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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." Hotel , Cumberland BROADWAY at 54th St NEW YORK CITY,N.Y. Tin* test luxuriously appointed hotel In Jtew York. Its furutahlnga are rare, rich and In good mate. Tiled bath rooms ventilating luto the open air a feature. Telephone In every suite. This hotel offers to permanent and transient guests superior aeeoramods- ties a. aenrke. etc., at tempting rates, ■end for Illustrated booklet, EDWARD R. SWETT. 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. mum 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.