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ROBS FARMERS By the Operations of the High Tariff Laws. WILL BE NEW LINES In the Next Campaign, and Those Men Who Call Themselves Den ocrats and Betray the Party Will Be Driven Out and True Men Put on Guard. While on a visit to Florence re cently Senator Smith gave a most interesting resume of the tariff fight in Congress to a reporter of The Times. The Senator does not look for any relief for the people in the present fight. The situation is entirely too much dominated by the rapacious "interest's" of the coun try as represented by Aldrich and other protection leaders. They are fighting for protection everywhere. and many Democrats seeing the tendency have scrambled for a share of the grabbings. He does think, however, that there is enough life in the Democratic party for it to positively declare itself in this mat ter in the next campaign and by making its principles prominent, with the awakening of the people through the country, the indepen dence of many of the newspapers and their free and fearless discussion of the question to win the hold the suppport of the United States. He has made one speech on the tariff and he has been very much gratified by the reception of it by the senate and by the party and the people everywhere th:ough the country and will soon make another in which he will say many thing that he has in mind, for he has studied this question as he never studied be fore. He believes that his unas sailable position on the strong rock of Democracy has been a help to him and to others and he is sure that the fight that is being made now has made real Democrats and stronger in their Democracy, and has made more apparent the preten sions of those who love the name and the name only of Democracy, but oppose its principles wherever they are offered. He says the expression of certain Democrats will result in one of two things, a loss of confidence in and a repudiation of these individuals or a loss of and a repudiation of Democracy. Senator Smith evidently believes that the people will repudi ate the so-called Demdcrats, who are voting to protect lumber and other products. He goes on to say: "I believe that the essdntial prin ciples of Democracy are nearer the hearts of the people today than ever before In the history of the country. The middle west having been broken up into small farms, the population becoming denser and the struggle for existance sharper. and the products of the farm neces sarily sold in a free market, while those things necessary for the cul tivation and support of the farm are to be bought in a protected market, the people of this vast territory are beginning to feel the effect of this unjust legislation as the people of the South have felt since the Inaugu ration of the protective policy. "No man nfeed be deceived in thinking that the South with her tremendous territory and population will ever allow even In her own bor ders, manufacturing enterprises to be promoted at the unreasonable ex pense of her agricultural interests and 'those politicians who allow themselves to be infiuenced by the powerful plea of the organized man ufacturing interests of the South, will have a very rude, but very ef fectual awakening when the voice of the ballot is heard. Therefore, I confidently expect to see pure De mocracy gloriously triumphant In the next election through the influ ence of .the thoroughly awakened South and middle West. "I do not want to be understood as being a&ginst the promotion of manufacturing interests In the South, but I do want to be clearly under stood as opposing the promotion of any industry at the unjust expense of those who produce the raw materi al. I firmly believe that, at the present state of perfected mechani cal appliances that the American manufacturer, both North and South, can compete profitably with the manufacturers in any section of the civilized world. The skill and in telligence of the American laborer, plus the skill of the American finan cier can produce more per unit of expense than any country on the globe and the only protection that we need is the protection of God Almighty granting us favorable sea sons. "The Democratic party should not be misunderstood under our system of government; we must have a reve nue, therefore, we must have a tar iff, and in placing this tariff on Im ports some interests will be incident ally protected and in the protection that would incidentally come from this tariff for revenue there would be an advantage to that particular interest. This Is unavoidable, but the end justifies the means and that end Is a revenue for the expense of the government. But Ithere Is a world of difference h~etween a tariff for the expense of the government and a tariff for the prfit of individ uals. This distinction should be kept clearly in mind." Making Both Ends Meet. A lawyer, who is the son of a clergyman, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., has been attnrney In two divorce cas es, where his father was officiating minittar at th2e marria~ of the par t'es~ to, the divorce suit h this mak ing both ends meet, or Is it merely moving In a circle? Prison Ship Martyrs. The prison ship, Martyrs, forgotten victims of the Revolutionary War, are to be commemorated after more than a hundred years of neglect. A monument to the memory of these1 11.500 victims of the Wallabut pris on ship is being erected on Fort BAD MESS IN OHIO EGRO ATTORNEY ARRESTED ON MURDER CHARGE. 61ob Wanted to Lynch Him and His Brother, Who Has a White Woman for a Wife. Hunted all Sunday night and inally driven to bay by the police and bloodhounds Monday, John W. Beam, of Lima, Ohio, a negro at torney and real estate dealer, ac .used of murder, attempted to end his own life. He was arrested on the charge of murdering Mrs. Estella M. Diltz, a young widow, who was shot Sunday night at her own home as she opened the front door in re sponse to pounding upon the door. He is not seriously injured. While it was first thought that the motive for the murder had been found in business relations between Mrs. Diltz and the negro, a search of Beam's papers in his office in dicated that Beam was in love with :he widow, but whether the crime was due to his suit being repudiated or whether there was a cuarrel is unknown. A letter addressed to his wife in endearing terms was found, in which Beam told of his love for Mrs. Diltz, which had extended over two years, and that his call upon her accounted for his "late hours at night." In concluding, the letter directs: "Have Estella and myself buried side by side, that we may arise before the Almightey God together." Rumors that a mob was forming, with the intention o'f lynching Beam, caused Sheriff Yan Gunten to remove his prisoner from the city hospital to the county jail. Beam was es corted to jail under a heavy guard. Beam is now in the strongest cell in the jail and a strong guard is maintained about him. Dr. U. S. Beam, a brother of the prisoner and a wealthy citizen of Lima, closed his office and left for his old home in Kentucky. Colored people urged him to leave, as it was feared he might be lynched if he remained there. Feeling runs high against him. Dr. Beam's wife is a white woman and this aided in in furiating the residents against him. MADE FATAL MISTAKE. Used Wash Lye In Biscuits for Bak ing Powder. As a result of eating biscuits into which she had, by mistake, put lye instead of baking powder, Mrs. Robert Tarry is dead, and her hus band is critically ill at their home in Tottenville, Staten Island. Mr. and Mrs. Tarry kept house for their bachelor son. A few days ago the son went away for a three d1ay trip, leaving his mother, whose age is seventy-nine years, and his fatther, aged seventy-eight years, at home alone. Neighobrs heard groans and poundings coming from the Tarry house and upon entering found the old couple in agony. Doctors were called in, but their efforts to relieve Mrs. Tarry were futile as she died shortly afterward, and little hope is held out for her husband. Five unlabelled cans containing white powder were found in the kitchen. Four contained baking powder and one contained caustic soda and this is what was put into the biscuits. YERY CURIOUS CASE. Perplexes Surgeon Who Works on Victim of Auto. Ernest Frye, of New York, whose right leg was amputated five weeks ago following an automobile acci dent, Is the subject of considerable anxiety among physicians in the Flower Hospital because of his com plaint that he suffers intense pain in the toes of the foot which was amputated and which lies burled in one of the suburbs. Frye declares that he can distinctly feel a severe cramping pain in these toes, the pain being so intense at times as to cause him to shriek. Doctors believe that the sensation of pain is communi cated to his brain by the nervous cords which ran to his toes and which were severed by the amputa tion. The contraction of these in jured inerves, they believe, would give Frye the sensation of pain in his toes. DIED ON A TRAIN. Rev. R. A. Conners of Honea Path Dies Suddenly. Rev. R. A. Conners, pastor of the Baptist church at Honea Path, died on the train between Knoxville, Tenn., and Newport, Tenn., Monday morning. Mr. Conner's health had been bad for some time, and he had been in a sanitarium in Knoxville to recuperate. He did not improve and his wife and his brother went to Knoxville several days ago to bring him home. They started Mon day morning and a telegram received brought the news of his death. Mr. Conner had been pastor of the Ba tist church at Honea Path for about* three years, and was a strong preach er and very popular. He leaves a wife and six children. RUNAWAY AT COLUMBIA. Young Lady Sustains Broken I~imb. Two Others Hurt. Becoming frightened at the drop ping of a piece of .the running ge'ar or the buggy to which they were hitcehd, two horses made a wild dash down North Main street In Co lumbia Thursday morning, and Miss Annie Daniels, one of the occupants of the vehicle, was severely injured. the right leg being broken just above :he ankle. Mr. W. H. Condry, pro-ja prietor of the Jerome Hotel barberfa shop, was also an occupant of the la buggy and he suffered a sprained lb Cnee and several bruises. His six- a Fear-old son, Clyde Condry, was lI :hrown from his seat when the bug- a ;y crashed into an iron telegraph il pole. The little fellow was only c MAILS TIED UP y The Firemen's Strike on the Ou Georgia Road NOT A WHEEL STIRS B dlong the Entire System and a Ar Crisis Has Been Reached-Chief of the Federal Bureau of Labor Reaches Scene of Strike-Towns Feeling the Strike. How less than a hundred striking leorgia Railroad firemen were able ric o stop practically all train service re n a territory 170 miles long and Ai rom twenty-five to a hundred miles vide was the knotty problem into le vhich United States Commissioner th >f Labor Chas. P. Neill plunged im- th nediately after his arrival at Atlan- B: a, Ga., on Tuesday night. An nissary of conciliation he faced first in :he race problem, the force behind to .he strike; second, an announced m ish of many persons in this sec- bi ion to have Georgian-s settle this sa iuestion by arbitration, and third, w 'he necessity of moving the United a States mail immediately. Within .wo hours after his arrival Mr. Neill oj was in private conference with Gen- fr eral Manager Scott of the Georgia I Railroad. 0 A dispatch from Atlanta says what st a remarkable feat this handful of si union firemen accomplished and what t power was behind them became ap- w parent Tuesday when a considerable ti section of Georgia was compelled to t] rely on automobiles for passenger, d mail and express service; and when o: the transportation of such necessi- t< ties of life as food dropped back to a the methods of a former degree of y civilization, namely, to wagons and U even pack anima-s. The four score firemen alone did a not produce this situation. It was d the communities which the railroad b served that -stopped every wheel of n the system during the past three days; not the officials of these com munities, but a few men who are said to have fighting blood in their veins, who came forward and an nounced that negro firemen should s not be given -seniority over white firemen. From some hidden source of public opinion these men have up to now made good this racial ulti matum. Few of these men were fire- s men, some did not even claim to be acquainted with striking firemen, and a dozen or more are said to have s come from counties lying. some dis- e tance from the railroad. They ac complished the tie-up without serious C acts of violence, with a few cases of throwing stones, which appear to have been accepted as warnings of ~ what might happen if trains contin ued to run. A settlement by arbitration should not be difficult so far as the strikers' demands are concerned, Vice Presi dent Ball, of the firemen's organiza tion, said Tuesday, because the fire men are not trying to exact a hard and fast settlement. They struck because ten white firemen were re-t placed by negro firemen. The rail road officials declare that the ne groes were put ilk these positions as rewards for faithful service, and that they are within their legal rig'hts in such action. Upon this one crucial point of the controversy there has as yet been no sign of agreement. The directors of ithe road, thet general manager and other officialst were in almost continual conference i Tuesday, and it was reported that e some of the directors strongly fa vored Governor Smith's proposition p for each side to select three Geor- a gians as arbitrators. Mr. Scott would d not say whether these offers would t be accepted. The directors include e men with local business interests, e which are liable to be affected un- I favorably by a long tie-up. d Hand cars, automobiles and in- f terurban cars made little impression i upon the 3,000 pounds of delayed D mails in the Atlanta postoffice. Here s and there in the strike 'district a ru-b ral postmaster shouldered a sack of C outgoing mail, and after hours of 0 hard work, riding and walking, C managed to reach a railroad station tl not affected by the strike. Reports b were current that the Federal courts might interfere and llace guards a on trains in order to get the mails e through. Xo such action, however, s' developed. The strikers have an- u nounced that they are willing to a fire engines to carry mails, but that n such engines must carry mails only, n and not passengere. c Reports that the nbecessities of life a were lacking In some communities 0 caused Governor Smith to telegraph ~ along the line of the Georgia Rail- a road inquiring whether there was b any food shortage. No replies In- h dicating such a condition were re- b: eeived, and numerous reports stated P that there was plenty to eat every- g where, Business men, however, com plained of serious financial loss. ' For the first time since the be- a irD-; of the strIke General Man- i :Scott conferred with Governor A' .ith Tuesday evening. Afterward 90 .fe Governor said: in "We discussed the situation fully, mnd I am now very hopeful that some teps may be taken, which will bring about a speedy adjustment. In the CO neantime I regard it of the utmost mportance that perfect order should yrevail." Present at this conference were state Attorney General Hart and diaor Jos. B. Cumming , general N. ounsel for the Georgia Railroad. t DEFAUL TER SURRENDERS. i s zo 'omes Back After Being Absent by Some Five Years. w re: Ex-Sheriff and Tax Collector John in .Perkins. of Calcaseiu Parish, La., be 'ho suddenly disappeared five years gn go, going to Honduras and leaving ed n alleged shortage of $70,000 in is accounts, returned a few days gh go and surrendered. He was re- ha rased on bond. He disappeared off -hile the State auditor was check- otl ig up his accounts. The parish re- cle >vered $50,000 from property left ha ~' Prkin. ar NIGHT RIDING trages in Kentucky and Ten nessee Caused Y THE TOBACCO TAX d Senator Bradley, of Kentucky, Says Congress Should Act-He Predicted Recurrance of Violence if Oppression of Tobacco Trust Is Allowed to Continue. That the outrages of the night Iers in Kentucky and Tennessee suited from the oppression of the nerican Tobacco Company qnd that bess the internal revenue tax on if tobacco in the hand is repealed ese outrages will again occur, was e declaration made by Senator -adley of Kentucky Friday in urg g the adoption of his amendment the senate tariff bill. This amend ent proposes to restore in the tariff 11 the house provision for the free le of leaf tobacco by the farmer, hich was stricken out by the fi tnce committee of the senate. Mr. Bradley reviewed the growth the American Tbbacco Company om the time of its organization in 90 with a capital stock of $25, )0,000 to the present day with ock, including that owned in sub dary companies, amounting to more Lan $500,000,000. Not content ith destroying all competition in ke United States, Mr. Bradley said ie American Tobacco Company cove the Imperial Tobacco Company ' Great Britian, its chief competi >r, to a compromise and obtained an greement by which the Imperial elded up all competition in the nited States. "France, Austria, Italy, Portugal nd other countries each meanwhile ecreed that the government would uy and import tobacco as a 'ausi ess, the profit going into the cof Irs of the government under what known as the Regie system," said Ir. Bradley. "The American To bacco Company, seeing the danger i this direction, entered into a con piracy with the Regie agents by -Lich the territory should be and as divided, all agreeing to pay the ame fixed price and alloting the rritory into well defined districts o that there could be no cofiflict of aterests." Thus the producers found them elves powerless and hemmed in on very side, continued Mr. Bradley, nd after appealing to congress with ut effect, as a last resort organized he pooling societies which resulted i a saturnalia of crime in Kentucky nd Tennessee. While denouncing he night rider outrages, Mr. Brad ey declared that the tobacco leaf rowers were sorely pressed, that hey were forced to combine to pro ect themselves and that the crimes which resulted were due to the rust's oppression. "If congress re uses relief, in my judgment," said fr. Bradley, "the same eonduct will oe re-enacted, people terrorized and he States materially injured." Before reviewing the tobacco leg slation resulting in the conditions rhich he represented as existing, Mr. Iradley said, "I will state in the leginning that under the present tatutes and rulings of the commis loner of internal revenue, the pro ucers are so hampered and restrict d in the sale of their leaf tobacco hat they are substantially placed at he mercy of the great trust which as blighted their hopes and desolat d their homes." Mr. Bradley said the two princi al objections made to his proposed mendment were that it opened the oor to fraud -and rendered uncer zin the enforcement of the tobac a tax, and that it materially decreas d the amount of revenue collected. [e asserted that no law could be evised which would entirely prevent raud, and that the amendment was 1 substance and effect the re-enact lent of the McKinley bill, which, he aid, operated well for three years, oth as to fraud and revenue and he auld see no reason why it would perate otherwise now. He quoted ommissioner Yerkes in the opinion 1at the decrease of revenue would e comparatively small. The effect of his er.actment, said [r. Bradley, would be that the farm r and all others would be able to 1ll unstemmned tobacco in the nat ral leaf without the payment of ny tax or charge. "In my judg ent the passage of this law will at only give justice to a deserved ass of people but will withstand 1 lawless elements and restore good rder throughout the land," said :r. Bradley. In concluding, he made 2 earnest appeal to the senate in Ihalf of 1,000,000 Americans, who, e said, have been stricken down r the ponderous mace of an all )werful trust. "If that call shall >unanswered, we may at least in ilge the hope that while our op -essors escape here, there will come time when they shall be weighed the balance of a just God, whose .dgment will be, 'thou are weigh t in the balance and art found want g.' " WHITE SLAVES ON CANAL. -Ittenden Mission May Establish Refuge Station. According to reports made at the ening session of the National Flor ce Critden mission in Atlantic City. J., American girls are being mad. e victims of the terrible white tve traffic in the Panama Canal ne. The report is based on statements judges and officials of the district. Lo have expressed the hope that a ~uge station will be established the zone and that missionaries will sent to take charge of the fallen -Is. The convention hals order an investigation. Another appeal came from Shan ai, China, where recent crusades re been made by United States cials and representatives from ter governments In an effort to at their colony of women who re caused scandals among young FIREMEN'S POSITION N THE STRIKE ON THE GEOR GIA RAILROAD. rhe Official Statement of the Causes Leading Up to the Trouble and Strike. There is considerable interest In the strike of the firemen on the Georgia Railroad. The firemen claim that their position has not been fully set forth. The official circular of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, issued from the grand' lodge headquarters at Peoria, Ill., on the 19th instant, after e giving a review of previous nego- c tiapions between the fiAyimen and t the management of the Georgia rail road, says: "At this time ten of our members engaged as assistant hostlers at the 2 rate .of $1.75 per day, were displac- t ed by negroes at the rate of $1.25 per day. The joint board immedi ately took up their matters with the general superintendent of the com pany and were promptly informed by him that he would not deal with them or listen to their grievances or the propositions which they de sired to submit. He also stated that he had orders from his superior of ficers to reduce operating expenses $1,000 per month, and that he in tended carrying out such instruc tions. He further stated that this was only the beginning of reductions and that more would follow. "The matter was then taken up with the general manager, who re fused to do anything except to sus tain the general superintendent. :, her Bal upon attempting to se cure a conference with the general manager, was refused. "After bringing every possible in fluence to bear with a hope of reach ing a peaceable settlement if the mat ter, and failing in every effort, It be came apparent that it was either necessary to adjust the affair and protect the interests of our members through an issue, or pergit the com pany to displace them 'and efnploy negroes at a reduced rate of pay to fill the positions thus m-ade vacant, and it was on account of these con ditions that our members voted to strike. "In further explanation of the sit uation, I will say that the Georgia railroad and the Atlanta yard ter minal are leased and operated by the Louisville and Nashville and the Seaboard Air Line Companies. It is believed by the joint protective board and by the officer directly in charge of the situation, that this is only the beginning of an attempt on the part of the company to dispense with the services of white firemen entirely and to fill their places with negroes." It is stated that the Louisville and Nashville employs only negro firemen. FUGITIVE CASHIER. Caught by Detective When He Visits Ill Son. After flye months of flight through Western cities, and 'into Mexico, Edward B. Towne, Jr., has returned to his home in Orange, N. J., to see his sick son. He was quickly arrested by detectives, whose vigilance has never ceased on charges of embezzling approximately $3 0, 000 from the Matheson Lead Com pany of that city. Towne, who is only twenty years old, rose rapidly with his employers, and was cashier when he disappeared in December. Following the dis covery of his alleged shortage, it was revealed that he had been liv ing extravagantly, having two motor cars and maintaining a residence believed to be beyond his legitimate means. It was believed that he had considerable money with him when he disappeared. Towne quickly moved out of one city to another in the West and de tectives were never able to catch up with hh 'it the watch on his young wife ver ceased. In some manner Towr.. heard of the serious illness of his little son and dashed up to the house concealed in the tonneau of arn automobile. Private detectives on guard sum moned the police and, when the home was entered, Towne was found in an exhausted sleep on an upper floor, and was dragged away to Jail. .WHITES MADE BLACK And Blacks Are Made White in Coscob, Con. Temperance cranks, worse than the Ku Klux Klan and the Night Riders, are operating in the village of Coscob, Conn. Habitues of the village saloon believe they are try ing to discourage drunkenness by white washing negroes when they be come intoxicated and by using stove blacking on whites while under the influence of liquor. Others say the coloring is the work of village wags, but at the best the inebriates are indignant. A few nights ago the police of Greenwich received a call to arrest a drunken negro in Coscob. Police man Jones took the man to a cell Next morning the jailor aroused the man when he called "Come out here you nigger." A torrent of profani ty issued from the cell and Charles. Carolig. a white man, but black as the ace of spades, came forward. A short time ago Justice Brush tried a "white" man, and he was whiter than snow, on charge of drunkenness. He had been white washed while In a stupor. Other simiilar cases are reported, but the drunks are never able to identify d the perpetrators of the "terrible out- u rages," as they characterize them. *n Girl Killed by Horse. s. Effie Townsley, the sixteen-year- b ald daughter of Samuel Townsley, of h Johnsonville, Bracken county, Ky., tU was found dead a few days ago on rhe road near her home. She had been riding a spirited horse, which became frightened and ran away ci with her, throwing her off, dragging di ier over the rough road-.o of Charity always goes farther than in WILL BE HUNG I mung White Man Who Killed In i Officer Doomed to 1E ON THE GALLOWS S idge Dantzler Overrules a Motion Cai for a New Trial and Passes Sen- ] tence of Death on Webb Simmons for Murdering Marshal J. B. Mc- ] Adams. Unless a stay of sentence is grant i pending an appeal to the supreme re( >urt of the State, Webb Simmons, Su: bie young white man who killed tw, 'nited States Deputy Marshal J. B. tw [cAdams at Anderson on February of 0 last, will be hanged in the coun- m EL F jail yard in Anderson on Friday, Co uly 23. Sentence was passed on W he prisoner Monday morriing by is udge Dantzler after Attorney Dag- H2 all had completed a strong argu aent for a new trial. The motion th; ras overruled, and in the presence toi if several hundred spectators Webb Mq hmmons was condemned to death. fri The Simmons case went to the co ury at 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon on nd near Saturday midnight a ver- be lict of guilty without any recom- lic rnndation was made. At once Mr. ki )agnall gave notice of a motion for pr new trial, and Judge Dantzler an- ca iounced that he would remain in knderson until Monday moriing, at sh which time he would hear the mo- is :ion argued. F Mr. Dagnall presented a strong ul plea to the court. He said, among M >ther things, that, on account of his )wn illness, he had not been able bi 'o conduct the defense as it should al bave been, but the court Interrupt- hj ?d him by saying that, in his opinion, is the case had been zealously and ad- M mirably conducted and that the at- w torney had looked well after the de- si fendant's interest at all ti 3s dur- b ing the trial. Other reasons for 0 asking a new trial were stated as follows: S1 That some of the jurors had ex pressed opinions as to Simmons' guilt n before the trial; that Juror Davis b was over the constitutional age; that a the court failed to charge the jury b on the law as to self-defense; that the jury had resented certain ques- a tions asked the sheriff by Mr. Dag- d1 nall, while the sheriff was on the stand; that the case should not have a: been tried at this term of court be cause of personal feeling against the h prisoner, and because of the illness i of defendant's motner, a material , witness. ri Judge Dantzler considered sepa rately each reason assigned, after which he formally denied the mo-|s: tion and proceeded to pass the for- li mal sentence of death. Simmons accepted the verdict of b the jury and the :entence of deathje very unconcernedhy and coolly-. a When called upon by the clerk of|h court to stand up to receive sentence g the prisoner stood motionless and t without a tremor. From appear-| d ance It did not seem that he was the I least bit -annoyed or worried, but d on the contrary seemed to accept , the sentence as a relief from court't proceedings. When asked if he hadh anything to say why sentence should i not be passed on him, he clearly and loudly stated that he knew of none, 1 that he had nothing to say, and after a the court had announced the sen- a tence the prisoner made a bow of e acknowledgement and then quietly e sat down in the prisoner e dock. Hie ca was at ono3 handcuffed and carried t: 'o the caonmty jail by Constable Mar tin and Police Sergeant Sanders. t1 i-e had imding to say while walk- o ing to the jail, except to stop at a a fruit shop to purchase a dozen ba- c nanas. This he did also late Sat urday night, while returning to the i jail after being carried to the court , house to receive the verdict of the jury. Upon arrival at the jail g aftei' sentence had been passed Mon- a day morning Simmons cheerfully sa luted one of the negro prisoners, s. calling him by name and saying that he had learned to say it. Evidently f, the negro 11ad been teasing Sim- a mons about what the court would v have to say in passing sentence. k Attorney Dagnall will take the p case to the supreme court, so it is understood, and if this be the case lti it is highly probable that the execu-|T tion will not take place in July.|u: The supreme court does not take up rt the cases from .this icircuit until| tl late in the fall or early in the win- ai ter, and unless a special dispensation |. is secured this appeal will have to Ia: come up In regular order. This will be Anderson's first le gal hanging in about nine years, the rictim then being a negro 'onvict d of assault on a white wc..nan of H hat county. TAKEN FROM JAIL fr ad Lynched by One Hundred C< Enraged Citizens. The usual quiet village of Lincol- H on, Ga., was awakened at midnight st Jonday from peaceful slumber by at he noise of a mob of about one tr rundred enraged citizens as they in tormed the county jail and brought fe: orthi Albert Aiken, the negro farm" w< tand who so viciously cut Ji'J. Fl pires, a highly respected white armer last Thursday morning. It learned that the body of the ne ro was found swinging to a limb B f a tree at Dry Fork Creek, three iles from Lincolton and that the ody was filled with bullet holes. ly Killed His Mother. no, Guilty of murder in the second his egree was the verdit. ret'urned Sat- stC rday by the jury before whom Del- nir ar Young was tried on the charge un Smurdering his mother. Young wh iowed no signs of distress when he sul rard the verdict. It is understood Mr s attorneys will ask for a new doC ial. fac roo Deserves Great Oredit. Roger D. O'Kelly, a negro, of Ral- ~ gh, N. C., who was born deaf and wit imb and has only one eye, the be her having been removed because sell an injury sustained while play- I g football, has been admitted to allc ar j to E WO MEN SHOT I i Bad Row in Columbia's Dis trict of Vice T( ERIOUS ENCOUNTER ised by Two Penitentiary Guards at Ieing Troubled by Two Men of in ['ough Reputation-One of the st 'articipants Is Badly Wounded and iay Die From His Wounds. W !L serious row occurred, in the light district of Columbia last D iday morning, which resulted in ) men being shot. The State says is y penitentiary guards and two men t bad reputation became involved v a serious encounter. As a result t er Ashford lies in a dangerous c idition in the Knowlton infirmary, s E. Mellette, a penitentiary guard e wounded in the thigh and Lonnie n .11 and John White are in arrest. a The story given by the police is tt Hall and Ashford, both of the c igh element, had been annoying c lette and White, who were on a >lic, it appears. The actual en nter is' alleged to have occurred 0 Gates street, midway of the block tween Lady and Gervais. The po e were Informed that Lonnie Hall ocked Mellette down and appro ated his pistol. Thereupon he was led by White. Hall knocked hite down and some- one began ooting. There were three shots, is stated, and two of these struck yer Ashford, who had not mixed > in the melee. The third struck ellette. Ashford is dangerously hurt, one llet having entered -his left side n ranged upward, loding near tho art. The other wound in the groin not of such a dangerous nature. ellette was shot In the hip. There ere powder burns on Lonnie Hall's Lirt, showing that he must have ,en close to. the mouth of the weap Ashford's condition at midnight inday night w reported to be a tle mort reful. The bullet has >t been ..ter 'iowever. He is a other -;.;he young man who was furor in the Sellers trial, and was ough?t before the bar of the court i the charge of contempt, it being leged that while drinking he had ne some talking about the case. Eber Ashford has never been in iy real trouble before, but less than a days'ago Detective Forde found Im loafing constantly around a no irious place on Gervais street and arned him that he would be ar sted for vagrancy. Ashford was L bad company. Lonnie Hall Is a terror. A man iort of normal stature by several iches, he is yet one of the most owerful men in the city.' He has een in numerous escapades and en Junters. The police in Columbia rrested him once on the charge of !ghway robbery committed in Geor a. At one time Officer Forde at mpted to arrest Hall and the latter rew a knife. The officer broke his ight stick over Hall's head and a esperate encounter resulted. There ere three policemen in the encoun ~r-*before Hall was jailed and at that e hwas chased across the river bridge d into Lexington county. Mellette lives in Columbia, 1114 ivine etreet. He was employed as penitentiry guard about a week go and Capt. D. J. Griffith consider 1 him a good man. He was engag : at- the State farm in Lexington unty. Mellette has a brother on le police force. John White had been a guard at 1e State farm several years. Pri r to that time he had been a guard t the asylum and had been dis targed by Dr. Thompson for tip ling, taking part of the whiskey itended for the patients on the rd. He has a good record at the nitentiary and 'Capt. Griffith was rieved to hear of his trouble. "He as a fine guard; humane to pris-! aers and a man of rare judgment,"~ id Capt. Griffith. Lonnie Hall tells a different story om that received from~the police. e says that it was not until after hite had shot Ashford that he oked White down and took his stol away from him. Both pistols are at the police sta on. Both are loaded all around. lerefore, unless a third pistol was ~ed the discharged cartridges were moved an'd fresh ones placed in er stead. Both, of the pistols the station are Smith & Wesson, 8 calIbre, bu one shoots a long id the other a short cartridge. MAROONED IN SWAMP. igh Water Kept Passengers Out All Night. Passengers out of Columbia and om other points along the Atlantic ast Line between Columbia and lmington had a lonesome time on -iday in Bogue Swamp, between rilsboro and Waccamaw lake,C rm waters submerging the tracks t d causing the annuling of the in. It is feared the high waters( that section have seriously inter- I red with the railroad construction I >rk over the Pee Dee river near e orence. STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. 'It Kills One Man and Shocks Tree Others. At Columbia John Williams, shoit~ d; after he had taken refuge In a tl r house when he was driven from ti work in his garden by a thunder se rm, was struck by a bolt of light- ri .g and instantly killed. He was d< arried, but leaves three sisters a: o were dependent upon him for ti sport. At the time he was struek, w .Williams was standing -in the pl >r. with both hands against the of ng. Three other men in the same sa m were severely shockea. t hi then you find a man generous hi a black paint for others you may sure he has whitewash for him - ci spect the cellar of en, and never w any animal or vegetable matter er TTRACTS THRONGS NY PEOPLE EXPECT TO BE HELPED BY PRAYING P a Small Piece of Bone, Said to Belong to Saint Rita, Long Since Dead. A remarkable scene was presented the Church of St. Rita, of Cascia, One Hundred and Forty-fifth reet, New York, when the struc re was packed by several hundred .rsons, while in the street there ere several thousand more unable gain admission to the conclud g services of the Novena, or Nine ays Devotion. On the alter of the church there a fragment of a bone, duly authen cated as belonging to St. Rita, "ad cate of the hopeless and saint of ie impossible,' as her worshippers ill her. The annual Novena to the tint in this church and the rever nce of the relic are credited with iany marvelous cures and perform nces in answer to supplications. Many have declared that they have" ured themselves or others of physi al ailments which baffled doctors, rhile othess have transferred to the aint's answering their prayers con erning business matters and other hings in which they sought suc ess. The rector, Father Charles Farina, ead a number .of letters from those rho had prayed to St. Rita. A detroit woman wrote a year go she came to New York and pray ,d to St. Rita for a civil service osition and soon obtained it. A boarding school' girl Wrote that ier Novena to St. Rita had coM >letely cured her eyes, throat and lose. A man, who said his friends tlrought, he was going insane be !ause of the pains he suffered in the lead, wrote that St. -ita cured him., A young girl relates the marvel >us cure of her mother after making :he second Novena to St. Rita. A man wrote, that he had been in business troubles and prayed to st. Rita for advice. He then sold. )ne of his grotery stores and- pros pered immensely In the store he re tained, and gave- the "saint of the' mpossible" full cerdit. A janitor subscribed his thanks Eor the return of a bunch of keys. Such large crowds- of worshipers now attend the annual Novena to St. Rita of Cascia, that -the rector IS planning to increase the church's ize. CREATED A SENSATION. Solicitpr Bonham Throws 'Out Shy . lock Case. A sensation -was sprung In the Anderson court (on las$ Thursday afternoon, when Solicitor Bonham, after hearing the testimony of Mr. 3. F. Rice, complainant in. the case. against C. D. and -Gertrude A. Pyle, charged with obtaining goods by false pretenses, told the witness to come down from the stand and ordered a verdict of not guilty. "Well," he said, "you 'will have - to come down, Mr. Rice. I will have to direct a verdict of not guilty. cannot prosecute this case In this court." The applause that followed this statement by the solicitor shook the court room, and was continued long and loud. In the warrant against the Pyles It was charged that they had bor rowed $25 from Mr. Rice, who Is a money lender, on August 31st, 1907, and were to have paid back $30.50. They secured the amount. by a mort gage on certain articleis of furni ture, etc., .and'-failed to make set tiement. By Mr. Rice's testimony It was shown that the Tyles had borrowed $25, but had in reality gotten only $10, the $15 having been paid back to Mr. Rice for drawing certain pa pers. The Pyles were represented by Messrs. Paget and Watkins.. MEN KILLED BY HATL Stones Ten Pounds in Weight FellR in Texas. A dispatch from Galveston says hailstones that are said to have measured nearly a foot and a half in circumference and ranged in weight from 7 to 10 pounds, fell in southwestern Texas for nearly an hour a few days ago, and eight lives are reported lost. The number of live stock killed is given anywhere from 500 to 2,000 head. James Carpenter, while searching for horses, was caught in the storm and killed by the hail. So far the bodies of several Mexicans have been ound in different parts of the Uvalae and La Salle coun~ties. There were ranch employes who were caught out n the ranges. Telegraph and tele phone wires are down for miles. :earching parties are out looking or bodies land checking rthe loss >f cattle. The storm was most severe, in Ivalda county, where the greatest amage resulted. It is estimated hat the loss to crops and farm prop rty will aggregate between $2 00, 00 and $300,000. The haistones iled up in some places four feet igh, and the temperature or sev ral hours was 40 degrees. HALF HUNDREDfl TO HANG. Eere Leaders in the Awful Massa cre at Adana Mehemed V gave orders a few sys ago for wholesale executions as ie result of the Investigations of ie royal commission into the mas tcre at Adana and the adjacent ter tory. He has already signed 35 aath warrants and many others -e now in preparation. The convic ons of the new sultan against the holesale execution In Constantino e of political offenders has been set in the case of the Adana mas cre leaders. In his desire to show e outside world that Christians of s realm will be protected during s reign. Some men never blush when finan lly embarrassed. The chorus girls and ballet danc s hope to make their figures count