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PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKLY SAME OLD GANG Git. Wilson Pokes F in at the Repobli cao Standpatters Platfoim. IS STOMPING HIS STATE He Says the Bosses Are All Out of Breath Trying to Keep Abreast of the People.?Wants to See Cam den Redeemed from Boss Rule as it Is at Present. Governor Woodrow Wilson is j stirring up intense interest in New Jersey in his campaign for the elec tion of senators and assemblymen who will support progressive meas ures when the legislature meets next winter. The Trenton True Ameri can says the Governor is evidently deriving great delight from poking fun at the Republican "Board of Guardians," as the association of G. O. P. bosses has come to be known in New Jersey. He has also found a lot of humor in the recently adopted Republican State platform. He has spoken to immense audiences in the southern part of the iState recently and his meetings have been marked by a keen revival of interest in State politics. "The Republican platform," said Governor Wilson, to one audience, "is one of these old-fashioned, smooth-bore, brass-mounted affairs, that goes off like a blunderbuss. I do not fiee the slightest difference between this platform that was adopted by the Republican conven tion Wednesday and the Republican platforms that preceded it; it has the same boasting about things that never existed; it has the same claim ing: of credit for everything good that was done; it has the same promises put in Huch phrases that they can be read backward or for ward and mean the same thing, just the same thing; just the same kindj of thing you have been familiar with and never did know the meaning of." i The Governor seemed to find much! solid delight in poking fun at the1 Republicans for asking for a rest be fore more new legislation is enact ed. "We have carried out so many of the pledges made in our last year's platform," said he. "that the Repub licans in their platform say the State needs a rest. I don't wonder that their stomachs are too weak to stand the kind of food we have been feed ing them. Their statement that they are out of breath from passing so much legislation is practically an implication that they want to stand still a little whi?:e. They always! wanted to stand still, the same old) standpat idea is still in their heads. "If you paint a post white and Tvant to keep it white, you must keep touching it up once in a while. So today, if things are to be kept right, you have got to be a radical, you have got to keep things jacked up to where they belong. And it puts the Republican leaders out of breath to jack things up. So many of our platform pledges were carried out that the poor, breathless represen tatives of the Republican party ad mitted that they were out of breath They held up their hands in protest j and said, 'In God's name, let us go; slow a while'. I don't wonder. They had never been accustomed to such exercise. I They had never in their time felt their blood quicken by movement. They had experienced the unusual in toxication of seeing something done. They had never intended while they were in the saddle to let anything be done. They had intended to let everything go its normal course,! that everybody who then had con trol of the affairs of state might sleep at night without any appre hension that in the morning his con trol would be gone." At Cam den, where four thousand citizens crowded into the opera house to hear Gov. Wilson he declar ed that the first returns he should ask for when the votes were counted would be Camden, for if that coun Ly should rise up and declare its in dependence the day of self-govern ment by the people would appear to have fully dawned. He said. I should feel very proud if I might lead Camden County out of her bon-: dage. You know that when there is a government in all the rest of) the State to reclaim it from it poli-| tijcal servitude, everybody says that! Camden is hopeless. "People speak of this as a Bour Lon county. Now what is a Bourban? He is defined to be a man who nev er learns anything and never forgets anything. Never forgets the things that communities ought to turn their bac-KS upon, and never learns the way by which to escape from continual servitude. Is that going to be true of Camden county? Camden county so far, as is indicat ed from the Republican side, has not learned or forgotten a single thing. The proof that the same old things are being done is laid before you like an open book. You have it in the prompt rejection of Sena tor Bradley. The minute that he showed that ! he was going to use his own cons cience and his own judgment and not take orders from other men. just as soon as he showed that ,hej was absolutely rejected. He was put out of the councils of the men who have ruled Camden county in' THEY MUST LEAD THE PROGRESSIVES MUST LOOK TO THE DEMOCRATS. Democracy Controlled by Progres sives While Republicanism is Con trolled by Standpatters. In one of his speeches Gov. Wil son tells why the Progressives of all parties will have to look to the Dem ocracy for leadership, not only in New Jersey, but in the naton. Here is what he said: "I believe that both parties have been singularly slow in waking up to the meaning of a new age, and what I want tb call your attention to is that a large proportion of the men r ow active in leading the Democratic party have waked up to the mean ing of the new time and have waked up, too, to those who are leading the Republican party. The facts speak lor themselves. The actual leaders of the Democratic party in the States which have put in a Democrtic ad ministration and in the nation at large, in .congress and out of con gress, are the progressvies in the Democratic ranks. Can we candid men gainsay that? "It is not true that the progressive element of the Democratic party now dominates that party. Does not ev ery man know that if the circum stances should change and the retro gressive element should get in con trol of the Democratic partv that it would lose all possibility of success? That it would lose all the chances it apparently now has to lead the na tion? The Democratic party realizes that and the nation realizes it. "Very well, what is true on the other side of the house? There are splendid men, and splendid men by the score, among those who stand prominent in the leadership of the Republican party, who are just as progressive, just as clear-sighted on the issues of tne time as anybody on the Democratic side, but are they dominant in the councils of the Re publican party? Answer that ques tion frankly. Are they dominant in the councils of the Republican par ty in this State or in the nation? "You know very well that they are not. They are practically with out dominance and they are opposed by leaders, from the President of the United States down. And for the present everybody knows that neith er now nor in the immediate future will they gain control. What is the moral of that? The moral is that the progressives of this country at this time?I am not saying anything as to the future, for I cannot foniee it ?but the progressives of this coun try, im New Jersey and out of it, at this time, must look to the Demo cratic party for leaders." ANOTHER FIEND LYNCHED. Admitted His Attempt Before He Was Strung Up. Near Irvinton, Ga., a negro named Andrew Chapman was taken from Bailiff W. T. Cowen by a masked mob of forty men and hung to a pine tree near Butler's Bridge, and his body riddled wth bullets. The deputy was cn his way to the county jail with the negro, who had been given a commitment trial and bound over to the next grand jury. The officers was overpowered and the prisoner 'taken from him. The negro ; admitted his guilt and said he had 1 no regrets. He attempted an assault upon one of the best known young1 ladies of Wilkinson county, who is still pros trated as the result of the shock. The negro had a bad reputation in the community. The body of the negro hung on the tree two days, until the sheriff ordered it removed. REBELS KILLED IN FIGHT. Over a Hundred Dead as Result of Mexican Battle. Fighting for the possesion of the little town of Chiapilla, Mexico, held by insurrectos whose strength was estimated as !?00, a force of volun teers, numbering but 190, killed 130 rebels and captured IOC, eighteen of whom were wounded. The loss to the Government for.ee is given as less than a dozen killed. Early reports were that the State troops met with little opposition, but it is now know that the encounter was the fiercest since the beginnng of the insurrection. The State troops were commanded by Col. Manuel Pas. Gen. Antero "iolinas commanded the rebels and according to the pris | oners he escaped with the majority ot his foice. His second in com mand, "Col." Marcelino Jiminez, was killed. The rebel force was three-fourths Champula Indians. They were arm ed principally wth machetes and lan ; ees, and a few antiquated fire arms. past years . He was notified that thut sort of tYiig would not no en dt red. What sort of thing? Car lying out th-: pledges that had been written as plainly In the Republican platform as they had been written in the Democratic platform. He was punished for keeping faitu v-ith the people of New Jersey. These are not matters of conjecture. You don't need to have me tell you of them. You konw that they are true." ORANGEBU LURE OF A GIRL At the Drop of Her Fan Men Became Her Willing Tool and Dope HELP HER BEAT BANKS] How a Young Woman Crossed the Continent on Her Wits, Collecting Thousands of Dollars From the Different Banks Along the Route of Her Travels. A dainty little fan, dropped seem ingly by chance in fashionable hotel dining rooms in towns from the Pa cific to the Atlantic, was the starting point in a series of little dramas which had their last curtain last week in Bridgeport, Conn., when nineteen-year-old Alice Black of Col orado Springs and Francis A. M?h ler, who says he is the brother of a Pittsburg millionaire, were arrested. The young woman is charged with having passed forged checks and the man with having forged them. The girl says she believed the checks were good. Just how the fan was dropped was told in the' local agency of the Pinker tons at No. 92 Liberty street. Early in September, in the Italian gardens of the Hotel St. Charles in New Orleans, a young and exquisite ly gowned woman was dining. At a table v/ere three gilded youths of the Creole city. They were comment ing upon her beauty when her fan tell to ihe floor. Instantly one of the youths started to leave his seat. The others siezed him and insisted in whispers that they must draw lots to see who would restore the fan. The one to whom the lot fell rais ed the fan and, with ihis best bow, gave it to the girl. She smiled and, modestiy casting down her eyes, ask ed if he wouldn't sit down for a mo ment. He did. "You know," said the girl, " I feel j that I- am very unconvenient, but I'm such a globe trotter, you know, that I feel perfectly safe in doing this. I've been all over the world alone. I'm Alice Pullman, of Pittsburg." The youth brought over his two companions to meet "Miss Alice Pull man, a neice of the Pullman car fam ily." That was on a Saturday night. The following Monday "Alice Pull man" asked one of her new found friends if he knew of some "good, safe bank." He knew of several. Bo he trotted her in the Whitney Orient] Bank and introduced her to Edward H. Keep, assistant cashier. "Miss Pullman" opened an account, depositing $50 cash and what pur ported to be a $150 certified check on the Union Savings Bank of Pitts burgh, signed by Harry Pullman. The next day she drew out her entire ac count. On the following day she return ed with another "Harry Pullman" check for $75 which she wanted cashed. The cashier told her he would wait until ho had heard from the previous check. "You won't have to wait long," he; said, "because I'll telegraph. "Yes,do," she answered, "and send the answer to the St. Charles." The answer came. It was, "Forg ery." But she had left the St. Charles by that time. It was found1 ; she had left New Orleans for Newi York with a man who said he was F. A. Christy, a brother of Howard Chandler Christy, illustrator. After the flight from New Orleansi news came of banks and hotels in i Colorado Springs, Col.; Ogden and! Salt Lake City, Utah; Sacremento.j Los Angeles, and San Diega, Cal.; and El Paso, Texas, that had cashed checks after the prelude of a falling fan or like device. The checks rang ed trom $00 to $150 apiece. The total was several thousand dollars. The Pinkertons took up the trail and traced the pair Eastward to Bridgeport, Conn. In the other cities where the fan had been dropped the J girl had seemed sometimes to blaze with diamonds. Especially noticea ble was a large hatpin in the shape of: la tiger's head, compose of imitation diamonds. Detective Fon of the Bridgeport police and two of the I trailers saw a woman in Bridgeport] j wearing just such a pin. They fol-; I lowed her to boarding house and; j there found her man companion. I In one of their four suitcases, the; police say. were blank checks of the j Pittsburg bank and the stamp with' which checks had been "certified.": "Christy" or .M?hler would not talk much about himself. "He wrote a tel-j egram to Harry .M?hler of Pittsburg,! but the police did not send it_ The young woman at first was si lent. But the police showed her a, (postal card, sent to M?hler by a ! young woman, which showed M?hler had paid attention to the sender, j Then the girl broke down and said: she would teil all she knew. She said siie was a graduate of the: ' Cutler School, in Colorado Springs, and that she had planned to enter Colorado College this fall. She met "Christy" in July, and he told her that he was a West Point student on a furlough. He had struck a promi-j nent man in New York and was in Colorado hiding from detectives. "I believed his romantic tales," soid the girl, "and became foolishly infatuated with him. Before I real ized the foolishness of what I was do'.ng he had induced me to leave my home. I was stricken with remorse, I but did not have the moral courage' RG. S. C, SATURDAY, OCTC SUCH IS THE VERDICT IN THE HONEA PATH KILLING. Mother of the Fiend Refused to Take the Body, Which Was Debarred from the Cemetery. That Willie Jackson came to his death from gun shots at the hands of an unknown mob was the verdict lfaached by the coroner's jury fat Honea Path on Wednesday. The horribly mutilated body was viewed by -the jury and was cut down from the telphone pole by Coroner Beas ley. The mother of the fiend refus ed to take the body, saying she would not have anything to do with a son of hers that would commit such a crime. The negroes refused to al low the body to .be interred in their burying grounds, so it was buried at the expense of the county on the home place of Melvin Ashley. Several fingers of the negro were severed for souvenirs during the night, and the rope, as it fell to the ground was cut in pieces and dis tributed among a large crowd that gathered to see him cut from the pole. Coroner Beasley and Sheriff King arrived on the scene at 9:30 o'clock and after'experiencing a lit tle trouble in getting a jury willing to serve, the inquest w*as begun. The body was viewed and the jury then repaired to the office of Magis trate Wilson to hear the testimony. Five or six witnesses were examined, but it was impossible to locate any person who admitted seeing the lynching. Everybody in the com munity was reticent and the exam nation of witnesses required only a short time. Sheriff King forwarded a short Teport from Honea Path to Governor Blease. In the report he referred the Governor to the news paper acounts, which the sheriff stat ed were correct in every particular as far as he could determine. Citizen Joseph Ashley was not a witness of the lynching and neither was his son, Joe Ashley. These men left the mob Wednesday with the negro before the crowd reached Hon ea Path. At Honea Path Mayor Sul livan pleaded that the law be allow ed to take its course. He read a tel egram he had received from Govern or BleaEe, asking that the mob al low the law -to take its course, stat ing that he would obtain a special term of Court rb try the negro with in two weeks. All of the pleading was of no avail, however, for after taking the negro before the little girl for a second identification, the crowd proceeded to the scene of attack and there he was strung up by his left foot. The negro's body was literally riddled with bullets, not a spot as large as a silver dollar remained where bul lets had not pierced. Everything is quiet at Honea Path and no further demonstration will occur. One ne^ro man was dealt with for making an insulting remark to a gen tleman looking on the body Wednes day morning. The remark was about blocking the road, The negro was not injured, being subjected merely to a light whipping. to go home. "My infatuation for him lasted on ly a week. Then I began to discover the kind of man he was. He said he received a regular income from his mother by check, but she made out j the chocks in different names to throw off pursuit. She told pf their journeyings thro'tgh the West, in which they used six dicerent names. I "I know this morning that he was planning to leave me, from the way he acted," she said. "My family is not wealthy, but I have sonio wealthy relatives and if necessary 1 shall ask them for assistance. I will not light extradition but will return to New Orleans." A telegram from Colorado Springs i said: the. girl, ^aiui-became -foolishly said the girl had petssed forged checks at two hotels there. Her fa ther is David Brown of that town. A Pittsburg dispatch said there was no wealthy Harry M?hler in Pitts burg. Walts Guilty of .Murder. At Lancaster the jury in the case of Julius Caesar Watts, charged with tbe killing of C. C. Falle, renderevl a verdict of guilty with recommenda tion to mercy, which means a life sentence. Watts killed Falle in Flat Creek township December 2 1th last. Both men were well-to-do white far mers. Sentence has not yet been passed upon Watts. Dispensary Profits Distributed. The State says the city of Colum bia received a check for $J!t,^uJ, this beiiip: its share in tbe dispen sary profits for the quarter ending September 1. The county and coun ty Ihoard of education will also be sent checks. The total profits for Richland amounted to $5S,404.94. Little Girl Killed by Auto. At Camilla. Ga., Mary Ferry, aged seven, daughter of T. 1!. Perry, of that (City, was run down and killed by an automobile there Wednesday afternoon. Will Crosby, driver of the car, was arrested. . . T<\n Killed in Cave-in. Ten persons were killed and others injured by a cave-in at a Canadian Northwestern construction camp near Colwood, Southeast of Vancouver, IBER 14, 1911. THE REBELS WIN Wn Chang in Entire Possession of the Chin se Revolutionists. LOYAL TROOPS DESERT Chinese Military Commander Is Kill ed by a Bomb, and the Rebels Are Killing and Burning, But All For eigners Are Being AVell Taken Cure of by Them. A cablegram from Honkow, China, says the revolutionary forces have won a decisive victory, gaining pos session of the city of Wu Chang af ter a battle with loyal troops. It appears that the revolutionaries de feated in Sze Chuen province where they for some time beseiged the capi tal Cheng Tu, transferred their chief activities to Hu Peh province with the intention of making it the base tor renewed operations in Sze Chuen. According to the officiate, on up rising in Wu Chang was planned for last Monday night. The plot was discovered early that evening and 3 0 arrests were made. Desiring to ter rorize the revolutionaries, four of the prisoners were beheaded in the street. This drastic action of the authorities does not appear to have had the desired effect. Immediately after the execution a portion of the government artillery forces within the city mutinied, went over to the rebels and the uprising was precipitated. The capture of the tity resulted from the tremendous feelingi aroused by the execution of the four rebels. The possession' of Wu Chang. All the officials fled. The troops deserted to the rebels and a few hours after the first trou ble developed the entire city was in an uproar. Fires were started in every corner of the town, the head Quarters of the viceroy and of the military commander was killed by a dynamite bomb and the viceroy himself escaped only by has.y flight, j With the revolutionists in control j of a great and important capital, it is hard to estimate how fast or far the movement will spread. The of ficials are making every effort to keep the disaffection out of Hankow. Five foreign gunboats are stationed along the Yang Tse Klang between the two c ties and foreign volunteers are patroling the foreign quarter of Hankow. The revolutionary /committee is sued a pnpeiamation exhorting its followers not to harm the citizens of other countries. The fact that the wishes of the commltitee have been respected thus far while reassuring to other nations, Is in itself a sinis ter sign for the government at Pe king, as it indicates that the rebel : lious movement is thoroughly organ j ized. Earlier outbreaks had assumed the character of rioting in which the mobs were soon worked ou* of the i control of intelligent leadership, j thus making their defeat by the bet I ter directed government troops com paratively easy. But this one is dif ferent. The rebels obey their lead ers, and seem to be under good dis cipline. Among the foreigners known to have been in Wu Chang are twenty five Missionaries. Communication with the city is almost completely broken and no word as to the fate of the Americans had been received. Volunteers have surrounded the for eign quarter and will remain on duty during the night until the safety of all foreigners is secured. As another measure of precaution the merchant vessels in the river are keeping steam up and women and children will be permitted to go aboard them at night. The foriegn consuls have telegraphed their 'gov ernments asking that warships be sent to the scene. American and Japanese cruisers arrived on Wed nesday. Burned His Three Victims. Gov. Kitchin, of North Carolina, has offered a reward for Will Mcln tyre, wanted in Rutherford county for a most notable series of crimes. He operated a blockade! d is tilery, and now it is believed that he com mitted three murder-; for the purpose of robbery, and burned the bodies of his victims in the-furnace of his dis tillery. _ Many Horses Are Dying. The Beaufort Gazette says horses continue to die on the islands. Nin ety-six bead Iiav? (Med on Hilton Head and a great many on St. Hel ena and Ladies' Island. This is a great los:, to the, people of these islands and they should be given help by the community. Her Strange tear True. At mass in the Church of St. Sim on and St. Jude, Brooklyn, Mrs. Nel lie Rauiee, of No. 172J West Second street, became oppressed witii a feel ing that something was wrong at home. She. hurried i hither and found; her husband drowned in the bath tub. Found Dead in Com Field. Mr. Martin Rivers, a;.red about GO years, who lived near Hampton, was found dead in his corn field, where he was harvesting a crop of corn. The cause of his death is supposed to have been heart failure. SlfUATION SERIOUS AID PLANNED FOR COTTON BY SOUTHERN GOVERNORS. Governor Colquit, of Texas, Urges a Meeting to Devise Means to Check Decline in Price. The decline in the price o.' cotton is becoming a serious matter to The South as well as to the whole coun try, and something must be done to stop it, Gov. Colquit, of Texas, will probably ask the governors of the cotton growing states to meet at Dal las, Tex., October 23, as his guests to suggest ways and means to hold up the price of cotton. In reply to telegrams, governors of every cotton-producing state ex cept Tennessee and Georgia'have re plied that they favor a conference to discuss this matter and the ques tion of the place and time of meeting alone remains to be settled. Only one governor has suggested Texas for a meeting place and hence the Idea comes to have the governors! go to Texas as Governor Colquit's1 guests. The secretaries of agricul-' ture are also expected to participate in the meeting. In indorsing the plan proposed by Governor Colquit, of Texas, to call a meeting of southern governors and representative men of the cotton belt to devise a method for checking the decline in the price of raw cotton, President W. B. Thompson, of the New Orleans Cotton exchange, said that the South should rally to the call. "The way the cotton producers of the south are now throwing the sta-| pie upon the market is commercial: suicide," said Mr. Thompson. "It is' by no means certain that the cotton crop will be as large as many havej predicted it will be. A great deal can happen between now and the time the crop is harvested. "It is a pity that cotton should be selling in the country for nine cents a pound. Because of the increased cost of living the planter is not re-l ceiving a penny more than he did several years ago when cotton was six cents per pound. "I hope they will awaken to the' situation that confronts them. If, they will only hold back their cotton! and let it go gradually, prices will immediately begin to soar.'-* FELL IH GOOD HANDS. T'.vo Little Girls Were Left Alone in the City of Now York. Two pretty little Georgia girls, Lttdle Martin, twelve years old, and her sister, Josie, eleven years, were remanded to the care of the Gerry Society recently in the children's ?court of New York" city. Their fa ther, John Martin, a wealthy land speculator of Hahira, Ga., was tak en from the Hotel Churchill, Broad way and Fourteenth street to Belle vue Hospital, where he is recovering from choral poisoning. According to the elder of the sis ters, they came to New York with their father to join the Glidden au tomobile tour which starts south on Saturday. Both were provided with : auto veils and had clothing with in dicated their people were well to do. The nearest. large town to their! home is Yaldosta, Ga. Here they have relatives, with whom the au-! thorities have communicated. Their mother has been dead for some years and but for the activities of the children';' society when their father was taken to the hospktfJ they would I have been, entirely alone in a bigj city. HAVE VERY HARD HEADS. One Flattens Bullets and the Other Breaks Mule's Leg. In a dispute at his home in Phila delphia, Henry Lewis, a negro, was shot four times in the head at a range of less that five foot. The bullets flattened out and dropped toi the floor. Lewis was taken to the iSamatritan hospital, but. was soon permitted to return home. The man who shot him escaped. While harnessing a mule in a sta ble at IIS Fast RittenhouSe square, in the same city, Willant Piifen, a ne-i grn, was kickrd in the bead and I knocked down. Staggering to his feet. Piifen discovered the mule lying on the ground. Examination show ed that the animal's leg was broken. The mule was later shot. White Slaver Pleads (iuilty. At Louisville, Ky., after pleading guilty to two Federal indictments,i charging violation of the "white .-lave" laws growing out of sending a girl from there to a resort in Tam pa. Fla., Edna Shelley, formerly' cashier in a motion picture theatre, j was lined $200 late Thursday after noon. The fine was paid. Family Left the House. A report from Pleasant Grove in Chester county says a man named Waddell went to the store to get "Paris green" to kill the cotton worms because when the sun got hot they swarmed into his house, overruning the bed and forcin.: his family to leave the house. White Man Killed in ("in. H. C. Pope, a white man living several miles from Sumter, was cut in a gin Thursday shortly aften noon and died from the shock. . :\V0 CENTS PER COPY. CHINA REBELS Movement on the Part cf People for ft Republican Government SPREAD OF DEMOCRACY Uprisings Come With Revolutionists Well Organized and Financially . . Strong, and Their Ranks Swelled! by Mutinous Chinese Troops?Cit-, i ies Captured and Many Killed. A cablegram from Hankow, China, says the revolution which has been banging over China for mouths past and of which the rising in the prov ince of Sze-Chuen was only a. small part has begun in earnest. It is a concerted movement to take the Em pire and dqclare a Republic. /he noted exiled revolutionist, Dr. Sun Yat Sen. leader of the anti-Mah chu party, if the plans do not mis carry, is to be elected President. He .vas ehe delegate of the revolutionary party to the United States, in 1910, and is believed during that tour to have made arrangements for financ ing the movement. Sun Yu, a brother"of Sun Yat Sen, who is now in Hankow, has been elected President of the Provincial Assembly, and Tang Hua Lung, the retiring President of the Assembly, ?nd a noted scholar, bas been elected Governor at Hu-Peh. The whole As sembly has seceded from the Imper ial Government. The rebels are well organized and I financially strong*. They have con fiscated the local treasuries and the banks and are issuing their own pa I per money, redeeming the Govern ments notes with this, as foreign banks are refusing Government I notes. The revolutionists have cap jtured Wu Chang, the native section of Hankow, a.nd Han-Yang and all adjoining cities in Hu-Peh province. Chang Sha, capital of Hunan, Is reported to have risen in revolt and Nanking, capital of the province of Kiang-Su, is on the verge of rising, several public buildings having been I destroyed.. Thousands of soldiers have joined the mutiny in Hu-Peh. Many Man chus have been killed and the terri fied people are fleeing from the cities into the country, carrying their be longings. The prisons have been opened and criminals liberated. There has been fighting in the streets, but the most stringent orders have been issued that the lives of foreigners and their property shall be respected. AVENGED SISTER'S DISGRACE. I On tho Ground That He Ruined a* Girl Man Is Killed. At Nashville, Tenn., E. W. Car roll was shot five times Wednesday afternoon and killed by Weaver 1 Smith, who charges that the dead man ruined his 13-year-old sister, Caroline Smith, who disappeared at Nashville last Sunday, and was found two days later in a deserted house near the city, in compauy with Ed Turbeville. Carol and Smith are both railway I firemen and had been friends for years. Carol is 35 years old and married, while Smith is 22. Carol had lived at the Smith home lor more than a year and in this manner be anie acquainted with the girl he is charged with having wronged. After the capture of Turbeville in company with Caroline Smith, Turbe ville is said to have charged that Carol was responsible for the girl's downfall. The story reached the ears of the father and brother of tho child and on Wednesday afternoon Weaver Smith went to the railway yards and found Carol preparing to leave on his engine for Chattanooga. At the point of a pistol Smith fore led Carol to accompany him to the [.Smith home where Caroline was con fronted with the man and told tiiat she must tell the truth about her relations with Carol, whereupon the girl told the entire story of her ruin, which she said was accomplished by Carol about a year a.-o. Weaver Smith then tired several sbots into Carol's body with fatal effect. Both Father and Son shot. At Sutnter, in a tussle to get pos session of a pistol, Leonard Wood, a negro, was shot in the breast and dangerously wounded. The only witnesses to the shooting were tho two sons of Woods, Marion with whom he was tusseling, and Leonard. The younger Leonard Wood was also wounded in the wrist. Homicide ill G<Htrgia Hotel. At Cuthbert, Ga? H. G. Baldwin, of .Montgomery, Ala., was shot and kill ed by Charles W. Worrill, a voting attorney. The tragedy occurred in the wash room of a hotel. Thero were no eye-witnesses and no alter cation was heard. Worrill declined to discuss the affair. Baldwin was on a .business trip. Damage About Two IVr Cent. The 1911 cotton crop in Soutli Carolina will be damaged just about two per cent on account of the sud den and unexpected visit of the so called "army worm," or cotton cat erpillar, in the opinion of Mr. A. C. Smith, of the Federal farm agricul tural department in Columbia.