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HANGED TWO 0 la Miueari For Robbing and Murdering WiUiani Foi, a Fanner. NEGROES ARE LEAVING Charlraton. Where the Mob Took the Prisoners from Uie J nil and Lornciicd Them in the Presence of a Largo Crowd Including Many Wotnon and Children. Au exodus in the negro population of Charleston, Missouri, is reported to be in progress, following the double lynching on Monday when Robert Coleman and Sam Fields were hanged by an infuriated mob for the murder of William Fox, & Mississippi county farmer. ?<io shots were fired on either side. In the crowd which packed the court house yard in front of the jail were ti&lin-ttgy, W0V..P0 UCHBWOMT many women and children, and the officers feared on that account to resort to shooting. On the outskirts of the crowd were several automobiles. their occupants standing on the seatB to better watch the attack on the jail. Seemingly the mob waited only for a leader. About 4 o'clock in the afternoa a man seemed to take charge and the crowd rushed forward. A concerted rush was made at the jail and in a moment the front fence of the yard was trampled down. The sheriff and his men were brushed aside. There was no turning back then, even had the leaders been so inclined, for the hundreds In the reer were pushing forward shouting for the lives of the negroes. A railroad tie was shoved forward as a battering ram. The mob shouted with increasing rage as the door went down and the crowd pushed into the building. Another door was in the way. This was smashed in a second and the crowd surged upstairs to the second floor where the two negroes were confined. Those in the yard?the women #and children?could hear the Bounds of a sledge hammer as the lock was kuocked off the cell door. In a few moments a shout announced that the lock had been broken. Coleman was dragged forth and lynched In the jail yard, while the crowd cheered. A man climbed up a treo and put one end of the rope over a limb. The negro was jerked up and soon swung clear of the crowd. While Coleman dangled, another body of men rushed from the jail, dragging and pulling the other negro, Sum Fields. A rope was placed around his neck and the mob, shouting, started west along Court street. The negro said lie would show the men where he and Coleman had hidden the revolver they had used in shooting William Fox, whose death the crowd avenged. Tlio men in charge after a short parley decided to take the negro to find the revolver. The rope still about his neck and drawn tightly by his captors, Fields was thrown into a carriage. Followed by the mob on foot, in carriages and automobiles, the vehicle containing Fields started to the scene of the sliootlug, half a mile south of town. After going part of the way the negro told the captors he "guessed' after all he could not find the pis lull A stop was then made and Fields was jerked out of the carriage with out any preliminaries, the rope was tossed over the limb of u tree and Fields was strung up. Next morning his body was still swinging. The body of the other negro was cut down by several persons who wanted pieces of the rope at souvenirs. The crime which a mob avenged by lynch law was committed aboul ten o'clock Saturday night. The mo tlve was robbery. OltACKKK CAUSES FIRK. Exploded Among Straw in Ram Wit I Serious Results. A fire which will amount to ap proximately $300,000 destroyed buildings, made 3 0 families home less and wined out the business aiu residential section of ^Benton, Col umbla county. Pa., occurred Monday An exploding firecracker thrown ii among the straw in the barn of CJeo Croaaley was the cause of the fire The fire broke out at about thre< o'clock In the afternoon and It wa not until late that night that aftc aid had arrived, that the flames wen got under control. Had Needle in Heart. At Bandgraf, W. Va., Mirand. Weeks died suddenly and her hus. band was arrested on suspicion o having caused her death. An au topsy revealed a cambric needh piercing the woman's heart. Then was no scar on tho body to shov that the needle had punctured th< skin and the man was released. KILLED IN WRECK NINKTKEN PKRSONS MKT DKATH I ON AN OHIO RAILWAY. The Twentieth Century Limited I'm- 1 senger While Itounding Cune Crashes Into Freight. Nineteen persons were killed outright probably fatally hurt, and half i a dozen were seriously Injured iu ] a head on collision between a frieght j and prassenger train on the Cincin- | nati-Hamilton and Dayton railroad i at Mlddleton, Ohio, Monday. Of the killed, eighteen were passengers, the other victims being a member of the passenger train crew. The trains were the Cincinnati section of the Twentieth Century , limited on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis railroad, ( Big Four) and the second section of a freight train on the Cincinnati, Ham- , llton and Dayton railway. The latter was attempting to make a siding to give the passenger train a clear track, when the flyer, trav- ( ellng at a rate of fifty miles an hour, flashed around a curve and , crashed into it. i \ misun',ei standing of ord?'> caused the disaster, which was one of the worst that that section of j the country had ever experienced. Pilot engineer George Wald had received oredrB to wait at Post Town three miles north of Middleton. and a siding station, according to railroad officials. The freight train was i to have passed him there, but was i late in pulling out of Middletown Instead of the seven minutes margiu which Wald thought he had to reach Middletown. the time was less than , five minutes. The ftist section of i the freight had taken the siding at Middleton and Conductor John Wea- i ver, in charge of the second section, trie.' to reach the north end of the same siding. Before his train had cleared the i SWiiCQ points me p??Ht-u(;er vi?iu rounded a curve screened by the thickly wooded lots on each side of the track. The engine crews had time to jump and all escaped Berious injury. The crash when the trains met was terrific, the freight train was made up of gondola coal cars, flat cars and box cars loaded with lumber. Directly behind the passenger locomotive and the tender was a combination baggage and smoking car followed by a day coach and a chair car. All the dead and injured were in tJhe first two cars, there being six i passengers in the smoker and twenty-one in the day coach. Every seat in this coach was torn from its fastenings, the roof was thrown to one side and the heavy weight of massive timbers hurled with awful force struck among the men and women in the coach. Even before the crash came rescuers were running to the wreck from the Middleton station, some three hundred yards south of the accident. Calls for assistance were sent to Dayton and Hamilton. Relief trains were made up at each of these places and the injured were placed upon them and sent to hospitals in those cities. there being no such institution in Middletown. FLIES OVElt THE OCEAN. Curtiss Takes Flight of Eight Minutes Above Atlantic. Glenn H. Curtiss made an eight minute tight over the ocean at Atlantic City, N.J., at 6.3G Tuesday night. The trip included a flight along the , entire front of the city about a mile off shore, and l,f>00 feet above the ocean. '.The successful flight was I the second one attempted, the first resulting in a mishap that nearly I sent Curtiss into the ocean. While he was attempting to make a turn ( from the beach to go to sea an air } current caught t.he plane and dropperl it within ten feet of breakers. I Curtiss made a quick turn and drove t his machine on the beach with such force that a wood standard along his seat was snapped. INtT'MBKXT LOSES Ol'T. i Faison Nominated for Congress in Third N\ C. District. Dr. John M. Faison, of Warsaw, ) Dubl'n c< unty, N. C.. was Wednes day nominated for Congress by the 1 Democratic Convention of the 3d N. - C. district. The Convention, which was held at Goldsboro. began Tues[i day. the nomination l>eing made on the 4 4 7th ballot, after an all night i. session. There were five candidates e in the race, one of them being the s present Congressman, Charles E. r Thomas, of Newhern. Dr. Faison is e about sixty years old. and is a practicing pysician. While active in politics, he has never held office. a Detective Fatally Injured. City Detective W. M. Collins of f Augusta. Ga., was fatally injured In - a runaway Tuesday afternoon. Mr. d Collins was in a buggy with Policep man A. J. Matthews and another v man. The horse bolted, the buggy e was overturned and Mr. Collins was thrown violently against a tree. DISPATCHER BLAMED <X>R THK WRKCK OF THK BIG FOUR PASSENGER. [Revoked Order to Passenger Train, but Failed to Rewnd Same One to Freight, Causing the Accident. Interest in Monday's disastrous wreck of the Dig Four's New York Flyer at Middletown, Ohio, in which more than a score of lives were sacrificed. was transferred to Cincinnati Tuesday. A statement from J. IV. Hall, pilot engineer of the llig Four passenger train which crashed into a freight train of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton railway, placed blame for the wreck on train dispatcher Smith, of the latter system. at Dayton. In this he was partly confirmed by E. A. Gould, general superintendent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton. Mr. Gould was unwilling to go further than to say that, "some such reason was responsible for the accident," but railroad men about the headquarters of the two systems ascepted the explanation of Wall as contained the gist of the case. Wall's statement follows: The engineer of the freight train showed me order No. 60 supposed to have been used after our train (the Dig Four limited) left Dayton, and to have been handed to ub at Carlisle between Dayton and Middletown. This order gave the freight till 1.07 to make tJie siding at 1'oasttown, north of Middletown. "Smith revoked that order so that it was not delivered to us at Carlisle, but failed to revoke the same order issued to the freight. Our train made up some time after leaving Dayton and this brought us to the Poasttown siding earlier than 1.07. "We had no warning of anything In the way and supposed we had a clear line. Wall also exhibited four train orders, not one of which gave any indication that the flying passenger train was to meet any other train at Poasttown or any other siding between Dayton and Cincinnati. These orders, he said, were all, he had to guide him the day of the wreck. Local officers of the Big Four are not yet willing to account officially for the wreck. "A misunderstanding of orders" was mentioned by some, but whose misunderstanding it was, they were not prepared to state. With the definite identification of the four unnamed bodies in Middletown, all the nineteen unidentified are acsounted for. Two more died Tuesday, one at Dayton and one at Hamilton. These were John Pankin, Springfield, Ohio., and Evelyn Lloyd, Round Point, Maine, and their passing made the death lisi 21. Four others are scarcely expected to survive their hurts. CUT I/fist nnvivii Jim Jeffries Made $117,000, Willie Johnson Secured $l'2O,G0<). Jack Johnson was $120,600 richer when Jim Jeffries went down for the last time in Monday's fight. He took CO per cent of the $101,000 purse which amounted to $60,000, a nonus of $10,000 and he sold his picture interests for $50,000. Jeffries took a fortune out of the defeat at Johnson's hands. He received 4 0 per cent, of the purse, amounting to $40,000, the bonus of $10,000 and he sold his picture interests for $66,666, making a total of $117,000. The owners of the picture films are calculating on a million dollar s profit. SKVKKK STOK.MS. Lives Are l.ost and Damage Wrought in Minnesota. Western Minnesota and eastern South Dakota wera visited Tuesday evening by severe wind and electrical storms, which may have caused loss of life and great damage to cities and farming communities. The storm seems to have followed a we'I uv.mcu )>aiu wl-ni ui .tKKHSOIl. WITC^ aro d*wn west of this point. U?I ports indicate that one or more tornadoes have swept through thd i storm area and a report from Watertown says a circus tent was blown down and the stage destroyed by tire. One man was killed and several injured. WBXT OVKK VKIWiK. Automobile Plunged from Ilridge into Creek. As a result of an auto plunginc front a bridgo into San Pedro creek, 15 feet below, at San Antonio, Tex., Wednesday, one person is dead and four injured, two probably fatally, The machine turned turtlo as it foil into the water. The dead are: Mis* Dot Miller, buried under the wreck; body had to be chopped out with an axe. Probably fatally injured: Dorothy Miller and Kttie Lehert Fred Hums and Jim Johnson, the latter the chauffeur, were slightly injured. I k SWEPT INTO SEWER A MAX LOSES HIS LIFE BY A VERY Ql"KKR OCCIDENT. Frank A. Reynolds IMsjtpp^-nrs in a Cave-in of the Karth and Ls Swept Into River. While talking to William Okaes, a fellow employe, Frank A. Reynolds. an oiler in the Rig Four yards, suddenly disappeared in a eave-in of earth and despite efforts of railroad employes, two companies of the fire department and the life saving crew, was carried into the Ohio and drowned. Reynolds and Oakes, the former with his oil can in hand, were standing in the yards at Preston and Main when the cave-in oceured. Reynolds was precipitated into one of the large sewers that empties in the Ohio, scarcely two blocks away. Oakes, who narrowly escaped, rap quickly and gave the alarm, returning in a short time with a loug piece of hose. This he threw into the sewer, and ulthough he could not see Reynolds, a vigorous tugging on the hose notified the rescurers that the man was still alive. The men above the ground were preparing for a hearty pull, when there was a further caveiu followed by mufiled cry from Reynolds. A detachment of the fire department arrived on the scene, but the continued falling of the ground made any attempt to rescue hazardous. The life saving crew made a rush trip up stream from Fourth street, and after watching the sewer pour its muddy volume for a few minutes, detected a stream of oil. showing that the man's oil can was emptying. Despite the crumbling of the earth, which increased the opening to 20 feet in width, the fire department and a large party continued their efforts and were rewarded about noon by finding the dead bodv of the other. It was taken out at the cave-in. Many trains of the nig Four and Chesapeake and Ohio pass over the sewer daily and a freight had just passed, when Reynolds sank to death. Hl'ltAL CA1U11KK8 MJKKT. Tliey Had a Rig Time at the State Convention. With the election of officers, an address by Fourth Assistant Postmaster General DeGraw, an address by Congressman Finley, a good roads discussion, under the auspices of the Columbia Record's good roads tourists, nad the transaction of routine business, the State Rural Letter Carriers' Association of South Carolina held a busy session Tuesday morning, reaching final ajourmneiit shortly after one o'clock that afternoon, with the singing of "God Me With You Till We Meet Again." The session has been oiu- of pleasure and profit, and has been by far the best in the history of the Association, from the point of atien ence, and from point of interest and enthusiasm shown in the organization. The visitors were made to feel at home in ."\ewnerry, and ituy have gone lo their homes ethusiastic in praise of Newberry's hospi t a 1 i t y. Florence was selected as the next meeting place. President Thos. E. Wicker, Secretary Paul K. Crosby and Treasury \rt.hur W. Hill were unanimously reelected. Mr. E. W. Cromer was unanimously eected vice president. As delegates to the next annua! convention of tne national assoeia! op, which meets at Litrle Hock in Sepn mher, the conventh 11 elected Miss Florence K. Livingston, Messrs. Paul K. Crosby. Stanley A. Hurcli and F. C. DeVoe, Miss Livingston "headed the ticket." TO KESOKT 'SO CO! UTS. i Picture Syndicate Says They Will Protect Tlieir Interests. That t.he moving picture syndi oate, owning the Jeffries-Johnson tight flints, will resort to the Cour .of the several States to deteiinim their right to produce the pictures was indicated at Philadelphia Thurs day. when one of t.he heat knowi moving pirtwe men in the country mill Iiciis a niK iil'cresi Ml . I?P K\ II dicate, said (hat tlie agitation aga'l'.r the displaying of the pictures w\u.'< be fought. He said that too niucl money had !been invested by th? syndicate, which represents weiv different interests, to stand by nr.. see the fight pictures prohibited with out making a contest to determim the right of city authorities to st<>) the display. The pictures, it wa< further announced would lie piacei on public view in New York, Boston Philadelphia, Chicago and sev.era other cities on duly 18. Italiy Found l iiinjurrd. A seven-months-old child, wai i found in a corn field adjoining thi scone of the Big Four wreck a Mlddletown, Ohio, Thursday morn Ing. The child had been Lhere slnci It is believed, it was hurled then by the collision. 0 ap ummiim j j 1'. m ogsri jn. "7>w shin OFFERED BIG PLACE COMMISSION Kit WATSON OFFERKD HIOHEK POSITION. Sflfcted Without Knowledge of Solicitation h> National Government to Fill Newly Created Position. A epecial dispatch from Wrightsvllle. N. C., to The State says E. J. Watson Wednesday made the following statement in answer to a question as to an offer of a federal appointment: "I really do not care to say anything about it, but 1 always try to be frank, and since you ask the dirrect question, 1 will tell you that it is true that on Monday last, by one of the cabinet ofllcers, without any soliciting on my part, or even an intimation of the possibility of such a thing until 1 received a wire from Washington, 1 was tendered one of the most attractive positions in the gift of the nutional government at a salary larger than the assistant secretary of any of the departments, larger than any of the governors of the States, save Tennessee and in effect better perhaps than that of United States senators." Asked as to the position itself, Commissioner Watson said: "I do not feel at liberty to state that exactly. However, the duties would be in the nature of those of a special representative of the Washington government and of a purely constructive and non-political caracter, being in execution of a rcri'ircly developed determination in the part of the government to push with especial v'gor American trade and commerce into the furtherest sections of the world. The duties would be in line with those to which I have devoted my every energy in South Carolina, hut with the world for a field, and would carry the man discharging them first for some years to the Orient?China, Japan and Mongolia?and then to South Africa and other countries. The duties of the position would be such too, as to enable one to accomplish much for the texile industry of the South as well of the country at large and perhaps to do n great deal on all matters pertainiug to cotton, which great American agricultural jproduVt would receive, under the policy adopted, most particular attention. The fullest exploitation of American manufactured products in world's regions wherein they are now unknown would be a leading line of duty." Asked still further about the offer, Mr. Watson said: "I was totally in the dark that I was even being thought of. and had no intimation until a telegram came to me last week, while I was attending .1 farmers' union meeting and I went to Washington.' where 1 found that Representatives Burleson of Texas and Lever of this State had suggested my name in connection with the position when inquiries were being made about congress as to a man equipped for the service desired. After the cabinet meeting on Monday, last, after a verj brief interview with me, the cabinet officially tendered the commission to me without regard to indorsements or any tiling else, and was rcadly to make the appointment then and there. I -was allowed a reasonable time to consider the matter, at my request, owing to it* far-reaching effect upon my own future and upon the work which I have been devoting my every energy in my home State. "What are you going to do about it?" was asked. Mr. Watson said. "That I can not yet tell. The offer, coming in tins form and being an offer of a position of grave responsibilities fret fioni the influence of politics, anc being of the same constructive char acter as work in which I .have beer I engaged, is extremely altering, ant the salary makes it alluring. Or t.m other hand my whole soul it wrapped up in the work of my owi ' State. This work is developing a an astonishing rate, and I am not s? eking the fruits of untiring laboi - on every side. The work I havt i wanted to do in South Carolina ii t not yet done, but it is on the high ising tide, and I should hate it , abandon it. Hut 1 am a poor mat - a .d the Statu pays scarcely a livini i under present conditions, but thei and there art; many things to bi taken into consideration, and I an giving them the most careful con 1 sideratlon of my life. As yet i noncstiy don t Know wJiat I will do. It is learned that the salary con siderably exceeds $r?.o(? > a year witl all expenses in addition. Killed by Fall. ? The l?ody of .1. W. Scruggs, wh ? died Wednesday night from the el 1 fects of a fall from the third stor . of his hoarding house in Augusts t was taken to Mitehel, (la., for burial Nothing iH known as to the caus of t.he accident. Me retired earl and about two o'clock next niornin s a policeman stumbled over his bod ? lying on the pavement, ."?() teet be t low his bed room window. if your husband is kept iritatetl i jno jo joqjoni otfj oq piuoqs no beating the ruga. it k> ** sw 9w * * DEFIES ARREST, j Bamberg Conoty is Greatly Stirred Orer a Sensational Case. j FAIL TO MAKE ARREST Of J. J. HukIk'.m, Who Had llecn . Convicted of A-vault on Ills Wife, Hut Whose Sentence Wh* Commuted on His I'roniMe ol U?hk1 Behavior. On September 17, 190G. J. J. Hughes, of Bamberg county, pleaded guilty to the charge of assault and battery and was sentenced by Judge G. W. Gage to serve six years in the Penitentiary. The assault w.vs upon Hughes's wife, and appeared a most j unprovoked and aggravated one. | On July 6. 190S. Governor \nsel I commuted his sentence for the remainder of the term on conditii>n that he would not commit a like offense again, and the Governor's action was approved by a large majority of the people of the county. Hughes reached home of July 7, 1908. ami up to a short time ago had been living peacably and apparently happily with his wife and chil- j dren on their farm, a few miles ' south of the county Beat. I Sometime ago it was rumored that he had again commenced to drink j and abuse his wife. who. by the way, is a most estimable lady. It is reported that a drunken spree on last Sunday culminated in Hughes making a savage attack upon his wife with a gun. It is said lie knocked her down with it, splitting her forehead open for several inches and otherwise injuring her, so thflt fh<? Ciri'lAO" -- ? - .v> . I?.cn VI a nui KrQII WCI'B necessary to dress her wounds. It is also said that he attempted to shoot her, and would have succeeded. but for the interference of a negro who knocked the pun up as he was about to pull the trigger, thua saving the lady's life. Mr. Hughes's brother, who was largely instrumental in securing the commutation, came to town and reported the matter, and Mrs. Hughes also wrote a note asking for protection and that her husband be arrested. Clerk of Court C. B. Free swore out a warrant and Deputy Sheriff T. J. Uentz went down Sunday evening to arrest Hughes. When they got there, it is said, they found the Hushes home dark and no one venI tured near the house. On Monday Deputy Sheriff ftentz. accompanied % by \V. M. McCue. constable for Magistrate H. 1). Free, again went to the 1 Hughes home, when tJhey found him ' standing in his front door. Hughes spoke 10 them and told ' them that he liked them pretty well. ' but that they must not get out of their buggy if they did not want to die; that -he had served two years > ' in tlie penitentiary and he would rather tlie than go back there again. The deputy sheriffs considered jdisr cretion the better part of valor and concluded not to alight from t.hoir vehicle, as it was evident that lie was armed and meant wJiat lie said. I They reasoned and talked with Hughes, who finally proposed that, i I ho would go to town with them if I they would get his wife to accompany him to town. Then they went j to a neighbor's home to which Mrs. I J Hughes had tied. t>ut hy the time ' they got there Hughes had written a note and sent it there, saying he ' had left, so this plan was frustrated. The deputies spent the remainder of t the day riding around and looking * for Hughes, hut they said they did not get in sight of him again. It * is said that Hughes is still at home. 1 but defies arrest. Sheriff Hunter is a one-legged 1 j Confederate Veteran and depends enM tlrely upon his deputies for making 1 I arrests. The facts have been comi municated to the (lovernor and the 1 people are awaiting with some anx' ieiy the outcome of the matter. There r are many who fear for the safety of '* Mrs. Hughes, but it is not genera ty 2 thought that Hughes will do her 3 harm unless he is under the iufiu ence of liquor. j m m m > WILL I'SK HIS INFUJKXC/K. Lovernor Ansel to ILs-ommend Suppression of Pictures. I Governor Ansel has agreed to use his inuuence to prohibit the exhi" bition of moving pictures of the Jefh fries-.lohnson fight. He has addressed Jhr> fnllnuiiiir - vni?a Kioftiaui u William S. Shaw, the general secretary of the United Society of Christian o Endeavor. "Your wire received. Yes. I will join the other Governors in y recommending piohihition of moving i, pictures of Jeffries-Johnson fight.' I. The following telegram had been ^ o received by Governor Ansel from y Mr. Shaw: "Race riots and murders g in many places followed the any nouncement of Johnson's victory In - prize fight. These results will be multiplied many fold by moving picture exhibitions. Will you join the I, Governors in recommending the pro^ hlbitk n of the detnora'izing shows i on boiuo of our young people?"