The times and democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, January 17, 1911, Image 1

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PUBLISHED THREE Three Ken Are Wounded in a Pitched Raitie Near Cashvilie, S. ?. mi S2B N. G. Alverson, Tally^ Noi-ris and "Otter's . Son Exchange Shots on Boundary Lina of Plantations Near Cashville In Spartanbnrg County Wednesday Morning.. .! The Herald says jaews .reached Spartanburg Thursday of a battle near Cashville Wednesday morning between a farmer armed with a pis i?TOl>aaid two of shis neighbors with shotguns,. Three persons were seri ously, though not fatally, wounded.' There has been bad blood for sev eral weeks between N; G. Alverson, ' a brother of Sergeant Alverson, of the Spartanburg police department,, and Tally Norris, who has. an ad : joining plantation. It started in' a dispute over a house. Further par ticulars as to the cause of the quar-. rel could not be learned last evening. The quarrel became more and more bitter, harsh words were ex changed, threats made and when the neighbors met Wednesday morning they were prepared for violence. Mr. .Alverson came to the boun dary, line between his and' Mr. Nor ris' plantation alone.' Mr. Norris was accompanied, by his two sons one named Alexander, and the name of the other has not been ascer tained. From the accounts of the affair which leaked: out Mr.- Alverson op-j ened fire on Mr. Norris with a thir ty--wo calibre revolver, shooting him I in the hip. The Norrises were stand ing on their own property, but only ) fifteen or twenty feet from Mr. Alver son. ? Alexander Norris, it is said," fired i at Mr. Alverson with a shotgun. .The latter was fortunately not facing the gun directly,. else he probably would have been killed. As It was, the shot struck him sidewlse, putting out his left eye and -passing through, his nose. 'Other shots entered his face, and neck. Mr., Alverson fell to, the ground] ' but managed to.-fire at;^-Alexander;1 iiahaotfng-- him-In the ?alf of"'the?Iegj ^'and breaking a bone.' Mr. Norris* other son'then'fifed ,^at Mr; Alverson- from farther away than Alexander: had been. The shot struck Mr. Alverson in the Btomach.1 He returned the .fire, while still Iy-I ' ing on the ground, and sent a bullet j ) through thev other's trousers, "leg. The' Norrises then retired. ' Mr. . Alverson, though weak and In great j pain from th?* loss of his eye, got on his feet and walked a distance of j two hundred yards back to his home. Drs. Pcsey and Alexander were called from (Woodruff and are at tending to all of the injured.. Mi. Alverson's wounds are said to be the | most serious. All three are in bed, but are likely to recover. No arrests have been made. Mr. Alverson is about fifty years old and has ? family. Tally Norris is about the same age. One of his sons is said to be twenty-three' years old and the other twenty-one. . . The scene of the fight is about one mile from Cashville and three miles ?from Reidville. Mr. Alverson has . been living there for . twenty-five : years. The Norrises removed there about Christmas time. . Sergeant Alverson ... visited his brother Thursday, but found him re | luctant to talk about the ' quarrel. 1 * TRAINS COME TOGETHER. Six Persons Met Death in the Terri-| ble Crash. In a collision between trains No. 49, the Boston and Buffalo special, and train No. 23, on the New York Central railroad, at Batavia today, b\x persons were killed and 18 seri ously injured, some of them perhaps fatally. The accident took place at 5:30 o'clock when train No. 49, due at the station at 5:35 and ahead of time, was standing in the station. Train 23, the Western express due at 5:20 o'clock, a little late, crashed into the waiting train from the rear. The engine of ,23 telescoped the rear Pullman of the waiting train and smashed into a day coach which was next. Three bodies of passengers* in the wreckage of the crushed sleep er were*so mutilated as to make identification difficult. Beneath one of the unidentified bodies was found a silver locket and a Masonic charm .inscribed "Cassius C. Perrin, 9581 Mecca Temple, N. Y." * Makes Us Shiver. A dispatch from Reno, Nevada, says the present snow storm is the heaviest within memory in this ds trlct. After a steady fall of 36 hours there was a record depth of two feet on the level late Friday night. A depth of 12 feet is reported at Truc kee and six feet at Immigrant Gap, Cal. * -n? ? Cheap Candy Killed. Eating a iarge quantity of cheap, colored candy, which its parents had gotten at a bargain, the 18-months old child of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smith, of Montgomery, Mo., became ill and died before a physician could be summoned. * TIMES A WJflEK. .^RADICAL CHANGES / <K ? ? ?:>?}: i r\ ^ SUGv ^\Ef THE NEW S(,flO?l <pMMENDED. \ s v0 Commission to\ j^&tate's Syst?m: Reports to Legislature After Year of Hard Work| . ' .?' Three amendments to. the . consti tution and important and far-reach ing alterations in the present school law are recommended in the report inade to the general assembly. Friday by the "commission to examine and revise' the school law of the State [and to recommend changes; in the ! same/' this report, with!.the accom panying bill, constituting perhaps the most important document yet .presented'to the 1911-12 legislature. "The.'.commission was created by; joint" resolution of the general as sembly, approved February 23, 3 910, the suggestion', for its creation h?v? ing'been made in the annual report] for 1909 pf Mr. J. E. Swearingen, State superintendent of education, f it was directed to "carefully examine and revise the common and high I school laws of, the State, with power | j to recommend any changes in the ex isting law by bill or otherwise," and was required to "report to the next session of the general assembly." In the resolution, it was specified that the following should be mein-1 bers of the commission: "The State | superintendent of education, the, in spector of high schools, the president | of. one of the State institutions of j higher learning, one'person familiar I with graded and common school sys tems, and one person learned i:a the law." Members not specifically i des ignated were to be appointed by the governor. As organized for worK, | 'the commission was composed .of Mr. J. E. Swearingen, State superintend ent of education; Mr, W. H. Hand, State inspector of high schools;: Dr. D. B. Johnsoh/president of Winthrop | (College; Mr. S. H.- Edmunds, super intendent of the Sumter city schools, j and Mr. Mendel L. Smith, attorney., of C?mden. Mr. Swearingen was chairman and <Mr. Hand the uecre-i tary. ? The commissioa thus summarizes I its important recommendations.' 7 "The- commission has endeavored to .make a practical and., progressive report. It has sought to retain the [ best; features of the present law and j to avoid radical or revoIuUrinairJ changes.' ? It -has-' 'been 'compenedi'1 thoweve'rV to recommend some im-| portant and far-reaching alterations in order that the new school law may help to meet present' needs and to j improve present conditions. "1. An amendment to. Bectlon.2, article II, and to section 24, article III, of; the constitution, will remove the obstacle that prevents many of our. best m?n from serving as school trustees^ Though the constitution forbids the holding of- two. offices * this provision has, by common con sent, been widely disregarded. This amendment seeks merely to--legalize service to education when rendered in connection with other sendee to the State. "2. The State superintendent of | education is held responsible for the acts of the State Board of Education, and, in the opinion of the commis sion, he should have some voice in j selecting its members. It is, there fore, recommended .that section 2,! article XI, of the constitution, be| amended so that henceforth the gov ernor shall appoint the State board] of education, upon the recommenda tion of the State superintend ent. "3. The commission recommends I the appointment of a State board of ] examiners for teachers in order that Jthe* present varying standards may be harmonized by the establishment'! pof a uniform method in the exami nation and graduation of applicants to teach. "4.. The county'board of education Is given large powers In three Impor tant respects: a. To levy a special i county tax. b. To apportion public | school funds, c. To choose from eli gible applicants the county superin tendent of education to serve for a| term of four years. . The right of all rpecial school districts organized under special acts of the general assembly to adopt their own text-books has been with drawn. The State superintendent of j education is empowered to appoint text-book commission, composed of I five public school men, to act con-| currently with the State board of ed ucation to adopt a dual list of text books and to prescribe unified courses of study for all the free pub lic schools of the State. "6. The members of the State board of examiners for teachers shall serve also as division supervisors of schools, who. under the direction of] the State superintendent, shall audit school accounts and perform such other duties as may be assigned. "7. The county superintendent of education is to be elected by the county board of education, in order that restricted qualifications may be demanded of all applicants. The term of the county superintendent is made four j*ears, and the minimum salary in any county is $1.200. . The State high school law is I simplified and strengthened, and the high school appropriation Increased to $75,000. "9. The State board of education is authorized to classify under a rec ognized nomenclature the schools and colleges of the State. "10. County boards of education and school district boards of trustees [are made! continuing bodies in order that a majority of their members ... OBANGrEBUBG, -. ? ? " BOU) YO?NG SANG FIVE NEW YORK YOUTHS WERE CAUGHT WITH BIG PLUNDER. The CeUar, Where They Conducted a ^"Fence," Was FUled With Valua ble Stuff." Five young men, comprising the most active gang of burglars that has operated in New York city in yeu9, are under arrest charged with hun dreds of the'ts. When Deputy Police Commissioner Flynn, with Acting CapL Price, of the Bronx Detective bureau, and five , detectives, raided the den where the plunder was kept they found $10,000 worth of plun der. ?'? i-, It is estimated the young fellows have, taken goods to the vaaue 01 $25,?0fl In, the past five years..; The prisoners are Grover Deisser,, ? .aged 17; George Straub,'16; Jesse Swain,. 17; Henry Ross, 15; and Herman Schultz; aged 27. The first three are charged with burglarly., Ross ann Schultz are accused of receivinK stolen goods. Detectives have evidence implicat ing other youths In the wholesale robberies of recent months and it is likely more arrests will follow. At the hearing of the first five, Schultz was accused'to teaching the boys to steal. They swore that when they were still innocent, five years ago, he got them under his control, and since that time , has been conducting a I "fence" and profiting through the sale of their plunder. Young Ross [has b,een sent to the Children's Aid Society home. ? The other members of the band win be sent to the pen I itentlary. According to Acting Capt. Price, the police have been looking for Schultz for some time. Five yea^s ago he was an interpreter at Ellis Island, but was dismissed. Later he lived fin a basement and it was there he was caught when the raid was made. He was alone at the time but the police waited until the entire gang had gathered. ? There are over 100 bicycles, a mo tor C3rcle, a dynamo and many sets of valuable tools on the list of goods stolen. In one corner was'a huge hamper packed with, valuable silver ware, cut ?-lass' ,clothing, whole sult3, dresses, bolts of cloth, cigars .and ?trinkets.1 When the/loot had been loaded in~? "patrol* wagon and taken to.the Morrisania station it filled the back room and part of the captain's room. THE BRAZTLLIAN WAY. The Forty-Five Rebels Meet Mysteri ous Ends. According to (reports from Brazil Jao Candldo, leader of the recent re volt in the navy, and 44.other muti neers have met sudden deaths. Can dido succumbed to gangrene while a prisoner, 26 of his assistants died from sunstroke while engaged in re pairing the fortress on Cobris island, and 18 others were suffocated in their cells in the prison on Villegainon is land. ? 1 When the later of the two recent naval revolts in Brazil was put down three weeks ago it. was announced that the mutinous sailors had been sent to states remote from Rio Ja neiro, where they were employed in [thd construction of highways and railroads. Since that time comparatively lit tle news has been gotten out of Bra zil.- but there have been persistent rumors of disturbances in the state of. Para on the north coast due to political dissatisfaction. * may be able, at all times, to form legal contracts. "1. An adequate system of reports is provided in order that school sta tistics may be reliable. "12. The State -superintendent of education is required to keep a cor rect account of all school bonds and tax levies provided for their retire ment. "13. Each county superintendtnt of education Is required to submit to the grand jury a 1 written report showing, by school districts, all re ceipts and disbursements made by him. "14. AH alterations of whatever kind in school district lines must be recorded by the clerk of court. Since the school district has been made the unit of taxation for school pur poses, it is absolutely necessary that school district lines he clearly and definitely established. "15. The most fundamental change recommended in the report is the new definition of enrollment, which bases the apportionment of public school funds on the average attendance of pupils. Under this definition the teacher, the school, and the district lose money every day a pupil is absent, and gain every day he is present. "1C. An attempt Is made to estab lish a permanent State school fund and a permanent building fund. ?"17. The additional expenditures required by this report will be in creased salaries for county superin tendents of education, a small ap propriation guaranteeing to each school district one separate school for three months for pupils of each race, the salaries of the division su pervisors, all of which "will Impose' only slight expenditures above pres ent appropriations made either by the several counties or by the gen eral assembly." ? - S C., TUESDAY. Eight Thoasaad Babies Facing Death in Chicago Labor War. .??,'? ' ,' * S?FFI? PITL4BI? The Striking Garment Workers Are Starring to Death in Sticking to Their Caiise-^LegisIature May In vestigate and Try to Devibo a Rem edy for 4he. Trouble. Eight thousand infants in Chicago face death from' starvation and dis ease as thii result of the garment workers' strike/ which for four months hast dragged its length out With no prospect of settlement in sight. Thht is the statement of both city authorities and union sympathiz ers, the latter of whom are at their wits end to obtain milk for the ba bies in the strikers' home, many of whom are already in the shadow of death from want. During I be past week the health authorities reported more1 than 100 cases of pneumonia, and diptheria among these children with a large number of deaths. W^th the utter exhaustion of the milk supp'y?now less than a week away if charity con tributions do not increase, it is ex pected thai; cold, hunger and illness will quickly end the miseries of scores of the younger children At least one. of the strikers, Mrs Rose Siegelheimer, has already died of starvation. Forv the"support of her two children with whom she lived in a dingy nasement, the woman bad been j foraging cruets from garbage cans. Of fven such aid as was avail able she was apparently Ignorant and the poor provender she found went Into < h*? mouths of her children. When nature gave out the woman fell across her miserable pallet aud was found dying by neighbors This was the seventh death due to the strike. Many cises of the samo sort are being, reported, and. even the adult strikers are suffering terribly. It is" inevitable that' if aid does not couie disease, starvation anl death- will win the labor war and force the hungry thousands back to toil under condi tions to remedy which they have given their lives . and the Jives of their little one'sr *""'' ? . The latest: hope for the situation arises from the action of the Illinois senate authorizing an investigation of the causes of the strike and an in quiry into what steps have been tak-' en to bring about a settlement. The action authorizes the presiding officer to appoint a committee of five sena tors to go to. Chicago and begin the strike investigation at once. The resolution calls for a report in 30 days. Steps leading to the adjust ment of the strike arbitration and to fix responsibility, with-a view to leg islation .making arbtraton compul sory, are contemplated in the reso lution. * ? WAS BURGLER'S ALLY, Telephone Employe Supplied the Facts to Robbers. Fred P. Hoffman, Bell telephone employe, is in jail- at Cleveland, 0., in connection -with several recent house burglaries, and has confessed to the police that he was a spy for a gang of thieves, whose loot has amounted to thousands of dollars. He told where the booty could be found, and the police have discov ered it. Hoffman kep' up a card index sys tem, which was also found in the raid o nhis room arid those of Burt Hols ridge and Arbel Harrison, arrested as burglars, in which were the nameB and full information about prospects. Hoffman told the police he would get information about the houses when he installed and removed tele phones. The index system showed how locks were fixed, where the sil ver was kept, size of families, their habits and other things about them. * WANTED WATER, GIVEN ACID. Young Widow Confesses Giving Child Deadly Poison. Arrested as she claimed her trunk, at the New York Central station Fri day, Mrs. Edith Melber, a widow, who says she is 23 years old, of Sche nectady, confessed that in a swamp near Albany last Friday afternoon she gave her five-year-old son, George, carbolic acid, from the ef fects of which he died. In explanation of her crime, the police say, Mrs. Melber asserts that she has been a widow four years, during which time she has had a struggle to care for herself and her [ child, and that this battle for an ex istence drove her to take her baby's life. She is an unusually attractive young woman, end at the end of her examination was unnerved and weep ing hysterically. When she made her confession, ac cording to the police, Mrs. Melber said that she gave the child the acid when he abked for a drink. * ? Four Too Many. The Rer. Samuel E. Howard is un der arrest in Shelblna, Mo., on charge of bigamy. He is accused of having five wives, three of the marriages having been contracted since last Oc tober. * 'AKT 17, 1931. SEE CAROLINA SOIL MANY FROM THE WEST WOULD ' LIKE TO LOCATE HERE. South Carolina Should Inaugurate a Publicity Campaign to inform Them. Farm land in South Carolina is at tracting the serious attention of farmers and investors in the North and Northwest. ? The State, depart ment of agriculture is daily receiving letters from substantial firms and farmers who ask for specific infor mation as to the lands for sale in this State, and this information is given by the State departme.'i;. of agriculture. The actual business transaction is always left by the de partment .to the owners. Those enquirers should be fol lowed up by an agent, who could present the advantages of the State in person. Most of these enquiries came from Americans, and they are the. very kind of settlers we want and should try to get. Several thou sand of such settlers would be a great benefit to the State, and with the proper effort they can be brought here. Commissioner Watson has re ceived several letters that are of in terest; concerning land in South Car olina. The letters are from substan tial farmers and business men. It is very probable that a measure will be'introduced in the general as sembly' during the present week calling for an appropriation to sup plement a fund to be contributed by the larger railway systems of the State, the Southern railway, the- At lantic Coast Line and the Seaboard Air Line, as suggested by The State, for the proper exploitation of the re sources of: South Carolina. The State' could not spend a small amount of money to better purpose just at this time, and the general assembly should give such a bill favorable con sideration. . The following letters, received by Commissioner Watson,: will, there fore, be of particular interest: ' "About seven years ago I became interested with some friends in the Canadian Northwest (I am a Ca nadian by birth), and started a cam paign through the Central ana Northwestern States to induce peo ple to go out to that country and we were very successful in locating hun dreds-on the Canadian prairies. On (a recent-.visit to that country I found, many Vere; dissatisfied with their lo-. cations. The summer season is so very short that the variety of crops is very limited and always in danger of being caught, with frosts, as was the case the past summer in many places. ' "On comparing the possibilities of that country with those of your State, four times as many farmers, I believe, could have been located in it in the same time as In the Ca nalian Northwest, as none of them would have to sacrifice their nation ality and its advantages. Since my return from the West I have decided to interest myself in locating some of those dissatisfied Northwestern farmers. In some part of the South of this country, where the climate conditions are more favorable for ag riculture. This is my reason for writing you at this time. I believe wth proper faithful works thousands of successful farmers from the north west of Canada and this country could be easily induced to locate in your State. Many of them could sell their lands now in their possession at good profits and purchase land at much lower prices in the South. "If you have any proposition you could make me, I would like to know it, and if you have not, if you can give me the name of some large cor poration who might take up a cam paign of this kind, I shall thank you. "I don't want a land speculaton scheme, but a real settler campaign. Though I am the treasurer and have been for more than 15 years of the above company which spends more ?than $1,500,000 annually'on adver tising in dally newspapers and maga zines for various corporations, yet in the business of locating practical farmers I find the most successful way is to meet tbem face to face and demonstrate to and give them actual facts and figures. "This is a most auspicious season to talk to the Northwestern farmer about the comforts and opportunities of a home in the South. If yo i are Interested in my proposition I would be pleased to hear from you ". The other letter read as follow;: "Will you kindly furnish me with what information you can that would enable me to s-ourc a large tr.-.ct o. swamp land, from 10.000 to 1 00,000 acres, that could be drained and cvi up in small uw^z with the Idea of my selling s L-ne to a list ur buyers which T have. Also price on ?:iiTfr^n lands per acre including timber lam1. Would like the best map of your State and whatever other informa tion you can gve me, and any ex pense on same I will pay." Many Deer Killed. According to the report of the De partment, of Agriculture, 57.500 deer were slain in the United States dur ing 1910. This record is little larger than that of previous years, but the fatalities to hunters increased about 50 per cent. * Hoggish Freak. The latest freak In the pig line has turned up at Pawnee, Okla. It Is a little pig with .'our ears and eight legs, and apparently is going to live to put them all to uBe. ? EXPORT OF COTTON SOME INTERESTING STATISTICS ON COTTON. Practically Two-Thirds of the . Crop Sent Abroad, Worth Over Half Bil lion Dollars. 'The highest record ever made in the United States was achieved in 1910 when $530,000,000 worth of the product was sent -to foreign j lands. This new record exceeded by more than $60,000,000 the previ ous f best' year in the value of cotton exported, according to the bureau of statistics of the department of. com merce' and labor. i . The quantity exported, however, was materially less than in certain I earlier years, having been but 3,641, 000,000 pounds, against 4,374,000, 000/in 1908, when the value was but $439,000,000. The average export price in 1910 was 14 1-2 cents per pound, against practically 10 cents in 1908; the high record year for quan tity, the average export price in 1910 having be^n higher than in any years since 1874.. December, 1910, also shows the 1 Ighest monthly record, the total value of cotton exports in that month being, In round terms, $103,000,000, while no earlier month ever reached the $100,000,000 line. The average export price in Decem ber was 14.8 cents per pound, while in the months of July and August the average was 15 cents per pound. 1 This $630,000,000 worth of raw cotton exported represents approxi mately two-thirds .of the production of the country, a comparison of the figures of production and exportation for a long term of years showing that about one-third of the crop Is usually retained for domestic use; and this suggests a valuation of approximate ly $800,000,000 for the total raw cotton product of the year represent ed by these export figures. To this, however, must be added the value of the cotton, seed, of which the ex portations m the form of oil amount ed to nearly $13,000,000 and. those of oil cake about $10,000,000, while of course large quantities of both were consumed In the United States. The countries to which this 530 million dollars' worth of cotton ex ported in 1910 .went, stated In orrler of magnitude of their purchases, are: The United .Kingdom, approximately 243 million dollars; Germany, 140. .million;',. France, J 62 .mjliipni^^taly, 28 million; Spain, ll> million; Can ada, 10 1-2 million; and Japan, 9 1-2 million; these figures being based necessarily on estimates for the month of December. . The United States is by far the world's largest producer lof cotton. An estimate of the cotton .production of the world for the season of 1910 II supplied to the bureau of statis tics is: For the United States, 10, 155,000 bales of 500 pounds; India, 4,186,000 bales; China, 1,200,000 bales; Egypt, 970,000 bales; Russia (Asiatic provinces), 768,000 bales; miscellaneous, Including Brazil, Peru, "Persta, Turkey and other countries, 645,000, making his estimate of the total world crop for the season 1909-10 18,049,000 bales, of which 10,155,000 were produced in the United States. This estimate places China third in rank among the world's cotton producers with an annual production of 1,200,000 bales, most of which is manufactured Into yarns and cloth by hand machines, while 200,000 bales are now annually exported to Japan. Of the cotton crop of India he estimates that slightly less than one-half is exported. Of the Egypt Ian cotton, practically all is export ed, going chiefly to Europe and the United States, Its long staple and silky'lustre rendering it especially valuable for use in conjunction with the shorter stapled cotton of other parts of the world. The value of raw cotton Imported Into the United States during the year 1910 was,in round terms, about $15,000,000, of which $10,000,000 worth came direct from Egypt, $2, 000,000 from the United Kingdom, presumably also chiefly from Egypt, nearly $1,000,000 from Peru, and $750,000 from China. Meantime the value of cotton man ufactures exported during the year was, in round terms, $35,000,000, and of the cotton manufactures im ported, $60,000,000, of which more than one-half was in the form of laces, edgings, embroideries and oth er high grade manufactures of this character. Comparing the total value of the cotton exported in 1910 with that of earlier years, the figures of the bu reau of statistics run as follows: 191 0.$5.10.000,000 1909.462,000,000 1 908. 439.000,000 1 907.-170,000,000 1 906 . 413,000,000 Prior to 1906 the total had never reached the $100.000,000 mark, though the quantity exported in 1910, which was 3,641.000,000 pounds, was less than in any year since 1904; these figures in all cases being for calendar years. * Guards on Train. Bandits who are ambit:. ~ .o hold up passenger trains on the Utah di vision of the Union Pacific will en counter the most improved rifles in the hands of men who know how to use them. Under an order from the division superintendent each passen ger train will carry an armed guard. The plan is the result of the robbery of the Overland Limited last week near Ogden, Utah. * ?WO CENTS PEBi COPY A Hob Attacks the Jiil and takes Ost Negroes and Kills Them. TWO HUNG AND ONE SK?T One Under Sentence of Death for Wife Marder, Awaiting Setting , of Date of Execution?Two Others Charged With Assaulting White Girls But Not Yet Trie*. ?Storming the Shelby county jail at Shelbyville, Ky., on Sunday morning, a nrob composed of less than 100 men seized and lynched thn;e ne groes, two of whom were charged with assaulting white girls and a. third sentenced to hang for the mur der, of his wife and held in jail un til the day for his execution could be set. , The three were lynched in differ-: eht places, and what first seemed'to have been a single lynching was found to have ben a triple one only with the finding of the three bodies. The body of Eugene Marshall, sen tenced to hang for the murder, of his wife, whoni he had beheaded, was found hanging to a bridge over the Eminence Pike, only a short distemce from the jail. Jim West, employed a3 a< chauf feur at Shelbyville for several months and who, it if? said, had been seen throwing kisses at white girls, and who was charged with assault ing the daughter of a Shelby county farmer, was one of the' victims. He, too, was hanged to the. bridge. Wade Patterson, the third negro lynched, was also, charged with; as saulting a white woman. Pr.tterson attempted to escape from the mob and was shot and his body thrown into a creek. The mob which attacked *h.e jail went about its work quietly and few persons knew of the triple lynching until the bodies were found several hours later. I ? (Few of the mob were masked. The jail lock was smashed with s> sledge ' hammer and there was little difficul ty in getting to the/prisoners./ According to. Deputy Jafler Horn ! back, . Jailer Edward Thompson hid : [ the jail keys when the mob appeared ? ah?r^TatSfr'"when' 'fhe'"mcib",became~' J more insistent, Hornback let the men Into the jail office. j "They , said there were three ne groes here they were going to get jor else blow up the jail," Hornbach said. "They kept yelling for the dynamite, while/ some oil the mob [Started to beat on the cell locks with a sledge hammer. About twelve men had their guns pointed at me, de-i manding the keys, but I insisted I did not know where they were. Fin ally, at 3.25, they broke open the cell door and took out West, Mar shall and Patterson." PULLED THE APOSTLE. Chicago Police Interfere With "Abso lute Life" Colony. Evelyn Arthur See, self-declared "apostle of a new life" in which all ?beings will be perfect, Is held in jail in Chicago, 111., to answer a charge of disorderly conduct grc ig out of his "absolute life" colony. See In court refused the services of an at torney, saying he had the counsel ot God, and would purify all those pres ent in the court room. When the police raided See's quar ters they found two girls, one .19 years and the other 17, who admitted in court that they had been living with See for several months, unchap eroned. Mona Rees, the older of the two girls, according to the plan of See, is to become the mother of the first "nearly perfect" child, she her self being almost perfect, according to the cult's teachings. The other girl, Mildred Bridges, was striving to attain that state of purity, she de clared, that would place her on the same plane with the Rees girl. The "perfect, and hence sinless" trio will appear in court at the time of the final hearing. See will be sent to jail, and the girls probably will be placed with some society. ? Robbed of Savings. An old gentleman by the name of Bedford was robbed by three negroes, near Seneca, Tuesday night. It is rumored that he carried several hun dred dollars, the savings of a life time, and was on his way to his son's home when .tfcgg^Sebbery oc curred. The victim .-?ffied the mon ey in a small hand uag. When the negroes approached they wanted whiskey, but after taking his bag and cutting it open they took the money instead. * Adrift on Ice Floe. Eighty-five fishermen were car ried out into the Caspian sea on an ice floe Tuesday. A steamer was re quisitioned at Baku and sent to the rescue of the men, but the chances that any of the number will escape death Is poor. His New Job. A San Francisco conductor who recently embraced religion, was, called upon to take up the Sunday morning offering. He did very well until he came to a boy. "Young man," he said sternly, "you will have to pay half fare."