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PUBLLrrrED TRI-WEEKLY jPARINGROSBER: Lias Near Celucbia WAS WORK OF AM EXPERT The Robber Was a White Man, and It Is Impossible to Estimate the Amount He Took, But He Made Away With a Valuable Register Package. Tho State says a masked white < man robbed the mail coach on At lantic Coast Line train No. 55 Frl >day about 11:25 o'clock between the block office at Royster, just south of Columbia and Lower street, the southern boundary of the city. The robber held H. L. Meredith, the mail clerk, and his negro helper, B. S. Dreher, at the point of a pistol and took possession of the registered mail. Then he pulled on the emer gency brake and leaped off the train 2ust before it reached the crossing aif the corner of Whaley and Sumter streets. It is impossible to state the value of the registered packages gotten by the robber, but it is believed that they are worth thousands of dollars. For boldness and daring, the rob bery of Atlantic Coast Line train No. 55 within a mile of the State house equals anything in the annals of train hold-ups. When train No. 55, due In Colum bia from Wilmington, N. C, at 11:10 p. m. reached the block office at Roy ster it was running 11 minutes late. Mr. Meredith, the mail clerk, had just finished putting the registered mail packages in a pouch in readiness to carry them to the mail transfer office at the union station. J. D. Minnis, the conductor of train No. 55, got o? to register at the block office and then signaled his train Ahead. Soon after the train began to move, & masked man threw open the front door of the mail car, the second from the engine, stuck a pistol in the mail clerk's face and demanded the reg isters. "Give them to me," he said, "and be quick about it or your head will have a hole through it!" After he got possession of the pouch-containing the registered mail, he sorted over the packages taking the most valuable ones and leaving a few which contained only merchan dise, all the while backing toward the door by which he had entered. While he was preparing to make his exit, Dreher, the negro assistant 3to the mail clerk, moved and the robber shifted his gun on him, and demanded that he hold up his hands. Then the robber seized the cord gov erning the emergency brake and pulled it. In leas than a minute the train, which was moving slowly, came to a stop just at -me corner of Whaley and Sumter streets. As soon as it began to slacken speed the masked man jumped back, slammed the door and made off. Conductor Minnis was in the third car from the engine when Mr. Mere dith rushed in and told him that a masked man had held up the train and taken the registered mail. The train pulled on into the union station, where the robbery was com municated to tho police by telephone. They in turn telephoned to the peni tentiary for bloodhounds, and in less than half an hour after the affair the dogs were on the spot where the rob ber Is supposed to have leaped off the train. They failed to strike a trail. H. L. Meredith of Wilmington, the mail clerk, is positive that the mask ed robber who held him up Is a white man. He noticed his hands and his nose and eyes, which were not cover ed by the mask. The coolness and deliberation, dis played by the robber suggests that he is an old hand at his trade. His knowledge of the registered mall and the emergency brake also go to prove that he was no amateur. He is described by these who saw him as a man of medium height. I rather frail, with dark hair and prob ably dark eyes. Conductor Minnis is positive that rot more than five minutes elapsed after he signaled l.is train ahead at Royster before Mr. Meredith came to him in the third coach and told him that he had been held up. Con ductor Minnis and Mr .Meredith bath stopped in Columoia. I GERMS IN HIDES KILL A MAX. Morocco Worker Believed to Have Been Anthrax Victim. To anthrax germs, carried to Wil mington. Del., from some foreign country in the hide of a goat, is at tribute! the d^ath of John Hurley, aged 4 9 years. Hurley worked in tho storehouse of F. Blumenthal & Co., morocco manufacturers, and it is believed the germs entered his body by way of a small cut he had on one hand. He handled hundreds of hides every day and on two previous occasions he suffered from slight at tacks of blood poisoning. He worked up to quitting time and went home. Then he complained of being unwell and went to bod. Next day he was much worse and a physician diag nosed the case as anthrax, but could not save, the man, who died in terri ble agony. FINDS THO GUILTY v i" ONE IN THE KAN SAS VABiUNG CASE. The Judge Sentences Four Confessed Assailants of the Young School Teacher to Jail; At Lincoln Centre, Kansas, two of the three men Charged with complic ity inv'Sthe tarring of .Miss Mary Chamberlain, a school teacher, John Schmidt and Sherrlil Clark Friday were found guilty. of assault and battery by a jury in Judge Grovor's court, while A. N. Simms, the third defendant, was acquitted. The jury was out nearly 30 hours. Earlier in the day the court im posed sentences as on? year each in jail, the extreme penalty, on Everett G. Clark, Jay Fitzwater, Watson Scranton and Edward Ricord, con fessed assailants of Miss Chamber lain. The four confessed before the present trial began. The court ruled that the men must pay the cost of the prosecution. Ricord already was in jail, having been surrendered by hi3 bondsmen 77 days ago. Both the convicted and the confessed assailants took their cases calmly. The four who con fessed expressed themselves as glad that the long period of waiting was over. None of the men who confessed offered any reason why he should not be sentenced. The court made no comment on the crime. The aged father of Jay Fitzwater, a preacher, widely known in this part of Kansas, saw his son arraigned. He is greatly downcast over the boy's sentence, but has no harsh feelings against the officer? for enforcing the law. "It was a shocking crime," he said. "I so expressed myself before I knew my son was implicated." The most surprising feature of the verdict to those who have followed the case closely was the conviction of Schmidt. He is a quiet little farmer, against whom, it was thought by all, the State made a weak case. Mrs. Simms, who has been a con stant court attendant remained with the two convicted men until after court adjourned. Her husband, highly elated over his acquittal, smiled broadly and congratulated his attorneys. Mary Chamberlain was not pres ent. It was said she, too, thought a verdict impossible and^Ieft town for Beverly. Ricord is the barber who decoyed the girl to the place when she was tarred. Simms was acquitted, according to one of the jurors, by reason of the slight evi dence against him. TERRIBLE BOILER EXPLOSION. Thirty-three Men Killed and Seventy five Wounded. Thirty-three workers are known to have been killed and upward of 100 injured by a boiler explosion which occurred Friday at the oil cake mills of J. Bibby & Sons, at Liverpool, England. The force of the explosion was so terrific that the roof of the great mill was blown off while the walls split and crumbled. An outburst of flame followed on the instant. Nearly 400 workers were engaged in the building at the time. The bodies of those in or near the boiler room were horribly mangled, some of them being thrown into the streetB together with bricks and debris. Men could be seen at the windows with fire raging behind them, franti cally appealing for rescue. Fire lad ders were , quickly at the scene and many of tho men were saved. The scorched clothing and burned hair of those brought down told of the ter rible.ordeal through which they had gone. Many of those who were taken to the hospital are suffering from shock ing injuries. Some of them Lave lost legs or arms and others are fearfully burned. KIDNAPPED, GAINS FREEDOM. Claims Was Held For Seven Tears in i "Large Town." A boy, giving his name as Lee Car penter and claiming to have been ikidnapped seven years ago, and to have been kept imprisoned in a wall ed yard until Thursday, arrived at Barboursvllle, Ky., Monday. He was unable to give the name of tho man who had kidnapped him, or the name| of the place where he lived, but said it was a large town in Virginia. The hoys says he was on his way to school from his home, two miles from La| Follotte, Tenn., wnen he was grabbed! bv a large man, who forced him toi accompany him to Corbin, Ky., and j from there into Virginia. At the time he was taken away his mother, Mrs.! Martha Carpenter, was living. He lias never heard from her since. Shipwrecked Sailors Saved. Six shipwrecked sailors of the schooner James W. Maxwell, Jr., bound from Brunswick, Ga., to New York reached port Friday on the Mor gan liner El Rio. They were picked up off Cape Charles Wednesday after spending seventeen hours in a small boat. , Japanese Destroyer Founders. The Japanese destroyer Harusame foundered off Shima province in a storm Friday and 45 of the crew of 60 perished. Stamina! R publicans C emitted Great - i\ Fraeds id Nts? M BUT IT WONT PAY THEM The Democrats and Progressive Republicans Elected the State Of ficers, the Members of the Supreme Court and Divide Up the United States Senators Between Them. Despite the fact the regular or standpat Republican organization has carried a majority of members of the New Mexico legislature chosen two weeks ago Thursday, indications are that one Democrat and one Repub lican progressive will be elected sen ators. "Bull" Andrews stands to lose the seat for whirh he has so long struggled, and Solomon Luna, Re publican boss and national commit-/ teeinan, has more prospect of an un glorious retirement from politics than he has of being senator. This is the story which comes from the new Southwestern state, says a dispatch from Washington. It was brought by John Baron Berg, a form er Washingtonian, who has lived for three years in New Mexico, and has just been elected as a progressive Republican to the state senate. Berg has; been a scrapper ever since he weat. into the Territory, and was one of the group of progressives that bolted the machine convention at La;i Vergras last summer. The remarkable result in New Mexico is of liie greatest national in terest at this time, because it may determine the political complexion of the United States senate after March 4th, 1912. The regular Re publicans always counted on two sen ators from New Mexico. They con ceded that tho Democrats would get two from Arizona, so in all calcula tions the twin Southwest states were set down as a stand-off. But the result of the New Mexico election was a revolution, directed against the reactionary Andrews Luns-Fall Catron machine. The pro gressive Republicans joined with the * Democrats in supporting the Democrat state -ticket, and elected nearly all of It. The biggest fight was to control the supreme court, and two Democrats and one progres sive Republican have been elected. It is composed of three members. The old corrupt New Mexico gang wanted to be sure of the court be cause it would be their final safe guard. Losing it, they have lost the one. assurance of protection in carry ing out their plans for dimination of the state. "The legislature would have gone Democratic-Progressive by at least two to one," said Mr. Berg, "but for tho fearful gerrymander which, saved the machine. On everything that gave opportunity for a state-wide vote, the machine was defeated. They held back the returns, doctored thorn as much as they dared, and then couldn't beat us. "No less than 161 precinct were held back for ten days after the elec tion and then the returns from them were all found to be .overwhelmingly in favor of the machine candidates. By this sort of thing they saved nom inal consent of the legislature, but they couldn't save the state ticket. McDonald, Democrat, is elected gov ernor by about 4,000 in spite of all the fixing. "While the machlno was holding bs.ck and plugging the returns, tho Democrats and Progressives organiz ed a legal committee, raised $10,000, and are now on the trail of the elec tion crooks." Mr. Berg's explanation of the sen atorial situation is most Interesting. The Democrats and progressive Re publicans together come within three or four of a majority in the legisla ture. This of course cannot control. But it turns out that a number of the men whom the machine Republicans! nominated and elected were in sym pathy with the revolt, and are deter mined to join it. As a result, the! coalescence is assured. Mr. Berg says, a comfortable majority to organize the legislature and to carry out the original program and elect one Dem ocrat and one progressive Republi can to the United States senate. "New Mexico is a progressive com munity, as the country soon will dis cover," declared Mr. Berg. "The re-1 suit was a rebuke to the gang's nieth-i ods at the Las Vegas convention. Thoj real people simply had no chance there at all; the gang rode over them In a manner that made all the decent opinion of the state rise up in the protest that brought about the result j ?c have seen. Now watch New Mex ico; there is going to be a. carnival of' machine-busting and boss-punishing| when the election frauds get to the courts." Mceted Out Swift Justice. At Raleigh, N. C, Ross French, a Cherokee Indian, paid the death pen alty Friday in the electric chair for the murder of Miss Ethel Shuler near Bird Town, last September. After the girls body was found, Ross con fessed he had attempted to criminally assault tho girl, and that he was struck on the head with a stone, after which he drew his knife and cut her throat. JRG, S. C, TUESDAY, NOVE story of m mm 0 FOR WHICH YOUNG H. C. BEAT TIE WAS PUT TO DEATH. Murdered His Young Wife While Riding With Her in an Automo" bile Near Richmond. The crime for which Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., was legally put tc death at Richmond on last Friday morn ing was one of the most sensatir.nal in the criminal history of Virginia. Interest in the murder was country wide owing to its unusual features and the ewlft movement of justice. On the night of July 18, last, Beat tie drove his automobile into Rich mond, carrying with him the body of his wife which had a gaping shotgun wound in the head. He declared that a tall, bearded man had accosted him| on the Midlothian turnpike, five miles from Richmond and when he had re quested the man to make room for him in the road the stranger without warning had fired the shot which killed Mrs. Beattie. He.'added that die had grappled with the man but v/a3 overpowered and that the mur derer had fled, leaving the gun .be hind. This story of the crime was maintained by Beattie to the end. For a brief time Beattie's story was given some degree of credence, but within a day or two suspicion began to point to him and he was kept under tho closest surveillance. Bloodhounds, taken to the scene of the crime, refused to leave the place, circling around the bloodspot on the road. Beattie, It eventually transpired, had thrown the shotgun into the ton neau of his automobile after the shooting but in passing over some railroad tracks not far from tho scene it had been jolted out and was picked up later by a negress. This gun, which Beattie alleged had be longed to the mysterious highway man, proved the means of sending the young man to the electric chair. At the coroner's inquest the weap on was identified by Paul Beattie, a second cou?in of young Henry, as the weapon he had purchased for Henry with money furnished by the latter. Beattie was arrested immed iately after the inquest. This was on July 21, and on August 19, one month and a day after the day of the murder, the trial was begun be fore Judge Walter A. Watson, in the picturesque little Chesterfield coun ty court house, 16 miles from Rich mond. Tho jury was made up almost en tirely of farmers, and on this fact Beattie based his claim that he had been convicted, not for the murder of his wife, but because of his relations with Beulah Binford, a notorious young woman. He insisted to the last that a jury composed of city men would have freed him. Beattie was defended by H. M. Smith, Jr., and Hill Carter. The prosecution was conducted by L. 0. Wendenburg and L. M. Gregory. The trial moved swiftly, though many witnesses testified, and on Sep tember 8, after 58 minutes of con sideration and prayer, the jury, in choruB instead of through its fore man, declared Beattie to be guilty of the murder of his wife. Motion for a new trial was denied and Novem ber 2 set as the day for tho execution. On November 1 ?, the Virginia su preme court of appeals refused to grant an appeal or a writ of error, and two days later Governor Mann, who had been appealed to for com mutation or reprieve, issued a state ment declaring that the interents of the people of Virginia demanded that TCenttie should die in the electric chair. SWEARS BY PROPHET'S BREAD. Bible Means Nothing to Turkish Wit ness In New York. The criminal courts building w.is searched in vain for a copy of the Koran, a demand for which arose when Mokamed AH, a Turk, refused! to bo sworn on the Bible to testify j in a grand larceny case, says a New j York dispatch. "To be sworn on the Biblo means! nothing to me." declared the witnes3,1 and court attendants searched high and low for a copy of tho volume sa-j cred to the Turk. When the book; of Mohammed could nnt bo found. Ali was allowed to take oath after j the fashion of those of his creed, i Holding up ilio index finger of hlsi right hand, he said: "I swear by the great Allah and by the beard of hia only phophet,j Mohammed, to toll tho truth, tho whole truth and nothing but the truth. In failing, may I be swept! off the face of the earth." Ali was then permitted to give testimony favorable to the character of Avavea Goorkian, the defendant in tho case. Another Convic: Pnrdoiiecl. Hen Giggs, who was onvitced in : Anderson County in January of this year, on tho charge ?"<' house-burn ing and sentenced to ten years on the public works of that County, nasi been paroled by the governor pend ing good behavior. This makes 262] cases of executive clemency. Another Marine Horror. Tho Austrian steamer Romania was wrecked Friday near Rovogno. It is reported that 60 persons were drowned. MBER 28, 1911. TAFT DEAD DUCK He Is D?mtd to Defeat Should He Be Ren9miaated far President. SAID TO BE V?RY WEAK What An Observing Correspondent of The Saturday Evening Post, Who Has Travelled All Over the Pacific Slope and the West, Says About His Chances. The national political pot is be ginning to boil in dead earnest, and the chances of the different men being mentioned for President are being canvassed on all sides. In a recent issue of the Saturday Evening Post, Samuel G. Blythe writes inter estingly of the chances of both par ties in 1912. The writer has trav eled more miles than President Tart in order to secure first hand data for hia conclusions and has visited every State in the Union save three o four that he calls pocket bor oughs, and which will not afTect the result. In summing up the general situation Mr. Blythe says: "William Howard Taft will be re nominated for President next June if he continues in his present atti tude and demands rcnomlnation. William Howard Taft will not be re elected President next November un less the Democratic party is guilty of the incredible political stupidity of nominating for President some man for whom the hundreds of thou sands of dissatisfied Republicans will not vote. If the Democratic party is thus stupid and nominates for President some man who stands, In the public mind, for about the same things Taft stands for, or some man who, from his own record and per sonality, does not meet the require ments of the newer elements in both Republican and Democratic parties, there will be a strong movement? which may or may not be successful ?for a third-party ticket that shall be made up of men who will com mand the support of the Progressives in both parties." The point that is stressed by Mr. Blythe throughout his careful and well-balanced summing up of the sit uation Is tho changed conditions that confront both political parties and the political future of this country. There are two wings to the Republi can party?there are two wings to tho Democratic party. The sole chance of success of the Democratic party lies In getting enough Republi can dissatisfied votes in the insurgent i..nd Republican States to win. This \a tho boIo problem of the Democratic party If It wishes to win the next national election. Mr. Bly:he de clares: "There are hundreds of thousands of Republicans in the United States who will not vote to make Mr. Taft President again. These men do not want a Democratic President. They ?re anxious to have the Republican party remain in power; but?and bore is the point?they prefer to have a Democratic President than to have Mr. Taft President again! If Mr. Taft is renominated, as he prob ably will be, they hope the Demo crats will be wlso enough to give them a candidate for whom they can vote with the knowledge that he will be a real progressive President. Nor are they making too many specifica tions. They are not demanding su perlative qualities. A fair, average, level-headed man is what they want ?one who has shown reasonable In dependence and reasonable apprecia tion of the responsibilities that shall be his. Iu summing up the political condi tions of the West he says: "So far as this section of tho country is con cerned, there aro but two leading Democratic candidates, Governor Judson Harmon, r.f Ohio, and Gov ernor Wood-row Wilsen, of New Jer sey. Of the two. Wilson is much the stronger. If Wilson should be nom inated against Taft, Wilson would carry most of the State in this sec tion, with conditions as they are. The Progressive Republicans, who are against Taft, would vote for Wil son?not all of them, but most of thr-m. Wilson is very strong in the i^ates where the revolt against the Republican party is greatest. On 'he other hand, the old-line Demo crats, the former organization men .ho helped put Parker over In 1904 ?the o!d (bans who have hung on to the machines?aro invariably for Harmon. The new-thinking Demo crats, the Progressives, are for W'il son. The old-line men arc for Har mon. He tli'nks Wilson will havo the del egates in the National Democratic Convention fro n California, Oregon. Washington, and several other Statps from, the Pacific Slope and the We-;. In su:ing i'!' hi i i: tcrc t review of tho political situation in the West and passing from tho question of nominations to the actual election when the votes are counted and where final victory or defeat awaits the two great political parties, Mr. Blythe says: "If condiuoi.s remain as they are, which is morn than likely; and if Wilson, for example, is nominated against Taft?or any other candi date for whom the Republicans have a friendly feeling?Mr. Taft will carry very few of the States I have included iu this summary. He will carry Utah and Wyoming without JiRSEY FOR WILSON THAT STATE MAY BE COUNTED SAFELY DEMOCRATIC. While the Republicans Won the Leg islature by Treachery, the State Went Democratic. Through the official returns now on file at the State department in Trenton, N. J., it is absolutely estab lished that Governor Wilson has made New Jersey a Democratic State. Based on the average vote for candidates for Assembly at the recent election, a total of 160,184 votes were cast for Democrats, against 157,084 for Republicans?a Demo cratic majority of 3,100. In the Democratic landslide of 1910, when Wcodrow Wilson was candidaLe for Governor, and his great personality aided the cause of every man on tho ticket, the Democratic assembly majority was only 14,470, the totals being: Democrat, 213, 516, and Republican, 199,046. And New Jersey is kept in the Democratic column, despite the des perate efforts of the special interests and of their faithful ally, former United States Senator . James Smith, Jr. Smith's treachery to the party he professes to serve stands out in all Its blackness in th< .fficial returns. Tt was his home county that lost the legislature to the Democrats. Essex County, which has been his plaything for years, is the only County in the State which turned a considerable Democratic majority into a large Re publican majority, the reason being that the legislative ticket in Essex was running on an anti-Wilson plat form. In 1910 there were polled in Essex County, 35,577 Republican and 40, 516 Democratic voles?a Democratic majority of 4,939. At the election just passed the Republican vote in that county was 30,646, and the Dem ocratic vote, 23,360, or a Republican majority of 6,238. This was Smith's "rebuke" to Governor Wilson for his temerity in keeping fai:h with the people?he betrayed his party to wreak spite. But despite the efforts of the ma chine and despite the dead load of Essex candidates, whose expenses were paid by James H. Nugent, Smith's henchman, New Jersey re mains in the Democratic column Comparing the vote with la3t year? the high-water mark of Democratic success?the returns show that in a majority of the counties the loss of votes due to Iving an off year, were propo1 mately greater i>n the Republican ide than on the Demo cratic. Eliminating. Essex from considera tion?for its loss to the Democrats was conceded tho day Essex's ma chine declared for an anti-Wilson platform?the Democratic majority in the State was 9.38S. Splendid as is this showing for New Jersey Democracy, the result of the election is enhanced when com parison is made with 1909, tne first preceding election when there was no State candidate to be voted for. In that year the average vote for as sembly candidates was: Republican, 210,659; Democrat, 169,157?or a Republican majority of 41,502. In the preceding year, the presidential year, tho Republican majority on the assembly ticket in the State was 61, 586. SWIFT AND STIRE -JUSTICE. Beatllo's Crime, Arrest, Conviction and Execution. The following is the chronology in the case of Henry Clay Beattie, Jr.: July 18?Mrs. Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., murdered while automobile rid ing with her husnan i. July 21?Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., placed under arrest on the find.ng jf tho coroner's jury. August 14?Henry Clay Bc2.tr.ie, Jr., indicted by th* grand iury for the murder o.- nls wil'o. August 19?Henry Clay Beattie. Jr., placed on trial for his l'fo in Chesterfield County Court House. Va. September 8?Jury brings in ver dict of guilty and Judge Watson sen tenced Beattie to dlo iu the electric chair, on Nov. 24. Nov. 13?Supremo Court of Ap peal.; refused to grant writ of error in Bcittio case. Nov. 15?Covcrnor of Virginia re fused to grant slay of execution. Nov. 24?Electrocuted at 7:23 a. m. -: question, and probably Nevada. He will lose California, and ho will !o=e Montana and Colorado. The chances strongly favor hla losing Oregon and' Washington. If the Mormons are strong enough he will carry Idaho. He will lose Arizona and will prob-' ably carry Xow Mexico. "Assuming that conditions remain j a (mi as they now are, Mr. Taft wUi be hard put to it to carry Kansas cgninst a man like Wilson, and will loso North Dakota and. likely as not, South Dakota. He will have des ?lerato troubles in Nebraska and be in most diflicult case in Iowa and Minnesota. The chnnces are against him in all three States union the miracle works out and opinion sbifrs to the other side. So far as this sec tion of the cuuntry is concerned Mr. Taft can hope for little?and he will get even less than he hopes." WO CENTS PER COPY. LAST SAD RITE Bealiie Coritd Beside Yccrg Wife Wo a Se Cid l'y Snrdtied. IS QUIETLY LAID AWAY Service Held at Residence and Inter* roent is Made in Maury Cemetery Shortly After Sunrise, Avoiding; the Possible Annoyance From an Idly Curious Crowd. Eioside the grave of the young; v/Ifo whom he so cruelly murdered on. July lb, the body of Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., was buried in Maury Cemetery at Richmond shortly after sunrise Sunday. There was a brief service at the residence, attended only by members of the family and eight friends, who served as pallbearers, and then the procession mov?.l ihrough the silent streets of South Richmond. The Rev. John J. Fix, who prayed with Beattie just, before he tfas led into the d'raih chamber at the peni tentiary en Friday morning, read the service of the Presbyterian Church, his voice being broken at times by sobs. To guard against possible annoy ance the exact hour of the funeral was kept secret until midnight Sat urday night, and consequently there were no morbid crowds around the Beattie home or cemetery. Two po lice officers, in plain clothes, were on duty, but the hearse an?l seven car riages had reached the grave before tho city was astir. When the burial was concluded Henry Clay Beattie, Sr., left with Douglas, his son, and Hazel, his daughter, and two aunts of the mur derer. The aged father's grief was intense. The pallbearers, boyhood friends of Beattie, were asked by him to serve. Several of them had testified in his defence at the trial and one was his best man when he and Louise Wclb? ford Owen were married, exactly one year from the date he pleaded not,, guilty of her murder in Court. A j florist's wagon, completely filled with flowers, entered the cemetery gates just after daylight, and Sunday the mound of earth was hidden beneath chrysanthemums and immortelles. After it became known Sunday that the funeral had already been held a tremendous crowd visited Maury Cemetery. Double ropes were stretched around the Beattie section and two mounted policemen, in ad dition to officers on foot, kept the crowds back. There was no disorder, however, and no attempt to take away the flowers. STOOD FOR LAW AND ORDER. "Let the Law Take Its Course,'! Says Victim's Father. To save the name of Kansas, a father Saturday prevented the lynch ing of a negro who had attacked his defenceless daughter. While Clar ence Davis, a young negro, sat shack led to a chair at Spring Well, Kan sas, in a pool hall, 200 men who had captured him for an attempted as sault on a 14-year-old girl, argued the question of taking the law into their own hands. Twenty speeches were made. At last a tall farmer pulled the negro towards the door and cried: "Come on boys; we'll burn the. scoundrel at the stake." Willing hands dragged the negrci to the street. At this juncture the father of the girl attacked arrived. Pushing aside the mob he reached the negro's side. Addressing the crowd, he said: "Let the men dis perse and let the law take its course. "This is undoubtedly the man who attempted a vicious crime on my daughter," he said, "but 'Judge Lynch' does not live In civilized Kan sas any more. To burn this fellow to death will only scandalize the country. Let the law take its course." After a conference the mob turned the negro over to the victim's fath er, who took him to the sheriff. TWO MURDERS IN A WEEK. Negro Killed by Party Unknown in Marlboro County. Another homicide took place in Marlboro county Thursday night, making two last week. The mau killed was a negro by the name of Clarence Griffin, fie worked with the Scott Lumber company, twelve miles south of Bennettsville, and came from Dillon county. He was around ilie cam;) drinking Thursday night, shooting his pistol promiscuously and a white man. T. K. Carroll, was shot through the arm. The negro. Griffin, was shot in the neck and lived only a few minutes. Wednesday at the Till man lumber plant, flfleea miles south of Columbia, John Wig ford, a negro, shot and killed Orby Miles. Wigford is in jail. Southern Grants Increase. The Southern Railway telegraphers I have been given an 8 per cent in I crease In wages. Clerks making Ie3S than $70 per month receive a 6 per cent advance, dating from November 1. Both increases were voluntarily, granted by the road.