Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ThEK CAMIPAIGiN (Continued from Flrst Pdge) he has oeea in clobe IOuen witu the afairs of the State, and while he does not wonder at the howl raised at n creased apropriatiuns, it must be re membered that conditions have grca' ly chang d. Tae ineq-1ahtits in cal assessment are glanT g. He favor- th carrying out of the recommendatio' made by the finance commi! tee in or der to wipe our thee-e inequahtie He warns the peopie agaiost tne i cipient tendency to corruption 1. elections. which has recently man feeted itself. It is to be regre'tte that the liquor question should hav, attained such prominence. Tuere a! t otLer matters wortwier cf attente He is not the cuampi'n of whisk but he is deeply interested In t moral welfsre of the State He not a straaaler and he wi not s to befog the puotic miLc on a, -% sue. He du s nut dvo.ate thb d pensary as run 1 t- epsst. W t'i: the aleg&.ns of cirrupdiu a. graft in tue cisp osary are iru. c not, the ptople ur Sou;,n C.Lroi: a - I not stand fur ev, n the .uspic:o - , such things. Wa, re tueare i so muc smoke there must be some fire, at, the people of tbe Seate will rot star. for the dispensary as it h::s been co: ducteo. If corruptiou and grafz rt exist in the aispe sary, then it mus be purged or the odium or elbe t, - wboie wiug mus- go. Wipe tne dis. pensary out and wua. will you 1&v left? Men wilt have w.Askey. Pab lic sentiment does not warrant tti belief tnas prvhibition can be er. forced. He nas studi-d the qu-stikr carefully, and b believes 1t can b purged. Read the Resor-Mannni. bill anc y -u wii find t:at it g *..tu the root Uf the matter, the purchy... ing of the iquor. He does not be lieve in 1cal option. His reason for this will ae given later. But that offhe of Governor is a purely execu tve office and should be be made Governor he will enfrce ihe iaw as it stands on the statute books. The Hon Jour J. XCMA w A W, of Columbia, tue next candidate for Governor to address the audiere.a prefaced his remarks with the state ment that every man is his brother' keeper, and that it folloivs, theref,.re, that every citzan should be alive tA -his civic duties. The scope of gov ernment has een largely widened. L is no longer confined to mere police regulation. We are shockud as we glance acout us at the evidences oi corruption abroad in the land, bitL within and without our State. When we compare the conditions of today with the conditions which obtained - In the past we must be asramed ano surprised. Dispensary corruption is not the only corruption to be founu In South Carolina today. Oar dut) Is imperative to place only the besi and nignest men in cfice. The pri mary system 'is a great system. but under it there bs unfortunately grown up the custom of magnitying the dutius of the candidate and mini mixing the duties of the cit.zen. He favors the improvament of the schoo s and commencis the establishment of the State reformatory. He stands today for every educational reiorm which he has ever advocated. H. urged the Importance of the drainage of the coasaal regionu and advocae.. the estabdiament of every county oi a model fasrm. Time des not permit him to discuss the dispensary. P~r sonally tie Is opio-ed to the use cf lbquor, but he notan't be.leve prohibi tion pra~cticable. Hei favors Ltus State Oistensary, :ut tIoL LLe dispen sar~yas isnow exas He w ulai ta have is c.eanedi .and tihe rascais in it placed bermnd priso- bars. Tne LextC cPntiste for G vernr to address the D.mocra o.f D,. - chester was to Hon JOHNT. 5LOAN, of Columuia. He w~as born in the shadow of the Blue Ri'ge Mountains, atola Pe:.daeion He wernt in t: e army at 16, and went tnrough the bito y caa..poJgcs Lfi 1864 auc 1865 pon..atx, anco after tte war be e turned o PRn et; n *nd wt n. t scool there. In ]866 i': eot: re Soun Carthria College, Iromn wt.ic. instltutmon be w at grar uale c Wfl honots. H.. e yie weo his s, rvices c the city of his adoption, whzer. he has been ex gagccl in the practice OX law forimore unan a i core of years. He was a wearer of the red shirt Ii, the days of 1876.. He reviewed his reord as Repreen aave anc Senator from B c .iand Count y. He was par tiLuiariy proua of his services ir, foiding Ch1imaon and Winthrt p Colieges arnd In the defence of the Citaaiel ana South Carolina Co'lege. He was prcud of his re cord as L u tenant Governor. He has Ipetst the best dasys of his life ini the serv~ce of his State, and ne believes hitrseD en titled to pr. mconn To the Gove zi ir ship. H.: w an s to see a se> el usus~e on every xhi and one in evey valhey of the Se.a e. He is not a mere talker for education. When the Mrt tho dist Female Colle ge 'was built in Columbia recently he gave thenw teen .v acres of lans!, today worth 52,000 He is plainly and ur' quivocahy for the dis penisary. He b..ieves it is now, and tnat it always will be, the best solu tion of the whiskey question. But If he ha eiet eo Goverrnor he will purge it from any corruption which mnay now infest, it. He doesn't believe prohibition can be enforced and In support of his belief lie cited his per sonal experiences in search of lemon ade In Maine, and soda water in Kan cas. .OTHER CAND1r~DATEs. The Hon. T. C. McLeod, the only eandidate for Lieutenant-Governor, made a short speech outlining his pos ition on various matters. He favors a reformed dispensary. Messrs. R Mi. MJ~own, of Florence, J. B. Morrison, of Charleston, L. M.] Bagin, of Clarendon, candidates for I Secretary of State, were on hand and made short spec caes. Mr. J. Fraser Lyon, of Abbeville, was the only caudidate for Attorney General present. He went for the d s pensary with gloves e ff, and was Ire quently applauded by tne anti-dispen. mary part of the audience. Mr. L. G. Waiker, of Greenville, a candidate for Comptroller Gmneral,' Was next introduced and gave his reasons why the people should vote for him. Comptroller General Jones, ' who is a canaioate for re-election, was unable to be present on account of of ficial business. Col. boyd of Greenville, and Col. r Haskell, of R~chland, the two candi- | dates for Aojutant and Inspector General, next ad areesed the audience ' . and solicited their votes. Hon. 0. B. Martin, candidate f~r c' Superintendent oX E'iueation, has n>) pnritinn. He_ therfte coerntunted 'n imself with tellig two or three capital stories and pledging anew his devo -Ion to the best interests of pub ic e&ucation in the State. He favors 'he dispensary system beestase if th - S200,000 a lear obtained by the schools from this srurce are r-moved and -ot ing is provided to take its plac Iie result will be little short of cal M*itousi. Messrs. Jas. Can-'er. of Larcaster kl hrs, of Marion, J. 1i. Sullivan, t nderson, J. A. Summersault, of Richland. a:d 01. J. H. Warton, th( acumbent, all candidates for railroa: - mmissioner, were iatroduced and made short speeches. C 1. N harton wss the last of thr lndicates for State c fie and Chair nan Dennis aorconced as the la -;peaker of the day Col. W. W. Lump .in, of Co'umnil, who Is epLOestla natcr Ti iman f:r election. to th U-itecl starts Se-a-e. Wnen C1 Lumpkin came f r e rd two or thre: -xool rats" P. ri ffert p-:r! of t 1r ' DcO Sare-d L choering for Ti" a. T -e cro-r to-k up the c-li an - som-, ;im!e -ime so grs.t wak L tie ;at it was usele & for the speak r to Art-npt to rake himself heard Lumrkin bided aI!q time patie'v - ovt r, and wteu Chairm-o Den is bad !nally succeeded in restorin. rder te started right In to pay bas his own coin the man who had star -d the cheering fo- Senator Tillman. MUBi3 HIS WIFE And Then Ran Away With Anothri Woman. Charged with the murder of bi! . fe and bavivg made acor p'ete cm - stor f bis crime to the I xal polce William Brasch of R cbs-er, N. Y. ."as arrested at Cle'.eland, O.:o. Wir ' s Bs there was arrestci 4A .. G., G;more, with whom he it sh..;ea Wo have e' ped T.he b;dy of Br'sch's wife wal '-.wd in the canal at Rocbester lasi Tuisday and suppicion was at ore ;urned to her husband. who disap peared. Brascb confessed the xur der to the local police, the later say and told them that he killed his wifE 'ecause of leve for the Gilmore wo san. TL.e later is a widow about 2. years old. Brasch told the police how he had lured his wife to the bank of tho E-it- cnal, and buried her in. HE -,id Lis courage faled three or foui un-es, but finally he nerved bimsel and struck the woman a violent olow in the back with his fist "When I beard the splash I ran away," hE -a4d. "Yes I am William Brasch," hE said to Police Cbief Kohler, ' I know what you want me fVr. I did it. i killed her because I loved Mary Gji more. It seems to me I have always Inved her. I didn't want to marry Roxanna, but I was forced into it, sc I killed her. It was the only way I could get rid of her." Tae three- year-old, daughter of Brasch was with the couple when cney were arrested in a rc oming nouse. Both Brasch and the Gilmore woman wiL be taken back to Roches ter at once. Stoose Two Men. At Wadley, Gs , Will Smith, an escaped negro convict, early Taursday noit r-d killed Marshal Morris 0o Mildi .d, and mortally wounded 3. J. P pe, a well known planter, living near there. Tne negro who was serv 1og a onty yar seterc, tad es caped from the camps. M-. Pope dis covered that the negro had taken re fuge at his former home and was he i- g prott cer by his wife. Summon i g Marshal Mcrris the two approach~ -the cat in anid were met w.ien a vo ley of s:,ots which c n inuel ucu. herwar- ?al was d-.1 g on tee grourt anuc. Mr. Poe lay mortally wounded tSmito :iuen one from th-e cabin, ax arn itned Mis vku a be captors and his 'app ar- d into tie dens~e wo-ods. Much exc eieent toll wed and a posse was for e immediately at Wadley, which is now in pursuit of the cesperate ne gro. _________ S-mv Oka mo~ry. In a rear end colhaion between tra-inson the Ada ic C .a't Line a: Ah .'4k, N C. E 4ineer 0 0. Km~ f Prtsm:.a h, V., aric B.amraa: Wdi er Carter et WindsLor. N C. were kiiled. Conducor M .:am Sd an ur k ow r ate man were in jared Tne accident Lappened wihile t-e of the tr.Ains was stif ting cars The engine of on irain au.d six car. *ere b.adly cameg- d, as were the ca borse a-.-d six reer cars cf the other train. It is impo-sible to place the responsfiity a? t-l tim'e. Revenu. Omcers',kCmaid. A dispatic2 fro:- Greenv'ile, S. C., says Dietrict B venue Oflier Sams, acompanied by. Uniated States d:-pu Dea two state constables, and many more state deputies raided the '-Dark GCorner" Tuesday m~camng, it vSd1ig Lne very stre-' gnolcd of the m, u..tain er moonshnnrs, Ce etroying eight Phir sils sni throwmng out bun areds of gallons of corn mash. Dur ig tb: rai'n a few shots were ex La:ged, bus no one was bit. The Cat C-- Back. Robt. Lauth of I' ck Haven, Pa., arnot a ar that a ca. has nine lives, c he knows frcm experience that it as at least two. The family feline et contracted scutyy and it was de ied at a council to cailoroform it 'Tus it was put to death, and in the vemelig burieo 18 inches deep in the ack yard. lhzo morning Laut~b was astonished to find the cans on the ack doorstep when he opened the Lor. A dispatch from Pollock, La., a umberibg town tells of an all-night ire, which Tuesday did about $300, 00 damage, destroying twelve mil on feet of lumber, part cf the Iron fountain railroad's trestie across Big ~reek, eighteen homes and one hotel nd forty-nine freight and fiat cars. L'e largest loss was suffered by the ia Creek Lumber Company. About 000 men were threwn out of em oment by the fire. Faral Pistoi Dael. At Talladega, Ala., in thr presence f300 persons at a masquerade, bail 2 nusday night Dudiey Brown and enry KaIgtnt fought a pistol duel in bich oatfl men were killed. Miss urt was slightly injured, receivingt a iray shot in the ankle. Eiscn man ceived four shots in the breast. uth are well known and popular In E ~alladega. No explanation has been 2 ven 01 the tragedy. a C A Green-vile Ereak. A reporter on the Greenville News c n Thursday across on olid gentle- o ian eighty five sears old who has b ver la all his life fired a gun, pistol n any firearms, and curing his career ib has spent moot of his time in ru-al I C mmunities. The same man has never r: ated whiskey in a~ny shape or form, r w has he ever used tnharco. -BRUTAL RUSIA. Massacre of Jews by the Cifi cials at Bialystok Should OCK T"HE WJOR LJD Worst Cruelty Russia fiss Ever Ben Guilty Of. 'Jwish Father, Moth. er, Daughter and Son Lashed Together by Torturers and Beaten to Death. T'e rzrsacre of the Jews at Bialy itck the first of last week rust tave 2een smething avful. Tne corres aonident of the New York Americar. visited all parts cf the town, taking evidence frcm both Jewish and Cris tian residents. Here is what he says: The massacre was essentially Cifi cMl. 'Toe po'c;, military bollig-ins ind the Black Hundred played subor dinate roies in ever case. At a perio i waen a mass of butcheries occurre: ane p lice and s.I iers either actively assisted or enc luraged the butchers. There are many autentcated c'.ses of soldiers themse vvs perpetri .ng stauntmer. In thie B ayare d!iict. .3here the worst massacres occi rred, Bhe soldiers of the Ugiitsky, .3ixty +Ird Bglment, accompz.nied by two e ffi..er, massacred seven Jews at Gep Gtr's saw mill. Ful details of tais ;a-gedy were given me by the surviv in. maaager. Ween the soldifers were occup-ed with looting, their victims scught refuge In a emall wooden.houe on which at 6 o'clock on F.ilay even ing tne soldiers fired suddernly Many Jews of this district, especial ly girls, b-came imane. The L ffiers ordered the inmates to come out one by one. Five of them were shot dead as they emerged from the house and 'ix were backed to plece-s by sabres. One rcr air-ed in the ocuse, an old woman named Kautsch, Ieventy years of age, and the soldiers burned the house and she perished in the flames. In other cases the soldiers were merely onlookers. In Souvark.ff streets a prosperous Jew named Podlatcheff kept a leather workshop. The pro %rletor, his relatices, named First wmrnn, and six others were slaughter ed. I inspected the dabbled wiji..pools of blocd and fragments of flesh and hair are sticking to the walls. First mann was the first killed. He was shot by a gendarme named SchulI zs. Then the Hooligans stripped th corpst; carved. pieces out of the breast and drove nails into the nose. Four frightened employes took shel ter in an ounhouse the Hooligans broke it open and beat them to death. The soldiers looked on, and the Hooligans were unmolested. The young son of the proprietor was saved by the sol diers who cried, "Enougt; don't kill the boil ' .HOUsE OF HORROR. Outside thIs house I saw a younth wearin~g the blood-stained clothes of a s aughtered mother. In many cases whole families were exterminated. 1 visited a house in old .Bayar stir. et occupied by Ainstein, a re- p et ed teacaer, who with his motiier d ughter and two sons, wire done to d -ith by Hoeligat s una-rthe commars i a dignua. p .iice flm wnile diers were pret At lirst the 'a 3 lers fire d ioto :.-1 ocuse and a p-lic *m.an crrerea the Iamiiy to save ts:em selves in :.he fi 1: s. T'here af er ty ing father, son, mo.ser and c 2ughter tu eether, they were beaten to death, the pclce meantime fi:ing at ran dom. T wo witnesses assure me that naflE were hammered into ihe scn's face be fore his death. In tue field are p0och. dif blood. Every weere inn.. cai children staind a' gu r g beside the ghastly pools, talkin-< about whom .ach belongs to~ N:-xt door liv::s a wonzo .n medi L vin, with eighn enil d en, wah se ma?sand was carved to pecesin~ her sight. Thr- ugt:out town fr two days the ma~SsZr. sc cntinued. Fian dish tortur -s andi nusiad1on of the c.arps invari abiy followe d the masacres with active 'r passive co-operation or authorities. In many cases the po;;c, tacibly auth r zed the butnery by ordering the Ho. liganis to spare particular individ 2as. I interv:ewed two person who scaped by roribing the so;ldiers. O.e grl, iivin~g on Alr-xander street, af~er 1er father had been bayonnetted, paid soldier 20 roubles that she might be parc d herseif. Both Jews and Christians agreb bat many r isgu~sed policemen were mong ebe Holgans M ust of the ictims of the .soldiers trhd to defend oems.slees, buG while the Hooligang roke down the doc-rs or their homes, he coldiers looked on, and if a Jew efended himself or even appetred at a window they fired a volley, killing he defenders or drivin~g them into he hands of the H~soiigans. Con crning the Viadimirsky and Uglitsky, eg mnts, Jew witnesses affirm that Cionel Buk-vsky directly encouraged he soldiers, crying: "Uet ~ldf! b at is, kill the Je ws.-b T.rture before death repeatedly o ccurred, and mutilation afterward. n Nikolai street a woman had a rowbar thrust down her throat and Lheh twistsd. She finally was hacked to death with a hatchet and left to s bleed to death. Tce hands of Boyar, tailor, were nailed to a table whileh e was clubbed to death. ,DRAGGED TO HIS DOOM, b4 A little girl whose body I saw in 01 e Jewish Hospital had her leg awed cff while she was yet ali've. )~ers were carved to death slowly. i the yard of the Jewish Hospital, here eighty-six corpsis were laid ide by side, I saw thirty cases of utilation. In som~e, noses were cut Bi if. In others the ears were cut cif. ze .n many cases nails were driven into rei e face or skull. One old man had th a eyes torn out.B A ::lerk named Bernstein was B agged from a train and battered to in ato. h is body was afterward found avl a field, handless, and with a sharp- On ned stick driven into the stomach. rei he complicity of offcials, soldiers Ga d p:1:ce has been established by un- tid otrovr iable evidence. and will un. rem ~etionably be confirmed in the <ifi- oy a report. St. Chieykin, a member el the Dumi Inquiry Commission, GA s established that the massacre was ot inspir'd from St. Petersburg, but local cffiaials, who believe that the iar's govtroment desired the massa- mna eas a couniterweight against the " t volution. sue r hae sablshedha the fact that bul ,be massacre was planned days in ad rance. For. instance, wben the Jew sh deputation on Tuesday asked a police Lfficer named Sheremetieff for permission to lay a wreath on the trave of a murdered police master named 1'erga-chcff. Sberemetceff cyn. ically answered, 'Y.u'll get an an ;wer on Thursday," blch was th-e fint day of the killirg. Dargatchoff was a clever and bumai:e man, be 1lvEd by Jews and Chri-.tiais. His murder by the Jiw halters gave is subordicates freed.,m to execute their plot. LAID TO THE GOVERNOR The Govercor oi Grodri' Provir. is rqally guilty He arrived Thurs day ev'ng and stayed only t-'r nours. He did noUhing to stop the -assacre. and nor.e vi.:lence follow ed his visit. The appoi-tment b: the Dadma of an inve- ti.ating c m -ission caused a cesbation of slaugh ter The small proportion of w;ond -d to killed shoas ,he irpunity witt -hich the murder-rs were allowed t.' flaish their vicits S->me of th-sr --ere tbrlce killed by bullets. kn v i ted cudgels. Every ravaged house I .isited shows that the raiders wer: left in possession for hours. A re markable feature cf this massacre i '*he abrence of outrages on the we men. Though thirty were kil'ed, there is no authenticated case of out rxge discoverable. This is explainer n caun-e the Hooligans and trcops got their orders only to "kill." Tne precise number of deaths can not be tarned. Thereare eighty-six dead now in the Jewish hospital and :.even in the ChristIan hospital, but Dhe corpses of those dragged from the train and killed were buried without beIng counted. The material des truction is enormous. In four im por- ant streets nearly every window, door and shutter is broken, except in the Cnistians houses. M -ny of the wealtbier Jews esap'd, owing to the iron gates of their court yards, but the soldiers fired through the win dows. In one house I saw thirty ri -. bullet holes in the windows, though there was nobody within save an old lady and a woman servant. The houses into which the mob brcke were litterally destroyed. Even the wallpaper was tora down. The rioters stole everything portable; even children's toys were smashed. Toe heavy furniture and the unsmashable things were thrown out of the windows. The marchants' account books were burned, and only the bare walls were left. In a bakery, where the owner was killed, the mob soaked the loaves of bread in a pool of blood, leaving be bind an ironical note. In Levin's mill, where Christians and Jews work together. the mobbites cut the cloth and yarn belonging to the Jews leav ing the Christian's yarn untouched. It is estimated that the loss will amount to two million roubles. The relatives of the victims have been de prived of everything and are afraid to re-enter the houses. They are begging in the s-reets of the town. SINATOR TILLMAN Will Not Carl on the President Until He Apo!ogizes. "I have been insulted there once and I do not propose to place myself in this position again If I can prevent it." These are the words used by Senator Tillman Thursday when he was made acquainted with the presi d. nt's recnt utterances tending to ndicats a desire for a recon::iliation ee:tveen himself and i-he senior cent tar from South Cirosina Tno. unploasant dffilcul'y a f * ears boe het we::n Se r~turs Tillm eod MKLauri';, an.. tht subs qu u.: jsi .tdz a of Tilimans itnv tatio. t mne ric pfln at the W rite House t :neetL Pa.nce H nry, the'n pa-lbg valt to t!u1b country, ;.re stilt fresh it ctne minids of the people who have fol t.wed Senator Tillman's career sine he ent ered the senate. Tn-re is no notion on the part o' Seuator ?illman of bringing about a re:orcilition with t le cnief ex:ecu uive, u:Le-s ouch rec-ociliation is ac apaied by an unconaritional apolo ry from 'he president, and as there I Ittle p:-obability of this, the matter af a love fcast bet ween them is still in ~r.e air. T'hose who know Senator Tillmt: eel', kno -v that nothing short of an .pology will satisfy him. While the >resident is credited with having re ~ently said that he liked Senator Till nan, and while the senator is like vise quoted as haying made a state nent to the effect that he believec ne president to be straight, and all ight~, these are taken only as pa-'sing emarks, made withous serious con ideration, and hardly worth remem 'ering. The utterances of Senator Yllman that he would not allow him alf to be again insulted, are believed a' represent his real feelings toward be president. Walle he admits he Sas ready to forgive a man-whether e is president or a private citizen- - ,r a wrong, he is not willing, accord ig to his own words, to place him ,lf in the attitude of being wilfully wsulted a second time, even though 2at man be the president of the nited States Wanted to Lynch Her. t Mrs. E-nma K auff mann, wife of a - ealthy Sioua Falls brewer was cought into court Wednesday for the >nclusion of her preliminary hearing ' Sa charge of having caused the t rath of her maidservant, Agnes s alreis. She was hissed when she ~ ent Into the court room and when v ie came out an angry demanstration h as made and cries of "Lynch her" c are heard. Mrs. Kauffmnann was ild on a charge of murder. The fo as will be called for trial in L~ovem- tI ir. Miss Polreis, who was 17 years e d, died June 1, and was buried at d~ trkston, this State. The body was ter exhumed and was found to bear ti separate wounds. Triple amici se. ir A suicide pact between Mrs. Mary hi hrens, a widow, and Edward 0-an r, who bad a wife and five children, ' muited Friday in the death of both a man and the woman and Peter e :hrenis, the 12-year-old son of Mrs brens. All tnree were found dead W the woman's apartments in Dekalb r enue, Brooklyn, with every gag r~ ruer turned on. Mrs. Ganzer had :eatly asked Mrs. Behrens to give r zer up, threratening at the same ae to procure warrants for the ar- fo t of both. T avo letters were left the suicies, one by Mrs. Behrt ns to o -"friends," and the other from frn r.z:,r to his brother in-law. p BryanDNee. Liev. Sa-n .iones say. R -osevelt bac de a go;d pre-sid -nr but thai ye lh's are now ripe f.ar Bryan E co0 ceed him, as we need Bry an in our Iar AN AWFUL FAI. An Arch Murderer Walled Up in a Living Tomb iND IF ' TO STARYkI A Yelling Mob Sits in the Market Place and Watch the Buiding Up of the Walls Around the Slay er of Thirty-Six Young Women. A cablegram from Tangier Moroco, tells how, with such details of fiend ish cruelty that they cannot be fully realized, Mobammed Messfewi, the arch-murderer of Marakesch, has been walled up alive. It was this same Mesfewi who was to have been crucified for his tremen dous crimes-it is kifown that he murdered not fewer than thirty six voung women-and who was saved from that fashion of execution by the outcry of the resident foregin officials. It would have been better had tiese same cfoials not interfered with Moroccan justice, for Mesfew 2efore he died underwent lingering torture compared with which cruci fixion would bave been merciful. THE AECH-MURDER's CRIMES. Mesfewi was a cobbler and public letter writer. Associated with him in his crimes was an old woman seventy years of age named Annah. Many girls of the city disappeared In the last days of April and the parents of one young woman traced her to the cobbler's shop. Annah was put tc the torture and confessed. She told that the girls, who came to dictate letters, were treated to drugged wine and then beheaded. Twenty decapitated bodies were found in a deep pit under the shop and sixteen more in the garden. Annah died under the torture and Mesfewi confessed. By an ancient Moorish custom he was condemned to op crucified. His crucifixion was set for May 2, but this form of punishment was given up because of the foreign clam or, and it was announced that Mes fewi would be beheaded. His death by the still more awful process of im murement shows that the Morcccan authorities "blinded the eyes" of the f oreigners. Mesfewi was kept In the Marakesch jail until outside attention was dull ed, and then, on May 15, his torture began. Daily he was led into the market place and whipped with switches of the thorny accAcia. The cobbler was stripped to the waist, and while two assistants held the victim's arms out stretched, the city executioner laid on the spiked rods. Ten strokes were given each day and each stroke dre. blood. The umber of strokes was kept down be cause Mesfewi was an old man 'ana .e people of Marakesch iaad no ide, of eteamg nim Qie eco edslly. MOST MEBCIFUL CEUELTTI After eaa Ilogging the cobbler'e aa was tcug.2ene~d and anoits.C &tn viLrgar anuo oil, so that he migib ae fit for ku-, nexu day's ordeal. suj thle dail whippligs weat on a~owen at was re-:n raa de~'pite .:: c.r M stewi ,. asa iliug inLt Xuaan son 16~ was cecia~er su carry out ua.. suprene oaira nci TLis was th. n o.. wal.tec up alive rn the purJl-e argeL place. Ta.e curne~r who brings th. .n :rom Ma:akesch to Tangier a-:sark wac, the waer of execuJ.ion before tihe duiran's oafn signature, and the fac, sat Lrae senteLnce was carried out in ole great square of toe city an:- IL full view of the populace shows thai Ine i32ala ot M.arakeec i knew the aful programme would not be Inter .ered witn. .?ne aay of execution was Bet for Mncay, June 11, taat being the M~artesch mariet day. The news of Je execution had been spread and ce market place was thronged with ihousanas of Morocaans, who squat ted in the blaza g sunlight and wait :d for the ghlasan show to commence. A death by walling-up alive had lot been seen in Marakeach for many ears, but there was those who told tners tnat victims had been known omeimes to live for a, whole week, hd so the good ne ws spread, and the ,eople brought their provisions and ,he caravanseries were crowded. THE LIVING TOMB IS DUG. Just outsiae the jail where Mesfewi ras confined standas the chief bazaar. has very thick walls and in one of esa, facing thle market place, two oasons dug a hole six feet high, two set wide and two feet deep. Mesfewi ras very thin and these dimensions -ave the doomed man quite a free pace and some little air, for just as i fellow townsmen would not let im slip away by too much flogging, )they did not intend to smother Im too quetly. About tnree feet up two staples 'ith chains were 11xed in the back of te recess in the wall and two more ~aples with chains were attached. he purpose of these was to keep the letim erect so that he might not uddle down out of sight of ther Mesfewi had not been told of hisc .e and when he was brought ort ofc e prison on Monday morning he ought he was being led forth to his til1y whipping. As soon as he saw the expectant iosands, however, and heard their iwls of hate he knew that his day t id come. Then he saw the hole dug 1I the wall, and, being an old man, knew what that meant. He had a ken his whippings with fatalistic 12 rtitude, hoping he might die under d e thorns, but when be was dragged I ward the upright tomb he struggl- 0 with his jailers and screamed for I rcy. t Screaming he was thrust Into the ti ness in the thick wall, and, acream- Y g, he was chained up. There he t is left for a while, for there was 11 mty of time. The masons stood ide and thle croswd struggled and aght to get in tue front rank, .faing in derision at the acreaming a I man and pelting him with the V ghtful filth and cf Al of the market C ERY DELIBERtATE EXECUTIONERS. Tnen the masons cams forward and a ry delberately laid on the first st arses of the masonry. Toe stones pl d mortar rose to Mesfewi's knees - fia trea tr-.hief jiller came for a] ward and gave him bread and water. The masons again stood aside and again the crowds jeered and be-slab bered the victim. So it went on, course by course, stone by stone, water and bread, until only Mesfewi's screaming head was seen. The last stones were thrust in place and Mesfewi's living tomb was complet-d. But the crowd was not yet satisfied. Mesfewi was not dead, and the throng pressed forward and kept quiet to I hear the mLffLd screams for mercy ti-at came out of the wall. Every time Mesfewi screamed the crowd yellcd N gbt mame, braziers were lit, coffee w~s made and still Mestewi screamad and the cro vds yellel. Tuesaay, June 12 came ir, and the market place was as c:aded as ever, and Mesfewi was still screaming for mercy. So it went on all day and all night. Only Meafewi's screams were growiDg fainter. When Wednesday broke those close up to the waAl reported that the dead alive was only moaning. Finally the moaning sto:oped and the crowd cursed Meufewi for dying so soon, and the delayed business of the market was reeumed. So Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi ex piated his crime. The first n.,ws of the terrible cfan ces of the cobbler of Marakesch came in a special cable to the N4ew York American April 29. It was repirted that Haej Mohammed Mesfewi was to be crucified on Thursday, May 3, for an extraordinary series of murders. Twenty-six corpses of women had been found under the cobbler's shop, and ten in his garden. All of Mesfewi's victims were mu tilated with dagger cuts in order to stimulate fanaticism, and it was prov el they had been murdered for money --most of it in trifling sums. The Koran provides crucifixion as the punishment for terrible crimes. and though Zhat form of execution has not been used in Morocco for a generation, it was decided that the cobbler's crimes deserved that classi cal.punishment. The next news came in a cable of May 2, saying the execution by cruci fixion would not take place. The rest of the story and its tragic de nouement is told in the present dis patch. KIDNAPPAD A BOY And Will Serve Twenty Years in Prison for It. "Had I the disposition of this case, I would summon a large number of mothers here and turn you over to their tender mercies, but as the law fixes the penalty for crimes like yours, I can do nothing but commit you without bail for the action of the grand jury on the charge of kidnap. Ipmg." Tnese words were addressed by Magistrate Eisenbrown of PaIladei phia, Pa, to John Joseph Kean, ab ductor of Freddie Muth, 7 year olh son of Charles Man, who with his captive was discovered after a six-da search, in a vacant house in West Pmladelphia. It is tne Intention ox the police department to railroad th. prisoner to the penitentiary and 1m *ediately after the heari-g Captalt of Detec-ives Donaghy w.ent befo-e the grand jury with his witnesses anr Sked for an indictment. F~eddie Mu=.h wa brought to th u-t room by hib father. He was ir if r.-r- boy fr m rihe c id who 'e fi;.nd dirty an\d nung'y ir. e'n unoc' pled h.us". H -wa.s & trea in , a', blue fi -.nn- sapi- '-.it ano irk re-e a'-s piA'.e t-. nis iapei. Mr. Mitt ed tr-e c aild war Jor: ne worse for his experience. 1 r'ng c strast wras the app-e::ronce o toabauct.:.r. Af ter a sie, ples-. nig: ; s cell he' wa~s haggard and .war: His ey ex shifted ner vously and N,~ .hcle frame trembled visibly. H - till seemed to fear bodity injury auc -yed spectators suspiciously. Tn police say bie paced the cell all nigt sobbing and moaning, his wife an' chi d:en being uppermost in his mind. When he was pl'ced in the doet Kean nodded to F~ec ie Muth, whc st beside his lather, and smiled Pontng to Keau, the little fellovi said: "There he is, papa, see " Kean appeared to exert a strange in uence over the child who showed a feeing akin to friendship for the man. Kean made a statement deny ing he had restrained the child in any way, but said on the contrary Fredcdie had opportunities to leave him several times. He said he had not ill treated J~h boy and in this he a was corroborated by the Muth child. The grand jury found a true bill ~ agant Ke'an and was given imme. ~ diate trial and convicted in less than an hour. Judge Suzerger sentenced the prisoner to twenty years. From the time of Kean's arrest until he was 1 n his way to the penitentiary to be gin sentence less than twenty-four ~ ours bad elapsed,.. son I.uts Father.6 A dispatch from Wahalla says: Dr. - . J. Thode was seriously cut Friday by his son, ired Thode. Es is reported that the trouble arose is bout which should use a buggy. i5 sfter the cutting s oung Thode went if on the 1 o'clock train but after reaching Belton he returned and gaved lmself up and is now In tail. There tI re several wounds in the neck, side 0r ,d back of the elder Thode, but un. ra ess some complicadions arise they are bl lot looked upon as necessarily fatal. w Eung Thode was at one time a stu- sri lent at Furman University. and was ne of the teacher students at the mmer school now in progrees at 'ahaUb c What It Cost aim. Twenty years ago Adam Spies, at th hat time a prominent manufacturer, va f Reformed Mennonite Church of bia oerling, 1ll., because he could not be ca Caristian and be heavily in debt. R< Yhe reason for his indebtednsas wass ne to the destruction of his imnmense Pagon plant, and, owing to the ru.e Ithe caiurch, he could not insure it. w 'or twenty years he struggled. He Rc lt a plant in Clinton and later wen' gr; > Abingdon, Ill. At tne end of 20 . Bars he paid cff a debt of 850,000 and day rejoined the church of nis early of fe. He is now 70 years of age. Of ____________________see Evuea or Divor cepa At Ljs Angeles W. F. Ketring shot f.u nd probably fatally wous.e h is di- ge rced wife and her niece, Miss Bessie tu: Dy, at tue home of the furmer in rly Thursday. Keidng had been , parated from his wire for awo years s nght he aske d her t'o return to ~n. She refused anid MISS O'Day up epped to the telephoneP to call the lice. As she did so, Ketring thrust a te telephone fronu her hands and ' ct bth women. h ABOUT COTTON SEED. ome Worderftl Uses to Wbic" They Are B Alng Par. The recent meeting of the POttor 3eed Cruc'iers' association, at Atlanta aa., brought out some interaesting 'acts in regard to the uses of cotton seed, both for domestic and export purposes. Governor Terrell, who wa4 in early l!fe a c tton grower, said that he remembered well when cottvn seed was burned to get. rid of it. but Bst year there were 4 500 000 tons of cotton seed bought from the South er planters and the sum of 875 000, 000 was paid for them, thus aoding! practically 25 per cent. to the value in that way of the cottnn crop. 'this bas been brought about pribClallY thrcugh the cotton seed oil indus tries. There are proba b!lties of s'ill fur ther developments in he use of oot ton seed which will increase the value of that pro.7uct. Prof. J. H. Con nell, of rexas, in speaking of cotton seed meal as uumaa food made a striking presentation of its value for such uses. He gave a good leson in the shape of biscuits and cakes made from a combination of ootton seed meal and wheat flour. Taey were pronounced as delicate and taaty as any product of the flaur barrel by the members of the convention who were given an cpp*rtunity to partake of the food. Another use of the seed is that for fertilizer In the shape of meal. The use of raw seed to enrich the land was pronounced a waste when the meal can be used t0 much betAr financtal advantage. P;ufessor Con nell said that within a abort time lie believed cotton seed crushers of the South would be able to announce an actual diecovery of 4 500,000 tons 2f a new produet fil forhumansonsump tion. He stated that he bad used cotton oil as a cooking fat in his home for six montbs, and that It was equal in all respects for cooking purposes to the best lard. By an invention of comparatively recent times oxton oil is freed. from the old impurities which give it a rank odor. So-callid olive ol which reaches America froi southern Europe carries a large per centage of cotton seed oil. Cotton qeed meal Is ustd In mking corn a;d flour muffns, biacuits, panakes, gin. ger bread, together with eskes of all ]inds, and for various other similar uses. Any But TaMt - A dispatch from Washington to the Brooklyn Eagle says the recrude scence of William Jennings Bryan !,as not been lost upon President Rosevelt. The president believes that the Nabraskan Is certain to get the democratic nomination for presi dent in 19G8, and he Is of the opinion that there is only one man in the re publican party who can beat Brian. provided there should be no pronouno 'd change In the tmper of the public 'etween now and election time. The man who, in the judgment of Mr. aoosevelt stands between Mr. Bry sn and the presidency, Is William Howard Taft, secretary of war. Deadly ElecLricity. Electric light wires are dangerous md the greatest care should be exar mised in their erection to see that they mmr, well put up. Over In Augusta, 9a, one night las& week Mr. 3. E. ~rlton, a young man, stumbled Into 'wo electric wires on the corner of lhierry alley and Gardcer avenue. His cries for assistance attracted the at nition of those who lived near by, ut all eff-rts to resusicitate him when -~ch'ed were in vain The wires were illy cut aM~ pu-hed cut from u~der ha body atd it was removed to a near Mc;w It sniouta Be. WE at a holy and divine thing the suman heart is if people would do as od intended when he breathed His mage into man. Woman is Indinitely Icher in God-like qualities than man. luman nature is a beautiful thing ui God intended It to live, but the r uble is than this wild, mad scram fe for the dirty, blood-stained dollar oesn't leave poor humanity much of ..chance to develop itself except on ie brutal, animal side. Our present ocial :;stem-or lack of system-ia specially designed for crushing out 11 that Is good In humanity and de reloping all that Is bad. Long Term. INine hundred and ninety-nine years nm the penitentiary Is the penalty im losed upon Snow Williams, a negro, or catching a young white woman by he foot. The negro entered the girl's om at Beiton Texas, a few nights., go and seized her by the foot, but er screams brought aid and be was rrested. The grandl jury was In ses Lon and Quick punishment followed.. jrew Lost. The Danislh Echooner Bertha was nk near South Goodwin lightship hursday as a result of a collision rith the Ditoh tank steamer Amern w, from Antwerp, to New York. light of the schooner's crew were 1 rowned. Peter Norham, th. cap L's son, was the only survivor.j 'he American sustained no damage. "CAN catfish fall from the clouds?" 1 a question propounded in a head e by The State on behalfof the peO- S e of Aiken. who are considareably ' vided over the question because of me finding of a catfish In Mai street i Saturday morning after a heavy 1 in. W e do not know about catfish, 5 it we remember on one occasion c ben we were a boy that hundreds of e all frogs appeared right after a a in and it was said they had fallen a >m the clouds. If frogs, why not tfish? _______ LAST year Secretary Root described e Penrose-Durham gang of Pennsyi-1 nia as "a corrupt and criminal comn ation masquerading as Republ- J as." It is now said that Presidentu >Osevelt has promised to make a few ;p ~eches in Pensylvania in favor of tie ~toring that "corrupt and criminal K bination" to power mn that State- a a have come to the conclusion That w se 11t is .nothing more than a ' al Ld stand poser. ______e lhere aremo many different kinds!I hi prepared food stuffs on the shelves the modern grocery, that it almost I ins as If city folks must live out of ' iteboard b'x-s. How thankful the! m.er should be that he, day by day, s. ;s his living fresh from the earth mt bore It. No better place to live, r all the world, than on the farm. r Ehe man who is 'ietermined to do E ething for his fellows must make co his mind not to be discouraged by EU og called "grafter", or a of hemornsit wi he long a fi!e is LA one of which jol BRVXD THEM AM . i StTeral Pines Im -soed for Violation c the Law. In the United States district court a Krsas City Friday morning Judce Smitth MP'aerson, of Red O.k, Ia., passed sentence upon the seven defen dants recently cor victed In this court of making concessions and accepting and conspiring to accept rebates on shipments. Judgments in the na-'re of fines were aVNsed 88 f llows. S 'ift & com pany, $15 000; Cu-ahy Pocking comp any, $15 OUP; Armour Pack1ng comp any, $15 000; Nelson MWrris & comp any. $15 000; ChIcago, Burlingon and Q in0cY railway. $15 000. George L. Thomas, of New York, was flied $6 000 and sentenced to four months in the penitentiary. L L. Taggart of New York, was fined $4.000 and sentenced to three montra in the penitentiary. A Ane of $15,000 assessed against the Burl ington covered all four counts, -the aggrrgite ameunt of the flees in the seven cases totalling $85.000. Ap ueals were filed in each case and a Lt iy of -execution was granted. The bonds in the case of Thomas and Taggert were fixed at $6,000 each. Thess two men appeared in court personally and upon being sen tenced, promptly furnished the re quired bonds in the case of the pack ing companies and the Burlington were fixed at $15,000 each. Mjtions for new trials for the packers, the Burlington railroad and Taomas and Taggart were alloverruled. ALIOOL ZBjX P)irA MO. N.w Industry Opaningfor tesouth trnOil ris, There was a meeting of the cotton seed oil mill men of South Carolina here Thursday that mean much not only for the oil mills -but also for the farmers. Taose who have kept up wita such matters will recall that sev eral weeks agoa chemist in Arkansas, J. C. Spurlin, ditcavered that denat ured alcohol could be extracted in large quantities from the potato by the ase of the present oil mill ma. chinery. The matter was noticed es pecially by the 011 mill msn and Thursday at the maeting the whole auggestion was gone o ter and its practitcillty discussed. If the scheme Is worked out suc cessfully it will be of mutual advan tage. The oil mills now shut down in suarm-r and just about the .time the potato crpps are coming in. The farmers often have to. throw away hundreds of bushels of potatoes be. cause of a glut in the market or the fact. that they have- -sprouted too soon. These could be sold to the oil mills at slightly reduced prices and used by them for.making of denatur-. ed a'coh.l. The government now propsoes to remove the tax from this product and it can then be produced very cheaply. The fact that it w!ll keep labor or ganizid daring the entire year Is also of considerable advantage to the oil mills. After much discussion it was decided to obtain further information about the project and then take some definite action. The tax Is not re moved by the government until next May.. The meeting of the oil. mill men was primarily for the purpose of ef fecting an organisation to be known as the South Cr~relina Cotton Seed Crushers' Assiociation of the same en terprises. There was a very large at tendance and F. D. Hunter of Dar lngton was elected president, J. T. Stephens, rice president and B F. Taylor of this city was elected secre tarl and treasurer.-Columo:a State. XKXOBI6L SBBVICES. Tribute or Respect Paid the Late Dr. J A. Clifton. The Sumter Watchman and South ron says the very highest testimonial to the esteem in which Dr. Clifton was held by the citizens of ~ Sumter was presented Sunday night week ago at the First Baptist Church,- whither 800 or 1000 persons went to attend a service in his memory. ,The audience was made up of a multitude who seemed, for the time at lest, to have forgotten or Ignored the fachthat they were not all members of the same re ligious body. The memorial service was conduct ed by the pastor of the church, Bev. 0. C. Brown, D. D., in which the 'meeting was held. IHe read a paper concerning Dr. Clifton, which he had wristen for the Christian Advocatie, and then followed it up with a talk of fifteen. or twenty minutes upon some of the traits which charateris ed the lamented dead. The tearful eyes and solemn faces of ihe multitude attested the fact that ihey were heartily In sympathy with. ihe uttered words. Dr. Cifton's wife Lnd children were presentand express ~d their thanks to many over the fact ihat such a meeting bad-been held. The choir had selected special songs or the ocession, and the music was >leasing. Prof. Schumacher's render ng of "Cm, ye Disconsolate" on he violin, was very touching and full if moving pathoms, as was also the ong by Tom Walsh, "if I Were a A Close Can. The disastrous wrecking of train (o. 18, on the Columbia and Green file line, due at Columbia at 10:45 'clock. Saturday but w.'il was sev ral hours late, was narrowly averted Aiston Saturday night.- The long pproach to the bridge over the Broad ver at Alstonr was burning at the me the train awept over it, but for mnately the fire had just started, and iought five tiers were burning brisk along with the supporters just sder them, the fire had not been in rogress long enough to weaken the Ipport sufficient for It to give way ide: the train. When the train had wesed over the phee some 'distance le engineer su.,ceaded in bringing it ?a halt, when the crew went hack Ld extinguished the flames with the iter from the tubes set at intervals ang the trestle. The bridge was fit L, it Is thbonght, by an engine that d passed over'it a short time before e passenger train came along. A Foohashidea. A garg of laborers in New York, iployed as hod carriers, went on a rike when they were told to carry e brick and concrete In wheel-bar ws instead of In the tods. They plained that "the rules of the Ion forbade them to carry bac3k or acrete in anything except hods," d they could not consent to the use wheel-barrows. The logic of the natio-n seems to have besn that the ieel barrows held two much and the would have been finithed too