Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, March 17, 1910, Image 7
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HE BID aw uF
Owe Rick Yoaag Man Ftand by Anatker
in His Palatial Haae
ALONE WITH HIS WIFE
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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
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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.
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' 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
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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
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Only When tlie Nejjrofs Implicated
in tlie Murder of the Sheriff, Who
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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.
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HELPED FARMER '-<*
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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
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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