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VS VOL. XXIII MANIG .C.VWE 5SDAY, JUNE 16, 1909 NO. 43 THE OLD VETS Get Through With Thels Reunion and Adjourp. MEET NEXT IN MOBILE Gen Evas, the Aged Comnmnder .Chief, Declined a Be-election to Ma Office But the Honor is Thrust Upoa Him Again by His Old Comrade& The reunion of the Old Confed. Veterans for 1909 at Memphis. Tenn.. Is over. After re-electing Gen. Clement A. Evans commander-in chief over his vigorous but futile pro test, and selecting Mobile, Ala., as the next place of reunion, the United Confederate Veterans adjourned their business meeting Wednesday on the heels of a very stormy session. The only candidate 'for commander-in chief placed In nomination was Gen. W=. M. CabelL, commander of the Trans-Mississippi division. Just be fore nominations were in order. Gen. Evans read an announcement to the convention, in which he declined re election. He said he had served in every capacity, from the lowest to the highest, and that he felt that the highest honor in the Veterans' gift should be passed from one Ex-Con federate to another in turn. But the delegates disagreed with him, and by a vote of 1,540 to 744 for Cabell, re-elected Gen. Evans to command. With tears streaming down his cheeks and shaking with 'motion, the stately and aged soldier bowed to the commands of his com rades. After Mobile, Houston, Nashville, Chattanooga and Oklahoma City had been put In nomination for the next reunion, some one began to introduce outside speakers. Sweltering in a temperature of over a hundred de grees, the Veterans delegates object ed strongly and yelled vigorously for a vote. Finally John W. Apperson, commander-In-chief of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans, se cured the floor and Introduced Con gressman T. U. Sisson. of Mississfppi, as the spokesman of the Sons. Nearly every one thought Sisson was to spring a "dark horse" can didate for the next meeting place, b'ut as it became evident that the yosung Congressman merely desired to make a speech, the delegates be came noisy and calls of "sit down" and "vote" were insisted. Sisron was game, ho'wever, and won out on a test of enduranee. He announced that he wished to repeal his speech In Congress, delivered in answer to Congressman Calderhead, of Kan sas, who charged that the Southern people were lazy. Sisson received some encouragement and some his ses, but he persevered. Finally his concluded In a burst of eloquence, saying: "This principles 7011 fought for were right in '61 and are right to day. You were not conquered then, you are not conquered now, and the greatest monument in your honor are the millions of pensions the Fed eral governmnent pays to the widows and orphans your valor made and the forty-six thousand graves in Ar llngton Cemetery, which the Federal government decorates each 10th of May. As long as these monuments are perpetuated to your honor, you need erect no others." Sisson's speech was received with mingled-cheers and hisses,' and many' Confederates left the hall in dis gust. Others crowded around him and swamped him with congratula tions. Meantime Mrs. Moore Murdock, of Dallas. Texas, was endeavoring to be heard. She wanted to second the nomination of Houston, Texas, for the next reunion. She posses ses a very masculine voice and man ner of delivery, and she soon quieted the assembly. The Veterans listenee in patience until she declared: "We have lived as rebels, we are still rebels, and we will -die as rebels." Then pandemonium broke loose. It was difficult to tell whether the majority favored her sentiments er opposed them. Cheers were minglea with cat-calls and hisees and above all reverberated the ear-splitting| rebel yell. Several other speakers were in troduced but no one heard their names or what they said until Gov ernor Haskell, of Oklahoma, was in troduced. Even he had a stormy greeting, which might be construed one way or another, Finally, how ever, he tired out the crowd and made a diplomatic speech, inviting the Convention to choose Oklaho ma CIty for the 1910 reunion. "You will find Confederate Veter ans in most of the offices of the State. from Supreme Court Judges to con stables" he saId. "and you will find as hearty a welcome as you will find anywhere on God's earth." Immediately after the Governor's speech the vote for the next re union city began. Every one picked Houston, Texas, as the winner, but Mobile, Ala., seemed to have con ducted a gumshoa campaign, and It soon became evident that the Ala bama city had won. She polled 1.384 votes, with Houston second wIth 695. Oklahoma City. Nash ville and Chattanooga received scat tering votes. As soon as it became apparent that Mobile had won, there w-as a scramble to get into the band wagon, and the choice was made unanimous. Gen. Evan's re-election likewise was made unanimous, and the con ven tion. forgetting Its disagreements of an hour before, adjourned to the tune of "Dixie." the delega+ms cheer !n-. 7,ung. inn-bin. r'!u n:Td BLACK HAND DOINGS UNEARTHED AND SEVERA] - RLNGLEADER ARE CAUGHT. Noted IRalan Society Said to Havi Practiced Extortion and Murder ft Various Cities. Revelations in the extortion, plot ting and murder by the "Blaci Hand." as uncovered by the postoffici !nspectors from the Cincinnati of fice. show conclusively that the gang in Columbus, Marion, Dennison an< 'Bellefontaine and other Ohio towns was organized along the same lines as the old Mafia, but with a better system for concealing their move ments. It is now known that the Ohio Black Hand, or the Society of the Banana, as its members style them selves, had a branch in Pittsburg and one in Chicago, and a line that extended to South Dakota. Regular meetings were held and the money obtained by extortion was distribut ed to various divisions in this coun try and sent to relatives in Italy for safe-keeping. "We have found what I believe to be certain proof that the Black Hand outrages were committed by a well organized society.' said Chief Postoffice Inspector Holmes to an Associated Press representative. "It has taken Inspector Oldfleld and four other men under me six months to run down the leaders. "We have no evidence so far that American Black Hand in the West is connected with the foreign or ganization that killed Lieut. Petro sino in Sicily." Nine arrests have been made thus far In Columbus, Marion, Dennison and Bellefontaine, and Gove-nment officers in Chicago and Cincinnati are looking for Antonio Lima, who was arrested in Marion. Antonio Lima Is held to be one of the chief ring-leaders. An effort will be made to have the prisoners indicted by a Federal grand jury at Cleveland on the charge of conspiracy to commit ex tortion. MONUMENT TO CONFEDERATES Will Be Erected in Finnis Point Cemetery. A monument of marble or granite to cost about $8,500 is to be erect ed by the United States government in the Confederate section of Fin nis Point, national cemetery at Sa lem, N. J., to mark the resting place of 2.246 officers and men of the Confederate army and navy who died as prisoners of way at Fort Delaware between 1862 and 1865. The adoption of a monument for the purpose is due to the fact that it ias been found impossible, because of imperfect records, to plaee dis tinctIve headstones at each individu a? grave, as contemplated by the act of Congress. Commissioner Oats has arranged also to place wrought Iron fences around Camp Chase Confederate cem etery, near Columbus. Ohio. and around the Conefderate cemetery at North Alton, Ill. CHEWED UP BEER GLASS On a Wager and Dies After Suf fering Agony. A freak wager in New York that ended fatally was brought to light when James Shea, a laborer, thirty eight years old, died at his home in Brooklyn as the result of eating a beer glass on February 10. Lince that time he snriered intetsly as th~e broken glass penetrat,.: Iia sys temn and came ont in different parts of his body. Doctors wanted to o1. erate upon him. They said he could not live otherwise. but Shea wou ki not allow them to do so and the end came a few days ago. MARRIED BY WHOLESALE. Five Couples United by One Single Ceremony. Rev. Alfred W. Burroughs. of Bristol, Tenn., Wednesday, with a single ceremony. joined in marriage five young couples who eloped to Bristol from points in Virginia. The five brides, each attired in white. left their respective homes, osten sibly to attend commencement at Emory and Henry Colleges at Bris teA. All the couples arrived on the satnie train. This ceremony brings Rev. Mr.- Burroughs' record up to nearly 3.000 couples, and he claims the world's record for marriage cer emonies. even bugging one another. Clad in the rough gray homespun which they wore dressed in the six ties an carrying ancient rifles, 1 0. 000 United Confederate VeteranE marched in what was probably the last big parade in which they will ever participate Thursday. Some of them wear straggling beards as gray as their uniforms and there were many empty sleeves. The heat was Intense. At the suggestiot of the parade committee the line 01 march was cut down. The commanders of divisions and brigades directed that the old anc feebler members of their command! drop out. but the officers reportec that they could find no men olt enough or feeble enough to take ad vantage of the indulgence. Bands from all over the South twenty or them. were intersperset here and there through parade. an< when steps lagged or aged lim'a trembled, the stirring notes ot "Dix Is" or "My Maryland" were sufficilen to reinvigorate the machers. Every whore were flags with the stars av KBRUTAL MURDE Both an Axe and a Raysor We Used to Commit It. BODY CAST IN WEL The Horrible Crime is One of t Worst. That Ever Happened Columbfa, and for Mystery S rounding it Rivals the Famo1 Maud Allen Murder Case. In the revolting killing in tl kitchen of her home at 611 Sumt street, Columbia, Friday mornit about day-break, of Mrs. Victor Griffin, who was struck in the hea with an axe, her throat cut from e to ear and her body thrown into ti well on the premises. The Record says the Columb! police have a murder mystery c their hands, which is a match f< the Maud Allen murder myster; which has never been solved. I both the Maud Allen and Griffin mu der cases the owner of the premi es is a resident of Brookland. Th has no bearing on the case, but merely a curious coincidence. Tb following parti:ulars of the crim we clip from the Columbia Record Five men have been arrested I connection with this morning's mu, der, three of them sons of the dea woman; the fourth a man said t have been on friendly terms with th dead woman up to five months ag< when he ceased boarting at 'th house, and the fifth a barber name Luke Lewis, who was a visitor to th dead woman's oldest daughter by former husband, Eula Thompsor The three sons are Waiter, Jim an Russell Griffin, all coton mill opera tives. They were all found at th house by the police, and said the: all slept in their mother's room, th youngest, Russell, in the same bed The oldest daughter occupied a roon to the 'ront. There was still anothe daughter in the house, about 13 year old. There are only three rooms an a kitchen In the house. The othe man in arrest is S. Wash Medlin, wh< ceased boarding at the house re cently, but who turned up ther shortly after the arrival of the polic< at about 5:30 Friday morning. All the arrests made were made a the house, except that of Lewis, wh< was placed in arrest at his barbe shop in the McCreery building, oppo site the union station.. He said h was not at the house last night, an Eula Thompson . says. though las night was his usual night to be there he had sent word that he could no come. All the children, except a daughter who lives in the country, were a home, and they advanced the theor: of suicide so strongly, in the face o the physical facts demonstratina murder unmistakably, that Corone Walker became suspicious of thet and made the arrests as indicated. The woman's husband, David Wes ley Griffin, was a well known residen of Richland county, and was fairl successful in business. He was mur dered in a quarrel with his partne In the turpentine business, by a ma: named Dennis, about five years agc in Georgia. The oldest daughter says she dia covered that her mother was missin about 5 o'clock. Being awakened a this time and not hearing her mothe stirring in the kitchen, the daughte left her room to go to her mother to arosue her. Not finding her tner she made a fruitless search. Tb youngest son then went to tue unlo station, a few blocks away, and nod fled Officer Salter, who, with anothe officer went to the house at once. A horrible .sight met the officer: gaze in that back kitchen in the fres crisp dawn of the new day. A pot of blood was on the floor of th kitchen, a bloody razor, afterwar claimed as.. his by one of the son! was on the kitchen table, and in th corner stood a bloody axe, partc :he blade being broken off and th other half very bloody, and blood o the handle. There were blood t ;racs about the kitchen. Thei were also some tracks leading bac into the room where the sons slep but it is thought these were mac by the youngest boy in going ot to search for his mother. Prin1 of the woman's fingers on the floc as she struggled In her own bloc were evident, Finally the officers were attractc to the well by a few blood stains c the side of the well-box. The tc was down, the dry bucket on tl two lids. Further Investigation di closed the woman, whose body we fished up out of about fiftten fed of water, though it was not y< stiff. The dead woman had a gash the top of her head as if made 1 three lieks from the blade of ti axe. although the skull was not fra tured. The wounds on the thro revealed repeated hackings at it wil the razor, the assassin striking ti cartilage of the Adam's apple at forcing his way through this wil fic'ndish energy. A chip out of ti Adam's apple was found on tl kitchon floor by Dr. L. A. Gritiit who afterward conducted the pC mortem. The woman's next door nelghbo are negroes. They could tell the p lice nothing to throw any light on tl mystery. The coroner and police found tl children all in tears and they appea erd to be grief-stricken in the tremo. In the face of all these fac diselosed by the police 'the'y etr atc'ct to believe their mother cci R GIVEN AN OVATION GF3. F. D. GRANT CLASP HAN] re WITH CONFED. ET. They Cheer, Shake Hands and We L With thie Son of the 3U--to Who Ie Lee Snrrendered. A frenzied demonstration of we come by the men in grey for the s< in of the man who conquered the marked tha final scene of the nin .r-iteenth Reunion of the United Co: federate Veterans Thursday. It to< place during the parade. In the r viewing stand stood Gen. Frederit Dent Grant. of the United Stati 1e army. I The firs.t few divisions in line pas Lg ed with only a limited number re a ognizing the son of the man who a ,d cep.ed the surrender of Lee. Bi Lr finally a cavalry division approacheA e and its commanding officer, Ge Tyler, of Hickman. Ky., old an a grizzled, peered steadily at Gei n Grant a moment. Then he torne >r in his saddle and yelled: "Come on, you kids, here's Gel n Grant come to life again in his son. 7- With one of the old-time reb< - yells, the division, remnants of Fo s rest's Cavalry, charged upon tb s stand and jostled one another for a e opportunity to shake the hand c e the son of their old-time enem: From that moment every grey-cla a Veteran who could reach the stan rushed up to shake hands with Get d Grant. The stocky army officer o gray eyes filled with tears and hi e shoulders shook with emotion as h murmured: "God bless you a] e boys, God bless you," giving Pa:: a cordia! hand-grasp. e Battle-torn banners were groupe at his feet and waved over his he in salute. One old officer rode up t the stand, seized Gen. Grant-s han and kissed him on the cheek. ey claiming: "Gcd blexs you. b.,y. fought your father, of whom you a. the image, but he was a gallani magnanimoub foe. and .I 'o '3 ha son." More than one Veteran was 1i r tears as he saw the famous Federa chieftain's son so touched by the re ception. P is doubtful if any othe r Northern man, even a President ever received such an ovation as tha - which was so generously given ti Gen. Grant by the Confederate Vet erans Thursday. The parade over, the Reunio1 t practically ended and Veterans' spec ial trains began to leave Memphi at 2 p. m. KILLS FARMER AND MULE. t - Man Struck by Lightning Whil ''in g. Samuel L ,g. . ell-known an t prosperous far was killed b: Y lightning lat ' .aday, while plough fI ng in a fiek. at his home near Cen Stral, north of Anderson. The mul r he was working was also struck b: 2 the bolt and Instantly killed. Mr Boggs was about 35 years old an. - is survived by his wife and fou t children. The funeral was held a Y Sharon church Wednesday afternoo: and was largely attended. This I r the second man killed in Anderso: a county by lightning in the last te: ,days. Rabies in Laurenxs. g Mr. Fred W. Green of Lauren t left early Tuesday morning for At Slanta to take the Pasteur treatmen r for a dog bite received last Tuesday sSaturday the head of the dog wa e sent to Atlanta to b'e analyzed an. e a telegram received yesterday stal c'i that the do I had rabies. Hene -Mr. (,rsen left i.: onca for treatmeni very efrectionate towards thel ,mother. b In support of the suicide theory th ~i children turned over to the corone e a two-ournce bottle of Iodine, ha: d empty, which they said their mothe , bught Thursday. The bottle bear e the Imprint of W. C. McMillan's dru if store. e When fished out of the well th a women was clad in two night gown: y and the small amount of blood o C them gave rise to the suspicion thi k the body was thus dressed after th t, murder. e Eula Thompson stoutly maintait :to the coroner that she is a goo s5 girl. She went so far as to offi r to undergo any sort of examinatlo d at the hands of a physician whic would satisfy the coroner that at d had always been a good womal n She says she Is willing to do th: p or most anything else to throw arn 0 light on the mystery of her mother s- murder or suicide, whichever It I 1s The dead woman suffered fro: acancer of the stomach, the childre tsay, and they believe she took ha own life on this account, because si n had been saying lately that if st y could find a good way to kill he e self she would do It. C- A theory of the police is that Mei tt lin committed the murder in a fit h jealous rage, having caught Mr a Griffin in company with another ma td The -children admit that Medlin ale' hin the same room with their moth lewhen he was boarding there. but tha te deny there had been any quarrel b h, tween the two, so far as they are I st formed. .Medlin has been to ti house frequ~ently up to within a wee rs of the murder, it is said. o- Mrs. Griffin's son Walter, who sa: 1he slept in the same bed with h mother. although . he 'is fourte, je years old, says his mother had r- habit of going out to' the back ste xseveral times a night on hot nigh ;s and dipping snuff. She went o ill last night. He does not recall h n- returning after she had gone o the third time. She was wearii SELLS BAD MEAT )S GOVERNMENT AGENT SAYS IN SPECTORS FARCE V9 He Makes Grave Charges In a LOtter m to Secretar7 of Agricuture James 1- After eighteen months service as ' a United State0 meat inspctor ia m East St. Louis packing house, J. F. e- Harms has resigned, he says, writing I- a letter to Secretary of Agriculture k James Wilson, demanding an inves e- tigation of the meat inspection sys k tem In the national stock yards. M Mr. Harms asesrts that he resign ed because be could not tolerate 3- condtions, and that inspetors in charge of the bureau of animal in dustry were too lenient with the it packers. Harms in his letter says. 1. "The Inspection at the National 1. stock yards, Illinois. is costing the d people approximately $100,000 a L. year, and it is not actually worth d $1 to them. For when the word is passed from the inspector in oharge . to the inspectors actually doing the work on the floors that they are get l ting too many condemned aniamls, and to change the grading, It means that the whole thing is a farce. n Mr. Secretary, the packers are get f ting today from 70 to 80 per cent of meat that ought to be condemned d and destroyed. i "I have seen from 1,200 to 1,500 pounds of lard spill and run into an 6 open sewer in the floor, the sewer a outlet quickly blocked, and eaid lard | taken up. from the foor and out of , the sewer, both of which were un I clean and unsanitary; and your doc tors passed same to the packers on I over the protest of the inspectors I on that floor. and it went to the pub )lic market 'U. S. Inspected and pae I ed.' - "Some of the filthiest things imagi nable are practiced in the sausage 3 departments, such as using bladders ,or casing without thorough washing 3 or cleaning, the use of filth tripe in sausage, the use of slimy hog stom i aches for casing or containers, the nseing of meats that have fallen on the foor and are taken up and used without any pretense of clean Ing "These are all permitted by those In charge. If an Inspector calls their attention to any of the wrongs, he is told as I was, that the people who i ic. suc stuff are too lazy to pre - pare anything for themselves and i aught to have such stuff. "I will give yon another instance that happened elsewhere. The meat inspector In the department held some 6.000 or 7,000 pounds of oured meats for being sou:, and, mind you. four or five other inspectors were called in and they all pronounced the meat sour. Your Dr. Meadors re I leased It to the packer. - E ILLEn ON A TRAIN. aShot Man Who He Accused of Steel ing His Wife. 1 C. M. Murphy, a wealthy contrac r jtor and planter, shot Paton Carver, t Murphy's overseer, at his farm at I Bbrtlnton, while the latter sat In a S coach of a passenger train as it stop |ped at Branford, Fla., Thursday. I Carver was carried from the train to the depot platform, where he died twenty minutes later. Sheriff Rickerson, of Live Oak, Fla., who s was on the train, arrested Murphy. - According to Murphy's story Car t ver and Mrs. Murphy eloped from the .Burtinton farm Wednesday. Trhe s husband learned of this, he said, l and learned that Carver was return - ing to Burton to get some of his be a longings, which the hurry of the .elopment caused him to leave there. - Murphy met the train and killed r Carver. Both men are well known in that part of Florida and have rel e atives there. Carver was unmarried. r Mr. and Mrs. Murphy have several f children. s FISH SAVES STEAMSHIP. Plugs a Hole in Vessel and Stops a Bad Leak. n Capt. Young and crew and about t65 passengers of the steamship e Concho, which arrived in Galveston, Texas. last week, attribute their es 9 cape from a watery grave to a large d fish which was in sqme manner r sucked into a bad leak in the vessel's n side and pluged the hole through a which the water was filling the yes e sel. 1The leak appeared to be stopped Sand the vessel 'was able to make y. port. The mysterious stoppage of S the leak could not be explained and .it remained a problem to the crew they reached port where divers n found the big fish wedged tight r in the hole so effectivily as to pre vent the inflow Qf water when the .vessel was 100 miles from land. * SJX HORSES BU'RNED. ~Lightning Fires Stable of a Physic tan in Greenville County. SThe stable of Dr. J. B. Bruce, liv ing at Sandy Fiat, In the upper part of. Greenville county, was struck by -lightning Wednesday afternoon, dur e lng an electrical storn, and was t burned to the ground. Five of Bruce's horses were burned to death. 3 and the feed stuff in 'tbe barn was i destroyed. A herse of Charlie W. 'n Mitchell of O'Neal, was burned to a death also in the barn. Mitchell y was going bbmze from Greenville, ts when the storm met him near Dr. it Bruce's residence. He' stopped and er sheltered the animal. and when the Lt crssh of lightning came and the i building was burned to ashes his BACK HOME After an Absence of Thirty Three Years or More FINDS LOST FATHER Wison Scarbero, of Bishop'vif, S. C.., Goes to Statesboro, Go., and Takes His long Lost Parent Back to the Old Home-Old Ma Bor* the Name of B. Baker. A letter from Statesboro. Ga., to the Augusta Chronicle tells a most remarkable story. The letter says after a fruitless search for the where abouts of his fatherlor thirty-three years, during which time his estate is said to have been administered on by members of the family, Wil son Scarboro, a resident of Bishop ville. S. C., came to this county last Sunday and carried his father back to his South Carolina home to spend his declining years. R. Scarboro, the father, came to this county twenty years ago and adopted the name of R. Baker, first making his home on the farm of Sol. Akins, and later with the Al lens until recently he took up his place of abode on the farm of Tom Moore at Enal. near Bryan county, where his son found him. Domestic troubles are said to have been the cause of his leaving his home In South Carolina. Before he came to Bulloch county he spent thirteen years within a hundred miles of his home and 15as successful in keeping his wife and four sons from learn ing his whereabouts. Some time ago it is said a travel ing man happened to run across Mr. Scarboro. or Baker, as he was known here. and when he went back to Bishopville he told one of the sons that he had seen and spoken to his father. The traveler remembered the name of Mr. John M. Jones, a hardware dealer, and told the son to write to Mr. Jones for informa tion, which the son did, giving a de scription of his father from which Mr. Jones readily applied the descrip tion to "Baker." The letter was answered by Mr. Jones giving the desired information. In some way Mr. "Baker" learned that Mr. Jones had written to his son and it is said the old man did not relfsh it very much, evidently intending to keep his whereabouts a secret until death. Several letters passed between Mr. Jones and the son in South Carolina and finally the father was communicated with, by his son and persuaded to consent to return to his old home and be cared for the rest of his life. Mr. Scarboro arrived ia Statesbo ro Saturday night and proceeded to Enal without makilig known the ob ject of his visit to any one but Mr. Jones with whom he had been comn municating. 'He stated to Mr. Jones that the four sons were still alive; that each of them were in good finan ial circumstances and were desirous of having their father spend his de clining years with them where he could be cared for. When the son reached the home of his father at Enal the meeting is said to have been a loving one, first handshake and then throwing their arms around one another the two stood there and hug ged for some time. This was on Saturday night and Sunday morning when they started for the train they passed through Jimps, fiye miles from here and some time was spent at the home of Will Akins while waiting for tne Central train. Mr. Akins was not at home at the time and when he returned he walked up and spoke to the fath er and cordially bowed to the son, not knowing who he was. At this time Mr. "Baker" said. "Well, Will, I have fooled you all for twenty years. I want to intro duce you to my son, Me. Scarboro. I am going back to the old horaie with him this morning and will spend the balance of my life there with my wife and children. I liare been away thirty-three years, twenty years of which have spent in Dul loch county, where I have fnade mauy friends and it is with regret that 1 !eave t'ow, but I sa a,se it is Dea't for me." "Baker" is well known in States boro, though his home has always been in the country near here. Drr ing his t wenty years in Bulloch conw ty it is said he confided In one man Mr. Sol. Akins, when he first came here, and told his real name and the cause of his leaving home. Hie evidently confided in a safe man for through a score of years Mr. Akias has told no one the old inan's bS cret. "Baker" is apparently nearing his alloted time, three score years and ten, and that he will receive a loving welcome in his old home is evidenced by the continuous search which has been made for him for thirty-three years. Wilson Scarboro, the son that came after his father, is now forty three years of ago and states that~ he was nearly eleven years old when his father left home. The locatIon of his father's whereabouts is prob ably due to the traveling man who spoke to him here, calling his real name, and Mr. John M. Jones. who gave the eon the necessary Informa tion. Christian in Cabinet For the first time in the history of the Turkish emire a Christian has been named for a place among the Sultan's advisors. Gabriel N. Effendi. an Armenian. has been made minister of public works. a position in which it is possible for him to do much toward securing fair treatment for his people in the fn Iturs. -- a -. * DOUBLE LYNCHING TWO NEGROES HANGED AND RIDDLED WITH SHOT. They Were Charged With the Xur. der of Mr. Smoak and Were Taken From Ofcers of the Law. A dispatch from Branchville to The News and Courier Gays at a late hour Friday night a crowd of about one hundred farmers and other citi Zens of Colleton county, took two negroes away from the officers of the' law, hung them to a tree, near the railroad track, and fired round after round into thier swinging bodies. The negroes. who were killed were Frink Samuels and Quillie Simmons. and the crime for which death was meted out to them was the murder on May 29 of young Mr. Benjamin Smoak, a member of a prominent Colleton family, and a merchant of the town, which bears his name. The dispatch says early Friday Dight word was received at Branch rlle from Smoak's stating that Con table N. M. Maxey had arrested four negroes who, it was alleged, weras concerned in the murder of Mr. 3moak. These four were Frank 3amuels, Quillie Simmons, ,Connie I tokes and another whose name hAs aot- been learned. It wil be remem bered that when Mr. Smoak was kiled, Just as he was closing his ore for the night, the assassin, or masins. secured about $95 in cash mnd checks. It was these checks which led to the arrest of the four egroes, two of whom met death Friday night at the hands of the nob. Young Ben Minus stepped up be lind the stables of Samuels, who iad a farm about a miles and a half om the town of Smoak's and saw 2im dividing the stolen money with he other negroes. Minus immedi teLy returned, told what he had seen nd heard, and described the hidin' Ilace of the missing checks. A rompt search led to the discovery f the checks, and Constable Maxey t once arrested Samuels. Sub-se uently the other negroes were also rrested, and the constable and his Lssistants started with his prisoners or Walterboro. Meanwhile the mob had been gath ring rapidly and silently, and before ong nearly a hundred determined nen had started in pursuit. The of icers were overtaken near the rail .ad line and, being greatly out umbered, they were unable to of er effective resistance. The terri led negroes were seized, and the aders of the mob questioned them >riefly as to their connection with the cilling of Mr. Smosk. Two of them pparently managed to clear them ;elves and were set free. SamuelE Lnd Simmons were then imarched o the railroad track, hanged to a -ree and their bodies riddled with ullets. At present everything is quiet. It a not known whether Samuels and immons confessed their guilt, after1 ~alling into the hands of the aveng rs, since the mob, as soon as it hose who took part In the lynching ~eturned to their homes. It is nown, however, that the town ne roes had previously admitted that hey knew something about the crie. hough they swore that they did not o the actual Jshooting . Samuels itated that he generally used No. 8 ,hot in his gun, and shot of that size ere found in Mr. Smoak's body. oth negroes bore evil reputations. * SOUL-MATES SWITCHED. ew Cure A dministered by the Irate Relatives. Jasper C. Crum, of Lexington. Ky., iisappear'ed from his home this week Ind it was believed that he had been ddnapped, as he was forced to leave t the point of a pistol. For the past week a posse searched he mountains for him and he was nally found in a mining camp, here he was living with Miss Lizzie foore, his soul-mate. Both were brought back to Lexington, and after being made to strip to the waist, they were soundly switched. The oman then was turned loose, while Crum, who is married, was taken1 o his irate wife. Letters found in the Crum home ihowed that the elopment had been planned in advance and that It was o be -made to appear that he ha-d been kidnapped. -* RATTLER .X[LLED BY RODENTS. Snake Overcome by Rats Intended For His Meal. Two big gray rats fought a battle with a rattlesnate this week at Dal-1 ton, Ga.. and -the rats won. The mnake was brought to the cIty andI placed in a stpre 'window. Two rats were caught with the intention f giving them to the snake to eat.I The rats were put in with the nake and they show'-d fight at once.! While the snake was af' 3r one. the! other would plungs -teeth into the' snake's body. After an hour the snake died. One of the rats was nearly dead. but the other was un The rattler measured seven feet in length.* Autornobiles Not Allowed. SThe little town of Seney. Ga.. has declared war on automobiles. At a meeting of the town council recently. after a spirIted discussion. an ordi nance was adopted prohibiting the use of automobiles within the .city limits, and the town marsha] was authoried to arrest any one pass ig through Seney with such "en GRAFT MONEY Paid Dispenrary Officials to Get Orders. FOR STATE WHISKEY State Dspensary Directors Rawfa soa, Black, Wylie and Hub. I. Evans Naned in Afdavit of C. W. Dudley as Having Beceived Bribes. For the first time since the be. ginning of the old State dispensary has there been brought to light a charge which implies directly that the controlling agents of the State dispensary got money for favoring certain firms, says the Columbia State. The State then goes on to give the particulars: Col. C. W. Dudly, who is now very Ill at Lexington, Ky., has made an affidavit, in the presence of his at torney, Col. Anthony J. Carroll of Louisville, Ky., that to secure an order for liquor from the State dis pensary, Clark Bros. & Co. of Peoria. Ill., had to pay about 10 per cent commissions or $6,200 or an order of $60,000 delivered and accepted. [he original order was something like $150,000, made In the last days of the dispensary, and a great deal of. the stuff was turned back. Mr. W. E. Hull, manager of Clarke Bros. & Co., testified when he was here recently that he had paid to 0. W. Dudley $6,200 "commissioaa" to secure this business. Dudley was known to be ill. At torney General Lyon and Col. T. - B. Felder visited him last week in exington, Ky.; and later his at torney, Col. Anthony J. Carroll. a eading attorney of Kentucky. went o the hospital and advised him to ;ive the affidavits introduced in evi Once a few days ago. This affidavit, while not admissa >le in a court in which a criminal ttion is being tried, Is said to be >acked 4p with corroborative evi lence, documentary and sworn tes :imony. This is the first time in all the nonths of patient prodding that the lirect charge of bribery has been nade. Col. Dudley was a bon vivant rell known throughout this State, nd his affidavit, which follows, hows that of the $6,200 he kept it least $2,000 for himself. The at davit is: 'State of Kentucky, County of Fay ette. "The affiant, C. W. Dudley, states hat he represented several liquor lealers in the State of South Caro ina during and for several yars >rior to 1906, for the purpose of pro :nring orders for liquors for the state dispensary. He states that luring parts of said time J. B. Wylie asa member of the board of direo ors of the State dispensary. "Affiant states that about the noth of October, 1906, through th fforts and by arrangements with he said Wylie he procured an order ~rom said State dispenpary for a ~uantity of liquor to be sold and ~urnshed by the Live Oak Distilling Mmpany of Cincinnati, Ohio. "Amfant states that he paid to the ad Wylie the sum of $1,500 as a ommssion for p'oeuring the pur-. hase of certain liquors by the State ispensary from Clark Bros. & Co., of eoria, Ill. He states that he was ad as commission for procuring said order the sum of $6,500 by W. . Hull, that being the total amount f commissions paid him on account f the goods so purchased, and which ere retained by the commission. Re states that he divided his said ommissions with the three mem ers of the board. of directors of he State dispensary, to wit: John Black, J. W. Rawlinson and J. B. Wylie, as a consideration for their naking said purchase. Affant does clot remember the exact amount paid hem, but Black was paid approxi-~ ately $2,200.. Rawlinson $1,200 nd Wylie appronmately $1,2 00. "Affant states that while H. H. Evans was a member of the board f directors of the State dispensary he paid the said H. H. Evans $1,o00 o aid him in his campaign for re election to said board of directors. his was in 1905, or early in 1906. "Affant states that this was the. only amount he remembers to have paid said Evans, but he might have paid him Afther Isums. "Affiant states that he has been practically condined to his bed for 5 months, having sustained a para lytic stroke complicated with other troubles. .He states that he suffer d constant pain and is now confined o his bed in Good Samaritan hospital at Lexington, Ky., under the care of * physician and nurses. He states that he is unable to travel and it is a matter of impossibility for him to go to South Carolina or to, take any trip whatever. That he was able with great diffculty to come to Lex ington from Chicago and is .now worse and unable to leave his bed. "A~ant states that he had other transactions with the members -of the board of the State dispensary, but he is now unable to recall the de tails of same. -"C. W. DUDLEY, "Subscribed and sworn to before me by C. W. Dudley this 4th day of June, 1909, W. Worthington. N. P., Fayette County. Ky." Tried Female Attire. John Robinson, a negro, tried to aid in the solution of the female ser vant problem in Chicago, Ill., by doning female attire and assuming the name of "Jeanette Robinson.. Detectives discovered his trick this this week and he was fined $85 and ordered to resume the conventional