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r VOL. XXXI BARN WILL, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1908 NO. 37 WHUETIEND. Assaults a Little White Girl Near Langley Thursday. HE MADE HIS ESCAPE But the F.imij'cd Bcoph* Senuml the WixhIm fur IIini. Hi; Met the Little Mm* Veaf, Ohl Girl Going Home Front S< !hk>I ami Oiminall) - -r* Assaulted Her, ' A distpatch front 'Augusta to The News and Courier says Hula May Leohard, the little nine year old daughter of Mr, Doliver hephard. of Langley, S. C.. .was criminally as saulted Thursday afternoon hy gn unknown white inna,and is in a erlti- ' cal' condition. The ftend escatred. Kxettement was . a l a fever pitch Thursday night tit Langely and the woods around the ^ige wore literally rwprniirvg with ds of nrnied> men. Had the oli- of their search ‘been caught a riling would have followed despite «^ie fact that SheriffKayliurn was early on the scene, and did everything he catild to persuade the crowd to he satisfied with eaptnjjng the assail ant. At an early hour Friday morn ing scores of citizens and a minit»er of officers were still scouring the county. Alioat 4 O'clock Thursday- after noon s theiittlc girl was returning home from school, she was ap»roach- cd hy the man. who told h .• he had lost four dollars and would gi\e her half o' ii it 1 .die waeild rissl>t nmi in her search. The «'hild agn*«‘d. tin later showed signs of fear and turned hack w hen the mm -ei/<«n h> r to ""e fier rrr avruuriraos him RANTA SUFFERS. FIRE CAUSES BIG i/>SS IN BUS!- NESS DISTRICT. Hlgn Wind and Light Water Pressure Rendered the FireflghteiV Work Harder., The girl ntiempfed to call for help, hut her raptor tlgfitened his grasp and chokiHi the little one into insen- sihiiity. He dragged her almost life less body to the edge < f a swamp and there she was found some time afterward, rhe had tieen assaulttd and the man had escaped. * One mllfion and a quarter Is the loss conservatively estimated Friday on a fire which started at 3:30 o'clock Friday morning and which swept'two blocks of Atlanta liusiness property. Friday night tfie -fire was under control with ruined buildings in the district bounded by Forsyth, Nelson. Madison and Hunter streets. Late Friday tfie police and fire departments dynaitiited what left of the rag ged walls. Friday night half of the fire fighting force of Atlanta was playing water into a dozen razed structures. How the fire started is a mystery. It was discovered in the building oc- cupied by the $chessinger Meyer com pany, bakery. Fro A) there it ran its way in all directions until it struck tile Terminal hotel, one of the largest in the city, and g-utted that. During he early morning hours every one in the Tormina] liofel and in numerous other smaller hotels in the district had warning. Therp was no loss of life and no serious injuries from the > ontiagraion. '» insurance on the property de stroved Is placed by insurance men it $730,000. .One of the heaviest os* is In S. M. Inman of Atlanta, who owned the entire block l*ounded by Forsyth, Mitchell and ..elson .streets and Madison avenue, and In which -^rTTW-mrated ihe-Rr-he^Htiger Mwvtu- compsnv. Branch K of the city |x>st- >nye, Fat l.ituid Carlxmlc company, a br im h of Central Trust & Banking sHnpsnv and many smaller concerns. TILLMAN SCORES New York Banquet Where Whites Dined With Negroes. WILL HURT BLACKS HAD AIX'IDKNT. I.itllc IVoy am) Girl Drowned on a Pleasure Sail. A very sad aceident occurred Fri- day afternoon in Charleston! harbot by which Jimmie and Myrtb* Mit- chum. f> and 10 year old children of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mitchuui. were ‘'drowned' fi*STr Drum Island. In th* overturiiing of tlie small sail lout in which* they w'^v*- taking a pleasure trip, in the Ixjat were (’apt. Mit cham. his mother in law and four children. j* Imat was on a tack when a it gust of wind stcucA the.sail jrtrfore toe par'y could t> o'i'isi T«lvee-to steady the craft in tic / it capsized. The rowboat Ce- wenf Immediately to the asslst- <do of the party and the crew of the boat with the assistance of t‘ap* MB chum and his 1 •> year old son —J » the * managed'j'lo rescue th** ri’st party struggling in the water. \ . of 1 INTERS DAMAGE Si IT. Voiing laulv Sjiys Slu* N\a*> Insiilteil „ ! A on. 1 rain. A dispatch from Spartanburg to .Tho SUtTsays MLs Sallie Bragg el Cumpohello, through her attorney. I A. Phifer, has commenced a suit against the Charleston and Wes'ern ( nroMna road for damagn In the sun $.■,(*,000, alleging that while sh* s ajmssengi on one of the trsin of the company .etween Augusta ano Laurens she was grossly insulted by the conductor of the train. ' Bragg is a native of Fpa-. tanbmg cmmty. her home Tie tig at Cunipobel io. She is Eeventeen years of age and an orphan. , HANGED FOB MlKDER. of- was ; One .Negro Pays the Penalty for Kill ing Another. "At Walterbin* on Friday Thomas .Washington paid the Ponalty onlhe gallows for killing Frank Richardson •on Fenwick Island last August. AVash- ington and )Vi» victim, were n<> - groes. and the murder was a ^liber ate one. • The execution took place in the corridor of the jail, where a scaf fold had been erected, in the ines 'me of alx.ut ao people. The rope was cut at I0:«r, and later thf-physieians. Dr. H. A. \. i lL ^25*4 Dr \V. B. Ackejman, pronounced ' Extinct. His death was easy. • Negro Murderer Hanged. 'jfct Law renceville, (la.. Friday llen- I/VCanipljtn. colored, was hanged for the murder of BHji Hudscn, u negnt woman, last January. John Hudson; hustxind, of the murdered woman, had previously been given a life sen tence for the same crime. Kilhsi by a Rootiter. Max OrockeU. Jr., filteen yeais The fire was discoverefl in the ele valor shaft of the Sehlessinger bulld og and Is supttosd to have originated from cfos-ed w liex. running to the motor which operated the elevator. Hv th* 1 time the firemen had arrived the flames" had broken through the roof of this building and 0*wing to a light water presurr. it was Impossible *o check their progress. Ill a short time this structure was completely gutted and the fire was eating its wtay through the Stajton B of th*' Atlanta |x>stoffiee where mails re ceived from the terminal station Just, acro-s tlie square are distributed. The employers of the postoflice. however, by quirk work managed to save all the mail and most of the equiptment. Jumping across Mitchell street', the flames made short work of tlie'TeP" niliiHl hotel, the Terminal annex. Childs’ annex, at which point the tire men succeeded in checking the nslaught on the north side of Mil- hell street. On the south side, how- ver. the tiames cotitiiiued to sweep every thing in their path until Forsyth -treet was.reached, gutting the build ings occupied by McClure s lert Cent store, the brack bank of ‘the Central Banking ami Trust company.-the Par agon Suspender company, Moon Shce lore and the Liquid Carbonic com pany. . • . . The Sehlessinger building extended half a .block on Nelson street and front it the flames soon jumped Jx tumerous strucures on Forsyth street md destroying the places occupied by A1 verson Bfos. Grocery company; the Bingers Frame Maufactnrlng com- *,*iiv, and he Walker Cooley Fttrni- tnre company. A strong west wind nnntd the flames and scattered burn ing embers over the whole bushiest set ion of the city, threatening for a hue to cause even greater loss. Tim firemen had many narrow es- ■u;ms from falling wails, but no in h.ries of a s*‘ricus 'nature are re|*ot t- ■d. The guests from the hotels and < onting houses in the burned/ectioi! nieeccdittg 4u saving most of theh effects having been warned in time to remove, their trunks, .which Wcrf died on the plaza in front of the 1W- mlnal station, front which i>oint theh ow nets and many early risers watch 'd the progress of the fire. IN A BIG HURRY. Says the Senate, \Vho Declare** Hie Incident Makes Progress Toward Inevitable Catastrophe. He Asserts that Northern Feeling Differs Very LUtle in the Race Vocation From the Southern. Senator Tillman gave on last Fri day to a representative of the Atlan ta Journal a ringing Interview in which he spoke in his characteristic fashion of a banquet recently given in New York and attended by white and negro men and women, who sat side by side at the banquet tables. Senator Tillman was severe in his condemnation of the banquets, and stated that,the speeches made were not for New Yorkrs, but specially Joj; southern consumption, as was indicat ed by some of the orators of the oc casion. Tlte story of the banquet which evoked the sentiments expressed by Senator Tillman appeared recently in the Washington Post, the Philadel phia Telegraph and the Washington TlU-‘s. and all th** caeiern and west ern dallies, ,'j'he entertainment was given under the-auspices of t'i- r Hiopolftan socfpryof New Ye t- . Mte women were sandwiched w • •,e- gro tneur-and ll uoned * he* !v uegroes which atlvoc-*) t P .* * . i r i. age ■■ a soluHofi'of ftn , *■ • Plem. Some of those pte < i* •* *■ ,• Harold' --YJilard... *uiiun of the \. y York Evening Post: William H. Ferris, a negro graduate of Harvard; “Cap tain” H. A. Thompson, a,negro who d he was a soldier at San Juan Hill; Miss .Mary W. Ovington, a white woman prominent in settlement work In BrockLn. who*sat between two negro men. and Edward 0. Walk er, president i f the t'tmri e CiinTT which sanction"d the recent “af- fttHtv- idea of 1-'. P.- Earle, wipi took a ml ion to quit his wife for another woman he liked better and whom he designated “as his “affinity.” Such ideas Senator Tillman stated that the south would forever resist at every hazard. He said that the best way to eliminate the suggestion of social eqdality was to remove politi- ral quality, and that the l>est wav to do this is by the repeal of the fifteen th amendment aud the modiflcatiniiof the fourteenth. This not having been do'ne, it was pointed out that the states of the black belt, with the singfeVYcepdoh of Georgia, had taken legal steps to disfranchise large num bers of uegroes. and that ft was the duty of Georgians to joinJter sister., states by the passage of a similar law.- * • “My views oh the race problem," says Senator Tillman, “are so well known, by reason of the great num ber of lectures 1 have delivered on the subject, that I do not knew that it is worth while to discuss this lat est phase of it. But this nncident. (rival in iisclt, only marks the rapid progress we are making toward the inevitable catastrophe. 1 have con tended for years That existing condi tions can inevitable have but one end bloody race conflicts. "This banquet, or dinner, or what ever you call it. at which a few fanatics like Villard and other white men of that ilk. hat], drummed up a lot of denegrade or luiiaM'' white wo men. to illustrate their practice of social equality and launched the pro paganda of amalgamation, between the race, will do no harm in New York, and it was'not intended to affect conditions there. It was de signed for southern consumption and lo affect the south. For instance. Dr. Ferris, the colored Harvard graduate, emphasized this, when he said: ''This iheans more to the negro of the black belt of the north.* The incident is a revival of the old scheme of those radicals who. wTUi That! TWO BAD MEN. WHO MUST BE HUNTING JUDGE s LYNCH. WANT BRYAN JauJOLMT? The South Carolina Domocracy Will Vote For Him. BY BUKMNG PATRICK HENRY'S VIRGINIA MANSION. N* grocs Abduct a Woman and After Robbing Her I .cave Her in the W«xkIs. A dispatch from Charlotte says John Boyd, a one-armed nogro, who is bell boy at the Selwyn hotel, and Wilson, another .negro hackman, have just been bound over under a $1,000 Ixtnd each to await trial-at the next-term of criminal court on a very grave charge. That of robbing a welldressed lady, who gives her name as Mrs. J. M. Morgan of Atlanta, and •who was stopping at the Buford hotel. Mrs. Morgan was found in the woods near the city, wandering about in a stupefied condition. A tenant on a farm discovered her and summoned the police, who have l*een diligently Investigating the case, with the result that sufficient evidence was found against the negroes to hold them on the charge above stated. According to thp /ttorv told by Mrs. Morgan, and which sipry 1 * ’'nek •d up by circumstantial evMen'-<*, Mrs Morgan took a cab to go to the dejiot. Instead of taking her to the station the two negroes are said to have held her in the .carrieagp and to have carried .her to the woods, where she was later found unconscious. She says she was robbed of two diamonds’ worth $200. Dr. Boyd was the star witness at the trial. He told of finding Mrs, Morgan with her arm badly bruised and her lody badly bruised. He says she was in a dazed condition, as If she had been doped. He further testified that he saw in the woods where she was found a plac where a struggle had taken «*** ^ A Ixjttle was found nearby and a nunilter of matches. A watch ebarm was found near the scene of the “ lr “i°tgh which belonged to Boyd, a vicious negro bearing a bad vetmtaiton. At this time full details of the case have not been ascertaned. but the further the matter is prol*ed the more dastardly becomes the crime chargdj against the two negroes. Mrs. Morgan had been at the Buford sev eral days aud was well dressed and of tractive appearance. * THE DETAILED VOTE. \ltd Will liMnd at Oinrlestoii, Short est Route Home. .V- cable from Secretary of War Taft front Colon to Mayor Goodman, of Pensacola. Fla., in reply to an In Ration fer him to return to the States via Pensacola, states that as his presence is needed at once In Washington, he w-ill take the shortest route, landing at Charleston, S. C., ibopt May 20, * ^— , Chance to Make Money. Senator McLaurin has introduced a bill in the United States Senate on Tuesday providing that ttye govern ment shall offer $7*0.000 to lie paid to any person who shall within two years, discover practical means for the extermination of the cotton boll weevil. Texas For Bryan. Texas decided by a large majori ty in the primary‘election on Tues day to send a solid Bryan delega- , _ old died Wedueyday at Lewlsburg of tion to the National Democratic con- « wound tafltcteg by a rooster. •‘venttan. Stevens and Charles Sumner, caused the re-construction deviltry in the south in ’68. That St evens practiced miscegnat ion, and Charles Sumner endorsed it, and nothing bvit the Im portal manhood of the southern white people—men and women alike—sav ed our civilization then, “The negro newspapers throughout the country will publish and send broadcast over the south this story of black men and white women sitting down to dinner, with what results 7 need not say. Roosevelt's luncheon with Broker Washington caused un told mischief, and. as one of these speakers said, ‘conditions are goiti to r to get worse in the south before Ihev get better.’ When the ooUved peopl* get educated, th whites in the South will have to recognize then Clo-ing his statement with assertion that de portution is impossible, then it iiiust be amalgomation and education. “A few statistics will indicate what this means, South Cwroltna has 226, 000 more negroes than whites; Mis sissippi, 265,000 more negroes than whites, and the six southern states of •South Carolina. Georgia, Alabama, Florda, Mississippi and Ixmlaiaua, constituting the black belt, have SO.* 000 more negroes than whites.-- Your own state of Georgia has over t.Oiifl, 000 negroes and less thaa 200,000 white majority. ,, 'i * u - "If this program of the VlH»rds should be carried out. the future trav eler through the heart of the Confed- racy. when the nilxtng of the races has l*een completed, could discover nothing here except mulattoes. or even a darker admixture. It Is need less to say t hat this will never occur, because, if deportation Is impossible, the destruction of thb black race is not. And those who sow life wind, may live to reap the whirlwind. I khow letter than any oth“r socnern man for I have tested it, that , the northern feeling ou this question, differs very* Uttle from our_ own. And if .the Republican natio- al convention shall adopt the Ohio program of reducing southern repre- seutetion it would l»e the duty of the Democratic convention to meet it with a plank declaring ‘this is a white man's country and white men must govern it.’ ” In answer to the question whether such a plank would gain us votes in the North, Senator Tillman said “if the Republicans should press the is.-.tt< 1 have no earthly doubt of It. Southern men wptild only have to go among the northein people and dis cuss the question as I have done, boldly and frankly. No Republican speaker can meet the arguments and fu/s that can be presented, and the Rig of caste, race siii*eriority is as imfclildy fixed there as here. The question - never will se settled until the North shall agree to the re peal of the fifteenth amendment and modification of the fourteenth, so at to set at r£>t once tor all the negro’s aspirations social equality, by taxing from him political equaMty. or leav ing it to each state to settle.” When asked if the action of South GBTOtlTia in regard to negro suffrage was unanimous Senator Tillman said 'in a manner yes. and then again, no •erause there was considerable dis cussion and threats in certain quar ters ,or mobilizing ‘the negro vote and controlling the state constitution al conveaHen* by those who claimed to be the. guardians of vested interest and corporations. If you should ev er have a death grapple in Georgia along these lines and your negroes are not disfranchised, you can readily understand how many thousands of them would have their taxes paid so that their votes could he used at the polls. “It is well- understood now hy a gyeat many northern i*eople that Jhe negroes are the balance of power In many northern and border states such as New York, New Jersey, Del aware* Maryland, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana. Missouri and Kansas, and there is intense bitter ness of feeling In Washington because of the impending control of the nat ional Republican convention by ne gro delegates front the fiouth, who said to me, can deliver no electoral votes, but will nominate a man for the safe Republican states to elect “The South, and least of all Geor gia, cannot afford to yield one Inch or father in this conflict. Our clvlll’ zation. and everything which makes He worth living, depends on it. An all other issues sink into Inslgnlfi Ic&nce In compirlson ■■I A Majority of the IMegatcs to the Ntate^ftnveittion Instructed to Vote for Instructed Delegates to the Nationnl Democratic Foment ion Who Will Vote fun the Great.Com moner's Nomination. There will be 332 members of the State convention, two for each of the 2 senators and two for each of the 12* representatives. Of these 332 there are 170 who are instructed by their county conventions to vote for delegates to the national convention ho will support Wm. J. Bryan for the presidency. This is a majority of 8. definitely instructed. The rolitmbia State says of the 162 delegates from counties which have not Instructed delegates, there are quite a number who will vote to instruct for Bryan. In some conn-, ties the matter was not brought up at all. in other counties resolutions of endorsement for Bryan were adopt ed. but the delegation to the State convention were not Instructed. In Richland, for Instance, the conven tion took no action, and these 10 otes are placed in the tmlnstructed column, although it Is known that five and probably more of the ten will ote for an inst-iutod delegation Ex-Gov. D. C. Heyward zatd that he will g» lu - ihe-atut •. J-t ii’ocrath- onvention a Bryan n an. lie is not entirely wedded to the Idea of In structing the delegates to denver. but dees -t.tUUw In nnHn*•.,tiig heartily Mr. Bryan's career. Gen. Wilte Jones, who Is a candi date td go to I^THRr, Is oijtqioken for Bryan. Both Gen. Jones and Go'. Heyward have attended national con- entions before. Therefore It appears that fhA majority etertinl front Rich- la ml county will favor endorsing Bryan, the comity convention having failed to inirirtMs the delegates one way or the others, resolution? on lx>th sides being tabled simultaneous- ly. There was a strong Bryan senti ment in Barnwell, and Chester, and Willisnisburg. Lexington endorsed Bryan. Nothing has been heard from Georgetown and these counties, there- fote, ate put in tne mUnslructed col umn, although ar - a matter of fact there are perhaps a score of the 162 which ir:*v be couat£(L ('P 011 for in struction and a few other's mav be classed tnr“doubtlhil, but are classi fied as "uninstructed” in order to err on the Side of liberty. .Millions of the Best Have'Taken Pos session of It and People Driven - 7 ~ Fit*in It. ^ A dispatch front Aylett, Va., says Montville, one of the most famous and historic, places in Virginia, is to be burned to the ground by its own owners, the great grandchildren of Patrick Henry, because it is overrun with itats. Since the warm weather began there is no living In or near the .place. Bats by "the thousands hang alKMit the grand parlors* and spacious bed rooms of the colossal mansion. Attempts to exterminate them by poisbn and with clubs have failed. They are In every room. They hang In long stripes, as is their habit, front the furniture, front the celling, from'the walls and they are in such numbers that they form cur tains before the windows, darkeuing the house during the day. At night fall they loosen themselves from each other and dart to the yards iu such numbers that they strike each other in their flight. 7 Recently Philip Aylett, one of the owners of the place and an engineer attempted to make the house "bat proof." Every crack, every door, and every chimney w'ks stopped up, hut the bats found a way to enter. They coulg get through craeks which would hardly admit a roach. Mont ville was built alx>ut the time the Americana drove the English out of the counlry, and its woodwork is old and brittle. Montville is now owned by the six children of the late William Aylett. They Inherited the home from their father, who had inherited it from his had married an Aylett. After the death of William Aylett, half a dozen years ago, his sons and daughters married and moved away and Mont- ville was rented for the first time since fcl was deeded in 1670 to >the first Aylett jKho_xiu»e ttr America by Charles II. From the day the lease was signed utts began Jo luvade the place. The Abbeville Aiken . Ins. . . . 8 Unins. 10 12 Bamberg - • • • • • . 6 Barnwell 8 Beaufort. . .. . . . . . . 8 • • Berkeley . . . . . . 8 Charleston 18 Cherokee . . . 6 ; • Chester.. .'. .. . f * 8 Chesterfield . . . 6 . . Clarendon . . . • 8 Colleton 8 f . Darlington...... • • 8 Dorchester 1 EdgefieldTT T. . _•>. Fairfield. r-. 6 . .. 8 • • Florencev^ .. .. , . . . 8 • • ‘ Georgetown . ' 6 Greenville.. .. . .. 12 . • Gfeenwood . . . 8 Hampton. . . . . . 6 Horry ... 6 • • Kershaw . . . 6 • • Lancaster . . . 6 . . Lee . . . . . 6 Laurens ... 8 • • 8/ Marlboro ... 8 • • Marion .. .-* . . 77' . . 8 • • New 1 terry .. .. . . . . 8 • • Oconee 1 ... 6 • . Orangeburg. . .-r—r • ,* J® — Pickens.. .. .. . • & . Richland 10 Saluda ... 6 • • Sumter. .7 .'. . . . . .. 8 • • Spartanburg.. . .. 14 Union . .. . . 6 • • Williamsburg.. . 8 York . . . 10 \ “ Totals . . ..170 162' WEALTHY CONVICT with his family, but it was impossible. Purina the day there were strings of bats yards long. The first of the grewsonte creatures would din* to a piece of woodwork, to the wall, the Indow sill,, or to a stick of furniture amt his fellows would ding to him, forming a string of sqeaking, repul sive objects. The moment the sun set the string would dissolve and the bats would seek the o|»en. squeezing through the cracks .of windows or doors and through the floors and walls. The lesse and his family took quar ters in a cottage 1,000 yards away and the mansoii was abandoned. The Aylett children offered prizes to tfe negroes who could kill the most bats. A child stood In the front door one afternoon andlwith a tennis recquet kzu>cked down 2.000 bata. The neg?oe» for # time came from every direction, hoping to win the "bat prize,” but after thousands and thousands of the creatures had he^u pht to deaah there was no ap preciable diminution. Poison was then paced in every .part of the house, but the bats only seemed to thrive on it. This spring the bats have become a pest to the neighiKtrhood. and the owners of the old mansion have determined to burn it to its foundations. The bats can be got rid of in no other way. —TRAGEDY IN GEORGIA. ,. Two Young Men Shot and Killed . .Left a Fortune But Has Five Years to Serve. A Pittsburg. Pa., dispatch says Howard Hall, a burgRar serving a" 7 year sentence at Riverside peni tentiary, has fallen heir to $50,000 throught the death of an uncle in Alle gheny.. Hall has yet five years to serve, aqd has offered to tnrn over all of his new fortune to any one who will get* him out of prison at once. The Pittsburg police and L. B. Cook an attorney, who ia handling the’es tate for the burglar, refuse to di rulge the name of the dead relative saying he made hi* will and died in -] tgnorahee of the fact that his nephew was In Jail. ■ '■.'"■".IfVlLIl TALE OF HORROR Elmn BotfJu Found Surfed to Farmbouso Yard. HAD BEEN MURDERED. Anxiety of John Hclgelein Over Dfe- * appearance of His Brother Leads lo Discovery of Murdered Bodlea of Two Men, a Woman and Twe Children in Yard of Woman Re- ccntly Burned to Death. A dispatch from Laparte, Ind., says one of the most grewsome murder mysteries ever unearthed in that sec tion of the country came to light Tuesday when the bodies of five per- son*. all of them - murdered, were found in the yard in the home pf Mrs. Belle Gunness. who. with threa of her children was burned to death on the night of April 28. So far only two of the bodies have been identified. These are Andrew Helelee, who came to that city from Alxtrdeen, 8. D., for the purpose of marrying Mrs. Gunness. whose ac quaintance he had made through g matrimonial bureau. Tht other la that of Jennie Olson Gunness, a Chi cago girl, who had been adopted by Mrs. Gunness. "-She disappeared ia September, 1906, and It was said bad gone to Los Angeles to attend school. The other bpdles were thoee of a man and two children, apparently 1* years old. The tody of llelgeneln was dis membered and the arms, legs, trank and head were burled in different parts of th yard. It is believed by the authorities that Guy Lamphore. who has been under arrest since the g“rinlmoThVr7WziT*[¥ 'FIerrY^hc tmrntng of tire Gntraeaa borne, on the charge of murdering Mrs. Gna- ness and her family, committed the Helgelein crime, I^amphere la‘a ear- TX-n+er and the mannar tn wl>W»B nig tody of Hlgelcln was dismembered leads to the belief that it was done hy so me tody familiar with the nan of a saw. In some quarters It is tolleved that Mrs. Gunness may have known some- esee tried living in the mansion| filing .of the murderers of the Ive Near Eastman. A dispatch from Eastman, Ga., says Tom Spiers shot and killed Os car Stuckey Wednesday afternoon atout dark. It seems from reports that an altercation arose over some work on tine farm of Mr. J. 8. Stuck ey. which resulted In Spiers shooting and killing the young men. The Stuckeys are among the best families in Dodge County, being highly re spected and esteemed as quiet and Taw abiding citizens. The com munity Is very much wrought up over the affair.' A deputy sheriff and posse left for the scene of the kill ing.. . _ ' .... ' CONVICTED OF MURDER. people. A possible solution of the Gni farm mystery, which was Wednesday .when four additional Bod ies were found in the barn yard, de veloped Wednesday night. Evidence tending to show that the nine dla- ntemtored corpses unearthed Tain- day and Wednesday had been ahlp- Ited to I^aporte. probably from Chi cago, came to light. The tentimodf of draymen who had carted trnaha and toxes to the Gunnesa home lent color to this suppoaiGon. The Ln- porte police also received information that two trunks, consigned to /Mr*. Belle Gunness, Laporte, Ind." art help in an express office in Chicago. Two of the nine mutilated bodlea were Identified with reasonable cer tainty. Anton Olson, of Chicago, viewed the body supposed to be that of Jennie Olson. 16 yeara old. footer daughter of Mrs. Gunness, and pro nounced It to to that of his daughter. A sister of the girl, Mrs. Leo OlM- der. of Chicago, confirmed the father's identification. % Ask K. Helegeln, whose inquires regarding his missing brother, An drew. led to the first dacoveries on the death haunted farm, became anre that the largest and tost preserved of the corpses Is that of his brother. Against this identification, however. D the result of the autopsy perform ed on this tody by Dr; J. H. Meyer. He found conditions which, to his mind, proved that the roan perished Tong after Andrew Helegein disap peared last January. Dr. Meyer said the corpse showed evidence of having toen In the ground less than twe weeks. Ask Helegeln, however, re fused to be convinced by these find ings. and his certainty led the coroner to accept his identifloatli n for the present. For Killing Man Who Lived in House With Him. A dispatch from Greenville-to The State says Benjamin McAtoe, a young white man. was convicted in the Court of General Sessions Friday of murder, a nd was recommended to the mercy of the Court. He shot and killed John Fowler, a man who lived in the house with him, in March. He claimed that Fowler was intimate with his wife. McAtoe's attorneys have given notice of a motion for a new trial. Eleven Drowned. The steamer Minnie E. Kelton was wrecked off New Port. Ore., on Tues day and eleven of her crew drowned The steamer shifted her cargo pf lumber during a atorm, and when a big wave struck her became unman-1 ru pt£y with llabbtlttl FART BICYCLE RIDING Caused the Death of a Colored Bog ad Spartanburg. • IT* A colored boy atout 13 yeara old was killed Monday morning in Spar tanburg by being thrown from a bi cycle. The toy was riding down tho street at a great speed when he came in collision with acolored woman and was thrown over the handle bait, re ceiving such a severe blow on thu left side of his head that death ro- siiited in a fe> n.iautes.. Th.' col ored toy was employed at Wrlghton'u market, and had iteen up South Church street to do some errand. Coming back he speeded down Kirby Hill, which Is the custom of ttlnn- tenths of the^cycllsts. The ice wa gon was standing In the street, and Mrs. Connor’s servSnt girl wan get ting a piece of ice. A* ahe tamed from behind the wagon the bieyele was upon her. There wan no time for her to get out of the wny, er for the toy to turn hit wheel, no thnr# was a collision. Strange to my. tho woman was not' injured ■** 'i Cotton Firm Fid r Inman and Co., of A one of the largeet the South has 100,000 and *