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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
Tt'KSHAV, JU.V 10, M«.
FLAGGED THE TRAIN secretary or siati, kooi
AND AVERTED WRECK! STARTING F0R PORTO RIC0
A TERRIFIC RAINSTORM VISITS
RICHLANDS. CAUSING
HEAVY DAMAGE,
Fj • ir! ’n Th<*
Richland, Oa.. July 10.—An electrical
■torm vieted Richland and vlcnltjr yes
terday afternoon, and conajderablc
da mu k* uivs done. It rained Tor two
h«nin« f the heaviest ever known In thla
•ert-jon. The atorin wan terrific, ac
companied by vivid, blinding Hashes
at «!<•*» Intervals. Telephones were all
put out of commission.
Five residences were struek, some
badly damaged, but no lives loat.
A deep HU on the Seaboard Air Line
railroad one-half mile east of town was
u ashed out, and came near causing a
" • • ck» Clinton Dennard, who lives
near, ran out and flagged the weat-
hound passenger. When the train waa
Mopped the engine was within two
f«—t of the roaring chasm.
Crops were badly damaged. Lands
nadifd and the Rlberta peaches, which
m • now being ahlppr* from here, were
almost totally destroyed.
fir private tossed Wire.
Newbury. N. H., July 10.—The con
dition of Mrs. Clara Stone Hay, widow
<>f the late Secretary of State ‘John
May, la much Improved .today and Mrs.
I Cay Is up and around the grounds of
her cottage on !-ake Sunapee. Mra.
Hay Is suffering from malaria, but her
I).m*ss la not sarlous. She went for a
t do over the mountains yesterday with
> or nurse, and It was reported that she
wo* feeling very well.
SECRETARY OF STATE ROOT.
Snapshot of Secretary of State Root, taken during his trip down New York buy on the cutter Vigilant to board the
miner Charleston. Below la a photograph showing the launch which curried the secretory to the side of the cruiser
hnrleston, drawn up alongside the cutter Vigilant. Secretory Root arrived at Snn Juan, Porto Rico, Monday.
HUSBAND OF RUNAWAY MATCH
SHOTTO DEATH BY FATHER-IN-LAW
Charles E. Black Shot CRACK Ob PISIOL BROKE
to Death by Lon
Church.
HAD NOT SPOKEN
IN THREE YEARS
Had fttllns Ilf ,«ven year* atanilinc
baiwaan a father-in-law and ann-ln-
|aw, aupartndurrd by a runaway mar-
tinire, terminated In a bloody tragedy
Ht Howell Station Monday night n few
iMinutea after l o'clock, when R. Alonao
I'hurrh, 47 year* of age, better
i n .art aa I,rin Church, the fitthrr-ln-
law, ehot and a!tno»! Inatnmly killed
< uirlaa EOivard Ulark, 27 yrara of ago.
In- aon-ln-law.
The fatal weapon waa a platol and It
aent the deadly bullet Into the region
nf the heart. Three ahota were Bred,
hut only one took effect.
Sleyer'e Wife Only Witneee.
The killing occurred In the preeence
nf Urn. Church, wife of the alayer,
ehe being the only eye wltneae. Aa
the aharp reporta of the revolver rang
out. the frightened wife and inother-
in-latv cried out to her huabnnd:
"Stop ahootlng. Don't Are any more.
Tnu have already hit him.”
Idrectly after the tragedy t’hurrh
h -urded a trolley car. t ame Into the
ilii. and surretplered to Police Her-
.. . nt Jolly and Policeman Krey. who
,»nl him to the police atatlon.
The killing occurred In n meat mar
ket operated by Church. In the Mariet
ta road In Howell Station, directly at
the point where the Howell Station and
Marietta trolley line, connect.
8elf-Detente, Saye Church.
Church protects that he acted purely
In eelf-defrnee. nnd hie etnry of the
killing la corroborated by hla wife. He
a-certe that Black had threalened to
HOTELS AND SUMMER RESORTS.
SILENCE OF MANY YEARS
On* of ths most remarkable features of the Howell Station tragedy la
the fart that Alonao Church, the alayer, and Charlie Black, the victim,
although closely related by marriage, being father-in-law and aon-ln*law
respectively, lirnl spoken to each other but twice In seven years up to the
time of the killing.
With an apparently Irreconclllable bitterness, generated by his daugh
ter's elo|»enient and tniirrlage to Black, Church- would not recognise his
son-in-law even as an acquaintance. The lost time the two men hsd
s)H)ken whs three years ago. Prior to and since that time a silence has
existed between them as though they had never known one another.
"I did not want my daughter to marry Black, becausp 1 considered
him unworthy of her," mild Church. "And I had never become reconciled
to the union. I didn't want to have anything to do with him at all, and
during nil of the seven years since the iharrlage we had spoken but twice.
I would pass him as though 1 never knew* him and would treat him as a
strangeK" #
When asked If Block hod provided for Ills wife and bad treated her
well, Church replied:
"Ask the neighbors."
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Proprietor.
kill both him and Mrs. Church nnd at
tempted to pull a pistol from Ids hip
pocket to curry out his threat. The
pistol In some manner caught In the
pocket. Church says, and this gave him
the advantage. Seising Ids pistol,
which was lying on u small heater
underneuth the market counter, he lev
eled It at Ids son-in-law. who was only
a few feet away, and united tire.
At the lint shot Black turned nnd
made an effort to escape the deadly
bullets, Maggerlng from the market
Into the road, where he fell and died.
Kdwnrd Wslker, who conducts a gro
cery store n short distance away, heard
the shots and was ths first person to
reach the scene. Approaching Walker,
the slayer exhibited two pistols and
handed him one of them, remarking:
• This Is Black's pistol. Take tt urn!
j give It to the coroner.
Ths Two Pistols.
, "One of these pistol* Is ndne and
j the other Is Black's. Take them nnd
l give them to the coroner.**
| Church states that after Black fell
he took the pistol from his pocket.
| Church says Black came Into the
i market angry and appeured as though
looking for trouble. Black Is said to
I have declared that Church and his wife
j had been talking too much about him
'and that he purposed to put an end to
' It, Anally threatening to "Ax'* both of
i them.
First Word in Thrss Years,
i Thla t* said to have been the first
j time the two men had spoken to one
| another In the past three years. Seven
years ago Black and .Miss Willie
Church, daughter of Church, eloped
land were married, since which time ths
! father-in-law and son-in-law had
i spoken but twice, the last time being
j three years ago.
Church bitterly opposed the match
I between his daughter and young
| Black/ and .had never become recon
ciled. He says he did not consider
I Black a proper person to marry his
daughters and also charges that since
the marriage the young husband had
been unfaithful and had neglected his
wife.
The smouldering feeling between the
two men suddenly burst Into Asms
Monday night when some "parties"
are said to havy called Black from his
home and held a long conversation with
him. Who these "parties" were Is not
known. Bhortly afterwards Black Is
raid lo have left his home and to have
gone to a friend In an effort 1 to borrow
u pistol. He failed there, however, but
Anally obtained a pistol from James
Beagraves. Sea grave* says Black told
him he was going to a railroad ramp
on some business, and as he would
have to pass through a dangerous sec
tion, wanted the weapon for protec
tion.
Hhortly afterwards Black appeared
at the Church market and the tragedy
followed.
Church's Statement.
When seen Tuesday morning In the
police station, Church gave out the fol
lowing statement, which la substanti
ated by Ids wife:
"My wife and myself were alone in
the market last night about 8 o'clock,
and I whs preparing to close up. I
had alreudy been Informed earlier that
Hluck was In an angry mood and
would probably seek trouble. A few
minutes later my wife attracted inv
attention by remarking, ‘There Is
Charlie.' Black came Into the market
and said with an oath that he was
getting tired of my wife nnd myself
talking about him, and that he was go
ing to stop It. He said he was going
out Inst night and get evidence that
we had talked about him. I told him
to get his evidence. After some more
words he Anally declared he Intended
to Ax both of us right there, and made
an etTort to pull a pistol. The pistol
must have caught In the pocket, or for
some other reason he failed to get It
out. I then seised my pistol from un
der the counter and began to Are. Aft
er Black fell 1 took his pistol from hta
pocket.
"I regret this affair very much, hut
I feel that I* was perfectly Justlfled.
If I had not killed him, I am satlsfled
he would have killed both my wife and
myself."
A peculiar feature of the tragedy Is
the fact that Church and John T.
Black, father of the dead man. knew
each other as boys and have been life
long friend*. Although a close, friend
of the father, Church would nevtr om-
sent for the son to marry his daugh
ter.
Inquest Tuesday Afternoon.
The coroner will hold an Inquest into
the facta of the tragedy at 4:10 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon.
Malaria Causes Less sf Appetite.
The Old Standard, drove's Taetelesa
Chill Tonic, drives out malaria and
builds up the extern. Sold by all
dealers for 3? /ears. Price 10 cents.
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SiTsi?®!
READ
THIS!
Cheapest Town
Lots Ever
Offered the
Public.
Three Lots 25x120 On Comer for $33
and Four Lots AH Joining on the In
side 25x120 Feet for-$25. One
Railroad Completed to South
land and Another Going
Right Away.
The Miona Springs Railway Company has completed the permanent sur
vey of their line from Southland to Miona Springs. The company have their
charter for this road from Fort Valley to Southland running through the fin
est farming section of Georgia. This new line runs into Southland and will
connect with the A. B. & A. at that place. This new road runs right through
the section of lots we are now offering you. All these lots are right on the
Miona line and are close to the A. B. & A. depot also. You cannot go to any
unoccupied place and get such splendid railroad locations. The depot of the
A. B. & A. is completed at Southland and it will do credit to a town of
twenty-five hundred people.
Now we-come and offer you these lots in sets at dirt cheap prices and
they are worth tv^ice the money.
READ CAREFULLY
AND ACT AT ONCE!
For as soon as construction begins on the Miona line we will positively not
offer these lots at these prices any more. We expect to begin construction in
August at the town of Southland and right through these sets of lots.
We will sell you three lots for $33.00 on the corner of the block. In
this set you will get the comer lot, 25x120 feet, and the two lots next to
the comer, both 25x120 feet, for $33.00.
Then we will sell you four inside lots, all joining, for $25.00. These
inside lots are 25x120 feet each. If you buy the inside lots you will get
100 feet front by 120 feet deep for $25.00, and if you buy the comer
you will get 75 feet front by 120 feet deep.
We mean what we say when we say that these lots are on the railroad—
right on the line of the Miona Springs Railway Company. Some of these
sets are on the very blocks’through which the road will run, and none of
them are far; not more than a few hundred feet at farthest. Now we propose
to give the first ones to take advantage of this offer the best location on the
line. If your money comes first we will do our best to select the best loca
tion for you and send you a deed—warranty deed—by return mail, with a plat
of the town and showing the line of railroad which is to run through the
property we are offering.
If you want a set of these inside lots,'send me-$25.00 and I will make the
best selection for you possible and the'first letter bringing me $25.00 for four of
these lots gets the first selection. If you want a set on the corner, send me
$33.00 and I will select the best location possible’for you and send you a
deed and plat at once. , *
Really these lots are worth far more than the price we put on them, and after construction begins
you cannot buy them at this price.
We will not sell more than two sets of these lots to one individual for as there are not many of
them we want as many people to get the benefit of these low prices as possible.
There arc 90 taxes on these lots this year.
We believe you will double your money on any set of these lots you buy in less than twelve
months. ’
Make aU checks and money orders payable to
Rev. George B. Culpepper,
Fort Valley, Ga.