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MOB STORM JAIL At Cairo, Illinois, to Get Negro Who Snitched Purses From LADIES ON THE STREET Several of the Infuriated Crowd Shot Down by OfllcerH of the Law? The Crowd in Ugly Mood Karly Friday Morning and Further \t tack od Jail Expected. At Cairo, Illinois, in a light Thursday between a mob that seekB fo lynch a negro charged with purse snatching and Qve deputy sheriffs who are guarding the jail, several members of the mob were shot down In an attempt to rush the jail. The number of injured is unknown the estimates varying between two eleven. The mob was Btlll gathered about the jail at an early hour and was constantly increasing in size. Sheriff Nellis entrenched his force of deputies behind shuttered windows aud sent out word to the mob that he would light to a finish to protect hiB prisoner. The mob worked itself into a fren*y and another rush 011 the jail is expected. The local militia oompany was ordered out Thursday night by the Governor but the authorities have been unable to find the company's officers to lead the men. Sheriff Nellis appealed to Gov. Deueen for more soldiers and outside companies are hourly expected. There are threo negroes in the jail. One of them, John Pratt, was arrested on a chargo of snatching purses from women. He later confessed. He was immediately indictee by the grand jury and it is believed the mob is after him. The mob began forming shortly alter dark. As soon as the talk of a Ivnchincr r?nr<h,i/l Clm-OF will. 1? . V. M.V. v V* uuvtiu iicuis UC appealed to Governor Deneen for troops and swore in live deputies. A crowd gathered about the jail, tut no attempt to storm the structure was made until shortly before midnight. Sheriff Nellis made good his promise to shoot and several men in the niol> fell at the first volley. Then the mob withdrew at a safe distance and began firing into the jail, breaking the windows but injuring rone of the defenders. A dispatch from Cairo at halfpast three o'clock Friday morning says the mob that attacked the jail Is reforming a block away and a second assault is imminent. The mob, however, now numbering 500 persons, is crazed because Sheriff Nellis and his deputies fired on them and threats are made to lynch them as well as the negroes. Among the seriously injured of the rioters are: John Maloney, shot through head. Sam Wersinger, shot in shoulder. Horton Freehan, shot in leg. George II. Walker, shot in leg. Maloney is the husband of one of the women whose purBe was snatched. Caused by Policy Murder. Cairo has been in a state of unrest since the heinous murder was discovered on November 9th of Miss Annie Pellov ? <, v... ~ _?-? ? _ t u it; 111, WHO WES I slain by Will James, a negro. After a long chase through Alexander and adjoining counties, a mob captured I James, taking him from the custody 1 of Sheriff Davis. Tho negro was led I back to Cairo and hanged in the I public square. The mob then entered the Jail anu I dragged forth a white man held for I uxoricide and hanged him. It was asserted by the Cairo pa I pers and leading residents at thaf I time that the mob spirit was engen I tiered by the delays of the courts in I punishing criminals. Sheriff Davis was removed from I cffice by Governor Deneen, who acted 1 under a law that required the sum- I mdry removal of a sherifT who al- I lowed a prisoner to be taken from I blm. The revengeful feeling towards ne- I groes seemed to die out after com- I panics of State troops had held the I citizens In abeyance for several days. I An alleged accomplice of James In I the murder of Miss Pelley was lat^r I brought back to Cairo, but no in- I dictment was found against him. While the mob that lynched Jnmes I mat November was fiendish in its treatment of the body of Miss Polley's alleged slayer, tearing out his heart and burning It at the spot on which the girl's body was found, no talk of further vengeance on negroes was heard except periodically. Thursday night's outburst came therefore as a surprise to city officers but Sheriff Nellls, profiting by his predecessor's removal for failure to protect James, used drastic measures to save his prisoners. No serious elTort was made to punish any of the members of the mob that lynched James and tho whit? man last November. No arrests were made, although SherifT Davis said that he recognized several of the rioters. A coroners Jury that hell an inquest over James returned a ' jT lill GIVEN TO THE MOTHER CUSTODY OF TILLMAN CHILDREN SETTLED BY COURT. Their Father Had No Right to Deed Them to His Parents Under tho Law. By an unanimous decision of the supreme court Tuesday, Senator and Mrs. B. Tt. Tillman are commanded to surrender to Mrs. B. R. Tillman. Jr., the custody of the latters two girls deeded to the elder Tillmuns in December by their father, upon the allegation that their mother was unfit to bring them up properly, and he was not himself able to give them such an upbringing as he would like them to have. The court holds that such a deed is invalid without the signatures of both parents, if both be living. Wlint Senator Tillman Says. Commenting upon the decision of the court. Senator Tillman said: "The supreme justices have lifted a great responsibility off me and shifted it to their own shoulders. My only motive in accepting the guardianship was the welfare of my little grand daughters. I know ail the facts and circumstances, many of which were not brought out in the hearing, and was actuated solely by a sense of duty. The final result can alone determine whether the court has acted wisely. "Fifteen years hence, when I am dead and gone, the character and type of women that my grand-daughters will have become will show whether it was best to have given them to their mother or not. "I pray God's guidance to her in rearing them and that He will shield them from contaminating influences and example." INCOME TAX KMH?KSEI>. Hoth the Kcnuto and House of Ilcprctutivcs Favorable. The House of Representatives favors the income tax by the Federal Government. There were only three votes recorded against the proposition. Mr. M. L. Smith had passed to third reading his resolution ratifying the proposed amendment to the United States Constitution for the Federal Income tax. By a vote of 100 to 3 the proposed resolution was adopted. Representatives Fultz, Nunnery and Doar voted against the auiruuuicu t. The Feder.il Income tax amendment proposition was passed in the Senate late Tuesday afternoon by a vote of 2 8 to 9. The bill is now on third reading and it will probably cause some discussion when again reached on the Calendar. Apparently there has oeen a change in the opinion of members of both the House and Senate since the matter was presented by United States Senator Bailey for before Monday night there was a general impression that the resolution eould not pass. THOUGHT HE WOULD BE KILLED bat Death Came Before lie Could Make a Change. Hanging on a file in the office of Mayor John T. Moore of Macon, Ga., is the application of Engineer W. J. Yates, of the illfated passenger train of the Georgia Southern and Florida railway, which sent the man to his death deep in the earth under the big locomotive he handled Monday. When the engineer filed the application with the mayor he said he had a premonition somehow that his railroad position would bring him to some terrible disaster and he wanted a change. On being told he could :iut earn anyuimg nice me money ho got in the railroad service he repled that he did not care so much for that, for he feared death on liis engine. It came before he could be given the appointment he wished, lie was a popular and trusted man and did the most important work for his line. KlvS(TKI) BY CRlISEIt. People Taken From Steamer in tin Strait of Magellan. The Chilean tugboat Pisagua arliving at Quellan, Chile, reports that the Chilean Ministre Zenteno rescued the eighty-eight persons left on the wreck of the 11-itish steamer Lima, In Huamblin Passage, In the Strait of Magellan. The cruiser arrived at Huamblin Passage on Tuesday and found 86 of the survivors still clinging 'o .he wreck. Two others had -eari'l shore. Those on the wreck were taken off in small boats with the aid of lines attached to the wreck f.orn the cruiser. The two who had gotten asho-e were picked up later. The Mitir.ro Zenteno is taking the survivors to Ar.rud. The Lima stranded on Se iile Point in Iluaniblin Passage, after being rendered helpless in a storm. verdict that read in substance that ne "came to his death at the hands of persons to tho jurors unknown." TRAINS CRASH " Wornci Tear Off Clothing to Bind Up Woonds of Victim SEVERAL ARE KILLED Two Passenger Trains on Georgia Southern and Florida Hailroad Collide Head On Through Alleged Mistake in Heading Orders by the Crew of a Train. Six persons are dead and eight are seriously injured as a result o? the head-on collision Monday afternoon on the Georgia, Southern and Florida railway, 19 miles below Macon, between two faBt flying passenger trains. A misunderstanding of orders on the part of tlie northbound train is said to have been the cause of the collisiou. The northbound train crewwere under the impression that the southbound ti%in was to be passed at Bon Aire, while the southbound train had orders to meet at Wills ton. The northbound train dashed by Wellston and was making fast time to reach lion Aire to prevent any do lay of the southbound train. The two trains met on a curve and death and suffering ensued. The two engines crashed into each othe*with a terrific impact, the north bound train was the heavier of the two and the light engines and coach es of the southbound train were badly smashed. None of the dead were passengers and only a few passengers were ?ciiously injured, the dead and ir.lured being among the employes of the company. The dead: Engineer W. J. Yates, of Macon. I. B. Ingalls, of Macon, conductor but traveling as passenger. W. E. Dupree, of Bon Aire, conductor, but traveling as passenger. R. W. Hoit, colored, mail clerk, of Macon. Jim Stephens, colored, fireman, of Macon. E. It. Johnson, of Amerlcus, baggagemaster. The injured: E. II. Taylor, express messenger, of Macon, badly bruised and burned. LeRoy Fuss, engineer, northbound train, badly cut on head and chin. Robert Williams, of Macon, colored, mail clerk, badly injured in back. F. J. Blount, Orangeburg, S. C., hurt in head. W. M. Eider, Worth, Ga., bruised In back. W. L. Wheelers, of Iio6ton, bruised about body. George Bernhardt, flagman, pain fully injured on head. W. H. Carson, newsboy, cut on head. Loretta Putnam, colored, badly cut on head. The wreck has been cleared away and trains are running as usual now. Engineer Yates' body has been recovered from under the engine. It was one of the most dismal swamps on the road that the crash occurred. Passengers describe the crFs of the wounded and dying as most pitiful and heartrending. Several hours elapsed before medical aid reached the scene. Many women passengers bound the wounds of the injured with bandages torn from their clothing. Engineer Yates stuck to his post, \nd was killed outright. Engineer '"uss, of the Shoo-Kly, and Young, ais firemnn jumped, and Fuss was badly injured, but probably not fatally. All those who are injured are at tho Macon hospital now under treatment. They were carried ?here at midnight on a relief train sent to the wreck l>y Superintendent Grady. The light train, was almost totally demolished, the engine and three cars, while the heavier northbound remained on the tracks. The Occident will be charged to the crew of the northbound train. They were to have stopped at Hon Aire but for some reason, not yet explained icnored their orders and tried to reach the next point. It was said the northbound train was running at a terrific rate. Both engines, the mail and baggage ears and two day coaches were completely demolished. A wrecking train and a relief train were sent out from Macon as | soon as news of the disaster reached the head offices of the road. Two More Victims. | Two other deaths occurred Tuesday as a result of the collision Monday evening on the Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad nineteen miles south of Macon. Those Hvir.tr I day wore !. P. Blount, a traveling salesman of Orangeburg, S. C., and James Stephens. colored, fireman on Train No. 2. Blount was a member of a prominent family, and was to have been married In about a month. It was reported at a hospital Tuesday night, that A. H. Taylor, express messenger, of Nashville, Tenn., would live but a few hours. Of all base poisons fear Is 'be most accursed. ' FIND GRAFT IN OHIO / FORMER STATE PRINTER OWNS c VP TO GRAFTING. IH'itmh'ratio Governor Harmon Trees Republican Thieves in the Ruck* | eye State. Governor Harmon is after the grafters in Ohio. A dispatch from Columbus says Chairman Beatty of tho lopialnti vp craft riroho nnnittiltlou ?v0.m.v.?. * v O * v F* WMV vv"* ?*?? v vv-v appointed through the insistence of Gov. Harmon announced today that J. E. Frelsford of Dayton, former partner of Mark Slater, former supervisor of State printing, had confessed to him of wholesale grafting , in the department of printing at the time Mr. Slater was in charge. Ac- c cording to the confession of Brels- c ord, from whom Slater bought goods, r he and Slater divided $13,700 drawn J from the State treasury on vochers a for the payment for stock never de- j livered to the State printing depart- i, ment. Brelsford went on the stand on r Wednesday in the State probe in- vestigation session and revealed de- . tails of the transaction of the com- i mittee. i Mr. Brelsford was shown a war- ,i rant. No. 1256, on which he was paid " $5,501.75 for goods alleged to have \ been sold to the State bindery on v December 7, 1905. The entire list of goods itemized in the bill was n read to him and he testified frank- n ly at the conclusion that not a single ;< item represented goods actually de- t livered by him to the State; that it c was entirely a piece of graft. o Before testifying the committee ex ,\ plained to him again that the testi- i mony he might give here could not be used against him in criminal pros- ; ecution. i On the fourth bill, dated March n 27, 1 906, for "24 dozen of Moroc- v co, sorted," for which $3 04 was ti drawn, he testified that hut two do-, t en were delivered, the cost of which i was $67; that the hill was padded to ? the extent of $727. v * I: HOODOO NEGRO DOCTOR. i ? c (Jot Fifteen Thousand Dollars from 11 the Swopes. li Chnse Jordan, a negro herb doctor, of Kansas City, Kansas, who advertises himself as "Minister of Medi- ( nines, Medical Doctor and Doctor of , liver and gall stone," obtained some ? $15,000 in eight years for doctoring members of the Swope family. It . was told by the "Doctor" on last Wednseday. He gave a deposition in the slander suit brought by Dr. B. C. Hyde against John G. Paxton, executor of the estate of Col. Thos W. Swope, whose death is under investigation by the grand jury. Jordans name was first brought into the Swope cnse when Mrs. B. C. t Hyde Issued a statement expresslnc ( confidence in her husband's innoCTise and saying that Chrisinan Swope used Jordan's remedies. Jordan gave his disposition after much protest, as he claimed his minister- 1 ings to the Swope family had nothing to do with the case. Jordan testified that his medicines were harmless "yarbs.' He said th"y C were compounded from roots and tl leaves obtained in foreign countries l and in the woods near Kansas City. A . 1; SOMEBODY l'l'SIIING. h ? t! Taft Program of legislation Now " is Confronts Taft. tl Congress now confronts a Taft j, program of legislation. Last year there was a Roosevelt program for Congress to act upon. This repre sents the grow in#; tendency for the ? administration to assume the leader- a, ship ii. getting laws enacted, follow- f( in,g somwhat after the manner of w European legislation, where a respon- t silde ministry either gets its program a of le gislation through or else resigns. c| This country has seen so many do- ? nothing Congresses, where no one seemed responsible for getting any- n thing done, that there is a general It acquiescence in this tendency of the 0 president to assume a more active 0 share in the leader-hip of his party With this change gradually coining, j, when things go wrong the country p will know who to punish. Many n people still feel strongly against what is called one man power, hut | after all one man power ii oftin 'he most responsive to the pop.war will, because someone is directly responsible for getting work dr no. l'ut Them t inier lte<l. Surprising three burglars who p were robbing their cottage on Hill h street at Hot Springs, Ark., Monday c night, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wyman of ii Peoria, 111., were hound, gagged and I) robbed of Jewelry valued at $4,000. g Wyman, his wifo and the negro cook. C arter being l>ound and gagged, were ti not able to freo themselves for 24 a hours. 0 Smile and the world smiles with c< you, even when the smile he liquid, c A vigorous will is a perpetual H tonic. a True manhood Is above praise and t! overlaps all titles. o: I DARK CORNER' I [aims that Witches Killed Serenleei o His Maiy Cbildree. # I .IKE THE DAYS OF SALEM 'he Belief of a father and Mother in the Superstitions of Witchcraft Reveals a Most Remarkable Condition of Dense Ignorance in the County of Berks, Pa. That seventeen of the twenty cliilIren of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Carl >f Reading. Pa., died as the result tf witchcraft was the startling statenent made Friday by the parents. \ daughter, 2S years of age, died ind was buried last week. The maority of the children died when iiiite young. The parents have never been ill l cimrlo n.. ?V. 11 _ t-iu uiiiqiv uaj, w iiuc nit'ir hiiurun vasted almost to skeletons. Attorning physicians said several of the ' hihlren were atllicted with marasnus, a wasting of the flesh without ' iny fever or apparent disease, while "powwow" doctors declared tht the it tie ones were bewitched by an old roman. Several of the children in their illess scratched their mother on the ieck and face, screaming for hours, nd manifested other queer syntpont until they died. While physiir.ns declared that several of the !der children died of tuberculosis, lr. Carl believes all were bewitched, le said: "When one of our children was ill he doctor said it would not live over ight, and at the suggestions of a eijhbor I called in a "hex doctor" , ho had the reputation of curing ewitched people. He hung so niching in a bag around the chid's cck and gave it two kinds of medcine. He said that it had been be- v bitched by a woman, but would not ' mention any name. From the tim? he witch doctor began to treat the ltild it began to improve, and is tie of the three living today." On another occasion when one of lis daughters was ill, Mr. Carl delares an old man, hearing him tell i friend about his loss of so many 1 hildren, said he could help the bild, and was invited to try. He irought a piece of muslin, a needle nd thread, a pen and red ink, and he seventh hook of MoseB. ' He powwowed," and then copied a verse 'n a slip of paper, using his red ink, ind put the paper in a little red uuslin bag and hung it at the head f the cradle, and the child improv a. t When Dr. R. K. Strassers was cor- i ner he waged war on the "powwow" loctors, but they nre still doing buB- , noss in Berks county. Eastern Penn- r ylvnia is a stronghold of supersti t ion. I MAKES SKKIOIS C11A1U1E. liiinis He Was Swindled by a Specin list in Atlanta. v A dispatch from McCall to the | 'harlotte Observer says hearing of tie famous cures performed by Dr. [athwav and Co., of Atlanta, (la., ' Ir. Torn Morrison hied to Atlanta st Thursday to place himself in the ands of this doctor?thoughtfully iking his check book with him. The ;>st of the story as told by Morrison i: "When I got to Atlanta 1 found lat I)r. Hathway had left the city, c ut that an "eminent London specilist" was in his ollice. I found two , ion there who questioned me so fast, ml talked so much that I seemed ruler a spell of some kind Th?y greed to make me a well man in a >w days for the sum of $800. 1 ' as utterly unable, while with them, i doubt them or do otherwise than s they bid me. I made out the heck for $800, payable to the Rank f McColl. I became uneasy and dls- ' itisfled on Saturday and on Snnrinv " ornlng some one in their employ- j lent confirmed my doubts. I at nee wired the cashier of the Bank . f McCollI. to stop payment on check, his was done. The case has been ut in the hands of a leading Atlanta iwyer, and I expect to recover my loney, less lawyer's fees. c Kt'ROBF/S F.tifJ.S AUK IMPORTED ' lundreds of Thousands Are Brought , to A met ion. For the first time in five years the i roduct of the pauper hen of Europe i being imported, into New York in competition with the results of home ndustry. The eegs are shipped by ( rokers in Hull, England, but are ( athered originally from France and ' lermany. Bp to the present the < otal receipts of the foreign eggs v mounted to 000 cases, holding about r 60.000 eggs. S The duty on foreign eggs is five d ents a dozen, and the shipping barges about four cents a dozen, ealers say that European markets <1 re flooded and the low prices enable le shippers to make a good profit n n their importations. a KILLED BY ACCIDENT BRIDGE WATCHMAN AT CONGAREE FOUND DYING. * It His Post of Duty Early Thursday Morning, Dying a Short While Later. ^ Thomas Jefferson, night watchman !or the Southern railway company i- Congaree River Hridge, just abovo b'ort Motte, was killed at an early ticur Thursday morning. It is not inown how the accident occurred. The Steamer City of Columbia arrivJd at the bridge about 5:30 o'clock, ind the draw was opened for it to [>U8S. On arrival of train No. 15 at six '/clock no signals were found, and [he draw bridge was partly open. Tho irew closed the draw, and seeing no signs of the night watchman, passed \er the bridge. After this a freight train from Columbia arrived, and after a search, [or the watchman they found him lying under the draw on the rock roundation, with one arm pinioned ander a turn of the draw. He was yet alive, but unconscious tnd died shortly after being moved. The supposition is that while trying .o close the draw he fell through m the foundation and caught on the ron turn table to keep from falling o the river below. On arrival of train No. 15a few rinutes afterwards, when the draw vas closed, it caught his arm. It ?elng dark he was not discovered lyng underneath the track. It seems that when the steamer lity of Columbia arrived at the tidge at 5::i0 o'clock and the wattiman opened the draw for if to >i.ss, but as train No. 15 was due at ix o'eloek, he hastened up the track o place a signal to save the paset.ger train from dashing Into the waters of the Congaree river. Coning bark to close the draw the watchnan fell into the aperture used for tiling the machinery of the bridge. Ihortly after the train crew closed he draw and crushed the life out if the unconscious man. Jefferson lad^ been night watchman of the Congaree bridge for thirty years. GOES VP FOU IJFE. talpli Iioyleston Who Killed Cleveland Fanning. Ralph Iioyleston will serve the re11 ulmlne /V # V.U J ' - . un.uvi ui iiin uiijh in i ne pententiary for the murder of Cleve- At and Fanning. The supreme court A'ednesday rendered a decision affirming the decision of the circuit ourt which found Itoyleston guilty if murder with recommendation to he mercy of the court, which means ife imprisonment. The murder for which Itoyleston nust suffer was one of the most atrocious in the history of the State. In he early summer of last year young banning was found dead in a ro ?d n Barnwell County and was suplosed to have been shot from am ush. Itoyleston was indicted in June of ast year and the jury returned a erdict of guilty. A motion for a lew trial was made by Boyleston's ttorneys upon the ground that there fas a total absence of evidence, upn which the verdict could have been ased, that the testimony showed onclusively that although the defenant had been at or near the place fhere the dead body was found in he early part of the killing, yet hat he had left the place and there as absolutely no evidence of any haracter showing his return to tho lace and that the testimony as to he tracks and the trailing of the ounds was vague and indefinite, unertain, and not sufficient to connect he defendant with the homicide. i no motion Tor a new trial was verruled by the judge in the case nd Royleston was sentenced to iinuisonnient for his lifetime in the lenitentiary. lie appealed tlie case o the supreme court, which has just endered its decision confirming the ction of the circuit, court in refusing ioyleston a new trial, and he will ave to spend the balance of his days n the State Penitentiary. Royleston s a young white man and so was his ictim, Fanning. All 1I<>|M? Is (Jone. All hope that the missing United Rate navy tug Nina, which left Nor* oik on Feb. f> bound for Roston with 5 2 souls aboard, is still afloat has eon abandoned by the navy department and the warships which for lve days have been searching for lor Nina were ordered to ir> e r hunt. The Aiken Sentinel. The Aiken Recorder has been tak- ^ n over by tiie Sentinel Publishing Company and its name changed t<> J tie Aiken Sentinel, which will bo | >dlted by M' Rob! M. Hitt and J Valter E. Duncan. The announce- A oent is made by the editors that the H lentlnel is to be a "progressive, in- V lependent and unbiased newspaper." ^ What is Joy to the fishermen is I leath to the fish. Mental strength Is of quite as rittch importance to the working man a well developed muscles.