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_THE SUINLJ,RNL E I butNerTEJ - le . . - vde r . re " ul arob , 1879 . VOL XXXVI PICKENS, SOUTH CAROLINA, SATURNAY, MIARCH 16, 1907. N 4 MURDERS, 2 ROBBERIES. Birmingham Makes This Record in 2 Hours. Birmingham, Ala., Mcl. 11.-Fou murders and awo highway robberie is the record for Birmingham an vicinty within 'the twenty-four hour ending Sunday night. J. P. Billons was shot and kille by his stepson, Jno. Riley, at Helen bess at an early hour Sunday morn ing. An unknown white man was foun murdered in a field Sunday afternooi near Short creek. One man has bee] arrested charged with the crime an officers are on the trail of another. Bragg Thomas, a negro, was mur dered by an unknown man near Ox moor Sunday afternoon. Will Alexander, another negro, bru tally murdered his wife Sunday af ternoon at Fossils, on Red mountain south of the city. F. H. Carpenter, an aged farmer while driving across the mountain of Sunday night, was held up and rob bed of all the money he had. One negro in the heart of the cit; held up three others Sunday night on one pf the principal streets an relieved them of all their money. OCKS I}WICK Warehouses and Cars Burned and Steamer Damaged--Loss $80,000. Brunswick, Ga., March 11.-'Fi at an early hour Sunday morni: burned about 250 feet of F. D. Al en's lumber docks on Academy cre together with six warehouses in whi were stored about 40,000 crosstiei also eight box ears of the Atlant Coast Line and one of the Atlanti Birmingham and Atlantic, causing loss ranging from $55,000 to $75,001 covered by about 75 per cent insu ance. The four-masted schooner Eag Wing, loading ties, was scorched al lost top sails, main top mast, al probably main mast, causing a lo around $5,000. A survey has be called for by the schooner. She w make temporary repairs here, ai then proceed after completing carg The four-masted schooner Alma I 4 A. Holmes was at the same (lock but was saved WI1h no damage I tugs Coney and Inca, which subdu the flames with their fire pumps. TI docks will be rebuilt. The fir because of its location, is thoug may have been of incendiary origin Boy Shot with Parlor Rifle. Columbus, Ga., March 11.-On tl farm of his father, John L. Wlli south of Columbus. Sunday afterno( 3er.y Willis, aged 1.1 years, was i in the left groin with a ball from parlor rifle accidently discharged 1 his young cousin, John Henry Ta bot, standing some distance awa. His left leg' was paralyzed, and ti hemorrhage was so great that it w feared that he could not recover. La Sunday afternoon physicians left f the Willis home to perform an ope ation on the boy. Guests Fled from Flames. Mobile, Ala., March 11.-Short before 1 o'clock Monday morning i broke out in a cafe on lower Dauph street and soon enveloped a thr.e story' building. The fire commiun cated to other buildings and drove ti guests out of the St. Andrews hote but the fire department made a hai fight and controlled the fire. Ti three-story buildings on lower Dai j)hin street were gutted and sligi damage was done t.o adjoining buil ings. The loss is estimated at $50 -000. Hardy in Mucogee Jail. . .Columbus, Ga., March 11.-C. I Hardy, who has been confined in Ha ris jail at Hamilton, awvaiting tri on the charge of murdering his fati er-in-law, Charles Brooks, at Chij iey, was brought to Columbus ar placed in jail. He was carri( from this county 'to Hamilton a to weeks ago, but for some reason it w* decided best to bring him back Muscogee jail. It is claimed that Hal dy is hopelessly insane. "Water Pearl" Dead. New York, March 11.--Wat Pearl, 'the ibig 8-year--old colt, owne jointly by Sidney Paget and E. 11 'Thomas, died at Sheepshead bay c aunday. He had 'been sick only : hours. The colt was one of the bei 2-year-olds out last year, and we over $42,000 for his owners. The refused an ofter of $100,000 for ti borne last summer. Water Pea was insured for $26,000. Died From Polmoning. Tuscaloosa, Ala., March 11.-41h death of lAura, the 7-year-old daugh 'ter of Mrs. T. T. Steppe, occurred a the residence of her mother, in Shad Dale, near the Bryce hospifal. He Sdeath was due to poisoning, but a what nature could not be determined 'The only thing she had eaten tha - oteld have caused the trouble we * candy, but of that there is a~ 'Qrtaintyr Ini - I I DUEL TO DEATH WAGED BY ME Negro Robb?r and White .oi ch'nt Kill Each Other. CLOTHES FIRED; BODY BURNEE Indications Are that There Was a Des perate Struggle, and It Is Probabi that the Robber Had an Accom. piCe. Columbia, S. C., March 11.-C. L Green, 45 years old, and married, merchant of Shandon, a suburb o this city, was waylaid and killed b; Edward Marshall, who himself wa: killed by Green. Robbery was the mo tive. The shooting occurred about 1 o'clock, but the bodies of the men were not discovered until about o'clock. When found, Greens' clothing wa: on fire, his body being badly charrec around the heart, and side, where th: bullets took effect, and a roll o greenbacks were burned in twain. Te feet of the men were. less that aPo a foter war"showing that they face e each other whe ,were killed At Green's right hand lay a32al" . ber revolver, with four empty chaf k bers. Near Marshall's right hal " was a 41-caliber six-shooter, with fi empty chambers, while a .38-caltb Ie pistol, which had not been fired, wF at his left hand. a Under his body was a, well-ma( leather slingshot or sand bag, havir . two pounds of small shot in the enc Near his head lay two burglar e masks, one having two bullet holc id in it, and was clotted with blood. id Marshall was shot twice throug a the head and once through the rig a breast, while Green had three bu il lets through his heart. The ba< id of his hand was covered with bloo< indicating that he may have had . struggle with his assailant. Seve ,l pieces of silver were found sea y tered about Green's body. ;d The finding of the two masks an te three hals leads to the belief ilh Marshall had an accomplice, but up I it this time no arrCsts have been niad< Marshall was 24 years old. unma rir"d ard1 i'.: s,. of the m1ana5o the large apartment store of . .1 e Mimaugh, of- this city. The fact that Marshall had a pi: in tol in each handl. it is hard to um i derstand how he was able to manipt a late the sandbag. y The tragedy has caused a great set - sation in this city. e Claimed To Be Jas. McNally, s New York, March 11.---.\ man wi to I said he was James McNally, once il r King of the Green Goods Men, walk . into the center street police court a Sunday, and, wih tears in his eye asked to be sent to the work housc He said he was without a home at ly without means of support. He wr e sent to the work house for thri n months. The man was in a pitab .. condition, the resutlt of the long u; .. of drugs and of exposure. Recen a* ly he had drifted to the Bowery lodj ~, lng house district, but his physic *~condition was suich that lhe (cuild n a even ear'n the pittance required - live there. it -Will Deal In Hotel Supplies. ..New York, March l1 --To save tI profit that now goes to the middif man, prop)rietors of large hotels ari restaurants of this city are consic .* ering-'the organization 'of .a, co-opei -ate corp)orationts which will deal I zi all kinds of hotel and restaurant sur .. plies, Aaron Rodenweisen, of Mor .treal, has .been in the city for tw d weeks interestig them in the pIari d and it is expected that a compan w with $10,000,000 capital will be or 5 ganiz~ed. Stock in thtis corporatic .0 will be sold only to proprietors of ho tels and restaurants. Fire Proof Mall Car. Now York, March 11.--fThe gire r fire-proof Anlerican mail car, practi dcally all steel, left the Pensylvani stat ion in Jersey City at 10 o'cloc B unday nigh't, for Washington. e is 70 feet long, or 10 feet longer tha ~t the maximum length the governmen Srecognizes in paying*for. - ii trans ,portation. Only 370 pounds of fire *proofed wood are used in its construc .tion. The letter and paper case and boxes are of metal. TPhe life c 'the pos'tal clerk aboard the new ca will be safe as that of a traveler o: btoard a Pullman. .1Two KIlled in Explosion.* -| Metuchlen, N. 3., March 11. - Two men were killed and a numbe Sof others hurt and Metuchen wa shaken and threatened with many fire t Monday when a boiler of a Iocomnotiv ,i on the Pennsylvania railroad explod t ed while drawing a treight trai through town. RAILWAY STiRIkE AT LOUISVILLL Was in Its Incipency Markcd by Much Disorder and Violence. L.oui>ville, Kiy. , M1archt II .+The'1c first few hours of IhI estri!:, Of 4,hr enploeecs of the Louisville Railway company, which wa.s iatiugurated Siun lay morning, was marked by much disorder and violence. The strihcrs or r syIpathizes,tS who were quiet ant orderly for the frst two hours after t:te company be- C gan to run cars, gradually grew bold er and before noon, several p )ople had been injured, stones were thrown t through car windows, cars were hcli up and the motormen and conductors routed. Many arrests were made, but the police did not appear to have the sit uPion under control In many in stan'es . i Snortly before noon Chief of Police Geunter was hastily summoned to Fourth and Hill streets by Captain F Jacobs, the la'tter claiming that his detail of men, num'bering 50, were insubordinate and either could not or r would not make arrests of those cre- r ating disorder in the hall vicinity. Chief of Police Guenter went to the scene in an automobile and took t charge in person. The casualties reported at the car g barn were: Motorman Pierson, cut on head by a rock. a C. Buckhold, cleark in the railway's 1 general offices, hit by a brick while .acting as conductor of a car. d glen, clerk of the railway com e pany, stiG on the nose by a brick r while acting a motorman. s A. Carter, puslidea'the car while o trying to adjust the, trolly. ti e Robert Watts, a clerk in gs n g urer's office of the railway company, . struck by a stone. ' Ben Greer, a conductor, assaulted s with a black jack. I MONSTER WAVE SWEPT VESSEL. it Fearful Experience of the French Il Line Steamer LaSavcie. New York. March 11 . --'i'h,e i rei,, a liner I.aSavoie, from Havre March 2 carrying more than 1,000 passenige'rs - arrived here Suntday aft perhas the ImIOSt vr V( cXperivence of the t ras - d Atlantic iincrz that have recently rte t. 1)0rted r'oug h wen:hor a : tse a. o The steamer ran into I serie; of gales, which increaed in violoce tntil rhuirsdany, wh n 1i 1 nter w" . if S\. 'It ;loe 111:11 (I0Ch, t1!' 'ci rr ('op I. tain Tournikr to brin:; his trembling ra11ft 'to. -h' dritilt i e ;t hour - before the voyage coutlhi be safely resumed. This wave, which te:lsured, the of II('rs say, abo1 : 5 feel in heighr, .. broke vr the ship ftro1 the forward p( side. In a lolmelt tons of water flooded the vessel. shalttring a heavy on-k door which open(d into the vor o ridolr outside -the smlolking saloon, le (reat vol1ts of water rmsitwd in, q] "wept along ".he corr1idlol an1d thenl n ponred down the grand stairway into the main dining room. The heavy iron stairway leading to the mlain (leek cI 'down to the promenade deck was also i washed away by the flood eo Occup iant s of the' stmokIitng room ec were thr'own to their feet. and when, eupon taking I hemselvyes.I they opented -the door to learno what had lotppe ned -t.he water from the corrid(ot' rulshed in il upon them. It invaded th(e cabins It and state r'oomls, mainy of t hemti' big oflooded to a depth of several feet. Fighting with Honduras. New York, March 11.---A bit of Sjinteges'ting news regardling the llotn duras-Nicaraguian war developied here dSunday. It was that General Frani -cis Coruiz Sandoval , the vet eranI sol - -dier of fortune, is fighting unlderI the SHonduran standard. Generlal Sani -doval, who is a Mexicanm by3 birth, -has been missing somte w.eks from othe Latin-American colony here, of which he was a promnti(tt figure. - Wounded by Bomb Explosion. Yalt, Crimea, March 11 .--Colontel -Dumbadze, comantdant of the gar rison here, was slightly wounded and his ad.jutant and his coachtman were seriously woutnded by a bom'b thrown tat the Colonel's carriage from an up -per window int a house on a street through which he was driving. Th'ei man who threw the bomb committedi tsuicide. Wilt Make World Tour. - London, March 11.-Prince ICdward and Prince Albert, two eldest sona of the Prince of Wales, it is understood will, in due course of time, make a rtour of the world in a battleship. rPrince IDdward will eventually go into the army and Prince Albert into the ,Protestg Against Treaty. Gt. Tihomas, D. W. 1. , March 11. -drormer President Morales, of San Domingo, who is here, has issuted ai protest against the treaty 'between his government and the United States, He declares that the treaty is injuri..I ous to the welfare of San Dlomingo, and asks his countrymen to reject it, CHAhGE WOMAN WITH MURDER ~oroner's Jury at Eastman Gives V. dict Against Mrs. Freeney. E1a >.ntan, Ga., March 11.l-Prob ioly a thousand people witnessed the burial of V. P. Harrell Sunday af lernoot, conducted wi'th 'Masonic Ion )rs, while the rain slowly fell. The Masons and Knights of Pythias at tended entasse. Mr. Harrell was killed Saturday afternoon by Mrs. Sallie Freeney. The coroner's jury returned a ver :ict .Sunday morning of murder iRgalnst Mrs. Freeney, and held a atan by the name of Rye as accessory. Mrs. Freeney has been operating a boarding house for some time. On be ng arrested, Mrs. Freeney claimed hat Mr. Harrell had made improper ?roposals to her, and that she shot l1m in consequence, but this is not 3elleved to be true. Mr. Harrell has filled various posi Lions as county officer and was a :ighly esteemed citizen. It is be lieved that the shooting was occa sioned by Mr. Hat-rell threatening Lo dispossess l(irs. Freeney unless she should pay up her rent and on account Df Ill-feeling engendered on account >f other matters. ., I J AMSt sruo T' [One of the b rot tr'1S1 t Naq - ted at Culpepper, Va. , r l W. P. lI. waters a few nntttc ter Ihey iand loreed "im to imr their sister.] No inquiry Yet Arranged. Yoohama, Mlarch 11 .--'I'he cret of the ire("k'e(l steatter Dakola hia. heetn discharged . The Eulropean: Will he sent to A merica on the American steamer Tr'eilont. hl Asiatics will be sent. to Ilong Kong. The najorily of the passengers lef here will lake the steamer Siberia, The holtel and other expenses werc paid by the GIreat. Northern stean ship comtpany, owners of thee Dakota. The American consul has sent. $151 to the governor n. Chi-b prefectire. for distribution among the fishermen who assisted in the rescue of the American paissengers. No salvage measures have ye't been taken. An official inqluiry has been arranged, steps having been taken for the p)res ervation of evidence. Captain Franckc of the Dakota Is still at the scenc of the wreck, awaiting the decision of the underwriters. Will War on Opium Vice. Chicago, March 11.--A dispatch tc The Tribune from Washington, says that the United St:ates government has taken the initiative in inaugurat ing a new war on the apiuim vice. Fol lowing a careful sounding of Gireal Britain, China and JTapan, the three coumntries dliretly Interested, Assist ant Secretary of State B3acon,* with the approval of President Roosevelt, has extended an invitation to all the powers having Possessions in the far east to particip)a'te in the national con-. ference which shill devise measures for the suppression ,for t?re use of opium, if this is possible, or at least Its restriction. 'Negotiations on this subject have been in progress since last September. TPhe Powers which have been asked 't take part besides those named are France, the Nether lands, Portugal and Ghermnany. Human Soul Has Weight. New York, March 11.--Dr. Duncan McDougall, of Haverhili, Ma, who Is at the beam of a .research society and has had four other physicians as sociated with hitn In a series of ex primente covering stx years, believe, .that the huma.n soul has a definite weight which can be determined when it passes from the body at death, ac cording 'to a Boston disIatch to the Times. L.ittle GIl Killed. birmingham, Ala., March 11.-..A a result of attempting to blow out the light of a, kerosen, lamp, the lamp exploded, fatally burning the 12 year old daughter of John Legal, at CenterJle. 'The girl died a few Mwy afterward. ITH MANY SHOTS NEGRO IS RIDDLED urrounded In House and Shot Into Do 1 Rags. IED FIGHTING LIKE A DEMON egro Desperado Had Wounded an Americus, Ga. , Policeman while the Officer Was Attempting to Arrest Him-Murderer Alto Captured. Americus, Ga., March 11.-Sur Unded in a huusc and fighting to e death like a demon at bay, 13111 eese, the negro desperado who on unday morning portally wounded olice Officer Williani Morris, was hot into (loll rags at 7 o'clock Sun ay night, his carcass being fairly ddled with buckshot and pistol bul ts. Shortly before dusk it was ascer tined that Reese was concealed in a welling on Davenport street, a ne ro suburb. A detachment of five Dlicemen and Deputy Sheriff Fuller 'ent hastily to the point designated nd quickly surrounde dthe house. Deputy Fuller and Policeman Wil s rushed to the door, whereupon ie negro Reese opened fire with a evolver. Reese advanced, iLring pon the officers, and Policeman Wvil s received a bullet through his right and. At this, the other officers pened fire with guns and pistols, and le desperado fell, pierced with in umnerable bullets, expiring instantly. 'le caras was brought i:nmediate y to the ie barracks, where hun Ireds o,f enii1 ptop!t' viewed it. Willis, the polie ii 'hiot, was not ,,eriouisly wounded. ..,ic Olieer 11:ris.who was rhot h (In deer ad Reese While resi.tin ar n a precartiouls conldition at ilhe ho~.,,l pittl. The l.-.ling of Ree.:e by the offcers created cons:iderabe excit:lment, but( no I rotthle is alprehe:mlded. sought to arre t Recse was the shoot - ngbefore dlaylight S:Inday ntorning of Policeniln \\illani lMorris, of the A ttriers ltol!ce depalrtn:en!, while that tf!ter was Wa Matting to arrest condl ct . Ii is thouhlht that. the olli icose tirud t wvice, 1h ing o li_ ccr lorris in the ;bdomnl'11. the eve and hullet, piqnetr:'ting lhis wind-1ipec lnd throat, a1n1 haling in his nick. .Morris wa,s ec1:ive'3cd to the Aiier ils hoSiital and Ilk. r-c"o vry is Very rlouhtI l. ieese esi ni ed aftur shoot - ing the policeman. Aa .o r n ;:-ro 1 .i:! '1 e: at :he lhne wh:'i enpln- mcii 2 arnis Out to~ tc a I--ntrh--a mu lrdctI with a reward 'f Si ,11p tton b1.3 head. Morris has becn on the local force for years .anld I:: a care(full and ex(.e(' lent oilice'. Legislative Inquiry B':gan. H a rrisbu rg , Pa. . .\ach 1. --Th e egi -lali ve iniq uIry ilnto the new1 ~ state api)toI conltrafcts and1( neotnts was be ;on hertIe Monay . Thiie in vest igatlion rew opit of alle.at ions mad(1 .during he last state ca to pagn t hat there was .ross ext ravagan(e , over- charges and luplicat Ion of It was ini the ornamnen atilon and( correctionl b)uildinlg. The 3api tol was huilt1 unde(1r the di rec 'lons of a cao 01l)buildling commlIit en at a cost of $-i,000,000. It way urnlishedI and equipped by the board ft publlic gi ounds3 and( buIldings at a ~ost of nearly $9,000,000. Trhe inves Igation Is being conducted 'by a comn ulitt(ee created by the p)resent legis ature. Shipbuilder's on Strike. Detroit, Mich.,* March 11.--'ho 111101 shlipbuilderls In lhe Ecorse and 9't. (lair plants of thet Great Lakes iTngineering Works, walked out on dfonday, leaving only the machinists, tarpenters and laborers a-t work In hose yards, The men at the Wyan lotte yard of the American Ship tuilding company, went to work as isual Monday morning, but are ex ueeted to quit during the day. Dis a,tches from Bay City say that the nlen at the Amterican Shipbuilding tompany's yards there are at work as isual and probably will not strike. Attorney Longfellow Testifies. 1New York, March 11.-lFrederick V. Longfellow was the firat witness aIled by yDistrict Att/>rney Jerome rhen the Thaw trial opened Monday norning. Longfellow formerly was [haw's attorney. Mr. Longfellow ras estopped from giving any dofinite estimony as to Ethel Thomas' suit vn the grounds that he was asting as P'haw's counsel and his dealings with im wore confidential. Justice Fitz. eorald matained the objection to Mr. 1oflelow's testifyIng as to service ~r ~ n Ethel Thomas' case gain ,.l To Indict Engineer. ' It is very prob)al)e tbat, Engiut3,' John T. McCorklIe, foinerly in einploy of the Southern RailWay b . tnow 0cm)ployed by the Louisville& Nashville Railroad, will be iodicted for criminal carelessness, as the South Carolina railrcad commission has decided that he.e responsible for the collision of southbound passenz ger train No. 41 and the first section of No. 74, a freight train, which.oo - currtd at Liberty on. Ohristmas morning. The comnmissiof'bas turn. ed the case over to Solicitor, Bogge of this circuit. It will be recalled that No. '6 nd No. 74 collided about 100 yarda r'Ol of Liberty aboul, 12.10 Chretj lai morning. No. 74 had orders to main in the siding at Liberty to al low No. 41 to pass. The enginetr of No. 74 pulled out on the main itne" and started toward Greenville wa'Sia out any signals or orders from theo conductor. He met;No. 41 in about ten minutes and the heavy freiglbh engine crushed to pieces the passen.. ger engice. No one was killed, but. " the negro fireman on No. 41 was. ' injured. The cause of the wreck was, to r, have been investigated in Gr.eenyjJJl some time ago when the collision of Nos. 38 and 40 was investigated by the cowmlission, but it was impossi-. ble to get any of the witnesses for witnesses for the investigation. Cow missioner Earle later took testimony on the wreck. and it was on his find ings that the comunmission decided.te. turn the case against MoCorkle over to Solicitor Boggs.- [Anderson Mail. Is Harriman Backing Foraker? \Wai.hingtonI Dispatch to New York. Anericant. 1s Edwardu ( IL iHarurimalln booming Senator Joseph Benson Foraker nL Ohio, for the republican presidentiaL. nom1ination7 in 1908? QWill Senator John C. Spooner of 1,iCom: iic, ubo yJt1 resig;:asis:'i t' I ,rtctice liw, beg inniug 'May .1at k charge of Harrinan's manl1 ifolcl mIt and cooperat@ '. the boom of raker? ions askedl s .a'heie tcwo qes(r'11t ther enpliol t< day 1re a a gnificant Iy answered when it arued that IHa) rimnai, Spooner tt Foraker gathered at a quiet lit. dinner late, lv at the hone of Senator Depew.. 'they were Depew's only guests. MIany d(e:lare Foraker made ,a b Y for the ncmination w%hen be caldc the Brownsville ingiy. It was +.k.. ed .npon asr a bid for the ng o dele gazten fromn the Sonth to s port him in 1907 convention. HeAis accepted as an avowed candlidate./ Harriman's influenes for Forakqr wvould 'be a trem2endius factor in th~e con1verflon. Everyi effort wats made to keep the dinner conference quiet. It is noteworthy that the t wo sena tors wiho met Mr. Harriman at (tie dinner op)poed violently a railway rate bill which would have regulated the railroads. -Y Leadmng up to It. 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