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P THE FORT MILL TIMES. - ^ _ _ 16TH. YEAR. FORT MILL. S. C.. THURSDAY, JUNE 20. 1907. NO. 12. WOMAN ROBBED. " Columbia Woman Assaulted by Columbia Man in Texas. j te HE IS ARRESTED l - Tiarirr Mum ??f I w.l.l #*..! ? Certificates in Valise Amounting 5 ' i \ * to. Sixty-One. Thousand. Dollar* Was Taken Hut Arrest Was .Made i \ ' < Before He Could .Make His EsM i WIK*. SjiW ( Mrs. Sallie A. Gibson of Coluin- ' i 'bia, rich and very eccentric, was rob- ' 1 bed of $61,000 at San Antonia, Tex- 1 ^ ;as Friday. The niun who robbed I her, Rufus Williams, is also a Co- 1 j lumbian and formerly kept a livery ! ! stable near her residence on upper ' I Main street. ' j The first news received of the rob- 1 ^ bery was an Associated Press story J ! Friday morning, which stated that Williams had been arrested and had ' confessed. Later In the dav the foi- M lowing special was sent The State \ from San Antonia, Texas: San Antonio, Texas, June 14.?Rui fus Williams of Columbia is in jail \ her charged with robbery and assault with deadly weapon upon Mrs. Salj lie Gibson, lie made the following I confession today: ) "1 came to San Antonio on the i 13th lust, from Colinnlia. S. C.. via J St.- Louis, Mo. Mrs. Sallie Gibson i 'came with me. We hired a horse and j buggy to ride around and drove out J in the country some five or six miles ' from town. "We came to a stream of water l\ and she said: 'Let's go take a bath ( in the stream." We turned and I drove up along the stream about 25 I yards from the road into a kind of open space. I got out and hitched the horse and went and sat down on the edge of the stream. "We got to talking about our trip and told her that I knew I was doing 1 wrone and that I won irntmr I in fit tit my wife and children and that she had no business to persuade mo to go with her. She said that I was the only man she cared anything for and thai she would kill me if I went hack. I should have mentoined that before tills. "She took $50,000, all in 51,000 hills, from her bosom and laid it by lier grip, the money wrapped in a paper, but 1 know that it was $.">0,000 as I had previously had it in my possession. ! also knew that she had $11,000 in the grip, something over $7,000 in gold. I knew that she had all this money because I sold several pieces of property in and around Cuiuniba for her and this was the money. "After she sat down bv me on the edge of the stream we got to talking about our trip, and after i had tnM hor thnt I ItnH moilfi dm rtw mind to go back to my wife she said that she loved nie better than any other man on earth and that if I did go back she would kill me. "Then there were several words passed and I got up and picked up a stick and just as she was about to get up I struck her on the head with the stick once and knocked her down. She fell in the edge of the water. I then took all m-r money rind put it in the buggy and started at' to drive off and just as I started she hollored and said: 'Don't leave me, you have nearly killed me.' 1 did not reply, but drove back to town , put the horse and buggy in the livery stable, where the inanaper of the stable hooked up another lorse and buggy and we drove over lown awhile. All this time I kept he grip and" the money in the Inig:y with nie. After driving awhile vlth the manager 1 asked him to let ne out at a barber shop to get a : .have. I got my shave and walked i>it the depot and bought a ticket to Atlanta. "Oa. 1 got into the train l|?ut was arrested before it started." Williams unci jtii.iMMi nciouging t o Mrs. Gibson in his possession (.'hen arrested. .Mrs. Gibson do ?laros that Williams had her hyp-* i otizod and that tiiis explains til: 1 over over her. I She is in a local hospital and will do back to ColuniIda as soon as she iv able, but the district attorney will nave her held as a witness. { Mrs. Gibson is the niece of the lute Squire Levi I*. \1etz, who was vary wealthy, but 011 account of the f ill lire of a bank in which he was interested many years ago there * ere many judgments against him a ad he never deposited his money in a bank. On his death Mrs. Gibson a cured the money he left, and one d >poslt alone, made atsuit two years C, jo. amounted to $35,000. She tl en began to depose of her real est?i te, selling two pieces for about $ lO.OOO each. Her mind became w nakened probohly on account of tl e worry about the large sum of m oney and the fact that a larger pi irt of it was kept n? her house on a* . Vf aIm n* xont I (ici 1 U|lp?l ><111111 MIMTI. uani OcWiv. w me one hearing <>f this, attempted tc kill her. but her screams aroused tl e neighl>Ors and the man escaped. L iter the police arrested a negro w proved conclusively that he had n( thing to do with the case and n< thing further was done toward aj prehonding the ussutlant. One oi h? r .peculiar habits was the mania fo r gold coin and gold certificates an d practically all of her money, an tountlng to about $70,000 was in th l? form. A* her mind became more unsettl? d she showed a desire for travel an d left here a few days ago for the W eat. It was not known at the t!: act that Williams had gone with h?: < -tuhough today Jt was remarked th "ho was missing about the sa ho Williams kept a livery MONEY TO STIR WAR. Thousands of Dollars Raised by Japs in This Country. Insist I'pou Their Government Taking Steps to Put a Stop to Alleged Outrages in this Country.. A dispatch from Washington Bays thousands of dollars are being raised by the Japanese of the Pacific coast to carry out the compact they have entered into with the Progressive party of Japan for the overthrow of the Saoinji ministry, the annulment of the exclusion clause in the immigration bill and the guarantee of the naturalization rights of the Japanese subjects residing in this country. TUa?,/? .wl.litl^M?1 - I? A l * - i ucoc auumuiiui irtvis ill Lilt? ill" lernational plot are vouched for in jemi-otTlcin] circles. The enormous Fund which is heiug collected will he used to arouse a feeling in the Ja>ancse empire antagonistic to the \nierican government. Notwithstanding the sweeping dedal of the existence of the alliance ictwecn the .Japanese of the Pacific oast and Progressives, the aanti-adniuistration party in Japan, given >ut by Charles Takahashi. the Asso iated Press has secured the texts of :erlaiu reports wuich he forwarded o Yamaoka in Seattle and to the Jamnese Society of Seattle. In one >f the reports, which it is authoritaively stated was afterwards read by Pakahashl at a secret mass meeting >f .lapaanese jn Seattle on the evening of May 2(1 he quotes Ambassaior Aoki's statements in regard to he relations between the Uuited States and Japan, growing out of a recent disturbances in Sanfrancisco tad the adoption by the Congress of the United States of the immigration law, excluding coolie labor from coctinental Ignited States. Mefore the department of Takaliaashi from the city, he sent to Yamaoka, who had not then sniled for Japan, a report in which he told of a conference with Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus on May 7 regarding immigration law. In this report lakahasai quoted statements made Secretary Srausus which he said were directly contradictory to those made by Embassador Aoki as to tue agreement of the two governmments on the clause of excluding coolie labor from the country. it was after the interview with Secretary Straus that Takahashi. Noda and Kawawami received an invitation from Viscount Oki. to dine at the embassy. Takahashi's. answer was: "We did not come here to eat, but to settle grave diplomatic questions". Just before Yamaoka's departure for Tokio on May 14. Tnkashashi sent him a telegram from Washington as follows: "Depart front Japanese instantly and arouse public opinion as we understood before. There is no hope with the Japanese embassy here." A dispatch front Tokio says the council of the Progressive, at a meeting Wednesday, adopted a resolution the substances of wheh is as follows: "The anti-Japanese feeling upon the Pacific Coast of the United States, especially in Sanfrancisco, culminated in an assault upon Japanese trading places last month, constituting a most flagrant violation of the rights guaranteed by the treaty concluded upon an equal footing be iwrcu i nt* iww unuuiio. "These anti-Japanese arts are not of a temporary nature, and the Federal government at Washington must be held responsible for its failure to prevent such outrages. "The attitude of our government towards that in Washington has so far been unsatisfactory to the nation and it is necessary that proper steps be taken by our government in order to maintain the national dignity tnd permanently ensure the safety of the rights and property of our compatriots in America." X KOKO Ml I.I ION AIltK. Former Slave Of .Jefferson Dave Owner of a Mine. Samuel JelferstTn Davis, negro mine owner uud millionaire, of Warm Springs, W'yo., was once the slave of Jefferson Davis, president of the Southern confederacy. When Jefferson Davis was chosen to the highest office In the Confederacy, his slave. Sain, went to Millidgeville, the first capital, with him. at the close of the war. his master gave him $500 and told him to move to the North to live his uew life as a free man. Sam obeyed and Is now one of the richest negroes in the United States. Samuel Davis was horn 011 the Davis plantation in Mississippi. In 1840. After his immigration from the South he went to Cheyenne, then drifted to the cattle runges and began to cook, lie saved enough money to buy a few cattle. He soon had a herd. A few years ago he sold out hi? cattle ranges and stock for a hand""mi vinm nnft went into the mininu business at Warm Spring. He struck rich deposits. His business promise' to be one of the best in the state ' Within a few weeks he has invested more than $10,000 in machinery. i . stable near her residence and latei I on Assembly street and conies of ar > excellant family, his brother bein>i ! 11.ought well of by those who know i hm. They did not know of th< I trouble until told by a reprosenta i five or the State and were greatlj shocked. u MILL MEN MEET. Cotton Growers and Manufacturers in Session. MANY ATTEND. Kvciiitivc Committee Holds a Four Houi-s' Meeting. Several Matters of Importance to the Craft Receive Attention. Wliut Cotton Mills Want.. One Woman President Attend. A special from Asheville to the State of Thursday says the South Carolina Cotton Manufacturers' Association is now in session at the Flattery Park Hotel. It is a fine and representative body of men. They have built up the cotton mill industry until today there are fully seveuty-flve millions of dollars in one way and another invested in the industry. There are three and a half million spindles in South Carolina, and of that number less than 250.000 spindles are outside the Association, under Capt. Ellison A. Smyth. There are 128 active cotton mills in the State, and of tliut number 104 are in the Association. The cotton mill men are always busy. While thev have come here with their wives to enjoy themselves, they are talking shop, and working on the cotton sellers, railroads and others to tighten the loose holts. The cotton mills now are contending for three things with the cotton dealers. First, on grades where there is disagreement they want .local or home arbitration, are not willing to accept New York arbitration. Second, they want the hill of lading issued by the railroad to gve car number and initials. This is desired to protect the buyers. At present the railroads issue bills of lading 011 cotton before it is loaded and while it is in thecompress? or on the platform. Much cotton, it s contended. is from four to six weeks or longer on the road, and cotton has been out much longer. This is regarded as dangerous and the Cotton Mill Association has deeded that It will not pay drafts for cotton unless the car number and initials nlh given in the bill of ladiig. Third, the cotton "mill men object to navine a three-pound weight allowance on compressed cotton. They wish to pay for what they got. The executive committee heard a full discusion of the cotton questions. The cotton dealers were represented by Mr. Howell, .of Augusta, for Intnan, Ackers & Intnan; Mr. Jennings, of Spartanburg, for Geo. H. McFadden & Brothers; W. D. Nesbitt, of Hrminghani, for Knight. Yaney & Co. The claims of thecotton mills were presented by the following committee from South Carlinn cotton mils August \V: Smyth, Spartanburg, Leroy Springs, Lancaster; J. M. Caa>. e,lulnv Committee from North Carolina manufacturers: J. W. Cannon.chairnmn, Eugene Holt, W. C.Ruffln, R. S. Robertson. K. A. Smyth. It. M. Miller, Jr.. president of the Manufacturers' Association of North Carolina, who are ex-otficio members of the committee. I)r. Jeff Davis, of Toeoa, president of the Georgia Association, joined in the discussion. Messrs. C. C. Cowan and Williams, of the Memphis Cotton Exchange, were p'jsent. The South Carolina Association adopted rules with regard to the refusal of cotton mills to accept cotton purchased by them. In the roll of the members there appeared the name of Mrs. M. I' Gridley, who is the only woman president of a cotton mill in th< State. Mrs. Gridley is the success ful executive head of the Hatesvilb Yarn Mill, which position she inher ited from her father, Capt. Georgt Lunz. of Charleston. KI LLKD TWO SI' I/TANS. 1'liilippiiic Troops Have Had Troiibli With the I'ni-tily Morns. According to a letter received from Lieut. John M. Merrill. Jr.. of Show began. Me., who is serving in tin eonstnthe Philippines, th sultan of a .vioro leade is dead. The le^^k^ctMints a due in which the lieufm^^^ycillod tw ruler aTter being wounmln^hini. The encounter occurrer^^?|Btonir The troops of the constahular^Qfcp been lighting for some time with th Moros. Finally, after a hot ritlle fir< the combatants came together in hand-to-hand combat. Lieut. Met rill came face to face with the su tan who was armed with a kris, keenedged weapon tised by native! The sultan felled the officer by blow on the kdcp, out. neiore ne wa able to make a second stroke Merri shot and killed him. On the exited tion under Oapt. Maliagpuno Mat-it 19 Moros were killed, among thent second sultan, ruler ot' Dllnmbayat Maxy si:\.\ii:\ \Kiii:srki?. Mutiny Impending in lllnck S< 1 I'loct jit Sebaslo|>ol. ; A dispatch front a news agent from Sabastopol, London Thursdn t says that Vice Admiral Wiren, I . command of the Black Sea Fleet, hi I sifted out and arrested the disaffec ed seaman of that port aand plact . six hundred of them on hoard tl ' cruiser, under a strong guard. A< ditional arrests are being made, at ' it probably will be necessary to f out another penal cruiser. The :<e ' men of the fleet are exasperated b ? cause no charges have been prefe " red against the arrested men. at it is shId a mutinous outbreak is 111 ly to occur. INNOCENT MAN FREED The Confession of Outlaw Gives Liberty to Convict Circumstantial Evidence Carried the t'onvietion That Was Overthrown By Murderer's Dying Statenieut. The dying statement of Byron Cole an Oklahoma outlaw, gave complete exoneration and freedom of ,i\l Harpster, serving sentence of life Imprisonment in penitentiary at Lansing. Kan. Harpster was convicted of tne muraer or Martin Julian. All evidence offered by the prosecution was circumstancial. It took the jury 4 8 hours to find a verdict of guilty. Harpster re celved sentence in April, 190f>. Forty-four days later in a battle between deputy sheriffs and a band of outlaws Cole was fatally wounded. In his dying statement he confessed to having killed Julian. Harpster was granted a new trial, found not guilty and given his freedom. The murder of Martin Julian occurred on the evening of June 25, 1905, near Ponca City. Kan. In April of the following year Harpster was found guilty of the crime. Jealousy was given as the motive for the crime. It was alleged that Harpster was envious of Julian on account of the attention he received from Miss Delia Lewis. It appears that Julian and Miss Lewis and Harpster and Miss Nellie Edwards were driving on the night of the murder. The defense showed that the latter couple returned to their house before the time of the shooting. Harpster was convicted on the testimony of a farmer who had seen him and a young lady driving with Julian and another young lady and that Harpster was ahead. The shot that killed Julian was fired from the front. Further llarpster's shoe fitted in the track of the man who shot Julian. Alter the shooting Miss Lewis took Julian to a farmhouse and cared for him. He made no statement implicating Harpster. In a statement made after leaving t ho nonitontifirv lljiriiator snirl thnt he had never known Byron Cole, hut that even if he was an outlaw there must have Jteeu some good In him to cause a confession that would release an innocent man from life imprisonment. Harpster insists that three days previous to Cole's confession he had a presentiment of good news and told the foreman that he soon would be free. The tight in which Cole was fatally wounded occurred in a wheat field near Ringwood, Okla., about June 1. lttOt?. Cole was shot by Deputy Sheriffs Campbell and Burwelt in a battle with Winchesters. In his dying statement he confessed to killing Martin Julian while Julian was driving'with Miss Delia Lewis, near Poneo City, lie said the killing followed an attempt to hold up the man, in when Julian resisted. He also confessed to killing a man in Colorado and to taking part in a number of railroad and bank robberies in DentrAt* nn/1 urnulotMi fit ioc (WISPS DISSATISFACTION*. Chattanooga People Are Angry Over A|?|M?inl incut of a lllai-k N'egro.. A special from Chattanooga dated 1 June 13 says a boml) was exploded in the H. Clay Evans camp there ! when it became known that E. E. Hutler, internal revenue collector for i the second collecting district, had appointed Garfield Thompson, one of ? the blackest negroes in the city, as . guager for the Scott-Price distillery, i This is the fist time in the history of Chattanooga that a negro has been - appointed to internal revenue service * The appointment has received such - storm of opposition that proprietors of Scott-Price distillery threaten to shut down the distillery this -week If the negro is not removed. His name is Garfield Thompson and he is said to be a full pledged negro. Proprietors of Scott-Price distillery assert he is incompetent and they have sent up a petition to Mr. Butler to have Thompsson removed. It 11 is said that Kutler, who is an appoln tee of Congressman llrownlow, is at tempting to appease the wrath of Evanites Itv giving negroes in this district recognition, r _________ I AXOTIIKIt NAVAL ACCmKXT. o I'nitcd States Torpctlo Boats Collide '' at Norfolk. e ?t There was a collision at the Nora folk Navy Yard Thursday between *- i'nited States torpedo boats Whipple I- and Blakely. in which tlie Whipple a rammed the Blakely, putting a cut ?. in her side. Bot.h vessels were put a in the dry dock. is The following dispatch from ConiII mandant Berry at the Norfolk navy i- yard, regarding the collision between ?. the torpedo boats Whipple and the a Blakely, came to the navy departi. tnent this afternoon: Whipple rammed Blakely in coming to wharf, cutting completely Into the after firf room, driving the Blakely against the sea wall and tilattening in Iter how. Whipple uninjured. The accident 'due to errors in engine room going ahead full speed when slgnall >y ed to hack. iy ____________ in CARllIK NATION FIN Kl>. ?8 >(j Created a Disturbance in Washing ,p ton Sal?K>n. rttd Mrs. Cnrrie Nation, was fined >2; fit in the pQjjce court In Washington a- D. C., Wednesday night on charg< e- of creating a disturbance at a sa r- loon. She p"ld the fine and said i id was the 29th penalty that had beet <e ImiKised upon her by the courts o the country. J EDITORS MEET. South Carolina Press at the Isle of Palms. LARGE ATTENDANCE. Tliirty-tliir<l Annual Srssion Called to Order by Its .President, Elbert* II. Aull. Mayor II. Goodwin lthet and Mr. W. \V. Hall of the News and Courier . Extends .a .Cordial Weleome. The thirty-third annual session of the South Carolina State Press Association was called to order iu the parlors of the Hotel Seashore Thursday morning at about 11 o'clock by President E. H. Aull of the Newberry Herald and News...At the time there were about one hundred newspaper men and ladaies present and all heard with attention and interest the welcome extended by Mayor R. Goodwin Rhett and Mr. W. W. Hall, of ttlie News and Courier; and the pleasant and apprecia- ] tlve words of President Aull in their during the day, and severaladdress replies... It is probable that the members of the Association will decide to take a trip to Jamestown to view the great Exposition at that Point, but this feature of the programme luis not been fixed upon as yet. In addition to the work accomplished the editors and ladies enjoyed the afternoon on the heach watching the fine automobile races. It was a little after 11 o'clock when President Anil, seated at a table conveniently placed In the main parlor of the Hotel Seashore, called for o?-der and said that the State Press Association was ready for business of the thirty-third annua] session. The room was well with representative men and women from various places in the State and all gave attenton when Mayor R. Goodwin Rhett was introduced and bade the Association welcome once more to Charleston and the Isle of Palms. Mr William \V. Hall, of the News and Courier, followed Mr. Rhett, speaking for the newspaper fraternity, and made a very bright and entertaining little talk. President Aull spoke first in response to the welcome, aptly and forciibly evidencing the appreciation of the entire Association. The coin(of (Iw. -wlit^.-c. t ?W. Il-ln nf lllf, l?l i lie CUIVUIO IU lit*; ioiw WI Palms the second time was ample proof of the pleasure experienced on the first visit and the members were confident the present visit would he as delightful as the first. The Hon. Louis Appelt. State Senator from Manning, editor of the Manning Times, followed the president of the Association and added his warm and hearty endorsement to all the pleasant things said to Charleston and her people. ROYS 11AI> A CLOSF CALL. Roat Capsized in Squall and They Were Thrown Into Water. Tom Lee and Charley Webb, two boys in their 'teens were brought to the city says the Charleston Post of last Thursday, in the launch of the keeper of Morris Island lighthouse, having been capsized in the harbor sometime during the afternoon and spent the night as the guests of the Keeper John VYiekling. The arrival of the boys to the city settled the fears and anxiety which were felt for their safety. Diligent search by parties during the afternoon aand night had failed to locate the whereabouts of the boys or their craft The only hops of the parents and friends of the boys was that they had sought refuge or been picked at the Morris Island Station, where so many parties have been rescued from drowning in the overturning of sailing craft in squalls, and this hope was realized. The boys were the guest of Capt. Wiekling. and they were well cared for. The fifteen foot boat in which the boys had set out to navigate the habror was lost. liirSKY \V<?I.\\ ('t)WI(TKIl. Found Luilty of Murderous Assault on Dr. Under. A special from I'tiion says the jury in the case of Lucy Lipsey, who was tried for assault and battery with intent to kill, upon Dr. \V. I Under, came out about midnight and filed a sealed verdict after hav ing been in the Jury room limy hours. Tlie verdict whh published Thhursday morning and round the woman guilty as charge!. A motion for a new trial was ar once made and it will ne argue I later. It will no recalled that the shooting of Dr l.iml'-r in Man li caused e .: jderahh exci'emei... ami tie ciowdel cour.i tlon of thj "Jurt room during tin tiial show ">d that, int reit in liv; ias( | had not julni-.ini TWO ItOt'S l>ltOWNKI>. While Watching Mad Waters of i , . Swollen Sfrnuii.. . A Times special from Abingdon Va., says: While six boys wen standing on a wire foot bridge jus - across llolston River, eight miles lie low Abingerdon, Thursday evening watching the mud waters of the swo - len stream, wave struck the hridgi ' and tore it from its moorings, th ' hoyr being carried into the rivet Four of them swam aRhore, but th ~ other two were drowned. The liodie have not yet been recovered. Th . drowned boys were Frank Mine and Henry Mclntire. sons of protul nent farmers of that section. MANY HURT In a Rail Railroad Accident on the Southern Road The Wreek Said to Be Caused By Spreading Bails \Mirli Tlirew tlie Train OIT. Going at a speed of 20 and 30 miles an hour, Southern passenger train No. 2, leaving Nashville at 10:30 A. M.t plunged off a tifteenfoot embankment at Black Branch, near Lebanon, Tenn., thirty-three miles east of Nashvillle, shortly after 11 o'clock Thursday morning, injuring some 57 persons out of a total of 00 on board. Among the most seriously injured are: Mrs. J. T. Jennings, I,ehanon, Tenn., both arms broken, skull fractured and cut above both eyes, may recover. Mrs. Sarah Lawrence, Nashville, seriously cut above the face and head fractured skull, dangerous. A. R. Hart, Johnson City, Tenn., side and head bruised and cut. William Jamison, Auburn, Ky., internally injured. J. F. Beaty,. Nashville, severe cuts on head, arm badly bruised. J. W. Dodd, Nashville, scalp wound Mrs. R. I'. Maddox. Nashville. | broken hip, serious. Joseph Jones, Monetery, Tenn., internal injuries. Miss Patsy Russell, Difficult, Tenn., Injured in hack, serious. 1 Many others were more or less j seriously injured. Two passenger coaches, the mail | and baggage cars left the track. One report says the wreck was caused by spreading rails, and another that the front trucks of the en gino jumped (ho (rack, and threw the baggage coach and two passenger coaches oft. The first intimation the passengers had wt?3 a humping, jolting sensation, and th?' next instant two coaches shot from the rails and turned over on their sides down the embankment. Immediately on the report of the wreck being received at Lebanon, a I relief train was dispatched from that town to the scene, all the physicians in Lebanon, and a number of citizens going to render such assistance as was possible. The train made a quick run to the scene and the work of relief and attending to the needs of the wounded was commenced, every assistance possible being rendered. The wounded, who live in Nashville, were placed upon the regular train fo?* that city. As soon as the news of the wreck was received in Nashville, the Southern officials rushed a relief train to Black Branch. When the relief train arrived at 3:20 o'clock every ambulance in the city stood in waiting to receive the victims and rush them to hospitals for prompt medical attention. Conductor F. A. Dean of Harriman, Team, who was in charge of the train, although severely cut and bruised about the head and face, and on both hands and on the right forearm. stuck to his post and came back to Nashville with the traiu. He did not seem to know just what had caused the accident. ALASKAN 11 Kl{( >1SM. Brave Mini and Sick Wife Travel 1 7 Miles by l>og Sled. To save the life of his sick wife, James 1*. (lalbraith, an Alaskan, con veyeu tier a distance of 1 (.> miles aver the hazardous trail from the Duncan district to Dawson. The journey was accomplished in three days by dog sleds. The animals were the best trained ones in the Duncan District. The sick woman was placed in a basket sled and made as comfortable as possible, while her faithful husband ran along behind. Some of the streams were running water and it was necessary to wrap the sick woman in canvas to keep her front getting wet while the dogs half swam and half ran over the stretches of water-covered ice. The husband waded. While passing through a bleak wilderness on the tbrail they heard the bowlings of a pack of wolves and were forced to quicken their speed The dogs seemed to realize that theii burden was a precious one and that they must reach Dawson ere it wat too late. They did reach the got and now the sick woman is improving under the care of a physician. W A.VI ? in .'IIS nirr? Eligible Widfiwcr's First Wife Talke< Incessantly. I A woman without the power o ! speech, but able to hear, is .he sor 1 of wife being sought for ny Rober j Manchester, a widower, of Pln< Kidgo, K. I)., whose first wife die< one year ago. She was an incessan talker and gave him not a minute'; | peace. ' Manchester likes a woman with i sunny disposition and prefers her t< be good looking. He's not going t< run any risks, so ..e wishes her t< l?e dumb. He has been travelini over the entire state of South Dakot; 1 in search of just such a woman, bu none seems forthcoming. The mat rlmonlal agencies are aiding him. H is quite well to do. has good manner ^ and Is not bad looking. FATHER Kll.liS CIIIIJ). 1 i?y Pouring t'arbolic Arid Ikmn He B p Throat. Robert Jolly, aged forty, killed hi n seven-year old daughter, Gladys, o " Thursday morning by pouring ca ? bollc arid down her throat. Tli r slayer escaped, hut the police are c '* the look out for hint. No moth ia known. ^ SWEPT TO DEATH A Cloudburst Submerges a Town in Kentucky. ? TWENTY ONE KILLED. Foaming Torrent ("rented by Heavy I tains Strikes Town in Xiglu Time, Carries Away Itosldencos, Sends Seore of l'eople to Their Death, ami Devastates hirue Trnek of Farm I.nn<l. Twenty-one persons dead, the village devastated and several thousand acres of growing crops mined, are the havoc wrought by a cloudburst that caused Pig Creek to submerge Orndyville, Ky.. and vicinity Saturday night. All the dead are residents of Gradyville, and although reports are meagre, it is believed that no further fatalities will be reported from the surrounding country. The dead: Mrs. L. C. Noll, wife of State Senator Nell, and her four children. Mrs. l.umhill and one child. Mrs. Carl \VIImore, her daughter and her granddaughter. Paul Wilson. Mrs. liarttleld Moss and her six children. Mrs. J. W. Kelt iter and one child. Miss Mary Moss. The disaster was due to the erratic behavior of Pig Creek, which was already swollen by recent rains. When the cloudburst precipitated three inches of rain in an hour on Gradyville and vicinity the creek leaped from its bed and took a new course with the force of a tidal wave. Inhabitants of Gradyville wore nearly at 11 in bed when the foaming torrent struck the town, carrying away six residences, a mill and a large number of small houses. Nearly all the victims were drowned, but four were crushed by the collapse of dwellings. State Senator Nell, who is a physician, owes his escape front the fate that overtook his family to the fact that he was several miles away in the hills sitting up with a patient. When the news of the disaster reached Columbia. the nearest town of any size, several hundred citizens departed for the scene with wrecking appliances, food and clothing. All the physicians available went, along. They found the residents of the devasted village dazed and helpless. but by nightfall till the relief possible had beer, afforded. Several persons were injured but none will die Grady v ill e is a village of 17T? inhabitants, in Adair County, six miles from Columbia, and is miles from the nearest railroad station. Suffered Much Damage. Dispatches from various places in Southern Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky tell of severe storms of tornado severity, which caused some loss of life and the destruction of much property. Early Saturday the town of New Minden. Ills., 2."> miles southeast of St. Douis, was visited by a tornado which killed four persons and injured a score of others. At York. Ills,. Saturday night 2T? or thirty houses were destroyed and a number of people are said to have biii.wi -.r ti?? ??* telegraph wires, exact details are not available. The storm is said to have been especially severe in Southern Indiana and at Farniersburg and Sullivan, much damage was done by wind and rain. I)ii(|Uoin, III., was also visited by the same storm that caused the destruction of York. A number of houses were blown down, but no lives were lost. Many Houses Demolished. The meagre details from West York, Ills., tell of a destructive tornado. which visited the villiage of York, located on the Wabash River I Saturday night. The known dead: I llenry Rook, fill, found crushed to death in his garden, i Mrs. Malinda IMngston. aged i.">. Members of the families of the . two victims were all more or less iuI jured. A dispatch from West York stated that owing to the wires being down and the bridges being washed away, communication waff impossible. It was further stated that 4 0 or 50 1.. 1. ...1 I.l.lw./l MMIJM-r* 11(1(1 I " " 11 IHIUUII.-?l|t-U. ' IVports from points in Indiana say that the storm was severe and several inches of rain followed, doing f big damage. 1 may s?n>x gi:t paichov. t j Despite of Thirty Mays Given iter t to Prepare Her Petition. s Mrs. Angle Hirdsong. convicted of \ killing Dr. Thomas lint lor. at Montij cello, and given five years in the penitentiary, may be pardoned by Gover3 nor Vardanian, says the Atlanta c; .lonrnal of Thursday. The supreme n court affirmed the decision of the " t lower court which sentenced Mrs. - Hirdsong.. After the decision was e announced, Governor Vardaman s granted a respite of thirty days in or u?"l" i iihi hi i ?. Ill i liming iimkim ni rango and publish her petition as the law requires. Mrs. Birdsou is a niece of the i'nitcd States Senator McLatirin. She shot l>r. Ilutler rettrnet statements he is allcdged to have made that he was intimate with her? While in the office, Mrs. Is Blrdsong alleged Dr. Butler attemptn ed to criminally assault her, and she r- shot him...Mrs. Blrdsong has gone to her home at Mendenhall.. . Many ,n petitions asking for her pardon have . been circulated and will be presented in her behalf... A J