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VOL. MXX. ANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1906. NO. 47. BLACK FIEND. Brave Young Woman Fights for Life and Honor AAINST A FUND. Bob Davis Attemp'ed to Ravish and Mur der Young Lady In Greenwood Conn ty. Then Makes Successful Attempt on a Negro Woman, A dispatch from Greenwood to The State says one of the most diabolical attempts at criminal assault possible was made Tuesday upon the person of Miss Jennie Brooks, the 28-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Brock. of the Mb. Moriah section of the ecun ty, by a negro named Bob Davis. The fiend did not accamplish his purposs but he came near murdering Miss Brooks who is not yet out of danger. The crime is a horrible one. Mr. Brooks is a farmer who lives between Greenwood and Mt. Morlah church, about four and a half miles from town. He is a very successful farmer and has accumulated property. In connectior with his farm he runs a store. The store building is about 50 yards or les. from his house. The public road runs between the two. It is a very public place and it seems incredible that the fiend woulc have been so bold as to attempt the crime in this place and in open day light. It is the custom of the family to keep the store locked and to open when customers come. Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. Brocks had gone to attend a protracted meeting as Rahoboth. They left their two eldest daughters, Misses Jennie and Nalo, and their grandmother, Mrs. Herlong, at home. The grandmother uses a rolling chair, being a confirmed invalid. Miss Jennie was called to the store by some negro custoners and while they were there the negro Bob Davis came in. She says she did not like the neg ro's looks. He waited until the others had g one out of the store, then he asked to see some shoes. He selected a pair and then bought a pair of pants, then he told her he wanted some bacon. She told him she waE out of bacon. He pointed to some that suited him in the box and she came from behind the counter to get It. As she did so he grabbed up the meat knife and came towards her say ing: "You are what I want." Miss Brooks, who was perfectly cool when relating her awful experience, says she saw an iron bar before her and attempted tc got it to defend her. self. The negro made a murderomu onslaught with the knife and she threw up her hands involuntarily tc her face. The Dlow of the knife al aost severed two of her fiagers. As soon as she dropped her hands, he again struck at her with the knife, this time making a ghastly wound in the throat. This wound is about four inches long and missed the carotid arteries by the mere fraction of an Inch. With her blood spurting from the wound in her throat and disabled In her right arm by the other wound, Miss Brooks successfully fought cif her assailant, finally In some way securing the knife though she says she does not know how she got It. The thing that saved her was a passerby. Mr. John Tolbert, coming to town in his buggy, pased the store. The' passing frightened bhe negro. He fled and Miss Brooks came to the door and had strengtht enough lert to call to Mr. Tolbert. He had heard, he said, a peculiar nose inthe store, but led her to the gate, where he was met by her sister, who said she would take hermi and for hin, to gofor help to catch the negro. He did so. In ashort time men were leaving town in droves. Dr. G. P. Neel went to the wounded girl at once In an automobile, Mr. Tolbert having caught him by 'phone from the nearest 'phone to the Brooks omne. Dr. Neel thinks she willire cover.. After his attempted assuault on Miss Brooks the fiend went to the home of a colored woman on the Bell place and there made an assault on a negro woman whose name could not be learned. In this attempt he was successful. The description of the negro fits exactly Bob DavIs and there Is no doubt that the same fiend corn mitted both crimes. If caught the fend will be lynched. Terrible Tragedy. A terrible tragedy took place a few miles from Anderson onls Saturday night, In which Mr. T. F. Drake, one of the most prominent farmers in the county, was killed by J. Allen Emer son, who Is in charge of the county chainganig. The kM11ing occurred a& the home of Mr. Drake, Enerson had gone to Mr. Drake's hcuse clandestinely, and was discovered In a room with Drake's daughter. Emer-' son claims that Drake dicovered him~ in the room ani opent d fire on him, and that he had to shoot to keep from~ being killed. One shot struct Mr Drake, entering the tody under the right arm and ccming out on the op poite side of the body. Mr. Dlarke fell and died almost instantly. KLLeQ by jumane ls, A dispatch from Manila says first Lieut. John F. James and tv o priv tes of the E'ghth Infantry, with Contract Surgeon Calvin Snyder and Internal Revenue Collector William F WIlliams, were killed Thureday after noon, In a band-to-hand fight with a. force of Pulaianos at Ju.lta, Island of Leyte. The detachment, which eon sisted of ten men, was greatly out numbered, but made a gallant fight. The Pulajanes captured three pistols, four Krag-Jorgensen rifles and three hnred round of ammunition. - HEY WARD HUNORM THREE THOUSAND TROOPS RE VIEWED BY OUR GOVERNOR. The Demonstration Was Superb and Was All 'hat A ny Cne Could , esire. A dispatch from Chattanooga tr The News and Courier says from twenty-five hundred to three thousand' troops turned out Friday afternoon to do honor to Governor Heyward, of South Carolina. It was a superb spec tacle, and a gratifying demonstration. uarolina's governor came to Chicka mauga to extend the band of cheer and well done to the 2nd regiment, and the three regiments of Georgia troops, the 17th infantry of regulars, the 12th cavalry and a battery of ar tillery turned out to do honor to their comrades of the Second and Governor Heyward and his staff. Governor Heyward went to the camp about noon, and was met by Capt. Ferguson, representing Gen. Bubb, in command of the camp. Gov ernor Heyward, Gen. Fish, Gen. Wilie Jones, Col. Henry T. Thompson, Col. Robt. W. Hunt, Col. August Kohn, Col. Jaynes, Mr. George L. Baker and Wm. D. Melton, went to the head aarters of the 2"-d regiment in camp carriages and Cols. Watkins, Folk, Moore, Evans, Irby, Bateman, Banks, D. 0. Herbert and Ed Clark mcunted the horses kindly supplied through Gen. Bubb. All arrived in camp as they started except Ed Clark, who changed mounts as the seventeen guns were fired in salute of Governor Hey ward's arrival in the camp of the South Carolina troops. "Crack!" "crack !" for ceventeen salutes roared he cannon as the G :vernor and his 3scort drove into camp. At the head of the line was a troop rom the 12th cavalry, which acted as special escort. A brief stop was made at Col. Thompson's headquarters. Governor Heyward, and the mem bers of his staff, were warmly greeted by the Carolina soldiers. In a few mo ents, Gen. Bubb and his staff arriv d and it was not long before they were taken into the Carolina. It had rained all morning and was quite threatening. When Gen. Bubb asked Governor Heyward whether to go on with the review or not. Governor Heyward suggested that he wished to it the pleasure of Gen. Bubb and the men. The-review was held and it as indeed a most thrilling sight to witness one company of soldiers after mother march by and then see gallop ng the sturday men and then tearing ong with clatter and fury the grim annon of the artillerymen. Gen. Bubb and Gsvernor Heyward with their staffs first inspected the ;roops that were lined along the field is far as the visiun reached, then hey took their places for the beauti .ul review. First came the 17th infantry with ta fine band, Col. Vanarsdale, of this egiment, took his place nox to Gean. ubb and Governor Heyward. Then ame the three regiments of Georg ans, then the 23d South Ctrolina, hen the regular cavalry, and the ar illery. After the review the cavalry and ar illery gave a thrilling exhibition of torsemanship and drillung. It is such xhbibions as this that make Ameri a think all the more of their coun ~ry. The 2d South Carolina, under .lo. Thompson, made a fine showing. t is a fine regiment. Col. Thompson was accompanied by his staff, mount ad, and the battalions were command d by Mr jors Lipecomb, Culler and eadon. The companies were corr nanded by Uapts. Van Tuscon. Jon. it. Allen, Christie Bennet, Lieuts. David Kohn, Cla.ffy, Moseley, Brice, ppa, Rawlins, King, Doar, and Shu After the review Governor Hey ard and his staff visited the 2nd reg ment, and then made a brief offcial all on Gen. Bubb, who was profusein mls commendation of 00l. Thompson's egiment. He told Governor Heyward hat he thought this had been the best week of military training he had ver seen. The boys of the 2d upon eturning to camp, promptly began work, getting ready to leave for home. he 2nd leaves here shortly after mid 2ght, and Col. W. W. Lewis, of the tt, will be here to-morrow ready for work. Governor and his staff expect o visit 001. Lewis and his regiment onday, but will do so without th-. pomp and display of to- day. The Carolina boys take well here. hey are In fine spirits and health, and were proud of their Governor and lils silk hat to-day Governor Heyward and his party will leave here Monday night at 10.30 o'clock for home over the Southern Railway, via Ashville. AUGUST KoHN. New and Strankae Island. Capt. Truebridge, of the steamship Northwestern, Wednesday displayed a photograph that he brought from the North, taken by an cifcer of the revenue cntter Perry, of a newly for mer lying fifty n ies west of Dutch Harbor, directly between the Bogc slof Islands, commonly known as Cas tle and Fire Islands. The new Island made its first appearence durIng June and is now 900 feet high. The length could nco be ascertained as Perry could not get close enough to make an accurate measurement. Clcuds oi steam arise from Its summit and it is surrounded by boiling water. An Old Man. James Webb, -of Peters, San Joa quiu county, Cal., celebrated on July 27 bis one hundredth birthday. He vas born in Kentucky. He had thirteen children, seven of whom sur vive, the eldest being eighty. He -s fifty-one grandcbildren, about 150 great-grandchildren and twent3 great-great-grandebildren. O n e undred of his descendants attended *he celebraskGa. Hielped Catch tiimn It Is sail Mr. Ergsdale, candidats or attorney general, deserted the o.mpagn party at Greenwood Wed eday and joined the poste searching the sampsor the negro. Bob Davis FIEND OAUGHT And Governor Heyward Goes to the Scene and TBIES TO SAVE HIM. The Governor Plead Elquently and Ear nestly With the Crowd to Let the Law Take -Its Course. But the Crowd Resp: cttully Declined to Do So. Bob Davis. the fiend who attempted to assault a white girl and who really succeeded in assaulting a colored girl, has been caught and lynched. After the crime was committed on Tuesday a big crowd of men and boys of both races went to hunt down the fiend. They searched swamps and houses and never did the zal slacken. They meant to catch thati negro, and they meant to kill him, and that is the whole story. For forty-eight hours the hunt kept up without abatement, and then it was rewarded, thirteen or fourteen miles away from the .little store in the Whitehall section, where Bob Davis attempted his crime and his murder. Will Brooks saw a head close up against a log. The body was prostrate, covered with cane, but the head showed. Brooks and John Will iams caught the negro, and it was not long before be was .)d and under es cort, started for the hceue of his crime for identification. Atout this'time there ww a Gover nor in Columb~a with a desp scne of pride in his State, who was worried and pacing his cfice. The sheriff of the county had telegraphed him that if DivIs was caught he feared a lyn ching, and he asked for help. Gover nor Heyward consulted friends in Greenwood, and realized that first of all the negro might not >be caught, and if he should be, that the temper of the people was such that armed troops might lead to bloodshed and useless loss of life. He thought over the whole situation. No posse could be assembled in the neighborhood, he thought, to defend the would be-rav isher should he be caught. To order out the militia might lead to blood ied. It would have been premature and had the militia been here Davit would hardly have been brought to the house for personal identification. Gavernor Haywa;d thought, perhaps, le could move the people to a realiza ion of their duty as citizens and men 3 oy a personal appeal to let the law take its course. He went over the whole thing and felt that the people night heed him as Gvernor of South Jarolina, pleading for law and order. 1 :t was a patriotic and an unusual re iort for a Governor to virtually get own on his knees and plead and beg I id implore that the law take its ~ourse. Perhaps some day It may ac-o omplish good. Thursday It was use ess. The circumstances of the assanit, ihe young woman in the room fifty ~eet away, the long and weary sear ch t,he record of the negro the bloody gar nents all conspired to make the elo uence, the force and the earnestness f Gavernor Heyward's appesl for law all on deaf ears. There had been a wreck near ~Jappell, on the Columbia and reenville Road, and the train with overnor Heyward on board arrived 1,t Ninety-SIx about 4 o'cleck Thurs 1 ay afterncon. It was' seen that here was excitement and it was soon earned that the searchers had a negro a.d were on their way to the home I f J. P. Brooks to have the man dentified. Governor Heyward talked I to the State Senator Brooks. Fcrmer I Rpresentative Kinard, Capt. Fraser I ad other citizens at the station at Ninety-Six. They all told him the same thing, that he could hardly 1 ope to do any good, as the crowd neanL dEath to avenge the outrage As soon as possible arrargemnentsf were made to take the Governor to 1 he Brooks home, eight miles away. When he arrived there he found a rowd of fifty or sixty determined I en thero.3 Tnle store in which the outrage was attempted was open and across the road was the nest cottage in which iss Jennie Brooks lay. There were women folk about. Governor Hey ward made himself and his mission known. He was cordially received, but was frankly told that there was no earthly chance for him to save the negro should he prove to be the right man. He went about in the .crowd, but got no sign of help or encourage ment. The men were there with pistols and guns ready to kill. They were not mere boys on a lark, but men with gray hairs and determina tion. They came with their coats off and a deep-set vengeance. Gov ernor Heyward was asked Into the house to get a bite to eat. He sug gested that the law take its course. The women folk flashed that they would act as men if need be. Gover nor He yward thought he might get Mr. J. Pett Brooks, the father of the, young woman, and a sturdy -man, to help him; bait no, he, too, wanted quick vengeance. He even wanied un negro burned. It looked hopeless from the very stat. Finally the cavalcade came up to the house with the burly negro tied. The crowd had grown. The news had spread and from far ano ear came meni with their firearms. Men from Greenwood, from above and olow Greenwood, and even from Abbevlle, were there. Eon many guns were there, Heaven only knows At least 500, and counting pistols, wice that numbE r, and perhaps more. Four men literally dragged Davis into the room to show him to MJ a Bro~ka. Tile crowd was so thick tnas. s 'was difficult to get him into the nouse, but he was finally taken inte he room and Miss Brooks identified iaim beyond Question. She had no doubt in his identification, and he was easily recogninble. Davis was then taken back by his captors to the bug ty in which he was brought. Gov -,.o eyard wa anga e-nt the negro be turned over to the ( ffi ers of the law. The crowd asked that he be heard. Several boards were placed across the angles of the front yard fence and Governor Heyward was pulled up on the boards. The Brooks house Is about 100 yards from the store. Arcund the yard is a picket fence. In one angle was Governor Heyward's !mpromptu stand, and in the other front angle was the guard with the negro. It is well to note these relative positions; Governor Heyward was intensely in earnest. II: was almost pale with excitement when he mounted the little stage There was applause, and as he spoke the crowds cheered the man, the G.ov err or they all felt and knew was do ing his Luty. Some one suggested that the hurrahing might disturb Miss Brooks, and Governor Hey ward begged that the audierce be quiet as this was a most sericus matter, and out of respect to the women and sick. Governor Heyward literally had guns to the right and left of him, to the front and to the rear. The men were deeply in earnest and listened. Governor Heyward said he came alone, except that there were two newspaper men with him, citizens o! South Carolina, just as he was. He said he came unarmed, unassisted and alone to plead for law and order. Then came applause, and finally Gov ernor Heyward stopped it. Governor Heyward said he might have ordered troops to the scene, and even these might have been useless, but he did not wish to have further trouble. Ht c me from Columbia, he went onto say, to enter his plea as Governor of the great State of South Carolina that the law be allowed to take its course. He be seved the men present would see it as he did, and the great wrong and great irbjstice thati would be done the State .f the crowd took the law in its own hands. "Let the law take its course" h begged. I am a South Carolinian just he same as you are. I have a wife ad family at home for whom I have he same attachment that you all save. I, too live in the couttry Prhaps when I was in (Jolleton I ived more remotely from neighb:rs han any cf you. and I assure you I know how you all feel. Still I am a South Carolinian, and as Governor of hils State, let me beg you, let me im Clore you, that the law be allowed to ke its course. The State of South arolina is on trial before the civilized orld. Tne question is shall the people n passion ruie, or shall the majesty of the law be upheld? "It is a seriods question. The full eriousness is upon you. Let me ap )al to the manhood of Greenwood Jounty, let me appeal to you as 1 South Carolinians, that you let this can, this brute, be punished as the w dictates. I appeal to you to let 'our citizenship, your pride in Caro .na, rise above your natural pastions nd prejudices. It will do you good have come here to promise you on t ay word as Governor that there will k e no delay in this a. e I am as anx z ous as you to see this brute punished. nd I understand your feelings. Tue people or your county should try this ae. The men about me are the( rors. Why not have it to them. I the jury convicts this man, and ey will do so, I would te willing to: u the rope just to have a legal exec uton. Yu' are my people. Youc .re all my friends, and let me plead ith you and beg you to turn -this an over to ttie officers of the law and ave a legal execution. "I have in the four years of my rm, so help me God, undertaken in ver way to uphold the majesty of thec w, and I want you to do so now. he State is prospering and there Is iut one cloud on the hovizan, andi at is that such crowds as this take e law too often in their own hands t does you and it does the State arm." The Governor referred to the Phoe: x riot in this county, and said thati e effects of that were bad and thej rood people here ought to consider uch matters. It makes no dfference ow we feel about such cases, it ought be remembered that there are am le laws in the land, and that each] ucb impulsive action, each such in action of the law did harm not only< o those engaged In It, but to the ~tate a's a whole.t "In G,;d's name," he Implored, "do iot put another stain on the name of tour State. I beg you, I implore you, plead with you, let this man have a( egal trial. The case can be tried in1 ,wo weeks' time, and your own jurors will try him and no one will interfere with the verdict of your jury." Finally Go vernor Hey ward asked the nowd to reason together as Carolin ans and see the wrong that was bout to be done by lynching Davis. e told them how he was circum staned, and how he had alway s felt hat there was somethtng higher and obler than venigean4ce on a brute of a negro devil and that was the vindica tion of the law, "Gentlemen, after you have killed this poor negro, as you may do, you will not enjoy it. Let there be a legal trial and you will all fel better." Some one in the crowd: "Governor, we appreciate what you say; but we are going to do It." Governor Heyward was pleading earnestly and elkquently. He was ighting arising ticae, but he kept on begging for a trial for the negro. Finally, fagged out and hopeless, he was taken from the stand. Some one in the crowd, an old man with a beard asked when there could be a trial. Governor Hey ward thought he 0aw a ray of hope and he jumped on a carriage, and said that he had tele graphed for Solicitor Cooper and that he could certainly promise a specill t arm of Court in twa weeks. He said C-he laws required two weeks fur tihe drawing of a jury, and that the trial could be had in that time. Over in the other corner of the fence the crowd with the negro. was getting impatient, and whi e Gove: ur l1ey ward was talking tney drove away with their victim. Governor Hey ward beggt d that the pee ple turn the negro over to Capt. Evans in whom all had the greatest confidence, and let him have a trial. .On' toward: he woods the captors led their vic tim and those around Governor Hey ward realizing the utter hopelessness of his mission, urged him to get down whiah he relnctantly did. FIEND LYNCHED Within Hearing of the Scene of His Awful Crime. IN ORDERLY AFFAIR. Bob Davis, the Fiend, Pays the Penalty for :His Dastardly Assault on Two Helpless Wcmen He Was Hanged and Riddled With Bullets. Within hearing distance of the Brooks home, where Miss Jennie Brooks lay suffering from a fearful wound, which he bad inflicted, Bob Davis, the negro who on Tuesday at tempted to criminally assault her, was lynched about half after 7 o'clock ?hursdav evening. The negr' had first been identified by Miss Brooks, and the Governor of the State of South Jaroilna had made a futile appeal to he determined men who were leaden in the lynching to allow the law tc hake its course. The lynching was as lecent, orderly and matter- of-feet an iffair of the kind as could be imagin d. s While Governor H 3yward was speak ing the fiend was taken away by the nen who had him in charge and the arge crowd qickly followed. H; wa taken down ho the first clump of trees, )elow the home of J. Pett Brooks and j ;here a halt was made. It locked as f the execution would be swift, but Kr. Brooks, the father of the young ;irl, rode up and begged that tie rowd wait a while. He said that nany who had been on the three days' Cunt had not yet arrived, and to wall n them. He then begged that the rime be wiped out by burning the t coundrel. The negro seems anxious nouga to wait and he sat on the round. It was hard work to keep t some from shooting him, but the wait ontinued. Crowds came up, some , rom Greenwood and some from the e ieighborhood and most of them with 9 runs and pistols. Tnere appeared to e no hope to save the negro's life. a l.e crowd would listen to nothing. t Governor' Heyward, who remained , ome distance back, sent messages by a riends to men he knew in the cowd o o do what they could to save the ne- 5 ;roand to have a legal hanging. The t ,rowd would not even let his messen- p ers return. He sent other messages, F )ut all in vain. He wanted to go to a he woods and see what he could do, f; ut his friends told him that would |t e useless, and the crowd told him that e: ie would rather be would not come, p nd it was even hinted that if he a went that his head would be covered rith a bag, not as a disrespect to the 'overnor, but simply so that he could ce nothing.~ h A negro woman, Annie Spare, whose |fa iece had been assaulted by D.Lvis,|'y ame up and idennifled the man, and | a utsed him for his conduct. She ask |s] d to be allowed to fire the first shot p 2to his body. All agreed that this k rivilege be given her, and she was al anded a pistol and placed in front of I s he firing line, but her nerve failed o er and she did not fire, although the |a olored man next her claimed to have Ia red four times. The main firing r;f ne was about 100 feet from the l ody and the largest crowd was on a c: 111side made by the cut in the road. I , While Bob Da~vis was sitting on the p ~round awaiting his fate he was asked b bout the crime. He admitted that i e had been in the store and that he t ad been cut with the -meat knife. I [is hand was lacerated. He, how o ver, tried to implicate s'me one else, i1 ~nd said shat he took the knife away ji rom Miss Brooks and that be had not ttempted to criminally assault her le did not talk distinctly, but rather umbled his words and very little C ould be gotten out of him.9 While he was sitting listen'ng to g he questions he asked for a cigarette o ad nie pufied It with pleasure. A e olored ministier, the Rev. J. C. t oode, pastor of Macedonia Baptist e Tnarch, asked If he might pray for t he negro. Consent was given, ano LB he worked his way through the de- e ~ermined c~ond up to the victim, all a rcjvered their heads. That was ab pontaneous tribute to God. With a rcovered heads, that vast throng, ? tent on killing a poor negro, listen- e d to the colored man's prayers, dur. e ng the long wait there were repeated 1 ~uggeston of burning the negro ano a ,f mutilating him before killing him. 'Inally Caps. Evans, who had been orking to save the negro for trial ~nd who had been on the hunt for lays got consent of the crowd thatd bey would do no ba.rning or mutilat ng. Two men tiEd a rope on Davis's rms and he was pulled up about twor engths of his body in a pine tree, aout a q iarter of of a mile from thea ome. He kicked and squirmed, and, shen his legs were fastened. With ls face to the anxious crowd. he was nyaen a moment or two to say some hing, and then at the brop of a hat . thousand bullets were fired Into his bdy. Hundred3 and hunereds and nndreds of balls pierced his bcdy and then after the first fusillade men tked to be allowed to take shots nd in the final round up his head was iterally shot to a pulp, and with the ain ot zing down over his head and lothing. With the sun fast sinking ver the hills, the thousands or more who had wisnessed the miserable af fir went home. At the first volley sne smoke obscured the banging body, but the firing kept up, then the smoke owered and the shoctii.; continued. Tere was no hurrahing, no drinking, o cheering. It was quieit and pre meditated. - Davis was .a ratherj young negro. He was conl black. .E;en to his big thick lips. His head was shaped like a ccanut with an inclined forehead, and tne hair, beginning far back on1 his head. His eyes were red and in the corners of the eyes was pus. He looed drnasv. but did not appear: !rightened except thrt he alway wanted to sit down. The crowd liter ally had to shove him up the littl pine tree to get him high enough u for the range of the impatient crowd It was not the least excited orboister ous only a bit impatient waiting t( shoot and kill their prey. Sheriff McCaslan tried to save the negro and made a plea for a trial, bu the crowd was impatient and did no care to listen to him. Davis had a half brother lynched in this county about thirteen years ago for assaulting a white lady. It was in this county about eight miles from here, tha' about eight years ago I saw the Pheonix lynchings, and to-day's .affair was much like that I saw at Indepen dence Church, in Elgefield County. where all day long a crowd awaited the chance to shaot down their victims, experience seems to show that when a crowd of several hundred once get bold of a man, charged with imch an cffence, as this that there is no hope of a legal trial. G:,vernor Heyward, after the lynch ng, which he avoided seeing, came tt Ireenwood, and with the returning rowds and newspaper men reached iere after 8 o'clock. - It is about five niles from here to Mr. Pet Brooks's iome. There were several negro men n the crowd at the time of the shoot ng. The dead body was left tied in he pine tree. AUGUST KOHN. DYING TEIEF CONFESSES Ind Tells Where Stolen Jewels Uould Be Found. A dispatch from St. Louis, Mo., ays, acting under instructions cabled rom England, John P. Omgien, a aborer, employed in the wrecking of he world's fair buildings, has un arthed an alligator bag containing :weis valued at 850.000, which were tolen from Mr. and Mrs. P. Henry )layton, Davonshire England, gduring visit to the Louisiana Purchase ex osition two years ago. The j 1wels were stolen from a trunk .nd they were not missed until the ;laytons had returned to England, fter a tour around the world. They hen had no means of knowirg wherr he je els had been stolen. About a nonth ago a Hindoo servant, wha Lad been in their employ duringthe: rip, was fatally injured by an ele chant in India and on his deathbec onfessed that he stole the jswell rhile in St. Louis. He said that he became alarmec ad fearing detect-Ca had dropped hem into a hole in the wall of th :anufsciurers' building. Later. he gain wished to secure the gems, but n returning to the place where he ad secreted~ them could not reach he bottom of the space bet-ween the laster and the side of the building. 'earing to awaken any ir quiries or sk assistance, the HindQo departed rom St. Louis, leaving the Jews i: heir hiding place. O Brien was gen rously rewarded and was also em toyed by Mr. Clayton as his personal tendant. Fiendish Outrage. An unknown man entered the ome of Henry Davis, a prosperous r mer near Baldin, Fisa., at 2 o'clock 7ednesday morning, struck -him in 2e head with an axe as he was eep beside his wife, then made a des rate attempt to criminally assault [rs. Davis who fought wih the arength of a giantess, screaming lus .ly meanwhile for help. Finally the ther members of the family were rcused, but the man escaped through window. Mrs. Davis was smearedJ om head to foot in blood from her ounded husband, who Is still in a rivical condition. Mrs. Davis is also i a collapsed condition from her des erste fight. A posse of neighbors as been out all day with dogs hunt ag for the fiend without picking up ne trail. Mrs. Davis says she coulo ot tell whether the man was white r black. The entire neighborhood i greatly excited and threaten speedy istice if the man -Is caught. A Remarkable Mother. E. Mrs. R ichael Hughes, of Henry lounty, Iowa, recently celebrated her 6th birthday, with fourteen of her fieen children present to do her hon r. Her son, B iward Hughes, of Sen ca, Kan., a man 80 years of age, is he eldest "child," while the young ss, Clara Hughes, of Emporia, Kan., S50 years old. All but one or the bidren are married, and Mrs. Hugh in has fifty-one living grandchildren nd eighteen great grandchildren. It .as been stated recently that the de ree of longevity has increased very auch in our country in the past sev nty-fivs or eighty years. It is cer ainly very great in some localities rhen a mother has a son 80 years old t her birithday party. Whipped a Woman. A special from Spartanburg to The ltate says Lumn West and Ollie Pon er, charged with participation in he sensational whipping of Mrs. Har iett Coburn, J1uly 3, were bound over o awailt trial at sessions court as the esult of preliminary Investigation gef ore Maglhtrate Kirby Wednesday ,ternoon. Bond in the sum of $200 as required and given.. Whas ii onsidered datrnaging evidence was ad tuced. Solicitor Sease appeared for he State and Mr. Sawyer of Unior, or Poinder. So large was the crowd t was neccesary to hold proceedings ai the court room instead of magis rate's cffbe. Murder in Ris Heart. At Jennings, La., Drew Dobbins, vhile despondent, Friday took a re rolver containing three loaded car ~rdges, fired the first bullet at his rife and missed, then deliberately imed the second at his baby but gain missed. and sent the third >ullet into his own body, dying in 8 ew seconds. A neighbor was slightly wounded by one of the shots. Five Cailoren Burned. In a fire which destroyed the home >f Dr. Geo. L. Miller, of South Omna i, durirg Wednesday night five chil Iren of Thomas O'Daniel were burn ad to death. Their ages ranged from ihree to thirteen years. Mrs. O'Dan .el is in a precarious condition as a result from burns sustained in her ef orts to save her abildrep ISHE WORK D MEN. e - p HANDSOME WOAAN ON BUN: FOR HUSBAND. Her letters Brought Tiups-Thez She "Pulled Their legs" Good and Proper-'n Jail. At New York a handsome young woman, claiming to be Mrs. Hamilton, of 320 West Eighty second street, has been committed for trial by United States Commissioner Shield on a charge of mailing letters in which, under a pretense of matri mony, she is alleged to have con ducted a scheme to defraud. Thr complainant was James B. McClellanc a business man of Pniladelphia, who avers his acquaintance with the young woman cast him $800. In possession of Assistant United States DtutrIct Attorney Carmondy are soveral score of letters, all of unusual warmth, but it is charged that a .ordid motive was really responsibi for the young woman's apparent affection. According to McClelland's story, he saw an advertisement in a Philadel phia paper which stated that a "young widow, engaging, of liberal income and beautiful home, desired meeting a young gentleman of. character, business, and 'position." He sent an answer to "Sincerity," and was invited to call on Mrs. Hamilton at No. 320 West Eighty second street. He did so, and met, he says, a butler at the door of the apartment, lho said Mrs. Hamilton would see him. % McClelland was much impressed, and says the woman told him her nustand had b .n dead' two years. She was lonely and wished to marry. She said, the comtlain :nt alleges, that she er j >yed an income of $10,000 a year, which she received from a brother, a mine owner in Mexico. McClelland said, in telling his story today, that he made several tnps to this city, and fiaally became engaged. Lnd that the engagement ring the woman p'cked out c Ast $600. Nex;, ae says he received the following ietter, bring a part of the complaint: "D:arest Sweetheart: Your lovely .etter reached me this morning. and I 3ould hardly wait to get it. Yiu are a dear sweetheart, and I love you flore than I thought it possible tc ove a man. Yes, I feel sure 'we shall 'e ex rimely happy for there Is noth eg to compare with true love and :;apaalonship." After asking Mc Jielland to call later in the week, the otter continues. I wish you would canl me up b phone, .for I want the happiness o: Gearing your voice. J.ist as sown as possible I will get a photograph for you, and, speaking of pictures, I nave your dear picture before me, and always want it where I can look at it and show It to my friends. "When I was at Asheville, N. 0., I :aw a most beautiful tuiquoise lceket nd chain, solid Odental turquoises and I always thought if I had any one I could love sufflaiently I woulo want that locaet and chain, so I could wear this picture around my aeck. Yours Is the one I want 6 It and I sent for It today, for I linow you would be glad to give It to me for my birth day, which is next Thursday. "It will only bz $200, and it is the one kind I have not in my collection )f jewels. and I dearly love turquolses, for bxme has forever represented pure love. Osd'e you have a little minia-b ture taken about an Inch equare so I -an have It ready for the icchet? II] can cut this one out and use It,' butI would like to keep this one also." Mc~ielland says he promptly for-| warded the check for the $200 and upon his next visit he says he saw. the locket. He made a few later visits and then received a long telegram from the woman, stating her brother had suddenly arrived from Mexico, and was furious about her proposed mar riage to him, and had by legal injunc tion, cut-cff her $10,000 Income. She wished to visit Providence, E I., at once, and retain a lawyer acquainted with her fam-ly affairs and fight the writ. Mc~lelland said he was never after ward able to find Mrs. Hamilton, although he called repeatedly. Finally as disguised himself and watched her ao~use, and when he saw her enter It caused: her arrest. The woman was hield In $1.000 bail for trial. It Is .sileged that Mirs. Hamilton secured $2,800 In all from Mc~lelland. Big Sheep .Eancen. The Sabinal, Texas, Sentinal sas John Avant reports that he -has suc cessfully brought through the season 1600 lambs which are in fine condition and that his spring clip of wool .mounted to 17,009 pounds which he -xpacts to get 22 cents for. Be has dow about four thousand head of old sheep which with his lambs make a rock of 5,600 and he is doing a nice business with them. This shows, what a man can do who wants to wcrk and is willing to get at It. Mr Avant watches his sheep closely and ias four Mexican helpers. Denounced the Judge. Earle Fletcher, colored, who was :iarged at Birmingham, Ala., on Fri .ay, for the murder of Bob Paine, a 'ellow convict at Elat Top mines, created a scene by denouncing Judge S. L. Weaver from the scaffold jiat before the drop fell. Fletcher declar ed that tht judge had granted a hab eas corpus to John Williams, a white man, and saved Williams neck. But when It came to his (Fietcher's) case the court went fishing. Fletcher said that "going fishing" was given as an excuse for the judge to avoid grant ting a ha~heaR ernrous. In a fit of Insanity, Enll Berner, a mechanic of Batavia, Ill'inois, mur dered his brother-In-law, Ernest Franzen. by cutting his throat with a razor, slashed Mrs. Berner so severely that she will die, then cut his throat and died within a few moments. The tragedy was enacted at the Berner home, Berner had been Ill for three weeks, anid at limes delirious, but nc symptoms of violent Insanity had been pneviously noticed. CITY WRECKED. Valparaiso, Chile, the Centre of Earthquake Shock. GREAT LOSS OF LIFFE. Fires Followed the Seismic Disturbances and Nearly Every louse In the City Has Been Ir.jured by Either Earthquake or Flames. - Terror Reigns. A special cable to The News, and Courier says at about 8 o'clock Thurs day evering there was a tremendous earthquake at Valparazo, Cnile. As at San Francisco, the shock was fel. lowed by the outbreaking of many dres. The flames, extending from the Plaza Orden towards the north, have not been extinguished. Manyihouses have been destroyed, and nearly ail of them are more or less damaged, either by the earthquake or the fire. Busi ness is at a complete standstil. The banks are closed. The gas supply is unavailable and the electric lighting system is com pletely knocked out. Consequently the city at night is in darkness. The greatest panic prevails among the inhabitants. Many families are fleeing from the city. Comnmunication ,with Santiago de Chile is interrupted, and It is impos s":ble to learn what has occurred there, Many persons were kalled and Injured in Valparaiso. The smocks continue, but are milder. Tbe.shipping in the port was not inj;:red. The streets which suffered most were Calles Blanco, (ondeli and Esmeralda and those in.the Delicias district. Negro Troops Cause Crime Negro Ualted States troops have acted very badly at B:ownsville, Tex an. The killing of one man, the fa cal wounding of another and an at tempted outrage upon a white woman constitute crimes that will tot' be tightly condoned. Tne spltatering cf. white residences with rifle butles tired by negro hands was all on ac count of the fact that a white saloon refused to serve them drinks. ~ Negro soldiers seem to be the only in centive for the dastardly action ofthe aegroes. Demands of a premptory aacure have been made on the con wander of Fort B:own for the arrest and proper pnnsnument of the marau ders and the matter of sonding -state .r-ops to the scene is only held in ioeyance uitil it is known what the t deral military authorities intend to to. It is understood that General Mc Jarty, nowin Austin, will make a mearching investigation info the whole affair. Says k's a Lre. ' The following letter was published di the Columbia R teord Thursday: To she Editor of the Daily Ricord, Co tambia, S. 0.-Dear Sir: Will you dndly let the peopie of Soua Caro ana know that John C.. Hal sid i most damnable lie when he made die statement that I had made a re nark to the effect that the rapairs on Willle Jones's house had been made by Uanahan, the whiskey merchant? To ihe best of my knowledge, -I never ieard of Lanahan before this affait tame Into notice. I don't know'ihen hese repairs were made, they must aave been made sInce '96, as I left south Carolina in tha' year. I don't shink Mr. Haskell will gain anything, with fair-minded and honest people, 3y telling a damn lie ahout a man ihat is three thousand miles away from him. Yours, etc. - Wx H. Cinwnr. Killed at Inlstrument. During a severe electric storm Tues lay atfsernoon Siaewart Battle, aged i5 years, telepraph operator for the A~tlantic Coast Line Railroad at Col tier's Station,, Va. was struck by ightning and instantly killed. *At one time or the occurrence Battle was as his telegraph instrument reporting she soutnbound passenger train, which left Petersburg at 5.16 P. Mi. The unfortunate young man was a son of Henry Battle, of this city, and han been In the service of the rail road company as telegraph operator for many years. Calls Him a Liar. The Columbia State says Gen. Wilie Jones said Taursday in reference to 001. Baskells remarks about Lana nan presenting mm with a punch bowl that he could not understand why Col. Haiskell should give utter ance to such lying and slanderous sto ries unless he knew they were true and was willing to be responsible for them. As (Col. Haskell had stated that he did not know that they were true and did not give the name of any man who had stated the stories, all he could do was to denounce the author as a liar, regardless of who he was. reportant Rerform. The state board of dispensary direc tors held Its monthly meeting Thurs day but nothing was given out from one meeting. Director Wylie said that the board at Its present meeting would arrange to put into effect Its resolution adopted on the eve of the state convention to buy its bulk stuff only from bounded warehouses and bave the commissioner take out a rec. tifiers license and do the blending at the stats dispensary. Tne advertise ments for bids for the new Quarterjy purchases will be so worded. Voted Qat. Without a dissenting vote in the oresence of a large galler- of specta tors the city council of Birmingham, Ala., Thursday night finally passed an ordinance which winl proiit the operation of any sort of brokerage . rouse in the city which deals in futi :s, after Octobtr 1. The action istme -esult of the sentime t brao:ght about by the de faaton in thelFirst Na .ional 3nk of Bilrmingham.