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& hp*?, -n 5 v a j *- ~ \ . ' * Ste ^d?tt? ~ i - . l - " * " ^ 1f, - -nn, m i i m i | i shi.n wkfclklv. L A n 0 a S T E k. S. 0. O C T O B E r 8, 1902 ' -j- .. k8i aBI.mhIKH i?r9 " Happenings Id The State. As Chronicled by ' the Alert Correspondents of The Columbia Stato. OlN HOUSE BURNED. Catuden, Oct. 3.?The gin house of Mr. 8. L. Boy kin, who lires about 10 milos below Camden, was destroyed by fire Wednesday night, the fire origi nating in the engine room. Thirty-one bales of Gotten were burned. " OV. ICtrWABDV OTBNOeBAFHBB. '? Walterboro, Oct. 3.?Miss Alice N. Hsodersoo, a very charming and accomplished young lady ef this place, has been the lucky one to get the position as stenographer in the governor's office for the next two years. Capt. Mey ward made the announcement yesterday. AN UNKHOWN SPANIARD KILLED NBAS HAMPTdq, Hampton, Oct. 4.?The body of a white man was found this morning lying sear the Charleston and Western Carolina railroad track about one mile east of Varnrille. One arm was cut off and his skull was crushed at the base. He had been in and around V arnvll 1a fr?r th* 1 ant tan '1""" - ...w VMV wu UOJ O OU'4 WUB last aeon about dark Friday night. Ia conversation with some parties ha gave hia name, J. P. Gallardo, and claimed he was from Spain. A DESPERATE NEGRO IS AT LARGE. Sumter, Oct. 3.?Wednesday afternoon about 6:30 o'clock Policeman A. D. Ovvons was shot through the groin aud seriously wounded by Amos Singleton, a negro who escaped from the Florence county chaingang at 1 o'clock Tuesday morning. Singleton is a Sumter negro originally and his mother lives here now, but he has been living in Florence county for several years. About two and a half years ago he shot a white man in Timmonsville, for which he was tried, convicted and sentenced to the chaingang for five years. He had served out 22 months of his time when he escaped. SUDDSM DBATH OF A MAGISTRATE. Florence, Oct. 2.?W. W. Graham, magistrate at Cowards, this county, fell dead on Dargan etreet at midnight last night, it seems frem what can be gathered tbit Judge Graham has been for years more or less a sufferer from heart disease and that ailment caused his dsath last night. NDINO or AN UPKIQHT OABBBB. Chester, Oct. 4.?Capt. John 9r Wilson, the venerable probate Judge of Chester county, was found in his office yesterday about 12 o'clock in a helpless eonditien, having received a stroke of par* alysis some time during the morn* ing. He could talk, but very in. distinctly, and asked to be taken home. He sank rapidly and died last night after beiog unconscious for five hours. HOT SUPPER HOMICIDE. Laurens, Oct. 4.- There has been another negro homicide in tbia county, it, too, occurring at a hot supper in Hunter's township Hear Belfast. Bun Williams aod Jack Robinson engaged in a shoot ing scrape, with the result that Bun was mortally wounded, dying in a few hours afterward, and Jack is in jail, lie was shot twice, hut the wounds are slight. Bun was a bad negro and Jack shot him in self defense. This will be bis plea when the case ooroei to trial the third week of this month. There will be six other murder cases to corns up i with bis. W. L. T. Sounds Like A Fake. Story of a Chinaman Starving Himself to Death in Chicago. | Chicago, Oct. 4.?A Chinaman died at tbe Provident hospital today, a suicide by starvation, be 5- * * csumi, it is usciarea, a secret society had commanded him to die. The man was Wong Now, proprietor of a laundry. The coroner is investigating the case. Fer two months he refused to eat and gradually grew weaker until his case was hopeless. Two months ago an officer} found Now in his laundry ill. At j the command of some mysterious; secret band, Now afterwaids declared, he had eaten potash did not kill him, however, and the physicians said he would live. After two days Now still refused to eat and Dr. H. O. Jones was called to attend him. Dr. Jones, who speaks Chinese, managed to learn the man's history and cause i of his self inflicted starvation. I Now's friends were notified today that he was dying and 40 of them went to tbe hospital, hor two hours they chanted a death song, then arrayed him in a black cap and gown. Thus arrayed he died. Shun Fack, Now's uncle, ' notified the authorities that he would bury the man. None of A. - - + SI ' ~ me leiiow countrymen would discuss the case. Ten Bodies Found in Medical College. Indianapolis, ind., Oct. 4.? Sensational developments cane to light this afternoon in the investi gation of the wholesale graveyard robberies that have occurred in this vicinity during the last few months. Today detectives unearthed 10 bodies in the cellar of the Medical College ef Indiana. A gang of 10 negroes was arrested several days ago charged with the ghoulish work and their leader, Kufus Cantrell, since his arrest has confessed to many of the robberies and informed the authorities that others have been operating in cemeteries in this and adjoining counties, and that many of the robberies accredited to his following really have been committed by others. Shut Down -~No Coal. Newcastle, Pa., Oct. 0.?The Shenango Valley steel mill cloud down at midnight on account of inability to secure coal for the boilers. The plant employs 1,000 men. OUT OF DEATH'S JAWS"When death seemed very near from a severe stomach and liver trouble, that 1 had suffered with for years," writes P. Muse, Durham, N. C., "Dr. King's New Life Pills saved my life and gave perfect health." Best pills on earth and only 25c at Crawford Bros., and F. Mackey & Co's. drug store. * I ON TUESDAY - AND TUESDAY NIGHT: t lulf f b ' t fe we k Will UoUA AiiTk! ?? aai uui ' Annual FALL OPENING In Millinery, Dress Goods, Etc. i I i ? Miss Evans has returned from , the North alter spending weeks I posting herself. She has every-; thing in the latest Styles and Shapes. In ourJDress Goods and Notion Department, we have the A " " - nicest ana 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 you 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. -lucasta Irani k% * * I ' ' ^ Cherry Txerien Mast Pay. 6r? rhe Swindlors Expected to Fix . Up Their Case at This Week's ( United States Court at Greensboro. Special to The Observer. Greensboro, N. C., Oct. 4.? ["he United States Court which onvenes here Monday will be of inusual interest, because it is at , bis term tbat the defendants in he famous Amos Owons Cherry ?ree cases are expected to refund he money fraudulently obtained rom tho public in the celebrated windle. There is great interest n the outcome of this arrange- J ont, and Receiver Cowles is cx>ected to have a big amount on ^ innd to be distributed among . hose who were buncoed. It is ( aid that defendants are going to | int up a stiff plea of inability to aiso tho amount they secured # rom cherry tree buyers, but if hey depend on former leniency, a ( awyer who is interested in tho ^ :ase said today, they had just as 1 veil make up their minds to 'shell out" or go to the peniteniary. , I Like Tbe Cherry Tree Case. Another Endless Chain Plan Brings Promoters to Court. The Asheville Citizen of Thursday contained the following that may he of special interest to some in South Carolina: "What promises to he a parallel to the famous Owens cherry tree case, which has created much interest throughout the State, and where the identical fraudulent methods as in the cherry tree case were followed, is to stand for trial here next month in the United States court. "The case is known as the nap? kin ring case, which, it is claimed, was successfully worked in the Cherokee Indian reservation. The defendants are J. 13. Sherrill, J. S. Elmore and Lee J. Hall. There are three counts in the bill of indictment, all of which are of the same nature, i. e., for swind? ling and for using the United States mail for fraudulent purposes. The bill of indictment alleges that Sherrill, Elmore and Hall, at Bryson City, devised a scheme and artifice to defraud nfhati* nAi*unnQ K?? nflT^??in? ^ vvuv* |/vitA/UO UJ UUVI iUg tU IAKIIWU theso persons agents, respectively, for profit and reward, a preteDded association or concern uuder the name of. the Cherokee Napkin Ring company, and by inducing them to send and pay their monies respectively to the said Sherrill, Elmore and Hall, for the purpose of becoming agents and for the payment of certain napkin rings made by the eastern band of Cherokee Indians, represented to be of great value and the most beautiful souvenir of the children of the forest. "Upon the payment of $12 all agents were to receive a monthly salary of $20 for home correspondence work. The indictment alleges that all monies received by the promoters of this scheme was for personal gain. "Court opens November 17. it is not known what day this case will bo taken up. Criminal cases will bo called for trial from the counties in the Ashevillo division as follows: From liumcombo and Madison 011 the 17th and 18th of 1 November; from Yantey, Haywood and Swain on the 19th of NovemUr; from Henderson, Iransylvaniu and Jackson on the 20th of November; from Macon, (Graham, Clay and Cherokee on the 21st of November. 41 Judge .fames E. Boyd will preside." Mormons On The Defensite. They Protest Earnestly Against Being Accused of the Mur,1.... ..<? HI-.. Tl-l!i _ wet tn juiB x uiuzer m New York. Salt Lake City, Utah, October b. ?The seventy-second semi-anaual Conference of tho Church of Latter Day Saints is in session here and the otHcials are refuting in the most emphatic language the published statements that th6 murder of Mrs Pulitzer in New York was due to the Mormon doctrine of blood atonement. President Ben E- Rich, of the central States mission of the Mormon Church, who has just returned from the East, said: "The murder is magnified every day in the newspapers. They try to bring the blame for the crime upon the church. They say in flaming headlines that this murder resulted from the doctrines of the Morman Church. They say the Mormons believe in blood atone* ment. So do all Christian nations; they believe, or pretend to believe, in the atoning blood of Christ for tins. They say the Mor mons believe in another kind of blood atonement. Well we do to the sume extent that every Stute in the nation bolioves in it?that a man who sheds another man's blood shall have his own blood spilled by the law. "This we believe and nothing more. We do uot believe in strangling the criminal or executing him in the electric chair, but we believe that 'He who spi'ls man's blood . by man shall his blood be spilled,' and thank God there were enough in the Consti* tutional Convention of this State who realized the meaning of this to give the murderer the choice of being hanged or having his blood spilled by shooting if he had any regard for the teaching of God left in him." Continuing Mr. Rich said: "Some years ago a minister of a church in this city murdered two girls, carved them to pieces and burned their bodies in a furnace. Did the Mormons say he was following the doctrines of his church? No, they knew that if he had been following the teachings of his church he would never have done such a thing. And if Hooper Young had been following the teachings of the Mormon Church he would havs been out in the ulr^nla t<?1linrr tlm ujinlra/t rtf thftir "" """" 6 "?v?v? v. V"~? sins, instead of languishing in jail as he now is." 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