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aulnig uues. VOL. XXIV _MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1909 NO.14 THAT CAIRO MOB &%rKiwi d he Tzkw Nq'W Pro"ie aies ks Way." CONTEMPt FOR THE LAW The Only Novelty Was the Active Participation of Women In the Afair, a Thing That Has Never Yet occurred in the South and Never Will. In discussing that Cairo lynching In its editorial columns the August' Chronicle says apart from one novel ty. hereafter to be mentioned. the recent ebullition of mob violence in Ilinois - -as the same old typical American lynching. Same getting, mad all together; same rush '-r the prisoner; same slaughter of the shrlekinh wretch by hanging. shoot Mg and burning; same theatrical hurrying to the spot of troops. who never get there In time, and If by some miracle they ever do so, take a vote not to shoot. as they did the other day. The only novelty was the active participation of women in the affair -a thing that has never yet occurred in the South and never will. The excuse for the lynching itself is the same old excuse--distrust of the law. But the real underlying cause Is-contempt for the law. The mob itself Is. for the time being. a lawless -gregati)n of madmen: no matter how much each member of it individually may, in his calmer moments. pree.d to respect the' law. he is an outlaw. pure and simple. when he takes the law Into his own bands an- was done in Cairo. And I this is true whether it occurs in in Ilinois or in Georgia or Missis sippi And, yet, it would not be a.ntirely I fair to say that the courts, as a I whole, administer justice as certainly I and with as even a hand as they I should. It has been contended more I than once. that in matters between 1 man and man, as the ownership of t property for Istance. our courts, gen erally are trustworthy, but that when I It comes to crime, they are not alto- t gether effective instruments for the a protection of the community. This c is true only in a sense; and it is. generally speaking. true only In the f inene that juries sometimes fail to t do their duty. We have seen something of this t In tb*-vqy- comnazity within the t past few weeks, where more than I ne prisoner, charged with a heinous r crime-and as guilty as any that ever a faced a court-were summarily turn- a ed loose by the trial jury. B5ut. t surelyNthis fault can not be laid at t the door of the court itself. when it is seen that It is with the people.- a after all, that lies the right and i power to enforce the law as it should j be enforced. Perhaps it is, in a a measure, true that If they would d administer justice In the jury box il more often than thei do. they would d not find it necessary, or. rather. pos- I aible, to administer it as members t of a wild, savage mob. c There Is still another thought. however, in connetie.~ with this c Cairo lynching. It has again been p proved-as it ws in the Spf ngfield t riots-that human nature is pretty n much the same there as in Georgia t or South . Carolina or MississIppi. 0 It only needs- sufficient provocation t. o assert itself. The influx of a cer a class of negroes into the North- b we say a "certain class of negroes. -+ because we rer..se to place all ne- a groes In the category of crinss is furnishing this ,provocation in inois as it has furnished It in the South since the war.1 For some years past the negre problem has been moving nor'd ward. Springfield and Cairo furnIsh ed unmistakable mile-Stones of itr progress. Unfortunately .the "negr" problem" carries with It the problem 1. of coping with certain forms of j crime, such as murder and rape. And it is Inevitable, perhapr,-how ever inexcusable It may be-that the method of dealing with such crime is the same In the North as In the South. Yet, we would sympathize with rather than condemn, the North fo' the problem which confornts It. l' Is a problem not of Its own making: any more than the same problem was of the South's making. Therefore we refrain from referring to thi' Cairo affair as "another Northerr outrage" even though we have. s 'often. seen similar affairs In th.. South referred to as "another South ern outrage." Perhaps our kindred troubles are rapidly bringing us all to a better understanXding on this point: eertaiiY. neither section has -any cause to throw stones at the other in connection with it. They are both. now. simply confronted with a similar problem. or problems: the "crminal negro" problem-and the problem of putting down mob violence. without respect to provo cation or persons-and at any price. El~ed Abouet Lynching At Cairo. Ill.. Wednesday Henry Small. a negro shot and killed Wil 11am Pope, one of the negro soldiers discharged from the United States ~rmy after the *shooting up' of nrownsvlle, Texas. The shooting followea =7 a.rument over the lynch ing there last week of Will James. the negro accused of the murder of aIss Annie Felley. Cotton Ginned. The regular monthly report of2 the National Giuiners' Associatio1t sowing that S.000O4 bales of cot ton have been ::inned durin~t the r~set ?easo'n up t' o -Nhembr 14-. was suetd Thur:da' Trom 1:3Mr-~ Amount ginned um South Carolina 918.9000, TWO IVE ARE LOST TRAIN WRECKERS REMOVE RAILS AND WRNCK TRAIN Near )enmark, Killing a Colored Fireman and a White Tramp. Who Was Stealing a Ride. A special dispatch to The News and Courier fro= Denmark says train wreckers are responsible for the derailment of the south bound mail train on the Seaboard Air Line Railway. which passed Denmark rt 2:45 o'clock Thursday morning. the death of two men, a negro 2reman and a white tramp. the injuries sus tained by Engineer Poteat. the shak Ing up of the passengers and the destruction of the engine. The tran was in charge of Con ductor Harry Butler and Engineer Poteat. While going down grade just before reaching a curve. two mles south of this place. Thursday morning, the engineer saw just &head the end of a rail tu-ned In toward the middle of the track. Scarcely had he blown for "down brakes" when the engine reached tbe dislocated rail and left the track. plowing its way along the ties until t was completely wrecked. 1 The engineer was hurled through he top of his cab for quite a die ance.6 In his fall he sustained a proken nose and several bruises. but was not seriously hurt. The negro reman and a white tramp, who is upposed to have been riding on the ,ow catcher, were Instantly killed. I he body of the' treman being burned * a crisp when removed from the wreckage. and tha: of the tramp adly scalded. The baggage master nd express messenger were bruised ip. but were not seriously injured. t one of the passengers wer- hurt. C Besides the engine, the mail, bag- a ,age and one passenger coach left I be rails and were thrown across 1: e track. The other coaches were ( >ose from the trucks but did not eave the rails. After the wreck t vestigation revealed the fact that 0 wo rails had been removed., a crow- b ar. a large wrench and a bottle of 0 erosene oil, which 'd been used _ D loosen the nuts where the rails re joined, being found at the side f the track. The accident occurred not far j rom the camp of the Bamberg Coun- I r chain gang, where bloodhounds C re kept, and the dogs were soon on he scene. They immediately took t< p the scent and followed the trail tA to the corporate limits of Den- t mark, where it was lost. Detectives p rrived on the scene Thursday and 3 re scouring the region for clews hat will lead to the detection of t) he guilty parties. b It is believed that the wreckers tA re the same ones that caused the e 'reek of the same train at Otside. e ist a few miles further south only a few months ago. The wreck Thurs y morning was more disastrous that two lives were lost and the e mage was greater. Conductor But- r, r~ wa also in charge of the train tl bat was wrecked on the previous y casion. b The detectives who are working c) the case claim to have their sus- e, icions. but they refuase to say any- f< bing for publication. It Is inti- n iated, however, that very probably i) e motive was vengeance, as some C the officials of the road were on a etrain. j Engineer Poteat was in the wreck a etween Swansea and Sweden six or el een years ago, when two passeng- 5 engines collided. li IX wiLLED IN EARTH SLIDE. c: itout Warning Hill Caves in b fl Upon Gang of Workmen-.t A dispatch from Winston-Salem. N. ~ .says 'six men were almost instant- ~ - killed and one was seriously in- o ared there Tuesday morning short- is - before 10 o'clock by a landsl'dep tons of dirt from the side of an biatment being constructed for the 00-foot bridge across the Salem C reek valley, on the first section ci he Southbound Railroad. The dead. II white men, are: Lesso Friesland of Iredell coun-|C Canel Bullin of Stokes county. jc Carl Dortschmidr. a German. j Carl Erner, a German. p Franz Liedman, a German. Alfred Lippner, a German. a The injured man is Oscar Mise ofj1 ~orfolk, Va., badly crushed but will' I over. Three others were Injured veryt lightly. The men were excavating at the 'l ide or a great hilt. working w!Ch ieks and shovels nearly fifty feet I eow the top of the embankmentc rhen tons of earth broke en massec 'rom the mainland and covered them. ~.few, by dint- of terrifhe struggles.f nanaged to extricte their arms from he mass. and the four-score labor- a rs nea~r by rushed to their assis ane. But at once a second crumb g of thousands of cubic feet of 1 darth abot~ swept the rescurers iside in the twinkling of an eye, and urid the seven victims hopelessly. It was nearly an hour before the< rst dead body was recovraerl. so1 ieep was the mass of earta w'ach bad crumbled down the emnbankmen~t.1 The last : dy was taken out a: 1i slock. Each was easily recognaiz-1 able; the earth bs~d crustied the breath from their bod.sea githiout battering them. Paid Damages. 7. H. Ellis. who sued J7. N. Garth f~r $1 .i.6 damuages for injuar:.-s r" eived in an autom~obile accident. was ...rded 4,i ion Web~'er City.j CLAIMS SCALED Thesnary WdnIIg Up COD1misoio Makes hs Final Report STATE SAVED BIG MONEY Reductions in Amounts Claimed by the Whiskey Houses, and the Counter Claims if Collected, Will Save the State Nearly Five Hun dred Thousand Dollars. Nearly a half million dollars rep resents the saving to the State of South Carolina by scalings from dis pensary claims and over-judgments against firms doing business with ,he old State dispensary, according to the report of the winding up com mission, which practically concluded ts work Wednesday night. A history of the old State dispen sary system, with that tale of graft. now a matter of general knowledge. is included in the commission's final report. That the whiskey firms fail ed to comply with the laws of the State in regard to the sale of whis ey. that various devices were used to prevent competition; that the >oard of directors of the dispensary 'aled to advertise for bids; that rlces were exorbitant, commissions wd rebates were paid, are a few of ,e many charges brought and sub -tantlated by the commission's find ngs The rma that fought the State n the litigation in the Federal 3ourts are taxed costs amounting to 21.526. The net amount of claims onsidered at this sitting of the ommission was $430,000. This does at include the over-judgments and he decrees formerly rendered. The riginal fund was $630,000. Of con derable local interest, and of much terest also throughout the State s the claim of the Carolina Glass !ompany's. a Columbia concern. The amount claimed to be owed his frm by the State was $23,013. 5, which is completely wiped out y the commission's findings, and an ver-udgment rendered for $28,419. 4. The over-charges found against he concern are $51.432.99. and it -as by deducting the original claim rom this amount that the over- 1 dgment is found. The commission i ;sues a separate decree- against the :arolina Glass Company, and goes sto the details o f what was alleged > be a monopoly of the sale of glass > the old State dispensary. The to il sales of the Carolina Glass Com any to the State aggregating $514. 29.90 before the year 1906. A large amount is represented in e list of over-judgments and mem- < era of the commission and its at- i >rneys that the &rms will be pro- I ~eded against in the Courts to re ver the various amounts charged gainst them.t Cnscence Fund" Over $50,000.i Col Felder stated that the so lled conscience fund had already < ached the $50.000 mark. This is< e money paid back by firms not< presented in the list of claimants. ut who were charged with over arging the State. One of the larg t claimants and one that came in: r some scorching when the origi- t l commission met are the Anchor ilstillng Company and Ullman & 0.. two firms classed by the comn iisson as one concern. An over dgment of $30.621.55 is found gainst this oombination, this in-~ luding a proportionate share, $4. 0 of the costs in the courts. Wil-j am Lanahan & Sons are charged p with S23.563.46. although their ams against the Stat* was onlyv 5.96..4. The commission wer? ack of the dates rnfpresentAd by this rms accounts in the claims against e State. as did the commission in number of other cases. Fleshmann & Co. and Ge'rson. eligman Company are treated as e concern, and the $70.000O claim reduced to $45.64Z..30. This comi any admitted overcharges in alida its. Clark Brothers & Co.. another rge claimant. are given $i53.780.96 a claim of $66.383.71. Carolina Gla.' Claim. The commission in its special re ot in the claim of the Carolina tlass Company finds that "the ottle rs of this concern entered inito a onspiracy to defraud the State of outh Carolina by defeating all comn etiton in the sale of glassware eeded.'- The commission refers to id of the company in September. 92, to furnish 30 cars of glass ottes at prices ranging about 1" cr cent in excess of the prico-s paid Flaccus & Co.. nothwithstanding be fact that other bids w.-re filed.I hat also the Flaccus contract, when ,urchas'.d. was for the purpose of tiffling competition, as all moulds f! the Flaccus Company were turned iver to the Carolina Glass Company Lnd the former had no facilities for lling orders. It Is also charged that at several ~uarterly purchases other comapetitive ds we-'e suppressed. and the Caro ia Glass Company was awarded ~ontrats that after Deecmber. 19'62. nd until 1966. when the contract mxisting between the State dispen ar board and this company was anelled this firm maintair/d a comn !ete muonopoly of all busin'rs for ;lass and raisod prices from timn to time much above the fair market rices for the goods sold. Also that at he time of the passage of the con-' turrent resolution cancelling the un filled portions of the contract there wre outstanding contracts at Cx orbitant prces for meare than 2Can rars or glass bottles at an approx: mate value of $2oQ.no(, The onm mission states that, according to tho aore than S50,000 when compa:mon I -s e hpien pald for zoods subseqeintly purchaseu. It is also charged against this firm that goods were sold of the same quality, size and character as that sold the State dispensary In other States and in other parts of this State from :I to 25 per cent lower than :he price paid by the State dis pensary. Finding in Glass Claim. The finding is as follows in the case of the Carolina Glass Company: *We therefore find that the con tracts made between the Carolina Glass Company and the board of directors of the State dispensary are contrary to the laws of the State and against public policy, and for those reasons null and void. and that the Carolina Glass Company should not as a matter of strict law, be entitled to recover any sum of money from the State of South Carolina on account of said contract. even if the State had no offsets against them. whatsoever, but the commission fur ther finds that it should determine the matter on equitable principles and fix the matter of liability on a -quantum meruit' basis and that the prices at which the Carolina Glass Company sold to the State dispensary the glassware manufactured by it ranged throughout the entire period of their transactions with the State dispensary except for the years 1906 and 3907. at about 10 per cent above the fair and reasonable market price for said goods. Prices Were Reduced "The commission finds that begin ning early in the year 1906, as the result of a legislative investigation made by a committee appointid by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina. and the resolu tion adopted by the General Assem bly relating especially to the con tracts with the Carolina Glass Com pany hereinbefore referred to, the Carolina Glass Company was forced to and did lower its bids to prices which during the year and, the short period of 1907, during which the dispensary was operate.!. were substantially in accord with the fair and reasonable market price of the goods sold during that period; but the commission finds that during the ears preceding 1906 the overcharg s made in excess of the fair and rea onable market prices for the goods ;old was $51,432.99, which should e and is hereby offset against the :laim In favor of the said Carolina :1ass Company to wit: Its claim )f $23,013.75. which being deducted rom this amount of said overcharges 1e commission finds said Carolina 'lass Company to be indebted to he State of South Carolina in the um of $28.419.24." in more than half the claims there were over judgments rendered in fa or of the State by the commission. ks stated these may be collected brough the Courts. Th%. commis don states in its fnudings that the nembers have made a careful in estigatlon of the business of the )d State dispensary and also all of he evidence taken before the legis ative investigation committee. lndem.nn2 shrdshrdlhrdluhrdluunuu "Due and formal notice..' states he decree. "was given to all cred ors to produce before the commis ion their books of acc.aunt and oth r records and correspondence dis losing the transactions between the reditors and the State dispensary. nd in a few instances some of the reditors complied with this demand nd produced their books and rec ~rds in part at least, for the Inspec on of the commission. The commission also heard oral estirmony and received affidavits 'rom members of whiskey concerns. Conspiracy Alleged. The commission states that ser *ral of the creditors entered into a ~onspiracy with members of the oards of directors to cheat and de 'rand the State. with the assistance1 if some of the members of the1 ards. and goods were sold at a ~ri-o largely In excess of the mar m2. value, the officers or agents of h- concerns and members of the oard makIng use of the funds in orruption and bribery. It is also stated that many of he claimants did not comply with h law in that: I. They resorted to various devle s to destroy com;-etitlon. :The law as to advertising for ids was so worded as to prevent ~opettion instead of promoting it. 3. That bids submitted upon hich awards were made, were ex .orianr as to prices, with the ~nowledge ani consent of the board. 4. That the claimants violated the aw in maintaining agents and so Licitors in the~ State to obtain con :racts for the purchase of their ;oods. 3. That in many cases no bonds. wre' furnaished on awards given. *. .\one of the claimants flikd at he tim.' of making bids an analysia at the liquors for sale. Only Real Values to be Paid. The commission rules tut the :aimants have all violated the law. ut thinks that it should deal with .-tition.-rs~ ua equitable principle~s and makes such s--ttle.ment as will -. fair and ayst. It therefore finds that it should coa:r'ensate each clai mant for goodls actually sold and de :ivred to, th" State dispensarv dur ing the whole course of dealings by paying the real value of the goods after deducting from the claims of somr- of the' claimants certain fees andl expen>." incurr'ri by the com milssionl in defending recent suzits. It is also ruled by' the commission that certain claimants who filed biais in the Fe,!eral Court ask in: for in junction against the commission, in cud" the firms of Garrett & Co.. Fl'ischmann & Co.. Wilson Distillery Company. Gallanhor & Bturton. Jack Cranimn Company. The Eliis brouzbt by' Fleischman. th' wiison Company. the Jack C'ran ston Cc'mpany and Gallagher & Br ton. were consolidated into one ac- . tion. into which Garrett & Co. aft--r ward1 in.tend folIcved byv h- P- I &co.. A::c2or Datillns Compa.y. B*~ Dsrinz Company. Richards MAKE ANOTHER BLUFF STANDARD OIL COMPANY ORDER ED TO DISSOLVE. The United States Circuit Court for Missouri Declares It an Illegal Combination and Must Quit. A dispatch from St Paul. Minn.. says in an opinion written by Judge Walter N. Sanborn of St. Paul. and concurred in by Judges Vanderventer. Hook and Adams with a special con curring opinion by Judge Hook, the United States Circuit Court for the eastern district of Missouri Saturday handed down an opinion declaring the Standard Oil Company of New' Jersey an illegal conbination oper ating in restraint of trade and or dered its dissolution. In this decision the government of the United tSates wins a sweep ing victory, and according to Frank D. Kellogg. who was the govern ment's special prosecuting officer. f the government has won every point for which it contended. The case will be appealed direct to the United States Supreme Court s as the judges 'who signed the decree o are in effect the judges of the Unit- t ed States Circuit Court of Appeals. t although they were sitting for the ii puropee of trying this case as the f circuit court fcr the eastern district e of Missouri. d The decree of the court dissolv- ti Ing the Standard Oil trust becomes effective In thirty days when no n doubt a stay will be granted for the N purpose of trying this case as the a decree takes effect, unless a stay is fi granted, an injunction will be Issued restraining the Standard Oil Com- J pany from a further continuance of tI Its business under Its present for- 13 mation. POLITE RUSE SAVES BURGLAR. s( a: a Shakes Hands With Intended Victim, d Apologizes and Escapes. p. Allen Douglass. son of E. T. Doug- b lass, general manager of the Western d ransit Company, was so dumbfound- II ad when a burglar faced him in his e( home a few days ago in Buffalo. -. w Y., that he shook hands with him I u nd watched him jump through a U wndovr and escape from the roof of x veranda, powerless to raise an S xarm. S. **I didn't realize that the man wai r L burglar until he was gone." said t oung Douglass. "I was intensely in- W :erested in a book when I heard a ci ioise and. looking up. saw the man. b Re extended his hand courteously m tnd I grasped it and shook It.' "I'm looking for my sister. old 5n al. but I guess she isn't here." he of aid. and apologizing for his intru- w, don. jumped out the window. The ~urglar got nothing-.a THE WAGES OF SIN. )nce Prominent Jerseyite Died iD a Poor House. A dispatch from Charlotte. N. C.. as an eventful career ended .Mon-.t lay afternoon with the death at the te towan County Home of Charles A. A somer. a former ~mmer of the. New su ersey Legislature and once promi- s ent in that State. Several years 11. go he left his wife and came to s pener. N. C.. with a woman whom e claimed was his wife. This wo- fr nan later became insane and died e n the State hospital. Gomer brood- s d over her death and soon became ,wreck himself. losing his eyesight. mr efore his death he confessed thatlo; he woman with whom he lived a: a: alisbury was not his wife. t Remarkanie Murder Story. A remarkable murder story we p: ~eeaed at Washington. D. C.. Thurs-j B ay following the confession of;?t lary Batson. Howard. a negress. ~hat she killed her S-year-old dauigh ter because the man she loved threat ned to leave her unless the child R as sent away. Her description of I r he crime is gruesome. Under the r retense of taking the child to the' woods for a romp. she lured her to, seeluded spot, where ahe slashed er throat with a razor. *-a Fiends Awful ('rime. f At Staunton. \'a.. a true bill was! II ound by the special grand juzry I: gaist Clifton Beck.-nrldge. tho n.-- 01 gro charged with repeated assaults ti n the six-year-old granddaughtt.'r of st . A. Hlutchinson, the county jail e..pwr. The negro narrowly escaped .nching at th.. hands cot a infur! ated mob on Friday night. WAanted to Hang Sooner. o At Russellville. Ala.. Tomi Rovert on, who two wee'ks ago ki1ed his wife and his mother-in-law anid dan gerously wounde.d his wl.-'r- father. h was found ;:uilty of mnurd'er in the 1' circuit court and s.:ntene"'d to t.' angod Dlecembe~r 15. "That's too long for me to lIve." xclairied Roo ertson, when the date of his *:ecu-E ion was announced. p Neg Kills Another. At Chr-star. in a r-:irrel on Tue day nich!. betwoon two nogroer Iohn M!aeon and John W\in. the la ter was shot byv :h" formtr and di"' Friday fronm th. inju:ries r-.c.'.ed. The slayer was arrested and lodg.ed in jail. * & Co. and the New York and Kon tucky Company. by. the Sm"at- of ou'h ('aron:n. :. o commisou calls a'..ntin I->' h het that the tight c'arr-d to h l' 'ted States Co'urt '~st 3.150. and cor.siders thte .Stato damiase'i toI that amount Tho vadus compa t n:es men:.!oned above are asedlc FORTY SAVED Ufter Seven Days of Horror liners Are Rescued From the Mine [HE MEN C0ULD NOT SEE 6Vhen Brought to Light, After Their Imprisonment - Great Rejoicing Among the Relatives of the Men When They Are Brought As From Death to Life. At two o'clock Saturday afternoon t was reporned that forty men were live in the coal mine at Cherry. H. The men wte reached after wall of debris had been broken own. At first the men were sup osed to be dead. but one of them aised his hand and the rest were und to be breathing. The living men were at once rought to the hasting shaft and imulants were administered. One f the men after being brought to hie sun light after seve ndays en )mbment was only able to mutter coherently. His face was black -om the smoke and slightly scorch 1. It appears that the men after Iscnvering their predicament, walled iemselves In. 1 The accident in the St. Paul 1 Line occurred at 4 p. m. Saturday. [ ovember 13. The men taken out I lIve at 2 p. m. Saturday were there- i >re in the mine 166 hours. The fight against death was led by I ,seph Crescini. Crescini was one of I te two men brought up in the cage. i a reported between 30 and 40 oth- 1 - men a!iv-- in the south wing. In Le darkne5s where they wait.ed for ven days in an agony of hunger t id suspense. they lost tract of time. t id thought that today was Sun- I ty. Before reporters could be allowed t 'rsonally to interview the men 1 -ought to the surface, doctors or- t erd that they should be given I >rishment. This was administer in the form of milk diluted with s ter and adminisLered in small por- t :ns until their stomaches could re- c in it. 1 The next trip of the cage brought a ven other survivors. They were v iling and healthy save for weak- I >ss due to lack of food. News of e rescue of these men Lraveled t ith lightninglike rapidity and the b ange from despair to hope. which t rept over the crowd was most dra- e atic and impressive. When Spogatta was led to the d!:i- m g car he fairly ran into the arms c his wife and two children. There t: ta a short hysterical torrent of a dearing words poured from her lips e d then the mother turned and kiss-i a the feet of the man who had Is ought him out. Then she pulled. r children down and they perform- Ir the same ceremony of gratitude. If e wife of another man tainted inp Shusband's arms. At ~:::) .olock rescuers came to Ssurface ad reported that fire had uporarily cut off the rescue work. call for fr.esh volunt..ers was is ed and immnediat.ly a score' of men ot downward again. It was b v--d the tire would be extinguished o rtilr. A man just brought up called out fI ai the car window that he believ- f 15') men were alive in the east 2 When the last man was up, wo en who had found none they ree nized. wal-ked about distractedly. :a and again returning to attack j Smiitary guard who guarded the The live men were firt discorer by Supernedent Powell. off -ceville. Ill. When the men were d ah-!. some were talking and jok g. apparent.!y mentally affected by ir long imprisonmenlt. William Cleland was rescued by I abert. is own brother, who car- I' -d the man to the surface without ~ cognizing who he was. e Naval Cadet Fired. The Seetary of the Navy has ,p t t.* recommendationl of the :perinendent of the Naval Academy r the dismis~sa! of Cadet John P. yman. of South Carolina. General aptitud". which has caused s.even her cadets to leave the Academy is year. is the cause of the dismis 1 of Hyman. Trip;1e Hanging. I A Fioyd. la.. Tom Till. Joe Gil-' rd and Alec. Hill. three negroes. er>hanged Friday for the murder Mses T Pirock. a prominent farm -of Wes: Carroll Parish. Brock jI as killed a fe.w weeks ago as he on: to investiga~te a gunshot on his -rano-~s. The three z.gro--s con-1 '$~(d :o thoecrimfl.* stricke-n With Pellagra. A' B-itimore. Md.. Mrs. WI!!!am . ieynolds. of Tallahassee. Fla.. rincipa' of the Florida Women's .. andl wdfe of a former comp -oler of the State of Florida, wasi rik:: at 5:. Armes horpital Thurs -.y. ..'-..nx w.h po!!agra. accord a: o : physici.ans. M1an Fat.,11y Hlur!.1 At Lima. 0.. William Fr-s it;a~... ying at o local hospi the result of falling fronm -n per ,.ory of a sanr diuring~ a -rugg' w:th a womn oe.r a ;:;Ia' Fmeud De@ad. (- C'amre. .:1.. Thursday, 'rof..\:l!frd Whee~gr of the l'n! -rnt of 11:i:.o:R was found~ 'i-id na the anau grenj- wit an! FNDING TH DEAD FIRST BODIES BROUGHT UP FRI DAY OUT OF THE 3MNES. Gas Explosions Continue, Which Alarm the Rescuer. and Impede Their Work of Lo'.. A dispatch from Cherry. Ill., says the dark tomb of the Cherry mines has been conquered. After an all night battle in clearing the shafts of the burning mine, three bodies. the first recovered through the main shaft. were brought to the surface at 8 o'clock Saturday morning. Inspectators and geological ex perts. while penetrating the dismal depths.'fighting the smoulderiag fire n the coal veine. caught sight of! iles of other charred bodies, but their passage was hampered by fire. At 6 o'clock Saturday morning al roup of miners and railroad men entered the mine. working without >xygen helmets, but there was no uffering from noxious gas. Strug ling through . the dark tomb. he firemen discovered in the second ein a pile of bodies, from which hree were recovered. The east- portion of the gallery. where the fire originated, Is badly aved in. The west portion of the allery is still afire, but firemen with hose got within 50 feet of the -ein. Fireman O'Connor and many oth r firemen from Chicago, fighting the inderground dames, emerged from the main shaft declaring that they elieved that the fre would be ex nguished before many hours. They aw many piles of human bodies iuried in the wreckage of the gal ery running from the main shaft o the air vent. They also saw bod es lying in heaps in the west vein rhere the fire is still raging. Mine Inspector Taylor, who Thurs lay declared that he would enter he mine or die In the attempt, spent he night in the mine, and gave a uesome account of the piles of hu man bodies sighted, but impossible o reach. Inspector Taylor sent rorkmen into the mine to repair he east vein, the approach timbers aving burned. Another body of volunteers was ent later today into the mines. On he second trip of the cage, four ther bodies, one that of a boy. ere brought to the surface. An mbulance. guarded by militiamen, as followed by crowds to the town all. a temporary morgue. Here scores of grief-stricken, sob Ing widows sought to identify the odies as their own husbands. but e condition of the bodies render d Identification difficult. Crowds of grief-stricken men. wO ien and children formed a great rcle ahout the bodies brought from e mines. Many turned away. un. ble to bear the cries of the bereav I wivcs and mothers. Three bodies) e' identified: Richard Buckles, a ~ab!e boy; Louis Gibbs. George Mc- - [ullen. The condition of the bodl-e overed indicates that the men died 'om sulfocationl the first day of im-'! risonmlent. MANY D)ESE.RTIONS IN ARMKY. nual Report Shows That 4,993' Men Deserted Past Fiscal Year. Continued extensive desertions in) e C.nited States army during the I: Lst fiscal year forms the leading tature of the annual report of A(d itant General Ainsworth. Aftei - owing that 4.993 men deserted 'om the enlisted force of the regu-t Lr army. General Ainsworth conclud that only a strict enforcement ofi ~vere penalties will diminish ma-t ~rially the practice of taking t French leave" of the soldiers. He regards as rather alarming thei ct that the number of desertions uring the last fiscal year was greater ban in the preceding 12 months. V f the whole number of enlisted men .97 per cent deserted during the st fiseal year. while the desertion? fthe preceding year amounted to i .59 per cent. General Ainsworth: aye the abolition of the canteen. e monotony of garrision life, the!e 2creasing amount of work and study ii emanded of a soldier, and the ease ith which remunerative employ- Ii 3ent can be obtained in civil life i these prosperous times are causes). f the evils mentioned. The percentage of desertions < mong the white troops is about ten ! imes greater than among the col red men in the service. Of the men< rho deserted during the year. I. '13 were apprehended and 315 sur endered. Down on Big Hats. Calling for co-operation on the art of the woman of other church-I s the South Carolina Baptist Wo ns Missionary Unli at Green rood launched a movement designed 0 put a stop to the wearing of bIg nts in church. The resolution de ouncing the peach-basket and mner 'y widow styles of headgear for ;nday wear was passed and amid rest enthusiasm. Her Wandering Boy. Whr. is Luke Higginbotham'? f any one has Information which -ii lead to the location or cni ion of the lad, the heart of an anx-: ous mother at Somerset. KY.. wIll Smade glad. The boy was last eard from at Charleston more than' your monthe ago and since that timo~ e mother haS waited in vain for mcr 'oy to return homne. Many Were Hurt. Nine'y persons were inred but one fatally, when Southboiud pas egr train No. 11. on the Sr. Louis :.n Frn.ico ralroad was roced at Rogers, Mo., Wednesday. peana rails oaBd the accfdant. A MANLY SPEECH John MickhD Says Draaiedy That Be EMes BoycoL AROUSES ENTHUSIASM He Rightfully Declares That No Concern Has a Property Right t His Patronage, and Charges That Washington is Watching Proceed.. ings of the Convention. Endorsing a report of the com mittee on boyoott. John Mitchell, one of the three offiers of the American Federation of Labor, who are under sentence for contempt of court, made a dramatic speech to the convention of that organiation now in session at Toronto. at Wednes day's session. He declared that as far as he was concerned, regardless of consequences he intended, while at liberty to ,declare for the rights guaranteed him by the organic laws of his country. The report which drew forth 3itchelts speech, and wl~lch was adopted by the zonvention among other things declared: "We say that when our caue is just and every other remedy has been employed without result, boy ott; we say that when the employer has determined to exploit not only adult male labor, but our women and children, and our resources and our appeal to his fairness. and his con science will not away him, boycott; we say that when labor has been appressed. browbeaten and tryannis ed. boycott; we say that when social nd political conditions become so bad that ordinary remealal meas ires are fruitless, boycott, and Anal ly we say, we have a right to boy-, :tt and we propose to exercise that right.. In the application of this ight of boycott, to paraphrase the resident (Gompers), we propose to trive on and on." The convention broke into loud ,eering for Mitchell as he conclad d, and there were cries for "Mor ISIOL" The secretary did not re pond. President Gompers was ab ent. Mr. Mitchell said he realized that very statement made by those on he convention floor, especially by hose who on next Monday will have o deliver themselves to the courts, a being closely scrutinized. "I want the people of the United ;tates to know my position." he aid. "I shall not speak defiantly; ut be the consequences what they rill. I shall not surrender any right uaranteed to me by the constitu on of our country. I am not sure ow much mental and physical suf ering will be necessary to make me ubmit, but If I know myself, not ny amo'unt of suffering will per uade me that I have not the right o spend my money where I please r that I have not the right to write nd speak as I please, being respon ble under the law for my acts. "Whether the boycott be a bene t or a detriment each man must ecide where he will bestow his. atronage. I mainiin that my pat onage is my own and no merchant as a property right to it. "I underst'and that cognizance Is eing taken at Washington of the tterances of men on the floor of his convention, and I want clearly o state my position. I propose in he future, as I have in the past. o exercise 'the rights secured to cc by the fathers of my country; .nd I propose, if I am sent to jail, o decaire again when I come out hat I shall not for myself purchase ny product of the Buck's E',ve & atnge Co. "I repeat that so far as I am con erned, and let the consequence be vhiat they will. I intend while at iberty to declare fo rthe $ghts ;uaranteed to me by the organic laws >f my country. I am proud of be ng an American." Mr. Mitchell said he had grown ip as an American with a stepmoth iso poor that she could not buy >nread. and related how he had crept ut of bed at night to get his fath ~r's soldier coat to heep him warm. "But I' want to see the word imercan stand for all the sentiment .hat is symbolized by the flag of our :ontry," he continued. "I want eal liberty. I don't believe in the iberty enunciated by some of our ~ourt~s that men and women should ave the right to work themselves o death. .I don't believe in the Uib irty enunciated by Judge Tuthill >f Chicago, who declared unconsti utonal the 10-hour law for women, Lnd by that act compelled them to ork 14 hours a day." Mr. Mitchell said he believed the present proceedings would bring some to the people the necessity f working in concert. "Is the time oing to come on our continent when he badge of faithfulness to labor :nust be the brand of imprisonment?" te said in conclusion. "Surely I tope not. I hope that the govern :ent may be so conducted that no itizen may feel that he has not been given justlee and an equal right 'ith every other citizen." The Woman in Bla The mysterious "woman in black" who committed suicide Wednesday n the rest room. of an Atlanta de partment store was identified as Miss Willano Cotton. daughter of Mrs. Rebecca~ D. Cotton. The young WO man, who died from an over-dose of strychnine, was said to have been in bad health for several months and despondent. Killed by Boiler Explosion. A bout a m!!e from Nashville, N. C. Tuescl.ay a bioiler exploded and k'il'ed Joh" Seilers. a young man of 12 yeera.