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A END CAUGHT Wi Narrwly Esca Lynch*n For n Aetempted Assot ON A LEXINGTON LADY The Fiend Watched the Home of the Lady Until Her Hushiand Ieft for His Work. When He Attacked Her in the Yard and Knocked iter Down and Cboked Her. A dispatch from Lexington says Coot Lever, the negro who attempt ed to criminally assault the younc wife of a prominent Dutch Fork farmer. at her home near Piney Woods Church Monday afternoon between the hours of I and 2 o'clock. was lodged in the Lexington jal. by Deputy Sberiff Miler Tuesday morning about 2 o'clock. after the most exciting race that officer hat ever known. Lever was captured in the house of another negro near the town of Chapin. The train for Columbia was soon due, and it was the first intention of the officer to carry his man by rail. but before the train arrived .r. Miller heard the posse coming on horseback and he at once secreted the negro until a buggy could be secured. In the meantime the angry crowd was scouring the whole nelgh borhood round about. seeking the whereabouts of the deputy. As soon as possible Constable L. L Roof hitched up his horse and met Mr. Miller a few hundred yards away and the journey of fourteen milee to the court house was begun. As. the party rode over the rought hilh of Dutch Fork. they often imagined that they heard the sound of horses' feet right behind, and by the usc of the whip the horse was made tc increase his speed. When the rivei was reached. it was found that thi ferryman. Mr. James Wise. had gone -possum hunting. Realizing that nc tt-ne must be lost. Mr. Miller tole the wife of the ferryman that h would leave the fiat on the othe: side. and the river was crossed. Almost before the officers has crossed, however, they heard the crowd ride up to the banks of th river on the opposite side. But tn flat was gone. .nd their plans were again foiled for the time being. B' the time the parties on horseback crossed the river, the officers bat almost reached Lexington. How ever. in the hope of overtaking th< men with the negro. eight of ti. party rode on to Lexington. arriv Ing there about Ifteen minutes aft-' the officers. They redte up to :h jail armed to the teeth, and askt about the negro. but no attempt at violence was shown. While Deputy Sheriff Miller was 'talking to the crowd. Coas'.abl< Roof had Lerer hid away 1a the garden, the posse arriving bjefor' the negro could be placed in a cedl Some of the horseback ri-tSrs ad come 'the whole distance or eign teen miles bareback, so determined were they to bring vengeance unor the assailant's head. The negro was kept in the jail until news was re celved that a mnob was fornding when he was removed to the Peni tentiary just in time to avert a: attack upon the jail Story of the Crine. Monday between 12 anad 1 o'clock the negro was seen to walk cuietll by the home of the woman, but oc attention was paid to this at the time. As soon as the husband of the woman had gone to the field to plough. the negro returned and made his way into the yard. where the woman was hanging up clothes. He made a most vicious attack, knocking the woman down by a se yere blow with his fist. He grabbed her around the throat, and choked her down, the finger nails of the brute bringing the blood from he' 'neck. With almost superhuman ef fort the woman cried aloud to her husband, and the negro left before accomplishing his fiendish purpose. T'o the offeers Lever has confessed. laying the blame to what he calls a "Root Doctor.'' He says that he owed the doctor a bill. and being unable to pay it. the doctor told him that 'he would cause him to get in trouble. He says that heo was *conjured." and could not help It. Lever is of a light gingercake col -or. and is under 30. He has been working for different people in the community. last for Mr. Chas. P. Robinson. of Chapin, where he turned 'up later. Tampa Police Turn Tables. At Tampa. Fla.. a few days ago H. W. Taylor. of Detroit. Mich.. was arrested by government authorities on a charge of smuggling. He re cently came from Cuba. where he owns a tobacco plantation. He had several hundred dollars worth of diamonds, and soon after arriving in Tampa. he claims that a bartend er named Del Barrios relieved him of a $500 stone. Del Barrios was turned loose, and the government offecals took up the case, claiming that Taylor had not paid duty on the stone-s he had with him.* Five Men Eaten. Rear Admiral Sebree reports that waen the t'nited States Pacific fleet touched at Admiralty Islands it was learned that recently cannibals from the Isands captured a boat contain ing three Englishmen and three Chinese. One bf the En.'lishmen1 who escaped through the connivance of a friendly tribe said that his .com panions had been killed and eaten. Twelve Are Killed. A search lasting throughout the night in the mine of the Cambria Steel Company at Franklin. Pa.. were an explosion occurred Sunday evening, failed to increase the num her of fatalities. Twelve men were killed outright, one is dying and three are seriously injured. Pointed Paragaphs~. You can tell how insincere a giri is by how sincere she seems. The' Lord made man the ruler of the world and woman the ruler of ma. s the" whiskc.-y tirm's delivery waon what you would ra11 a ".pony"* TAKES CORN PRIZE .1 MARLOJRO YOUTH OUTSTRIP'S ALl. HIS C'OMPETITORS. A. B. Usher l'roduce 132 1- Bush els on an Acre and Thereby Win-% Pirst Honor. The B nn.-trille corrtsponden* or The Stat.- says tht- faniers of M:irl boro county art- very proud of the past as w:' as the pres-nt re-rd enjoyed by Marlboro. s will be rememb14ereNd. it was our own Capt Z. J. Drake of Drake. MaIjoro conn ty. who a few years ago won the champion prize offered by the An.-r ioan Agriculturist for the lar--st vield of corn produced on one acre of land. This corn was weighed :nd I neasure1 by a sworn committee I -%ppointed under go'ernment r.-qu:rt nents. th.' yield bhein 2'.4 3-4 hu-h ris. which so far has been the large-st vit-ld on on.- acre not only in the 'nited States but in the entire world. Capt. Drake ree-ived the $1.4166 awarded by the United States gov ?rnment. The State correspondent saw this corn two or three tiwes while growing. and he was not pres ent when gathered and measured. vet he is frank to say that he neve saw so much. since or before while -rowing on one acre of ground. Last year and year before. B. E. Moore of Marlboro county. won the state prize. the yield last year being 172 bushels on one acre. The United States government. through Dr. Knapp. this year organ "zed what is known as the "Boys contest Corn club." In many coun ties throughout the cjo$rn growing 'tates of the United States. About one dozen boys. ranging in age from 14 to IS years. entered the contest in Marlboro county. Last Monday ;pecimens of this corn from various tcres were artistically arranged in -he court house. making a most at *ractive and creditable exhibit. At 2.30 p. m. interesting exercis ,s were held in the court house. ipeeches were made by Prof. D. N. Barrow of Clemson college, and Mr. 'ra W. Williams. State agent of the farm demonstration work. Prof. Barrow emphasizedbthe ne .essty and importance of properly electing seed and imparted valu ible information as to the growth ind character of the plant. Mr. Nilliams explained in a most practi -al manner the aims and purposes of -he farm demonstration work 3nd -2rged the young men and boys. pres >nt to enter the contest next year. Prof. Barrow delivered the prize won by the boys in Marlboro county nd each acre of corn was measured -y a speciAc committee appointed y the farm demonstration officials in this State. Master A. Bascome U'shen o: I 3rightsville township. received the %10 gold prize given for the largest Iield on one acre, which was 1!2 -2 bushels. Master Ernest Fletcher of Brownesvilbe township. received the 15 gold prize for the largest yield 1fter oats-he having raised 45 N)ushels of corn on the same acre. IMr. Williams stated that young Mr. rshe-n had outstripped all comn setitors from Virginia to Oklahoma. , ud would get the free trip to Wash ington city, and tha.: the government would pay him $2 per bushel for 25 bushels of his corn. So Marlbo -o remains in the front rank, and "romn the expression of determina ion in the faces of the boys who at -ended these exercises. sheh will con :lnue to hold the "belt'' as the chain 'ion corn growing county in the -Jnited States. WON'T REACH TEN MILION. National Glnners' A.ociation Issues Its Monthly Report From Memphis. Tenn.. J. A. Tay lor. president of the National Gin ners' association. Friday issued the olowing bulletin: 'Complete returns Indicate a max imum crop of 9.780.000 bales, not including linters or repacks. Mini mum figures 9.4S6.000. "The heavy falling off is over the belt except in Georgia and the Car olinias, where there Is about as good ,i crop as last year on a little smaller .creage. "Maximum report by States: Ala bama. 969,000: Arkansas. 644.000: Florida. 60.00; Georgia. 1.870.000: LouisIana. 239.000: MississippI. 958. 000: Missouri and Virginia 58.000: North Carolina. ?48,000: Oklahoma. 587.000; South Carolina. 1.185.000: Tennessee. 253.000:t Texas. 2.399. 000. Total. 9.780.000. "The ginners say the small yield is largely due to the smallness of bols and low yield of lint. As the crop is so near ginned, we will prob ably not make our December esti mate." The cotton crop in 1908 was 11. 581.829 bales, while in 19v7 we yield was -13.550.760.* Very Small Crop. United States Senator E. D. Smith is in receipt of a letter from Statis tician R. L Neal, with advance sheets of a circular to be sent out, showing that, after a trip over the South. the most careful estimates of the otton crop this yter indicates a possible cotton crop of 10.520.000' bales. agreeing with a recent esti mate issued hy Senator Smith. Fromi exporters Senator Smith le.arns that it is expected, if the government re port issued this week on cotton con firrs private advices. cotton will be found to reach famine pric--s. Burns in the Air. At Hamburg on Tuesday Pequet was makIng a fl!ght in an a. roplanei at a considerable height when flames broke out. A inomnt later the ben zine tank exploded. Pequet suc eed-d in gliding to~ th'e earth, butI te danger of hurning to death was so pressing that he jumped from the; machine, while it was 15 or 20 feet in the air, Scalded to Death. A dispatch has been received by; rends at Rock Hill from Dr. J. P. Crawford of Nashvlleo. Tenn.. con-. eing the sad inreliige-nen of the:! death of the hatte-r's oldest child. Edward. .\ f'-w days ago, while sit-. ing at the supp.-r tabl., he :n some - way ov-erturned a pot of boiling 'ea1 'n himself and w-as sev-erely burned. t SEVEN ESCAPE hriaers Break Out of &h Grewu&li Jail and Six Get Away KEEPER IS OVERPOWERED Warden Phillipks, Who Wa.. the Only Officer in the Jail When the Delivery Took Place. Was Iladly Bruised in Attempting to Stop the Escaping Men. Seven negro prisoners. several of whom were under life sentences. c+ cap-d from the Gre-enville jail Mon day night and six of th-r got away. knocking Warden Phillips down and running out of the back door into the stre.-ts. The delivery occurred about i:-1 o'clock. there being no officer in the jail at the time with the exoeption of Warden Phillips. *rhe latter is badly bruised but suf fers no serious hurt. One of the prisoners. Will McCul lough. was captured soon after the occurrence by Reuben Gosnoll. a constable for one of the magistrates. The jailer and several offic-rs have gone in pursuit of the rem3ining six. but at last reports none ot them have been captured. Those prisoners who escaped were on th- upper floor. Their names are: Daniel Gambrel. John Guffie. Sonnie Huff. Frank Doal. Arthur Johnson. Hilbert Henry and Will McCullough. John Guffie was under sentence to be hanged for the murder of his wife. execution of this sentence hav ing been postponed until the supreme court could decide upon the appeal. which has been made in the case. It is stated that about 6:30 o'clock some one brought up some food or other stuff for the prisoners. They were taken up to the second floor of the jail and in order to carry the goods into the ward where the prisoners were Mr. Phillips. befor unlocking the outer door. ordered the prisoners who were inside to go into their cells. Some of the prisoners did so, and Mr. Phillips thinking that all had gone in, opened the door. It had grown very dark in the corridors and the further end of the hall in which the prisoners had been could not be distinctly seen. The seven prisoners secreted themselves in this end of the corridor and answered to the jailer. who thought they were all in the cells. He opened the door and when in siP.e. As he walked up the corridor he was suddenly seized by Arthur Johnson and slung backward toward the corridor. The remaining pris oners immediately made a break for the door and succeeded in reaching the street. Johnson attempted to follow them. but he was held by the jailer, and in his hurry to get away he dragged the latter half way down the stairs before he was released. All reached the street through the back door and McCullough, who, it seems, took a different route from the others, ran up toward Stain street. Ho was captured within ten minutes after escaping. IS~ENTENCED TO BE HANGED. For a Crime Committed in Berke Iey Nine Years Ago. James Edwards was convicted of the murder of his wife at Mount Holly in Berkeley county about nine years ago in the Court of General Sessions at Monck's Corner on last Monday and sentenced to be hanged on the second Friday in December. The crime of which Edwards was found guilty is said to have been a horrible one, in that it is alleged that Mrs. Edwards was shot while she was cooking the dinner, falling into the fire and being partially burned. Following the killing Edwards left Berkeley county, and was not heard from until about six months ago. when his address was lea: ned by Sheriff Causey through some letters which he wrote to persons living in Berkeley county. it was ascertained that he was living in Jacksonville. had married again and had several children by his second wife, and was working hard and living com fortably, although he is said to have been rather shiftless before he dis appeared from Berkeley. He was brought back by Sheriff Causey. who is credited with some clev-er work in the matter, and the case was brought for trial at th.- .ast term of Cour-. but was continue!. Edwards is a man about 40 years of age. It is not anticipated that an appeal will be taken. He was represented at the trial by John 0. Edwards. Esq.. while Solicitor Hilde brand handled the case for the State. THE SOUTH AS A CREDITOR. What a Good Price for Cottou Does For This. Section. The New York Journal of Com merce of recent issue contained the folowing: ''The New York -orrespondent of South-rn banks, according to state ments made yesterday. dur'g the past two weeks have rec' d1 many requests fromt below Mas and Dix on's line for the purch e of com mercial paper in apprestable quar. titi-s. One large bank here within 1 week has received more than a ozen such requests, some of them iggrgating as much as $260.000. he bankers her.- point out that this s an unusual condition in the South. [n other years at this season. when e cotton crop is moving, the banks f this s'-etion have been hard put o it to find enough tmoney to sup >v th.' pr.-ssing needs of their cus on.rs. Th.' high price or cotton revaiing and the prosperity in the, ron and steel industry are principal -asons for the strong financial sit ation in the South. according to ld ings of those who have investi ;a ted. This shows how important it is or all ox us. cotton mills included. o do all we can to ke--p the price< f cotton uzp as high as we can. good p'ric'- for cotton nm--an pros-t -rity for all int.'rests in the South.< bh.-n why should any Southern in rest undertake to bear the cotton A STAGE STRUCK Gil Lured From Ber Home by P==mse .f L Cative Cametr is RESCED BY TE POUCE The Poor. Foolish Young Woman Was Found4 Traveling With a Man Who Said He Was a Vaudeville Artist, But Who is Thought to Be a Forger. While her grief-stricken mother and sisters for the past two weeks have been making futile efforts to locate pretty 17-year-old Lalla Voll mer. the girl lured by promises of a lucrative career in the glittering glare of the footlights. has been trav eling through the South in company with Nathan C. Hill. alias N. H. Clark. a pseudo vaudeville artist. Despite wires to every Southern city of any importance the mother of the young girl. Mrs. Virginia Voll mer. of 394 Piedmont avenue. At lanra. Ga.. could find not trace of her until Tuesday night. when she re ceived a wire from WillIam J. Er wing treasurer of the Lyric theatre In New Orleans. who stated that the girl was in the care of his wife In that city. Miss Lula Vollmer. an elder sister of the girl. immediately made ar rangements to bring her back to her mother, and on Wednesday morning she left for New Orleans for that pur pose. According to dispatches received in Atlanta. Miss Vollmer was taken in to custody by the New Orleans police at the request of Chief Jennings of Atlanta, vaho was acting with the mother in an attempt to locate the girl. She was not held In the po lice station. however. but given over to the care of Mr. Erwin. who had previously receiv"d a lItter from her sister asking that he attempt to lo cate her. She will remain with Mrs. Erwin until her sister can bring her back to Atlanta. According to the story said to have been told the po:ice in New Orleans by Miss Vollmer. she had first met Clark or Hill through an advertise ment in a local paper, in which he stated that he wanted a young girl to take a part in a vaudeville per formance. Miss Vollmer answered the ad. it is said .and Clark imme liately called on her at 612 Peters building. where she was working as a bookkeeper. Clark made glittering offers. it is said. saying that he needed a part ner in the vaudeville sketch in which h,3 was booked at a number of well known houses. He offered the girl $40 a week. It is claimed. Pearing that parental objection would thwart her cherished ambition to go before the footlights. without saying that she was leaving her regu lar work. Miss Vollmer met Clark at the Terminal- station, so she says, to Iea'-e ror ber first engacement. According to the dispatch. Clark ;ave the girl drugssed eoca-ec4a. and then took her to a hotel, where they registered as man and wife. After that they traveled under different names. stopping at a number of cit ies en route to New Orleans. They were often In financial straits, it Is alleged, and Clark is said to have attetnpted to cash a number of cheeks as well prevailing upon her to sign a check for $10. using the name of Miss N. Clark. Their last stop was in Meridian. Miiss., where, so the police are in formed, on account of lack of funds. Clark was forced to sleep in the park. while Miss Vollmer registered at a notel as Miss Clark. Ob Monday It is said they scraped together enough money to pay their fares to New Orleans. There Miss Volimer is said to have left Clark in La attempt to get work, She was theui located by the police with the result that she was given over to the care of the Erwins. Mrs. Virginia Volimer, the mother. who went to Atlanta two years ago from North Carolina. states that she does not believe the report in full. "Lula has been stage-struck for two years." she said. "and I have always feared that she would make an attempt to go on the stage. I believe that even if the man did trug her she would have come to her stases at once and left him. Furth er. I believe' that they have been in New Orleans for the past two weeks instead of traveling around the coun try as the report says. "Always hoping for a chance to go on the stage I am sure t hat she accepted the mnan's plausible story at once, and fearing that I would place obstacles in her way as I have always been opposed to her idea of roing on the stage, she arranged to leave for the trumped up engagement in the New Orleans theatre, accept ing the man merely as manager through which she could gain her hershed desire. "Lula, my oldest daughter, left early Wednesday morning for New Orleans, and in two days I hope to have my daughter, whom I can not blame for anything except her girlish esire to go on the stage, with me again." Miss Lula Vollmer is well known in Atlanta. She at one time did newspaper work in North Carolina and has had several stories accepted . by well known miagazine's.* TOO MU.CH B0OOZE Being Used in Mariboro County toI Suit Grand Jury. ti Over In Marlboro county they have bad prohibition for forty odd years. b a long, long time before the old 1. State dispensary syitem was ever i ~oneived of, and when tbe dispensa- 11 7 did come Marlboro did not join la n. but remained dry. 'The grand ta ury of that county has just made 1 si i presentment in which it calls at- tz enton to the large and increasing c awless eletoent in that county which t e jury states is caused by the saic :t >f whiskey. The status of affairs w ill prove int"resting in view of .a he fact that 6fteen otrher cenunti'-s w f the State are about to embark ai pn the prohibition boat and the ti working of the law in these counties te FIH G TIE FARMER L'AT A FAR0fIER'S UNION PAPER1 SAYS ABOUT THE MILLS. ihutting Isown. and Claims That It Is an Effort to Keep the Cotton Grower Down. The following articles from the -'arm.m-r' Unoa News. of Union 1 ity. Ga.. brings out some things bout the mill curtailment that We iever heard before. The first article -ays: The presidents, vice presidents ind owners of cotton mills through >ut the South are organized into what is called the American Cotton danufacturers Association. Such nen as S. B. Tanner and D. A. romapkins of Charlotte. N. C.. E. A. ;mythe of Greenville. S. C.. and oth rs, who were worth no more than he rest of us, estimated at least ,n this world's worldly goods. un :1 the recent rise of cotton milt' his side of Mason and Dixon' ine. They were some of the pion ers in this fabulously prosperous leld of business. Their cotton mills wad others have paid enormous div idends. in many cases as much as rom ten to forty per cent profit )n highly watered- stock. And yet the present president of :he A. C. M. A.. Mr. Lewis W. Parker )f Greenville. S. C.. at the instance >f Smythe. Tompkins and Tanner. as just called a meeting of the oard of governors for the purpose f fghting the increase in the price Df cotton to thirteen cents, by shut ting down the mills, or at least running them on half or quarter time. Some of these men whose fortunes are increasing by leaps nd bounds as a result of their man facturing cotton. ride in automom biles live in the most luxurious horn es. and even spend their summers abroad. enjoying all the very best things of life. while we producers of the raw material. the basis of their income, struggle from early morn until dewy eve in order to keep body and soul together. And when we get together for the mere purpose of securing a fair price. yes. the mere cost of produc ing cotton, they prepare to fight us tooth and nail, in this br'.tal fashion. But this Is not the first nstance. Mr. Dante Aikenside Tompkins of Charlotte,. then presi dent of the A. C. M. A.. went abroad in 1907. with the present president of the A. C. M. A.. got up a confer .-nce of European cotton manufac turers for the pu:pose of dive-t ing foreign immigration to the South in order to break the back of the Farmers' Union and increase to# supply of cotton produced, so that only mere existance price for tht raw materials would prevail. Yes. Mr. Smythe. Mr. Parker and other mill men of South Carolina even raised some twenty odd thousand dollars to send Commissioner WVat pon of South Carilina abroad to bring in two cargoes of foreigners for this purpose. Gentlemen. gentlemen, you liv;e among us. your lives and your fami ies and your property is mingled with ours, and your prosperity, and your daily walks are among us. from wbose humble ranks you have risen upon our industry and toil. There is such a thing as haiing none of the milk of human kindness and being absolutely unsympathetic and calous to the struggling masses. their sorrows and hardships, around you, but ha 'e care, lest you kill the geese that are laying your gold en eggs. If any one doubts our statement let him but read that well-known manufacturers' maga zine. The Textile Record. August. 1908. published by Lord and Nagle. Boston and New York. page 538. where is printed a summary of Mr. Tompkins' speech, and it is stated among other things that Mr. Tomp kins told the European man ufac turers plainly what was and is the only way to increase adequately the worlds supply of cotton, namely, to. stimulate and divert foreign immi grants by the wholesale to the South ern States. They Join Forces. In another article The Farmers' Union News goes on to say: The Northern cotton mill men have responded to the suggesti )n of the Southern cotton mill men that the mills be closed down2 in or der to cu-tail the production of t ot ron goods. a'id thereby decra' ."e consumption of raw cotton thus depressing the price of cotton anod showing the Parmers' Union that they cannot hope for decent p'rice for their crop. In response to the suggetlon of the Americ aa Cot ron fanufacturers' Association. whica is a strictly Southern organiz*1tion, t~e executive committee of the Cot ton Manufacturers' Association. hich takes in all the Northern cot :on mills, has met and decIded to ave the production of cotton goods peatly curtailed shortly. At the meeting, as at the board of overnors' meeting of the American otton Manufacturers' Association. tt Charlotte. on the 8th. everv pos ible device for fighting the Farm *rs' Union's proper marketing and olding of the crop for better pric 's. was fully discussed and plans rere proposed, going even to the 'tent of shutting down the mills md starving the farmers ou'.. 'ou have organized and banded to :ether for your own mutual protec ion and selfish interests, and hay-1 ng made enormous profits and rawn fancy salaries, you now be rudge us the same privilege~ and lan to break up and thwart our iforts to get merely a fair price t sr the products of our sweat, our thor and the toll of our own. Tour eyes and efforts ought not >score the "base degrees'' hy which u came into your own, and youry o arts ought to beat with a littleI" ss antagonism and greediness that 2ee u.nworthby actions and atti 3de indicate. Play the game fair .don't try to form any such das rdly conspiracy as Dante Aiken-. des Tompkins and T. F. Parker jc ed to hatch out with the European If >tton oill men in the sum:Der of I M7. Don't go to the President of le United Stat"-. as these very two a -nt to Theodore Roosev'elt. in .Tauu-v -y 19'7. when the immniiration hil! a as p4nding and try to insult any a c ele's intelligence by telling thei ' ere is not :ood money in the ict- a n mill business unless the Farm-1 s the most food and dainty an Aua~ No fretting o1 makn.R amd to cook's 6 FOOTBALL Wei&Sasm SM Yom Man F" Ace!sb Reconw FOURTEN KE Hundred and Twenty-eight Are In Jured in Contests-These Casual ties Have Occurred Despite Chang e% In Rules to Minimnze the Dange. With the football season barely under way a mouth, death has al ready claimed fourteen players. de spite many changes in the ruIle: made in the hope of lessening th( chances of serious injury. says *ihe Washington Star. The number ol the injured whose accidents hav been made public in the press dis. patches is more than 12S. Of thes 10O have sufferedJ serious hurta Many more have been hurt than hav come to public notice. Care is tak. en at '~he universities that as lit tie news as possiblie of injuries t< the football teams shall leak out sid" the campus. Especially is thi: true of the practice games. For that reason, anything approaching a com. plete list is not possible. IAm.,ng those who have died arn Frank Trimnbe. tackle, at the Univer sity of Indiana: Charles Becker, half back, of the Findlay (Ohio) Higi School. who died of injuries receivet in a scheduled game: Robirt Milling ton. halfback at the Pottsville (Pa. High School. who was ha~rt in a game with the Shamokin High School Walter Evans. fullback at Guthri< County (Iowa) High School. hur in a game with the Yale I owa) Hig] School: Joseph Walsh. guard at S: Mary's (Kan.' Col lege, hurt in practice game: John McArthur twenty, captain of the Huntingto, (Ind) football team, injured in: game with the Wabash High Schoo eleven; Charles E. Jack. forme: on the Colorado College footbal team, died of injuries received i 1906: Langdon McCormick. fifth en' on the Cornell University footbal team, died of injuries received i several years of foot tball playing; Clarence Pierce. of Wilmington. Del. hurt in a game O.:tober :2S: Charle: Brown Kissam. fift-en. a student al the Mackenzie School in Tarrytown: Russell P. Hecket. fifteen, of Pitts h.:rg, died of an injury to his chest: Clarence Picee. nineteen. of Wil migron. Del.. died of injuries r.:ceiv ed in a line4 scrimmage: Charlei Stroppel. seve'nt.-n. of Cincinnati died at Carthage. Ohio. of injuriet received in a line plunge, and Michael Burke. twenty-on., of Shenandoah. Pa.. hurt in a game against the Phil adelphia College of Pharmacy. Of the injured since October 16. the most seriously hurt is Ernest Stammn. twenty-seven, of No. 411 Sixth street. Blrooklyn. His skui: was fractured in a1 game betweer, the Acorn and the St. Paul footbai: teams of Brooklyn. The following have had their col lar bone~s broken: Sellers l'nder wood, tackle at Alabamna Presbyte rian College: Thomas Eggers. e-nd am West Division Wis t High School: Harry M~ason. tackle at Brookli i Mas'..s H igh Sch ->i: Fran k Creede. guard at Am~nberst Coll*e*: .Jae.e: Barnes. enu at !:linois Stat- .\or mal School: Coach Si'skind. of lial timor-- (.\dl High School of Co' merce: Richard hay, halfback a lgin (lll.) High School: .\ring.) vans. end at Waltham <Mass ili0. School: Frank S.-i:,.'r:. ecu--t :.. ashington ( Mo.> H irh Schiool ohn Fitzgerald. :;,ek I.- at Ford ban afbaick at Iiarthminouth 'Col'ge: ohn Roberts. tacklI.- at M.-rea I Ga.: ',lege: George Threni hall.;ac t Mordhead 5S. r i High School rank Yont:. rquarerbackat Loga Ohio ' High School: fap?. 14cstwiel alfback at the uI rjty of G;.or ta: G;rant K.*;pP.-. (lIuarter:'ack a owa City Ulich Sc-vr c!: W:i P.. is. guard at r,.-:awa--' Ohio * im ch'ni: red- Romig. tackle at Qua e'rown i Pa.' High School. and Re: rffith. guard at :he' Univ.rrsity 0 eorgia. Tho,, who bavo had! l-s b-rk" r C'.arence Rtu-. .nd at the' E:igin. i.. High S'-hool: Coe Minardo ackle at Beldir . Mich.. High coe. Patrick Qma ha:f..aek : E.i-or 1ider-u-i-T.-s o: & aS 3?.e. L. T : lit.ou l -. *-. C n'-r a rank Smith. gua' : at lrown t'ti: rsity: A. P. z-aker. ha.lfback a nversity of Kentuck: George Mon USED THE TORCH iO HiDE THE MURDER OF SEV ERAL PERSONS. ro Secure F ,red Gold Dollars Fiend. Slv.y a Family and Set Fli to, Home. The charred hodies of three mem. xrs of the family of George Hood. in aged white man, were found ruesday in the ruins of the Hood house at Harper. and the body of Leorg- Hood was remove- while the. flam-s wetre still at their height. The house was destroyed by fir. Monday night for the purpose, the police believe. of covering up a quadruple murder. Robbery is be-' lieved to have bern the motive for the crime. From the ruins the charred and blackened corpses of Washington Hood. aged .35 years. his sister. aged 27. and their niece. aged 12 ye4.rs. .were taken. The body of George Hood. 70 years old. had the head almost severed. as was seen when it was dragged from the house. The burned building was a two story frame structure. the upper floor being occupied by the Hoods. while in the rooms below was a ,restaurawit conducted by a negro. The theory is that the house was fired after the inmates had been murdered, though there is not the slightest clue as to the perpetrator. Officers immediately went to the scene with bloodhounds, but it is said that the dogs failed to find a trail. The robbery theory was sug gest-ed by the fact that Washington Hood Saturday had shown over $100, in the negro m!staurant. A younger Hood was attending :er vices at a church near the home and it was from the church the flames were frst seen. Hood rushed madly from the church. He fought his way into the home. which was al ready a roaring furance. and forced his way up the steps until be stumb led over the corpse of his father. He managed to drag the body down the stairs and out into the yard. but when he atuttmpted to go for his sister, brother and little child he found every entrance closed by the furious flames. When the fnames had subsided. the ruins were searched and the charred corpses found. There seems little doubt that Washington Hood's throat had been cut before the fire was started. The money that Washington Hood had exhibited in the negro restaurant the night before the fire, was all in cold, but no trace of it was to be found in the ruins. SHOT IN THE HEAD. One Boy Shoots Another Boy With a Harmless Parlor Rie. A dispatch from Columbia says "tLttle David Dowell, of Winnsboro. is lingering at the Columbia hospital with a rifle wound in his head. The boy, who is only 12 years of age. was accidently shot by Wasrren Flennike::. who was out hunting with a 22-calibre ride. near Winnu boro. at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon. David waa carried to Columbia by Dr. Lindsay Friday to be operated on by Dr. Guerry, of Columbia. David Dowell was going to bring the cows home Friday afternoon and the ball from the rifle of Warren Flenniken struck him as he passed within 400 yards of the young hun ter. Flenniken Is 14 years of age. From the time the wound was in flicted young Dowell remained un conscious. His older brother and Dr. Lindsay ?ook the train for Co lumbia shortly after the shooting. bringing the boy here for the oper ation." The wonder is that more such accidents do not happen. Too many careless boys are allowed to handle guns. What It Means. One often hears the expression. "In a minute." A minute seems a very small anid unimportant fractio-, of time, and because of that secea most people waste a good many of the course of a day. Yet think whit can be done in the short space of a minute. Take traveling as an e x ample. In a minute the averatg" pedest rain walks sixteen rods. a trotting horse and an ocean "gre:' hound" cover half a mile and an express train clips off a mile. That is pretty fast trav'eling but nothing to what this old world is doing in one minutes it whirls us around on the outside of the earth by ts diurnal moton some thIrteen miles. and it speeds us on in the same space of time 1,080 miles on its grand tour around the sun. But even tha, is slow work compared with what a ray of light does, for in one short minute it flashes through 11.000.00tj miles. A minute is a good deal after all. So let us take care of each one as it comes along. laring foreign Immigration to the Southland. The thirty thousand of these very men raised to bring two Wittekind. eargoes of foreigners to South Caro lina had much better been spent in belping rather than trying to d-fe"' ~he farmers in th.-ir humane efforts :o properly re-gulate- the production. narketing and selling of their cot :on. Sotith Carolina acted at th': inited demand of the fairmers of he Old South State. abolished the ;tat.- bureau of immigration, and p.'cilic-ally enacted. .\arch 4. last: 'The commisioner of agricuiturej ball not. directly or inii.'eclv. t empt to bring immigrants into this tate." Law are meant to v'u:' unfair iractices. the taking of coui 'van -~ aa.-s of your f.-llowmeu. and wej -arn yo~u. enlemon. that conditi'ons ave change'd. Able. fs-arles of cis. backed by intelligently or anizd effort. are on guard, and ill m."et you half way in what yn: II on wilt. fair or foul. and quickly. ( so. The farmer and especially the( atton planter. has been worked and armied by every one from the usuri-a 'is money lende~r to the cotton spec-:I later, but the time when these t arasite~s could steal from under hisS er ns his very a1l. has pased rav n"ear :n r.aurn again. IHav" ' car". play fai. and kee little. 15 zat a 1teic of the' milk of human F' indn.'ss and swe~ns of manlyv *mpanthy in your soul, gentlemen. t nutritious the most I delicious rer the biscuit Dya1 is first many a succ e Wilson Jordon, tackle at Hammond. Ind.. High School; Ted Eberle. half back at Swarthmore College; R. Recker. quarterback at Mount Car mel. Pa.. School: Cecil Covington. end at Vanderbilt. Tenn.. University; John Shick. halfback at West Branch. Mich.. High School. Eleven players have had ribs broken. They are James Clements. end at Southern Manual. Pa.. High School: William Johnson. end at University of Syracuse; Howard Shankweller. end at Scotch Hill. Pa.. School: Thomas McDonough. end at Connecticut Agricultural College; Edward Lewis. fullback at Fountain Hill, Pa.. High School: James Pick ering. fullback at University of Min nesota: Carl Anderson. fullback at Washington and Jefferson Vriversi ty: Cotton Berndt. halfback at Uni versity of Indiana: Clem Crowley. end at Denver. Coy.. University; Harold Fritz, halfback at Central Pennsylvania High School. and Mich ael Kelleher. tackle at Fordham Coi-. Assistant Coach Clark Sebrontze of the Washington and Jefferson College football team, was kicked in the head and body in a practice game October 10. and is in a serious condition at Washington. Pa. THE. PARLR RIFLE NUISANCE. A Suggstion That the Legature 1Remedy the Evil. "S. W. T."' calls attention through the columns of The News and Cour we to the parlor rte. aulannee. He says: - "I saw in Saturday's paper that a twelve-year-old boy was shot by g a fourteen-year-old lad near Winna boro at a distance of 400 yards. Now who Is to blame for this accident. Sit will be called an accident? WhIle I claim it was no accident., as anyone will agree who knows anything about a 22-calibre rifle, that it will do damage at 800 yards it ,t should be fired a? an elevation and the bullet should hit anyone. Why will parents allow their boys to have those little rifles? It seems to me that the parents of boys should be held responsible for accidents of this kind. "The parlor rifle nuisance is grow-,. lng. Every hardware store show window has them displayed to temptc !he boys to bety th~a As thera Ie very little game to shoot with them, [ can't see wny parents will z~iew their boys to have the-.a. Mos.t ;,ar ents think them- toys, and when harm is done to an innocent per son 400 yards away they wito say 'accident.' A shotgun wlb. .seaU. shot would not do much dam.x1 at 150 yards. and if the boys wo(Id s 'hoot shotguns they could -see an~' ',ne at that distance and would not ,~ shoot them. But it is different with the ridle. as it is liable to kill some one out of sight of them when they shoot small birds on fences and bushes the right height to give the -ight elevation. I hope the next Leg !slature will take up this nuisance and see if there can't be some law passed to remedy the evil." It Pays to Raise Mules. I have on my place now one mare that has brought me seven mules, says W. R. Hah',- In the Progressive Farmner. I have used the mare for -iine years and have received $1.200, said to be the value of the mnles. and have a nice filly colt worth $100. ind the mare looks almost as well is she did whe.n I bought her. The >ider mules ar.' sixteen hands and a-eigh ove-r 1.000 pounds each. They - ome's in Ilattened layers. the larg 'st piec.-s ever found being about six f..-t long and weighing about ift'een pounds. Prom three to four tons have been mined in a year at Whitby. bringing a revenue' into the own of as much as $5i00.000~ for the nanufacture~d ornamntns made from "Bud" Whitman. the negro con ect'd of the murder of Vonderan ennon of Oconee. Ga.. Septemb~er .. was hanged in the county jail Athbens. Ga.. at 11:30 Friday 'orning. Whitman mttde a final 's.-een adrnmiig the~ eriuca. Ho and prvol invovled a white man a th.e killing.* Foot ball goes on in spite of the fatalities that it causes. Tbe man igements know that tha spice of danger in the game helps to swell the gate reciepts, and what is a lifo or two. if bv~ sacrieing them divi dends are increasedi to owners of parks speakng of da's gonne r. we are :m:nde~d -hat ke:ghts also are a ng of the past. It is w#il to remember that ev.en