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Victim Was a Little FourYear-Old Negro Girl?Tbe Act of A Drunkon Brute. vecial to The State. e Spartanburg, Sept. 12. ?News 8 reachod here of an assault in ^ reenvillo last night on a colored rl 4 years old and the accused . . . 11 mug white man is now in jail at is place. 1 e It is said that the girl, whose ^ mie is unknown, was last night ^ und unconscious and later the ^ >ung man was found asleep tar by. His name is Robeit unnells. The story is that Gun- . ii ills passed the yard where the tl wus playing and promising to ve her some fruit carried her to ^ e woods and accomplished his irpose. When found she was in ^ i unconscious condition and sufring terribly. The police and sheriff were no- c tied and a search was begun. ^ bout 11 o'clock last night Gun- ^ jus was touml in an old mill c lilding, 100 yards from the scene : the assault. He wii6 arrested ^ id carried to jail. The negroes 3ard of the affair today and this ^ ternoon there was great exciteent. To avoid troublo Sheriff ilreath tonignt brought Gunnells i Spartanburg, whore he is now i jail. j The evidence against Gunnells is lid to be conclusive. Ho is the ^ m of Sergt. O. 8. Gunndlls,who >r a long time has been a highly jsnected officer of the Greenville * I olice force. Young Gunnells as under tbe influence of whiskey hen found asleep, and it is suposed that he was in the saline conition when the crime was comlilted. The locality of tbe crime was in Vest End Greenville and the deed 'us committed about sundown riday evening. tenet to Preside in Lexington For Tillman Trial. Columbia, Sept. 12.?Gov. leyward this morning commisioned former Judge W. C. Benet s a special judge to hold court at [ershaw, for the week beginning looday. The appointment is lade because of the sickness of udge G. W. Gage, who is the egular circuit indge. Two weeks go, Chief Justice Pope appointd Judge D. A. Townsend to pre. ide at the Kershaw and Lexingon courts and the criminal busi698 of Kershaw has been wound p with Judge Townsend presid. ngThe Fairfield court opens on teptembor 21 however, and Judge tawnsend is due there on that late, this being his regular siting. Today Col. U. R. Brooks, lerk of the supreme court, re. eived a letter from Chief Justice tape, asking him to ascertain vhether or not Judge Benet would iccept the appointment to succeed ludge Toamsend. Judge Benet has accepted and ho appointmont wa9 accordingly nade. This moans that Judgo Benot will hold the Lexington court in itead of Judge Townscnd, at which J. H. Tillman will be tried. The mills in New England are to resume operations, the supply of cotton being sufficient. # Florida Swept Ry Cyclone |Yom ' ? f o a s d J s Founder?Fiueapplo ! Shedb Blown Away and Or/. i Aarc ango uroves Damaged. ^ fi Jacksonville, Flu., Sept. 13.? toginning Friday inornine on the ast coast, and Saturday morning ? n the west, and lasting 24 hours ~^C t each, South Florida has been | isited by the strongest cyclone % ert a the history of that part of the t^lou Itate. At Miami the wind attain- reco , ... . a a velocity ot ti5 miles per hour, i""1" ?he car pbcd of the East Coast Cl,un tail road was lifted from its foun- cour lattODs clear of the cars that were occu mder it and demolished, not oven ^ cratching the cars. The tin roof '"er Qg of the Belcher block was torn * nd blown ucross the street, com- ner' detely demolishing the front of the was milding on that side. Great dam- w*"c ge was done to plate glass win . aSre lows. Largo trees were uprooted mc? ind several small houses were ne8t* down down, but no one was hurt. ^eeD several small boats were sunk in lD? ' he bay. Tassengers on the East ll0Ui Doast train which arrived in the re^ :ity to-night reported many c1^01 wrecks along the shore, between Juro Miami and Hobo's Sound. Among cou* hem is one four-masted and one ^av' hree-masted schooner and several onei nnaller vessels. Nonok of their 00w tames is known. One of the Stand- Juro ird Oil Company's large steamers a^'? with two barges, is beached near ^ ^ Boynton. The crew of tifteeu men 111 ari were saved. Bodies of two unKnown .rsfcite men drifted on the beach near Boynton. The storm did not extend as fat l'10 south as Key West, and did no W01 damage as far north as St. Aug- lno ustine. Trees and small houses w^lt were blown down at Cutler. At ^'?( Stuart, 15 acres of pineapple ot^1< sheds were blown down, as well ^ar as tho saw mill and sheds across 111(11 the river and the building occupi- ^0I ed by tho postoflicc at Wa Wa. *'10 Tho racing yacht No. 23, was 006 blown up into tho woods, where mui she now lies high and dry. The residence of Captian McNeil was Tra blown from its foundations at Stuart. At Jupiter tho wind blew 75 miles per hour, with the ram (*?*( falling in torrents. 1 Taking a day in crossing the peninsular tho storm struct Tampa Saturday morning, soon attaining . a velocity, of 70 n.ilan nnr hnnr tf v ? - - ?rw* ' Jic1 anil rnged al! day, the roofing of the Almena & De Soto Hotels ^ was blown off. Several cigar fac- ^ tories were badly damaged at Ybor City, and several buildings wore unroofed. In Tampa, the m0 Hampton block was unroofed, and six small buildings were blown down. No loss of life is reported. A BOl'* WILD RIDE FOR LtL LIFE- on< With family around expecting on him to die, and a son riding for *r0 life 18 miles, to get Dr. King's Hoj Now Discovery for Consumption, | ter uougDB ana uoius, w. 11'Brown, \y, of Leovillo. 1ml , endured death's h(J1 agonies from asthma ;but this wonderful medicine gave instant relief ?* and soon cured him. He writes: the "I now sleep soundly every he night." Like marvelous cures of In Consumption, Pneumonia, Bron- on chitis, Coughs, Colds and Grip prove its matchless merit for all Throat and Lung troubles. Guar- " anteed bottles 50c and 91.00. foi Trial bottles free at Crawford mi Bros. J. F. Mackoy & Co. and Tli Funderburk drug store. sft; ^ thi OA8TO X*. I^L. l'?. sMn th. The /.iod You Have Always Bought v 1 $ ig White Man Sin S*nt Up For Life. m Williams Had Slain His Fa rother-in-Law?Korshaw is t Dealing With Manslayers Fearlessly. l :ial to Tbo State. liv linden, Sept. 11.?Another 10 f ict of guilty of murder, al- Ch gh it bo accompanied with a tio mmendation to mercy, can be fth? od to the credit of Kershaw ity. For the past three days ^iai t of ironnral snRuinnn has Imnn tl'l "* e> ? pied in the trial of Aaron he iams, a prominent white far- the of this county, for killing or< >rother in-law, Wra. S. Gaidon March 1, 1902. The case tried last June a year ago, at hr< sh time the jury could not hit e on a verdict. In empanelthe jury in this case last Wed- 1'u ay, one of the jurors who had dei i sworn in the case before tuk- Ki bis place on the panel an- Kai iced to the irt that he was ted to the prisoner. The soli asked the court to stand the of r aside, but the defendant's die isel contended that the juror an' ng been accepted by the pris- dis and sworn, it was too late f01 for the State to object to the r's serving. The juror was 8hi wed to remain on the panel, hu , . ? . . . n?i avmg developed tnat a Kinsi of the prisoner was one of jurors selected to try his case, prediction became general ; this relationship would affect an verdict and that a mistrial ^h ild be the result. The juror ved to be a man of character, 0f > could riso above the ties of vi 3d, and he agreed with tho 11 ln sr jurors that his relative, f)r on Williams, was guilty of y, rder, and should bo confined f,.( tho remainder of his life in State penitentiary. The pris- Qj r put up the usual plea of all ar rderers, that of self-defense, w although his counsel, Messrs. \ *ono Blakeney and W. D. 0f ntham, made ingenious and t;, 3 arguments in support of this (0 ense, the jury would not ac- pj t it. sc ?he State was represented by 0f icitor Thurmond and M. L. itb, Esq. At 11 o'clock to- w ht the jury rendered their vor- rj t as above recorded. et Varon Williams makes the jj, xl young white man who has ^ in sentenced for murder from ^ i county within the past six ^ nths. F. P. C. p More Bloodshed in Saluda. a] p Batesburg, September 13.? st night, at 12 o'clock, some ^ 3 killed Stenson Wise, colored, ^ the public highway, leuding ^ tkl? ~1 4.^ A4 Mf.l 'Ill IU1S IU iUUUlll If ' jj g. There seems to be a mys- ^ y surrounding the killing. Eitson says Wise called at his use at 10 o'clock to get a bottle shoe polish) which he had left ire. When ho left the house ? was accompanied by a woman, c a few moments ho heard some * o say, "Hello! Stonse Wise!" ^ d then a pistol shot rang out. j hen Watson reached Wise he y iind him shot through the heart, t d ho expired in a few minutes, r 10 woman, who was with Wise, t ys two white mon mot them in c o road, and ouo of them stop- t d hor from the side of Wise, r th whom she was walking, and ( 0 other fired the pistol, which ] 1 led the negro. ] % ;ty Thousand Christians Slain natical Turks (Jivo No Quarter to Women or Children ?Barbarism ltun Ma<l. Sofia, Sept. 12.?With the ur al of new and sensational reports the wholesale massacres of ristians in Macedonia tho situan hero is hourly becoming more ruling. If the latest messages, ich state that 00,000 Bulgarians re been slaughtered in the dis? ct of Okrida and Leren, shall confirmed, no doubt exists that i frovornmont will b? fnrn?il In lerthe mobilization of the army mediately. According to information flight by a courier to the rovo ionary paper Autonouiyo, a ce of Albanians, assisted by rkish rogular forces, acting unr orders direct from Yildiz osk, massacred the eutiro Bui rian Christian population of the :rida and Leron disti icts. Fearful descriptions are given the sights seen there, the sol irs slaughtering men, women d children in every direction, splaying a barbarism never be :e witnessed. The number of killed is not lfa/1 In tVin on n vinr' a iliQnnfolmu IVVVt IU vu> VVIU IVft O VHOj'UlV JlVOj t according to reports from aer sources, the total number of a victims will reach 60,000, STILL BURNING AND KILLING. Sofia, Sept. 13.?The Albanian id Turkish troops collected in o villnyet of Adrianople appears be pursuing their usual tactics burning and plundering the llagos and killing the peasants, stead of making an attempt to eak up the insurgent bands, cry littlo news is tiltoring through 0111 Monastir, but all reports ^rce that the position of the bristians is desperate. The Turks o making a clean sweep of the hole Bulgarian element. The lbauian soldiers in the villnyet Adrianople arc stated to be onrely beyond control. At Kasiiirsp.o. thn lnflno.ntinl hnvs mm ained to the officers of the excess committed by the troops. The Wccrs resented the criticism and ild the soldiers that the boys ere friends of the rovolutiona es, whereupon the soldiers burn1 the beys' farms. The Turks ive burned the villages of Amu ik and Erikler, in the district of osengrad. They beheaded 22 ulgarians at Almagki, in the resence of their families. Twelve lousand troops are assembled round Losengrad and engaged in illagingand burning the villages, 'he population everywhere i s eeing to the forests and moun-> lins. All the Turkish populaion in the district of LoBcnsrred ~ D as boen armed?even tho boys ave revolvers. FEARFUL ODDS A? AINST HIM! Bedridden, alona and destitute, iucb, in brief was tho condition if an old soldier by name of J. J. lavens, Versailles, O. For years io was troubled with Kidnoy dismso and neither doctors nor medcines gave him relief. At length te tried Electric Bitters. It put lim on his foot in short order and low ho testifies. 4 I'm on the road o complete recovery.*' Boston mrth for Liver anil Kidney rouhlos and all forms of Stomach ind Bowel Complaints. Only 50c. Guaranteed by Crawford Bros. J. b\ Mackey & Co. and Fundorhnrk Druggist.