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VOL. XXIII MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1909 NO.42 HE TOOK THEM I An Escaped Convict Fleeces Many Georgia People. POSED AS A RICH MAN He Purchased Four Banks and Used the Deposits, It Is Said, in Some Remarkable ExploitatiOns - His Assets Less Than One Hundred Dollars All Told. High finance of a remarkable or der by which, it is alleged, Geo gians nave been swindled out of $250,000 has come to light follow ing the arrest of A. D. Oliver, presi dent of the bank of Climax, Ga., and three other banks in the south westein part of the State. Oliver arrived in Georgia last Jan uary and professed to be an Eastern capitalist. He displayed a great deal of money and said that he had about $5.000,000 on deposit in banks in New York city and elsewhere. He announced that he intended to in vest these millions and that Georgia. suited him. Accordingly he bought timbered lands, sawmills, banks, au tomobiles, etc. It is said he secured the ready cash he needed through deposits in his banks, in which the public had confidence, and with partial pay ments of cash, usually small amounts he would buy other properties, giv-I ing him to outward appearances large holdings. He controlled a bank at Climax, he established one at Attapulgus, he purchased one at Pelham, he purchas - ed a planing mill at Thomasville, one at Pelham from D. M. Rogers, one of the large lumber dealers in that part of the State, and erected and put into active operation an enormous one at Climax. This is not the sum of his operations. The town of Climax is f.' t bedom ing a center of all sorts of manu facturing and industrial enterprises. Oliver has erected a $10,000 resi dence and he is building several brick stores. While doing all this he found time to make love to Miss May England, and four weeks ago married her. He gave the bride $5,000 in cash and diamonds valued at $10,000. & The bubble burst when Oliver was arrested on a 'warrant sworn out by a Thomasville man to whom he had given a New York draft for $10. 000. The draft came back marked "no funds," and Oliver was arrested. Examiners took charge of the'four banks and they found less than $100 all told. In one bank at Thomas ville there was only 50 cents. Just one month ago Oliver bought font automobiles and presented them to the cashiers of his four banks. Oliver has been identified as an escaped convict with an unexpire-i term of eleven years hanging over is head. The identification, whidl was made Thursday morning by Sheriff T. 0. Jones, ,of Aberdeen county, Miss., came as a climax to the sensational arrest of Olive~r sev eral days ago, when he was fleeing with his -young bride in a rente-d automobile. Sheriff Jones reached Bainbridge Thursday morning and immediately went to the jail. The moment he saw the ex-banker, he positively de clared that the prisoner was a fug ative from the Mississippi peniten tiary, where he was known as Charles Harding. The sheriff said that Oliver es caped from the Aberdeen peniten tiary on Decemiber 31st, 1908, and although the greatest efforts were made to capture him, he succeeded in making good his escape and all trace was lOSt of the man. On the sxth day of January, this year, ex actely seven days after the alleged escape from the penitentiary, Oliver arrived in Climax, Ga., the little queen city of the lower Wiregrass region. The stranger entered the little town absolutely penniless, but In a very short time, he was reputed to be worth millions and began buy ing banks, saw mills and property throughout the whole section of thc state. Oliver, in a few brief weeks. became famous for his ready replies to all propotlons, "I'11 take it, just wrap it up."~ This applied to land houses and stocks and in fact, every thing that was purchasable. He had the reputation of never refusing to trade and he always paid a small proportion in cash, insisted that the seller deposit the money in one of Oliver's many banks, and thus the endless chamn of kiting continued, until Oliver's trade amounted into the hundreds of thou sands. He purchased automobiles at wholesale and gave them right and left in wanton prodigality to his newly-made friends. He built many fne houses and the whole country stood aghast at his wealth and his napoleonic business ventures &iiver was seriously ill shortly after his arrIval in Climax and his recovery was in part due to the faitful nursing given him by Miss Rosa English, a beautiful young girl, sixten years of age, who tenderly administered to his wants. Whon he recovered from his des perato liiness. he courted the beau tiful girl and in a short time they were married and he promised to endow her with his millions. He lived like a prince and spent monev lavishly upon his. youing bride. He established elegant stables and bought blooded horses and altmost weky added to his stock of auto He bought more banks and more lads. and signed contracts for the A SERIOUS CHARGE MADE AGAINST CHIEF OF POLIC OF BATESBURG. Arrested on Warrnut Sworn Out I a Woman Who Says He Attempte to Assault Her. A dispatch-to The News and Cou ler says Mr. John J. Darb; chief ( police of the town of Batesb'. w. arrested Wednesday by Deputy She, Iff Sim J. Miller upon a warrat sworn out by a woman of that towi charing him with assault with I tent to ravish. Mr. Darby was cai ried to Lexington and was immed ately released upon a $2,000 bon( The crime is alleged to have bee committed on or about the 7th da of February, this year. Mr. Darb and his friends decrare that ne I innocent, and that it is a concocte scheme to injure him because of hi untiring efforts in rounding up th band of thieves, who had been oper ating in Batesburg for several week and which finally resulted in the ar rest of three young men. Mr. Darby employed two detec tives to work up the case, and on of the =en arrested was the son o the woman who has brought the war rant against Darby. This, it Is al leged, incensed the woman, and th4 arrest of Mr. Darby upon the ver) serious charge of attempted crimi nal assault followed Wednesday. Th( fact that more than three month, were allowed to elapse before she issued the warrant, the friends oi the chief assert, shows conclusively that it is a concocted scheme. It is said that strong evidence against the woman is on hand, and her arrest on several charges will probably follow within the next day or two. The woman is a widow, her husband havin died ab~out two years ago. She has been operating a boarding house In Batesburg since her husband's death. It is said that she will enter suit against the town of Batesburg for $20,000 for hav ing removed from her home an elec tric light meter. Mr. Darby moved from I'tester to Batesburg about two years ago, and has made a most excellent police officer. lie has been unrelenting in his efforts to put the ban on crime of all kinds in the town, and has made a host'of friends. It is said that the town of Batesburg will "stand by" him in this trouble, and that he will have no trouble in mak ing a strong defence. His- arrest caused no little sensation at Bates burg. CYCLONE IN GEORGIA. everal Houses Wrecked and a Few Persons Inured. A half done persons, probably nore, were injured in a terrific cy lone that passed over tue lower par: >r Screven county. Ga.. at 4 o'clocat hursday aftei-noon, and while no ife has yet been lost because of its~ >assing many persons escaped by eeming miracles, houses falling aout and upon them, without Inflict ng fatal injuries. The cyclone came from the direction of Dover and dis ppeared from there in a northeaster y direction. Many of those 'who were caught >y the cyclone saw it approaching, ut owing to Its velocity were un able to find places of safety before it struck. It is stated that the storm's appearance was that of an rdinary whilwind, such as are fre uently seen In summer, though It was very much larger and moved with much greater rapidity. J12IP~ED FROM -A WINDOW While Asleep and Sustained -Fatal Injuries. Mr. B. B. Mouzon, of Kingstree, after retiring for the night, arose in a stupor of some kind, or a dream, as he calls it, and Imagined that he was in a fox chase, jumped or fell rom a second story window in the residence of Mr. Graham, of Cade, 3 distance of about twenty feet. to .he ground, Inflicting a very serious and probable fatal Inpury. Mr. Graham's family were awak ~ned by groans and calling for help rom the unfortunate man. Dr. C. D. Rollins, of Lake City. was ~aled in, and was with the injured nan in a short time, but so far the xent of his injuries has not beer scertained. Mr. Mouzen Is a man about 35 ears of age and has a wife and twc children. Killed by Convicts. Several officers were killed, this Week, by convicts during an upris ing at the Zuintana Roo mines, Mex ico's penal settlement. country and drew at will on Nes York banks. His Waterloo came when a check for $!,000 givetn to a: Albany contractor, was returned un paid. Then the people became suspic ius and his arrest followed his Sigh in an automobile with his bride The couple were overtaken at Bain bridge and Oliver was sent to ji pending an investigation. When Oliver, alias Harding. wa arrested in Bainbridge, it is said the body of his automobile was half full cf currency in bills of larg ienomlination,. whic'h was wrappe in newspapers. It is said that Oliver is not on) wauted in Mississippi. where Iti alleged he has eleven years to serv in the penitentiary, but that hei wanted in Atlanta and Birminghat by' federal authorities. It is sa: he has served a term in the Ohio pe: itentiary for obtaining diamonds ut der false pretenses. It is reporte A COZY HOME For Contederate Veterans ir Their Old Age FORMALLY OPENED In Columbia on Thursday Afternoon. . A Fall Description of the Home and How it Will Be Managed. Has All the Conveniences of a Modern Home. The Confederate Home at Colum 2 ba was formally opened Thursday Y afternoon, with appropriate exercis es. Addresses were made by Gover ner Ansel, Senator F. H. Weston and d Col. D. Cardwell. The following de scription of the Home we take from the Columbia Record: If any Confederate veteran re maining the guest of relatives or continuing to dwell in his own house enjoys more of creature comfort, of care and of congenial companion ship than do his comrades now gath ered within 'the home, a grateful State has here provided for them, happy tar beyond the average is his lot; for in the planning of this home no detail has been omitted that thoughtful, generous, loving k!ndness could suggest or willing hands could by untiring diligence supply. One who has v'isited it must necessarily in writing of it use often the word "home," for that is what it is. A home its founders studiously wrcnght to make it and the last act of the builders was to inscribe the word over its doorway, so that the approaching veteran's first glimpse of the house that is like to be his last earthly dwelling place, should show him that this was indeed a. home-his home---"The Confederate Veterans' Home." The home will be formally opened tomorrow. The Daughters of the Confederacy in Coiumbia have come gallantly to the rescue or the com mission in charge and supplemented largely the appropriation which the legislature, through failure to under stand the conception entirely, failed to make sufficient, and accordingly the privilege of directing the opening ceremonies has beerf given to these devoted women. They invite the at tendance on that occasion of all per ons interested in the home, and it is to be hoped that many will avail themselves of this opportunity to in spect the institution. Such an in rpection. especially if re-enforced by little interviews with the 20-odd vet erans already domiciled in the home. will remove from the mind of any reasonable person whatever misgiv ings may have arisen in regard to the wisdom of the home's establish ment or ite adequacy to the needs of the veterans for whom it is intend ed. The place looks like a home, even from a distance. The low white building, green-trimmed and girdled by trees, with its white-columned porticos, looks out over the city and in the near foreground on every side are the gently rolling fields of a farm calculated to gladden every farmer's heart-and most of the veterans come from farms. On the slope of the opposite hill to the southwest lie the buildings of the Hospital for the Insane, making a picturesque feature of the view, but unconnected with the home in any sense, even in ap pearance. Trolley cars of two lines pass in view to the right and In front, and in the evening the light and sounds of the busy city pleasant ly suggest the nearness of youth and abounding vitality. The place is peaceful, but not seuggestive of boredom. The house is of one story, with basement. substantially built in frame construction. Its general plan is that of a Latin cross, the main corridor. long, wide and airy, in tersected by a narrowe'r hall running approximately east and west. The house faces southwafd. Entering from the front, a wide porch, pro vided with lights for the evenings. gives upon the main corridor, where arm chairs and settees are grouped in a way s'nggestive of casual cozy gatherings after dinner. To the left is the commandant's office, to the right a parlor for the entertainment of the home's friends, the very best of whom. are !ladies. The living quarters of the commandant and his wife are. entered by the second door upon the right. The second room. where the veterans toregather to talk, to read, to play games, write letters or otherwise amuse them selves when the weather or inclina tion drives them in from the lawn or the -piazzas, which at this season are naturally preferred. A large room is provided on this corridor for the safe storage of the veterans' trunks and personal property not needed in the dormitories. These latter, with the bath-rooms and tol iet-roomns, open off the cross-hall. -Each dormitory contains four single beds, enameled white, with comfort -able mattresses and neat blue spreads. The bath and toilet ar -rangements aro altogether modern. sanitary and convenient, Everything is clean as a hound's tooth. The lights throughout the building are electric and the entire building is .'heated by steam. Every' room is an -outside room and all openings are screened. The location and construe tion are such that there is always some breeze. SThe dinging room is~ a big, airy Splace with plenty of windows and Stables seating eight or ten personsi seach. When a Record reporter visit ed th home ,the other day supper d time was near and the tables had - been set. a significant tem beng the 1 va of fresh flowers from the yard d in the center ot each MATED EIGHT TIMES GOT RID OF HUSBAND BY DEATB AND DIVORCE. Aged Indiana Matron Married to the Eighth Last Week, Hopes He May Out-Live Her. Five husboans divorced, one a sui cide and another the victim of a mysterious death is the modest rec ord of Mrs. Polly Weed Baker, aged 6S Years, and married this week to Simon Shippert, aged 60, of Burling ton, Ia. It was her ninth ceromony. Shippert was her eighth husband. "I hope he lives as long as I do," is the remark -he bricle made at the :cre of the .atest ce:.n'ony. The reason ior the d-sparity e tween the# number of bIiboands and marriage.- is ibat thae woman married one man twice. Her first marriage in her remarkable career was tw Henry Fuquar, a farmer boy. Di vorc separated them after seven years and the wife declared she woul-d shun men from that day on. In a few months James Fuquar, cousing to the first husband, came marching home from the Civil war. Nine months later he came home drunk, shot up his home and was divorced . James- Henry Robinson was the next husband. Three days after the wedding he was arrested on a breach of promise charge and was divorced. George S. Boyden managed to live with the divorcer ten years and was then cast aside. Four years later S. R. Reed, of New burg, began a life of bliss which was terminated by a mysterious death. Boyden took a second chance and committed suicide. Three years lat er R. E. Edwards took up the burden and was divorced. William Baker, aged 40, married the divorcee in the hope that she would die and leave her property to him, but the divorce ax cut him off and ndw as Mrs. Simon Shippert, the much-mar ried woman is leading a life of bliss. * the best equipped kitchens in the State, where a splendid cook works at a great massive range. An as sistant cook has been engaged and will report for duty shortly. In the rear of the kitchen are conveniently located the pantry, the linen room and the medicine chest. In the latter are kept first-aid bandages and household remedies, besides such drugs as are likely to be needed from time to time. The main store rooms are in the basement, along with the eating apparatus. The home has a large kitchen garden. from which the veterans are already enjoying their own beans and turnips. Later on there will be other vegetables, with melons and green corn. Full records of every department are kept. For instance, when asked about the bills of fare, the command ant turned to his desk and drew forth t random one sheet from a bundle. t happened to be the menu card for ay 22nd and was as follows: Breakfast-Hominy, breakfast ba on, broiled; hot biscuit, butter, sy up, coffee. Dinner--Lima means, rice and to atoes, Irish potatoes, corn bread, ight bread, butter, coffee. Supper-Hdmin'.' butter, hot bis uit, stewed fruit, syrup, coffee. "We try to make the bill of fare ta little~ different each <day," said he commandant. "Twice a week and on Sundays we have dessert and n two days we have soup-mighty good soup. Our coot is a fine one." The veterans seemed contented and thoroughly at bomne. The com mandant, Capt. W. D. Starling, Is a eteran; the adjutant, Capt. B. F. Day, was also a soldier of the Con Eederacy. They are deeply interested in their work and a fine thing for the veterans, too, Is the presence, ight and day, of Mrs. Starling. The institution is directly in 'charge of Capt. Starling, chairman of the Con federate Hcme commission. The government of the home, as arrang ed by Col. Cardwell and Capt. Starling, is simple and kindly. There are few rules and none of these are such as an old soldier would not immediately see the neces sity of having. For instance, the veterans are free to come and go as they like, visiting the city or walking about the suburbs Capt. Starling stipulating only that they shall report to him where they ex reet to go. This is necessary be cause some of them are feeble and for all of them he is responsible to their relatives and to the State. The health of the veterans is doubly provided for. The institu tion's regular physician, Dr. Wil liam Weston, makes daily visits, and two of the veteran~s are themselves practitioners of long experience. The assembly room has been equipped with a big phonograph and a piano and doubtless all the news papers of the State will he glad to enter the home on their free sub scription lists when the matter is called to their attention. Careful and disint'erested investi gation by Record reporters has dis posed to their satisfaction of every criticism agaInst the ho':e, from the veteran's standpoint. that has come to their ears. The home has noth ing of the jail or p'oor farm about it: it has ahsolutely no connection with he~ State Hospital for the Insane: the veteran who ,entc'rs it does not inse his pension nor any part of it: tiere is nothing of reproach or hu milIiation connected with residence there, nor is any effort made to com 1:el the entrance of veterans-on the contrary, the admissions are limited bhy law to SI,. two from each county. and ini each ease the commission must be shown by proper papers ?hat rhere are rood reasons why the applicant s houild he receivedl. There is probably not ono veteran in 50 who would nor be both mo.. com fortable phvsica!!y: and happy men PLEADS FOR FARMERS OF THE SOUTH TO BE TREATEE SAME AS OTHERS. Senator Tillman Urges_ the Free Entry of Cotton Bagging and Ties for Their Benefit. Senator Tillman, says the Wash ington correspondent of the Charles ton Post, made an earnest plea at the session of the Senate Thursday night to secure a vote on free cot ton bagging. Senator Aldrich asked that the paragraph go over. In discussing the subject and in re ply to Senator Aldrich, the Senator from South Carolina said: "It seems to me that we might settle this to night if the Senator from Rh'ode Island and the committee.are dispos ed to treat the Southern farmer as they have treated the Western farm er. This cotton bagging is absolute ly necessary to the Southern farmers and It is thrown away as soon as we pack the cotton. "We have to buy it and pay for it, and then we lose It when the cotton gets to the market for It Is subtracted as tare. The Western farmer who has to cut his wheat and oats gets his binding twine free, and why should not tne Southern farm er who has to prepare his cotton for market get his bagging and ties Eee. "I made an appeal to the Senator and his committee in the last tariff bill twelve years ago in relation to this matter. I got no hearing then, but I think that his heart is a little softer now than It was a long time ago, and that he will realize that he ->ught to make some reasonable con cessions and let us feel that we are not simply discriminated against, but we are from the South." Mr. Aldrich: "I assure the Sena tor from South Carolna and the Senate that the committee at an early day will take up this matter and give it very careful considera tion." The suggestion was made that the Senate might do as it did twelve years ago, and put cotton\ bagging on the list and then in conference yield to the House and recede from the attitude. Senator Tillman was assured by Senator Aldrich that free cotton bag ging would receive careful consld" ation by the finance committee and instructed that Senator Tillman's request be complied with. BOMB LN LAUNDRY. Rip Song Tong Charged With the Deadly Crime. In the war of the Tongs. in.which there have been many casualties In New York city, a bomb was explod ed Tuesday night In a Chinese laan -Iry In East Twenty-second street. A minute before the explosion a Chinaman presumed to be the one who placed the bomb, and came out of the laundry and warned a score af children playing In -the street away from the scene, telling them that there was soon to be .a great explosion. A minute later the latin Iry blew up. The Hip Sing Tong of which Sang Lee, the owner of the laundry,.is a -leadly enemy, was credited by him with the explosion. The laundry was wrecked, but no one was injured. WOMAN SHOT HERSELF. Attempted to Commit Suicide, But Failed to Do So. The Newberry Observer says Mag g ieWaldrop, a young colored woman, attempted to commit suicide Mon day morning about six o'clock, at the home of Mattie Miller, wife of F'rank Miller, colored. She got hold of a pistol and declared she was go ing to kill herself. The other wo man tried to take the pistol from her, and in the struggle It went off, the ball striking Maggie In the thigh, imbedding itseTf in or near the bone, where it remains. No reason Is as signed- for the attempt, except that her mind has been a little daft for a day of two. ILANGED HIMSELF. Tied to Get Poison From Druggist But Failed. An unidentified man was found hanging from a limb of a tree on the outskirts of Dover, N. 3., late Friday. He had $1,193.72 In his pocket. Seen on the streets since Monday, his eratic behavior was noticed. On Tuesday morning, he asked a drug gist for' "just enough carbolic acid for one." He was nonchalant about it that the druggist, refusing the request, suggested that the canal was not far off. "Acid is better they tell me," the man replied.* Hilled by Lightning. Mr. Marion Eugene Browb. 21 years of age, was struck by lightning and Instantly killed on his farm, near Mount Holly. on Thursday. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Willie C. Brown, who, together with a wife and two children, two brothers and five sisters, survic'e him. Killed by Cannon. Ex.plosion of a cannon at St. .Marys. 0.. this week, killed Henry Mahan. a veteran. ation. He may be well provided for at home, from a material standpoint, but here he wil! have congenial com-. panionship in addition to creature enm fort at least equal to his present having. And finally, he need act v- if conditions af. the home dis' nlemame him. SLAIN BY NEGRO Mr. John watson Assassinated Near Greensea. A POSSE IN PURSUIT Over Two Hundred ' 'e With Bloodhounds Are on the Hunt for the Assassin, and It is Hoped and Believed That He WEI Be Caught. A special dispatch from Conway says Mr. John Watson. a prominent young man of the Greensea section of the county, about 20 miles from Conway, was Wednesday waylaid and shot by Melvin Watson, a notorious negro. Mr. Watson died a few hours after being shot. Sheriff Sessions learned of the af fair by telegram and went immedi ately to the secne of the 'killing. News reached Conway after the sheriff left that more than 200 peo ple with bloodhounds went in search of the negro, who fled as soon as he fired the fatal shot. What has been learned at Con- i way of the affffairs came to telephone from Loris, a railroad station, about six miles from Greensea, and hence full particulars have not been learia ed. From the best informatiou obtain able it appears that Mr. Watson ear ly Wednesday morning had started t to Tabor, N. C., in a wagon. When 9 only a short distance from Greensea I he was fired upon by the negro, who was crouched in a fence jam. C Mr. Watson was superintendent of the large plantation of Hon. J. P. 1 Derham, and It is stated that a young son of Mr. Derham was in the wagon when the shooting occurred. He was not hurt. Greensea is a populous section and t a large posse gathered in a very short I ime and went in ppursuit of the negro s who, it is said, is a very dangerous character. Mr. Watson was a young man of I wide family connection and very r popular throughout the country, and great Indignation is felt over the I crime. 0 COTTON ACRFAGE REDUCED. Decrease Placed at Three and a Half Per Cent. . C In its monthly eotton report Friday s the New York Journal of Commerce shows that, compared with last year, cotton avearges have been reduced 3.5 per cent, according to over 1.800 b reports from special correspondents a of an avearge date of May 25. This t is approximately the same result as I given in last month's report, when t the consensus of opinion indicated a 11 reduction of 4 per cent. I On the basis of the revised area o planted in 1908 of 33,370,000 acres, ' the present season starts off with I 32,206,000 acres. The reduction has s been largely brought through the K high piles 'of provisions can~Ing C more land to be thrown into corn fa and small grains at the expense 'of a cotton. Fear of the boll weevil in ( Louisiana and Mississippi, especially in the former, caused heavy curtail- s ment, being 2.8 and 5.7 per cent c less, respectively.t All other States show declines ex cept Texas, Tennessee and Florida. C The increase of 4.5 per cent in Tex-t as Is due principally to drought, which destroyed grain crops. This acreage went into cotton. - I GORE ASTONISHES SENATE. Oklahoma's Blind Senator Has Mar velous Memory. Senator Gore astonished the Sen ate Wednesday by the citation of a long list of cotton and woolen manu facturing companies and giving their earnings, capital stock, surplus, etc.I He undertook to show that corpora tions engaged in the cotton and wool en industries are making very large earnings. The speech was one that no other Senator would have attempted with- 1 out constant reference to notes, but the blind Statesman from the South west found no difficulty In giving off hand the greatest variety of de tails without the ability to assist his memory in any way. Referring to the cotton and woolen manufacturers, and with a rasping and sinister tone, the Oklahoma Sen ator said he did not blame them for their large earnings. "I know they are intelligent citi zens," he said, "judging from their business success and from their se lection of United States Senators." Beats the Men. Mrs. Ada Topperwein, a woman trap shooter, was a member of the squad which shot at the Chicago Gun Club Friday and easily succeeded in beating the male members of the or ganization. Shooting from the ninc teen-yard mark she broke forty-eight out of fifty. Shooting from the six teen-yard mark she broke fifty straight, a total of ninety-eight outI of 10') she fired at.* Driven t9 Suicide. At New York the first bad and humid day of the summer's credit-, ed with similar attetmpts of thre 1 men to drown themselves in the Hudson river. An expressman as soon as he struck the water changedI his mind and was joyfully rescued. One of the men returned bome to read a pathetic death notice which TRIBUTE TO DAVIS MEMORY OF CONFEDERATI CHTRPTAIN HONORED. A Park Bearing His Name Openet at Fairriew, Kentucky, With Ap propriate Cereonie. At Fairview, Ky., among the trees which have grown up above the birth-place of Jefferson Davis sine the year, early in the nieteti century, when the Davis family re moved to Mississippi, the efferson Davis Memorial Park was simply dedicated Thursday. Northeast, across the State. is Hodgenviii, , near which Abraham Lincoln was born eight months after his grea. oppolnent. Fairview is still a tiny Lown rimmed with forests an4 slop ng gently, toward the grass-grown battlefields of Tennessee. In September, 1907, when the grey grown and enfiladed rarqs of Kentueky's famous "orphant brig ide" met In Glasgow, Ky., at the grave of Gen Joseph H. Lewis, their :ommander, former Governor Boll rar Buckner, of Kentucky, broached he plan of the Jefferson-Davis Mem :rial Association. Subscriptions vrere started, the women of the South ided nobly, and when all but $4,000 iad been raised, to purchase seven een acres at Fairview, Gen. Ben iett H. Young, commanding the Ken ucky division of the Confederate Veterans, advanced that sum and nade, the memorial possible. Oratory, music and flowers made he day notable. A basket dinner Lnd a barbecue were provided by the eople of Todd and Christian coun les, which share equally the. town >f Fairview, and when Col. W. -A. dilton, of Louisville, 4s chairman n the absence of Gen. Young, who vae detained in Chicago, opened the. neeting, the homestead of the Davis s was crowded. Gen. Young, a rominent Louisville lawyer, wrote he chief address of the day, and t was read by Col. Milton. He as erted that every Southern' State hould rear a shaft to. Jefferson Da Is, whose character and sufferings Le dwelt upon sympathetically. -He aid high tribute to Lincoln, say ng that the time had come when aen might speak kindly and truly ,f the past. . He said the message rhich the united South gave to the rorld today .was one Qf everlasting eace. The plan is to raise $30,000 more rith which to build a memorialtem le to contain all the records of the onfedsraey, and to remodel a two tory residence upon the Davis farm D house the widows of Confederate oldiers. The seventeen acres which are to nelose the memorial buildings to e erected ad-join the original nine '!res, which were the remains of be plantation upon which Samuel avis, father of the President, set led -when he came from Virginia a 1793. These nine were given by ir. Davis to Bethel Church on the. ceasion, June 21, 1886, of his last isit to his first home. To the peo le of the neighborhood this church tands as a memorial to their great .eighbor, and to his pride in his id Kentucky home they ascribe the ancy which led him to call his iland long the Mississippi shore of the sulf "Beauvoir." The site of the memorial slopes oftly from a splendid grove, whicb rowns its heighest point It Is in he heart of Fairview, and the pres nt plan is to place all the records t the Confederacy in the temple o be built, within the shadow of the rees. A two-story residence is also n the land, and the intent is to take of this a. home for the widows f the Confederates whom age has endered decrept and from whom the -ears and the war have taken hus lands and sons. BETTER LET IT ALONE. Elovement on Foot to Beorganize Ulemsoir College, It is understood that Mr. Mendel 2Smith, former speaker of the touse and at the present one of the loor leaders will introduce a reso ution, at the next session of the leg slature calling for the appointment >f a commission consisting of the at orney general and two other lawyers >f reputation and standing to look nto the feasibility, advisabilley and egality of the proposition of buy ng out the interest of the Clemson 2eirs in the Clemson estate and mak ng Clemson college In fact as well Ls in name a State college. Rat Bite Kills a Baby. Blood poisoning, brought on by the yite of a rat, caused the death of ittle Eugene Jamleau of Ottawa, this week. The rat bit the babe while .t was lying in its cradle and al :hough medical aid was summoned. leath resulted in a few hours. Made Big Haul. Mrs. George Shea. of Duluth, Minn.. was robbed, this week, in Seattle, Wash., of $20,000. She had concealed the cash in a bed in the home where she was visiting, and when she returned to the room the cash was gone. An Old Man Dies. Mr. W. A. Kelly, who died near Statesboro. Ga.. recently, was the oldest man in that section. He was one hundred and one years old on the~ tenth of last March. He was born in South Carolina in 180S. K~illed His Mother. "I've got to murder some one. said Fred Daniels, colored, to hi. mother at Cleveland, 0.. this week RIOTS BEGIN Philadelphia Street Car Strike Gets, Serrous. MANY PERSONS HURT Strike Sympathzrs Ae Angered by Attempt of Traction Company to Rn Cars After Nigbtfall With Strike-Breakers, and Several Rfots i Result, Demolishing Many Cars. The street car strike in Philadel phia is becoming serious. One po liceman shot and probably fatally iujured "early a hurd-ed persons b>'- and battered, either by po licemen or strike sympathizers, and five cars wrecked and then burned. Is the result of an attempt on the part of the Rapid Transit Compa.. to operate their cars Wednesday. bf imported strike-breakers. The point at which the most se rious rioting occurred Is known as Kensing~ton Mil district. In this section of the city there lives nearly every nationality, the foreign ele ment predominating. When the Traction Company announced that cars would be run Wednesday night, nearly all the store-keepres In the Kensington district, knowing the temper of the residents there, clos ed their stores promptly at 6 o'clock. As one car after another left the barn, crowds stood on the street corners in sullen silence. Finally, a boy cried'"scab," and immediately he -was pursued by a policemaii, who was riding on the car. As the of ficer started for the youth the crowd closed in upon him, and so quickly was this done that he was unable to draw his revolver. The weapon -was taken from him, and is believed to have been the same revolver with which Policeman Levy was shot a few minutes later. The fire which had been smoulder ing now burst into a flame-of fury. 'lhe objective point was Alleghaney avenue, and in -less than half an hour seven cars were wrecked, fve being completely dermolished and burned. The police officers were powerless at the moment to coinbat the* mob, but a riot call brought half a hun dred bluecoats to the scene, and-the crowd was driven back. But -the damage had been done and there was little need of the preservers of the. peace so long as no attempt was made to run cars from,,the barn. While the serious disturbanee was in progress in the Northeastern see tion of the city, there were incipi ent riots at the car barns at Six teenth and Jackson streets.. in thet down-town district, and at Forty ninth and Woodland avenue, in the West Philadelphia district. The crowd grew meanacing when an atteript was made 'to' run cars from the down-town barns, and a policeman who endeavored to quell 4het disturbance was ducked in a water trough. Twenty-five plain clothes-men and policemen were rushed to, the scene on a special'. trolley, and after the cars were run hack into the barn there w'as no further trouble. SAD END) OF LIFE. Aged North Carolnan Found Dead in Fence Corner. A special from Boone, N. C., to the Charlotte Observer says Mr. Ran som Coffey, an aged citizen of Blue Ridge township, was found dead a few days ago near the roadside. He had been visiting some of his relatives at this place and had start ed on his return home. A Mr. Trip let, noticing a strange mule in his field, went to turn it outside and rognized it as Mr. Coffey's. Think ngsrne. of the animnal having the saddle on he told his wife to go to one of the neighbor's and in quire If they had seen anything of the oldegentleman, while he went to ask another neighbor. On her way Mrs. Triplet came upon the old man sitting in a fence cor ner dead. The coroner was called and the verdict of the .jury wits that he died of heart failure. Champion Stingy Man. Capt. Pickel, a police of St. Louis, Mo., claims that he has found the stingiest man In the world. This Iman, although he owns property and is reputed wealthy, is said to gather cfgar stumps for his smoking, to go to a barber's college and get a free haIr cut, and to borrow a razor every week from a different neighbor so as to shave himself to save a dime. Sold for Big Price. At the ,annual sale of Imported Jersey cattle at Coopersburg, Pa., this week, the highest priced animal sold, was a bull, 'Viola's Golden Jo1 ly, which was -bought by the W. Keninlock stock farm, at Kirksville, Mo. for $12,000. Raleigh's F'airty Boy, another bull, was sold to C. D. Hudson, of New York, for $8,200. Eye Drops Out. Armnond Foehlman, aged 13 years. of Kewanse, Ill., blew his nose and his eyeball popped from Its socket. A physician carefully replaced the the eyeball and the boy maIntains that it causes him no pain and that he can see as well as ever. Killed in Wreck. The California fast mail on the Santa Fe was wrecked at Peabody, Km. this week. killing H. C. Thomp =nn a nnsti clerk.