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SHOT HIM DOWN
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from Ambush While He Was
Riding Along the Road
IS FATALLY WOUNDED
Mr. J. B. Siias Assassinated Near the
\ Scene of a Fight He Had a Few
Weeks Ago Mith Mr. W. Hampton
Stogner, in Which the Latter Was
Mortally Wounded?:The Assassin
N Unknown.
A dispatch from Lancaster to The
State says J. B. Sims, a farmer of that
county* was found on Wednesday
lying face downward about three,
miles from Lancaster, with what is
believed fo be a mortal wound, hav
ing been shot from ambush. His
left side is filled with buckshot.
Rev. E. O. Thompson made the dis
covery' and at once summoned Dr.
TL G. Elliott, who attended the
wounded man. It is believed that
Iiis wound is fatal.
Sims' body was found almost at
the identical spot at which the dim-'
culty between Hampton Stonger and
nimself occurred on February 3,, last,
in which both men used their pistols,
Stonger receiving a wound which re
sulted in his death at a Chester hos
pital the following day. Sims, in the
?difficulty, escaped without injury.
Sims was tried for the killing of
Stogner at the last term of court, the
case resulting in a mistrial. There
is no clue to the assassin of Sims. .
CHANCE TO ELECT BRYAN
Says Editor Henry Watterson. The
Johnson Boom Is Too Late.
While in New York a fe wdays ago,
where he,dined with Mr. Bryan, Col.
Henry Watterson said: "Personally,
I have no doubt that Mr. Bryan will
he nominated at Denver, and I think
that we have a good chance to elect
liim. The movement in the interest
of Gov. Johnson comes too late add
from the wrong quarter. If the in
terests that are now urging his nom
ination had backed' me up when I
?advocated his candidacy ten months
ago he might have had a chance for
the nomination. But the Democrats
of New York in the present chaotic
condition cannot dictate to the ma
jority of the Democratic party." Col.
^Watterson said that Taft would be
nominated, by the Republicans.
EIGHT WERE EXECUTED.
Students Attempted to Assassinate
the President of Guatemala. ..
A dispatch from Mexico says stu
dents attempted to assassinate the
President of Guatemala on Wednes
day. The students were immediately
seized, and, without trial, eight of
them were executed. The squad of
cadets had been assigned from the
institute to act as an hororary guard
at the reception ?l Major William
Heinke, the new minister from the
United States.
The dispatches assert that as the
president entered the palace the stu
dents fired and Cabrera fell, blood
straming from several wounds. .
Soldiers seized the students and
wrenched the guns from them before
they could reload or use their clubs.
GOOD FISH STORY.
Dog Drowned by Big Trout in a
Fierce Struggle.
A small dog belonging to A. E.
Case, of Dayton, Wyo., was dragged
into Tongue river by a trout and
drowned. The dog accompanied
Case's little son on a fishing trip.
The boy hooked a fish large enough
to jerk the fishing rod into the water.
The boy sent the dog after it, but
the trout hauled the dog and pole
about until the dog was carried down
the rapids and drowned in sight of
his master;- The boy recovered the
pole and after a hard struggle landed
the trout, which weighed four pounds
DEADLY TYPHOID FEVER.
.An Augusta Family Stricken With
the Terrible Disease.
A dispatch says there is a small
?epidemic of a malignant form of ty
phoid fever in certain sections of
Augusta. Sunday morning, Mrs. K.
D. Sibley, widow of the late Chas.
Sibley, died at the home of her moth
?er, Mrs. Duncan. Just a week ago
her sister, Miss Duncan, died of the
same disease, and at this time Mrs.
Sibley's two little children and her
mother, iurs. Duncan, are seriously
lit of the same malady.
LOST CONTROL OF TRAIN.
Four Italians Were Killed When tho
Crash f ume.
Four Italians were killed outright,
one fatally injured, and died on the
train while en route to the Williams
port hospital, and four others prob
ably fatally injured in a wreck on a
log train on the LaQuinn lumber road
at Whalen, Pa., W ? iesday morning.
Failure of the reverse lever on the
engine allowed the train to run away.
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TRIED TO KILL THEM.
GREENWOOD MAN, AND WrFEHAD
CLOSE CALL.
While They Were Asleep in Bed the
Son of the Man Shot at Them at
Close Range.
A dispatch from Greenwood to The
News and Courier'says Butler Pinson,
known as "Bub,** is charged with
making an attempt to kill his father
and step-mother, Mr. and Mrs. B. P.
Pinson, as they lay asleep early on
Tuesday morning, firing both barrels
of a gun at them, and when only
about eight feet away from them.
That Mr. and Mrs. Pinson are living
to' tell how it happened is a miracle,
for the load of shot entered the head
of the bed, only a few inches above
their heads, and some of the shot
were found imbedded in the pillows,
on which their heads rested.
Mr. B. M. Pinson lives about a
mile anl a half southeast of Saluca,
and within about four hundred yards
of Siloam Church. He is a well-to-do
farmer, and is numbered among
Greenwood County's most substantial
citizens, he being a man of about 55
years of age.
"Bub," however, seems t? bear a
pretty, bad reputation, having lived a
very profligate life, living the greater
part of the time away from home.
Young Pinson's motive is unknown,
but his father, the elder Pinson, him
self thinks that the boy, knowing
that no one knew he was in this part
of the country, decided that he
would kill both himself and Mrs. Pin
son, and that he would then share
the estate with his brother, Richard,
being hard pressed for funds. Mr.
Pinson had only lately refused to
grant his request for money.
Young Pinson made his escape, but
Sheriff McMillan is making every ef
fort to catch him, and has sent out
the following description of Pinson
all over the country: "Arrest Butler
Pinson; charge, attempt to murder;
color, white, age twenty-six
years, height 5 feet, 7 inches, weight
160 pounds. Said to have missing
tooth, brown eyes and dark hair; full
face and clean shaven. Use caution."
WILD ELEPHANT NUISANCE.'
Hindustan Ha nxers Complain of Dam
age Done by Pachyderms.
'~";'""*' . ?.*.
At Calcutta, India, the Doors Plan
ters' Association has appealed to the
government for help in ridding the
the cohntry of wild elephants, whose
pranks are becoming intolerable.
Though no actual ''rogues'' are re
ported or loss of life, crops are said
to be trampled on, fences torn down,
roofs' pulled off, and many roads ren
dered impassable by the patrollng of
these mischievous pachyderms. The
most serious matter, however, is in
terruption of railway traffic, for the
brutes exhibit a queer predilection
for wandering on the line, which is
a narrow gauge, and therefore ren
ders the trains specially liable to de
railment should they meet an obsta
cle when running at night or round
curves in the day time.
APPEAL TO TEDDY.
Newspapers Ask Relief From the
Paper Trust Exactions.
The annual meeting of the Asso
ciated Press was held at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel in New York with an
exceptionally large attendance of
members from all sections of the
country on Tuesday. Aside from the
transaction of purely routine business
affecting the organization, the most
important action taken was the pre
senting and adoption of an address
asking the President and the Con
gress to "grant immediate relief
from the exactions of combinations of
paper makers." The assocation had
a banquet on Wednesday night at
which W. J. Bryan was the chief
speaker.
HEIRS OF GARRETSON.
Information Wanted of a Captain in
the United States Army.
The Charleston Post says Post
master W. L. Harris has received a
letter from Attorneys Lyon & Lyon of
Washington, D. C., asking for infor
mation about heirs of one Charles
Garretson, a captain in the United
States army, who died in Charleston
in 1871. The letter states that
it is very much to the interest of the
heirs that they should be known and
Postmaster Harris, desiring to con
tribute his services to the cause, will
be glad to receive any information in
the matter that he may be able to
forward to the Washington attor
neys.
INUNCTIONS PERMANENT.
Temporary Orders Issued by Justice
Gary Made Perpetual.
Charleston blind tigers will have
to behave themselves or go to jail.
The Supreme Court Tuesday evning
rendered decisions in S of the Char
leston dispensary injunction cases,
the temporary injunctions previously
granted by Associate Justice Gary be
ing in each case made permanent,
the opinion of the Court being writ
ten by Justice Gary. These are cases
additional to those in which perma
nent injunctions have already been
granted on the petition of the Attor
ney General.
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OBANGEBUI
BLOW AT TAFT.
Neglect Of Official Duty To Fur
ther Personal Ends.
,
LAID AGAINST HIM.
Civil Service a Byword?President
Roosevelt \'Kta Violation of For
mer Cherished Principle?A Scan
dal That Will Grow?Ambition of
Roosevelt.?Strong Men From Ok
lahoma.
By WILLIS J. ABBOT.
The split in the Republican party
over the nomination for the presidency
is by no means closing up. In the
United States senate the other day
Senator Hale made an attack upon
Secretary Taft for neglect of his offi
cial duties in order to advance his per
sonal political ambitions. "While the
name of the secretary of war was not
mentioned,- the senator from Maine
pointed out that the real head of the
army was never at his post and the
chief of staff was, in fact, performing
the duties of the secretary of war.
Curiously enough, the only senators
who came to the defense of Mr. Taft
were men of slight acquaintance and
short service in the senate.
It seems to be a fair prophecy now
that Taft will be nominated. Yet if be
is the scandal of it will become a very
material issue in the campaign. He is
secretary of war, and yet not for six
months has he been at b.'s desk in the
war department for three consecutive
days.
He is a member of the administra
tion of a president who made his en
trance upon politics as a civil sendee
reformer,, and yet every branch of the
federal service today is being employed
to compel the nomination of Taft.
He is the political pet and legatee of
a president who has talked much
about the influence of predatory wealth
upon politics, and yet the expenditures
made in behalf of Taft in this prelimi
nary campaign have exceeded any
thing known to American politics and
are estimated by the New,York World
as amounting to easily $750,000. Most
of this money has come from his broth
er, who is the largest owner of public
utility corporations in Cincinnati. Mr.
Charles P. Taft owns gas and electric
companies and a newspaper. George
B. Cox, the notorious boss of Repub
lican politics iu Cincinnati, has found
it to his Interest to form an alliance
with the Taft family notwithstanding
the fact that Secretary Taft bitterly
denounced him on the stump less than
two years ago. To secure the Cox sup
port for the Taft presidential ambition
the nominations for state offices In
Ohio were practically turned over to
Cox. As a result the most prominent
Republican newspapers in the state
save those owned by Charles P. Taft
have openly bolted the state ticket.
Yet in all probability Mr. Taft will
receive the Republican nomination for
the presidency. Thus far there has
been no serious setback to his ambi
tions, and only a few days ago the
Republican convention in New York,
while mildly commending Governor
Hughes, selected a delegation which
will be in effect for Taft The only
state which has definitely instructed
against him within the last week Is
Wisconsin, which gave its delegation to
La Follette, who is the best Democrat
lu the Republican party, but who has
no chance of nomination aud under
stands that fact.
The anti-Taft people are banking
upon the great number of contested
delegations from southern states. This
Is putting much trust upon a very slen
der reed. The probabilities are always
against the seating of a contesting del
egation. It is true that this was done
in the cases of Michigan and Nebraska
In the Democratic convention of 189C
aud thereby resulted in the nomination
of Mr. Bryan, but the evidence in favor
of the contestants then was over
whelming; and political conditions had
made the men in control <?f the major
ity of the convention ilotennined to
make their control complete-. II is im
probable that such a condition should
?vise again iu either party.
The President's Position.
My own jr.dgme::! is thai the Repub
'?:-.:n ut::::k: .? will be Tafi unless Pres
11 e:11 IJoosevel; permits the ??ulivelilion
n lie stampeded for liiuisolf and nc
epts i he nominal ioc ? hu- tendered. An U
j.'-ipus ?>:' thai ! wi-b i" quote two
triu mem* ma lv !?? i:i ili<* course of
asiui! i-otiver-a'.Son |.y men unac
luaiiitid witli h . il:?r. but each of
whom \< uiie of 'he favored guests at
I he While l.lonse.
Tlio i'if-f. the distinguished editor of
a New York magazine, coming directly
from a !;:::.!. wi'.li the president s::id
to m?- '.hat. witho't! quoting Mr. Roose
velt's words, he could say that under
no f.-ircuinst;im-es whatsoever would
the president accept a nomination this
year. ? *
The other, one of the newspaper cor
respondents, who is known to be a fa
vorite at the White House, declared
that the president had said to him that
If nominated he would refuse; that if
the convention reuoralnated him in
spite of that refusal he would tele
graph its leaders that they must reas
semble and select some one else.
There is a good old phrase which
may well be applied to consideration
of Mr. Roosevelt's position this year?
namely, "Put yourself in his place."
At the end of almost eight years of
power, with the house and senate In
accord with the principles of his party,
he approaches the end of his second
term with the country In'an almost un
precedented state of commercial and
Industrial depression.
IQ, S. C. FBIDAY, APEI
That doesn't help a presidential can
didate.
Should he be again a nominee no soph
istry about "a second electoral term"
could disabuse the minds of the people
that it was, In fact, the first effort in
American history made to brush aside
the patriotic and salutary rule laid
down by George Washington aud fol
lowed by every president to the pres
ent time that no man should serve
more thaii two terms lu the White
House. A prudent politician in Mr.
Roosevelt's place?and he is a politi
cian even if he is not prudent?would
set aside any immediate ambition, re
tire for awhile, select a not overstrong
candidate for the nomination in his
stead, look with philosophy upon the
defeat of his party In this year and
four years hence seek to come back as
Its savior.
There are many people about the
capital who think that this will be the
Roosc-veltian programme.
Oklahoma to the Front.
The two Democratic senators from
Oklahoma are proving themselves fight
ing champions ?f true Democrae3'. Sen
ator Gore, known as the blind senator,
succeeded In getting into the Congres
sional Record the famous letter writ
ten by President Roosevelt to E. H.
Harrlman, in which the president de
| clared they were both practical men
and should meet as practical men to
discuss the state of the nation. Of
course history records that the meeting
was held and that Mr. Harrlman raised
$245,000 for use la-the state of New
York for Mr. Roosevelt's political ad
vantage.
. A lot of the somewhat old maidenly
persons in the senate expressed much
horror and mortification that a United
States senator should have inserted
such a letter In the Record. But it
seems to me that Senator Gore met the
criticism conclusively when he said
that he would rather be responsible for
having had that letter read In the sen
ate than to be responsible for having
written it. It Is peculiarly inept to
describe a letter of Mr. Roosevelt's as
confidential. He neither writes nor talks
confidentially. It is his practice when
any one goes to the White House with
a question, to wave the inquirer away
and answer with a shout that attracts
the attention of everybody in the exec
utive offices. Mr. Roosevelt himself
should be the last to assert that a let
ter from him to E. H. Hnrriman, rail
road magnate and.plutocratic politician,
was confidential and privileged.
The other senator from Oklahoma,
Robert L. Owen, attended the recent
dinner given by the so called National
Democratic club of New York and
there had an opportunity to preach
some Democratic doctrine which the
officers of that cjnb did not desire to
have Mr. Bryan-expound before them.
This paragraph gives a fair example
of the general tone of his address. The
National Democratic club, which fear
ed to have Mr. Bryan speak before it,
must have found that the gentleman
from the southwest whom they select
ed was an equally vigorous exponent
of the principles of the new and the
progressive Democracy:
It is also true that some men who are
so religious that they will not shave on
Sunday find no conscientious scruples
against shaving other men for the bal
ance of the week, but among the captains
of Pharaoh there are also many men of
great Intelligence and of great benevo
lence and of great patriotism who do not
roallze the effect of monopoly on the
weaker laboring elements of the nation.
Their benevolence is shown by such enor
mous contributions to education and to
the public Bervlce, such as the benefac
tions of John D. Rockefeller, of Andrew
Carnegie and other very rich men. They
are entitled to personal credit for their
good works and to discredit for their bad
works. Their good works, however, show
that the men who have conducted suc
cessful monopolies under the shelter of
law and in spite of law have the same
generous impulses which God has planted
in the hearts of the great majority of
men. It would, however, be asking too
much of human nature to expect those
who have been or are successful in the
manipulation of business and in the es
tablishment of monopoly, by which their
ambition for power and for property ac
cumulation Is gratified, to contribute to
the control of monopoly by law. This
duty Is imposed upon the patriotic sons
of America of both parties?of both thoso
who have always adhered to the original
Democratic party vor to that branch of
the Democratic party that arose under
the new name of "Republican party."
The Democratic Conventions.
Up to the present time every state
convention held by the Democratic
party, and there have been ten, has
instructed for Mr. Bryan, with the ex
ception of Rhode Island, In which sev
en out of the eight delegates are pro
nounced Bryan men, though not otii
clally instructed for him. The half
dozen delegates from Delaware have
been instructed for Judge George
Gray, as they have been for some con
ventions heretofore. New York will
also send an uninstructed delegation,
which has been its practice almost itn
raemorlally; so, too, will Pennsylvania.
Colonel James M. Guffey, who has long
been the dominant factor in that state,
says cheerfully that as Pennsylvania
never will give any electoral votes to
the Democratic candidates he thinks
that Its delegates should go to the con
vention untrammeled aud able to give
their votes there to the candidate
wliom they think will be most accept
able to the voters of other states.
"Untrammeled" in Colonel Guffey's
mind means bound by no Instructions
save those that he will give Ihem him
self when he calls them to order in the
committee room at Denver. In the
northwest. Wisconsin, Iowa. South Da
kota and North Dakota have instructed
for Bryan. This phalanx of states sur
rounding Minnesota naturally arouses
Interest in what Governor Johnson's
own state is going to do for him. Un
der ordinary conditions it might be ex
pected that "a favorite son" would be
given his own state delegation. But !
Governor Johnson's" friends admit that
the state delegation may be split, while
the more enthusiastic Bryan advocates
declare that the delegation will be
made up wholly of Bryan men.
Washington. D. C.
Drank Gasoline.
Helen, the 19-months-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Odom of Greenville,
drank a bottle of gasoline and died
twenty minutes later on Wednesday.
L 24, 1908.
WHO THEY ARE.
Names of Candidates For Senate
and State Officers.
CAMPAIGN NOW OPEN
There Are Five Candidates for the
United States Senate, Two For
Governor, Three for Superintendent
of Education, Five for Railroad
Commissioner, and Only One ffor
Each of the Other State Offices.
The political campaign in this
State may oe said to be fairly open
now, and soon it will be in full blast
from the mountain to the sea. The
County Conventions meet on Monday,
May 4, and the State Convention will
meet on May 20. Candidates are be
ing brought out by their friends, and
soon they will be all out. The can
didates for United States Senator are:
Messrs. O. B. Martin, John Gary
Evans, George Johnstone, E. D.
Smith and D. C. Heyward. From ex
pressions in the county press, it ap
pears to be the opinion that the race
is between Ex-Gov. Evans and Ex
Gov. Heyward, but Mr. Martin seems
to object to the promulgation of this
opinion, and doubtless the other can
didates do also, but they do not ex
press themselves as does Mr. Martin.
Some Past History.
In 1902, when Messrs. Evans and
Johnstone were also candidates for
the senate, the vote in the first pri
mary stood:
William Elliott, 13,658.
John Gary Evans, 17,893.
J. J. Hemphill, 13,261.
D. S. Henderson, 13,771.
Geo. Johnstone, 13,556.
A. C. Latimer, 22,971.
Total 95,110.
The second primary was between
Evans and Latimer, and in the sec
ond election Mr. Evans received 36,
371 votes and Mr. Latimer 53,890.
Mr. Latimer being elected by a ma
jority of 17,519, over Mr. Evans. Mr.
Evans had been defeated for the sen
ate by John L. McLaurin in 1897 and
again by Joseph H. Barle in 1896.
In the year 1902, Capt. Heyward .
made his entry into politics and the
vote in the first primary -resulted as
follows:
D. C. Heyward, 36,551. 7
M. F. Ansel, ,17,685.
W. J. Talbert, 18,218.
J. H. Tillman, 16,398.
W. H. Timmerman, 6,515.
Total, 96,367.
The second race was between Hey
>vard and Talbert and the vote , re
sulted: Hcyward, 50,830; Talbert,
40,494. Capt. Hey ward being elect
ed by a majority of 10,336. In 1904
Gov. Heyward was re-elected without
opposition.
The year 1902, also saw the poli
tical debut of Hon. O. B. Martin, who
in that year was first a candidate for
the office of state superintendent of
education against Hon. John J. Mc
Mahan, receiving 48,850 votes against
45,891 for Mr. McMahon, there be
ing only two contestants. Since then
Mr. Martin has not had opposition
for this office, being re-elected in
1904 and 1906.
The Gubernatorial Race.
The withdrawal of Mr. Feather
stone from the race for governor
leaves the Hon. C. L. Blease, senator
from Newberry, as the only candidate
against Gov. Ansel. Mr. Blease was
always a stalwart state dispensary
supporter and since that institution's
abolition he has come out on an ex
tended local option platform. Gov.
Ansel on the other hand announced
his platform this year to be restrict
ed local option, favoring a law mak
ing the entire state prohibition with
the right to counties to exempt them
selves by majority vote and sell
whiskey through county dispensaries.
In 190C, when he was elected gov
ernor, Mr. Ansel favored the present
county option system, and in 1902,
when he was defeated, he favored
the state dispensary as "the best solu
tion of the liquor question." Before
that time he had been regarded, as a
prohibitionist. Mr. Ansel, while a
man of positive personal convicitons
has always been a close student of
popular sentiment an"l his successive
platforms indicate the trend of pub
lic opinion in this state fairly well
during the last few years. That the
prohibitioists will be content ?o have
such ailaw enacted as Mr. Ansel now
advocates ?seems evident from Mr.
Fe a t h e r s t o n e' s withdrawal.
Other State Offices.
Mr. Martin not being a candidate
for re-election the way is opeu for
a new man in the office of State Sup
erintendent of Ed neat ion. County i
Superintendent of Education E. C. El
more, of Spartanburg. was the first
to announce and he has made a pre
liminary campaign. County Superin
tendent S. R. Mellichamp, of Orange
Imrg. was next to announce and he
has also done much work. Recently
Prof. J. 1'^ Swearingen. of Cedar
Springs Institute announced his can
didacy.
The office of railroad commissioner
is always contested for. Commission
er Caughman's term expires and he
Is a candidate for re-election. So
far it is known that he will have op
position from Mr. .1. A. Summersett,
of Columbia, Major Fishburne, of
Charleston. Major H. W. Richardson,
cf Columbia. "Canzler of Tirzah," and
perhaps others.
It appears now that the other state
officials will not have opposition, Sec
retary of State McCown, Attorney
A BRUTAL MURDER
DIDN'T INTEND TO TO KILL ANY
PARTICULAR PERSON.
Hoped His Victim Would Be Wealthy
American or English Tourist, Who
He Could Rob.
The sheperd, Joseph Michaud, who
murdered Robert Munziger, a young
Swiss Alpinist,'on the Col de Balme
last August, has been sentenced to
life imprisonment at Martigny, Switz
erland.
The crime was perhaps the most re
markable ever committed in the
Alps. According to Michaud's confess
sion, which war made with great cal
lousness, he lay in wait.on the Col de
Balme for days, intending to murder
the first unaccompanied tourist who
came along.
He hoped his victim would be a
rich Englishman or American, and
his intention was to leave Switzer
land with the proceeds of the rob
bery and to come to America, where
he hoped to make his fortune.
Michaud explained that he had
thought this out carefully while at
tending to his flock, and had conclud
ed that he would remain a shepherd
to the end of his days unless he could
make a coup by murdering and rob
bing a wealthy tourist.
"Many Englishmen passed," said
Michaud in his confession, "but they
were all accompanied by relatives or
friends."
Finally Munziger appeared. He
intended crossing the Col do Balme
and descending to Chamonix, whence
he meant attempting an ascent of
Mont Blanc. When near the summit
of the Col de ^alme Michaud at
tacked him with a hunting knife and
stabbed him to death.
Michaud robbed the body, strip
ped it of clothes, and then nuried it
under some rocks. He forget, how
ev to remove the traces of the crimp,
and guides who searched the precipic
es of the Col de Balme for a week
finally discovered the evidences of a
struggle, which led to Munziger's
body being disintered.
Michapd aroused suspicion in a
neighboring village by displaying a
watch which afterward proved to be
Munziger's. When the'shepherd was
arrested he was wearing the clothes
of the murdered man. He showed
great unconcern and langhed und
joked with the gendarmes.
His booty amounted to a about $5
and Michaud's only regret was that
he had killed a Swiss instead of a
wealthy foreigner. "I was too has
ty," he complained to the judge dur
ing his trial, "but I had been waiting
so long that I had become impatient."
ANOTHER SAFE ROBBED.
Yeggmen Enter Stores and Take
Three Hundred Dollars.
At Greenville Tuesday morning
safe crackers entered the branch store
of Carpenter Brothers and blew open
the safe, securing in the nighborhood
of $300. The sub-postofflce was lo
cated in the building and part of the
money belonged to the Government.
The building is located on Washing
ton .street, in a few yards of the
Southern depot and the robbery was
a daring piece of work, as there is
constant passing on the. street at all
hours of the night. It is thought
that the robbers blew the safe open,
just as a passenger train rolled Into
the yards, the noise from the train
drowning the report from the explo
sion. ,
/ -.
PLUMBER'S CARELESSNESS
Caused the Death of a Young Lady
, in Brooklyn.
Miss Grace Buckley, the 21-year
old daughter of H. H. Buckley of No.
398 Halsey street, Brooklyn, was
killed Tuesday night by gas asphyxia
tion,, said to be caused by the care
lessness of a plumber. The gas jet in
her bed room was fixed the day be
fore by the plumber who tightened
the stopcock so that it was impossible
to turn it completely off; and Tues
day when her grandmother, found
.Miss Buckley dead in bed and the
gas escaping from the fixture. A
physician was called but he stated
the girl had been dead for some
hours.
HEAVY DISPENSARY SALES.
Three Thousand Dollars Worth of
Liquor Sold in One Day.
The largest sales since the opening
of the North Augusta dispensary were
made on Saturday, April 18, * the
sales amounting to over $?0uo. This
amount exceeded the largest amount
yet sold in one day previous by about
$1,100, the largest sales previously
being about $1.900._
General Lyon. Comptroller General
Jones, State Treasurer Jennings. Ad
jutant General Boyd. However, the
campaign -4ias just started: and the
election is yet founr months off. but
the entries for state offices close in
.1 une.
In 1906 the total vote in the first
primary ran to about !)7.0b0 and
there was much interest in the race
for governor and attorney general
as well as for the legislatures and
county offices. With a warm fight for
state and county offices this year, the
total vote may go to 100.000. At any
rate, to win the candidate should
make sure of at least fifty thousand
votes..
$1.50 PER
RAISE THE DEAD.
Machine That Restores Life When?
the Vital Spark
SEEMS ALMOST GONE.
The Most Remarkable Invention Ffll*
Inert Lungs With Oxygen and Thu*
Neutralizes Ail Poisons?A Rabbit
and a Dog Pronounced Dead Leap
from the Table After Use of the*
Respirator on Tliem. j
It was announced some time ago*
that Professor George Poe, of Nor-?
folk, Va., had invented an "artificial'
respirator machine" that would rajsa
the dead. There has just been com
pleted at Norfolk by Professor Poe?
and several inquiring scientists a ser
ies of amazing successful experiment
with the little contrivance which me
chanically puts oxygen, the breath of
life, into inert lungs.
Those who witnessed the tests am
firmly convinced that thousands oC
lives may be saved by the "brass
heart," which is what Poe's machine
practically is. It will be especially
valuable in cases of suspended anima
tion caused by drowning, by gas as
phyxiation in mines, and by coma
resultant upon typhoid fever and oth
er^ diseases.
Professor, Poe, by letting the con
trivance force upon him inhalation
nd exhalation of oxygen, was enabled,
to stop breathing for ten minutes.
Animals, declared dead beyond all
doubt by the visiting physicians, wer?
revived in a few . minutes and were*
able to scamper out of the operating
room.
Practically, though not literally,
of course, the artificial respiration,
machine brought, the dead to life and
the experts say it: will work equally
well on human beings.
Professor Poe'r machine is built as
near as ^possible along the lines of
the human heart. It is about eigh
teen inches in height, with two cyl
inders?correspondng to the ventri-*
cles and auricles of the heart?andt
inlet and outlet, valves. Doublet
tubes enter the larynx and nostrils
of tJ-e patient.,1
Roughly, the contrivance resem
bles a.bicycle pump. While one set
of tubes draws off the poisonous
fluids and gases from the lungs, the*
other set forces in the life giving;
oxygen.
The first experiment was upon
"Socrates," a pet rabbit on the Poo
farm. It was given two grains of;
morphine, enought to kill a man.
Then immediately four ounces ot
ether were administerel. The physi
cians pronounced the rabbit dead, af
ter all ordinary restoratives failed.
The machine was then applied and!
within three minutes the effects ot
the poison and anesthetic were drawn
cdf, and Socrates jumpe.1 fr.)m the
table and hopped away. A large dog
was then killed and bought back to
life again within five minutes.,
The doctors present realized then
that many of the evil and after effects
of anesthesia could be doneaway with
by the machine. And there dawned
upon them another side of ils value,
which had rather a humorous aspect.
Intoxication, it was found, could he
cured in a few minutes
This experiment was actually made.
The machine was applied to a hilar
iously drunken man, drew off tha
poisonous alcoholic fumes and ha
straightened out in three minutes.
Since then, it has been said. Professor "
Poe has been approached with a prop
osition to manufacture pocket re
spirators for this purpose.
Infant asphysia, that dread accom*
paniment of birth, which stifles many]
a 'life before it. has fairly started to
exist, may also be wiped out by tha
respirator. Dr. J. P. Jackson and
Professor Poe. with a minature ma
chine, saved the life of a baby aC
Berkeley last week. The machine did:
the breathing for the child until itz
was able to strike out for itself.
Throughout the Virginia country?
folks regard Professor Poe as a mod
[ ern miracle-worker. Despite his per
sistent declarations that his invention
is merely an aid to lfe after it has
I fled, the country people call him tha.
?raiser of the dead."
Many persons have written to Poa
asking him to try and restore lifo
to relatives who have been dead fon
weeks, months and even ye ars. Ha
is engaged now in manufacturing sev
eral respirators which will be tested:
in the leading hospitals of the coun
PICKED UP AT SKA.
Wrecked Off Charleston and Rescued!
by Yacht.
The steam yacht Columbia arrived!
at New York from Florida on Tuesday
with three fishermen on board, res
cued from their sinking boat in a,
gale off Charleston. The three men
sailed from Charleston in the fishing
smack Star on April.17. The next
day they were caught in a gale in
which the smack lost her mast and
most of her sails. When the derelict
was sighted the sea was running so
high that the Columbia could not
lower her boats. The yacht approach
ed the Star so near that ropes could
be thrown to the fishermen, who wera .
then hauled on board the Columbia?
Their friends in Charleston had auoutf
given them up as lost. . _J