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___________HJ 1.8,5*WBERRY. I-. C4, TURS:I)&Y, JULY 21, 1903TWC W EK$5 AY A in the meantime, and had attempted to repg'ah his pistol on the gromid. This incident. gave rimfe to the re. port in Aiken that there was a reRu. lar race war on Chinquepin. This is not. the case. The negroes of the eoynvannity regret the killing of Air. Hall as much as the white people, as he was a young man with bgts of.friends of both races. A posse is out to-day in search of Ed wards and if he is caught he will be lynched. The negro, Edwards is a bad ne gro, and had almost the same trouble about an account with Mr. (0ibson with whom he worked some time be fore this. On this occasion he told Mr. Gibson that he would be back in a few days and Pettle the bill. In a day or two Edwards came back to Mr. Gibson with a shotgun in his hands and told Gibson that he had come to settle that bill he owed. Mr. Gibson took his bluster and the ne gro walked off. This will show the,character of the negro whom the people of Chin quepin never intend to allow to ap pear before a jury. The community is usually a law-abiding, quiet neigh - borhood, find if it were not for the exasperating circumstances of the case the people would, no doubt, let the law take its courso. Mrs. Missouri Hall, the mother of the murdered man, is prostrated, and is in a wretched condition, physically and mentally. The white men in the community sh3w no spirit of rowdyism or cruelty towards the colored people of that section. All they want is the man thAt. killed William Hall and there is no doubt what will be done if he is caught. wAS THE BOY KILLED? A staff correspondent of the Co lumbia State, wiring his paper from Batest,urg, states that thg negro boy mentined in the article above as hgving b,gen shot to pieq9s, was not killed, but badly whipped, and that he ran away after the whipping. Reports from the scane of the trage dy differ widely, and it is impossiple to get at the exact details. POPE LEO XIII ENTERING ETERNITY. Such Was His Condition at Midnight of Sunday, July 19--His Doctors had Given up Hope and Gone Home to Await the Last Summons. Rome, July 19 -Midnight.-The Pope lies tonight in a state of coma and there are grave doubts in th minds of his doctors whether he will ever completely emerge. His immediate dissolution seems to be only averted by the reliability of the action of his heart. His pulse, though weak, continues steady. Shortly before midnight Dr. Lapponi snid to the correspondent of the As sociated Press: "The Pope at the present moment is in a state of torpor and stupor from which, however, lhe rouses oc easionally when lie hears sharp soundi as for instance, the insistent voice o: one of his familiars, calling louidlj to him. Left atlone lie relapses im mediately into a condition of torpor At intervals he murmurs in hii sleep, continuing to have fore bodings that be is being abandonet by his valet, Centra, and myself These are the sy mptoms of incipieni cerebral anemia and general exhauis tion. He can no longer turn in hil bed without assistance, and is beinj kept alive by artificial stimulante During the last twenty-three houri he had two injections of camphorate< oil, three of caffeine and two hype dermnica of salt water, besides drink ing stimulants." Mgre Bislotti, master of t,be Pope'a chamber, said earlier in the evening that the pulse of his Holinees ha< not yet showun any signs of becom ing intermittent so, despite his ex tren)e wea neHs Qpd coma, he be lieved the Pope would survive th night and possibly tomorrow. Both the Italian Government an the authorities of the Vatican hay made final preparations for th Pope's death. The Government i rigidly censoring all telegrams an' telephonic communication betweel Italy and the rest of the Continen At . this hour few people remain the Vatican. Dr. Mazzoni and D: Rossoni and the Cardinals bqve gon to their home to await the last ui gent summns. WO NEGROES PAY THE DEATH PENALTY FI4TRBR DElTAILS OF THE MURDBR NEAR BATESBURG Killing of,Pnftmaster at Chinquapin Fol l'oWed By Two Lynchtngs--Ac counts Are Conflicting. News and Courier. Aiken, July 18.--Report.g reached Aiken on Thursday or the nurder of Mr. William Hall, postmastor at Chirquepmn postofice, near the line betwoon Aiken and Lexington coun ties, by George E1wards, a negro; also the killing of two negroes by white men in search of Edwards. k Chinquapin is in Aiken county, wenty-five miles from this city, and has no telephone or telegraph coim mnicati.-n with the outsido world. Mr William Hall was a prominent. young man of about 38 years of age nd a scion of a peaceful, law-abiding amily of some promineuce in the community. About a year ago Mr. Hall had a dispute with Edwards about an ac count Edwards owed him. Edwards re*f,uped to pay the bill and Mr. Hall ordered him off his premises and told him not to put his foot on the place again. Edwards threatened then to kill Mr. Hall, but no atten tion was paid to the matter, as his threats were thought to be only the bluster of a bully. Several times after that Mr. Hall bore the insults of the negro. OiaWednesday the negro came into Mr. Hall's store and offered to sell some tobacco tags. The negro had a gun with him and Mr. Hall asked him what he was doing with it. Edwards replied that he was just carrying it to do a little shooting. Mr. Hall told him that he knew he was carrying that gun to kill him with, and told Edwards that he was tired of his insolence and that he had better. look out or he would thrash him. The negro walked out of the store and went to his houso across the W creek, in Lexington county. As he went across the bridge he fired his gun, and when Mr. Hall heard this token of defiance he told his twenty. year old brother, Jndson, to go to the house and get their guns, and they would go to Ed ward's house and give him the thrashing that was promised. The two Halls came upon the negro in his house and William, telling Judson to hold his gun on Edwards, proceeded to give the negro the lash. A negro wo *man in the house, thinkin~g the white men intended to kill Edwards, threw herself between him and the white men. Edwards reached around the woman while she wvas arguing with the Halls arid grabbed the gun out of William's hand and shot him through the heart. He then dragged Judson out of the house arid beat 2,him up very badly in the face and breast and would, no doubt, have killed him if lie had not been stopped "y the womain. ) Magistrate Shealey, of Lexington county, held an, in:quest over Wil liami Hall on Tfhm1sday morning, and the jury bronght in thle usual verdiect, viz: William Hall was killed by a gunshot wound at the hands of George Edwvards. A party searchinig for Edwards on Thursday, about I a. im., wvent to the house of Donn:is H1ead, ini Aiken county, a known pal of the negro, and, upon being refuse I admittance, broke open the door uand pulled out Head and a negro boy and told them that if they would keep quiet they would not be hurt. Head was boud to prevent treachery and placed in a buggy. Whbile the party was search. tug the house Head asked then) to let the boy bring his clothes from the house. The1 men allowed the b)oy to do this and when he brought out the bundle they told him to toss it to Head in the buggy. When the boy. threw it the burndle struck the wheel of the vehicle and a pistol fell out of it. When the boy saw that his plan was discoveredl he drew a revolver and fired pointblank at one of the white men. The men shot him to pieces and also killed Head, who had tumbled out of the buggy A TRAGEDY IN PICKBNS. Further Particulars of the Killing of J. Walker Mauldin by M. B. Moore in Pickens County. A report from Pickens gives further details of the killing of J. Walker Mauldin, a young farmer living in the northwestern portion of Pickens county, about midnight on Monday last a week ago. The report states that the tragedy was one of the most shocking ever known to the com munity. The scene of the crime is a lonely little hovel, almost entirely sur rounded by forests, in a wild, thinly settled country. The inquest was held there last week and a great many witnesses were examined by the coroner. It seems that for several months a man named M. B. Moore, who is over 40 years of age and has a wife and children, has been very fro quently at this hovel in the woods, in which two women of notorious character were living. Moore's wife, who is almost an invalid, has been complaining bitterly to her and neighbors of the way her husband had neglecting her and a party of young men decided to visit the objection able house, have a talk with Moore, whom they knew would be found there, and try to rid the community of the nuisance. Young Mauldin was one of the party, which num bered eight. They met at a school house, some miles from the scene of the crime, and went in a I>ody. Sev era,l carried firearms, for they knew that Moore was a dangerous man to interfere with and feared trouble. They say they had no intention of making any demonstration or threats; they simply intended to expostulate with Moore and try to influence him to lead a better life. When the party reached the house five stayed in the road, while the other three, among whom was Maul din, went up the door and called "Hellow" several times. Finally a woman's voice from within asked who was there. 1 ne of the party answered "friend' .nd asked to see Moore. The answer was the report of a gun fired from a loophole in the si 'e of the house. Mauldin fell, but staggerwd to his feet and, supported on the arm of his brother, walked to the road, a distance of thirty yards. Here he fell again, muttering, "I am killed, I am killed." He never spoke again. During the firing the women left the house by the back door and took to the woods, followed by Moore. They were captured the next morning at a house several miles away. Two empty shells were found in the house and also a pair of shoes and a hat, which were identified the next morn ing as belonging to Moore. Moore did not go home after the shooting. H-e was arrestedl the next morning. Hie had a double-barrel shotgun ciear at hand but offered no resis tance to the oflicers. Upon a post-mortem examination: being had it was found that Maul din had been shot with small shot, sc near that the wad entered the chests Two ribs were shattered, severa: -shot entered the heart and twc I found their way to the lhver. On< .lung was also badly torn. The jury rendered a verdict to the effect thal - Mauldin camne to his (loath at th s hands of Moore. S Moore has been placed in the .Pickens jail together wvith the two women who lived in the house I No other men wvere ini the house a the time the shooting occurred Moore has made no statement a yet. Everything is quiet. .The State Board of Equalizatioi -in session in Columbia last weel -made a reduction of thirty-three pe a cent, on the valuation of the mills i: the Pacolet valley affected by th a recent destructive cloud burst. B r1 There wore t wo homicides in Al ' beville last week. Walter Fishes was accidentally shot by Jim Sprow~ Sly, colored, while p)layinlg with a pii e tol, and Mary Naince, colored, wn ~. shot in a street ro,w by Marie Adami colored.1 THE KISHINBFF HORROR. Powerful Petition Which Russia Woul Not Receive-Frank Refusal of the Russian Authorities. Washington, July 19.-It is stated by the Secretary of State that the in cident created by the question of the .resentation of the Jewish petitiou to Russia is closed. The State de. partment has made public the cor. respondence that has taken placc respecting the petition. Its sub stance already has been forecasted in the press dispatches. The cor respondence consists of an instruc. tion to Mr. Riddle, United State( charge d'affairs at St. Petersburg, re citing in detail the petit.ion and di recting him to present the same t( the foreign office, if it were williic to receive it. It is stated by Mr Riddle that the foreign office wouli not receive it under any circuim stances, and Secretary Hay so in formed the B'Nai B'Rith committe( in a brief telegram. The official statement of the facti is as follows: The Russian Government has de clined to receive or to cons'der th petition in relation to the conditior of the Jews in Russia signed by sev eral thousand citizens, and cabled t< St. Petersburg by direction of th President. At the conference on Tuesday, th 14th of July, at Oyster Bay, th< President, conferred with Messri Leo N. Levi, Simon Wolf and Osca S. Strauss, in regard to the presen tation of the petition and decided t4 send a dispatch to Mr. Riddle, thi American charge d'affaires in St Petersburg instructing him to ask ai audience of the minister of foreigi affairs and to make him a communi cation, signed by Secretary Hay setting forth the outrages perpet rat.e< at Kischineff during Easter, 1903 the possibility of another such out break at any time in the future, an< asking if the petition would be re ceived by Russia. RUssIA WOULD NOT RECEIVE IT. This was sent on the 15th of Jiul) and on the same day Mr. Riddle wa informed by the Rusian minister c foreign affairs thht in view of publi cations which had appeared in newE papers, the Russian Governmeti wished to notify hii that the prc poscd petition would not be receive under any circumstances, and th. this resolution of the Russian Goi ernment was taken independently c any consideration of the substance< the petition. A WEIoHTY PETITION. It is believed that this petitic was almost unexamDpled1 in the weigl and dignity of the signatures a tached to it. Among them ar< Congressman John Sharpe William of Mississippi; the Governors of Vi ginia, Georgia, Mississippi, Nor' Carolina, Louisiana and Nebrask the Chief Justices of all the Stat from which returns are in; a gre number of Congressmen, publicist b)ankers, Protestant and Cathol ministers, miayors of leading citie prominent eduIcators, leaders of ti Bar, physicians, scholars, mainufn turers, etc. THiE PRIEsIDENTI NOT CURPIIsED). Oyster Bay, L. 1., July 17.-Pru ideAnt Roosevelt was not surpris that the Russian Government shou decline to receive the .B'Nai B'R{i 3 petition or auy other representati -regarding the Kiahineff massaci The action of Russia has been foi -caltedh nofficially. The informnati " of Russia's deohlit ion was receiv here hite latit night in a long te gram from, B4egretary Hay. Toven Smidnighit the .Proagidenut sent to S< retary Hay an extended reply. r President Roosevelt has no stai ment to make at this time regairdli ra the matter. It can be said to he a solutely unlikely that further (ffoi will be made to indluce the Russi Government to receive the petiti< It is certain that, after so frank a 'unequivocal refusal to receive p'etitioni, Russia would regard I bringing of pressure to b)ear up a her to induce her acceptance of I ', representation as an aet of (listi unfriendeliness. TOXAWAY DAM DANGEROUS I Col James L. Orr Believes The Structure Not Secure.-Has Carefully Inspected. News and Uotirier. Greenville, July 18.-Col. Jas. L. Orr, president of the Piedmont Manu facturing Company, and a man who is eminently qualified to jadge, has returned here from the Sapphire country, where be made a careful in spection of the Toxaway dam. With out attempting to injure the con pany'u property by adverse state ments, he expressed the opiniwn to night that the structure was not so cure, Col. Orr said that if the water should rise above the surface of the dam it. would be washed away in two homn m, and t he valleys of Keowee and Seneca rivers would meet with an other johnstj,wn horror. It is his opinion that expert on gin%iers should be sent to Sapphire to make a thorough examination. Col. Orr's views carry great weight in this nection, as everybody has un bounded faith in what he says. There is no desire to cause any alarm, but there is a feeling of ap prehension in the strip of country which is at the mercy of the mighty flood of waters from the mountains. Some time ago it was said that the Southern Railway, the Blue Ridge 3 Railroad and the Anderson Light and Water Company, which would suffer great damage in the event of a r break, were determined to seek an - expert. opinion, and it, is believed > nlow that this will be d(one, since Col 3 Orr was not willing to accept hear say evidence so freely given by those not capable of judging ct-,nditions as they actually exist.. VACCINATION IN MILLS. 1 - State Board of Health Will Ask Cotton Mill Presidents to Make it Compulsory. The State. The State Board of Health has de. cided to make 4n appeal to'the man agers of cotton mills to exclude from s their mills all persons who have not f been properly vaccinated. The board declares that a snill percentage o1 . the mill operatives have been vac. cinated, and thlt the low cannot be enforced without the co operatiori d of the muili wanogers. 6 The board finds .that *hen om . mill endeavors to vaccinate its opera If tives, they will move to atoi4ker mil ~f and unless there ,can be a. genera understanding among the president of the mills the board fesardA 'tha nothing can be done to admnba effectually the (disease which hai been more severe in its nature agit t. more widespread tJhis year than sinc< the contagion was brought to th< Staite in '1898. D)OUBLB LYNCHING. sMob in Wyoming Makes Short Workc at Two White Murderers-An Of a, ficer Killed. iC Buhtte, Mont., July 19.-A specit >s, to The Miner from Red Lodgi le Mont.: says : Jim Gorman, wh e- killed his. .brother about a year ag and( ran off with hisibrother's wif< and a man namned Walters, wbi akilled an widow named Hoover at thi Ho prings two yasago.bcn Id she refused to marry him, wer ily'nched at Basin todafy. C. I o Ierce, a deputy sheriff, was kille *during the attack on the jail. A. state of lawlessness now pri vails in nor-therun Wyoming ans a r< ed suit of which anll law and order somi to have been ~abolished. Frou rdl 'esident Moffatt of the Montan arid Wyoming Telephone compan who is now making a tour of .inspe< etion of his conipan3's lines, come the news of the lynching and of a bapp11al5 for help from Sheriff F~ento sof Big Hg9/n county, who has au restedI a number .of promient cal antiemeni near TFhermnopol is andl ha mn. dappealed to thle .goyernor of Wy he oming for assistamco of the mnilit,i lein getting his prisone-s to Basin. 'on ~he The contract for Aikeun's new ton act ist, hote,l has heeh lety The structui Iwill cost something iiftea $nO,aO GBIRAL NEWS XOTBS. Items of More or Less Interest Condensed Outside the State. Four persons lost their lives in a fire which do4troved Bonner Springs Sanitarium, at, BoUner Springs, Kan., Friday morning. The steward, Dr. Rogers, lost hi4 life in an attempt to "ive at woman patient. Loss, $20, 000. Frederick Nelson, of New Market, N. Y., had a narrow escape from death in an automobile on Friday. The brakes failed to work and the auto. mobile dashed down o hill into a tree, renderinag Nelson and another ocou pant unconscious. Nolson is a brother of Mrs. Charles Fair, who was killed in an automobile accident, in Europe. About 809 workmen at the dry (lock at Buffalo have gone off on a strike. The strikers claim that every man at the dry (lock will strike. A fixedl scale and small advance is what they demand. Alfred C. Knapp has been con victed at Hamilton, Ohio, of murder, and though the case will he appealed, it is thought he will be electrocuted. Knapp killed his wife and commit. ted many other crimes, having during his career strangled live women and children at least. His defense is insanity. Three men in New OrleanR on Friday robbed a saloon keeper, Alfred Hunter, tied hiin to his bed, and set. his saloon on fire His screams brought assistance and lie was re leased and t.he fire extinguished. The crime occurred about 2 o'clock in the morning. The Manchurian question has been settled satisfactorily to this govern ment by the promise received from China that it will, in the near future, open as treaty ports several ports now closed to the world's trade. Run sia has assured the United States that it will not in any way oppose such movement. The United States government is now building a model syrup frotory at Waycross, (Ia., where syrup will be manufactured on a sufficiently large scale from sugar cane to demon. strate the advantages of the methods employed and to teach Southern far. mere the profit in the industry. Dora Wright, a negro woman, was banged oni Friday at South McAlas ter, I. 'i'. for hahvin)g whipped a seven-year'old child to death. L A warrant has been issued for the arrest of George W. Beavers, forme I chief of the division of salaries and1 3 allowances in the postofl'ice depart. i ment, on the charge of having ac cepted a bribe of $840. This is hul another in the long list of postoffice department scandals. Hion. Jamnes L. Shelton, ox mnem ber of the Virgimia Assembly, wvai attacked by negroes and beaten int< 1. insensibility Friday night whil, , walking with a young lady in th p western suburbs of the city. It is re o ported the young lady was draggei ,of1' by the negroes and feloniousl; o 'assaulted. The State Republican conventio 0 of Kentucky last week nominate Morris B. Helknap, a wholesal merchant of Louisville, for governol c1 The threatened st am pede to Bradlle did not occur. Roosevelt wn 'strongly endorsed. n A strange accidlent happened to n train on the Norfolk anid Weoster a Saturday afternoon in Giles Count; ~, Na. As the train passed near Pea . isburg a magazine of dynamite aun a blasting powder, about 200 yarc n from the track, blew up, killing tvw n workmen, injurmng fifteen peopl< .and badly diumagimg the train. ~A delegation of heavily arme "citizens of the Doggett section< ~Madison county, N. 0., on Fridc a visitedl the camp of fif ti negroes en ployed on the line of the Boll Tel phone Company and ordered the n r- groes to leave theu country. TI re negroes immnediat.ely took their d parturn. TRAMPLED JUSTICE STRIVING TO RISE THE EFFORT TO PUNISH ASSASSINS IN BRBATHITT COUNTY. Renewal of Killings Feardd-Witness Bwen Makes His Will and Goes Back to Jackson. .Jackson, Ky, July 19.-A renewal of feud troubles is brewing here. The special grand jury called by Circuit Judge Redwit.e to investigate the charge of attempting to bribe B. J. Ewen not to testify against Curtis Jet-t and Thomas White, in the Mar oum murder case, auid the charge of arson for the burniing of Ewen's hotel after he had testified, cunveiom here tomorrow. Judge Redwiue's itistructions are anxiously awaited as it is reported that the grand jurors will be asked to go into a sweeping inquiry concerning conditions in Breathitt, where 27 lives have been lost since the Hargis Cockrill feud started, and where no one has yet been punished for any of these capi tal offenses. In the event of a general inquisi. ion it is conceded that persons highly connected will be involved and tric!; for the killing of Dr. Gox and Town Marshall Oockrill will follow close on the second trial of Gott and White for the murder of Marcum. It is feared that trouble may begin when B. J. Ewen returns here tomor row from Lexington to tvit i fy against a well known citizen for offering him $5,000 cash if he would not testify against .lett anld W hite, In auticipation of the worst., Ewen, while in Lexington, made his will and arranged all hiis affairs. About $4, 500 was raised for him by popular subscription after lie lost everything he had in the incendiary fire, and this he has fixed for his family, his wife and a part. of his children being here awaiting his return. Ewen has told Commonwealth At torney Byrd and others the name of the man who offered him the bribe and as it is said the man has no means of his own, the briery inves tigation will extend to the one who was to furnish the money for the $5,1 000 bride offered Ewen. 'his town has been kept under martial law by the provost marshal since Jett and White were transferred to the jail at Lexington a month ago, but. manty are apprehensive over the coming week, although the troops are still here. The milhitia has been continu ously here for two months. After the killing of Town Marshal James Cockrill there was no one to make arrests for a year until the soldhierEi arrived in May. Then City Judlge Oardwell, who had been a prisoner in his ownVi house for 18 months, resumed holding court. The 'town trustees have just appointed Joseph Newland as marshal. New land is considered one of the bravest men in the umountain dlistrict. Dur ing the past seven years, seven men have held this position. Four of them were killed while oni duty amid two of the othier three' were forced to resign. It. is expected that the special grand jury will complete its work this week so that the attorneys, witnesses and others can go to (Cyn Sthiana, where the unext trial of Jett Iand White for nmrdering Marcium awill begin oni Monday, ,July 27. A NEGRO MOB LYNCHES A NEGRO. 5AffaIr Took Place In FlorIda and the Brutes VictIm Was One of Ils Own Race. nLake Butler, Fbi., ,i uly 18 -A rnegro Itamp) niaiiedl Nbfus, who as r- atled a negro wolinali flear this dplace a day or 8s) ago, was captured slast night by a mob of niegro)es and olynched in Santa Fe swamp. His ~body ws cut into shreds by the mfob) arnd severely disfigured. The lynch m ig was carried out. by negroes en Stirely. 'YP. M. Arthur, grand chief en gineer of the isrothierhood1 of Loco motive Engineers, dIropped dead on SFriday night while speaking at the ibanquet which closed the national econvention of the Brotherhood held