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> - ' '. > J - #- . * f K' ' ' v ' *' -.y THE FORT MILL TIMES - VOLUME XVII FORT MILL, THURSDAY, MARCH 18.19Q9 xrTT^ WELL ONCE MORE Senator Tillman and Mrs Tillman Spent Short Time In THE CAPITAL CITY The Senator Talk* With Much Intercut About Hia Fight on Cruin and How He Held Up Sixty Senator* by Relating Reminiscence* of n?conntnictlon. Columbia, March 11.?Senator and Mrs. Tillman spent a couple of hours In Columbia today. Senator Tillman was on his way home from the meeting of the trustees of Clemson College. Mrs. Tillman had been on a visit to relatives at Greenwood. Senator Tillman looks remarkably well. He said that he had never felt better. His face Is well filled, his complexion ruddy and healthy, and altogether he looks well. He Is devoting himself to Indoor exercise and says It Is fine. Senator Tillman says that the Clemson board transacted consider able business. The board has asked that Major Marcus B. Stokes, originally of Hampton county, be detailed to Clemson College as commandant to take the place of Capt. Minus, resigned. Senator Tillman expects to spend a month In Trenton, as he does not think the Democrats can do very much in the tariff situation, and ho Is satisfied that the Republicans will carry out their policies. Senator Tillman snid he did not know what President. Taft would do with Dr. Crum. lie had heard nothing whatever about any appointment for Dr. Crum and would not bo surprised if he were not appointed to any place, nor would he he surprised if ho were given some place in Washington. Senator Tillman talks with much Interest about his ftght against the confirmation of the appointment of Dr. Crum, and said t,hat one of the remarkable things about his fight wua for hours he held up sixty senators. while ho was relating his reminiscences of reconstruction and his fight with McLaurtn. The senator says he feels quite well enough to go out on another of his lecture tours, and incidentally he thinks that the "wild talk" in which he indulged while on his lecturing tour had done much to clear up the atmosphere with regard to the race question. Mrs. Tillman says that Senator Tillman Is not to go on any lecture tours, but she is quite willing for him to go to Europe again. Senator Tillman continues to he much Interested In the Navy Yard at Charleston, and says that he had the work there well cared for In the appropriation bill, and that "as long as he Is alive the Charleston ynrd has nothing to fear."?^News and Courier. THIS IS coon NEWS. Beirut 1st* Say the Earth Won't. Have Collision. Cambridge. Mass., March 11.? Commenting on the assertion made recently by Dr. Perclval Lowell that the earth was In dancer of colliding with Rome large astral body and thus he destroyed, Prof. William H. Pickering. of the Harvard Astronomoenl Observatory, says that the chance of snch an event Is ahont "one In one hundred mllllona, raised to the one hundred millionth power." "A more possible danger,' he added, "but nevertheless an Improbable one. Is that the solar system In its Journey through space may com? closo enough to some such a dark body as to cnuse a disturbance In the orbital motion of planets and perhaps carry some of them, the earth Included. Into space. The danger is so remote, however, that .there need be no popular apprehension about It." WANT SOYjDIKRS AltllKSTKI) For Robbing nn Eagle's Xcst on James Island. Columbia, S. C., March 11.?President Taylor of the State Audubon Society has secured warrants from Magistrate Fowler here, against, the eleven federal soldiers stationed at Fort Moultrie, accused in an article in the News and Courier of today, of having robbed an eagle's nest of its young on James Island Sunday . Mr. Taylor is having papers sent down for service. The warrant charges the men with violation of the act of 1905. WANTED TO LYNCH HIM. Was Pursued All Night by an AngryMob of Men. PIccurney, Iowa, March 11.?After ten-mile drive over the worst roads experienced in Iowa, on the darkest night Imaginable, and then a twentymile ride upon a handcar, Sherlfl Grimes, with his prisoner. John Dunken, the confessed murderer of Cara Rosen, the Ottumwa choir singer managed to escape with what is believed to be the approaching of a mot and landed his prisoner in the penitentiary at Fort Madison today. GOES SCOT FREE STANDARD OIL ACQUITTED OF A ED CHARGES. The Verdict Was Returned On x Instruction of United States Judge Anderson in Chicago. Chicago, March 10.?The Standard Oil Company of Indiana was today found not guilty of accepting rebates from shipments of oil from Whiting, Ind., to East St. Louis, 111. The verdict was returned by a jury In the federal court on instructions of Judge A. G. Anderson, who averred that he followed the circuit court of anneals rtpriainn ?o 5' - * uu vu IUC TerUICl returned at the former trial of the snme case and on which verdict Judge Kensaw Mountain Landia asseBsed a fine of $29,240,000. Judge Anderson's decision was not unexpected as he had yesterday told the government prosecutors that the I proof relied on in the first trial was incompetent, and that it must be complemented or fail. It was with something of an air of hopelessness that District Attorney Edwin W. Sims, and his assistant attempted to show the admissahillty of the Illinois classification to prove the existance of a legal rate of 18 cents, which was a vital point in the government's contention. It was after Assistant District Attorney Jas. H. Wilkcrson had argued for two hours and in the end admitted that the prosecution could not furnish the further proof deemed necessary by the court for a continuation of the case that Judge Anderson announced his decision. Mr. Wilkcrson said that the government could proceed no further and suggested dismissal of the case. Attorney John S. Miller, chief counsel in the cr.sc of the oil company. Immediately moved that there be an instructed verdict of not guilty. The court so ordered and the jury, which had been excluded during the arguments by the attorneys, was called in and charged. The decision of Judge flrosscup. Raker and Seaman, of the United States circuit court of appeals, reversing Judge I.andis, together with the decision of the court of appeals, was assigned as authorltv for v\/ucij a decision. VEltV QI'EEU TALE. Told by Escort of (ii'rl Who Was Shot. Raltimore, March 0.?Jennie Rood, aged 21 years, of this city, was murdered Monday by a highwayman at Mount Washington, residence suburb. She and Jog Mueller, to whom Rhe was engaged to be married were on the way to visit friends at Mount Washington, according to Mueller's statement and left the car at Seventh avenue. When they had walked half a block and were in a lonely place, they were stopped by a man, who, leveling a pistol, called for their valuables. Mueller said lie gave up what valuables he had and then the highwayman demanded a necklace worn by Miss Reed. Her reply was a slap in the face, upon receiving which, the man fired, the bullet striking the girl behind the left ear. She was carried into a nearby house, but death had been almost instantaneous. The highwayman disappeared and is being diligently sought by the police. Mueller, who appears to have been the onlv witness In Ihn ohnntln. """" --V MMWWUl.ft ?TC*0 placed tinder arrest. TIIHOIjOGY AND A ItliOKK.V I1KA1) How One lied to the Other in (Tierokee Negro Church. Gaffney, March 10.?At. a row which occurred in a colored church, a few miles in the country on Saturday, a negro named Wat (list was arguing some theological questions, when a negro named Thomas Jeter took issue with some of the doctrines promulgated by the aforesaid Gist, calling him a liar, whereupon Gist seized a chair and applied same with such force to the cranium of Jeter as to bring him to his knees, and pursuing his advantage, struck him in the mouth and knocked several front teeth down his throat. As soon as Jeter recovered sufficiently to come to town he Indicted Gist, for asault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, and the matter will be threshed out in the Courts. ONE HUNDRED MEN From One State Caught I'lreumonta At Inauguration. Washington, March 10.?A letter received hero states that of the 800 men which represented the Massachusetts coast artillery in the inaugural parade, 100 of them are sufi fering from pneumonia, one has died from typhoid pneumonia and another is dying from the same disease. ' The Massachusetts coast artillery was quartered in National Rifle's ari mory and like many of the other , troops were not supplied with conts, hut slept on the floor with only a thin > mattress to protect their bodies from tho drafts which swept in through the doors and windows. BITTER FIGHT . Is On Between Speaker Cannon And The Insurgents. DEMOCRATS JOIN IN The War on the Speaker and Ho May He Defeated?The Allien hark Only One Vote, Which They Hope to Get From Four New Members. Washington, March 10.?Republican leaders in the house of representatives are gravely discussing the insurgents movement, which has evolved sufficient strength to make Imminent a change of the house rules despite the resistive effortB of the Cannon-Payne-Dalzell combine. Failing to change the rules on the day preceeding the adjournment last week, the Insurgents gave notice of their immovable purpose thereafter to renew the fight with vigor when the extra session is rapped to order next Monday. In the next house there will be 219 Republicans and 172 Democrats. Tho Insurgents will have 22 holdover members in their ranks with certain addition of Judge Irving Dent Lenroot, of Wisconsin, who was elected on an Anti-Cannon pledge. United with the solid Democratic forces they will be able to muster 19f> votes, according to pre*ent estimates, while the total opposition strength will be 19H. It requires the vote of only one Republican for the Insurgents to change the hoiiHe rules to any extent that may be desired. The insurgents claim four new members: Picket and Woods, of Iowa; Plumly, of Vermont., and Kopp, of Wisconsin. <| They have been working earnestly to make their converts and unless the leaders stick close to their guns the movement will undoubtedly be recruited. So intense has the purpose and the loyalty of the insurgents become that each man is constituting himself a "whip" nnd Is doing strenuous service. Minority Leader Clark says that every one of his men shall be present in ?." house on March 16, to vote for a change In the rules, which are as obnoxious to the Democrats, ns they are to those Republicans who are lending the movement for certain radical reform. The changing of the rules along radical lines Is not the only nlm of the Insurgents. They mean. If possible, to depose Speaker Cannon, and that progress in that direction Is coequal and co-extensive with their campaign for a change of the unpopular rules. A proposition has been submitted to the Democrats by which an Insurgent may Im? elected Speaker with the aid of the minority. The plan is to allow the Democratic leaders to select a candidate from among the Insurgents, who will then support him. It Is not believed that the proposition will be accepted, as some of the Democrats regard It as Involving bad policies, and might result in the Insurgents being repudiated by their party as going too far in their opposition to the Republican leaders of the house. Whether or not Mr. Cannon is defeated for reelection as Speaker, every indication points to the success of the movement against the existing rules in At a banquet last Saturday night in At. a banquet last. Saturday nicht in honor of Vice President Sherman, Speaker Cannon took occasion to say what he thought nbout the insurgents, saving among other things, that henceforth none of them would lv"> recognized by the house Republican regime. He also referred to them as bullies and bluffers, who wer? absolutely without tho courage of their convictions. It will be seen from this that a good-sized vote ni lonot polled against Mr Cannon next Monday.?News and Courier. MANY WANT JOBS. One Hundred nnd Thirty Apply for Two Positions. Columbia, March 9?Commissioner Watson has alreadv received one hundred and twenty applications for the two positions of inspectors that he is required to appoint under the provisions of the act recently passed lie hopes to be able to find two mer who have had some training alon? the lines expected, or who will b< willing to work along modern lines Mr. Watson hopes to make these tw< places serve those for whom the] are Intended, and to get data am do Inspecting along proper lines, ant he does not want nr.en who simpl] want the places for the salary in volved. He Is in no hurry abou making the appointments, and ex pects to get first class men. at leas as good as the moderate salary wil permit. Hies of Old Age. Des Moines, March 1 1.?Mrs. Rutl McPherson died hero today at th advanced ago of 102 years. She wa the oldest person in Iowa and wa i born in Grayson county, Virginia, o: I August 22, 1807. A MYSTERIOUS CAVERON. Two Dog* Arc Ltwt in It and Can't I Bo Found. Farmers of Weldon Spring, in St. Charles county, Mo., strove for two days to rescue two dogs that had been imprisoned for three weeks in a cave. Spurred by the piteous barks and whines of the dogs, the men dug down until they were stopped by solid rock. Dynamite was used without avail. One man risked his life by crawling 150 feet at the end of a rope Into a cave, but was unable to rescue the dogs. The effort was then abandoned, because the cries of the dogs could no longer be heard, and it was concluded that they had perished. Three weeks ago Bob Tarbel and Sam Pitman were hunting on John Burton's farm, when their dogs started a coon, which sought safety in a cave. The dogs, intent on the chase, followed it in through th6 narrowentrance and disappeared from sl^hf and hearing. They did not return, and it was three wevks later, that their whines were heard near an old sink hole 500 feet away. Digging began but was soon stopped by solid ork and dynamite was then used. Fully 10ft men, women and children gathered and urged the workers to greater endeavors, hut they could do nothing except to try to explore the cave. Finally Tlowell risked his life in an attempt to reach and rescue the dogs. He volunteered to crawl into the cave with a rope tied to him. One 150 feet long was brought and an end of it tied around his waist. He crawled into the cave and went the length of the rope. He found the passage at that depth so small that he could not have gone further, even if the rope had been longer. He could hear the dogs and ' ailed loudly to them, but they seemed to have fallen over a declivity, and could not come to him. 1JOAT TO IIK llAISED. First Confederate Torj?edo float on Bottom. New Orleans, Mnrch 11.?That arrangements have been completed to raise the first torpedo boat of the Confederacy from the bottom of Lake Ponchartraln was announced at a meeting of Confederates hero last night. The boat is lying near Spanish Fort, where it went down years ago. It is proposed to place this vessel on the lawn of the Confederate Soldiers' Home in New Orleans. CHLOROFORM CRIMINALS. Favors Elimination of Hanging and Elect rorutioq. Atlanta, Ga., March 11.?Gen. Clement A. Evans, commander-inchief of the United Confederate Veterans and chairman of tlm commission of Georgia, advocates chloroforming criminals who have received the death sentence. "I believe the law has no right to do more than take a man's life," said <$en. Evans. "No living man should witness it. The death cell should be air tight, and the man who is to die should inhale the very breath of death itself and should die painlessly and alone. Any other death punishment is nothing short of barbarous. Even this is bad enough." Gen. Evans had already qualified this statement by declaring himself opposed to capital punishment for any crime save that of attack upon women. TIIEY DESTROY CHOPS. Poisoned Wheat to Hail Prairie Dogs in the West. Washington, March 11.?Poisoned wheat is to be used as bait to kill off ! ihe prairie dogs, the stockmen's enemy, that now infest Arizona and New Mexico and have become a menace to the^ forest ranges there. On 1 ranch lands prairie dogs have proved destructive to a variety of crops, including wheat, grain, potatoes and sugar beets; while on grazing lands they destroy so much grass that the grazing capacity of the land is re, duced r.O to 75 per cent. The forest service is employing every effort to prevent range deterioration. STABBED HIMSELF ? W'itli Scissors While Hiding on ? Georgia Train. ( Savannah, Ga., March 1ft.?Rorom. in* violent on a Southern train last 3 night between Atlanta and Jesup, and claiming ho was being shot, Dr. > R, T. Baird, of Fredericksburg, Va., T stabbed himself in the chest with a 1 pair of scissors, then attacked the 1 negro porter and other trainmen. f He was found dead this morning in . his berth on the arrival of the train t In Jesup. It is presumed he was . under the influence of some drug, t The body was taken to Jacksonville. 1 Three Men Buried Alive. Hamilton. Ohio, March 11.?A sewer trench eight feet deep caved h In today, burying three men. When e rescuers reached the l>nttom of the 8 sewer they found the dead bodies fl of James Robinson and Alexander n Howard. Thomas Revera was rescued alive, but will probably die. A HUGE CAVE Found In The Adiron dacke Upper New YorK RIVAL THE MAMMOTH Kutciislvc Itooms lTn<U*r the Mountain Near Standisli, N. Y., Which Are Yet to lie Explored?Veteran (lives Some Measurements and Tells of the Pits Which Are Deep. Saranac Lake. N. Y.t March 10.? Capt. E. E. Thomas, an old-time woodsman, has discovered a great cave in a secluded part of the Adirondacks which may rival the famous Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. Thomas chanced to strike the entrance to the cavern on the summit of a mountain seldom visited by travelers, or sportsmen, some time ago, but kept the matter secret until he could make an investigation. Taking a companinon with him. he entered the cavern for 1,000 feet, and as the end was not reached, the extent of the cave from that point on is as yet undetermined. It is situated on a mountain known as "W" Mountain, not far from Standish, N. Y. In describing his diarnverv old woodsman said: "The mouth Is about fifty feet wide. The first room is fifty feet long, twenty feet wide and thirty feet high. It swarmed with hats, which lined the walls and seemed scarcely able to move. There was a decided smell of sulphur. In the next room, which was abou' forty by fifteen feet, we found passages branching in many directions, and were unable to explore all of them. "With only the feeble rays of a lantern to guide us, we several times narrowly escaped falling into pits. You can imagine how deep some of these were, when I say that wo had time to count fifteen and twenty before rocks we dropped Into them were heard to strike?and we did not count rapidly. An elk's horn was found by us far insido the cave. "After going a short distance from the mouth there was no vegetation. There is no opening nt the base of the mountain nnd there are no streams in the cave so far as we have yet discovered." TRAIN HAND KIIiLKD. Will Campbell Hun Over by Kiigine at Greenwood. Greenwood, March 11.?Will Campbell, a negro train hand employed in the Seaboard local yards, had his legs cut off wlille at work in the yards early Wednesday morn- ^ ing, and died several hours later from the effects of his injuries. He was run over shortly after 2 o'clock and died at 5 o'clock Wednesday morning. It appeared that Campbell was at the switch waiting for the engine to go up to the tank and return. It would seem that, as the engine came back, he attempted to jump on, hut missed his footing and fell underneath. Hoth legs were cut off The switching crew was in charge of Yard Conductor Menders and Kngineer Pitt man. Mr. Plttman stated that the engine was going about two or three mtles an hour. Campbell was an excellent train hand, knew his business well, and it seems more than likely that it was a case of accident. It was said at the inquest that Campbell said before he died that he did not see how he could get hurt. A coroner's jury was Impanelled and the following verdict was rendered: "Will Campbell came to his death by accident on his own part." TRAIN WRECKER CAUGHT. Arrosted on Charge of Causing Wreck at llarbins. Greenville, March 10.?John Tarroll, colored, was arrested near Sen- I eca this morning by Special Agent Alton, of the Southern, and Sheriff Kay, of Oconee county, charged with wrecking train No. 3f>, near llarbins, on February 22. It will be remembered that F.nglneer Will O'Neal lost his life in the wreck. A warrant has also heen issued for the Lewis, colored, charging him with being a party to the deed. The grand jury at Walhalla retnrnerl n Imo I.Ill n""!"-' " .. ?v ,.,,i nfsmiini. l?l>l 11 IIKgroes this morlng. The sheriff of Oconee has gono to Georgia looking for Lewis. Killed and Injured. Brlnkley, Ark., March 10.?Twenty-nine dead and seventy-four Injured Is Rrlnkley's list of casualties from the tornndo of Monday. Outside of Brlnkley thirteen persons were killed and forty-six wounded, several of whom may die. I'asseager Train Wrecked. New Orleans, March 11.?Is is reported that an Arkansas, Louisiana and Gulf passenger train, bound ? south from Little Rock, was derailed i by train wreekers during the night ' near the Louisiana line, and that several persons wero killed and soveral Injurod. GOES TO WORK IX DKAD EARNEST TO FIGHT CONSUMPTION. ! Aiken Employs 11 Trained Nurse Who Will Devote All of Her Timo to Tuberculosis. The Columbia Record snys Mips Susie S. Ravenel has been employed by the Aiken County Antituberculosis League, as a trained nure. to assist In its work of prevention of the white plague. The league has been very active in Its Inauguration of a war agaliiRt consumption. Although the league has been organized only a few weeks, practical results are now being obtained, and the people are being instructed in the means of preventing disease. It is only recent years that means for cope with this dreaded disease have been discovered and this knowledge is not yet prevalent among the people: and the dissemination of this knowledge is the primary object for the league In this county. No dues are paid for membership in the league, but volnntnrv are being: reoelved by tbe officers Tor the prosecution of the work. Many of the Northern visitors have liberally helped in this work. Miss Ryenel has already commenced her work. She devotes the forenoon to the work, making visits to all parties who may need her assistance. No charge is made for her assistance, which is Riven not from a charitable standpoint, but as a matter of Riving valuable suggestions for the cailnR of patients and prevention of the spread to other members of the family, and the iblic. with whom Infected persons av come in contact. Miss Ravenel has had Iohr experience as a nurse, and she has entered the work with a spirit. She will make periodical reports to the president of the league. Dr. Filmore Moore. The trained nurse will conduct her work in conjunction with, and in harmony with the board of health. Miss Ravenel will also consult with the physicians of the city, and work in conjunction with them. Such cases that are reported to her, as needing assistance, advice, or in any manner that she can help them, she will visit. The object of this is, of course, to prevent the further spread of the disease, and it is stated that where persons refuse to heed friendly and voluntary suggest ions for the safety of the people against tuberculosis, such cases will ho referred to the board of health, to tako such action as they seo fit for public Hafety. Ml'ItDKR WOMAN'S III SRAX1>. "Rev." Wiolfram and Mrs. Malindn Ijockhart Tricked I'p. Atlanta, Ga? March 10.?Charles IT. Wolfram, whom calims to be an ordained Holiness preacher, and Mrs. .Maunua Ix>ckhart are being held In the county jail on charges growing out of their discovery together in the former's room on Marietta street. The arrest was caused by woman's husband, James J. Lockhart, whom, the two prisoners claim, they had planned to murder. Wolfram is author of several socalled religions books, and earned a livelihood selling them on the streets. Mrs. lyockhart. is a strikingly handsome woman, and apparently intelligent. She has not lived with her husband for two years, bocaute, as she claims. Wolfram was found to bo her "soul-mate" or "affinity." Religious attraction led to their association, is is claimed, and to remove al! carnal barriers they had decided to remove Lockhart by the poison route. Their nerve failed at the last moment and Lockhart still lives to enjoy his estate of $10,000 or $lf>,000.?Augusta Chronicle. SHOULD SHUN SOFT DIIIX K.1. Government l'urc Food Kxpert Warns Girl Students. Washington, March 10. ? The dangers of "the soft drink habit" and the innocence with which rri.-iu become addicted to it, wore emphasized tonight by Dr. Harvey, with VV. Wiley, the Government's pure food expert, in a lecture before one hundred girl students at Holy Cross Academy. "If you only know what I know about what those soft drinks contain you would abstain from them," ho said. "It will surprise you to know that most of them contain more caffeine than coffee, and a drup which is more deadly. So beware of the soft drink. It is more harmful than cofTee, and I advise all young people against the use of this stimulant. Perhaps you would 1>< interested to know I have collect ed more than one hundred sample! of soft drinks sold at soda foun tains, and each contains caffeine, ant many of them a deadly drug." Several Drowned. Montgomery. Ala., March 10- Fivi persons were drowned Wednesday ii the Alabama river here In the risin) waters which followed Tuesda; night's storm. Three white and i negro were drowned from the ferry and William Dillard, a white boy fell in and was drowned. V/ A PRIEST SLAIN In His Study at Newark, N. J, by Assassins SHOT AT WOMAN ALSO Three Men Walk into Hooin of the Kov. Erasmus Ansion and Shoot Him to Death?Dead Priest Had Ousted Several Trustees, Causing Mueli Dissatisfaction. Newark, N. J., March 10.?Three men w'noBe features appear to have been concealed by their heavy overcoats and slouch hats, walked Into the study of the Rev. Erasmus Ansion, pastor of the PoIlBh Church of St. Stanislaus, this morning and opened fire upon him. Three bullets from their three revolvers hit the priest, killing him instantly. The trio turned to make their escape and found their way blockod by Mrs. Antonio SewrzytHka, the housekeeper. One of viaic^r. turned his revolver upon her, InfllctiiiK a wound which Is likely to prove fatal. Then ull three made their escape. The police wore put to work on tlve case within a few minutes of the murder and by noon had rounded up four suspects, one of whom the housekeeper, now In St. Barnashan Hospital, thought hore a resemblance to the lead'er of the trio who had done the shooting. The others she was unable to Identify. All four denied any knowledge of the afrair. No adequate theory to account for the attack upon the priest has heea presented to the police. It was learned that there has recently been considerable factional trouble In the congregation, and Father Ansion, when he came from Paterson to take charge of the church five months ago, \ made several changes which are said ' to have caused widespread dissatisfaction. All the men arrested are members of St. Stanislaus church, and the police ordered the arrest of all the former trustees, whom the dead priest ousted when he took charge of the parish. The police tonight arrested three men, suspects, all Poles, who reside near the church. At the same time it wns announced that the belief was growing that the priest's assassins were not Newark men, although it was thought that the murder has been planned here and that some of those under arrest may be able to shed light on these plans. A crowd of 5,000 Poles gathered early tonight In front of the rectory in which lay the body of the murdered priest, expressing their grief and demanding to see the body. The police succeeded in getting it under . j control by promising to grant its demand. Accordingly, a double line of police was arrayed from the street through the house, and for two hours n or more the Poles marched In single file past the casket in which the ? body lay. POI ND fil lIjTY OF MUlinKR. Laurens Breaks a Iteeord ('/ovoring Fifteen Years. Laurens, March 10.?For the first time in about fifteen years a Laur1 ns jury has returned n straight verdiet of murder without a recommen- ^ dation to mercy. This occurred this afternoon in the Court of General iL+j* Sessions, when the jury returned a verdict of guilty in the case of the ,E; State vs. John Henry Anderson for the murder of his father-in-law. It will lie recalled that Anderson shot and killed old man Joseph Carter at the Cedar Grove church at the funeral of one of Anderson's children. He shot, him In tlio hack, and without immediate provocation, ? ' Anderson will very likely be seutenc- '4 j ed on Saturday. i V" Two cases of attempted criminal > i assault were tried today in the General Sessions Court, one against / a young white man, Albert Duncan, ) accused of attempting to ravish a / young girl in Waterloo Township,/ . the home of both. Duncan waa] found guilty with mercy recommend-^ ed by the jury. The other case was against Will McCollough, colored, charged with attempting to ravish a young white elrl In KiiIHvati'b Township. The Jury returned a vec- . diet of not guilty. rv V?. * ? 1* . . WEATHER CLERK EXPLAINS How lie Made Such a Mistake Abunt tlio Weather. - it" ' Washington, March 8.?Juat how it happened that there was such * ft blizzard in Washington March 4, and P In the fart of his telogramB to Mr. | raft, on the night of 3rd that the I ' weather would he rh ar, was ex- m plaited to the lit today by fl Willis L. Moore, chief <>f the United I State weather bureau. Prof. Moore ? p admitted lie had waited for Several ( I n days with sonio timidity bek fore attempting to , ' "pay hi* V respects" to Mr. Tatjjfr.Mr. Moor# ft lias an explanation \vhMb ha.*t>i()iigiit V to a climax with all aorta of proof tluit no such "highs" and "lotvs" ever Ifl before produced guchja mfWstornK "Qw ?r2T ?sdm