University of South Carolina Libraries
VOL. XXIV MANNING, S. C. W EDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1909 NO.13 FIEND LYNCED Ba &e W at Cake, hums fir d HmikCrimedo A Fiendish BrWbh Nego Atte Oomtesing to the Crim Of As -Gekig and M rerig Miss Fency, whose Body Was FoNd in an Alley, Lynched and BwNd. Will James. the negro suspected of being the murderer of Miss An nie Pelley. was lynched at Cairo. Illinois, Thursday 'night by a mob. He was strung up to the public arch. the rope broke and at lieast 500 shots were poured ino his body. James made a confeSion. Implcat ing another negro Arthur Akesan der. The lynching took place In the most prominent part of the er 3.and was witnessed by ten thousand peo ple. - Women present were the first to pul the rope. When It broke. the, trenzy of the mob was uncotrolabl and they fired volley after voey into Jame's body. shooting him to pieces. The mob then dragged the body over the streets for more tha a mie to Twenty-sixth and lm streets. in an aney. and burned It where the murder was committed. James was found with Sheriff Vs vis between Kar.Ak. iln.. and Belm nap, by the Cairo crowd, who went up Thursday afternoon. The crowd overpowered the ocers and took the negro from them. and Ifter a conference it was decided to bring their prisoner bacd to Cair* and ynch h1= , Sherif Davis had been Seeing from the mob for twenty-four hours with the prisoner. Driven from town to town 'by senacing crowds the sheriff had taken to the woods with James, but the persistent search of the smry avengers proved effec tive at last. Fully a thrnsand persons went out to nd the negro, and when the pur sers arrived in Cairo with their. quarry. they were met by a howling mob of 5,000 others bent on slaying the negro. They mched the negro direct to the public arch. sweeping the streets lke a Sock of sheep might tread a narrow lane. Many women were in the crowd and ansioa to help do the work. Sheriff Davis having been toiled in his attempt to hide the negro. pleaded for the life pf the prisoner. but without avail. When Cairo was reached. Sheriff Davis was taken in charge by a paarty of the thob, which rushed the negro rapidly a to his funeral pyre. The mob that ch edthe gheriff and the negro was so large that it soured the entire -country from Karnak to Vienna. 3I11.. a distance of about sixteen' uliqa. When found by the mob the ne gro was handeuffed between two of theand~ aDtre were wyeng on the ank f acreek. All three wr so weak from hunger. exposure and the futile attempt te elude the mob that they were not' able to make much resistance, While in custody of the mob com tu to Cairo the negro trould not talk about thez crime, but when he Peey. 'H~ t a .hur lS nder was Is~SJnthe rm The .tupabha fUW the grand dhe struggleppe a momelOdV muaIn o the rope ~ W pesos who ad O 4psdfanced 'in alte ht forthVsed maclmos aec aly, and bEliened'tbe n-tve- wit bulets. Ten. notsalfldwith vengeance. he snobdteaggef the body co the place where WEs iPelley's body. boud. gazed and bured had been found. A a9ring fle was boult and the body was incinerated.-I Jmesgho came ftrom the South. sad l Pg:eley had been assault ed and gurdered after a terriic, fight. ?tsi reportedzthat Alexander. e negrod mplicated by James in he mure'of bliss Pelley' has been ond bydhe mob, and that they ae bringipp him into town to lynch Goenor Deneen appealed to at 11 oclock by Sheriff Davis. who declar ed the mob was storming the jail and volunteers would not assist him ordred ten troops of militia to pro ceed at once to Cairo to restore order. Buder Be ases to QstPSerii sad.Potice daardit. . -wo years ago the owner of a private residence ingthe aritocratM vicinity of the Plaza, in New York city had his house remodeled and a vault constucted und'er the sidewalks The contractor had obtained a permit for the altero Us t buidin but had failed to take otta permdi for the mautt, flor which 4 fee of sev eral hundred dollary was required At the behest of the bureau of high ways a policeman (as stationed a the building to oreveit further wor) on the vault until the fee was paif and the permit obtained. The vaul has been under police S'ureeiano ever since and the vault is StIll un finished, with a fairapr05est of ye ming so until thg d6rnet of tb building. who is sad to be a ml ionaire. choose's to plank down tb unrcqa1 fee for a permit. ANOTER LYNHING WMITE MAN SWUNG TP FOR MURDERING HIS OWN WIFE. After Lynhtng the Negro the Mob Attacked the Jail and Made Quick Work of a White Man. At Cairo. IMinois. Henry Saltner. white. a photograp'er. who killed his wife last July with an axe. was taken from jail at 11:40 o'clock Thursday night by a mob and hang ed to a telegraph pole, and his body riddled with bullets. The lynching followed closely on the lynching of Will James, a negro. who eariler in the evening had been hanged for the murder of Miss Annie Pelley. The mob gave Salzner a chance to confesa after the rope was around his neck. but he was so frightened that he could only mumble that his sisters had kiled his wife. The mob became furious at this. and It was hard work to keep them of Salzner long enough to give him a chance to pray. The mob fmally subsided and a short religious service was held, after which he was strung up. the rope being placed over a tele graph pole at 21st and Washington streets. The mob found some difMiculty in breaking the cage. as it was an en tirely steel structure, but after a half hour of telling blows upon the door x it gave way and Sakuer was secu- I 9& The mob rushed him out of the back door of the jaI, which Is in! the basement of the court house. t around the building through the yard I and out Into Waahington avenue. f ad up to 21st street. which is a prominent corner and has a public r square. He cried and begged piteously for f Ws life,' and was met by cries and L Slows from the mob. When Salzuer c as asked for his last statement a a man. a stranger in the crowd. step- d pad forward and said he believed a alsner was innocent, whereupon the c mob fel! upon him. kicked him and to nally knocked him down, and It I was -only the pleas of cooler per- v eons that saved his life. He was compened to beg for mer- b cy from the mob. and announced In 9 a loud voice that Salzner should be d lynched. after which he was driven r from the mob and all attention was h given to Ialzner. After Salzner a was hanged, and while the body was a being riddled with bullets. the rope tj broke and the body fell to the 11 pound. where it now lies, the mob going away and leaving it. Salzner was born and reared at o Cairo. He had been married about i two years last July.' when his wife I was found at her home with her r skull fractured. A bloody axe was a found under the bed. Two babies v were playing in the .mother's blood. v Slaner was found at the home of his mother, where he often slept at a ight. Before Mrs. Salzner died she il recovered enough to accuse her bus- n band of attacking her. t Feeling against him had been bit ter. and Thursday night, after the ync.hing of James. when some one suggsted Salzner. the mob rushed for the county jail, got Salzner and. ynched him. DR. CARTLISE'S LIBRARY ' t a Son and Daughter. The library of the late Dr. James C . Carlisle. president of Wofford oegege'otailning many choice and rare 'volames, has been presented to Weogor college by J. H. Carlisle.,' Jr., and Miss Sallie Carlisle. children d the deceased. The gift ia highly dpreciated. not only by the faculty and trustees of the college, but by he studentS and the alumnL, for It Is regarded as one of the richest treasurns of the colkege. In addition to presenting the Ii ay of their father, which consiste of some 2.5010 or 3.000 volumes. Miss Carlsle and 'Mr. Carlisle presented h college with several old pieces of ibrary furniture of Dr. Carlisle. which are fiamuato the old stu dents of the college. The library of Dr. Carlisle will not e catalogued along with the other books of the co~'ege, but will be plac ed Intact in a room of the library building and the furniture will be arranged in this room as nearly as osble as it was in the library of the great educator. In other words. the faculty of the college hopes to 'reserve the library and its furnIture intact so that one who ever had the pleasure of callung on Dr. Car lsle at his home will at once be mpressed with the surroundings. TOOK~ HIS OWN LIFE. W. J. Arant, of Columbia. Commit ted Suie Friday. With his uniform of the Confed erate army by his bedside. and a re qetthat he be buried in his be loved grs7W. J- Arant. well known is this State. says The State. was found dead In Columbia Frid.1y mnring. An empty bottle that had ~ontained laudanumi accounted for the manner of hi death. The n<w of the suicide camne as a surpr.e .nerally, although Mr. Arant was' known to have suffered much wig! .epodency. dating from tLe time .his' wife ~dled, about a year ago. in Charleston. Only a bhort while ago Mr. Arant was heard to say that he could never recover from his great loS arA Iwould rather be dead than aliva, but not even his most Intimmce fri-'nd? Ithought of suicde in connection with their friend.' Requests found -by the bed. to notify F. H. Arant. a son residing in Camden. and H. -B. Bolger and C. F. Hebrich of Char Sleston. were complied with and F. H-. Aran arrved Friday mo;~in;. FLATLY DENIED A Fake Stry Abt SmAr Than Made Up in Chmbia and SENT TO EW YOR SUN Mr. A. J. ethesa Governor Ansers Private seeetary. Wrath With the Writer of the Dispatch. Which He Brands as a Yarn Out of the Whole Cloth. Mr. A. J. Bethea. Governor Ausel's private secretary, writes the follow Ing letter, which explains itself: The governor's secretary has writ en the following letter: enator B. R. Tillman. Trenton. S. C. My Dear Sir: I have just read the .tory in The News and Courier enti ed "No Drink for Tilman." copied rom the New York Sun. and to say hat I am disgusted and outraged ardly expresses my feelings. There is not a semblance of truth n this article, which. of course. y.,.u now as well as I do. but In jus Ice to you and to myself. I hasten a write to assure you that It did tot come from me nor any one con Lected with the governor's ofice. There is only one way in which t could possibly have originated, and be truth has been so distorted that strains the Imagination to account Dr It. On Friday of last week a gentle an came over from Winnsboro. sad ras in great distress because he >und the dipenasaries closed, mak xg it impossible for him to purchase ampagne. which he wished to use t a recebtion at his home the next sy. The governor was absent. and s he had oridered the dispensaries osed for that day and the next. I )ld the gentleman I could do noth g for him, although he brought ith him a physician's certifcate. At the luncheon on Saturday I sat Y Mr. Robert H. Hazard. a repre ntative of the United Priess, and ring the course of conversation I a ?ated to him the above story. tell- 1 g him of the distress of the gentle an. but without mention of his s &me. and certainly without any ' ought of yours In connection with t I do not say that Mr. Hazard c rote this article, but I cannot ac- m unt for it- in any other way. I* 1 ,certainly far from the truth, and a hope you will understand that I a seut it- and that I object to being tade a party to a newspaper story. hich is utterly without warrant and thout foundation. Trusting this explanatIon will arve the purpose for which it is iteded.- and assuring you of my nwillingness to do you an injus ce, I am. Yours very truly. A. 3. Bethea. The Dispatch. The dispatch complained of ap eared Sunday in several papers. :ong them the New York Sun and ie Baltimaore American. It reads follows: Columbia, S. C.. Nov. .-Taft Day i this city inconvenienced Senator illman. The governor of South arolina has the power to suspend be sale of liquor whenever he deema advisable. A large crowd was athering in this city yesterday for 'aft Day' and the governor ordered e dispensaries to close for two ays. Along ,about this time Benjamin L Tillman hit the town. Hle had un over from Trenton. his bezie, to :et two bottles of champagne. He as going to have company at home .nd he wanted the champagne badly. e tried two or three dispensaries. ut they were closed. Then the sen Ltor hustled up to the governor's ffce and- appealed to hi. Drivate see etary. The secretary allowed there a nothing he could do. "Well, couldn't I get two bottles e a doctor's prescription?' begged be senator. The secretary said the only way rould be for the senator to find iome friend and perhaps this friend ~oid give him two bottles. It would e against the law for him to sell ~hem. For the senator to look for . champagne cellar friend in Co umbia was a hopeless proposition. iadnt the senator just had a big ow with the Columbia Taft Day reception committee because they wanted to tax him $10 for his seat t the Taft luncheon? The senator had ijold Columbia o go to blazes with its luncheon. r words to that effect. Finally the governor's secretary referred the senator to a friend of his, and from him Mr. Tillman got hi.' two quarts. The senator was a framer of the South Carolina dispensary law, and thus was getting a taste of his own medicine. Mrs. Marie Estey Suicides. Mrs. Marie L. Estey, widow of a widely known piano manufacturer. committed suicide in a boarding house in New York a few night ago by inhaling Illuminating gas. The loss of her fortunle some years ago brought on a nervous disorder and her Ill health Is believed to have led to her act. Aged Ne~ro Suicides. CalvIn Hinton, a veteran negro employe at the farm of Charles H. Hlnton. near Raleigh. Y. C.. com mitted -culcide a few days ago. usinog a shotgun with 1shich he blew out his 'brains. Chffldren hearing the shot ran to the house and found hi dy-in on the floor of his cab M MERSCAHE AND WOUNDS PRESIDENT OP Bu'K HE TRIED TO ROB. The Young Bandit is Run Down and Captured After He Shoots One More Man. In an attempt to rob a bank at 3ew Albany. Ind., a young man en tered the Merchants' Bank at noon Thursday and killed J. Hangery Fawcett. cashier of the bank. serious ly wounded John K. Woodward. pres ident of the bank. and wounded Ja". R. Tucker, a negro chauffeur, prob ably fatally. When 1lall entered the bank he carried a pistol In each hand. After commanding every one to throw up his hands and "get into the vault." Hall began shooting. Cashier Fawcett was sho* ibrough the chest and neck and died almost instantly. President Woodward was shot through the liver and his intes tines were perforated. Tucker. the chauffeur. was shot through the body. Following the shooting the mur derer rushed from the bank and tried to escape In an automobile. which he had taken from the curb in front of the residence of its own er. Mrs. Walter Escott, in Louis ville. Ky. He had forced the negro chauffeur at the point of a pistil to drive him to New Albany. After the shooting at the bank the chauffeur, paralyzed with terror and apparently Incapable of actica. sat still when the robber jumped Into the car and ordeted him to speed mp the machine. The roober then lumped out nf the autom.<, shot be negro In the back and ran two locks to the Ohio river. He seized a skiff and was on his way to the Louisville side of th., rv in before the frightened ci.tize'ns of *ew Albany knew whac had haj-pen d. An alarm was given through a negaphone on a dredge bont aai in L short time several policemen had tarted In pz'suit in a fast motol )at. After being captured the bandit -efused to give his name, and had Ittle to say. He said that ho had -en around Louisville for several Lays. He did not know Tucker, the iauffeur. and declared Tucker was tot implicated in the attempt on the ank. A dispatch from Louisville, KY.. ays the bandit was identified as rhomas Jefferson Hall, and according o William L- Hall. his father, the lesperado Is but 17 years old. The lder Hall. who has a ;urniture store Lt No. 802 South Preston street. in bat city, said that young Hall was household tyrant, and not insane Lt all. "He is simply mean.' said the fath hr. The family is formerly of Knox ille. Tenn. W. J. Hall detailed his son's ac ions for the last few years. say ng that dime novels had been the routh's constant reading. Among young Hall's effects was ~ound a .powerfully made cabinet. ied and outfitted like a room. It s believed ' hat the boy expected to scape with his loot, crawling into he box, which was consigned to "R. . Smith. Knoxville. Tenn.." and es ape as freight. NORTH CAROLINIAN SUICIDES. Places Gun .Againt a Stamp and Pulls the Trigger. A. H. Bragg. a farmer living near Redweed. N. C.. committed suicide . few days ago about 10 o'clock y shooting himself dead witae shot-i The old gentleman had been des pondent three or four weeks and lately showed very great signs of ntellectual decrepitude. He went to town several weeks ago and said be felt that irresponsibility. The morning of the suicide he started ~ut and told a colored man that he wanted to borrow a gun with whid to shoot squirrels. There the smart ness of the determined suicide shost ed itself. H-e had prepared a forked stick with which to work the trig ger and putting the gun against a stump. pulled the trigger and blew his head off. He was 58 years old and had two sons and three daughters. Wreck Gas Plant. A boiler at the gas plant of the Palatka. Fla.. Gas, Light and Fuel Company exploded Tuesday after noon, killing two negro firemen, al most conmpletely demolishing the plant and causing the city to be in darkness. Houses for blocks around~ were shaken almost off their foun dations, and window panes nearby were broken. The bodies of the men were blown against some heavy pumping machinery, one of them be ing crushed into almost an unrecog ni~able mass. Gained :30 Pounds in 60 Days. A collector for the Central of Georgia Railway Company was tired and worn out. Felt wretchedly and unfit for work. Two bottles of Johnson's Tonic made him gaIn 20 pounds in 60 days. Are you under weight. Gm. Johnson's Tonic and use It. I? does the w'ork. Confederate Veteran Pae.ses. Mior Thomas Hayes. former in spector general of the, Con federate army. at ene time s,-cond vice presi dent of the Pullman Palace Car Com-' pany. died at his home in Louisville. K.. a few days ago, aged 72. Cotton Ginned. The census bureau at Washington 7012.317 bales. counting round bales as half bales. had been ginned from the growth of 1909 to Novem her 1. as compared with 8.191,55 BOND TOO MALL THE R13NING AWAY OF DR. BIG HAM IS NO SURPRISE. Some Coament on the Case That Is Heard In the County of the Slain Woman. A letter from Laurens to The State says little surprise is expressed there that Dr. G. C. Bigham is not to be found. When the news was received in Laurens the general comment was, "Well. that is just about what might be expected. w'-n the bond was so light; I think I'd have done the same thing." Underlying this sentiment is the fact that in Laurens and Laurens county Dr. B!i::am and his friend. Avant, are believed to be guilty of foul murder. There is absolutely no sympathy for them up there; the people believe them guilty of mur der or not guilty. Hence, when both the verdict of the jury and the sen tence were known, and when the bond was reduced from $2.500 to $1.500 severe criticism was heard on all sides. In the Mountville com munity where Dr. Bigham resided for a while, the people are almost unanimous in their dislike for the man. formed beflote, jlong before. the tragedy. One youag man. wno knew Dr. Bigham' very well, while In the city of Laurens shortly after the trial. being asked what he thought of the man, said: "He was a rough, mean fellow; full of braggadocio, always talking about what he would and ould do; he told me about buying a special pistol to kill another fel low with. I had very little regard tar hin.' From the newspaper accounts of .he trial .and the testimony brought )t, surprise was caused In Laurens Dn account of the eNtence imposed by Judge Watts. Because the de endants did not go on the stand o tell the world just how this awful mistake had occurred, as mistake they claimed it to be. the people Ln Laurens regard It as a fear of being cross-ezamned and decidedly ganst the defendants. Dr. Bigham is a low, heavy-set an, possibly five feet, nine Inches n height, dark ced hair, parted in he middle, medium low forehead. ruddy complexion; eyes of light brown, reddened as If by dissipation d granulated eye lids. He is rath !r boyish in appearance, clean shaw mn and when his face is in repose e appears rather a mild mannered nan. In appearance he is rather rounger than his age. 28 years. Before Dr. Bigham's trial. M. L. irtsp. his brother-in-law. who lives it Whitmires. was one of the bonds nen. At that time there was no leeling on the part of the Crisp fami y except that the shooting was a terrible mistake; later, upon inves tigation. the Crisps withdrew their ppostion to'the prosecution. The at that Mr. Crisp was on Dr. Big m's bond was stressed by the de tendant's attorney. However, after the trial. Mrs. M. M. Bigham, moth 'r of the defendant, signed his DOWNED IN SEA DISASTER~. Io Lone Survivors of an Ocean Tragedy ia Picked up at Sea. Belated news of a disaster at sea n which probably 11 lives were lcst was brought to New York Tuesday. ix members of the crew of barken tine John S. Bennett bound from ew York to Halifax. with a cargo f coal, were drowned early Monday orning when the vessel was sunk In a collision off Block Island with four-masted schooner, supposed to be the Merrill C. Hart of Thomaston. !:fe. The schooner also is bellieved to have been lost with all ther crew f five men. Wreckage bearing the name of the Merrill C. Hart floated ashore near the scene of the collision, :n.dicating that the Maine schooner played the second part in the accident. Mea gre details of the disaster were brought to New York by Captain Bullock of the schooner William Jones. which picked up two Filipino sailors of the Bennett. the crew of which numbered In all eight men. Captain Bullock said that at I occk Monday morning as he was passing Block Island he made out the lights of a vessel, the captain of which hailed him and asked for as sistance. saying that his barkentinle had been in collision and was sink Bullock immediately came about and made ready for the request, but before a small boat could be p.. ovr the barkentine. had vanished beneath the surface. Nearby the searching in the small boat came across the Filipinos clinging to a dory and picked them up. The Filipinos said the Merrill C. Hart sank soon after the two vessels collided. A TRIFLING RASCAL Being Sought by the Wife He Base ly Deserted. A dispatch from Atlanta to the Augusta Chrenicle says coming fron Augusta wIthout a cent in search of her husband. whom she says is witl Barnum and Bailey's circus there Mrs. Bessie Brooks reached thor< on a Georgia railroad train withou1 the formality of a ticket Wednes day. In h'er arms she carried a ba y of a few months. She Is onl: twenty years old and claims to hav married at Wh;Mire. S. C.. abou a year ago. A sbort time after th< aby was born he left her and sh< was told that he had joined the cir cu. She immediatelyJ went to At ;sta in search of him. but not Sn ing him there. she followed the cir -u on to Atlanta. NERVY THIEVES Fie Its Ize Fifty Frw Tkefr Camp B Them Seardy and TOOK ALL THEIR CASH The Bound Men After Being Rob bed of Their Valuables, Spen Five Hours Together After th< Thieves Who Had Deprived Then Bad Beat a Safe Retreat. A dispatch from Ridgewood. N. J. says fifty Italians employed in build ing a trolley road from Paterson to Sufferin were held up by a -ew band its by night in this place, bound hand and foot, and robbed of all their money and jeweiry. The victims were left lying tied in a snanty un til morning, when one of them man agd to free himself and inform the police. The robbers, of whom there were only five, got away with twenty watches, many tria.ets, and $1,4S8. 51 in bills and small change. Seldom has there been a robbery in which the thieves were so tricky or used such generalship in handling a large body of victims. So skill fully did they do their work that at no time were *hey In danger of being attacked by more than one man. The laborers lived In a shanty in the Bergen county cutout, an is customary wita gangs employed on new railways. The gang foreman was supposed to look out for their welfare and see that tae) were a'np ly protected against thieves. B-it with half a hundred mers around him, he had no suspicion that four r five men could get away with anything. Foreman Tackled First. Therefore, he felt no fear when a man appeared at the door of the shanty in the night and sail he wanted to see the boas of the gang. The foreman went out and met the bandits, all of whom spoke Italian. They informed him they were gov ernmnent officers, and that they had been sent to arrest him for selling iquor in the shanty without a li ense. They led him away from the shanty, and, keeping two pistols aimed at his head, they bound him hand and foot. They carried him to a spot well away from the house and left three men to guard him. One 'of the bandits then went to the shanty and called out another of the laborers. He. too, was told that he was arrested, led away. bound hand and foot. and carried to the place where the boss was lying. The trick then was used to lead the other workmen out of the shanty. and, one by one, their captors bound them safely and carried them away. hose left inside the shanty never missed their comrpanions, most ot hem having prepared to go to sleep. The ones lying bound with ropes did ot dare make a sound, for fear the men guarding them would shoot. It took more than an hour for the bandits to complete the work of binding all the men. Then they carried them back to the shanty in pairs, laid them on the floor, and went through their pockets. As each man's money and jewelry were taken away he was bundled into a corner. When the bandits were sure they ad all the money and jewelry in the camp they warned their victims not to make any outcry, and leisure ly departed. It was almost midnight before they finished their work, and not one of the victims had attempt ed to resist. FIve Bours of Helpless Rage. For five hours the workmen lay bemoaning the loss of their money. The cords had been tightly bound on mnost of them, with their hands behind their bac.ks and ropes pass ed around their legs above and be. low the knees. In vain they squirm ed and wriggled, trying to free themselves, until 5 p. in.. when one of the men succeeded in slipping hIs bands loose. He quickly removed the ropes from his legs, and, disre garding the urgent pleas of his com panions to be freed, he fled fron3 the shanty. Hle~ran all the way t< the home of Chief of Police Fuller of this place, and excitedly told the story of the hold-up. Fuller called several patro men and they hastened to the shanty There they found 49 men still bound ecurely, and quickly released them When all the workmen were free< they compared notes as to thei: losses, and the polic.. were able t< find out how much the bandits got Good descriptions of four of the ban dits were given to the police. bu there was not a clew to indicate wh< the robbers were. Information o the hold-uip was sent to severa near-by cities, and a search of ti< -Italian sections was mad.e, but rn ain. The thieves had a clear mar gin of five hours in which to cove heir tracks, and they used it t advantage. Seven Victirms Recored. Seven victims have been recover d and it is believed the~ list of dea will reach twelve, as the result e a fire in the AuchinllOSS shaft C the Delaware'. Lackawanna & We tern Coal Company. at Naticock, Pa. An czplosionl of gas se t fire t the timbers of the mine. Bailey's Comet Sighted. H aley's Comet was observe rom Providence. R. I.. at Ladd O! srvatry. Brown University. by Pro -inslow Upton. The comet. accor< - lg to Prof. Upton. should be vis le by telescope from now on an w.... .' na-k.d .v. in January. BLAMES THE WOMM 0 STOLE BIG SUM OF MONEY AND PUTS UP THE EXCUSE That He Was Made to Do it by Be ing INaikmafled by a Bad Female Associate. At Cincinnati. Ohio. Mrs. Jeannette Stewart, also known as Mrs. Ford, one of the women accused by Chas. L. Warriner. defaulting local treasur er of the Big Four Railroad of hav ing shared in his speculations by blackmaili!ng him, declared she would tell the whole inside story of the $&43.000 theft, when the case came to court. Mrs. Stewart denied she had ever received money from Warriner. The sudden breaking of her si lence was caused according to her. by a quarrel which she had with another woman, who has also been mentioned by Warriner. This quar rel resulted in the attachment of Mrs. Stewart's furniture. The of-' ficers who made the attachment were quickly followed by reporters, and in the stress of excitemuent. Mrs. Stewart's reserve broke down. "I never received a cent from Charles Warriner," she said, "and I never gave any information to the railroad about his shortage. It was another woman that did it all; a woman I thought was my friend. I know the whole story and I will tell it in court, too." At present the question that is exercising the railroad ofcials is. What became of the $643,000 which Warriner admi.ts having stolen? Warriner says he lost It in stock speculation and In satisfying the demands of blackmailers, but that explanation 1h not satisfactory to the oicials. Warriner says he is penniless and his neighbors at his home in Wycm ng. Ohio. declare that he is a sick man. It Is admitted by railroad ofcers that Warriner might have continued his speculations indefinitely if he had not been betrayed by a woman. so great was his superiors' confidence In him. MURDERED BY SMUGGLER& Eighteen Sailors Made Drunk and Then Killed. Passengers arriving at New Or leans on the steamer Parlaminia, from British Honduras told of the scuttling of the Honduras gunboat Tatumbia and the murder of eigh teen of her crew after she had over- 1 anled a British steamer engaged in smuggling between Jamaica and Hon duras. Six days ago the Tatumbla over hauled the smuggler fifty miles out f Puerto Cortes and twenty of the unboat's crew boarded the smuggler. The smuggler crew surrendered and the smuggler captain told Capt. Zalella that there plenty of good rum in her hold. Zelella ordered a celebration. The prisoners feigned intoxication, and when tue gunboat's crew succumbed o the rum they were thrown over board. The smuggler's crew scut tled the gunboat and then escaped. Two of the sailors who were flung overboard reached one of the gioat ing lifeboats of the sunken liandu ran vessel and reached Puerto C rtes with ihe story of the wholesal.' mur PELLAGRA CAUSED DEATHS. Was at First Thought to be Ty phold Fever. That hundreds of deaths which occurred at the Confederate prison at Andersonville. Ga., during the summer of 1864 were not due to ty phod fever, as then supposed, but were caused by pellagra. was the opinion expressed before the South er medical convention in New Or leans a few days ago by Dr. 3. W. Kerr of Corsicana, Tex. Dr. Kerr. who was surgeon at the Anderson ville prison, described the symp toms of the disease, which attacked the inmates so fatally at that time. and in nearly every particular they were recognized as being character istic .of pellagra. This view was further strengthened. Dr. Kerr sala. by the fact that musty or spoiled corn. generally accredited by the medical fraternItyv as being perhaps the cause of pellagra. constituted the main diet of the prisoners, be cause of inability to furnish them other supplies. The consensus of opinion among the physicians who presented papers on the subject was that p-wllagra is attibutable? to spoiled corn. Double Tragedy. As a tragic culmination of martIal Itroubles of long standing Louis W. Lewis, white. shot and instantly kill ed his wife at his home in Jackson vi". Fla.. Wednesday afternoon. then turned the revolver on himself. )sending a bullet through his head. causing instant death. Negro Woman Kills Herself. -In Savannah. Ga.. Tuesday after Ijnoon. Evelinla .Johnson. coored, aged fjthirty-one years. drank the contents Iof a two-ounce bottle of carbolic -Iacid, from the effects of which she died in agony a short time after Dwards. The negro woman was a laundress. Cause of Death. 6An autopsy Wednesday at Som -mervil!". N. J.. disclosed the fact hat the death of Robert Simpson. w- ho died in a trance. was due to - upture of the aorta. Prof. Everton. dhe hypnotist. will probably be c,-ae with m-anslaughter. CAN'T BE FOUND 1k. . C.Bgiazu, &&= cedfi di to Uderas Yeg We. HAS BROKN IS BOND Avant, who, With Bigham, Was Convicted of nanghter at Georgetown Recently for Kiling Mrs. Bighain, Gives Hinself Up, But the Huemand is Missing. A dispatch from Georgetown to The News and Courier says from de velopments within the past few days it seems likely that Dr. G. C. Big ham, who with W. BI Avant was con victed at the last term of court of manslaughter for the killing of Mrs. Bigham on Murrel's Island. will yet escape the penalty of three anJ a half years' hard labor in the peni tentiary, imposed by Judge Watts. The notice of appeal made by the defendant's attorney, J. W. Ragadale. not having been filed within the ten days allowed by law, Solicitor Wells wired Sheriff Scurry to apprehend the convicted parties at once, they being out on a $1,500 bond. On Saturday Avant, learning 4 his being wanted by the sheriff, went to Georgetown from his home at Harpers and surrendered himself. He is now in the county jail. Sheriff Scurry wired Sheriff Burch. of Florence county, to arrest Dr. Bigham immediately, but from Infor nation so far received It seems that to cannot be found. The surmise Is hat he has led the State. There seems to have been some noonsistencies In the bonds requir d by Bigham and Avant. When he men were first arrested on the warrants issued by the coroner, the >onds were fixed at $500 each, be ng later raised, at the Instanc of he solicitor, to $2,500, under which mount they appeared for trial. After conviction and sentence the nen were turned loose under a bond >f only $1,500 each, pending the re nit of an appeal to the supreme urt. It is said that as Dr. Big iam's family are well-to-do, the 'orfeiture of the bond Is of small onsequence. RECORD OEN CROP. leport Shows that Farmers Are Now Diversifying, That the corn crop of South Caro ina will ezoeed last season's record y at least 10,000,000 bushels Is the >plnion expressed at the office of 3ommlssloner Watson in Columbia. rhe preliminary reports received how that already 37,000.000 bush ls are to be obtained from the crop. ,ommissioner Watson thinks the to ,a] yield will be over 30,000,000 >ushels. Last season's crop was 29,250,000 >ushels, this being an increase of 0.000,000 bushels over the previous wo years. It is also expected that ~he present season's crop will bring t high market price. In-.1908 the iverage price per bushel in this State was 91 cents. This was higher price than In any state except Arizona where the aver ige was $1.05. The average price ~or the whole country was 60.6 cents per bushel. The prices have. gradu illy and substantially increased for the past several years. In 1904. for the State, the price was 70 cents; In 1905. the market price was 74 eents; in 1906, 73 cents; 1907. 78 :ents, 1908. 91 cents. Before the Mclver Williamson plan was placed before the planters of this State and the United States farm demonstration work was begun the yield of corn was only 17,500.000 bushels. Now the crop Is being gen erally raised and the exhibits which have been shown this year are very gratifying. APPRECIATES NEWSP"APERS. Spartanburg City Council Took the The Spartanburg Herald says in revising the license ordinance Mon day night the new city council of that progressive city took the license off 6t newspapers. "It was agreed among us," said Mayor Lee, "that newspapers are the greatest help the city had, and that rather than be licensed they should be given,all the encouragement possible." There was a license of $25 on dai ly papers and a license of $10 on weekly papers.- "A newspaper is not the richest institution in the worldi by a long shot, and the taking off of the license may be a great help toward a happy Christmas," was the way a gentleman expressed It Mon day night, says the Herald. The newspapers were free of li ccnse until the last city council got hold of the license ordinance and stuck it to them. The present coun cil seems to be more appreciative of the work the newspapera do in the way of advertising the city, and in boosting every good undertaking that makes for the up-building of commu nity life. Endorses Printers' label The Farmers' Educational and Co operative U'nion of Tennessee. in an nual conrention at Jackson recently, unanimously passed a resolution in structing officers of the State union to use the union label on all printed matter. Officer Kills Negro. Because he drew a pistol whon the officer approached to arrest him for disorderly conduct, Joe Bostwick. a negro, was shot and killed at Al bany. Ga.. a few days ago by Oscar .Walden. acting deputy sheriff.