Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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IHENMYNCHED By a Fierce Mob at Cairo, Illinois for tl Horrible Crime of ASSAULT AND MURDER I A Fiendish, Brutish Negro, Aft< Confessing to the Crimes of A: saulting and Murdering Mb Pelley, Whose Body Was Foun in an Alley, Lynched and Burner Will James, the negro suspecte of being the murderer of Miss Ai r'e Pelley, was lynched at Cair< i linois, Thursday night by a mol He was strung up to the public arcl t!ie rope broke and at least 50 'lots were poured into his bod: James made a confession, implicai ing another negro, Arthur Alexai c!er. The lynching took place in tfc most prominent part of the ci y, an I was witnessed by ten tnousauu Women present were the first t null the rope. When it broke, th frenzy of the mob was uncontrollable and they fired volley after voile into Jame's body, shooting hitu t pieces. The mol> then dragged th !>ody over the streets for more tha a mile to Twenty-sixth and Kir streets, in an alley, and burned I where the murder was committed. James was found with Shoriff Df vis between Karn^k, 111., and Belh nap, by the Cairo crowd, who wen up Thursday afternoon. The crow overpowered the officers and too the negro from them, and after conference it w<_s decided to brin ! their prisoner back to Cairo an lynch him. Sheriff Davis had been fleein from the mob for twenty-four hour with the prisoner. Driven from tow to town by menacing crowds th sheriff had taken to the woods wit James, but the persistent search c the summary avengers proved effec tive at last. Fully a thousand persons went ou to find the negro, and when the put suers arrived in Cairo with thel quarry, they were met by a howlin mob of 5,000 others bent on slayin the negro. They marched the negro direct t the public arch, sweeping the street like a flock of sheep might trea a narrow lane. Many women wer in the crowd and anxious to help d the work. Sheriff Davis having been foile In his attempt to hide the negrc pleaded for the life of the prisonei but without avail. When Cairo wa reached, Sheriff Davis was taffen i charge by a party of the mob, whlc rushed the negro rapidly to hi funeral pyre. The mob that chased the sheri! and the negro was so large that i scoured the entire country fror Karnak to Vienna, 111., a distanc of about sixteen miles. When found" by the mob the n gro was handcuffed between two ol fleers, and all three were lying o the bank of a creek. All three wer so weak from hunger, exposure an the futile attempt to elude the mo that they were not able to mak much resistance. While in custody of the mob con ing to Cairo the negro would nc talk about the crime, dui wneu u stood under the arch he weakenec and confessed that he slew Mis Pellev. He said that Arthur Ale) ander was implicated in the crim< Tho attempt at. hanging followe quickly. The growling of the mol the grinding of the rope and tb struggle of the negro were stoppe a moment only by the snapping c the rope. Tho 10,000 persons wh had lokked on aud danced in gl shot forth armed men almost ruagii ally, and they filled thu n<*pro witbullets. Then, not satisfied with vengeanc< the mob dragged the body to tt place where Miss Pelley's bod bound, gaged and bruised, had bee found. A roaring fire was built an the body was incinerated. James, who came from the Sout' said Miss Pellev had been assaul ed and murdered after a terrif fight. It is reported that Alexande the negro implicated by James I the murder of Miss Pelley, has bet found by the mob, and that th< are bringing him into town to lyn< him. Governor Deneen appealed to at 1 o'clock by Sheriff Davis, who decla ed the mob was storming the js and volunteers would not assist hi -j * ? ?/-,(> militia to nr oraereu ieu ii v.?. u....... ^. ceed at once to Cairo to resto order. AX UNFINISHED VAULT. Builder Refuse* to Take Out Pern and Police Guard it. Two years agx> the owner of private residence in the aristocrat vicinity of the Plaza in New Yo city had his house remodelt>d and vault constructed under the sidewal The contractor had obtained a pern for the alteration on the buildin but had failed to take out a pern for the vault, for which a fee of se eral hundred dollars was require At the behest of the bureau of hig ways a policeman was stationed the building to prevent further wo on the vault until the fee was pa and the permit obtained. The vai has been under police surveillan ever since and the vault Is still u finished, with a fair prospect of i main in g so until the owner of t building, who is said to be a m lionaire, chooses to plank down t required fee tor a permit. i ANOTHER LYNCHING WHITE MAN SWUNG UP FOR h / MURDERING HIS OWN WIFE. After Lynching tho Negro tho Mob Attacked the Jail and Made Quick Work of a White Man. At Cairo. Illinois, Henry Salzner, , ?r J white, a photographer, who killed R* his wife last July with an axe, was jS taken from jail at 11:40 o'clock , Thursday night by a mob and hangid ed to a telegraph pole, and his body riddled with bullets. The lynching <1 followed closely on the lynching of Will James, a negro, who eariler in r the evening had been hanged for 5* the murder of Miss Annie Pelley. J- The mob gave Salzner a chance i, to confess after the rope was around t q his neck, but he was so frightened g that he could only mumble that his f' sisters had kiled his wife. L" The mob became furious at this, 9 i and it was hard work to keep them t ~I/mi? <-vntr\ <rivo him < (A UU kXXi^UCi 1UU5 VUVUQU VV D..w L j a chance to pray. The mob finally t subsided and a Bhort religious service was held, after which he was strung ^ up, the rope being placed over a teleo graph pole at 21st and Washington ii e streets. jj % The mob found some difficulty in breaking the cage, as it was an eny tirely steel structure, but after a half 0 hour of telling blows upon the door n e it gave way and Salzner was secui- n ed. The mob rushed him out of the back door of the jail, which Is In 11 n the basement of the court house, t around the building through the yard 11 and out into Washington avenue, f l* and up to 21st street, which is a prominent corner and has a public n ^ sniiara ^ d He cried and begged piteously for f, k his life and was met by cries and ii a blows from the mob. When Salzner c g was asked for his last statement a a ^ man, a stranger in the crowd, step- d ped forward and said he believed a g Salzner was innocent, whereupon the c 6 mob fell, upon him, kicked him and t< n finally knocked him down, and it j] * was only the pleas of cooler per- v sons that saved his life. He was compelled to beg for mer- b cy from the mob, and announced in s a loud voice that Salzner should be .1 lt lynched, after which he was driven r from the mob and all attention was i] 1 given to Salzner. After Salzner n g was hanged, and while the body was n 8 being riddled with bullets, the rope t broke and the body fell to the n ground, where it now lies, the mob ^ going away and leaving it. w Salzner was born and reared at c e Cairo. He had been married about i( c two years last July, when his wife j j was found at her home with her r skull fractured. A bloody axe was n J' found under the bed. Two babies w " were playing In the mother's blood, y ' Salzner was found at the home of ? 'lis mother, where he often slept at s night. Before Mrs. Salzner died she f recovered enough to accuse her hus- u band of attacking her. t Feeling against him had been bit11 ter, and Thursday night, after the D lynching of James, when some one suggested Salzner, the mob rushed for the county jail, got Salzner and ;* lynched him. 1 ? o P 1 DR. CARLISLE'S LIBRARY ? ( - 1 c * a t Given to Wofford College by His t ii Son and Daughter. ^ '' The library of the late Dr. James C . H. Carlisle, president of Wofford 1 . college, containing many choice and * rare volumes, has been presented to 8 '' Wofford college by J. H. Carlisle, ^ Tr., and Miss Sallie Carlisle, children 1 ' 3f the deceased. The gift is highly d , appreciated, not only by the faculty and trustees of the college, but t>y 1 f the students and the alumni,'for r ) it is regarded as one of the richest ? ( treasures >of the college. T >( In addition to presenting the li- a , brary of their father, which consists-' * j 'f some 2.G00 or 3,000 volumes, Miss 1 Carlisle and Mr. Carlisle presented 2 the col lege with several old pieces of c ibrary furniture of Dr. Carlisle, r v which are familiar to the old stu- v ' lents of the college. r The library of Dr. Carlisle will not c >e catalogued along with the other l h )00ks of the college, but will be plact si intact in a room of the library 1 j >uilding and the furniture will be s irranged in this room as nearly as 1 Ij possible as it was in the library of ' he great educator. In other words, 1 he faculty of the college hopes to 1 >reserve the library and its furniture ' mtact so that one who ever had 1 .he pleasure of calling on Dr. Car- 1 'isle at his home will at once be 1 Impressed with the surroundings. 1 ^ ^ ^ i < TOOK HIS OWN* LIFE. o , r' \V. J. Arant, of Columbia, Commit* < I ted Suicide Friday. . With his uniform of the Confed- ' erate army by his bedside, and a re- , 1 quest that he be buried in his be- ' loved gray. W. J. Arant. well known In this State, says The State, was 2 found dead in Columbia Friday morning. An empty bottle that had rt contained laudanum accounted for s the manner of his death. The nevs k of the suicide came as a surprise 1 lit generally, although Mr. Arant was ig. known to have suffered much wiit lit despondency, dating from tte time >v- his wife dlM, about a year ago, in Charleston. Only a ihort while ago Mr. Arant 1 * 1 t- - 1 J at was heard 10 say mat u? tuuiu ucc. rK recover from his great loss ar.-1 iid would rather be dead than aliv^, but lit not even bis most Intimate friend? ce* thought of suicide in connection in- with their friend. Requests found re- by the bed, to notify F. H. Arant, he a son residing in Camden, and H. iil* B. Bolger and C. F. Hehrlch of Charlie leston, were complied with and F. H. Arant arrived Friday morning. w FLATLY DEWED = ? [ Fake Story About Senator Tillman Made Up in Columbia and SENT TO NEW YORK SUN ' lr. A. J. Bethea, Governor Ansel's ^ Private Secretary, Wrath With 1 the Writer of the Dispatch, Which F Ho Brands or a Yarn Out of the Whole Cloth. F a Mr. A. J. Bethea, Governor Ansel's irivate secretary, writes the follow- ci ng letter, which explains itself: The governor's secretary has writ- j. en the following letter: lenator B. R. Tillman, Trenton, S. C. tl My Dear Sir: I have Just read the tory in The News and Courier entiled "No Drink for Tillman," copied c rom the New York Sun, and to say hat I am disgusted and outraged d lardly expresses my feelings. ^ There is not a semblance of truth j, a this article, which, of course, you e now as well as I do, but in jus- v ice to you and to myself, I hasten ? 0 write to assure you that It did ot come from me nor any one con- c! ected with the governor's office. a There is only one way in which 3i 1 could possibly have originated, and tl he truth has been so distorted that u t strains the imagination to account ji or it. tl On Friday of last week a gentle- b ian came over from WInnsboro, and i'as in gveat distress because he ^ ound the dispensaries closed, mak- ei ng it impossible for him to purchase n hampagne, which he wished to use ei t a reception at his home the next n ay. The governor was absent, and a s he had ordered the dispensaries si losed for that day and the next, I b aid the gentleman I could do nothag for him, although he brought r< rith him a physician's certificate, li At the luncheon on Saturday I sat b y Mr. Robert fl. Hazard, a repre- d entative of the United Press, and cl uring the course of conversation I n elated to him the above story, tell- b 'i? him nf the distress of the eentle nan, but without mention of his si ame, and certainly without any T bought of yours in connection with t< d I do not say that Mr. Hazard o frote this article, but I cannot ac- a ount for it in any other way. It tl 3 certainly far from the truth, and a hope you will understand that I a esent it and that I object to being lade a party to a newspaper story, e: r-hlch is utterly without warrant and v without foundation. Trusting this explanation will tl erve the purpose for which it is ii atended, and assuring you of my y inwillingness to do you an injuBice, I am, fi Yours very truly, li A. J. Bethea. is ? e; 1 The Dispateh. The dispatch complained of ap- c, eared Sunday in several papers, mong them the New York Sun and he Baltimore American. It reads s follows: p Columbia, S. C., Nov. 6.?Taft Day a this city inconvenienced Senator 'illman. The governor of South larolina has the power to suspend he sale of liquor whenever he deems t advisable. A large crowd was a ;athering in this city yesterday for " 'aft Day and the governor ordered 6 he dispensaries to close for two lays. p Along ajjout this time Benjamin 11 t. Tillman hit the town. Tie had un over from Trenton, his home, to ^ ;et two bottles of champagne. He b . . n ^as going to have company at Dome ~ nd he wanted the champagne badly. 0 le tried two or three dispensaries, v >ut they were closed. Then the senitor hustled up to the governor's 11 ifflce and appealed to his private sec- e etary. The secretary allowed there 8 vas nothing he could do. "Well, couldn't I get two l>ottles e >n a doctor's prescription?" begged ^ he senator. The secretary said the only way e vould be for the senator to find iome friend and perhaps this friend vould give him two bottles. It would I je against the law for him to sell * hem. For the senator to look for i champagne cellar friend in Coumbia was a hopeless proposition, riadn't the senator just had a big 1 ow with the Columbia Taft Day 1 eceptlou committee because they 1 vanted to tax him $10 for his seat J it the Taft luncheon? 1 The senator had told Columbia !c Lo go to blazes with its luncheon, t )r words to that effect. Finally the c governor's secretary referred the I senator to a friend of his, and from t him Mr. Tillman got his two quarts, i The senator was a framer of the i South Carolina dispensary law, aua i thus was getting a taste of his own ^ medicine. < ? I Mrs. Mario Estey Suicides. I Mrs. Marie L. Estey, widow of a ( widely known piano manufacturer, committed suicide in a boarding house in New York a few night ago by inhaling illuminating gas. The : loss of her fortune some years a?o i brought on a nervous disorder and 1 her ill health is believed to have led < to her act. ? ? i Aged Negro Suicides. Calvin Hinton, a veteran negro employe at the farm of Charles H. Hinton. near Raleigh. N". C., committed cuicide a few days ago. using a shotgun with which he blew out his brains. Children hearing the shot ran to the house and found him dying on the floor of his cabin. I MURDERS CASHIER LXD WOUNDS PRESIDENT OF BANK HE TRIED TO ROB. ["he Young Buudit is Run Down and Captured After Ho Shoots One More Man. In an attempt to rob a bank at Jew Albany, Ind., a young man enered the iMerchants' Bank at noon 'hursday and killed J. Hangery 'awcett, cashier of the bank, seriousy wounded John K. Woodward, presient of the bank, and wounded Jaa. I. Tucker, a negro chauffeur, probbly fatally. When Hall entered the bank he arried a pistol in each hand. After ommanding every one to throw up is hands and "get into the vault," [all began shooting. Cashier Fawcett was shot through he chest and neck and died almost lstantly. President Woodward was hot through the liver and his Intesines were perforated. Tucker, the bauffeur, was shot through the body. Following the shooting the murerer rushed from the bank and ried to escape in an automobile, rhich he had taken from the curb 1 front of the residence of Its ownr. Mrs. Walter Escott. in Louis llle, Ky. He had forced the negro hauffeur at the point of a pistol ) drive him to New Albany. After the shooting at the bank the hauffeur, paralyzed with terror :ind pparently Incapable of action, sat till when the robber jumped into ie car and ordered him to speed p the machine. The robber thon jmped out of the automo;>Il?', Bhot le negro in the back and ran two locks to the Ohio river. He seized a skiff and was on his ay to the Louisville side of th-a rivr before the frightened clti/ens of ew Albany knew whac had h&i-poni. An alarm was given tbi'ju^u a legaphone on a dredge boat and in short time several policemen had carted in pursuit in a fast motor oat. After being captured the bandit jfused to give his name, and had ttle to say. He said that ho had een around Louisville for several nvn We did not know Tucker, the hauffeur, and declared Tucker waB ot implicated in the attempt on the ank. A dispatch from Louisville, Ky., lys the bandit was identified as homas Jefferson Hall, and according ) William J. Hall, his father, the esperado is but 17 years old. The Ider Hall, who has a furniture store t No. 802 South Preston street, in 3at city, said that young Hall was household tyrant, and not insane t all. "He is simply mean,' said the fathr. The family is formerly of Knoxille, Tenn. W. J. Hall detailed his son's aclons for the last few years, saylg that dime novels had been the outh's constant reading. Among young Hall's effects was ound a powerfully made cabinet, ned and outfitted like a room. It i believed that the boy expected to scape with his loot, crawling into tie box, which was consigned to "R. . Smith, Knoxville, Tenn.," and esape as freight. NORTH CAROLINIAN SUICIDES. 'laces Gun Against a Stump and Pulls the Trigger. A. H. Bragg, a farmer living near tedweed, N. C., committed suicide few days ago about 10 o'clock y shooting himself dead with a shotun. The old gentleman had been desondent three or four weeks and ately showed vory groat signs of atellectual decrepitude. He went o town several weeks ago and said ic felt that irresponsibility. The aorning of the suicide he started ut and told a colored man that he /anted to borrow a gun with which r> shoot squirrels. Thero the smartess of the determined suicide showJ T-I^v nronornjl a fnrlfPH U 11BV1I. HO linu V* tick with which to work the trig;er and putting the gun against a tump, pulled the trigger and blew lis head off. He was 58 years old and had twc ons ahd three daughters. A TRIFLING RASCAL icing Sought by the Wife He BaseJy Deserted. A dispatch from Atlanta to th< Augusta Chroniclo says coming froir Yugusta without a cent in search o! ler husband, whom she says is wltt iarnum and Bailey's circus there Vlrs. Bessie Brooks reached then >n a Georgia railroad train withou he formality of a ticket Wednes lay. In her arms she carried a ba _>y of a few months. She is onlj ;wenty years old and claims to hav< carried at Whitmire, S. C., abou i year ago. A short time after th< jaby was born he left her and sh< ivas told that he had joined the cir ius. She immediately wont to Au justa in scarch of him, but not find ng him there, she followed the cir nis on to Atlanta. A Fool's Money. Franklin Taylor, a Brooklyn law rer, who ran for municipal judg it the recent election and lost, ha Bled his expense account, wmcn 10 taled $832.23 with the county clerk "All of which serves to demon strate," Mr. Taylor reflectively com ments in his paper, "that a fool an< his money are soon parted." Confederate Veteran Passes. Major Thomas Hayes, former in spector general of the Confederal army, at one time second vice presi dent of the Pullman Palace Car Com pany, died at his home in Louisville Ky., a few days ago, aged 72. NERVY THIEVES I Five Men Lore Fifty From Their Camp, Bind Them Securely and TOOK ALL THEIR CASH The Bound Men After Being Robbed of Their Valuables, Spent Five Hours Together After the Tliieves Who Had Deprived Them Had Beat a Safe Retreat. A dispatch from Rldgewood, N. J., says fifty Italians employed In building a trolley road from Paterson to Sufferin were held up by a few bandits by night in this place, bound hand and foot, and robbed of all their money and jewelry. The victims were left lying tied in a snanty until morning, when one of them man aged to free himself and inform tne police. The robbers, of whom there were only five, got away with twenty watches, many trinkets, and $1,458.51 in bills and small change. Seldom has there been a robbery in which the thieves were 60 tricky or used such generalship in handling a large body of victims. So skillfully did they do their work that at no time were they In danger of being attacked by more than one man. The laborers lived In a shanty in the Bergen county cutout, as is customary with gangs employed otf new railways. The gang foreman was supposed to look out for their welfare and see that the> were amply protected against thieves. But with half a hundred men around him, he had jio suspicion that four or five men could get away with anything. Foreman Tackled First. Therefore, he felt no fear when k man appeared at the door of the shanty in the night and said he wanted to see the boss of the gang. The foreman went out and met the bandits, all of whom spoke Italian. They informed him they were government officers, and that they had been sent to arrest him for selling liquor in the shanty without a license. They led him away from the shanty, and, keeping two pistols aimed at his head, they bound him hand and foot. They carried him to a spot well away from the house and left three men to guard him. One of the bandits then went to the shanty and called out another of the laborers. He, too, was told that he was arrested, led away, bound hand and foot, and carried to the place where the boss was lying. The trick then was used to lead the other workmen out of the shanty, and, one by one, their captors bound them safely and carried them away. Those left inside the shanty never missed their companions, most or them having prepared to go to sleep. The ones lying bound with ropes did not dare make a sound, for fear the men guarding1 them would shoot. It took more than an hour fcrr the bandits to complete the work of binding all the men. Then they carried them back to the shanty in pairs, laid them on the floor, and went through their pockets. As each man's money and jewelry were taken away he was bundled into a corner. When the bandits were sure they had all the money and jewelry in the camp they warned their victims not to make any outcry, and leisurely departed. It was almost midnight before they finished their work, and not one of the victims had attempted to resist. t Five Hours of Helpless Rage. For five hours the workmen lay ' bemoaning the loss of their money. 1 The cords had been tightly, bound on most of them, with their hands behind their backs and ropes pass' ed around their legs above and be" low the knees. In vain they squirm1 ed and wriggled, trying to free themselves, until 5 p. m., when one of the men succeeded in slipping his i u ?j ? via nul^lrlv rcmnvpfi imilUD i WPO. uq vjuivu.j . the ropes from his legs, and, disregarding the urgent pleas of his companions to be freed, he fled from the shanty. He ran all the way tc ' the home of Chief of Police Fuller, of this place, and excitedly told the story of the hold-up. i Fuller called several patrolmen, t and they hastened to the shanty, f There they found 49 men still bound 1 securely, and quickly released them, , When all the workmen were freed ; they compared notes as to theii t losses, and the police were able tc - find out how much the bandits got - Good descriptions of four of the banf dits were given to the police, bul ? there was not a clew to indicate whc t the robbers were. Information oi 5 the hold-up was sent to severa 3 near-by cities, and a search of th< - Italian sections was made, but lr - vain. The thieves had a clear mar gin of five hours in which to covei - their tracks, and they used it t( advantage. Sev^n Victims Recovered. Seven victims have been recover e ed and it is believed the list of deac s will reach twelve, as the result o - a fire in the Auchincloss 6haft o .. the Delaware, Lackawanna & Wes - tern Coal Company, at Naticocke - Pa. An explosion of gas set fire U l the timbers of the mine. Halley's Comet Sighted. Halley's Comet was observei - from Providence, R. I., at Ladd Ob e servatory, Brown University, by Prof - Winslow Upton. The comet, accord - ing to Prof. Upton, should be vis! >, hie by telescope from now on am with the naked eye in January, BLAMES THE WOMAN '{ STOLE BIG SUM OF MONEY AND ? I PUTS UP THE EXCUSE That He Was Made to Do it by Being Blackmailed by a Bad Female Associate. At Cincinnati, Ohio, Mrs. Jeannette ^ Stewart, also known as Mrs. Ford, one of the women accused by Chae. L. Warriner, defaulting local treasurer of the Big Four Railroad of having shared in his speculations by blackmailing him, declared she would tell the whole inside story of the $643,000 theft, when the case came to court. Mrs. Stewart denied 1 she had ever received money from v Warriner. ii The sudden breaking of her si- b lence was caused, according to her, v by a quarrel which she had with n another woman, who has also been E mentioned by Warriner. This quar- e rel resulted in the attachment of b Mrs. Stewart's furniture. The of- t fleers who made the attachment were quickly followed by reporters, and d in the stress of excitement, Mrs. n Stewart's reserve broke down. d "I never received a cent from \ Charles Warriner," she said, "and t I never gave any information to the b railroad about hiB shortage. It was another woman that , did It all; a h woman I thought was my friend. I t know the whole story and I will tell f It In court, too." I At present the question that Is exercising the railroad officials Is. o What became of the $643,000 which j Warriner admits having stolen? n ? ? I 1 11 1 ? .t.Al. . warriner says uw iubi. *t tu ovu^n. a speculation and In satisfying the t demands of blackmailers, but that explanation ih not satisfactory to j] the officials. e Warriner says he Is penniless and ? his neighbors at his home In Wyom- vi ing, Ohio, declare that he is a sick b man. ii It Is admitted by Tailroad officers tl that Warriner might have continued a his speculations indefinitely if he had not been betrayed by a woman, so Q great was his superiors' confidence 0 in him. s ? c MURDERED BY SMUGGLERS. fc fi Eighteen Sailors Made Drank and e Then Killed. Passengers arriving at New Or leans on the steamer Parislmlna, p from British Honduras told of the scuttling of the Honduras gunboat Tatumbia and the murder of eighteen of her crew after she bad over- U hauled a British steamer engaged in b o smuggling between Jamaica and Hon- q duras. T Six days ago the Tatumbia over- s hauled the smuggler fifty miles out e of Puerto Cortes and twenty of the gunboat's crew boarded the smuggler, t, The smuggler crew surrendered and the smuggler captain told Capt. b Zalella that there plenty of good 1 rum in her hold. * Zelella ordered a celebration. The 1 prisoners feigned intoxication, and a when the gunboat's crew succumbed a to the rum they were thrown over- v board. The smuggler's crew scuttled the gunboat and then escaped. S Two of the sailors who were Hung a overboard reached one of the float- ' ing lifeboats of the sunken ilondu- E ran vessel and reached Puerto Cartes a with the story of the wholesale mur- 1 der. f PELLAGRA CAUSED DEATHS. c c Waa at First Thought to be Tyv phoid Fever. c That hundreds of deaths which ? occurred at the Confederate prison J at AndersonvJllie, Ga., during the summer of 1864 were not due to ty- * phoid fever, as then supposed, but were caused by pellagra, was the * opinion expressed before the Southern medical convention in New Orleans a few days ago by Dr. J. W. Kerr of Corsicana, Tex. Dr. Kerr, S who was surgeou at the Andersonville prison, described the symptoms of the disease, which attacked the inmates so fatally at that time, and in nearly every particular they r were recognized as being character- c istic of pellagra. This view was ' further strengthened, Dr. Kerr sala, c ' by the fact that musty or spoiled 8 1 corn, generally accredited by the r medical fraternity as being perhaps c finnatltuted iqe cause ajl the main diet of the prisoners, be- e 1 cause of inability to furnish them ; other supplies. | The consensus of opinion among ; the physicians who presented papers [ ' on the subject was that pellagra is attributable to spoiled corn. , Double Tragedy. ( f As a tragic culmination of martial 1 troubles of long standing Louis W. ( > Lewis, white, shot and instantly kill- 1 > ed his wife at his home in Jackson- ? vllle. Fla., Wednesday afternoon, < ' then turned the revolver on himself, I ) sending a bullet through his head, ' causing instant death. 1 Negro Woman Kills Herself. i In Savannah, Ga., Tuesday after ?p"a,|n' Trthncnn colored, aeed I UVUU, ?, w f thirty-one years, drank the contents f of a two-ounce bottle of carbolic i - acid, from the effects of which she >. died in agony a short time after3 wards. The negro woman was a laundress. Cause of Death. 3 An autopsy Wednesday at Som merville, N. J., disclosed the fact that the death of Robert Simpson. - who died in a trance, was due to - rupture of the aorta. Prof. Everton, J the hypnotist, will probably be charged with manslaughter. CAN'T C5 FOUND r. G. C. Bighan, Convicted of Helpiaf to Murder His Young Wife. HAS BROKtu HIS BOND > ivant, who, With Bigham, Wai Convicted of Manslaughter at Georgetown Recently for Killing Mrs. Bigham, Gives Himself Up, But the Husband is Missing. _ A dispatch from Georgetown to 'he News and Courier says from deelopments within the past few days, t seems lilrely that Dr. G. C. Big.am, who with W. B| Avant was conicted at the last term of court of aanslaughter for the killing of Mrs. Ug-ham on Murrel's Island, will yet scape the penalty of three and a ialf years' hard labor in the penientiary, Imposed by Judge Watts. The notice of appeal made by the lefendant's attorney, J. W. Ragsdale, lot having been filed within the ten ays allowed by law, Solicitor Wells rired Sheriff Scurry to apprehend he convicted parties at once, they i6ing out on a $1,500 bond. On Saturday Avant, learning of lis being wanted by the Bheriff, went o ueorgeiown trorn uib uome m larpers and surrendered himself. le is now In the county jail. Sheriff Scurry wired Sheriff Burch, f Florence county, to arrest Dr. Hgham immediately, but from infor- , lation so far received It seems that e cannot be found. The surmise is hat he has fled the State. There seems to have been some " aconsistencies in the bonds requir-, d by Bigham and Avant. When be men were first arrested on the warrants Issued by the coroner, the onds were fixed at $500 each, beig later raised, at the Instance of tie solicitor, to $2,500, under which mount they appeared for trial. After .conviction and sentence the len were turned loose under a bond f only $1,600 each, pending the reult of an appeal to the supreme ourt. It is said that as Dr. Big1am's family are well-to-do, the orfelture of the bond Is of small onsequence. ? * * RECORD CORN CROP. i , 'T; Report Shows That Farmers Are Now Diversifying. That the corn crop of South Carona will exceed last season's record y at least 10,000,000 bushels Is the pinion expressed at the office of Commissioner Watson in Columbia, 'he preliminary reports received how that"already 37,000,000 bu?hls are to be obtained from the crop, lommissioner Watson thinks the toll yield will be over 30,000,000 ushels. Last season's crop'was 29,250,000 ushels, this being an increase of 0,000,000 bushels over the previous wo years. It is also expected that he present season's crop will bring high market price. In 1908 the verage price per bushel In this State fas 91 cents. This was higher price than in any Itate except Arizona where the averge was $1.05. The average price 1 *- ?t--i- moo fi nonta or me wiiuie v-uuunj no., er bushel. The prices have gradully and substantially increased for he past several years. In 1904, or the State, the price was 70 cents; n 1905, the market price was 74 ents; in 1906, 73 cents; 1907, 78 ents, 1908, 91 cents. Before the Mclver Williamson plan vas placed before the planters of this State and the United States farm [emonstration work was begun the rield of corn was only 17,500,000 >ushel8. Now the crop is being genially raised aud the exhibits which lave been shown this year are very ;ratifying. APPRECIATES NEWSPAPERS. Spartanburg City Council Took the License Off. The Spartanburg Herald says in evlsing the license ordinance Monlay night the new city council of hat progressive city took the license iff of newspapers. "It was agreed tmong us," said Mayor Lee, "that lewspapers are the greatest help the :Jty had, an that rather than be icensed they should be given all the ."/.Anmrromcf nossihle." There was a license of $25 on daiy papers and a license of $10 on veekly papers. "A newspaper is not he richest institution in the world jy a long shot, and the taking off )f the license may be a great help oward a happy Christmas," was the vay a gentleman expressed it Monlay night, says the Herald. The newspapers were free of license until the last city council got aold of the license ordinance aud ituck it to them. The present coun:il seems to be more appreciative of :he work the newspapers do in the way of advertising the city, and in rirtOKtine every good undertaking that makes for the up-building of community life. Endorses Printers' Label The Farmers' Educational and Cooperative Union of Tennessee, in annual convention at Jackson recently, unanimously passed a resolution instructing officers of the State union to U6e the union label on all printed matter. Officer Kills Negro. Because he drew a pistol when the officer approached to arrest him for disorderly conduct, Joe Bostwick, a negro, was shot and killed at Albany, C.a., a few days ago by Oscar Walden, acting deputy sheriff.