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f THE FORT MILL VOL. XYII. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY U, 1909. NO. 41. MUUI n CAROLS ^^^Hiews of Interest Gleaned Frt I Arranged Fo I b Penitentiary Report. i^^^rho superintendent of the State I penitentiary, Capt. D. J. Griffith, has I -completed his annual report on re 1 ceipts and expenditures for the yeai 1908. The report shows that undci I the present official force the institution has made considerable monej and the affairs were conducted on the mo6t businesslike basis. The showing is all the more remarkable because of the destruction of the August freshet ' The statement of the cash on hand and the expenditures is given as follows : Cash on hand Def, ccmbqr 3lst, year 1UUS.. . .$29,202.24 Cash receipts for .year 1908.. .. 85,755.43 $115,017.72 Expenditures? Expenses for year 1008, cash.. $ 03,609.00 Permanent impromcnt, 1003 10,050.20 j $74,025.20 Cash balance on hand I)ccumber 31, 1908 40,302.43 297 bales cotton on hand December 31. 1003 13,305.0(1 Accounts due and available 5,000.00 Total on hand and available $58,757.43 The permanent improvements ini elude the reformatory building at the Ijexington farm, costing $4,347.89; boiler room at same, $1,875; beds foi reformatory, $1,003.29; South Carolina -Industrial school at Florence, $543.98; Itcid farm mill. $580; mill i equipment, $113.70; also repairs to ' -women's building at the State prison ! and various incidental expenses incident to keeping up the penitentiary j buildings and outbuildings, making the total of $10,956.29 for permanent improvements. ity the llood the State penitentiary farms lost about 20,00 bushels of corn as well as five or 10 tons of hay, and ?liad it not been for this disaster the profit from the penitentiary this year would have been at least $75,000. As " it is the showing of the year is the best iu the history of the instution. Anderson Farmer Suicides. V Anderson, Special.?News reaehfd I tho city Sunday of a suicide, which occurred in the northern section of Garvin township, near the Pickens county line Saturday. Mr. \V. A. i Young, a white man about 00 years old, with apparently no reason except thaf he was tired of life, slashed his throat with a razor and was found by members of his family a short distance from the house gasping for breath. lie was taken into the house and died within a very short time. Mr. Young was n farmer and last year was a tenant on the plantation of Dr. W. A. Tripp. Laurens Merchant Fails. Laurens, Special.?Former State Senator 0. P. Goodwin, farmer and merchant, Saturday made a general assignment for the benefit of his creditors. Robt. A. Cooper of the. firm of Simpson, Cooper & Bnbb, attorneys, Tipinrr IV?n ncuimino A r* ...w mw^iivv. noocia I'UIIMMS OL two farms and some snrbnrban town property, including a store house. The schedule of liabilities is incomplete but MY. Goodwin's friends believe he will be able to save his home. However, it is made without reservation, the homestead privelegc being waived and dower rights renounced by Mrs. ' Goodwin. It is practically certain thai creditors will be paid in full. # , Governor Calls For Contributions. Columbia, Special.?Governor Ansel Tuesday afternoon issued an appeal to the people of the State to contribute to the relief of the Italian earthquake sufferers through the South Carolina representatives of the Red Cross. Governor Ansel himself has sent forward a contribution, which was acknowledged in a dispatch from an Itnlinu newspaper. Fire Near Rock Hill. Rock Hill, Special.?The home of Mr. Will Riggers, situated on his farm, about four miles north of the city, with nil its contents, was burned "Wednesday night between 10 and 11 o'clock. Mr. Ed Riggers was the only person at home and he awoke barely in tinr?^ (o save his life. The lire caught near the chimney in the roof and the falling timbers waked the sleeper. The insurance carried on the house and furniture is not more than 50 per cent of the value and Mr. Riggers' loss is consequently heavy. Raiding Blind Tigers. Spartanburg, Special.?The police of Spartanburg, who have been active I in running down blind tigers, have commenced to put on the screws tighter. This year promises to he a hard one for the dealcts in liquor. Mayor . Floyd has employed several plain ; < I'-jjS clothes men to aid the regular members of the police force in enforcing the law. Several arrests have been mado within the last twenty-four NANEWS ITEMS All Sections of the State and r Busy Readers Skeleton Eaten With Quicklime. , Charleston, Special.?A gruesome and unennny tind was made Wednesday afternoon by Sexton Conklin in ' some marsh land just east of the St. I.aurencc Cemetery, when he stumbled r over the partial skeleton of a human . being, scnttered in pieces over the r ground. Immediately after the discovery Mr. Conklin communicated 5 with the coroner. The thigh and shin J bones, together with a portion of the J jaw bones of the skeleton were found lying within a distance of three feet ' apart. Nearby a coat, hat and lady's satchel worn ii? ' - ... v.iucucc, wrnppetl up in n part of n shoot very muoli dtcayed and covered with quicklime. Further on a paint brush was also picked up. The coroner was at n loss to say whether any foul work had been done or not. That the ghastly object was not there last Sun[ day afternoon is positively stated by the sexton, who had occasion to inspect that part of the grounds at that I time. i Knifed to the Heart. Columbia, Special.?What promises i to turn out a sensational scandal is . the finding Sunday afternoon of the body of Mr. Mann Phillips, a promi1 nent young Oconee man, two miles south of the town of Walhalla, with I a knife wound in his heart. Very I meagre details have reached here so . far about the tragedy, but it is evit dent that Oconee county is greatly stirred up over the killing. Enogli evidence has been gathered to warrant ! the arrest of two prominent young 1 men for the murder, I>oWitt and t'lco Vandiver, of Westminster. The theory is that young Phillip's body had been carried to the spot where it ' was found after he had been murdered. He was not armed and had on his heavy driving gloves and an overcoat. It is believed he has been dead since Thursday night. Tried to Shoot Train Hand. Blacksburg, Special.?On Sunday night three boys got on a freight train nt Gastonia and proceeded to beat their way South. On the way to Bessemer a train hand was walking the top of the ears back to the cab I and the three boy tramps shot nt him. I une of them, Charley Boyles, was lying flat on top of a car shooting when the conductor came up behind and secured him and brought him on to Blacksburg, where he was locked up. A deputy came down from GasIonia and carried him back to jail in Dallas, lie gave the names of the other bays who had escaped. They have probably been caught by this time. Three Persons Faint in Court. Spartanburg, Special. ? Laboring under intense mental strain, three persons, closely identified with cases being tried in the court of general sessions, fainted in the court house Wednesday. They were: Mrs. M. E. Loopor of Greenville, appearing as complainant against Oulla and Daniels; Elmore Daniels, defending himself on the charge of defrauding Mrs. Looper of $2,500, and Mrs. S. S 'finer, wife of the Pacolet man who is being tried for the murder of Ed. Kirby. Farm Products. The report of Commissioner Watson to the Legislature puts the total value of farm products in the State for 1008 at something over $118,000,000 exclusive of cotton and live stock and live stock products. Tho year just closed will also be a bumper cot ton year, tlie yield going over a million and a quarter bales. \ $500 000 For Good Roads. Spartan burp, Special?At a well attended meeting of representative citizens of Spartanburg county Tdesday, a resolution was passed suggesting to j the Spartanburg delegation that a I bill be introduced authorizing an election to vote on the question of issuing bonds in the sum of $500,000 for the purpose of building good roads in the county. Spartanburg Levy Fixed. Spartanburg. Special.?The board of county commissioner# have asked the Spartanburg delegation to the Legislature for a levy of 51-2 mills for this year. The commissioners I pledged themselves not to go outside .the amount to bo raised by this levy, I provided the delegation made such provisions as they deem necessary to pay off the present floating indebtedness. TIjo indebtedness is between one hundred and fifty and two hundred thousand dollars. Quake iu Chester County? Chester, Special.?Some of the citizens of Lewis and other sections of tho country think they felt a slight earthquake shock last week at about the same time that the great Italian disaster occurred, and while no damage resulted to life or property, we understood thnt the quiver was quite perceptible and caused considerable alarm in certain quarters, JEagfefor' Will MR. TAFFSJISITORS. The President-Elect is Kept Busy Greeting Callers and Conferring With Prominent Republican. Augusta, Ga., Special.?The President-elect is n member of the national child labor committee, and Wednesday he listened to a report on general conditions of child labor in the South, from A. J. McKelway, secretary of the committee for the Southern States. Mr. McKelway has headquarters at Atlanta. It was his conclusion that the child labor laws of the Southern States are pretty well adapted to conditions, but that there is laxness in their enforcement. No action on the subject is understood to be contemplated at this time. National Chairman Frank H. Hitchcock returned from his trip to Birminchnm and Atlnnto n?.i ?? ? ^ - .......M, uu\t unu Oil C A" tended interview with Mr. Tnft. John Flays Hammond, who visited Atlanta, came back with Mr. Hitchcock. Chauncey Dewey, of Chicago, recently appointed inspector general of the Illinois State militia, is here to see Mr. Taft and Mr. Hitchcock. Mr. Dewey vrgs one of the two Taft delegates from that State in the convention, and it is understood ho has some political friends he wishes to intercede for. A call was made on Mr. Taft by Judge William H. Jackson, of New York, and his brother, Henry Jackson, ot Atlanta. The latter is a Georgia Republican of prominence. Ifenry Anderson, of Richmond, talked Southern politics with Mr. Taft at some length Wednesday, but nothing tangible for publication resulted. The President-elect smilingly submitted himself for "exposure" to practically all the photographers in Augusta Wednesday. They called at his cottage, they said, to keep an engagement made by Mr. Taft's "Jnplncse secretary." This meant Monico Lopez, his Filippino valet, aird Mis. Taft enjoyed the joke hugely. Building the Sea "Wall at Sumter. Rapid progress is being made on the ronstmction of the sea wall on Sullivau's Island and no trpublo is experienced with the receiving of the material. At the scene of the work I here is a largo force of men and a lino equipment of machinery, driving piles and placing rock, and the work is very satisfactory. The building of t lie sen wnlt nf nmtr^r, ia , V. v?u*OV| A& nilUCl UIO charge of Hie "United States engineer oftiecr stationed at Charleston, Cnpt. E. M. Adams, of the corps of engineers, and he has as engineer in charge Mr. J II. DuPre, a wellknown civil engineer, who is assisted hv Mr. William Pehon. another capable member of that profession. Venezuelan Matter Not Yet Settled. Washington, Special?Daily advices are being received at the State Department from William X Buchanan, the American special commissioner, who is now in Caracas, conducting negotiations with the Gomez governnent, having in view the reaching of an understanding regarding a basis af -settlement of the international questions pending between the United States and Venezuela, as a prerequisite for the resumption of diplomatic relations. Mr. Buchanan's dispatches are hopeful in tenor but show that no definite conclusion have been yet reached. His instructions are very broad and form the basis on wh'ch his negotiations with the Venezuelan government are conducted. Grounds Off Cape Charles. Norfolk, Vn., Special.?Losing her hearings in the dense fog early Wednesday morning the British steameT Anglo-African, with a carog from Tocopiln. MeX.. bound for Rnltimnrn brought up on Smith's Island, off Cnpe Charles. There is little wind and only a moderate sgn running. She is reported in good condition. It 's said it will be necessary to lighten the cargo before the vessel can be hauled off the beach. Meteor Falls in Alabama. Marion, Ala., Special.?A large meteor fell in the western part of Percy county at. 10 o'clock Friday night. It came from the southwest and could be scon thoroughout the county. A short time after it fell a distinct shock was felt over a large part of the county that caused winlows and doors to rattle. Stamp Clerk Short in His Accounts Anniston, Ala., Special?According to a statement of postofllce inspectors hero Wednesday, F.d P. Smith, stamp clerk in the Anniston postofllce, who suddenly left hero Saturday night was short in his accounts between $1,800 and $2,000. It is said that friends of the young man will mak< pood the shortage. Nothing has beer heard from Smith since the recepit bf a letter Monday, saying that he left because he could not stand trouble. lie was last seen in Itir mingham Sunday night. Schooner Capsizes; Four Drowned. Mystic. Conn., Special?The Oilbcrt Transportation Company's schooner Myra \Y. Speers capsized 1" miles off Cape Cod on' the night *?t December 30th and four men of the crew were drowned. Captain F.lishn F. Rogers, and one man were taken off by a fishing schooner. The Speers loaded with railroad tics from New London to Dostou, struck a submerged wreck and waa overturned. THE NEWS IN BRIEF i. xn ? ? Items of Interest Gathered By Wire ?n<J Cable GLEANINGS FR6M DAY TO DAY Live Item* OoTertm Brents of More or Leu Interest *t Home and Abroad. Washington, N. C., had a $20,000 blaze Friday morning. The United States leads the world in the production of lead. The eleven-year-old son of Wm. Tillman, of Chathum County, committed suicide with a gun last week, because his father punished him. Six Tennessee n.ght riders have been convicted of murder in the first degree and two in the second degree, with jury penalty of 20 years imprisonment, all for the murder of fn r> i? VU|11. UUUK1D. Sheriff Van Pelt, of Pcnsaeola, has bad to stop street cars from running on Sunday to conform to the law. The Virginia Portland Cement Co. has started up in full force again, with 500 hands and hopes to double its force soon. Hampton, Va., voted on Wednesday to issue $100,000 in bonds for city purposes. An address from the people of Spottsylvania, Va., will be issued soon, calling on the people of the nation to unity) in erecting a grand monument at Rloody Angle, in honor of Gens. R. E. Lee and U. S. Grant. Hon. John S. Henderson, receiver, announces that affairs at Whitney. N. C., will socn be straightened out and work will begin on the great electric pouer plant. The American Rattle Fleet, as soon as it came out of the Suez canal, tendered its services to Italian authorities to aid at Scicily but were declined because not needed. Hon. Rert M. Fernatd was inaugurated Thursday as governor of the State of Georgia. Hon. Oben S. Draper took his seat as Governor of Massachusetts on Thursday. The inaugural assembly was unprecedented. The North Carolina Legislature lias increased the salary of the Governor from $4,000 to $0,000. The annual income of the late "Sugar Iving'? Claus Speckles is $275,000 per month. Pending the probate of the will the widow is to have $4,000 per month. Dr. Roscburgh of the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, has made ft wonderful discovery about tuberculosis perms, and hopes soon Hint nn ftnti-loxinc will be in use to which the dread disease will yield. The South Carolina Penitentiary shows n net balance of $20,495.10 for 1908 over 1007, afier losinp about $15,000 by^!<>od and making permanent improvements to the extent of nearly $11,000. ITalf starved dops in the stricken cities of Italy are dangerous to the crippled, and they eat the dead liko hyenas. The next meeting of the Cotton Manufacturing Association will be held in Richmond, Va., on the 4th Tuesday in May. A head-on collision occurred on the Southern at Cnnepie Tuesday, in which five persons were hurt, one of them probably fatally. A late pitched battle between vigilantes from Mexican ranches near the California line and a party of stock thieves resulted in the killing of the four thieves. The Virginian Railroad is now open from Norfolk through Roanoke, Va., 320 miles. James Tieanor, a printer, was burned to death with the loss by fire of Central Hotel, Covington, Tenn., on Tuesday. A score of others made narrow escapes. Sonor Castro Venezuela's deposed ruler, is fast recovering from an operation, which he has undergone in Rcrlin, and has promise of health. Congress has appropriated $800,000 to the earthquake suerers in Italy. A semi-annual dividend of 31-2 per cent on North Carolina Railroad stock was declared at Greensboro on Tuesday. A sanatorium for consumptives has been opened at Red Springs, a Virginia mountain summer resort. C. F. King, famous in finance, was convicted of larceny in Boston. He gave bail of $35,000, and came out of jail, but soon one of the sureties surrendered him to custody again. He is in jail. A convention of the Virginia and Carolina Hotel Association convened at the Jefferson, Richmond, Va., on Wednesday. Congressmen will be limited this season to 10.000 packages of vegetable seeds to send to their constituents instead of 12,5000 as before. 500 packages of flower seeds are still allowed to each. The Brownsville trouble which has been so much agitated, has cost $15,000, and the end is not yet. It is reported that Geo. K. Milton, of the Knoxville Sentinel, has purchased the Chattanooga News consideration, $175,000. DOINGS OfCONGRESS Summary of Important Proceedings Enact d From Day to Day. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 0. Senate Summary. The postal savings bank bill was before the senate and many amendments were proposed to it, some of them requiriug the deposit of postal savings funds in State as well as national banks. The Senate also received two messages from the President, one recommending additional interstate commerce legislation and the other relating to the absorption by the United States Steel Corporation of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company, atid passed several bills on the calendar. At 4:11 p. m. the Senate adjourned. Houeo Summary. The only incident worthy of note in the proceedings of the IIou?e of Representatives and which caused n good d??al of amusement was a brief discussion of the forthcoming African hunting trip of President Roosevelt. Incidentally there was a reference to the famous so-called Ananias Club. The whole debate hinged on the newspaper story stating that Major Edgar O. Mearns, of the army, was to accompany the President nnd that in order to do so he had been put on the retired list with increased rank. The | manor wns brought up by Mr. Mann, Lof Illinois, in connection with tlie [consideration of a bill authorizing the I issuance of commissions to officers I who retire with increased rank. The remainder of the day was deI voted to the consideration of a num1 ber of miscellaneous bills and resolitI tions. At 5:19 p. m. the House adjourned. THURSDAY, JAN. 7. Senate Summary. I Characterizing the action of the I President in directing the Attorney I (lencral not to prosecute the United I Stntes Steel Corporation for its absorption of the Tennessee Coal and I Iron Company as "another arbitrary and lawless act of the Chief MagisI trate," Senator Culberson, of Texas, I introduced a resolution in the Senate I instructing the committee on the judiI ciary to report at as early a date as 1 practicable whether in the opinion of I that committee the President was I authorized to permit such absorption. Mr. Culberson, at considerable I length, criticised the President and I insisted that Congress had the right I to give directions to a head of an executive department under certain I conditions. Senator Hopkins declared that the I Texas Senator was not properly representing the President and said that I Mr. Roosevelt had not approved the I action of the steel corporation, but that he had merely "not felt it his I duty to oppose such action." Senator Forakcr gave notice that he would speak on the Brownsville affair next Monday when he said he would ask to make his bill for the relief of the soldiers of the Twentyfifth Regiment the unfinished business of the Senate. An amendment was reported to the Senate from the committee on finance providing for an increase of the salary of the President to $100,000, and of the salaries of the Vice-President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to $20,000 each. The Senate adjourned at 1:22 p. m. House Summary. Although technically under consideration in the House of Representatives the District of Columbia appro- ! printion bill was side tracked, while the members indulged in general debate. This took a wide range,* the I proceedings openeing with a defense i of the rules of the House by Mr. Olm- i sted, of Pennsylvania. His remarks ! stirred up the subject in all its phases, , and gave the so-called insurgents un- i der the leadership of Mr. Gardner, of ] Massachusetts, an opportunity to air i their grievances. Mr. Cockran, of ! New York, occupied middle ground i on the proposition. t Mr. Tait's reported intention to break the solid South was incidentally brought into discussion in the course of a speech on the tariff by Mr. Sheppard, of Texas, who remarked in that , connection that the President-elect j had made himself ridiculous. I FRIDAY, JAN. 8. | House Summary. After having made him the target ' all day for criticism with here and i there words of commendation, the House of Representatives by a vote of 212 to 35 rebuked the President by tabling so much os his message as reI ? -* " Iiwicil wil 'llll-UIUCIS U1 V Oll^rt'Sii J I) connection with his recommendations [ regarding the secret service detectives , and also declaring it to be the sense . of the House that they shall decline 1 to consider any communications from ' any source which is not in its own i judgment respectful. | Toward the close of the debate Mr. j Gardner, of Massachusetts, vainly endeavored to secure, first the adoption of a substitute for the resolution in the shape of an amendment expressing confidence in the committee on ap- i propriations, and then the postponement of the whole matter until Mon- 1 day but he was overwhelmingly outvoted. Senate Summary. The Senate passed a. bill providing conditions under which the thirteenth census will be taken. The House bill 1 which was undor consideration was 1 amended to allow printing and binding of census reports to be done by private contract instead of in the government printing office if found desirable by the director of the census. An amendment placing the ap pointment of 3,500 census office c1 its under the civil service ?"*- mission was defeated I Senator Culberson's resolution instructing the committee on the judiciary to report whether the President has authority to permit the nb sorption of the Tennessee Coal nnc Iron Company by the United State? Steel Corporation was adopted. ALL ARMND1CTED Pittsburg's Councilzncn Accused oi ^ Accepting Bribes. Pittsburg, Pa., Special.?The seven rouncilmcnt accused of accepting . bribes and conspiring lo secure briber and the two former bankers accused 1 of giving bribes, all of whom were ar- { arrested two weeks ego upon com- j plaint of the Voters' League were in- ( dieted late Monday by a grand jury impaneled Monday morning. Triu bills were found as follows: T. 0 * Atkinson, scPet councilman, bribery 1 and accepting bribes. William Brand. \ president of common council, briber) uid accepting bribes and conspiracy^ j John F. Klein, common councilman* bribery and accepting bribes and con- 1 ipirncy. Jospeb C. Wasson, common i councilman, bribery and accepting ^ bribes and conspiracy. Jacob" SofTel. lotnnjon councilman, bribery and accepting bribes. Ilugh Ferguson, com- ' r.on "councilman, bribery and accept- ' :ng bribes. W. W. Ramsey, former president of German National Bank. < jffering and giving bribes. A. A. Vil- t rack, former cashier of same bank, of- i ferine and giving bribes. All of ae- < used gave bond after tlu^r arrest, 1 *nd these bonds will stand until the i sourt hearing. There is every indicn- i 'ion that these hearings will be held I tlinost immediately. 1 Mr. Taft Will Eat 'Possum and * ''liters in Atlanta. 1 Atlanta, Ga., Special?One hundred 3'possujus with the usual accompany- ' r.ent of sweet potatoes, will grace , 'he banquet table of the Atlanta chamber cf commerce on January 15th, when President-elect Taft will ' be the guest of honor. When a delegation of prominent Atlantians called ipon Mr. Taft a few days ago in An- i jrusta to arrnnge the details of his risit to this city the spokesman courteously asked the next occupant of the White House if he had any sugges- . tidis to offer relative to the prepara'.ion cf the banquet. "Just one," be imilingly replied, "I have had a life nine 11 >11ilift- io lasic possum and' tn:ers. My visit to the South would ho incomplete unless this wish is realiz- t >d." Relief For Earthquake Sufferers. 1 New York, Speeinl.?Laden with ( twenty-live tens of clothing and more * thnn thirteen tons of provisions with 1 vhicli to clothe and feed the starving ] ind half-naked survivors of the Cala- j brin and Sicily earthquake and carryng homeward over 300 Italians of all liases, most of whom are hurrying to 1 :he scene where their loved ones have t been killed, maimed or rendered des- < :itute, the steamship Hamburg, of the Hamburg-American line sailed Tues- i lay for Genoa and Naples. Most of f he provisions destined for the Italian < sufferers were donated by Nathan ; 5traus from the stock of a local Arm >f which he is a member. < tfo Trouble With Honduras ia Antic- ^ ipated. ( Mobile, Ala., Special. ? Ernesto a Potes, Honduras consul at Mobile, i eferring to the publication of a prob- i ible Central American conflict said 1 Monday that all these reports are not- i tble for their want of varacity. He i mid that peace in these countries is 1 in assured fact, and that the neutralty of Honduras is maintained by the reaties of Washington, and in consequence. Honduras today has only a lormal number of regular soldiers. . ^ Allig&torn Raised Like Piss. 1 Since the alligntors nrc getting icarce on our Southern coasts and * heir value is being better known I here are at least three alligator I 'arms in this country ami there may 1 ire more, sinee each one of the three ins made a success of the industry. fT.cy are situated in Arkansas, Florila and California. They nrc raised I md butchered like pigs. i i Southern Steel Company Will Soon Start Up. . Birmingham, Ala., Special.?W. P. ] Harding, member of the re-organi- l mtion committee of the Southern 1 I Steel Company* nnnounred Monday j hat the new corporation will be one j rf the largest in the South and that j ihe plant will resume operation with- I in six or eight weeks. < MontJina on Endurance Test. Norfolk, Va., Special.?The cruiser ] Montana left here Monday on an en- i durance run of several days which J will bring her hack to Hampton ( Roads to join the North Carolina i after repairs to the latter. Both ! cruisers will then proceed to Charles- j ton from which point President-elect ( Tuft will start for Panama, I WMDlSCUILTY ^ourt Will. Sentence Six to Death. OTHER TWO GOOD FOR 20 YEARS Motion For New Trial Overruled? Two of the Eight to Have 20 Years in Prison?Brief Summary of Criminals and Their Capture. Union City, Tenn?, Special.?With a rerdict of guilty in varying degree the jury in the night-rider trials reported at 8:45 p. m. Thursday. The twelve men found (Jarret Johnson, Tid Burto.., Roy Ransom, Fred Pincon, Arthur Clour and Sam Applewhite guilty of murder in the flrst decree with mitigating cireumataaccs, and IJud Morris and Bob Huffman, the other defendants, guilty of murler in the second degree and fixed heir punishment at twenty years in tho penitentiary. The punishment of the six first nnmcd defendants was left to the court and may be dentti or ifo imprisonment. The defense tiled i motion for a now trial which was set for hearing Saturday and which vijl be overruled, as indicated by tho ;ourt when sentence will be pronoune?d. The court will sentnecc the six first named defendants to death. Thus is ended, in the lower court, Dne of th'* most vigorously contested md notable criminal 'rials ever heard in this Stute, tho outcome of a reign >f lawlessness, the culminating act of which being that of which men were found guilty, calling forth the mustorng of the militia of the State, under [he personal direction of Governor : ntterson, to the aid of the civil luthorities in the ferreting out and he taking into custody of those who were charged with the commission of the crime, the so-called "night-rider clan" of lteel Foot lake. The operations of the night-rider band began with the burning of iisli docks extending to the indicting of corporal uuisluncnt on those whom tho leaders in their counsels domed guilty of actions in opposition to the wishes of the clan, finding a climax in the lynching of Captain Kanken. 1 MRS. ERB A FREE WOMAN. * With Her Sister She is Acquitted of the Murder of Capt. J. Clayton Erb by a Jury in Meida Court. Media, Pa., Special.?Mrs. Florence M. Erb, wife of Capt. J. Clayton Erb, ind her sister, Mrs. Catherine Beizell, who were charged with the sensational murder of Captain Erb on the night if October 4th, IflOR, Thursday walk d from tho Delewaro county court louse free women. After the jury lad been out nearly eighteen hours it )rought in a verdict of not guilty in he case of each woman, both of whom had been charged separately ind jointly with the shooting of tho During the morning the jury filed nto court and asked for further infractions on the question of self-, lefense, soon word came from the juhy room that the men had agreed. The defendants were sent for at >nce, but there was a few minutes' lelay before they arrived. TtTl it. i -! 1 .1 . >> nfu me xoremnn announced luo rcrdiet of acquittal there was a sec>nd's pause, a dead silence and then vith half a scream, the sisters fell n each other's arms. Women wept is they looked at the pathetic scene. In an instant the women were sur"ounded by their friends and attorleys and overwhelmed with cougratuations. Fund Distributed. Durhamr N. C., Special.?The lar#i'Rt per capita distribution of school 'unds in the history of the State was nnde Wednesday by the county 3oard of Education. ft was .ft for svery child attending school. Forty housflnd dollars was apportioned to :he public schools of the county. I)urlam leads the State in this respect. Saved By a Parrot. ^ flj| Naples, By Cable.?Queen Helena is flsj taking particular interest in a sixrear-old girl who was rescued from lie ruins under remarkable circumdances. While some Italian sailors USm it Messina were climbing over wreck- ^m8BB igo. they beard weak cries of "Maria! MEgSgg Maria!" After much woik they reached a room where they found a parrot continuing to utter cries of ESBfinH ' Mana. The seamen turned nanBHa eave, hut ns the parrot persisted i^HHB||||S its cries, they broke into an ad.ij^HSSmmBg ing room and found a girl Iving She and tiie pa not \vcre^H|^H|^BBwH >n board the battleship licgii^ H Hill Pays Carnegie's Gil^BS^^HHH l.y -Cable.?David Hill, the American Atnhassndni^H^^^JHQflj nto the lay Andrew Carnegie's gift of )00 to the Koch Institute for Tnle^Hnfl^H lulosij .Research. ^1 r Hill also com-^^HKH naunicated to the president of the init it nte Mr. Carnegie's cordial nc(nowledgement of the gratification ho felt upon having heen elected an honjrary member and his good wishes for the success of so boneflcicnt a work. He^