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NEW SPRING Special Bargains are being offered in every department of our store. Come and get your share. I Kilt lt I HM-: MURDER IN ATLANTA Young CJirl Lured, to Death In Factory Basement* (Atlanta Constitution, 28th.) Lured, at the dead of night, Into the darkness of the National Pencil factory, on South Forsyth street, Mary Phagau. a beautiful girl of 14, was assaulted Saturday, choked to death and her skull crushed. Her body was lowered from the first floor through a cubby hole Into the basement. It was discovered at 4 o'clock Sunday morning, several hours after the crime had -been com mitted. She lay unidentified until daybreak, while her father and mo ther anxiously awaited her return. She was finally Identified by a girl chum. One suspect ls under arrest. He is Newt Lee, negro night watchman of the factory building, who found the body and notified police head quarters. He stoutly maintains In nocence. Detectives helleve he was Implicated In the crime. A confes sion from him ls expected to lead to the girl's slayer, or slayers. Mary Phagan was an employee tn the pencil factory, but had resigned last Thursday. She was the daughter of Mrs. J. W. Coleman, of 146 Lind say street. Her mother was pros trated with; ?rief,. Sunday morning, and although physicians worked over her throughout the day, her condi tion was precarious last night. Two notes were found. near the body. Although they purport to have .been written by the dead girl, the handwriting has not been recognized as hers. It resembles that of the im prisoned night watchman. The the ory or detectives ls that both were written to mislead the police. One note w?s penciled on an or der blank of the factory, while, the second was written on ordinary tab let paper. Neither note was signed. The pretty victim was first choked into insensibility, then beaten upon j the head with a blunt Instrument, presumably a lead pipe found near j her body. Two strips of her torn underclothing were found knotted ? around her throat. A 6-foot rope j was looped around the neck. The.! slayers evidently used this to lower her body Into the basement. She was horribly bruised and lacerated upon the face. Both eyes were blackened and swollen. The hands and fingers were distorted, showing the agony In which she had died. She was attired in a fresh summer frock Of pink, trimmed In lace, and wore silk stockings and slippers. A hig bow of baby ribbon was caught In the single strand of her hair, arranged in girlish fashion down the back. The clothing was torn and bloody. Her pink parasol was found near the cubby hole through which the body had been lowered. A mlsslug shoe end a bloody handkerchief were found in a trashplle near the boiler in the basement. Following an In vestigation by members of Coroner Donehoo's staff tho body was re moved to tho Bloomfield undertaking establishment on South Pryor street. An Inquest will be held to-day. Detectives are searching for a trio of men said to have been seen with Miss Phagan Saturday night about 10 o'clock. . Mystery Still Unraveled. Atlanta, April 29.-Desperately striving to force tho confession that he is the murderer of Mary Phagan, third degree experts of police head quarters labored until midnight Mon day with John M. Cant, the young book-keeper arrested In Marietta yesterday afternoon on the direct charge of murder. He stoutly pro tests Innocence. "I was at home Saturday night by 10 o'clock-In bed and asleep." His sister, Mrs. P. C. Terrell, with whom he lived, told detectives Sun day night: "Mr. Gant left here a month ago for California. I haven't seen him since. He has not been hereat any time within the past four weeks. Monday afternoon, however, she told a reporter -for the Constitution that Gant had been at her home Sat urday and Sunday nights. She also admitted having told the detectives a story to the contrary. "I knew they were detectives-I lied. John was here Saturday night. He was here Sunday night, too. I didn't want the detectives to know lt. though." Five Arrests Made Monday. Developments In the horrible mys tery cairne thick and fast Monday. Ar rest followed arrest. Five were made in all. Three were made Mon STYLES IN CLO THE SI You'll Be Welcome. Visitors cordially welcomed to this store any time. Come early and yea will see the prettiest Uno of Spring Goods over shown in thia 'town. lt, will pay you to make your spring purchases here. Don't fail to seo our lines in pat terns in Toile Do Nord Ginghams. This is a high quality in seasonable Dress Goods. ^ If it is good Percales you aro look ing for, see the Maryland Brand the best grade of Percales in tho S.C?RT FORGER CAUGHT IN GEORGIA. Slick Artist Operated All Over South ern States in Years Past. Washington, Ga. April 27.-Henry M. Thornton, to use his most recent alias, who is in jail i\ere awaiting indictment by the grand jury for passing bad checks, has been sought for more than a year by the Burns detective agency. He was traced to this city by Defective O'Connell. As he was preparing to victimize Repre sentative Howard for $900, he was trapped by Howard and H. N. Ran dolph. His most recent exploit'was to- de fraud President Echols, of the Valley National Bank, Staunton, Va., on a forged letter written on the letter head of a legal firm In Charleston, S. C. Thornton made a practice of finding out the close friends of his Intended victims and then framing : up a letter of Introduction from 1 them. In 1904 he operated In Geer- ; gla and Alabama. As evidence of ' his nerve, he secured $25 from Rep resentative Howard that year on a forged check and wrote a letter in his office and on his stationery, with which the latter defrauded J. How ard Perdue, of Birmingham, Ala., for $50, and Sayre & Sayre, of Mont gomery, tor $100. I An official of 'the Lowry National . Bank ls expected to appear before the grand jury here to testify to the forgery of Henry M. Davis' name on two cashier's checks, which Thorn ton's attempt to cash led to his un ! doing. Advertised Mail. The following ls a list of letters remaining uncalled for in the Wal halla post office for the week ending April 28th, 1913: Cooper, Mrs. Lou; Elliott, Miss Ruebie; King, J. H.; Phillips, Mrs. Jane; Rather, Mrs. Llllia. When calling for the above please say they were advertised. E. M. Sloan, Postmaster. Hani to Please. Grocer: "What was that woman complaining about?" Clerk: "The long wait, sir." Grocer: "And only yesterday she was kicking about the short weight. You can't please some people." day. The first of these was the tak- , ing into custody of Leo M. Frank, president of the pencil factory. His detainment was more in the nature of an lr ?restlgation. After an hour's Interrogation he was released. j Circumstance has woven a strong web of suspicion around Gant. First, I his story of having slept Saturday and Sunday nights In the Linden ; street home, and the contradiction | to detectives by his sister are dam- j aging. He admits having visited the factory building Saturday, but says he went only to obtain a pair of shoes left in the place. Cant is a former employee of the pencil plant. He was a book-keeper connected with the office force. Ad mitting that he was an intimate ac quaintance of the slain girl, he de clares, however, that he had not seen her since he left the concern. Say Negro Wrote the Notes. Three handwriting experts who Tuesday compared the notes found near the girl's body In the factory basement with notes written by Lee after his arrest, at the instigation of the city detectives, are positive that the same hand )>enned them all. The experts made a microscopic examination of these notes and are unanimous in declaring that the same person was the author of them all. Only one question now puzzles the detectives-did Lee murder the girl himself or did he undertake to 'Ms pose of the girl's body and to shield some one el Gant Transferred to Jail. Judge George L. Bell Tuesday af ternoon ordered J. M. Gant, charged with murder in connection Witn the death of Mary Phagan, turned over to the sheriff. Gant's attorney ar gued In habeas corpus proceedings before Judge Bell that Gant was be ing subjected to the third degree by the city detectives and police and that they had no authority to hold i1 ni In police station on a State war rant. Judge ?ell then ordered Gant turned over to the sheriff and trans ferred to the tower. Judge Gober,, a relative of the accused, who has been retained as Gant's counsel, said this was perfectly satisfactory to him. THING, DRESS G "ORE OF J country. Wo have a large assort ment of this splendid goods. We have a full stock of Storm Serges, in Cream, Black and Blue. In Hosiery and Gloves we can fit you up as well as if you were in the large department sto:es of the East. Kuli lino of Silk Hosiery and Long Silk Gloves. Wo have the largest lino of Ladles' and Children's Parasols in upper Carolina. Como and select a nice ono before warm weather sets in. Beautiful assortment of tho latest designs in Ribbons-all widths and En, BRYAN BROUGHT NO NEW IDEA. Admits Right to Har, Hut Urges EUiiiination of Discrimination. Sacramento, Cal., April 28.-A day of conferences between Secretary Bryan and Governor Johnson and members of the California Legisla ture over proposed antl-allen land laws ended to-night when the confer ence adjourned to await replies to ?messages sent to Washington to night by Mr. Bryan. The impression prevailed here when the conference adjourned that the resolution of the majority load ers 'previously announced to enact a bill specifically debarring "allens in eligible to citizenship" from owing lands In California remained un changed, although Mr. Bryan advised strongly against such action. Gover nor johnson indicated this in a brief address to the conference. He de clared California's right to follow the lead of other States In framing the land bill was unquestioned and said such action now seemed assured. "I have presented the President's views as I understand them," de clared Mr. Bryan to the conference just before lt adjourned. "To-night 1 shall submit to him the. further questions you have asked me, calling attention to the statutes of Washing ton and Arizona, and I shall be pre pared to-morrow, I hope, to give you his answer. "California In the fullness of her right as a State may enact a rigid land law barring Orientals from ownership, but such action would be against the earnest wish of the na tional administration." This is the substance of the mes sage William Jennings Bryan, Secre tary of State and personal represen tative of President Wilson, delivered to-day to a secret conference attend ed by Governor Johnson, Lieut.-Gov ernor Wallace and the 120 members of the California Legislature. Secretary Bryan arrived In Sacra mento at fi o'clock this morning. With his consent plans were laid for an immediate hearing, and shortly after ll o'clock the first session of tho conference 'began. Until the doors of the assembly chamber were closed and locked Secretary Bryan refused to give an inkling of his mes sage to any one, and even at the con ference he spoke only after legisla tors had explained fully the public demand for allen land legislation that brought about the present situ ation. No New Theory. Those who expected Secretary Bryan to expound a new theory of State rights were disappointed, as were those who expected predictions of war. Advice, In the name of President Wilson, was all Bryan had to offer, mid tho paramount question ls whether ?neb advice will over come the previously announced de termination of the Progressive Re publican majority to enact an anti alien land-holding law along Unes al ready agreed upon. Secretary Bryan reaffirmed the State's rights to act In a manner it saw flt, but suggested several Sub stitutes for the passage of a bill re stricting allens "ine'lgible to citi zenship," basing his reasons on the broad foundation of public policy. Briefly, these substitutes in the or der In which they were suggested are as follows: 1. Delay immediate action and al low the State Department to try to accomplish the ends desired by means of a new treaty with Japan. 2. Delay immediate action and ap point a commission to investigate the subject of alien land ownership, and act In conjunction with the President in securing relief. 3. Enact a law similar to the stat ute of i ?linois, which permits aliens to hold land for a period not exceed ing six years, and applies alike to all aliens. 4. Enact a law similar to the ex isting statute governing land owner ship in the District of Columbia, which ls a general law applying to all allens. Many Faint When Lovers Leap. Antwerp, April 26.-The lovers who commRted Suicide so tragically yesterday from the clock tower of Notre Dame cathedral - clasping hands and leaping to the ground, 180 feet below-were natives of Antwerp and belonged to well known families. The girl was Alice Peters, and the young man Elie Walkow. Many of the hundreds who witnessed the sui cide fainted. ?ODS Ai D FINE ._OL _ J. S. C colors. Tho ibices are right and the p?tte e titlest. i i Hui line of All-Over Laces and Hnhroiderles. Oxi-'ids for Everybody. Kv styles In Oxfords for men, w -men aud children. Wc Min- the ladles to call and ins; our Spring offerings In Regina Oxl'. !'? i is a fine, comfortable foot I and la among our latest arr Pb line is considered one of iii- lappl st that can bo bought In any market. w ?KW.V?? SPRING PRESBYTERY MEETING. Ses*, io i nt Westminster Was Plens ! and Profitable One, Piedmont Presbytery met for its regular spriiu1 session at the West minster Presbyterian church on Tues day overing, Aipril 15, at 8 o'clock. There waje present ll ministers and 25 rul rta elders, Ai tho request of the moderator, W. P. Nesbitt. Rev. Daniel P. Jun kin prewhed the opening sermon. Rev. V M. Alkina was elected mod eraioi ;<nd W. M. Propst temporary clerk As roui m las loners to the General Assembly, to meet In Atlanta, Ga., In May, Roy, VV. H. Mills, ot Clemson College and Capt. J. Miles Plckens, of Pendleton, .vere chosen. Rev. ?il.. R. Kirkpatrick, who had been stor of the Seneca church, was di missed to Charleston Presby- : tery, cum Rev. F. P. Vaughan, who ; has been pastor of the churches at t Richi? v : ano Fair Blay, waa dis misneti tb Rathol Presbytery. Rev W. H. Frazer, of the First church nf A?ioeison, was elected trus tee of ? ivtdson College; Rev. G. M. Wilcox, of the Walhalla church, a trustee f Chlcora, and W. P. Ander aon, ,i .Il Ballenger ?nd W. H. M1118 truster pp succeed themsolvea of the Preshx but College ot South Caro lina at i'm.um. ; The -mntribntiona to both home ard forefg'n, missions were consider-; ablj large) than ever before In the histor) ot the Presbytery, reaching , the tram Pf ^' .322 for foreign mis- : sions. The Presbytery requested J. JL. Sherrard, A. Bramlett, D. L. Norns, W. C. Hughs and H. C. Townsend 'to serve as the ipreabyterial laymen's missionary committee. Tho following resolution was ad opten cotice rh tug Chlcora College: "Th it Piedmont Presbytery suggest to the board ot trustees of Chlcora College to consider tho removal of Chlcora College to Clinton to a site contiguous to the Presbyterian Col lege of South Carolina." Seneca was chosen as the place of the fall meeting, and the time was fixed as September 23, at 8 p. m., but an adjourned meeting will be held on May 27th at ?the Central church, Anderson, to receive, examine and license D. W. Dodge, who has ac-. cepted a call to that church. Presbytery enjoyed a pleasant and profitable seaslon, and though there were differences of opinion freely ex pressed in debate, there were no evl dencea of bittrness or atrlfe. Among the pleasant incidents in the Presbytery was the presentation for the gavel belonging to the Pres bytery, of a sterling silver plate, by the Plckens and Calhoun families, with this Inscription: "From the cedar under which Gen. Andrew Plckens died, August 11th, IS 17-patriot, soldier, statesman, | Christian. Presented to Piedmont Presbytery by T. M. Kelley, April 15, 1910." . These two famlllea are descendants of Gen. Plckens. Presbytery also passed resolutions commending Gen. Plckens for having marked with a [memorial stone the site of the first building of the Ho newel 1-Keo wee church, now known as the "Old Stone Church,'" and W. P. Anderson for (lie very active and efficient help he had rendered in the raising of the $200,000 endowment fund for the colleges. Alb-Day Singing at Double Springs. There will be an all-day singing at Double Springs church (Oconee) on tho second Sunday in May. The pub lic is cordially Invited to come; es pecially al' tsingers and lovors of mu sic. Cdr.te one, como all, and bring your books a id well-filled' baskets. Several leaders In music are expected to be presrnt. Pales in the Stomach. 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Come and se lect one of your liking before they aro picked ovor. esfminstc MRS. LAURA NICHOLSON DEAD, j Waa Native of Oconee, Hut Resident I of Anderson for Years. (Anderson Mail.) Mrs. Laura E. Nicholson, widow of the late Rev. Andrew Plckens Nicholson, of this city, died at her , home on Society street Friday morn- , lng at 2.30 o'clock in her 78th year. Mrs. Nicholson was known and loved by all the older persons In the city, and her death causes sorrow in a large circle. She was a native of Anderson county, the daughter of William and Mary Todd, and early in life united with the Bethel Presbyterian church In the neighborhood of which she was reared, the date of her birth be ing December 16, 1835. She mar ried MT. Nicholson on the 16th of , December, 1863, and after he had served as pastor at Midway, Mount Zion and Slabtown churches, they came to Anderson in 1887. Of the six children, two died in infancy and one in March, 1911. The surviving children are: R. E. Nicholson, Wm. P. Nicholson, Judge of Probate, and Mrs. Jennie Werner. - The late Mr. Nicholson was a native of this coun ty, a graduate of John L. Kennedy's school and of Davidson College and of the Columbia Seminary. He was a Ullin wini ?tewui httrh ,*r? *Kf? ?<M!ECil? of his church, and through his long and useful ministry and useful and successful ministry had the blessing of a helpmeet who was a lovely and consecrated Chris* tlan character. The funeral services were held at 10.30 o'clock Saturday morning at ?t'id home, conducted by Rev. Dr. W. H. Frazer, of the First Presbyterian church. There are many friends of the de ceased in Oconee county who will 'earn with deep regret of the death of this good woman. The account as published above ls slightly Incorrect as to the place of birth of the dec?as ed, she having been born in the Oconee Station section of Oconee, be ing a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Todd, who for many years resided In Oconee. She was a sister of the late John W. Todd and Mrs. Hiram Cowan, both of the Oco neo Station section. Her husband, the late Rev. A. P. Nicholson, was also a,native of this county, being a son of the late Plckens Nlcholsor, land was a brother of Milton Nicho - son, of Whitewater. Bounty Land laicals. Bounty Land, April 28.-Special: Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Hughs, of Wal halla, visited at tho Davis home yes terday. Miss Bertie Smith spent Thursday night with her sister, Mrs. John R. Heller, at Fair Play, and attended .the closing exercises of the school at that place. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Wright are re joicing over the arrival of a son on tho 26th. Elijah Olillson, of Pine Mountain, was In the community a short while last week. Mrs. Oillison.and chil dren will spend a few days v/ith Mrs. J. M. Olillson. Misses Mary and Beulah Berry have closed their schools near Green ville and at Simpsonville, respective ly. The former ls at home and the latter is expected to-day. Miss Ora Bagwell accompanied Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Woolbrlght to ('lc H cou Thursday. Mrs. J. E. Pickett and children loft Friday for Sandy Springs and thence to Clemson, their future home. T. C. Cary spent the week-end with O. H. Doyle. They went to Walhalla Saturday, the latter at tending the teachers' association. D. A. Perritt returned from Green ville Saturday. J. D. McMahan has also returned, United States Court having adjourned. W. C. T. U. Approve Grape Joice. Ogden, Utah, April 27.-Utah members of the W. C. T. U. today Informed Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan that his "diplomatic dinner" was to their liking. Mrs. E. E. Shephard, State president, and a delegation of White Ribboners, representing the State organization, met the Secretary at the railway sta tion. After presenting Mr. Bryan with a monster bouquet, Mrs. Shep hard formally thanked him for his course and praised his courage. There was a large crowd to meet Secretary Bryan, who declined to dis cuss his mission to California. r ARRIVED AT ? Our Motto "First Class Goods and Honest Prices." ir, S. C, VETERANS TO ANDERSON NEXT. Grout Occasion Closed at Aiken* Cen. Teague He-elected.. Aiken, April 2 4. -The grand pa rade here this afternoon at 5.30 o'clock, with probably 1,000 Confed erate Veterans, Sons of Veterans, officers and lady attendants marching ? in review to the stirring strains of BeardeU's big Augusta band, might be said to have practically brought to a close the 1913 reunion o' the South Carolina division, United ' afederate Veterans, in session here yesterday and to-day. , As a matter of fact, numbers of the veterans and other visitors, had made their departure earlier in the day, crowds left on the- evening trains, ?nd by mid-night at least half of the crowd making merry here for the past two days had left the city. However, the reunion did not offi cially terminate until the conclusion of the grand ball, given this evening at the Titanlan Hall, in compliment to the visiting ladles. The Veterans and Sons of Vete rans held business sessions yesterday morning, the former in the theatre, the latter in the Titanlan Hall, new and routine business being trans acted. Gen. Teague Again'Honored. Wnen It came time for election of officers,. Con. B. Hammett: Teague was placed In nomination for re-elec tion as commander of the division? Gen. U. R. Brooks took the chair,, a nd by acclamation the division's <beIov?.<* ' commander was re-elected. Gen. Teague's resumption of tho chair was received with prolonged applause, to which he responded most graciously, thanking his com rades for the honor, and assuring them that when they thought he had outlived his period of usefulness he would most cheerfully relinquish the office to some other. At the suggestion of some one that the convention consider the- place of the next State reunion, Col. Reed, of Anderson, presented to the conven tion a most hearty invitation from the Electric City to make that place reunion headquarters next spring. The invitation was received and ac cepted with many cheers. In thank ing Anderson for u^." invitation, Gen. U. !t. Brooks stated tl at he was eon Gdent that Anderson wu;ld be equal to the occasion and tntertatn the veterans right royally. This afternoon at 5.30 o'clock was formed the column for tl e grand pa rade and review. Lieut, .las. H. Haw kins acting as chlof ma* sha! for the occa^'on; Capt. J. M. Richardson and L. C. b*>one, assistants. The olumn formed, dressing to the left with head stationed at the, sout1". ?vest corner of Main and Barn well streets, facing east. First came the police corps of the city of Aiken, followed by tho parade marshals on horseback. Third was Gon. Teague and his staff, with the official ladies. Fourth came the veterans, followed by the Sons of Veterans, the rear be ing brought up by the Boy Scouts. At the order to march the column doubled upon itself, twice executing the column right, and proceeded down Main street to the northeast corner of Main and Park avenue, there executing column left and con tinuing to the park of the Confede rate monument, where were aligned the Daughters and school schlldren to distribute flowers and laurels to the veterans. Circling the park the formation marched in review before a stand erected for the occasion and occupied by Gen. C. Irvine Walker and others. Tho formation was then disbanded. The parade was the most impres sive and spectacular feature of the reunion. Through long lanes of cheering people, slowly moving ve hicles and waving banners, with showers of, bouquets, the veterana proudly marched. Coughs and Consumption. Coughs and colds, when neglected, always lead to serious trouble of the lungs. Tho wisest thing to do when you have a cold that troubles you ia to get a bottle of Dr. King's New Dis covery. 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