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v ,vv. v...;. y.- -^W *.?aaa*- * ****** L r f iJtal%ilfSRpqM|Mri >Vr t&e Prwmoturi mfL\- Ai&tlc , afc&l _^r.- .-tttKroJUsm* OjgHB*arrial I^fc*%sCH. j SEBE*k ttS ? . M 8====^==^:- ' - - i , -1 c>tii WiiiisKLjY. L A i> O A M I L It h .C . O ( I O I> L R 1> 1902 i SI a liLf'HIKD 1852 II *x - - ^ miss Biggar s suit Ends Dramatically. Her Gieed For All of Bennett's A1 illions Was too Grout?A Conspiracy Was Kstal> lit?hed. Long Branch, N. J., Sept. 2(5. ? The tlofht of Laura Biggar, the former act i ess, for the millions of rienry VI. Bennett came to a m dden and dramatic ending today before dnstico Wilbur A. Hoisley hero. The claimant, through counsel nhandoued tho suit and announced she would bo satisfied with the GO per cent, of tho estate given her by the will. Ilnrdly had this been done than counsel for tho heirs opposing the Biggar claim showed they had been more than prepared for this step, and warrants charging conspiracy were served on Samuel Stanton, tho former justice of the peace of Hudson county, who testiticd that* h? had performed the marriage cere, n.ony between Miss Biggar and the Pittsburg millionaire, and Dr. C. C. Hendrick, at whose sanitarium in Bayonne, it was alleged that Miss Biggar's child was born. A search is now in progress foi Miss Biggar hcreolf that she may also be presented to tho grand jury to answer a similar charge. Stanton UDd Dr. Hendrick are now in jail at Freehold. Bodies Found in Woods. Emporia, Vn., Sept. 27. ? Wiu. Batte, who lives about 13 miles north of this city, today reported the finding in the woods near his home of the dead bodies of It. B. Mitchell ami Miss Mabel Lee, both of Stoney Creek, Va., who ran away from Stoney Craek last Tuesday or Wednesday to be married. The bodies were badly decomposed and were lying s'do by sid?.\ There wero 1 ml tot wounds in both and a revolver was lying between them. The supposition is that Mitchell shot the girl and then killed himself. ? The movement to consolidate 60 pet ? ent of the spinning add weaving mills of the South into ono holding has been consummated. ? A tidal wave, accompanied with a devastating cyclone, has visited the coast of Sicily. Hundreds of people were killed and millions in property destroyed. Men of m Timbers ?f oak keep the old homestead standing through the years. It pays to use the right stuff. " Men of oak " arc men *in rugged health, men whose bodies are made of the soundest materials. Childhood is the time to lay the foundation for a sturdy constitution that will last for years. Scott's Emulsion is the right stufh Scott's Emulsion stimulates the growing powers of children, helps them build a firm foundation for a sturdy constitution. Send for free sample. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, ??UW-<H5 Ponrl Street, Now York, 60c. and $I.OO; all druiralsts. The Very Oldest Woman is Dead in Laurens. Many Farts Proving Her Great Asje?Girl of 1<I When Washington Bccume President? Her Aged Children. Special to The State. Laurens, Sept. 27.?Su:day, 21st inst., there died in this city an old nogrcss, Hannah Milner, whose claim to longevity id beyond doubt unparalleled in this section. According to her reckoning she was three years old when that immortal paper, the Declaration of Independence, was promulgated, u "gal" of 1(5 when George Washington became ores ideut, or, iu other words, she was born the last of October, 1773, and therefore had sho survived six weeks longer sho would have attained the great ago of 129. Of course in the absence of any record there is more or loss doubt to her claim, but there is abundant evidence of her very advanced age. First \?f all she was born in Virginia, which ac counts for the fact that she distinctly remembered Washinton as a general during the Revolutionary war and then as president, incidents which she related to those around her all through life clear to tho end, a circumstance which would have occured considerably over a hundred times if she hpd Uild ti unly . once n year. ^10 was probably brought to ooiun uarohna liy the Milner family, as ?ho was lirst known by the oldest people now living in this section as tbo property of Thos. Miloer, u slave owner who lived near Tno Knob, this county, many years ago. "Granny" Hannah, as she was generally known was .tho wife of j Henry Milner, a slave, and they had 13 children. Henry died long before tho Civil war, an old man. Four of the youngest e'uil(Ircn survive, a son and three daughters. Tho youngest of these is a great grandmother herself, almost an octogenarian. It is said her oldest son diod at the country home a few years ago at the age of OS She lived to see four generations of her own family and to this day they arc African blood pure and simple, old fashioned, polite and hard working. Martin Burnsules.aged GO, is one of tho numerous grandchildren who livo in to county and ho is a thrifty and respectable negro "Old" Granny belonged to the African Methodist church and her faith never deserted her. Her health was all that could have been expected up to within a week or so tie fore Ibo dissolution. She was hearty, could walk around some and all ber faculties ?m*nd, voice, hearing and eyesight con* tinued good to the last. Most remarkable indeed, but this is the brief story of Hannah Mduer's long, vei y long life. VV. L. T. AMERICA'S FA MOTS BEAUTIESLook with horror on Skin Eruption*, Blotches, Sores, Pimples* They don't have them, nor will any one, who uses Bucklen's Arnica Salvo. It glorifies the face. Eczema or Salt Ilheum vanish before it. It cur?s soro iips, chapped hands, chilblains. Infallible for Pi!??< '' ? --WW. fib 'VI W ford Bros., and J. F. Mackcy & (%'k. drug store. 0 i v OS? TUESDAY -AND5i3i3rf,T'll,l PN A - ' 'A.' U JSa t2s> JL 9"K J. <?HrI? i k we k Will Have Our Annual PALL OPENING Miss Evans has returned from the North after spending weeks posting herself. She lias everything in the latest Styles and Shapes. in our Dress (joods and Notion Department, we have the nicest and most complete line we have ever shown. We invite all the Ladies to come and see our different lines. Old ladies,^ young: ladies, little girls, big- girls, bachelor girls, old maids and all. If von can't come / yourself send your "old man," so that he can tell you all about it. Don't forget the date, TUESDAY and TUESDAY NIGHT. SEPT. 30th. -l.Slllfl.adlU1 HflWianiSlA I'a miuiumi mi vSiiiiBlv lUi / . Tom Clark Burned at Stake : ?i Held for 21 Hours After 0< . ja! f sviug urnl in That Timo the (lovornor Made No K-. fort to Interfere. ! e? Corinth, Miss.. Sept. 2n. Writhing in the Hume* of fugoN!'1pile 1 high by hundre Is of citizen-, | Tom Clark, alias Will (lib .? '' young negro, wis burned >? the al stake here at a late hour today. Clark had confessed to one of ^ most atrocious assaults ami maiders in the history of Mis-i- ippi, 1 and said that ho deserve! Id >.\vful^fato. ^ On August 10 lust, Mrs. Cunie ' Whitfield, the wife of ; we'l C*! known citizen. was found dead ecMlimi. The crowd became s? |>t ?;n'.d that ut midday the main si si reel of the town was ordered ?( cleared, and the announcement or was made that il ha t been decided i (It to horn Clark a! *>.30 o'clock in ! >] lie ai'ternoor. i'his Hatcnentjc' cansid milch cx itomont and llio t I* mi: jinj; crowds of pc ?|)!e began |1 it) Milan* about i ho place su looted 1 si in her home. Investigation show- rv ed that the lady had been assaultcd. Iler head was practically severed from her body. Iluth Whitlield and his wife were re- o latcd to several of the most prominent families in the South and the indignation of the people knew no bounds. Corinth and the surrounding country was (i( scoured in an effort to apprehend j the murderer, hut diligent search (l failed to disclose his identity. Two . detectives from Chicago were employed but their etforls were ,) fruitless. Several suspects were j arrested but in each ease an alibi tl was proven. A committee of w twelve citizens were named to ^ continuo the rearch lor the mur- ^ derer and these men have boon n Very active in their* work. On w Monday last it became known that C!" Tom (Mark, a negro living near . ^ here had trouble with his wife and r the l itter threatened to disclose (|j the fcccrct cf a crime. Odicers appieliemled the woman and she . told enough to warrant the be lief that Clark bad murdered Mrs. Whitlield. (Mark was arrested and vc-terday brought before the committee of twelve in Corinth. ! The negro finally confessed to the murder and also told of other an ' crimes that ho had committed. ..c V# 1 lie - >id that several years ago he m killed two men on an excursion mi trait? tu Mississippi. Ho told of vo av on! rage perpetrated hy him- njl self upon a negro woman and also j)C. of the theft of $1,500 from a cn physician at French Camp, Miss. ;l(, Clark said that he had nover hecn py suspected of having committed ;in any of these crimes and had c ?v? C11 cred up his tracks in a way to <;(] deceive the oftieors of the law. [' After heating the confession the committee decided that the j negro should he hanged from a | topograph polo in the street Clark said he deserved death hut 1> asked that the execution lie de- th layed until today to he could have 'on a farewell interview with his la niulher and brother, who lived in gi Memphis 1 ho request wnsjw. !"r:'.r'o ! and the two relative were ?ii , . ' | telegraphed for hut it was learned jet that they wore in Mississippi. 1 ii< d'onidle the news of the no : groe's arrest and confession : spread rapidly over tho surround ing counti) and today's incoming !1; trains brought hundreds of peo- ^ j p!c to the city to witness the ex- ^ ' 7 !. , n'trie enactment <>i tlio.awful n_e.lv. At *2 o'clock pine fagots ni l igor piece's of wood were iicfullv laid about an iron which a^ driven deep into the, m ound. ...ij . 'i mm .1 I*'. .! an hour later it was announe. , . . <I" oiU .:i t'l-iin ! that all was m readiness. 1 he committee of twelve and any of the ropr'esenVatfve1 cili* .. ., . . '! > tuiJiJcei us ol "(Joriuih vigorously opi . * Mison ? , i>i d burning the nogro and gued that he should ho hangod. J. H. llenuingof Birmingham, la., biother of Mrs. Whitfield, ould not eousent to this provsit ion and insisted that Clark 1 ( \ I 1 1 . I I to \ I *1 ? ivj uuiucui moro limn thousand persons witnessed 0 growsomo tragedy, among honi were many women and lildrcu. isaster In Sicily Not Exaggerated. :a Giving Up Its Dead?50') lie lies Recovered ?Storm Still Raging. Rome, Sept. '27.- Advices re^ ived from Sicily this evening io\v that the tempest that work 1 such damage in that island is ill raging. Details of the storm r> o illtiply the number of deaths, n the cast coast Ji70 bodies have 3eii recovered and the sea eon. nucs to develop corpses which ere swept down by the torrents oil) the interior. It is estimated int 5U0 bodies have already been covered. Three hundred lives ore lost atrModica. The churchi there are idled with dead and c cemeteries are wastes of mud, ndering the interment of the bo i s of tho victims impossible, ilvage operations continue, oops and peasants working withit intermission. .\irly One Million Pensioners 011 lioll. Washington, Sept. 2s.? The nual report of the commissioner pensions, Eugene F. Ware, ado public today, shows that tho unhcr of names on tho pension lis is still under tho million ark, despite a net gain of 5,732 lisioncrs since 1898. The total rollmont July 1, last, 999,440, ainst 997,735 last year. The tal comprises 738,809 soldiers d 200,037 widows and depend ts. Tho aggregate includes 4,15 pensioners outside of tho nitcd States. Terrilie Rains in Texas. Houston, Texas, Sept. 27.? uring the past twelvo hours ere has heen a territic rainfall or tho whole of south and a por n of cast Texas which has done eat damage to tho open cotton, idled away innumerable small id many big bridges, drowned tllo and caused other destruc?n -<*? ?> OKS LI K K IIOT CAKKS' ' The fastest selling article I ivo in my store," writes drugst C. T. Smith, of Davis, Ky., is Dr. Kind's Now Discovery for nnsumption, Coughs unci Colds, realise it always euros. In my x years of sales it has never faill. I have known it to save sufrors from Throat and. Lung disises, who could get 110 litlp from ictors or any other remedy." [others rely on it, best pliysians proscribe it, and Crawford ros., and .1. 1'. Msekoy & Co. 1 ranteo satisfaction or refund rice. Trial bottle? troe. Hog. /.es, 50c and $ 1.