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VOL. xxvi; MANNING, S. C.9 WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 2 BLEASE ON TiLLHAN SAYS HE DOES NOT NEED THE SENATOR'S SUPPORT JONES TALK OF ISSUES -I as Well Qualified to be Governor as Timan or Anybody Else," Says Governor Blesse. - Peoples and Earle Says They Are "1ease for Governor. Thomas H. Peeples az.ti :T. R. Earle came out for Blease. Tbis declara tion of preference as tt ne leading candidates for governor by two of the four candidates for attorney-general was the news feature of the State campaign meeting in Laurens. Fairly good order was kept by the crowd of 3,000 persons, wbich filled a natural ampitheater at the edge of the town, except that the chairman John M. Cannon was unable to get a bearing for Judge Jones when the lat ter sought to make categorical reply to Governor Blease. Judge Jones gave little time to self-defense but spent the geater part of his forty-five minute period in ex plaining politics which he advocates ,.rd contrasting these with the poli cies comprehended in "Bleaseism", though he di dnot once, mention the governor's name. Governor Blease repeated the sub stance of his address er' Newberry, omi.tting, however, the charges there made by him against relatives of Judge Jones who live Ii Newberry. Governor Blease referred again to the attitude of B. R. Tillman, senior Senator from South Carolina, toward the Blease-Jones campaign. "Jones and his crowd," Blease sai. "are try Ing to take a safety-pin and pin Jones onto Ben Tillman's coat tails. Edge Seld county has got a man in the race -for the United States Senate who served you as Senator, as superin tendent of the penitennary and for years in congress. He has done much for South Carolina. "Laurens county has got a young man in the race who is honorable and high-toned and worthy of any trust that may be reposed in him. Why should the Jones people try so hard to hang onto Tillman? He has his own fight to make. If they had a proper respect for themseives and for Tillman they wouldn't do it. "I don't need Tillman's endorse ment. I have proven during the past 19 months that I am as well qualified' to be governor as Bea Tillman or anybody else. They say Hampton was defeated because he interfered n a family fight nnd they are doing their best to get Tillmai to interfere in a family fight. But they are not going to get Tillman into it." The governor declared, in charac teristically elegant language, that Tillman would never befound. "lined! up" with the management of the State. Messrs. Peeples and Earle were put on record as to their preference be tween Blease and Jones tnrough the' activity of a self-appointed grand in-f quisitor, a farmer fr'om Sullivan township named Tublin, who wore a Blease badge the size of a half dol lar and -who had repeutedly yelled. "Hurrah for Barney Evans," while the Attorney-General 3. Fraser Lyon was speaking. Mr. Peeples, however, refrained from expressing himself un til after he had ascertained, by meansI of a hand primary, that many persons present, other than Mr. Tumblin, were interested. B. B. Evans. who left last SaturdayI for Black Mountain. N. C., did not! return until long after his turn to speak came, in fact, not until Just be-! fore the meeting ended. D. W. McLaurin, a candidate for State Treasurer, angrily refused to be committed on the Blease-Jones issue. (Eeesrs. Wharton, Carter, Richards and Cansler. were asked where they stood on this matter, 'out the ques tion was not pressed and they all Ig nored It. "Gentlemen." said Mr. Peeples, "I have always been the friend of the Hon. Cole L. Blease, and I see no rea son That was enough for inquisitors who raised a shout, "Hurrah for Blease and Peeples." Mr. Earle said, "If you want to know where I stand I have voted as a rule with Governor Blease on his vetoes. I have the manhood to vote for what I believe to be right. He and I were In the general assembly together for years and he and I were usually on the same side. When he vetoed those appropriations I voted to sustain him, and I am willing to do so again." Mr. Mcbaurin told his questioner that if he did not desist from annoy Ing him he would have him arrested. "You go ask Jones and Blease who they are going to vote for," he said. "and I'll tell you how I'm going to vote. If you had as much sense as you have got mouth you wouldn't ask me such a question. Wouldn't I be a pretty fool to come before the peo ple asking for such an office as that of State Treasurer with "-Blease"~ or "Jones'' branded across my breast? I was a ma nbefore either of them, and I bore myself as a man.' St.abs Wife With Knife. At Nashville, Ind., thinking hisi wife a burglar. Harvey Troyer stab bed her in the back early Tuesday, and she probably will die. According to their statements they were awak ened by a noise as if there was an in truder In the darkened room. Both arose and the husband, armed with a butcher knife, stabbed the wife when they ran against each other. S<>uth to See Warships. Secretary Meyer announced Tues day that some time this tall or win ter he would show the Southern peo ple the magnificent Atlantic tleet at as many as the principal harbors of the South Atlantic and gulf coasts as the dreadnloughts can enter or even approach within reasonable distance. Thief Once a Jockey. Ranked when a boy as th~e premier jockev of the American .turf. with earn~nrS of $5i00O a year. Grover Cleveland Fuller, who is still only 20 years .'ad limped before JTudge Crain in General sessions Thursday in New York. plead to an indictment charg ng tefto a watch. HIOW HE FULD HER YOUNG WOM AN ANSWERE) AD VERTISEMENT FOR WIF. The Brute She Married in That Way Deserted Her in Three Days After Marriage. Marry in haste and repent at leis ure was the fate of pretty Mrs. Con way G. Hutcheson, formerly Miss Mary SicEachin, Pnd a daughter of a farmer of Broaker, Ga., according to the story she told Chief Beavers Tuesday morning when she asked that he find the husband who, she al leges, deserted her after they had been married three days. The girl, who is only twenty, lived on a big farm about ten miles from Hazlehurst, Ga., and she had never met Hutcheson until she answered an advertisement for a wife. The adver tisenitnt read: "Wanted a good coun try girl for a wife. Am a rich Vir ginian. No one but a country girl need apply." Soon letters were exchanged. Then protographs, and finally the man call ed at the girl's home, where his pol shed manner and glib tongue won the heart of the girl. But her aged father and mother objected. They begged the girl to wait 'until they knew more of the man, but the cou ple ran away from home, taking the midnight train on July 31. They ar rived at Atlanta early in the morn ing, and were married on Thursday, the first of August by Judge Orr. They went to a Mitchell street ho tel and remained until Sunday, when they were persuaded by the young irl's sister-in-law to go home and seek the parental blessing. They did so. and reached Brooker, Ga., Sun day. and spent the day with the old t people. Monday morning the hus band took the first train, and his wife told Chief Beavers that was the last she had seen of him. That was over a week ago. She had no idea, she told Chief Beavers, that he was not going to come back, until she received a let ter from him. in which he said that he was gone forever. Re wrote, she said. that he was sorry he had mar ried her. and that she need not ever expect to see him again. "And may God forgive me." he concluded, "am icably and peacefully yours." He had given her $20 when they reached the farm house. and told her hat was to buy her trousseau. The man had every evidence of being' wealthy, the girl said, and told her I h was worth $40.000. He said his e home was In Batenburg. Va.. and that t he once owned a portrait enlarging I business, but was then traveling for ' a large house. He never gave the t firm's name. but he had a box at the; Atlanta postoffice, where he received: his mail. After he left the girl at home sheit received a letter in his han'dwriting! which turned out to be for some bus ness house. The girl said she for- e warded it back to his box number, and then her letter was returned. She t old Chief Beavers it looked like het mixed the letters up for a purpose. The man gave his age as 31, and is i described as being very tall. -He has a andy hair and a dark sandy mus-t ash, has brown eyes and a crookedi ose. The girl wants the man ar ested and will at once seek a di orce. she declares, and demand ali ony. s WILL CARRY HOME COUNTY. 2 ones Will Have Big Majority in Lan caster County. j In a private letter to the editor of E the Greenwood Journal t1r. A. J.l f lark, editor of The Lancaster News!' rites that "Jones will carry Lan- c aster county by several hundred ma- 1 nity. He is one of the best men that; ave lived here since I came here over thirty years ago." This news is especially interesting it n view of the fact that Cov. Blease' I has claimed several times that he ould carry Lancaster county. Hie t reiterated the statement in his speechc t Newberry. In this connection it a ight be added that reports from Ic ewberry are to the effect that the t sentiment in that county Is very much s divided. It is believed, according to I reports, that Go". Blease's majority ( n his home county will be very small, f he carries It at all. MONK(EYS TAKE SHIP. t C Climb in Rigging to the Great An noyanee of Sanlors. The voyage of the big steam I freighter Egremont Castle, from the far east, came near being one long nightmare. ' t Forty-one monkeys were taken on board at an eastern port. They re-If fused to answer the dinner bell: they; t warmed in the rigging hopelessly j tangling any loose ends of rope theyt ould firnd, swung on the whistle rope, ( sending forth blasts of the siren in the dead of night; rifled the gallery 1 shelves and upset everything that was not nailed down. Freedom of the ship had been zrated to -the monkeys to k:eep them n better healith, but Captain Smith nally ordered them caught and put back in the cages. This resulted In the death of 1r. Tore Fourteen $20 Bills Up. After she had torn into shreds ser mal $20 bills and tried to leap from window. Mrs. Jennie Lieberwith. sixty years old. of No. 168S Tompkin avenue. Williamsburg; N. Y., was yuesday taken to K'ings Cuunty IHos :ital for observation as to her san a.She hr.d destroyed fourten of: the bills in an $S00 roll when dia -v-i ered. Shild Still Missing. At 9 o'clock Thursday morning Mr. and Mrs. Blarron C. Cook had heard nothing from their five-year ol son, who myvsteriously disappear- , d from their home in Charlotte ear v Wednesday morning. The police and frIends of the family are bending every effort to find a clue as to the whereabouts of the child. Cat C'auses infant Paralysis? O'cials of the Springfield Mass., health department believe they have traced the source of infantile paral vsis to th~e house of cat. The m s'ectors have discovered several well developed cases In cats and wIll send the affected antinals to Boston for ob sertion. .. .. - FORTUNE IN BANNI BECKER, THE NEW YORK CROOE 60T RIGH SHIELDING THE DENS OF INIQUITI in Less Than Nine Month This Dis honest Police Lieutenant Has De posited Nearly Sixty Thousand Dol lars Received from Crooks of al Kinds for Protecting Them. Powerful banking interests, actln through the New York Clearin, House committee, came to the aid o District Attorney Whitiaan in his ef rorts to lay bare the alleged corrup illiance between the police and th, ambling fraternity, founded on graf ind blackmail. Burns and his detec ives are on the job. A virtual command was given b: he committee to all banks in thi learing house to furnish the distric ittorney with a record of deposit hey may have from any of the higl )olice officials whom the district at :orney suspects of having been collec ors of blackmail from the disorder1 -lements of the city. As a result, records showing tha1 ithin the last eight months Polic< ZIeutenant Charles Becker, charge4 vith the murder of Herman Rosen hal, and accused of gambling grafi ias made bank deposits of $58,845 iz us own name or that of his wife wh< vere placed in the hands of the pub Ic prosecutor. These deposits, the records show vere first made in November, 1911 hortly after Becker became head o1 he "strong arm squad" of gambling aiders, and continued all during the ime that Jack Rose says he was col. ecting graft for Becker and until aft er his arrest. The table of deposits ta presented to the district attorney vas as follows: 'orn Exchange Bank.. ....$29,61E ,orn Exchange Bank. ..... 4,33( orn Exchange Bank. .....-6,0C orn Exchange Bank. . . 10.00C mpire Savings Bank. .....1.50C West Side Savings Bank.. .. 8,00C -ncoln Trust Company.. .. 1,50C Total.. ............$58,845 The district attorney had beeE ronised records of Becker's deposits n four other banks which did not ave time to go over their accounts nd he has also discovered that Beuk r has an unknoivn amount of stocks, onds and othtr securities locked ur n two separate safe deposit vaults. hat the total value of the police lieu enant's assets will be found to ap roximate $200.000 would be no sur rise to the district attorney. Becker's salary as a polioe lieu nant was $2,250 a year. The aid of he clearing house committee was roffered to Mr. Whitman after it be ame known that his representative ad been finding some difficulty In racing Becker's bank accounts and hose of other police officers. Mr. Whitman was assured by lead ig bankers of the city that they were nxious, as public-spirited citizens. r have the police force purged of s grafters and the whole scandal ired and that they would give him very aid in their power. This offer as gladly accepted by the district torney who said: "I am receiving plendid support from the bankers of ~ew York City. The district attorney has received formation that Becker may have ut money away in several banks utside of the city and if these are efinitely located the New York bank rs have promised to use their In uence to secure their production. 'he prosecution expects that the aid f the banks will be invaluable to m when he takes up the larger hase of the graft inquiry. It became known that the distrIct ttorney is holding for presentation a the grand jury evidence by which e expects to convict four police in pectors on the charge of collecting lackmail from gambling houses and isorderly resorts. These four men re all aware, it is said. o! the nature ' the evidence and have been trying a cover their tracks. Thus far the tate's investigators have uncovered ank acco-unts of two totalling $75, 00. The expected murder Indictments y the grand jury were not handed own owing to the time taken up by estimony of various ~witnesses. One f these was Jack Rose, who, It was earned, held the jury spellbound for wo hours when he repeated the con ession of his part in the murder plot d his alleged graft relations with -ieutenant Becker. One of the jurors is reported to ae remarked that he had not heard he equal of the story portrayed In ny melodramaa. The one additional act of importance which Rose added >his previous accusations that Beck rhimself was, in effect, the paymas er of the murder crew. When Beck r, ridgie Webber and Rose met In ront of the Murray Hill baths on the mornng of the murder, according to ose, Becker borrowed from "Brid. le'' Webber the $1,000 "blood mon y" in large bills, handed it to Rose, r-ho handed it to Schtpps, who then ass'd it on to "Gyp the Blood" and is three thug companions. Wants to Vote Before She Dies. Sixty-four years a resident of Cali ornia and eighty-one years old. Mary osephine Melvin, born In Ireland, .ppeared In San Francisco, Cal., and ook out her first papers to become cItizen. She declares she .has lived o see the dawn of freedom for wo nen and she wants to vote before he dies. Over one Hundred Perish. A tremendous hurricane that swepi he Spanish coast has caused heavy ife and property loss. Fourteer ilboa fishing boats capsized durinI he worst storm and at least 119 sail' yrs erished. All coast towns suff red from the gale. Music Teacher Killed. In the arrest iato Monday night o regro' named H. J. Jones. fifty-fiv4 -ears old, the police believe they hav4 :he murderer of Miss Signe Carlzen he music teacher who was killed Fri 'Say in Aurora. a suburb of Denver. Five Prisoners Escape. Five prisoners escaped over th hI-h wail of the Ohio penitentiary a olumbus Tuesday. One of the pris enors was shot and another was cap re~. hre made a clean get-away HELil UP THE COURT TOOK BOY CONVICTED OF M:UR DER AND LYNCrHED HIlM. The Unmasked Mob Penned the Dep uty in the Court Room and Went Away With Negro. Holding up the court officials In the courthouse at Columbus, Ga., at pis tols' points, a mob of about forty men, in open broad daylight, Tuesday afternoon about five o'clock, took T. Z. Cotton, alias T. C. McElhenny, a sixteen-year-old negro, on trial, and lynched him just beyond the city limits. The negro had been convicted of killing young Cedron Land, a white boy, near town two months ago. Land was found in a field, his face riddled with bird shot. It was re ported that he had trouble with the negro and the latter was arrested. At the trial Tuesday the negro was speedily convicted of "unlawful man slaughter". Judge Gilbert sentenced him to three years in the peniten tiary. The spectators made no show of their dissatisfaction with the verdict, L and as soon as court adjourned many of the court officials left. When dep uties started away with their prison er, they were surrounded and disarm ed. They were held in the court house while members of the mob, all unmasked, took the negro out to a street car. Reaching the negro quarter, the passengers were ordered off the car, which was taken about one hundred yards farther. Then the negro was taken off the car and his body rid- 4 dled with bullets. The mob was dissatisfied with the - verdict. Those composing it thought that the negro ought to have been hung for his crime, which was a bru tal one. The matter will be Investi- t gated, but it is doubtful if anything I is done, as the lynchers have the in dorsement and sympathy of many of t the people. WHY NOT CLAIM ALL. Hilles Elects President Taft Easily on I Paper. Charles D. Hilles, chairman of the Republican national committee, issu ed a statement claiming that 34 states with a total electoral vote of 384 for the Republican ticket and conceding 10 states, with an electoral vote of 114, to the Democratic party. He listed four states, with an electoral vote of 34, as doubtful and conceded no state to the Progressives. Following are figures submitted by In Mr. Hilles in what he calls a pre- r liminary survey of the political situa tion: Claimed by Republicans: Colorado, 6; Connecticut, 7; Delaware, 3; Ida ho, 4; Illinois, 29: Indiana, 15; Iowa, 13: Kansas, 10; Kentucky, 13; Maine. 6; Maryland, S; Massachus etts, 18; Michigan. 15; Minnesota, 12; Missouri. 18; Montana, 4; *Neva da, 3; New Hampshire, 4; New Jer sey, 14; New Mexico, 4; New York, 45; North Dakota. 5; Ohio, 24; Ore gon. 5; Pennsylvania, 38; Rhode Is-. land, 5; South Dakota, 5: Tennessee, 12; Utah, 4; Vermont. 4; Washing ton, 7; West Virginia, 8; Wisconsin, t 13; Wyoming, 3. Total, 384. Conceded to Democrats: Alabama, i 12; Arkansas, 9; Florida, 6, Georgia, a 14; Louisiana, 10; Mississippi, 10; t: North Carolina, 12: South Carolina, i: 9; Texas, 20; Virginia, 12. Total, 114-. Listed as doubtful: Arizona, 3; California, 13; Oklahoma, 10; Ne- t: braska, S. Total, 34. e Mr. Hilles also said that the new t, Progressive party would draw no v more heavily from the Republican r party than from the Democratic par ty. b SHERIFF PUT OFF TRADT. 1 t in Conductor Refuses to Let Black Pris. oner Ride in White Smoker. Because he would not travel inf the negro compartment, Sheriff V. A. i Spinney, of Augusta, Ala., was eject ed from a Mobile and Ohio passen ger train Wednesday afternoon while carrying a handcuffed prisoner from ] iMontgomery to Prattville. The sheriff purchased two first class tickets for himself and the pris oner, and they sat down in the white d smoker. The train had just pulled b out of the station when the conduc- d tor, coming around for tickets, or dered the sheriff to carry his prison er to the negro compartment. The sheriff refused to do so, whereupona the conductor stopped the train, i backed it to the depot and forced the ~ sheriff and the prisoner from the train. The sheriff has employed counsel and threatens suit. He insists that the Alabama law prohibits whitesa from riding in the negro coachx ana vice versa, and that the conductor'ss order therefore was in direct viola a tion of the law, lie also maintains that as an officer he had a right to carry his prisoner in the white smok er. ' Dog Beats Women to Voting. A pedigreed bull dog was voted in ~ place of a negro voter in the election ~ of Representative Jamts A. Hughes, Republican, of West Virginia. ac- I cording to the report prepared by the House Committee investigating Hughts' election. The report will ar range franchise conditions in Hughes' district, it is said. Vice Consul Was Murdered i A dispatch from Columbia says that the death of William B. McMas ter, the United States Vice consul at i Cartagena, whose body, riddled with gunshot was found a few miles out side of that city Monday. has pros-'. Qdwithout doubt that he was murder ed. There are no clues to the slay ers. Sailors Burned in Fire 5 Two sailors perished and a large 1 quantity of oil destroyed when the H Standard oil steamer C. M. Pate, to getber with three 10adt narges was iurned on the Mississippi river at 1 Gramercy, La.. Tuesday night. Shows a Great Cnange. A careful poll of the votes of Pac olet precinct in Spartanburg County shows the following result: Jones, -101: Blease. 6. The vote two years ago was: Featherstone, 39; Blease, TROUBLE IS BREWIN6 RAILROAD EMPLOYEES MAY GO ON HUGE STRIKE. Nineteen Roads in the South Will be Affected if Men Decide to Walk Out, Says Report. Adivices rehelved here from Macon tre in effect that a great strike of railroad employees affecang nineteen Southern railroads is now imminent. According to information from the Georgia city, railroad employees all >ver the South are now taking part in i ballot which will determine wheth r or not the strike shall be called. rhe Gacon News prints the follow ng story concerning the matter: Railroad conductors, trainmen, tnd yardmen throughout the South kre now participating in a ballot tak m by mail which will aetermine if I hey shall strike for hlg'ier wages. This vote will be collected, polled Lnd announced in Washington, D. C., wo weeks hence, and the result, if n favor of a strike, will then be com nunicated as an ultimatum to the eneral managers of the railroads *vhich are concerned. There are ninetten railroads that 4 nay be affected by a strike. These tre as follows: Central of Georgia Railway, South rn Railway, V. S. & W. Railroad, C Zorthern Alabama Railroad, &. & A. s tailroad, K. & B. Railroad, T. & C. S. c lailroad, Atlantic Coast Line, Mobile s & Ohio Railroad, Great Northern, C., q. 0. & T. P. Railroad, Alabama I reat Southern, Georgia Southern & C lorida, R. F. & P. Railroad, South- 1 rn in Mississippi, New Orleans, Mo- r le & Chicago, Seaboard Air Line. t Llabama & Vicksburg, Shreveport & 'acific Railroal. The general committee, composed G if the chairman of the committee of c he several roads affected are made $ p as follows: I 0. R. C. Chairman-W. M. Hamil- il on, Macon; S. J. Brooks. .T. A. Dod- c on, R. B. Mims, R. W. Moore, L. E. .vans, T. K. Steed, H. Dickinson, J. 'v V. Loyal, A. C. Aden, J. W. Vaughn, t nd T. . Talbtrt. t B. R. T. Chairman- TW. V. Ham- 11 ton, R. H. Lanter, J. F. Shelton, T. o Mason, B. F. Pearson, C. G. Stokes, b . M. Tanner, Z. S. Wheels, R. T. agner, H. A. Fox, Macon; 11. M. d ousins, and J. K. Lush. h All official communications being f] ent from the general managers com- T ittee, of which H. Baker is chair- t ian, are addressed to A. B. Garret on. president of the 0. R. C. and Val 'itzpatrick, vice-pirsident, B. R. T. ti The officials of the railroads, n irough the general managers' com- a ittee, has issued a letter to the com- c iittee in which they state that if the e: equests of the men are granted, they h ill be paying the highest wages in nM ny section of the United States, t] which means higher wages than are r ild anywhere in the world". In the circular being sent to each F f the employees, the correspondence b etween the general managers' com- h ittee and the officers of the two or- R anizations is given, and the claims X iade by either side are stated. Fol- L )wing this correspondence, the form M )r the vote is printed to be detached iC nd returned to the chairman, signed >r or against a strike, a The decision to take a census of d de railroad men as to thtir position n the proposed strike was reached S 1 Macon last Friday my the corn- R ittees from the tranmnen-s assocla- G ons. The blank ballots are now be- t< ig distributed throughout the South.. t Macon railroad employees do not si esitate to say that they think there al 'ill be serious developments unless ct eir demands are granted. The gen- t: al managers, in their reply, con- N nd that the increase ,if granted, b ould mean the bankruptcy of the airoads. a: We hope the matter can be amia- r< ly adjusted, as a strike would do w either side any good. Why not ar- d itrate the matter and settle the t: ouble without resorting to extreme S ieasures on either side. Strikes and o ckouts are relics of barbarism and ti ;does seem that they should be un- t: ecessary for the adjustment of dif- tl erences among any class of our cit :ens. GREAT LOSS BY ARMY WORM' ight Million Dollars Damage to Crops of the South. More than $8,000,000 damage was one to crops in the South last month y the army worms, according to thee epartment of agriculture made at ashington Thursday. Whether the season's second brood f the insects, already appearing in I outh Carolina, Alabama, Georgia,t d other states, will Increase this ys is of much concern to govern-b ent experts. All the means at the epartment's disposal are being used > meet the emergency. t Reports to the department say the rmy worms at some places half a oot deep on railroad tracks have ~ topped trains. This loss~ is placed ' t $1,000.000 in Georgia, while In 0 rkansas 20 per cent, of the corn and 0 per cent. of cotton planted have a en destroyed. Losses also haver een great in Tennessee, the Caroli as, Alabama, Mississippi and Louis na. In some of these, particularly t ouisiana, they exceed the million ark. Corn, cotton. sugar cane, and ice crops from Louisiana to the At in tic have been affected. Killed Her Assailant. At Nashvllle, Mrs. J. R. Allen, a :idow, aged twenty-two, Tuesday h hot and instantly killed Wil- a iam Shofer, aged twenty-eight. lI he driver of a taxicab in the service S fMrs. Allen and her brothers. d hen arraigned she said she shot to t< ~rotect herself. Shofer made his t< oe with the widow and her .broth- t1 r. She alleged he attempted to as-d ault her.d State's First Bale of Cotton. Mlarion County's first bale of new otton. which Is the first bale in the tae to be reported, was sold at Mar- t1 on Tuesday for fifteen cents. It was b nrde by T. W. Moody, a few miles! p orth of town, was ginned at P. F. 1 'ones' gir.nery and was purchased by.i he Blackwell Company. Aged Man Convicted. William Kennedy, aged 76, Thurs lay was convicted of murder In the irst degree for conspiracy in the kill- p ng of his son. Shelt Kennedy, and 'l is grandson, Sarg Kennedy, in the 11 uoted Pearce-Kennedy feud in Anni-I tonAla CAUIHT WITH iRAF1 SEVERAL DETROIT ALDERME1 HAD MARKED BILLS F1YEM THEM BY BURN! Co Pass Certain Important Measure Through the City Council for th Benefit of the Wabash Railroad and Eighteen of Them Have Beel Arrested Charged With Grafting. Prosecuting Attorney Sheppard o )etroit, announced Wednesday after Loon that Edward Schreiter, deposei :ouncilmaic clerk, who made a com >lete confession after his arrest wit] lighteen aldermen in connection wit] iribery charges, will from now on as ,ist him in prosecuting the aldermen "Schreiter is now an attache of thi prosecutor's office; you might cal Lim an assistant without pay," salt he prosecutor. The statement wa nade after the arraignment of thi ighteen aldermen and Scheiter. Th< ases were set for hearing on Augus :0. -Schreiter, who was one of the offi ials arrested, is to appear on th< ame charges. The hearing of thi euncilmanic officials was featured b: cathing denunciation hurled upoi chreiter by the aldermen nvolved Ii is confession. All of the acouse fficials brand the Schreiter state 2ent as false, nothwithstanding th4 rosecutor refused to give oit any o: he details of the confession. Assistant Prosecutor Charles Jas owski said that Alderman Thoma. lenman, leader of the common coun 11, and who is said to have receivet 1,000 bribe money from a detectiv i the Wabash Railroad street clos. ig case, has repeatedly confirmed hi on feOssion. All of the aldermen are charged rith having been implicated in a ploi 3 force the Wabash Railroad to pa3 tem various sums for their influenot 1 putting through the council a res lution closing a city street for the enefit of the railroad company. It is declared that nine of the al ermen actually received bribes, not owever, from a railroad official, bul rom a detective who posed as such, 'he nine others, It is charged, agreed ) accept certain sums but failed tc collect" at an appointed time. According to the prosecution the ap was sprung a short time after ne a-ldermen were bribed and alsc fter the time for the others to re ive their share of the money had cpired. Prosecuting Attorney Shep erd and the detective claim that arked bills were found on several of le aldermen after they had been ar sted and searched. The nine aldermen arrested last riday on charges of accepting bribes t for whom no formal warrants ave been issued as yet, are :David osenthal, A. A. Deimel, Louis Tossy, Eartin Ostrowski, Jos. L. Theison, )uis Brozo Andrew, J. Walsh, Frauk ason and Thomas E. Glinman (pres Lent of the county). Warrants charging a promise to cept bribes were issued lates Tues ay for the following aldermen: William -Koenig, Win. H. C. Hindle, tephen Skrzyki, Patrick O'Brien, ichard 'M. Watson, Thomas Lynch, eo. H. Ellis, Jos. Merritt, Wmn. F. >by Edward R. Schreiter, former >by Edward R. Cchreiter, former cretary of the council comittees, so charged with bribery who re mtly made to the prosecutor what xe letter termed a full confession. o warrant for .Schreiter's arrest has een issued. This case was worker. up by Burns ad his detectives, who posed as rail )ad officials, and had conversations ith the aldermen recorded by the ictagraph, which was concealed in ie room as in the case of Nichols at partanburg. The Clerk and several I the aldermen have confessed thai iey accepted graft as Burns charge ey did, and will be prosecuted by te city. TRAIN JUMPS TRACE. hree Killed and Forty Others Injur ed in the Accident. Two enginemen and a passenger ere killed, a spectator fell dead and rty or more passengers were injur. I shortly before noon Thursday by ie derailing of an inbound train on le Plymouth division of the New ork, New Haven & Hartford Rail ad in Dorchester. The train, made up of a locomno e, three passenger coaches and a aggage car, was rushing along at 33 iles an hour when the locomotive imped the rails on a sharp curve. w.o of the passe-nger cars followed i engine off the rails. The locomotive plunged off into a arsh and half buried itself. The otmentumn of the train carried two Sthe passenger .cars over the en !ewhiln the third passenger car nd baggage car remained on the ils. The bodies of the engineer and reman were found buried deep in ie debris. PLAGUE RAT AT KEYT WEST. nimal Said to be Infected with Dread Bubonic. A suspected plague infected rat as been captured at Key West. Fla., ccording to advices to the pub c health service at Washington. ecretary Mac~eagh on Wednes ny sent Dr. John F. Anderson, direc >r of the hygienic laboratory here ythe Florida port to cooperate with de State officials in making fina: agnosis. An organism strongly iscovered on :he rat Aug. 6. Will This iHbit Spread? Steps are being taken against the big hat evil" by the male visitors of de motion picture theaters in a near y city. According to an ordinance ased by city council in 1899, all idies must remove their hats while the th'.ater before and after the erformaiu e has begun. Carpenter Left a Fortune. Sick and alone in his poorly fur Ished home, W. H. Spencer. a car enter, sixty years old, received worn uesday at Sanfrancisco that he I .eir to a fortune of $48.550 left b: saac Spencer, an uncle, who died re ROBS EXPRESS CAR jONE BANDIT MAKES GOOD HAUL NEAR ASHEVILE. Covers the Messenger and After Se i curing Valuable Fackage Locks Him in a Chest. A lone train robber, masked and s armed, boarded Southern railway train No. 10, Spartanburg to Ashe e ville, at 10:30 Thursday night as it was keaving Biltmore three miles from Asheville, and covering the ex p press messenger. G. F. Carr of Mar ion, with a revolver, obtained a pack age containing $3,000 in bills. The robber then commanded Carr to get in the express chest, which he had just rified, and locked him in it. It is thought that the robber left the train as It slowed up for the Ashe Sville yards. When the train arrived at the Asheville station express employees found Carr locked in the chest. When released the express messenger was 1 unable to give a description of his as sailant, saying that the latter was completely masked. The train wAs an hour late at Bilt more, a fact which the local police t department says the robber was aware of. The express messenger asserts he a had just finished arranging his pack ages, preparatory to leaving the train at Asheville. when he was confront ed by a masked strangev wIth a load ed revolver, who demanded his mon ey. Carr says the robber then bound his hands and forced him to get into t the chest, which he locked. The alarm was quickly given and I several policemen were sent towards 3 Biltmore on a special traIn. Other 2 members of the force boarded train 1 No. 35 which leaves Asheville at 10:50. It was thought that the rob- I ber might have attempted to escape I on this train. A midnigtt the police J and express officials were still with- ! out a clue. Carr up to July 21 was a clerk in the Southern Express office at Ma- t rion, N. C., when he was given the run from Columbia, S. C., to Ashe ville. INFERNAL MACHINE EXPLODES. 2 Addressed to a Young Lady But Goes off Before Time. Police officials, who have closely examined the remains of the infernal machine which was intended for Miss Ollie Hoover but exploded in the bands of the express agent at High Point, N. C. Saturday afternoon, ser iously injuring himself and assistant, are wondering whether E. R. McIn tyre, who is charged with sending the machine and for wnom the po lice are now searching, made the machine himself or secured it from some other source. No one but an 3 ingenious mechanic could have con structed such a device. The machine was in a box within a box. In the inside box, nicely bronz- S ed and covered with a hinged and e buckled lid, was a revolving cylinder E stuck full of math heads like teeth a in a threshing machine cylinder, p that would nignite the powder when turned around by the opening of the t -box lid. Still another device at the side of the box, made out of small hand- t saws was so adjusted that the open- e ing of the box lid would grate these saws against another row of matches c fastened to the sides or the inner t: box.- a As yet, for some unknown reason, a the fuse that was to fire the cap on the stick of dynamite failed to do its t deadly work. CHANGED BY CONVERSION. S Bleaseites Got Beligion and Became Jonesites. The Spartanburg Herald says: At b Buck Creek Church, in Cherokee d township, a revival service has been under way which has profoundly stir- a red the people from Cherokee Springs b to Chesnee. Numbers of men have been indued to profess Christianity a and join the church. One of the t: curious features of the revival is the b fact that ardent supporters of Gov- P ernor Blease, upon being converted, 0 have renounced their allegiance to the Governor and become supporters of Judge Jones. A fervid meeting recently lasted until late at .night. As soon as a Bleaseite got religion he became a Jones man. A gentle man who was in the city said that if religion continued to spread in Cher okee township there would not be a f Bleaseite left. FIRE BUGS CAUSE PANIC. 3~ - Among the Workmen in a Big In- c .. diana Powder 3fill. e Thousands of lightning bugs caus- a ed terror among workmen employed e In the powder mills at Aetna, In-- t diana, following a thunderstorm. The o little insects, driven from the marsh- o es by the storm, settled down upon p a tank containing several hundred e gallons of nitro-glycerine. The em- ti ployees saw the brilliantly illuminat ed bugs near the great tank and im mediately scattered, running terror stricken in all directions in the fear that the tank would explode. It re- 'I quired nearly an hour for foremen of the milis to dispel the fears of the employees and get them to return to work. 1 Triplets Are Healthy. Three little girls, who a few days a ago were presented by Mfrs. Charlie i Almand, of Vandalia county, Ga., to t: her husband, were named Monday in honor of the three daughters of a Woodrow Wilson, Margaret, Eleanor o and Jessie. The babies all are fat c and healthy. Aviator Has Close Call. I] Lieutenant Foulers, of the United b States aviation corps, probably es- a caped serious injury or death as if h hy a miracle when his biplane, upon s landing. hit a stone wall Wednesday r at Stratford. Conn. The machip'e was t smashed, but the army aviator was. unhurt. Express Eilled Four. e At Mattewan, N. Y., while a jury l -was investigating the 'lent death Sof an Italian on the Nv .V York Cen Stral Railroad tracks Tuesday, the en Sgineer testified that his express had I - Ikilled four persons while it was run ~nin frm Ne Yok toChiago SHE WAS JEALOUS FOUNi MARRIED WOMAN SHOOTS AND KILLS PRETTY WIDOW USBAND LIVINO APART Lhe Murdered Woman the Mother of Two Children, One of Whom Had Just Left Her When sbooting Oc curred. - Murderess Hao Been Lodged in Jail for Trial. In a cell at the police station, at Cashville, where she spent the night, :harged with the murder of Mrs. Uva Cave, a widow aged thirty, Mrs. . . Jones, aged twenty-four, Thurs lay morning refused to discuss the ragedy until her arraignment. Mrs. Jones went to me home of 4rs.. Cave Wednesday night shooting ier twice, one bullet entering the leart. Mrs. Cave died tn a few min ites. Mrs. Jones was arrested en ,oute to the police station to surren ler. Jealousy is said to have been the ause of the tragedy. Mrs. Jones iome time ago filed suit for absolute livorce and is said to have been liv ng apart from her husband. Mrs. Cave was the widow of Steve 0ave, a son of Rev. 1. L. Cave, chap-. ain of the United Confederate Vet rans, a Nashville minister. Mrs. Cave's husband died .bouit wo years ago and at the time of the hooting, she and her two children, a; irl of fve and a 'boy or two, were naking their home with mer mother, drs. Sophie Leinhous. Mrs. Cave vas noted for her beauty. Other members of the family were n the rear of the house when the ragedy occurred, the little boy hav ng climbed down from his mother's ap just as Mrs. Jones entered the ate. Mrs. Jones heard at the police sta Ion that her aim had been fatal. he raised her head ana asked: "o he dead?" When told that Mrs. *ave was dead, a slight frown cross d her face. She was perfectly cool s she answered questions. At a late hour Thursday morning, ones had not been to the station Louse to see his wife. Before her arriage Mrs. Jones was Miss Leola looper, a daughter of J. M. Hooper, n employee of the Nashville Rail oad and Light company. Jones is said not to have been reg arly employed recently but made is home with a brother who owns a oft drink stand. A referente to the court files shows divorce bill had been withdrawn. STANDS BY HIS FRMENDS. r. E. L. Archer Tells About a Spar tanburg Case. Mr. E. L. Archer, Chairman of the partan.burg County Democratic Ex cutive Committee, in an address at kidville, said that Malcolm Bowden, friend of Governor Blease, was ap ointed treasurer of the Spartanburg ounty Democracy two years ago at b*e instance of T. R. TrimmIer, who uaranteed a correct settlement. When Bowden was called upon to ir his books over to his recently ected successor he would not do so ntil threatened with mandamus pro edings. Finally iBowden turned in ie books 'but they showed a short ge of $297, said Mr. Archer, accord g to Bowden's own figur.es. It was .because of this shortage 1t all the election managers were ot paid two years ago. Mr. Archer tid he felt morally bound to make cod the $297 deficit out of his own ocket and would do so. "You say," continued Mr. Archer, why don't yo~u prosecute him? When 'e went to look for him we f -und m in Columbia. And what was he ing there? Monkeying with Gov. lease. What's the use to prosecute man when he has got his pardon eforehand?" Bowden is the man whom Blesse ppointed as magistrate, contrary to ie recommendation of the Spartan u?rg county delegation, to fill the lace of Magistrate A. H. Kirby, an Id Confederate vettran. MEET AFTER TIRTY YEARS. isters Although On Same Block Didn't See Each Other. After having lived at New Orleani r seventeen years, the last year ithin a block of each other, Mris. dele Coi-umbus Aniau and Mrs. arie Columbus Algero, sisters, met hursday for the first time in 30 ears. They were separated when 2ildren in Havanna and had remain lin Ignorance of the whereabouts each ether until a chance meeting a factory, where they had sought ployment, one because she was a idow with a family to support, the hpr because her husband was out employment. A similarity In ap arance attracted each to the oth and questions disclosed their iden HIDDEN TREASURIE FOUND. en Thousand Dollars Ran Upon in an Old House. Ten thousand dollars in gold, be eed to have been iidden by Wil am Anderson, a bandit who terror red Central Missodri immediately fter the civil war, has been found i the old Manor House on what was e plantation of William Burch, In oward County, Missouri, and which ow is the property of C. E. Yancey, f Liberty. Employees of Mr. Yan v are remodeling the old house. ccording to those from which the .ory of the death of Anderson comes i 6, he was wounded after rob ing a Central Missouri bank and :opped that night in the manor ouse of the Burch plantation, dying veral days later. It was In the om in which the bandit slept that te money was found. Hilled Over a Dozen. At Atlanta detectives have arrest d a negro who says his name is lenry Lawton Brown, and who the ficers believe is Jack Ripper, .re posible for a dozen or more mur ters of negro women. Brown con essed killing one woman, said the dicers and apparently familiar with can othr crimes.