Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, February 24, 1910, Image 2
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
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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
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HOODOO NEGRO DOCTOR. i
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(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
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SOMEBODY l'l'SIIING. h
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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.
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.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.
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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.
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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.