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By a Fierce Mob at Cairo, Illinois for the Horrible Crime of o ASSAULT AND MURDER A Fiendish, Brutish Negro, After Confessing to the Crimes of As saulting and Murdering Miss '' - Pelley, Whoso Body Was Found in an Alley, Lynched and Burned. Will James, the negro suspected of being the murderer of Miss An nie Pelley, was lynched at Cairo, Illinois, Thursday night by a mob. He was strung up to the public arch, the. rope broke and at least 500 shots were poured into his body. James made a confession, implicat ing another negro, Arthur Alexau der. The lynching took place in the most prominent part of the c? y, and was witnessed- by ten thousand peo ple. Women present, were the first tq pull the rope. When it broke, the frenzy of the mob was uncontrollable, and they fired volley after volley into Jame's body, shooting him to pieces. The mob then dragged the body over the streets for more than a mile to Twenty-sixth and Elm slxeets. in an alley, and burned it where the murder was committed. James was found with Sheriff Da vis- between -Karnak, 111., and Belk nap, by the Cairo crowd, who went up Thursday afternoon. The crowd overpowered the officers and took the negro from them, and after'a conference it was decided to bring their prisoner back to Cairo and lynch him. Sheriff Davis had been fleeing from the"- mob for twenty-four hours with the prisoner. Driven from town to town by menacing crowds the sheriff had taken to the woods with James, but the persistent search of the summary avengers proved effec tive at last. Fully a thousand persons went out to find the negro, and when the pur suers arrived in Cairo with their quarry, they were met by a howling mob of 5,000 others bent on slaying the negro! :' - They marched , the negro direct to the public arch, sweeping the streets like a flock of sheep might tread a narrow lane. Many women were in the crowd and anxious to help do the work. Sheriff Davis having been foiled in his attempt to hide the negro, pleaded for the life of the prisoner, but without avail. When Cairo was reached, Sheriff Davis was taken in charge by a party of the mob, which rushed the negro rapidly to his funeral pyre. The mob that chased the sheriff and the negro was so large that it scoured the entire country from Karnak to Vienna, 111., a distance of about sixteen miles. When found by the mob the ne gro was handcuffed between two of ficers, and all three were lying on the bank of a creek. All three were so weak from hunger, exposure and the futile attempt to elude the mob that they were not able to make much resistance. While in custody of the mob com ing to Cairo the negro would not talk aoout the crime, but when he stood under the arch he weakened, and confessed that he slew Miss Pelley. He said that Arthur Alex ander was implicated in the crime. The attempt at hanging followed quickly^ The growling of the mob, the grinding of the rope and ihej struggles of the negro were stopped a moment only by the snapping of the rope. The 10,000 persons ^\ho bad lokked on and danced in gl e shot forth armed men almost nagic ally. and, they filled the negro w..h bullets. Then, not satisfied with vengeance, the mob dragged the body to the place where Miss Pelley*s body, bound, gaged and bruised, had been found. A roaring fire Nw as built and the body was incinerated. James, who came from the South, said Miss Pelley had been assault ed and murdered after a terrific fight. It is reported that Alexander, the negro implicated by James in the murder of Miss Pelley, has beeu found by the mob, and that they are bringing him into town to lynch him. Governor Deneen appealed to at 11 o'clock by Sheriff Davis, who declar ed the mob was storming the jail \ and volunteers would not assist him ordered ten troops of militia to pro ceed at once to Cairo to restore order. Double Tragedy. As a tragic culmination of martial troubles of long standing Louis W. Lewis, while, shot and instantly kill ed his wife at his home in Jackson ville. Fla., Wednesday afternoon, then turned the revolver on himself, sending a bullet through his head, causing instant death. Cause of Death. An autopsy Wednesday at Som merville, N. J., disclosed the fact that the death of Robert Simpuon, who died in a trance, was due to rupture of the aorta. Prof. Everton, the hypnotist, will probably be charged with manslaughter. ES A WEEK. ANOTHER LYNCHING WHITE MAN SWUNG UP FOR MURDERING HIS OWN WIFE. After Lynching the Negro the Mob Attacked the Jail and Made Quick Work of a White Man. At Cairo, Illinois, Henry Salzner. white, a photographer, who killed his wife last July with an axe, fas taken from jail at 11:40 o'clock Thursday night by a mob and hang ed to a telegraph pole, and his body riddled with bullets. The lynching followed closely on the lynching of Will James, a negro, who earlier in the evening had been hanged for the murder of Miss Annie Pelley. The mob gave Salzner a chance to confess after the rope was around bis neck, but he was so frightened that he could only mumble that his sisters had klled his wife. The mob became furious at this/ and it was hard work to keep them off Salzner long enough to give him a chance to pray. The mob finally subsided and a short religious service was held, after which he was strung up, the rope being placed over a tele graph pole at 21st and Washington streets. The mob found some difficulty in breaking the cage, as it was an en tirely steel structure, but after a half hour of telling blows upon the door it gave way and Salzner was secur ed. The mob rushed him out of the back door of the jail, which is in the basement of the court house, around the building through the yard and out into Washington avenue, and up to 21st street, which is a prominent corner and has a public square. He cried and begged piteously for his life and was met by cries and blows from the mob. When -Salzner was asked for his last statement a man, a stranger in the crowd, step ped forward and said he believed Salzner was innocent, whereupon the mob fell upon him, kicked him ?and finally knocked him down, and it was only the pleas of copier per sons that saved his life. He was compelled to beg for mer cy from the mob, and announced, in a loud voice that Salzner should be lynched, after which he was driven from the mo"b and all attention was given to Salzner. After Salzner was hanged, and while the body was being riddled with bullets, the rope broke and the body fell to the ground, where it now lies, the mob going away and leaving it. Salzner was born and reared at Cairo. He had been married about two years last July, when his wife was found at her home with her skull fractured. A blbody axe was found under the bed. Two babies were playing in the mother's blood. Salzner was found at the home of his mother, where he often slept at night. Before Mrs. Salzner died she recovered enough to accuse her hus band of attacking her. Feeling asainst him had been bit ter, and Thursday night, after the lynching of James, when some one suggested Salzner, the mob rushed for the county jail, got Salzner and lynched him. DR. CARLISLE'S LIBRARY Given to Wott'ord College by His Son and Daughter. The library of the late Dr. James H. Carlisle, president of Wofford college, containing many choice and rare volumes, has been presented to Wofford college by J. H. Carlisle. Jr., and Miss Sallie Carlisle, children of the deceased. The gilt is highly appreciated, not only by the faculty and trustees of the college, but by the students and the alumni, for it is regarded as one of the richest treasures of the college. In addition to presenting the li brary of their father, which consists of some 2,?00 or 3.000 volumes. Miss Carlisle and Mr. Carlisle presented the college with several old pieces of library furniture of Dr. Carlisle, which are familiar to the old stu dents of the college. The library of Dr. Carlisle will not be catalogued along with the other books of the college, but will be plac ed intact in a room of the library building and the furniture will be arranged in this room as nearly as possible as it was in the library of the great educator. In other words, the faculty of the college hopes to preserve the library and its furniture intact so that one who ever had the pleasure of calling on Dr. Car lisle at his home will at once be impressed with the surroundings. A Fool's .Money. Franklin Taylor, a Brooklyn law yer, who ran for municipal judg? at the recent election and lost, has filed his expense account, which to taled $832.23 with the county clerk "All of which serves to demon strate," Mr. Taylor reflectively com ments In his paper, "that a fool anu his money are soon parted." Negro Woman Kills Herself. In Savannah, Ga., Tuesday after nt>on. Evelina Johnson, colored, aged thirty-one years, drank the contents of a two-ounce bottle of carbolic acid, from the effects of which she died in agony a short time after wards. The negro woman was a laundress. ORANGEBUBG S A Fake Story About Senator Tillman Made Up in Columbia and SENT TO NEW YORK SUN Mr. A. J. Belhca, Governor Ansel's Private Secretary, Wrath With the Writer of the Dispatch, Which He Brands as a Yarn Out of the Whole Cloth. Mr. A. J. Bethea, Governor Ansel's private secretary, writes the follow ing -letter, which explains itself: The governor's secretary has writ ten the following letter: Senator B. R. Tillman, Trenton, S. C. My Dear Sir: I have just read the story in The News and Courier enti tled "No Drink for Tillman," copied from the New York Sun. and to say that I am disgusted and outraged hardly expresses my feelings. There is not a semblance of truth in this article, which, of course, you know as well as I do. but in jus tice to you and to myself, I hasten to write to assure you that it did not come from me nor any one con nected with the governor's office. There is only one way in which it could possibly have originated, and the truth has been so distorted that it strains the imagination to account for it. On Friday of last week a gentle man came over from Winnsboro, and was in g. eat distress because he found the dispensaries closed, mak ing it impossible for him to purchase champagne, which he wished to use at a reception at his home the next day. The governor r;as absent, and as he had ordered the dispensaries closed for that day and the next, 1 told the gentleman I could do noth ing for him, although he brought with him a physician's certificate. ? At the luncheon on Saturday 1 sat by Mr. Robert H. Hazard, a repre sentative of the United Press, and during the course of conversation 1 related to him the above story, tell ing him of the distress of the gentle-? man, but without mention of his name, and certainly without any thought of yours in connection with it. I do not say that Mr. Hazard wrote this article, but 1 cannot ac count for it in any other way. It is certainly far from the truth, and I hope you will understand that I resent it and that I object to being made a party to a newspaper story, which is utterly without warrant and without foundation. Trusting this explanation will serve the purpose for which it is intended, and assuring you of- my unwillingness to do you an injus tice, 1 am, Yours very truly, A. J. Bethea. The Dispatch. The dispatch complained of ap peared Sunday in several papers, among them the New 'York Sun and the Baltimore American. It reads as follows: Columbia, S. C, Nov. 6.?Taft Day in this city inconvenienced Senator Tillman. The governor of South Carolina has the power to suspend the sale of liquor whenever he deems it advisable. A large crowd was gathering in this city yesterday for Taft Day and the governor ordered the dispensaries to close for two days. Along about this time Benjamin R. Tillman hit the town. He had run over from Trenton, his home, to get two bottles of champagne. He was going to have company at home and he wanted the champagne badly. He tried two or three dispensaries, but they were closed. Then the sen ator hustled up to the governor's office and appealed to his private sec retary. The secretary allowed there was nothing he could do. "Well, couldn't 1 get two bottles on a doctor's prescriptionV" begged the senator. The secretary said the only way would be for the senator to find some friend and perhaps this friend would give him two bottles. It would be against the law for him to sell them. For the senator to look for a champagne cellar friend in Co lumbia was a hopeless proposition. Hadn't the senator just had a big row with the Columbia Taft Day reception committee because they wanted to tax him $1<> for his seat at the Taft luncheon? The senator had told Columbia to go to blazes with its luncheon, or words to that effect. Finally the governor's secretary referred the senator to a friend of his. and from him Mr. Tillman got his two quarts. The senator was a framer of the South Carolina dispensary law, and thus was getting a taste of his own medicine. .Mrs. Mario Estey Suicides. Mrs. Marie L. Estey, widow of a widely known piano manufacturer, committed suicide in a boarding house in New York a few night ago by inhaling illuminating gas. The loss of her fortune some years ago brought on a nervous disorder and her ill health is believed to have led to her act. Si C. SATOBDAY. NOVI MURDERS CASHIER AND WOUNDS PRESIDENT OF BANK HE TRIED TO ROB. The young Bandit is Rnn Down .. and Captured After He Shoots One More Man. In an attempt to rob a bank at New Albany, Ind., a young man en tered the Merchants' Bank at noon Thursday and killed J. Hangeryj Fawcett, cashier of the bank, serious ly wounded John K. Woodward, pres ident of the bank, and wounded Jas. R. Tucker, a negro chauffeur, prob ably fatally. When Hall entered the bank he carried a pistol in each hand. After commanding every one to throw up his hands and "get into the vault," Hall began shooting. Cashier Fawcett was shot through the chest and neck and died almost instantly. President Woodward was shot through the liver and his intes tines were perforated. Tucker, rhe chauffeur, was shot through the body. Following the shooting the mur derer rushed from the bank and tried to escape in an automobile, which he had taken from the curb in front of the residence of its own er, Mrs. Walter Escott, in Louis ville, Ky. He had forced the negro chauffeur at the point of a pistol to drive him to New Albany. After the shooting at the bank the chauffeur, paralyzed with terror and apparently incapable of actir.j, sut still when the robber junipti into the car and ordered him to speed up the machine. The roob'.r then jumped out of tbe automobil.. snot the negro in the back and ran two blocks to the Ohio river. He seized a skiff and was un his way to the Louisville side of tb-.' riv er before the frightened citizens of New Albany knew what had happen ed. An alarm was given through a megaphone on a dredge boat ana in a short time several, policemen had started in pursuit in a fast motor boat. After being captured the bandit refused to give his name, and had little to say. He said that ho !nd been around Louisville for several days. He did not know Tucker, the chauffeur, and declared Tucker was not implicated in the attempt on the bank. A dispatch from Louisville, Ky.. says the bjradit waft" identified as Thomas Jefferson Hall, and according to William J. Hall, his father, the desperado is but 17 years old. The older Hall, who has a furniture store at No. 802 South Preston street, in that city, said that young Hall was a household tyrant, and not insane at all. "He is simply mean,' said the fath er. The family is formerly of Knox ville, Tenn. W. J. 1-i.all detailed his son's ac tions for the last few years, say ing that dime novels had been the youth's constant reading. Among young Hall's effects was found a powerfully made cabinet, lined and outfitted like a room. It is believed that the boy expected to escape with his loot, crawling into the box, which was consigned to "R. J. Smith, Knoxville, Tenn.," and es cape as freight. NORTH CAROLINIAN SUICIDES. I Places Gun Aguinst a Stump and Pulls the Trigger. A. H. Bragg, a farmer living near Redweed, N. C, committed suicide a few days ago about 10 o'clock by shooting himself dead with a shot gun. The old gentleman had been des pondent, three or four weeks and lately showed very great signs of intellectual decrepitude. Ke went to town several weeks ago and said he felt that irresponsibility. The morning of the suicide he started out and told a colored man that he wanted to borrow a gun with which to shoot squirrels. There the smart ness of the determined suicide show id itself. He had prepared a forked stick with which to work the trig ger and putting the gun against a stump, pulled the trigger and blew his head off. He was ?S years old and had two sons and three daughters. A TRIFLING RASCAL Being Sought by the Wife He Base ly Deserted. A dispatch from Atlanta to the Augusta Chronicle says coming from Augusta without a cent in search of her husband, whom she says is with Ham urn and Bailey's circus there. Mrs. Bessie Brooks reached there on a Georgia railroad train without the formality of a ticket Wednes day. In her arms she carried a ba by of a few months. She is only twenty years old and claims to have married at Whitmire. S. C, about a year ago. A short time alter the baby was born he left her and she was told that he had joined the cir cus. She immediately went to Au gusta in search of him. but not find ing him there, she followed the cir cus on to Atlanta. Confederate Veteran Passes. Major Thomas Hayes, former in spector general of the Confederate army, at one time second vice presi dent of the Pullman Palace Car Com pany, died at his home in Louisville, Ky., a few days ago, aged 72. 3IBER 13, 1909. NERVY THIEVES Five Men Lure Fifty From Their Camp, Bind Them Securely and TOOK ALL THEIR CASH The Bound Men After Being Rob-1 bed of Their Valuables, Spent Five Hours Together After the Thieves ^Tio Had Deprived Them Had Boat a Safe Retreat. A dispatch from Ridgewood, N. J., isays fifty Italians employed In build ing a trolley road from Paterson to Sufferin were held up by a few bandr its by night in this place, bound hand and foot, and robbed of all their money and jewelry. The victims were left lying tied in a s?anty un til morning, when one or them man aged to free himself and inform the police. The robbers, of whom there were only five, got away with twenty watches, many trinkets, and ?1,4S8. 51 in bills and small change. Seldom has there been a robbery in which the thieves were so tricky or used such generalship in handling a large body of victims. So skill fully did they do their work thai at no time were f.hey in danger of being attacked by more than one man. The laborers lived in a shanty in the Bergen county cutout, as is customary with gangs employed on new railways. The gang foreman was supposed to look out for their welfare and see th;.t tney were amp ly protected against thieves. But with half a hundred men around him,, he had no suspicion that four or five men could get away with anything. Foreman Tackled First. Therefore, he felt no fear when a roan appeared at the door of the shanty in the night and said he wanted to see the boss of the gang. The foreman went out and met the bandits, all of whom spoke Italian. They informed him they were gov ernment officers, and that they hau been sent to arrest him for selling liquor iu the shanty without a li cense. They led him away from the shanty, and, keeping two pistols aimed at his head, they bound him hand and foot. They carried him to a spot well away from the house and left three men to guard him. One of the bandits then went to the shanty and called out another of the laborers. He, too, was told that he was arrested, led away, bound hand and foot, and carried to the place where the boss was lying. The trick then was used to lead the other workmen out of the shanty, and, one by one, their captors bound them safely and carried them away. Those left, inside the shanty never missed their companions, most o:. them having prepared to go to sleep. The ones lying bound with ropes did not dare make a sound, for fear the I men guarding them would shoot. I It took more than an hour for the bandits to complete the work of binding all the men. Then they carried them back to the shanty in pairs, laid them on the floor, and went through their pockets. As each man's money and jewelry were taken away he was bundled into a corner. When the bandits were sure they had all the money and jewelry in the camp they warned their victims not to make any outcry, and leisure ly departed. It was almost midnight oefore they finished their work, and not one of the victims had attempt ed to resist. Five Hours of Helpless Rage. For five hours the workmen lay bemoaning the loss of their money. The cords had been tightly bound on most of them, with their hands behind their backs and ropes pass ed around their legs above and be low the knees. In vain they squirm ed and wriggled, trying to free themselves, until 5 p. m., when one of the men succeeded in slipping his bands loose. He quickly removed the ropes from his legs, and. disre garding the urgent pleas of his com panions to be freed, he lied from the shanty. He ran all the way to the home of Chief of Police Kuller, of this place, and excitedly told the story of the hold-up. Fuller called several patrolmen, and they hastened to the shanty. There they found 4 0 men still hound securely, and quickly released them. When all the workmen were freed they compared notes as to their losses, and the police were able to find out how much the bandits got. flood descriptions of four of the ban dits were given to the police, bill there was not a clew to indicate who the robbers were. In format ion of the hold-up was sent to several near-by cities, and a search of the Italian sections was made, but in vain. The thieves had a clear mar gin of five hours in which to cover their tracks, and they used it to advantage. Aged Xegit? Suicides. Calvin Hinton, a veteran negro employe at the farm of Charles H. Hinton. near Raleigh. X. C., com mitted cuicide a few days ago, using a shotgun with which he blew out his brains. Children hearing the shot ran to the house and found him dying on the floor of his cab rwo BLAMES THE WOMAN j STOLE BIG SUM OF MONEY AN I) PUTS UP THE EXCUSE That He Was Made to Do it by Be ing Blackmailed by a Bad Female Associate. At Cincinnati, Ohio, Mrs. Jeannette Stewart, also known as Mrs. Ford, one of the women accused by Chas. L. Warriner, defaulting local treasur er of the Big Four Railroad of hav ing shared in his speculations by blackmailing him, declared she would tell the whole inside story of the $643,000 theft, when the case came to court. Mrs. Stewart denied ehe had ever received money from Warriner. The sudden breaking of her si lence was caused, according to her, by a quarrel which she had with another woman, who has also been mentioned by Warriner. This quar rel resulted in the attachment of Mrs. Stewart's furniture. The of ficers who made the attachment were quickly followed by reporters, and in the stress of excitement, Airs. Stewart's reserve broke down. "I never received a cent from Charles Warriner," she said, "and t never gave any information to the railroad about his shortage-. It was another woman that did it all; a woman I thought was my friend. 1 know the whole story and I will tell it in court, too." At present the question that is exercising the railroad officials is. What became of the $643,000 which Warriner admits having stolen? Warriner says he lost it in stock speculation and in satisfying the demands of blackmailers, but that .explanation ih not satisfactory to the officials. Warriner says he is penniless and his neighbors at his home in Wyom ing, Ohio, declare that he is a sick man. * It is admitted by railroad officers that Wlarriner might have continued his speculations indefinitely if he had not been betrayed by a woman, so great was his superiors' confidence In him. PELLAGRA CAUSED DEATHS. Was at First Thought to he Ty phoid Fever. That hundreds of deaths which occurred at the Confederate prison at . Andersonv.illtsi, Gav during the summer of 1S64 were not due to ty phoid fever, as then supposed, but were caused by pellagra, was the opinion expressed before the South ern medical convention in New Or leans a few days ago by Dr. J. W. Kerr of Corsicana, Tex. Dr. Kerr, who was surgeon at the Anderson ville prison, described the symp toms of the disease, which attacked the Inmates so fatally at that time, and in nearly every particular they were recognized as being character istic of pellagra. This view was further strengthened, Dr. Kerr sain, by the fact that musty or spoileJ corn, generally accredited by the medical fraternity as being perhaps the cause of pellagra, constituted the main diet jf the prisoners, he cause of inability to furnish them other supplies. The consensus of opinion among the physicians who presented papers on the subject was that pellagra is attributable to spoiled corn. AN UNFINISHED VAULT. Builder Refuses to Take Out Permit and Police Guaid if. Two years ago the owner of a private residence in the aristocratic vicinity of the Plaza in New York city had his house remodeled and a vault constructed under the sidewalk. The contractor had obtained a permit for the alteration on the building, I but had failed to take out a permit for the vault, for which a fee of sev eral hundred dollars was required. At the behest of the bureau of high ways a policeman was stationed at the bdilding to prevent further work on the vault until the fee was paid and the permit obtained. The vault has been under police surveillance ever since and iJie vault is still un finished, with a fair prospect of re maining so until the owner of the building, who is said to be a mil lionaire, chooses to plank down the required fee for a permit. Seven Victims ISecovertrd. Seven victims have been recover ed and it is believed the list of dead will reach twelve, as the result of ii fire in the Aiichincloss shaft of die Delaware, Lackawanna ?t Wes tern Coal Company, at Naticocke. I'a. An explosion of gas sei lire to the limbers of the mine. Killed in Arkansas. Maj. W. H. Seal, of Sttmter, re ceived a telegram telling of the death of his son David \\". Seal, at Leak ville. Ark., who was killed by a fall ing tree. The body of the young man will in- brought to Sumter for burial. Endorses Printers' Label The Farmers' Educational and Co operative Union of Tennessee, in an nual convention at Jackson recently, unanimously passed a resolution in structing officers of the State union to use the union label on all printed CENTS PER COPY CAN'T BE FOUND Dr. G. C. Bigbam, Convicted of Helping to Murder His Young . Wife. HAS BROKEN HSS BOND Avant, who, With Bigham, Was Convicted of Manslaughter at Georgetown Recently for Killing Mrs. Bigham, Gives Himself Vp, But the Husband is Missing. A dispatch from Georgetown to The News and Courier says from de velopments within the past few days it seems likely that Dr. G. C. Big ham, who wi'.h W. Bj Avant was con victed at the last term of court of manslaughter for the killing of Mrs. Bigham on Murrel's Island, will yet escape the penalty of three and a half years' hard labor in the peni tentiary, imposed by Judge Watts. The notice of appeal made by the defendant's attorney, J. W. Ragsdale, not having been filed within the ten days allowed by law, Solicitor Wells wired Sheriff Scurry to apprehend the convicted parties at once, they being out on a $1,500 bond. On Saturday Avant, learning of his being wanted by the sheriff, went to Georgetown from his home at Harpers and surrendered himself. He is now in the county jail. Sheriff Scurry wired Sheriff Burcb; of Florence county, to arrest Dr. Bigham immediately, but front infor mation so far received it seems that he cannot be found. The surmise is that he has fled the State. There seems tc have been some inconsistencies in the bonds requir ed by Bigham and Avant. When the men were first arrested on the warrants issued by the coroner, the bonds were fixed at $500 each, be ing later raised, at the instance of the solicitor, to $2.500, ander which amount they appeared for trial. After conviction and sentence the men were turned loose under a bond of only $1,500 each, pending the re sult of an appeal to the supreme court. It is said that as Dr. Big ham's fam?ly are well-to-do, the forfeiture of the bond is of small consequence. MURDERED BY SMUGGLERS; Eighteen Sailors Made Drunk and Then Killed. Passengers arriving at New Or leans on the steamer Parisiinina, from British Honduras told of the scuttling of the Honduras gunboat Tatumbia and the murder of eigh teen of her crew after she had over hauled a British steamer engaged in [smuggling between Jamaica and Hon I duras. i Six days ago the Tatumbia over hauled the smuggler fifty miles out of Puerto Cortes and twenty of the gunboat's crew boarded the smuggler. The smuggler crew surrendered and the smuggler captain told Capt. Zalella that there plenty of good rum in her hold. Zelella ordered a celebration. The prisoners feigned intoxication, and when the gunboat's crew succumbed to the rum tbey were thrown over board. The smuggler's crew scut tled the gunboat and then escaped. Two of the sailors who were Hung overboard reached one of the boat ing lifeboats of the sunken Hondu ras vessel and reached Puerto C M'tes with the story of the wholesul.; mur der. APPRECriATES NEWSPAPERS. Sportanburg City Council Took tin? License Off. The Spartanburg Herald says in revising the license ordinance Mon day night the new city council of that progressive city took the license off of newspapers. "It was agreed among us," said Mayor Lee, "that newspapers are the greatest help the city had, and that rather than be licensed they should be given all the encouragement possible." There was a license of $125 on dal ly papers and a license? of $10 p>i weekly papers. "A newspap? r is not the richest institution in the worl.t by a long shot, and the taking o-f of the license may be a great help toward a happy Christmas." was the way a gentleman expressed it Mon day night, says the Herald. The newspapers were free of li cense until the last city council got hold of the license ordinance an I stuck it to them. The pres.-ut coun cil seems to be more appreciative of the work the newspapers do in the way of advertising the city, and in boosting every good undertaking thai makes for the up-building of commu nity life. Halley's Comet Sighted. Halley's Comet was observed from Providence, R. I., at Ladd Ob servatory, Brown University, by Prof. Winslow Upton. The comet, accord ing to Prof. Upton, should be visi ble by telescope from now on and with the naked eye in January. Officer Kills Negro. Because he drew a pistol when Cue officer approached to arrest him for disorderly conduct, Joe Bostwick, a negro, was shot and killed at Al bany, Ga., a few days ago by Oscar Waiden, acting deputy sheriff.