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I- * N ' ' " ' V X \ . 5 ' - " THE FORT MILL TIMES. 1 *===_^^=^=_=_^=^^^_=^=____ I 17TH YEAR v x FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1908 NO 10. , EIGHT DEAD At a Result of a Collision on a Trolley Line AND MANY ARE HURT. The Horror Occurred on the Washington, linltinioro and Annapolis . Meet He Hallway and Was Caused by Confusion of Orders. At Annapolis. Md.. in a head on colllson between two special ears ] of the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway company, I shortly before 8 o'clock Friday night, eight personswere killed outrightand a score of others were seriously Injured, some of them perhaps fatally. The collision was due to a confusion of orders, as the Hue has been running several extra cars each way In connection with the commencement festivities at the Naval Academy. The dead are: Richard Norton, 2.r> years old. Baltimore; Police Patrolman Schriber, 4 0 years old, employed by the railway company at Academy June- 1 tion; one unidentified white woman, apparently about 25 years old. said to lie frbm Baltimore, and dressed in hall costume; Zach O'Neal, 25 years 1 old. New York, motorman of one. of the wrecked cars; ltuth Slaughter, six years old. daughter of General ' Traffic Mnnuger William K. Slauguter of the road; J. \V. McDuniel. Baltimore; George White, Baltimore. * GOOD MOWS FOR POSTMASTKR8. 1 i Salaries at 17 Offices to be Inrrcus- 1 ?<!. ( The postofflce department Thursday made an announcement that will litlnc Joy to the hearts of many postmasters in South Carolina. It was . that, commencing July 1. many of ( them would have their salaries raised . I The names of the offices and the in- ( crcasc for the next year are as fol- | lows: Office. 19(18 1909 , Abbeville $1,800 $1,900 Allendale I,ZOO 1,300 liatoshurg 1,400 1,5 00 Helton 1,400 1,500 Bennettsvllle. . . . 1,900 2,000 Hlshopvtlle 1.400 1 ,500 Hluekshtirg 1,100 1.200 Hluckville 1,300 1,500 Rrauchvllle. . 1,100 1,500 Camden 2.000 2.100 Cheater 2.200 2,300 Clinton 1,800 2,000 Clio. .' 1.100 1,200 ^ Denmark.., ... ., 1,309 1.400 Milton.. .. .... 1,700 1.S00 Due West 1,100 1,300 Kasloy 1,400 1.000 , Fort Mill 1,100 1.200 Georgetown 2,200 2.3O0 Greer 1,400 " 1,500 ( Hartsvtlle 1,600 1,700 Honea Path 1.400 1,500 ( Johnston 1,300 1,4 00 Kershaw 1,200 1,300 Klngstree 1,300 1,4 00 Latta 1,100 1,200 Laurens 2,000 2,100 Lexington 1,100 1 200 Leesvtlle 1,100 , 1,200 McColl 1,200 1,300 Marion.. 1,800 1,900 Mullin's 1.400 1.500 dewberry 2,200 2,300 Orangeburg 2.V)0 2,400 , Pelzer 1,400 1,600 Pickens 1,100 1,200 Piedmont l.UOti l.iou Prosperity 1,000 1.100 Hock Hill.. .. .. 2.400 2.f?00 St. George. . . . .. 1.100 1.200 St. Matthews 1.200 1.300 Walhalla f,300 l,40t Seneca 1,500 1,700 Walterboro 1.400 1,50( Westminster 1,800 1.400 WilliainHton 1,000 1,100 York\ ille 1.700 1,800 FARM MARK TO PAY. . The Agriculture Department Helps nn Ohio Farmer. A farmer in Ohio wrote to the Department of Agriculture that he had 4 struggled for twenty years on an eighty-acre farm heavily mortgaged, hut had been unable to ritluce his debt or rise above poverty that made the bringing up of his family a humiliation. He asked if there was any hope -ior him upon the farm, or ife he might as well- give up the tight.. The department requested that he make a detailed report of his farm and Its soils, and upon this it based a plan of farming which he was recommended to follow to the letter. There was a prollt the first year of $2,000, nud the department believes that ultimately the despised eighty acres can be made to yield $6,Q00 n year. * Negro Who Killed Matron to Hang. Frank Johnson, a negro, who killI ed a married wontan because she re* fnned to elope with him, has been sentenced to be hanged at Clarksburg, W. Va., July 17. Former Judge (Iw* to .lull. For pausing a fictitious check, C. G. Richie, a former judge, has been sentenced to 18 months |u prison at Oakland, Cal, M - SAYS ITS A LIE. THAT IS THE WAY .MAYOR HAULMAN REPLIES To the Charges Made by Several Newspapers that Bryan Received Campaign Funds from Ryan. In its last Saturday's Issue, the New York World, which was alined with the Republicans in the national elections of 1896 and 1900. an 1 which will be fighting the battle of the Republicans in the campaign of 1908, insinuates that Bryan, through his brother-in-law, who was chairman of the Democratic State central committee of Nebraska, secured $20.-1 000 from Thomas F. Ryan In 1904, to finance Bryan's candidacy for the senate in Nebraska. The World, In its bitter hatred of Bryan, descends Into the dirtiest cutter, when It says that "after" this contribution from Ryan, the Nebraskan "came over" t? the support of Parker, insinuating that Bryan was bought. The News and Courier endorses The World's otltrageous slander und cowardly assault on Mr. Bryan, and even heaps upon him meaner insults; , that insults the Democrats of the country and the Democrats of South Carolina by Its attitude toward the honest man who has been twice the party's leader, und has been already so chosen for a third time by Soutn Carolinians! In supplementing the , attack of The World. The News and , Courier snys that "Mr. Bryan is no better than he ought to be does not < prove that he is not as good as~n practical politician can be. That his pose is that of an angelic Democrat, better than his fellows, is a little ir- ; ritatlng. but we still believe that personally he is of a higher type of , probity than was the late Jame3 G. ] Blaine or M. S. Quay, and the living | Charles E. Murphy and Roger Sulli- ] van." - i Ides of the Blackest Sort. , A dispatch from Omaha, Neb.,says ( Tames C. Dahlman, Mayor of Omaha ( \nd member of the Democratic Na- , ional Committee from Nebraska, said , rucsdav in reference to The World's . irticle 011 Thomas F. Ryan's contri- , luition: I "Damnable lies of the blackest , iort! Pile it on ine as hard as you , ivant to. I am the arch criminal in , :his, and Hryan is absolutely blame- ( ess. Rryan sup|>ortod Parker during , he whole campaign, took the stump for him months Itefore the money ( warn paid and never known of its pay- , ment. . s "After thtv St. Louis convention , idjourned, the National Committee , met to select its chairman. Taggart j 3f Indiana was u candidate, but the j Easterners were for Sheehan or j iome other man from the Kast. Re- , lieving that a Western man would make a better head for the National , Committee I took up the fight for Taggart, who was elected at an ad- ( journed meeting a few weeks later. ( "Sheehan asked me what were the , chances for carrying Nebraska for , Parker. 1 told him 110 man living , could tell what Nebraska could do until after the State convention made its nominations. "1 came straight from New York to the State convention in this State, and there saw there was absolutely 110 hope of carrying Nebraska for Parker. I ttu refore wrote Sheehan hat money and speakers sent hero would he wasted. "Later in the campaign, in October, r saw we had a good chance of electf}. VV. Herge, our candidate for governor, and I sent T. S*. Allen to New York to ^?ee if he could get some financial help for the State ticket. We got $15,000, uot 20.000, lu three payments of 5,000 pach. It was all urned over to me. and I spent it all 'n the Stnto campaign, not one penny f it going into the National campaign or to Bryan. "The money did good, and whil.? toosevelt carried the State by 82, 00, Berge lost it by less than 10,000. If we had had $15,000 more we would have carried the State for Berge. "There. 1 think that- is all there is to say about these trumped up charges of the New York paper. Mr. Bryan never saw the money, never knew of it. I got it all and spent it all. It all came from the National Committee, whether from Sheeh.m or Hyan I do not know and do not care, and no money was nsed to influence Bryan, as he worked for Parker from the start." THRKK Hl*NI>RKI> BROWN Kl> Typhoon Struck Fleet; Ships Swamped as If Tliey Were Bow Boats. Twelve luggers sank and 270 men lost their lives wnen a typhoon struck Mm Pr.jirl H^htnir fleet iust as it left Thursday Island, off the west coast of Australia, according; to news brought by the Australia-Canadian liner Manuka In port at Victoria, B. C., Thursday. Twenty of the men who went down were white men. The typhoon, which whipped the waves mountain high, swamped the vessels, as if they were row boats. More Thorough Meat Inspection. A uniform enforcement of the new regulations governing meat inspection is to he discussed at Chicago this week by Federal inspectors from all oyer the country. BRYAN REPLIES TO THE CAMPAIGN LIE PIT OUT BY THE WORLD Tlmt Ho llad Hwrivnl Money From Ryan aw an Inducement for Htm to Supiiort Parker. In a statement given out at Liucoln. Neb., to the Associated Press on Thursday night Mr. W. J. Bryan replied to- an article #n >nrlnir a week ago in a Now York newspaper, charging that Mr. Bryan was the beneficiary of a campaign contribution made by Thomas F. Ryan. Mr. ! Bryan says: "1 have just read the slory charging that my brother-in-law, Mr. Allen. chairman of the Democratic I State committee, had a conference with Mr. Kheehan in 1904 in regard i to campaign funds: that Mr. Shoe- ' han, us Mr. Ryan's attorney, secured 1 from Mr. Ryan 52,000 for the Nebra- > ska campaign; that Mr. Bryan made * the contribution to secure my open and unqualified support of Judge ; Parker; that to disguise the source 1 of the contribution Mr. Ryan gave the' ( Klieck to Mr. Sheehan, and that Mr. , Sheehau gave his checks to Mr. Al- t leu. I ' Chairman Alieuund Mr. Dahlgroh, t Nebraskan committeeman of the na- \ tional Democrtaic committee, have ? already denied the charges and stat- c ed that the o*-'y money received came y from the national committee. I de- $ sire to add the following si iternent: t "Mr. Allen says that h" never saw c Mr. Sheehan or Mr. Ryan and i t have no reason to doubt his word. * If Mr. Ryan contributed to the No- j hraska campaign it was not with i my knowledge or consent. While 1 ^ had but a remote personal interest ^ In the Nebraska camnaien that year. I am interested in Nebraska politics, G and am interested in national poli- f tics, and am not willing to be, in t the slightest degree, obligated to any a favor seeking corporation. If the g newspaper in question will secure c from either Mr. Sheehan or Mr. Ryan G a statement or prove in any other a way that Mr. Ryan gave to Mr. Shee- J: liau, to any one else, or to the na- ^ tioiial committee, any sum whatever j, with the understanding that the sum v would be used in the Nebraska cam- u taign, 1 shall see that the amount is ^ eturned to Mr. Ryan. t '"As to the charge that my support t if Judge Parker was purchased, 1 j, need only say that 1 announced my a rnpport of Judge Parker inunediately f ifter the St. Louis Convention, and Hist st pport was open and unmiali- E [led from M>e Coin': rlc nor. tn?- |( {tolls closed. 1 had opposed his nom- H [nation, but he had no more loyal c supporter during the campaign. I c was in correspondence with him; j and both on the stump and with my pen rendered 'all the assistance 1 s ^ould. While the paper that prints y these charges was selling its columns j to the Republican commute to be v lined in caricaturing Judge Parker, f my paper was urging his election." B .1 FAST TRAIN WRECKED. f 1 Million Dollar Express Crashed Into r Switch Engine. Speeding at 50 miles an hour e through the Post Morris yards the "million dollar" express, carrying j eight cars of valuable freight from t Huston to Washington, crashed into < a switch engine head-on, at 1,13rd I street and Willow aveuue. New York, 1 early Thursday morning. Eight men were injured seriously. Roth engines were demolished and lire which started immediately after the crash, reduced both big iron horses to scrap iron. In the forward car of the trai nwas $115,000 in currency, which was being carried j from the sub-treasury in Boston to the treasury in Washington. The car was deluged with water and the fire kept in check. Three trainmen, on switch engine, were hurled to the ground when collission came. All bruised and cut by fiyng metal. Names unknown. Engineer Naughton, of the express and Engineer Willett M. Bradley, of the switch engine, were detained by the police of the Alexander avenue station pending an investigation. Naughton was so badly hurt that he was sent back to the hospital. Bradley escaped without a scratch. The w r o r* 1/ u-hq Hud trt ii m i?ii n Hi ?r?t :i rwU n i* of signals. FIVK YICGC1MAX CONYKTKI1. Men Arrested Xcnr l>aiirnster Found Guilty at Kiilclf{li. The five jeggmen arrested near Chester, charged with the robbery of the jmstoflice at Dunn, N. C.t were, in the Federal Court at Raleigh found guilty and were each sentenced j to five years in the penitentiary at Atlanta and to pay a fine of $.r>00 each. For the Government the case was vigorously prosecuted by District Attorney llarry Skinner, who urged the Court to impose the full penalty twelve years' imprisonment on the men. The evidence on which the conviction was made was given by nostotflce inspectors, by John F. McCarthy, a policeman of Roston, Mass. and 1>> James G. Wilson, of Pelzer. s. C., father of one of the yeggmen.* HELPED MRSJGUNNESS AT LEAST THIS WAS THE CONFESSION OF TEXAS JAIL BIRD. But When Sheriff Stunt/.or Was Itontly to Carry Him to Indiutiu, Ho Changed Statement. After signing and swearing to a confession that, if true, would solve many of the mysteries of the Gunness murder farm at La Porte, Ind., and would hang both himself and Ray Lamphere. the suspect now un tier indictment iniin? f t" 1 ...... vio v*. i i uriftuil, Jr.. or Now York city, broke down as Sheriff Smutzer was about to' take hlt'i fiotn Vernon. Texas., where he is confined in jail, to Indiana and has retracted all he said. Truelson is in prison In Texas on a charge of swindling and forgery, having tprobented himself as Jonathan G. rhcw, of Pittsburg, a cousin of Harry K. Thaw, and passing forged checks ind drafts amounting to thousands if dollars under this name. Truelson, who says he is but 22 years of age. bears the marks of ong dissipation, and he admits that I irugs have placed him in his position Vccordng to his confession he has wo wives, and this was later corroloruted. He told the prison author!- i ies in Vernon that his first wife, < vliom he married in Saratoga I Springs, N. Y.. in 1904, was put out >f the way at the Gunness farm, and is tlfe woman has been missing for I lome time, it lent color to his story. < lis second wife, with whom lie eloped from New York city in March, of < .his year, he also intended doing iwav with at the Gunness murder I latch, according to his statement. nit was prevented by Mrs. Gunness I vriting him that the authorities were i jetting too warm on her trail. i Truelson's confession, complete in 1 everything, and filled with details a ( jroat many of which had never made < heir appearance' in the newspaper 1 iccounts. was forwarded to Sheriff ] imutzer at I .a Porte, and that ofil- < lal went to Texas to have a confer- i 'nee with the prisoner. When he i iriived there he found Truelson In t irison, and as he did not have access | o newspapers, how he possessed limself of all the delniis, unless he i va8 an actual conspirator, was a ( nystery. The Indiana sheriff finally lecided that the forger's story was , rue and prepared to return with him i o Indiana, lint when the time for ? eaving canio, Truelson hroke down ( ind declared that the whole was a i ahrication. ] Sheriff Sniutzer immediately heran another investigation, that of ookiug into the alibi Truelson preented, and after a few days he he- ' ame convinced that the prisoner's onfession was the mere work of his train, nnd left for home without him In his written confession Truelou stated that he first ran across 1 ilrs. Gunness through her matrimonial advertisement. He paid the vidow a visit, hut was too tough a customer for her to do away with, ind when she asked him to join her, ie consented. Together with Lampicre, Truelson declared that they lad not only gotten victims for the narvying widow, hut had buried hem after she out thein out of he way, and in some instances helpid her in her hloodv work of death. i rueison turmer aeciareu mat ne i md Lamphere. convinced (hat Mrs. "Junness was plotting to do away with 1 hem, tossed a coin to see which thould murder the widow's entire [amily and set fire to the house, and hat the lot fell to Lamphere. FKAHIilNti FLRKT WKECKKI) Many Lives Were lx>st During tlit* Severe Typhoin. A dispatch from Victoria, It. C , says the steamer Manuka has arrived there bringing news of the destruction of the pearling fleet in a typhoon off West Australia, involving the loss of fifty luggers and 27u lives, twenty being whites. The disaster to the fleet of pearling luggers occurred near Thursday Island, a typhoon striking the fleet, scattering the vessels, completely wrecking some and driving others ashore. Survivirs reported harrowing experiences. some being picked up in the last stage of exhaustion clinging to the wrecked hulks while sharks followed waiting for the exhausted men to drop from the wreckage. The oldies if some of the victims were eaten by sharks. * FKIX TO II Kit 1>K.\TH. From the Hoof of a Burning New York Tenement. One woman was killed and six others were terribly burned Tuesday in a tire In the furnished room house, No. 313 West Thirty-eight street, which threatened the lievs of a score of persons. The woman leaped from the roof to death on the pavement below. Lieutenant Mandray, of Englne company No. 1. with four firemen, went down in the collapse af a burning stairway,but all escaped with slight burn and bruises. Mrs. Belltraine leaped from tho rear of the house. An unlaced shoe caught in the supporters as she passed the floor and this turned her so that she struck head foremost on the ceiueut paving. FATAL DUEL. ONE MAN KILLED ANOTHER INjured. In a Running Fight in Autos A.i Abductor is Killed by Ills BrotherIII-Uiw. In a ruuuiug tight between the oecupauts of two automobile;*. in which two revolvers were emptied. William Patterson was shot and killed Friday afternoon by his brother-in-law near Millersburg, Ind.. and Ernest Franks, the brother-in-law, was dangerously wounded by Patterson in the thigh. Patterson had as a prisoner in his i motor car Mrs. A. Sargent, a young woman, whom, it is alleged, he had I abducted in an excitive and daring i manner under the supposition that s she was a counterfeiter and was flee- < ing from Franks. Mrs. Patterson I lately had seperated from her hus- I band, it is said, on account of Uiu i rough treatment. He blamed Mrs. Sargent for much of his domestic troubles and It is supposed that he had borne a grudge against her. Several weeks ago. fearing for her life. Mrs. Patterson left her home and took refuge with her father, Mr. Franks. Mr. Sargent, at His wife's request, accompanied her to Lignorier and was her guest for some days, but had intended returning to her home at Wawasse. Patterson, filled with liquor and In an ugly humor, arrived at Ligouier Friday afternoon a little heforc Mrs. Sargent started to the depot with Mrs. Patterson's father. "I want that woman to get out of that, buggy!" shouted Patterson. He pointed a revolver at the doctor and at the same time dragged the woman from the buggy. Mrs. Sargent cried loudly for help, but was dragged into the automobile ainting, and placed in her seat. News jf tho abduction spread throughout Llgonler like lightning. Ernest Franks, brother of Mrs. Patterson, lrganized a posse of armed farmers ind started in pursuit, taking the ead in a big touring cnr. The fugitives wc?re overtaken just east of Milersburg. near the Wabash depot. "Halt, or I'll shoot!" shouted Franks, standing up In his motor ;ar. Patterson replied with a string of mrses and immediately opened fire with his revolver, shooting his brothjr-in-law in the thigh. Though dangerously womided, Franks returned he fire with such unerring aiur that Patterson was instantly killed. * destructive: flood. j' c rowu Destroyed and Eighteen Peo- y pie Drowned lty It. c A t\ iciiiitfh frnm MdyIph Pit v isavs lighten persons are known to lie dead uul the town of Pachula has been wiped oft the map as the result of wo days of floods. The waters rose with unexpected speed and carried iway entiro buildings in the rushing :orrents. Searching parties were s limiting for more bodies Tuesday. A 1 cloudburst filled the Barranca Seeca ' from side to side and the rushing ^ torrent completely engulfed the village without warning. The Secca 1 ralley is usually dry and is a much 1 travelled highway into Pachula. !|15,000,000 Worth of Coal for Fleet. : The estimated cost of the coal con- 1 sumed by the Atlantic fleet when it I shall have finished its cruise around the world is placed at $5,000,000. The cost from San Francisg'o through the Suez canal is estimated at $2,- 1 039,000. Only American coal is being used. SEltlOlS ACCIDENT. Lost ail Eye by the Bursting of PepsiCola Bottle. A Mr. Pope, who keeps .a restaurant. at Htatesville, N. C., was the victim of a painful and serious accident on Monday. He was In the act of transferring a pepsi-cola bottle from a crate to an ice box when the bottle burst with surh force that pieces of the glass literally split open the ball of his left eye. Mr. Pope applied simple remedies to the eye and then boarded a train and went to Salisbury, where he had the Injury dressed by Dr. Brawiey. lie returned to Statesville on the next train and went to Charlotte that night to have the eye treated by Dr. Wakefield. The physicians have advised him that the sight of the eye is lost for goodvand that it might have to be taken out at once to save the uninjured eye. An overcharge of gas caused the bottle to burst. $lo.ooo Stolen. The bank of Fairland, at Fairland, Ok la., was entered by robbers Wednesday night and $10,000 including the post office receipts was secured. Three men composed the gang. They rode into town on horse back, tied their horses near the bank building,! and after getting the money, minted and rodo away in safety. Officers are in pursuit. lbtggage Itostroyed by Fire. On Wednesday morning a car containing about. 100 trunks belonging to young ladles who have been attending Wlnthrop College, was destroyed by fire. THIEVES FOILED PREVENTED NEW YORK ROBBERS FROM STEALING $i:S,OUO. In m Daringly <\>nceive?l HoI?l-l'p Tliirr Men Were Kept From Getting Bunk's t'usli. Fearlessly thrusting herself In among vigorously wielded blackjacks, Mrs. Eva Javornlcka prevented a daring* attempt upon the part of three highwaymen to steal $43J>00 from tho messengers who were carrying it in a thickly populated XpW York At root In ?? the robbers made their attack, the woman, a witness, ran from a restaurant and put herself between the messengers and their assailants, screaming loudly for the police, lly dinging to the robbers, she not only hampered them in their attempt to teat down thed< Vnrcif themersmig: r hut soon attracted a large crowd of persons who went to the rescue. Frightened rt tee hubbub being ra<?* >d. the robbers ceased their attack aid fled in different directions. Lnt^r a man accused of having been >ne of them was eaptured and ovlience enough was soon found to hold it in Daringly Planned Prime. The police department of the rneropolis declare the robbery was the lerviest on rocord, it being evident that, the robbers trusted ,to their luickness to beat the messengers ino submission and get away with heir booty before their capture could >e effected. The attack was made in a thickly topulated tenement, district, and nauy saw the faces but. tlinking it o be one of the numerous drunken trawls, common in that district, paid 10 attention to it. Hut Mrs. Javorlieka. seeing the flash of steel, bought different and threw herself nto the fray. The struggle while it asted was vicious. Blinded by peptor thrown In their eyes, clubbed tver the hcuds wit it blackjacks, and heir wrists and arms slashed by inivim ihu nutiison art* r r liuitir on to heir precious burden like grim leath, the woman meanwhile botherng the robbers so much that one ittempted to stab her. When help arrived, two of the nessengers sank to the ground, over- , ome by the struggle, and were later akcn to a hospital. Meanwhile one >f the robbers, his hand covered by tlood from his victim's wounds, was tursued through several streets by l crowd of small boys. lie was in i fair way of making his escape when le bumped into an officer, and his xplauations were so unsatisfactory le was locked up. Later Mrs. .lavorlicka positively identified him ,fame of the three thugs. li.WOlTISM XKAU PITTSHCIUJ donated Masked Men Itob Store and Shoot l"p I own. # A dispatch from Pittsburg. Pa., lays following the holding up and 'ohbing of a Pennsylvania railroad .w press train and a street en-* the r'iclnlty was treated to a third wild A'estern affair Thursday when two masked men. heavily armed and idlng horseback, smashed the winiow of the Monogahela Consolidate 'd Coal and Coke Company's general store at Eastman, appropriated trainable articles and galloped away tiring revolvers. * DAItlNC CHIMES AT ItEXO. Eight Men And Two Women Hold I'p the Town. At Reno, Nov., a gang of eight men and t.w0 women in a series of holdups coupled with on attempt at arson, Thursday robbed the Rawhide Hotel :>f $:iftO, lining up the occupants against the wall, held up two men in a tent, held up and beat a stage driver, robbed a drug store, held up three other men. securing small sums, and set f;re to the Rawhide Hotel to prevent being followed. They escaped to the hills with $400. Tinsheriff with a posse aided by State police is in pursuit. * CONVICTS TRY TO ESCAPE. lite Shot Down, Two Captured and Two (let Away. A I ?aal/ fnp liluirtv \maa ,,,,,,1.1 Thursday at. the plant of the Alabama Manufacturing Company by nine convicts. The plant Is local "J near Rlrmlngham. Ala. Guards filed on the men, and policemen ioine?.' in the fusilade. Five convicts were shot down, two being fatally wounded. Two others were captured and dogs were put out in the trail if the other two. * FOUR MAAKKU MK.V. Robbed the Rank at Cuba, Kansas, on Tuesday. Four men robbed the state hank of Cuba, Kansas on Tuesday and escaped with between $0,000 and $8,000 after a fight with citizens. No one was shot. After the vault had been ransacked the robbers went to the Rock Island depot, boarded a handcar and disappeared in the direction ?f Belleville. The robbers all wore masks. Posses are in pursuit. a DUNCAN' RULED By the State Supreme Court on a Serious Charge. AFTER HE HAD FILED 1 Sensational Charges, In Which Il? Claimed That There Was a Conspiracy in Columoia to Injury Him Professionally, and That Certain Records Have Disuppeaml. Affidavits containing sensational statements and charges were presented to the Supreme Court Tuesduy in the argument of the case of Jesse Hunter, a negro, represented by Mr. John T. Duncan, of Columtda. After hearing the case the Court dismissed the motion for a new trial on after discovered evidence. Mr. Duncan, who has put ap a hard fight for his clients, Jesse Hunter and his wife, Frances Hunter, convicted of assault and battery, presented a lengthy aftidavit from himself in which he sot forth the progress of the case and charged that certain attorneys of Columbia and others are in conspiracy to injure him professionally, and that certain records in this and other cases in which he was atorney have been lost or stolen from the oflice of the clerk of the Circuit Court and the clerk of the Supreme Court. One of the principal aftidavits in the case was that of a negro, Jeff Taylor, who stated that it was himself and not Jesse Hunter who did the shooting for which Hunter was convicted, and that he had feared to testify to the truth of this matter on the trial by reason of intimidation. This aflidavit was probated by Mr. Washington Clark, an attorney of Colum bin. Solicitor lionet presented an affidavit from M.^Clark. stating that ho had one day been called into the office of Mr. Duncan and asked to probate a paper signed by a negro, and that the negro who afterwards owned to tho name of Jeff Taylor was not the negro he saw in tho nffie<? ? CHii. but was of entirely different uppearance. Solicitor Timmeruian also denied that ho had received tho papers said to have been served on him by Mr. N Duncan, but on the other hand Mr. Duncan presented atlidavits to show that he had been at the Drafts Hotel, in Lexington, and seen Mr. Tlmmerman on a certain date. In his own affidavit Mr. Duncan donouu:es Mr. Timmerman as a coward as well us a liar, and Hied with tho Court a note addressed to Mr. Tirumcrman containing these epithets. Mr. Duncan also charges the new solicitor, Mr. Christie lionet, with heing in the conspiracy against him ind denounces him. lie names Mr. D. \V. Robinson, an nttornoy of this Bar, and Mr. Robertson's father-in- law, Mr. \V. G. Childs, president of the Rank of Columbia, as among tho chief conspirators, and declares ho might name many others to the court. Mr. Duncan made the race for tho United States Senate in ISOfi, and ffn 'lie stump made grave charges against then Governor Gary Evans, and in bis lengthy affidavit he refers to this fact and to Governor Kvans. lie presents an affidavit from his former stenographer, now married, which contradicts that of Mr. Clark in regard to the description of tho uegro who gave the affidavit signed by Jeff Taylor. The two negroes whose escapades lirought about tills sensational stale of affairs, Jesse and Frances Hunterv were convicted of assault and battery with intent to kill in June. 1 DOS. and .Iokka was i'ivon years and Frances was given 12 month. The shooting for which they wore tried occurred in January, 1906. They lived in lower portion of Richland County and it was asserted that Jesse Hunter had put his aged mother out <?f the house where she had lived for years, and which was said to he her jown property. Her other children remonstrated and the officers of the law were called in. Magistrate Dykes, with a posse, went to the house and they were fired on by some one. Jesse Hunter and. his wife were arrested, indicted, tried and convicted for shooting the otficers, and at the trial leff Taylor was a witness for the prosecution, but since that time it has been stated that Taylor was the man who fired the shots and it was on this after-discovered evidence that Mr. Duncan asked for a new trial for his clients, which motion was refused. The Supremo Court Tuesday afternoon of its own accord, issued an irder requiring Mr. John T. Duncan, in attorney of the Columbia Bar, to show cause before the Court on Monday, June R, why he should not be be attached for contempt of Court or disbarred as an nttorney for submitting what nre declared an oath to be "false and fictious" affidavits in the case of Jesse and Frances Hunter, argued before the Court last Tuesday. Baptist Convert* at $0 Kach. Oklahoma Baptists make converts at a cost of $9 each, the lowest rate in tho country, according to a report to the Northern Baptist convention.