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M IG MARCH 149 VOL. XX. MIANNNG, S. C., WEDNESDAY.MAC14196N.2. FATAL HlHT. Chief of Police White Shots and Kills Farmer Ashley IN A SHOOTING t C1AP At Hlnea Path, S C., and the Friends of the Dead Man Wanted to Lynch White, but Troops Were Sent to the Scene at Once. A terrible tragedy was enacted at Honea P4th cn last Thursday after noon, as a re. u't of which J ohn Mar ion Ashley was killed. A dispatch to Ths State says Chief of Polic: White undertock to arrest a son of Mr. Ash ley when Mr. Ashley drew his pistul and attempted to shoot Mr. White, whereupon Mr. White drew his pistol and dred twice In quick saccebsion, both balls takirg effect, one entering the chest ard tue other the stcmach. Mr. Ashley aiso fl d twice, one ball grazing M- Wu tiumb. After i this M-. Wzute turn. d and walked into Rolla. d-s, when tie was fired at by some one from behiid the store. I There wls a large cro vd in town t and considerble excitement prevailed for a time. Reports were current that I an attempt would be made to lynch I Mr. White and the sher;ff was tele j graphed for ard later the govarnor was asked to ti n ad c'mpany here to prevent possible s The sher 1ff and a .compary 1n m. Ancerson have arrived and every t.Lung is quieti at this hour. Mr. White suriencered to the sheriff and has been -ent to Anderson. This is the first homicide that has occurred within three miles of Honea Path. White received one wound. Excitement was high when shoot ing took place and all kinas of wild rumors were atbat as to the intentions of the Ashleys, who were in Hones Path in large Lumbers. So far they have done nothing except watch close- I ly what they think. is the hiding place of white, threatening to kill him 6 at first sight. The military company a from Anderson has bten ordered to I Honea Path. Tne c mvany was sent t to give the best protection to the ,po liceman. The whole town was armed and had the Ashley's attempted to I reach White a bloody riot would have e followed. John Marion Ashley died about 10 o'clock Tnursday night. Cap,. P. K. McCuLy, J -., arrived with the mii- I tary company Lom -Anderson on b special train at the same hour. Sner iff Green accompanied the troops anid took commanoi of conditions in Honeas Path immediately on nis arrival. Pa lice man White was placed cn the special train and taken to Anderson for safe keeping. He was shot In the hand and is not seriously hurt. While exc.tement was intence imediately after the shcoting, it gradlually sub sided as time passed and when the military arrived the streets were c'.ear-C ed and order was restored. Tne Ashley clan began to thin out. The State says news of the trouble reached Columbia acout beven o'cloca Thursday night, in a message to Gov Bleyward, asking him to take steps to prevent further trou'ole. It seemec to be feared that the Ashleys would at tempt to lynch Wnite if he made an effort to get away from the houseto which he went after the shooting, Gov. Hey ward at cue got into commu nication with Sheriff Green of Ander son and instructed him to go at once to the scene and ordered the Anderson militia company to turn out sub~j cL to the orders of the sheriff, giving in structions also that a special train be secured to take the sheriff and militia to Honea Path. Sherdf Green was al ready preparing to go, although he was sick, and he immi diately proceed edi under the governior'b Instructions. Capt. P. K, McCuiy, Jr., soon had his company ready to leave Anderson, 35 etrong, and the trip to Honea Path 'was evidently mace in a short time. It Is ten miles from Anderson to Belsen over the B~ue Ridge railroad and eight miles from Beiton to Honea Path over the Columbia and Green vylle division of the Scuthern. Wflen the party reachedi Honea Path White was ~at otcs secured, witoout any trounle from him, of course, and wai. taken to Anderson by the sheriff. Capt,. McCully, it seeme, renained in charge of the situation at Hones Path. Honea P.ath is in the county cf An derson, but the killi ng of the negro Allen Pendleton last September, iin which John Marion Ashley and otherb were implicated, took place a few mites from the town of Honea Path In Abbeville county, the town being very near the line. Joan Marion Ash ley was one of the men under indicL ment for the kiilir g tf Pendleton. The case agalLst them was to bavr been heard at the c.,urt in Atbbviule last month, but was postponed. Pendieton, it will be remmbered, killed yougg Jim Moore and In turn was himself "lanched" by "unknowo parties," for wh~ca deed warrants 'were taken cut for John Marion Ash ley, J. R. M.Jore, the father of the boy killed, J:hn, J.:sh and Will Moore, his brothers, Sam Bigby and Hugh BJweI. John Marion Ashley was an urtele by marriage of the bo~s Jim Moore, and according to tce evi dence at thi. ?. quest he was the' leader of the ga g wno took Pendleton to the woods. John Marion Ashley is a cousin of the justly celebrated "Ci izen" Josh Asbley, who has for so many years represented Anderson county in the legilature. Me mbers of the A,hki y family have had serious trouble be fore this with the police of Honea Path. Policeman White, it seems, has not long- ben on the force of Hones ON RIiHT LIN. THE NEW LISPENSARY BOARD TO (ORRECT RECENT ABUSES. Request Blank Feature Fevived in all Iispensarics and Gcods May be Sent Back. The new state board rf dispensary directors assumed control of the busi ness Wednesday afternoon, adopting a sensation set of resolutional as a starter In what promises to be an im proved ax.d highly interesting admin istration. The resolutions assert that "several hundred thousand dollars worth of high priced goods" have been purchased by the old board "with e no legal record of purchase" and ap parently "not ordered shipped in ac cordarce with law." Tnerefore, the r resolutions say, the board will em ploy the best counsel It can find and r in the event this suspicion is confirm ad "the shiopers of these goods will be notified that these goods are here sut jset to their orders, and the sam. must be removed at once." The resolutions go on to instruct the clerk to publish a complete In- d vjice of the gocds on hand, see that the people of the state can and will c iee the condition of affairs at the a ;tate dispensary on the 1st of March, a 1906." ri And "the commissoner is hereby nstructed not to rec Ave any goods a laimed -to have *been bought by. o1 r d predecessors in c tice, or any goods ow i2 transit; and that no goods c whatever shall be ordered ex:ept cods purchased by the present biard f directors." b Tae dispensary investigating com a nittee is called upon to furnish the t] ames or any whiskey houses sus 0: ?ected of -unfair dealings with the a tate "so that we can hold up their ' Ads." Tae request blank feature of the aw which Senator Tillman "roasted" he old board for allowing to fall ino a lisuse is called back into operation n no uncertain terms, delinquents iv a ihis respect to be jErked up before c) ;he governor. d Another re:ommendation of S na ior Tillman is carried cut in chang C ng the form of the advertisement for i >ids so as to put them on a competi- p ive basis. t] Although the state dispensary is in e irwent need of certain lines of sup- g ies only about 8,:-00 worth of pur- ] biases were made in cheap goods to ti upply immediate needs. The board u 6journed to meet again on the 20th g rhen the legality of vurchases made )y the old board will be further can- tE rassed. CA The annual stock-taking now In b, rogress will not be complete for sev- st ral days. Commissioner Tatum esti- | ates the stock on band at the state ispensary at $40,000. Probably more b han that amount is in the sub-dis- u: ensaries throughout the state. El Five cars of high priced whiskey are SE iw standing In the yards, Cornmis el oner Tatum having refused them. tr low much more is on the road is not vi :own. The old board has not yet cl ade Its report to the legislature. The a oly member of the old board present , o transfer the bi.siness to the new ti )ard #as Mr. Boykin. it The new board gave out a r umber y f clerical jobs today. M. H. Mobley as made clerk of the board to eun--p eed G. H. Charles, resigned, J~ S 3. ri Paust, of Bl~mberg, was made general I okkeeper to svcmeed Mobley, Miss r' ~ade Thrailkill, t Ricaburg, succads bi ~iss Florence McKa zie as stenoir apher to the board and William F. n aimar, of Columbia, sic.:eeds Jon L. 'aorp as inspector. 3 The resolutions, which will create 31 o much interest, were introduced by fa iiij Black. They were unanimously si dopted.___________q A Petrnin-adBdy.a Rzcentlv G. W. McKown. E. P. dacmson and Kenyon Mz~raw had ccasion to take up the remains of a ady relative who was buried in the o ~ervce grave yard, about seven miles a rrom Gaffney, and move it to another rave in the same cemetery, When hey dug down to the box and attemp- y ted to move it they fcund it too heavy e for the help at hand to move. They >pened the coffln and to their ami z h c nent they found that the body was artly petrified. Toe head and feet t ad decayed- but the rest of the body b was perfect. The body was re-entered b s was at first planned. This lady was I ne or Gaff ney's most highly respected ad best beloved ladies. Murder and suicide. A dispatch from Augusta. Ga., says . L Cohen, a young Hebrew, at an early hour Thursday morning after1 retiring with his wife at a house on Earket street, secured a gun, shot his 1 wife and tben himself. He died in stantly. Tne woman never regained nsciousness, and died a short white af er being fud several hours iater. Tiey came from Savannah a few days ~go. They were marg!ed here six weeks ago. Editor Kilis Editor. L. Stuckey, editor of Tne People's Demands, was shot and killed at C-il fx, La , Thursday morning by A. M. Good in, editor of the Colfax Chront cle. The cause of the tragedy was the publication of an article by Srtuck ev which it is alleged was a reail .ction on the character of Goodwin. The shootirg occurred on the depot plat ?o:m. Geodwi fired three shots, all of which took effect, killing~ S -uckey almost instantly Bank Examiner. The governor, upon the recommen dation of the banks, has appoInted L. C. Holleman, assistant cashIer of thle people's bank of Anderson. bank exa miner. Mr. Holleman is 35 years old and a fine business man. Toe salary is $3,000 and traveling expenses, and e is to have an assistant at a salary of $1,500. Fitty Scories. New York is to have a skyscraper 50) stories in height, the top of which will pe erected at Broadway and Lib erty street by the Singer Manufactur ino- company. C0TS LIFE TERM. Hasty Found Guilty of Murder With Plea of Mercy. A PATHETIC SCENE, Lter Receiving Sentence of Life Im prisonment in the Penitentiary the Prisoner Br eaks Down and Weeps With His Friends in the Court House After deliberating for something :ver twelve hours the jury charged ith the trial of George Hasty, at kaffney, for the murder of Milan Ben Lett, brought in a verdict on Tuesday orning of last week of guilty with a ecommendation to mercy. While to accurate poll could be ascertained, t is understood that the majority of hei jurors stood for capital punish 2enL and acquittal was not an issuc. hdrtly after 8 o'clock the judge re aired to the court room and the ver ict was announced. Tne news of he agreement of the jury spread the ity like wildfire. Since the men re mained out so lo.g, the prediction ras expressed that a mistrial would !sult. Bat the verdict was a triumph of w and order and decency. It vin icated the majesty of the law, and ill stand as a warning to those who ick that by any meens they can ie lip shod over what is decent and rderly, and in doing so spill human lod and lightly escape. Tae senti Lent in G.ffney was strorg'y against e con victed man. Tae good people f Cherokee county do not want to go a recrd as upholding or countenanc ig him and their verdict is the best viderce (f their opinion. At 9 30 o'clock court conv ned. At >rneys fr defendant gave motion of new trial, which was overruled. fter a short time George Hasty, andcbffed, and accc mpanied by as eer, walked down the aisle from ie main entrance f the court room i an erect and indifferent manner ia reaching the chancel of the bar, side of -which he was soon to sit, he leasantly exchanged the greetings o ie day with Col. George Johnstone, ading c junsel of the defense, who as comfortably seated near a st.ve. [e found his accustomed place inside ie railing, and became an apparently ninterested and indiffaient specta >r. Judge Memminger asked if the de dant was ready fojr seLtence of urt to be imposed. Mr. H. K. Os irne, of ccuasel for the defense, ated that tne motion for a new trial ould not be argued-it would be lef . th the court. But an effort would made for the arress of judgment ader the act ,of 1905, under which 1s court is held, which limits the 'ssion for one week, and that. under is rule the verdict rendered after tdaight last Saturday was null and id, and wor'ld eliminate the passing sentence. The court replied that e wolo be governed by section 27 'hich he had in view when he carried 2e case over, and further stated that would be left to the supreme court >be the ar biter. Wen the judge again asked if the risoner was ready for sentence, the ply was, "subject to our motion," 'ne court said, "I am goibg to over le tnat motion; are you ready for ~ntence ?" Mr. Osoorne replied, "We have no rther motion, your honor." Te prisoner was then directed to ~and up. George Hasty arose and -ood erect with his face sqaarely iing the judge. There was not the Ightest bat of an eyelid, the faintest uver or twitch of the muscles of atures to indicate that he was in ny way impressed by the solemnity f the occasion. But there sat the' dge in his ermine-there were the 11ers of the cour t -about the p'ris ner were his lawyers and in the rear the room~ same three hundrt d peo The scene was dramaticand Ju-.ge E~mminger, in addressing the pis ner, said: "You have been tried -here on arge of murder and you have suff zr d the fearful and horrible ordeal of he last five days in which your life tas been hanging in the baiance. 1 Lave endeavored to give you an abs;, tely fair and impartial trial. Yo~u tave been represented by able and enest counsel. You~ have had the ,enefit of a most complete and able. etense. I may have erred in the onduct of your jcase. It is possible, >ut I do not think sO. I have given ou my best Judgment and best bought in this case, The jury has unvicted you and given you the bene it'of the law, which reduces the pun sment for murder from banging to mrisonment for life. The court has o discretion in the matter. "Have,. you anything to say why ntece should not be pronounced on Te prisoner replied through coun el. "Nothing, but what has been btated." Tu'e ecurt said: "Listen now to the sentence cf the aw. It being irquired of the defen lant, George Hasty, wh'ether he hath nything to say why sentence shcuid 0t be pronounced against him, and 2 saing nothing to the contrary ex sept what has already been said, it is uereby ordained and it is the sentence f the law that he, George Hasty, frow henceforth and hereafter, be confined at hard labor In the State penitentiary for the remainder of his natural life." Af ter concluding the sentence Basty resumed his seat. After receiving the sentence of doom so solemnly and impressively uttered by the judge, as he stood strong, youthful and full of life In the sunlight that besmed through the windows of the court room, and re seating himself, it appeared that Has ty was a man of iron. For five days he had passed the ordeal and it seem ed that the crucial test surely had been experienced. Was the man eay mae of iron? Was there any manner In which to reach his heart; or was he to any degree susceptible to gentler or enn bing Influences? Then the unexpected happened and in a very abrupt and startling manner. His honor bad re.ired to the ante room and there was a stir and bustle about the curt room. R v. Ernest Ross, a young minister, walked to the seat of Hasty and placed his arm around the unfortunate young man. Then the pent up feelings of a week. the latent springs of emotion burst forth in a torrent of tears. The young man wept unceasingly, without sound, but the silerce was more pain-. ful and awful than the sharp sbrill cry of many babes or women. Her was a strorg man in agony. Toe minister wept with him. Presently they were j )ined by John Kitchins, a barber and close friend of the prisoner he is a youth of slight build, light complex:on with hair to match and blue eyes. He too wept. Toe three made a strange picture as they group ed tcgether around a desk in the chancel of the bar, while a short 21s tance off several leading lawyers car ried on a lively c.a.rsation, intvf spersed with laughs and smiles, to tally oblivlous of the great grief only a few feet away. When the minister departed Kitchins remained with Hasty. Tae two sat together in the chancel and thrmughout the talk teare would trickle down Hasty's cheek and is companion sorrowed with him. After remaining in cuurt room for an hour after sentence had been pro ounced the handcuffs were placed on Hasty by the s'ier ff ind he was ac ompanied again to the county j jil, where he will remain until the su rreme court finally settles the matter whether or not he will get another trial. In the event he fails the re mainder of his life will be spent in the penitentiary. Miss Sheridan and Miss Bishop were aot present when sentence was passeo )n the man who had deprived each of aer intended busband. These young women who, during their stay here lave been shown manv courtesies and ittentions in Geffae-, will return tc morrow and Tiursday to-their north rn homes. Miss Bishop gces to ,oicago bnd Miss Sheridan to New York. The writer has it on excellent Luthority that the verdict of the j irv is satisfactory to these young womer, who have -uff red so much as the re ult of the tragedy. Mr. J. C. Ots, of counsel for the >roecution, received a telegram from L. M. Comleigh, president of the Ac ors' S clety of America, which reads is follows: "Congratulations to ycu and oth3r rentlemen, who so admirable Con lucted pros-cotion. Compliments to 9r. Sease and thanks to .you all for nagnificent defence of laclies' ,.harac ers against Johnstone's cowardly as ault." LOST IN THE SIERiETS. Vx Children D'sappear in New York in Tw,> DAys. A dispatch from New York says nto the mystericus maze of the me ropolis six children have vanished rom their homes since Monday with >ut leaving a single clew to aid their elatives and the police in the search hich is being made for them. Albertina Weirnz. fifteen years old, >retty and tall, left her home at No. ~38 East Oae Hundred and Fifty hird street, Mor day morning to go to er work at the Enterprise Dyeing ~ompany's plant at C Aumbus avenue .ud Eirhty-fifth street. She has not ieen seen since, althe ugh every eff ,rt ias been made to find her. Her par mits believe that she has been kidnap ,ed. Margaret Kemp, aged thirteen rears, and Elna Wyaiss, aged ten, ~emporarily held at the Ltura Frank in home and hospital for treatment, were seen talking to a strange man ~onday afternoon on the hospital pi zza. They have not been seen since lhough they were dressed in the cray uniform of the home, and are be. ng sought by the police, the Gerry accety and their relatives. Tnomas Rowlins, aged eighteen, of So. 1514 Lexington avenue, invired nnie Hyamns, aged sixteen, of No. 115 Euast Ninety-eighth street, to go jut and get some soda water with him Mfonday ev.nidng. The b-:y displayed $50 in the store. After leaving the stcre nothing has been seen of the youth and h's companion. General alarms have been sent out in the case of each of the missing chIldren, ani all the policemen of ev ery precirct have been searching for them, but in vain so far. Murderer Freed. Word reached Booneville, Owsley county, Ky., Fri 'ay, that the Court f Appeaisahad denied a rehearing to Hiram Brandenburg, who was rc cently i.onvicted of thte murder 'of R-bi~rt Lynch. At an early hour tat morning half a dczan friends of the condemned man entered the resi dence of the j iler, Jon B~'ker, and at the point of their 'pistels covnpel led him to open the door of the priso add release his prisoner. They lock ed the jailer in the cell with his own keys. The jailer says he is certain he does not know who the men were, Big Jug Trade. "How does the jug trade hold out? queried a Herald reporter to an em poye of the Southern Erpress co mpa nv Friday. There is a s.ight irc:-ease. you might say, instead of the seventy dye galion per day average, it wouid e a conservative estimate to put it anyvwhere firm e ghty to ninEty gal lons pr day. Oa some dayn-Fr. day and Satu.rdal s for instarc?, th~r. is a tremencons rusb; but the average throughouit the week will bold gooc at eighty or ninety gallons per de-y. Tis f.on the Spartanhurg Hera~d shws taiat the jug trade in that cit3 is 11urisiiing. Faund in a Tree. When a quanity of nitro glycErine xploded near Williamston, W. V., two weeks ago, H D Kerr was driv lg a wagon in which it was being carrie d. All that could he found of him immediately af ter the explosion was a few pieces of tiesh and these were shippedc to Ohio ton burial. Fr: day his lacerated body was found in a tree three hundred feet from the sno f the rer lesion. A MINE HORROR. Over Twelve ffundred Men En tombed in a Furnace. TERBIBLE DISASTER Hundreds of Bodies Have Been Taken Out. France Is- Shocked by the Magnitude of the Catastrophe the Worst in Mining History. A dispatch from Paris says a min Ing catastrc-l-e of incaluable horror sad magnitude has stricken the great coal centre of northern France. An explosion of fire-damp at 7 o'clock Satu:day morning carried death and destruction throughout the network of o'al mines ctntered at Courriere, md fire followed the explosion, mak ing rescue di~fcult, and almost im possible. All France has been pro foundly sh ccked by the magnitude of the disaster, which Is said to be the greatest in the hist')ry of continental inir g. The cene of the catastrophe is the mcu-.ainous mining region near L-ns in the departmcnt tf Pas-de-Calais. Here are huddled small hamlets of the mine workers, who operate the most produc:ive coal mines in France. The subterranean c*ambers form a 3eries of tunnels. Six of the outlets ,re near Dens, and others are at Jourriere, Verdun and many other points The output of these mines is particulary sombustible and is largely ed in the manufacture of gas and in smelting. About 2,000 miners sork the group of mines and,. witb ,heir families, make a population o rom 6,000 to 8,000 souls The catastrophe took p.ace shortl3 f er 1.795 man had descended into ne mine Saturday morni'ig. There was a deafening explosion which v 7s rollowed by the cages and miniLg ap paratus being hurled from the mourl f the Couriere mine. Men and horses earby outside the mine were eltuex tunned or killed. The roof of the mine cflize was tVrn ciE. Immediately ollowing the explosion the flames urst from the mouth of the pit, driv lg back those without who sought to nter and'dooming those within. The work of attempting to rescue he imprisoned miners was hastily be un by c ffl:ials, engineers and miners rom the surrounding mines, who rcned parties and made heroic ef !orts to penetrate the smcke and foul ases and bring out the -imprisoned nen. The families of the entombed iners crowded about the shaft, seek ng fathers or husbands and threaten rg in their efforts to obtain details ao force back the gendarmes who kept ~hem from the mouth of the pit. Tee ~opulace of the district is appalled y the disaster which ffr~cts every ousehold. Those persons who were escued were terribly ,.urned.. It has been learned that out of ,795 men who descended into the pits o work, only 591 have come up, leav ng 1,204 buried in the three pits. hroughout the af ternoon the heroic ffarts at rescue were continued, but ightfall brought the convictL'r. that he entombed men had been suffocated nd the dispatch from Lille at 8 45 p. . announcing the numbir of death at ,195 appears to remove the laist hope hat others may be brought to the ~urface alive. Some of the imprisoned miners ought to escape to the pits which re nained intact and several rescues were made. The first cages came up t 10 o'clock with abou.t a dc z-n half iuffcated men, who were promptly taken to the hospital. Among them was M 'V.isin, an engiaeer, who had ~ttempted to organz; a succor. To wards noon woundedl workmen began o be brought up in the baskets and he bodies of two men were taken from i 10. It is feared the remainder had een asphyxiated. Assistance reach d Courriere from all sections of the dspartment and a large force of volun eers took part in the efforts made to rescue the entombed miners, recover he bodies of the killed and help in he killed and help in the work of sal rage. O.:e of the rescued miners, Pierre Dasson, said: "I was 280 metres from the shaft when I heard a deafening xplsion. The air immediately be rne ra'iflad and filled with poisonous vmors. Instinctively I groped my way toward thejbottoea of the shaft of pit 2, near which I found a number cf ufocating comrades who had fallen aiess in the galleries and were cry mg for assistance. I assisted them to mount the trolley and thus they were enabled to reach the shaft." A state of stupor and desolation prevails over the Courriere mining reg 02. Tne most agoniziog scenes are witnessed at the pit mou'hs and the gendarmes xerience the utmost d:ffiaiulty in re tiainmng the crowds of people eager :o ascertain the fate of their relatives. The chief er~gineer of the depart ment P e-a.- aaas, M. Leon, says that the fire broke out in tne pit at 3 o'clock last Monday afternoon and te ergineers coped with it as best c-ey were able, but tha.t Friday, be ing unable tbo master it, they closed all the outlets. Fissures. he thinks, must have formed which permitted he gases to e: c pe and these becom idur ig ited, resulted in an explosion. Oe of the ergineers of the mine says that the czge was unable to deszend more than 150 metres, while the gal-. lery where the miners are entombed is 50 metres farther down. Rescuers who descended in this cage report havirig heard distinctly tbe im orisoned men tapping on the water pipes, but the hope that was rekindled ~y this statement was extinguished by Engineer Leon, who estimated that it would take eight days to dis iodg the debris in the shafts, and that meanwhile the miners would die, either from starvation or asphyxiation The latest news news received in Paris Is to the Eff et that rescuers were still at work. but were making slight progress, their work heing most d!fflcult and dangerous. Up to the present time 150 bodies have been taken from pits 13 and 11, all the having been asphyxiated. KILLXD HER OWN SISTER. A Terrible Tragedy in A:.lanta Caused by Jealousy. At Atlanta on Friday Mrs. Edward M. Sandifer, aged 25 years, shot and killed her sister, Miss Ct a.)pell Whise mant, aged 18, alleging that she com mitted tbhe dsed btcause of her has band's attention to her victim. The dead girl w-s to have been married this week to a young business man of Seneca, S. C , and all plans for the marriage had been practically com pleted. Mrs. Sandifer went early Friday to the home of her brother-in-law, D P. Dunham, with whose family Miss Whisemant made her home, and en tered the sleeping room of her sister. What words passed between the two were known only to the two, but soon four shots rang out and Miss Whise mant fell, wounded in in the breast just above the heart, and in other vital powtq. She died half and hour later without having spoken. Mrs. Standifer went to her home and telephoned to her brother-in law's home, asking if Miss ,Whisenant was dead. Being informed that she hai dtied, M-s. Standifer expressed no regret for her act, and said she would fsilow Mr. Dunham's advice and surrender to the police. Sae was arrested later. Daring the day she convered freely with the police offl cials, declaring she had "avenged her outraged womanhood." E M Standifer came to Atlants about two years ago from Gadsden, Ala., where he married his wife. Hif rather, he says, is W. E S:andifer, United States marshal at Gad..den, and his ur c'e, W. H. S anditer, he asserted, is assistazn U ited Stat district atcrney at tnat pl c He was detained at the p lice station after his wife was arres: ad, on the suspcinn that he ma! nave had somi guilty knowleege of ;he crime. Tae dead girl is said to have been en-ged to be married to J. E Sitton. of Seneca, S C. 8-.. e Lb 1'a0 A dispatch from Washington says ,uator Tailman, since he has beet orought prominently forward in the rate legislavion fight has madi one announcement that has bea well re reived in the Senate and even in the House. It is to the effect that there is no necessity for him to visit the White House for conference with the President. "The Senate now has. harge of this matter," he says, "and will be able to perfect it without as aistance. The president has perform 3d his duties in the case in making recommendations to Congress and in expressing his views as to what he rhinks ounht to be done." The idea f Senator Tillman is voiced most deartily by the Senate. D sath of Lieut. Pike. The Columbia Record syas Rev. J. .E. Pike, of thts city, rec -ived a tele tram Thursdey morning from Fort Bassell, Vt joming, announcing the leath there of his son, Lieut. R. S. Pke,-'of pneumonma, afoer a short ill aess. The body will be brought hers 'or interment and will probably ar rive Monday. Lieutenant Pike was 29 years old and was born in Nova Scotia. He had entered the army bfore his fatber locatel here, but has visited Columbia and has many friends here. He saw active service in Cuba and the Philippines. A Tale or Horror. Advices received from Buenos Ayres Argentine Republic, state that a Por tugese meat dealer, named Jose Mo deiry, had been arrested there charg ed with murdering men and women and then selling their dish as pork. Modeiry did a flourishing business until he fell into the hands of the law. The pollce found the remaias of fourteen human bodies in Modeirv'e shop and when his customers learned they had been eating human flesh they tried to storm the j -.i and lynch the prisoner, but the police prevented the maddened people from wrecking vengeance. Women in a Dael. At MiddleboroKy,, uIn a pistol duel one day last week bet seen Mrs. Alice Nfoore and Mrs. Lucy Tucker as a re sult of a long time quarrel, Frank Maden was kild by a bullet fre m the revolver of Mrs. Tucker. The womnen met in front of a saloon and after ex changing a few words drew weap 'ns Mrs. Tucker was tbe first to open fire. At the third shot Mrs. Moore turee and ran dr~wn the street unharmed. This shot struck Madetn, who was near the saloon door engaged in a game of pool. The cause cf th; trouble is said to have been a love af fair. Disagrees with Rooseve t. A dispatch from Washngton says Senator Tillman stated on Tuursday that he did not pro dose to cffer any opositiun to amend the Tillmian G llespie railroad investigation resoiL tion, in accordance with the suggeb tions of the pres dent. He says the resolntion Is suffioent to mner.t the ob jf.cts intended and he disagress wlth tne view or~ the pre-1~nr. A N w P.-oressor.. The boara of trustees of the Souti Carolina unliverbity on WVefnesday elected Mr. W.- Hand, supainteaden' of the city .chools of Ca-ester as pc fessor of pedagtgy. Mr. Hand is a firstrate school man. It lb not ]ikelh he will acuept, as. his salary in Uis present position- is the same as for the new .postion-$1,500. He was noi a candidate. Put on the Track Ben Bradford, a negro, told the Si Vaninah - police a very queer story Thursday. He was picked up on the tracks of the A. C. L , having been struc~k by o... engine. Ben says he was drugged,robbed arnd placed upon the track. The police are investigat ing his story. He lost an arm by his ontact with the train. ADAMS TO HAN+, MURDERER OF HENRY JAQUEi HAS HAD A LONG REPRIEVE Fentence of Death Was Passed Three Years Ags, but Adams Es ciped From Jail. The State supreme court has rP manded the cise of R. A. Adams to the circuit court in order that sen tence of death may be pas3ed. Ia sus taining the appeal of Solicitor Davis, the supreme curt in a dignified man ner appears to rebuke the cir:uit court for ordering a new trial on "after discovered ev'dene" after the case had been decidrd upon by the sup-eme court. Tue supreme court seems to think that if there were any such evidence discovered after the trial (.nd discov ered after due diligence bad failed to bring it out before) the appeal for a new trial should have been made tc the supreme court after that tribunal. had passed upon the case in its origi nal form. R. A. Adams killed Henry Jaques at Cottagevil-e, Colleton county, on the 11th of February, 1903. The two men were cnnected by marriage. In the trial which followed, R. A. Adams was found guilty of =ucder and was sentencvd to b hanged on the 5th of June, 1903. These occarences were three years ago. Adams escaped from the C)Ileton erunty jail before the day set for his -xecution. Strange stories came to Co:umbia occasionally, by letter and otherwise, and Gov. Heyward cfired rewards aggregating a large sum for the capture of this man. Tne offer of a large reward had the Eff:ct intended zind the cffeers of the law received a rJp that the fugitive would v'sit his o-ne on a certain night. The posse captured Adams after ne or two shots had been exchanged. Waen the case came up in the circuit c urt a yearago last March, Mr. James E Davis, the solicitor, movt d for judgment in accordar e. with the order .f the ,upreme court, for the case ha I een decided by the supreme court be 'ore Adams made his ecspe. Tne condemnation of the court, in o mpliance with the verdict of the jury, was stayed again last March, when ex-.Tudge D. A. Townsend was presiding; for the defbndant's attor 2eys argued that they had some new vidence and a new trial was granted -ver the s'-licitor's protest. Mr. D 4is nade an appeal to the supreme court. The opinion filed Friday sustains he c mtention of Mr Davis and the upreme court says that the circuit urt had no jurisdiction to grant a ew trial. In concluding, th. supreme ourt says: 'The order of the circuit court is reversed for want of jurisd:ction and he case is remanded to the circuit ourt for the purpise of having a new iay assigned for the execution cf the ientence in conformity with the vz ion of this court." At the next term of court'the sen ence of death will be pronounced gain. It is probable that the State >card of pardons will be called upon n this case. THE JUDJGE WAS DRUNK. rustce of Alabama Sndreme Court Took Too Much. The Christian Advocate, published t Birmitgbaw, Ala., recently con ained a charge of druokenaess gaist Asciit Justics of the Su reme Cour. J )hn C. Aladerson, and| n its current iseue it contains a letter rom Judge Anderson acknowledgtag is guilt. Tne editor cf the newspa er charged that Judge Anderson, with two other state t flcials, was runk at the funeral of Onief Justice VtC:elan, At Athens, and he asked bat all three resign. The editor harged that Judge Anderson was so runk that he had to be taken from he train to the hotel by his friends. Judge Anderson, in a letter to the dior, says that be did take a li-stle too much. and adds: "I trust and promise by the help of God to commit o act of folly that can reflect upon me as a citizen or bring in question the reputation of an honorable ote bestowed up->nu me by the good - peo pe of my native state." R iv J. B. Ellis, editor of the new: - pper which contained the articles, dr 'pped dead j ist after reading the leter cf Jucge Anderscn. The news aprs of tue-state are demanding the resignation of the c1ficals who were charged with beit g druck on this oc ovsion. Judge Aniderson when seen stated that he had nothing further to say than tsat he had written. ktafraea apaMr'.. At O-naha, Neb., Jules A1:beus and Jack Mitcnell, well known you -g hb iess men, Frid iy night dt eied by the tuorn of txie dice which one should relir q liah his claim upon tae heart u! M iulu Baker, a pretty sten-ograp, r, for whose favor both of the mec -ere rivals. While the game was h ing played Miss Baker s-ocd by a' d scuiaged trie men. Af er each h-e won a game, Mitchell torew four six and laymng ctif the tie. Miss B~ker then b gzed Aitheus to let her p &. f r him, teliing hi-n he might los.I But Altheus refused and tisreW ha hand hims.lif. He got a pair of deuu S and, after sbaktDg haods witm bo. Mitchell and M ss Barer, left. sayin..: he would never cifl "n her again. Tihe 0 iumnia Recird says early rhu s'ay mnorning the barn of Mr. Hav aard Green was burned, and the i es was quite serious ,- Besides the :u:ling and other -godtents three ~rses, a cal(. buggy s'nd harness were ~estroed. The origin of the fire is mot known. Mr. Green lives a short :astnce out east of the city. -Shn in a Cdre. Ephrian Hall, aged 25, was shot a d fatally wounued in Spencer's care, Greenville, on Saturday night after midnight with a pistol. Tnere wer e five men in the placed at the time, most of them under the influEnce cf whiskey. The coroner's jury found a verdict against Thos. Harrison, ith P.~tr Rjwley as accesory. BAITLE AT JOLO. Six Hundred Moros and Twenty Two Aiericans Killed. i STUBBfUaN BATTLE. With a Desperate Band of Native Out laws on the Island of Moro. (e - Wood Reports That the Moro Forces Were Exterminated. A dispatch from Manila says an important action between American forces ard hostile Moros has taken.. place near J .lo. Fifteen enlisted men were killed, four commissioned cifters and thirty enlisted men were wound ed, and a naval contingent operating with the military sustained thirty two casualties. The .Moros lost six hAndred men killed. MAjor Gen. Leonard Wood, com mander of the diviion of the Pailip- - pines, reports as follows from Joo, caital of the Sulu Islands: "A severe ac Ion oetween troops a naval detachment and constabulary and hostile Moros has taken place at Mount Djo, near Jolo. The engage ment opened durng the afternoon of - March 6 and ended in'the morning of March 8. Toe action involved the capture of fount Daj), a lava cone, two thous and, one nundred feet high, with a :cater at its summit and extremeiv Otocp. The last four hunared feet were as an angle1f sxw aegrees, and ,nere were fifty p -rpnd.cuar rioges, c.ver d wi ti a gr wri cf amberan;i strongly for:idfed, and defendtd by an Lzvi~1bie fojrce -A M :ros. "Tne army ca,usities we fifti.'-n enlisrsd men killed. four commission ed < ffl:Ars and tnirty enlistel M:n wounued. Tae naval ca-ualties num bored thirty two. Eabigned H D Co ke, Jr., commanding the United SAtes steaufei Paimpanga, was stvre ly wounded and Coxswain Gdmore was severely wounded id the elbow. "The constabulary casualties were Capt. John R Waite, wounded in the -thigh, severel); three enlsied men killed and thirteen wounded. Capt. Tyree R.vers sustained a slight A sh wound in the thigti; Lieut Gordon was ilightly wounded in the right hand; Leut. Wylie T. C.nway, of the 6:,n intantry, was slightly wounded in We ft eye. All the wounded are doing well. "Col. Joiepha W. Duncan, of the 5th infantry, directed the operations. &11 the defenders of the M ro strong hold were killed. Six hundred bodies were fvund on the field. "Thelaction resulted in the exter nination of a band of outlaws, who, ecognising no chief had been raiding riendly Moros, and owing to. their .ce of the American authorities tAirred up a dangerous condition "Tde artilery was lifte-i by block nd tackle, a distance of 300 feet Into aposiion on the lip of t2e crater. " Brig Ganeral Bliss and myself wer& resent taroughout the action. "The attackinwg columns were comn. nanded by Mijor Oni r Bandy, Capt. RE P. L3,wton, Capt. Rivers, Capt L. &. KohlWer, Capt. MoGlachln and ls..t Junnston. "Tne officers and men engaged ighly commend the Moro constabu ary, who did excellent work,- their usualties numbering seventeen out f tne force of forty-four engaged. "*Il Is impossib'.e to conceive a sronger natural position than that aottacked. Toe fizbting lasted two days among he lava ridges, which had been trongly fortifiad by the Moros. Ar illery had to be hoisted by means of opes up the Iast feve hundred feet at mn angle of 60 dmo.v~Q Gerda~g Reaay. A dispatch from San Frandisco says twenty-two modern ridies an-d 10.000 rounds f amunition wee adlzed in he quarters of tne Cninese crew on the Paci~e mail steamer Manchuria, seduiedi to sail for the Orient Taunrs aay afternoon. The c mpany's calf dtals thereupon ordered, it is said, as tnorough a search of the vessels> P06 s ble weiiea resulted In two more lors o rifies being fiund in the room ot an anistans engineer. The engin eer arnd Uaine~se were questioned and in was tou..d that the guns bad been purchased In tais caty b/ the ergin esrs and .mugzled aboard the vessel. *re E scued, Capt. Thon-.s F. Hart, of the Tomaton~ Malue,~ schooner Lizzie o amer, ?sua osew of seven, -were ia:ed au G~tcar Mass, Thurs a., b. a:e B lSLa schooiner Kiscn a r.w ..ca. Land res..ured the GUtad wc/s ni.o from tueir siLnking vens . i, f age Ratrs on Tt ursday. a C ei 4i, oonu frojm Mayport, Fa., for Iisv Y..,k, winrub,:r, was ii ..-ula Ljy a 'revolvin.g cycle ne," wi&. only a quinAty of mnacironli o wsater fo t, o ,a and drinkhtg. J. pt. Hart ana his men crifte d at the .iercy Lf toe temp;.st and sea fLr tree Gays. Shot tny emp. Oincr. At New York on Tnauisday a fight in the forec:.stie of the steamer has sachustts, in wnlca abiut twenty members o f the crew participated, &dea when James S.ccamn was shot and killen by Founth Officer Elmner B. K.r win. Another cifxir was being oaLen into uncomcidousnzess by Slo um when Karwim rushed to his as asanee ana put a bullet through Slc um's brain. Deacn in a sne.wahCe. A d'spatch from Norway says a mow aivalanche at Lofflen Islands Friday buried a number of fisher men's huts. Bescuers extricated 21 lead and 39 injured.