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THE RALEIGH EVENING TIMES: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23,' 1CC3. M U iiFHuiiY EIRLE VERY NERVOUS hi to Vstch Elm to Keep Mb Frca Killing Hioself THE SENTIMENT BITTER Spent Night in Jail and Had to be Closely Watched to Prevent Him Killing Himself When First Ar rested For Beating His "Soul Mate" He Appeared Indifferent Bat Later Became Very Nervous Pen alty for Crime Five Years' Impris onment or $1,000 Fine Wife Goes Home. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Goshen, N. Y., Aug. 26. Ferdi nand Pinney Earle, the eccentric and wealthy artist, who is in Jail here, charged with beating his wife and "soul mate," formerly Julia Kuttner, was closely watched by extra guards all through the night for fear he would attempt to end his life. ; Earle is completely unnerved and it is expected that he will provide the $500 ball required before many more hours. During the -early part of the night he appeared to be abso lutely indifferent and languid, but when lights were put out, he became nervous. He began pacing his cell, and pulled at his long hair and rubbed his chin. The very fact that he had pleaded guilty to the charge of beating his young "affinity" wife Seemed to weigh heavily on him. The penalty for this crime is five years' imprisonment or $1,000 fine, at the discretion of the court The feeling against Earle all through Monroe and Central Valley is bitter. Since he cast off his first wife and little son 'to marry Julia Kuttner, whom he called his affinity, he has been shunned by his ' neigh bors. ,. . Mrs. Earle, with her baby, born on August 4, in her arms and accom panied by her mother, Mrs. Kuttner, and her aunt, Mrs. Inez Barry, left Monroe last night after Earle had been thrust in prison. They repre sented that they were going to the Kuttner home in New York. An .' examination to determine Earle's sanity will be made today. The general opinion Is that he is crazy. The Earles, it is said, have not lived happily for weeks. It is de dared that before the baby, a boy, was born, Earle was given to violent fits of temper and that he abused Mrs. Earle fearfully. After the birth of the baby the art ist became even more bitter against his "soul mate." Great Damage to tbe South. (Continued from First Page.) 66, northbound, ran into an under mined trestle on the southslde of Congaree river bridge, derailing the engine and two coaches. The colored fireman was slightly Injured, being caught between the engine and ten der. The passengers were trans ferred and continued their Journey, The tracks will be blocked probably for 12 hours, as the trestle is in DO YOU KNOW What tremendous results an advertisement In THE EVIHING TELES Wonld bring yon? The favorite paper for the people anid the favorite paper for the advertiser. HAVE YOU EVER , Thought that it takes continuous "hammering" to bring results? TRY A CONTINUOUS advertisement In The Evening. Times and watch i how your trade will increase. Thone as to calL Capital' City Phone, 178. , Raleigh Phone, 17. GEO. C HALL, - ; Adit Manager. ' grave danger of being completely washed away. DAMAGE IN SPARTANBURG. City In Darkness Last Night, the . Power and Gas Plants Being - Flooded. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Spartanburg, S. C, Aug. 26. The (irMba on?' ilvarfl In thta pnimtv onTl H,wi ni,ht . reSn'fur days and there Is a ai. .Mt i damage has been done, and if rain continues to fall through today, havoc will be wrought throughout the entire Piedmont section. . Spar tanburg wad In darkness all of laBt night, power and gas plants having been put out of business. The big power plant of the Electric Power Company at Gaston . Shoals, which was only recently installed, is flood ed with water and the steam power plant in the city also is submerged. There are washouts on all railroads leading out of the city and train ser vice has been abandoned. There was a report late last night that Lock hart cotton mill was ser iously damaged by the flood, but early this morning ' the report had not been confirmed. It is known, however, that . Pacolet river, on which the mill is located, is very high. Great fears are entertained for other mills along the river. The newspapers are badly crippled on account of being without power and gas and had to resort to hand composition. v All bridges in the county have been either damaged or washed away. If the flood increases by to night it is feared not a bridge will be left standing. Fields of cotton and corn have been ruined. SAVANNAH FLOODED. River At Thirty-five Feet and Rising Ten Inches An Hour. City May Be Flooded. (By LeasedWirs to The Times.) Augusta, Ga., Aug. 26. At 9 o'clock this morning the water in the Savannah river ' registered at - the lower bridge thirty-five feet, six inches and is rising ten Inches an hour. The rate has been accelerat ed since midnight. Already the mid dle portion of the city adjacent to the river is under water and about Twelfth street the yellow rivulets are appearing on Broad Btreet. The gates at the locks where the city's canal begins have been locked since last night, but the swollen stream is four feet above the dam, and the ca nal banks are being patrolled by city workment. As the canal is much above the city level a break . would mean an instant flooding of the greater portion of the city. All cot ton mills are shut down and the wa ter covers their lower floors as well as the wheel, pit floor of the power house. Damage on the farms below the city is great, as much of the corn crop had not been gathered. The crest of the rise is not expected until tonight. All communication with Charleston and Columbia have been cut off and news from the Car olina districts is not obtainable at this time. LOSS OVER A MILLION. .Mill Owners, Railroads, and Farmers Chief Sufferers Steel Bridge Expected to Go. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Columbia, S. C, Aug. 26 The steel railroad bridge over the Wateree river on the Seaboard Air Line, near Camden is expected to collapse at any moment. Traffic over this route has been abandoned. The water in this district is the highest In several years. The weather today continues rainy and all streams are rising rapidly. It is feared that railroad transportation will be cut off from Columbia unless there is considerable let up in the downpour. The telephone and telegraph wires in all directions are down and com munlcation is difficult with outlying sections. The flood so far has entailed a loss in this state that will exceed a million dollars, cotton mill owners, railroads, and farmers being the chief sufferers, Owing to the difficulty of communi cation the receipts of returns, from yesterday's primary are coming In very slowly, and it will be probably many hours before anything official can be obtained. ENTIRE CITY FLOODED. Augusta Under Water All Street Cars Tied Up Damage Heavy. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Augusta, Ga., Aug. 26 At 10:00 o'clock this morning the water has spread over the central part of the city and everything is being flooded. There is now no doubt that the entire city, will bo under water by nichtfall. Tbe latest figures from the country where the Savannah draws its supply, are that over seven inches of rain has fallen in 24 hours. This is so heavy that ordinary caluculattons are upset . The city engineer estimates the maximum at 37 feet, five inches, to be reached early tonight The weather observer coincides in this guess. The damage will be' very heavy, it being Impossible for the merchants to move all their stock in time to escape dam age. 'A'-"- . - '- ! The overflowing waters art added to by the constant downpour. . . All. street care are tied up, the I power-house being flooded, no Augusta-Aiken cars having arrived this morning, .which hat tied np many Augustans who reside across the river in North Augusta. , WORST IN TEARS. Water. Thlrty-Three Feet in Roanoke at Weldon. Great Damage. Special to The Times) Weldon, N. C, Aug. 26. Weather conditions here .are the worst in years. Rain 'has fallen steadily for a , heavy freshet in Roanoke riven, The water at this hdur 11 o'clock is thirty-three feet above "gauge and much of the low lands is under water. Considerable damage to corn and cotton must follow.- ; The lands have been badly washed and farmers are in low spirits. It is eaed tha rver wlu 8 much higher before morning. ALL BRIDGES WASHED AWAY. Seaboard Loses Two Bridges in El bert County. Passenger Train Marooned Between Two. Breaks. rf (By Leased Wire to The Times) Elberton, Ga., Aug. 26. As a re sult of the twenty-four hours of con tinuous rain all of the bridges in El bert county have been washed away including the fine new steel bridge across Broad river connecting Elbert and Wilkes counties. The Seaboard- Air Line bridges across the Savannah and Broad rivers are both gone. A freight train passed over the latter five minutes before it floated away.- Passenger train No. 52 of the Sea board Air Line is caught on this Bide of the Savannah river. An attempt was made to get back to "Elberton but it was found that the trestle over Beaver Dam Creek had been carried away. The passengers are maroon ed between the two breaks. The Elberton electric plant was completely destroyed and the city will be in darkness for many nights. The city waterworks plant is sub merged but it is hoped that it will be saved. The property Iosb in this section is incalculable. All bottom crops are submerged and in the uplands crops have been badly damaged by the downpour. CONFESSED TO WIFE-MURDER. Following a Quarrel He Attacked Her With Shears. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Wheeling, W. Va., Aug. 26 At Moundsville yesterday afternoon, Al bert Williams, who had been arrest ed, suspected of murdering his wife, confessed the crime. He said he came home late and his wife reprimanded him. A quarrel followed and she struck him with a chair rung. He then grabbed hex, forced her down on the bed and se curing a pair of large shears, disem bowelled her. The body of the wo man was found the following day and Williams was arrested, suspected of the crime. At the time of his ar rest he said that his wife had in jured herself by falling on a butcher knife. The body was horribly hacked about the abdomen. , STANDARD OIL SPREADING. Acquires Control of Gas Corporation in Pittsburg. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 26. Sales of stock on the Pittsburg stock ex change yesterday disclosed that the Standard Oil Company is seeking to acquire control of the Union Natural Gas Corporation, Theodore N. Barns dall, president ,and is willing to ex pend in the neighborhood of $7,000, 000 to accomplish its purpose. The gas corporation through its underlying companies, now holds 237,411 acres , in Pennsylvania and Ohio and has a half interest In 5 801 acres in West Virginia. . AMAZED THE EXHORTER. While Preacher Was Inviting Peni tents to Come Forward Girl Laid ; . Baby on the Altar. (By Leased Wire to The Times) St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 26. At' the close of religious exercises in the Union Mission last night, while John Hutcherson, of East St. Louis, Ills., was pleading with an audience to come forward to the mourner's bench and seek forgiveness for their sins, a girl, twenty years old,, went forward, laid her month old baby, on the altar, denounced the exhorter and fled. "Here is yonr little burden of Bin," she said to the man who had invited the repentant to come ward. .' .' for- CONSTIPATED? HEADACHE? US BARRED FROM THE CITY Residents Use forcible fleaos to Keep Them Out of White Section WILL DRIVE THEM OUT Ropes, Trees, and Shot-Guns Urged As a Means to Keep Springfield Negroes Ont of White Residential Section of Cliioago Improvement Association Takes Stand to Keep Them Ont Real Estate Agents Who Rent to Negroes Will Be Blacklisted. (By Leased Wire to The Times) Chicago, Aug. 26 Antipathy to negroes broke forth in violent form last night in Gage Park. RopeSy trees, and shot-guns were urged as means to prevent colored families from settling in that part of the city, which now is occupied by white resi dents exclusively. "With a shot-gun or revolver in every house and with a plentiful sup ply of rope and trees the people of Gage Park will soon rid itself or the 42 families of Springfield negroes which two ministers propose to bring here," declared J. "J. Peiter, secre tary of the Gage Park Citizens' Im provement Association, at its meet ing, which stopped its routine bus iness long enough to enter into a dis cussion of the race question. Those in attendance became consid erably excited when it was made known that two ministers, whose names were not mentioned, were at tempting to collect money to build a church in Gage Park for the negroes whom they expected to bring into the district. " It was finally decided that the sen timent of Gage Park, as represented in the hall, was against the bringing of the negroes to Gage Park, and that j an real estate agents wno sen or rent , houses to negroes in the district will ' be blacklisted. ! Worst Damege in Years From Rains (Continued Prom First Page. ; Grave fears are felt for the safety of the mill. Walnut Creek. Walnut creek, usually placid and slow, is now fast and angry. It Is only up to one bridge, the Holloman road bridge. At the pump house on Fayetteville road the creek Is 10 or 12 feet higher than high-water mark, and will probably reach 18 feet. The bridge is in no danger, There is one sheet of water three-quarters of a mile wide or more, where the South ern railroad crosses Walnut creek be tween Fayetteville and Holleman roads. -V Swift Creek. Swift creek is raising thunder with the bridges, crops, and everything else in its. reach. The bridge on the Holly Springs road is gone and all other bridges are imperiled. The ru ral carrier cannot pass this creek. Railroads Tied Up. The Seaboard, Raleigh & South- port, and the Norfolk & Southern have annulled trains. The Raleigh & Southport has annulled all of their trains on account of washouts all along the line. Water Is waist deep over .the tracks near the Cape' Fear river. . ' The Norfolk & Southern's track is under water for about two miles at Marsh's creek bridge. The track is also submerged about two . miles be low the Junction. Parts of the bridg es over Marsh's cheek and the swamp below Marsh's creek are reported to have been swept away, All trains on this road have also been annulled. Their whole trouble is between Raleigh and Wendell , beaDoara oincials have an nulled all southbound trains leaving Raleigh. Tbe Cape Fear at the rail road bridge has passed the danger ous stage. The bridge is expected to be swept away any time. There are washouts on tbe Seaboard beteween j Hamlet and Columbia, compelling all trains to come to a stand-still The Southern road is faring the best thus far. No washouts have been" reported as yet The officials are taking all precautions to prevent accidents. Track-walkers are.: out one mile being assigned to each man. The excursion to Ashevllle will ' run tomorrow regardless of the weather. ' All wires along the 8. A. L. south of Raleigh are down. The northern part of the line Is all right Rural Route. ' V All of tbe rural carriers were forced to return today on account of high water and no bridges: D. C. Beck, who supplies the north eastern section of the county, was forced to turn around at Crabtree at the Wake Forest road crossing. The water there Is several feet higher jhaa yesterday. l 7 : ' i W a i! i, t j 1 ii) l..ftM""""iiiiiininnj fri 'III I.. I. ..i. tt: fiRlMllfitl'iu ALCOHOL 3 PXB CENT. AVegetablerVepjrafionCris-1 ttnguStwpaciBaadlkwW msi ft.; Promotes DigestloiiJChcerfU-j itess and BestjContalns ntfflgn OaumJorpWae nortfueraLg NOT NARCOTIC, Apnfed Remedy forCftnsflp- nan .aour aunuKu.i;iaiuua ness andLoss orSEHEP. ffcSknfe Signature of " NEW YORK. Exact Copy of Wnpper. SATURDAY EVENING CAPTTAL1 RALEIGH, N. C. An up-to-date weekly newspaper, published . and delivered in all parts of the State on Saturday. Contains all the State and Na tional News and all the news of the Cap- ital City for the week. Special news fea tures to suit all classes of readers. 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"THE FIRING LINE" ROBERT CHAMBERS - - $1.20 ALFRED WILLIAMS Sc.CO'S. . i The carrier on route No. 4, who supplies Swift Creek township, can get no further than Swift creek. The bridge is down. R. E. Murray, supplying southern part of the county, turned around at Swift creek, below Yates' pond. Wa ter up over the bridge. J.', E. . Rudy, whose route lies through the northwestern portion of the county, was stopped by the usual ly calm Beaver dam branch. V , :. Joe Norwood got as far as Manly branch, this side of Crabtree. He re ports that Manly branch looked more Ilk A a river thnn a hrnni-h. '"!' The prospects are now for one of j the most disastrous floodr the Caro- j Unas have ever experienced. Th are is no sign of fair weather, All 13 in 1(1 II I J i Tho Kind You Have Always, Dough! Bears the Signature of In Use lor Over Thirty Years m in fit ecimuir MMMMT. i streams are higher than ever before. Should the heavy rains continue the 1 damage to property and crops will be m Inestimable. ' ' , All farms in this vicinity have suf fered more or less, especially the ones on a creek or river bottom. ) Tbe farmers, whose crops are not hurt, cannot get to town to sell their pro duce. ....:' Thirty Miners Entombed. (By Leased Wire td The Times.) McAllister, Okla., ; Aug. 26. A . mine explosion ; occurred In coal mln No l at Hadley, Okla., near here this, afternoon. Thirty miners art said to have been entombed. , 7 f
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