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THE FORT MILL TIMES I VOLUME XVIII FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18,19Q9 KO. 34 Mil FIEND LYNCHED By a Fierce Mob at Cairo, Dfioois for (Ik Horrible Crime of ASSAULT AND MURDER A Fiendish, Brutish Negro, After Confessing to the Crimes of Assaulting and Murdering Miss Pelley, Whom* Body Was Found in an Alley, Lynched and Burned. Will James, the negro suspected of being the murderer of Miss Annie Pelley, was lynched at Cairo, Illinois, Thursday night by a mob. llo was strung up to the public arch, the rope broke and at least 600 shots were poured Into his body. I nines made a confession, implicating another negro, Arthur Alexau dor. The lynching took place In the most prominent part of tho ci y. and was witnessed by tou thousand peoplo. Women present were the first to pull the rope. When it broke, the frenzy of the mob was uncontrollable, and they fired volley after volley Into Jame's body, shooting him to pieces. The mob then dragged the i- iy u\tr tUt? aireets.Ior ij>or? than y . to? -witai'-v-.: :-wis^^nrvfl'^Wrn^nerTtf T)avTB between Karnak, 111., and Helknap, by the Cairo crowd, who went up Thursday afternoon. The crowd overpowered the officers and took the negro from them, nnd after a conference it was decided to bring their prisoner back to Cairo and lynch him. Sheriff Davis had been fleeing from the mob for twenty-four hours with the prisoner. Driven from town to town by nuenaclng crowds the sheriff had taken to the woods with James, but the perslsteut search of the summary avengers proved effective at last. Fully a thousand persons went out to find the negro, and when the pursuers arrived in Cairo with their quarry, they were met by a bowling mob of 5,000 others bent on slaying the negro. They marched the negro direct tc the public arch, sweeping the streetslike a flock of sheep might tread a narrow lane. Many women were in the crowd and anxious to help dc the work. Sheriff Davis having been foiled In his attempt to hide the negro pleaded for the life of the prisoner but without avail. When Cairo was reached, Sheriff Davis was taken ii charge by a party of the mob, whicl rushed the negro rapidly to his funeral pyre. The mob thnt chased the sherif and the negro was so large that it scoured the entire country from Karnak to Vienna. 111., a distanc* of about sixteen miles. When found by the mob the negro was handcuffed between two officers, and all three were lying 01 the bank of a creek. All three wen so weak from hunger, exposure am the futile attempt to elude the mol that they were not ablo to iuak? much resistance. While in custody of the moh com Ing to Cairo the negro would no talk about tho crime, but when hstood under- the arch he weakened and confessed that he slew Mia Pelle.v. He said that Arthur Alea ander was Implicated In the cr ime Tho attempt at hanging followe quickly. The growling of the mob tho grinding of the rope and ih? struggles of the negro were stop|*e? a moment only by the snapping- o the rope. Tho 10,000 persona *ln had lokked on and danced in shot forth armed men almost ma dually, and they filled the negro wit bullets. Then, not satisfied with vengeanc* the mob dragged the body to th place where Miss Pellcy's bod? bound, gaged and bruised, had beet found. A roaring fire was built aa the body was incinerated. James, who came from the South said Miss Pel ley had been assault ed and murdered after u terrlfl* fight. It is reported that Alexander the negro implicated by James Is the murder of Miss Pelley, has beei found by the mob. and that thes are bringing him Into town to lyncl him. Governor Deneen appealed to at 11 o'clock by Sheriff Davis, who declar ed the mob was storming the Jal and volunteers would not assist bin ordered ten troops of militia to pro ceed at onco to Cairo to reston order. Double Tragedy. As a tragic culmination of martia troubles of long standing Louis W Lewis, white, shot and instantly kill ed his wifo at his home in Jackson ville, Fla., Wednesday afternoon then turned the rovolver on himself sending a ballot through his head causing Instant death. Cause of Death. An autopsy Wednesday at 8oOj merville, N. J., disclosed the fan that the death of Robert Simpson who died in a trance, was due tt rupture of the aorta. Prof. Everton the hypnotist, will probably b< charged with manslaughter. ANOTHER LYNCHING WHITE MAN SWUNG UP FOR MURDERING HIS OWN WIFE. After Lynching the Negro the Mob Attacked the Jail and Made Quick Work of a White Man. At Cairo. Illinois, Henry Salzner, white, a photographer, who killed his wife last July with an axe, was i taken from jail at 11:40 o'clock Thursday night -by a mob and hang <-u iu tx poie, ana ms uoay riddled with bullets. The lynching followed closely on the lynching of Will James, a negro, who earlier In the evening had been hanged for the murder of Miss Annie Pelley. The mob gave 8alzner a chance to confess after the rope was around hts neck, but he was so frightened that he could only mumble that his sisters had kiled his wife. The mob became furious at this, and It was hard work to keep them off Salr.ncr long enough to give him a chance to pray. The mob finally subsided and a short religious service was hold, after which he was 6trung up. the rope being placed over a telegraph pole at 21st and Washington streets. The mob found some difficulty in breaking the cage, as it was an entirely steel structure, but after a half hour of telling blows upon the door It gave way and Balzner was secured. The mob rushed him out of the back door of the jail, which is in the basement of the court house, around the building through the yard and out into Washington avenue, and up to 21st street, which is a prominent corner and has a public square. He cried and begged piteoucly for his life and was met by cries and blows from the mob. When Balzner was asked for his last statement a man, a stranger in the crowd, stepped forward and said ho believed aaizner wbb innocent, whnroupon the mob fell upon him, kicked hitn and flually knocked him down, and it was only the pleas of cooler persons that saved his life. He was compelled to beg for mercy from the mob, and announced in a loud voice that Salzner should be lynched, after which he was driven from the mob and all attention was given to Salzner. After Salzner was hanged, and while the body was being rindled with bullets, the roi>e broke and the body fell to the ground, where it now lies, the mob going away and leaving it. Salzner was born and reared at Cairo. He had been married about two years last July, when his wife was found at her home with her ikull fractured. A bloody axe was found under the bed. Two babies were playing in the mother's blood. Salzner was found at the home of bis mother, where he often slept at light. Before Mrs. Salzner died she recovered enough to accuse her husband of attacking her. Feeling against him had been bitter, and Thursday night, after the lynching of James, when some one suggested Salzner, the mob rushed 'or the county jail, got Salzner and lynched him. DR. CARLISLE'S LIBRARY Qiven to Wofford College by Ills Son and Daughter. - The library of the late Dr. James 1. Carlisle, president of Wofford lOllcge, containing many choice and "are volumes, has been presented to Wofford college by J. H. Carlisle, Jr., and Miss Sallle Carlisle, children ?f the deceased. Tin gift is highly 'ippreciated. not only by the faculty !ind trustees of the college, but by he students and the alumni, for t Is regarded as one of the richest reasures of the college. In addition to presenting the 11>mry of their father, which consists f lomc 2,500 or 3,000 volumes. Miss Carlisle and Mr. Carlisle presented he college with several old pieces of Ibrary furniture of I)r. Carlisle, vhlch are familiar to the old stulents of the college. The library of Dr. Carlisle will not *>? catalogued along with the other MQks of the college, but will be placed intact In a room of the library >ui)dlng and the furniture will be irranged In this room as nearly as tossible as it was in the library of he great educator. In other words, he faculty of the college hopes to rreserve the library and Its furniture intaot ao that one who ever had the pleasure of calling on Dr. Car 'tile at his home will at once lio impressed wjtb the surroundings. A Fool's Money. Franklin Taylor, a Brooklyn lawyer. who ran (or municipal Judge rocent election and lost, has filed hla expense account, which to taled $822,23 with the county clerk. "^11 of which serves to demon< strata," Mr. Taylor reflectively com? rnents In his paper, "that a fool and h)$ money are soon parted." Ntgro Woman Kills Herself. In 8avannab. Ga.. Tuesday after won. Evelina Johnson, colored, aged I tfclrty-oae years, drank tho contents of a two-ounce bottle of carbolic > sold, from the effects of which she died la agony a short time after? wards. The negro woman was a U undrew. FLATLY DENIED A Fake Sltry About Seaator Tillman Made Up in Columbia and / SENT TO NEW YORK SUN Mr. A. J. Bethea, Governor Ansel's Private Secretary, Wrath With the Writer of the Dispatch, Which lie Brand* as a Yarn Out of the Whole Cloth. Mr. A. J. Bethea, Governor Ansel's private secretary, writes the following letter, which explains itself: The governor's secretary has written the following letter: Senator B. R. Tillman. Trenton, S. C. My Dear Sir: I have just read the story in The News and Courier entitled "No Drink for Tillman," copied from the New York Sun. and to say 'that I am disgusted and outraged hardly expresses my feelings. There is not a semblance of truth In this article, which, of course, you know as well as I do, but in justice to you and to myself, I hasten to write to assure you that it did not come from me nor any one con- , nected with the governor's office. There is only one way in which , It could possibly have originated, and the truth has been so distorted that it strains the imagination to account for it. i On Friday of last week a gentleman came over from Winnsboro, and was in gtieat distress because he found the dispensaries closed, mak- < ing It impossible for him to purchase j champagne, which he wished to use ( at a reception at his home the next i day. The governor was absent, and i as he had ordered the dispensaries i closed for that day and the next, I | told the gentleman I could do nothing for him. although he brought , with him a physician's certificate. | At the luncheon on Saturday 1 sat | by Mr. Robert H. Hazard, a1 repre- ( sentative of the United Press, and < during the course of conversation 1 i related to him the above story, tell- 1 ing him of the distress of the gentleman. but without mention of his \ name, and certainly without any ' thought of yours in connection with i it. I do not say thnt Mr. Hazard < wrote this article, but I cannot ac- ; count for it in any other way. It i is certainly far from the truth, and i I hope you will understand that I i resent it and that I object to being made a party to a newspaper story, < which is utterly without warrant and without foundation. Trusting this explanation will serve the purpose for which it is Intended, and assuring you of my unwillingness to do you an injustice, I am, Yours very truly, A. J. Bethea. The I>is|Mitch. The dispatch complained of appeared Sunday In several papers, among them the New York Sun nnd luv ntJiuuiuru American. it reads as follows: Columbia. S. C., Nov. 6.?Taft Day in tills city Inconvenienced Senator Tillman. The governor of South Carolina has the power to suapeud the sale of liquor whenever he deems it advisable. A large crowd was gathering in this city yesterday for Taft Day and the governor ordered the dispensaries to close for two days. Along about this time TJoujamln R. Tillman hit the town. He had run over from Trenton, his home, to get two bottles of champagne. He was going to have company at home and he wanted the champagne badly. He tried two or three dispensaries, but they were closed. Then the senator hustled up to the governor's office and appealed to his private secretary. The secretary allowed there was nothing he could do. "Well, couldn't I get two laittles on a doctor's prescription?" begged the senator. The secretary said the only way would be for the senator to find some friend and perhaps this friend would give him two bottles. It would be against the law for him to sell them. Kor the senator to look for a champagne collar friend in Columbia was a hopeless proposition. Hadn't the senator just had a big row with tho Columbia Taft Day reception committee because they wanted to tax him $10 for his scat at the Taft luncheon? The senator had told Columbia io go to DiHics wun us luncneon, or words to that effect. Finally the governor's secretary referred the senator to a friend of his. and from him Mr. Tillman pot his two quarts. The senator was a fraraer of the South Carolina dispensary law, and thus was getting a taste of his own medicine. 11 * ? Mrs. Mario Estey Suicides. Mrs. Mario L. Estey, widow of a widely known piano manufacturer, committed suicide in a boarding house in New York a few night ago by inhaling illuminating gas. The loss of her fortune some years ago brought on a nervous disorder and her ill health Is believed to have led to her act. MURDERS CASHIER AND WOUNDS PRESIDENT OF DANK HE TH1KD TO HOD. The Young Bandit is Ilun Down and Captured After Ho Shoots One More Man. In an attempt to rob a bank at New Albany, Ind., a young man entered the Merchants' Hank at noon Thursday and killed J. llangery Fawcett. cashier or the bank, seriously wouuded John K. Woodward, president of the bank, and wounded Jas. R. Tucker, a negro chauffeur, probably fatally. When Hall entered the bank he carried a pistol in each hand. After commanding every one to throw up his hands and "get into the vault," Hall began shooting. Cashier Fawcett was shot through the chest and neck and died almost instantly. President Woodward was shot through the liver and his Intestines were perforated. Tucker, the chauffeur, was shot through tho body. Following the shooting the murderer rushed from the bank and tried to escape In an automobile, which he had taken from tho curb in front of the residence of its owner, Mrs. Walter Escott, in Louisville, Ky. He had forced the negro chauffeur at the point of a pistol to drive him to New Albany. After the shooting at the bank the chauffeur, paralyzed with terror :?:.>i apparently incapable of action, sat still when the robber jumped into the car and ordered him to speed up the machine. Tho robber then jumped out of the automobile, shot the negro in the back and ran two blocks to the Ohio river. He seized a skiff and was on his way to the Louisville side of the river before the frightened citlzous of New Albany knew what had happened. An alarm was given through a megaphone on a dredge boat and in a snort tune several policemen had started iu pursuit In a fast iuotcr boat. After being captured the bandit refused to give his name, and had little to say. He said that he had been urouud Louisvlllo for several Jays. He did not know Tucker, the chauffeur, and declared Tucker wan not implicated iu the attempt on the bank. A dispatch from Louisville, Ky., says the bandit was identified as Thomas Jefferson Hall, and according to William J. Hall, his father, the desperado is but 17 years old. The alder Hall, who has a furniture store at No. 802 South Preston street, in that city, said that young Hall was a household tyrant, and not insane at all. "lie is simply mean,' said the father. The family is formerly of Knoxvllle, Tenn. W. J. Hall detailed his son's actions for the last few years, saying that dime novels had been the youth's constant reading. Among young Hall's effects was found a -powerfully made cabinet. lined and outfitted like a room. It is believed that the boy expected to escape with his loot, crawling into the box, which was consigned to "R. J. Smith, Knoxville, Tenn.," and escape as freight. NORTH CAROLINIAN 8UKTDK8. Places Gun Against a Htump and Pulls the Trigg<T. A. II. Ilragg, a farmer living near Redwood. N. C., committed suicide a few days ago about 10 o'clock by shooting himself dead with a shotgun. The okl gentleman had been despondent three or four weeks and lately showed very great signs of intellectual decrepitude. Ho went to town several weeks ago and said he felt that irresponsibility. The morning of the suicide he started out and told a colored man that he wanted to borrow a gun with which to shoot squirrels. There the smartness of the determined suicide showed itself. He had prepared a forked stick with which to work the trigger and putting the gun against a stump, pulled the trigger and blew his head ofT. He was 5S years old and had two sons and three daughters. A TRIFLING RASCAL Being Sought l>y tlit* Wift' lie lia.sely Deserted. A dispatch from Atlanta to the Augusta Chroniclo sayB coming from Augusta without a cent In search of her husband, whom she says is with Barnum and Bailey's circus there. Mrs. Bessie Brooks roached there on a Georgia railroad train without tho formality of a ticket Wednesday. In her arms she carried a baby of a few months. She is only twenty years old and claims to have married at Whitmire, S. C., about a year ago. A short time after the baby was born be left her and sho was told that he had joined the circus. She Immediately w*ent to Augusta in search of him. but not finding him there, she followed the circus on to Atlanta. Confederate Veteran Pauses. Major Thomas Hayes, former Inspector general of tho Confederate army, at one time second vice president of the Pullman Palace Car Company, died at his home In Loulevllle, Ky., a few days ago. aged 72. i NERVY THIEVES Five Men Lore Fifty From Their Camp, Bind Them Secarely and TOOK ALL THEIR CASH The Bound Men After Being Robbed of Their Valuables, Spent Mte Hours Together After the Thieves Who Had Deprived Them Had Beat a Safe Retreat. A dispatch from Ridgewood, N. J., savs fifty Italians employed in build iuk it iruuey roau irom I'aierson to SufTerln were held up by a few baudits by night in this place, bound hand and foot, and robbed of all their money and jewelry. The victims wero left lying tied in a shanty until morning, when one of them managed to free himself and inform the police. The robbers, of whom there were only five, got away with twenty watches, many trinkots, and $1,458.G1 in bills and small change. Seldom has there been a robbery in which the thieves were so tricky or used such generalship in handling a large body of victims. So skillfully did they do their work that at no time were they in danger of being attacked by more than one man. The laborers lived in a shanty in the Bergen county cutout, as Is customary with gangs employed on new railways. The gang foreman was supposed to look out for their welfare and see that they were amply protected against thieves. But with half a hundred men around him. he had no suspicion that four or five men could get away with anything. Foreman Tackled First. Therefore, he felt no fear when a man appeared at the door of the shanty In the night and said he wanted to see the boss of the gang. The foreman went out and met the bandits, all of whom spoke Italian. They Informed him they wero government officers, and that they had boon sent to arrest him for selling liquor in the shanty without a IIcenso. They led him away from the shanty, and, keeping two pistols aimed at his head, they bound him hand and foot. They carried him to a spot well away from tho house and left three men to guard him. One of tho bandits then went to the shanty and called out another of the laborers. He. too. was told that he was arrested, led away, bound hand and foot, and carried to the place where the boss was lying. The trick then was used to lead the other workmen out of the shanty, and, one by one, their captors bound them safely and carried them away. Those left inside the shanty never missed their companions, most 01 them having prepared to go to sleep. The ones lying bound with ropes did not dare make a sound, for fear the men guurdlng them would shoot. It took more than an hour for the bandits to complete the work of binding all the men. Then they carried them back to the shanty In pairs, laid them on the floor, and went through their pockets. As each man's money and jewelry were taken away he was bundled iuto a e-orner. When the baudits were sure they had all the money and Jewelry In the camp they warned their victims nox 10 niaxn any outcry, aud iciaurely departed. It was almost midnight before they finished their work, and not one of the victims had attempted to resist. Five Hours of Helpless Itagc. For five hours the workmen lay bemoaning the loss of their money. The cords had been tightly bound on most of them, with their hands behind their backs and ropes passed around their legs above and below the knees. In vain they squirmed and wriggled, trying to free themselves, until 5 p. nt., when one of the men succeeded in slipping his bands loose. He quickly removed the ropes from his legs, and. disregarding the urgent pleas of his companions to be freed, he fled from the shanty. He ran all the way to i the home of Chief of Police Fuller, of this place, and excitedly told the story of the hold-up. Fuller called several patrolmen, and they hastened to the shanty. There they found 19 men still hound securely, and quickly released them. When all the workmon were freed they compared notes as to their losses, and tho police were able to finH nut hnw murh thr> honHUe Good descriptions of four of the bandits wore given to the police, but there was not a clew to indicate who tho robbers were. Information of tho hold-up was sent to several near-by cities, and a search of tho Italian sections was made, but in vain. Tho thieves bad a clear margin of five hours in which to cover their tracks, and they used it. to advantage. Aged Negro Suicides. Calvin Htnton, a veteran negro employe at the farm of Charles H. Hinton. near Raleigh. N. C.. committed culclde a few days ago. using a shotgun with which be blew out bis brains. Children hearing the shot ran to the house and found him dying on the floor of bis cabin. BLAMES THE WOMAN STOLE BIO SUM OF MONEY AND PUTS UP THE EXCUSE That He Was Made to l>o it by Being Blackmailed by a Bad Female Associate. At Cincinnati. Ohio. Mtb. Jeannette Stewart, also known as Mrs. Ford, one of the women accused by Chas. L. Warrlner. defaulting local treasurer of the lHg Four Railroad of having shared In his speculations by blackmailing hliu, declared she would tell the whole Inside story of the $643,000 theft, when the case on mo n n/\?i ? n* vvr i.uuii. hiib. oiewari dented she had ever received money from Warrlner. The sudden breaking of her silence was caused, according to her. by a quarrel which she had with another woman, who has also been meutloned by Warrlner. This quarrel resulted In the attachment of Mrs. Stewart's furniture. The officers who made the attachment were quickly followed by reporters, and In the stress of excitement, Mrs. Stewart's reserve broke down. "I never received a cent from Charles Warrlner," she said, "and I never gave any Information to the railroad about his shortage. It was another woman that did it all; a woman I thought was my friend. 1 know the wholo story and I will tell it In court, too." At present the question that is exercising the railroad officials Is. What became of the $643,000 which Warrlner admits having stolen? Warrlner sayB he lost it in stock speculation and in satisfying the demands of blackmailers, but that (explanation kh not satisfactory to the officials. Warrlner says he is penniless and his relghbors at his home in Wyoming, Ohio, declare that ho is a sick man. It is admitted by railroad officers that Warrlner might have continued his speculations indefinitely If he had not been betrayed by a woman, bo great was hi3 superiors' confidence in him. I'ELLACiKA CAUSED DEATHS. Was at First Thought to be Tyl>hokl Fever. That hundreds of deaths which occurred at the Confederate prison at Andorsouvjilm. Gav during the summer of 1864 were not due to typhoid fever, as then supposed, but were caused by pellagra, wart the opinion expressed before the Southern medical convention in New Orleans a few days ago by Dr. J. W. Kerr of Corsicana, Tex. Dr. Kerr, who was surgeon at the Andersonvllle prison, described the symptoms of the disease, which attacked the inmates so fatally at that time, and in nearly every particular they were recognized as being characteristic of pellagra. This view was further strengthened. Dr. Kerr sala, by the fact that musty or spoiled corn, generally accredited by the medical fraternity as being perhaps the cause of pellagra, constituted the main diet of the prisoners, because of inability to furnish them other supplies. The consensus of opinion among the physicians who presented papers on the subject was that pellagra is attributable to spoiled corn. AN CNKINISHKI) VAULT. Huilder ltefu.scs to Tako Out Permit and folio? tiuard It. Two years ago the owner of a private residence in the aristocratic vicinity of the Plaza in New York city had his house remodeled and a vault constructed under the sidewalk. The contractor had obtained a permit for the alteration on the building, but had failed to take out a permit for the vault, for which a fee of several hundred dollars was required. At the behest of the bureau of highways a policeman was stationed at the building to prevent further work on the vault until the fee was paid and the permit obtained. The vault has been under police surveillance ever since and the vault is still unfinished, with a fair prospect of remaining so until the owner of the building, who is Raid to lie a millionaire, chooses to plank down the required fee for a permit. Sn?*n Victims Recovered. Seven victims have been recovered and it is believed the list of doad will reach twolve, as the result of a flro In the Auchincloss shaft of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Wostern Coal Company, at Naticocke. Pa. An explosion of gas set fire to the timbers of the mine. Killed in Arkansas. Maj. \V. H. Seal, of Sumter, received a telegram telling of the death of his son David W. Seal, at I^eak1 ville. Ark., who was killed by a falling tree. The body of the young man will be brought to Sumtor for burial. Endorse* Printers' Label The Farmers' Educational and Co[ operative Union of Tennos6oe, in annual convention at Jackson recently, i unanimously passed a resolution tnI structing officers of the State union to use the union label on all printed matter. CAN'T BE FOWM Dr. G. C. Bigham, Convicted of Help^wljl to Morder His Young Wife. HAS BROKEN HIS BOND Avnnt, who, With lllgham, Was Convicted of Manslaughter at Georgetown Recently for Killing Mrs. Ilighain, Gives Himself lTp, Hut the Husband is Missing. A dispatch from Georgetown to The News and Courier says from developments within the past few days it seems likely that Dr. CI. C. Digham, who with W. B| Avant was convicted at the last term of court of manslaughter for the killing of Mrs. Digham on Murrel's Island, will yet escape the penalty of three and a half years' hard labor In tho penitentiary. Imposed by Judge Watts. The notice of pppeal made by the defendant's attorney. J. W. Ragsdale. not having been filed within the ten days allowed by law, Solicitor Wells wired 8herlff Scurry to apprehend tho convicted parties at once, they being out on a $1,500 bond. On Saturday Avant, learning of his being wanted by the sheriff, went to Georgetown from his homo at Harpers and surrendered himself. He is now In the county jail. Sheriff Scurry wired Sheriff lJurch, of Florence county, to arrest Dr. Bigham immediately, but from information so far received It seems that he cannot be found. Tho surmise is that he has tied the State. There seems to have been some inconsistencies in the bonds required by Bigham and Avant. When the men were first arrested on the warrants issued by the coroner, the bonds were fixed at $500 each, being later raised, at the instance of the solicitor, to $2,500, under which amount they appeared for trial. After conviction and sentence the men were turned loose under a bond of only $1,500 each, pending the result of an appeal to tho supreme court. It is said that as Dr. Bigham's family aro well-to-do, tbo forfeiture of tho bond Is of small consequence. MURDERED BY SMUGGLERS. Eighteen Sailors Made Drunk and Then Killed. Passengers arriving at New Orleans on the steamer Parlslmlna, from British Honduras told of the scuttling of the Honduras gunboat Tatumbia and the murder of eighteen of her crew after she had overhauled a British steamer engaged in smuggling between Jamaica and Honduras. Six days ago the Tatumbia overhauled the smuggler fifty miles out of Puerto Cortes and twenty of the gunbont's crew boarded the smuggler. The smuggler crew surrendered and the smuggler captain told Capt. Zalella that there plenty of good rum in her hold. Zelella ordered a celebration. The prisoners feigned intoxication, and when the gunboat's crew succumbed to tho rum they were thrown overboard. The smuggler's crew scuttled the gunboat and then escaped. Two of the sailors who were Hung overboard reached ono of the Heating lifeboats of the sunkon Uonduran vessel and reached Puerto C>rtoH with the story of tho wbolosalj murder. APPRECIATES X EW8PAPER8. Spartanburg City Council Took the License Off. The Spartanburg Herald says In revising the license ordinance Monday night the new eity council of that progressive city took the license off of newspapers. "It was agreed among us." said Mayor Lee, "that newspapers are the greatest help the city had, and that rather than be licensed they should l>e given all tho encouragement possible." There was a license of $25 on dally papers and a license of $10 on weekly papers. "A newspaper is not the richest institution in the world by a long shot, and the taking off of the license may be a great help tdwnril n hiinnv f'hrlnlniAS." was the way a gentleman expressed It Monday night, says the Herald. The newspapers were free of license until the last city council got hold of the liceuse ordinance and stuck it to them. The prosont council seems to be mors appreciative of the work the newspapers do In the way of advertising the city, and In boosting every good undertaking that makes for the up-bulldlng of community life. llnllcy'w Comet Sighted. Halloy's Comet was observed from Provldonce. R. I., at Ladd Observatory. Brown University, by Prof. Wlnslow Upton. The comet, according to Prof. Upton, bhould be visible by telescope from now on and with the naked eye In January. Officer Kills Negro. Because he drew a pistol when the officer approached to arrest him for disorderly conduct, Joe Bostwick, a negro, was shot and killed at Albany, Ga., a few days ago by Oscar i Walden, acting deputy sheriff. M