aw
ful mess of it. Father mention
ed the $10 and remarked that I'd
better give you up you were too
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easy.
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