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BARKWILL. S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 11. 1908
EIGHT DEAD
As a Result of a Collision on a
Trolloy Una '
AND MANY ARE HURT.
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The Horror OrrnemloB the WaaJ^'.N’ew York World, which was alined
Ington, Baltimore aad AaaapoUa w 1 Uh t| ' tl1 ® Republicans in the national
pwu *4 elections of 1896 and 1900, an!
which will be fighting the battle of
the Republicans in the campaign of
1908, insinuates that Bryan, through
his brother-in-law, who wae chair
man of the Democratic State central
SomffUtge of Nebraska, secured $20. r
Electric Railway aw) Was Caused
bjr Confwsfcjta of Orders.
At Annapolis, Md., in a head on
collison between two special cars
of the Washihgtoii, HAlAfflUM" Imf
Annapolis Electric Railway cSmpaay,
^shortly Jjefore A o’clock Friday night,
'eight personswere killed outrightand
a score of others were seriously in
jured, some of them perhaps fatally.
The collision was due to a confu
sion of orders, as the line has been,
running several extra cars each way
in connection with the commence
ment festivities at the Naval Acade
my. The dead are:
Jiiehard—Xortoui. 25 years old.
laltimore; Police Patrolman Schrl-
pr, 40 years old, employed by the
railway company at Academy Junc
tion; qne unidentified white woman,
apparently about 2a years old. said
to he from Baltimore, and dressed in
ball costume; Zach O'Neal; 26 years
old.'New York, motorman of one of
the wrecked cars; Ruth Slaughter,
six years old, daughter of General
Traffic Manager William E. Slaught
er of the road; J. W. McDaniel,
Baltimore; George 'White, Balti-
nore.
GOOD NEWS FOR POSTMASTERS.
Salaries at Offices to be Increas-
The postoffice department Thurs
day made an announcement that will
Irrtrrg Joy to The hearts of many post
masters in South Carolina. It was
that, commen<-lng July 1, many of
them would hsve their aalariea raised
The names of the offices and the in
crease for the next year are as fol
lows:
SAYS ITS A UE.
THAT IS THE WAY MAYOR DAHL-
MAN REPLIES
To the Charges Made by Several
Newspapers that Bryan Received
- Campaign Funds from Ryan.
In its last Saturday’s issue, the
000 from Thomas
to 'finance Bf'yah's candidacy fo^ the
its bitter hatred of Bryan, descends
into the dirtiest gutter, when it says
that “after” this contribution from
Ryan, Hie Nebraskan “came over”
to the support of Parker, insinuating
that Bryan was bought.
The News and Courier endorses
The World's outrageous slander and
cowardly assault on Mr. Bryan, and
even heaps upon him meaner insults;
Carolina by its attitude toward the
honest man who has been twice the
party's leader, and has been already
so chosen for a third time by Sootn
Carolinians! In supplementing ihe
attack of The World. The News and
Courier says that “Mr. Bryan Is no
better than he ought to be doesrnot
prove that he is not as good as a
practical politician can be. That his
pose is that of an angelic Democrat,
than his fellows. Is a little lr-
ritatlng, but we still believe that per-
aonally. Ae. is of a higher type of
BRYAN REPLIES
TO THE CAMPAIGN LIE PUT OUT
BY THE WORLD
That He Had Received Money From
Ryan as an Inducement for Him
i. • » . .. V,
to Support Parker.
In a statement given out at Lin-
cnln. Neb., to the Associated Press
on Thursday night Mr. W. J. Bryan
replied to an article appearing a
week ago in a New York newspaper,
charging that Mr. Bryan was the
beneficiary of a campaign contribu
HELPED MRS GUNNESS
sr ' 0 . *
AT LEAST THIS WAS THE OONFE&-
SION OF TEXAS JAIL BIRD.
But When Sheriff Smutzer Was
Ready to Carry Him to Indiana,
He Changed Statement. .
After signing and swearing^to a
confession that, if true, would splve
many of the mysteries of .thn nun.
ness murder farm at La Porte, Ind.,
and would hang boUiHimself and
Ray Lamphere/the' suspect now un
dor indictment, - Julius 0 Truelson,
Jr . or New York* city, broke down as
tion made by Thomas F. Ryan. Mr.^TSheriff JJmutzer was about to take
” ~ hie, from Vernon, Texas^ where he
** .confined in jail, to Indiana and
i refracted ail he said
Bryan" says:
ing that my brpfh'ef-in-law, Mr.
_ Truelson
senatejlii .Xatypska. The World, ^ In len, chairman of the Democratic is in ptyon fh Texas on a charge of
i„_ . si « : *-’ T 6tate committee, had a conference sv/indling and forgery, having,, }• -
with Mr. Sheehan in 1904 in regard I presented himself as Jonathan of
to campaign funds; that Mr. Sfyee- Thsw, of Pittsburg, a coushTof Harry
ban, as Mr. Ryan's attorney, secured K. Thaw, and passing forged cheeks
from Mr. Ryan 1^000 for the Nebrti- (and drafUr amounting to thousands
ska campaign; that Mr. Bryan made of dollars under this name,
the contribution to secure my open Truelson, who says he is but 22
and unqualified support *>f Judge (years of age, bears the marks of
Parker; that to disguise the source long dissipation, and he admits that
of the contribution Mr.-Ryan gave the drugs have placed him in his'position
check to Mr. Sheehan, and that Mr. | Accordng to his confession be has
that insults the Democrats of the
country and the Democrats of SouthJ.Sheehan gave his-checks to Mr. Al- I two wives, and this was later c?5rro-
len. . borated. Hetoldtheprlsonauthori-
“Chalrman Allen anJ Mt.Dahlgren, ties in Vernon that his first wife,
Nebraskan committeeman of the na- whom he* married in Saratoga
tional Democrtaic committee, have Springs, N. Y., in 1904, was put out
already dented the charges and stat- of the way at the Gunness farm, and
ed that the only money received came as the woman has been missing for
from the national committee. I de- some time, it lent color to his story,
sirvto add the followin'; • dement: His second wife, with whom he elop-
“Mr. Allen says th;\? he never saw ed from .New York city in March, of
Mr. Sheehan or Mr. Ryan and I this year, he also intended doing
have no reason to doubt his word, away with at the Gunness murder (that buggy!” shouted Patterson.
If Mr. Ryan contributed to the Ne-| patch, according to his statement. I He pointed a revolver at the doc-
iraska campaign H was—with i.pt Tiag.*pravA«it«»d hy Mf, fl»nr.o ag tor and at the same time dragged
p»X knowledge or .consent. While 1J writing him that the authorities were the woman from the buggy. Mrs
had but a remote peraonaT interest J getting top warm oh her traiTT -1 TSarghBI cried loudly for help, bm
in the Nebraska campaign that year, Truelsop s confession, complete ip was dragged into, the automobile
am interested in Nebraska politics, everything, and filled with details i | fainting, and placed in her seat. News
FATAL DUEL.
ONE MAN KILLED ANOTHER IN*
^ Jured.
In a Running Fight in Autos A.i
Abductor is Killed hjr His Brother-
iu-l.au .
^ In a running fight between the oct
cilpantp of two automobiles, In wlWch
two revolvers were emptied, William
Patterson was "shot and^kUled Friday
afternoon by his brother-in-law near
Milleraburg, Irid., and Ernest Franks,
the brother-in-law, was dangerously
wounded hy Patterson in the thigh.
Patterson had as a prisoner in his
motor car Mrs. A. Sargent, a young
woman, whom, it is alleged, he had
abducted
maimer under the supposition that
she,4yas a counterfeiter and was flee
ing from Franks.— -Mre. Pattcrsmr
fately had seperated from her hus
band, it is said, on account of his
rough treatment. He blamed Mrs.
Sargent for much of his domestic
troubles and it is supposed that he
had borne a grudge against he*r.
Several weeks ago, fearing for her
life, Mrs. Patterson left her home and
took refuge with her father, Mr.
Franks. Mr. Sargent^ at his wife’s
request, accompanied her to Liguori-
er and was her guest for some days,
hut had "intended returning to her
home at Wawasse.
Patterson, filled with liquor and
in an ugly humor, arrived at LlgonL
er Friday, afternoon a little before
Mrs. Sargent started to the depot
with Mrs. Patterson's father.
I want that woman to get out of
THIEVES FOILED DUNCAN RULED
PREVENTED NEW YORK ROBBERS
FROM STEALING f43,O0O.
NO. 41
mamm
In a
Daring)jr Oot}ceijred RoM-l'p
Three Men \\ <r& Kept From Get
ting Hank^ Caah.
By In SMtSqmm Cmt« a
Sorloii* Charg*.
AFTER HE HAD FILED
Fearlessly thrusting hersfeif in]
among vigorously wielded black-1
Jacks.* Mrs. Eva Javornicka prevent-
oit h riarint- atiemnt upon the part of|
three highwaymen to steal M3.000
from the-jjiessengers who were
carrying it in a thickly populated
New York street to S^bank. When
the robbers mad'e 'their attack, the
woman, a witness, ran from a res
taurant and put herself between the
messengers and. their
Sensational Charges, In Which He
That Thl-. W pT n
racy in Columbia to la jury Him
^Protoslonally, and That
Records Have Disappeared.
Affidavits containing .sensational
assailants, [statements and charges wero preeent-
screaming loudly for the police. By fed to TTre 9iipremi*-eotrrt- Tuesday^tn
clinging to the robbers, she not only I the argument of the caae. of fim
y
Office.
1908
1909
Abbeville. .
—/tends le
. .$1,800
$1,900
.. 1,200
1,300
Bateshnrg..
.. 1.400
1,500
Belton
l.SOt
Bennettsville.
,. . 1.900
2,000
Bishopville. . ..
. . J.400
l,i>00
Blacksburg.. ..
.. I.100
1,200
Black ville. . . .
.. 1,300
1,500
Branchville. . . .
.. 1.100
1.300
Camden
.. 2,000
2,100
Chester. . ■.. . .
2*300
Clinton
. . 1.80;)
2,000
Clio
1 200
Denmark..
1.400
TVmion
.. 1,700
1.800
* Due West.. ..
.. 1,100
;.2O0
Easley. . ..
. . MOO ^
1>00
Fort Mill.'
>v. 4,100
! .200
V Georgetown.. ..
. . 2.200
2.:i«o
yGreer
.. 1.400
1,500
1,700
viionea Path.. .
. .1,400
1.500
AJohnston. . -. . .
•1,400
^Kershiw..
.. 1,200
1,300
r Kingstree.. ..
. . .1.300
1,400
Latta;
. ^ i.ioa, _
1,200
Laurens
. . 2,000
2,100
. Lexington.. ..
.. 1.100
1 201*
Leesvllle
.. 1,100
1,200
McColl
.. 1.200
1,300
Marion
.. 1,800
1,900
Mulfin's
.. 1.400
1,500
Newberry. . . .
. . 2.200
2,300
Orangeburg.. ..
. . 2,300
2,400
Pelzer. . . .
.. 1.400
1,600
Pickens. .
.. 1.100
1,200
Piedmonts . .. .
. . 1,000
1,100
Prosperity.. ..
.. 1.000
1,100
Rock Hill._. . .
ST Ueorge .".
.. 2.4H0 „
.1 1,100
2,500
1,200
St. Matthews. . .
. . 1,200
1,300
Walhalla
. .. 1,300 .
1,400
Seneca
.. 1,500
1,700
Walter boro. . ..
.. 1.400
1,50b
Westminsier. ..
.. 1,300
1,400
Wllliamston.. .
. ,. 1.000
1,100
York ville. ...
.. 1,700
1,80"
FARM MADE TO P^Y.
The Agriculture Department Helps
an Ohio Farmer.
A farmer In Ofilff wrote to the De-
partment of Agriculture that he had
struggled for twenty years on an
eighty-a<jre farm heavily mortgaged
bilit had been unable to reduce his
debt or rise above poverty that made
the bringing tip of his family a hu
miliation. He asked if there was
any hope for him upon the farm, or
Ife he might as well give up the
fight The department requested that
he make a detailed report of his
farm and its soils, and upon this it
based a plan of farming ^Ich he
was recommended to fottow to the
letter. There was a profit the first
year of >2,000, and the department
‘ ieves that ultimately the despised
hty acres can be made to yield
,000 a year. •• .
Negro Who Killed Matron to Haag.
Frank Johnson, if negfOr who kill
ed a married woman because she re
fused to elope with him, has been
sentenced to be hanged a* Clark s-
tmrg./W. Va.. July 17-
Former Judge Gore to Jail.
For passing a fictitious check, C.
G. Richie, a former Judge, has been
to 18 S!Oi)tb9 to prison at
probity than was the late James G.
Blaine or M. 8. Quay, and the living
Charles E. Murphy and Roger Sulli
van.” '' -
Lies of the Blackest Sort.
A dispatch from Omaha, Neb..says
James C. Dahlman, Mayor of Omaha
and member of the Democratic Na
tional Committee from Nebraska, said
Tuesday in reference to The World's
article on Thomas F. Ryan's contri
bution:
“Damnable lies of the blackest
sort! Pile it on me as bard as you
want to. I am the arch criminal in
this, and Bryan is absolutely blame
less. "Bryan supported Parker during
the whole campaign, took the stump
for him months before the money
was paid and never known of its pay
ment.
“After the St. liOuls convention
adjourned, the National Committee
met to select its chairman. TTaRgarffned
of Indiana was a candidate, hut the
Easterners were for Sheehan or
some other man-from the East. Be-
llevihg that a Western man would
make a better head for the National
Committee I took up the fight for
Taggart, who was elected at an ad-
.ourned meeting a few weeks’fater.
“Sheehan asked me what were the
chances for carrying Nebraska for
Parker. I told him no man living
could tell what Nebraska could do
until after the State convention made
Its nominations.
“I came straight from New York
4o4her3tate convention In this State,
and there saw there was absolutely
no hope of carrying Nebraska for
Parker. I tjier^fore wrote Sheehan
that money afin speakers sent here
would he wasted.
“Later in the campaign, in October,
( saw we had a good chance of elect-
'■W. Berge-, our candidate for gov
ernor, and I sent T. S, Allen to New
York to see if he could get some
financial help for the State ticket.
vVe got $15,000, not 20,000, In three
*ayments of 5,000 each. It was all
•iirned over to me, and 1 spent it all
•n the State campaign, not one penny
>f it going into the National cam
paign or to Bryan.
“The money did good, and while
rtoosevelt carried the State by 83,
000, Berge lost it by less than 10,-
000. ""if we.had had $15,000 more
we would have, carried the State for
"Berge.
"TJiere, I think that is all there Is
to say about these trumped up
charges of the New York paper. M
Bryan never saw the money, never
-knW «f-44r - i-got it All aad apep
all. It all came from the National
Cbmmittee, whether from Sheehan
or Ryan I do not know and do not
care, and no money was used to in
fluence Bryan, as he worked for
Parker from the start.”
and am interested in national poll- great many of which had never made of the abduction spread throughout
tics, and am not willing to be. in their appearance’ in the newspaper Llgonier like lightning. Ernest
the slightest degree, obligated to »ny accounts, was forwarded to Sheriff J Franks, brother of Mrs. Patteraon,
favor seeking corporation. if thejg m ntzer a t La Porte, and that offl- organized a posse of armed farmer*
newspaper in question will secure c lal went to Texas to have a confer- and started in pursuit, taking the
from either Mr. Sheehan or Mr. Ryan Lnce with the prisoner. When he lead in a big touring car. The fugl-
statement or prove in any other arrived there he found Truelson in lives were overtaken Just east of Mil
way that Mr. Ryan gave to Mr. Shee- Urison. and as he did not have access leisl»urg, near the Wabash depot
han, to any one else, or to the na- to newspapers, how he possessed "Halt, or I’ll shoot!” shouted
tional comrfilttee. any sum whatever h j m8C if 0 f a n the details, unless he Franks, standing up in his motor
with the understanding that the sum wa8 an a ctii¥l conspirator, was a car.
would be used in the Nebraska cam- m y 8 tery. The Indiana sheriff finally Patterson replied with a string of
paign, I shall see that the amount is decided that the forger's story was curses and immediately opened fire
returned to Mr. Ryan. true and prepared to return with him]with his revolver, shooting his broth-
‘As to the charge that my support | 0 Indiana, but" when the time for ] er-in-law in the thigh. Though dan
of Judge Parker was purchased. I heaving came,. Truelson broke down gerously wounded, Franks returned
need only say that 1 announced my and declared that the whole was a (the fire with such unerring aim that
support of Judge Parker immediately f a bricatiou.
after the St. Louis Convention, and Sheriff Smutzer immediately be
hat j-vpport was open and un* uali- <r an another investigation, that of
•fe** looking into the alibi Truelson pre-
front *be Com'if if* mu
Patterson was Instantly killed.
DESTRICTIVE FLOOD.
I tolls closed. I had opposed his nom
ination. hut he had no more loyal
supporter during the campaign. 1
was in correspondence with him;
Snd both on the stump and with my
pen rendered all the assistance I
sented, and after a few days he lie- Town Destroyed and Eighteen Peo-
came convinced that the prisoner’s „ .
confession was the mere work of his 1>,c ,>row,IM L“Y w
brain, and left for home without him A dispatch from Mexico City says
Truel- e jghten persons are known to he dead
could. While the paper that-prints I ^ r8 f-unness through her matrinion-1 an( ^ town of Pachula has been
these charges was selling its columns j a | advertisement. He paid the wiped off the map as the result of
to the Republican committe to I widow a visit, but was too tough a two days of floods. The waters rose
used in caricaturing Judge I >ar ^ pr -1 customer for her to do away with, with unexpected speed and carried
„i«wion '• •l and when she ♦hpd him to j oin her, away entire buildings In the rushing
he consented. Together with Lamp- torrents. Searching parties were
here, Truelson declared that they [hunting.for more bodies Tuesday. A
had not only gotten victims for the (cloudburst filled‘the Barranca Secca
Million l>ollar Express Crashed Into 1 ^,.,.*.1',^ widow, but had buried from^ide to side and the rushing
them after she mit them out of torreht completely engulfed the vil
Switch Eng e. , Ljj« way, and in some instances help- Mage without warning. The Secca
Speeding at 50. miles an hour ed her in her bloody work of death, valley is usually dry and is a much
through the Post Morris yards the Truelson further declared that he | travelled highway into Pachula
and Lamphere, convinced that Mcs. .
“million dollar" express, carrying Gunnegg was plotUn ^ do away with k^OOO.CKW Worth of OmJ tor Flert.
eight cars of valuable freight from lhern tos8e d a cointo see which Th ® e . T 1 n when B
the widow s entire | by the Atlantic fleet when U
ray paper was urging his election.
FAST TRAIN WRECKED.
hampered them- in Jlfeir attempt to Hunter, a negro, ropfwaeMofi by Hr.
heat dov.urilWt Vnse tf themeisong r I John T. Duncan, of Columbia. After
but spon attritcted ^-4«rge crowd of hearing the case the Court dlamlaaod
peraofi* who went to the rescue, (the motion for • mw trial on after
FrigUoned s-i tno hubbub being rai«- diacovered evidence. *
ed, the'robl^ers ceased their attack I Mr. Duncan, who has pot ep a
and fled in different directions. Lat- hard fight for his clients, Jesae Hon
or a man accused of having been ter and his wife, Frances Hunter,
ode of thfm was captured and eyt-Jconvicted of assault and battery, pre-
dence enough was soon found to hold sented a lengthy affidavit from hlni-
turn ft. (self in which he set forth the progress
Daringly Planned Crime. .; jof the case and charged that oer-
The police department of the me-(tain attorneys of Columblaand others
tropolls declare the robbery was the are in conspiracy to injare him pro-
nerviest on recqrd, It being evident I fesslonally, and that certain ro*
that the robbers trusted to their!cords In this and other caaea la
quickness to heat the messengers in- which he was atoraey have been
to submission and get away with lost or stolen from the office of the
their Imoty before their capture could (clerk of the Circuit Court and the
he effected. clerk of the Supreme Court.
The attack was made In a thickly J One of the principal affidavits In
populated tenement district, and the case was that of a negro, Jeff
many saw the faces but. thnking It Taylor, who stated that It was him-
to be one of the numerous drunken I self and not Jesse Hunter who did
brawls, common in that district, paid the shooting for which Honter was
no attention to it But Mrs. Javor-1 convicted, and that he had feared lo.
nicka, seeing the flash of steel, testify to the truth of this matter on
thought different and threw herself tfce trial by reason of - Intimidation,
into the fray. The struggle while it This affidavit was probated by Mr.
lasted wan vicious. Blinded by pep-1 Washington Clark, an attorney of
. n cr thrown In their eyes, clubbed |Columbia,
over the heads with bTSCkJacks, and I Solicitor Benet presented an tfl-
their wrists and arms slashed by davit from M. Clark, ateting that be
knives, the messengers hung on to had one day been called Into the of-
their precious burden like grim flee of Mr. Duncan and naked to pew-
death, the woman meanwhile iiother- bate a paper signed by a negro, and
ing the" robblh so much that one that the negro who afterwards owned
attempted to stab her. to the, name of Jeff Ttylor wan net
When help arrived, two of the j the negro he saw in the office of Dmh
messengers sunk to the ground, over- can> but was of entirely different ap-
come by the struggle, and were later pwinuice.
taken to a hospital. Meanwhile one Solicitor Timmerman also denied
of the robbers, his hand covered by that he had received the papers said
blood from his victim's wounds, was to have been served on him by Mr.'
pursued through several streets by I Duncan, but on the other hand Mr.
crowd of small hoys. He was in I Duncan presented affidavits to shew
„ fair way of making his escape when I that he had been at the Drafts
ie humped into an officer, and his Hotel, In Lexington, end seen Mr.
explanations were so unsatisfactory I Timmerman on a. cntelu^jjgte. la
he whs locked up. Later Mrs. J*vor-|his $wn affidavit dir. Duncan
nlcka positively identified him !>» I ;es Mr. TimmermuFwn a coward ns
one of the three thugs. * | well as a liar, and filed with the
Court a note addressed to Mr. Ttofr*
RANDITIS.M NEAR I’ITTHHI’RG | merman containing these eplthelg.
Mr. Dnncan also charges the new
Mounted Masked Men Hob Store and I solicitor, Mr. Christie Benet. with
> - ' 1 being In the conspiracy against him
Shoot l p Town. j and denounces him. He names Mr.
A dln|>a(ch from Plmbur,. P.> »
nay* following the holding up and 1 ,lar . • I,d Mr - Robert*,h • fgtfcoHn_
Boston to Washington, crashed into should* murder
a switch engine head-on, at 133rd M am Hy an ^ sef ^ re t * ie ^ 0U8e > an *M
. . VT v ^ that the lot fell to Lamphere. •
street and W illow avenue. New York, ■
early Thursday morning. Eieht men I PEARLING FLEET' WRECKED
were Injured seriously
shall have finished Its cruise around
the world Is placed at $5,000,000.
The cost from San Francisco through
the Suez canal is estimated at $2,-
039,000. Only American coal is be-
Hoth engines were demolished andl-'I** 1 ! Lives Were Ix>st During the j j n g u8 ed.,
fire which started immediately after
the crash, reduced both big iron I SKRIOI8 ACCIDENT,
horses to scrap iron. In the for- a disnatch from Victoria, B. C, ^
ward car of the trai nwas $115,000 L avs the 8teamer Manuka has arriv- M" 8 * an K y e b y th< " Pe P Hi *
in currency, which was being carried L d there bringing news of the des- * Bottle,
from the sub-treasury in Boston to truc<lon of the p ear ]i ng fleet in a
the treasury in Washington. The typhoon off West Australia, involv-| A Mr. Pope, who keeps a restaur-
car was deluged with water and the )nR the ]oBg of flfty i U gg e rs and 270 an t at Statesville, N. C., was the
fire
at In check.
lives, twenty being whites.
trainmen, on switch engine, The di8aster thc fleet of P earl -1 c | dent on Monday. He was In
were hurled to the ground when col- ing lug g erB occurred near Thursday
llssion came. , AH bruised arid cut Ig)and a typhoon striking the fleet,
by flyng metal. Names unknown. scattering the vessels, completely
Engineer Naughton, of the express
d Engineer Willett M. Bradley, Of
the switch engine, were'delaThed fly
victim of a painful and serious ac-
the
robbing of a .Pennsylvania railroad I ,a *. Mr. W. 0. Childs, pwaldent of
ZvrJ train and a street eg, thf .he Bank of Columbia aa amoog th.
vicinity was treated to a third wild chief conspirator., and declnre. ho
Western affair Thursday when two j might name many other* to the co.rt.
masked men, heavily armed and I Mr - Duncan made the race for tho
riding horseback, smashed the win-|fe n,,ed State. Senate In 18$6, an on
dow of the Monogahela Consolldat-Jtfj* Bt “™P madegrave charge*
ed Coal and Coke Company’s general then teVta
appropriated I tile lengthy affidavit he refers to thn
1 fact and to Governor Evan..
He presents an affidavit from hi.
former stenographer, now marrtod,
which contradict, that of Mr. Clark
In regard to the deKription of the
Hold | negro- who gave the affidavit signed
hy Jeff Taylor.
The two negroes whose erapad-
.es brought about tht. sensational
At Reno, Nev., a gang of eight men gtate of a g alr8| je**, and France,
and two women in a series of hol< H Hunter, were convicted of mmoM
ups coupled with on attempt at arson, I and ^ii intent to kill In
Thursday robbed the Rawhide Hotel June 190g and j egg€ waa gi Ten five
$300, lining up the occupants and FranC€a was given II
against the walTTHeld up two men In The shooting for which thef
a tent, held up and lieat a stage were tr , ed occurred | n January. IMfi.
driver, robbed a drug store, held U P They lived In lower portion of Riefc-
three other men, securing small suro., L nd an( j it was amerted that
ami set fire to the Hawhlde Hotel to J Jegge Hunter had put hl» aged moth-
store at Eastman,
valuable articles and galloped away
firing revolvers.
DARING CRIMES AT RENO.
Eight Men And Two Women
Up the Town.
act of transferring a pepsl-cola »>ot-
tle from a crate to an ice box when
the bottle burst with such force that
^iineeLfiLaughten, ot tne express wreck , ng 80me and_._driving_others pieceg ot tW glaS8 llterally 8|(llt 0 w n
lULEaglaeer Willett M. Bradley, of aahQr ,, K of hl8 l«ft eye. Mr. Popelp-
he switch engine, were detained flyj Surv j v j r8 reported harrowing e *-| n n ed simple remedfes to the eye and
the police of the Alexa "^ ^"‘Hperlences, some being picked «!> ‘n ))0a J ded a traln and we nt to
station pending an to veat '^ at ’ 0 "' j the last stage of exhaustion clinging L allgl)Hr w here he had the injury
5!!!'.“°.°, *1’.“.^ n„b r . the wrM ! , .t d * h ."L' nre.«<i by Dr. Drawl.,. He roturb-
THREE HUNDRED DROWNED
Typhoon Struck Fleet; Ship. Swamp
ed as If They Were Row Boats.
TwelvAluggers sank and 270 n\«n
lost their rives when a typhoon struck
the Pearl fishing fleet Just as It left
Thursday Island, off the west coast
of Australia.
was sent hack to the hospital. Brad
ley escaped without a scratch. The
wreck was due to a misunderstanding
of signals.
b
FIVE YEGGMAN CONVICTED.
followed waiting for the exhausted
men to drop from the wreckage.
ed to Statesville on the next train
and went to Charlotte that’night to
The bldies if some of the victims L ave eye treated hy Dr. Wake-
svrt+cxn l»v aha I* If (I ** ^ I _ . . i i t 1 1
prevent being followed. They es
caped to the hills with $400. ..The
sheriff with a i»osse aided by State
police is In pursuit. —-—.
CONVICTS TRY TO ESCAPE.
C- ' —
l ixe Shot Down, Two Captured and
Two Get Away.
A break for* liberty was mad 1
Thursday at the plant of the Ala-
were eaten by sharks.
FELL TO RKR DEATH.
Men Arrested Near Lancaster Found I From the Roof of a Burning New
Guilty* at Raleigh. Yrirk Tenement.
The five yeggmen arrested near One woman was killed and six
Chester, charged with the robbery of others were terribly burned Tuesday
field. The physicians have advised
him that the sight of the. eye is lost
for good and that It might have to
be taken out at once to save the un
injured eye. ' An overcharge of gas
caused the bottle to burst.
910,000 Stolen.
The hank of FqJrlBnd, at Fairland,
OI Australia, according to news the postoffice at Dunn, N. C.. wer ^- |i n a ft re in the furnished room house, |okla., was entered by robbers Wed-
brought by the Australia-Canadian i n the Federal Court at Raleigh No. 313 West Thirty-eight street, ne8 day night and $10,000 Including
liner Manuka in port at Victoria, B. found guilty and were each sentenced which threatened the llevs of a score ,h e postoffice receipts waB''secuned
C., Thursday. ° to five years in the penitentiary at Lf persons. The woman leaped from Three men composed the gang. They
Twenty of the men who went down' Atlanta and to pay a fine of $500 the roof to death on the pavement rode into town on horse back, tied
were'white men. The typhoon, which each. For the Government the case below. Lieutenant Mandray, of En- their horses near the bank bnilding,
whipped the wav^s mountain high, was vigorously prosecuted by District gi ne company No. 1, with four fire- a fter getting the money, mount-
swamped the vessels, as If they were Attorney Harry Skinner, who .urg 'd j m en, went down in the collapse of a| ed - an d rode away In safety. Officers
row boats
the Court to impose the fall penalty b Urn | n g stairway, but nil escaped with are t n pursuit,
twelve yeara’ Imprisonment on the J s ]ight burn amf bruises. Mrs. Beil- M
men. The evidence on which thHtraine leaped from the rear of the Banage Destroyed by Fire,
conviction wa* made was given by house. An .unlaced shoe caught in | on Wednesday merging a car con
er out of the house where she had
lived for years, and which waa said
to be her own property.
Her other children remonstrated
and the officers of the law were call
ed in. Magistrate Lykes, with a
posse, went to the, house and they
were fired - on by'-aottie one. Jesse
Hunter and his wife were arrested,
indicted, tried and convicted for
shooting the officers, and at the trial
jjeil Taylor was a witnew for M»e—
banta Manufacturing Company by j prosecution, bnt since that time !$„
nine convicts. The plant is locatodlhis been steted th« Taylor waa the
near Birmingham, Ala. Guards fi>*|man who fired the shots and it win
ed on the men, and policemen leiii- on this after-discovered evidence
e*’ in the fusilad'e. Five convicts t hat Mr. Duncan asked for a nsMr
were shot down,'-two being fatally trial for his cliente, which motion
wounded. Two others were captured | refused
and dogs were put out in the trail
if the other two. *
FOUR MASKED MEN.
More Thorough Meat laapection.
A. uniform enforcement of the new — - . — , , — ——
regulations governing meat tnspec- postoffice inspectors, hy John F. Me- the supporters as she passed the taining about 100 trunks belonging
tion is to be discussed at Chicago Curthy, a policeman of Boston. Mass. Hjoor snd this turned her so that she to young ladies who hsve been at-
thts week by Federal inspectors, from i an d by James G. Wilson, of Pelzer, I struck head foremost on the cement tending Wintbrop College, was de-juon of Belleville
QJ9S the country. C. father of one of the yeggmen.*Jpgyteg. _ _ (strayed
Robbed the Hank at Cuba, Kansas,
on Tuesday.
Four men robbed the state bank
of Cuba. Kansas on Tuesday and es
caped with between $6tM®
000 after a fight with’rttlibne. No
one was shot. After the_ vault had
been ransacked the robbers went to
the Rock Island depot, boarded a
handcar and disappeared in the dire©*
The robbers a|b^n the
art 4a pursuit
The Supreme Court Tuesday after
noon of its own accord, issued an
order requiring Mr. John X- Duncea,
attorney of the Columbia Bar, to
OW cause before the Court on Mon
day, June 8. why he ahonid not be
be attached tot contempt of Court or
disbarred as an attorney tor snb-
mitting what are declared an
to be “false and fictions”
in the case of Jeeee aad
Hunter, argued before the <
Tuesday-
Oklahoma
at a coat of