THE'Union daily times V> ESTABUMBP IN IW-CONVEMTEB TO Iflfe BlftlLY HMES OCTOBER 1, 1?17 : jj/f*' Vol. in. no. 8ii union, s. c., mbnpa^j^pfr 12, n?ao ., ac peiuiopy BIG BOOSTER I LE y ?.. k v ; V The Duroc Jersey Boosters left Union last night for Manning. About twenty men were in the party and they are making the trip in a first dm Pullman car, and fully equipped. ; Those in the party that left Union wefe: F. J. Parham, Harold H. Jeter, J. O. Hughes, T. A. Murrah, J. F. McLa#e, J. B. Foster, H. W. Webber, Ik W. Beaty, W. H. Gibson, W. D. r Wo^d, F. H. Garner, A. G. Kennedy, J. - WTi, a retired farmer, through both legs. Joseph Vincent, merchant was shot in the chest, and Harry Bayles, a grocer, wad shot through the shoulder. Mrs. D. W. Lancaster (Susie Tin toy) ttnd Miss Lorena Hawkins will leave Wednesday for an extended'visit to relatives in Dallas, Austin and |gtf. Houston, Texas. J >npTV FT LAST NIGHT no run now MM MM CHICAGO, July 12.*?Amalgamation of the Labor Party of the United States and the Commission of 48 in a new political movement with a single party name, one plhtform and one ticket are included in the ratification submitted to the labor and forty eight conventions when they reoovened today. Senator Robert M. Lafollette, of Wisconsin, remained the most talked of candidate in the Presidential race. The .terms of the proposed combine am tmHav*t who are coming to attc morrow. Dr. Payne it will do so, to meet the and escort the visitors below Union. We joii Payne. Any man who Parham has, a booster receive the support of town. Send or bring y train in the morning am WIFE MIMOEflEB HIS ; MHNT HSOIS HI .IC! CHICACjp, July 12.?A theory that f G^'VWanfwrer who shot and killed I Ws wife because of his interest in a i 16 fat cldgirl was being investigatt ed by the Police. Confrbnted> r Wlthtlfce girl in his cell, "Wanderer **r tW ftmtime since his arrest lost cenupoiurf momentarily, hut firmly jjbulfd the girl had had any influence : op his desire to be free. In one of lis statements to the Police Wanderer i^ad said he shot his wife to he could mtxxm to the army and be frep from He care of his wife and the baby [Mey expected next month, aflfhs jiirl, Julia Schmidt told the fHlice she- had known Wanderer some IXnp. ago. had gone to an amusement j Wtk "jfr$h him several times, but did nttt Widw he was married, she was LKfct held as police announced after Mmestiaping that they were convincM she^ had not knowledge of the ltturder plot which was carried out in Hfte lobby of Wanderers apartment |j| Acjcqpdlng (to otie of the latest of I Wanderers statements to the Police* jjHie |lb,000 which his wife drew from Hie '/hank two days before she. was Hka?;was his own money. He' had CftdQpdL or.ce before that he intended Steal the money and return to the Hrt$& hut in . the excitement follow-1 Hg the , Shooting forgot about it. jw Hiilndentification of the hired robller M John K. Maloney of River jyoinw di. I., was further supported Ijbday by John Well-and clerk at a Xotel where Maloney had stayed jjjfaeevdays just before he was slain. f^Tves true bills charging Lieut. Igsrl 'Wanderer with the murder of Ms y#fe and the stranger whom he yed||ie a, dupe were'voted today by KIctric Light * APPirr nAirrn .yrntc muvi^ I T|tt Eiaitarie Ufht office moved into temporary quarters in. 71 West Main street. As Soon *8 tike repairs cin be made the office will be rettkrned to its former quarters. PRISONER ESCAPES . FROM TRAIN Concord, N. C., July 12.?Clad only in his underclothing, George King, a prisoner en route from New York to the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., escaped from a Southern passenger train as it was leaving the station here early today. He had been locked with another prisoner in a drawing room on the train and is believed to have crawled through a window. He was seen by the negro train porter running towards a creek. I Miss Frances McDow, of Santuc, spent the yeek end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. K- W. McDow on South Church street. lines and be run. in such a way that undue profits could not be exacted from the people seeking homes. If this plan should be accepted in principle, the statement said a conference should be held to consider its practical execution. ost Your wn are on the trip to Mann tomorrow, Tuesday, at e accompanied by about visitors from other states ind Sardis Farm sale toi asking everybody who train tomorrow at 9:12 to the Farm, four miles n in the request of Dr. has the nerve that F. J. ' from his heart, should all the citizens of this our automobile to the d help boost. I LOSES LIFE IN I OVER I* ICED KCIII RElftSED; > - cum IE ISSWI i 1 Spartanburg, July 12.?The state i supreme court in an order received j here today, sets aside the verdict of . guilty in the case of Will Kelly, an J aged negro Of Cowpens, this county, 1 convicted of attempted assault upon a little white girl and sentenced to ten < years imprisonment and orders the * negro's' release. The supreme court 1 says there 'was no evidence upon ( which to basd>' a conviction. In its J order the court says: v . "When a man is charged with evil thoughts ripened into actions, his fel- * low triers cannot rest judgment on b their knowledge of Criminal sin in- f herent in the prisoner, else none of us would escape judgment. The evil thought, which is the original intent, only becomes unlawful when he who t hafbors it proceeds to put it into \ action. The act of the defendant, v .testified to by the female child, does not tend to prove that when he puts 8 his hand upon her he had a criminal i intent. To so hold would hurt the c law more than it would hurt the de fendant. The judgment is reversed . with direction to enter a verdict of . ... ? ii harrow escape 1 from death ? . ? j ' W. D. ^Arthur received a wire yes- t terday from his son, Capt. Dogan Ar- g thur, that has caused his loved ones n and inends great alarm. The wire j was sent from Sandersville, Ga., and Tl says: "Storm and darkness caused forced ^ landing over here last night. Plane n completely wrecked. 'Mac' badly hurt n about neck- and back, but doctors very encouraging. .I an\- slightly bruir^d S about face. Writing. _ fi ' Dogan." J) Capt. Arthur and his observer, n Limit. W. C- McCarron, were, visiting h in Union^several weeks ago.and many n people met-the. ypung lleute^^fc- and ^ meagre details and ti iously expected. ? f s The Union folks are so proud of this tl young fellow and grieve to hear of C1 any accident befalling him. s, ' ' ' tt VAUGHAN-McHAFFEY . ft Mrs. Hattie Mahaffey, who is re- r( siding at 9 Mill street, Union, S. C., ft was married to Geddes L. Vaughn, of Union Route 1, July 10. 1920, at the ? home of the bride. k The ceremony was performed by a, Henri E. Brewington, Notary Public. e These popular young people had with ^ them only a few friends, but the good tl wishes of scores of friends are ex- s' tended to them. H. E. B. b, BARBERS ON STRIKE S (By the Associated Press.) Columbus, Ga., July 12.?Barbers went on strike here today in shops which refused to grant increase in price. They demand a guarantee or P eighteen dollars out of the first $25 v gross receipts and 65 per cent of r all additional receipts weekly. Sev- a eral shops are entirely closed and over helf the local union membership li is out. F ' t RECRUITING OFFICER TO r VISIT UNION TUESDAY The Navy Recruiting Officer from Spartanburg will visit Union, S. C., on ^ Tuesday, July 13, to examine and en- ' list applicants for the U.S. Navy and 1 also to give any information regarding v the navy to anyone interested. e MRS. B. B. GOING IN HOSPITAL L Mrs R. R. Goini*' is in fitflflHlAv's Hospital in Spartanburg for treatment and her friends rejoice to hear s, of her improved condition. a p ALLIED MINISTERS J NOT IMPRESSED 1 SPA BELGIUM, July 12.?The allied ministers it appears are not very favorably impressed by the German reparations plan. It is under- ? stood that the German delegates have r in reserve another plan or amendment, of much greater importance j than the plan submitted yesterday. It seems even possible that the trou- s ble over the coal question may result in the prolongation of the con- d ference. ? RIDE FALLS / 1 v r* t. . NIAGARA FALL. N. Y., July 12.? Rivermen were petrolling the Niaga* ra gorge below the falls today in the lope of recovering the body of 3harles G. Stephens of Bristol, Engand, who lost his life yesterday in m attempt to duplicate the feats of tfrs. Annie Edson Taylor, and Bobby L*each by going over the catract in a Murrcll. Pieces of the barrel 1 in which Stephens went to his death continued o float ashore in the eddy on the Canadian side above the Maid of the ifist landing until nearly midnight, >ut Stephens body failed to appear. Experienced rivermen said it might e several dayti before it was released rom the cross currents at the foot f the falls. The staves of the barrel bobbed up hrough the spume Qne by one and ksere picked up as they floated toward the shore. The head, with its ealing device, was intact. It was mpossible to tell which part of the ask gave way first under the force >f the 158 foot drop and the poundng of the water, but Bobhy Leach /hose experiences gave his opposition cme weight, declared it was too ight in all parts. Leach warned Stephens before the tart that he was doomed to failure t ut tl^ Englishman was confident his ask was strong enough and refused o listen to Leach's advice. Leach aw the start, hut appeared very crvous anerwaru and refused to go own into th^ gorge where the barell was expected to reappear. "A steel barrel is the only safe ind" said Leach. "If I can have one lade by July 25, the anniversary of ly last trip, I'll duplicate it." One theory adv^jfced to account for tegthens' failure is that the rampart f Mcks at the foqt. of , the falls looked the passage, and against it barrel was pounded to pieces. It tight have ridaep out if the water aa been high; as ft was when Leach lade his trip. ' . . < Erosion at the crest of the falls as been comparatively rapid in reint years, thfe hoyse^poe shape which -iarfgle with the apex a considerable istance above whepfe the middle of ie ?"Horseshoe" was. - This wearing-away process has lused huge slides of rock. No obirvations have been taken to desrmine their location at the base of le falls, but a similar ~ process on * 10 American side indicates that the ndency is to throw up a ridge of >ck just below the curtain of the ills. Stephens' barrel went over the side f the triangle nearest the curtain. Charles George Stephens, who was illed yestex-day in going over Nigara Falls in a barrel was a barber xtraordinary. His hobby was performing specicular stunts, for which he received iree ribbons, five gold medals and ix silver medals. His specailties lcluded kissing the lion in its den, having customers in a lion's den, oxing in lion's den and parachute eseents from a balloon. UNDAY EXCURSIONISTS ON GROUNDED STEAMER TOLEDO, OHIO., July 12.?The assengors steamer State of Ohio >;t)i r.nn ,??*> ? 1 rivit */vw MlVlly UI1U VVUIIiCll tlllU nillll" en Sunday excursionists aboard is ground in Maumee Bay. The vessel ue here, at 10:30 Sunday night from 'ut-in-Bay went aground on her reurn trip to Toledo last night. Seveal tugs have gone to the rescue. All passeners are reported safe. TOLEDO OHIO, July 12.?After laving been stuck in the mud in rlaumeo. bay all during the night, he passenger steamer State of Ohio /as released this morning and towd into Toledo. IGHTENING STRIKES SCHOOL HOUSE Tampa, Fla., July 12.?Lightning truck the school house at Enville, bout 40 miles north of here, as the eople were assembling for church unday killing .1. B. Norman and his , 7 year old daughter and rendering 2 unconscious. WILL RETURN WKHNKSDAY Dr. and Mrs. R. R. Berry and family vill return Wednesday from a two nonths stay in Baltimore, Md. Dr. Berry has been studying at ohns Hopkins hospital, taking a peeial course of training, They will be at home at the resilence of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Brown on South street.