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THE FORT MILL TIMES.
_ 16TH. YEAR. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1907. NO. 2<).
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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
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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.
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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