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VOL. XXVII _MANNING, S. CE WEDNESDAY11912 NO.2 THEIR AUTO SKIDS 1. S. STEWART AND H. T. MFIs HAN ARE BOTH KILLED THREE OTHER MEN HURT Car Carrying Five Prominent Citizens of the Capital City, Returning From Ridgewood, Skids and Plunges into a Ditch, Turning Tur tle and Pinioning Victims Beneath. The Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier says Hugh T. Meighan, cashier of the Carolina Na tional Bank, and W. S. Stewart, hard ware merchant, were instantly killed; Theodore A. Bell, seriously injured; W. C. Swaffield and William Watson, injured, when the automobile in which they were returning from Ridgewood Club skidded and went over into a ditch just after the ear had crossed Smith's Branch, the car turning completely over pinioning the occupants underneath. When assistance arrived and the men were pulled from beneath the automobile, the first two were dead, and the other three were injured. The injured men were rushed to the city and given medical attention and the bodies of the other two removed to a local undertaking establishment. The accident, one of the most de plorable in the history of the city, ;happened Thursday night just about B o'clock. The five men, Hugh T. Meighan, cashier of the Carolina Na tional Bank; W. S. Stewart, hard ware merchant; Theodore A. Bell, shoe store, had been out to the Coun pany; W. C. Swaffield, real estate and Insurance man, and William V atson, representative of Watson's shoe store, had been out of the Coun try Club, Ridgewood, and were re turning to the city in an automobile, Mr. Meighan driving, when just af ter the automobile crossed Smith's Branch, about two miles from the city, the car skidded. It is just at this point that the Seaboard Air Line trestle crosses the road and the ditches on both sides are very deep. When the car skidded tue reverse lever was applied and suddenly the ear toppled over Into the ditch, turn tng turtle and pinning the occupants beneath. ' People running to the assistance pulled - the men from underneath, finding that -two had been instantly killed. It.a said .theatt t eao. the scene of the accident were Waites Thomas and Hugh Hammond, and the rear light of the car, burning faintlguided them, and as they .looRksto 6er the precipice they saw the car completely turned over and the groans of the living fell on their ears. They immediately rushed to get the occupants from beneath and, assisted * by others who were drawn to the scene, pulled them out. The three living were taken to a nearby house, and from there carried to the city. The bodies of 'Messrs. Meighan and Stewart were taken to a local under taking establishment, ana coroner Walker was sent for. Mr. Theodore A. Bell, who was ser iously Injured, was brought to the city in an ambulance and Immediate medical attention given him. Mr. Win. Watson was taken to the home of his brother, In North Columbia, and It was said .Thursday night that beyond suffering a few broken ribs and being bruised up, he escaped witnl slight injuries. Mr. W. C. swaffleld suffered a broken arm and sprained ankle. He was brought into the city on a street car and taken to the hos pital and his injuries dressed. Mr. Hugh T. Meighan, who was killed Instantly, was the cashier of - the Carolina National Bank, and a man of about 45 years of age. He was born in Columbia, being a son of, Major Meighan, and was practically reared in the Carolina National Bank, to which he attained the position of cashier. One year ago last June he married Miss Grace RKmard, who sur 'rives him. Two sisters also survive. Mr. iNeighan was one of the most *popular young men in the city. Mr. W. S. Stewart, the other vic tim of the automobile accident, was about 50 years old. He came to Co lunabla a few years ago from Orange burg. He opened a hardware store here, and by his devotion to duty pro'spered. He was a most estimable man and well thought of by the whole community. He was unmarried and leaves no relatives here. All of the men who composed the fatal automobile party were among the most prominent people of Colum bia, and the news of the deplorable accident spread like wildare. Many expressions of sympathy were heard and universal regret characterizes every expression. Eleven Were Killed. Eleven dead and five Injured. one probably fatslly, was the toll of the rear end collision brwe1 two pas senger trains in which the rear coac'1 of the Cleveland, Akron and Co.ltm bus train was telescoped. A' cfyrial statement says first train stopped It cause of a defective air atcuminent, and flagman did not hare titre to go far enough to warn the cther tr'ain. Four Sailors Drown. Four sailors were drowned and three were saved when the three masted schooner Ethyl B. Summer was driven ashore in a storm early Wednesday near the breakwater at Waterside, N. B. Alt the meu were residents of that province. Boys Sentenced for Murder. Harry Berger, aged 17 and Ed ward Meyer, aged 19, of Janesville, Wis., were sentenced to 18 years In the penitentiary at hard labor, for the kiling of Matila o rkstteianl. HALF OF THE WOMEN LEFT GOV. BLEASE'S COURSE LAN GUAGE RAN THEM OUT. They All March Out When South Car olina's Governor Shouts "To Hell With the Constitution". An Associated Press dispatch from Richmond, Va.. says fully half of the ( fifty women in attendance at the Con ference of Governor Friday afternoon hurriedly departed from the meeting when Gov. Cole L. Blease, for the second time defending his policy of lynching negroes guilty of criminal assault, shouted, "to hell with the ( nstitution." . - ernor Blease's declaration was nr s In response to a question ask ed oy Governor Joseph N. Carey, of Wyoming. Governor Carey desired to know if the South Carolina Execu tive had taken an oath to uphold the e Constitution and laws of his State, and if these laws did not protect nelt and if these laws did not protect ne "I will answer that question," re plied Gov. Blease. "When the Con stitution steps between me and the defence of the virtue of the white women of my state, I will resign my commission, tear it up an'd throw it to b the breezes. As I have said before, 'to hell with the Constitution'." When some of the women present arose and left the hall, Gov. Blease s ceased speaking. Among the women who made their exist were the wives e and daughters of several Governors attending the conference. Governor Albert W. Gilchrist, of Florida, took exception to Gov. lease's remarks. Rising to his feet he declared: "The first thing that indicates a manly man or a womanly woman is thoughtful consideration for other people." Ris remarks were C greeted with cheers from the audi ence. Referring to the lynch law doc-. trine, Governor John F. Shafroth, of Colorado, said: "One mob can do more injury to society than twenty e murderers, because lynching per- r meates the entire community and o produces anarchy. The influence of mob rule is most reprehensible. When laws are made it should be the duty of the governor to enforce them, whether he approves or not. When the law prescribes hanging for an offence, and a man is found guilty, he should be hanged whether white oT black and there is no excuse for mob laws. I conceive it to be our duty as Governors to declare for law o and order." ,.. ring .t t, afternoqn.. session .p- d pers were read by Governors Tasker n L. Oddie, of Nevada, and James H. Hawley. of Idaho, on uniformity of divorce laws. This subject was under discussion when Governor Blease spoke. After defending the law of S South Carolina, wbere no divorce is Is permitted, he proceeded to discuss the race - problem and declared that d the inferior race always is swept away by the superior race. Governor Blease also again defended d is pardon record. Gov. W. W. -Kitchen, of North Car - olina, announced that there hadno been a lynching in that State in six] . years, and expressed the belief that Ie. there should be convictions in practi cally every case where there is a a lynching. Ir Governor Mann of Virginia, stated tat he would call out every militia- t man in the state if necessary to pro- C tect a man under arrest and give him a a fair trial. f< Movement for the improvement of t] rural life and the upbuilding of agri- b culture were discussed by Governors 'e Adolph 0. Eberhart of Minnesota; s: Herbert S. Hadley, of Missouri; W. H. Mann of Virginia; George W. Dough- s ey, of Arkansas. and Joseph M-. Brown of Georgia. Dlvorce law E problems were also spoxen to by Governors Joseph M. Carey. of Wy- e oming, and Simneon E. Baldwin, of t Connecticut. Miss Mary Johnston, the novelist, addressed the Conference on equal suff rage. CONVICT GETS MORTAL WOUND. One of the Ladson Gang Fights Bat-. tie With Posse e The News and Courier says deter ming to keep his word that he would not be taken alive, George Washing ton alies Isaac Hamilton, one of the seven negro convicts who escaped from the Blue House road camp Sun day night, November 24, and who have been terrorizing the country side around Ravenels ever since, was mortally wounded early Tuesday morning at John's Island, whIle fight ing a posse of rural policeman, who have been hunting the outlaws for over a week. The wounded man died as a result of his injury a short time afterwards, while being taken to a ailroad station. A Very Large Turtle. The largest turtle ever brought tot New York from the tropics is tc be made into soup for the coming ban-1 Quet of the American Bankers' As sociation. The turtle which arrived on the liner Tivives is 10 feet long 2 and weighs a quarter of a ton.1 Drinks Poison and Dies. At Kansas City, Mo., Bruce M. Priddy, secretary of the real estate1 board of Kansas City, wealthy and a prominent olubman, committed sul ede at his home early Tuesday by arinking poison. He was 45 years of age and unmarried' ~ Lightning struck down seventeen mourners while they were standing at a graveside in Germiston, in Rho-t desia, South Africa. Tuesday. One. of thoem was killed and five. others I were so severely Infured that their UIa lies adsaired of. iAVE A WARM TIME iOVERNORS Do NOT AGREE WITH GOV. BLEASE'S hEWS ABOUT MOB RULE ;overnor Blease Prophecies Oblivion for Governors Who Condemn His Views and Declares He Will Go to the Senate and be Famous When They Are Forgotten. At the close of a stormy session, rhich on account of personal re larks and defiant utterances several Lies threatened to assume a most erious aspect, the conference of gov rnor at Richmond Friday afternoon assed resolutions offered by Gov. [ann of Virginia, administering a re uke to Gov. Cole L. Blease of South arolina for his utterances regarding inch law. Gov. Blease openly defied the con erence and dared it to expel him. ith all the vocal tricks of oratory f which he is an undoubted master, .e challenged the conference to do s worst. hurling scorn at its mem ers with all the bitterness and cathing sarcasm at his command. Le declared that it made no differ nee to him what the conference did. le had already been elected govern r of Sout Carolina and would be lected to te United States senate in 915, he asserted. "When you are forgotten by even cur own people and obscure in the bades of private life, Blease of South arolina will be known from one end f this great country to the other," e shouted, "and the plaudits of the ation will be ringing in his ears." ainly Gov. Vessey of South Dakota. imporary chairman, and Gov. W. W. :itchin of North Carolina attempted divert the issue, but the confer nce, apparently indignant that such emarks should have been uttered by ne of its members, Ly an overwhelm ig vote adopted the resolutions. The storm broke when Gov. Em iet O'Neal of Alabama arose and of -red resolutions putting the confer nee on record against lynch law and ob rule. He declared that the re iarks of a certain member of the onferen echad gone forth to the rord, and that, inasmuch as the re iarks were made during the conduct f a regular session of the conference nd were of such a nature as to be efiant of- law and order and repug ant to law-abiding citizens, the con rence "should without delay repu late them as contrary to the views f the conference." He declared that he represented a tate which had a large negro popu ition, but it had courts, he said, 'hich would punish criminals. He enied that it could ever be necessary license lynch law, and, looking all at Gov. Blease, aserted that he Id not believe any law-abiding State1 -ould countenance it. Gov. O'Neal's resolution was see nded by Gov. Gilchrist of Florida, rho warmly stated enat the confer nce could not afford to allow "Gov. lease's remarks to go unnoted," and as for the immediate passage of the esolutions. Amid calls from Chairman Vessey be in order. Goy. Kitchin of North arolina took the floor. He argued ith great earnestness for the de eat of the resolutions. He said that bey were aimed directly at a mem er of the conference and tended to brottle free speech and the expres on of individual views. Go. Mann, "'the host." offered a tbstitute to Goy. O'Neal's resoln ions. Gov. O'Neal at once accept d it and called for a vote. Go. Baldwin of Connecticut mov d that the substitute be laid on the Shouts of "No! No!'' came from very part of the hall. 'Pass the resolutions, pass 'em. lass 'em; what do I care?" shouted ov. Blease. Hisses came from the gallery hairman Vassey rapped for order. "The vote on the motion to lay the esolutions on the table will be tak n," he announced, "and the secro ary will please call the roll." It was immediately seen that the onference had no intention of tab ing the resolutions. Several govern rs took occasion to explain their otes, declaring that they stood for .nd would always stand for repudia ion of mob rule. Gov. Blease did not vote when the tate of South Carolina was called. Liter the vote had been announced 4 to 4 against tabling--he rose and aid: "South Carolmna did not vote i'cause it is of absolutely no conse hence to South Carolina what this enference does." As soon as the te on tabling was announced the fann resolutions were put upon their assage and carried oy a rising vote F "ayes". There were several scat rring "noes''. The resolutions or ginally offered by Gov. O'Neal. which r'ere withdrawn in favor of Goy. siann's were as follows: 'The conference of governors does Lot undertake to control the individ m views of Its members upon any jnestion of law or administration; it leclares that this government is bas ci upon the fundamental principle of aw and order, that the constitution >f each state imposes upon its chief 'xcutive the supreme duty of taking :are that the laws shall be faithfully md equally enforced, that it advo aes all proper methods for strength 'ring and simplifying our methods of i!vil and criminal procedure; this oference protests against any dis osition or utterances by those en rusted with the execution of the Taw n any of the states of this Union rhich tends or sould be construed as ending to the encouragement or jus BESIDE WIFE'S GRAVE A. J. CLARK TAKES HIS OWN LIFI IN THE CEMETERY. Right Hand Still Grasping- Pistol, Bullet from Which Passed Throub Neck Caused Instant Death. A. J. Clark, one of Lancaster's most prominent and influential citi zens, who recently resigned the posi tion of manager or the Lancaster News, committed suicide early Thursday morning, between 0 and 7 o'clock, in the Presbyterian Ceme tery, at Lancaster, using as an in strument of death, a 32 calibre pistol, with which he shot himself through the neck, the ball entering from the left side and lodging in the base of the brain. From the nature of the wound In flicted, the physicians, who examined the body, say that death must ne cessarily have been instantaneous. No probable motive Is yet assigned for Mr. Clark's rash act, which has caus ed universal sorrow and regret in this community, where the deceased has lived and worked the. best of his lift The body was found at 2 o'cloci Thursday-by parties walking throngh the cemetery, under a large oak tree, near the grave of his wife, who died Some eighteen years ago. The discov ery was at once reported to the members of the family and - the searching party, which, on account of his continued absence from home since dawn Thursday morning, had been looking everywhere for him. His body was found in a reclining pcsture. He was partially dressed, and held in his right hand the pistol with which he put an end to his life. Mr. Clark was a native of North Carolina, from which place he came to Lancaster years ago to engage in the newspaper business. For seven teen years he was editor and man which paper was finally. taken over, with the Ledger and Review, to join the Lancaster Publishing Company. He was elected manager of tnis com pany, which position he held contin uously ever since until about two weeks ago, when, on account of fail ing health and close confinement in his office, he was compelled reluctant ly to resign. ence with the orderly processes of the law." In his denunciation of the confer ence and in defense of himself, Gov. Please in part said: ''I hold in my hand the fourth com munication I have received this morning threatening my life. It is addressed to me, in care of Gov. Mann." Here Gov. Mann arose and dis claimed all knowledge of the com munication. He had not even seen it, he declared. "I am not trying to force this con ference to accept my views," Gov. Blease went on. "I have been done a great injustice. I have been false. 13 represented, but it Is immaterlal to me. What I Bald about lynch law I will not repeat now, but I will say that I have never, and will never, order out the militia to do whatI would not do myself. "I am Blease of South Carolina, and Blease is not afraid of any man. He is not afraid of you or your res olution or your conference. "Personally, I don't care what you do. I have stood out with bared breast against great and greedy cor pcrations. I am not afraid of you. You can pass your resolution. What do I care? On the 21st of January I will be sworn in as governor of South Car olina. What care I for your resolu tion? "On the 4th day of March, 1915, intend to .be sworn in as United States senator from the great State of South Carolina. "Pass your resolution. I will rea( it from every stump in South Caro lina. "Pass your resotution. I scorn it. Do as you please, expel me, if you please. What care I? "When you have retired .-to the shade of private life and are forgot ten I will be known from one end to the other of this great country. You will be unknown." "Now pass your resolution, and gC home. Go on record, if you like, and go home to your people and tell then that you did not agree with the gov ernor of South Carolina." The resolution of Gov. Miann, which was adopted. :s as follows: "Resolved, That It is the sentimeni of the conference of governors in ses sion at Richmond, Va., December 6 1912, that the whole power of the several States should be used when ever necessary to protect persons ac cused of crime of every kind againsi the violence of mobs, and to pro vide for speedy, orderly and impartia: trials by courts of competent jurisdic tion, to the end that the laws fo1 the protection of life and property be duly enforced and respected by the people.'' The vote on tabling the resolutiot which showed how the governor: stood was thus: Against tabling O'Neal of Alabama. Gilchrist, of Flor Ida. Brown of Georgia, Plaisted o1 Maine, Goldsborough of Maryland Hadley of Missouri. Oddle of Nevada Dix of New York, Tenor of Pennsyl vania, Spry of Utah. Mann of Vir ginia. McGovern of Wisconsin, Care: of Wyoming. and Vassey of Souti Dakota-1 4. For tabling--Donaghe3 of Arkansas, Baldwin of Connect! cut, Hawley of Idaho, and Kitchen oi North Carolina-4. One of the communications threat ening the l ife of Gov. Blease wasa postal signed "A Negro", mailed ir Richmond, the South Caroltna exeeu. tive said. Another was me,lled ii Pittsburg, the third in Washingtor and the fourth in Louisville. Ky.. thi governor said. lif anood that 31 were anonymous;. WHAT ONE KISS COST IN ATTEMPTLNG TO KISS AN UN KISSED YOUTH. Young Married Woman Breaks Two of Her Ribs and an Arm in a Twen ty-five Foot Fall. 1 A fourteen year old boy, during an intermission at a barn dance held at New Bridge near Hackensack, N. J., Tuesday night, became so interested in Mrs. Winfield Ackerman that he felt called upon to tell her the story of his life. In the recital he made the startling admission that he had never been kissed. Thereupon Mrs. Ackerman asked him if he would allow her the signal honor of making the initial in scription on his facial slate. The boy blushed and backed away. Mrs. Ackerman rose and repeated her request. The youngster blushed more furiously than before and ran toward the door. "I'll kiss you for fun," cried Mrs. Ackerman, starting after him, while the other dancers, who had switched their attention from the entertain ment to the incident, laughed and shouted encouragement. The boy, fear evident on his face, ran upstairs and tried to hide him self behind one of the supports. Mrs. Ackerman, pursuing, located him and for a few minutes they dodged and sped around the wooden column. The boy finally sprang out into the open. Mrs. Ackerman caught him but he wriggled free and then dashed around the room, with the young wo man keeping up the chase. When she caught him the second time Mrs. Ackerman held him tight ly.. IHe yelled and fought seeking to squirm from her grasp.. This he con tinued while she backed him against a double door. She was bending over him when the door gave way and the boy and Mrs. Ackerman both fell through to the ground, twenty-five feet below. The fall had come so unexpectedly to the young woman that she could make no effort to save herself. She suffered a broken arm, two broken ribs and numerous painful bruises. The boy escaped injury. Dr. C. F. Adams was called to at tend -Mrs. Ackerman. He found that her injuries were so severe that he hurried her to the Hackensack Hos pital. PLOT TO KILL TWO COPS. Chinese Gamblers Lured Policemen to Intended Death. At San Francisco the other night Chinese gamblers lured two police officers to imprisonment in gas filled chambers, leaving them to be as phyxiated. Each of the men escaped death, however, because they carried small axes and chopped holes thro' the walls of their traps. Corporal Goff, the first victim, was walking along when a Chinese brushed by him and whispered "Fight in Siberia Club". Without waiting to call his sqauad, Coff rushed to ehe club. He thrust asiae the doorkeep er. As the door swung back he heard the bolt click and simultaneously the gas lights went out. Trying the oth er door he found himself imprisoned in a narrow hallway seven feet long and found that gas was rushing from jets which he could not reach. Af-1 ter 15 minutes work with his axe he cut through the walls and was res cued. Officer Bailey was trapped sim ilarly in another club at almost the same time. FOUR GREAT EVENTS. That Have Occurred During the Year That Is Passing. The Christian Herald says "four events will distinguish 1912 as one o the epochal years. viz: the trans formation of China from a monar chy to a republic; the upheaval in Mexico, reorganizing the social and political condition of that country; the emanciapation of Portugal from the incubus of Romanism, and the European downfall of the ''unspeak able Turk," stung well night to death by the Balkan states, which he Ihas held in contempt and oppressed afor centuries. Last and not least is the political revolution here at home, which changes the political map of our union and introduces new poli cies demanded by the needs of tae BRIDE SENTENCED TO PRISON. Killed Woman Who Called Her "Ugly" at Wedding Supper. At Logansport, Ind., Mrs. Joseph Lang. the bride of one day who shot and killed Mrs. Mary Copple, Friday was sentenced to serve from two to fourteen years In the women's pris on at Indianapolis and pay a fine o $25. The woman pleaded guilty in Court Thursday. Mrs. Lang said the aCopple woman declared her "ugly"* and that Lang could have done better -ir choosing a wife. The copple wo-! man was a guest at the wedding sup per. Mrs. Lng said she wished her act to stand out as a warning to all -women who gossip. She did not seem to regret her act. Fiend Assailed Woman. A posse of police and citizens is searching the surrounding country for the assailant of Miss Louella Marshall, 35 years old, who was at-! tacked Wednesday night on the out skirts of Trenton, N. J. Siiss' Mar shall was di. .ovr.e lying uncon scious In a field where she had been dragged. Her skul i was fractured and her condition is serious. She gainedI Iconsciousness for a few minute.. but Ionly long enough to say her as sailant was a negro. REGAINS HER VOICE SPEAKS FIRST TO A BOY CURED AS SHE WAS WHO WENT TO VISIT HER Eight Year Old Little Girl, Dumb From Her Birth, Says "Fine," When Asked by a One Time Mute Cured by Some Surgeon How She Felt. The New York World says the sur geon's knife has again given the pow er of speech to a child who has been dumb since birth. It is the second operation of its kind In a fortnight by Dr. William Chapman at the Sweedish Hospital, Brooklyn. The first .was performed on seven year-old Clarence Devitt of No. 419 St. Mark's avenue, Brooklyn, the sto ry of whose release from life-long silence was told in The World. It was this account of the operation that led directly to the second opera tion, which was performed last Sat urday on Pearl Thomson, eight years of age, of No. 608 East One Hundred and. Sixty-fifth street. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Thomson. Despite her af fliction her mind was alert. Her vain efforts to speak were pitiable. She understood all that was said to her and at times when she tried to reply and could not she would cry nyster ically. Specialists were consultee, but they held out no hope. Then the parents read in The World of the successful operation on the Devitt boy. Mrs. Thomson immediately went to see Mr. Chapman, who told her to bring Pearl to him. After an exam nation the surgeon said he thought he could correct the trouble. The op eration was performed on Nov. 30. It consisted, Dr. Chapman expiained, of removing a piece of bone the size of a dime pressing on what is known as the speech center, which is on the left side of the head where the tem poral bone joins the great wing of the sphernold bone. Young Clarence Devitt neard of the operation and went to the hos pital Wednesday morning. No at tempt had been made to see if the power to talk had been given to the girl; in fact it was decided best to wait several days. But nothing of this was explained to the noy who was' taken to the bedside of the l'ittle patient. She was gazing at the wall when he entered. Her mother was sitting beside her, stroking Pearl's hand. Before any one could caution him the boy asked: "How do you feel?" At the words the girl turned her head, looked at her visitor and said uite naturally: "Fine." The mother sprang from her chair, amazed and overjoyed. ''That is the first word she has ev er spoken," exclaimed Mrs. Thomson. From that on Pearl began to talk, beginning, of course, withs the com monest words. She was so anxious to use her new found powers she threatened to become a chatterbox until the nurses told her she must say very little if she wanted to get well. This warning was all the girl needed. The nurses said the Devitt boy had the same fault. DROWN AS THE ICE BREAKS. Three Skaters Dead and Several Oth ers Very Sick. Three persons were drowned and several other members of a family skating party had narrow escapes Monday when they broke through the ice on Hearth lake in North Lacka wanna county. The dead are: Mrs. Adelbert Reynolds. 30 years old; her son, whose name courd not be learn ed and Ross Reynolds. 10 years, a nephew. Ross Reynolds, skating on thin ice. plunged into the water. GMrs. Reynolds endeavored to pull him out and she too fell in. The other mem bers of the party attempted to rescue the woman and her nephew and all fell into the icy water. Mr. Rey nolds managed to free himself and saved all but three of the party, but his strength was exhausted before e could complete the task. The bodies of those drowned were recov ered. The survivors are in a critical cndition from exposure and shock. KILLED BY FALLI.NG LIB. Resident of the Dutch Fork Hit on the Head by asnch. Adam Benedict Mayer, one of the most highly esteemed and best known e tizens of~ the Dutch F'jvk section of Lexington county was Instsantly kil! ed Saturday afternoon whilq *utting down a tree near his homne. It seems that a limb from the tren fell, strik ing him on the top of the head and causing instant death. Mr. Mayerj was about '76 years of age, having been born on September 15, 18S36. He was a Confederate veteran. ser" ing throughout the War Between the Sections in Company H. Third South Carolina Volunteers, and was wound ed twice in the conflict. He suffered a broken arm at the battle of Sharps burg, and lost a leg in the battle of the Wilderness. No braver soldier ev er carried a musket than Adam B. Mayer, according to his comrades. Single Bullet Slays Two. The bullet that mortally wounded Milton Ei, a pool-room keeper of Marvel, Ark., plowed through his body and struck Cherles Norman, causing the latter's instant death.| Robet Davidson is under arrest, ac BANQUET TO BELMONT SENATOR TILLMAN AMONG THE INVITED GUESTS. -I - Belmont Honored Because of His In terest and Work for the Publicity Law. The Washington correspondent of rho News and Courier says Senator illman has accepted an invitation from Congressman William Sulzer, Governor-elect of New York, to be present at a dinner, which will be given to-morrow evening at the New Willard Hotel there, by a committee af which Mr. Sulzer is chairman, to Ar. Perry Belmont, in recognition of fr. Belmont's successful efforts in arousing sentiment for the enactment Af laws requiring publicity of cam pain contributions and regulating the same. Mr. Belmont was the organizer of the Contribution Publicity Law As sociation, to whose efforts are largely me the statutes whicn now exist re stricting campaign contributions and requiring their publication. Mfr. Sul er was also identified with the Asso :iation. Senator - Tillman was a pioneer in the matter in that he offered in the Senate and secured the adoption of the first law prohibiting corporations from making contributions in Fed eral campaigns. The Tillman statute, which was approved January .26, 1907, is as follows: "Be it enacted by the Senate ant House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that it shall be unlawf ul for any national bank or any corpor tion organized by authority of any laws of Congress, to make a money contribution in connection with any lection to any political office. It shall also be unlawful for any cor poration whatever to make any elec tion at which Presidential and Vice Presidential electors or a Representa tive n Congress is to be voted for nr any election by 'any State Legis lature of a United States Senator. Every corporation which shall make any contribution in violation of the foregoing provisions shall be subject to a fine not exceeding ';5,000, and every officer or director of any cor poration who shall consent to any ontribution by the corporation in riolation of the foregoing provisions shall upon conviction be punished by a fire of not exceeding $1,000 and not less than $250, or by'imprison ment for a term of not more than )ne year, or both such fine and im prisonment in.the discretion of. the court." METHODIST COLLEGES. - They Are Doing a Splendid Work in This State. The report of the Board of Educa ion to the South Carolina Confer --e at its meeting in Anderson car -ied with it the recommendation of :he employment of a commissioner education, who shall inaugurate a .hree years' campaign to raise $3 00, 300. one-half of which is to go to Wofford College, one-fourth to Lan :ler College and one fourth to Col ambia College. The sums to be re eived by these colleges are to be ap plied on tneir indebtedness and also 'or the erection of a dormito; y at W'offord and for the extention of the various college plants. In promoting the appointment of the commissioner of education to raise thIs $300,000 the board recoin nended that "amounts received for ay one of the three institutions, :hrough agents or otherwise, within he bounds of our Conference be tween now and the Inauguration of his campaign, shall be deducted from the amount to be apportIoned to that nstitution." The colleges and schools ,f the Conference have experienced in unprecedented year of success. At Columbia College there are 23 eachers and tutors, with an enrol ment og 287 students. Value of the plant $256,500; and Indebtedness of $98,000. At Lander College there are 234 students. of which 159 are boarding pupils. The value of he plant is $147,300; endowment $4,200. At Wofford College thete are 305 students and 181 in the Fitting choo. This is the largest enrol ment n the history of the two Insti tutions. The property and resources of the College have been increas~ed by $50,000. The endowument is $183, There are 82 students at Carlisle Fitting School, overcrowding the lormitory. The property Is valued at $25,000; endownmnent, $5,000. At the Cokesbury Conference chool the enrolment was 40. The property Is estimated to be worth $,000; endowment, $1,000. Thirty-four charges in the Confer ence failed to pay their Conference ducatonal assessments, and eighty Eght of the charges paid this assess mnt In full. The Kingstree dis trct was the banner district, paying 80 per cent. of its assessments. Hangs Himself With Necktie. At LaGrange, Texas, after hearing the trials of fellow prisoners Wed nesday, William Klemp, awaiting bearing on a charge of Durglary, hanged himself with a necktie in his cell Wednesday night. The jailer found Klemp suspended from the bars of his cell when ho made his round of the county prison Thurs fay morning. Death Tnder Engine Wheels. At Seattle. Wash., C. A. Johnson, an engineer, after falling to effect a reconciliation with his wife, Tues day picked up his six-year-old sor and ran In front of a passenger train, but the father was tossed aside witha SHE WANTS TO DE PLEADS FOR LAW TO PERMIT HER TO END HER DAYS A HOPELESS PARALYTE A New York Woman Who is EelNss Desires That a Law Be Emate Which Would Permit Her to 15d Her Life BeceasE of He Intense Suffering. Mrs. Sarah Harris, the remarkable paralytic patient in the Audubon san itarium of New York who made two public appeals during the last three months for the enactment of a law permitting her physicians to end her suffering by taking her life, wrote a third letter recently. In it she tells of a visit from Mrs. Grover Cleveland, who, being at the hospital to see an invalid relative, and knowing of Mrs. Harris' case, spent an hour with hue fatter. "Mrs. Cleveland is the most re markable and unaffected woman with whom I ever spoken," said Mrs. Har ris. "She will bring to my help the counsels of wise people. I am .as much in need of relief as when I made the first appeal. The law does not scruple to demand life for life. Why may not the law become- an instrument of mercy as well as ven geance?" Mrs. Harris made a grim appeal to the people of New York last Septem ber to have a law enacted which will enable a practicing physician to end her life and her prolonged misery. Three years ago Mrs. Harris was stricken with paralysis and since cha, time has been able to to move only the muscles of her head. She is about thirty years of age, and Is the moth er of two children. Her husband-is a salesman. Mrs. Harris suffers con stantly and has yet to find any medi cine that will get relief. Physicians have told her that she is the victom of spinal trouble, which has resulted in paralysis, although they have been unable to ascertain the .exact nature of the malady. She believes the leg islature should make It possible for doctors to end her life and the lives of all such wretched sufferers. Mr. Harris was first stricken early in 1909, while cut walking, and the next day was completely paralysed. The physicians at the Audubon hospital state that no change has heen d spernible In: the woman's con dition for the past year or -more, and that she may live ten or fifteen years more. "I am suffering the torture of the damned," wrote this woman, when she made her first appeal to the pub lic several years ago. "There is no hope for my recovery. Why should I continue until the end comes in the lingering death which I know is mine? "Various mechanical Inventions are being pushed in which many shing lng lights lose their lives, and yet one question, the greatest of all, how to end the suffering of hopeless, helpless sufferers has never been delved Into. "Here In the early thirties, a young woman, stretched on a bed, Immov able, bereft of the great motor engine of her constitution for the past three years, which places her In an abso ltely paralyzed condition in which she is unable to exert a single muscle of her body, betides suffering muck pain, yet in full possession of the strength of her mentality, craves and yearns for that which 'would end her misery. "'Now, why should not the State take the matter In Its hands and end the wretchedness of such poor suf ferers? Let us just stop long enough to think that when a brute, 'the low liest of the animal kingdom, becomes inactive and doomed to safer, Its suffering Is put to an end. "Naturally, one's own loved ones cannot bring this about. Your phys ician cannot do it, for he would be condemned, so the only means is the State." CROWD GREATLY PLEASED. When Verdict of Guilty Was Render ed in a Court. At Mobile, Ala., land applause greeted the jury verdict of "first de gree murder" in the trial of William J. !Brown, for the murder of Alfred Percy. Mrs. Alfred Percy, wife of the victim, clapped her hands with delight. "I wouldn't take a thou sand dollars for that verdict," she ex claimed a few minutes later. The wife of the accused man simply nodded. B'rown killed Percy as the latter stepped from a street zar in Oakdale. Ala., July 6 last. Brown sat unmfov ed when the verdict was returned. 'It's all right," he said, "I'll win my appeal." Sentence will be pronounc ed within two weeks unless a stay of executIon is asked. The penalty is death by hanging.* - Two Prisoners Burned. At Crowley, La., William Collier, Los Angeles, and an unknown comn panon were burned to death in the local jail Wednesday, after they had started the flames In the hope of making their escape, Cohn Lebu, al so a prisoner, was seriously burned. Collier and the unknown prisoner were held on a minor charge. Lost His Life in a Fire. At New York, Louis Levy, a Jewish rs bbi, lost his life early Tuesday in a fire which swept away an apartment - house in upper Fifth avenue. Seven persons were injured. It was at first reported that two lives iad been lost but search of the premises failed to disclose any body except that of !Esb b TLev