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.
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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.
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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.
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