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EVANS INDICTED1 Ex - Cirunam aged With Accedng Liquor Reates A COMPLETE SURPRISE Defendant Immediately Surrendered to Newberry Sheriff and Wa% Ite leased on rail.-efence Pres'l for Immediate Tril.-Sever ! Re hates Charged On a bill of indictment, handed out bky Attoney General J. Frtur Lyon and Solicitor R. A. Coower. the grand jury. in the General seibns Court for Newberry County. Tuesday neturned a true bill agAinst H. i. Evans. ex-m=mber and ex-cha;.rnanx of the old State dispensary board of directors. charging him with rst7 ing rebates while in office. Immediately folUowing the re.urn ing of the true bill by the grand jury Mr. Evans surrendered to the sheriff. and upon motion of tuis at torney. Eugene S. Blease. Esq. was admitted to baIl in the sum of oce thousand dollars. Attorney Gerwrai Lyon contended for a bail of at least ten thousand dollars. Tb-: -ie f--ndant's attorney statEd *.hat it xould be no hardship um.n the de fendant to give this amount, as he was at home among his friends. but that he felt such amount was ex cessive. and would tend to prejudice the case. Judge Aldrich held that the let ter and the spirit of the law was that bail should not be excessive, and. inasmuch as the maximum fine for the offence charged was only five hundred dollars, he thought the amount of the maximum fine pro. vided would be suffcient. According. ly he admitted Mr. Evans to bail in the sum of one thousand dollars. The ball was immediately given, the sureties being Messrs. E. M. Evans a brother of the defendant: C. WhitA Fant, of this city, and J. E. Norwood cashier of the Newberry Saving, Bank. Mr. Evan'ss attorney. Mr. Eugen S. Blease. pressed for an immedietu trial at this term of the Court. Thi Attorney General stated that one o! the witnesses for the State was i Ohio and another in Virginia. -as thi defendant himself, if his counsel di, not.' -he said, ought to know. an< that the State could not go to tria at this term. He said he hoped th< defence would be as ready at th< next term of the Court as it wa now. and that the State would thei accommodate the defence. In reply the attorney for the de fendant said that .he would let thi next term speak for itself, even a the counsel for the State were has ing their action upon matters as the: presented themselves to them at thi: term. Judge Aldrich said that. o1 the motion of the State. he would grant the continuance to the nez term, as the Attorney General an< the solicitor were in command of th< case for the State. as he would havy continued it for the defendant upo: a similar showing at the first ters at which a true bill was found. dir. Evans was elected a memnbe of the board of directors of the olh State dispensary in 1900 and serve< four years as a member of that boari and then for two years as chairmaa of the board. His home is in New berry, and since his retirement fres the board -he had devoted himeel principally to farming. The Indict ment charges two rebates, one of tw< hundred and fifty dollars and on< for two hundred dollars, from M. A Goodman, who, at the times mention ed In the indictment, had his head quarters in Savannah. Ga.. and re presented various liquor houses. I will be recalled that recently In thi Richland County Indictments agains Goodman were nol prossed. Attorney General Lyon said that from the experience which he .has with similar cases in other counties he had no Idea that defence would b4 pressing for a trial, and that som< of the State's witnesses were in othe1 States and the State could not gC :o trial at this term. The motion on the part of the State. for a con tinuance until the next term, was thereupon, granted. This term of the Court for New berry, is only one week, and had the trial been ordered for this term 11 must have been held this week. Mr. Evans appeared in excellent spirit: when he came into Court. immediate ly following the-finding of the true bill, and surrendered to the sheriff. CLDBURST KILLS MAINY. Great Loss of Life Among Laborers in Germany. Great loss of life has occurred in he Ahr Valley of the Elfel region, says .. dispatch from Cologne, Ger many, as the result of a cloudbitrst which swept the district late Sunday night. Estimates place the total number of dead at 150. News of the catastrophe reached Cologne Mionday. Numerous storms in the region had the streams n usually high and as a result of an unusually heavy downpour Sunday night the river Ahr suddenly over flowed, the water carrying death and destruction in its path. The greatest loss or life occurred where two barracks containing lab orers employed on the railway were swept away The inmates were sur prised on t.he railway and many were unable t'o help themselves. Thirtv seven bodi- s have been recovered. Unknown White Man Killed. A man. unidentified at the inquest w'as killed Tuesday afternoon. across the river from Columbia. in Lrxing ton Co!'nty. by being s'ruck by a Col umb.a. Newberry and Laurens trauin. No. 5.3. A pint bottle, half full of liquor. probobly tells the ta~e of the acc.ident. The bottle was four.d in the man's pocket. A-eaulted Own Isaughter. A IBluefie'ld. W. Y'a.. special says a ysse and officers of Lagon county. West Virginia. are scouring the mountains in that vicinity for L. C. Carter. who on :ast Sunday at Stone~ Branc'h. assaulted his 16 year old daug.htr. An officer from that se tion states that Carter will be lynch SHOT DOWN ON STREET DOMESTIC COMPUCATIONS WAS CAUSE OF TRAGEDY. Victim Had Just Left Court House When Met by His Assailant, Who Opened Fire Without Warning. Two minutes after leaving the Court House. where:he had been con ducting a case in the Criminal Court. S. D. Hursey. an attourne'y. of the Dillon Bar, was shot and almost in stantly killed by R. S. Davis, at six o'clock Tuesday afternoon. There was a large crowd of people on the streets, and the shootig was don at the corner, where is located the Evan's Pharmacy, one of the busiest parts of towr.. Three bulets entered the body, either of which would have produced deat:-. A magazine pistol. carrying steel bullets,. was used. .ir. Davis was engaged in the in surance business in Dillon. being the junior member of the Dillon insur ance Agency. His wife conducts the Central Hotel. at which Mr. Hursey was a boarder. The shooting ia al leged to be the outcome of unfor tunate domestic complications. w'hich developed at the hotel some months ago. Upon leaving the Court House. where Dfion's first term of Criminal Court was in session. Mr. Hursey walked across the street. and was passing in front of Evans' Pharmacy. when he was met by Mr. Davis. Eye witnesws to the affair say tuat no words were exchanged, but when the two met. Davis pulling a gun from his pocket and began shooting at Hursey at close range. The first bul let entered the right side and the second shot entered the forehead. As the victim of the tragedy whirled and fell upon the pavement, it is stated that Davis fired at him again. shoot ing him through the back of the head. The affair is deeply re;retted by everybody. Young Hursey was a graduatp of the University of North Carolina. and was admitted to the North Caro lina Bar, about four years ago. Quite recently he came into an inheritance of $15.000 from his grandfather's estate. and it was his purpose to go Wxest and establish himself in some prosperous city. Davis surrendered himself to the sheriff immediately after the tragedy. When seen at the city guard house he said that he had no statement to make. BURIED TREASURE MISSING. ; Young Man Charged With Appro priating Uncle's Funds. After showing her cousin over the , premises and interesting him in the calf, chickens and garden, the daugh r er of Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Henderson. E at Spartanburg. in the absence of her parents, showed her kinsman IMonday where her father kept his money buried. According to the tes timony brought out in the hearing. SJohn Ree' es was penniless, for he Shad just asited for a loan of 15 cents. 1before being shown the treasure. Af terwards he returned to the house a while, ad then excused himself and rwent out and unearthed thq, money and took $56. It is alleged. He had previously announced his intention of remaining all night with the Hen Idersons. but on exploring his uncl-"s -hidden wealth, and helping hi'..self, it. is said, he took French leave. FARMER DROWNED. Loses His Life While Helping to Res cue Two Boys. Mr. P. G. Adams, a well-known farmer. living at Penny's pond, near Raleigh, N. C.. was drowned Tues day, while helping to rescue two boys. All were bathing in the pond. Adams went to crawl up into a boat In which Iwere the two boys, when the boat capsized. He helped to get the boys out to shallow water and when they reached the bank badly frightened they were horrified on looking back to see Adams sinking for the last time. It was an hour before his body was recovered. No water in his lungs indicates that heart failure may have followed his exertion in saving the boys and that this rather than the actual drowning caused his death. He was 40 years old and a bachelor. BRFAES WORLD'S RECORD. Aviator i -.red 4.384 Feet in a Bi plane at lnnianapolis. Soaring to a height of 4.3S4 feet. Waiter Brookins, in a Wright bi blane Monday broke the world's aer oplane record for altitude at the av iatIon meet at the Indianapolis. Ind.. speedway. Brookins' high flight, in which he exceeded the record 4.165 fe't made by Louis Pauiham, at Los Angeles last fall, was also a speed triumph. According to the rigister of the in struments. Brookins was 1.J00 feet in the air seven minutes after he left the earth. He rose to that point in a wide circle. Continuing his circles, Brookins rose steadily at a speed of about 50b miles an hour, Thirty mirnutes af ter he had started he reached his highest altitude and began the de scent, maneuvering at lower levels. until at a height of 100 feet h shut off the motor and glided easily to the ground alongsile the start ing rail. Novel Query. A mou. unusual request for in formation bias comie to the dopart ment of Agriculture. The letter was received from a citizen of .Missouri. residing in the town of Wellvill-. After asking concerning the agricul 'ural possibilities in the Piedmont sectior' of th'e State. he- ernecud..s with the folowing queryv: ''And atr all parts of the State badly infest.' with saloons, mosquitoes. negro:es and other pets White Man's Victim De'ad. "Crack'' Thomas, color-'d. who shot Saturday night, June 4. at U n inn. in the restaurant run by Julian a H'ighes. died? Sunday night. The verdict of the inquest was that he came to his death by a gun shot SGREAT FLIGHT 9} hars L Hamilton Fies From New Yet to Philadelphia. HE THEN FIES BACK oeft Governor's island in Aeroplane Monday Morning and Reached Philadelphia One Hour and Fifty one Minutes Later. Covering a Dir tance of Eighty-Eight 3iles. A dispatch from New York says harles K. Hamilton arose from Gov rnor's Island in an aeroplane Mon lay morning and sped without a >reak SS miles to Philadelphia in a uccessful cross-crountry flight under he auspices f t! e N.ew York Times tnd the Philadelpaia Public Ledger. {e made th.: trip in one hour and i1 minutes. leaving Governor's Is and at 7.35 and the landing at Philadelphia at 9.36. Alighting at the aviation field, he lelivered letters from Gov. Hughes tnd Mayor Raynor to Gov. Stuart ind Mayor Reyburn. accepted mes ;ages of congratulation from them :o bear in return and started for New York again. with only brief in termission for food. fuel and oil. He bad flown appoximately 70 mil-s of his r-turn journey when a sluggish motor drove him to descend in a swamp near South Amboy. N. J.. at 12.55 p. m. The propeller was broken there in landing. but after repairs had been made Hamilton re sumed his ight at 6.20 and landed at Governor's Island 6.39. Thus the trip was made in one hour and 36 minutes at an estimatedespeed of 54.96 miles an hour. which breaks the record made in the Curtiss flight from Albany to New York. That Hamilton did not make the return trip as easily as the outgo. nug trip was due only to -haste. He neglected to clean his spark plugs. they fouled. the engine balked. and -he had to come down on the banks of the Raritan river. two miles above South Amboy. Curtiss stills holds the official re cord for speed. but Hamilton Monday took all Amvrican records for cross country distance and duration. and. using his own figures for the return. his average speed is a new figure. The broken propeller was the se cond mishap of th- kind during the day, but he secured a new propeller and with a new set of spark plugs the aviator was able to finish within 12 hours, although 24 hours were allowed in the terms of his contract. During the whole of his first lap Hamilton never varied more than :wo minutes from his time card and came down on the handkerchief laid down to mark his landing spot with the precision of a homing pigeon settling on its perch. It is an interesting coincidence that Hamilton won his honors with the same biplane that won the inter natonal speed trophy for Glenn R. Curtiss at Rheims last year and thai he was driven by the same propeller with which Curtiss recently made his historic flight from Albany to New York. The weather was ieal for flight. As Hamilton wheeled his aeroplane from its tent on Governor's Island a special train. chartered by the New York ~Times and the Philadelphia Public Ledger and carrying his moth er, his wife, his chief mechanican, Albert C. Doty and Mrs. Doty, stood on a siding of the Pennsylvania ter minal in Jersey City waiting for the word. PERILOU'S TRIP. Boy Aeronaut Severs Parachute and .Grabs Clutch Rope. Clyde H-ckle, eighteen years old, made a terrifying 6,000-foot balloon ascension Sunday night, clinging for a part of the time to the clutch rope of the air craft. He landed a half hour after the start in the middle of a shallow lake at a summer resort. near Lincoln. Neb. Adolph Welberg, an aeronaut who gives exhibitions at the resort by as cending and dropping in a parachute. had mada~ preparation for his regular trin. Young Heckle with others was holding the ropes. The boy had ask ed to be allowed to make the ascent. but was refused. Just as the aeronaut seated in his parachute attachment called to his assistants to let go. Heckle, with a knife severed the two ropes holding the aeronaut. Th'- air bag leaped upward and Heckle grasped the clut eh rope of th~e balloon. Welberg. wit~h his parachute, was left on the ground. For possibly a thousand feet Heck le w'nt upward like a rocket. cling ing only with his hands. Then he managed to swing himself astride the lutch rope and after an ascent of over a mile, came down without a mishap. SEABOARI) TRAIN WRECKED. I'hirteen Cars Loaded With Vegeta bles Are Derailed. Seabord Air Line train third. No. ~. throug~h v.,getable express. comn osed of thirteen cars, was derailed lear Lugoff. some four miles from >amden. Thursday afternooin about mel Oclockt. The thirte'n cars were hrown intro the ditch alongside the rack and seven were destroyed. lt appe-ars that the arch bar of he first car broke and catching the rog of! thbe switch, thus tearing the rack u;> hadly for 3.' yards. one talf of which must be entirely re it.lt. resulting in deratline of the ars. which follow.ed. A six-foot "rni ankment was poughed up by the ars for a di.tance of several hun red feet. Shot to Decath. Wanffted by Alabamia aiuthorities fo r logal sale- of whisk'.y tn that state.* .W. Hlarmoin. was shot to death at V-st Pintt. Ga.. Friday by Sheriff Vatotn. of Alaibamna. while resisting rrest. Sh--riff Walton was awaiting im-- when lia rmon should cross inl SAl:aama :,.rritory. HIarmon, arm di with a pistol, crossed that after oon. and Sheriff Walton shot him LEAVES A VERY SAD NOTE 'THROW MY ASHES TO THE FOUR WIND." Well Known Artist of New York Engaged to Daughter of Boston Banker, Ends His Life. Leon Guvpon. well known as an ar:ist and illustrator, shot himself tbrough th- head in his studio at New York Tuesday. and was found dead onthe floor, a revolver by his side. ;l. C. Meris'. a close friend. ex plaining the tragedy said that Guy pon had been engag d to Miss Agnes Foster. daughter of a Boston banker. but had broken the engagement be cause of i;. health. He suff-red with heart trouble and had been told by physicians that he might die at any time. He could stand it no longer. 'Before killing himsc!f te young artist sent to his former fiance in Boston a check for $7.21! "all the pennies I had saved." as he express ed it in a letter to his friend. Mer rill. In his letter to Merrill. he wrote: "Since I came back to New York for no apparent reason my heart went all to pieces again. I told you it was throat and my stomach. I suf fer more than words can describe. No doctor can help m- and I fully realize that I am doomed. .I do not want to poison bet brignt. happy life. yet I cannot live without her. I have fought manful ly. but I am beaten. So there is bul one honorable path open to me and I shall calmly step into it becaus4 -my conscience is clear.'' When a heavy envelope on a table near the body was opened the artists will, written in his own hand. wa: found. It said in part: "This is my last will. I an. at orphan and have no blood relatives After my death do not look for m: money, as I 'have already disposed o it. All my pictures and all my be longings I give to Agnes Foster, o No. 41 Winthrop street. Boston Mass., and to Mr. diram C. Merrill of New York. They may divided then amicably between themselves, or sel them. or give them to friends, or d< whatever they wish with them. desire to be cremated and my ashe thrown to the four winds. ROW X HOTEL. Alleged Attempt to Throw Youzni Woman from Window. With her hair hanging down an .her person bloody from an encounte with two men in the hotel. Evely: Jones. a young woman of about 2( was rescued from a second story win dow of the Oregon Hotel in Spartan burg Monday morning, where sh had luckily caught a hold, after be ing thrown from the building, a she claimed, by L. D. Cre'vs, on of the propri-'tors of the house. The young woman was a guest a the hotel. Cases of disorderly con duct ,were made but against th proprietors of the hotel, and. upo investigation before Mayor Lee. the were each fined $50O. Evelyn Jonet who claimed she was on her way t Jacksonville. Fla., and had stoppe over in Spartanburg on business, wa detained at the police station til the arrival of -her train. It was al leged In the trial that she was con ducting herse5f improperly at th hotel and that the proprietors wer trying to put her out. NEGRO LYNCHED. Mob Overpowers Sheriff and Take the Prisoner. While officers from Arkansas wer enroute to Mastoden. Miss., with El mer Curl, a negro. they were ove powered by a mob at Como. Miss. Monday night, who took the negro ti Mastoden and lynched him. Cur was charged with shooting W. P Miller. a plantation manager, wh< attempted to arrest him for writini an improper letter to a white woman Following the shooting severa weeks ago, Curl escaped although h< was pursued for three days by posse with bioodhou'nds. He wai captured at Marion. Ark.. Sunday and the officers and the prisoner were aboard an Illinois Central train wher the mob boarded the train at Mc Gees crossing near Como. FARM.ER ASSASSINATED. Slain With Shotgun as He Lay ii Bed by Unknown Party. L. W. Delon..y. one of th.e hes1 known farmers of southwest Arkaa sas. was assassinated near Ashdown, Ark.. Tuesday night as he lay in bed asleep by unknown parties who fired two charges from a shotgun into hir body. Dleloney rec.'ntly had a quan tity of meat stolen and under a war rant the property of several white men was searched. This, It is be lieved, was th.- direct cause of the tragedy. The people of the section are greatly excited and it is feared trouble will result if the assassin is captured. Former Sheriff Poisoned. A special from Oneida. Tenn . says Frank Hughetz. ex-sh--riff ot Scott county and a candidate for the eleton as sheriff, was poisoned. pre sumiably by whiskey given him b: a supposed friend. 'This is the sec ond all-ged attempt. upon .his life in recent weeks. Hughett's condi tion is criticaL. but it is thought he will recover. Bodies Taken From D~eep. Five more bodies have been re moved from tne French submarine. Pluviose. These include the body of Commnde.r Callot. who was found .Fad at his post, his hands cluT~hing~ he periscopo. An examination of the bodies by physicians at Calais. France. has disclosed the fact that death was rapid. Rebellion in Brazil. .Adv-ices received by th-. German Cablegram Company at Berlin from Rio de Janerio state that insurgonts in the pr--fecture of Jurua. in the acre district of western Brazil. have driven out the governor and declared FEARFUL CRASH Pr"bby Thirty Pcese Kiled in Mere Al Disaser. FIRE ADDED TO HORROR Supports of Sprinkler System Tank on Roof of Herald Building Give Way, Precipitating Mass f Metal and Water, Weighing 33 Tons, to B&%ement Between twenty and thirty people lost their lives Monday when the sup ports of the sprinkler system tank. on the roof of the Herald building. at Montreal. Canada. gave way, and the great mass of metal and water. weighing thirty-five tons, went crash Ing to the basement. Fire broke out immediately. add ing its horrors to the disaster. The firemen displayed splendid heroism in rescuing scores of people from perilous positions in the tottering walls. Some of the walls had to come down b-fore the work of recovering the bodies could be safely attempt ed. and it was not until six o'clock in the evening that the first body, charred and mangled beyond recog nition. was brought out. All of those who escaped agree that the first warning of the Impend ing disaster passed almost unnotic ed. There was a slight creaking. then a little more. somewhat more pronounced. but it was not until the ceiling plaster began to fall that a rush for the stairway began. Before anyone reached it ther- oc curred a final deafening crash. and then chaos. Some survivors tell of falling one and two floors before awful crash died away, and then they found themselves able to crawl through the dense dust to a place of safety. The majority sought safety by rushing to the front of the build ing. Fortunately all of the floors held ) for about thirty feet fack from the I front wall, and to this is due the i fact that the death list does not run into the hundreds, for there were nearly three -hundred people in th building at the time. When the first hook and ladder company reachcA the scene the fir" men found the windows of the up per floors crowded with people. and the crowd on the sidewalk urging them not to jump. Not one did r jump. Ladders were quickly pl'ced in position and those in danger were brought to the ground. One ladder was hoisted, reaching to the fourth floor. on w.hich the bindery was located. It cam-% be tween two windows. From one of these a little girl crept along the cop. eing until she could reach the ladder. Grasping a ring with one hand and Splacing a foot on anothber. she lent a helping hand to eight other girls twice her size. When all the giris had reached the ladder and nad b--en brought down to safety she came down alone. By this time the fire had started and smoke was pouring from the front windows. The little girl fainted wh---n she reached the bottom of the ladder. A dozen Injured people were car ried from the ruins by the firemen. many of them with broken limbs. BOf the rescued that of Bred Vidal, a stereotyper. was the most daring. Half an hou:r after the firemen reach ed the building Vidal was heard groaning, and was located undwr a girder, from which he could not be 'dislodged. Despite the fact that the flames were creaping near three fire men began to cut away and stuck to their task. In the crowd outside was Father Martin. When he heard of the fight against death, he went into the building. and administered the last rites of the church to the semi-conscious man. Finally, however, the beam was cut through and Vidal releu'.ed. not a moment too soon. Both nis legs and some of his ribs were brok en. STOIDIt KILLS MANY. \'early Three Hundred are Killed inl Hungary. Nearly 3'H0 persons were" killed and several villages annihilated by a cloudburst at Krasso-Szoreny. a coun ty of Hungary. bordering on Transyl vania. Roumania and Servia. The capital of the ccunty, which is mai ly populated by Roumanians. is Lu gose. It is expected that the death roll will be greatly Increased waar communication. which has b.'-n .n most completely cut off, is restored. Bridges, telegraph and telephone wires in the district. have be,-n de stroyed and it is f* lt amat many of the survivors of the flood will die "f starvation or exposure before iz is possible to s.-nd assistance..* FOU'GHT WITH GAMHI.ERS. Two Negroes Are Dying as Result of Battlh- in the Dark. As a result of a Sunday night raid on an alleged gambling house netr Waycerous. Ga.. two negroes are dying, five are in jati and l~eputy S--riff John P. Casot. is seriously wounded. Surrounding the house. offlceers were able to approach without much trouble. W~hen :hey wet inside the hose an inmate k icked the light out. ore than fifty shots were. exchang ed. The wounded cannot recover. Wealthy Widow .3lurdered. Dean Erbart. who was arrested 3: Eastn. near Leavensworth. Ka:n.. on Tuesday night in conn--~citon with the murder of Mirs. Kathrin Schultz. the., wealthy widow whosa b'ody was founid I in her home. last week. n as tk hefore the county attorney's office Wednesday and exaained. . Erhart is a farmer forty years old. and th' husand of a .aiece of .Mrs. Schultz. Fats Mot h Hall and I~ies. At .\obile. A!a.. Jack Hiarris. 16-.tonths-oldl wn of A. J. Hiarris. died .\onday evening from eating a moth ball. whicn he found on the; POISON WAS FOUND IFE AND IOCTOR CHARGED WITH HUSHANDS DEATr1 Suspicion Aroused by Alleged Intl muacy.-Brothers Had Dead Man's Stomach Analyzed. As dark as the act of Henry the Eight.h is the terrible accusation that is being brought against two promi ne nt people of Swainsboro. Ga. Nev er before in the annals of the history of the county has it been so com pletely charged with excitement as it is. Bunchbes of men are to be seen standing on the street corners talking excitedly and the sheriff of the county and his deputies are pro ceeding in all directions in search of an alleged fugitive. This excitement is due to the fact that the state chemist. to whom the stomach of Mr. Fred Flanders. who died June 4th was sent, has intimat ed that the stomach was ful! of pois on and that arrests had better be made. The stomach of the deceased was se-nt to Atlanta because relatives of Flanders felt that he was poison ed and suspicion rested on Dr. W. J. McNaughton and Mrs. Flanders. When the sheriff went to arrest them Monday morning, it was dis covered that Dr. Mr.Naughton had sold his place and all his property had been turned into cash and that he had left. Mrs. Flanders was ar rested by the sheriff and brought to Swainsboro. -Mr. and Mrs. Flanders have occu pied the home of Dr. McNaughton since the death of his wife, about two years ago. Dr. McNaughton boarding with them. About two weeks before the death of Flanders. he became violently ill with what Dr. McNaugh ton. pronounced to be acute neph ritis. He was attended by no other physician but McNaughton and nurs ed by no one but his wife. He grad ually grew worse and finally on June 4th passed away. Brothers of Flanders, on account of Dr. McNaughton's attention to Mrs. Flanders before. and after the d-atb of her husband. became sus picious that there was some foul play and Tuesday they had his body ex huned. a coroner's jury empanneled and his stomach removed by Drs. Smith and Chandler and sent to At lanta in order that the state chemist might anal-ze its contents. Only Sunday a report was received which intimated that arrests would be in order. .iowever. too late to catch Dr. McNaughton, for be had gone. Flanders was worth four or five thousand dollars and he wag insured for about five thousand. Dr. McNaughton had lived In the county for a num'.er of years and was con sidered a good citizen. DRANK WOOD ALCOHOL. Three Men Are Dead and Two Otheri Are Probably Dying. A. I. McCasgill. aged 63; WIll Mar tin, aged 31. and George Teachout. 22 years old, are dead, and Clarence Smith and Lee White are believed to be in a dying condition as the re sult of drinking wood alcohol on Sat urday night at the village of Meau wataka, four miles from Cadillac, Mich. Teac-hout and McGasgill lived in Meauwataka and the others in Cadillac. McGasgill operated a soft-drink establishme~nt in Meauwataka, anc when he went home Friday he took four gallons of whisky. The supply ran out Saturday evening and Mc Gask ill is said to have conceived the idea of mixing wood alcohol with~ sugar water and pop to complete the night of drinking. He died during the night and was followed four hours later by Martin and Teachout. Negro Man Shoots His Son. Tuesday evening James Bullock. colored, was committed to jail at Raleigh. N. C.. to await superio court trial for shooting his son. Sam Bullock, at .his home near Garner The son was reprimanding the father for whipping the wife and mother when the old man soized his gun and shot the son in the abdomen. HEAl) BLOWN OFF. No One Knows How Young Farmer Met Tragic End. Carter Parks, a young former re siding over the North Carolina line. says a dispatch from Lancaster. son of H. Mobeley Parks of Lancaster county, met with a mysterious and tragic de-ath last week. On Wednes day aft.ernoon he left his home on a short business errand, and not re turning, a search was i'istituted by family and fri'nds. Nothing was seen or heard of -him until Friday morning, when his dead body was found near the spring on his place. Hiis head was nearly shot off. No further pearticulars are to be obtain ed.* QI-IETLY LYNCHED. Arkansas. Mob Overpowered Officers and Took Prisoner. Will Hunter, a negro. was taken fromi the officers by a mob at Star City. Ark.. T'e-sday night and lynch ed. The negro had just been arrested for entering th-' room of a white wc man, near Garnett. Ark., a few days a go. Overpowerinc the officers, the mob took the ne'gro to a dense wood near by. and after hanging him to a limb of a tre". riddled his body with bul its. after which it dispersed. So qui.tly did the mob do Its work r-hat nothing was known of the lynching until tne body of the n-egro was found t.I ha.nging to the tree Wednesday. .Another Ae'roplane Record. Watter lBrookins. in a Wright hi ;lar.'. at Ind4ianopolis. Ind.. broke th world's aeroplan-- record for al cue friday when he soared to a heghit of 4..-.0 feet. according to th me:iremient of the altimeter. iI~s nmotor stopcped as he was descend n.and h.e made a glide of two mies. landling easily in a wheat Mr. Taft says socialism will soon r.- que' an issu.-. Ntt having boen mtny more p- opie than usual with ecng hair, it had not struck us that CALL OF PURE POLITICS PINCHOT SAYS INTERESTS MUST HA DS OFF. Speaks Upon Conservation and Inci dentally Lambastsi Trusts. Unnam ed Party Spoken of. Following an informal reception to Gifford Pinchot and James R. Gar Seld at St. Paul. Minn.. Saturday ev*ning about 5.0 members and friends of the St. Paul Roosevelt club filled the large banqueting room of the Ryan hotel. thus rendering a long deferred tribute to Messrs. Pin chot and Garfield in recognition of their efforts for conservation of pub lit domains. Justice E. A. Jaggard. of the Min nesota supreme court was toastmas ter. Introduccing Judge Jaggard. Hugh T. Halbert, Pre-sident of the Roosevelt Club. awakened the en tihusiasm of the banqueters by a reference to an unnamed new party. "some of the leaders of which." he said. were present. "This country has lived on its capital," said President Halbert. "but at last has awakened to the fact that it will soon expend its natural re sources by the inoi-quitable distribu tion of its wealth in direct violation of the law of equal opportunity for its citizens. This condition has brought about the formation of a new party without name but not without an issue. nor without lead ers. "That party has two wings com posed of those called conservatives and those called progressives. but the real division is composed of those who have at heart the rights of the people as against those who favor a monopoly of the benefits of the pub lic domain. "The party may be unnamed, but its leaders are Theodore Roosevelt and our honored guests, Gifford Pin chot and James R. Garfield." Following this speech Gov. Eber hart spoke on "The State and Conser vation." Mayor Kelle-r spoke on "The City and Conservation," and follow ing these two. Mr. Garfield spoke on the "Ultimate Results of Conserva tion." Following this last speech came that of Mr. Pinchot, which was the main event of the evening. Mr. Pincbot opened his speech with a plea for conservation, which he term ed a "moral issue." Then asserting that the country had lost confidenct In congre's. Mr. Pinchot denounced the manipalation of schedules which, he charged. occurred during the re cent revision. The alliance betweer business and politics, he declar ed was the snake which the nation must kill. "Who is to blame because repre sentatives of the people are so com monly led to betray their trust? W( all are-we who have not taken th< trouble to resent and put an end ti the knavery we knew was going on The brand of politics served out tc us by th~e professional politician hai lcng been composed largely of h" meals for the interests and hoe. ab for the people, and we have ai known it." .Mr. Pinchot went on to point ,rti the dansers which lie In strict ad herence to party, regardless of pri:. ciples. |"A new life." .he continued is sti: ring among the dry bones of formna platforms and artificial Issues." He then urged upon the people the in portance of casting out "watc:hdog' of the interest" from among the ranks of public servants. .Mr. Pinchot said that the old or der of government by the interes was wearing thin under the ceaseseri assault~s of the progressives. T'4e |American people. he said, "demnand 'btat the special intere, 31 all.1 gc et of politics or out of buailnese.' i'he old style .- adems he asserte-3 have gone out of date. They nre vainly attempting to stay the marc: of an aroused public conscience. WOMAN'S HODY INi TRU'NK The Ghastly Find in a Lake In Italy on Friday Last. The badly mutilated body of a woman, believed to be that of Mrs. H. N. Castle, who was Mary Crit tenden Scott. of San Jose. California. was found in a trunk, shbmnerged in a la't near the village of Moltrasio, Italy, last we k. Wrapped about the Ibody was a piec"' of old cloth, which bore the initials. "L.," and from letters in the trunk, written in Eng lishi. it appears that the woman in 1906. lived in 34th street, New York city. Th-' police, basing their opin ion on wounds on the head, evident' ly made by a blunt instrument, are of the belief that the woman was murdered, and they have taken Into custody a Russian, named Constan tine Ispolatoff. 50 years old, whoma they suspect of had'ng knowledge of how the woman met her death, Married by Sign language. William Dllworth. a deaf mute prize fighter, better known as "Dum my Decker." was married at Savan nah, Ga., Monday morning to Miss Katharine Martini, of Haltimore. the bride also is a deaf mute. She rached Savannnh from .her former home a few hours before the wed ding. The marriage service was translated b~y the finger language to th- young man and woman. Severed ilnod ',essels. Mr. J. A. Marshiall, whio lives about six miles east of Kingstree, while| using a hatchet Tuesday. cut his arm above his wrist, severinc s-verai of the bloed vessels. Before medical assistance could be reached he had bled considerably. T-'ddy. Jr. It is riven out wi!! wear a cutaway coat at his wedding. Some people find news lik' this more thrilling than the fateful informa tion of watr or peace between Peru and Equador. Mr. Taft depr-entes much-raking. ut from the z.en*ral attitude of the hiher-up's the paist year. the oniy improvc'ms nt we can suggest is to~ susttu:.e a steam shovel for the hand imp;leme'nt. Profound surprise is expr--ssed in Europe h- cause Teddy says what he neans instead of what he doesn't FOUND MRDERED STRAINGER SLIN IN HIS WO[ I HOTEL. Instant Death from Bullet, but 50 Revolver Found-Supposed Brod er Has Vanished. 1 A man, whose name Is given by' the police as Frank Stickett, and who is b-lieved to have come from Baltimore. was found murdered Tues day in a Bowery hotel. *A revolver bullet had entered his left t-mple, causing instant death. physicians said. but there is no trace of the revolver. The victim registered with another man at the hotel early Tuesday as; "John Stiekett and brother, Frank."' The supposed brother was not to be found when the body was discovered. The clothing of the dead man ap parently was purchased in Baltimore. The name of that city on ls cloth ing and the card of a New York elec-1 trical concern in the coat pocket were the only clues left to aid a search for the man's anteeodants. He was apparently an Englishman abot twenty-three years old. GItL*S PITIFUI PLIGHT. Mentally Unbalaned is Found Wan. dering In Woods. While making a search in the woods near Greenville Tuesday for a uegro wanted on a trival charge. Sheriff Poole came upon a young white girl about 16 years old, who had almost gone back to the primal state. The girl was asleep when found lying on a bank of mos near the river bank, and when accosted by the oficer she declared that for several weeks she had made her home in the woods, living on berries and sleeping In the open. The girl's clothing was wet by the continued rains and she appeared in a some what exhausted condition. The sheriff took the girl in custody and placed her in charge of the au thorities at the emergency hospital in the Salvation Army citadel. She was later identified as Leonie Ander son, and physicians say she has been suffering from tempo'ary mental ab erration. RELEASED ON BAIL.' 0. P. Sasser, Charged With Theft, Under Bond. A special to The State says: "0. P. Sasser. a young white man. who has been in the county jail for ap proximately two months. charved with the tieft of a gold watch from the Southern Express company, has been released under a bond of $500 this afternoon. The case of the young man has created more than ordinary inter est. Although a comparative strang er in this section of the state. being originaly from North Carolina, the loyalty o fpractically the entire busi nes element of Branchville, where his headquarters were made at the time of his apprehension have had a tendency to make thye case more re niarkable. He has resided at. that point only a short while, but every effort has been made to nave him re I Naseu, and the fact that the bond |was signed by several well known business men is expressive of the confidence which he enjoys abour |Branc~tville. He has always borne an excellent reputation, even before his residence in this state, they say. an~d there are some who are disposed to attribute the misstep to over-In- . dulgence in whiskey.' |False Bsness Economy. IIn business there is sometimes a closeness which goes by Vhe name of economy, but which in its practi cal workings is nothing but extrava gence. To spend a dollar for a eer tain purpose and get nothing In re turn means a dollar wasted, bus two dollars spent for the same purpose bringing in many dollars as a re turn Is economy and also wealth. How often this truth is seen n ad vertising. One merchant grudgi' dly spends but a few dollars a year f'r advertising his business becase. tc .be says, he "can't afford to pay more.",.and naturally he get but poor returns. Another merchant advertise-s liberally and judiciously and ss- a result his - business grows apace. The one merchant shows false economy with the inevitable result, the oth'r shows true economy because It pu's money in his pocket. No one realizes the truth of all this more than the great money order .houses. Each of them spends yearly a kings ransom in advertisaog be cause experience tells them it pays. Many a retail merchant could with profit follow their example by a pro portionate expenditure for the same object. They, too, would find it pay. Too Much Slooping Over. Every once in awhile some prom inent Southern man, of whom we r.'iould expect, b"tter things, goes up North and slops over, we suppose to curry favor with the people who in habit that region. As the Charlottle Observer says we would prefer to say nothing at all about the attack which ex-Governor Glenn made in Cleveland. 0., upon the South's ed ugitional treatment of th'e negro. Lnless reports are wrong, he was very far from doing this section jus tice. Even if he felt moved to cen sure ha would much better have de livered himself at home. U'nder the circumstances he only angered the 5outh and gratified ani-Southern pre'judic' s which should not be fed w>: fre'sh fuel but removed. In lec turing ground the country Govern or Glenn make a good many wild ut terances and incurs a good deal of stinging criticism. The advertising giv' n North Carolina. upon whose public honors his occupatIon rest, is disticctly bad. But we recall no other occasion upon which he ac quited himself so unfortunately as he did at Clevelandl. Those who feel kindly towards hbim and wish to re gardi his activity in the most faror abl" light have more cause for re gr't than any one else. It. is somewhat of a novelty for Englandi to be accused of softheart e.!ness in her dealing with inferior races. In fact It is so novel that the English have not yet got over Roose