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THE FORT MILL TIMES.
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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.
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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,
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.