Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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GOOD FORANSEI The Governor Stops a Prize Pigfc a Charleston to fee DISGUST OF THE SPORTS ' ? ? r>ff rnrfpr Flgni M8S lO Of3 I uucu vu voov. | ^ the Name of Glove Contest, but ^ t the Governor Was Not to be ^ . c Fooled by Change of Name and I 8 Stoppid the Boot, j v The News and Courier says "box- ^ ing bout called off by order 'of the Governor" was the sign placarded on the door of the Nonpareil Ath- 5 letic Club In Charleston Thursday 1 night, and many a fan read the sign * and sadly turned away. The bout had been widely advertised and both c principals were here to appear in j the ring, but the order of the Governor to Sheriff Martin did not petv mit of any misconstruction and following a conference between the ? sheriff and chief of police, the pro ?Kn Knnf mofera were uuuuwj iuai could not take place and the city assessor refused to issue a license. Jimmy Dasher, of Savannah, and Joe Howard, of Brooklyn, were to bo the principals in a scientific glove contest and were to go ten rounds. While the promoters had promised to call the bout off. Chief of Police Boyle, as a precaution, detailed Detective J a me* Hogan to pay attention to the club headquarters, and he found the hall dark and the front door locked. The order of the Governor was being strictly enforced. Several days ago Sheriff Martin received from Governor Ansel a communication setting forth the law in c regard to prize fights and exactly T what was meant by the different sec- 0 tions and celliug on the sheriff to 6 enforce the law in Charleston. Sher- r iff Martin then conferred with Chief Boyle and tbe police chief of course decided to stop the bout scheduled * for that night. If for any reason the police had not interferred the sheriff was prepared to step in and take a 5 hand. J When asked last night by a reporter for The News and Courier if * ho haH ctonned the fifht. Chief Boyle said: "Heretofore, 1 have permit- E ted these contests to be pulled off 3 as sparring exhibitions, under po- B lice supervision, not deeming them c violations of law. But Governor 1 Ansel hag placed a different '"con- B structlon of the character of the contests, and immediately on being Informed of his letter to Sheriff Martin I notified the promoters that the ^ fight must not be pulled off. The order of the Governor has certainly put a damper on glove contests hero for the present at any rate. * t > 1 STATE MOURNS CONGRESSMAN, j li Representative DeArmond*s Pan era! c Was Attended by Many. I!! ! D A dispatch from Butler, Mo., says r hundreds of promiDent public men of ^ Missouri and other States Joined the ^ citizens of Butler Friday in paying ^ their respects to the memory of ' Congressman David A. DeArmond, 0 who was burned to death in a fire, * destroying |he DeArmond home 1 Tuesday. The congressman died in k a vain attempt to save the life of | hifl favorite grandchild, David A.1 DeArmond, Jr. The bodies of both victims were burled In one caket, following services at the Methodist Episcopal church, where the cohggreasman whs a member. The coremonies wero In charge Of the Masons. j No such show of affection and honor for a departed citizen has been displayed in Missouri in many years. The mourner# blocked the streets leading to the church. The church was crowded. The coffin waa bafch-, ed high with floral emblems. In! addition to the members of the dead congrepsman's family and the congressional committee, the mourners Included Governor Hadiey of Missouri and United States Senator* 1 Stone and Warner. One or me * active pallbearers was Representative 1 W. A. Jones of Warsaw, Va. Mestrr 1 Jones and DeArmond enteral :*o.n gress at the pame time and were intimate friends , i WOFFORD CRTS WINDFALL. Toil Thousand Dollars Given to the t Old College. A dispatch from Spartanburg to , The State pays President Henry M. , Suy 'er of Wofford college announced Thursday night a gift of $10,000 to , Wofford by E. L. Archer of SpartaDburg county. The gift came unsolicited and will be uned in the erec- j tion of a much needed dormitory building at Wofford. Mr. Archer is a farmer residing near the city. He hae represented that county Jn the general assembly as State senator anl is one of the public spirited men of Spartanburg. He ie well known throughout the State. Women Slain. Firing from a doorway of tbelr home on a sheriff's posse to give their father and brother time to escape arrest. Mrs. Charles Daniels and her sixteen-vear-oll daughter wore shot to death Friday, near Devon, Mingo county, by officers. The eVrotlng grew out of a family feul between the Christians and DanMs fpmilies on the borders of Kentrcky an ' West Virginia. F5< y Frot Ball Victim. 1 e'mri Ftfler, aged 13. died at hi* home in Hanisburg, Pa., Wedn*s day from blood poisoning caused by an injury to hJs knee while playing foot bell ENDS HER OWN LIFE < V lOVKO LADY DROP'S HERS ELI Si IS AN OLD QUARRY. rhrow Herself Into a Pool Which Marks Spot \Vb*oce C*me State Hcm-o Granite, The State says floating In tho wa * - "H"- ?^A!? KaIA ' oO t HP VT OI ia? VIUV ivva uu.v, bird of the quarries between the Jlympla and Gran by villages is Ailed, a dead body Identified later .a that of Miss Sallle Ethel German, raa found Thursday shortly before ! o'clock. Elliott Wooten, a motorman In the u mploy of the Street Railway Com- gl any, who was passing the quarry a ehlle testing a new gun in this lelghborbood where there was litle danger of injuring any one, dts- n overed the body of the young wo- c nan. He at once notified Officer , ?nox, who, in turn, communicated vith Coroner Walker, who hurried o the "blue hole" and made an ex- ? imination of the case that was evi- ii lent eulclde. The apparent explana- fc Ion was strengthened when It was & -* " "? uAiinir wnman. who ? earufu iuai /vm_? .. . _ tras about 3 0 years of age, had been t> n 111 health for some time and had f, breatened on various occasions to f, >nd ber life. a 8be lived at 1204 Ashley avenue w a the Olympla village and attended he house keeping for her father t; ,nd two brothers. The brothers are a ngaged as operatives In the mill, p vhlle the father Is a man of advano- j] >d years and feeble. d The young woman had prepared 8l tinner as usual and sent It to the fl ill and after finishing others du- a les about the house, stepped out? n lever to return. When found she b pas alnjost covered by the water ^ >( the quarry, which, however, wae n hallow, | and the deed must have h equired some effort on the part of he woman to bold herself under the 8 cater. She had been dead but a 5 pw moments when her body was w ound. D The quarry which marks the Cl oung woman's end is well known a o the men who were boys in Co- g umbia 20 years ago, for much of f, he gronjte that goes to make the ^ >tate hotise came from the depths e, ?f this great hole. Here for many j ears Columbia boye learned to t wim and not a few daring swim- 5 tiers have sunk into the depths of t] be "blue hole" never to rise again a live. m m b BULL FIGHTERS DYING OUT. * 9 e Tie Law Interfering Wtth the Boll * Fights. * I h A writer in Succe68 Magazine says: u "he bull fight of Spain is doomed, n t is not proposed to abolish It by n 3w, because an enactment ^ olght cause a revolution, but re- r trictiona are being Imposed and a 1 iew law forbids introducing into the e ing for the eecond time a bull which a >as once killed or Injured a mata- 8 lor. Bullfighting has come to be a D .angerous trade, and since It is mani- 1 estly impossible to prescribe rules c if etiquette for a bull while he is ^ >eing slaughtered. It is evident that ^ be "noble sport" has reached the ^ beginning of the end. . 8 Anyway, if we are to believe a v n-lter who describes the sport in a 1 'aria magazine, bullfihtlng is not v efcat it was in the good old days. The profession of sticking rapiers e nto wild bulls is sadly degenerat- ^ ng, the fine traditions of the paet ^ ire vanishing. Formerly bullflghtirs had a pride in their work; they d vere miracles of dexterity; they were ? "Napoleons of Tauromachy." Now * (very village lad thinks he Is a mute, v ngolrious toreador and the fatali- e .lea are becoming more numerous 1 han on the Spanish railways. . 1 We suggest to our Spanish neigh- * >ore. If they must have their bull- * ighta, that the animal have his front 8 egB tied together and his hornB co- * ?red with plush, while the matador 1 >e armed with a gatling gun and a 'use of nitroglycerine. With prope' 1 precaution bullfighting may be made f i safe and pleasant diversion for E roung and old. e . ? DIES FROM BLOW ( Reoeived Prt>m Bas? Boll While f Ploying a Game. At Florence William Ilderton Mo- 1 Phereon, the l(X-year-old son of Mi*l- ' sin McPherson of the Claussen nee- ' Hon of Florence county, died at the * Ilderton Infirmary Thursday night 1 as the result of being struck in the ( abdomen with a bape ball while at ' play some two weeks ago. The little fellow was carried to the Infirmary and operated upon shortly after the accident, but an abscess formed which resulted in his death Tbursday night. The body was taken to Claussen for burial. Body Found In Woodshed. The body of Charles C. Martin, un- i til recently bookkeeper of a local t firm, was found In a woodshed near bis residence at Macon, Ga.. Tnursd&y with a bullet hole through his b*&d. A revolver clasped In his left hand showed that the wound was self-inflicted. Despondency because of III health Is supposed to bate prompted the deed. Lenp* to His IVnth. Eluding his roommate and shouting a frantic "Goodbye," William F. McCormlck. a student at the Moo-u~ Til Biblical insiuuw, at uu^a8v, .... jumped to his death from a thirl story window of the dormitory a few days a*o and died on the way to tbe hospital. The young man is to bo montally deracgM. SLAIN BY LOVER [range Tale of Romance is Told a! Trial of Slayer nrirTrn m name nmutu 111 taivu nfataation for Popular Mask Hall Actress Has Tragic Ending?She Insulted Him and Admitted That She Loved Another?Slayer is Acquitted. A dispatch from Paris, France, nder date of Wednesday, says a trange tale of a romance wtilch had tragic ending was related at the elno assize court, when a young lan namod Stora, the son of a merhant who left him about 125,000 as tried for killing a music hall tar known as Muguet, which signies "Lily of the Valley," who was i her fortieth year. Stora made er acquaintance at Algiers, and oon fell desperately In love. He ccompanied Mile. Muguet from plaee o place when she was on her proessional tours, going with her as ar as Russia, but, as was explained t the trial, she seldom had a good rord for him. Much of this infatuation was atributed to his having acquired nother habit in her society. In rely to a question from the preeidig judge, he said: "I wanted to o like her, and so toon etner. u eemed a very simple process. At rst I was darzled. I saw visionB, nd when I gazed upon Muguet at ly side she appeared to me more eautlful and younger. And she ept explaining, 'Take more, take lore!' and I thought of nothing but er." One day be tried to break the pell, and removed to another house, ut she followed him there. "And rhen I saw her," he sighed, "I could ot deBist." Yet even from the acounts of witnesses, Muguet led him dog's life. "She had no fault to nd with him," one of her female rlends explained, "but she thought im a dreadful bore." She used to ay to him: "I no longer love you. have never loved you. I regret be gentlemen friends that I had efore I met you. I want to 6ee bem again. I am still fond of them 11." On the fatal day Sfora escorted is mistress to a boulevard cafe requented by artiste in quest of an ncaeoment. "Stay here at the door nd wait for me," she said as she rent In, leaving the unlucky man ith her dog out in the bitter cold, lours called by and there je stood ike an unrelieved 6entry. "You light have gone in," the Judge relarked. "She had>forbidden me to o bo." Stora answered, evidently' egarding this as a sufficient reason. Meanwhile, Muguet was chatting ally with friends in the warm cafe, d making fun of her love;- as he hivered in the cold outside; but o one Joined in her merriment, for hey all pitied him. At last Bhe ondescended to Join Stora, who took er off to dinner at a restaurant. lS they passed by a flower-stall he ought her a bouquet of violets, and he threw it in his face. Matters - ere not more comfortable when hey got to the restaurant. "There fere a lot of people, and they were coking at ue. I was quite asham d." Stora related. Even when they ;ad returned to their abode, Muguet ;ept on taunting him. 8he said, "I am sick of you; you lisgust me." She insulted me and ailed me names, when I had spent ;10,000 on her. She said, "I am veary of all this. Be off. I am [olng to throw your things out of he window. I love another man.' Ind thin to me, who had left my lome, my family, everything that I vas fond of. I was being turned iway like a dog. There was a re'olver on the table, end I fired. I 10 longer knew what I did. Some of Muguet's former male riendB were then called as witness's. They had not a word to say igainst Stora. On the contrary, they ipoke kindly of him, but they gave i poor account of their experiences )f Muguet. "When a man has a mistress who nakes him unhappy, the best thing 'or him to do is to leave her," drily emurked the advocate general In lis address, adding that he would lot object to Stora's being allowed .0 benefit of the First Offenders' \ct. But there was no need for .his, as the court, after a brief contultation, returned a verdict of acluittal amid tfie applause of the pubic In the court. ? ? Edits Taper from Ora P. HavllI, editor of a dally lewBpapor at Mount Carmal, 111., round guilty of criminal libel, announced a few days ago that he will sdlt hie paper from his cell unless in appeal to the higher court proves effective for bis release. Circuit Court Judge Groen sentenced Havlll to sixty days In Jail. IHefl of Injuries. A dispatch from Roanoke, Va., says E. M. Davles, of Norfolk. Va., a prominent man. died there Thursday night from Injuries received in an automobile accident nine weeks ae-n He was a native of Windes, England. Woman Found Murdered. A dispatch from Detroit, Mich. say6 Mrs. Harriet Hill, 29 years old was killed Thursday night in a road house east of there. Her head wat cruBhei. Some one outside of thf h?u?>e shot her through the win do-*. I DROWNED IN LAKE FIVE PERSONS MEET TRAGIC DEATH IN MICHIGAN. Launch Capsized m Result of Panic "Which Followed Explosion of Om- j oline?Four in One Family. A dispatch from Muskegon, Mich., says five persona were drowned In Muekegon Lake Thursday afternoon when a pleasure launch, carrying e party of nine young people, capsized as the result of a panic following a gasoline explosion. Four of thosf who lost their Uvea were members of one family. The dead are: Oscar Carlson, aged 28; Hulda Carlson, aged 24; Anna Carlson, aged 20; Jennie Carlson, aged 18; Ann Sanders. The party started out to attend a wedding on the north side of the lake and decided to take a short cruise before going to tbe festivities They encircled the lake and were within 150 feet of the north land* ing, when In some manner some gasoline exploded. The girls became panic stricken. The bodies were all recovered. GYP8EY TRIBES CLASH. Alleged Kidnapping of Girt Ganges the Fend. There 1b a feud between two Gypsey tribes with Chicago and vicinity as the scene of conflict. Tbe alleged kidnapping of thirteen-year-old Amelia Johnson from her father. Ephram Johnson, in Elisabeth, N. J., three years ago started It. The arrest of Zalacho Demetro on a charge of stealing the girl aggravated ru* feud. Now, Nicholas George, his wife and three children, said to be members of Jobnson'a band of Gypsies, are nnder arrest, and may be deported. They were arrested when the/ arrived in Chicago presumably to aid Johnson la getting his daughter back. Demetro's nomads Informed the authorities that the Oeorgee were "smuggled in from Canada after being denied admission by way of DeI trolt." I The Qypsey girls repeated on the l stand- before Judge Belfter that she did not want to return to her father, but preferred to live with the Demetrea because she loved to travel. Demetro declared that his boo was Amelia's husband and that the girl's father bad been paid |1.000 for the I bride. He said $400 was 6pent for j a bridal feast. The girl and boy were held to the Juvenile court. VICTIM OF ASSAULT. Aged Man Found Badly Wounded and Unconscious. F. O. Puncke, an old Oerman who runs a restaurant and bakery in Rockingham, N.C., was found lying unconscious under a stove in the rear of his shop Thursday afternoon with two big gashes in Us head. Charged with the deed, Elmore Maner and Alec Covington, two young white men, are being held in the county jail without ball. The injured man Is still unconscious and will probably die. | There were no eye-witneases to the affair and the motive of the old | man's assailants Is unknown. Maner and Covington were wen running from the restaurant about the time the assault is thought to have been committed. Both are said to have been intoxicated. Puncke came to Ricklngbam a short time ago from Wilmington, where be owns considerable property. 8HOT FOR CHEERING REBELS. Another Outrage by Zelaya Report* ed by Vessel. ! The steamer City of Paris, which arrived at San Francisco, Oal., on Thursday from Central American ports, brought a report that forty citizens of Corinto were shot to death recently by orders of President Zelaya for having received with cheers the news of ail insurgent victory. Corinto was under a heavy guard, while the city of Paris was there and the passengers made no attempt to go ashore. A communication from President Figueroa of Salvador was received by Bmejia. Salvadorlan consul general in San Francisco, denying that trouble existed there. Reports of disturbance, the President said, were based on J the fact that a number of citizens had conceived the idea of organizing In Nicaragua a force to invade Salvador. These malcontents, however were arrested in Honduras, where they are held. BURIED IN MINE. Score? Have Probably Perished in Jadadom Colliery. A dispatch from Tokio, Japan, says a heavy loss of life is fearod as the result of an explosion a few | days ago in a coal name at Onoura, Fnauoka prtmnctt. fifteen men are known to have perished, while 228 miners aro entombed In the worfclt?grs. Every attempt Is being made to rescue them, but their fate Is 1 yet In doubt, i ? ? ? Three Children Burned. Three colored children were burn GQ to UUillU <1L DWH40I 1U Uf ni iauburg county Thursday morning. . Their monther, Norah Evans, leaving the children In bed, kindled a I fire In the room, where they slept 3 and went a short distance to a nelgh1 bor's home, but before her return - her home was burn?d and her children perished. GETS OFF LIGHT= A Hesscntj Who Killed Two Hen, Confided af Manslanghter PLEADED TO BE HANGED * The Double Murderer's Nerves Fall* \ nim OnKK<u) Ttbn M . C\l HUH ?*UU 41V uvvwu MMV g Child, While He Begged Judge 1 c Don tiler to Change His Senter.?a ^ to Hanging Prom Imprisonment, i Sobbing like a child and begging Judge Danuler to change hla sen- 6 X3 tence from 20 years In the State ? 8 penitentiary to hanging, J. W. Mes- a servey, the slayer of Conatablea Flshburne and Altman, at Ravenel, 0 July 6, waa led from the court room ' B at WaJterboro Thursday morning, the Q Jury having announced their verdict < of guilty of manslaughter and Judge v Dantzler having pronounced the sentence of the court a few minutes later. .. t The sentence waa "That you, J. t W. Messervey, be confined In the State penitentiary at such labor aa t you are able to perform for the pe- f riod of 20 years." The Jury had deliberated 16 hours t and when court convened Thursday morning for the purpose of hearing ^ their verdict the foreman announced that they had just agreed but { desired some instruction as to the t form of their verdict. It was learn- ( ed that two of the Jurors were for " acquittal and the 10 at first were for murder but agreed to compromise on a verdict of manslaughter. Judge Dantzler again Instructed them and In about 10 minutes they returned to their seats and announc??d that they bad agreed upon a , verdict. A large crowd was eagerly watching the announcement oM*rc verdict. Judge Dantzler took the;.precaution to warn those present that no demonstration would be allowed. Meeservey betrayed no sign of emotion as the clerk read the verdict. When asked by the judge if he had anything to say why the sentence of the court should not now be pronounced upon him he replied, "No, except I am not guilty.' The judge began to write the sentence but paused long enough to ask tbe prisoner, "How long have you been afflicted with your leg?" ^ "6ixteen or 17 years," he answered. After finishing the sentence Judge Dantzler said to the prisoner. "If you had ibeen convicted of ' murdtr I would not have disturbed 8 the verdict. You have been repre- ] 6ented by able counsel who did all ' they could for you; you have had 1 a fair trial; you had no right to kill ' Mr. Flshbourne. I do not believe he intended to confiscate your honw 1 and wagon. In consideration of the c condition of your leg I will not * sentence you to hard labor in the y penitentiary but will sentence you j * to perform Buch labor as you are * able to perform. The sentence of the ( court is that you be confined in the 1 State penitentiary at such labor as you are able to perform for the pe- { riod of 20 years." ' Unmoved through all the trial and * seemingly not afTected by any of the; * testimony, when the words, "For the ? period of 20 years" were uttered,1 f the prisoner broke down and wept. 1 like a child, begging tbe judge to 1 change the verdict to hanging, say- 1 lng, "I would rather die than have ' my life wasted in this way. Judge, 1 change It to hanging. Let me die, Judge; change it to hanging. It's * -i-w? tffnlHtr " out rijjuu l ui uuu ?u?ivj. The Judge ordered the sheriff to remand the prisoner to Jail. Sher- ' Iff Fox told him to come with him bat Messervey, not heeding him, continued to cry to the judge to hang him instead. The judge again ordered him re- j manded to jail. It was a pitiful , spectacle, this unfortunate man, ( blind in one eye and a cripple, with j his father on one side and brother j on the other, sobblngly pleading with j the Judge to have himself hanged. ( A 6ign of relief broke from the ( crowd as the sheriff led him from the oHll enhhina IVAV1U WVli* 0vv??~q. Col. Padgett moved for a new trial od tbe ground that the judge ( bad erred in holding that It was not necessary for a liquor constable un- I der the Carey-Cothran law to file hfa bond with the clerk of court and , that therefore a constable could 1*- j gaily perform bla duties without th? , filing of suoh a bond. This was the main issue In the case from a legal , point of view. Judge Danttlor promptly overruled the motion. GOMPERS IS DEFIANT. Scores the Judge and Declines to < 8eek a Pardon. "I repeat what I have said heretofore that Justice Wright is biased 1 and Is unfit to wear the Judicial ermine." Samuel Gompers, preside* r>f fh? American Federation of Labor, thus referred to Justice Wright, of the District Supreme Court, who sentenced Gompers. Mitchell and Morrison to terms of Imprisonment for contempt of court. Gompers returned to Washington Friday from Toronto. "If the Supreme Court of the United States declines to permit the Issue to come before It for review or affirms the difficulty of tne jower court, will you ask the President for a pardon?" he was asked. "I will not," Gompers replied, "nor will I willingly permit my frieuds to do so. Had I violated any law and been found guilty and sentenced to prisoa, I might consider the question of seeking executive clemency." 0 RAILWAY WRECK i PASSENGER' TRAIN AND A WILD ENGINE COLLIDE. EnvlnMm. Pi r* man and Mall ClCrk Killed, Two Fatally Hart aad Five Can Destroyed by Fire. Telephone advices from Llnd. Vash.. says that a disastrous wreck ccurred there Thursday morning at :30 o'clock when a "helper" engine rasbed Into the Great Northern pasenger train No. 4, which was beng held In a siding. The train is now burning despite fforta to extinguish the flames. The nail clerk and engineer are missHg .nd it is reported that other* hi? Ibo missing. j It is reported that the teiegraph j iperator at Llnd received ordor.* to told the helper on a siding, but bccordlng to the meager accounts btainable the engineer, who la misaQg, probably misunderstood orders ?lth the result that the passenger nd helper crashed together at high peed. Every car was derailed and he fire which followed is reported 0 be consuming the entire train. A dispatch from Spokane says hree tralnment are dead, two others atally Injured &nd five of the six are on a Great Northern passenger rain destroyed by fire, but every taseenger la safe as the result of a rreck. The dead are the engineer and 1 reman of the passenger train and he mall clerk. The engineer and I reman on the wild engine are prooibly fatally injured. The Great Northern train from ;he coast was traveling over the Northern Pacific track on account >f the floods on the Great Northern ine. It was due In Lind shortly ifter 1 o'clock Thursday morning. The wild engine started west and 10 sooner had it left the station than he operator knew that a terrible nlstake had been made, bat had 10 means of correcting it. A mile from Lind the engine and >eseenper train came In collision. According to Engineer Rash, who Lad pulled the train to Prosser, but vho was riding on the train from hat point as a passenger, every pasen ger escaped unscathed except one, rho was slightly injured. MOB LYNCHES A NEGRO. Two Hundred Masked Men Take Victim Prom Officers. Morgan Chambers, a negro, was aken from Town Mashal Broadway tnd Deputy Joe Camp, at Meehan, [2 miles west of Meridian, Miss., Thursday night by a mob of 200 nasked men and his body riddled cith bullets. Dressier was taken to Meehan for nedical treatment and 'the negro aptured at Chunkey, a few miies urtber west, was taken to Meehan, vbere he wa? positively identified >y his victim. After the identlflcalon. Marshal Broadway and Deputy ?amp started with the prisoner for be town prison. On the way they were confrontk! by the^mob, who took the negro >y force, Marshal Broadway having lis cheek grazed- by a bullet in the icrimmage. After obtaining poslession of the negro, the mob dragged him a short, distance and shot ilm to death, several hundred bulets penetrating his body. The mob hen quickly dispersed, leaving Meejan, going in the direction of Point ind Chunkey. WAS NOT THE MAN. 'Am Not Lynched," Writes Will James From Cairo. A dispatch from Greenwood to The State reports that the negro lynched Id Cairo,, 111., some time igo waa a well known Greenwood xmnty negro, la now ascertained to be incorrect. City Clerk W. O. Calhoun is Juet in receipt of a letter from the negro, Will James, dated it Evanston, Ind., Nov. 18, acknowljdglng receipt of tax receipts on some lots the negro owns there. In the letter, he says, "I am very jorry to hear from my good white folks that they is thinking I am linched. Don't they know I am a t>etter man than that for I know my right from my left. To lot rou know thla Is me, don't you know I had a long: talk with you ana 3heriff McMillan about This conversation was mentioned to prove hla Identity. He further says. "I am sorry that you all think I am linched. Tel) all the good friends I am not linched, now good by my good friend, I hope to see you soon." Greenwood county was not particularly eager to set up a claim aB the home of the Cairo fiend and in therefore as eager as Will himself Is to let him right. Blames Whiskey. Samuel B. Theboult, former quartermaster of the steamer Frederick, plying botween 8avannah and Baltimore. wa6 convicted of murder at Savannah for the killing of George W. Foster, a pantry man on th? steamer. The killing occurred or the vessel July 10, last Thebaull stated that he was very drunk ai the time of the trouble and remem^ L 1 o hrmt 11 LIU I BU UUlUMIt, ... Thief Get? Ten Years. Phil Allen. aged 68, former vlc< president of the First National Ban} of Mineral Point, Wis., charged wit! the embezzlement jof $168,000 o that institution, was a few days ag< sentenced to ten years in the feci eral prison. / FIENDFKED | An Alabama Brute Shot and Boned By a Posse oi Citizens for ASSAULT ON A WOMAN 1 . The Scoundrel Broke Into the House, Seized the Husband, Who Escaped and Aroused the Neighborhood, ' ' "'jjj Who Found the Brute Near Where He Committed His Crime. t r After assaults on Mrs. Wm. C. . -Tr/vrjJ Cheatwood, wife of a farmer living near Edwardsville, Ala., Ray RolBton, a negro, was hunted down by a posse of citizens Wednesday and after being riddled with shot, the body was burned. Mrs. Cheatwood Is in a critical condition. The negro went to the Cheatwood home, and battering down the door, seized Cheatwood, saying . We've got you now, and we're going to kill you." Cheatwood escaped trad fled through the window to arouse his neighbors. While he was absent Rolston attacked Mrs. Cheatwood. The brute dragged his victim by her hair to the woods near by after beating her uvt?r vuv uwu whu biic&d cvuu iuuao. # , Finger prints *on her neck also showed where he tried to choke her Into insensibility. The negro, according to the statements received, then laid down near his victim and went to sleep. After recovering consciousness, Mrs. Cheat wood crawled back to her home, where she notified her husband and friends who bad gathered. The posse quickly found the negro, when they riddled his body with bullets and burned it. Cheatwood'e three small children fled from the house when the negro entered. It had been raining and was cold and they were in an exhausted condition when found several hours later. VERY SIMPLE REMEDY For Tuberculosis If it Proves to be Successful, A simple remedy for tuberculosis. and one declared to be a sure cure. Is announced by a Texas Methodist _ v , _ n.? T n nA.^. y: cauuci, ucr. li. vj. uiwuru, ui peras Cove. H? 1b now living in that little town with bis second wife, his first one having died with consumption. Shortly after the death of hie drat wife, he himself waa stricksa with the wh te plague, and the disease developed so rapidly that be waa forced to give tap bis work. He had fiequent hemorrhages from the lungs, and the only exercise he could take was horseback riding. One day he rode over *o 'he blacksmith shop to have hid ho^ae shod and while the smith was doing the work he got on the forge lo warm, and accidentally inhale 1 :he emoKe from the stone coal. It tc give instant relief, and he Inhaled it for gome time. He returned home, feeling better than he had felt for months, and determined to continue the experiment. Rev. Mr. Crimes says that he never had another hemorrhage; that six treatments cured him; and that he has never had a symptom of consumption since. He had a lady friend ^ho waa In the last stages of consumption. She had given np all hope and was confined to her bed, which she never expected to leave. Mr. Grimes told oer now ne was curea, ana au cue could sR up her husband had a little furnace made, and with pipes conveyed the fumes of the stone coal into her lungs. Her physician forbade the treatment, but tho husband refused to desist and In a few weeks the lady was able to leave her bed. and has never had a sympton of the disease since. Mr. Grimes wants the world to know of his simple and inexpensive remedy, and hopes all sufferers with consumption will give it a fair trial. ENDS LIFE HORRIBLY. North Carolina Woman Cute Her Own Throat and Dies. With her throat slashed with a ra2or by her cwn hand which shn carefully laid huck on the mantlepiece after cornii\;'ti?.? tht set, Mrs. Thomas Lipscombe, wife of a former county commissioner and a member of a widely Known family In Durham. N. C.. was found dead late Thursday at the home of her daughtre whom she was visiting. After eating a hearty Thanksgiving dinner, Mrs. Lipscombe w^nt to her room. Later some of th? of the house went for ner 10 piay accompaniments to solos by the guests. It was then that the horrible discovery was made known. It , Is believed that despondency over the death of a daughter prompeted , Mrs. Llpsocmbe to commit suicide. i Prom Defective Wiring. ? It is believed that the fire at 1 Butler, Mo., which caused the death t of Congressman DeArmond and his ' grandnon Tuesday started la the at' tic of the DeArmond home as the result of defective electric wiring. Killed in Auto Accident. 3 nrHn w Watson. 31 years old, c I formerly of Hawklnsvllle, Ga., was i killed at Niagara Falls, N. Y., Thuref day when the steering gear of his 3 automobile snapped and his machine - crashed Into a telephone pole. Louis Boore, a companion, was badly hurt.