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7TII YEAR FORT MITT, S. C., THURSDAY, JUTY 28, 1908 NO 16
MYSTERIOUS DEATH.
POLICE OFFICERS AT TROY, N.
Y., ARK RAFFLED.
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Efforts to Find Slayer of Nineteen*
Year-OKI Girl, WIionc Roily Was
Found Sunday, Unrewarded.
5_ A dispatch from Troy, N. Y., says
out of a maze of the theories which
confront the authorities who arte
trying to lift the cloud of mystery
surrounding the death of 19 yearold
Hazel I. Drew, whose body was
found In an eld mill pond near Averett
Park last Sunday, nothing tangible
developed bo far that points to
the murderer the motive for the
crime. No arrests have been made,
although the police have closely
questioned several persons whom it
was thought might throw some light
on the case.
That the girl was assaulted before
o..c Miis inurciereu and thrown into
tliH pond. Ik the generally accepted
theory, but the body was in such n
state of decomposition when found
us to make it practically impossible
for the physicians to determine that
l'uct.
Theories multiply as to the motive
for the murder. The girl was not
known to have an enemy or sweetheart,
and the batlled authorities were
even willing to take up the possibility
of suicide. The physcian's statement.
however, to the effect that
there was no water in the lung wus
given as proof that the girl was dead
before her body wus thrown into the
pond.
At the church yard at Poestenklll,
where Hazel's life began, her body
was laid to rest. A bunch of roses
adorned the casket, while the Rev.
W. II. E. Richards, of the Methodist
Church, offered prayer. Only a few
friends and relatives were present.
What the girl did from the time
she left her aunt on Monday, July fc,
until the hody was found, remains
untold. Rliody Gunderinun and
Frank Sinits tell of having seen
Hazel on Tuesday night on the road
leading from Averill Park to Tuberton.
They met her, they say, at a
point in the road railed "The Hollow."
A little father along another
road branches off to the left and leads
to the home of Wm. Taylor, an un- i
cle of the girl. She may have been
on her way to visit some friends in
Taberton or her destination inav
have been he.* uncle's home. According
to Gunderman'B story the girl
I was carrying her hat in her hand
One or the numerous theories that
developed suggested that a young
woman living at Taberton closely resembles
the. murdered girl and that
Gunderuian and Smith might have
been mistaken in thinking that she
was Hazel. The girl, however, when
quoBtoned, said she whs not on the
road on Tuesday night, although
she had been that way on foot on
other nights.
The authorities sire endeavoring
to lind the suit ease and handbag
which (lie g|r| carried when she left
Troy. The fact that she did not
have them wh"ii she met Oundernian
and Smith is taken to indicate that
she may have left them where she
has spent th * preceding night.
The possibility that the Imp and
suit case n.ay have been thrown
into the mill pond led the authorities
to open the g ite of the dam for the
purpose of draining. After about
two feet of v uti r had been let out
a heavy thunder storm came up and
further ope "alio as were postponed
until Thursday. The girl's hat,
gloves and eyeglasses were found on
the bank, and there was no indication
of a Httngflfcc. although a sufficient.
time had elapsed since the girl
met her death to have permitted the
trampled press to revive.
The theory that the girl died from
rm i'infill itiivu iti in* h'miii im u rursn
string lied about her nock. and
which is said to have boon cut nt
the time of (lie autopsy, is not given
much credence by the authorities.
The utrins apparently was one
thai the girl wore about her neck
and it bruk< when the body became
swollen by being in the water eo
long.
The authorities do not place much
credence in the story that the girl
was taken to the lonely pond by a
party in an automobile.
PLE \st RE IjAI NCH LOST.
Twenty-Five of it Seventy-Five Passengers
arc Drowned.
A pleasure launch. hound from
Manila to jCorreligdor Island., carrying
about seventy-five passengers,
was caught in a typhoon Thursday
and foundered.
it is 1 relieved that twenty- live of
the passengers. Including three
^ Americans, were drowned. The oth
ITS, rilll lnrvins HIMllll IIII.Y. ncic
picked up by the British steamer
Snverlc, which was passing close to
th-> Innnch when It foundered.
The Fuverlc lowered its lioats immediately
and those, together with
the boits from other craft that came
> to the rescue, picked up the fifty
' passengers with much difficulty.
It Is reported that an? army of
surgeons Is among the lost. Details
of the disaster have not yet reached
Manila.
Corregidor Island Is at the entrance
of Manila Bay, thirty miles from
* thQ city- , _ *
KILLED 11Y ENGINE.
Horrible Accident Occurred iu Columbia
Tuesday Night.
At Columbia Mr. James E. Mlkell
met a horible and almost Instant
death Tuesday night just a few
minutes before the hour of midnight
at the corner of Gervais and Lincoln
streets. He was struck by a Soaboard
passenger engine at the point where
the tracks of the Seaboard cross,
Gorvais street aud his body was dragged
about 100 feet north before the
engine pased over it.
Mr. Mikell has been employed for
several weeks by the Seaboard as
a substitute watchman, and Tuesday
night he was on duty at the
Gervais street crossing, next to the
Seaboard station. When the southbound
passenger train arrived at 11.4
5 p. m., he was at his post and
readily gave the proper signals. The.
engine which brings this train to Columbia
from Portsmouth is relieved
here by another engine and crew. The
engine which brought the train into
the station had transferred to the
siding and was backing, going north
to the Sydney park yards, when it
struck Mr. Mikell.
The engineer, Mr. Jas Norton,
evidently failed to observe that his
engine hud struck any object, for he
made no stop after striking the man
and was not aware that he had run
over und killed a man until some 20
minutes afterward when the agent
called him over the telephone and
so informed him. i
BODY ON MARKKT FOB f&O.
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John Barrett, TO Years Old, Wnuts
to Sell His Body.
Deported by his fortune, which
once smiled niton him. John Barrett,
of Middleton, Conn., offers to soil his
body for $50. The offer has been
refused by the (Joorge Washington
hospital, at Washington, D. C. C..
to which it was made, but the offer
is still open.
narrett Is about 70 years old. and
although apparently hale and hearty
and likely to live many years more,
he feels that his days are numbered,
and rather than live In want he
would rnlse the $50 which will chase
the wolf away for a while by glviug
a lien on his body. He came to
Washington in search of health, hoping
to benefited by the climate.
"I don't think there is anything
so unusual in iuy ofTer," he said..
"1 have heard of Buch cases before,
and I know that hospitals pay $50
for bodies for dissecting purposes.
By getting this money 1 can live a
little easier for a while, but I believe
that my days are not very
long, and I fear the time when I will
not have a penny. I have been able
in the past to pay my room rent
promptly and purchase the food that
I need, but my money is very low
now."
FIBK ANSWKBS FBAYKB
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cd Might Im* Removed.
Twelve hours after the Rev. Geo.
Edward Lewis. in a public prayer,
asked that the amusement resorts of (
Irving park, Chicago, where liquor .
is sold, "might he burned to the |
ground," Excelsior park was consuui- ,
ed by fire. The prayer wns offered ,
within three blocks of Excelsior park
in a revival meeting in the Emmanuel
Congregational church. ,
Proprietors of the park state their
loss will reach $f?0,000 and that they (
had taken extra precautions against
flro, owing to the preacher's prayer. ,
It is believed the blaze was caused
by crossed wires. The police are
looking for two men who were seen
in the park Just before the fire.
AFTER REEF TRI'ST AGAIN.
New York Decides to Investigate High
Price of Meat.
The transactions of the Beef trust
i 11 New York state is to be examined
by Attorney General Jackson, of that
commonwealth. Tired of the constant
rise in the price of meats, the
people of the state have revolted,
nod Gov Hughes has heard the public
clamor.
"1 am glad this matter has been
called to my attention," declares Attorney
Jackson, "as I can not see
why, at this time of the year, when
it costs less to keep cattle than at
any other season, the trust is charging
the consumer three and three and a
half cents a pound more than it did
three months ago. If I can find any
trust officers within this state who
can be proceeded against. I intend to
get after them."
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Kill's His Wife.
Robert Wright, aged 32. cut his
wife's throat and then attempted to
commit suicide at their home, four
miles west of McXinney. Tex.. Tuesday.
When discovered his wife was
lying dead on the floor with her
windpipe severed, and Wright, with
several gashes In his throat, was
wandering about the house, begging
for some one to kill him. The couple
are survived by a three-year-old child,
who was found sitting on the bed
near where its dead mother was lying.
Fleet Near Honolulu.
The American fleet of battleships
arrived at Honolulu about 1 o'clock
Thursday afternoon, according to a
-late wireless dispatch.
VICTORY FOR BRYAN.
REPrilLICAN LEADERS ADMIT
DEMOCRATS HAVK CHANCE.
Hand a Throttle of Party Machinery
is (land of More Seasoned Engineer?Attention
to New York.
In the view of practical politicians
in Washington the Democrats have
started well at Denver. It is candidly
admitted by prominent Republicans
there that the beginning of
the campaign is under more auspicious
circumstances for tlio Democrats
than at any period of the party's
history since 1892. No one attempts
to account for the fact that harmony
seems to have prevailed at Denver
to an unusual extent, and that the
whole party machinery seems to have
been better oiled than at any time
for sixteen years. The only explanation
offered is that the hand of the J
man at the throttle was that of a
more seasoned engineer than In past
years. Mr. Bryan, according to
shrewd observers, has learned some
things. Years have brought with
him the knowledge of placating opposing
elements, instead of putting
them at each others' throats.
Mm< %? ?.
..... ...m wv-n- it-ii iHi.vs ago declared
that Bryan hail no earthly chance
i?f election in November now admit
that the beginning made at Denver
Is such as to ensure a rattling
campaign and possibly, Democratic
victory. It all depends, they believe,
upon whether the Democratic campaign
is smoothness as the preliniithe
same smoothness rs the preliminary
stages. If it is November may
liring tidings of a change in government
control.
There is little question, in the
minds of politicians that the tight
:o be made by Mr. Bryan will ho
n the West and Middle West. That,
t is pointed out, is plainly shown in
ne platform. Mr. Bryan went out
if his way to put up a platform
hat would catch the Western people,
ind as plainly as if he had said it
llmself the declaration or principles
>f the Democracy appeals to West(in
sentiment and thought. Mr. Bryin
will depend for his election upon
he South, with Nebraska. Kansas,
rVisconsin. Minnesota, Illinois. Indluiu
and the Dakotas. and he expects
o give Mr. Taft a great fight in Ohio,
vliere the Republican party is still
orn with dissension. It. Is doubtful,
iccordiug to political reasoning, if
he Democrats will give the slightest
it tent ion to a single Eastern State,
inless it is New York. And whether
hey will do that will depend upon
he developments in the entire State.
Mr. Bryan plainly says to the counry
that he has studied sentiment In
lie West, and thai he believes it will
>e with him in November.
Hl'ItT IX I T HE.
Woman Jumps From Second Story
Witli Fatal Result.
in a lire at Memphis, Tenn., Tues1av
which destroyed the fashionable
Jefferson tlats, Mrs. F. 11. James,
formerly of Chicago, jumped from a
second story window and is now in
a critical condition nt the Presbyterian
tinanllnl Vl ra l i c'"1"
was carried from the building by firemen.
Mrs. Elizabeth McDouald, living
on the fourth floor, did not awake
until she was hemmed in on all
sides by flames. Her cries attracted
firemen who carried her through a
window and down an extension ladder.
A few minutes later the roof fell
in over her room.
A number of other ocupants of
the building were rescued by firemen,
nest of them clad in their night garments.
Diamonds valued at $10,000 were
recovered from Mrs. James' room
durng the progress of the tiro by
Policemen Crosby and Smith. Loss,
$2r?,000, covered by insurance.
SHOT THKOl'GH WINDOW.
Shi of Superintendent of Methodist
Orphanage in Georgia Ihully Hint.
At Atlanta, Ga.. Ilirman Jamieson.
the eight-year-old son of Superintendent
Jamieson. of lie Decatur Methodist
Orphans' Home, and Mrs.
Jamieson wore pcrhn is fatally wounded
late Tuesday while on a suburban
car returning to their home after
an outing given to the orphans of
Fulton County.
As the ear was speeding along a
shot was fired from a passing freight
train on the Georgia Railroad, which
parallels the trolley line, the bullet
passing through the head of the
boy and entering his mother's neck.
Who fired the shot is not known, huh
Inter the entire crew of the freight
train was placed under arrest. At
tending pnysinans say mn noy cannot
recover and that Mrs. Jamieson's
condition is critical.
Prick Mason Kills Himself.
Paul Kichelberger. a brick mason.
committed suicide at Orlando,
Kla.. Tuesday by taking jtolson. His
Imdy was found in an alley. Klchelborger
was recently sentenced to the
penitentiary for cruel treatment to
his wife, and the humilation is evidently
what caused him to take his
life.
KAILS CAUSE WKKCK.
One Woman Killed and Several Other
Passengers Hurt.
One wuman was killed, two were
perhaps mortally injured and nearly
a dozen persons were seriously hurt
when the White Mountain express,
of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford was wrecked 100 feet west
of Greenwich. Conn., Thursday.
Spreading rails caused the ten-car
train to leave the tracks while it was
rroBsing a bridge over a steamboat
road, and five of the passengers
cars, including four Pullmans, were
hurled into a ditch, where they collapsed
like paper bboxes. That less
than fifteen of 180 passengers were
killed or injured seems little short
of miraculous, as the train was going
fifty miles an hour.
The most tragic incident of the
wreck was the death of Miss Margaret
Armstrong, of Wayne. Pa., who
was seated beside her mother in one
of the Pullman coaches when the
train left the tracks. Miss Armstrong
sprang from her seat and leaped out
of a window just us the car toppled
over and she was ground to death
as her mother looked on. Mrs. Armstrong
fainted from the shock, and
when she recovered consciousness
in the hospital she was out of her
mind. The doctors administered
opiates to quiet her. They say her
condition is serious, and that she
may die, nunough she was not injured
in the wreck.
The other woman who may die
1M mrn. ;\.\1 . l?mKe or 17 lSUSt 8th
street, New York city, who was
crushed In one of the cars. An Immediate
Investigation as to the cause
of the wreck is to be made. The
coroner has had the engineer and
both conductors of the train placed
under arrest, and he is having the
work of moving the wreckage watched.
This action was taken because
of a report that readied the corner
that a rotten tie on the bridge caused
the accident. There is evidence
alleged that' the tie was in such a
worm-eaten condition that the spikes i
holding the rails were pulled out. *
1M M)SK V ELT'S FRIEND KIX) PES.
Oklahoma Marshal Stole lli-idc He i
Had Determined to Marry.
John R. Abernnthy, former Hough
Rider, and United States marshal for 1
Oklahoma under appointment from !
President Roosevelt was married in '
Oklahoma City, after an elopement '
In which an angry father was evaded.
The bride is Almira Pervlance.
19 years of age.of near Guthrie Ab- 1
ernathy is a widower of a year. ;?2 1
years of age and lias six children. His 1
first marriage was an elopnient from '
Galveston. Tex. Mr. Pervlance oh- '
jected to the miriage on accunt of 1
the disparity of age.
Ahe.rnathy entertained the President
nt his ranch, then in Comnn- 1
die county In 1905, and took him on
some famous weflf chases. In the
following year he was appointed marshal,
despite charges that, ho was
unfit and which were reported to
the President as untrue, the investigator
being Gov. Prantz, another
Rough Rider.
GONZALES VISITS BRYAN.
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KtlUni* siovij #
Will Make a Few Spmlics.
W. TO. Gonzales, editor of the
State, of Columbia, S. C.. and one
of Mr. Bryan's lieutenants, after a
visit with Mr. Bryan and Mr. Kern
at Kalrview, Lincoln, Neb., Tuesday
said:
"The statement that Mr. Bryan will
not make a canvass is incorrect. It
is his present purpose, however, to
deliver no platform speeches, but to
make ten or a dozen political addresses.
dealing with the more vital
issues as presented In the platform.
Mr. Kern will make a more coninuotis
campaign, and 1 was assured in
Denver that Mr. Towne will he no
less active than if he had been the
Vice Presidential nominee."
Mr. Gonzales said that campaign
contributions will he invited by
newspapers In his State, and he believed
every Democratic paper in the
South would do likewise. *
(JOKS FROM ASYLIM TO J\1L.
Alleged Kmhc/./.lcr in Florida Arrested
mid Will Im* Tried.
G. C. Scudamore, former cashier
of the Pensacola Bank and Trust Co..
and charged with embezzling large
sums of money from that institution,
was hi ought to Pensacola Tuesday
and placed in the county jail, being
arrested by a deputy as he walked
from the grounds of the Florida Insane
Asylum at Chatahoochee. N
He will be arrainged for trial at
an early date. Scudamore. when
I arrested a month ago on the charge
I of embezzling and set free on the plea
of insanity, and after many commissions
had passed on him ln? was declared
to be insane and committed
to the asylum. The asylum authorities
recently decided, that he was sane
and his discharge followed.
Difliculty Alnuit a Con.
At Lancaaster on Wednesday a
difficulty occurred between two negroes,
Bart Frazier and Harvey
Massey, on the Witherspoon plantation.
on Catuwha river, in which Krar.ior
was shot in the abdomen Massey
using a shotgun. The attending
physician says the wounded man will
die. The trouble was about a cow.
DISGRACE IN OLD AGE
VENERABLE OREGON POSTM ASTER
EMBEZZLE I) FOR FAMILY.
Stole First to I'ay Mt?rtxap> Thru
He Stole That lie Might Live Beyond
His Ineonte.
Witnesses, sspertutors, lawyers anil
others drawn to Bend Ore., by the
recent land fraud cases were called
upon to witness an unusual spectacle
when Federal Judge Wolverton sentenced
Alfred H. Grant, the venerable
postmaster of that place, to
ocitr mrve years and six month in
the Federal prison on McNeill's island
and to pay a fine of $3,261.76.
Grant had pleaded guilty to a charge
of embezzlement of Government
funds through the conversion of
money orders to his private use. For
more ti an 2.r> years he had been a
highly respected citizen of Cook comity.
and had for years been post master
at Hay Creek. Five years ago he
was promoted to the more important
office at Bend and despite the increase
in business which enabled him to
embezzle over $3,000. Grant was so
trusted that his bond had not. been
raised above $1,000. It does not appear
that he used a cent of the stolen
money on himself or spent It extravagantly.
He stole first to pay a mortgage
on his home, then to furnish
his house and make his wife and
only child comfortable. Living beyond
his income opened the downward
path to ruined character and to
prison Iii shame and disgrace.
It was about 10 a. m. when Mr.
Grant was brought before Judge
Wolverton. As his name was called
a pathetic figure, crouching as much
as It could in the shadow of a huge
deputy marshal, arose and walked
hestitatingly toward the center of
the chamber. His face was bronzed,
and his whitening beard emphasized
the darker lines of his seamy face.
The man had always borne a good
reputation and showed no trace of
anything that would arouse a suspicion
to the contrary. Grant bowed
his head when facing the bench that
he might hide his eyes that were red
with weeping. The district attorney
explained the extenuating circumstances.
It was with some difficulty
.hat Judge Wolverton passed sentence
an the man who is a few years his
iunior.
"It is the judgment of this court."
continued Judge Wolverton in low
Aiid measured toues. "that you pay
? fine of $3,118.54 and be confined
in the penitentiary on McNeills Island
pac ? ...i**.!?j ?- a 4
.w. it i>vi tun 01 iwo yenrs and six
months on the first count; that you
pay a fine of $14.'5.22 and be confined
for a period of one year upon
the second count."
This made the total fine *2 261.76,
the amount of the enibezz'ement,
and the imprisonment 42 months
The Imprisonment may he reduced
three mouths, upon good b<-ha\ ioi
And then after this time has expired
about 1 5 months, or to two years and
Grant can, after further confinement
of 30 days, take the pauper's
oath and be released. The sentence
was a comparatively light one as
tho limit on each count is ten years.
POWEDKlt MAGAZINE EXPLODES.
Nine Lives Snulfed Out Suddenly in
i
a Washington Town.
At Cleelum, Wash., an explosion
Thursday in the powder magazine of
the Northwestern Improvement Co.,
killed nine persons and seriously injured
a number of others.
The dead: George Mead, manage
jf Northwestern Improvement Go's,
store: Gilford McDonnells, clerk:
Andy Grill, clerk Mrs. Perry Moffntt,
wife of brlekniaker; Infant child
of Mrs. Moffatt, Joe Rossle, miner;
Joseph Pogrlaphi, miner; two miners.
Shortly before 5 o'clock Manager
Mead and the two clerks from the
store went to the powder house to
assist in unloading a carload of powder.
How the accident happened
is nui Known.
A STH.WCiK AMMAI,.
People of Cot tagc vilic Stirred I'p
Ovei Nature Freak.
\ dispatch from Walterboro says
foi Home days past the people of
Cottageviile have heen very much
exercised over the appearance in
that neighbored of a strange animal.
it is described by those who
have seen it as being entirely different
from anything they have ever
seen before in the animal kingdom.
It is about the sise of a yearling calf,
has a head shaped like a dog.
screams like a peacock and leaps like
a kanagroo. Some persons who
have seen it say that it is affrighted;
others that it is vicious and showssigns
of attacking them. On the
whole it is a most peculiar animal. *
White- Haired "Tiger" Convicted.
D. Parker, an old white-haired,
gray-bearded man. pleaded guilty in
the Court of Sessions at. Spartan burr,
Tuesday morning on the charge of
selling liquor. He looked like Alexander
Dowle. Judge Hydrlck endeavored
to get the defendant to promise
that he would not sell any more
whiskey, but the old man would not
promise. He was sentenced to serve
three month or pay a fine of $100.
SKY EX MIX KKS KILLED.
Terrific Explosion of Gas in Pennsylvania
Coal Mine.
At Pottsville. Pa.. on Thursday
seven mine workers were killed nud
ten others injured by a terrific explosion
of gas in the \Viliianistown
colliery of the Summit Branch Mining
Company, in the lower part of
the anthracite coal fields. The mtne
was wrecked and set on fire.
The dead are: John Riley. Arthur
Hawk. Charles Ricourt. John
Whttlp. Anthony Prelas. James
Bowman. Michael Staknm.
The explosion occurred in No. 1
shaft of the colliery and is believed
to have been caused by one of the
men lifting the gaze of his safety
lamp just after an explosion of a
shot which brought down a large
body of coal.
The explosion shook th? ?>i? 11
colliery. The work of rescue was
luimediutcly begun and when volunteers
were called for almost every
man at the workings offered his services,
which meant a hazardous trip
into the burning mine.
Near the foot of the shaft the injured
were found, they having rushed
toward the entrauee only to fall
over unconscious. All of the dead
were found a short distance from
the shaft battered and burned into
an almost unrecognizable mass.
Physicians from Willinrustown and
nearby villages treated the Injured
while a number of women volunteered
their services as nurses. Several
of the Injured were removed to their
homes, after receiving temporary
treatment, but others were in too
serious a condition to he moved until
night, and cots were provided for
them. The doctors say three of the
injured may die.
One of the injured was taken to
the morgue, and it was not until
.111 identification of the bodies was
made that it was found that he was
living.
He was badly burned and battered,
but probably will recover. The
fire In the mine probably will he
extinguished before more damage is
done.
The Willlamstown colliery is
operated by the companies controlled
by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
<il\ F.S .lOV TO BRYAN*.
Defeat of Taft .Man in Western Town
Causes Satisfaction. !
The defeat Monday of a Taft man (
for Mayor of Walla Walla. Wash., a |
Republican stronghold, was the cause ,
jf much jubilation at Fairview. (
Neb. With unfeigned delight. Rrv- (
an announced the receipt of this ,
telegram from W. 11. Murphy. Do- (
moeratic leader of that city. "The ,
Democrats of Walla Walla, Wash., (
send greetings. As the first favorable
augury of victory at Monday'*
"lection, the home of United States
Senator Ankeny, heretofore a Re- (
publican stronghold, elected Kugene
Tnnctio I Vf *? "r
P. Mc.Keun. Republican, by a majority
of nine hundred and fortytwo.
Mr. McKeuu is |>resblout of
ll e local Tnft Club."
llryan declared that the election
was significant. In that it showed to
the country that the Democrats have
been justified in their forecasts of
the trend of political sentiment
throughout the country. *
FELL INTO DEEP WELL.
(ialfney laul lias Thrilling experience
While at I'lay.
.For remarkable occurrences Gaffney
is still in the lead. A lad fiveyear-old
son of Mr. Ho yd Sarratt
who lives near Limestone College
was playing over an old well with
his little brother Monday afternoon,
when the covering, which was rotten
broke through, with the result that
the boy went to the I Kit torn, a distance
of seventy-five feet, into seven
feet of water.
The younger child at once gave
the alarm, but it was some three
hundred yards to the house. The
father immediately started for the
well, expecting to find his son at the
bottom, but before he reached flic
scene of the accident he met the boy
coming to tli house. The little fellow,
who was barefooted, had climed
out without assistance none the
worse for his thrilling experience
except a slight abrasion on the back
of his head.
DHOVK NEtiltO FROM FOI VTV.
Vorkxilie lllaek Given Itttt Lashes
mid TdMI to l/i'ino.
About ten days or two weeks ago
a report pained currency in a neighborhood
about seven mites northeast
of Yorkvllte. near ('lover, that v
horrible assault had been made or
the person of a little white girl. Ar
'miredate investigation proved it It
oe utterly false and without foundation.
Citizens of the neighborhood
made careful inquiry as to the aufho
of the report, and finally fastened
guilt on Bob Howard, a negro.
On Monday night, a number of men
visited his home, took him out. ap-1
plied 100 lashes to his back and advised
to leave the State, never tr
return, by noon. He went. It it
claimed that he started similar reports
in several other neighborhoods
in which he had lived in the county.
ASK CONTRIBUTIONS
BUY AN AND KERN ISSUE APPEAL
TO FARMERS.
Iowa Farmer, Formerly a Rcpublieau.
Gives $100 for Campaign
Film!, Which In First Contribution.
The first appeal for campaign contributions
by the Democratic candidates
for the presidency and the
vice-presidency was 'issued Friday,
directed to the farmers of the country.
It is ns follows:
"To the Farmers of the United
State:
"The first contribution made to
the Democratic campaign fund this
year, so far as we know, was made
ivy an Iowa farmer. Just before the
Denver convention net it.his man.
who modestly prefers not to have his
name mentioned, journeyed more
than 100 miles to Lincoln with his
i ntribution of $100. which he left
with Mr. Bryan to be given to the
committee when organized for the
campaign.
"This farmer was born in Sweden
...wl r,?. C.til,,., .iftor 1,1, u/nc tint.
unitized was a member of the Kepuhlican
party. Hut he was a student
of public questions and in the
course of time became a Democrat.
To manifest his deep interest in the
success of the party and the triumph
of Democratic prinoipies he made
this free will offering o the campaign
fund.
"It is very appropriate that this
llrst contribution should come from
that great body of our population
known as agriculturists. The farmer
has nothing to gain by privilege
and favoritism; hishopn is in the
application of the doctrine of "equal
rights to all and special privileges
to none.' He has been the ictim of
til special legislation and has suffered
front control of politics by the
great predatory corporations. Now
that the Democratic party has anno
timed its determination not to aciept
contributions from corporations
and not to accept excessive contributions
even from individuals and
to publish all pontrihutions wheu
aver a reasonable minimum. It ought
Lo he able to secure a sufficient sniu
from the citizens who ask from the
government nothing but protection
>f their rights and consideration for
the general welfare. There are
hundred of thousands of farmers
ivho are abundantly able to contribute
the campaingn fund There are
housands who could give $100 apiece
without feeling it; there are tens of
thousands who could give $.">0 apiece
without sacrifice and still more who
:*oit Id give $25 or $10 or $5.
"As the national committee has
not yet been organized we will ask
riie Commoner to call for subscriptions
lo this farmers' fund. Those
giving may indicate whether they
ire willing to have their names
mentioned and if the rontrbution is
not more than $ I up their wishes will
lie complied with. All contributions
above $100 must be made known no
matter from whom they come.
"The farmers fund will be turned
over to the national committee as
:onn as its permanent officers have
been selected. Who will ho the first
to respond? The Denver convention
was a people's convention; it adopted
a strong, clear, honest platform
and its nominations were made with
practical unaminity. Our fight is
a fight for the whole people. Our
i.. i .,,wl n?oril liictlen tn nil;
Hllll lr> V-rtMVV J
our purpose is to restore the govomnent
to the hands of freely chosen
representatives of the voters. How
nany fi inters will join in furnish:ng
the fund necessary to present
the issues?
(Signed )
"William ,J. Ilryan. '
"John W. Kern." *
PICKMIHKNT PLANS.
Uoosevelt Letting Iteudy for His
Hunting Trip Next Year.
There is 'very little Government
business being transacted these warm
days at Oyster Hay. On the broad
veranda of his home at Sagamore
Gill. President Koosevellt sits with
books to the right of him and books
to the left of him, hooks in front of
him and a book in his hand. He is
tot stu iyr.ig eampagn literature nor
oconoinie methods of government
ither, but examining charts of the
wilds of Africa and reading treatises
on how to shooting big game. Indeed,
these seem to he the President's
happiest days, sitting in a big chair,
examining a big allium containing
?h: tographs of scenes in iiritiHh
\frica or the Congo, and forming
plans for his greai hi nting trip f.o
he dark continent next year.
During the week the President has
had a number of callers who. fiom
xperience, wore able to give him ineresting
details of the manner of
hunting in Arica. Among these
visitors were Mr. and Mrs. A. Saunde?-son,
who recently returned front
hunting iu Africa. Among these
two lion cubs which they gave to
he New York Zoological slciety. *
Etna Again in Active Eruption.
Mount Etna is in active eruption
Mid lava is tlowiiig down its sides.
Earthquake shocks are frequent, in
the vicinity of Milo and Santeramo.
Italy. *