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V O L . X X I10 _ __ _ XVIMANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3__ COURT IN A PANI TWO LAWYERS fIGHT IN PRES ENIE Of THE JDGE COURT BOOM IN A PANIC Spectators Join in Efforts to Stop the Fight, and a Renewal of the Difficulty Was Prevented by Judge Purdy's Threat to Send the Of tender to Jail. Red blood flowed at the trial of T. U. Vaughn, in the General Sessions Court at Greenville. Friday, when Attorney John J. McSwain, assisting in the prosecution, and Attorney B. F. IMartin, of counsel for the defence, engaged in a furious fisticuff result ing from a dispute as to the admis sion of certain evidence. For several minutes the crowded Court room was thrown into a state of hysteria, as half dozen officers attempted to sep arate the combatants, and it was .by the narrowest margin that a riot was averted. The disturbance was quelled for a few minutes and then threatened to break out afresh when a half dozen attorneys interested in the case be came engaged in a heated wrangle. Judge Purdy, who had retained his composure throughout the excite ment, realized that the situation had grown extremely critical and at once brought into play the power of his station, by threatening to put the next man who opened his mouth in jail. Order w finally restored. but it was some minutes before the deck cleared for action again. The first, and the prosecuting, wit ness in one of the cases against Vaughn was on the stand at the time the altercation took place. Counsel for the defence was ques tioning the girl as to whether or not Mr. McSwain was her attorney in a damage suit for $10,000, which she had filed against Vaughn just after his escape from jail. This question was the beginning of the trouble. After a dramatic- wrangle, a low mut tered growl was heard. There was a sound of some one rushing across the floor, disturbing chairs and tables. In the twinkling of an eye, Mr. McSwain was upon Attorney Mar tin and, to all appearances, had dealt him a blow which knocked him to the-floor. The next instant Mr. Mc Swain was upon the attorney and things were in such a state of pan demonium that it is difficult to state just what transpired. The Court room was thrown into a state of panic. Sheriff Poole, who was standing near by, rushed upon the combatants, but was powerless to get them apart. A half dozen or more officers and spectators took hold of Mr. McSwain, who is of splendid physique, bat they were tossed rignt and left. Finally more officers and spectators surrounded Mr. McSwain and bore him to the floor. For sev eral seconds the scene resembled a football scrimmage, first Attorney McSwain being on top and then the halt dozen or more who were try ing to quiet him. In the meantime Mr. Martin was taken out of the room and into a hallway in the rear of the Judge's bench. Mr. Martin was bloeding profusely from several scratches on the right temple and jaw. Mr. McSwain, to all appear ances, was unscratched. The Court room was crowded to overflowing. The excitement spread to the audience and many of them fled the building, while others rushed to the front and took so) li bfrt oft part in the fray. With d~culty the mob was beaten back behind the bar railing. When order was restoredl Judge Pardy made a brief statement, in which he deplored the incident, but stated that It was an occurrence which neither he nor the sheriff was able to foresee. Hie stated that at the proper time and in the proper manner he would dispose of the mat ter. Mr. Martin and iMr. McSwain then asked to, be allowed to piake state ments to the Court. Permission was granted and Mr. Martin explained his side of the dispute. At this point other attorneys became engaged in the discussion and when It appeared that hostilitIes were about to be re newed Judge Purdy arose and in a very emphatic statement brought or der out of chaos. "I have managed .to keep cool dur ing this trouble, as becnmes my posi tion," said Judge Purdy, "-but I am getting pretty bot myself now. I don't want to hear amtber word about this matter and it' it roes on I will put the offender in jaii :.nd keep him there." With in a few minutes after quiet was rest-ed Court rece:si r lunch. The afternoon session was held behindi closed doors, only the members of the Bar, witnesses and the press being admitted. Rescued From Burning Ship. The steamship Asiatic Prince re ported at New York the rescue of thirteen men from the eburning steamer Faigindes Varella, off the Brazillian coast, October 7. The shiT: l'ad caught fire from chemicals ir her hold. There were forty hands, all told, aboard, 18 of whom were drowned and nIne of whom wer' picked up by another vessel. Hospitals Are too Small. The number of wounded Turki being transnorted from Adrianopl4 and Kirk Killisseh on their way tC Constantinople Is so great that ml Itary and government hospitals can not contain them, according to die patches received there from Constan tinonle. The facts are not publishec by the Turkish war office. Christians Massacred. Seventy Christians and a pries were massacred by the Turks befor< their retreat from the town of Ser via, according to an official cabl! from the Greek foreign office to the Greek legation at Washington Amon~g the prisoners taken was on' Tirkish colonel. Speak for Wilson. 6senator John Sharp Wiuliams o Mississipp and Charles W. E11io1 president emeritus of Harvard uni versity, addressed a rally at Bostol Thursday in support of the candi diaey of Goy. Woodrow Wilson, Te MADE A WATER HAUL TEDDY BOASTERS FAILED TO ENTHUSE AUDIENCE Beard Nominated Governor Blease for Senator and Then President of the United States. B. Sherwood Dunn, of Aiken, pro visional State Chairman of the Pro gressive Party; W. P. Beard, State Secretary, and J. Boyd Evans, an at torney of Columbia, who spoke on two occasions in Spartanburg Coun ty in the interests of the candidacy of Col. Theodore Roosevelt, failed to arouse a great amount of enthusiasm. Meetings were held in Spartanburg and also at Inman, and attentive aud lences heard the speakers at both places. It is a significant fact that W. P. Beard, who during the recent mem orial political campaign in South Carolina acted as the personal body guard of Governor Blease, has been elected and has accepted the position of secretary of the new party in this State. In a recent statement, how ever, Mr. Beard stated that he was still the staunch supporter of the Governor, and two years hence would be found working for the election of Blease to the United States Senate, as the Governor will ma!s. the race against Senator E. D. Smith. Mr. Beard said, in a signed state ment: "After we have placed our own Cole in the Senate, myself and others of his friends will seek for him a higher place still, and it is my ambition that future events will shape themselves so that I will in the near future, be a member of a strong and capable national Conven tion, which In a receptive mood will back me in naming for the Presiden cy of these United States of Amer ica, now Governor, then Senator, Cole L. Blease of South Carolina." As state secretary of the progres sive party of South Carolina, I am more than pleased at the cordial re ception accorded us in the "City of Success," and the genuine interest manifested in this new white man's party in your intelligent community. I And when Teddy is elected, as I confidently expect, and Spartanburg needs a friend, just remember that my home address is Abbeville, S. C., and that while I with Teddy. "stand at Armageddon." I also. with Teddy, "stand by my friends." ACCUSES "WHITE SLAVERS". The Murder of the Italian Girl an Act of Vengeance. Definite evidence has been secured by the police, Detective Capt. George Arnold said Friday, that the murder of Jennie Cavaglier, a young Italian woman, near Stratford, Conn., after she had been taken there by five men of her nationality in an automo bile from Bridgeport, Conn., was an act of vengeance executed upon her for having betrayed secrets of "white slave" traffickers. Capt. Arnold says that the evi dence shows that the manner of the woman's death was decided at a con ference between the five men impli cated held in the Italian quarters of the city Sunday night. At this con ference it was determined whether the woman should be slashed with the "squealer's" mark or should be put to death. The latter was de termined ur. According to C'a'.t. A-nP1. the five men came to -Bridgeport under diree .tions from certain men in the "white save" traffc for the exnress purpose of making away with the woman be cause she had betrayed the organ iation code which prov~ides disfigure ment or death for any person who becomes untrue or any woman who leaves the man under whose nro tection or with whom she had been living. Investigation of the case. Capt. Ar nold declares, has so far failed to re veal the true identity of the woman. although she has been given several names since the crime was commit ted. There is every Indication, how ever, he says, that she was closely connected with "white slave" traffic Ir. New York, New Haven. Conn., and Chicago. Some of the evidence col lected tends to show a direct connec tion between the shooting and the "vice crusade" in Chicago. and that the woman's death was decreed hr the "national odganization" of "white slave" traders.* OMAN GETS LIFE SENTENCE. Fanatic Confesses Committing Nine teen Murders. At Lafayette, La., Clementine Ber nabet, the negro "axe woman" and follower of the Churc hot Sacrifice. whose confessed murders number nineteen, was. Friday foun d guilty of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the State peniten tiary. The negroes ot the community. who had feared her, both because of the crimes she had comnmi'ted and for the "evil eye" they believed she possessed, had threatened to lynch her should she be acquitted. The woman's trial began Fridlay on one Icharge, that of having kille-1 the wife of oNr.bert Ran dall. All of her vic tims were negroes. A year ago the nerro woman's father, Rtaymond Bernabet. a?nd he brother, Zepherin Bernabet. were convicted for murders that the "axe woman" later confessed to havine committeed. What rdis'position now will be made of their cases has not been determined.* Hungry Bull Gores Owner. A prize Jersey bull. angr'y at not being given his marning feed, attack ed its owner. 0. H-. Solman. a younr farmer of Dougiessville. Ca.. at the State Fair grounds at Macon Friday morning. and seriously iniured him. Standers-by lassoed the bull and pre vented it from trampling the pros' tate man to death. * Burglar Heir to Fortune. Heir to one-fourth of a $500.0fl1 estate, a man said by the police to be William Koch, is a prisoner in Ne'w York charged with attempted bnr glary which. according to detecti-"' who arrested him. was the result ol mania for excitement. Etheridze Will Recove'r. -Dr. L. -B. Etheridge, who it Is said 1was cut by a negro preacher nea Wagener and who was carried to Co diumba hospital was resting wel j WeeaY. He will recover. TELLS OF 1I CRIME TRIAL OF YADUHN COMES TO A DRAMATIC CLOSE HE MAKES A CONFESSION The Accused, in a Vain Effort to Es. cape Death Penalty, Admits His Guilt in a Statement to the Jury, Which Returns a Verdict of Guil ty in Four Minutes. T. U. Vaughn, on trial for Alleged immorality during his term as super intendent of the Odd Fellows' Home at Greenville, was put on the stand by his lawyers Saturday and made a clean confession of his awful crime. The trial was brought to a sensa tional close when Vaughn broke down and confessed all. He named two other victims in addition to those included in the indictment. The jury was out but four minutes and made no recommendation for mercy, the erdict carrying the death penalty. Tears streamed down the face of Judge Purdy, named by -Governor Blease as special Judge for this trial. Many jurors, Court officials and spe tators alike made no pretence of hid ing their tears as Vaughn, pale and broken, acknowledged his crime. Some jurors wept aloud. In the afternoon Judge Purdy, be fore sentencing Vaughn. overruled a motion for a new trial, which was argued by one of Vaughn's lawyers, after his client made his confession. Judge Purdy, in sentencing Vaughn to death in the electr'c chair, set December 20 as the date for his ex cution. When Court opened there was no intimation that the accused woulh make a confession. His attorney had fought stubbornly ince the begin ning of the case to break down the strong evidence developed by the prosecution's little girl witnesse.s Immediately after Court opened aturday attorneys of both sides con sulted, resulting In an agreement to let Vaughn confess in an effort to save his own life, and that the case would go to the jury without argu ment. "I have acted devilishly, I have acted shamelessly.'' began Vaughn. "The devil tempted me and I have fallen." He pleaded eloquently hnt vainly with the fory to save his life. not so much for his sake as for his wife and little doughter. Neither Mrs. Vaughn nor her daughter were in Court Saturday. though they had been with the ac cused since the trial opened. He was formerly' assisstant superhntendent of the First Baptist Church Sunday school, one of the largest and most fashionable in Greenville. He was a ministerial student and frequently ccupied pulpits of churches in ar d around Greenville. He owns consid erable property. Vaughn's Confession. Facing the jury, Vaughn made his confession. In all, his statement makes three thousand words. Brief y summarized it is as follows: "Gentlemen, it is useless to say that in this instance I am greatly bumilated, and for months and months I have had agonizing hours over the whole matter. I wish to say this in the outset, that I have never wished to conceal one whit of the truth when the time came to ake a clear statement. I have ben so cautious in these particulars tat some have inferred that I had denied my guilt. I know that some ave had that impression. but 1 knew that I was guilty and would tell It at the proper time. For that reason I have made Impressions that were unfavorable to me. "I want to say here and now that i am going to assume full responsI bilIty. I want to take it off of that grl. I want to say that I have loved he girls always. but that love has b een misdirected and missused. I con't think the girl will deny to-day the reality of my love In many re spects, yet my conduct towards her would make her take the pcsition to wards me which she now takes, and just takes. I"As superintendent of the Orphan a ge. I had entire control of her.I realize that now. I did it under cir custances about which I would no care to go Into details here. At the ery point I thought myscif the strongest, I found myself the weak est. I found that the Devil had at tked me with a more subtle and nowerful tempation in the v-ery place I thought I could not be tempted.I "nnot now go into the r'etails of the circmstances surrounding me when ffll. and I now assume full respon siility and ask God to save th'at girl. "Now, as to the treatment of the 1'ldren out there: of course. I whin .ed hem. but I never did wish to be r'el. I did not abuse them. and had t desire to do so. But as hellish as thi weight of sin has becn, and ae rp'e the suffering of my body ana mu'l. it has brought an entirely new viwwpoit of life. I am not speakine ,'f this for symp'athy. I am sino'ly '-aing it to make my position clear, .-I want to say this. th'it if it tor na 0' his o save. o bring me to wher' rsan'1, and in site of all teis nr's '-uio. of all this shnme inj rn-er ng, f itt has taken all of this to re '1emflmy soul and save me from Htell [ a tanfur for it to-ia"'. " now have a better ennton o fo-adnd of man. With that tset h ii-w. realzing the cheaoaen &' life can be of better servee to t~n-i .n' t an. I feel that If von will Zt'. e nater onnortnnitv. after nie~d a uilty to this chare0, and let p' hev anther chanco. I e-m he 0 .nora sevie to flod then over heore feel tht I can live a life of suiblia' eevice and consecration to fled. A "ak as it may seem, as di a' it ay soem to you. as hel1veb as aoears. I feel that in the d'wnhe 0 my eart I can go forward in hette' mer1e. nd T make this plea to von "hat is life? It is a very smal thig. It is a very short time her and my suffering it woul-1 soon b over and I would be dead. Then it i a mtter of eternity. Fut my pres ant plea is that I have sinned, that hae suffered the tortuires of th daned. that if I am given anothe opportunity, that the hold I now hay en Gd. with the strength of the ne' faih I have in Elm from out of thi ,wfl sin. I believe that I can go ou - ntohe dive's of sin in this State an bebeofservice to my State and my Go i,. ,.olamrn the evil-doers, In sa' A HORRIBLE STORY TOLD BY AN ORPHAN GIRL IN THE VAUliHAN TRIAL. EYIDENCE IS SflOCKIN The Testimony on the Whole is Un printable, and Only a Characteriza tion of the Horrible Recital of the Crimes as Told by the Girl Is Given Below. A pretty 17-year-old orphan girl f Graniteville, Aiken county, pros ecutrix in an indictment handed down by the grand jury last Monday against Thurston U. Vaughn, former superintendent of the South Caro lina Odd Fellows' orphanage, assis tant superintendent of the largest sunday school in the city and .teach er of a college for girls' Bible class, took the witness stand in the court o general sessions at Greenville Fri day and for eight hoars told a story that Friday night is upon many tongues in Greenville and fills twice a many ears. With one day of tes tifying shifted behind the scenes of time not half of the witnesses sum moned in the case have yet been put Dn the stand. What testimony they will offer no one knows and the people stand aghast and wonder what the morrow will bring. As a whole, the testimony effered is unprintable. A general character ization of it is, however, permissible. The witness stated, beginning in June, 1908, illicit relations with the lefendant extended over a period of Eour years and eded only this spring, when she was removed from Vaughn's private home in the city and sent to her sister's home at raniteville. In December, 1908, she testified, she submitted to an al leged criminal operation to relieve ter of her embarrassing condition. Revolting stories of barbarous treatment which she alleges Vaughn ;howed her were woven into her tes timony. This treatment, she alleg d, consisted of beatings administer ,d with sticks, boards, switches, his aand and "most anything else." The last beating which she said Vaughn gave her was last spriifg after Vaughn had resigned at the orphan age and had brought her to live with rim at his home in the city. On this casion, she allege!. the defendant eat her until she fainted. A phy sician wan sent for, she alleges, and Vaughn told him that the girl had receved a severe fall, from which she fainted. Though the cross-examination was rilling, the girl's story was unshak m in the main when she was taken town from the stand. Two well known physicians of the :lty were examined. One gave ex yert testimony along the line of what 'ould bring about relief for one who as in the condition which the girl leges sheZ found herself. The oth r physician had treated the girl af er the alleged operation had been .erformed, but neither took any part n nor had any knowledge of such an peration having been performed. He estifed as to the condition in which ie found the child. A tiny child, sister of the prosecu -rix, was the fourth witness called. rhe little girl sat on the edge of the witness chair, her feet scarcely reach ig the floor, and told what she new. The witness appeared too ungy to realize what was going on. ihe was asked a few simple ques ions which she answered In a child's w'ay. She stated that she had slept with her sister at the orphan home. :hat sometimes at night her sister svas taken out of the room and car ried somewhere, that she sometimes returned the same night and some times remained out all night. Eyes ristened with moistures as they be held the pitiful spectacle in the dim irt of the few flickering gas .iets! that disturbed the gathering dark-i ness n Greenville's crumbling temn pe of justice. S FUNYD WAS GWVEN BACK. Mic~ormick's Contribution to Cam pailgn Declined. W. 3. Bryan, campaigning in be half of Governor Wilson's candida ey, shot across Southeastern Michi gan Friday, making ever adon speeches in as many cities and re tpirping to DetLroit Friday ai t to address a Demnocratic mass meetinr. Mr. Bryan devoted considerable of! his time to a discussion of campaign contributions. In several cities he made the an n~ouncemen't that the treasurer ofl the Democratic national committee had informed him that the contri buton of $12.500 which Cyrus H. McCormick, of Chicago, had made to Governor Wilson's campaign, had been returned. He referred to Mr. McCormick ns being connected with the Interna-I tinal THarvester Comneny. and said that desY'it Mr. McCormick wasa college man an'd lifelong f~i'nd of (iovtrnor W11pon the contribuitioln hd been refused on the ground that the acceptance of it might cause nolitical opp-onents to charge that thes Wilson campaign had becomre inelted to persons or concedns in v*Wed in government lititation. * Car Strike in Columbia 0fr. The strike of the motormen and ?rnancrs of .the Cahimbia Street Railway was ended Friday afternoon. when renrerentatives of the striking enrmnl and the officials of the street rnlway signed an agreement sntis f'ctrv to both sides and the strike was declared o'r. The street cars h-'s resumed their regular sched Two Killed in Explosion. Two men were killed outright and several more or less seriously in'ur e- by an explosion late Friday nirht at the Atlantic Refii.'mg Companv's nant. at Mount Pleasant, Ga. The explosion of a retort almost com' plely wrecked the plant.* Rear Admiratl Ends Life. Rear Admiral Chagin, enamandar of the emnaror Russia's yaeht Stand art, committed suicide ,t his resi nocee at St. Peforsburr. Rsimbers of Admiral Chain's family declnred 1a, terin the day that his suicide was ad~e te 1 o' nair.'? 1 WHERE IT CAME FROM SOURCES OF THE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN FUND. Nearly Seven Hundred Thousand Dol lars Given by Fifty-Three Thou sand Odd People. Contributions to the Presidential campaign fund of the Democratic party this year totalled $678,346, according to the sworn s.atement of Treasurer Rolla C. Wells, of St. Louis, filed with the clerk of the House of Representatives ?'riday. Ex penditures aggregated $562,618.21, including $120,000 sent to Chicago i omf the headquarters at New York, and there are outstanding obliga ticns of $55,149. The Republican statement of con tributions was filed Saturday, the last day under the law. The Pro gressive party filed its statement Thursday, showing contributions of ;3u4,244, expenditures of $292,341 and outstanding obligations amount .rg to $41,341. All told 53,303 contributions were received by .\r. Wells, and of these 52,24E were for amounts of $100 or ih ss. Governor Wilson, the nomi nee, gave $500. Herman Ridder, of New York, as treasurer of the national committee, .urned over$28,825 as the surplus of the Baltimore Convention. Judge J. W. Gerard, of New kork, was the largest in.ividual contributor, with i13,000. Charles R. Crane, of Chi uago, and JPacob H. Schiff, of New iork, each contributed $10,000 in two payments og $5,000 each. Sam uel Untermyer, of New York, gave $10,000, as did Frederic C. Penfield, of Germantown, Pa., and Henry Goldman and Henry Morganthau, of New York. Among those who contributed $5, 000 were Cleveland u. Dodge of New fork; Rolia C. Wells of St. Louis, treasurer of the committee; Thomas .'. Lockwood, of Bd'alo; Hugh Wal t.ce, of Tacom- .sh.; Charles R. Smith, of . Wis.; C. A. Spreckles, w .'ork; J. C. C. Mayo, of W - Ky.; Senator Watson, of - irginia; Roger Sullivan of L. , Nathan Straus, of New York, ;nd former Senator Clark of Montana. Other contributions were from David M. Hyman of New York, $2, ''0; M!s. N. McCormick Blaine, $1, :'0; Senator O'Gorman of New York, $1,000; William Church Osborne, of New York, $3,000; Herman A. Metz,: of New York, $1,000; Mayor Carter. Harrison, of Chicago, $200, and Dr. 1 J B. Murphy, of Chicago, who re cently attended Theodore Roosevelt it that city, $100. The amount shows the chief items of expenditures were for printing, postage, newspaper advertising, sal aries and travelling expenses of =-eakers and the Presidential nomi nee. POWERS MAY INTERVENE. Al Europe Surprised at Successes of Balkan Allies. A dispatch from London says the I early capture of Kirk-Killisseh was< agrea t surprise, even to Bulgarian;i stafi oflcers and their allies, and the1 swift progress of the war was unex pected by the Europeans generally. Ii has bee nonly nine days since Tur key declared war and yet events have marchedi to the point where the pos-I sibility of intervention by the Powers. aiready is talked of. IMuch interest centres in the na ureir or the alliance of the Balkan Mates. It is said on good authority that one of the provisions of that al iance is that no one shall conclude :eace without the others agreeing to Next in importance to the opera ton in Thrace is the struggle be-I tween the Servians and the Turks in he Kumanvo region. Constantinople at .4st tGmits the success of the Ser vian army. The Servians captured two towns, Vuchitrin and Gilan, on 'e road between Mitrovita and Vranya. The Montenerrins are pressing their rgtack on Scutari. It is report d that the Turkish garrison at Ssu ari has retired to the heights of Sa irna. south of the town. This ac ion is interpreted as a preparation o evacuate Scutari. The Outlock says the Balkan dip omats in Lonnon declare their ob ert is the Balkans for thd Balkan people and in case of victory the de-! mands which will be included ini a r.te to Turkey, will be their mini mum reruirements. They will noti i:in the aute-room while the Pow-' rs allot the spoils. nor will they ac ""pt any temporary patching of near Eastern problems. MANY OFFERS MARRLIGE Ieceivcd by Chica~ro Nurses who At tende'd Roosevelt. Margaret Fitzgerald and Miss Blanche Welter, the nu-s t who at. -rr (Do! Roosevelt whiile I'e was a patient in a hospital in Chicago, have received a large number of let ors from men making proposals of ::trri.ge. "You a.' -.o girl for me," wrote one suitor to Miss Fitzgerald. "I am well off and can make a happy homet r you. I fell in love writh your icture. Marry me and save my heart." "Your care and devotion to a Ihero," wrote another to Miss Welter, "hatve completely broken my heart., \ beautiful e~pable young woman like you would make a happy wife. f lnow I can make you happy." Still another wrote Miss WPlter! aint he had not been able to eat or seep since he had seen her picture. * gthe StatAa reat expense and in re rtrenming them of their crimes and sins. "I helieve truly that I can be of rat rervice to my Gio1 and my fel low men. I love my life, it s true. h ut I simply feel that in view of this Snew concen'tioni. life is a very small -meter. Life is not eternal; it is a I ere temnerary ex~stence. That~ e which comes from God, to God must r return. So far as death iq concerned e i+ is very small: it is the greater ' somethirng which comes after." s in closing his~ confession V'atghnl t mdo a plea that he be allowed to r1 live in order to prove to his wife d that he could reform and be a good U HAD BIG FAMILY ROW A MAN SHOOTS HIS WIFE'S NE GRO CHAtFER. The Husband of a Rich Woman Use Pistol When He Hears Womai Called "Mother." A special dispatch to the New Yorl World from Philadelphia says Sam uel B. Stuart, husband of a womai regarded as very rich, and Thoma V. Posey, the negro chauffer of the family, are in the Jewish Hospital both with bullet wounds in their legs Mrs. Stuart is out under $1,000 bai as a material witness to the doubly shooting, and Laura Dorsey, one o the maids of the Stuart household also is on bail as a witness. The shooting occurred early in thi evening in the Stuart home, on Oal Lane Terrace, Melrose Park. Stuar who -arried his beautiful wife som time ago, got home earlier than us ual and wanted to know of the main as to where 'Yrs. Stuart and Posey the chauffeur, were. The answer wa th'at they were out in the machine According to the maid's affidavit Stuart backed her up in a corner an wanted to know all she may hav known about Mrs. Stuart and thi chauffeur. She answered that shi was there to work and not to discus such matters. Just then Posey drove Mrs. Stuart to the front of the man sion. Mrs. Stuart tripped upstair and Stuart followed her and got hi revolver. He came down again and faces Posey, just in time to hear his wife referred to by the negro as "mother.' There were no preliminaries. Stuar fired at the shins of the negro ant the bullet went through the calves o the chauffeur's legs. He grapple with the husband of Mrs. Stuart, ant Stuart came out of the tussle with bullet in his own leg. Mrs. Stuart had heard the commo tion' and she apspeared upon th< scene with c revolver in her hand. "I meant to use this revolver of my husband," she said at the polic station after she had been arrested "I knew he was going to kill some body, and I proposed to have a hant in the matter." Following the shooting Pose: dragged himself to the telephone an called for the police. The. police go Posey and later Mrs. Stuart. Chie of Police Lindsay released her unde $1.000 bail. When asked if shy had any one to go on her bail, Mrs Stuart produced deeds for fort! houses in the best section of Phila delphia. She was allowed to sigi her own bail bond. LYON STRONG IN DEFEAT. Attorney General Has a Word foi South Carolinians. Attorney General J. Fraser Lyon who was defeated for re-election b: Thos. H. Peeples, in a statement is sued thanking the people of the Statt for having honored him for three successive terms with the office of At torney General, pays a tribute to the press of South Carolina. saying: "I wish to thank the people o South Carolina for the honors the) have given me during the past E: years. I am deeply grateful for th< onfidence and trust they have repos ed In me and to the press of th< tate I take this opportunity or say ing that when my labors for what: conceived to be for the pubilic gooc seemed vain it was the- encourage ment of that great power, always e-r erted for civic rightcousn5ss. tha gave me strength and determinaior to pressforward and attain w':aVevel of good I may have accomplist~d. firmly believe that with the effora o such an incorrupt and incorruptib: press as our State is now blessed with, respect for law and a full ap. preiation of good government wil finally prevail. I also admonish er ery lover of law and order that thi! is not the time to despair. we shoukc press toward the goal with renewed enerygy. To those who gave me then confidence In this summer's primarie: I extend my sincerest thanks, and tC those who were not my supporters with equal sincerity say that I hopt your action will prove for the be's Interest of the State we all love." COWD SEES FIEND) UUYG. D~estoys Fence Erected to Ren~de Ex'ecution Private. At Ctmming, Ga.. after a mob o citizens burned a fence erected abou the gallows, more than 2.000 per sons witnessed the hanging Frida; f Errca Kenx and Oscar Daniels negres, convicted on a charge of as sauln7 and cai'sing the death of white girl. Pealers in the town re fused to sell iumber withi which t< build a new fece ;o render the b.ar.g ig private. M.ilitia fro'n AtlarA were on guardi for the third time i: six weeks to preservoeord'-. U>'or gcr'- en the scatiold Kaotc m:de conssor., but Daniels insistedl * h last th:at he wa inctont. Th brnging was the first legal executlo: in Forsythe county In half a cetn TRAMP~ STEAMER GOES DlOWN. Six Drowvn on Nicaragua South *a Corpus Christi. The tramp steamner Nicaragur which sailed light from Tampic. Mexico, October 2 for Port Arthui Teas, was caught in the Gulf stort of October 1G and sank off Padre h snd sixty miles south of Corpt Christi, In the Gulf of Mexico. Si members of the cew were drownec( even are adrift in two small boat nd Capt. Ehevarra andi twelve sai rs were rescued and brought to Col us Christi Ttesilay. The survivot uffered great hardsh'ip. For' twx days they had been without waterC focd and were almost exhauste when slette l by the life-savers an br ought to shore. Paid Good Price Mes Five brood mares, the last of JamI . Keenes' stock farm holdings Lexngton were vehaed today t ne time. The rtares will be take Frank Gould iter 9000 the high'e rice ever paid for a similar lot t'3 Cud's emoc farmn in France. Nine Stitches in His Heart. A man at Pyilandsphia Tuesday hr nine stitches taren in his heart ai .s a. well a before the oneration. FROM RSP DAYS AND NIGiHTS IN DANGER WITHOUT SLEEP EVERYBODY WAS SAVED The Terrible Experience of Passen gers and Crew on a Steamship From Savannah to New York That Caught Fire While Out on the High Sea. A Norfolk dispatch says just when the life savers and her crew thought they had the flames under control the fire which had been raging in the forward hold of the Merchant and I Miners steamer Berkshire broke out anew late Monday and there was a panic among the passergers and crew of the burning vessel. To add to the terror of those on board there was an explosion in the hold where the fire was confined and the big ship was shaken from stem to stern by the concussion. The steamer appeared to list slightly af ter the explosion, but no one ventur ea near the forward part of the ship to ascertain the nature or what was the cause. The revenue cutter Seminole, which reached the burning vessel late Sun day night, was within 100 yards of the Berkshire when the explosion occurred, and she signalled those on board the big ship that she would send lifeboats and take off the pas sengers, crew and lifesavers. The transfer of those on the Berk shire to the Seminole is said to have been thrilling. A northeast gale has been sweeping the coast since Sun day morning and Monday a fine, cold rain added gloom to the already per ilous position of the disheartened passengers. When told that they had better take to the boats the passengers, many of whom wanted to leave the ship Sunday night, expressed delight. With the wind blowing a gale around them and the rain beating in sheets they were lowered into the lifeboats of both the Seminole and the Berk shire. The motor boat of the life savers was also was also brought into use. The life savers and crew from the Berkshire, almost completely ex hausted by their long fight against the flames, were almost helpless and were taken off the steamer by the crew of the revenue cutter Seminole. The passengers came first, then the crew and the life savers. Two .members of the crew of the 'Berk shire, with badly burned hands and arms, were given medical treatment by the surgeon on the Seminole. Sev eral other members of the crew and life savers are reported to be sufer ing from slight burns and sore eyes as a result of the hours of ceaseless battle with the fire. While the passengers were being lowered into lifeboats from the Sem inole that vessel kept streams of :a:er dire'tly on the fire of the fcrsihire, and in this way probably Ikerd tVn darfer of a second ex plo sion and partially dispelled the ifears of the pa':."e:s. Despite the tact. thast the Berkshire vhle encuor-d iLmide Lockout Cove s partly protecte from the raging stormn sweeping the ecast, high seas beat against tte ven'el all day long ,r? she rolled and piitched consider The passengers, wit-hout sleep for wo days and nigha, were a tired -I t ers't'efuil ot vwhea told to prepare otake to t:he .boats. Even with a i .se tosing~ the lifeboats around --aso ma y corks, the passengers a prently felt tbpey would be safer 1. these little craft than they would on board the Berkshire with blind ing, almost impenetrable columns Iof black smoke pouring from her hitches and in constant fear that an explosionl would tear the ship to pieces. A considerable portion of the cargo ws removed from the forward hold Monday. The hold was practically flooded, and the ship, under the i~eight of the tons of water, showed ' slight list. The officers were be unr.ing to think that the fire was crtically conquered and were pre rn-n-aMg to give orders to pump the i clear of water when the ex --hton came and the black smoke sl. out of the hatches. YOUNG SEALEY KTLLED. Young Charleston Lad Found Dead Near St. Matthews. St. Matthews, Oct. 22.-Special: A n orthbound Southern freight crew ay th's morning detected a dead I dy lyirg beside the track and pro ceoded to Investigate. A signet ring nd an express receipt for a suitcase from Summerville to Columbia Iden :i'el he remains as those of John L. Saty, 16 years old, of Charles tnSealey had been working at the Navy yard, but threw up his job and . t home. The body was brought hre and an inquest held this after noon. The head, legs and arms were horribly mangled. Exactly how the r ccident happened may never be e 'verdict of the coroner's jury was that the deceased died from c:nses unknown to the jury. Fel dr's Undertaking Establishment '~tcok charge of the body and shipped it to his mother in Charleston. Rally Day for Wilson. 1,Saturday, November the second Sltos been set aside as the Wilson Marshall rally day all over the na ion. The purpose Is to have Demo crats In every city and communlity f possible hold some kind of rall meeting the object of which Is tc arouse enthusiasm for the party timulate every voter to do his dut3 oy voting and in short to turn th4 last stones In the great fight foi Democratic victory. t Dumped Into the Potomac. SNear Washington, Lient. Harob l ehger and Corpi. Ward Rice, of thi t rmy Aviation School. narrowly es ened death Tuesday when their by d~ro-aeroplane fell Into the potoma iver from a height of 100 feet. sudden gust of wind disabled th w ings. The two aviators were ret .d- eudb a lane. Neither was is SEIGLER TO BE HANGED SOUTH CAROLINA MAN GETS IN SERIOUS TRO..BLE. Convicted of the Murderiof Henry A. Stanford to an Oklahoma Court Some Time Ago. Henry A. Sei;ler, a former' resi dent of McCormick in this State, was convicted some time ago of the mur der of Wm. A. Stanford, rival claim owner in the Wichitas, and with pun ishment fixed at death by the jury in the case, was Friday sentenced by Judge J. T. Johnson of the district court to be hanged by the neck until aead, date of execution being fixed for November 29, between sunrise and sunset. Pronouncement.of sen tence followed the overruling of the motion for a new trial, hearing on same having been had two weeks ago. An Oklahoma paper in speaking of the case, says the defendant, his wife and children, attorneys for the de fence and state, as well as a number of spectators were present when sen tence was pronounced and the scene was, in a sense, dramatic. The wife of the convicted man ccdllapsed when sentence was pronounced, weeping bitterly. When asked by the court as to whether he had anything to say as to why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, Seigler arose and spoke for some minutes. He stated in a firm voice that he did not feel like he was guilty and- that he did not feel like he had had a fair trial. Not only that but Seigler stated that he felt like the court knew it. He denounced the state's case'as S frame up .between county. attorney, John A. Fain and a number of oth ers who did not care what they swore to on a witness stand. He declared that the proceeding had been an in justice and that he felt like he had not had a square deal. To a representative of the press he said, that while he was not a relig ious man, if he were going to pray to God to forgive his sins he would nev er mention the killing of Stanford, as he was compelled to kill or be killed. That, before God, the killing occurred just as himself and wife had testified. When he mentioned his wife, and children he could not restrain his emotion, and the tears coursed down his cheeks. He states his belief that when the criminal court of appeals passes upon his case the-decision ren dered will demonstrate that he .has not received justic. BEAUFORT REPUBLICANS MEET. Full County Ticket Is Placed in the Field by Them. The regular Republican conven tion at Beaufort last Friday in a hall on Greet street had nominated a full county ticket, as follows: For State Senator, B. H. Houston; Represen tatives, B. F. Jones and Williams; Clerk of Court, A. C. Reynolds; Sher iff, C. H. Heyward; Supervisor, Jas. Riley Sr.; Superintendent of Educa tion, W. S. -Dudley; Coroner, W. L. Allen. The convention was composed of 63 delegates, representing the sever al precincts in the county. The con vention adopted the following reso lutions: "That we, the Republicans of Beaufort County, in convention as sembled, hereby indorse the renomi nation of President W. H. Taft and pledge him our support in the com ing election. "Resolved, further, that we de plore the brutal shooting of Col. Roosevelt by a would-be assassin, and that we condemn and denounce the act in the strongest manner possible, and that we hope for him a speedy and complete recovery from the wound." HORRIBLE DOUBLE TRAGEDY Negro Kills Another and Then Sends Load Through His Heart. Bowman, Oct. 25-Special: A dou ble tragedy occurred yesterday on Mr. D. C. Pendarvis' plantation in upper Dorchester county, near the Orange burg County line, the victims both being negro men with families, work ig share crops with Mr. Pendarvis. From information that could be gathered the parties were at work and it is said that Jule Bowman, one CI the victims, took up a shot gun, and walked up to Jule Jones who was near by and shot him at close range, almost blowing the entire head from the body, causing instant death. Bowman tlien, It Is stated, started towards his house not far off, and af ter going a short distance sat down, pulled off one shoe and taking the string from It, tied it to one of his toes and the other end to the trigger of his gun and placing It to his left. side tired the weapon, tne- load entering the body near his heart and causing death instantly. It is said that there was no quar reling or any words passed previous to the shooting. Mr. Olin P. Evans, Carrier R. F. D. No. 3 from Bowman, passed the place at the time of -the tragedy. The coroner of Dorchester county was notified and an inquest was held that afternoon, but nothing further was obtainable as to the evi dence, or finding of the .iury as to the cause of tragedy. It Is indeed a remarkable case and unparalleled in this entire section of the country. A negro suicide is indeed rare any where. Dundee. State Fair Next Week. The annual State Fair will be held Ir Columbia on Monday. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week gives promise or beIng the most successful in the history c the association. Following a pros p~erous year in South Carolina, It Is expected that the attendance will break all records. The railroads have granted special cheap round trip rates from points in South Car clia, North Carolina and Georgia, and large crowds are expected to at tend. Will Help Old Maids. Old maids of San Benito County, Tex., are provided for in the will of Miss Mary Philnot, who- cied there recently. Miss Philpot herself never married, and at her death was worth $100,000O. The will instructs her -admInistrators to amply care for all old maids who apply for assistaneeq fr a period of two years.