"The Free Lance" Issue: August 26, 1904 ANOTHER CLOSE CALL There was a close call for a little Negro boy, Arthur CANTRELL, at the Southern passenger depot Tuesday when the train from Columbia smashed up a baggage truck on which the boy was sitting he escaping only by crawling under the cars before he was caught in the smash up. The truck on which the boy was sitting was between the outer and second tracks at the depot. No. 39 was standing on the second track when the Columbia train rolled into the yard. The baggage car on the latter train caught the truck which was smashed with terrific force between the two trains, the steps on one of the sleeping cars of No. 99 being broken into kindling wood and the truck broken up. When the train hit the truck CANTRELL made a quick dive under the platforms of the two cars on No. 39 and scrambled out as the truck and car steps were broken. The call was a close on and many who witnessed the accident expected to see the Negro boy killed outright. THIRD SUCCESSIVE ROBBERY Another car breaking and robbery last night was reported Wednesday this being the third car breaking since Saturday morning in the Southern yards at he Spartanburg junction. The robbers broke into a car of merchandise and it is presumed carried off a quantity of provisions. A big cheese found near the tracks bore testimony to the fact that the thieves had been at work. The police are now coming to the point where they are suspecting the existence of an organized gang of car breakers here and their efforts to catch the thieves will be doubled since last night's robbery. ACCIDENT TO BRAKEMAN Yancey CABANISS, a brakeman on the Southern Railway was badly hurt Monday some miles south of here on the main line, while putting on the brakes on top of a freight car on freight No. 64 northbound. CABANISS was in the act of turning the brake wheel at the top of a car when the chain beneath the car suddenly snapped, releasing the brakes and causing CABANISS to be hurled to the ground below, a distance of about twenty feet. The train was running at a moderate speed but had it been going fast the result might have been fatal to the brakeman. CABANISS caught on his hands and feet, spraining an ankle severely and also having his hands painfully lacerated. The injured man was placed in the cab and brought to Spartanburg, where he was given all the necessary medical attention. He will be kept here until he is able to be moved to his home in Gastonia, N.C. WAS BRISK BATTLE Constable CUNNINGHAM escorted before Magistrate KIRBY's tribunal three Negroes charged with making a regular Japanese assault upon the person of Minnie JAMES, also colored, whose yard the besiegers presented themselves armed with rocks and a razor and proceeded to do battle without exchanging any of the preliminaries of war. Nora SMITH of the attacking party carried a big rock which she hurriedly let fly at the head of the besieged Minnie JAMES. Then the combat assumed the appearance of a general fight and missles [sic] and cross firing all mingled together in the turmoil which ensued. Before Magistrate KIRBY Nora SMITH and Lizzie WILBURN were fined $15 each for the assault and the SMITH woman was also fined $20 for carrying a razor which she seems to have held in reserve during the fight. Wade WILBURN who was in the attacking party got off without being fined, he having been a disinterested spectator only to the fray as it appeared from evidence. SPARTANBURG: The sale of seven acres of land adjoining the Winsmith Place has been consummated, the purchaser being Mrs. E. A. JUDD. The property was sold for W. M. JONES of this city and comprises valuable building sites east of the city. COWART-CANNON Pearl CANNON, a well known young man of this city, left this week for Middleton, Tex., where he will be married to Miss Mada COWART of that place. They are expected in Spartanburg next week. WALNUT GROVE GLEANINGS: -B. C. CALDWELL and T.S. HARRISON attended the campaign meeting at Woodruff on Tuesday last. -Mrs. Lizzie VARNER of Enoree visiting relatives here recently. -Mr. and Mrs. Roy STRANGE are visiting relatives in and around Inman. -J. E. GENTRY of Spartanburg passed through here Wednesday last. WELLFORD: -Miss May LANDRUM of Landrum is visiting relatives here. -Miss Annie COVINGTON is spending a few days with friends at Wellford. -Col. T.E. MOORE left yesterday for his new field of work in Gastonia. -J. J. VERNON and Alex QUERY attended the campaign at Inman today. WANTS GEORGIA WIPED OFF Connecticut Pastor Criticises [sic] G.A.R. for Entertaining Ex-Confederates Norwich, Conn., Aug. 25-The Rev. Dr. J. Francis ROBINSON, pastor of the Mount Calvary Baptist Church, has attacked the Grand Army of the Republic for entertaining the former Confederate officers at the national encampment in Boston last week and declares that Georgia should be wiped off the map. "The unfortunate thing in this whole celebration at Boston," he says, "was the reunion of the Blue and the Gray. I fail to see anything of merit in that kind of show. No two men of the south have done more to poison the minds of colored men against the rebels than Govenor VARDAMAN of Mississippi and Senator Ben Tilman, of South Carolina, and yet there are a [cut off] free post Lisa