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VOL. XXI MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY AUGUST 28, 1907. NO. 48 WORK OF FIEND. Farmer's Wife and Her Servant Victims of a Brute WHO HAD FIRED BARN While the Men of the 1 amily Were Fighting Flames the Negro Tried to Pillage the House, and When the Women Came on the Scene the Brute Attacked Them With An Axe. The people of the North are fast findng out the vicious negro, and in consequence they are loosng their sympathy for the whole race. 'lhey must not judge the whole ugro race by the black fiends who committed the crime described below. We -are glad to say that such 'robbers and murderers does not fairly represent the negroes of the South. a large majority of whom are hai d woiking honest citizens. But still we can't blame the people of the North for judging the negro race by those who go up to live among them. A dispatch from Camden, N. J.. says Mrs. Frances Horner, aged 67 1 years, wife of Edward Horner, a far- 1 mer on the Browning road near Mer chantsville, and Mrs. Victoria Napoli. < a servant, were chopped to death 1 Wednesday in their home, it is charg- I ed, by Charles Gibson, a negro who was formerly employed on the farm. I The assassin first set fire to the ! Horner barn. While Horner and i Mrs. Napoli's husband were trying to rescue some of the horses from the I barn Mrs. Horner and her servant I came upon the negro in the act of I robbing the house. The robber at- I tacked the women with an axe and I practically cut them to pieces. I Mrs. Horner's head was severed and Mrs Napoli's head was crushed c in and her body covered with gashes. Horner and others, who were a. the t fire returned to the house. found the % body of Mrs. Horner lying nearby in c a pool- of blood, and Mrs. Napoli still s alive was lying nearby covered with blood. She died wthout regaining consciousness shortly after being ad mitted to a hospital in the city. I Two gold watches and a sum of money had been taken from the house, and the police located the watches in a pawn shop in Philadel phia, where-they had been pledged by a negro. The pawnbroker, according to the police, identified Gibson as the negro who pawned the watches, and he was arrested. Tickets for the V time pieces were found in his pos session. Steven Dorsey, another negro, who was with Gibson when it is alleged he pawned the watches, was also arrest- - ed, through the police do not believe he had anything to do with the mur der. Gibson, who was discharged by Horner some time ago, applied for I work at the farm yesterday and was told he could sleep in the barn and. start work in the morning. Early this morning the farmers who were running to the fire declare that they saw the negro fleeing from: the Horner home. Gibson refused to make any statement regarding the murder, and his supposed connection with it, but when on of the watches ' recovered from the pawn shop, and which was marked with the name' "Horner" was shown to him, and he was asked If he knew the owner, ne is said to have replied: "Yes, I'm sorry for him." FACED D)EATHI FORL FAITH.r A Catholic Girl Refused to Marry a Nrodestant. Facing the suitor who had given her the alternative of becoming his wife or being murdered. Helen Tiska, an 18-year-Old Hungarian girl and a Catholic, at New York last week, withc with her gaze fixed on a large cruci fix, rejected James .oallog, a Protes tant and was shot twice. It is antici pated that a bullet that entered her breast will cause her death. Turning the revolver against his own breast Ballog tried to commit suicide and it is thought he will die. The tragedy occured in~ the hour - of Anthony Tiska, the girl's brother. 1 85 East Seventh street where Ballog - boarded. Ever since the girl came. to America two years ago. Ballog had been trying to persuade her to marry him. The only barrier between them was their difference in religious faith and for a long time she had postpon ed decision.. "Say you will marry me, or I'l1 kill you," he told her. "This is your last chance. If you don't marry me I will shoot you." On the wall in front of her hung a crucifix and pictures of several saints. Looking at them instead of Ballog the girl decided. --1'11 'iot marry you," she told him. Instanltly Ballog, who is 21 years ld, d-eW a revolver, and fired twice, he bullets striking her in the right side of the breast and in the right wrist. Mrs. Julia Tiska. the girl s sister-in-law' rushed in and tried to wrest the revolver from Ballog. Both Ballog and his victim were tknto Bellevue, the former as a prsoner, by Policeman Frank Ma gee. DOUBLE KILLING. Ohio Man Kills His wife and Then Shoots Himself. At Columbus. O., Clarence Haines. went to his wife's sitting room Thurs day. shot her to death and then ftl y shot himself. When the horror stricken parents of the woman rush ed into the room they found both bodies on the floor, while the 3-year old baby of the couple was caressing the body of the mother and crying. Domestic trouble was the cause of th tragedy. EMERSON ESCAPES A Thousand Dollars Reward for The Anderson Murderer. He Murdered Thos. F. Drake, Who Attempted to Protect the Honor of His Home. A dispatch from Anderson to The State says J. Allen Emerson, who was convicted of the murder of Thomas! F. Drake at the February term of court and sentenced to life imprison ment, escaped Wednesday night from the county jail. wbere he had been confined pending a hearing by the supreme court on an appeal for a new trial, and has not yet been captured. The escape had been carefully plan ed aad the prisoner had aid from outside. Some of his friends had made a key which would unlock the door to the cell and after the cell was unlocked the escape was made without difficulty. The sheriff has offered a reward of 500 for the capture of the escaped prisoner and the sons of Drake have ffered a lie amount. Solicitor Boggs .as wired the governor to increase he amount. Emerson is about five feet, 8 in hes tall, aged 38, and his right leg s shorter than his left. He is a des erate fellow and it is thought that : he is captured he will have to be Wiled first. The killing of Drake by Emerson used a big sensation in this State. ,or both men were well known and oth stood well. The trial of Emerson t -as attended by large crowds and here was much excitement. Emer yon killed Drake on the night of Aug. .1. at Drake's own home. The murder was a shocking one. meson having invaded Drake's Lome for an illega' intercourse with is daughter. He was discovered by )rake and Emerson claimed that )rake was fixing to shoot him when 1 e fired and killed him. d A strong effort is being made to e apture the escaped prisoner and an ffort will also be made to learn who 'J he allies are who made the key and t ho assisted in the escape. The es- r ape of Emerson has caused a small b ensation in Anderson. 1 FIENDISH TRAMP. s e urly, One-eyed Menster Brutally At- a e tacks Small Girl. N A powerfully built, red-headed ramp, with one eye missing. lan uishes in the Crawford county jail, a i Meadville, Pa., as the result of a endish crime committed on the per- b n of little Anna Whitehead. the 14 ear-old daughter of the Rev. and rs. R. B. Whitehead. of Turners lle, Pa. That the culprit is living d has not dangled at the end of rope for his dastardly crime is not Lie fault of the posse of 500 men who V oured the surrounding country for i entire day, after the assault, each a arty carrying a rope and heavily rmed. Miss Whitehead was on her way ome after going to a farmhouse in ie evening for butter, when ap roached by the tramp. He grabbed er, and, holding a knife against her broat under threat that if she called > would kill her. carried her three c ailes into the woods. There he a aade the small girl strip off all her y lothing and, tearing her undercsota- n g to strips, made ropes with which g .e tied the girl to a tree. He re- ti eatedly assaulted the child. s In the morning tne tramp left the b rl and told her that if she cried for ep within half an hour he would a eturn and kill her. T..e child man- h ged to get loose, returned home and t elated the story of her atrocious out- r age. Searching parties soon filleu a he surrounding colntry and brought h 'hitehead is in a critical condition. he result of shattered nerves. v Later the brute. who gave his namie sHenry W. Wagner. made a full \ nession of his crime, bearing out o ss Whitehead's terrible story in t very detail.c TEXAS COTTON CROP r aid to be In a Yery Bad Shape At e Present. Private advices received in Savan- ~ iah from Texas confirm the state nents in Augusta that the cotton op in that state is in a very bad ~ hape Last week Mr. P. D. Daffin 'ceived a letter from Meredith Sulli an of Waco, a former . resident of avvanah. Among other things Mr. I ullivan said: "I am glad to know that Feorgia s in such good shape for a cotton rop. Sorry I cannot say the same r Texas. We haven't voted every hing dry. but we are dry--very ry--and and have been for now go- 1 ng on thirteen weeks. Cotton is de- 1 :erirating rapidly and I don't think t exas will produce withim 25 per ent. of last year's crop right away. out one half of the crop was plant dd late and this is hurt bad. Centrai nd South Texas have suffered! COTTON HAS NEW ENEMY. ~culiar and Unildenltified't lasect D~o ing Damage in Arkansas. A new cotton wormlf which is caus ng much apprehension among cottonj planters in Crittenden. Cross and Ct. Francis conties. Ark., has been dis-' covered within the last ten days. The insect bores its way into the cotton stalk just above the ground and eats its way to the top through the pith, killing the plant. The new' pest has apeared in a ter-! ritory not heretofore affected by the boll weevil. In Crittendeni county. it issaid. as much as one-third of the felds has been killed in some places.! Specimens of the worm will be sent to the agriculturr. experiment sta io at aytteville for examination. A LAME TALE. Preacher Who Ran off With a Man's Wife Says "THE VOICE OF GOD" Told Him To hrint.: Her Back To Her Home .U1ter Being Off With Her Several Days-He Says He Took the Woman Away Because She Told Him Her Husband Was On Her Nerves. It is astonishing the variety of tales men hatch up and tell to cover their meanness. One come; from Cew York that takes the :ke. It s told by a so-called minister of the ospel to hide h:is rascality. Here it s: The Rev. Ashbury A. Wheedon, a lethodist minister. aged fifty-seven I ears, and Mrs. Anna Moffett, the 18 -ear-old bride of Charles W. Moffett, )f 545 Beraen street. Brooklyn. re urned to the home of Mr. and Mrs. foffett at 11 o'clock last Wednesday .ight after having been missing since ast Thursday week. Moffett had asked the police to I end out a general alarm for his wife I nd the minister. When the couple t eturned the husband was at the Life Ane Mission in Brooklyn conducting I eligious services The minister and ' Irs. Moffett waited in the parlor for i he return of the husband. "We were ordered by the voice of c iod to return home." said the Rev. t shbury Wheedon, to a reporter. v We did not elope, as was generally elieved. I took Mrs. Moffett away I ecause she said she was unhappy E -ith her husband. She told me he -as cruel to her. "We have not lived in the same ouse since we went away last Thurs ay, but we have been within easy ommunication of each other. Mrs. t [offett did not leave her room on f hursday night as was supposed. For vo nights she slept in an empty I yom at the top of her husband's v ouse. "She did no't wish to be near him. hen she told me that she could not and such a life any longer and ask d me to take her away. I did so, nd am sure I can give a satisfactory xplanation to her husband why we ent away. "It was a remarkable thing the ay in which God told us to return. -called Mrs. Moffett up by telephone a id told her that God had directed e to tell her to return to her hus and. She said that God had also nt a like message to her. I instant went to hei, and we have return. d To a reporter Friday afternoon n [offett said his relations with his t .ife were merely platoic, and ex-11 essed the belief that Weedon's re tions with her were. of like cuiar ter.a FATAL VEND)ETTA. h nraged Man Kills Brother of Sister's c Betrayer in Feud. s A fatal vendetta took place at Nor- s a near Naples. Italy, recently. hi.- dates back over a period of 5 ars. The feud took its beginning B hen Agostino Buonanno, a wealthy 3 ain broker, wooed and won a beau- p ful girl named Teresina, the only c ster of Antonio Villani, and then C trayed her. C Villani swore vengeance. Buon- c io escaped to New York. whither C was followed by Villani and forced I: Sreturn. A wedding day was ar- F ..nged, but, on the day before, Buon- F io uissap~eared and later it was G ~arned he had marri'u a Neapoli-an i rl and gone to America. Villani 3 ossed the Auantic a second time in i ain to avenge his sister's wrong. x A few days ago Buonanno's brother i incenzo, unluckily went to settle up- C 1 an estate at Nocera near that of p e Vimani family. A quarrel arose s er a dog which had strayed from y uonanno's to Villani's. Seizing a uge hunting knife. Antonio ran to eet V'incenzo on the road and plung i the knue tnirough his breast with ueh force the weapon could not be ithdrawn. The murderer then seiz a sea .. and almost decapitated n unoff ending boy companion or 'incenzos. Antonio escaped, but has ince been captured. STAKE FOR ASSASSIN. v ;ands of Armed Men Search for Slav er of Mother and Her Som. Bands of armed mien are sea rching 1 r the assassin of Mrs. John Bond .nd her five-year-old son. James. wh> 'esided near Homer. La. Bloodhoundse jave been placedl on hot trails andt be hunters declare they will hang ie murderer on the stake, if he is aught. No trace of his identity can e found. The cruel assasin coramitted his owardly deed about midnight. Indi :ations are that he walked up to an i sen window. leveleld his double- - arreled shotgun. and fred. killing* i iother and son as they slept. The tracks left by the assassin indi ate that he .s a white man No motive or the crime is known. Mrs. Bond's< usband died a year ago and since hat timue she has been living with er fatne: - PAID THE PENALTY. Fiend Hung For Assaulting His Step Daughter. At Asheville, N. C.. James Rucker, negro. was hanged in the jail short yafter noon Thursday. Rucker was convicted of criminal assault on his step-daughter. It is said that this is the first time in the history of that State that a negro has b)een hanged for. such a crime against one of his FIEND RUN DOWN. Young Man and Young Lady At tacked by a Negro Who Is Run Down and Captured by a Blood Hfound In a Very Short Thne. A dispatch from Ashevinie, N. C., says a posse of sheriff's deputies and citizens with guns, led by the city's blood hound, "Hoke," is the-after math of a muderous assault by an unknown negro on Charles Sullivan and Miss Mollie Elkins in the Chunn's Grove section near that place just before dark Thursday evening. Sullivan's recovery is doubtful his skull being badly fractured over the left eye; but Miss Elkins, who was struck across the chest with a tick in the hands of the negro, and later half choked to prevent her creaming. is not seriously injured. The assault was made just after ullivan and Miss Elkins had eaten unch on the pathway leading to the ove." Miss Elkins first saw the ne ro, and called in her alarm to her Q -ompanion, who challenged the in ruder. Sullivan had scarcely spoken when e was hit full in the face with a arge rock held in the negro's right t and and fell to the ground. Miss lkins screamed and the negro at acked her WiW a. cane, striking her :cross the chest and following up the low by attempting to choke her. he girl's cries had evidently arous 0 1d the people in a farm house a short e istance away and their answering all frightened the negro, for he urned and ran along a pathway rhence he had come. Sullivan was removed to the farm iouse and medical aid was summon d fron. the city. The police were so notified and a posse with a blood Lound was quickly formed. The dog icked up the trail readily and head :d in the direction of Biltmore. r At m.dnight word reached the city c the effect that the bloodhound was o ollowing a hot trail. A negro is reported caught near c uena Vista, eight mi:ies from Ashe- r ille. Talk of lynching if he is t rought back. c t( LOTS OF BOOZE SO.-,. b 2 teresting Figures Given Out by k a Dispensary Auditor West. The total sales for all county dis- t ensaries during the month of July mounted to over $200,000 according a statement issued by DispensaTy a uditor West. The statement is an teresting one in that it shows a chla,nd county is still in the lead 0 sales by over 100 per cent. This a oes not mean, according to Chair- h an Cain of the ----nd board. that c ere is more whiskey sold in Colum- h ia than anywhere else, but that the tw is rigidly enforced, both as to ti ispensers and violations of the law. e Richland board is now busy with plan to stop all sales to those who h ave beed raided by the Richland ~nstabulary and are suspected of h ~nductng blind tigers.s The figures given below will be I ~udied by all county boards and are tI general interest throughout thea tate. I bbeville...--.......$ 6.S92.26 tI iken ....--.--.--.-.-.7,28424 g eaufort.... ........6..702.60 mberg..........-.-.5,1t.o4 s~ ..rn ....... ---. .... 10,711.30 g larendon.... ....-.--.. 3,002.23 h olleton.. .....-.-.-.-.-.-3,858.80 F iarleston.........- - -17,092.31 ~ hester....... ....- -- ,2845 t hesterfield.. .. ---.. :.7,532.58 ~ rchester..........- . --- 4,137.46 t~ lorence. -..-.-.-.-..-.-.- 1,222.g7 a airfield .-. ..--.-.-.-.-.- 4,374.:6 .eorgetowni..- -- ....12,3i.80 ~ ~ampton.......... -4,099.90 ershaw......--.--.--.6,418.23 aurens......-.-.....8,638.11 se.. .. . -. -- - -- 3,801.45 A exington. .. ..-.-.-.-.-. 4,073.95 rangeburg .. ..-.--.-..-.- 12,123.97 ~ichland.. -.-..--.-.-.-. 37,041.70 umter.. .. .-.-.-..-.-.- 10,70.9o tI 'illiamsburg. .. .. .. .. 7,322.98 t Total sales for month $204,964.48 h SAVED INFANTT Remarkable Rescue By the Man of the Throttle. James Brown, an engineer on the s aaltimore & Ohio road, is being en- $ led by his fellow employees and con- cl ratulated by his many friends as the p; esult of a remarkably brave act of S while on his engine Wednesday. h Brown was going east on his train. d d was passing Kanawaha Station, n V. Va., at forty-five miles an hour. o le saw an infant on the track, whis- c led for brakes and reversed the big 31 ngine, but saw he could not stop in e ie rushed out on the engine board, n w on the pilot and caught the b ild in one band while holding on o 'th the other.n The infant proved to be the twenty c nonths old sou of CG. L. Jackson, and t: s miraculous escape was witnessed p vy its mother and sister. The child ceived a hard blow on the head, but c -ll recover. Engineer Brown was entirely un- i erved by his experience, and is un-r er the care of a physician. TURNES OUT BADLY. ~egro Carried from Chiarlestonl to Wisconsin Is I ocked L p. A dispatch from Found-du-Lock, in., says a nes. ... years old t > ked up in South Carolina duringi the Spanish war by Captain Zeeve, of he~ second Wisconsin infantry and ;uporteu by the i(e?menL as a mas cot. and since by Mr. Zeeve was ar res-:ed today. charged with masing aackes last night on his benefactor gcd mother, anu? choking her into ,.insnsiity for the purpose of rob CONVICT CAPTURED North Carolina Manslayer Caught in Greenwood. Had Settled at Hodge's Under Another Naninie and Stood Well With His Neighbors. A dispatch from Greenwood to The News and Courier says SLueriff Mc Uillan captured Thursday afternoon a mlan very much wanted in North Car )lina. This man, J. B. Watson, was sent up from Vance county. North Carolina. for twenty-five years, for :he killing of Joe Baskins in 1904. Natson served oniy six months of his ;entence in the penitentiary and then nade his escape. The North Caro ina authorities offered rewards for iis capture, but he was never located. About a year agv a atson went to -iodge's with his family. He was cnown as J. E. Brooks. He has )een living near Hodge's ever since nd has made a good reputation mong his new neighbors. Sheriff IcMillan located his some time ago nd Thursday, when he came in~ with load of watermelons, he and Deputy heriff Dukes arrested him. Watson offered no resistance. He as said to be a desperate and dan erous man, but he made no move to scape. He acknowledged his iden ity and is willing to go baca to ,arolina. He has wired an uncle in ilberton, Ga.. and another in Roys n, Ga., and-asks to remain here un il these two men can come. Sheriff MicMillan is a very alert fficer and keeps a lookout for escap d criminals as much as he did when I e was the efficient chief of po~uce of < reenwood. KNIFE REVIVES MAN. t First Touch in Post Mortem Ex-i amination He Wakes Lp. A post mortem over a live man is rely conducted, but that is what ame near happening over the body f John A. Hall, of Sabetha, Kan., -hile he was in St. Joseph, Mo., re antly. He was picked up in a rail )ad yard for dead. No marks on ie body indicated violence, and the yroner decided to hold a post mor m examination after the body had een on the slab in the morgue for 4 hours. As soon as the assistant's nife touched him Hall began to rise from the slab, and a second ter stood on his feet before the as mished doctor. "You needn't cut me open," said all. "I'll answer any questions you ;k me." Hall's clothes were brought to him ad he put them on. Assistant Cor ier Brewer took him to a restaurant ad had a bowl of soup prepared for im. After he had eaten, Hall de ared his intention of going to his )me in Sabetha. "But you can't go to-night," said ie deputy coroner. "Sure I can," answered Hall. rhere's a train in about half an The deputy coroner wondered how a was going to account for the ab- . nce of the body, if Hall got away 'om him. He walKed with him in te direction of the passenger station d turned him over to the first po eman he met. Hall was released te next morning and was allowed to yhome. Hall declared that he was con ius from the time he fell to the round in the railroad yards. where a had gone to ask for employment. 1. e said he heard all that was said v hen the coroner stood beside him in c Le morgue and announced that he r ould hold a post mortem examina- h on, but was unable to move or make f 1 outcry. e "About that time,'' said Hall. "I d as doing some hard thinking." t HELD U'P AND ROBBED t most in Sight of His Place of r Business. t William H. -Hicks. paya'aster for te Scahoum and Ohlinger company. xile machinists of Philadelphia was e ad up and robbed of $6,000 within t short distance of the machine shops hursday by two highmen, one of hom shot him in the right arm. icks, accompanied by Walter H. :cDonald, was on his way to the iop with a satchel containing the 6,000 when he was waylaid, it is arged., by John Posachi and a com-t anion.3 The highmen held pistols at the eads of Hicks and McDonald, andr emanded the satchel containing the oney. Hicks drew a revolver when ne of the thieves grabbed the sat-t lel and fired at Hicks. the bullet riking him in the right arm andt mpelled him to drop his revolver- I The shooting attracted a crowd and en from several mills in the neigh orhood chased Posacni, who jumped a trolley car and commanded the otorman to run the car as fast as he ould but the pursuers pulled the; olley pole from the wire and stop ed the car. capturing the fugitive. Later Anton Mojeski was arrested n suspicion of being one of the high raymen. The stolen satchel was ound in a lot. The money was not ecovered. POISONED MELON KILLS. outh Dies After Being Caught byi Farmer's Trap. The dead body of an unidentified oung man. apparently about seven een years of age, was found Tuesday a Pearl river at the mouth of Halo !ay's canal near New Orleans, La. The young man had gone into a armer's watermelon patch nearby. ~here stychninle had been put in the nelons to trap trespassers. The routh ate part of one of the poisoned ielone and when he went to the river to quench the thirst caused by mh poison he fell over dead. AFTER LONG HUNT Finds His Sweetheart, Marries and Then Kills Her. CAME FROM GERMANY To This Country in search of Her, Accidentally Meets Her in the Street and They Are Married After a Two Months Honeymoon They Quarrel and He Shoots Her and Himself to Death. Insanely jealous of his attractive bride of two months Julius Teich, a silk weaver of New York Thursday shot her throug the head and -,en sent a bullet into his own brain. Bota died in a few minutes later at a hospital where they were taken. Neighbors in the Harlem apart ment house where they lived said the :ouple had quarreler violently for .he past few days. When shots were meard in the apartment Thursday af ernoon police were summoned and hen the doors were forced Teich ind his wife were found unconscious. rhe couple were married in June. reich was 35 years old and his wife was 30. It appears that it was after a earch which lasted five years, and :overed 15,000 miles on two conti iets, that Julius Teich found the girl ie loved and persuaded her to marry rim, only to kill her after two months )f wedded life, and then, repentant, :o take his own life. Emily Herter lived in Germa-y ith her parents when she first L eich, who was a silk weaver. Teica ell in love with the girl and wanted ier to marry him, but he was posess d of a violent temper, and Emily eared him. Her parents also ob ected to the marriage, but Teich as insistent, so that Emily left Ger nany secretly to escape him, and ame to America. This was five years ago. For tw6 ears Teich searched Germany for ier. Then her parents admited to rim that she was in. America, but 'efused to tell him where. Nothing daunted the young man ame to America and renewed his t earch. 'He hunted New York for I nonths and failed to find her. He I hen went to Minneapolis. St. Louis. I 'hiladelphia and Scranton, where he 3 hought the girl had relatives, but t ithout result. He returned to New York two onths ago and accidentally met 1 mily on the street. She was living ith an aunt, and in spite of her unt's objections, she finally consent d to marry the man who had been so 3 aithful in his search for her. They rere married two months ago. r Thursday morning they quarrelled a ecause Emily refused to get up and c artake of the breakfast which Julius ad prepared. There were sharp arp words, and a pistol shot; then 11 leading words for forgiveness from t ulius, followed by another shot. Thet olice then broke in the ?oor and urried the unconscious couple to ar ospital where both died. FOUND AT LAST. Cure for Meningitis Discovered by 1 New York Specialist. A man, a girl and a three-year-Old ~ y all of Castalia, Ohio, whose lives ere given up as hopeless on account fmeningitis in April, have entirely E covered from the disease. Their ealth is as good now as a month be re the disease affected them. The ure was affected by the new serum iscovered by Simon Flexner, head of e Rockefeller institute in New ork, doctors deciare. A . .ourge of meningitis swept Cas lia last spring, nineteetn cases being eported. All but three of these ere fatal. Jack Mack, aged twenty ree; Miss Barbara Kratt, aged 16. d Frederick Wahl, aged three, have een cured. These are the first scientific cures fthe disease. The serum which was ied at Castalia was obtained froma ew York by Dr. George T. Ladd, ofi e Wetsern Reserve Medical college 1: d administered by him in the way f an experiment. Within a few hours after the ser- I m was injected an improvement was oted. The improvement was pro ounced as the days went by. With Sa aweek it was almost certain that 1 e three patients would recover. I eningitis hitherto unconquerable. Lad been conquered, physicians an-t ounced. Since then a record of the casest Las been kept and many reports made 1 o Dr. Flexner. The doctors carefully atched the development of the curec o be certain that no other disense Lad becn introduced by the injection , f the anti-meningitis serum. It is LOW absolutely certain that the cure mas been complete. Freddie WahI plays with his toys ust as he used to. Miss Kratt and1 acob Mack are as healthy today as hey ever were. SHOOT EACH OTllER. atal Mistake Made While Surround in: MoonshineC Still. A dispatch from Washington tO [he State says Commissionler of In crnal Revenue Capers Friday re eived a telegram from Internal Rev nue Agent Surber. at Greensboro. N. .dated that day, saying: -Deputy Collector Hendricks. with posse from Raleigh, N. C.. and Dep uty Collector Henry, with posse from Durham. met at a moonshine still last night. Each took the other for naoonsiners and fired on each other. Deputy Marshal Jordan was mortally wounded and Deputy Collector Henry nd two possemen were seiouslY wounded." Commissioner Capers telegrap)hed instructions that no expense be sparn ed caring for the wounded. MUST HAVE RELIEF. Judge Brawley's Decision Has Had Very Bad Results. The Farmers Will be Heard at the Next Session of the State Legisla ture in January. Judge Brawley's decision, declar ing unconstitutional and therefore void the statute by which, under threat of criminal proceedings, the farmers of this State have managed after a fashion to enforce fulfull ment of labor contracts, has caused a revival of interest in measures, like Representative John R. Richard's bill to repeal the lien law, which promises some betterment of the sit nation. There is not a farming community in the State, however remote, where the negroes have not, in some way, learned of Judge Brawley's decision, and in many cases they are wantonly "jumping" their contracts, secure in the knowledge that, thanks to the Eederal-court, they can not be brought to book through the criminal courts. t Deprived of the magistrate's aid, the planter has no remedy at law, be cause the darkies who make labor contracts own no property, as a rule, 1 and cannot, therefore, be proceeded against in common pleas. The situa tion is growing intolerable. Realizing the necessity for some sort of legislative action, to bring or er out of the chaos into which Judge Brawley threw the labor regime, the south Carolina division, Farmers' t "ucational and Co-operative union I .f America, adopted, at its recent c ueeting in Greenwood, a resolution t >y which the members of the organ zation agreed not to hire or harbor iands, until thelatter had produced ertificates from their last employers, ;tating that they were not under con :ract to them any longer, but were ree to seek work elsewhere. t This resolution, which was intro- 1 lued by former Representative J. s 3elton Watson, of Anderson, was in- t ended to minimize one of the most xasperating features of the situa- a ion. Certain unprincipled and short- I ighted farmers in the several coun z ics have sought to secure full com >liments of hands, for their own U daces, by hiring to their employment s aborers under contract to finish the v ear on other plantations, assuring t he negroes that under the Brawley 1, ecision they could not be prosecuted s his practice has engendered bad >lood among the planters in several ocalities and in one lately came near :ausing a bloody riot. V The union further decided that the nterests of the farmers of the State to emanded remedial legislation-the h epeal of the lien law, for a starter .nd a committee was appointed to u ome to Columbia during the next s eneral assembly and stay on the d ound until the legislation desired P ad been enacted. In other words here will be a "Farmers' Lobby" at he next legislature. Former Representative Watson is a aember of this committee. For the e resent he is doing organization 't ork, under the direction of the state xecutive committee of the union. He J poke at Orangeburg Thursday, Bamn- a erg Friday and at Barnwell Satur- 0 ay, returning Sunday to his home in t< .nderson. Li The Farmers' Educational and Co perative union is daily growing in b trength. It differs from the Souta- h rn Cotton association in that it is ti omposed exclusively of farmers and tl olds its meetings behind closed V oors. Mr. O. P. 'Goodwin o[ Laurens s state president. The vice president P Mr. T. T. Workfield, of Anderson; t ir. B. F. Earle, of A'dro, nssc etary and treasurer and Mr. W. C. boore, of Greenville, is businesse gent.e b l)RUNKS BLACKL1STED- tl _ it Labitals Can Get No Drinks in the r Saonis in Fon Du Lac, Mich. c Photographs of habitual drunkards b re placed on a bartenders' blacklist I n the city of Fon du Lac. Mich. All f artenders are under strick ordersb tot to sel' liquor to any person whoseei ikeness appears on the blacklist.' 'urther they are instructed not to a ;ive or allow them to receive drinks tl a borrooms.. The author of the ordinance is imself a saloonkeeper, Alderman r jenry Bruett. - .?e alderman has ~ ad trouble in not being able to dis inguish between those on the pro ibted list and others who wanted to trink. and he struck on the idea '' aing a picture gallery right in sight a o that he could know to whom he a ould sell the required liquir and be afe from persecution. His scheme t net with ridicule at first.d ;Matt Fargo. a notorious character,t as the first to have his face on .he I lacklist. For a time his sprees and Iry days kept up with their usaU ( eqularity. Now they aave stopped nd there is a long dry day befonre 'Old Mattie," as he is called. Jacob engle was the second to have hii ( )icture taken for the gallerg. He de- 1 ared it was the only way for him .o keep sober, as he had coi'se to his ( Lenses at last. Other~ pictu.as are eing added and the mayor aunc1On~- u :es the results are warranltinlg a con- r ;inuance of the experiment. tl BIG POWD)ER EXP)LOSI -N DeC Man Is Killed and Trwo Fatally I Injiutred in Racine. At Racinle. Wis-, Wednesday, in an os~i in the conning mill of the Laullin & Rand Powder Plant Nor man Billups. of West Virginia, 35 r'ears old. was killed, and Walter Hiarris and .Jno. Noland, fatally burn- j ed. The cause of the explosion is noot known: the damage to the build-I ing is slight. T-his is the same mill that exploded several months ago. BADLY BURNED. A Mother And Her Little Son Horribly Injured by LIVE ELECTRIC WIRE. Mrs. Maude Laughlin and Her Nine. Year-Old Boy Fearfully and Per. haps Fatally Injured-Mother was Seeking to Rescue Her Child who Had Caught Hold of a Live Elec tric Wire. A dispatch from Florence to The gews and Courier says Mrs. Maude aughlin, wife and child of Mr. Geo. fV. Laughlin, of Florence, came very Lear being instantly killed on Cheev s street, about 9 o'clock Monday norning by a live electric wire of the lorence Light and Power Company. Both mother and son were horribly - urned about the hands, limbs and eet, and it is very doubtful if either f them will survive the terrible or eal that they passed through. Should hey survive they will be horribly isfigured for life, for it will be nec ssary to amputate the right hiid if little Lawrence, and Mrs. Laughlin rill lose her right hand and her right ot. The Laughlins live in a pretty lit le cottage which they have recently ought at the northwest corner of tavenel and Cheeves streets. Mon ay morning little Lawrence noticed. hat one of the -wires that conveys he main current to the are light on he corner in front of the Laughlin ome was rubbing against the body f a tree on the streets. Every time he wire touched the tree it would izzle and smoke. About 9 o'clock he was in the treet playing, and saw the wire reak. Not knowing there was any anger, he hurriedly ran and picked p one end of it. As soon as he ouched it the main current passed rough his body to the wet ground pon. which he was standing, and a econd later he was knocked pros rate upon the ground. The little fellow gave a scream that *ttracted the neighbors. Mrs. Laugh n also heard the scream and has ened from her bed room to the piaz a. As she looked out the "front oor she saw her only son prostrate pon the ground, smoke and flame is ing from his body and limbs and rithing in agony. She did not stop think or to go down the step, but aped from the piazza and ran to ave her child's life. Reaching the boy she caught hold the wire with her hand, and a econd later she, too, was prostrate pon the ground, with fire and smoke suing from her limbs and body, and oth her and her child holding fast the wire, which neither could nor d presence of mind to.let go. In this condition both- lay there ntil Mrs. C. B.~ Ham, a neighbor, eing their plight, and knowing the anger, secured a piece of board and shed the wire beyond their reach, ough It would. jump back and )rth as it swung down from the ross arm of a pole nearby. Every me the wire would move back and rth it would touch what then look to be the lifeless form of Mrs. raughlini and her son. About this time Mr. S. T. Burch, r., who was passing in his buggy, d others, ran up and by means sticks and boards managed to re jove the wire far enough away so as take the bodies of the two people om the ground to their home. Physicians were hastily summoned, t in the meantime neighbors, who ad gathered, went quickly to work Sresuscitate the two, who were en given up as dead. After hard 'ork both of them began to show gns of life and by this time several hysicians had arrived and continued e work of resuscitation until both ~other and son regained conscious The little boy's right hand is burn I to a crisp, every sinew being burn I and the flesh burned deep into the mne. He -is badly burned on the iighs, legs, back and shoulders,- and will be necessary to amputate the .ght hand above the wrist. Two of ie fingers, it is said, were burned mpletely off. Mrs. Laughlin is burned in the and, on the arm, shoulder and an le. Her shoe was burned from her )ot. The right hand and foot will _ amputated. Mr. Laughlin is an agineer on the Florence and Char jston run on the Atlantic Coast Line, d he, Mrs. Laughlin and their son e well known in Florence, where iey are highly esteemed and are ery popular. Mrs. Lauglin was Miss Maude Mor Es, daughter of the late W. Baxter orris, and was married to Mr. ,aughlin about eleven years ago at lorence. Lawrence, the little fel iw is the only child born to this nion, and both father and mother re devoted to him. He is well known nd is a manly little fellow- and is very attractive child. The electric light people claim that e storm early Monday morning had amaged the wires considerably, and at after daylight they sent out a inemani to look after all lines, during rhich time the plant was shut down. s soon as the lineman repored al dK.t wsafte athis that the wire arted and fell in Cheeves street. The Florence Light and Power vopn has been severly censured mpaun, of the condition of their ursepoles and plant. The Light ompany is not alone in being cen ured for numbers and numbers of eople are placing the blame directly pon th city council for allowing the oles to remain up in the condition ey are in. ROBBER KTTAsMi. 'as Caught in a Store and Shot to Death. At Pocahontas, Va., Wednesday sorning John WiI?Lms a negro, with everal aliases, was shot and killed y C. A. Howard, Jr., while robbing store. The coroner's jury found hat the negro came to his death by oward. Howard was arrested on a ~rarrant charging him -with the kill g, and at a trial before the police justice was acquitted. Howard was overed with two guns held by Wil Lams w-hen he shot him.