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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Cherry Txerien Mast Pay.
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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.
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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
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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
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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....
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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
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sins, instead of languishing in jail
as he now is."
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C. T. Smith, of Davis, Ky.,
"is Dr. King's New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs and Colds,
because it always cures. In my
six years of sales it has never failed.
I have known it to save sufferers
from Throat and Lung diseases,
who could get no help from
idoctors or any other remedy."
Mothers rely on it, best physicians
prescribe it, and Crawford
Bros., and ,). h\ Mackey & Co.
guarantee satisfaction or refund
price. Trial bottles free. Reg.
sizes, 50c and $ 1. **