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/ * HE BID aw uF Owe Rick Yoaag Man Ftand by Anatker in His Palatial Haae ALONE WITH HIS WIFE i And He Proceeds to Tie Him and Carre Him With a Knife in the Most Fiendish Manner and Contined to do so Until Stopped by a Policeman. Finding Jere F. Lillis, a millionaire local bankrr, in his home at rvansus my, am., wucu ue arnvcu unexpectedly alone with his wife at an early hour Sunday morning John P. Cudahy, a wealthy packer, and son of Michael Cudahy, the Chicago millionaire, committed an assault on the man, which led to his arrest on a charge of disturbing the peace. Llllls was pretty badly done up. Cuts Inflicted with a knife, are on his face, limbs and arm. The cuts have been made in criss-cross fashion. ^ Before cutting Lillis, Cudahy is said to have bound him with a strong rope. One of Cudahy's chafteurs was present.' Neighbors heard Lillis screams and groaning in the Cudahy home and called the police. Ten minutes later Patrolman Underwood hurried to the Cudahy home which is located in a fashionable part of the city. The front door was open. Stepping Into the hall he heard screamt coming from a parlor. Then came groaiiB nnd cries for mercy. Underwood found three men were In the room, which was brilliantly lighted. Prostrate on the floor lay Lillis, half nude and botind with a rope. His lower limbs was bare. His few remaining clothes were bloody. Above him stood Cudahy He was in correct evening dress, except that he wore no coat. His sleeves were roll.? ed up. Blood was on his hand. At his side stood his chaffeur. None of the men noticed Underwood. Lillis groaned and tugged feebly at the cords that bound him. "Dont* do it Jack; please don't do it," he pleaded. Rushing over to the trio, Under wooa RnareBBeu *juaany. "What does this mean?" he queried. He has ruined my home. He's ruined my home," said Cudahy, turnlug to the officer and making no attempt at resistance. After seeing that LIUIb had been started to a hospital, the policeman took Cudahy to the police station. The packer gave a caBh bond and was released. From the beginning to the end of the affair Mrs. Cudahy was not in evidence. Since Cudahy's marriage to Miss Edna Cowin. who was a society belle, of Oinaho, on December 18, 1899, the family has been prominent. On the day of the marriage Cudahys father made him manager of his Kansas' City packing interests. After a three months honeymoon, which included trips on special trains and the occupancy of a palace in Italy, the couple returned and purchased one of the finest homes in Kansas City. The city readily received them. The Cudahys have five children. Llllis is a bachelor, 4 7 years old. He is manager of the Western Exchange Bank and prominent socially. SHE IS NOT A l.ADY. Says Its No Longer a Compliment to Call Women Such. "I.am not a lady," announced Mrs. jt'Bsie stuoDs berore tne members or the Ausfln Woman's club in speaking on the modern woman at Chicago. "Nothing makes me so angry r.s to be called a 'lady* or to be told I am lady-like. It is not a compliment." "The definition of 'lady.' to my mind, is a female who has nekher brains to think with nor hands to work with. I am thankful I am a 'woman' and can think and act intelligently. "It is true every one received with a feeling of regret the news that a girl has been born, because it is natural for people to rejoice when a boy comes into the world. The boy will have a voice Tn the government and the girl will not. That is the first thought that come to us, but when the modern woman is called upon to be a citizen of the State this will change and it will not mattf?r H'hpthpr a l\nv nr o artvl V?oo .. ..?v * ?#w J V/? M h" I ilC*0 UVX'H j born." Fntnl Pistol Fight. Following a dispute over a debt, Horace Hammond, and W. F. Vance, prominent farmers of the county, enf gaged in a pistol duel on a crowded street in Edgefield on Tuesday, resulting in the death of the former and the serious wounding of the latter. Vance is In jail. Cot His Head Off. Charles Pitts, a forman employed by a railroad at Wolcott, N. Y., committed suicide Monday night by laying his neck across the tracks as a fast freight train was approaching. His head was severed from the body. WHAT THE WIFE SAYS MRS. CUDAHY MAKES A PUBLIC STATEMENT. Admits Taking Automobile Rides and Dining With Lillis When Her Has band Was Aw>j. Mrs. Cudahy makes a Statement in reference to the sensational happenings in her home at Kansas City. She declared that her husband's attack upon Mr. Lillis was the culmination of a long line of brutal treatment, and his last act would result in the seperation of herself and husband. "It was all caused by an automobile, a run-about that Mr. Lillis had ordered," she said. Lillis received a run-about last Friday, Mrs. Cudahy declared, and she told him she wanted the first ride in it. she told Mr. Cudahy's chauffeur, she said, of the fact that snc was 10 nave ma tirst. ride in the new run-about. "Incidentally," she said, "I remarked that Mr. Cudahy was going out of town, down to Qrainfleld, Kan., I believe,, to look at some cattle." She said she took a ride Friday afternoon and again Saturday afternoon. They went to the Baltimore Hotel for dinner, she said, where they stayed only long enough to eat, and then went out. They went riding in the evening also, she said, and upon their return to the Cudaliy home Lillis was about to drive away when she invited him in. "We went to the library downstairs," she said, "and had been talking only a few minutes when Mr. Cudahy rushed in the room. He was accompanied by Fenn (Johann Moss) the chauffeur. They seized Mr. Lillis and began beating him." Mrs. Cudahy declared that her husband beat Mr. Liilis over the head with an electric searchlight, about eight inches long and about the Bize of a man's wrist. "That was what he hit me with too," she declared, displaying a badly swollen eye, colored a deep purple. At some length she then gave a detailed statement of the ^attack. She said she believed they would try to kill Lillis; and "I though they would try to kill me, too," she said. Having finished tying Lillis, she said, "Mr. Cudahy came tearing upstair. He struck me over the head and in the left eye, and you see what he did." raising her handkerchief to her swollen eye. He rushed downstairs, she continued, "and then I guessed he began to use the knife on Mr. Lillis." A FOOL AND HIS MONKV. Blew In Ninety Thousand Dollars in Three Months. n iuuk r raiiK k. Hllier, T9 years old, just throe months to spend $90,000 and get himself expelled from Columbia university. He was carried to Kansas City Tuesday to answer to the charge of forgery. Hiller was arrested leaving the workhouse in St. Louis, where he had served six months on a similar charge. The small fortune was left Hlller by his grandfather. About a year ago he induced his guardian to put the money in the bank to his credit. Then the gay life and the wild rides in motor cars began in X-'w York city, and Frank was expelled from Columbia. He had no trouble in making the acquaintance of pretty 1 women, who were not at all timid about the size of the wine bills young Hiller was paying. His money gone, he was driven to commit forgery. "If a takes experience to bring a wild young fellow to his senses. I have had mine," lliller said Wednesday. "After spending money freely for three month t fonnri ?? hard to quit so suddenly. Without money or friends, or any way to earn a living, I forged two checks. I'm ashamed of it, but I'm willing to pay the penalty." FHOZKX TO DKATH. The Tragic Passing of Two Women and a Little Hoy. Huddled down in their abandoned sleigh, two women and a little child were found Wednesday ry the husband of one of the women, frozen to death in the blizzard, which swept the Standing Rock reservation three weeks ago. Mrs. Gilbert Major, her mother-inlaw and her year old son, in trying to drive from Malito, S. 1)., their home, to a neighbor's, was over taken by the blizzard eight miles from home. i iiey lurnecl the team lose and huddled down in the sleigh to let the storm pass. The slept and nevev awoke. The return of the team occasioned no uneasiness because it is supposed the animals had escaped from the corral where the visit was made. Fiend to llani;. At Pickens Monday Haas Butler was sentenced to be handed or. April 8, between tho hours of 10 a. m., and 2 p. m. He will be the first one to pay the death penalty for an nttemVt at criminal ussault in Pickens County. He was tried last year at\d found eulltv. sentence of death was pronounced upon him CAN THEY DO IT? Efforts Beiig Hide to Wrest Coitrol ol Cottoa ProJodioo froa FARMERS OF THE SOUTH In Gfrawny and England Persistent Work In Being Done for the Rapid l>evelopment of Cotton Growing in Their Different Colonies With the Hope of Being independent. In commenting on the efforts of the foreigners to enter extensively into the productien of cotton to avoid the American market the Balti more Sun BayB: No doubt the South's monopoly of cotton production 1b fairly secure, but American planters must not think that no effort is being made to wrest It from them. In Germany and England very persistent work 1e being done for the development M cotton growing in colonial posessions. Cotton manufacturing employers and employes have come together in Great Britain to collect money for cotton growing. It haB been arranged to collect two cents a month from each cotton worker in all mills and workshops in the cotton districts for fifteen months, beginning with this present month. A committee in each town and district will look after the collections and the hope is that Africa and elsewhere cotton growing can be so expanded that the price of American cotton will be kept in check. At the meeting of the International Cotton Federation at Frank fort-on-Main last October, it was decided to co-operate with the cotton growers of India, and Mr. Armo Schmidt was sent to India to ascertain the possibilities of extending cotton growing tliere. Mr. Schmidt has just returned to Germany after a tour of 4,000 miles throughout Indin, in the course of which he succeeded in affiliating the cotton associations of Bombay, Cawnpore, Agra, Dilhl, Calcutta, Madras and South India with the international federation. Experts assured Mr. Schmidt that with in four years India could produce 10,000,000 bales of cotton. Such a quantity, the Germans think, would have a powerful influence in checking American speculation. This year's Indian crop is estimated to be nearly half as large as the American crop and the quality of the fibre of some of it is very good. WIDOW GETS DAMAGES. Many IMlars I'ald for Victims of Cherry Horror. With fifty claims of widows and other relatives of the Cherry mine disaster victims settled by payment ranging from $800 to $1,200 per denth, the St. Paul Mining Cmopany has entered into negotiations with counsel in something like one hundred more cases to settle with the victim's widows at the rate of $1,800 in each case. This rate of settlement was agreed upon at a conference between attorneys representing the widows and counsel for the mining company. "Yes, we have already settled fifty cases," said Burton Hanson, secretary of the mining company and general solicitor for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway. "We have agreed to pay from $800 to $1,200 in the cas's already settled. "In the cases that came up at the conference last Friday $1,800 was the figure agreed upon tentatively by the attorneys, and I believe settlement on that basis will be agreed upon for there is a disposition on the part of the widows to settle." In ? I. ~ ? I * ' i. mi- mine uisaster men wero killed. Of this number l.r>7 left widows with 42H children, while 107 of the victims were single men. THR WAKES OF SIV. The Inevitable Ending of Two Peoples Wickedness. "This is the finish of two 'has beens," " remarked Edward O. Miller, former society man of Canton, O.. at Pittsburg, Pa., Wednesday night, when he was held without ball awaiting the result of a revolver shot he planted in the neck of Mrs. Alexander Wright, former social favorite in Sewlckley, Pittsburg's aristocratic. suburb. Hospital authorities have little hope for her recovery. Miller was divorced two years ago, and Mrs. Wright has been seperated from her husband since she was made a prisoner during a police raid. The couple dined together at the Hotel Imperial late Wednesday, and Miller is said to have become enraged at a flirtation Mrs. Wright started i wiui an attach of the plnee. When she reached the street he shot lie" down. CicKKl Ixtng Term. At Knsas City, Mo., William Jackson, the negro janitor charged,with attacking six young white girls, was convicted In the criminal court and Bentenced to 99 years Imprisonment. Ex-Gov. A. H. Tlurke of North Dakota was foreman of the jury. a&r.. ' I ' BURNED TO DEATH MRS. HARRIET 1R11Y .MEETS A TRAGIC FATE. Went into Burets* Hodm After Being Warned Not te Do So and Was Burned to Death. Mrs. Harriet Irby, widow of the late John IT. Irby, -of Marlborto county, was burned to death at the home of her sister, ^Irs. W. F. Kinney, near Blenheim, Wednesday morning, between 6 and 7 o'clock. Mrs. Irby's body was almoBt completely destroyed and Mrs. Dudley and Mrs. Kinney were saved from a like fate by a faithful old family servant, Pleasant Gibson. It seems that the three ladles were alone when the fire was discovered. W. L. Kinney, a son of Mr. W. F. Kinney, went over to his uncle's on business before breakfast, and the lamp was left burinlrg In his room. Mrs. Irby was In the back porch, and Mrs. Dudley was In a front iuuiu. airs, itdy went \nto the bumlag house again. She was warned not to enter again hut could not be kept back. It is thought that she fainted, or in some manner fell unconscious. Mrs. Dudley was painfully burned in an effort to rescue her sister, and Bhe and Mrs. Kinney were held from the burning building by the negro. The terrible news was a shock to the entire community. Mtb. Irlty, a member of a large and influential family, was respected and revered by everyone. She leaves a brother, John R. Townsend, and two sisters, Mrs. Dudley and Mrs. Kinney; also four children. MAKES RICH REWARD. To the Man Mint Saved His Daughter From Death. The saving of the life of May JenningB, near Alpine, Texas, has made a millionaire of Francis B. j Strome, formerly a tramp. Strome is about 50 years of age, a machinist, for many yearB a resident of a small town in Illinois. He met with reverses, aqd after the death of his wife took to drink. He was beating his way westward trying to make California and was hanging around Alpine, Tex., trying to catch a train when the girl was i crossing the railroad track just as 1 the train approached. The child became bewildered and would have 1 been killed had Strome not Jumped on the track and snatched her clear 1 of the rails. Just in time. He disappeared, but the father of the girl had him located about 50 miles away and brought him back to the ranch and kept him at the place for several days, learning something of his history before tellliug him what he was going to do for him. Strome agreed to settle down and care for his property. Last week, Col..Sam Jennings, the cattle king. mod a document for roeonl transferring a half Interest in his 40,000 acre ranch and 25,000 cattle and all the buildings of the Valvedere ranch In Jeff Davis county to Strome. The property is said to be worth between $700,000 and $1,000,000. THIRD TO IMHSON HIM. "Fixed" Hulls la-ft at the l)oor of a Preacher. Dr. R. P. Fltzrandolph, director of the State Laboratory of Hygiene, completed an analysis which showed that a bag of rolls loft a few days ago at the home of the Rev. A. J. Voeglin, of the Manhattan Park Presbyterian Church, of Irvington, N. J., bad been freely sprinkled with white arsenic. In the judgment of the chemist there was sufficient poison on each roll to cause the death of four persons. The rolls were left a few days ago at the door of the clergyman. They were sprinkled with a white substance somewhat resembling flour, yet differing sufficiently to arouse the suspicion of the Pol/ U- " ? mi. vui'Kiin, wno reported the ' matter to the local authorities. TI1K FKKT1MZKU TAX. Is the Greatest Fver Collected in Its History. The State treasurer's receipts of the fertilizer tax are heavier to date than for any similar period Sa the twenty years such a tax has been collected. The total tax up to WM:i*sday wAs $141,702.38, over $2 Urt( ahead of the same period last year when the high water mark was reached. The tax collected so far ??iia year is greater than for any one entire year up in 1900. The lotal (last year was $202,741.3 1. Two weeks ago the receipts to date w-re $2o,000 above the same period last year. Ilesult of a Quarrel. As the result of a family quarrel In which his wife took sides with her father, Wm. Davidson, a farmer, living near Ithaca, Mich., struck his father-in-law, Julius Teet. with the butt of a shot gun, killing hiiu. instantly. Seizing a razor,, the "man cut his wife's throat and after making sure that she was dead, blew out his own brains. SHOT HIM DOffM Murder of a White Maa by a Negro Causes the Death of Several. LYNCHERS APPEAR * Only When tlie Nejjrofs Implicated in tlie Murder of the Sheriff, Who ?? * ? ?? ' . vut iv mivst uk- .iiurucnT, ??as Tr?ccd by Bloodhonnds, Captured and Middled With Bulleta. Mr. Sam Stribbllng, superintendent of a contractor cf Tampa, Fla., on Monday had a dispute at Palmetto, Fla., with a negro employee about wages resulted In the negro drawing a pistol and killing Stribbllng inBtantly. The negro then escaped Into the woods. Telephone messages brought SherifT Wyatt from Bradentown with a posse and bloodhounds. Later the negro was chased Into the house of another negro, who had Winchester rifles and a supply of ammunition. In an exchange of shots which followed. Deputy Sheriff Matthews, who led the chase, was shot and killed. As the posse wa8 a small one the officers left for reinforcements and the negroes made their escape from the house. The chase was later taken up and late Monday evening the sheriff was notified by Wasgame that he had been on the lookout for the slayer of Stribling and had run him to cover in a clump of palmetto trees near his house. The negro came out and attempted to fire. When Wasgame discharged both barrels of his gun the negro fell back into the palmettos. Wasgame said he did not care to risk following the negro in the growing darknesB. When a search was made the body of the dead negro was found at. the spot Indicated by Wasgame. Two negroes, names Ellis( took a hand In the trouble growing out of Strihhlings murder, when they attempted to interefere with the running of the bloodhounds with which the murderer was being chased. They reached their house later where they barrleated themselves and fired on the posses which surrounded the shack, killing Deputy Sheriff MntIhewp. This enraged the people and men no negro was Bare if found on the road. The two negroes made their escape, ?>nt were later run down and shot to death. One of them, Sam Ellis, was captured near Ellentown Tuesday morning at 4 o'clock, and literally shot to pieces by an infuriated posse, which was in pursuit. Wade Ellls( the other brother, made his escape before the posse came to the assistance of Deputies J. B. Morgan and Max Burnett. Later in the day the dead body of a second negro was found, and that afternoon the other Ellis brother was caught and killed. The last of the three negroes implicated in the murder of the two deputies and the fatal wounding of | tne third, was lynched at dusk that afternoon in the palmettoes on the banks of the Manatee River. The entire community is thoroughly aroused over the killing of the white men and wild rumors are afloat to the effect that a general a* tack will be made on all the negroes who are suspected even of being in sympathy with the Ellis brothers. ROBBED BY A HYPNOTIST. .Man Tells Strange Story to the l'o lire at Washington. With a story of having been hypnotized and robbed of $3.1,000, a man who gave his name to the police as I). J. Telfair and said he was manager of a dairy company of Philadelphia, came to his senses in the emergency hospital Monday at Washington. Telfair told the police he arrived in Washington to close a deal for a 700 acre dairy farm in Virginia to cost $.10,000. Telfair declares he had $31,000 in his pockets to make the first payment on Friday afternoon. He started for a hank hut found it closed and took a walk on the mall around the Washington monument. There he says he met a man who had hypnotized him often, and at a glance ho fell under the influence. He says he rpniom Iwro tiimlno - v.... ?, ???* ! me l.iit,000 to the hypnotist, but after that his memory is a blank. The sheriff of Alexandria county, Va., found him asleep on the rightof-way of a suburban trolley line and it took the hospital corps of surgeons to awaken the sleeper. Killed by Ants. An automobile in which six young men and women were riding near Chamberlin, La., skidded aeross the road and overturned, instantly killing Miss Sue Uevall, who wag crushed beneath the car, and seriously injuring Miss Caroline Phillips. Killed by Iloinhs. At Libson, Port., two bombs were hurled into a room where a party of clerical candidates were dining, the explosions killing two and wo.inding seven, including a priest who was, presiding. ilM '? -It - r*j >.?*: * ?v . V*; gjgj > ' * ' HELPED FARMER '-<* * , * the general assembly did a .r v. good deal for them. It Care Money to Support Various Things that t^ac Farmers of the State Needs. FarmPrs have no reason to complain of their treatment at the hands of the recent Legislature. A survey of the bills enacted into law shows | that the General Assembly adopted this session some very progressive and diversified legislation. Provision was made for * the Inspection of comermcial foodstuffs, the income to go to the Department of Agriculture, commerce and indUStrv r*t " ? j * vi n uiLii i. Hi. ?i, watson is the aggressive head. A special appropriation of $4,000 for the general expenses of the department was also given, this being a splendid recognition of Col. Watson's Untiring and successful eflorts for the development of the State. An np-to-date pure seeds law based upon the Wisconsin statute was also adopted. For the farm demonstration work, so successfully managed In the State by Mr. Ira W. Williams, an appropriation of $.r?.000 to supplement tho national appropriation was made? a good example for other States. For the great corn show to bo held in Columbia this fail $1,000 was given, conditioned upon $4,000 being raised in tho State at largo. And this is assured, Mr. A. E. Gonzales, .having pledged $1,000 of the amount. . It is also gratifying to note that the legislature appropriated $5 00 for the support of the work of tho State Corn Breeders Association, which works along the lines of tho most progressive of such organizations in the West. NEfiKO PREACHER LYNCHED. "Parson" Wallace Dragged from Ills Home and Swung Pp. At Gracewood, Miss., "Parson" Wallace, a negro preacher, was lynched by a mob early Wednesday, which sought revenge for the serious wounding of Patrolman J. W. Slack by the negro late Tuesday night. The negro was badly wounded in his flight with the oflloer and when ho fell into the hands of the mob, it was necessary to drag him to the telegraph pole to which he was hanged. Slack is said to have gone to the negro's house to collect a bill which he claimed the negro owed him. It is alleged that when he spoke to the negro, that he was struck and knocked down and In the tussle which followed, the negro got the ofllcers pistol and shot him through the wrist. Several other wounds were Inflicted on the oflloer who Anally got hold of the pistol and shot the negro several times. Charles Coleman, another negro had by this time come to the ofllcer'8 assistance and tho tight was stopped. The negro lay on the porch of his home while a mob gathered and talked of lynching him. Lending citizens of the town persuaded the mob to disperse but they later gathered and dragged the negro out into the street and swung him up to tho pole. ItOllltKI) IN Till-: STRKBT. Ileld up Woman and Child in t.lie Centre of Charlotte. At Charlotte. N. C., and on one of the principal streets, negroes Saturday held up and assaulted a white woman and child and robbed them of their pocket hooks, riontaining sums of money. These bold robberies came as the climax to a long series of nightly hold-ups in which women have been invariably the victims. On the boulevard in IMlwortli Friday morning, an aged woman was knocked down and severely hurt, the negro escaping with the woman's poeketpoob. That afternoon on the main street of the city a child was knocked down and robbed of a purse. The police chased both crimnals with bloodhounds and automobiles and made two arrests. Great crowds followed each prisoner to the station, but no violence was attempted, although for a time great excitement revailed. Will Soon lie Out. A dispatch from Washington says Senator Tillman's recovery is most marked. He is now strong enough to walk around in his room without assistance, and is able to give personal attention to some of his corresdonce. He lias visitors almost every day and carries on a conversation with/iut showing any evh'*>nce of fatigue. The Senator and his family expect to return to South Carolina the latter part of this month. \V as Found Dead. At Anderson Paul E. Ayer, twice candidate for Mayor of the city and brother of Hartwell M. Ayer, of Florence, was found dead in ht? at a boarding house Wednesday at noon. Mr. Ayer remained in his * room Tuesday and when he failed to come gut Wednesday his landlady called a nofficcr who entered his room ^ and found him dead. sA