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1 II I FORT MILL TIM? 15TII YEAR. FORT MILE, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 16,1906. iS^^H ??????- - FIVE SHOT AT CONEY Bloody Deed of Strange Man Who Must Have Been Crazy PISTOI KMPTIFn INTO A PDAWn m IWI vx L.HI II.U III V n WHU II U Unknown Man Fires Twice Into a Waitci's Back and Then, Turning His Weapon to the Throng on Board Walk, Leaves Thre*. Men and a Woman Writhing and Remainder in Wild Stampede While He Flees. ?? - New York, N. Y., Special.'?While the Oceanic Walk in the Bowery in Coney Island was still crowded early Monday an unidentified man pulled a revolver and lircd two shots into the hack of a waiter at Stanch's Westaurant and then turned his weapon on the crowd and lire.I four times as ?|uiekly as he could pull the trijr^cr. I' our persons were writhing in afjony oil tic hoard walk v. lien 1 tic ni'iii tlml toward lilt; ocean Ilirenleninj; any persons who wou111 pursue liim. Tlmmns I'it/pal rick, ajred 2.~>, Thomas McHoiiahl, auetl 1!', and CSeor^e While, a^ed 2li, may die. Annie Smith ap'tl 20, was seriously hurt. At the time of the shoot in;; the crowd w as pouring from tin* restaurant. In the throng were many women. At the Solllltls of tile sliots ami tin- serenmv of women wlio witnessed the shooting the crowd broke in all directions. Increase in Wages. Washington^ l>. Special?The report by the Itureau of Labor sln?ws that in !! < "? the average wages per hour iu the principal manufacturing and mechanical industries was one and six tenths per cent higher than in l!HM; the average hours remained the same while the weekly earnings of all the employes, owing to the increase of six and three-tetnths per cent in the number of persons employed, was eight per cent greater. Ketail pi ices of fooil six-tenths per cent hi.'liter. As the average wages increased more than the retail prices all hour's wanes in litttlt wouhl purchase niie per rent more food than ill ISKtl. Report of Insurance Committee. Omaha, Noli., Special.- The report of the committee on Insurance of American I'.ar Association, to he submitted to the Convention St. I'aul, An^. provides for the draft im; of a hill repniriicr deferred dividends oil life policies to he biennially apportioned, credited and certified to policy holders; repeals reciprocal retaliatory and valued tax laws; provides for stridor State incorporation laws, use of mails to unlicensed concerns. provides for supervision of in : ...... III IIIMirillK't*, Mini I 111' establishment of bureau of insurance in tin- I >< |>11 rtmt'i11 nt' ('mnIIH'IW llllll lilllim*. Bank Clerk Took $100,000. Biriniiiyham. Ala., Special. Otfifials i?l' I In- first National Bank M i * 1111 a \ aminiMiri'il that Ali'xaniler 11. Chisnhn. |?:iyinir teller of that hank. i> $100.0(10 short in his ai'i'onnts. As s?!m was bunded for $.'10,000 the I >-s In tin1 hank will he reduced to $70,000. Tin- discovery nt' the shortaye was mailt' while t'hisolm was off on Ins vaeation. Dr McCraw Dead. Hii*h111o1111, \'a., Special. I>r. .Ins. B. Met'raw, a native of 11 ielnnonil, anil one of the oldest physicians in \ irjiinia is dead at the aye of 84. lie was a prominent Confederate Surgeon and diiiiny the war had eh a rye of the (liimhera/.n Hospital here, where 7(i.< ( (! Confederate soldiers were treated. 15 Persons Injured. Fort Worth, Texas. Special.?Two passenger I rains on tlit* Chicago, Bock Island jiinl <}illt* railroad <* >11i<led in tlit* Inml yards, injuring If) prisons. W. (). Strvrns, bankrr and Mi ink I'oore, Iiolli of Bridgeport, Texas, were seriously hurt. Loss by Fire $50,000. New Orelans, Speeial.- Fire destroyed the hnilding on Magazine street oeeupieds hv l'inski Brother HotTman, eonmiission nierehnnts, and Biirkenroad, (ioldsmith Company, grocers. The loss is $50,000. i-fl ' - ^ NOW BUYING SILVER Government m Market First Time Since 1893 WILL MAKE SUBSIDIARY COIN The Government Invites Tenders atl the Office of the Mint Beginning Wednesday Next?Anticipating Temporary Market Disturbance Control is Secured of Considerable Amount for Future Delivery. Washington, D. C., Special.?For the tlrst time in lit years the government announced its purpose to purchase silver for coinage purposes. Tenders are invited at tlie other of , the directory of the mint in this city on Wednesday, the 15th instant, up to 1 p. m. and every Wednesday thereafter until further notice. These 1 tenders aro to bo for delivery at the Philadelphia, New Orleans or Denver mints, settlement to be on the New ( York busis, of bullion guaranteed !'! ! , fine. The Treasury reserves the right to reject all tenders or accept such jmrt of any tender as may suit its convenience. It is understood that anticipating that its reappearance as a purchaser might temporarily disturb the market unduly, the Treasury has obtained control of considerable amount for future delivery, so that it is is a position to drop out of the market for several months if desirable. The average requirements of ' the Treasury throughout the year will 1 not exccsd 100,000 ounces per week 1 and it will he the policy of the De- 1 partment, while keeping a reasonable j amount in hand, to so distribute iis purchases throughout the year that ' its demands will be uniform and not 1 nn element of uncertainty in the market. ' Recoinago of Old Coin. ' From the resumption of specie pay- ' ments in 1879 down to the year 15)00 the constant increase in the stock of ' subsidiary coin required by the grow- ] ing population and trade of the country was supplied by the recoinago of ( old and uncurrent subsidiary coins ' which accumulated in the Treasury under tbo resumption net. In 1900 ( as this stock was running low, authority wns granted in the monetary net of March 14 to the Secretary of the Treasury to divert bullion pur- < chasid under the net of July 14. 1890, 1 for the coinage of silver dollars to i the coinage of subsidiary pieces. TJn- < der this authority about $.'(11,000,000 I has been coined since 1900. The stock of bullion in the Trens- i ury was exhausted more than a year ' ago and since then no bullion has ; been available for susidiary use. < The Stock Low. ? The stock in the Treasury had be- < come so low tbat it was apparent, ' according to the Department, that the I ? demands of a constantly enlarging 1 trade could nof lw* - ? ...bv mtuuut in 111 1- , (ional coinage. The Secretary of the Treasury was in doubt whether exist- ' itip statutes authorized him to buy bullion for this purpose and more- < over, was of the opinion that it Would ' be a better policy t* moot future do- ' mands for subsidiary coin by the re- 1 eoinnge of silver dollars in the Treas- ; urv, and so recomended to ("'on- < press. Congress, however, having faileil to net upon his recommenda- | tion Secretary Shaw requested un opinion from t"iie Attorney General as to his authority to purchase under ex- ' istinp law and received a favorable reply, based on section 3,526 of the Revised Statutes. The policy now announced was accordingly determined uj>on. The government has been out of the market for the purchase of silver since 1803 except as the agents of the Philippine government in the purchase of u little over thirteen and one-half million ounces costing $7,376,005. or an average of $0.54 1-2. The lowest price for silver was touched on December 3, 1002, when the price on the London market was equivulant to $0,478 per tine ounco; the average for last year on the I,ondon market was 61 cents per ounce and for the month of July last 66 cents per ounce. Five TtiJecL Manilla, By Cable.?First Lieutenant John F. James, and two privates of the Eighth Infantry, Contract Surgeon Calvin Snyden, and Internal Revenue Collector Williams, if Illinois, were killed in a hand-to-hnnd Hght with Pulajanes at Julitn Island of Leyte. The detachment of ten men were greatly outnumbered, but made a gallant fight. The Pulajanes captured three pistols, four rifles aud three hundred rounds of arnmu- i nition. ' - TROUBLE WITH JAPS Several KIHed and Wounded While Seal Hunting AN UNFORTUNATE OCCURRENCE Four Schooners. Raiding Seal -Rookeries in the Pribiloff Islands, Fired on and Five Killed?Twelve Prisoners, Two Seriously Wounded Taken to New York by Revenue Cutter McCulloch. \ f?\V \ 111!/ VJnnninl .,v? - w. k |niiiu?i in mux ueiatiB of the killing of the five Japanese poaeheis in tlio PribilolT Islands are contained in a special to The Herald dated Dutch llarbor, Alaska, July 2(3, which says: Five Japanese were shot and killed on the island of St. Paul, of the I'ribilolT group, by order of the agent of the Department of Commerce and Labor July 17, as a result of a raid by four Japanese schooners an the seal rookeries. The revenue cutter McCullocli reached here from St. Paul with 12 prisoners, two seriously wounded, who were turned over to Deputy Marshal Harmon. Refused to Surrender. Haiders were discovered lying near 14^'itbeast point. St. Paul, by native lookouts of (lie North American Commercial Co. The raiders refused to ...I...? 1 * .... ? I i...i ? inn (oiinMaiiiiiMi and tried to make ?l'f with their boody in small boats, several of which were drawn up on the shore. The agent ordered the guard of the vessel to open fire. *i? i no .Japanese offered no resistance, beinir without iirenrms. Three of the raiders toll dead on the bench, a fourth was seen to he thrown overcount froui one of the boats that escaped and a tilth body drifted ashore later in another boat. The men had killed more than 200 eals, many of them cows. The three tvho eseaped earned about 120 skins. This is believed to have been a con erted effort by the Japanese, who lave been luuminy around the island "or months, and giving the revenue utters inueh trouble. Standard Oil Co. Indicted. Chicago. Special.?An indictment haruini; the Standard Oil Company iviti.' 1...4? . n ul^ 11-iwirf, III | in; 1(1 rill OI inn-payment of storage charges to evlnin railroad companies was returned by a Federal grand jury before .ludge .1. A. S. He then. The ndirlment came as a surprise inasuucli as the grand jury had just be un the ingestigation. The Stnadard >il Company is the only defendant, no flieial of Hie company and no railway onipany or ollieials being named. The iond of the defendant was fixed by inum' iit'iuca :u nc.i,uuu. 'J'hrs is I the ease investigated by tlie grand I jury in Cleveland, O., where it was Connd that the grand jury had no jnrisdiction. The testimony taken there was transferred to Chicago and the locuments in evidence were identified by witnesses who testified in Cleveland. It was on this testimony and videnee that indictment was returned so quietly. The grand jury immedi-* atfly resumed its session to take up the investigation of the charge that the Standard Oil was given direct reflates by some of the railroads. The indictment eontnins 19 counts, each count constituting a separate charge. The true bills come under the Elkins law which provhles a fine of from ? 1.000 to .f'ih.OOO for each violation. Under this indictment should the governmont procure a conviction on the trial of the issues, ai tine of $3tt(),000 as ai maximum under the Elkins law may be assessed. Traffic Resumed in Texas. Temple, Tex., Special.?The Sante Fe Kailroad division officials bere report the resumption of traflic on the San Angelo branch which has been tied np by floods. The waters have recc ded, and normal conditions liuve been resumed. Thus far reports of the loss of life have proved to be erroneous. The loss of cattle and crops is estimated at $"200,000. Aged Alabamian Charged With Murder. Fort Payne, Ala., Special.?An aged white man named Wright is in jail here charged with murder near Lydin, Ala. Wright wont to the house of his sons-in-law. Sam Bailey and .Tohn Bailey, and began to abuse his daughters. The Baileys remonstrated and .ionn naiiey's throat was out by Wright so hailly that ho died almost instantly. Sam Ilailey, who was holding an infant in his arms, was also stabbed in the throat but will recover. Wright has surendered. V t ' I JUDGE LONG SEVERE Condemns Lynching in Strong Language HE CALLS THEM "CUTTHOATS" Judge Long Soorec the Lynchers, Characterizing the Mob as a Band of Out-Throata and Murderers Admonishes the Grand Jury to Do Its Full Duty. Salisbury, N. C., Special.?Judge Long and Solicitor Hammer have done all in their power to biiug the leaders of the mob that lynched the three negroes on Monday night to justice. E'our arrests have been made. Judge Long was very severe in his denunciation of the crime. In his charge to the grand jury lie said, among other things: "Gentlemen it has been said that iu me eariy uours of the night, there was an unlawful assembly over there," pointing to the jail, "ami that (he court and others went anu iiied to dissuade the members of it from further crime and to disperse them. His Position Misunderstood. "But there has been a misconception of my position then. Not while I am a judge will 1 ever go and beg a criminal not to do an unlawful act. But I did as a judicial officer go to that jail and warn that mob and tell them that they and their ]>enple would surfer for their deed, not through me, but through the law, and ? told them to disperse. They made as if to disperse, but this was only for the purpose of reinforcement. And, even after that jail yard had lirrlil . JAU -a- - * *' ..(.iuvu ?uu vivcinciiy, so mat it was almost u bright as day, a band of rufllana, lawlca men, warned as they had been by my charge to you on Monday morning and evening and my words to themselves at the jail overpowered the officers and took three prisoners In the jail?these very brave men!?and carried them over here near the town of Salisbury ?after they had put out the lights, thereby disclosing the fact that they hanged and shot and mutilated these prisoners. It is rej>orted that a near kinsman of the people whose lives had been taken pleaded with the mob to let the investigation go on. "If immediately after the Lycrly murder had been committed a mob had lynchejJ the murderers, some allowance must hove been made for the passions of the moment and the judgment of the country would not have been harsh. But no such allowance can be made in this ease. A Band of Cut-Throata. "This was a band of cut-throats and murderers. There is no escaping this: that the men who did that deed are guilty'of murder in the first degree; that every man who aided and abetted that mob, by his presence, iiis nets or his words is guilty of murder in the first degrqe. And you men have sworn to do your duty." lie asked the clerk to read to the jury the oath it had taken. When the reading was finished, the judge resumed: "The question is whether you will hew tc thq line. If "any of you know any man who assisted in that lynch mK> ny word or act, it is your dtity to report him to the court, and if the solicitor furnishes .7011 with evdenee as to who composed that mob, it is your duty to And bills against them. "This, gentleman, is art* extraordinary lynching. Ordinarily when a lynchfnj^ odfWrs it is immediately after the act which pr^vokfs it or before the eourt convenes to try the ehargd. Bnt here in defiance of the andVof the authority wi|h which the law clothes you and the other' officers here, these men have brokenjdttto the jail and murdered these ~WK>ners, right muW the nose of the' couft, the eaves of this oourt house; w>.that the question has gone forth to the ends of the earth whet lb er or not our laws can be enforced by the court or must be enforced by the mob. "Areyou far the mob, or for the court t Take your stand gentlemen. "If you sift this things to the bottom, as I demand of yonf jrou will find that the men who participated in this in ot) and led it are not men of good reputation OS of any standing i> Kownn county, but man who pught to be behind the bars.^I bring you face to face with your duty, geritlemen. I i am going Co do mine, before God and man, without fear or favor.'' A 1/ r'**. ' 15 YEARS FOR Ml Leader of Salisbury Mob sS to Penitentiary CONSPIRACY WAS THE CHAW m .fr.General Rejoicing Among BHlO Glass of P?Od1r in (UlkKnrv ft??> the Conviction of HalL JBHH . 4 4 Salisbury, N. C., Special?Geo. Hah the ex-convict, who led the lynehera Monday ndght, was tried before Judge B. F. Long in the Rowan county oourt house here for conspiraey found guilty and sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary, the jury being out but a few minutes. Friday was a very interesting day in court. The trial of Hall bega^ early and continued until late. Soil citor Hammer sprung a surprise d trying the defendant on the chard of conspiracy, rather than of murded The special veuire summoned hed was not used at all. The crowd d fcVia pnnrf rnnm woo email w nao nuinil. JL UC iUIH titudes has not enthused over tH case. The feature of the day was tfl appearance :f Governor Glenn as 1 witness. The defendant subpoen^H him iD to say where he was on day that he issued the call for special term of the court now in 41 It was the intention of Govern<9 Glenn to leave here on an early traS hut he was left. There was generfl rejoicing in Salisbury among the beV tor people lover ithe conviction ^ Hall. The charges againBt Bully B<fl George Gentle and Francis Cress not be pressed at this term of court. Judge Long and the solidi^f and the sheriff are tired. The evidence against Hall was elusive. His character was pro-^H to be notoriously bad, that of a bier, retailer, ez-conviot and gcn^H desperate man. He was ably def^P ded by Hon. Tlieo. F. Kluttz. who saw that he hod a fair trial. Trying to Impeach Judge. Atlanta, Ga.f Special.?A petition for the impeachment of Judge John H. Martin, of the Oeone circuit of the Superior Court of Georgia was presented before the IIou?e of Representatives and a committee was named to consider and report upon the petition. The petition alleges that Judgo Martin has abused his office in the restraining of certain orders in a case involving the Commgfl ciol Hotel at Fitzgerald, Ga., alH that by reason of such delay the owl era of the property suffered a logs H &000. 7000 Killed or Wounded^^^^ St. Petersburg, By Cabli^^^H afternoon papers report 700 killed or wounded during r^JHH fighting between the Tartars menians in Shusha district fl H The Pope Attacked. London, By Cable.?A from Rome says shortly after turn from the ceremony attflj H the adminstration of the third^^^^ ersary of his coronation, tho^H^M bad somewhat of a severe heart weakness. Was atten^^^H Dr. Lappom, who gave him 1 Crop Bulletin IssueH I Washington, D. C., crop bnlletin issued by. tural Department shows of corn August 1st, pared with 87.5 last winter wheat crop is average 16.7 bushels per^Hj^^HH condition Df spring wher^^^H|9 1st, 86.9, compared Steamer Groufl H Porta Delago, AzoresjwH^R^^H The steamer Brooklyn fr<^^^B|H lies to New York, with aboard went aground the harbor. An effort steamer is meeting wit)^^H|^H| Frank Ball in Special.? the Middleboro man, tnred in Virginia member Wled^ae pla eTemVH qua, u Ure^^^H ^^RancIn^B l^'In acts pro^^H be made not strictl^H and, as er^H with such 71 ly distaste therefore tfl ronta *A nrl "On annn should law and the prison^H indirectly, of lessjrra^B