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SELF SCRIFICE Rich Banker Suffered Death to ' Shield Daughter. LYNCHING INTIMATE Banker Slain by Physician With Whom Banker'm Wife Ik Alleged to } lluv? Keen Intimate for Many ' I Years?The Slayer and the Bank- j I 1 pi-'s Wife in Jail. i Idolization of his daughter, Golda, 17 years old, is said to have caused 1 J. II. Sayler, vice president of the First National Hank, of Crescent City, III., to suffer in silence the do- , inestlc tragedy that led to his death Sunday night at the hands of Dr. i \V. R. Miller, who for many months hud paid ardent attention to the , banker's wife, mother of Golda Sayler.* According to \V. R. Nightengale, cashier of the bank of which Mr. ] Sayler was vice president, the devoted father determined to suffer in silence rather than take any action which would involve his child in notoriety. ( "lie seemed to fear some tragic solution of the situation," said Mr. Nightengale. "When he left the city during the last year or so it was his habit to seek privacy, after which he would reappear with a bulky envelope containing papers. " 'Should anything happen to me,' he always told me, 'open this package and follow to the letter the instructions contained therein.' "After each trip but the last he destroyed the papers upon his return. He was away a little while ago. but when he came back he failed to follow this practice. "That packet, I believe, is locked , in his private box in the bank's vault. Whether it will shed anything on the tra/edy which ended his life 1 cannot say. The corouer has the key and will open the box later, possibly after the funeral. That Dr. Miller stood in real danger of lynching Monday night is asserted by Mr. Nightengale and many others. More than a hundred men thronged the streets of the usually quiet village trying to organize an attack on the jail. One-man with a rope was forcibly taken to his honu by cooler persons, whose counsel finally prevailed. Among the lattet was Willis Sayier, a brother of th? slain man. Dr. Miller's defence is that he shot only when attacked by the banket with a hatchet. Evidence casting a shadow on this statement was given at the inquest. Sayier was slain about 10 o'clock Sunday night. Mrs. Miller, wife oi the doctor, had left a few days pre viously to visit her parents at Sharon, Pa., and Dr. Miller was taking his tueals at the Sayier table ant. steeping at his own home. Then wore also at the Sayier home at the time of the shooting, John C. Gruaden, father of Mrs. Sayier, and Ira Gruuden. her brother. The oldei Grunden came recently from Aid more, Ok la., to become an inmate o. the Soldiers' Home at Dttuville Gokla Sayier was sent away by hei mother a few days ago. Sunday evening John Grundei went to usk Mr. Sayier, who was occupying a rocking clialr on the lawn to come in and play cards, they iwt against Dr. Miller and Mrs. Sayier His refusal, Mr. Sayier states, war diq. to his belief that she and tIn doctor attained success at the gunn by a system of signals. Grace Davis and other girls am; uoairey lutnie stopped to chat rot a moment with Mr. Sayler at tli< front gat** just a few minutes befor* lit* was slain. He was in a good hu uior. They had left gayler abou three minutes when they heard th> fatal shots. Three bullets were found in th< banker's body and in the wall. A fifth bullet was found embodied it an outside wall, whereas the slayint occurred in the house, and a fifth empty shell tallying with the other.found in the house was found on th* lawn. This fact is connected by th* State's attorney with a wound ii> Dr. Miller's right wrist. The doctor's explanation of his damaged wrist t* that he was shot by his own pistol during a struggh with Mr. Sayler. The discovery 01 a fifth empty shell, however, has opened tip a line of inquiry to which the State attaches much importance After the slioting of Sayler. Dr. Miller was alone with the body for a time while the others wont for as slstance. tVhen they returned ho was on the porch complaining of his wounded wrist. The struggle In the house was witnessed by John Grunden. lie declared that Savior brought a hatche? into the house with him Mrs. Savior says her husband came in unarmed and took the hatchet from under a couch. Edward Rlantln. n s laborer: Dietrich II. Myor, a retired merchant, and Edward E. Meyer. 1 president of the village of Crescent : City, assert that they examined the 1 room thoroughly right after the ' shooting, but saw no hatchet. Mrs. Sayler is said to have he- ^ t?-aved ro concern f\?r 'ho dispo it'on of her hu<Mn<ls hody, which T )> v on * he flod" wher it fell, lute bav: expressed ?.?al solicitude over the doctor's w ojr.dcd w rist. r?r. Miller and Mrs. Sayler arc in L separate cells at the jail. The doc- t< tor is hold on a chargo of murder. T Mrs. Savior and hor father and broth- st or aro In custody as alleged acres- o sories. tl Although fosy of mob violence Is ft no longer felt. Shoriff tleikes placed k two e*tra guards at the jatl. 1st >% f STEAMERS COLLIDE USASTKK MARS L\KK VESSEL'S MAIDEN TRIP. Two Steel-Hulled Ships Meet on Lak?< Superior and One of Them Is Sent to Bottom. A dispatch from Sault Ste Marie, dich., says three minutes after the iteel steamers Isaac Scott and John 3. Cowle had collided In Lake Su erior early Monday morning, about i mile and a half off White Fish Point light house, the Cowle had {one to the bottom in fifty fathoms of water, carrying with her fourteen members of her crew. The Scott, although badly damaged, put back to Sault Ste Marie, where she arrived Monday afternoon, with part of the irew of the Cowle. A heavy fog was responsible for the collision. The Scott, a new boat, was on her maiden trip to the head of the lakes. The Cowle was downbound, with 8,000 tons of iron ire in the hold. When the crash came, for fifteen feet the bow of the Scott penetrated he side of the Cowle. In three minutes the Cowle had settled to the bottom of Lake Superior. A line was thrown from the deck if the Scott to the forward deck of he Cowle and three members of the rew escaped by this means. The eight of the crew who were saved jumped into the lake, some without life preservers, and were ticked up by the Scott and the steamr Goodbye, which was a short d?sance astern of the Scott when the -oUisiou occurred. Capt. Rogers, of the Cowle, was me of those who were rescued. Until Capt. Rogers returns 10 the tort it. is impossible to tell the lames of the men who perished with he Cowle. The Scott received serious injuries In the collision, which would pr>b;b!y have sent her to the bottom ..Iso ' she had been loaded. The Joliu B. Cowle was 4 4.~> feet <>ug, iiO feet beam and was owned by the Cowle Transit Company of Cleveland. The Cowle went into ominiasion in 1902. SHOOTING AKFIt.W AT Sl'MTKK. Ktigcne Pelt Seriously Wounded by Joe I.. Wells. As the result of a quarrel a few tights ago which was renewed Tueslay morning, Joe L. Wells, who runs t small store near the depot, shot tttd seriously wounded Eugene I'etit t Sumter. It seems that Wells used onte profane language in his store vhinh could be heard by Mrs. I'etit it her home across the street. She irotested to Mr. Wells, but he would tot quit, it is alleged, and when Mr. *etIt returned from work she told ilm of it. He went to the store to ee Wells and the quarrel ensued, ruesday morning it was renewed and Veils shot I'etit in the right breast ust below the liver. The attending ihvsicians are unable to state just tow serious Mr. I'etit's wound is as et, and Wells is being held awaiting he results. NK(ilK) SIKH ITS NFKltO. iVoninti the Cause of Probably Fatal Fight. ' Sheriff Rurch, of Florence, was ailed out on Saturday night to the ilantation of Mr. M. S. Haytiesworth tear that town to arrest AreKtu Ineksou for the shooting of another legro by the name of Wright. It ems a woman was the cause of the hooting. For some time they had ieen rivals for the affections of the voman in question and when they net on Saturday evening Jackson inloaded a shotgun in Wright's eg. Jackson claims that Wright vas trying to .-hoot him when he ook the gun from him and did the .hooting himself. Wright is very <erious!y wounded, and it is doubtul if he will live, inflammation of he wound having set in. Jackson is iow in jail. PARTIKS FIRF. OX NMiltOKS. While I'laying Cards in Corn Field. Our Was Killed. I'M. Mariason, one of the negroes ?hot in the hack last Saturday night by unknown parties while playing ards in a cornfield near ltutledge. ia.. died from the wounds Monday uorning. Ail inquest held by the coroner >ver the body of the dead negro, inils that the deceased died of vounds inflicted by a gun in the lands of unknown parties. Four other negroes who were also hot at the same time received only light wounds and will recover. i'cni and Itolivia May Fight. A telegram from Valparaiso. Chile, ays it Is believed there that war letween Peru and Bolivia is imml i?nt because of the disorders at Ln>hz following the decision handed own by Argentina in the boundary irputes between the two countrif The Chilean admirality said th.it Ihile would remain neutral, but she ? preparing to send war ships for he protection of Chilean interests. Cave.In Kill*. One. As a result of a cave-in in the ,one Star Lignite Company, at Como. >n miles east of Sulphur Springs, exas. Tuesday, one man is dead and iu'eral others injured A numher f miners were at. work in one of in runs eight feet below the surice, when ei~ht f. et of slate fell, illing John Cadeiias and injuring tveral, one seriously. ^ ^ 40 MILES AN HOUR | O. WRIGHT MARKS AXOTHRR SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT. Short FliKhU Will bo Made Until Machinery is in Good Working Order. Orville Wright Monday evening made a very successful flight in the Wright aeroplane at Fort Myer, Va.. oeaf Washington, remaining in the air five minutes and thirty seconds, during which time the machine at. tained the exceptional speed of forty miles an hour and circled the parade grounds half a dozen times, a total distance of about three aud a half miles. A strong breeze prevented the Wright brothers from starting the aeroplane immediately after It was brought from the shed. While waiting for favorable conditions, they examined the machine carefully and chatted with prominent persons who had gone over from Washington to witness the trial. With Count von Vernstorff. German ambassador, the Wrights talked at length explaining the working of the machine. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. daughter of Kx-Presldent Roosevelt, enthusiastically examined the aeroplane, as did Secretary of the Navy Meyer. When the signal finally was given to start, the machine shot forward and mounted gracefully into the light breeze. Orville Wright guided the fiver to the lower end of the large parade ground and circled around toward the starting point, gradually rising higher from the ground. Six times he rounded the course, the machine attaining an average speed of about forty miles an hour, according to Mr. Wright. After passing the crowd the sixth time the aviator decided to make a landing because the motor occasionally was missing a spark. He descended early and lighted with no apparent jar. the machine sliding smoothly over the ground, until It came to a stop at a point near the shed. Both of the Wrights expressed themselves as pleased with the performance. They Intend to make only short flights until the new bearings have become worn down and the propelling motor is working perfectly. When these things have adjusted themseives to the satisfaction of the aviators they intend to attack their main task, to which these minor flights are preliminary?that of satisfying the conditions prescribed by the Government for the official test. W.WTKI) TO LYNCH WHITE MAN. Pennsylvania Mob Sought Life of Child's Assailant. Only a ruse by the authorities of Cnnonsburg and Meadowiands, near Pittsburg, Pa., prevented the lynching early Monday of a white man who was arrested at midnight In connection with an attack on I.ydla Spade, twelve years of age, which occurred in a berry patch close to the child's home. Relieving the man had been captured. hut uncertain, a large crowd gathered about the Canonsburg jail, after midnight early Monday morning. A rope was thrown over a tree and demand made for the assaulter. Chief of Police Swan assured the crowd no arrest had been made and appealed to all present to1 institute a hurried search for the criminal. The appeal won and headed by officials. the crowd separated into searching parties, who scoured the vicinity until long after daylight. In the meantime Jos . Johnson, of New Cumberland, West Va., who had been arrested as a suspect, was kept hidden in 'he jail, heavily guarded by extra police. 'I In- 1 ilii wis serioi .j injured I.uter. ?s r. precautionaty measure. Johnson was taken to Washington, Penn. He stated he wa* under the influence of liquor Sunday. Al TO TI'KNS TI RTLE. Two llirniinghnm Men Injured in an Accident. H. C. Dee had two ribs broken and R. C. Stout was rendered unconsciotn when an automobile which they were driving went over an embankment on the Springville road, twenty miles north of Birmingham. Ala., Monday morning. The car turned over and both men were caught underneath. Mr.-. Carrie Gil is still ho.ering between life and death as a result of injuries sustained Saturday night when she was struck on South 21st street. Birmingham, Ala., by a large touring car. Her skull was fractured. Farmers Held for Peonage. \V. S. Kemp and son. \V. B. Kemp, both prominent farmers of Wilmer. Ala., were arrested a few days ago by Deputy I'nited States Marshal Gates, the charge against them being holding persons in a state of involuntary i servitude. Four negroes. alleged | t'iof {ni c tfor o AO eeiiv/J ^ * ?'* * ........... ?< . . mniril in UIC tllj OI I Mobile with the defendants. This ] is the second arrest of farmers on 1 charges of a similar nature. The ar* ! rest of the men created excitement 1 at Wilnier and at Mobile, where both < are well knowu. i 1 Mrs. Roosevelt at Genoa. Mrs Theodore Roosevelt and her three children, who arrived at Genoa Sunday from Naples, were met Mon- ' day morning by Miss Carom. Mrs. Roosevelt's sister. The party spent ' ' the morning driving around Genoa, i and left Monday afternoon for Ml v ' Carom * villa, at Porto Naurizlo. | 1 REVOLT IN PERSIA Portions of Government Troops Are Making Stand. FIGHTING IN STREETS The Nationalist Forres Filtered tho City and the Fighting Started at Once?The Citizens of Teheran Aro Wildljr Jubilant Over Success of the Nationalists. One thousands Nationalists entered Teheran, Persia, at five o'clock Tuesday morning by three gates, says a dispatch from that city. The Cossacks occupied the central square and surrounding streets. Fighting started at once and vigorously proceeded for some time. The Shah is momentarily expected to take refuge in a foreign legation. The Royalist troops, particularly the cossacks, have taken up a position in the central square and surrounding the streets, and it is believed the Nationalsts will attack their position in full forces if they do not surrender. Safety of foreigners does not appear at this writing to be seriously threatened. Slpahdar and Sardaha, Nationalist leaders, are in possession of the parliament building. A body of local Nationalist under the leadership of young Seved have taken possession of the residence of Saad-Ed-Wowloh. the foreign minister. Many of the Royalist soldiers, including a number of cossacks, have deserted to the Nationalists. The populace of the city is enthusiastic over the advent of the Nationalist forces. They throng the streets, wearing red badges and offering encouragement to the revolutionary soldiers. There was a sharp outbreak of rifle Are Tuesday morning near the British legation, but it did not last long and the casualties among the Nationalists wer? slight. The Nationalists are in possession of the central offices of the Persian internal telegraph system. Indo-European telegraph line, the outlet to London, is still working, but with dih culty. The Royalists and Nationalists are fighting in the square in front of the offices of the company, which are under fire. ADMITS KILLING KMPLOYKR. Baker's Helper I'lratN Guilty ol Murder at Xw Orleans. Carl Bortuna . a young German, charged with the murder of George Knecht, a baker, plead guilty when arraigned Monday afternoon in the Second City Criminal Court of New Orleans. Knecht was killed in New I Orleans last Thursday morning and Bortuna. his helper, disappeared and was arrested in Mobile Saturday night. The State cannot accept a plea of guilty to the charge of murder and Itortuna was committed tc prison to await trial by a jury. Bortuna says that five years ago he killed his sweetheart in Pfalse, Germany, as a result of a suicide pact, He had agreed to commit suicide after killing her. but lost his nerve, He says he served three years as a result. Then" he came to this couutry. Knecht charged Bortuna with being too attentive to his wife and the quarrel that followed resulted in the killlug of Knecht. FNSIGN AIKKN K1LLK1). Officer on the North Curofinn Moots Violent Heath. Knsign Hugh K. Aiken, of the United States navy, died aboard the armored cruiser North Carolina at Naples a few nights ago from injuries resulting from a coal gas explosion. He was born in New Orleans in 1884 and entered the naval service in 1902. Peter Mullan, of Brooklyn, N. Y.. also was Injured slightly at the time of the explosion. Ensign Aiken was one of the best known members of the foot ball team while at the Naval Academy. Man Chopped to Death. Joe Pulley was chopped to death with an axe while he lay asleep in his home near Selma. N. C . enrly Monday. Pulley's 12-year-old stepdaughter, Marie Pulley, is charged with the kilting. Pulley's threat that he would whip the girl and dri\-> her from home, is understood to have furnished a motive for the killing. Pulley lived several hours af'rr his skull had been crushed in several places. Heat Unprecedented. Shipmasters of the United Fruit Company and other lines trafficking in the importation of fruits from Con irai America Into New Orleans, report that the heat of last week in tropical waters was unprecedented. Several ships reported temperature :o have gone above 105 degrees. The ttondition is said to have entailed much suffering among sailors and aborers in the engine rooms. Sot en Years for Bigamist. Christian Johnson, charged with Mgamy by Mrs. Josephine Amelia Trethway of Stockton. Cal., and hought to he the notorious biganist. Madison, vas sentenced a fen lays ago to serve seven years itnirlbooment. DEFERS SUICIDE TO KAT ONE MOKK BATE OF THE tiEORQIA FOWL. Abbeville Muu l'lanned to Kill Himself Before Breakfast, but Waited Vntil After Metal. i W. C. Hamilton, of Seville. Wilcox j county, Ga., killed himself Sunday ' morning about 8:30 o'clock by shooti lug himself through the head with a pistol. He told Mrs. Fountain who keeps house for him, that he was going to kill himself before breakfast. She jokingly told him not to do that, as she was going to have chicken for breakfast. After breakfast Hamilton went into his room and shut the door. Soon afterwards a pistol shot raug out. Mr. and Mrs. Fountain went to the window of the room and looking 1 in found Mr. Hamilton washing his face. He told Mr. Fountain that he had not done anyharm. and Mr. and Mrs. Fountain left. In a few minutes another pistol shot was heard in the room. Mr. Fountain, agnlnst went to ascertain the cause. This time lie found Mr. Hamilton dead on the bed, with a pistol hole through his head, the ball passing through his head. The pistol was clutched in his right hand. He leaves a wife and five children, three boys and two girls. A letter from his wife dated from Griffin, Ga., was discovered at hla side. The cause of the suicide is not known, but it is believed to have been domestic trouble. For several years Hamilton had been a resident of Cordeie, where he | had extensive mercantile interests. ! He also owned and operated farming lands near Seville, where his palatial country home is situated. He was for many years a wholesale merchant of Montgomery. Ala. Edgar S. Hamilton, of Abbeville, county school commissioner of Wilcox county, and Elmore Hamilton, cashier of the Hank of Hochelle, are sons of the deceased. He was a prominent Mason, and was buried from the Union Haptist church. He was a prosperous farmer. OLI> BARGE AFIRE. Endangers Water Front at Providence, Rhode Island. A drifting barge, sending forth ' frequent explosions from her cargo of burning oil. and a quarter of a square mile of the harbor waters ? K1 n ? W ~ J Inuiu^r 1 i uiii ult' :*cflllt? cnaangered the entire waU-r front and shipping of Providence. R. 1., Saturday. Beginning; shortly after midnight, the Texas Oil Company's barge. Harrison. loaded with 135,000 gallons . i of oil burned furiously, destroying j the company's wharf and several of . its buildings besides scorching sev, eral of the craft in the harbor. The . , danger was over at sunset Monday I only when the oil had become exI hausted. and the bark was burred , to the water's edge. The loss Is j estimated at $50,000. Capt. Frederick May and Albert , De Fosse, who were on the Harrison at the time of the explosion and were , severely injured, were reported to be improving. ilkk's STIXc; kii,i<s womax. i Dies Quickly After Poison is lujected in Iter Right Teinpie. Killed by the sting of a bee was ; the fate of Mrs. Mary J. lluck, a f resident of Garrison, Iowa. A hive of bees belonging to a neighbor had swarmed and lit on a tree on the i Ruck premises. Mrs. Ruck was sitting on the porch of her residence when one of the bees stung her on the right temple. She called for help and was carried into the house. Physicians were summoned, but before they could reach her she was dead. She only lived about twenty minutes after being stung. Doctors who were called state that it was the first instance, so far as they knew, of death resulting so quickly from the sting of a bee. Saloons ("lose in Texas. At midnight Saturday more than a thousand saloons in Texas ceased I operations because of the coming into i effect of the law enacted at the re' cent session of the State legislature h'khihiiiik in*. saie or liquor. The principal provision of the enactment invalidates all liquor licenses issued after February 'JO, 1909. limits the number of saloons in each county to one for every five hundred popuI lation and bars the issuance of new licenses except where the saloon is conducted in (-injunction with a ho,H* rtlnck Hand !<r|ters. j Threats that his house would be dynamited and that he and his family would he killed unless $10,000 was paid to the "Hlaek Hand of Lima," Ohio., was the substance of j letters received recently by Henry Deissel, of the DeisseMVemmer Man- I ufactoring Company, a wealthy and ; prominent man of Lima, Ohio. Mr. Deissel turned the leters over j to the local authorities and both po- | lire and federal officials havo been guarding the hotise. Speedy THhI Given Negro. Judge Hardy, of Wa> ne.sboro. ' Miss., holds the record for speedy j trials in Mississppi. Will Gamblin, ' a negro, was arrested last week for burglarizing a store at Wayne.-,boro. Under Judge Hardy's decision, he was indicted, tried, convicted and sent to the penitentiary for two >cart? on the same day. j "we are nc Property for i you have an; like to disposi No charges t made. CAROLINA SA 49 E Russell St. ( Southern States IVIe^ch 1 n y/ Plumbing OOL.U M I OFFICER IN JAIL Wyatt Ingram, >11'., of Xon Oileanv Under Charges. Official of Hiberuia Htiuk, Acuuocd of Hclug Defaulter and Forger, Taken to Prison iu Ambulance. Wyatt H. Ingram, Jr., trust officer of the Hibernia Hank and Trust Company of New Orleans was arrested at his home, 184 0 State street, in that city, shortly before 6 o'clock Wednesday evening on the charge of being a defaulter and forger. It is alleged that he is between $75,000 and $100,000 short in his accounts. It is declared that Ingram's defalcations have extended over a period of 15 months. Ingram was said to be too ill w hen the arresting officers reached his home to accompany them to the police station, but District Attorney AHamc .......... i..... 1 ?kMu**io, u^/uu uviikh dunlin uiiiV/aiuu with insisted that the accused be brought to prison without delay. Ho was carried to police headquarters in an ambulance. It was reported that Ingram had made an attempt at self-destruction late Wednesday, but this is without confirmation. It is believed rather that the strain under which he had labored and the recent excessive heat resulted in his partial collapse. The trust officer is said to have confessed to Vice President Tool of the Hibernia bank that his defalcation would approximate $100,000. It is stated that a check for $5,000, on which Ingram forged tho signature of a prominent business man of New Orleans, led to the disclosure of the embezzlements and forgeries now charged against him. Ingram for a number of years has stood high in business and social circles of New Orleans. He is a prominent club man and has been a leading member of commercial organizations. He married six month ago. He is a native of Henderson county, Kentucky, and is '.14 years old. He has been a resident of New Orleans about 6 years. His family connections in Kentucky, Maryland and other Southern States are prominent. Officers of the Hibernia bank state that the loss is not sufficient to affect the institution In the slightest. It Is regarded as one of the largest and strongest banks in the South. TO HELP PKiHT WHITE PLAGUE. Bill Posters and Poster Printers Join Anti-Tuberculosis Campaign. The National Association of Bill in Convention at Atlanta, (ia., to donate to the anti-tuberculotis fight $1,200,000 worth of publicity. This means that all over the United States and Canada they will give not only space upon bill boards, but the labor of posting as well, to hints and cautions to those who have or may be exposed to the white plague. On the heels of this generous offer, the Poster Printers' Association donated 1200,000 worth of work upon paper to be printed for the campaign. The officers of the Association say they have assurance that the railroads and expre-s companies will carry free all the paper for the work, and that the allied printing trades will be asked to do the printing f ree. WOMAN AM) CHILI* MISSING. Wife and Son of St. Stephen's .Man Gone Since Saturday. Mrs. E. M. Rhodes, wife of A. J. Rhodes, of St. Stephen's, mysteriously disappeared from her home on last Saturday night, and no clue an to her whereabouts has as yet been obtained. Her little son, Jennings, aged about 12 years, is also missing. Since Sunday all efforts on the part of her husband and others to locate them have failed. 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