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THE FORT MILL TIMES. 1 16TH. YEAR. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1907. {..!*Tt*i24. ,J| ' MOORS SLAIN. ; Six Thousand Tribesmen Participate in Fierce Fight THEY ARE REPULSED. Eight Hundred Moors Reported Killed Near Cusablancu?The Moors Were Repulsed on All Hides? France Sees Need of More Troops in Monroero? -Forces Will He Materially Strengthened. Six thousand Moors participated in a battle outside the city of Cascablanca o.i last Wednesday that lasted soven hou^s, and it is estimated that fully 800 were killed. Wight Frenchmen were killed and a score wounded in the initial engagement, an attack made by the Moors upon a French scouting party. The dead include Major Prevost, of the First Battalion of the Foreign Legion, and Licutnant Benizzas, of the Second Battalion of Algerian Sharpshooters. The Moors concentrated the largest force they had yet mustered In that vicijaity and returned to the attack again and again aftc encouutering the deadly fire of the French artillery nnd machine guns. The Moors who were -repulsed on all sides, made a most impressive picture us, garbed fantastically, mounted on white horses and carrying their banners in the front Una, they swept down from the hills In splendid formation and charged thunderously to wthin about four hundred yards of the French camp, which for a moment seemed to be in danger of being overridden. As they advanced, the Moors chanted in unison verses from the Koran. The Irregular Algerian calvary encountered the first shock of the Moors' assault, but they did not budge a foot from the position they occupied. General Drude quickly deployed his forces to the greatest advantage, and the Moors were submitted to a fire of shot and shell which soon left i the prnnnrt otrnu-n n-Uh nni-nuno Major Prevost conducted a Bcoutlng expedition, which was the actual cause of the battle, the object being to locate the enemy nnd prepare the way for an extensive movement later. The news of the sanguinary engagement near Casablanca has shocked as well as surprised France. The fighting demonstrated that the Moroccan situation is steadily growing more serious, and thnt although France is constantly victorious, the dogged, fanatical resistance of the Mooros, who appenr to be mobilizing in larger numbers, may necessitate a distinct enlargement of the allies' end. M. Regnault, the French Minister at Tangier, left Paris last week for 8pain, where he will confer with the Spanish officials on the subject of the enlargement of the action and cooperation of Spuin and France. SHOT MAX IN CKIjIJ. Hilled Man Who Hlopcd With Wife, Then Went Crazy. Fire Chief B. H. Miller, of Franklin. Ohio, Wednesday, shot and instantly killed J. H. Little. who recently eloped with his wife and was returned to Franklin Tuessday night for trial. Miller entered the police station and going directly to Little's cell fired two shots which lodged in" the victim's breast. Miller is now a raving maniac and is under guard. Mrs. Miller eloped with Little a month ago. She is a handsome woman and belongs to a prominent family. It was because little had : missing thumb that the detectives lc. cated the pair. When the pair wen placed under arrest Little denied hi' identity, but Mrs. Miller said sh< wus the runaway wife and that she wanted to return home, but Little would not let her. T< >B ACCO I'liAXT HI' UN ED. Fire Entails l>oss of at Danville, Va. The factory of the Wemple-Gravely Tobacco Company, manufacturers of chewing and smoking tobaccos, was destroyed with the entire contents by a fire which was discovered at midnight Thursday, entailing a total loss of alK>ut -75,000. The fire started in the boiler room and spread rapidly. Tho plant of Swift & Co.. and the factory owned by Mrs. F. X. Burton adjoining were damaged to the extent of about $5, 000. TKIK8 TO KIIjL HIS WIFE. New Jersey Mnn SIhsIh-s Wife With Sh?K* Knife. Slashing her repeatedly with a shoe knkife as she lay alsecp In her room. Harry Tomllnson made an efSort to kill his wife at the homo f her father-in-law. Benjamin Anrnson, in Mount Holly, N. J., Thursday. Mrs. Tomllnson is in a serious Condition. The police are searching fjpr Tomllnson, who fled after the aseAuit. The man is said to have beeu ; ntc^rod because his wife refused to oiovo to a nearby town to live. WIDOW ARRESTED. || . I She May Know Something of t Her Husband's Death. Cleveland, Ohio, Police Suspect that Mrs. Phillips Can (Jive Facts Concerning Killing of Her Husband. A dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio. ^ says developments in the investigation into the death of John J. Phillips, broker, banker and clubman, took a sensational turn late Wednesday afternoon when Mrs. Phillips, widow of the deceased was taken into custody. Mrs. Phillips has been In a highly nervous state since the tragedy Monday, when announcement was made that her hush^'gg^ had been shot and mortally wou fUinc by a burglar. Wednesday she . R* lapsed and was not able to attem . funeral. It was shortly after a ference with Deputy Coroner He who had conducted the inquest Th widow was taken into custody. 75 fe puties will guard her in her h there till she recovers sufficiently to be ther en to court. Soutl The police believe Mrs. Phillipt KryM give facts concerning the tra . whch would solve the mystery. At the inquest Dr. C. L. Rich ?1 son testified he had not been f of R< moned unti> 4 A. M., more than t SatUJ hours after Phillips was shot, injf had been called by telephone. I ?ffen Phillips admitted him to the ho fcroub She exclaimed : "Oh, doctor, so thing dreadful has happened. Phillips hus been shot by a burgh^*"' He found the wounded man in on. *** He called Dr. Rhodes. After 18Hld. reached the house Phillips as made them to leave the bed room a rCaug"! ute as he wished to talk with yard wife. Husband and wife were time gther alone for perhaps two mia nd t tes. He said there wus a truce ot . n blood on the stairway. The bed where ]( Phillip was found was much stained by blood. Phillips told the physi- n clans that he wanted as It tie notorl- t| ety as possible connected with the w affair. ,t Phillip's secretary reiterated Wed- V( nesday his belief that with the insur- w ance policies left by him the estate c] would pay off all of Phillip's debts .p and possibly leave something for the family. gi DROPS IN SKA. a a Ikistoii Aeronaut Figlits Hours for w Life Till Rescued. U, tl Enveloped in a dense fog and mist s< which chilled him to the bone and prevented all attempts at self-preservation, John J. Maloney, a Boston ^ aeronaut, was thrown into the sea ? from his balloon two miles off Fisher- w man's Beach, Swampacott, Mass., on last Thursday night, and for more (] than an hour was swept back and forth in the water until his cries ^ were heard, and fishermen went to t| his rescue. ,. Maloney made the ascension from Mahant in the presence of a large s, jcrowd at 8:30. He was sitting on [ a trapeze bar and all preparations were completed for riding out the f( life of the balloon, a hot-air one. which under ordinary conditions, should stay up for more than an 0 hour. p A moment after he had left the ground he was enveloped in a thick p fog and continuing on tip through k this struck a current of cold air. ; s For more than an hour nothing t was heard from him. until some miles away, on the Swampscot shore, cries of "Help," were heard from the v ocean. The Mahant Life Saving StaHon was notified, and fisuermen set j out a boat. After a long search two I found Maloney almost unconscious tinging to the partially infiated folds of his baloon. He said it had collapsed in the ^ j -old upper current sooner than he i ,>vr?w.in^ *.i iwl InutoiiH rtf .nnitlnir no shore ho had dropped rapidly Into the sea between Mahant and Lynn, two, miles off the beach. \KGKO HA\<;KI>. Slayer of C. W. Parks laist April I Pays Death Penalty. William Mackintoch. a negro was hanged at Norfolk, Va., Thursday, , for the murder of C. W. Parks, in April. He protested that he did not kill Parks, laying this to Tom Lassi- . ter, convicted with him, hut who subsequently became insane and is now in an asylum. Mackintosh has a . grandmother living In Indianapolis and a brother in the 10th United States cavalry in the Philippines, and . was himself a member of Troop 1. 10th cavalry, which fought at the battle of Sau Juan Hill. The motive!' for the murder was robbery. rw,. I Til ! \ HI n.^a l*? I?rjrt n. Mull Looses I.ife Tryliin to Save IIis * Ruby in r>iirnin4 Home John C. Adams, of Cornelia. CSa., was burned to death in his dwelling last Tuesday night. The house cnught on tire tiom the stove flue. Mr. Adams made a hard t'niggle to save his house. Thinking his baby was still in the house, he rushed in and was not able to come out. Later it was learned that his wife had the baby ^ outsif.e iS <4 A 'ju.\ ; Z REIGN OF TERROR | Cossacks to Aid In Exterminating the Jews. HELPLESS ARE SHOT. Yomcn Mild Children Slain ^Vhile at Prayer?It is Believed that Outrages Arc Ik'KinniiiK of War of Revolt?Police Are Acting in League With the Jewish Prosecutors. A dispatch last week from Odessa * new mills and find every-here ; running smoothly, quiet y ias" i maximum speed and noand of a belt or piece of shaft-jee1n the entire mill. ... rof e foundation of this mill is iiris et wide, and 300 feet long, ind i is plenty of room for fur- ir a extension if necessary. The lern Railway company is ing a convenient sidetrack to , e mill. the Policeman Charles Miller, by >ck Hill, had a lively time 18 rday afternoon while arrest- ln lanuel Williams, a notorious rs. der. The negro has had iil_ >le a number of times with de 1 fficers of the law and has n vengeance against Miller , ore than one occasion, it is ?e When the arrest was u_ i Saturday the fellow was rv < \it unawares at his mother's d. 1 and nabbed before he had an 1 to resist. But the mother wo other womon esoluhon to kill the members of the >ague has been passed by the union. 1 The "Black Hundred" began their lassacre with a wild onslaught I irough the streets. Wherever Jews ' ere to .be found, they were clubbed ' nd shot. Then the rioters poured, elling Into the Jewish cemetery ' here thousands of men, women and ' hlldren were kneeling in prayer. 1 hey were at the graves of relatives 1 nd friends, victims of former assas- i inations. Among this throng, the mob burst, i rmed with pistol and knout, stick 1 nd sword. "Slay and spare not" -as the watch work. To resist meant i invite death, and seeking to escape lie fury of their assailunts. hundreds i treanied away in all directions In lie wildest panic. A girl and a Jewish actor were uthlessly shot down by the furious ursuers and an old man of seventv nd two little four-year-old children rere beaten into insensibility. In the rush to flee, score were rumpled on. Nowhere the scenes in the Jewish uarter were less terrible. It was , here that the rabble began their ioting. Alleging that the Jews were reponsible for the explosion of the omb, which, a few days ago, caused he deaths of a military officer and our policemen, they started in to ollow up an imaginary Injury. It was stated at the time that the fflcer dropped the bomb, but any retext was enough. Firing right aud left and gatherng strength at every step, the mob illed three and wounded sixty perons before they started for the cempary . At every window where a Jew was iting a gun was leveled. Doors i'ere broken down, windows smashed, ;oods stolen and women subjected to ;ross indignities. In vain did the people call on the lolice. The police were there, but in etlve spectators of the scene of pi 1age and cruelty. Not one raised a land. FHKKS FATHER. 'hroiigh Intiring Efforts <iirl Haises Money to Free lliin. Through the untiring efTorts of 'anny Dick, her father, Joseph E. lick, was Thursday freed from Ludow street jail. New York. The prisoner's release was entirely lue to the uevotion of his daughter, vho worked day and night for three nonths before gaining her object, lick is now 64 years old. Rack of the daughter's devotion is he story of an involuntary petition n bankruptcy. Joseph E. Hick was the senior nember of the clothinc firm of Hick brothers, of 129 Mercer street. The firm got into financial diffl ulties Inst May. During the investi;ation of the firm's affairs, Bick was onvicted of contempt of court and vas lodged in Ludlow street jail. Meanwhile his daughter went to ler friends and business acquaintinces of her father and raised by uibscription the sum of $9,500 for lere father. This money was paid >ver to United States Marshal Henkel is an evidence of good faith on the ?art of Rick. Moved to sympathy United States darshal Henkel accepted the money ?nd by order of court released Mr. Sick, who will be again examined as :o the firm's affairs. This time, it is mid, he will answer all questions put o him. J SUICIDE OR MURDER? Two Men Met Death Under Wheels of Train. The Police Believe That They Were Bobbed and Thrown From Car? Suspects Held. Three negroes are under arrest at Champagne, I'ls/, whom the police believe to have murdered and robbed j two white men on an Illinois Central flyer Tuesday and to have thrown them under the wheels, where the bodies were ground to pieces. The victims of the double tragedy were found near Clifton, a small town south of Kaukakee. and when the fast train, which left Chicago at 6 o'clock at night, arrived at Champagne early Wednesday, the suspects were arrested. All ? V. ~ 1 ~ M. n>i uouj men Killll, Ulll One OI them had considerable money, and it Is the belief of the police that it may have been obtained from the two men who were killed. The three men under arrest show the effects of a terrific fight and are marked v*itb< scratches and bruises which may have been inflicted by the victims of the tragedy. All show marks of a desperate struggle. Five men were seen to board the "blind baggage" on the flyer, which left Twelfth street depot in Chicago at six o'clock Tuesday night. E. R. Bell, the express messenger, tells a graphic story of the affair. "Near Clifton,"'he'said, "I felt a jolt. A few seconds later there was another one. It seems as if the train was running over some obstruction. The train was stopped and we backed up and found the bodies of two white men ground almost* to pieces. "There was nothing about them that would indicate tlieir identity. When the train was stopped, the negroes who were arested could not be seen, but when the train arrived at Champagne they were captured." One of the negroes admits he rode an the tender of the engine part of the time, while the other two were on the platform of the car. They deny there were any white men stealing a ride on the train, but the express messenger declares that they were seen when the train pulled out of the Chicago station. When the police attempted to arrest the three men found on the front of the cars, they made a desperate resistance and hud to be quelled by force. NO BOLL WEE VIES. Government Expert Talks of tlie Pest. F. H. Chittenden, assistant eutom- j ologist of the department of agriculture. Wednesday gave it as his Ann l?elief that there is not a boll weevil east of the Mississippi, with tlie exception of the State of Louisiana. So far as the pest being found in Laurens County is concerned, Mr. Chittenden does not think there is a remotest possibility of such a thing. "I heard of a pest in South Carolina and elsewhere in the South." Mr Chittenden suid, "but I am satisfled it is not the Texas boll weevil. So far the pest has not been found anywhere east of the Mississippi, with the exception of I^ouisiana." When asked is it was possible that the weevil could have been carried to South Carolina in cotton seed secured by seed crushers from Texas and other states in the Southwest he said: "There is only one chance in a million for such a thing to happen. It could only occur through some person knowingly and wilfully carrying the weevil from Its present location in the Southwest to the other States in the South. There is not the least for people in South Carolina to become worried o\*6r what they think is the genuine boll weevil, for I am satisfied it will not be found to be such upon a careful examination." ANOTHER 1UOT IN 'FKISC<). Police Act Quickly, However, and Results are Not Serious. Another riot resulting from labor troubles occurred in the Mission district of San Francisco Thursday, but was quickly quelled by the police after several arrests were made. A large number of members of the Structural Iron Wokers' Union returning from the funeral of one of their former associates. J.J. Peterson, who was fatally shot during the Labor Day attacks on United Railroad employees, had reached the cornerof Guerrero and 16th streets when some of the men began to create a disturbance. Soon stones and other missiles were flying, and in a few moments the windows of four or five street cars had been broken. The crews of the carR drew their revolvors and fired several shots into the air to intimidate the crowd. This caused the arrest of Motorman P. J. Delphs for carrying a concealed weapon. One passenger. Mrs. C. L. Gage, was struck in the face by a stone. No one was seriously hurt, however, owing to the prompt arrival of the police who quieted the turbulent crowd. Five men. believed to have participated in the attack on the cars, were placed under arrest. THIEF KILLS THIEF Because He Didn't Divide Booty With Them. ROBBED BOOKMAKER. liand Wasn't Told About (lie Dig Haul of Seven Thousand Dollars, and They Derided Revenge. "Moxie" Srlioenhui'K l.urcd (o a Launch and Dnmnnl, Declare the Detectives. "Moxie" Schoeuburg was drowned on lust Sunday in the Hudson river, near Nyack, N. Y., and Inspector McCafferty believes he was killed by thieves because he refused to divide $7,2 00 he stole from Frank Worth, a bookmaker, on the Brooklyn Bridge on June 30. Schoeuburg, it was learned, met George Howard, alias 'Beansy" Holland, on Sunday morning, and was invited to ride in a naphtha launch, the others in the party being "Tim" Ueadon. "Andy" Collins, "Sop" Henry and Mark Abrams. They wont as far at Nyack, oidered dinner, and. leaving a $5 deposit to apply on the restaurant bill, again took the launch and started up the river. Some hours later. "Jakey" Wolff appeared at Poliee Headquarters and Reported that "Moxie" Schoeuburg had been drowned in the Hudson. "The boat was nearly swamped by the swell of a big steamboat," he said. "Moxie was on the rail and he fell over. The swell took the launch away from him, and his friends could not save him." Following close on the heels of that story comes the allegation of the Detective Bureau that the Sunday trip was simply a ruse of Schoenburg's "pals" to get him in their power and murder him for revenge. Inspector McCafferty said that following the theft from Peter Worth he learned that "Moxie's" band had been implicated. "Beansy' Holland, who goes by the name of George Howard, was nrpoutort >"? "Sop" Henry and the others keep under cover and were never found Some, in fact, had not been told of Schoenburg's hip haul, and they decided on revenpe. The ride in the launch was the opportunity sought. and Captain McCafTerty is copvlnced that the band choked their victim and hurled him into the river when a steamboat was missinp. believinp the swell would I furnish a suitable alibi, if one were | needed. Inspector McCafferty has a partial confession from one of the men who was in the boat. He would not admit in direct terms that arrests have been made. "If you pave the names of the men who were with Schoenburg on the day he was killed, you must have them under arrest, or you must know where you can pet them" the detective chief was told. "Well," he said, "they were a dangerous band of thieves: easily capable of killing a 'pal' who didn't play fair. 'Moxle' was the man who got the big roll and 'Beansy' Holland was arrested for it. "They all went out in the launch, and all came back safely except 'Moxle.' His dead body floated in at Edpewater. "Whether I have a confession or not, I won't say, but I pave out. the names of tlie band. If you believe I wouldn't do that, unless I had them arrested, T must have them." One of the men connected with the Inspector's Department secretly said that his chief had at least three of inc i mm i iiuuri ft i i r~r? i aim nao twniident he had unearthed the details of one of the boldest and most deliberately planned murders of years. "I don't believe they gave him a chance for his life," said the detective. "I think they told him he had thrown him down: cracked him over the head with a blackjack, and shoved him over the side. "If the boss has the goods. I believe he has some of the band." Dl'.MIl PROM OPKKATIOX. Tattle Hoy May IMe As a Result of Horse's Kick. A dispatch from Rock Hill to The State says news came here of a new phase of a case which was watched with great interest. It will he remembered that several months ago the little son of Mr. J. P. Glass of " ? a 1 ?1.. I ~ 1. .. (idRoninrp wan icrriiii) uijmcvi i??> ? horse's kick. The skull was frightfully fractured and in the operation which followed a large piece was removed as was also a portion of the hrain. The operation was a wonderfully skillful piece of surgery, and as stated the outcome was watched with interest. The wound healed and the child recovered so far as to be up and play around. There was seemngly one defect?he was dumb. He would intelligently obey any Instructions given him, but was unable to talk at all. The sad news now received if that the chid has been taken suddenly worse and death is looked for at any monent. TERRORIZE ALASKA. Bold Japanese Poachers Defy the Government. lU'vcimo Cultcrs t nnhle to tk?pe With Thrill?Many Other Depredations Have Been Committed. Dispatches received at Seattle, , Wash., from Alaska state that Japanese seal poachers are terrorizing the residents ol the coast and have become so hold as to defy the efTorts of the government to prevent their thievery. They are also st?.xlne ?*>? ror to the hearts of the people in the sparsely settled region by pilaging whole towns. The United States revenue cutter service is entirely inadequate to cope with the Japanese and they are taking advantage of a knowledge of this condition. Seals are being killed with impunity. , Piracy against the inhabitants is an ordinary occurence and many other depredations have become common. The United State government has been informed of these conditions, but it did not become known until receeutly that the sealers were so numerous and bold as to defy the authorities. They are further emboldened by the atitude of their government to this country. The three cutters, McCullough. Manning and Perry, are doing duty on the Bering sea. consequently the Pacific coast of Alaska, is unprotected. In 190G, five poachers were killed in Alaska and it is said Japan will soon make a demand for indemnity The poachers were shot while resisting arrest, but the Japanese investigators made a contrary report. This demand is to be made in face of the knowledge the Japanese government has of robbers. Only recently a hand of Japanese theives were caught robbing the town of Uguyaik. They had stripped the churches of gold ornaments when the white inhabitants returned. The Japanese fled as soon as a white man got within shooting distance of them. A dispatch from Denver, Colo., says Luke 10. White, former governor general of the Phillippines and exambassador to Japan, is having a look at Yellowstone Park before he goes to Washington to take formal farewell of the president and other government officials before resuming private life in his home town, Memphis, Tenn. Mr. Wright will leave for Washington in a few days. Mr. Wright was asked if it were true that the Japanese intended demanding indemnity from the United States for five Japanese, who were ( killed while resisting arrest on charges of seal poaching. He said , that he had not heard of any such ac- ( t.lon. but it might be true for all | that. He does not believe there will j be any serious repute, even if the United States refused flatly to consider the indemnity proposition. "I do not believe that Japan wants , a war with any one at this time," said Mr. Wright. "Her finances would not stand it. rtesldes," he ( continued with a smile, "so far as , we are concerned, well, the United States is a pretty big country and Japan knows it well." Mr. Wright said the Pacific coast should soon have trade with the Philippines, which would amount to millions yearly. If politicians stoppod gossip long enough to permit the natives to quiet down, this will be brought much sooner. COMMITS SUlCiDK. Found Dead in llooni Wit It the (ins Turned On. I)r. William Abercrombie, former ly unnen siaies consul to Nagasaki, was found dead in bed aliout 8:30 o'clock Thursday morning in hn apartments in Stonleigh Court, Washington. I). C. (Jas was flowing from two jets, which had been turned on full head, both windows in the room were closed and the cracks around the door had been packed with absorbant cotton. After viewing the remains, (lovdrnor Nevill gave a certificate of death by suicide, lip to a late hour that afternoon, the police had failed to locate any of the dead man's relatives or friends. Nothing is known of the causes for his act. Dr. Abercomble was born in^New iuik hisu?* in ne was uppoinied consul to Nagasaki by President Harrison in 1890, and remained in the consular service until the election of President McKinley in 189t'?. PHARMACIST SIHTDKS. Ijpft u Note of Farewell to His Family. With a note of farewell to his family lying on the dresser beside him, the dead body of .1. P. Ledbetter, a prominent Birmingham, Ala., pharmacist, who dissapeared mysteriously from his home two day before, was found on last Thursday morning in a room in the Colonial House. Indications were that he had been dead 1 hours or more. The deceased was connected with the Patton-Pope Drug company and for some days had given evidences of being mentally unbalanced, and Tuesday afternoon he left the establishment after taking a two-ounce bot tie from the morphine case. This was found In the room whore he suicided, with but half an ounce left. * .. v-f'"' Xl-t ?M??I??????????^ FIEND LYNCHED '1 Boastful Sheriff Fails to Carry Out His Threats. VICTIM CONFESSED. 1 i Twenty Masked .Men Hoarded (lie Nebraska Train, in Whieli (lie Murderer Was Being Taken to Trial and Executed S|?cedy Justice? None of the Lynchers Were Recognized. Twenty masked men held up a train near Bancroft, Neb., last week, 4413* and took therefrom Loris Roy lilggins, a white man, and hanged him from a railroad bridge one mile from the scene of the hold-up. Higgins liad been in prison in Omaha since tie killed Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Copples, near Rosalie. Neb., last May. He was being taken to Pender for trial by Sheriff Young and two depnties. when the masked men entered the train and exacted from Biggins the punishment for his awful crime. While in prison he had made a clean lireast of the murder and confessed ill the facts relating to the crime. Despite the boast of Sheriff Young hat he would "shoot the can off of iny man who molested his prisoner," he "0 masked men rushed from behind a grain elevator at Bancroft. )no party stopped and uncoupled the mginc. The engineer was instructed o run ahead one mile. A second . larty kept the passengers in the oaches and the third took the prisiner from the baggage car, where he vas found handcuffed to two deputy iheriffs. Sheritl Young ottered uo eslstance on behalf of his prisoner, liggins was quickly unshackled and (ragged from the car. Then he was daced in a wagon and hurried to he railroad bridge, where he was to >e hanged. The murderer seemed unconcerned luring the entire proceedings. So ;alm was he that, his lynchers became ingr y and tried to start some resistmce. I liggins was given a chance .o make a statement as he stood on ;he railroad bridge. He availed him- r K self of the opportunity, saying that ho lad long ago repented of the awful ieed and made his pence with God. md that he was ready to pay the [)ennlty for his crime. | ^ | He had no excuso to offer and stated no motive, lie asked God to :are for the seven children who had been made orphans by his crime, and then asked that a note be sent, his parents telling his end. The impatient lynchers pushed him off the bridge before ho had finished his statement. Then all unloosed their revolvers and riddled the body with hundrods of shots. The lynching was committed in daylight, but there is not a single person among the hundreds of witnesses who admits having recognized one of the lynchers. The crime for which lliggins was lynched was the killing of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Copples, near Rosalie, on May 17. The murder was committed at night. A shot ironi a rifle was the first warning of the crime. Then a cry was heard from the father," You have killed me." The children next heard the shrieks of their mother, who was being clubbed to death by Higgins. When they rushed from the house they saw the hogs fighting over the bodies of their dead parents. Higgins escaped, but was captured a few days later and imprisoned in Omaha until the day of the lynching. NKGKO ItOY ritH.MATKl?. .1 u 111 |mmI Into I'ile of Sawdust Tliut Was on Fire. A horrible accident occurred at Marlboro, six miles southeast of Bennettsville. late Wednesday afternoon when John Mollis, a young negro boy, was cremated. Mollis and another boy were playing on a pile of sawdust which had accumulated for years, and with a base covering about an acre rose in the shape of a pyramid 60 feet high. The lltle darkeys were near the top of the pyramid and Mollis made a leap in the sawdust and dlssapeared from sight. Mis body had broken the crust above a small (Ire which had doubtless been burning for a yeur or more and he plunged into the cavern of (ire. It is a matter of almost impossibility to remove the Immense pile of sawdust and even if that wore done the ashes of the little negto could not be secured. Mini.' I.KVP l-'ltOM llltllM^K. The llody \ot Seen Aflcr Striking tho Water Below. 7 <# While the illumination of the falls of Niagara wuh in progress Tuesday night, a man made the awful leap from the center of the upper steel arch of the bridge to the liver, 200 foet below. His body waa seen to cause a mighty splash as It struck the water after which It dissapeared from sight