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F?BLISHED^PHElBE-TE BOTHW De?S Mies of' fef taie&ff?le Lads E??Kdais- B'ome . on Thursday for a ?t^^fc^rtng-VBay. Hunt:r Prentiss Moore and Guy Rogers Not Heard From Until Searching Parties Find ? Their Remains in Branch. The dead bodies of Guy Rogers aad Prentiss Moore were found Sat urday morning about ten o'clock. The . two boys left their home In Bennetts vflle early Thursday morning for a boating trip; They went to Gardner's Blnff, hitched the^f horse'and'buggy; . and nothing definite could be learn ed of their whereabouts until the; todies we-o found. Prentiss Moore, aged 11, the son of' Mrs. Emily E. Moore, was- found lying ou the south side of a branch; aS>9n^:five feet.de.fp. His feet we^e toward the bottom of the branch and .he. .blutched a briar between' his. fingers. Examination showed that t^C load from;a shotgun had entered* the side near the "edge of the shoulder 1 Wade and;ranged toward the middle of the chest, passing through the body. The entire load, shot and wad; was lying underneath his clothes Sa front of the chest. Guy Rogers, aged 15,' son of N. B. Rogers, <county treasurer, was found ia the bottom of the branch, only a . Jtew feet from the body of little Bfcore. His face wps- turned to the ground; his body was nearly in a ' knetling position, with the head, in the edge of the water in a puddle ) o! blood. He, too, waB wounded with j * ehotgun, the load entering direct ly into, the heart from the front, passmg through the chest, shattering j iho ribs on the back side, some skot. burying themselves in the skin in the back. One wad, that between the powder and shot, was found inside the shirt near the wound. The wound in young Roger's body ranged slightly oowa from the front. A double bal . relied shotgun was found on the brink of the branch, the muzzle ..aUghtly elevated, pointing > toward the ditch, one trigger cocked and in thti breech* was."caught"a'small part of the shirt of young Rogers. One barrel, the one with the cocked trig ger, was found ompty; the second barrel contained an empty shell. An-j other empty shell was found within, a few inches of the muzzle of the! sun. The branch runs through a broad j field. An overgrown hedge covered ! the banks of the branch, which is; about five feet deep and about six feet wide at the top. Within about 150 yards is a negro cabin. An old faegro woman who lives there said that she saw | the boys out there shooting, but that she paid* no atten tion to them and knew nothing of their disappearnace. Within half a mile away there are three' other houses. The point where the boys bltehed their horse was about a quar ter of a mile of where their bodies were found. Thursday'night and Friday morn lag searching parties were out look-; SSag for the boys: The party was in creased largely Friday night and with lanterns the entire swamp on this aide of the river was carefully search ed. A party was again formed Satur day momlng, many who bad been oat all night renewing the search, which was begun at the place where the boys were last seen, with the understanding that it was to spread gradually and take In every foot of the ground. .? The portion of ground where the boys were found was assigned to a party among whom were Frank <3rosland and W. C. Carlisle. Mr. <3rosland was riding horseback up the branch when he saw the body of young Moore. rThe bodies remained as they were found until the coroner empaneled his jury, when they were moved and an examination made by Dr. W. J. Crosland. The jury made a thor ?ogh examination and took the testi mony of every one In the immediate vicinity. It Is practically impossible to harmonize facts with the theory of accident, yet nothing has develop ed to point concluRively to the theory of murder. ? Shot Him About Rent. As a result of a quarrel over some rent cottton on their place. Matt laall shot and fatally wounded Jesse Hall. The men quarrelled Wednes day and next morning Matt Hall en tered the store of Jesse Hall at Thompson. Ga., and emptied a load ?of buckshot into tho latter's left aide. Money in Cotton. The will of Hugh T. Tnman. who for many years was one of the best known cotton traders in the Soutn. was probatod at Atlanta Tuesday and showed an estate valued at from S3. 000,000 to $5.000.000. Much of It was in real estate. Accidentally Shot. At Spartanburg, Virgil Hlggias; aged 14, was killed by his compan ion Thursday when the latter's gun fclon Thursdat when the latter's gun was discharged. ? OS--A-WEEK* SAILORS MUTINIED' (SEIZED WAR VESSELS A5ID ' SHELLED RIO JANERJQ. ? ? ?ijiti:?_ Iplling Oiie Woman and Two Chd driesn in .the City,?Several Officer and Men idlled. :: At. Rio Janerlo, Brazil, the ,crews .of two battleships of the Brazilian, iBB^m^%^'r^^*?jj^ arid/.'turn 'Bd/.the-jr guns upon the loyal ships and also threw a few shells into the! elty. During the outbreak several officers were killed. The fighting j -ceased at night, but the ??evolvers! remained In possession of the two vessels. It is ^officially stated the trouble is not of a political character and should be described as a mutiny among the sailors to enforce certain concessions from their officers rath er'than a'irevolt' against the' adminis tration ojf' Pres 1 de n t ?' Fousec a. < For. s?ine time the men of the navy had beep agitating the matter of more pay. They also objected to the piraptices of. the nayy inflicting p'qrporal punishment upon surbordi- J nate or otherwise offending 'sailors. A private cable dispatch from Rioj Janerio aa'ys that' the' captain of the j Brazilian battieship Minns Geraes I pud several officers and men were Killed during the naval disturbance ^rVjBdcesday night. I A woman and two children were killed by the shells thrown in the city. The Chamber of Deputies Friday) evening in a vote of 114 to 2.3, pass ed a resolution granting amnesty to | the mutinous sailors on board the battleships Minas Geraes and Sao J Paulo, the coast defence ships Mar- i shal Floriane and Marshal de Odora, J and the scout ship Bahia. The Sen-j ate had unanimously passed the mea sure Thursday. Immediately after the lower house ] had voted to pardon the sailors for j having mutinied and killed several of their, officers and thrown shells- in ! to the city. President Foaseca au thorized Deputy Carvalho to visit the Sao Paulo and confer with the mutineers. Meantime, the mutinous vessels, which had been waiting outside the bar since noon for a signal to* come in, put to sea and disappeared. Their destination was-not made known. While the revolt lasted the peo , pie of the. city.jwere kept in, a state of suspense, fearing that the muti neers would make good their threat to blow up thee eCapitol unless their wishes were met. ? SHOT TWO WOMEN. I Crazed by Jealousy is Said to be the Cause for the Act. Frank Rickets shot and killed his j wife and Mrs. Nellie Britton. wi'h whom she had' been living in an [apartment In the business center of Anderson, Indiana, Thursday. Rlck | ets, who was arrested, declared that ,he had shot the two women att?-j his wife had shot at him. Rickets was j maddened with jealousy because his ] wife had been separated from him for several months. A policeman attracted by the ! sound of shots rushed to the build i.ing, found Riskets ?,-?th a revolver in his hand and the bodies of ilis i women lying in an upper hahway. Rickets attempted to shoot himself, but the policeman snatched the re volver from him. * HOSE WAGON SMASHES BUGGY. Crasho* Into Vehicle on Square at Durlington. While on the way to a fire Friday morning at 9 o'clock in response to an alarm turned in Trom the tr1 warehouse section of DafilngtCA, th< hose wagon collided with a b 01-29 OJt the square and came near Kllli">o tiu occupants Charlie Law, a who drives for one of the sales stv hies of the town, was driving through ithe square near the corner of Ca Ishua street '.vhen the fire team dash ed around the corner, meeting him i The buggy ?"as torn all to pieces. {and Law was though.'; to he seriously hurt. Medical aid happened to oe near, however, and the negro getting alonji all right later in vie day ? Right Injured in Wreck. Ki^lt: persons were Injured (none faintly i when Missouri Pacific pas senger train. No. <:ollided with a freight 'rain at Ott er vi lie, Mo, Fri day afternoon. The freight train had drawn in on a switch to allow the passenger train to pass, hut did not entir*1v eloar the main track and '.tu1 d /estilted. ? Kills Wife aw. Another. At Anderson, fnd . Frank Kicket* shot and killed bie wife and Mrs. Nellie Britto?, with whom she had heen living in an apartment, in the business centre of the city, iate Fri day. Rirkets. who was arrested, de clares that he shot the two woiuent after his wife had shot at him. * Many Out of Work. The num'!>er of unemployed in the I'nited States is estimated at 1,500. 000 by the investigating board of thp Howery mission in New York. About 15 per cent, of them are said to be in New York city and vicinity. 0BA2TO&BUBG. FOUGHT A BATTLE MEXICAN TROOPS AND MEXICAN REBELS MEET AGAIN. Hoots, Repulsed and Retreated to the Mountains. Rebels, in a Fight of Some Five ? -In an engagement near Chichau bau, Mexico, Saturday, which lasted [from 9 o'clock in the morning until 2 in the afternoon, six hundred Fed ieral troops rounted a force of four hundred rebels, driving them repeat iedly from strong positions and com pelling them to take to .the wooded l mountains. The revolutionists lost j fillteen killed and many wounded. ! There weere no fatalities or. the Fed eral siderbut several including, three officers, were woundtd. j Gen. Navano was in command of the Federal troops. He left Chlhua khs.u at 5 o'clock Saturday morning, [at the bead of four companies'of the 2nd batallion and two squads of cal vary from the. 13th regiment. Near I Fersno, twelve miles out, one of the [ squads of calvary fell behind to guard the road. They were ambush ed by the rebels, who- opened fire from bills on both sideea of the road, Capt. Florentino Gavica, with, fifty trropers, drove tht enemy from their positions. CapL'Gavica waited for a portion of the forces, who had gone forward, to reinforce him be fore ' pursuing; the insurrectionists.^ Meantime, the latter took a position on another bill, a short distance away, and prepared to resist an at tack. Within half an hour Gen. N'avarro reached the scene with his infantry and opened fire. Again the rebels retreated, only to seek a new posi tion, from which they were again I dislodged. They made a determined stand behind a stone wall. The fir I ing was heavy and here most of the loss of life occurred. Finally the rebels broke for the mountains, pur sued by the infantry for three miles. I The calvary did not. join In the pur suit because of the rough country.; Behind the wall the bbdies of fif teen rebels were found and ten dead horses.. The Federate abandoned the pursuit to make camp'and care for their wounded.' Several of the ;most seriously Injured were sent to Chichauhau for treatment. Artillery and calvary left the same night on a detour to intercept the revolution ists. ; t ... . OFFERS TO DIE FOR $200. Chicago Man is Willing to Kill Him self and Sell His Body. Tired of the struggle to eke out an existence, but wishing to have a "good time" before he- ends his life, Robert Tyler, startled the Chicago police by offering to commit suicide for $200. "I mean it. " said the man. "You may thing I'm crazy, but I'm not. If any medical college in-Chicago gives me $200 I .will agree that my body be given to it for dissecting purposes. Two hundred dollars would enable me to live sike a king for about two weekB, and at the end of that time I'd be ready to ! quit here." ? . * SHOT BOY'S HEART OUT. Boys with "Unloaded" Gun.?-One Instantly Killed. Win Hlgglns, age 15, was shot and instantly killed at his home, near Pacclet, Friday by an "unloaded'.' gun in the hands of his companion, Charlie Grlrhn, who Is about the same age. The two boys were sit ting on the Bteps when the gun in some unaccountable manner dischar ged, and the entire load took effect in the chest of the unfortunate boy. His heart was literally blown from his body. Both werf well known at | thidr homo town and the tragedy is much regretted. The coroner held an inquest; but attached no blame to Griffin. ? ? ? ? "Unloaded" Pistol Kill?. At Spartanburg. after an "unload ed" revolver, in the hands of Wallace Chambers, colored, was discharged and Will Stevens, also colored, was killed, Chambers threw the gun to the trround and smashed it to pieces with an axe. He then fell over the dead body of bis companion and cri ed pileously. * Conductor Kntully Hint. At Marian na. Fla.. Conductor .Mil bird Brooks wan throw n from a car J on the Jarrett Lumber Company's' road and died before he could be j soiten to a physician Death result ed in about a half hour after ih<- ac-1 [cideui happened and Brooks never I I retrained consciousness after ibe j i fnii *j Some Quick Work. At Nashville. Teno., a new church J building was constructed from the" foundation painted and furniture in-. stall-?I in oil.- day through the com- | bincd efforts of .three Christian! Churches; and ri service held in it j that night. There were about 1 ?0 [ workers and tin task was finished in | ten hours. * Convicl Attacks While M:iti Alleging ihai the while man bad iiin, whipped while he was a convict on the Chatham county farms, at Savannah. Ga.. E. J. Williams, a ne gro, attempted to assault Britt Rog erB.- was shot and killed. * TweBty-Fi?e' Toimg Women Croelly Boro ed or Cruiucd Ig Dieath ON STONE PAVEMENT Horrible .Scenes Witnessed When j Young Women^Eniplqyed "in Four j Story Factory/Bnildihg. Attempt to Escape from the Blazing Structure by Leaping from Upper Stories. At Newark. N.yJ.. Saturday morn ing, in ten.uiinu jai'.twenty-Eve t'oung women were burned alive or crush ed to death on-th? psverrent in leap ing from the - Windows und fire es capes of the fonr-etdry brick factory at the corner ! of'Orangfj'and High Streets. Fifty: were taken to hospi tals, two of whom may die. Among the Injured is Jo?e 'E. Slloan, a fire chief, who was overtaken by the fall ing walla :and buried in brick rub^ blsh. He is badly hurt, but may re cover. ' . H " "?'?* , ' The rush of the flames was so ln credltably swift-and threw such un reasoning terror into the huddled working girls bn the toj? story that the body ioti one was, found still seat ed on a charred sto?l beiHde the ma chine at which she had been busy when the first cry of "Fire!" petri fied her with fright, ? (Horrible as'mustj have been what went in the'smoke .of that crowded upper room, what "befell1 outside In the bright suhiightrwan- more hor rible yet. The building was extreme ly' inflammable' and ;the first gush of flames had cut off all possibility ol escape by the-'stalrways: The eleva tors made one trip, bul. took down no passengers'' and never came back. The only exit was by-turo narrow'fire escapes, the' lower platfo::ms of which were 25 feet from the pavement be low. -'' ' ' - ??' ' On these- overcrowdeil and steep lanes, scorched, danclhus; hot by the jets from lower windows pressed for ward a mob of "women, blind with panic, driven by the fire and'the oth ers behind them. A'net had bfeeh' spread -beneath the windows and the girls began to jump. "Like rats out of a burning bin" was the way a fireman .described^he.descent. They boiled out of :he windows like a thick treacle, rolled on the heads of those below tt.em and cas caded off the fire escape to the pave ment 60 feet below. Some of them stood in the windows outlined against the flames and jumped clear; others from the landings; still others from the steps where they stood. The aii was full, of them and they fell every where?into the net. on the necks or firemen, and 15 of taem on the hard stone slabs. When the awful rain ceased the-e were eight dead in the street and the gutters ran red. Seven more were so badly crushed that they died in hospitals. Fifty are still under sur geons' care. ? Clouds of smoke and showers of burning embers spread.over the city and rained down on neighboring roofs. As the news flew?and It lost nothing In the telling?pan'<; sproad. to other factories where many of the girls- in peril had friends and relatives and several firms ha-.; shut down for the day. Thousands flocked to the scene and made the work of the firemen and police mor? difficult. Italian silk workers fe'J in the street and prayed and luineM ed pitably. Priests and clergymen -vvAeri their way through the press \" give the last, r nsolations to those '>f their different faiths. Ambulance- and j automobiles commandeered for emei-j gency service ivere hurryi ig :n oppo sition directions to the hospitals a;.! back ana in. The building was p four s-.- y brick stru-iuie ??' voicd on th" two lower floors by the Newark r*ap"?.r Lex corunfiriy and the A. A. 0 .:\.-a r aper Bw?: Co; m .he th""' llx?r where the fire starved, by the A. chor Lamp C/Mflpauy anc the A>-??Klcc tric company and on the top Poor where th^ death list ran poi''iP.n by the World Manufacturing com pany, makers of underwear. The WH)den floors were ?o.jkel with oil drippiDgs from the machin ery and the flames ate through them like pasteboard. When warped and weakened the weight of the ma chinery t - ? t'-eis: from the ?v.f"s and they fell .nio the basement in ;: ho: - rible tanirle of hot '.ron and wangb-d humanity. Sadie Benson, an employe of the! A"tna Electric Company, was clean-! Ing an electric light fixture in a gasolioi; bath. The gasoline look j firt?she docs not know how- -and j trickled in a little rivulet of flam es on the floor, whei-e stood a full can ofj gasoline. The can exploded and thei burning liquid Hew far and wide. ] Ijewis t'oxe. an employe of the box) factory on the second tlocr. was j Standing in the hiil] at the time of j the explosion. The shock was strong1 enough. h>- said, to hurl him against j the wall, hut the girls upstairs at their whirring sewing machines did not hear the explosion. Fireman Flrown, who turned In the alarn; was at work directly op posite tie- building, cleaning 'he windows of (he engine house where he is statioucd. He saw a girl rush out of the factory Into the street screaming and wringing her hands. "There Is a fire in there." she ?BEB 29 1910. COLD-BLOODED SON KILLED FATHER ?' RATHER THAN PAY $2. Beat Him Over Head With a . Brick and Then to Make Sure, of His job, Pounded Him Again. . Benjamin Smith, in jaii.atMub"le, Ind., has confessed to the murder of his father, Charles C. Smith, a, far mer. The confession was the result of a sweating after the. youngs man had been arrested on suspicion. According to Smith, who is 22 years old, he and bis father had quarreled. over the question as . to whether or not the.young man should pay $2 a week for board at home. The young man struck his father, ov er, the head with a brick and. con tinued striking him until he thougat he was dead. Next he .-loaded his father into the family buggy, prop ped.his body in the Beat.and started for an old well on the. farm, nearby. On the way to the. well, ao.weve'r, the father revived a little and manag ed, to put his arms about the eon's neck, ^-hereupon he latter beat, his father over the head again with, the b'rick which he carried with, him for that purpose and continued to strike his father again and again until he felt certain he was dead. However, the son thinks, that his father wasn't dead when he threw bim into the well. "Faher drew a long sigh and son of groaned, just, as I.thew him. into the well,'' the son told the police: 1 Smith, his hands smeared with blood, staggered into the home of Oscar Shaw and told a story of hav ing been attacked by highwaymen. Smith's father was mysteriously miss ing, and susplcons were aroused which led to the son's arrest. Under examination he finally Bald that he. would show the police where his father's body could be found. He led the police to an abandoned well and. pointing, said, "There he Is. Tht corotter counted 27"wounds on the murdered man's head and face, and any one of half a dozen of these might have caused bis death. ? CHARGED WITH KILLING TWO. . ??? : Negro Held for Murder of Minister and His Wife. The murder of the Rev. Anzi L. Armstrong and his wife, Annie Artns Istrong, at their home at Dutch Neck, N. J., Friday night, has resulted In charges bfing preferred against John Sears, who was arraigned before J us ! tico of the Peace .Mills, and held without bail to answer two seperate charges of homicide. Rudolph Nor haus, who was brought to Trenton by the county authorities, along with [Sears, was released. Investigation established the fact I that the Rev. Armstrong and his wife were killed with a double-bar relled gun, which was found stand ing in a corner in the kitchen of the Armstrong home. This gun was bor rowed by Scare two weeks ago from I a .neighbor. Robbery 1b supposed to have been the motive. Sears is a half breed and his mother iB a negress. The mother has been housekeeper in the Arms-, trong family for more than thirty, years. . .. ADRIFT AT SEA, RESCUED. Steamer Picks Up Helpless Fisher man in Boat. Cnpt. Colcord, of the steamship American, in New York, from Puer to. Mexico, reported a passenger not on the list when thp vessel started. He is Thomas Hall, a fisherman of Stuart, Fla., who was found on No vember 22 frantically waving his shirt, as he stood in his 25-foot mo tor boat, helplessly adrift. A big wave had put his engine out of com mission. Tho liner went out of her course and drew nenr for the rescue, but Hall Insisted that his boat also be taken aboard and after more than an hour's work this was done. Hall bad drifted more than fifty milea from his starting point when picked up, and it has been five days since he left home. On lauding he telegraphed his w'fo who, doubtless, thought him drowned. ? cried, pointing back to the hall she' had left. Brown turned In an alarm and' then dashed lip the fire escape. .Al ready he fnund forty pirls at the forth story window, ?im/1 of them so j du zed with terror that they bad not the wit to pull down the sashes and | 'climb out. Brown smashed in the window and began pulling the girls j throuch on to the tire escape. He [counted forty that filed past him. j The Moor was far from cleared hut the heal bad then grown so intense) that the skin was beginning to crack from his face. He pulled himself up J to the window for a last look in, but at that moment a gush of red streaked smoke blinded and almost smothered him and he was forced to drop into tht Ice of the wall. "It was the most horrible thin, I've ever seen." hr? said afterwards. Chief Astcy laid the responsibil ity for the loss of life on the delay in turning in an alarm. He says thru five minutes were lost In trying to fight the blazing gasoline with sand in a barrel. "If those precious min utes had not been wasted." he al most sobbed, "we would not have lost one single life." * DRUNKEN NEGROES SHOOT AND KILL A WHITE EN CHEROKEE COUNT! If the Reports as Printed Below is Trne It Was a Cold Blooded, Bru tal Murder. If the account of the affair sent to The State from Gaffney Is correct a most cold blooded, brutal murder was committed in Cherokee County on Thanksgiving night. Here is the report as we find it in the Sate: Robt. Davidson, a young' white man, died at his home in the Wil kinsville section of Cherokee County Friday night as a result of a gainshot wound inflicted by one of three ne groes, Luther Curry, Ned Horton or Will Curry on Thanksgiving night, It Is impossible to'say exactly which one killed the man, although suspi cion strongly points to Luther "Curry. It seems from the evidences that all three negroes did some] shooting. The sheriff was summoned to the scene as" soon as the affair happened and the three negroes are ~noW In jail. Davidson was picked up and taken to his home directly after the shooting by some of his friends and physicians were summoned who at once decided that bis leg must' ho amputated as it was practically torn from the body. This was doi he was unable to survive the and died Friday night. Coroner Vinesett went to the scene Saturday morning aud an- Inquest was held. It seems fronr'the testi mony introduced at the inqrest that Davidson had been hunting and stopped at a negro church whert. a frolic was going on to gel some thing to eat before going home. He obtained something to eat and start ed down the road but was pursued by the three negroes and fired at by two pistols and a gun. A short time after he fell the negroes reached the j body and fired three- more shots at j him. All of the negroes'were drunk THE "UNLOADED" GUN. Gets In Its Fatal Work in Forest Port, New York. ' ' tT.V r, .V. , 'The coroner Is today investigating the death of Charles Mulcey, a 15 year-old boy, who was shot and kill ed by a companion of the same age Charles Jones, near their home In Forest Port, N. Y., Friday. The two had been hunting and were on thelT way home when the shooting occur red. According to the story told the coroner, Jones pointed his shotgun playfully at Mulcey, telling him to "halt on pain of death." Tr went off and the charge entei lad's head, death resulting 1m Joues declared that he did not nuvn his gun was loaded. . ? FOUND HIS DEATH CASE. Baffled Detective Killed Himself Be fore Admitting Defeat. -In practkil admission that he could not solve a case which had been intrusted to him. Barnard (Ike) Laz arus, one of the famous detectives in the country, committed suicide bj shooting in a hotel at Rochester [Pa'..'," last week. "?''He had- been running a private de tect've agency, and some time agr was given a case of systematic theft from a big Arm to ferret but.*' Hi could make no headway, and in des peration made giood his lifelong boas: that if he found a case he could not isolve he would commit suicide. ? DIME NOVEL HERO. Set? Fire to a Neighbor's House by F! nine-Tipped Arrow. Goo. Bomp. a 3 5 years old boy, <s under custody at Glcndale. Long Is land, charged with using a flame tipped arrow to set fire to the home of a wealthy neighbor. The lad lur ed the mistress of the house away by telephoning her that her little son was sick at school. The fire did $11. 000 damage. The fire marchal de clares that the boy started the the because he has been reading novels about how Indians set fire to the cabins on their way white enemies by means of fire on arrow tipb. * Boys Die Seeking Sister. At Norton. Va.. while searching through the flames for their little sister, whom they believed to he in their burning home, two little son? of J H. Robins mot death Friday When found by rescuers, the boys were so severely burned that death <|Uickly resulted The sister wat saved. The fire was du- an e.v plosion of powder ? Wounded Man Holds Robber. Although probably fatally wound ed. Albert E. Lee, station agent for the Pennsylvania railway at Edward sport. Ind.. grappled with the robber who forced his way into the station land held hfm until help arrived. I^ef was shot just below the heart and probably will die. ? Killed by Falling Tree. Kd Run. a negro about fifty years of age. was accidentally killed by a 'tree falling on his back Friday, while ?be. with a number of other negroes. I was felling some trees on Mr. Rieh i ard Carlis'r's place. In Newbeny .County. The negro lived aboet 15 , minutes. ? <0 WO CEKTS PEK COPY FitND LVNCHEU The Brutal nWer of a Young Girl % a Negro Speedily Avenged. WAS HORRIBLE CRIME Flute Clarke, Alter Relating Horn? ble Details of Attempt to Ravish, Before Murdering the Pretty Foor teen-Year-OId Daughter of a Lex ington Farmer, Shot to Death, Wib'i her throat cut from ear to ear, a pretty 14-year-old girl, daugh ter of a highly respected farmer at the Little Mountain section of Lex ington County, lies dead in her home, surrounded by friends and' loved ones, while Flute Clarke, a negro lies on the south side of I?lt?e* Mountain, a lantern across his breast: and a thousand' bullet wound* through his body^ " The above dispatch to The New and Courier, published in Saturd&jV paper,' told a story of horror'tail1 its quick avenging. The dispatch goes on to say that Friday afternoon, b*^ tween the hours of A and 5 o'clock, the young girl was brutally attack^ e'd by Clarke. There was no one ai the house' at the time, and only tha confeision of the nbgro is all'thati remains of the true story'. Th'e young girl's mother had gone to the home of a near-by neighbor. : '' The body of the'girl was'found by her young brother and ah alarm was given. The sheriff of Lexington was notified, and the bloodhounds from the county chain gang were dispatch ed to the scene in charge of Cant. Pete Mack. Upon arriyal at the scene the dogs at once took up the*, trail and carried it successfully to A field, where the negro had beea ploughing. Here they'stopped and the chase was: given up. Clarke was spirited away by some hilf-dozen person;} and the officers were-eluded: ' To those men he made a complete confession of the crime, !n which confession he estated'-thit he had' gone to the house for water and asked the young woman to bring him soin? "potatoes -to the well. Wheat she- brought them he made his fiend ish attack; He said that the girl screamed and said "she was going tq to tell her father. He then cut bet throat. The physician who was called in asserts that the negro did not ac complish his purpose. The glrl'sbody waB found lying In the yard near the cellar door, and the surroundings show that a desperate struggle was mado by the young girl. The dis tance from the well to where the young girl met her death is abont thirty yards, and she was dragged the entire distance. Her head was al-' most severed from the body. Upon arrival at the scene Monday night, at 9 o'clock. The News and Courier correspondent found a crowd of armed men, variously esetimated to number from BOO to 1,000. They were all armed to the teeth. M. M. Buford, the voteran sheriff of New berry, thinking that the crime wa? committed in Newberry County. Flute Clarke had lived on the pi acb for twelve years, haying ..been practically raised by' the :famiry*; He-'" was married and is said to have been! about 21 years of age. After having committeed the crime, Clarke return ed to the home of bis employer and even went so far as' to assist in car rying the body, to, the house. The scene of the crime is about 200 yards from the Newberry line and about a mile and a half from Little Mountain. As soon as the ne gro had confessed, tht word was whispered'from one to another and the crowd quietly left In small squads, to where the negro was be ing concealed from thee officers, Ii. was about 10.30 when the lynching took place. The crowd was composed of the sturdy citizens of the Dutch Fork oection and hundreds of Newberry people were on .the grounds. There were no signs of rowdyism. The vic tim is a school girl, hut on account of 'he Little Mountain School beine closed for two days, she did not at tend school Thsinksgivlng or Friday. Tho crime shocked the entire com munity, and on every hand the ex pression is heard that the negro re ceived his just deserts. At 11 o'cloctt the report oi guns are heard and j parties continue to visit the seena t Strange, it may seem, but the crime { was committed within less than two ! miles of the place where Cute Tvev.-?r I attempted to assault the wife of a pnbminent young farmer, about a year ago and for which he was legal lv haniir-d. a Chicken Shower. "Chicken shower-' is the latest Connecticut novelty In ministtrial donation parties. Sevonty members I of the Torrin Ford Congregational j church at Stanford called on their i new pastor, the Retv. W. E. Page. Monday night, eeach person carrying a live chicken. The tlock will stock will stock the pastor's hencoop to tht pastor's hencoop overllowlnc,. Killed in Football Game. At Winsted, Conn., Harry Lee. 17 years old, was killed there Thursday 'in a football game between the Tier ney cadets and an independent team, ! composed of Gilbert Preparatory ' School Students. His Rltull was frae t ured, ?