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VOL. XXI. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1907. NO. 49. BRIDGE FALLS. Carrying Sixty or Eighty Persons to Their Death. TERRIBLE DISASTER. Unsuspecting Workmen Are Swept to Their Doom by Collapsing of Half of- Long Bridge Over the St. Law rence River-Men Had Just Quit Work for the Day-Grinding Crash Proceeded Falling of Structure. A section of the new bridge across the St. Lawrence River, five miles below Quebec, Canada, collapsed late Thursday. carrying scores of bridge workers and mechanics into the water. It is estimated that- the loss is more than sixty and may ex ceed that number by twenty. The bridge was about a mile and a half in length and half of it. from the south shore to mid stream, crum pled up and dropped Into the water. Ninety men were at work on this sec- - tion of the structure and the whistle c had just blown at 5:30 for the men -1 to quit work for the day, when there - came a grinding sound from the c bridge mid-stream. The men turned to see what had I happened and an instant later the c cry went up. "The bridge is falling." c The men made a rush shoreward, but t the distance was too great for them c to escape. The fallen section of the bridge dragged others after it, the ' snapping girders and cables booming like a crash of artillery. Terror lent fleetness to the feetof c the frightened workmen as they sped .f shoreward, but only a few of them reached safety befoi-e the last piece t, of iron work on the south shore was t dragged into the water. 9 Near the shore the wreckage of the h bridge did not go below the surface v of the water and eight workmen. b were rescued and taken to the hospi- b tal at Levis. S The steamer Glenmont had just p leared the bridge when the first sec- n tion fell. The water thrown up by the debris went clear over the bridge c, of the steamer. s1 The captain at once lowered boats. 1 The small boats plied backward and b foward over the sunken wreckage for .3 half an hour, but there were no signs y of life. The twisted iron and steel e, had its victims in a terrible death c grip. A few floating timbers and u broken stems of the bridge toya'-d t< the north shore were the only'signs tl that anything unusual had happened. f, There was not a- ripple on the N smooth surface of the St. Lawrence a as it swept along toward the gulf- si A11 the men drowned were employees of the Phoenixville Bridge Company t] and sub-contractors of Quebebc and E ~ontreal. At ten o'clock Thursday night 16 a bodies had been picked up and the S men in the hospital two are not ex pected to live throughout the night. The Quebec bridge was begun about seven years ago and it was to e finished in 1900. Subsidies hadt been granted by the Federal and Pro- p vinical Governments and the city of Quebec and the estimated cost of the work was $10.000,000. The Phoenixville Bridge Company. f ennsylvania, had the contract for the construction of the bridge and were working-from both sides of the ~ :-iver. - - Tc horror of the situation is in :reased by the fact that there are S number of wounded men pined :n the wreckage near the shnre. Their groans and shrieks can be her.rd plainly by the crowds who have gath ered at the water's edge, but nothing so far can be done to relieve their sufferings. SAME OLD STORY. Blames a Woman for His Being a Thief. At New York Chester B. Runyan. the former paying teller, who stole nearly $100.0'. in --casn from the Windsor Trust Company last June told in the Court of General Session:I the story of his downfall. He charged that Laura A.. Carter. now on trial charged with receiving some of his money. led him astray. Runyan testified that he met Mrs. Carter on the street by chance and visited he at her home sev er-al times. He told her that he had stolen sevveral thous and dollars from the bank and sh< said: "You'rs in bad now, why don't you take some more and have enough for yourself." Runyanl stated that alter he gave Mrs. Carter $10.000 in $1,000 bilH she mmiediately left her fiat, where he was hiding. She returned with the police, who arrested him. THIRTY HUCRT AT ASHEVILLE. 'asengr Train Collides With an Engine. At Asheville, N. C., passenger train No. 41, on the Southern Railway. <ollid.d with an engine of the west .ound main line at 11 o'clock Thurs-1 day morning, damaging both engines nd the combination car. Thirty per ons were injured, none fatally. 'rhe more severely injured are: R. T. Strubble. Fredicktow~n, Ohio: . -. Jennings, Pittsbuirg, Pa.: Mrs. . C. Bronton. Americus. Ga; Miss \. A. Collins. Hattiesburg. Miss: Eias Field. (colored) Asheville. N. ' Mrs. J. B. Smith. Atlanta; Carrie Mc1elver. Charlotte. N. C: R. L. C^--k shank. Greenville. S. C.: J- J- s. .rdy \mnerius. Ga.: Elevyn Dicks. Dum irto. S. C.: J. R. Davis. Salisbur. N. C.: WV. M. Shears, Atlanta: Miss Alice Holdenburg. New Orleans; J. B. Hnsle. Sylva. N C.: John Sample, Ninety-Six. S. C.: Mrs. Elizabeth Chaliss. Tuskagee, Ala.; Mrs. W. L. Richardson, Conway. S. C.: Hazel C. Ec'Ket, Asheville. N. C.; Miss G. B. scirt. Asheville. X. C. A STRANGE STORY. Young Lady Left by Herself Short Time Disappears. . Later Her Body Is Found Floating in a Nearby Lake by Some Friends. A strange story comes from Dover, N. J. Five minutes after her arrival at Nolan's Point, Lake Hopatcong. Saturday night in company with her cousin, Charles Maguire, of Dover, Miss Agnes Maguire, a public school teacher, of Brooklyn disappeared and no trace of her was found -ntil her body was discovered in a nearby lake Wednesday. Their destination was a cottage known as Camp Looy. where Charles Maguire who is a clerk in the Dover postoffice, had been spending his vacation. Whether the case is one of foul >lay or accidental drowning is yet to >e determined. Miss Maguire, who was a daugater >f Mr. and Mrs. john - -"guire. of Io. 26 Second place, Brooklyn, came ip on Thursday with her father and nother, intending to spend some time .t the home of her uncle, Bernard faguire, at Marysville. Her father *eturned to Brooklyn that evening. rs. Maguire remaining with her laughter who is recuperating from a ong illness. Saturday evening Miss Maguire's ousin proposed a drive to Camp ,ooy, his purpose being to get some ersonal belongings. Miss Maguire onsented and they started at 7:30 'clock, when the heavy storm of C hat night'began they were near the f ottage but could not get up to the dace on account of a steep declivity. ying his horse to a tree young Ma- a :uire bade his cousin stay in the s uggy while he went .ater his suit ase, promising to be gone only a 0 w minutes. He was back in less than ten minu es and to his great consternation t >und the buggy unoccupied. In s reat alarm, for it was dark as pitch. d e shouted his cousin's name and -hen there was no answer he ran *aex to the cottage, thinking that, h ecoming frightened at the storm. a he had started for the house and t assed him unnoticed in the dark ess. C When he found she was not in the 13 >ttage he and several men began ouring the woods in the vicinity. s 'he alarm spread quickly to neigh oring camps and cottages, and soon n :ores were engaged in the search. h Vhile some of the searchers continu- a d the hunt in ever-wittening circles n shore, several took to boats. Sam- t el Hopkins, of Boontan, plunged in- s1 the lake and dived in search of v e young woman's body, for it was eared, that, becoming bewildered. s, iss Maguire had walked into - ie n ater and drowned. All night the h arch was kept up without result. By morning hundreds had heard of g e affair and took up the search. At n urdtown, a few miles from Nolan's s 'oint, there are abandoned mines v d it is quite possible for any one " andering about in the darkness to t' all down some unprotected shaft, of hi ~hich there are a number. n BELIEVED HER A M.CH r c lecause He Had Bad Luck Nearly f Killed His Wife. t Amelia Cyniano, believed by her usband and neighbors to be a witch. Sin a dying condition at Adrian hos ital, the result of punishment inflict by her husband, John. The hus and, in common with the neighbors, elieved his wife was endowed with ower to work evil, and Saturday he eat and kicked her almost to death a ecause his pay envelope c~ not con ai as much money as he believed it hould. The State constabulary is earching for Cyriano. e The Cyrianos live at Wallston, Pa.. I mining town. Recently a series- of nisfortules befell the neighborhood. ;arden truck did not come up to the tandard and cattle and poultry died. .~ The people complained that Mrs.| ~yriano was the cause of their mis ortune. Saturday was pay day in the mines. ~yriano had bad luck and his ton iage fell off, thus reducing his pay. e went home determined to drive )ut the devil he believed possessed xis wife. Cyriano knock:ed his wife lown with his fists then kicked her intil she became unconscious. She egged for mercy. but her pleadings id not save her. STARVED) HIMSELF. ife and Children Left Him B~ecause of His Stinginess. George Gould. 65 years old. of New! Rochelle, N. Y., died in a hospital here last week of starvation and ex osure. according to the physicians. Gould, who had acquired a fortune f $100,000 in the plumbing business. ~d in real estate. lived alone in a house in .which he allowed no person ut himself to enter. His wife andl children left him years ago because o his alleged stinginess. Gould had been sick for days and neighbors who forced an entrance in to his home found him lhelpless from the lack of nurishment and expos MOTHER AN1D soN lDROWNEJ) Youth Tries to Save Parent When the Boat UpseCt, In a double drowning accident in Base Lake, near Pentwater, Mich.. Mrs. George Grove anu son, .Ray mond. aged seventeen, of s-u met .meir death. Ms. Grove and son were sailing inl a rowboat with Mrs. Hlendem~,n and son from Chicago. who wer' guests of the Groves at their summer cot tage. A sudden gust of wind over turned them. Young Grove, who was a good swimmer, dived after his mother and never came up again. Mrs. Hender-I son, and her son succeeded in gain ing the overturned boat and clung to it ntil rescued. GIRL RESCUED After Being Held in Captivity For Three Weeks BY NEW YORK POLICE Parents Received Messages of Dis tress from Her, and the Police Offi cers Finally Locate and Rescue Her From the Men Who Were Holding Her as a Prisoner on Coney Island. New York has had her full share >f criminals this summer. Recently :he police has rescued a young girl rom some men who had held her laptive for some time. "Aunt Sophie: For Gd's sake ome and get me out of here! I am n Coney Island, but God alone knows rhat house they have locked nie up n. I can't describe it to you. A man s abusing me terribly." With this not as their only clew, he police rescued seventeen-year-old Jay Schick, of Newark. N. J., after he had been held captive for three veeks by two men, who, she says. ured her to a low resort and locked er in a small room. The rascue of he girl was followed by the arrest f the men who, she declares, ill reated and abused her. Relatives of the girl and the police f three cities have been searching r her ever since she disappeared. c ut not until five days ago did she ucceed in getting the note to her unt out of the house, so closely was Lie watched. The men whom Miss Schick accuse f abducting her said they were Wil am Higgins, eighteen. of 188 Bal c street, Brooklyn. and Frank Mar n. who said he lived at South Fifth reet and Bedford avenue, an ad ress that does not exist. May Schick lives at 807 Park street ewark, N. J. The home of her aunt. rs. Sophie Fuiner, is at 45 Montrose a venue, Jersey City, and the girl of n visited her. Three weeks ago May, with Lillie onklin, of 474 Chestnut street, Ar ngton, N. J., went to Coney Island. n During the evening they became perated, and May. asked two stran ers to direct her to the cars. The Lan. who she says was Martin. said e would show her the way. Higgins h :companied them. - "I thought they were taking me to t ie station," the girl said, "but in- h ead they took me to tae house 'here I have been held prispner. b artin told me he wanted to get >mething out of a room and asked e to go up with him. When I did e locked the door. "I screamed for help, but I was agged and thrown into a closet. The ien said they would kill me if I :reamed any more. They kept close atch on me, but one day last week I 'as left alone. I scribbled the note Smy aunt. I got a woman in theh ouse to mail it for me." When the girl's aunt received the t she turned it over to the police. etectives made a house to house ' nvass of the resorts till a man was )und who recognized the description f.the missing girl and he led the de Ictives to the house, at 17 Mermaid t venue. n CAUSED) A PANiC. p Lion Attacked a Lady at a Pitts-V burg Resort. t Torn, bruised and suffering from, Lock, Mrs. Anna 0. Aucken, sixty- p e years old, of Pittsburg, Pa., lies t her home tonight in a pr'ecarious >ndition, as the result of an attack y a lion at Luna park, a summer re-3 rt Thursday. s The park was crowded "'ith women C ad children, when. without warning. 1 he lion appeared from behind one of s he buildings and with a roar. sprang pon Mrs. Hucken. The woman reamed. and soon screams of the undreds stampeding for the exit.t ere added to Mrs. Hucken's cries. I W. A. Downing. chief of the park olice, emptied the chambers of his I evolver into the beast. Others secur-i d rifles from the shooting galleries d from the concessionaries. and t oon a score were pumping lead at I he lion, which stood ov'er the pros rate woman, gnashing his teeth and ashing his tail. Finally the beast turned and rush-< d towards the show known as the Mstic River," and here he suc imbed, turning over on his back. d with a few kicks he died. Hisi kin was completely riddled wiui mall calibre bullets. Ms. Hucken was bourne to the )ark emergency hospital, where heri nuries were dressed. CAT'S BITE KILLAS WOMAN. Iies of Hydrophobia in Seven W~eeks After Infection. Mrs. Rachel D). Barry. widow of mos C. Barry. who was bitten by a at seven weeks ago at her Eastoni town boulevard home, Long Island. died early W\ednesday, a victim o1 hydrophobia. sne was dying for S ours. H'er spasms were so severe that she had to be strapped in bed. Mrs. Bar'ry was forty-six years old and the daughter of the late .John Cullon, of Oxford. Pa. She leaves five children, a daughter and four DEAD)LY t'iOSSlNG ou' People Perish W~hen Train Hits Their Carriage. At Alliance. Ohio. Mrs. Byron lHen deriks. her six-year-old grandchild., Hazen Routher, and Arthur Bowers. the driver' of their carriage, were kill ed there when a Fort Wayne passen ger train crashed into their carriage. t. a crossing just outside the city. Mrus.Hnerics was 60 years old. KILLED LITTLE BOY. Because a Pretended Prophet Said He Was an Anarchist Man, Who Claimed Supernatural Power, Persuades Parents of Lad that He is an Anarchist. A terrible story comes from Mos cow, Russia. In the village of Sy soeva, Mogiloff government, there lived a peasant called Michael Kol chevosky, who called himself a prophet," and always gave out that le was "not of this world." On July 29 Michael told his fel low-villagers he had had a revelation from heaven to the effect that all arthly misfortu.nes proceeded from ntichrist and that L was necessary o kill Antichrist, who had become nearnate in the person of a two-year )Id boy, the son of a peasant called irobotchevsky. The parents of the child were per uaded to concent to Lie sacrifice, and he mother having pointed out the xact spot wnere the child had been orn, the "prophet". laid the victim here and began to press him to eath with his feet. In a quarter of n hour the child was dead, but to ake sure the "prophet" gave him 20 lows on the head with an iron ham ier. The body was then cut in two I Lalves by the "prophet," who arter -ard again divided each part in two, raying fervently all the time, the illagers looked on reverently. At ist Klotchevsky put the fragments f the body in a sack, tied the sack ] > the tail of a horse, mounted the orse himself and rode through thel illage, followed by the inhabitanis. ho bore lighted candles, it being ow night. The child was then bur d, while the mukhiks sang songs of raise. At daylight the "prophet" went ome to sleep, after inviting the peas- f nts to come at 8 o'clock in the even ig in order to see him ascend td l eaven from the roof of his hut. But I o'clock found him asleep in bed, i nd after waiting patiently for a long f .me the villagers resolved to wate im. Klotchevsky was in ore of is lucid intervals, however, and aft r hearing what had happened the r ight before he attempted to expliin e e ascension to heaven could hot f he place just then because the per- e isson of the nearest priest sbc: 1 ave been obtained before Antichrist as put to death. Finally the' peasants began to beat e "prophet." who would probabL!y ave been killed had not some of tie cal police inspectors happened to a passing withiri earshot. ihe prophet is described as a man of 23 t es in the village-thirty-two men ere then arrested and will be tridI. t Among the accused is a man lo2 s ears of age, who took an active na-: i the murder of the child. The prophet s described as a man of 2.) t ars of age, but looking much older, J *ith an intelligent face, long fiowing ' air and restless eyes.r BOTTLE FOUND ON BEACH. c le Conltents Tell of the Loss of af ,Steamer. C t One Saturday last at Miami, says t e Maimi Morning News, whilei alking along the beach, a little boy, s med Granville Rockmer, found a t ottle which contained a piece of' pa- e er and on which a message was 'ritten. Not realizing the mportance ~ fthe find, the boy tore the paper in fragments. Some older persons r appened along just at that time andt athered the fragments together and roceeded to arrange them in corder r ant the message might be read. It was subsequently learned by iecing the paper together that the ontents stated that the steamer omus had been lost in a storm at ea. It was signed P. V. F., and re nested that F. Gilman, New York. e notifed. It is believed the mes age is genuine. A similar find was made three ears ago near Cape Florida light, by r. R. D. Maxwell, of a?iami. It ld of the loss cif the steamer Am ersand on the west coast of South merica many years before. he1 atter was investigated through thei underwriters' agency in New York< nd it was learned that a vessel by I hat name was missing and had never een heard from. Finally. Mr. Maxwell receive-i a let er from the widow of the captian of he Ampersand, which told the story if the sailing of the vessel from an nhglish port. It was the first hear ng she had of her husband's fate. The bottle was fourteen years in naking its long journey around Cape lo'ida. It is understood the news hout the Momus has been sent to a ew York underwriters' agency for avestigation. D)IEI) N HIS5 RERTH. , A)cootive1( Salesman Foundl Dead in Pullmanl at Norfolk. ]ames Lawrence Minetree, aged 0 vears. of Washington, D. C., a ocomotive salesman. representing a >ew York house. was found dead in he ~eth of a Pullman car upon the rri'al of the Norfolk and Western train from the West at Petersburg. \a.. Tlhursday. Mr.. Minetree. who ad been subject to heart trouble-. oarded the train at Roanloke. V a., Wednesday night apparently in good DRUGGED GIRLS. SMnArrested on Description Given Uy Vict im. At New York Abraham Blakeman was held on $:'00 bail in Coney Is land court. He is charged with be ing oe of the men who drugged and attacked Adele Roberts and Anna Russel. The girls were picked up in te roadway unconscious. Blakeman was arrested on a description given y the girls and was positively iden ifie by them. FIFTEEN KILLED Two Trolley Cars Collide on a Illinois Road. Confusion of Orders Received by Tel ephone Reported to be Responsible for Awful Disaster. Fifteen persons were killed and about lifty injured Friday in a head on collision between an inter-urban express train, consisting of a motor car and a trailer and a traction car on the Mattoon and Charleston Elec tric Line at a sharp curve, one mile west of ,harleston, Ill. A confusion of orders received over the telephone is said to have been the cause of the accident. The cars approached each other at high siwed and the impact was so terific that the motor car and the trailer wr-re telescoped by the trac ion car. Few passengers had time o escape by jumping. Most of the passengers were going to the Coles ounty Fair at Charleston. Mattoon sent special cars to *1e vreck and the dead and injured were >rougat to the morgue and the hos ital. Several of the injured may lie. The dead: Nell Fugate, Gays, Ill. Thomas Weakley, Mattoon, Ill. William Nelson, North Okawa, Ill. Charies Nelson, young son of Wil iam. Howard Cole, boy. Cook's Mills, Ill. Harold Cole, boy, brother of How Lrd Cole. Zack Van Deventer, Mattoon. Edward Reynolds, Paris, Ill. tert Smith, Mattoon. W. A. Price, Mattoon. Douglass Logan, Humboldt, Ill. Edna Walbalm, Cook's Mills. Three unidentified bidies. Doctors and otiers hurried from harleston to tne disaster, dragged ead and injured from the broken ass of timbers and seats, and gave rst aid to the maimed. The dead -ere laid alongside the track. The ictims could not be taken to Char >ston because the track was blocked a that direction and the relief car om Mattoon was awaited. The line on which the disaster hap ened is twelve miles long, running etween Mattoon and Charleston, Illi ois, and has but a single track. Tei pnones are placed every two miles >r orders to be transmitted to the a's passing over the road. PETERS TO BE HANGED. ork County Man to Pay Death Pen alty for Murder. A dispatch from Richmond, Va., to e Roanoke Times has the following > say about George A. Peters, a na Lve of York County, who has been mntenced to death in Carroll County. irginia. "George A. Peters of Carroll coun , is to hang for the murder of Rev. oseph Easter, a Drunkard preacher, rho was killed in the county several onths ago. This conclusion was eached by Governor Swanson the ther morning after going over the, pplication for commutation. "The Governor says he has not und a solitary thing upon which he uld base any interference with the e sentence of the jury which tried e prisoner. The papers have been the hands of the Governor for >e time and he has examined into e merits of the case with unusual "Peters' acco'ding to the records in ie case, went to the home of the1 ainister one night in May. after the ainister had retired, called him to ie door and shot him down in cold, lood in the presence of the ian's wife and children. There was ,bsolutely no provacation for the rime, and the attempt of the defence y show that Peters was drunk at the me fell flat, the contrary being prov n. Peters will be hanged on Sept mber 20." BACK TO STATE COURT. rudge Prichard Reman'ds Railway .Suit to South- Carolina. At Asheville, N. C., Judge J. S richard, in the United States Court endered a decision Thursday in the ase of Charles J. Morrow vs Char otte Air Line Railway Company, re nanding the case back to the South ~arolina State Court. Morrow sued the railway for $10, )00 on account of personal damages sustained by him, the suit being en ered in the State Court of South Car lina. The railway company peti ioned that the case be moved to the nited States ~Circuit Court on the ;round of diversity of citizenship. 'he railway company alleging that it 'as a citizen of North Carolina, while :he plaintiff was a citizen of South arolina. Judge Prichard after hearing he argument remanded the case back zo the South Carolina State Court, From whence it was removed on the ;ronld that the railway company was ~ mestic corporation. DOZEN PLOTTERS CONVICTED. rhre Russians Sentenced to be Hang~ ed For Consi' ir'acy. The Courtmtartial, which has been~ trying the eighteen persons accused~ f piotting against Emperor Nicholas and the Russian Government last' M~ay. has found three of them, Niki enko, Smisky, alias "Purkine," and .'aumoff, guilty of organizing a plot and sentenced them to death by hang Four others were found guilty of organizing a plot to overthrow the sting form of government. Three of these were sentenced to eight years imprisonment and one to four years penal servitude. Five of the prisoners were con victed of having "Supported a con spiracy," and were condemned to banishment and the loss of civil rights, while six i,ersons. including M. Foedossieff, a lawyer and his wife reacquoitted. FIEND LYNCHED. Boastful Sheriff Fails to Carry Out His Threats. VICTIM CONFESSED. Twenty Masked Men Boarded the Nebraska Train, in Which the Mur derer Was Being Taken to Trial and Executed Speedy Justice None of the Lynchers Were Rec ognized. Twenty masked men held up a train near Bancroft, Neb., last week, and took therefrom Loris Roy Hig gins, a white man. and hanged him from a railroad bridge one mile from the scene of the hold-up. Higgins had been in pris6n in Omaha since he killed Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Copples, near Rosalie, Neb., last May. He was being taken to Pender for 1 trial by Sheriff Young and two dep uties, when the masked men entered the train and exacted from Higgins 1 the punishment for his awful crime. I While in prison he had made a clean t breast of the murder and confessed all the facts relating to the crime. Despite the boast of Sheriff Young that he would "shoot the can off of I any man who molested his prisoner," the 20 masked men rushed from be- f hind a grain elevator at Bancroft. I )ne party stopped and uncoupled the t ngine. The engineer was instructed f Lo run ahead one mile. A second r >arty kept the passengers in the t :oaches and the third took the pris- ' >ner from the baggage car, where he C vas found handcuffed to two deputy t heriffs. Sherifi Young offered no esistance on behalf of hi: p.-soner. Uiggins was quickly unshackled and ragged from the car. Then he was laced in a wagon and hurried to he railroad bridge, where he was to )e hanged. c The murderer seemed unconcerned luring the entire proceedings. So talm was he that his lynchers became .ngr-y and tried to start some resist ,nce. Higgins was given a chance o make a statement as he stooa on ; he railroad bridge. He availed him elf of the opportunity, saying that he ad long ago repented of the awful a eed and made his peace with God, N nd that he was ready to pay the enalty for his crime. t He had no excuse to offer and tated no motive. he asked God to are for the seven children who had een made orphans by his crime, and y hen asked that a note be sent his arents telling his end. The impa .ient lynchers pushed him off the )ridge before he had finished his tatemen t. C Then all unloosed their revolvers s Lnd riddled the body with hundreds I f shots. Thie lynching was committ- 'I d in daylight, but there is not a sin- c e person among the hundreds of ~ritnesses who admits having recog- I ized one of the lynchers. - The crim4 for which Higgins was e ynched was the killing of Mr. and ~ (rs. W. L. Copples, near Rosalie. on lay 17. The murder was committed t night. A shot from a rifle was the 1 irst warning of the crime. Then a ~ry was heard from the father," You ~ ave killed me." The children next eard the shrieks of their mother, ho was being clubbed to death by 1 liggins. When they rushed from the house ~hey saw the hogs fighting over the odies of their dead parents. Hig ~ins escaped. but was captured a ~ew days later and imprisoned in )maha until the day of the lynch ng. SUICIDE IN DINING ROOM. -otel Proprietor Shoots Wife and Child and Kills Himself. . t Ocean Grove, N. J., in the pre ~en e of a number of boarders in the ew Jersey house, a hotel of which e was the proprietor, Robert S.I Iravatt, 47 shot and perhaps mortal y wounded his wife, Irene, seriously ounded his nine-year-old datighter, dollie, and then killed himself. Dom stic trouble is said to have been the ause of the tragedy. The couple quarelled in the hotelt iining room during the dinner hour.( ravatt pulled a revolver firing at his wife. She fell, with a bullet in her eg, and the child rushed between er parents to shield her mother and as shot in the thigh. When the hild fell Gravatt fired two other1 ullets into his wife's prostrate form. ad then sent the remaining bullet into his own brain. Cravatt was well-to-do. Besides being proprietor or the hotel where he tragedy occurred he owned a store in Asbury Park. PREDICTS AMERICA'S DOOM But Was a Little Off on the Date of End. "This country will be entirely de stroyed on account of its wickedness on the last day of this month,"- said Samuel Willhite, a Baptist preacher from Arkansas. who arrived from Europe at New York recently. Willhite was accompanied by his wife, who is about thirty-five years old, and two children, the elder nine years and the younger six months. The preacher said that he and his family were compelled to flee from Arkansas because he prophesied that America would be destroyed. "On July 22," said Willhite, "I had a vision in which I was told that in forty days we should all be anni hilated for our wickedness. "I packed up my belongings, and with my wife and children we has tened for New York and sailed for England on August 3. "We arrived in London eight days later, and I set to work preaching in the street. I was arrested twice and wa. fially orderd deported." PRICES FIXED. Action on Cotton Prices Taken by County Presidents. The Price is Fixed for This State at Thirteen Cents-Use of Cotton Bagging Urged. South Carolina will instruct Presi dent E. D. Smith of the Southern Cot ton association to vote for a price of at least 13 cents per pound for cot ton sold this year. This was decided upon at Columbia Friday at a meet ug of the presidents of the county associations of cotton growers, there being about 40 delegates present from 21 counties. All of the delegates agreed that this should be the minimum price or cotton so far as South Carolina s oncerned and from reports receiv xd on conditions of the crop the far ners are now passing through the ritical period. The cotton crop is ate and there is little chance for an ncrease in the estimate,. which is ne million bales for South Carolina, ut a chance for a decrease, with un avorable weather conditions. This tate, however, is in better condition han any cotton growing State and herefore is in a position to dictate he price. Mr. Smith thought that the entire rop would amount to about 12,600, 00 bales, or a million bales less than ast year -and the South Carolina offi *ials of the association are willing or 13 cents as a line below which no 'ale will be sold and should condi ions be still further unfavorable ..e rice should be even higher. The iatter of price for cotton throughout .te South will be arranged at the eeting of the executive committee f the Southern Cotton association, be held at Jackson, Miss., .on ~ep mber 5. The association also adopted an nportant resolution agreeing to push e use of low grade cotton for the anufacture of deavy duck for bag ing in place of the jute and bur anufacture of heavy duck for bag >uld not only be used for cotton but )r grain and fertilizers. At present te use of burlap and jute causes merican cotton to arrive in Euro ean ports badly damaged and burst g through the bales whi.e .he cot n from Egypt and India is well acked end brings higher prices. C President Smith will bring this up t the cotton meeting at Jackson and ill endeavor to pass the South Caro na idea as it is of vast importance ( tne exporters. TURKISH OUTRAGES. [any Persian Villagers SIain and I Much Property Wrecked. Advices from Teheran, Persia says en. Samson Dowle and other Per an officers, according to reports, ave been killed by the invading urks, after having been taken pris ners. Many inoffensive Persian viflagers, tluding women and children, have een slaughtered. Women have been arried off, a church has been defiled d much grain and other property ten ir destroyed. Turkish regular troops with artil ry were within four miles of Uru aiah on August 15. There were no igns of the withdrawal of the Turks rom Persian territory. Another report says the Turks Lave occupied Merivanl in Persian urdestan east of Sulemania. In a telegram asking for help, the lergy and inhabitants of Merivan dd that if the Persian government powerless the people must beg Lussia. TARGET FOR BULLETS. ~evenue Officers Shot at By Moon-t shiners in Georgia. C. D. Williams and E. D. Hinton, 1 ,ttached to the ouice of Revenue igent R. V. Sams, of the Atlantic( ivision, have just returned from orth Georgia, after an exciting ex- C erience. They refuse to give the cationl, but they went up in the sountain part of the state to destroy still which had been located. In this mission they succeeded, but .s they were returning, they were .mbushed, supposedly by a party of ioonshiners, who fired upon them as hey drove along -.e road. The horse if one of the revenue men was struc~k ive times, being shot from untier tim. In the darkness the two men nanaged to get away without being truck. The matter, it is understood, will )e taken up with the department of ustice, with a view to ascertainig ho the guilty parties were and ,ringing them to trial. LARGE SNAKE IN AIKEN. t "Water Rattler," Weighing Forty Pounds, Killed Recently. A real true snake story comes from he Lvel's section, a few iniles from ~iken. It is stated that a "water 'attler," which is related to the rat lesnake, was killed in that section, :hat measured six feet and tipped ;he scales at forty pounds. and was imost six inches in diameter. The uge reptile was found by a colorea nan, who prevented it from escapinlg nto a nearby pond, while assistance as called and the snake shot.Th ake is said to he a very danger l1 ne, though it has no arattles asequ ommonl rattlesnlakehabtiec lly as poisonous. BOILER -EXPLOD)ES. Badly Hurt. Three men are dead and afourth is dying, as the result of a saw-mill >ooiler explosion at a lumber camp in the track of timber on the Hayett farm about eight miles north of -Igerstown. Md. The body of the foreman of the saw-mnill was hurled 00 fet CAUSETROUBLE Jail Guards at Easton, Pa., i. Fear of a Lynching Mob. FOULLY MURDERED. Hearing Negro Had Insulted Woman in Lonely Section of South Beth lehem Officer Went to Investigate and Was Slain When He Tried to Arrest Negro-Iron Workers Very Much Wrought Up. A dispatch from Easton, Pa., says there was much excitement about the county jail at 1 o'clock Tuesday morning, due to a rumor from South Bethlehem that a party of determin d iron workers had left that borough. in an automobile to come to the coun y seat and take William Handy, a outh Carolina negro, from the jail nd lynch ,him. The negro was arrested several hours earlier for the murder at South Bethlehem Monday night of Police an Shuman. Warden Collns took 1o chances and aroused and armed all ;he deputies and trusties, put double ars on all the entrances to the pris )n, and had the entire police force tationed about the jail. The prison r was taken from his cell and hidden n a remote corner of -the prison cel ar. After waiting until day for the Lrrival of the supposed lynchers, the Zeicers were dsmissed. - The murder of Shuhan was most oul. The policeman had heard .9f he negro insulting a woman in a cnely section of South Bethlehem, nd went to that quarter to make an avestigation. He found Handy, and rhen he attempted to place him un er arrest the negro opened fire. Two. iullets entered the policeman's body, d he died. Policeman McCue found Handy in board yard and jumped upon him efore he could get his reiolver, hich had been reloaded, into action. L crowd of angry men surrounded he prisoner and he was badly beaten. e was rushed to jail in an automo ile. Handy pretends'to be ignorant f the happenings of Monday night. COURAGE AND BRAVERY. f Men on Dynamite Laden Ships Prevent Disaster. With enough dynamite, powder ind old explosives in her hold to low up tne Rock of:Gibraltar, fire hipped and faned by gales of hurri an forces, the steamship Eureka, aptain Golightly on her voyage from an Francisco to Seattle, Wash., bat or the heroic fight of the crew would ave been blown up and every soul m board lost. The Eureka left San-Yrancisco on ~ugust 15 with a cargo of 900 tons, nluding 250 tons of powder, 200 ons of gasoline, a large quantity of 1, and fifty-six carboys of nitric cid. When off Mendicino Head Lbout 2 o'clock on the morning of the 9th the gale was blowing fifty miles f hour and the ship rolling eavily. A carboy of acid, which ras lashed on the upper deck, broke nose from its moorings and smash The fluid came in contact swith rood and instantly ignited it. Lire flash the ropes binding the carboys rere eaten away by the flames and ntire cargo of acid was aslide and flame on deck. Hands were summoned, the life nd death fight began. Man after ian fell upon the slippery deck, and ithough at times nearly overcome, ould when revived, rise and fight he flames like demons. Their clothing took fire and Mate Villiam Reed had his legs badly urned. They kept their struggle p until the flames were extnguished. ;apt. Golightly asserts that no vessel as ever in greater pera~ and that nly the courage and bravery of his .n prevhted an awful disaster WILL FIGHT LOCAL OPTION eading Brewers of the Country to Combat Movement. United action by leading brewers if the United States against the pread of local option was begun at a eret meeting at Cincinnatii, Ohio, hhrsday. It is proposed to adopt a efinite plan to stop the spread of ocal option, especially in the South. 'his was the prime object of the ueetiig. There was no formal call ssued and no publicity of' the fact lat there was to be a meeting. Rep esentatives of breweries of Chicago, filwaukee, St. Louis and Cincinnati rre present. BURNED HIS MONEY. hen Killed Himself in the Presence of a crowd. Aseil from Webster City, Iowa, th cordHerald says: In sight n astonisiaed crowd Carl Pressley nn ctor, mgaae a bonfire in the street ff his paper money; threw his jewely n the sewer and then announced to group of friends that he was going >o kill himself. He drew a revolver rm his pocket, 'walked across the treet and, calling to a number of erssol in the vicinity to watch him lie, fired a bullet into his brain. SULTAN MURDERED. . loocco Is Now In Danger of IEcign of Anarchy. Danger of a reig:1 of ana5rchy throughout Moiocc is imminentand zii has been assassinated. The re otIseealy credited as it is alai.G that the followers of the new sultan have a powerful incentive to put bdul Aziz out of the way and ti for the favor of the newly pro claied ruler...