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~s"' "P ,U' . : j THE FORT MILL TIMES. 1 * 17TH YEAR FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1908 NO 12. TAFT NOMINATED Gets 702 Votes Out of 979 Cast at the Convention. . ON FIRST BALLOT. Choice Mmle Unanimous After Resuit is Announced. Yaft and Roosevelt Clieered to the Echo. Convention (iocs Wild in Shouts For President. For president of the United States. Win. H. Tart of Ohio. Taft on tbp fli'uf tioiint- T,.n ?... 702 votes?Taft by. the unanimous consent of the convention. Such Ik the record of the culminating day of the Republican national convention of 1908, effected utnid acenes of tumultouH enthusiasm and after a uervo-racking. continuous session lusting nearly eight houis. < Th picture within the walls of the vast amphitheatre as the presidential candidate was named Thursday was one truly grandiose in its magnitude. In front, to the right and left, below and above, the billowing sea of humanity, restless after hours of waiting and stirred from one emotion to another, was in a fever of expectancy for the culminating vote. The favorite sons of other States bad been named, save Kuox and LuFollette, and now on the roll call came Ohio. As the Buckeye State was reached, the tall, gaunt form of Theodore E. Burton, with student-like face and severe black clerical garb, advanced to the platform to nominate Ohio's candidate. He spoke fevercntly. with the singing > * voice of an evangelist, which went ringing through the great bulldiug. The close of his speech of nomination was the signal for loosing the long pent-up feeling of the Taft legions. IiiBtantly the Ohio delegates were on their feet, other States fol lununi ?nut? nit? nmvi'iiuon noum in gallery and on floor broke Into load demonstration. > "Taft! Taft! W. H. Tart!" came in a roar from tlie Ohions Megaphones seemed to spring from concealed places and swell the Taft tmuulet into thunder. A huge blue tdlk banner bearing the familiar features of the secretary was swung before the delegates. awakening a freah whirlwind of enthusiasm. All semblance of order had beeu abandoned and the delegates' arena m was a maelstrom of gesticulating V men; the guidons of the States were suatched up hy the Taft enthusiasts or borne under the storm of dlsor?ter. The band was inaudible?a " mere whisper above the deafening w volume of sound. For 10, IP, then 2o minutes this uproar continued. It was a repetition of the scene of Wednesday, when the name of Roosevelt threw i lie convention into u frenry, repeated in intensity und almost In duration. But there Is a limit to the physical resources of throat and lung and at last the tired voices died down to a hoarse shout and finally subsided. The lull now gave the opportunity for the Kpeoch seconding Tuft's nomination, by Geo. H. Knight of California, his big, round face beaming forth on the sympathetic multitude rnd his splendid baritone voice welling forth like the tones of a great church organ. California's tribute to Taft was brlof and fervid. Now there was another lull in the Tuft movement while the remaining candidates were placed in nomination. it was lino in me anernoon iifiorithe couveutlon. sweltering with the intense heat and weary after nearly w?vt?n hours' continuous session, vonehod the end of the flood of eloquence, and the decks were at last clear for the culminating net the ballot. But no; just as the last ewoll of oratory, the seconding speech for LnKollette. had died nway, like a cyclone from a clear akv hurst a La Pol let to demonstration which swept theeor.ventlou front Its very hearings. In was the same deafening wave of sound that had greeted Roosevelt and Taft n little while before. Intense and maddening and with the vital ring of genuine enthusiasm. The delegates sat calm and waiting, except the frantic Wisconsin men. but the convention for the time being was in the possession of the galleries. Now a singular transformation oc curred -gradually the whirlwind veered from LaFollette to Roosevelt. A banner bearing the Roosevelt portrait and waved from the gallery was the signal for the change. Amid this pandemonium and with the galleries in full control Chairman Lodge ordered the roll call of StatC3 to begin for the vote on president . Such a call, under such circumstances. has probably never before occurred In the history of national conventions. A ballot was taken to nominate a candidate for president while the convention was cheering frantically for 4 man whose rime had not been presented to the convention. ? The votes were being counted for Taft. while the people were shouting for Roosevelt. The delegates, however, cast their votes uuiutlueuced by the calmor of the crowd. More than this, the first States on the call. Alabama and Arkansas, bad been relied upon by a ' \}j\ *?&?. I SHERMAN CHOSEN , TO BE THE RUNNING MATE WITH TAFT. RuMh of IK<l('Kft(e? Fall Into Line When Roll Is Begun?RepublicanConvention Adjounies. With Congressman James S. Sherman, of New York, chosen as the Vice Presidential candidate and running mate of Secretary Taft. the Republican national convention of 1908 passed into history Friday at Chicago. The final session lasted less than two hours, adjournment without delay being taken at 11.45 a. m. The committees to notify the candidates were officially promulgated. Senator William Warner, of Misouri, past commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, being selected to head the delegation that will call upon Secretary Taft. and Senator J. C. Burrows, of Michigan, being placed at the head of the committee to notify Sherman. Hefore the convention assembled Friday morning It was pructlcally certain that the Vice Presidency would go to Mr.Sherman. A number had indorsed his candidacy in caucus, and it spread like wildfire. The New York delegation alone stood solidly back of Sherman and when the voting began there was a rush of delegates to fall into line, victory being assured to the New York man long before the roll had been half completed. Sherman's victory was overwhelming. When New York was reached on the roll call Woodruff said: "New York caHts seventy-eight votes for the next Vice President, James S. Sherman." The issue was settled and New York cheered the victory. The balloting throughout was marked by enthusiasm. The vote for Sherman was not broken until West Virginia was reached, when Fairbanks was given one vote. The result of the ballot was announced by Chairman lodge as follows: Sherman 816. Guild 75, Murphy 77. Sheldon 10, Fairbanks 1, Absent 1. * trick Mason Killed. John Tuggles, a negro brick mason, inet instant death Tuesday at the plant, of the Albany Phosphate company, Albany, Ga. Tuggles \vr..just beginning work when a piece of iron fell upon his neck, breaking it and causing instant death. few Roosevelt enthtasts to start the stampede for the president, but they held by their instructions while the ( stampede rutted alj about them. Seizing n megaphone the secretary j ishouted the roll 'call of States? j "Alabama"?"Arkansas"?but his j voice was swallowed up in tlio mad | uproar. Gradually, however, the curiosity of the multitude conquered | their enthusiasm and they lapsed ( into silence to hoar the result of the v roll call. , A hush of expectancy hung over r the assembly as the call proceeded. , Hasty summaries showed that Taft c was fair In advance. When New York was reached the Taft column totaled 4 27. Ohio carried the Taft total to 511. or 20 more than enough to nomlnate. Still the call went on until the final result was announced by Chairman Lodge. The Vote was as follows: Taft?Alabama 22, Arkansas 18. \ California 20, Colorado 10. Connect!- ' cut 14, Delaware 6, Florida 10 Georgia 17, Idaho 0, Illinois 3. Iowa ' 20, Kansas 20, Kentucky 2 4. Louisana 18, Maine 12,Maryland lO.Massa- ' chusettes 32, Michigan 27. Minnesota 22. Mississippi 20, Mlsssouri 36. | Montana 6, Nebraska 16. Nevada 6, New Hampshire 5, New Jersey 15. New York 10, North Carolina 24 North Dakota 8. Ohio 4:2. Oklahoma 14. Oregon 8. Pennsylvania 1, Rhode Island 8. South Carolina 18. South Dakota 8. Tennessee 24. Texas 36, I'tnh 6. Vermont 8. Virginia 21. Washington Id, West Virginia 14. Wisconsin 1, Wyoming 6. Alaska 2. Arizona 2. District, of Columbia 1 Hawaii 2, New Mexico 2. Philippine Islands 2. Puerto Rico 2; total 702. Hughes -New York 65, Virginia 2. total 67. Cannon?Illinois .">1. Michigan 1. New Jersey 3. New York 3; total 58. Fairbanks?Georgia 1, Indiana 30 Kentucky 2. New Hampshire 3, New Jersey 2, South Carolina 2: total 40. Knox?New Jersey 4. Pennsylvania 64; total 68. LaFollette?Wisconsin 25; total 25. Foraker?Georgia 8. Ohio 4. South Carolinn 2. Virginia 1, District of Columbia 1; total 16. T"* "1 * Donnat'lvuniii 'A * totill IWUWTCU 1 VUiin,w.....? ... 3. Alteent?South Carolina 1. Total delegates 9 80. A great shout went up as Lodge concluded his announcement, nnd with one accord the cohorts of Cnnnon and Knox and Hughes and the other heroes joined in a common tribute for the candidate of the party. Nomination Made I'lianmoiis. Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, for Gov. Hughes, moved to make the nomination of Taft unanimous; Senator Penrose, for Knox, and Bomell, for Cannon, and Emory of Georgia, for Koraker, and a member of the Wisconsin delegation for , seconded the movement. FOUR KILLED IN A FATAL Al'TO ACCIDENT IN NEW YORK. I N Ran tlic Machine Over the Pier Head Into East River Drowning the Oc- || eupants. Locked up in New York without ball, on Tuesday, John Bauer, a ''' chauffeur, who took out hla employer's touring car without permission for a wild night ride, faces a charge of homicide and four persons are dead as the result of his exploit. On the public pier at the foot of West Fifty-sixth street and the to North river is the damaged high power French motoring car which ?d Bauer, driving like the wind over 'in slippery streets and in the fuce of ( a cutting rain, sent over the piers jM urinn nnu Into the river with its six j)ei occupants. The dead: wo Colman, John, 25 years old. of un No. 521 West Fifty-first. street. mi Coleman, Itosle, 23. his wife, same gQi address. eq, Knight, Virginia. 9, Mrs. Cole- yi, man's sister. pP( Berdon, Adeline, 19, of No. 533 CXt West Fifty-first street. ser Bauer took his employer home af- i,?i ter a ride with her finance. Bedell I>0, H. learned, who is Frank J. Gould's ] secretary. He was directed to take for the car hack to the garage which is nu. the same place whore the Gould an- r0, tomohile are ca od for. He met his ulo friend John Nrland. at Fifty-fourth |ie street and Tenth avenue, and pro- u,G posed a ride. , to They culled for the Colemans and ,l(jj as there was still room In the ton- auj aeau. they took little Virgin! Knight anf ind Adeline Berdon, who lived next tra door. 1 The car was sent north to Fifty- tjOI sixth street, where they met Mary wol Knight, an older sister of Virgin!. ^oc tnd stopping. Mrs. Coleman asked lier to go along with them. She we, bought the car was sufficiently well tuR !Rled and declined to crowd the j jleasure seekers. Her courtesy sav- tjOI ng her life. cru Bauer let the car out to a racing ?WI ?alt. The street were ruuning with 0?vater and the heavy machiue slid 'rom side to side us the velocity in reased. At twelfth avenue they were er ;oing like mad and heading straight wj,( 'or the nier. half a block nwnv ? - w 1-1 Like a Vanderbllt contestant near- 'i ng the finish line, the heavy Hen- nf mlt was sent straight to the end of jna lie pier, where It struck a string pro ilece snapped it like a match stick, |ni| ind then, overturning, went crashing jze nto the dark waters of the North river. Bauer was catapulated 20 (0g, eet ahead of tne car and Nolan eaped as the car struck. Bauer made a statement to the po- \iy ice in which lie said he had ap- nn(^ tiled the brakes when the machine e(j vas half way down the pier, and that tu(l he machine had skidded. In the l)e nud on the pier the wheels of the J|V nachine made a straight track from cnn >ne end to the other. un(j nor CRUSHED UNDER CAR. hon Rej lacks Had to Be Used to Release pre I.ittle Girl. tha petl For half an hour Friday afternoon fact ?lght-year-old Jennie Scopode. of ent S'o. 4 19 East Fourteenth street New htg Vork, lay crushed under the fender waj >f a Fourteenth street car at First are lvenue, until the arrival of an enier- the itency crew released her. She was J knocked down and dragged for about ren ten feet, her body becoming jammed tioi iu tut) iiirwaru lenuer. sav Dr. Wall, of Ilellevue, was called "T1 and crawled beneath the car, but bee was unable to release her. who was roc moaning with pain. When the emor- lew gency wagon reached the place the of front car -was jacked up. Then it wit was found that the girl was suffer- cor ing from a fracture of the right leg am and Internal injuries. * the agi 1 IIIj CHASKD BY NKGRO. . the wa Young Woman in Canaster County to llu.s Narrow K, scape. j-or It was learned Friday that a a'M young woman in the Creek section, "? >f Lancaster county. Miss (Maggie Mailman, daughter of M. L. Hall- 'Hl' man, had a narrow escape a day or two ago from the hands of a black r'ei brute. She was at a branch near 'ia the house, washing some clothes. we when her attenflon was attracted by a noise nearby. F?ooking up she discovered n negro man In a clump of bushes a few feet away in the va act of sprining at her. The fright- an ened girl startod to run to the house *? but the negro headed her off, fore- p Ing her to take another route, which 110 fortunately, led to an open Held, where her pursuerer stopped chasing her.Reacting home in uafety the girl related what had happened, whereupon her father and several neigh- or bors arming themselves wth guns, searched the country for hours for nii the negro, but failed to find any trace of him. * Fanner Kills Negro Desperado... sa Ben Nowlan. a faflmer residing A1 near Macalcster, Okla. shot and kill- (>(i cd R. H. Johnson a negro despera- (;c do. who Is known to have shot and ar killed three white men. * jt GREAT CLAIMS lade in the Republican Platform Adopted.at Chicago. IAS MANY PROMISES ta of Protection in to bo Kept in Miiul in Any Changes?Merchant Marine is Favored?Republican Administration NVrpssnry to Prosperity?Strikes at Democrats. The Republican platform referring President Roosevelt, says: "In this greatest era of American vancoinent the Republican party s reached Its highest service under 3 leadership of Theodore RooseIt. Mis administration is an epoch American history. In no other riod since national sovereignty has n under Washington or prepared der Lincoln has there been such ghty progress In these ideals of rcrnment, which make for justice, lalitv and fair dealing among men. e highest aspirations of American >j?le have found voice. Their most ilted servant has come to repreit. not political sovereignty alone, t the best aims and worthiest purges of all his countrymen " Referring to his record the platm recites: "These are achlevents that will make for Theodore oscvelt his place in history. Rut. re than nil else, the great things hns done will be inspirations to se who have yet greater things do. We declare our unfaltering lerence to the polices thus injuratod and pledge their continu e tinder the Republican administlon of the government." The platform declares that the nai has bbecoine the richest In the rid under Republican guidance and lares for the orinclnle that in ih?> elopment and enjoyment of Ulh there shall ho equal opporitles for all. t continues: "Only the obstruci and filibustering of tho Demotic minority in the last House of igress prevented the enactment a number of measures of great lie benefit, the consideration of Ich can only be Instructed to anothRepublican majority. But, many jlesome and progressive laws e enacted." 'ariff revision at a special session Congress immediately after the agination the true principle of tectlon is best maintained by the losing of such duties as will equaltlie difference between tlie cost production at home and abroad, ether with a reasonable profit to erican industries: and the' benethat will follow are best secured the establishment of maximum minimum rates to bo administerby the President, under the liinion fixed in law, the maximum to avuilnhle to meet discriminations foreign countries against Amerigoods entering their markets, the minimum to vepresent the mal measure of protection at lie; the aim and purpose of the lublican policy being not only to serve, without excessive duties t security ngainst foreign comition to which American manu turers, rarmers and producers are ttled, but also to maintain the h standard of the living of the ;e earners of this country, who the most direct beneficiaries o' protective system." Vfter saying that the present curcy laws have justified their adopi and declaring in favor of postal ings banks the platform says: tie Sherman anti-trust law has n a wholesome instrument for >d in the hands of a wise and fearit administration. The enactment the railroad rale law is approved, h the statement that the Interstate amerce law should be further ended so as to give the railroads right to make and publish tralTlc cements subject to approval of i commission, but maintaining all's the principle of competition." \fter reciting what laws of benefit labor havp been enacted the platm says there is further work ?ad and pledges the party's dcvon to every cause that makes for ? betterment of the conditions of lorers, adding that the same no' II be pursued to lighten their burns, increase their opportunities for ppiness. It also speaks for the lfare of the farmers. Declaring the Republican party is > friend of the American negro, > platform declares without resertion for the enforcement In spirit d letter of nil those amendments the constitution designed for the atection and advancement of the gro and condemns "all devices e the so-called grandfather inses." Preservation of the White monnIn and Appalachian forests Is favpd. Legislation reviving the merchant trine prestige is favored. Get Life Terms. A special dispatch from Laurens ys: On seperate Indictments hert rioyd and Henry Beasly.eolori. were Thursda; convicted of mur r, with re'oiiir.iendation for mercy, id each given life sentence by idge Klugh. " " . -ni t* & .. fl aMUM WHO THEY ARE. NAMES OF THE CANDIDATES THE STATE OFFICERS. Seven fur Senate, Two fur <?ovenior, Several for Congrcxs and Solicitor. Following Is the list of State Senatorial, Congressional and solicitor candidates as it was dually closed Tuesday: United States Senate?J. G. Evans, of Spartanburg; R. G. Rhett, of Charleston; George Johnstone, of Newberry; O. B. Martin, of Columbia; E. P. Smith of Bishopville'; J. P. Grace, of Charleston; W. W. Lumpkin, of Columbia, Governor?M. F. Ansel, of Greenville; Cole L. Blease. of Newberry. T. G. McLood for Lieutenunt Governor. R. G. McCown, for Secretary of State. J. F. Lyon for Attorney General. Comptroller General A. W. Jones, of Abbeville, is opposed by N. W. Brooker, of Columbia. Superintendaut of education: 1?. C. Elmore of Spartanburg: Stiles R. Mellichamp. of Orangeburg; J. E. Swearingon. of Greenwood. Adjt. Gen. J. C. Boyd, of Greenville, is opposed by Col. Henry T. Thompson, of Columbia. Railroad Commissioner B. L. Caughman, of Lexington, is opposed by James Canzler. of Tlr/.ah, F. C. Fishburne, of Charleston; J. A. Summerset, of Columbia; and H. W. Richardson, of Columbia. For Congress: George.8. Legare. in the First; Joseph T. Johnson, in the Fourth, and A. F. Lever, in the Seventh, each for te-election. are alone without opposition. , W. S. Smith contests the re-election ot J. | O. Patterson in the Second: Julius ] E. Boggs contests that of Wyatt A. | Aiken in the Third; W. P. Pollock | ana r. tJ. m utter win seek to un- , horse D. B. Finley in the Fifth: in | the Sixth Wi'liam Murchlson, P. A. , Hodges. J. W. Coggeshall and J. W. , Ragsdale are all after J. E. Ellerbe'F , Congressional honors and emolu- ] ments. i For solicitor. P. T. Hildebrand, , in the First; J. M. Speers, in the Fourth; J. K. Henry, In the Sixth; t T. S. Sease of the Seventh, and Geor- ( ge Hell Ttiunierman, of the Eleventh; } have 110 opposition to re-election. t The candidates where the contests | are will be: Second. J. E. Davis. J. F. Iinrnes, H. M. Graham; Third, j J. B. McLaughlin. P. H. Stoll, A. B. Stuckey; Fifth, Christie Benet, VV. H. Cobb, G. R. Rembert. B. B. Clark; Eighth, R. A. Cooper, E. L. Richardson; Ninth. W. St. J. Jervey and John H. Peurifoy; Tenth, J. J. McSwain, P. A. Bouham, A. H. Dugnall, M. C. Long; Twelfth. W. H. Wells. P. B. Sellers, C. P. Quattlebaum, W. F. Clayton. WON RACE AGAINST TIME. Chicago Woman Boards Steamer for Europe After Exciting Exitcricncc. A dispatch from New York says: Mrs. Robert S. McCormlck, wife of hip rormor American ambassador to France, was the victor by minutes Thursday in a one-t housand mile race < against time. As a result she was , enabled to keep an engagement and | sail for Europe on the steamship , Kaiserine Auguste Victoria. , Mrs. McCormick had engaged pus- , sage on the big steamer some time , ago. but her departure from Chioa- , go was delayed until the last mo- < inent, when it was found that there | would be a margin of only fifteen | minutes between the arrival of her | train at Jersey City and the depur- , ture of the steamer iroui Hoboken. , some distance away. . , Under ordinary conditions it would , possible to make the distance be- ( tween the place in a fast automobile, Mrs. McCormick did not wish to ( take the chance of the train being a little late and wired ahead that the steamer be held to wait her arrival. She was informed that this could not he done, as the mail carrying I contracts made prompt sailing mandatory. She was informed, however, that a fast tug would be in waiting for her at Jersey City, and that she and her baggage would be taken on board immediately upon arrival of the train and she would be transfered to the ship in the bay if possible. Kortunatelv the train came in nro mptly on time, and a few minutes later Mrs. McCormiek was on the special tug hound up the river for Hoboken. She arrived in time to climb al>oard the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria just before the big ship dropped out into the river and started on her voyage.' * MIIS. ta'X\K88' WILL OltKVKIi. ! todies of Herself and Four Children Shipped to Chicago. A dispatch from Laporte. Tnd., says: The bodies of Mrs. Relic (iunness and four children, who lost their lives in the destruction of the Guuness house on April 2S, werr last week ordered by Ce?xt?er Mack 1 it< ic l tver to ?*e public exe wiv. h.':s arranged f.i shipm^n. of the bodies to Chicago for burial , Thursday in Forest Home cemetery, r accordance with a request made by '.Mrs. Ounness in her will. SERIOUS CHARGE. YOUNG MAN CHARGED WITH ( HAYING TWO WIVES. Warrant Sworn Out .\Kiiinxt Him at Aiken for Alleged Bigamy Is Served at Orangeburg?Denies Charge. A dispatch from Aiken to The News and Courier says: Mrs. George M. Ttealvey of Macon. Ga.. was in Aiken Tuesday afternoon, and before her departure had a warrant issued for the arrest of her husband. George M. Stalvey, on the charge of bigamy. Mrs. Stalvey js a hand-' some woman and appears very refined. She says that, she heard that o( her husband had been married to ^ another woman some time ago and she came to Aiken to confirm the report. If was found upon invest!- ... gat ion that on April 18 last Stalvey and Miss Etta Light foot, of Orange- 1 burg, came here and were married by the Rev. Phillip J. McLean at the Baptist parsonage. The couple left 'J at once and had not been heard from s. here until to-day. An article appeared iu the An- 'fi'' ouovo winuuii:it) i uesuay morning in which it was stated that Mrs. Stalvev had horsewhipped her husband in 'J1. Harlem, Uh, for his alleged' desertion. She said here however, that he had never deserted her. She says that the report as to the whipping is <n not true, but that they were at Har- ? leni Monday. She says that her hus- Kl baud is a traveling man. and that n he has never been away from her more than a few days at a time, and '** that she has always had the most implicit confidence in him. Several days ago her suspicion ' )! were aroused ami she telegraphed 1 her husband in Augusta to come to ' r vo tier at once, assigning no reason. He ^ replied that he could not coilie at that time. She then telephoned him. but says that he refused to answer the call. She says that Stalvev final- .m y confessed to the fact that he was iiarried to another woman and ask3d that she forgive him aud that he would desert his last wife, who was ' " Miss Lightfoot, and would take her ' " (the first Mrs. Stalvev i and go to jm Colorado and forget the incident. To this ho-wever, she would uot con- ' * ient and began to look for eonilrnia- on Ion of the statement. When she " irrived in Augusta she told the de- r( ectives about it and they are oti the ookout for liim. ( * Mrs. Stalvev is well ->.wi s an interesting conversationalist. >he left her husband in Harlem and nif >l?e at once came to Augusta, where u* ihe heard that he liad been married n Aiken, and she ramc here and w' confirmed the report. She says that <r* die has l?een married to liini for five ,(; rears. She was a Mrs. Meigs before s'| narriage, and was married to i?tal- w' re.v at Myrtle Reach, S. C. Miss Light- ,vv oot comes from one of the most pro- on ninent families in Orangeburg. Mr. Jtalvey is also a member of a promnent family. Mrs. Stalvey is deerinined to have him brought to '>c justice and Sheriff Duke*, of Ortngeburg. was communicated with ind asked to have Stalvey placed inder arrest if there. pe Arrested in Orangeburg. en George M. Stalvey was arrested in po Drangeburg Wednesday morning, at charged with Itigamy, the warrant l*i having been sworn out at Aiken by on i woman who alleges that Stalvey tir was married to her previous to his is recent marriage to a young lady of er: [his city. No difficulty whatever was wt experienced in serving the warrant. Tt Stalvey states that although lie has ho known his accuser for soveral years, wt lie was never married to iter, and he says that lie is confident that he th can produce conclusive evidence to ,bu show that she is not his wife. He da says that the woman, who he alleges th desired to become his wife, threat- nv piiocI to make his life a burden to fo him in the event that ho married an- ed other. He says also that he believes fl\ that this is only a plot to injure him of and to bring nnhappiness to Ids wife, pe Stalvev was married on April 18, kr last, to Miss ICtta Lightfoot, of this in city. The ceremony was performed th in Aiken by the itev. Phillip .1. Ale- fu Lean. Notices of the marriage a|>- th peared in the local papers and there was no apparent attempt on the | part of Stalvey to surround theh affair with secrecy. He is apparently stir- m lirised that two months later such h, a serious charge should be brought T against him. t. Further investigation are being ., conducted and further developments j,, are expected in the next few days. af The accused has retained Messrs st Wolfe & flerry as counsel. ? Not Placed in Jail. is A dispatch from Orangeburg t] Thursday says: fi Mr. Sta'vev lias not !> < n iitr.'ed In jail on aiv.AU>' of nit sut.cient ei evidence b3\r g stcurcd a He is still in the city, and will re- v main here until the matter has been fi entirely cleared up, or the proof has fi been made out against him that the a allegations made by the woman said t' to be his first wife, can bo substantiated. r Mr. W. Hampton Dukes a brother- a in-law of Miss Llghtfoo.t, loft for 9 Aiken Wednesday morning to inves- t tigate the matter. He returned to t the city and said that he was unable to secure sufficient proof to r lodge the accused man in jail. Hut |t he said that he still had the matter | under investigation, and he- leftji ?* * GREAT FEAT. ???" Ships Make a Date by Wlrelts* and Meet. FIRST FEAT OF KIND. annum Liner Allianca OalLs SUtff Ship to I'nlond a Stowaway Wha is Found on the Hi^ Liner A ft or I it Had Bern Out to Soa for Soma ? Time. ? .lllKt ?K mm "ion ? ? ? iui^iu ouy 10 an.her: "Meet me on tho corner of roadway and Forty-second street at >011 to-morrow," and the other anser: "All right, I'll be there,'-' two lips of the Panama Line made a ite on the high seas, and kept It. o. "Panama! Panama! Panama!" ackled the wireless on the steamlip Allianca, calling in code for a ster ship of the line which was reikened to be within a radius of a w hundred miles. "Aye, aye, aye," came back the iswer after the operator had calll a number of times. "This is tho iperanza. Who's calling?" "This Is the Allianca," hoarsely lied the wireless, Captain Sukerth speaking. Meet me at 30 deees 17 minutes north. 4 hours 37 inutes west, at noon today." "All right, I'll be there." read the pe. and the message was signed by iptain Rogers of the Fsperanza. And just as though the ocean was t. up Into streets, and equipped tli surface cars, subways and othniodern conveniences, the two big ssels met promptly at the appotnthour. "Well, f see you are here." shoutCaptain Sukeforth through' tho igaphone. "Yes. hope I haven't kept you ilting," replied Captain Rogers. ? "Not a minute," called Captain keforth, and then the business of 2 first wireless appointment ever ide, which conssted of transferr; a stowaway from New York from ? outgoing vessel to the inbound e, was promptly transferred, aDd th a "So long" toot of the whistle >ni the Fsperanza, and a "Good,much obliged."response from the pptoned siren of the Allianca. the n vessels went their ways. Word of this remarkable appoint >nt. and meeting or tne two snips sea was brought to port by the peranza. which arrived last week th the stowaway. Passengers and ws of both ships were cnthustasovor the demonstraton of the posdllties of the wireless combined th good seamanship in bringing o vessels together nt a given time the high seas. * THREE >1IXKits DEAD. nnsylvania Coal Mine Claims Moro Vict inis. Three miners are dead, two others rhaps fatally burned and fifteen tombed, many of whom are supsed to be dead, from an explosion the Ellsworth No. I. Mine, of the ttshnrg Coal Company, near Mongahela. Pa., Friday. Of the vicns taken from the mine John Real the only one identified. The oths are foreigners, whose features >re too scorched to be recognized, ic burned men were hurried to the >spital. where, it was said, they mid probably die. Little is known as to the cause of e explosion. It occurred when all it thirty miners working on the y shift had left the workings. CM is number fifteen were near the r>uth of slope and ruHhed out here the force of the explosion reachthem. Had the explosion occtirred re minutes earlier the entire force over 500 would have been entrap d with many fatalities. Little is lown as to the fate of the men still UK- mine, imu most 01 mem are ought to have perished in the mcs, which are still escaping, so nit rescuers cnnnotenter the slope.* Itnd .Money Sobered Urnnken Man. "Sergeant counterfeiters aro f>n y trail," declared John Kovitt as 3 rushed into the police,station in renton, N. J. He said he had been in vo saloons and in one he was given bad quarter and the other a bad filf dollar in change. He will never ?ain enter another saloou. so ho iys. hursday for Myrtle Beach where it i stated, by the woman in Aiken lat the marriage took place the rst time. The woman stated, so it is alleg J, that she was married to Stalvey t this place, and that he ceremony fas performed on he pizza of a Sherman's lodge. The name of the sherman, it is stated, she was unble to rememliber, and that he was he only witness to the ceremony. Mr. Dukes has gone to Myrtle leach to invest igate the matter there, nd will return as soon as he has atistied his mind, that the accusaion is false, or that the facts are to ie obtained at this point. In the meantime. Stalvey will renaln in this city, where he can be aken into custody, should the proof so strong enough against him to varrant his being locked up. w