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; ' i; , " * A ( .IV A' f. ' ' Pt W f i ? THE FORT MILL TIMES. 16TH. TEAR. FORT MUX, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1907. NO. 22. WORK OF FIEND. Farmer's Wife and Her Servant 1 Victims of a Brute WHO HAD FIRED BARN ' While the Men of the l-auiily Were Fighting Flame* the Negro Tried to Pillage the IfouNe, and When the Women Fame on the Scene the Itriitc Attacked Them With An Axe. The people of the North are faat timing out the vicious negro, aud in consequence they are loosng their sympathy for the whole race. They must not Judge the whole n.^ro nop by the black fiends who committed the crime described below. We are j glad to say that such robbers nnd t murderers does not fairly represent (1 the negroes of the South, a large J1 majority of whom are hind walking honest citizens. Rut still we can't blame the people of the North for ^ judging the negro race by those who go up to live among them. A dispatch from Camden, N. J., ^ savs Mrs. Frances Horner, aged 6 7 years, wife of Edward Horner, a farc mer on the Browning road near Mer- ^ cbantsvllle, and Mrs. Victoria Napoli, } a servant, were chopped to death Wednesday in their home, it is charged. by Charles Gibson, a negro who was formerly employed on the farm. * The assassin first set fire to the Horner barn. While Horner and ^ Mrs. Napoli's husband were trying to rescue some of the horses from the barn Mrs. Horner and her servant came upon the negro in the act of robbing the house. The robber attacked the women with an axe and practically cut them to pieces. Mrs. Horner's head was severed c and Mrs Napoli's head was crushed ' in and her body covered with gashes. Horner and others, who were at the v lire returned to the house, found the ( body of Mrs. Horner lying nearby In H a pool of blood, and Mrs. Napoli still alive was lying nearby covered with blood. She died wthout regaining consciousness shortly after being admltted to a hospital in the city. Two gold watches and a sum of imiiiey m.in ooen ihiicii iroui me house, and the police located the t1 watches in a pawn shop in Philadel- u plila, where they had been pledged by c u negro. The pawnbroker, according a to the police, identified Gibson as the r negro who pawned the watches, and v he was arrested. Tickets for the jj time pieces were fonnd in his pos- ?? session. Steven Dorsey, another negro, who i was with Gibson when it is alleged he c pawned the watches, was also arrest- f ed, through the police do not believe t he had anything to do with the mur- d dor. Gibson, who was discharged by | Horner some time ago, applied for t work at tho farm yesterday and was '| told he could sleep in the barn and c start work in the morning. / Early tills morning the farmers ,, who were running to the fire declare that they saw the negro fleeing from t1 the Horner home. Gibson refused to make any statement regarding the murder, und his supposed connection with it, but when uuu ot the watches f recovered from the pawn shop, and which was marked with the name "Horner" was shown to him. and he was asked if he knew the owner, ne is said to have replied: "Yes, I'm ^ sorry for him." 1 I FACED DEATH FOB FAITH. c A Catholic Girl Defused to Marry a ' I lTodcstant. t Faring the suitor who hart given her the alternative of becoming lib wife or being murdered, Helen Tiska. an 18-year-old Hungarian girl and a Catholic, at New York last week, with with her gaze tlxed 011 a large crucifix, rejected James nallog, a Protestant and was shot twice. It is anticipated that^-a bullet that entered her breast will cause her death. Turning , ' the revolver against his own breast Haling tried to commit suicide and it is thought he will die. The tragedy occured in the home of Anthony Tiska, the girl's brother, ! 1 ST. Fast Seventh street where Haling 1 boarded. Ever since the girl came I to America two years ago, Haling had < been trying to persuade her to marry him. The only barrier between them ' was their difference in religious faith ' and for a long time she had postpon- 1 I'd decision. | "Say you will marry me, or I'll kill you," he told her. "This Is your last chance. If you 1 don't marry me I will shoot you." On the wall In front of her hung a crucifix and pictures of several saints. Looking at them instead of < Baling the girl tjlecided. "I'll not marrly you," she told him. Instantly Baling, who is 21 years old, drew a revojlver, and fired twice, the bullets striking her in the right side of the brekst and In the right wrist. Mrs. Ju)ia Tiska, the girl's sister-in-law rushed In and tried to ( wrest the revolver from Ballog. Roth ftaliog Sand his victim were ( ? taken br Bellev ???, the former as a prisoner, by Policeman Frrtil: Ma EMERSON ESCAPES A Thousand Dollars Roward for The Anderson Murderer. He Murdered Thus. F. Drake, Who Attempted to Protect the Honor of His Home. A dispatch from Anderson to The State says J. Alien Emerson, who was :onvicted of the murder of Thomas P. Drake at the February term of :ourt and sentenced to life lmprisonnent, escaped Wednesday night from he county jail, where he had been :onilned pending a hearing by the nipreme court on an appeal for a new rial, and has not yet been captured. The escape had been carefully plan led and the prisoner had aid from >utside. Some of his friends had nade a key which would unlock the loor to the ceil and after the cell vas unlocked the escape was made vithout difficulty. The sheriff has offered a reward of 1500 for the capture of the escnped irisoner and the sons of Drake have >fTered a lise amount. Solicitor Hoggs ins wired the governor to., increase he amount. Emerson is about five feet. 8 inhes tall, aged 38. and his right leg i shorter than his left. He is a desperate fellow and it is thought that f he is captured he will have to be illed first. The killing of Drake by Emerson aused a big sensation in this State, or both men were well known and ioth stood well. The trial of Emerson vas attended bv large crowds and here was much excitement. Emerou killed Drake on the night of Aug. 1. at Drake's own home. The murder was a shocking one, Omerson having invaded Drake's tome for an illegal intercourse with its daughter. He was discovered by Drake and Emerson claimed that Drake was fixing to shoot him when te fired and killed him. A strong effort is being made to apture the escaped prisoner and an ffort will also be made to learn who he allies are who made the key and vho assisted in the escape. The esape of Emerson has caused a small ensation in Anderson. .TEXAS COTTON CROP laid to tie In a Very Had Shape At Present. Private advices received in Savanlah from Texas confirm the statenents in Augusta that the cotton rop in that state is in a very had hape. East week Mr. P. D. DafUn ecelved a letter from Meredith Sullian of Waco, a former resident of lavvannah. Among other things Mr. lullivan said: "I am glad to know that Keorgia s in such good shape for a cotton rop. Sorry I cannot say the same or Texas. We haven't voted everyhing dry, but we are dry?very Iry?and and have been for now gong on thirteen weeks. Cotton is deerirating rapidly and I don't think 'exas will produce within 25 per ent. of last year's crop right away, tbout one half of the crop was plantd late and this is hurt bad. Central ,nd South Texas have suffered uuch." l> l u VLUI* I. VI.'MV I \?1 111.1 llil.l 11 n ? mi n..? i . 'ecu liar and (.* 11 i<lt*nt ili?>?l Insect l>oI inn Damage in Arkansas. A new cotton worm which Is causiik much apprehension among cotton danters In Crittenden, Cross and Ct. 'rands counties. Ark., has been dis:overed within the last ten days. The insect bores its way into the , otton stalk just altove the ground ind eats Its way to the top through lie pith, killing the plant The new post has apeared in a territory not heretofore affected by the sill weevil, in Crittenden county, it s said, as much as one-third of the lelds lias been killed in some places. Specimens of the worm will be sent o the agricultural experiment stalon at Kayetievllle for examination. l?OISO.>KI> .MKIiON kl lil-S. i'oiitli Hies After Itcing Caught liy Farmer's Trap. The dead body of an unidentified young man. apparently aoout seventeen years of age, was found Tuesday In Pearl river at the mouth of Halojay's eanal near New Orleans. La. The young man had gone into a farmer's watermelon patch nearby, where stychnine had been put in the melons to trap trespassers. The youth ate part of one of the poisoned melone and when he went to the river to quench the thirst caused by the poison he fell over dead. DOt'HIjK KILLING Ohio Man Kills His Wife ami Then Shoots Himself. At Colutnhus. O., Clarence Haines, went to his wife's sitting room Thursday. shot her to death and then fatally shot himself. When the horr>rBtrieken parents of the woman rushed into the room they found both bodies on the floor, while the 3-yearold baby of the couple was caressing the body of the mother and crying. Domestic trouble was the cause of the tragedy. ?>... " A LAME TALE. Preacher Who Ran off With a Man's Wife Says "THE VOICE OF GOD" Told llini To tiring Her * Hack To Her IIoiiio Aftor Being OIT Wit la Hor Several Days?He Says He Took tlio Woman Away llooaiiso Slio Told Him Hor Husband Was On Hor Nerves. It Is astonishing the variety of tales men hatch up and tell to cover their meanness. One ooniei from New York that takes fhi> t.w.. o Is told by a so-called minister of the gospel to hide his rascality. Here it is: The Rev. Ashbury A. VVheedon. a Methodist minister, aged fifty-seven years, and Mrs. Anna MofTett, the 18year-old bride of Charles W. MofTett, "?f 545 Reraen street. Brooklyn, returned to the home of Mr. and Mrs. MofTett at 11 o'clock last Wednesday night after having been missing since ast Thursday week. MofTett had asked the police to <end out a general alarm for his wife ind the minister. When the couple returned the husband was at the Life I Line Mission in Brooklyn conducting religious services The minister and Mrs. MofTett waited in the parlor for the return of the husband. "We were ordered by the voice of Sod to return home," said the Rev. Ashbury Wheedon, to a reporter. 'We did not elope, as was generally believed. I took Mrs. MofTett away because she said she was unhappy with her husband. She told me he was cruel to her. "We have not lived in the same house since we went away last Thurs;lay, but we have been within easy communication of each other. Mrs. MofTett did not leave her room on Thursday night as was supposed. For two nights she slept in an empty room at the top of her husband's house. "She <1 id not wish to be near him. Then she told me that she could not it and such a life any longer and asked me to take her away. I did so, md am sure I can give a satisfactory ,v ? ? ? ?* - A|>.auaiiuii iw uti iiuoimiiu Wlljr w v wont away. "It was a remarkable thing the way in which God told us to return. I called Mrs. Moffett up l?y telephone ind -told her that God had directed me to tell her to return to her husband. She said that God had also sent a like message to her. I instantly went to hei, and we have returned." To a reporter Friday afternoon Moffett said his relations with his wife were merely platonic, and expressed the belief that Weedon's relations with her were of like cnaricter. S.MIHl 1X1 ANT V ltemai'kahle Itescue Ity the Man of the Throttle. James Grown, an engineer on the Italtimore & Ohio road, is being envied by his fellow employees and congratulated by his many friends as the result of a remarkably brave act of his while on his engine Wednesday. Grown was going east 011 his train, and was passing Kanawaha Station, 11' IT.. H,?. He saw an infant on the track, whistled for brakes and reversed the big engine, hut saw he could not stop in time. He rushr*! out on the engine board, down on the pilot and caught the child in one hand while holding on with t lie other. The infant proved to be the twenty months old son of G. L. Jackson, and its miraculous escape was witnessed by its mother and sister. The child received a hard blow on the head, but will recover. Kngineer Brown was entirely unnerved by his experience, and is under the care of a physician. KOGIlHIt Ivll.i-r.D. Was Caught in a Store and Shot to Death. At Pocahontas, Va., Wednesday morning John Wii..ams a negro, with several aliases, was shot and killed by C. A. Howard, Jr., while robbing a store. The coroner's Jury found that the negro came to his death by Howard. Howard was arrested on a warrant charging him with the kill'inr unrl sit :< lt-i:tl ticforn t lie notice justice was acquitted. Howard was covered with two guns held by Williams w hen he shot him. I'AII) TDK PKNALTY. Fiend Hung For Assault in# His Step Daughter. At Asheville, N. C.. James Rucker, a negro, was hanged in the jail shortly after noon Thursday. Rucker was convicted of criminal assault, on his step-daughter. It is said that this is the first time in the history of that State that a negro has been hanged for such a crime against one of his *>wn ruco. FIEND RUN DOWN. Young Man and Young Lady Attacked by a Negro Who Is Ktin llown ami ('nptiiml by a Ithaxl Hound In a Very Short Thin*. _ A dispatch from Asheviue, N. C-, says a posse of sheriff's deputies and citizens with guns. led by the city's blood hound. "Hoke," is the after math of a inodorous assault by au unknown negro on Charles Sullivan and Miss Molllc Elkins In the Chiinn's Grove section near that place just before dark Thursday evening. Sullivan's recovery Is doubtful his skull being badly fractured over the left eye; but Miss Elkins, who was struck across the chest with n stick in the hands of the negro, and later half choked tx> prevent her screaming, is not seriously injured. The assault was made just after Sullivan and Miss Elkins had eaten lunch on the pathway leading to the Cove. Miss Elkins first saw the negro. and called in her alarm to her companion, who challenged the intruder. Sullivan had scarcely spoken when he was hit full in the face with a large rock held in the negro's right hand and fell to the ground. MissElkins screamed and the negro attacked her wim a cane, striking her across the chest and following up the blow by attempting to choke her. The girl's cries had evidently aroused the people in a farm house a short distance away and their answering call frightened the negro, for . he turned aud ran along a pathway whence he had come. Sullivan was removed to the farm house and medical aid was summoned from the city. The police were also notified and a posse with a blood hound was quickly formed. The dog picked up the trail readily and headed in the direction of Dlltmore. At midnight word reached the city to the effect that the bloodhound was following a hot trail. A negro is reported caught near Ituena Vista, eight miles from Ashe ville. Talk of lynching If he in brought back. LOTS OF IIOOKK SO?.D. Interesting Figures (iiveu Out l?y Dispensary Atulitor West. The total sales for all county dispensaries during the month of July amounted to over $200,000 according to a statement issued by Dispcnsai.v Auditor West. The statement is an interesting one in that it shows Richland county Is still in the lead in sales by over 100 per cent. This does not mean, according to Chairman Cain of the - -and hoard, that there is more whiskey sold in Columbia than anywhere else, but that the law is rigidly enforced, both as to dispensers and violations of the law. The Richland board is now busy with a plan to stop all sales to those who have been raided by the Richland constabulary and are suspected of conducting blind tigers. The figures given below will be studied by all county boards and are of general interest throughout the State. Abbeville $ 6.892.26 Aiken .. .. 7,284.24 Beaufort 6,702.60 Bamberg 5,lo-*.?4 Barn wen 10,711.30 Clarendon 3,002.23 Colleton 3,858.80 Charleston 17,092.31 Chester 10,52845 Chesterfield 7,532.58 Dorchester 4,137.46 Florence 11.-222.87 Fairfield 4,374.-6 Georgetown 12,369.80 Hampton 4,099.90 Kershaw 6,418.23 Laurens 8,638.1 1 Lee 3.801.45 Lexington 4,073.95 Orangeburg 12,123.97 Richland 37,041.70 Sumter 10,570. to Williamsbburg 7,322.98 Total sales for month $204,964.48 THINKS OCT I1ADLY. Negro Curried from Charleston to Wisconsin Is liockrd I |>. A dispatch from Found-du-Lock, Wis., says a ne0 .w.. years old picked up in South Carolina during the Spanish war by Captain Zeeve. of Hi., U'iL'cnnuIn lnluntrv t.n.1 supporteu l?v the ii'bimoni as a mascot, and since by Mr. Zeeve was arrested today, charged with mitning attacked last night on his benefactor agtd mother, ano choking her into insensibility for the purpose of robbery. BIO I'OWDKIt KXI*l<OSIO\. One Man Is Killed and Two Fatally Injured in Itaeine. At Racine, Wis., Wednesday, in an explosion in the conning mill of the Latlin & Rand Powder Plant Norman Btliups, of West Virginia, 35 years old. was killed, and Walter Harris and Jno. Noland, fatally burned. The cause of the explosion U noot known; the damage to the build ing is slight. This is the same mill that exploded several months ago, killng nine men and injuring others. AFTER LONG HUNT Finds His Sweetheart, Marries and Then Kills Her. CAME FROM GERMANY To This Country in Seareli of Her, Aeeidentally Meets Her in the Street and Tliey Are Married? After a Two Mouths llonevnioon They (Quarrel and He Shouts Her and Himself to Death. Insanely Jealous of his attractive bride of two months Julius Teich, a silk weaver oi New York Thursday shot her throug.. the head and -uett sent a bullet into his own brain. Hotu died in a few minutes later at a hospital where they were taken. Neighbors in the Harlem apartment house where they lived said the couple had quarreled violently for the past few days. When shots were heard in the apartment Thursday afternoon |>o]ice were summoned and when the doors were forced Teich and his wife were found unconscious. The couple were married in June. Teich was 35 years old and his wife was 30. It appears that it was after a search which lasted five years, and covered 15.000 miles on two continets, that Julius Teich found the girl he loved and persuaded her to marry him, only to kill her after two months of wedded life, and then, repentant, to take his ownJife. Emily Herter lived in Germany with her parents when she first met Teich, who was a silk weaver. Teich fell in love with the girl and wanted her to marry him, but he was ppsessed of a violent temper, and Emily feared hint. Iler parents also objected to the marriage, but Teich ....a MimDiciu, mi uiiii rjiuuy it'll uei'ruany secretly to escape him, and came to America. This was five years ago. For two years Teich searched Germany for her. Then her parents admited to him that she was in America, but refused to tell him whore. Nothing daunted the young man fame to America and renewed his search. lie hunted New York for months and failed to find her. He then went to Minneapolis, St. Louis, Philadelphia and Scranton, where he thought the girl had relatives, but without result. He returned to New York two months ago and accidentally met Emily on the street. She was living with an aunt, and in spite of her aunt's objections, she finally consented to marry the man who had been so faithful in his search for her. They were married two months ago. Thursday morning they quarrelled because Emily refused to get up and partake of the breakfast which Julius had prepared. There were sharp I' wwsuo, nuu c* I'lOtUl MIU1 , I llt"Il pleading words for forgiveness from .1 alius, followed by another shot. The police then broke in the door and hurried the unconscious couple to a hospital where l>oth died. FOI'ND AT LAST. A Cure for Meningitis Discovered by New York Speeialisl. A man, a girl and a three-year-old hoy, all of Cnstalia, Ohio, whose lives were given up as hopeless on account of meningitis in April, have entirely recovered from the disease. Their health is as good now as a month before the disease affected them. The cure was affected by the new serum discovered by Simon Flexner, head of the Rockefeller institute in New York, doctors declare. A scourge of meningitis swept Castalia last spring, nineteen cases being reported. All but three of these were fatal. Jack Mack, aged twentythree; Miss Barbara Kratt, aged 16, and Frederick Wahl, aged three, have been cured. i uese ure me iirsi scieuiiuc curex of the disease. The serum which was tried at Castalia was obtained from New York by I)r. George T. Dadd. of the Wetsern Reserve Medical college and administered by him in the way of an experiment. Within a few hours after the serum was injected an improvement was noted. The improvement was pronounced as the days went by. Within a week it was almost certain that J the three patients would recover, i Meningitis hitherto unconquerable, had been conquered, physicians announced. Since then a record of the cases has been kept and many reports made to Dr. Flexner. The doctors carefully watched the development of the cure to be certain that no other disease had been introduced by the injection of the anti-meningitis serum. It is now absolutely certain that the cure has been complete. Freddie Wahl plays with his Mys just as he used to. Miss Kratt and Jacob Mack are as healthy today as they ever wore. STICKS TO ROOZK. i llamherg County Refused to Vote Out The l>is|M>nsHi'y. itamberg County voted on the dispensary on Tuesday. The dispensary won by a small majority, lite | vote was very light. MUST HAVE RELIEF. Judge Brawley's Decision Has Had Very Bad Results. The Farmers Will In- Heard at the Next Session of (lit* State I.egislature in January. Judge Brawley's decision, declaring unconstitutional and therefore void the statute by which, under threat of criminal proceedings, the farmers of this State have managed after a fashion to enforce fulfillment of labor contracts, has caused a revival of interest in measures, like Representative John It. Richard's hill to repeal the lien law, which promises some betterment of the situation. There is not a farming; community in the State, however remote, where the negroes have not. in some way, learned of Judge Brawley's decision, and in many cases they are wantonly "jumping" their contracts, secure in the knowledge that, thanks to the federal court, they can not lie brought to book through the criminal courts. Deprived of the magistrate's aid, the planter has no remedy at law. because the darkies who make labor contracts own no property, as a rule, and cannot, therefore, be proceeded against in common pleas. The situation is growing intolerable. Realizing the necessity for some sort of legislative action, to bring order out of the chaos into which Judge Brawley threw the labor regime, the South Carolina division. Farmers' Educational and Co-operative union of America, adopted, at its recent meeting in Greenwood, a resolution by which the members of the organization agreed not to hire or harbor hands, until the latter had produced certificates from their last employers, stating that they were not under contract to them any longer, but wenfree to seek work olsewtioro This resolution, which was introduced by former Representative .1 Helton Watson, of Anderson, was intended to minimize one of the most exasperating features of the sitiffition. Certain unprincipled and shortsighted farmers in the several counties have sought to secure full compliments of hands, for their own places, by hiring to their employment laborers under contract to finish the year on other plantations, assuring the negroes that under the Hrawley decision they could not be prosecuted This practice has engendered bad blood among the planters in several localities and in one lately came near causing a bloody riot. The union further decided that the interests of the farmers of tlie State demanded remedial legislation ?the repeal of the lien law, for a starter and a committee was appointed to come to Columbia during the next general assembly and stay on the ground until the legislation desired had been enacted. In other words there will be a "Farmers' Lobby" at the next legislature. Former Representative Watson is a IIICUIUCI ui nun tuiiiiuiiLcc. rui t mpresent he is doing organization work, under the direction of the state executive committee of the union, lie spoke at Orangeburg Thursday, Hamberg Friday and at Barnwell Saturday, returning Sunday to his home in Anderson. The Farmers' Educational and Cooperative union is daily growing in strength. It differs from the Soutnern Cotton association in that it is composed exclusively of farmers and holds its meetings behind closed doors. Mr. O. P. Goodwin of Laurens is state president. The vice president is Mr. T. T. Work field, of Anderson; Mr. 13. F. Earle, of Anderson, is secretary and treasurer and Mr. W. C. Moore, of Greenville, is business agent. IIFI,l> I P AXI> liOltitKP Almoft in Sight of llis I'lace of Business. William ii. Hicks, paymaster for the Scahonm and Ohlinger company, texile machinists of Philadelphia was held up and robbed of $i>,000 within a short distance of the machine shops Thursday i?y two nignmen, one 01 whom shot hlni in the right arm. Hicks, accompanied by Walter II McDonald, was on his way to the shop with a satchel containing the $?,000 when he was waylaid, it is charged, by John I'osachi and a companion. The hrghtnen held pistols at the heads of Hicks and McDonald, and demanded the satchel containing the money. Hicks drew a revolver when one of the thieves grabbed the satchel and fired at Hicks, the bullet striking hint in the right arm and compelled him to drop his revolver. The shooting attracted a crowd and men from several mills in the neighborhood chased Posacni, who jumped on a trolley car and commanded the motorman to run the car as fast as he could but the pursuers pulled the trolley pole from the wire and stopped the car, capturing the fugitive. Later Anton Mojeski was arrested on suspicion of being one of the highwaymen. The stolen satchel was found in a lot. The money was not recovered. BADLY BURNED A Mother And Her Little Son Horribly Injured by LIVE ELECTRIC WIRE. Mi*s. Maude Laugliliu and Her NineYear-Old ItoJ Fearfully and Perhaps Fatally Injured?>I<?| her was Seeking to Heseue ller Child who llad Caught Hold of a Live Klertrie Wire. A dispatch from Florence to The News and Courier says Mrs. Maude Laughlin. wife and child of Mr. Geo. \V. Laughlin. of Florence, came very near being Instantly killed on Cheeves street, aliout it o'clock Monday morning by a live electric wire of the Florence Light and Power Company. I tot li mother and son were horribly burned about the hands, limbs and feet, and it is very doubtful if either of them will survive the terrible ordeal that they passed through. Should they survive they will be liorribly disfigured for life, for it will be necessary to amputate the right hand of little Lawrence, ami Mrs. Laughlin will lose her right hand and her right foot. The Laughlins live in a pretty little cottage which they have recently bought at the northwest corner of Ravenel and Choeves streets. Monday morning little Lawrence noticed that one of the wires that conveys the main cut rent to the arc light on the corner in front of.the Laughlin home was rubbing against the body of a tree on the streets. lOvery lime the wire touched the tree it would sizzle and smoke. About tt o'clock lie was in the street playing, and saw the wire break. Not knowing there was any danger, he hurriedly ran and picked up one end of it. As soon its he touched it the main current passed through his body to the wet ground upon which he was standing, ami a second later he was knocked prostrate upon the ground. The little fellow gave a scream that attracted the neighbors. Mrs. Laughlin also heard the scream and has toned from her bed room to the piazza. As she looked out the front door she saw her only son prostrate upon the ground, smoke and Maine issuing from his body and limbs and writhing in agony. Site did not slop to think or to go down the step, but leaped from the piazza and ran to save her child's life. Reaching the boy site en tight hold of the wire with her hand, ami a second later she, too, was prostrate (i j i"' 11 tin- ? n ii in** ?111*1 > 111111\ issuing from her limbs ami body, ami both her and her child holding fast to the wire, which neither could nor had presence of mind to let go. In this condition both lay there until Mrs. t\ It. Hani, a neighbor, seeing their plight, and knowing the danger, secured a piece of board and pushed the wire beyond their reach, though it would jump back ami forth as it swung down from the cross arm of a pole nearby. livery time the wire would move back and forth it would touch what then looked to be the lifeless form of Mrs. Laughlin and her son. About this time Mr. S. T. Ilurch, Jr., who was passing in his buggy, and others, ran up and by means of sticks and boards managed to remove the wire far enough away so ;ts to take the bodies of the two people from the ground to their home. Physicians were hastily summoned, but in the meantime neighbors, who had gathered, went quickly to work to resuscitate the two, who wore then given up as dead. After hard work both of them began to show signs of life and by this lime several physicians had arrived and continued the work of resuscitation until both mother and son regained consciousness. The little boy's right hand is burned to a crisp, every sinew being burned and the tlesh burned deep into the linn<i lie fx Inidlv burned on the thighs, legs, hack and shoulders, and it will b?> necessary to amputate the right hand above the wrist. Two of the fingers, it is said, were burned completely off. Mrs. Laughlin is burned in the hand, on the arm. shoulder and ankle. Iler shoe was burned from her foot. The right band and foot will be amputated. Mr. I,aughlin is an engineer on the Florence and Char? leston run on the Atlantic Coast Line, and be, Mrs. Laughiln and their son are well known in Florence, where they are highly esteemed and are very popular. Mrs. Lauglin was Miss Maude Morris. daughter of the late \\\ Maxtor Morris, and was married to Mr. Laughlin about eleven years ago at Florence. Lawrence, the little fei- J low, is the only child born to this union, and both father and mother are devoted to him He is well known 1 and is a manly little fellow and is a very attractive child. The electric light people claim that the storm early Monday morning had damaged the wires considerably, and that after daylight they sent out a lineman to look after all lines, during which time the plant was shut down. As soon as the lineman reported all O. K. power was again turned on and it was after this that the wire parted and fell in ('beeves street. The Florence Light and Power Company has been severl.v censured because of the condition of their wires, poles and plant. The Light Company is not alone in being cen- i sured for numbers and numbers of people are placing the blame directly upon th city council for allowing the poles to remain up in the condition they are in. .