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r "free at lasT Woman Pardoned Who Has Been in Prison For Fifteen Years A RESUME OF THE CASE ^ Fannie Carson is Her Name and She! Was Convicted of Complicity in Helping Two Men, Who Are Xoiv Serving fernis in Prison, Murder Her Husband. Gov. Ans 1 has pardoned Mrs. Fan nie Carson, who, with two men planned the death of her own hus? vonrs aco. and she band over luirt-u -w has been in the penitentiary ever I since. She may go back to that I home now, where still lingers thf I memory of a dark night when J. O. Carson lay asleep in his bed and was murdered by Ed Green and John Page, while the wife stealthily left the home, and abandoned here husband to his cruel fate. A humble woman now is Fannie Cirson. Out at the penitentiary they say that she has repented of her sins. Conducting a Bible class j.iiiong her fellow prisoners, it is probable that she has seen the error of her way and it truly sorry for w';at she has done. Pity and the o; inion that she has suffered much A are the moving powers in the securing of a pardon for this woman. Frail of body, a phvsical wrick, acc rding to the written statement of Parson is not < pnvsicians, raumc ft person, in th) opinion of thos1 who considered her case, to serv> out her days in the State pruon. (Jovs. McSweency and Heywai.l refused to pardon the woman that uo??goes free. Mrs. Carson will leave in the pen itentlary serving life sentences John Page and Ed Green, the two men with whom she conspired to murder here husband. It was by thj confession on the stand of Fannie Carson that it was possible to convict these two men who are now servin? life sentences in the prison. j m planning of that horrible mtirler was told by Fannie Larson ou the witness stand, and she also told of th<. actual killing. On two occasions, before the tvc men took the life of her husbaud. she and they had discnssed the plan and on the second occasion po?&oi was suggested. The first time tha' Page and Green came to the hous< to kill Carson, the wife informed tlu men that her husband was not soun< asleep. This saved his life tha time. The next time, when strychnine was suggested, Mrs. Carson said sh? "did not have the heart to poisor my husband," thus failed the second plot to kill her husband. Then cam( tho third and successful plot. Ed Green and Page came around to the Carson home. Whit to dr , with the little baby was t^e first fiic/Mtccori Thfi men wh< UItllL<c* v*4?jv? v. were about to become murderers did not wish to wake the baby, and i: was agreed that Mrs. Carson wouk take the child out into the yard With no mention of the killing it self, but in words that carried conviction with more force than if then had been another eye-witness, th( two men who killed Carson, tire wife told of the happenings of the next few minutes. After describing the passage o! Ed Ore 11 and John Page through t.h< dining room, one with an axe in his r?c>r\ n ooi'H 1 * YV 011 T WPnl ilcILi'i , .Uld. vaiouu OUIU , >f v*it a. " . out and went to the well, but I di(; not stay there but a few minute" I went around to the front yard and stayed there until they came out When they came out John stooped ii the kitchen and Ed started toward? me. and I motioned my hand to hin not to come to me, that the bab< was awake, and he never came, am" they went and I went then to Mr Jackson's." And in those few min utes her husband had been murdere< as he lay asleep. Some of those in Spartanburg County, who recall tlve killing o. Carson, say that Ed. Green exerte. a hypnotic influence over Mrs. Car son. Green had been received int< + v,*n r*.i?.t?An V?onH oH vc?rv nrnh l/UC VrtlOVU IIK/IH'. uuu UUV4 r ably planted himself in the affee tions of Mrs. Carson. When he husband came home drunk an' . ? abused her, Green would take up for the wife. This attachment mils' have become closer and closer, judg ing from the matters hinted at ii the papers filed in this case. Worn out, perhaps, by the drunk en debauches of her husband anc' day by day becoming more and more under th* control of Green, Mrs Carson readily lent herself to the scheme to rid her home of the hus band. By securing the aid of Page, this was found easy to do by Green. In a review of the case by the pardon board, Green is called the instigator of the plot and the one who used the other two to carry out the plan. It was Green who brought Carson strong drink from his farm across the way, it was Green who saw the need of getting Carson out of the way. one or tnai trio goee nee. j^u. Green was found guilty of murder and sentenced to be hanged. His co-defendants, Fannie Carson and John L. Page, were found builty, but recommended to the mercy of the Court, and wore thereupon sentenced to imprisonment for life in the State Penitentiary. The defendant, Green, appealed and was granted a new trial. At the second trial he was found guilty of murder, with recommendation to mercy, and was thereupon so?ipnce<1 to life imprisonment in the Penitentiary. The case was first tried before the late Judg*i Earle, who shortly after the trial, retired from the bench and \ I WHITE FIEND ATTACKS A YOUNG WOMAN AT S NIGHT IN HER HOME. Her Brother Hears Her Screams, and N Went to Her Assistance, But the Fiend Escaped. Miss Louise Willis, of Walden, Ga., was savagely attacked by an un- h known man in a room at the home n of her brother, Mr. Emmett Willis, in a fashionable residence section of ti Macon, Gn., Thursday night. b The man was frightened away by a the approach of the young lady's g brother, who, hearing her screams, q rushed to her assistance, and the tl voung lady was thrown violently d from her bed to the floor, a hand- st kerchief being tied tightly about ner mouth. The intention of the in- fc truder was criminal assault. g< The man made his escape through ai a window and made his escape by w the means of lightning rod. bi The police department are mak- v; ing a determined search and from m .he description given by the young se lady, it is believed her assailant will ai be captured within a few hours. w The citizens of that section of the cltv were quickly aroused and they se are aiding in the search. gi At midnight the police depart- tt ment, had thrown out a dragnet S< citizens, had thrown out a dragnet, oi which, It is believed, will result in ol the arrest of Miss Willis' assailant, to A light burning in the room occu- lo lied by the young woman aided her w !n getting a good description of the te nan. He is described as being M voung and well dressed. oi The Willises are prominent in so- S< cial circles in Macon, and at Walden. ai md the attempted assault has creat?d a decided sensatiton. ai In one of the nvost fashionable reB- as idence sections of the city another pi :riminal assault was made the same hi light upon Mrs. J. C. Hanberry, a g< oung matron, who with her hus- tt )and, boards at the home of Dr. Wil- h< iam Cleveland, on Washington ave- in tue. Mrs. Hanberry was alone in to room in the rear of the house when g< ler assailant, a young white man. se suddenly jerked open a window bi dind and attacked the woman. Ex- hi xcising unusual presence of mind. ?i Mrs. Hanberry succeeded in freeing herself from the grasp of her assailant. (Several occupants of the touse were attracted by the woman's 15. creams and hurried to her assistance, only to see the departing form >f the intruder as he beat a hasty xit through the window he entered. . Li , b< S * w Che Fiend Was Pursued by a Posse 7, But He Got Away. ^ fc An unknown negro man made a th lespcrate attempt to criminally as;ault the 4-year-old daughter of W. *" 1. Hearn, a prominent citizen of ^ telleville, Ga., Thursday afternoon. h< i'he negro was frustrated in his des- w >erate attack by a man named Ben- w on, who drove him away and res- d< ued the fainting and dangerously in- ec ured child. (1< A large posse of enraged citizens r> .as immediately formed, and it is m hought that if the negro is caught ie will be lynched. Bloodhounds 0 raced the negro to a swamp near 'embroke. He later escaped from . he swamp and made his way toward * Daisy. There he was sighted and ired upon by a citizen. It is believ d the man was wounded, but h" managed to again escape. M GIVEN THE FROZEN HANI). 'eary Hud Small Crowd to ellm* Him in Atlanta. ct A special dispatch from Atlanta ai to the Augusta Chronicle says never 111 ?-;iS a man given such a cold shoul- ^ er in Atlanta as was Commander fc tobert E. Peary Wednesday nizht. C( Inly F. L. Seely, who introduced him Sl a red to appear on the stage wit'i 0] lira. There was not over 250 in C( T !ie audience until the performance egan, and then the management let 01 1 the crowd of the curious waiting st a the streets. 1 The audience had some Peary c' upporters but was far from enthus- ^ istic. fallowing the result of his cture, Peary has cancelled his en- 0 agement at Birmingham and will tc robably appear no more in the ^ iouth. a t , . t] Deatl'y Air Hide. 11 Edward Gartlettan, an eloven-j'earold boy, is in a New York hospital ratally wounded by a bullet receivd while playing soldier with' two n boy companions near his home at Willet's Point, Long Island. The boy was retreating in the face of the e "enemy" when he fell, discharging T an air rifle which he carried, sending ^ \ IJlUlfX 1I11U IU& cl 111 U II1 11. # t # 0 North Carolina Pensions. ^ State Auditor Dixon of North Carolina, says that last year 1,200 pensioners died, yet there is an in&"ease of about a thousand in the total ^ number, this being because the last c Legislature increased the number of v widows who could receive pensions ^ r died before the first petition was c filed in behalf of the prisoner. O. 1 L. Shumpert was at that time solic- 1 itor of that circuit and prosecuted the case. A petition in behalf of this prisoner was presented in 1902 to M. B. McSweeney, then Govern- I or. This petition was refused. An- < other petition was presented in her c behalf to D. C. Heyward, then Gov- I ernor in 1903. Again the petition, ] although the solicitor recommended ? the pardon, was refused. < COMES TO HIS HOME ENATOR TILLMAN LEFT WASHINGTON FOR HIS FARM ear Trenton on Wednesday Afternoon, Arriving There Thursday Morning. Senator Tillman is now at his ome in Trenton, having left Washlgton for that place on last Wedesday afternoon and arriving there n Thursday morning, standing the "ip alright. He was accompanied y Mrs. Tillman and Misses Lona nd Sophie Tillman, his daughters, i speaking of the departure of the unator from Washington Zach Mchee In his letter to The State says le senator walked about one hunred yards down the platform at the ;ation to take the train. Just a few minutesa before time >r him to leave his apartments, he 3t up and dressed, then took an iito car for the station. He did not alk down the steps at the station, at went down in the baggage elector. Then for some 15 or 20 ^ 1- 9 ? 11 llluies lie waiieu 111 uue ui mc small ;rvice rooms, sitting down in a chair id talking with several friends, ho came to see him off. On his way to the station the rnator drove by the Capitol, just to ive it a last look. He drove up to le steps, where he was espied by snator Hale of Maine, who came it to see him. Senator Hale, one I the "big four" of the Senate, ild Senator Tillman that he would ok after all the local matters in hich Senator Tillman would be invested during his absence. The aine senator has served many years 1 the naval affairs committee with jnator Tillman, and the two men e close personal friends. Senator Tillman goes to Trenton id will remain there as quietly i possible. There are no other ans for him, although his family ive been trying to persuade him to ) to a sanitarium in Atlanta. They toughc it advisable 'for him to stay ?re several weeks longer before goig down, but he insisted on going day, declaring that he wanted to it out in his yard, where he can ;e his flowers and hear the June igs sing. He has great plans in is head for building a cattle barn id raising cattle. SHOOTS HIS RIVAL. I'cause His Former Sweetheart Had Married Hinu .Valney Owens, formerly living at ake Toxaway, N. C., but who has sen living out west for the past iveral years, shot and seriously ounded Sylvanus Sanders, at Lake axaway a few days ago. It appears iat about two years aso Owens left ir Wyioming; prior to leaving for le West he became attached to a >ung lady of the Toxaway section, iss Olo Norton; that while absent 3 corresponded with the lady; that 3 returned recently to Lake Toxaay and learned that Miss Norton as engaged to be married to San?rs. Owens, it is alleged, quarrel1 with the groom to be. Mr. San ?rs and Miss Norton decided to raar at once and several days ago a arriage license was procured and le ceremony performed. Monday wens' wrath burst forth and while igaged in conversation wyth Mr. inders drew a pistol and fir d three mes, one of the bullets longing in inder's breast. Owens escaped. (iKTS ANOTHER BLOW, ust Prove His Discoveries or Lose j. uuiH i\i7t>aru5* The proposal to have congrcss reard Commander Peary for his dis>very of the North Poles met with lother setback in the house com ittee on naval affairs Thursday, epresentative Englebright, of Calitrnia, his principal advocate in thr )mmittee, moved to discharge the I'bcommittee which has been considring the Peary award bills and t<? insider them in full committee, he motion was defeated by a vot^ f 17 to 1, Mr. Englebright alone jpporting his motion. Another moon to di-ect the sub-committee to insider further the bills providing \ t* V* nr i? DAnntr /i uuuwi 1115 j xi x cai/ tvao auujucu y a unamimous vole. As a majovit/ f the committee b ctrongly oppose] > voting a reward to Commander oary, however, unless his proofs re made public, it is not expected lat a bill on the subject will be epiorted out. 'Soared (Ml' Brute. At Harmony, Ala., an attempt was lade to assault Miss Allie Whitehead 'riday night last. She awoke to nd a man in her room, and screamd as he pulled the cover from her. 'lie intruder jumped from a winow and escaped on a horse. She ould not tell whether he was white r black. A drug had been poured on ,er pillow. Wife Won't Cook. Because his wife "refuse to cook lis meals," J. T. Perdee, of Bibb ounty, Ga., has filed suit for diorce. The result will be of much ;eneral interest, as the issue is onp lever oeiore passed upon by the ourt. The question of whether a nfe should cook her husband's neals will (hen be decided. Death of Dr. Sinkler. Dr. Wharton Sinkler, the no:ed Physician and specialist on nervou3 liseases, died in Philadelphia. Pa., ?n Wednesday. He was a brother of rlon. Charles St. George Sinkler of 3erkeley, who up to 1890 was State lenator from that county. He was 52 years of age. HE MUST GO Insurgent Republicans and Democrats Attack Old Man Joe, COMBINE AGAINST HIM The Irregular Republicans and the Democratic Members in the House Join in a Fight on Speaker Cannon to Curb (lis (/lowing Power Over the Members. They had a hot time in the Houbo of Representatives at Washington on Thursday. Encouraged by their repeated victories over the speaker and the regular Republicans of the house, the "insurgents" started an aggressive movement for a change in the rules of the house for the purpose of eliminating: Speaker Cannon from the committee on rules and curtailing his power in legislative matters. Without a word of warning that so radical a proposition would be brought up with the apparent support of a majority of the membership of the house, Representative Norris late in the aft-.'niuon obt:?I:it*d the hoor and offered a resolution for a change In the rule of the house. i Mr. Norris insisted that the language of the constitution gave his measure the same privilege that Speaker Cannon had claimed for a resolution relating to tha taking of the census. He asked tt.at this resolution be placed before the house at once. On both the Republican and Democratic sides nearly every member was in ais place and all realized that at last the "insurgents" were locking horns with the regular Republicans for what might prove to be a death struggle. On both sides of the house the "whips," realizing the necessity of obtaining their full voting strength, put in motion all their resources for the summoning of absent members. Telegrams were sent to those absent on leave and had left the city. Taxicabs were ordered to make trips to he hotels and :esidences of the few members known to be in Washington who were not on hand. The news of the impending struggle soon spread about the city and the galleries that had been but half filled became crowded. Mr. Norris. whose seat is on the Democratic side of the chamber, appealed to the speaker for a ruling in favor of the immediate consideration of his resolution. He insisted that the time had come for action by the house so that it might take matters affecting legislation into their own hands. The attitude of the Democrats toward the movement so suddenly put under way was made evident by the prompt endorsement of Mr. Norris' contentions by Mr. Underwood and by Champ Clark, minority leader. Mr. Underwood insisted that the language of the constitution raaae the Nebraskan's resolution a matter of the highest import. Minority Leader Clarke reminded the speaker that he had once said that the house could do anything it pleased, even to the election of a new speaker. "The speaker has said that an election could be put through the house if the house so desired," shouted Mr. Clark. "The speaker," said Mr. Cannon, who had until now watched the proceedings in grim silence, "would be prepared to rule on the question when any gentleman thinks that the minority has become the majority. n,,f fVmt nrocontc an ontirolv rliffor ent question frnm the one now before us." "If we can change the speaker," shouted Mr. Clark, "why can't we I change the rules?" Deafening applause on the Democratic side was evoked by this remark. Mr. Clark opposing any suggestion that the resolution be referred 10 the committee on rules, declaring that that committee, consisting of rlnee Republicans, including: the speaker, and two Democrats, could not be trusted with a measure curtailing its own powers. The Republican majority of one on that committee was as great as their majority in the house, "and," he added, amid laughter, "more reliable." "If you want to change the rules." Mr Plai'lr lnnlfinc nvor thf> house, "now is the accepted time." When the applause had subsided. Majority Leader Payne made a strong and feeling plea for "regularity." "We can not have the responsibility of the majority of this house." said Mr. Payne, "unless we can exercise it under the rules of the house The men on that side," he continued waving his hand toward the Democrats, "come today to break down the rule." "Is the Democratic party going to make its usual blunder?" he asked. "Now at this critical time, with an election coming off and with the best interests of the people at stake, you, who have fought for the Republican party have a care that you do not aid and abet the enemy of the Republican party." An outburst of applause on the Republican side had hardly died out before Mr Poindexter one of the lonp Mrne insurgents, declared that there wtis no regular system of rules in the house by which business was transacted. Mr. Poindexter charged the insurgents of the house to bear in mind that this resolution gave them a chance to allow the country to se? wnere they stood in their attitude of reformers of the practices of the hous.e. Mr. Douglas In an irapassioned ap HUNG THEM TWO ARE LYNCHED FOR PART IX JAIL DELIVERY. Prisoners Were Returned to Sheriff but Later Taken from Jail.?The Work Done in Business Fashion. At Marion, Ark., Bob Austin and Charles Richardson, negroes, w^re lynched at an early hour Friday morning in the court house square by a mob of 300 citizens with aiding and abetting a jail delivery that I occurred there Monday night. Richardson was arrested in Memphis and while on the way to the local jail a mob overpowered SL^iifC Lewis and secured the prisoner. He confessed to complicity in ailing the escape of the prisoners and im plicated Bob Austin. The latter war immediately apprehended and it lookPd as if the trembling prisoners would be hanged on the spot. Cooler heads prevailed and the two men were given over to the sheriff. At three o'clcok Friday morning a mob quietly formed and marched to the jail. The negroes were secured and hanged to a tree in front of the court house. The mob was orderly and went about its work in a business-like fashion. The bodies of the victims were cut down at seven o'clock Friday morning and were turned over to the negro friends for burial. POISONED EATING POPCORN. Popped in Frying Pan Which Contained "Black Oil." ! The manager of the "Mellwood Distillery," at Louisville, Ky., seven employes and two government revenue men narrowly escaped death recently by the prompt attendance of physicians after they had eaten corn popped in a frying pan which had contained a lubricant known as "black oil." In less than fifteen minutes after they had eaten the corn, all were seized with violent fits of vomiting, severe pains and extreme coma. They were rusnea irom me aisuiiery iu carriages to their homes and physicians summoned. Seven of the men are pronounced out of danger. Three of them, Peter Tepp,?r, Conrad Owens, and J. B. Sackleford, all distillery employes, are still in a critical condition. DANGER OF DEFEAT. Cullom Says Republicans Must Stop Their Row. United States Senator Shelby M. Cullom, republican, of Illinois, in a letter to the republican editors convened at Springfield, 111., declared: "It seems strange to me, but the republican party with a magnificent record, is in danger of defeat unless we harmonize our differences and present a solid front to the. enemy in the coming campaign. If we are victorious in the coming election. attacks by republicans on republicans must cease." Senator Cullom believes that the party success is in danger. peal to the majority, declared that by the adoption of the pending resolution the house would make chaos of its rules. "Now is the time of your salvation," shouted Mr. Poindexter, after ridiculing the suggestion that this was the beginning of choas in the conduct of the house. One of the most vigorous speeches of the day was made by Hamilton Fish of New York, who told of his efforts to get a hearing on his bills for a parcels post. > 'Your resolution for an inquiry I into the parcels post suggestion gave the committee only 30 days to conclude its work," suggested Mr. Smith. "Oh," exclaimed the New Yorker, derisively, "you could have changed that to give yourselves GO or 90 J n ... 99 Then followed charges and counter charges concerning the methods of the house and inability of members to get hearings on bills and the impossfbility of having bills brought out unless approved by "the powers of the house." At three o'clock the regular Republicans seeing that they were whipped left their seats, thus breaking the quorum, but the Insurgent Republicans and Democrats held the fort and renewed the fight as soon as a quorum assembled Friday morning. At two o'clock Friday afternoon a motion by representative Martin of South Dakota, a regular, that the house take take a recess until 4 p. nV. was carried by a vote of 161 to 151. Indescribable confusion and deafening yells greeted the result of this, the fourth test of strength, of the Question of obtaining a respite. From the Democratic side came the positive declaration that the regulars were defeated and that it was merely a question now of how and when. It was claimed that a certain majority was in sight for the Norris resolution whenever the speaker rules, if he does rule. From one of the most intimate friends of the speaker comes the somewhat startling statement that if the Norris resolution was passed. Speaker Cannon would resign and that the regulars would vr.te with the Democrats for the election of Champ Clark as speaker rather than side with the Insurgents for the selection of one of their choosing. This startling statement was denied by other friends of the speaker. The fight was still on when we went to press Friday afternoon. GETS A NEW TRIAL THE SUPREME COURT SAVES A FIEND FROM A Deserved Hanging on a Nonsensical Technicality and Paves the Way T ofnr T.vn/'hlnrrc The sentence of death imposed upon Robert Johnson, alais Tony Howard, from criminal assault has been stayed by a decision of the supreme court on the ground that the circuit court erred in the trial. The negro pleaded not guilty and attempted to prove an alibi. The opinion in the case is by Associate Justice Hydrick. A new trial will be given the negro. The negro was convioted In the Darlington county court last year. He was held for a time at the penitentiary for safekeeping. The crime was committed in the town of Hartsville In December of 1908. On the night of the outrage the woman retired at 7 o'clock, leaving a lamp burning l'ow on the bureau in her room. The front door was unlocked. She was alone with her little son. The woman was expecting her husband. Several minu tes before retiring she saw a negro standing, by the bureau. He blew out the light. Telling her that he would kill her if she screamed, the negro seized the woman and dragged her into the hall of the home where the crime was committed. The negro left the home, telling her to return to the room and not to make any fuss for it meant death. The husband came home about ten o'clock and found his wife in a state of shock. The story of the crime was recited to him and he gave th? alarm and the pursuit of the negio was com.menced. Robert Johnson was afterward identified by the woman as the assailant. The first exception in the case alleged error in admitting testimony that about 20 negroes were arrested and carried before the woman immediately after the outrage and she failed to identify any of them. The supreme court says "we think that the testimony was competent." ..The. court'also holds the testimony revelevant in that it "tended to show that she had some recollection of the. features of the man." The other exceptions impute error in charging upon the facts. The following is the portion of the charge excepted to, "Gentlemen, you need nnt linthf>r vnnrsplvps much about. the corpus delicti, that is, about the commission of the offense." The court hold with refereence to this that the negTo'6 plea of not guilty put in issue the corpus delicti. The supreme court says that it was necessary for the State to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the crime had been committed. It is also held that in the above expression that the circuit judge gave the jury a plain intimation if not a positive expression. A number of authorities are here cited in substantiation of the holding of the court that a circuit judge has no right to charge as to the facts in a case. The case was tried in Darlington county. "THT FIGHT IS TOO HARD." Pathetic Note Left by a Young Woman Who Suicided. With her silk stockings tightly knotted together, one end hound around her neck, and rhe other fastened to a shower bath in the private bathroom of her suite, the lifeless body of beautiful Selma Ruth Kaufman, aged 28, of New York, was found in the Hotel White, McKeesport, Pa. The young woman, after arranging the improvised rope of silk hosiery, stood on the edg? of the bathtub, securely fastened one end of the joined stocking to the shower and carefully adjusted the (Other in a noose, slipped it over her head and stepped into eternity. In her room was found the following note pinned to a costly parasol: "The fight is too hard. Goodbye, and God bless all who have been kind. My trunks are at the 23rd street station, New York city. I entreat forgiveness as T hope to be forgiven and have another chance." Proved Good Luck. A small black cat proved to be an omen of good luck when it saved Mrs. W. J. Hogan and h^r two children from a horrible death in their burning home at Griffin, Ga., Tuesday night. The family were asleep and unaware that their home was a mass of flam 's when thi cat jumped upon the bed and by repeatedIv scratching its mistress, succeeded in awakening her just in time for them to escape from the burning houii, After Lever's Sent. The usual farce of contesting th( seat of Mr. Lever in Congress was enacted again in Washisgton las1 week. One R. H. Richardson is the fellow that is after the two thousanc dollar allowasce this year, which h< will divide with Jacob Moorer, a ne s;ro lawyer of this city, who is inno cent of any l->gal knowledge, but wh< represented Richardson. Capt. R Hart Moss represented Mr. Lever Lever will hold his seat. Shoots His Family. At Gainesville, Fla., J. J. Phillip shot and killed his wife, woundei his son, and fatally wounded him self Monday while in a fit of despoil erincy. Mr. Phillips has been paraly zed for some years, and was unusual ly devoted to his family. He had ol . ten expressed the fear that he woul , die and leave his family to the car of others. A FATAL FIRE J A Colored School at Abbeville Destroye? by Incendiary Fire. B THREE DIE IN FLAMES 1 Other Students Probably Fatally jured?Incendiary Origin Indicate ed?Muss Meeting of Citizens Con- -fl deinns Act.?City Council Offers Heward?Governor to Aid. M Thursday morning early Harbison College, at Abbeville, was found to be in flames. Th&jdarm was given and the people of^fne neighborhood as- fl sem'bled to render what assistance. ? they could to save the inmates of 9 the institution. The walls of the Tm building were already beginning to.? fall in before the fire was discover-:;* ed, and the flames were bursting'Oat-S o.f all the doors and windows."' i Three of the students who were rooming up stairs lost their lives,_ B their remains being found in the"l ashes. The names of those who loaE M their lives are as follows: Carl Duck- 9 ett, of Charlotte, N. C.; Samuel Jen~9 kins, of Carlisle, S. C.; and Edward 9 M. Dubose, of Lamar, S. C. 3 The two former were alDOut nine- H teen years of age, and the latter wa? about twelve or thirrteen years old. I Several others were injured in jump- I ing from windows in an endeavor to escape from the fire, some of whomB were, probably^atally injured. I In addition To the burning of the I I v>i,{iH<ncr tho Viniispw nro.iinied hv iuaiu k uuuiiiQ, 4 ^ the Rev. C. M. Young, who is a?"the fl head of the institution, was also on fire, but on account of the fact that ? it was burning in the rear, instead'& the front, as the other buildin fire was easily extinguished. , The work shows unmistaka dences of being the work of cendiary, as kerosene could bi |H jl ly detected on the woodwork wiBctctbB president's residence. No mot flnBgrca Ka ooai'ornnH fni* tho not Tlfir clue been discovered as to the guilty party or parties. zens ol. Abbeville are very et*MtiflifqB their condemnation of such an incendiarism, and no effort wiflSPfc""M spared to. run down Vod pnn#^8p1* A mass meeting of the ritistfMBfijfl Abbeville was held Thursday-S^Br--;;? noon in the Court House, at resolution was adopted denooritHjB^B the burning of the college, the. city council to offer a.rewj8g|H for the incendiary and raising i wH to hire detectives. # fcajB Ifli The city council have o$ere4^jfrjfl reward of one hundred doltertgj^Bj the arrest and conviction of the .aaf-B ty party ot parties, and a cofcnnB*r B has been appointed to reniiest'Tjjfi B Governor of the State to offer~^l^|H ward of not less than one thousand B dollars for such apprehension alid I The Rev. Young, president of the? college, attended the mass meeting B of the citizens and asked that he be B given a suitable guard at night for B i short time, until the'students could* make arrangements to leave town, B as he was afraid of future trouble. B and a euard will be statione<ron~thei^B premised as long as it is d.eemed fl Harbison Collpge is a negro in-JB stitution and grew out what was H formerly known as Ferguson Aca'd- S emy. .Mr. Harbinson of Pittsburg I donated a large sum of money, and fl U{M otner rniianeipiuH hush jujucu mm in establishing this school. T. H. Amos was put at the head of the school, but on account of some trou?j ble, he was forced to leave, and th?" Rev. Young, of Abbeville, was put in charge, and is still at the head of the school. He is a gentlemanly and honorable negTO, and by his quiet and unassuming manner has made many friends among the white people of Abbeville, ill of whom sympathize with him in the misfortunes which have just visited his school. The student body of the school number about three hun fired ana tweniy-nve, narumeuu wi-k le.ere being a co-educational institifcM AUTO TURNED TURTLE , Three I^ulics Seriously Injured by^H the Aecident. fl? Miss Aenid McKinley and Miss An^M rife 'Mae Manuel of Unidilla, Gaant^H a Mrs. Davis from near Macon, Ga.,^| suffered serious injuries in an auto^H sm-asHWvich occurred on the publi<^H 1 road frbm Unidilla on Thursday andH ,r! of* A Monn^l aralHl M1SSCS ;UCr\.lIilCJ U UU suffering from broken legs, wlille^^ Mrs. Lee Davis was badly bruised^B 1 about the hips and back. The ladie^H i were in the car at John Mcinley^H who was himself driving. Whilo^B going at a high rate of speed th^H machine suddenly turned turtel^H > throwing .Misses McKinley and Man<^l : del across the road and pinionin^H t Mrs. Davis underneath. While th^H > car was considerably damaged, th^H I party was able to ccine back in it. Another Football Victim. Hi John A. Aidhart, aeed 19, a formeHJ ) student at Simmons College of AbilHj . ene, Texas, who was injured in ^Bj football game at that place on Octn^H ber 10, last, died in a sanitariur^H at Dallas, Thursday. He has bee^| for the greater part of this periofl| s unconscious from concussion of tl^^H i brain. n Makes Good Showing [H The s-.cond report on the Xort^H 1- Carolina Srate high schools shovel that at the end of the last schid^Hj d year 160 were in operationTnavii^fc e 5,282 students. At present only nii^E counties have no rural high school^B