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^ .y pp ||j LII y III I; fllQgy"'"" " .v;; ".^: V ' ~Sf .,. * 1 '> m '. " '** ' . '. * * ,- ' /3?* '\ ; > ^ "jL.: * i * THE FORT MILL TIMES. _ 16TH. YEAR. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1907. NO. 2<). * ' "" SOME REAL WAR Casablanca Bombarded by French and Spanish Cruisers. MANY MOORS KILLED. Marines Were Kent Ashore to Protect the Kuropean Consulates? French Have Six Wounded Hut None Killed?No European Residents Hurt?Outcome of Native Uprising. A dispatch from Tangier, Morocco, says open hostilities have resulted in the injury of five French officers aud six sailors, the bom hard ment of Casa Hlanca and surrounding villages by French and Spanish battleships and many casualties among the Mooib. The French admiral ordered 150 sailors ashore to protect the consulate and the Moors resented this and opened fire, mowing down the five officers and six sailors. The French battleships Galilee, Duchayla and the Spanish battleship Don Alvaro De Vazan then began the bombardment of Castra Blanca. Town battery answered but began getting the worst of it so the Moorish commander offered to u|>ologize. The French demanded a surrender and will probably demand a more substancial reparation. Warships have scut men ashore to protect the European consulates, aud attend the many d ?ud and injured. Casablanca on the Morraccan const has been l?onibarded by French cruisers, the Moors are reported to have been shot down in large numbers and the town, since last Sunday night, has been practicaliy in possession of landing parties from the French anu Spanish cruisers. The first shots were fired by the Moors. The Frenchmen responded with a bayonet charge aud the bombardment of the native quarter with melllnlte shells. The Frenchmen had p?a uicu null UUCU ( If U1 UU UUC Hlllt'U. No European residents were hurt. The occupation of Cusabluncu Is h direct outcome of the native uprising which resulted in the killing last last week of eght Europeans at Cusahlanct. Moth France and Spain are hurrying other warships with troops and marines on itoard to various points on the Morroccan coast for the protection of foreigners. Under the teruiH of the Algeciras convention these two powers are charged with the policing of the seaports of Morocco, and their action at Casablanca has brought no protest from any power. The states of Europe have expressed their willingness that France and Spain restore ordei in Morocco. No other countries are Involved. On Saturday night the French naval officer in command informed the Moorish authorities that he was going to land a force for the protection of the French consul. Authorization to do so was given. The force went ashore Sunday morning at daybreak. The Frenchmen were no sooner on the beach than they were fired upon by Moorish soldiers, and in this first encounter tne French forces sustained all its casualities. The Frenchmen fought their ,way to their consulate, and then signaled the cruiser Galilee to bombard th? native quarter. The Galilee at once opened upon the Moors. She wai joined at 1 1 o'clock by the French cruiser l)u Cbayla, and l?oth vessels fired until 2,000 rounds of ammuni tion had been expended. Thin fire 1: said to have been disastrous to th< Arabs. The battery on a fort at the mouth of the harbor fired on one of the French cruisers, but It was <|ukkl> silenced and reduced. A second French landing part> went ashore and joined the firHt par ty at the consulate. A tuird part} from the Spanish cruiser Don Alvan de Kazan was landed and occupier the Spanish consulate. The Europeai quarter of Casablanca was not dam Hged. The remainder of the Europeai residents of Casablanca are either a their respective consulates or have j taken refuge on board German ant' English vessels in the harbor Horrible Itetnils. Horrible details of the slaughtei of Jews, maltreatmment of women and pilage and burning of shops at CaHtra Rlanca are told by a passengei who arrived at Tangier Friday from that port. .They say that after the bombardment of the place began both the Moorish soldiers and Arabs revenged themselves on the inhaabitants, plundering, killing and burning on all sides. Thev sacked the custom house and burned a large part of the city whosr streets are so filled with decomposing bodies that an epidemic Is threatened Among the .Jews killed was a mar under protection of the British con sulatc. His sisters were assaulted anc carried ofT by Moors. ML'KDHR AND 81KTDK A Woman is Killed lly a Man Win Kilied Himself. Mrs. Laura Kay. proprietress of th< "Success Inn," a popular lK>ardini house In Ashevllle. was shot flv< I > times and almost Instantly killer shortly before noon Thursday, b; ? Robert Murdock, keeper of a stall li the market house, who after emptinj his weapon Into the woman's body deliberately reloaded and fired threr jt^L shots into his own heart. The tragedy occurred, at the bo^rd Ing house on a busy street and lhub i ' 'itemant. Murdock wai bituntc.1 with Mrs. Ray, ?ho wa' Respectable woman, and repelled hfi 9 M I SHOOTS TWO MEN\.'2 One is Dead and the Other May Not Recover. A Tragedy in Pittsburg?Twin Brother* Fired Upon IkiauNr Tliey l?einunded Order in Their Hotel. At Pittsburg, Pa., Ludwlg C. Sczcgiel, said to be au unattached Polish priest of Chicago, walked in a hotel early Thursday morning and without warning, it is said, wh.pped out a .38 calibre revolver and opened tire ui>on the two proprietors, twin broth ers named Steven and Andrew Starznyski. Steven died within an hour and Andrew may not recover. The cause of the shooting; is unknown. .When SczegieJ came to Pittsburg about ten days ago he weut to the hotel kept by the brothers, accompanied by a woman whom he Introduced as his housekeeper. They secured an apartment of two rooms. The woman, Francisca Sprock. is held as a suspicious person. She denies all knowledge of the shooting. Sczegiel, it is said bad beert drinking. Mrs. Starzynski. wife of Andrew, said that al>out 10 minutes before the shooting her husband had reprimanded the pair for making a disturbance. He then rejoined his brother in lh-j dining room, where a few minuter liter, she says, the priest appeared. Sczegiel applied Wednesday to the rector of St. Adelbert's Polish Catholic ohurch for employment as assistant, but the request was refused. Francisca Sprock, the priest's feamale companion, stated that she had only come to Pittsburg on Tuesday and was on her way to visit a brother in Cambria county. The police are of the opinion that she hud no hand in the shooting. The priest was committed to jail on a charge of murder, while the woman was held as a witness. 1HH/HLK TKAC2KHY. Killed His Wife and Himself at Hoanoke, Ya. i. j. wingneiu, aged o >. Thursday shot and killed his wife, aged 25, andcommitted suicide by her dead body In the Wingfleld home in Hoanoke, Va. Wingfleld left a note in which he said he would kill his wife and himself, giving as his reasons for the act that another man had invaded his home. The couple quarreled on a back porch and after going into the dining room Wingfleld fired two shots through Ills wife's brain, lie picked up the dead body and carried it to a tedroom where he placed it on a bed. -standing over the bed of the woman, Wingfleld cut .mis throat, the knife with which he fevered his jugular vein dropping on the cheek of the wife. Wingfleld fell to the floor and died instantly. The Wingflelds came a week ago from Hagerstown, Md. Wingfleld hud been running on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, with which company he was employed as a hrakeman. SF1UOIS WIIUC'K. Four Person* Were Killed and Three Seriously Hurt. Four persons are dead and three very seriously Injured as the result of a head-on collission between .1 southbound local freight and an exra train on the Western and Atlantic railroad, one mile north of Dalton, a.. at f> o'clock Thursday afternoon. 1'he dead: Engineer .1. h. lleggie, of Southbound train, Tunnell Hill, Ga. Fireman John Roach. Dalton, Ga. C. F. Colbert, brakeman. Tom Bartenfteld, brakeman, Dalon, Ga. The injured: J. B. Killibrew. engineer north>ound train, seriously. Dilbeck, brakeman, Dalton. Cooper, brakeman. Fireman Suddeth of the extra rain who escaped by jumping said hat the collision was caused by the ailure of his train crew to rea l their rders. VKHY CljDatf C.\ l/o. train Ituns Into a Wagon Loaded With People. At Greenwood on . .ursday passenger train on the Seaboard Air ,ine came near playing havoc with a lumber of negroes seated in a wagon md belonging to a funeral procession The cowcatcher struck the wagon imidHhips between fore and hind wheels and under ordinary circumstances occupants and mule would have been instantly killed. I /Instead the harness being old, rotten and patched, gave way and the 1 wagon was pulled away from the ' mule, who, not understanding what ' had happened to the load he was pull ing went to eating grass at once. The > occupants all had time to jump out, so they were not in any way injuried. I The train ran along with the wagon to the station, only about 200 yards away. The wagon was not hurt much in the transaction. It was an unusual occurrence. WAVK OF CKIMK. j The Record In New York Is Just * Awful. * 1 There have been 21H attacks on 1 women and girls in Greater New i York since May 4th, and only eight 5 convictions. The record of this three months is without parallel In the hls5 tory of the city. Each day adds Its quota, and witnesses growing anger - on the part of the public. The flg ures. given are for cases reported to 8 the police. Undoubtedly there are 4 scores of other affairs in which those 5 attacked kept the facts secret in order to avoid publicity. SAD TRAGEDY. Two Columbians Have Fatal Row Over in Georgia. INSTANTLY KILLED. ??? Clarence Gilmorc Claims That N. A, Ilurnside Made Improper Proposals to His Wife and He Shot Him. iKxn uvcd in The Same House, and Had Been Life Long Friends From Boyhood. A special dispatch from Baxley, Ga., says: Friday night, seven miles south of here, N. A. Burnside was Instantly killed by Clarence Gilmore, his life long friend, schoolmate and boarder for many months. Both moved here from Columbia, S. C., a few months ago and had been engaged in the steam saw mill business. Gilmore came in last nght and surrendered to the sheriff. He stated that after retiring lust night his wife informed him that during the day Burnslde had made improper proposals to her. Gilmore got out of bed and upon entering the room of Burnslde killed him using a shot gun." The Columbia State says: A great deal of regret was caused here Friday by the announcement of the death of Mr. N. A. Burnside. No particulars could be learned all day long and that made the matter all the more deplorable. For both Mr. Burnslde and his slayer, M>\ Gilmore, were well known and widely connected. Mr. Prank H. Gilmore left immediately for Baxley, Ga., to be with his brother, and promised to telegraph The State immediately upon bis arrival any particulars which could be learned. The deceased was a native of this county, having been born in Lykesland. His father was at one time a well-to-do farmer of this county. Mr. Burnside himself had some property a few years ago when he was engaged in the grocery business in Columbia, but It is said that in the last year or two he has been in affluent circumstances and had been addicted somewhat to intemperance. Mr. Burnside married Miss Clara Chappelle of the upper part of thiB township, a sister of Mir. Oscar Chappelle, the well hnow 11 iarmer. Mrs. uurnside moved to Florida about live years ago and secured a divorce. Among Mr. Bumside's living relatives in this country are his half brother, Mr. W. H. Burnside of Lakesland, one of the most respected men in this country; and his sisters, Mrs. W. S. Green and Mrs L. V. Pagett of Columbia. Another brother, Mr. .1. W. Burnside, also a well known'Tlichland farmer, died at church at Mill Creek a few months ago and his death was much deplored. Mrs. F. S. Burnside of 1474 Washington stree* is the step mother of Mr. Burnside. "Nob" Burnside, as the deceased was* known, was a man of pleasant address, of friendly manner and one of the lasts who would bo suspected of being inclined to be quarrelsome. C. W. Gilmore also is a native of the Gykeslund section. He is a son of the late H. C. Cilmore, a prominent farmer who was a near neighbor of the Burnside family. Mr. F. H. Gilmore, who is connected with l*orlck & Lowrance, and Mr. C. M. Gilmore, a well known traveling salesman, are brothers of the young tnan-dn trouble. Mr. C. W. Gilmore is a married man, his wife having been Miss Fannie Harris of Bykosland, a member of another estimable family. Mr. Gilmore had just moved from Sumter about six months ago to this saw mill in Georgia, where he is associated with Mr. S. H. Owens, a former supervisor of this county. Mr. F. H. Gilmore was a candidate for the same office last summer and was defeated by a very narrow majority, and he is very popular in the county. Mr. C. W. Gilmore is said by those who knew him to have always been a man of quiet disposition and never engaged in quarrels. His friends were very much shocked to learn that he had got Into trouble, the exact i.ature or which was unknown up to a late hour last night. But a rumor got out to the effect that Mr. Gilmore had quarreled over the matter of dosing a sr^w mill during the summer months. The reason why it was impossible to get any news from the homicide is because Baxley, Ga., is itself almost inaccessible, being on the Southern's line between Macon and Brunswick, and in Appling county, about 30 miles west of Jessup. The killing probably occurred at the saw mill, some distance from the town of Baxley, and particulars were not obtainable. SIIOILD SWING. An Appeal That Should Ik- Promptly Turned Down. Mrs. Forrest Gooding, of Washington, the young woman upon whom an attack was made near Alexandria, Va., several days prior to her marriage, by Joseph Thomas, alias Wright, colored, now under sentence of death for the crime has personally appealed to Governor Swanson for the commutation of the sentence of the prisoner to life imprisonment TIKI* THK JAtL.FR. During Act of Youthful White Prisoners in Mayfieltl, Kjr. Noah Coffee and John r razler, twc young white boys in Jai. at Mayfleld Ky., charged with store breaking, fas tened the lieeper in Jail and escaped over the walla. It waa an hour be' fore the pailer was released. SHE TOOK THEM IN. A Clover Woman Dupes New York and Montreal. I'twes in Cmiada aa Daughter of House of Uchestci*?Huns l'p Bill But Leaves Diamonds to Settle. A dispatch from Montreal, Canada, says Mrs. Eva Fox-Strangways, the English governess who posed in New York as the daughter of the house of Lichester, and run board bills at prominent hotels, casued wortmess cnecks, and borrowed .iberally from Miss Louise Kard McAlister, the daughter of Ward McAlister, had rather a picturesque career whuc she was in that city. Her methods there were somewhat similar to tuose "employed in New York. She came witu a letter of introduction toN Sir William Van Home, and through him was introduced to the expensive English set. Her boast of close relationship to what she called the proudest family in England g-.ve her an immediate entree to the best peopie in Montreal. She was Introduced to the Arm of Henry Morgan & Co., and they were only too glad to serve her. She ordered many beautiful gowns and following her usual custom, forgot to pay for them. She put up at the Place Viger, and nothing in the hotel was too good for her. As the daughter of an English earl, she received the most flattering attention from the proprietor down to the hell l>oys. Mrs. Fox-Sirangeways found it profitable and pleasant to pose as an invalid. She engaged one of the most prominent physicians in Montreal, and he visited her regularly up to tha time of her departure, which was rather hasty. She did not pay him for his professional services, but borbowed a sum of money from him with which she was to have paid her passage to England, "her friends having blundered in some way and misdirected the draft, probably sending it to Melbourne." Meanwhile, she had developed an exceptionally liking for champagne, it was. she said, ordered by the doctor. and there were other invalids in the hotel at the time who wanted to have the same doctor. During one of the "spells" when sue was not as ill as usual, she told the story of being engaged to be married to a wealthy Australian, whose son. she said, was at that time a student at McGIll college. Sure enough, a youth was found who was from Australia, and his name was the same as that which she had mentioned. He visited her daily, even when she was too ill to be seen by any one else, except the doctor. Meanwhile.the bill was running up at an alarming rate, and nothing coining in. Her promises were many, hut not one was kept. Her hotel bill finally ran up to $1,000. The end of all was a seizure upon her goods, including her diamonds, and these were advertised for ssile. They sold for a fair sum. and it is said that In the end the Place Viger was not a heavy loss. It was only after she had gone that many prominent persons felt how badly they hud been taken in. GROUND TO PIECES. Train Crashes into Carriage Mangling Occupants Frightfully. Four persons, employes of the Norwood house at Allenhurst, N. J., were instantly killed Wednesday night when their carriage was run down by a Pennsylvania passenger flyer, known as the bankers' special, at the Corlies avenue crossing. They were Thomas Edwards, a driver, and Loretta Grace, Jennie McDonald and Hannah Murphy, waitresses. The Corlies crossing is just south of the local station of the New York & Long Branch railroad, and the station platform was crowded with summer visitors, who witnessed the accident. Edwards had stopped his team at the crossing, where an excursion train, drawn up at the station blocked the road. ,As the excursion train drew out, Edwards started his horses, and the carriage was squarely on the rails, when the flyer, southbound, and the approach of which had been hidden by the oppositely moving special, tore across the roadway. Horses, carriage and occupants were ground to bits, " imiUPH of Edwards and the wo men being frighfully mangled. IN GERMANY TO^. Eleven Persona KIIIihI and Ten Hurt on Railway. A passenger train was derailed on Wednesday night between Poser and Thorn, Germany. The two engines were overturned and three cars were demolished. The official report says that 11 persons were killed and and about 10 were injured. Amonp the dead are Prince Alexandria Reg otoff, two sons of Count Keiserllngk of Mttau, Russia, and a Russian captain, who was accompanying them. According to official information the casualties are confled to RusJanr i Poles and Germans. Several su-vlv i ors, who have come in to Berltr., <le . clare that the overturned cars cauehi fire and that terrible scenes ensued i Many of the passengers escai>ed witl difficulty. KIIJiKI) HIS WIFE: . The Awful Crime of An Aged Xortl Carolinian. , Near Kent, N. C., Pabom Godwin aged 73 years, foi.owing a quarre ! with his wife, shot fc ?r dead Wed I nesday. He escaped and the sheril . is pursuing him with bloodhounds Godwin Is armed with a rifle. ?a IH me slave trafic among; the Chinese of San Francisco and other ports of the Pacific coast. Helpless young Chinese girls, ignorant of the ways of the world and unable to speak any other language save the dialects of the interior of China, are brought to this country through the unscroupulous agencies which deal in human flesh. San Francisco is the center of these evil operations for the West, and St. Ixniis for the East. Chinese girls are being smuggled into this country by the hundreds and, after they get here, are thrown into vile dens where they are subjected to the most brutal and degrading treatment on the part of their masters and the other Cninese and low whites who frequent the dives. A duel in the street of Chinatown, recently following the attempted assassination of a slave importer by a slave agent who demanded money due him for bringing a fresh victim to this country, revealed anew to the authorities the horrows of the practice and the extent to which it has expanded. The whole system is a network of exil practices, wheels within wheels, by means of which the girls when once caught have little or no hope of escape. When existence in their tiny cells in tne low Chinese dives becomes too unbearable, they take their own lives. Sometimes they manage to escape by the aid of friends who appeal to the missionaries, who are working night and day to save them and who are doing wonderful work against such discouraging odds. Chinese slave importers of San Francisco employ many agents who are sent to the old country to get the girls, picked out before hand by other agents working constantly on tne other side. When an agent goes to get a girl he tells her parents that he wants her for his wife. Accordiug to the Chinese custom he pays a genorous sum for her and she is his. The girl may be anywhere from the age of 13 to 20 years, the younger the better, as the Chinese think a woman aged when she has gone beyond her twentieth year. The innocent little girl is taken by her "husband" on l?oard ship where she travels as* a first class passenger. He buys her costly clothes and jewels and the poses as an American t>orn Chinese who has become prosperous in this country, and who is bringing a bride from his father's country. This he may do under the Immigration laws. He is provided with marriage papers, which by the way, were made out for him by unscroupulous American lawyers in league with the slave dealers. The little girl never suspects that she is geing victimized and does just as her husband coaches her to do. The immigration officer converses with her through a Chinese interpreter, usually in league with the slave dealers. If the girl does suspect anything, the agent makes it worth the interpreter's while to misconstrue her words. Once she is safely past this barrier she is as good as doomed, for rarely is she rescued on her way to the den. She is taken to a house in the foulest of the Chinese quarters of San Francisco and placed in a tiny room alone. If she submits quietly to a life of shame it is not Wkely that her master will beat her. If she not not she is cruelly mistreated untii her spirit is broken. Then she will either do one or two thngs. She will go on living in thelittleroom withonebreath - - ?- -1 or iresn air a ween.suiiiiiiunif self to her master's wishes, or Bhe "will end her life. If she follows the first she eventually becomes thin and pale, her beauty fades, and she is thrown aside to become a servant for the next slave. ANOTHER CONK WRONCi. Colored Postmaster Arrest ed for Making False lteturns. The postmaster at Port Royal, S. D. Jones, a negro, is charged by the postal inspection officials with embexzlemcnt and making false returns to the auditor at Washington. Jones is I from Beech Island, near Augusta, and > was working in the shops at the naval station when his appointment was made about three years ago. He 1 is a civil service man. Saturday I night Jones sent a friend for a large > quantity of laudanum, but the drug gist insisted on a written order and : this the friend refused to give. Since mis lime jones nas neeu unioiun; watched. THK DKAIHiV AUTO. | Two Mm Killed and Two Injured in Accident. 1 A race between two big automobiles between Milwaukee and Okouchee, a distance of about 25. miles, with a supper and $25 as the stakes. Thursday ended in a frightful acci1 dent to one of the cars, result! lg In the death of two of its occupants and the painful though not fatal In, Jury of two others.. The machine 1 collided with a bridge over fclm creek, 10 miles west of Milwaukee. J The wrecked car Is owned by Alderman John Koener. whue Frank Maldern owns the other machine, which reached its destination in safoty. SLAVE GIRLS Imported From China to This Country by Scores for IMMORAL PURPOSES. Hun ?- - .mvhivu iu riguc ?m That Is Hit Greatest Curse?Men? Children Imprisoned In Ix?\v Oriental Dives to Ille of Brutal Treatment. Interpreters and Some lawyers In League With Smugglers. One of the most terrible curses that evpr hiiwh?o/i .. ?- * * THE WIFE WINS. The State Supreme Court Makes An Important Decision. A Complicated Insurance Case hs to Who Should Rm'lve the 1 flt IHfkled. The State Supreme Court has just decided a case that is of much importance to all people who carry insurance policies. The supreme court has reversed the lower court in the case of Mrs. Hattie K. Speegle against ?.ne Woodmen of the World, a suit for insurance money under the membership in the order held l>y the late J. E. Speegle, out of whose auministration of the oilice of county supervisor of Greenville so muctk sensational matter developed a few years ago. Mrs. Speegle wins the case before the supreme court and is held to be entitled to the sum of |3,000. me opinion of the supreme court is written by Chief Justice Pope and briefly recites the facts in the case. On June 19, 1 89G, J. E. Speegle became a member of the Wood men 01 me world and received a benefit certificate for $3,000, payable at his dcuui to his wife, Susan Speegle, and subject to ne constitution and bylaws of the oruer. Mrs. Speegle died in March. 1900, and thereafter Mr. Speegle married Miss ilattie K. Goodwin, the marriage being performed at the Jerome hotel in Columbia. There were seven children by the first marriage. After the death of the firs! Mrs. Speegle no new beneficiary was named in the certificate. Mr. Speegle died Oct. 17, 1905, his wife, Mrs. Hattie K. Speegle, surviving him. one began action on March 22, 1903, to recover the amount of the certificate The defendant coporation .. ed a petition for interpleader alleging that there was a dispute between the plaintiff and the children of tne first marriage as to who was entitled to the benefit and prayed tnat it be allowed to pay the fund into court, and that the children be made parties defendant and contest with the plaintiff the right to tiie benefit. 'I .io petition was granted and the children appeared and answered. Judge Watts held that they were entitled to the fund, and plaintiff appealed. Chief Justice Pope the quotes the constitution and bylaws of the Woodmen of the world organization, section 3, stating the regulations in regard to payments of benefits. It is provided therein that in case benefits are payable to a relative also deceased at the time of the members death, and no new designation lias been made, the benefits shall be due and payable to the member's next living relations in the order named in this section?to wit, wife, children, adopted children, parents, brothers and sisters. The Chief Justice discusses the meaning of the word "next"-in this section, admitting i..at there is a shade of difference in meaning between "next" and "nearest," but con eluding that in this connection the word means "nearest." The purpose of the order, he savs, is clearly to provide by these heuetits for dependent relations of the members, and It is held that the wife is the first in the order named. The respondents set up the contention that on the death of the first wife here interests in the benefit reverted to her children. It was further claimed that the failure to name a new beneficiary exhibited the intention that the children shouid be the beneficiaries. This, says the cheif justice, is not sustained. Speegle had the power at any time to change the beneficiary under the bylaws of the organization, and until his death no one could be said to have vested interest. Even if there had been no second wife the children could have had only an expectancy or contingency iu the benefit. It is just as probable that he Intended by the failure to name a new beneficiary that the benefit would fall to his wife. The chief justice holds that by his second marriage he practically named, or rather made, in the light of the bylaws, a new beneficiary, ami this caused the expectancy of the children to cease. On these grounds the judgement of the circuit court is reversed. \V11,M AMS Till: XO.MIN EE. Wins Over Vardumaii by .Majority of (ilH for Senator. The Democratic State executive comniitee of Mississippi on Thursday declared Congressman John Sharp Williams the party nominee for United States Senator. The returns showed a majority of t>4 8 votes for \Vj..iams, the totals being Williams 59,496, Vardaman 58,istti. There will be 110 contest over the result. After a short caucus between the two factions, ?. was finally agreed tc abide by the semi-official returns as furnished the Secretary of State from various counties, and which show that Williams has a majority of 64a votes. The motion to declaie Williams thr nominee was seconed by friends ol Gov. Vardaman. The committee thci formally declared Williams nonnna ted. This is considered a final settle mcnt of the celebrated contest. THOOPS COMMIT CHIME. The Turks Invade Persia and Hum Several Villages, The latest advices from the fron tier say that the Turkish troops which recently crossed the northwes' frontier of Persia are marching or Urmuiah, burning and devastating villages along the route. The Chris tlan village of Mevan is reported t< have been shelled and ninety persons including many women and children are said to have l>een killed. Ter girls were carried off. Panic prevail! at Uruml&h. % MOB RAIDS A So-Called Witchcraft Sect, Hurling Bomb in Meeting. OLD PURITANIC WAY. Tin* Church Members Rise to Save Peniberivlek Hamlet, Conn., Krani a Hypnotist?The Mother of a Youth Who Fell Under Fvaiigelist's Spell I^eads Attack on the House Where Meetings Were Held. Raising the ominous cry of "witchcraft." as did their ancestors when they burned Ann iiutchiuson at the stake three hundred years aim u ? of Connecticut farmers stormed a house at Pemberwtck Hamlet, Conn., the other night. They threw a bomb at an itinerant evangelist within. They accused him of mesmerizing the neighborhood. Henry Spilkins, the preacher, escaped deatn by a miracle, as did the little flock of "Pentecostals" he had gathered about him. The countryside alleges they were saved by Iilack ,Arf hypnotism. Three weeks ago Spilkins, swarth. thickset and eloquent, found his way into Pemberwiek and announced that he would hold Pentecostal revival;, until he had converted the "godles < community." The farmers for miles about, all prosperous, all orthodox and most of them rigorous Baptists, Methodists or Presbyterians, laughed at the "Salvationist," as they called hitn and warned to leave at once. The llrst night he held a protracted meeting in Alvah Wood's hay meadow at sunset, ami Woods, a sceptic, sat on the rail fence forty yards away, his only listener. Rut next night Woods was there with his two daughters and a neighbor. whom he had told that Spilkins "put Mp the consarndest interest ingest" talk on religion he's ever heard' From that time on crowds attended the revivals. Farm lads took their best girls: others went from curiosity: Woods and his daughters became openly converted and took the evangeiist to their big farm house to live and to preach. Hiram, oldest son of Mrs. Rurtsell, who has the biggest Tarni in the neighborhood, joined the "new Pentecostal revivers;" the country side suddenly became inflamed. On Sunday the two regular ministers In the community preached only to the steadfast members of their congregations who held offices in the churches. These rose up and denounced the intruder. Woods and his daughters had been mesmerized by, Spilkins Ihov kuI'I ' ? "? 1 ? > me niacK Arr no was using to win the little hamlet away from the old Puritan beliefs. For I he sake of the true religion he must Vie put where he could do no more harm. Mrs. Rurtsell joined this faction. Her son, she cried, already led astray, must he saved from the wizard. And so. led hy a woman, as women egged on their ancestors of other days, fifty farmers, their wives and children, marched upon the Wood's farmhouse, where Spilkins and his little hand of pilgrims sat in meeting. The moli crept to the window and silently watched for a time the service that proceeded in the rustic kltt len, Spnkins was preaching, they said afterward a weird sort of doctrine that no one had ever heard hefort?. His hlack, heady eyes, were fixed upon the Rurtsell boy and his newest convert, Sarah .lellard, who lay inertly with eyes half closed in the chairs near the table pulpit. Then, into the midst of the "revival," come one of the mob threw a bottle filled with a dark admixture of liquids, which exploded as it struck the itinerant preacher on the head. A moment later and the whole room was blazing, the converts, even to the mesmerist's principal victims, flying out. Spilkins was badly scared. Severs I a others who had been worshiping with him suffered serious burns. Some say a woman threw the bomb The other side complains that Spilkins himself exploded it. The District Attorney issued a warrant for the arrest of Spilkins. and the Wod girls compelled him to issue another for David Norris, an "outsider." The girls declare it was Norris who threw the bomb. Trials will be held Immediately, but the countryside Is so wrought up that the two religious fartions are almost sure to clash. RKCOMKS IIIS IIKilt. i < liinainan Adopts a W hite Hoy as II is Own. Through a document filed in the office of the recorder of deeds of Schuylkill county, Pa., Charlie Sing. a Chinese laundryman. becomes the foster father of Charles Hunt, a white 1 hoy of Philadelphia parentage. The hoy's mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, all of Philadelphia, are parties to the agreement. They agree that the hoy's name shall become Hoy Soo Sing, that Cnarlie Sing shall be his father and in return i the boys becomes the legal heir of the laundryman. [ Two Young Men Drownwl In Rare At Defiance, Ohio, w?..e canoe rac- i Ing on the Maumee river Thursday, the l>oats of Karl Krotz and Victor Mansfield became entangled and both 1 men were thrown Into the water and B drowned. The bodies were recover