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VOL. XXII MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1907 NO. 12 THIRD TERM TALK ,Ended by President Roosevelt Re peating What He Said . ON ELECTION NIGHT. Republican and Democratic -Leaders Freely Comment on the Presi dent's Announcement that He Will Under No Circumstances Stand for Reelection as the Candidate of the Republican Party. President Roosevelt will not !>e a candidate for a third term. All doubt on this point was dispelled Wednesday by the authorized state ment from the White House that ir.i Rloosevelt still adhered to the declar ation made three years ago. In the statement issued Wednesday Presi -tent Roosevelt says he has not changed and shall not change the de cision communicated to the public in 1904. The President's statement follows: On the night after the slection I made the following announcement. 'I am deeply sensible of the honor done me by the American people in thus expressing their confidence in, what I have tried to do. I appreciate to the full the solemn responsibility this confidence imposes upon me and I shall do all that in my power lies not to forfeit it. On the fourth of Narch next I shall have served three and a half years, and this three and a half years constitute my first term The wise custom, which limits the President to two terms regards the substance, and not the form, and under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept another nom luation.' I have not changed and shall not change the decision thus announced. Express Their -Views. The announcement that the Pres ident would not accept the Repub-li can nomination if tendered came at too late an hour to become generally known in political circles, but among c those who learned of it-Democrats and Republicans alike-the feeling was general that it left no element of doubt in the Presidential situation. so far as it relates to the third term talk, and that it definitely elimnates r. Roosevelt from the contest- It Some Democrats, however, express a belief that a Roosevelt stampede in the. Republican Convention would shake his resolution, and that he c would prove no exception to the his torical precedent in that no Ameri can citizen ever refused a Presiden-j tial nomination. Administration Republicans de-1 care that the announcement gives great impetus to the Taft boom, while the Democrats, many of the leaders of whom are at Washirgton, are shouting that it means "Bryan( in a walk." Speaker Cannon says the President< speaks for himself and it would be inappropriate for him to interpretf his words. Senator Foraker declin ed to discuss the matter. 1 Senator Hopkins said it shows him. to be a patriot as well as a states man, following as he is the tradi- f tions of Washington and Jefferson in limiting hisself to two terms. Senator La Follette said: "While such an announcemef'e ould be ex peted it was not' expected to come so soon. - I have no -other comment to make at this time." Representative Richardson of Ala bama, said. "It is in accordance with what I have always said of him. . I did not believe he would accept the nomination for a third term." Means Bryan. Says Tilman. Among the Democrats who com mented on the President's statement was Senator Tillman, who said: "This is by way of documentary evidence that the President has seen the handwriting on the wall. It means that Bryan will be the next Pr~esident of the United States. Ioosevelt is the only possible Re publican candidate who could be cnsidered formIdable." John Sharp Williams said: "I be )4eve I am one of the few Democrats in public life in the country who has been saying all along that the Pres Ident would not run for a third time. I believe he had too much knowledge of history to run the risk of threatening republican institutions with perpetuity of tenure in the Presidency. I also thought he was a man of so much pride that even if he had come to regret his after-elec tion utterances he would still stand to his word. I think the third term issue would have made Mr. Roose velt the weakest man the Republican party could have nominated, not withstanding the fact that he is per sonally the most popular Republican in the country to-day." Representative Hardwick, of Geor gia said: "I ~think it means a tri umph for the reactionary element in the Republican party and a good chance for the Democrats to wmn. Representative Bartlett, of G eor gi, said: "It means a different can didate and,.a different platforml. 1 think the/'Republicans will ntominate a maubn an entirely different rlat o and put into the platform those hings which would not have been ut in had Roosevelt stood for the nomination." Representative James of Kentuicky said: "It is a complete surrender on Roosevelt's part to the corporation leet of the Republican party. and announcement in advance of a sue render and the forceasting of the defeated National Convention o: h policies for which he staind'. iL bi ill.m a Bryan stronger than ever. SHOT FROM AMBUSH1. Policeman Davis, of SalleY, Prob ably Mortally Wounded When In the Act of Unlocking the Guard House He Is !'red on in the Dark. Chief of Police W. H. Davis, of Salleys, was shot from ambush Fri day night and may die. A shotgun was used and the charge penetrated his abdomen. In a statement made directly af ter the shooting in the presence of several witnesses Mr. Davis stated that he had been shot by Morgan Boylston. with whom he is said to have had trouble recently. :. Mr. Davis was formerly on the po lice force in Columbia, but has been in Salley about two years. Recently he had serious trouble with Mr. Boyl ston and his son-in-law, Mr. D. 0. Manning, and when It became nec essary to arrest them he had to use considerable force, and the two men 1 ndicted Davis for assault and bat tery and false imprisonment.. This case was to have been tried at the last term of court in Aiken, but was continued. A few das ago Mr. Davis at tempted toe arrest Mr. Manning again and in doing so had to beat uim up considerably. The case gainst him was heard by the city ouncil at Salley Friday, but result d In a mistrial. Davis had a negro locked up in the -uard house at Salley and Friday I aight he went to the building to re- I ease the prisoner. Just as he was1 iS bout to unlock the door some one' tepped out from behind the guard g ouse and fired point blank at him. a Ld the wounded man claims the if ,hot was fired by Boylston. The latest report from his bedside t s to the effect that his wound is nortal. Davis has preserved order i uring his incumbency as chief of1 )olice and is held in high regard by u e people of Salley. ANCIENT FREE MASONS. A .ist of Grand Officers Elected at the W Recent Meeting. di The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge i Ancient Free Masons of South arolina met in annual session in H harleston last week. The Grand ed :aster's report showed the order to w ,e in a most - flourishing eondirion- h iter the transaction of all business he following grand officers were in lected: Grand Master, James L. Michi. te hi f Darlington. b Deputy Grand Master, James R. st ohnson, of Charleston. Senior Grand Warden, George S. lower, of Newberry-.a Junior Grand Warden. George T. w ryan, of Greenville. tli Grand Treasurer, Zimmerman h, )avis, of Charleston. -k Grand Secretary, J. T. Barron,. P. p . M., of Columbia. s Grand Chaplain. Rev. W. P. Smitlh m f Spartanburg. J The Grand Lodge being called om the third degree tO the first d< legree, proceeded to the installa- S ion of the newly elected Grand se ificers. The following appointive -offiaers ere then announced: e Senior Grand Deacons: 3. P. Duck- to tt, Anderson, and 'J. G. Kinney. a' eennettsvile. Junior Grand D-eacons: W- J- ai .odgers, Darlington, and J. W- h< ~oberts, Greenville. .hi Grand Stewards: A. L. Barton. ei h harleston, and J. K. Hood, Ander Grand Marshal, John Kennerly- h hgefield. f Grand Pursuivant. G. L. Ricker, umter. t; The following District Depnty i rand Masters: First'~ District, William G. Maz- t) c, Charleston; second. S. H. Hod- o ers, Beaufort; third. R. A. Gyles. t Backville; fourth, William A. Giles- t rrniteville; fifth, B. E. NichOlsOn. t Dgefield; sixth, R. A. Cooper, Lau ns: seventh, J. C. Watkins. An- e erso; eighth. 0. R. Doyle. Cal, ~un ninth, A. S. Rowell, Piedmont:a enth. B. B. Bishop. Inman; eleventh . . .Hunter, prosperity; twelfth, E . Secrest, Lancaster; thirteentha oseph Lindsay, Chester; fourteenth I W C. Davis. .Manning; 'fifteenth.i Louis Jacobs, Kingstree; sixteenth. William Eggleston. Hartsville; sev enteeth, John C. Sellers: eighteenth. William L. Glaze. Orangeburg. DSPENSARY LAW DISCUSSED-. Representatives of Eleven County Boards of Control Meet. Pursuant to a call sent out by the Krshaw County board of Control there was held in Columbia Wednes day a conference of county boards. which was attended by representa ties of eleven county boards as fol Kershaw, Richland, Orangehurg, Charleston, Lee. Barnwell. Laurens. Drchester. Fairfield. Chester and1 Sumter. Dr. W. 3. Dur..a. of Ker saw, was elected president and CaptI J.. -Claffy. of Orangeburg. sece The members of eomar board& present discussed the provisionls the Carey-Cothran law in de:taii and particularly as to such s(elions as nw give practical difficulty in opration of the dispensaries. The matter of samp~les. whirli is not dealt with at all in the law, was chiefly discussed, and it was decided to ask the General Assembly to aend the law so that the-boards can disos of samnies in some way le GIRL RESCUED. Held by a North Carolina Farmer as a Slave IN A BARN WITH RATS. F. T. Pender Hired Miss Olga Sjos tedt by Advertisement and Then Tried to Starve Her.-He Laugh ed at Her Pleadings.-When Re leased, She Declares Negroes Re. ceived Better Focd Than She. Half starved. yet joyful over her 'elease fron, what; he declared to )e slavery on a farm owned by E. '. Pender, six miles from Halifax, I. C.. Miss Olga Sjostedt passed hrough Washington D. C., on Thurs With her was Thomas Broderick, ormerly a detective at Asbury Park. 'hat is the home of the girl, who Is trained nurse and who served in hat capacity in the Spanish-Amer an War. "On the Tuesday before Thanks iving Iwent to Halifax to work for ender, whom I believe to be in ane," said the girl. as she cliunt to er rescuer. "Since then Pender has made me vertable slave. ::f Mr. Broderick ad not arrived. I would have killed iy~self. as I declared I would do in a tter written to friends." Broderick's mission was a strange ne. He had been told that if, by unday, Miss Sjostedt were not re ased she would destroy herself. upplied with ample funds by the irl's friends, he hurried to the train ad early Thursday he reached Hal ax. Hiring a rig, the detertive sped -er the miles seperating the little wn from the blen;k, desolate farm. Arriving there he found Pender, a >ary-headed man beyond 60 years age. He did not at first see the afortunate nurse whose piteous ap als for help by mail had aroused sbury Park. Brodorick, a big, powerful man, ith a record for bravery. aggres vely demanded that the girl be pro .ieed. Pender snarled and refused to mply. Broderick then resorted to ilder means. He quoted the law, e told Pender that he, having hir the girl, was responsible for her a] fare. lHe ited the i'net as he knew it. at she had been given only two eals a day, both consisting almost variably ot cornm'eal. The detec e also told of letters, Miss Sjcs dt had smuggled North, describing w she had been imprisoned in a Lrn, through the cleats of which iow and the bleak winds blew. "This girl." thundered Broderick, ame into your employ through anI Ivertisement. She was afficted ith a slight .throat trouble, and ought the South was the place for r. You accepted her as house eper, and as such you should have 'ovided for her. You haven't done ,and if you don't deliver her to e I'll have you hailed before a Pender quivered and finally broke )wn. He led the detective to Miss ostedt, who at that moment, she id afterward, was comtemplating eans of suicide. She had said: "It is better and sier to die by my own hand than be starved to death by this lun Miss Sjost-edt flung her arms 'ound the big detective's neck when a told her he had come to release ar. The pair got into the rig. Brod 'ck keeping one eye upon Pender eanhile, and they covered the six jl~es of desolate country, where only f a dozen negroes and three or r white persons live. Arriving at Halifox, they took ':he a northward, and reached Wash iton en route to Asbury Park. Miss Sjostedt was in tear's during ee trip, but her tears were not those fone in agony. The nervous strain iougt which she had bravely oat ed hean to tell on her as she left l shadow of the tumble-down barn. here Pender would thrust her at ight and lock the door upon her, nd where rats and mice scampered 1-out, adding more horror to her iiable condition. I never knew." she said, "that white man--or a man alleged to e white-could treat a human be g in the manner Pender treated aee He even laughen in ray face -en I begged for some nutritious od, and offered me the same old red up. unpala'table corn meal. He ed the negroes working for him bet en fare than he gave me. Broderick gave no explanation hy. after he had rescued Miss Sjos edt.he did not have Pender ar *estd. It is believed he had reasons ff his own to justify this move his nain object being to re.t.urn Miss jostedt to her friends. WATCHMAN MURDERED Ln Robbed at Pee* lee Bridge in Marion County. A speial dispatch from Florence o The News and Courier says Mr. .E Kalie. the b~ridge' watchman o th\ vlamie Coast l' e at Pee i'Li wa's founmd lying beside -aa n a unous'io us c'ondi n a.-n ih r ivcer bridge and the P..-Dee .Mond'ay night, WT1 eVonindsb on the head his VLtwo'cii missing indicating i e had been foully dealt with. robed and left for dead. HeI was found by the station agent at Pee-Dee and. as he was still alive,' wa brought to Florence on Train o. 9 for medical treatment, hut died soon after reaching the Coast. ine Hospital . without regaining n n iune ss. FIERCE RACE RIOT. Thirty-Blacks Reported Killed and Five Whites Hurt Fifteen Blacks Burned to Death When the Whites Attacked the Lodge Rloom of the Latter. A special dispatch to the Mem phis News-Scimiter from Columbus, Miss., says some thirty negroes were killed one night last week and many more were wounded as the re sult of a fierce race war in Pickens County, Ala. Five white men were wounded. It is said that owing to the dis covery of a plot on the part of the negroes to raise against the whites every black in the conimnuity is in danger. This plot was caprried on by means of a secret society which had lodge rooms in remote districts of Pickens cc.unty. Fifteen negroes were burned to death in a lodge room near Reform, Ala., Tuesday night, when whites at tacked the place and finding a num ber of repeating rifles and shotguns. fired the building. The blacks were penned in by the continual shooting of the whites and those who were not killed in at tempting to escape were roasted alive. Near Gordon. three negroes were killed when a posse of white men at acked a lodge room. So far as has been learned, the burning of the oth r lodge rooms was without fatall es. The trouble started with the ar- J rest of Tom Lowe, a negro, on a harge of stealing a bale of cotton rom Whig-Lowe, a white planter, who is also a deputy sheriff. Deputy Whig Lowe and several E ther officers succeeded in arresting S e accused negro. As they were iding to Gordo with their prisoner, I ey were fired upon from ambush y a party of negroes headed by Bob ,owe, the prisoner's brother. 1 Tom Lowe fell dead from a shot, ~e -hich it is said was fired by his a wn prother, at the deputy sheriff. r )eputy Lowe fell, mortally wounded. fl A dispatch to The Atlanta Journal *rom Birmingham, Ala., says a long e istance telephone message from Re- b orm, the nearest telegraph town to t he scene stated that there had been p io persons killed since the Lowe b ragedy. r The excitement in -Pickens county I ras the result of the killing of a t egro named Lowe and the serious I rounding of a white man of the c ame name. the latter being a con- t table who was shot while friends ere trying to take the negro from 1 m. fi The negro Lowe had been arrested or stealing cotton, which had been V agged. When relatives and other n egroes approached the officer who tl ad him, shooting became promis ous and the negro was killed and fi jowe was hurt. b Sixteen negroes are ir.. jail in the il ~estern part of Pickens county, tl arged with particpation in the ex- e tment. Many negroes are related tl that section of the county and for a hat reason the whites are armed to e ready for all emergencies. , The determined white men of Pit a :ens county, in the viciniity of Gordo c Learing reports that negroes were preparing for an attack, raided a b odge room and secured thirteenc Vinchester shotguns, which were p oaded with buckshot, and every ti race of a weapon taken in charge. b The leader of the gang of negroes e aid to be getting ready for a -rlot ti 'as reported to have .boarded as rain for Birmingham, and efforts t ave been made to have him stop- (3 ed and placed under arrest. No e tilling took place during the raid 1 )n the lodge room. Gordo is not on a direct wire from 3irhimgham, and information being eceived is meagre, though rumors ~revail that seven negroes have been I ~illed already since Saturday. when :he first trouble began between the whites and colored. LOST THEIR HANDS. o Save the Lives of Their Fellow Workers. At New York in order to save number of comrades from death, Olive Jude and John J. McGlynn, iron workers, .each lost a hand on Thursday. The two men were at work on the Long Island city tower of the new Blackwell Island bridge. They were working high up on the structure, and it was their duty to guide into place the great steel lates~ on which the girdle rest. Be low them were working a score of ther men. One of the great plates that had just been settled into place sudden y began to slide. Unless it was stopped it would plunge from its base onto the heads of the men work ing below. Jude and McGlynn saw the danger and, shouting to the workmen below, each threw an arm around a beam andi each seized with his free hand the sliding plate. By a gigantic effort they slipped it to one side so that it rested against a beam. But they were unable to withdraw their hands in time. Jude's right hand was eut off at the wrist and MvGlynnf's left hand was terribly mangled. Comrades. rigged a tackle and drew the plate ack so that they were - released, Imeantime holding the two injured men so that they did not fall from the tower. At the hospital Mc Glynns hand was ampultatedl. Both will recover. Two Island~s Sold. Fanning and Washington islands. of the Fanning Is.ands grou P in the South Pacific. were sold at auction at Suva, Fiji. onl Saturday last to Father Broughier for the sum of THE GOEBEL MURDER. Youtsey, One of the Participants, Tells About It. He Says Caleb Powers and Taylor Both Approved's of the Pla* to Kill the Governor. At Georgetown. KY., on Wednes day of last week, Eenry E. Youtsey, who is under a life sentence for om plicity in the ass2sination of Gov. William Goebel, of Kertucky, some years ago, weant on the -witness stand and testified in the Case of. Cabel Powers, who is being tried there for the murder. Powers was Secretary of State of Kentucky when the as sassination took place, and the shot was fred froi& one of the windows in his office in the State House at Frankfort, where Goebel had gone to be inaugurated. .Youtsey testified that he had talk ed with Dr. W. R. Johnson in the latter's office about the killing of Goebel and of the purchase by him self of smokeless cartridges in Cin cinnatti. He said before the car- c tridges were offered Johns'on became t impatient, and said he could shoot a Goebel with his pistol from Secre tary of State Power's -Window, curs- b ng Goebel at the time. a Youtsey then told of the plot to I ill Goebel. He gave a, detailed ac p ount of events leading up to the a ragedy, and told of the preparations n LO had made for the shooting. He tl aid he met James Howarid, who did he actual shooting, on his arrival t Frankfort, a few days before the tc hooting took place. ti Youtsey also told of placing guns a Powers office, of raising the win ow, and drawing the curtains, of bi ointing out Goebel as he approach- of d the capitol and seeing Howard y im at Goebel. He then. left the U om and heard t he crack of the ri- u] e as he was des-tending the stairs. th Youtsey in his testimony corner- ul d Powers directly, with the tragedy at y stating that he fixed the door for hc e entrance of the assassin and ap- in roved of the plan. In his testimony wj e also gave very damaging testi- ce iony against Former Governor Tay- sp )r, State Treasurer Day, Superin mndent of Public Istruction W. J. th avison. W. W. H. Cullon and others de onnected with the state administra- th onhe Youtsey further testified that Tay- ac r dictated a letter to him asking he )r Howard to come to Frankfort to do the job," and he stated that he se 'ould give $1,500, a pardon and a wi ilitary escort to the'mountains to ti' ie man who -would kill Goebel- a Youtser identified the original af- we davit which he gave Powers while bc oth men were in the Louisville jail-.n 1 this document Youtsey made oath iat he knew nothing against Pow- kia r to connect him in any way with - h ne assassination of Goebel. The "~ fidavit, the witness stated, was giv- qu a to P. wers at his request for the se: urpose of getting Powers a new trial a s his case was then pending in the aurt of appeals. an An agreement, purported to have S een given Youtsey by Powers in ex- kia hange for the -affidavit was also TI ut in evidence. The agreement was ythe effect that the affidavit made y Youtsey for Powers should not be gr iade public, and should~ be returned tu SYoutsey in fifteen days. Youtsey ga tated that he knew when he made s he sts.tements sworn to in the offi w^ avit they were false, and that Pow rs said he must have it to get a new tb eairng. He said Powers wrote the he greement. of WILL SELL D)IRECT. .c ~armers Union Will Eliminate' the ca Middle Man. - b -A special dispatch from Greenville o The News and Courier says Mr. c: . C. Moore, financial agent for the cc armer's Union, returned to Green- fo ille Wednhesday from a trip to Eu m ope. Mr. Moore went to England be and Germany for the purpose of a :onferring with the spinners about naking direct sales of cotton. He made a close study of the situation N: md, as a result, agencies have been 3stablished at Manchester, England, and also in Germany, through which F'armer's Union cotton will be sold ti irect to the spinners. Mr. Moore is T: enthusiastic over the plan and de- tI lares it will result in saving at least p. a dollar a bale on cotton thus hand- b< led. He ,.predicts sensational prices H later in the' season when the con- k: suer finally realizes the size of the el crop and the fact that the farmer is t: not willing to take less than 15 ti cents. o1 DECIDE ON DENVER. d Democratic National Convention Will Meet There on July 7. After deciding to hold the next Democratic National Convention at Denver, Col., and fixing the date. Julyr 7. 1908, the national committee Thursday at Washington entered up on a spirited dehate on the propriety of accepting more of the $100,000 ofered by Denver for the Conven- h tioa than is actually needed to pay t the Convention expenses in that city. The opposition to the acceptance of a the contrihutionl took the form of a d resolution hy Representative Clay- e ton of Alahania declining money not iI actually needed for Convention pur- r poses, but after a long debate the c resolution was laid on the table by I ' a vote of 31 to 14. WIVES, BE FREE! Says Prof. Thomas of the Uni . versity of Chicago. WRONG FOR HUSBAND To Boss the Homes, He .Says. -He Declared That Many of the Wo men Best Equipped for Mother hood . Were Slaving It in Their Pursuit of Fashion to the Lower and Defective Classes. Suggestions for a declaration of independence among wives were made Friday by Prof. William . Fhomas of the University of Chicago, ocialogist and author of "Sex and society." He would have the women put ,way the 'd fashioned. ideal of com lete devotion and intellectual sur 'ender to their husband's interests, hink for themselves, and have some :ind of a clearing in the Jungle of onjugal responsibilities in which hey could stand on their own feet nd be mistresses of all they sur eyed. Prof. Thomas expressed his idea efore the Chicago Woman's club, in C n address upon "The Future of [arriage." The members listened -ith obvious delight, and when the rofessor had finished, one woman rose to declare that it was "the p tost gratifying paper ever read at ie club," while Rev. Celia Parker 0 'oodley, thanked the speaker by re iarking that here was a specimen. "mere man" who was doing more C4 i emancipate women that the women C temselves. h After touching upon race suicide, oman's slavery to fashion, and the te, Prof. homas sounded the liberty ll for wives by saying: "Still an her ideal of marriage is a more ried set of interests for the wife. 'ith the household as it is now made s ), it is not psychologically a good ing for one person to be dependent 01 )on the will of another and solely tached to his interests. No matter iw perfectly a woman is educated M the schools, she will not keep pace th men unless she have some con rns for which she is primarily re onsible' C< "This does not amount to saying yc at she must be financially indepen- C nt. or a bread winner, though V ere is no objection to that. But ri r life demands some first hand re- w tion to the world. for the sake of L r character and intelligence. th "Under the pressure of national L lection man made a tardy alliance th th woman and the home in primi- sb 'e times. He has used woman as lady figure on which to hang his as ath; has bought her cheap and ught her dear, but he has really te ver asociated with her."s Prof. Thomas declared that the y, sd ot wives men liked were of the Le use 'dog type, domestic animals, th ocile affectionate, friendly, un- th estioning." "And in lending her- is If to this disposition," he said. he roman has been pliant. -by "Woman likes leisure and luxury, d to be grander than other women. nc .e is eager to .be the best of her co sd according to prevailing notions. ne te smallest foot, the smallest b ist, the pinkest skin, the greatest y'o >desty, the greatest timidity, the as eatest helplessness; womans atti- th de has been that if this is to be the , me, she will play it, both to be th tted by men and to excell other >men." ol Prof. Thomas declared many of bi e women best equipped for mother- Sc lod were leaving it, in their pursuit Ri fashion, to the lower and defective L tsses. "If the fashionable women of Chi go, who are not at home to your - ag upon their door,"'he said, could .A located, where would they be. undZ. In the libraries? At the Art stitute? At the Chicago Woman's ub? Even' engaged in -entertaining inversation, No, they would be di und in the department stores, the di illiners' shops, at the silent sacra- tc ent of bridge whist, in the beauty in th; at the massage parlor, in the is >othecary's." cr - cc VERY FAST TIME. te inety-Two Miles ani Hour Made by t1 Electric Engine. - The r'ecord for electric locomo- d yes was attained at Clayton, N. J., liursday in the tests being made by te Pennsylvania's Railroad Coin my. The electric engine No. 028. E alonging to the New York- New . aven & 'Hartford Railroad and sown as the Jamestown Exposition igine, made a fraction over nine- ,, --two miles an hour. The locomo 'ye weighs' 180,000 .ponads. Thee Sicials say the tests have been high- C -satisfactory and that it has been emonstrated that trains can be run t -ith safety at a speed of ninety miles n hour. CASHIER KILLS 1iDISELF. linois Ihanker' a Suicid.--Han~k in Fine (kmnditionl. R. P. Easton. .18 yea:rs old. eah p er of the State Bank of Herscher. [I committed suicide in his bank ist week by shooting himself in the ead. Easton had been cashier of lie bank since its organization and p 'as a stockholder. He was married r nd leaves a widow and two chil- Ifl ren. When the recent call for the Ia onditionl of all the State banks m 1 linois was made Easton's bank t rade one of the bset reports sent lb ut from that section of the State. s 'he report showed the institutionl tot e is excellent conditiou.| TWO WHITE BRUTES Arrested at Union on a Most Serious Charge. They Attacked and Attempted to Assault a Young White Woman on the lHighway. A special dispatch to The News and Courier from Union says on Sunday afternoon a dastardly at tempt at criminal assault was made, it is alleged, by Lester Beck nell, white, upon Miss Fannie Vaughn, a respectable white girl of 16 or 18 years of age. Miss Vaughn and Miss Sadie Wil lard come to Union last week from .heir homes near Santee on a visit to relatives. On Sunday. a little before sunset, :he two girls were walking on the Southern Railroad leading to Spar :anburg. When a short distance up he railroad they were overtakpn -by .ester Becknell and a man who gives Lis name as W. C. Massey. The for ner is a native of Union county. When these men came up with the irls Miss Willard turned and ran ack to the home of her brother-In aw, but the men took hold of Miss ranghn, carried her some distance p the track and into a ,thicket, rhere she was knocked down, beat n. about the face, and tlie men on r desisted from their efforts to ac- r mplish their purpose when they c ecame alarmed at the outcries of t ae girl. t Upon being arrested Becknell re ained stolid and weakly denied his r uilt. Massey, on the other hand, V ointed out Becknell as the guilty r arty, and stated that he himself v ly stood off and looked on while c ecknell made his attempt. a No one having denied this ac- s )unt of the affair, Massey, who only e tme to rnion last week, is being f, Dld in 'w s a witness, while a arrant promptly issued for a ecknell on the charge of an assault tj ith intent to ravish. t Miss Vaughn's brothers assaulted ti assey after the occurrence and 0 abbed him in the back with a % ife, but the wound is not a serious d e. MOUJ'RNERS MAKE MISTAKE. .. ther Wrongly Identifies Dead Boy a: as Her Son. A dispatch to The News and >urier says when the body (.2 the ung man killed by a live wire in Lmden and supposed to be that of ilber tangley of Chester was car d there for interment, the coffin is opened at the request of young A Lngley's mother. No one doubted e identity of the corpse. Mrs. gley herself not questioning that D body was that- of her son, and . e and other relatives of young ,gley viewed it and wepit over t f such. . Among those who came in the C use of mourging to pay their re cts to *the grief-stricken family Ls Mrs. Orre, a neighbor of the e~ .ngleys. Mrs. Orre, like others of se present, was permitted to view p~ a remains, and to her utter aston- i iment recognized in the dead body r own son, Lewis Sowell, a child W a former marriage. cS The Langleys, following the an- ,ve uncement of Mrs. Orre of her dis~ ci: rery, were convicted of its correct ss, and it was further confira'.ed the appearance on the scene of ' ung Wilber Langley himself, alive d well, who returned home from a country, where he had been at rk, and was astonished to learn at he had been mourned as dead.h Young Sowell, who was 17 years I, leaves besides his mother, two- to others and a sister, Mr. Ernest a well of Orangeburg County; Mr. >y Sowell and Mrs. B. Lowry, of ncaster., TILLMAN WANTS TO KNOW. o1 - 0 ~ks Investigation of Cortelyou's fs Action. During Financial Crisis'.s Senator .Tillman Monday -intro- ' iced a resolution in the Senate recting the committee on financea investigate the recent proceed- t~ gs of the Secretary of the Treasury ti connection with the financial k~ ies and also to make an inquiry1 h cerning clearing house. certifica s. The resolution was presented S two series, the first dealing with e operations of the Treasury De tment, and the .second with clear g house certificates, .both, being vided into three sub-divisions. KILLED BY LIVE -WIRE. . C mployee of Carnival Company Is e Shocked to Death. -- A dispatch'.from Camden to The ews and Courier says Tuesday eve jg Wilber Lewis Langley, of Lan- s aster, who was recently employed the Persian Theatre of the Jones arnival Company, nlow showing at at place, met with a tragic death. [e was attempting to attach a globe 3 an ele'ctric wire and in taking hold r Sthe wire he 4a instantly killed. e was a younag man apparently ofG bout 20 years bf age. - GETS A FORTU.'E. ..cola Womanl Thought She Was' t Miste~Lring~ to a Pauper. .1liss Annie Burkhart. twenty years p id, thought she was entertaining a d auper in Thomas Caldwell, an aged cluse, who went to Pensocola, Fla., -om Chncago and eked out a miser ble existence by peddling fish and a od. Miss Burkhart ministered to d 1e man when he was ill . The girl I as now received information that a de has been made the sole heir of se estate of Caldwell. valued at 1 A FATAL CRASH. bection of d New Bridge Falls In to Swollen Stream. SEVEN MEN DROWNED. High Water Caused the Accident. The Catastrophe Occurred Just at Nigtall, When Men Were Pre. paring to Enock Off Work or the Day. There Were Many Narrow Escapes. High water Monday night caused. the collapse of a new bridge in course of erection over the west branch'.of the Susquehanna .River t Mifflingville, Pa., and resulted in the death of seven men and the in fury of nearly a score of others, two tally. Forty men were at work M the traveller on the middle span >f the structure when it collapsed.. rhey were all thrown Into the swol en river. The collapse of the bridge was aused by the rapid rise In the river. 'he water rose during the day-at the ate of almost one foot an hour and ebries carried down the stream by he flood struck the false work of he bridge and caused its collapse. The - accident occurred just at ightfall, when the men were pre aring to abandon their work. As a esult the work of rescuing those ho were thrown into the water and aught in the mass 1of twisted iron nd steel was greatly retarded. The cond span of the bridge was being rected and it was this section that ll with the big traveller. - The bodies of four of those killed ,ere found floating on the surface of ie water entangled in the bent -and isted girders and iron" work, but ie others haven't been. fourd- 39ny the men were caught fn the rapid ater and cariied- a mile or moie )wn the river before they. were scued. One of the most .miraculous- es, Lpes was that of William Nesbit, ho was caught in the Iron work id held a .prisoner an hour with s mouth and chin ab,ove water be re being rescued. The bridge was -ing built by the State -to replace ie carried away in a -freshet in 03.' A WILD MAN ttacked Lumbermen in the Woods Out in Washington. A dispatch from Seattle says roam g the Northwestern forest and ~hting the inhabitants of small ashngton towns along the Monte isto branch of the .Northe:n Pacif Is a wild man who has thus far aded capture. Nels. Helgensen,. recently from..St. mul, was attacked by a man while the brush, who, Helgensen says, yre a few ragged garments and rred a rusty pistol,- which he le led at Helgensen, the hammers ckng several times without shoot g. The strapping Swede grappled th his assailant, and gdt the woifst the inatch. Other loggers laughed at his story ttil a few days- ago when John Leary, a timber cruiser, went idto e same neighboyhood for game and Ld a similar experience. 1e went sleep in a deserted cabin and was rakned by a yell.. Arising, he was knocked to the 'ound again, but hit the man .with ax as he grappled for his throat. xe wild man.slunk off with a pite is half-human wail. The man, 'Leary says, had a hairy body and Many old timers at Granita- Falls ,y -they have seen the wvild nian, ho is believed -td be a Frenchman ho took up a timber claim near t. Pilhuck five years ago, and dis pared mysteriously two, years'Ia r The suppositionI Is that sol ide drove liim crazy, after which lhe st much of his resemblance to the uma'n b'y Tiving' wild EARCH FOR DFJD . SUSPENDD. irecked Coal Mines Have Given Up 320 Bodies. At Monogah, W- Va., searchitn [ines 6 and 8, of the ,Fairmont Coal mayfor victims of last'TridZly's iplosin was suspended early .this eek artly because ire had broken e, agp 'in Mine -8, 'and partly.be ause vry section of th bw ies as been explored and waslog the eyved that further searchin thend ame lines would resulti h id 2g of more bodies.n wny oie eree reoved. Of these 71 were aerien 16 Italians, 54 Slovaks, mepoles,5S Greeks and 2 Hunga ane president Whelwright and e1a Maager Lee L. Malone be eeethat all bodies not deeply;.bur d in the old workings have been re frce of ninety men has begun - clean up the inine and remove the eay falls and heaps of debris that ee not disturbed. by the rescuing arties, and it is said that some ad itonal bodies will be found. 'Didn't Slur Bryan. Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, sked the - American Thursday to eny the story that he. referred to tran at "one big laugh." "It is bsolutely untrue," said Mr. Watson, that I made aniy disrespectfu] al .aso hantever to Mr. Brya."